Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

Comedy, Flightless Bird, Documentary, Society & Culture, David Farrier

5 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode, David and Rob take calls from Flightless Bird listeners, who pitch the topics they want them to investigate! From a man who tells of being woken up at age 13 to two men in his room with zipties who abducted him to a controversial “Wilderness Therapy Camp”, to someone involved in competitive air ballooning, to an intern involved in the infamous “Kony2012” campaign, we hear from Birdies with stories to tell. Links: - Flightless Bird live in Portland on 4/13: https://bit.ly/lostkiwiPDX - Flightless Bird live in San Francisco on 4/18: http://bit.ly/lostkiwiSF - Flightless Bird T-Shirts: www.flightlessbirdpod.com - E-mail us with your feedback at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:07.0	Hi, Rosabel. How's your day going?
0:09.7	It's going okay. How's your day?
0:12.2	It's all right. I've been behind all day. It's one of those days where I feel like the whole day I'm just
0:16.6	furiously behind and I feel stressed, you know?
0:20.5	Yeah.
0:21.8	We're doing an episode called Flights of Fancy.
0:25.3	We're basically listeners call in to submit topics that they want me to look into.
0:30.4	I don't know what they're going to be calling in about.
0:33.0	Rob has kind of been corraling all of those.
0:35.0	But I was wondering if Rosabelle wanted the hit podcast, Flightless Bird,
0:41.8	to look into a big issue about America.
0:47.1	And apparently I always say issue.
0:48.9	I need to say issue.
0:50.2	Why do you need to say that?
0:52.3	A lot of people complain that I say issue instead of issue.
0:56.0	Is that what Americans say?
0:57.2	I've never heard anybody say that except for you.
1:00.3	Isue?
1:01.1	Issue?
1:02.3	Ish.
1:03.4	I-S-H annoys people like issue?
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