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Flightless Bird

Goodyear Blimp

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

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

52.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

In this weeks episode, David goes for a ride on the Goodyear Blimp in an attempt to learn more about this iconic piece of America, celebrating its 100th birthday this year. He is shocked to find out that it's not even a blimp! Get tickets to our live shows: - Portland on April 13: https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/80185968/flightless-bird-with-david-farrier-portland-revolution-hall - San Fransisco on April 18: https://www.ticketmaster.com/flightless-bird-live-with-david-farrier-san-francisco-california-04-18-2025/event/1C0062589BAC1D9F - Flights of Fancy Submissions: https://bit.ly/fbfancy Links: - Plugged in - Focus on the Family’s stupid reviews: https://www.pluggedin.com/movie-reviews/wolf-of-wall-street - Helium Shortage: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/helium-shortage-doctors-are-worried-running-element-threaten-mris-rcna52978 - New Blimp for travel: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/24/the-flying-bum-uk-firm-airships-airlander-hav Contact us: [email protected] YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@flightlessbirdpodcast

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello.

0:07.0

Hi Hayden, how are you?

0:09.0

Really good, thank you.

0:11.0

What's happening in New Zealand today?

0:14.0

The Prime Minister, so we have the school lunch program and they contracted it out.

0:23.6

The new government contracted it out to some kind of low cost private providers saying

0:29.6

that the old government was spending too much on it.

0:32.6

But the old, but the new providers are basically providing inedible meals and non-halal meals to Muslim students and that

0:41.4

kind of thing.

0:42.1

And the Prime Minister just said, if you don't like the meals, then you can make your kids

0:46.4

a marmite sandwich.

0:48.6

And for Americans, it might not know what marmite is.

0:51.7

What is marmite?

0:52.8

It's like a black sludge that we put on bread.

0:56.7

It sounds like a very American reaction from the Prime Minister of New Zealand.

1:01.5

Yeah, he's just like, you know, so we fucked up.

1:05.7

You do it, Ben.

1:07.6

I just think you need to extend that logic to everything else that like that's not

1:11.4

working like the health systems kind of in crisis like well you don't you want to receive medical

1:17.3

care then get a first aid certificate it's really just like this is your fault that we've fucked up

1:23.1

why don't you fix it it's a real attitude that it is it's very It's very American. It's a very American attitude, it feels like.

1:30.4

I think it comes from that, right? Because they're like, the government shouldn't be providing

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