Flightless Bird: RVs

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This week on Flightless Bird, David sets out to understand America's obsession with recreational vehicles, also known as RVs. Joined by Monica and Dax, David discovers why 11.2 million American homes have an RV of some kind and why 10 million more are considering buying one within the next five years. David sits down with Monica Geraci, the official spokesperson for the American RV Industry Association, to find out some tips and tricks before descending into Griffith Park to meet an actor who lives in an RV full time. It's there he learns of a mysterious man who rents RVs out to the unhoused around Los Angeles, begging the question: is this mystery man doing them a favor or is he exploiting their situation as a kind of RV slumlord?

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm David Ferrier, a Kiwi who accidentally got marooned in America, and I want to
0:05.5	find out what makes this country tick.
0:08.0	Since I've been here, I've discovered that Americans really love freedom.
0:11.2	It's what they talk about all the time, and if an American sniff's even the slightest
0:15.8	whiff of their freedoms being tampered with, it's gay-marn.
0:19.8	This freedom extends to everything, including people's homes.
0:24.4	Because while in New Zealand we generally like our houses to be fused to the ground, a large
0:28.6	number of Americans love to have wheels on their house so they can drive it wherever
0:33.0	they want.
0:34.0	Every year we make it possible for thousands of Americans from all walks of life to make
0:38.3	their travel dreams come true.
0:40.8	Americans love RVs, recreational vehicles.
0:44.4	In American pastime, in fact it's roaring back, perhaps right next to you, on the highway.
0:49.4	The RV industry is worth $140 billion here in America.
0:54.1	28,000 brand new RVs were shipped out during a single month last year.
0:59.2	11.2 million homes have an RV of some kind, and around 10 million more are considering
1:04.8	buying one within the next 5 years.
1:07.5	With all that in mind, I want to find out why Americans are obsessed with RVs.
1:12.8	So get ready to take your toilet, bedroom, bathroom lounge, and entire family, basically
1:18.0	everything including the kitchen sink, on a giant road trip.
1:21.8	Because this is the RV episode.
1:25.2	I mean, this is the talk about having the perfect guest for this episode.
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