meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Flightless Bird

Spaceman Barry

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

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

52.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 89 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In this week’s Flightless Bird, David Farrier takes a darker, weirder deep dive into America with a story that is very specific, niche, and dangerous. This is a story about two Americans who were strangers to each other, until they decided to move in together. One man was in his 30s, the other rapidly approaching 80. One man was called Noah, and the other we’ll call “Spaceman Barry”. This is their story - and how it went wrong. LINKS: "Spaceman Barry" - photos and more information and discussion: https://www.webworm.co/p/spacemanbarrypod "Gary" - the story of a man whose housemate killed the neighbor: https://www.webworm.co/p/garypodcast

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Do you know that when you call me from Facebook it says Big Worm is calling?

0:09.0

Is that what my name is? I guess so, I don't know.

0:15.0

Okay, now the episode we're doing today

0:18.0

is like a very specific strange story

0:21.0

about two people living together, like flatmates or roommates as you would call them in America.

0:27.0

And it just struck me that we lived together for a number of years and I'm just wondering what that experience was like for you because I think most of our listens just know the fact that I once cracked an egg on your head so I think people feel that I'm probably a terrible person to live with but I'm wondering what your memories are of living with me.

0:45.2

Mm-hmm. I really loved living with you. I thought it was great. Yeah.

0:51.6

Well that's so... I miss living with you actually oh what was you laughing

0:57.0

just expecting you to insult me or something but that's so nice what what was good about living with me am I

1:04.3

quite sort of easy to get on with and my pushover what's what made me good to live

1:08.8

with I just enjoyed living with my friend and having like debriefs about the day every now and

1:17.1

then and having someone who can just hang out with who's like across the hallway.

1:22.4

I mean it wasn't hang out with, who's like across the hallway.

1:24.4

I mean it wasn't great when you cracked the egg on my head.

1:27.2

That was the low point of living with you.

1:29.8

Was there anything that I did when we were housemates that was annoying or frustrating to you?

1:39.0

Not necessarily annoying.

1:41.0

You weren't always great at picking up after yourself, but you just...

1:45.0

I actually can't remember, I don't have any specific bad memories like if I had to give an interview for you for like a respective new house,

1:56.5

I wouldn't have anything bad to say. But I do remember that there would be times when I'd be

2:02.3

working in my room and I'd have the door shut.

2:05.3

And I'd know that you were bored and wanted attention because you'd start stomping

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from David Farrier, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of David Farrier and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.