Flightless Bird: Quilts

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier takes Monica’s advice from an earlier episode and investigates America’s obsession with quilts. He begins his journey by interviewing quilting podcaster Ashelyn Downs of “The Grateful Thread”. Farrier discovers that quilting is not just oldies sitting by the fire, but that there’s a new movement of younger, more diverse quilters taking over America. He sets off to meet Latifah Saafir, an engineer who now makes some of the most amazing quilts you’ll see, incorporating bits of her culture and life into the quilts she makes. David then stops in on another young quilter, Luke Haines, who has some of his quilts hanging on gallery walls. Luke insists on making a quilt featuring the one and only Monica Padman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm David Ferrier in New Zealand are accidentally marooned in America, and I want to figure out what makes this country tick.
0:07.0	Now, mostly this podcast is just me rambling on about things that confuse me about America, things I want to know.
0:14.6	Like why are the water levels in American toilets so high?
0:18.1	Or why is every second American armed with a leaf blower?
0:21.3	Why is the American flag everywhere I look? Each week a new question that I try to answer.
0:27.0	Sometimes I'm successful and sometimes I fail miserably.
0:31.0	But some very American things escape my point of view just because I'm looking
0:36.0	in a different direction or miss what's right in front of me. And so I rely on Monaker and Rob who sometimes have their own questions about American culture.
0:45.0	I suggested and I think you said okay but then you decided not to listen.
0:50.0	But so I'm going to say it here. Quilts.
0:53.0	Quilts.
0:54.0	Yeah, that's so American.
0:56.0	They don't have quilts in New Zealand.
0:59.0	You didn't even know what it was.
1:01.0	Quilts.
1:02.0	So specific. Yeah it seems very pilgrimy. Yeah. Okay. Quilts. Where to
1:09.0	begin with quilts? Draped over every bed and couch in America.
1:13.8	I wondered how I'd miss this thing that America loves so much.
1:17.6	The thing is, I'd never really thought about quilts before,
1:20.6	but now I am, they do feel kind of pilgrimy.
1:24.0	Something brought to America during colonial times
1:27.0	as Europeans did that thing and colonized the hell out of everything in sight.
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