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Flightless Bird

Health Update

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

Society & Culture, Documentary, Comedy

4.93.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

An update on Flightless Bird! David explains to Monica and Rob why he’s had to take flight to New Zealand. Defeated by the US healthcare system and his bad health insurance plan, David has temporarily returned to Aotearoa, New Zealand for some minor back surgery! This has disrupted the usual smooth flow of making the show, so for July and August Flightless Bird will arrive fortnightly instead of weekly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Flagless, flagless,

0:08.0

flag-bets.

0:10.0

Fiveless bird touchdown in America.

0:15.0

I'm a fly this bird touchdown in America.

0:19.0

How is everyone? Great. It's sunny. Oh my God it's raining here. Oh,

0:29.5

It's been raining since the second I got back. Well, it's winter there, right?

0:33.6

It's winter.

0:34.3

Yeah, I sort of forgot.

0:35.5

I forgot that it was winter and that seasons are different here.

0:39.2

And so I arrived back and my friend Dan picked me up from the airport and he parked as far away as possible

0:44.6

and so we're just walking through the rain for so long and I was like why did you do this to me Dan?

0:51.0

Listen we are getting way ahead of ourselves.

0:54.2

What people need to know is that David is in space.

0:59.7

This is our first ever episode talking to someone in space.

1:04.6

We wanted to get ahead of Tom Cruise filming a film in space

1:08.5

by doing a podcast in space,

1:09.8

and that's what we decided to do.

1:11.4

Well, we figured that you've figured out America pretty well,

1:15.1

so now you have to figure out space.

1:17.9

I wish it was this exciting.

1:19.2

I really do.

1:19.9

I'm so excited by this alternate narrative now.

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