Inauguration Week

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

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

5 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, David and Rob take a pause on regular programming to try and make sense of what’s happened since the inauguration of Donald Trump. From social media chaos, Elon Musk’s “hand gesture” and mass deportations, to the new D.O.G.E logo and presidential pardons - we are all just trying to make sense of this together. Email us: [email protected] Find us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@flightlessbirdpodcast Show Links: - David Farrier’s Webworm piece on inauguration: https://www.webworm.co/p/welcome-to-american-hell - The Present Age with Parker Molloy: https://www.readtpa.com/p/news-organizations-are-tiptoeing - Ezra Klein: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-trump-inauguration.html - Presidential Pardons: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-proud-boys-tarrio-rhodes-release-pardon-b2683691.html - Officer beaten by mob works 14 hour day at Trump’s inauguration. Comes home to pardons: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/us/politics/officer-jan-6-trump-protection.html - “Trump pardons Silk Road dark web market creator Ross Ulbricht”: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz7e0jve875o - “Trump pardons two police officers convicted in murder of Black man in Washington”: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-pardons-two-police-officers-convicted-murder-black-man-washington-2025-01-23/ -The Bishop who angered Trump: https://time.com/7209222/bishop-mariann-budde-trump/ - How We Learn To Be Brave book: https://www.amazon.com/How-We-Learn-Be-Brave/dp/0593539214/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid= - “Only two genders”: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/23/trump-executive-order-fetal-personhood - Royalty Family YouTube video on LA fires: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7K1FKOV9ns - The Shit You Should Care About newsletter: https://shityoushouldcareabout.substack.com/

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0:00.0	Hello? Hi, Hayden. How are you? I'm good. Thank you. What are you up to?
0:10.2	Oh, just doing some work. I'm back at work now. Oh, that's nice. Yeah. Yeah, it's not.
0:18.1	I'm calling you the day after the inauguration. I'm in the United States. You're in New Zealand. You're
0:24.6	almost 12,000 kilometres away or just over 7,000 miles. What is the vibe like in New Zealand?
0:33.7	I wouldn't say that I'm a bellwether for the entire nation, though I am as close to it as you can get.
0:39.9	I think it's much the same as it's been for the last eight or so years, which is that we're just kind of cowering and fair, seeing what you guys will do next.
0:49.9	I saw that the Doge department has its website now and it has that stupid dog on it.
0:55.4	Elon Must did a Nazi salute twice.
0:58.7	Jewel performed?
1:00.5	That was a bit disappointing.
1:02.5	Jewel performed?
1:03.5	Yeah, apparently Jewel performed.
1:05.8	So that's obviously ripped the hearts out of quite a few millennials worldwide, not just in the United States.
1:13.1	Me, you know, the thing that I did quite like is that Trump did that little dance with the cake
1:18.6	cutting sword. He did a dance with the cake cutting sword. And to me, that was good. Like,
1:25.1	that spoke to the level of decorum that I believe politics in the United States actually deserves.
1:30.0	So looking on the bright side, there's that.
1:33.0	There's something I'm trying to figure out over here is it feels like you can either look at things with extreme unease and terror.
1:40.1	But then it's also America is so unintentionally hilarious at the same time,
1:44.5	so it's sort of hard to know the balance of terror and laughter.
1:47.5	Do you know what I mean?
1:48.4	Yeah, but that's America in a nutshell.
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