Flightless Bird: Independence Day

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier sets out to investigate what the heck is going on with Independence Day, one of America’s 11 officially mandated holidays. What makes this day so American and how is he meant to spend it? To learn about Independence Day the day, Farrier turns to Independence Day the movie. Farrier talks to film critic David Chen of DecodingEverything.com to find out what made this film so patriotic it was literally named after the 4th of July. Farrier then tracks down Phil Grucci, President and CEO of “Fireworks by Grucci” - America’s so-called “First Family of Fireworks”. Grucci’s company holds the Guinness World Record for the "Largest Fireworks Display" ever recorded and he educates David about why fireworks are practically baked into the Declaration of Independence.

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0:00.0	I'm David Farrier in New Zealander accidentally marooned in America, and I want to figure
0:05.0	out what makes this country tick.
0:07.7	If you're listening to this episode on the day it comes out, you'll find it's Tuesday,
0:11.5	July 4, 2023.
0:14.7	And how could flight this bird, a show that comes out every Tuesday, arrive on this particular
0:19.3	Tuesday without turning its focus to Independence Day?
0:23.4	Yes, the day where America celebrates the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the
0:28.6	founding document of the US, 247 years old today.
0:37.0	Independence Day appears between the other public holidays of Juneteenth and Labor Day,
0:42.0	one of 11 officially mandated holidays here in America.
0:45.5	11 holidays is pretty good, it's above Taiwan which gets 8, but full short of New Zealand
0:50.8	which has 12, Nepal gets a staggering 35.
0:55.2	So without further ado, let's fire up that grill, pop open a bottle of cold beer and
1:00.3	get patriotic, because this is the Independence Day episode.
1:21.6	I want to make it very clear that every episode I've done, I've prepared the least for this
1:26.0	one.
1:27.0	My mind is an empty when it comes to Independence Day.
1:30.4	Okay.
1:31.4	I learn some things in the documentary about what makes America tick, but after making the
1:36.9	documentary I realize I still know very little, I just want to get that out of the way.
1:40.4	Okay, well I'm confused.
1:42.1	Hmm.
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