LA Protests

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

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

5 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob sit down to record on June 10th - a few days after David got a dose of pepper spray to the face at Sunday’s protests outside the Metropolitan Detention Centre were members of the LAPD and National Guard were posted. David and Rob discuss what the hell is going on as Trump sends 4,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles, along with 700 marines. They talk to a former National Guard member about what they do, before David recounts his experiences Sunday near City Hall, and Monday night in Little Tokyo. Email us feedback: [email protected] LINKS: Guardian opinion piece: We are witnessing the first stages of a Trump police state https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/09/trump-police-state-robert-reich Live show tickets for Denver on July 3: http://bit.ly/lostkiwiDEN Live show tickets for Chicago on July 10: http://bit.ly/lostkiwiCHI Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, it's about 8.10 p.m. on Tuesday, June the 10th. And this is going to be one of those episodes
0:05.6	that perhaps breaks the usual format a little bit as we look at things going on right here, right now,
0:10.7	like that episode we did on the LA fires. But just so you don't panic too much, here's the usual
0:15.8	line. I'm David Farrier, New Zealand, accidentally marooned in America, and I want to figure out
0:20.7	what makes this country tick.
0:22.9	And right now, things feel a little bit like a ticking time bomb here in America, and certainly here in Los Angeles.
0:30.6	Of course, a disclaimer here. A lot can happen between when we record this, June 10th, and when you're listening, probably around June 17th.
0:38.7	But look, here we are right now in our little studio and we have shit to talk about because
0:42.8	as of right now, 700 Marines and around 4,000 members of the National Guard have been deployed
0:48.9	here to Los Angeles. And three days ago, one of them fired some tear gas in my general direction and I got a lung full of it and sucked it in and what is more American than that.
0:59.5	So grab your gas masks and get ready to ponder.
1:02.9	Was it really such a great idea to vote Donald Trump back in a second time?
1:06.5	Because this is the LA protests episode.
1:13.6	Music because this is the LA protest episode. Flyless.
1:17.6	Flightless bird touchdown in America.
1:24.6	I'm a flylessisper touchdown in America
1:27.7	Rob, what a chaotic, what a week chaotic time we're having.
1:34.3	Yeah, what a crazy last couple days in LA.
1:39.9	Yeah, wild.
1:41.2	You're about to go off gallivanting around the world.
1:44.9	I'm galivating. I am going to Manchester tomorrow morning to see Rosabelle, which I'm very excited about.
1:51.5	So...
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