Flightless Bird: Waco

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Flightless Bird, David Farrier sets out to Waco, Texas - taking a drive to visit the Branch Davidians compound, the old home of David Koresh. David is surprised to find that the strange offshoot of the Seventh Day Adventist church still exists and sits down to interview their new leader. Why are they still on the same grounds where so many terrible things happened? What do they believe? What do they think of Koresh? What is inside their church? And why did things go so crazy here 30 years ago, America essentially going after one man with an army of guns, helicopters, tear gas, 12 tanks, and almost 900 members of the FBI, ATF, Texas National Guard, the Army, the Waco police department, and the Texas Rangers.

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0:00.0	I'm David Farrier in New Zealander accidentally marooned in America, and I want to figure
0:05.1	out what makes this country tick.
0:07.0	Now I'm the first to admit this show covers a lot of ground, from soft drinks to toilets,
0:12.6	circumcision to flags, and what's becoming increasingly obvious to me is something incredibly
0:18.5	obvious.
0:19.5	America is very big and very confusing.
0:22.2	I was reminded of this when I found myself in Texas recently for another episode of
0:26.6	Flatless Bird.
0:27.8	I'd wound up in Waco, and coming from New Zealand, there's only one thing I knew about
0:33.2	Waco.
0:34.2	The cult actually called her no one as the branch Davidians is an offshoot of the
0:38.4	seventh day Adventist Church.
0:40.9	This year marks 30 years since the Waco siege, when federal officers, law enforcement and
0:46.5	the military raided the compound occupied by the branch Davidians.
0:50.8	It didn't go well.
0:52.3	The branch Davidians had guns up the Wazoo and fought back, leading to a 51-day siege
0:57.4	which saw 82 church members, or cult members, kills, along with 4 ATF agents.
1:04.5	Bullets flew back and forth, shook blue up, and shook caught fire.
1:08.7	And now I found myself in Waco, where I got to thinking, what happened to the branch
1:13.2	Davidians after all that went down?
1:15.7	Do they still exist?
1:17.3	What are they doing now if they do?
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