Leaf Blowers Revisited

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

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

5 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This week on Flightless Bird, Rosabel slips on a leaf and David and Rob look back at one of their favourite episodes and what’s changed since it first aired: Leaf Blowers. They also read feedback on the American Girl episode - and there is a lot of it, including horror stories, and trips to the American Girl doll hospital. David also learns that there is a place you can go where Cabbage Patch Babies are birthed. Links: -Cost to convert entire Greenwich fleet to electric leaf blowers 'shellshocking,' officials say: https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/greenwich-leaf-blower-electric-cost-19972096.php -The Leaf Blowers Will Not Go Quietly: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-11-08/cities-that-banned-leaf-blowers-are-getting-an-earful-from-landscapers -Town of Huntington to begin banning gas-powered leaf blowers in January: https://www.newsday.com/long-island/towns/huntington-gas-leaf-blower-vaubzdxa -NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-leafblowers/ -Angry Hugh Grant: https://youtu.be/DF-9R_yCUBw?si=ccwRRA-FfRAMwfTx&t=484 -Angry Cate Blanchett: https://www.tiktok.com/@katewheeeler/video/7358794083625717025?lang=en -Flightless Bird Shirts: www.webworm.store -Email us: [email protected]

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0:00.0	Oh wow.
0:08.4	Look who came crawling back.
0:10.9	Hi, Roseville.
0:11.5	How are you?
0:12.0	You sound a little bit sleepy.
0:14.8	I'm having a little brag from all my meetings today.
0:18.2	How many meetings have you had?
0:20.7	Let me think.
0:21.9	One, two, three, four, four meetings.
0:26.1	And now a beautiful phone call from your friend, David.
0:28.7	Yes.
0:29.6	It's the cherry on the top of the cake.
0:33.3	I've got a confession to make.
0:35.2	I'm calling for the podcast.
0:41.2	Well... I've got a confession to make. I'm calling for the podcast. What about friendship?
0:43.3	We'll get to that. We'll get to that later. It's the important stuff first.
0:47.4	Okay.
0:48.3	So kind of to allow the podcast team to have a little holiday, we're revisiting an older episode, one that really
0:56.1	resonated at the time when we're kind of going to update it. It's the one about leaf blowers.
1:01.1	Did you ever listen to that one? I did listen to it. You know, at its most basic, the episode is
1:06.8	about America's obsession with leaf blowers and leaf blowing.
1:16.1	And I'm just wondering as a New Zealander if you have any thoughts on leaf blowers.
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