Flightless Bird: Gladesmen

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Flightless Bird, David Farrier sets out to Florida’s south, deep into the Everglades, in search of the men who live in the glades: Gladesmen. Descending by airboat into the wet marshlands, David discovers he’s on a giant river 100 miles long and 60 miles wide. Surrounded by alligators, bugs, birds and fish, his guide Steve - a third-generation gladesman - takes David to a “camp” - the place where gladesmen live. While there David discovers the legend of the skunk ape, Florida’s swampy version of sasquatch. From there he tries to find the truth about the skunk ape, talking to prominent skunk ape expert Dave Shealy. Is this monster legend, or is there a chance the 7-foot tall creature is the original gladesmen?

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0:00.0	This show is sponsored by BetterHelp.
0:03.2	The last big thing I learned in therapy was that I do that negative self talk thing.
0:07.9	We just walk around being like, rubbish, no good, idiot.
0:11.9	And until it was pointed out to me by a therapist, I just had no idea.
0:15.1	Really?
0:16.1	You just thought that was normal?
0:17.1	Oh yeah, just as horrible little voice in the head.
0:19.0	Once you clock it, you can start to do something about it.
0:21.7	Yes.
0:22.7	And I think with therapy having an outside person that actually knows what they're talking
0:25.9	about, to tell you these things, for me at least can be super, super helpful.
0:29.9	It seems obvious, right?
0:31.8	But you live in your own brain and you're sick and you're born.
0:34.3	And so whatever is happening just seems normal.
0:36.8	Yeah.
0:37.8	And until you talk it out with someone and they can kind of go, I know there's like
0:39.7	a better way to think about things and you push back against that.
0:43.4	And their professionals talking to your friends is wonderful.
0:46.8	But also sometimes your friends give bad advice.
0:49.0	No, they do because they just kind of want to please you.
0:51.8	Yes.
0:52.8	That's the thing.
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