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Flightless Bird

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Flightless Bird

David Farrier

Comedy, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.93.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Flightless Bird, David Farrier sets out to understand how Americans interact with movies. Motivated by watching Nicole Kidman’s heartfelt introduction before every movie at the AMC theater chain, Farrier sets out to understand the other big chains like Regal. How are these chains enticing people in the door? He finds that AMC has the Stubs A-List, and Regal has Regal Unlimited. Then Farrier talks to Stacy Spikes, the founder and brains behind MoviePass - a subscription service he started, then was kicked out of, then bought back again. Stacy’s new venture is rumored to monitor where your eyes are looking to see if you’re watching ads or not, prompting Farrier to ask “What?!” David also wants to understand how the smaller indie chains are competing and ends up talking to Tim League who started the Alamo Drafthouse chain. He talks about movie showmanship and muses on the state of the industry right now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

This show is sponsored by Better Help.

0:03.4

Now recently I learned something about myself and that is that I have a lot of negative

0:08.1

self-talk going on in my brain, which sounds like therapy talk and I guess it is because I learned it in therapy.

0:14.1

Basically when I walk around my brain is saying negative things about me.

0:17.9

I'd never really caught it until it was pointed out to me.

0:20.8

And that's what therapy is all about. It's about deepening your own self-awareness and

0:24.0

understanding of how your mind works. Because sometimes we don't know what we want or why we

0:29.3

react the way we do until we talk through things.

0:32.6

Now better help connect you with a licensed therapist who can take you on that journey of

0:36.4

self-discovery from wherever you are.

0:39.0

I find therapy great because it helps me learn various coping skills and how to be the best version of myself.

0:45.6

Believe me there's a lot of work I need to do on that.

0:48.4

Now if you're thinking of giving therapy a try, give better help a go.

0:52.4

It's entirely online, it is designed to be convenient,

0:55.0

flexible and suited to your own schedule. You just fill out a brief questionnaire to get

0:59.1

matched with a licensed therapist and you can switch therapists anytime for no additional charge, which is pretty great.

1:05.6

Now, discover your potential with better help.

1:09.0

Visit better help.com slash bird today to get 10% off your first month. That's better help,

1:15.1

H E L P dot com slash bird.

1:18.6

I'm David Farrier in New Zealand are accidentally marooned in America, and I want to figure out what

1:25.1

makes this country tick.

1:26.9

Now if it's one thing I love, and I've loved for as long as I can remember, it's been the movies.

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