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Flightless Bird

Slime

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

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

52.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Flightless Bird, David explores the resurgence of interest in slime on Instagram and TikTok - an incredibly American phenomenon that's slimed its way into American culture since the 1970’s. He meets professor Christopher Michlig, author of File Under: Slime to discuss how slime has an even wider meaning and context within the United States. From The Blob to Ghostbusters, Garbage Pail Kids to skateboarding - slime is bigger than you might think. Links: File Under: Slime (the book): https://hatandbeard.com/products/file-under-slime-by-christopher-michlig Lucy Jones’ Creatures That Don't Conform: https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/creatures-that-dont-conform/ A Natural History of Slime: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/720858/slime-by-susanne-wedlich/ Oliver Payne’s 2022 short film, A Brief History of Slime: https://vimeo.com/684376655 MGMT video for Bubblegum Dog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX5NIs8bV54

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello David.

0:05.0

Hi, Roosevelt.

0:07.0

I'm doing an episode about slime because I've discovered that slime was kind of invented as like a toy in America.

0:17.0

Do you have thoughts on slime? Have you used slime? What do you think of slime any ideas on what slime represents to you?

0:26.0

I've played with the very basic kind of slime you know like the two dollar shop

0:32.1

very plain kind of slime but I'm very

0:34.8

slim curious as you know because slime's all over my tic-tock and I really like the

0:39.2

more advanced slime where it's like it looks like a meal and then it's slime.

0:45.0

What is it about it that you like? Is it kind of an ASMR thing or is it a visual thing?

0:50.0

What is it do you think?

0:52.0

I think the initial crack, you know, some of the videos I sent you where they crack the initial

0:58.9

sculpture and then it becomes slime is very satisfying, but it's not an ASMR thing for me I think it's

1:05.1

attractive because it's not dirty right so it's not going to it's like not

1:10.9

going to get into all your like under your nails or like it's not

1:16.1

gritty or anything it's like a very clean experience okay so yes slime for Roosevelt is a positive thing.

1:24.0

Yeah, I feel like it will feel really nice in your hands when you're playing with it.

1:29.0

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

1:34.9

this country tick. Now over the last year my friend Roosevelt has sent me a lot of

1:40.0

Tik-

1:47.0

when I went back to New Zealand last all my youngest niece wanted to talk about was

1:52.3

slime and I remembered that when I was a kid,

1:55.2

there was a period when all I wanted was Slim as well.

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