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Flightless Bird

Kanye's Squatter

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

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

52.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This week, David meets the man who squatted in Kanye West’s Simi Valley house, sleeping in Kanye’s bed, eating Kanye’s pasta, and shitting in Kanye’s backyard. While there, John wrote a book called “Squat” which is, in this podcast’s opinion, fantastic. David then has an update about Melbourne’s Fake Seizure Guy, and reads listeners emails about other local legends around America, Canada, and the world. NOTE: While this episode about Kanye may seem incredibly timely, we actually recorded the studio part of this episode a day before Kanye’s latest X/Twitter tirade, which saw him saying a bunch of mindnumbily dumb, stupid, and offensive stuff. He was racist, extremely anti-semitic, and sent out porn. In a way it doesn't really change anything because we already knew all this about Kanye West - he’s done all this before - but in the chaos of keeping up with everything that’s going on in the world right now, some of that felt a million years ago. I guess I could sum up my feelings by what I texted Rob just now - “I wish we’d gone a little harder here”. Links: - John Safran’s book, Squat: https://www.amazon.com/Squat-John-Safran/dp/1760890170 - Beware the Serial Squatter of Malibu’s Point Dume: https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/serial-squatter-malibu-point-dume - Update on Fake Seizure Guy’s Arrest: https://www.webworm.co/p/fakeseizureguy2

Transcript

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0:00.0

David here. Today's episode of Flightless Bird is about a lot of things, but one of those things

0:05.6

is Kanye West. This is very timely considering his latest string of mind-nummingly dumb, stupid,

0:11.2

and offensive tweets, which saw him being racist, extremely anti-Semitic, and at one stage,

0:16.4

I think he just started tweeting a load of porn. In saying that, we recorded the studio part of this episode a day before any of that happened.

0:24.4

So I just wanted to say if you think it's weird we don't reference the latest chaos, that's

0:28.8

why.

0:29.7

In a way it doesn't really change anything because we already knew all this about Kanye West.

0:34.9

He's kind of done it all before.

0:36.7

But in the chaos of keeping up with everything

0:38.4

that's going on in the world right now, some of that just felt a bit faded like it was a million

0:42.8

years ago, and now it's back in extreme sharp focus. I guess I could sum up my feelings by what

0:48.6

I just texted Rob. I wish we'd gone a little harder on Kanye, but yeah, you get the idea.

0:54.0

On to the episode.

1:02.5

Hello?

1:03.4

Hi, Eddie.

1:04.2

Do you want the good news or the bad news?

1:07.2

Oh, God.

1:08.7

You deliver it to me whatever you think is going to have the most dramatic effect

1:11.8

No you need to choose

1:13.0

Okay

1:13.8

Let's go

1:14.8

Let's go

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