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Flightless Bird

Mysterious Sound

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

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

52.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

"Today on Flightless Bird: Imagine if you have fulfilled the American dream of buying your dream home… only to find there’s a problem. A big problem. You can’t see it or taste it - but you can hear it. There’s a mysterious sound and it’s out to ruin your life. That’s what this week’s episode is about. Rob and David also look at feedback to the Death Doulas episode from a few weeks back. Links: Flightless Bird on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@flightlessbirdpodcast Contact David and Rob: [email protected] Jimmy Fallon and Jon Hamm recreated “With Arms Wide Open”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dku7mCv76cU Susie “I threw my grandma a death part that went viral!” Article: https://torontolife.com/life/threw-grandmother-assisted-suicide-party/ Dr’s Tweets: https://x.com/DavidJuurlink/status/1129811903776198659 UCLA's body donation program: https://www.uclahealth.org/programs/donatedbody How the body of an Arizona great-grandmother ended up as part of a U.S. Army blast test: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-bodybrokers-industry/ "

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello.

0:06.8

Hi, Reisabel. How are you? It's your old mate David Farrier.

0:11.0

I remember you.

0:13.1

So today's episode is about someone who buys their first home in America.

0:20.2

And everything seems perfect until they encounter

0:23.0

like a horrible problem that they never saw coming.

0:26.9

Okay.

0:27.5

I'm wondering if you've ever moved into a house and there was a big problem that you never saw

0:33.6

coming.

0:34.9

And you can't say living with me.

0:37.1

Well, that was the obvious answer. I was living in a dream

0:43.7

situation, which is that I was flooding with a whole bunch of really good friends of mine.

0:48.2

And for whatever reason, maybe I had moved out by the stage and I came back and I, one of my friends was away, so I stayed in their bed.

0:56.4

And as I was falling asleep, you know how sometimes when you're falling asleep in a new bed,

1:01.2

you're sort of sensitive to the feeling of the bed? And I was like, I feel like there's something

1:07.5

scratchy or like, you know, it's like, like a hair, you know, like moving on my skin.

1:13.0

And so I turned the light on and there were all these like tiny maggots like crawling over the bed.

1:21.0

Oh, God.

1:23.0

And I jumped out of bed.

1:25.1

It was just the most awful discovery.

1:28.3

But I, and to this day, I'm so confused if that was a new development or if that was like

1:36.0

always like that in that bed.

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