Roswell

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

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

5 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier sets out to the town of Roswell, New Mexico - home of the 1947 UFO crash that ignited the imagination of the entire planet. After visiting the Roswell UFO Museum, Farrier sets out to see what makes Roswell, well, Roswell. He meets up with artist Michael Beitz who runs the Meow Cat Sanctuary, before getting some Mexican food with local cowboy “Spider Dailey”, who fills Farrier in on the local military academy… and how to be an anarchist. He also goes to see Nancy Fleming who runs the Miniatures & Curious Collections Museum, and stops by Roswell’s UFO-themed McDonalds where he meets a man who’s had a close encounter of his own.

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm David Ferrier in New Zealand are accidentally marooned in America, and I want to figure out what makes this country tick.
0:07.0	Now it's hard to get across how much a single TV show affected me when I was growing up.
0:12.8	Hearing that theme song, that whistle,
0:20.0	today it transports me straight. Hearing that theme song, that whistle,
0:23.0	today it transports me straight back to being a teenager in New Zealand,
0:27.0	marveling at how big the universe was and how mysterious and strange things could get.
0:33.0	If you were a kid in the 90s, the X-files was everything.
0:36.0	It was a phenomenon.
0:38.0	When it first aired in 1993, 10 million Americans tuned in.
0:42.0	They didn't stream it over the week. They sat down at a specific time on a specific night on a specific channel and they watched it together in sync with with ads.
0:53.0	By 1997, 20 million people were sitting down to watch.
0:57.0	To watch two of the best TV characters ever written,
1:00.0	Mulder and Scully, you could cut the sexual tension with a knife. And like Monica, they'd also visit Georgia from time to time.
1:08.0	We've got a leave for Georgia immediately, Sculli.
1:10.0	Come on.
1:11.0	Molder, this photograph is a fake.
1:12.0	What? Look. Scully, come. Mulder, this photograph is a fake.
1:13.0	What?
1:14.0	Look, this soldier's shadow is allegedly created by the lights from the UFO, but it falls in a direction
1:20.2	contradictory to the craft's position.
1:23.0	One a skeptic, the other, a believer.
1:25.8	I'm raving here, but my point is this show is so big it colored the way I saw America.
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