Sperm Donation

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

Society & Culture, Documentary, Comedy

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob look at the USA’s very unregulated sperm doner market. Along the way David meets Sheena, who recently met her biological father and discovered over 80 half-siblings… and counting. Email us: flightlessbirdchat@gmail.com Live show tickets for Denver on July 3: http://bit.ly/lostkiwiDEN Live show tickets for Chicago on July 10: http://bit.ly/lostkiwiCHI Links: - Sperm donor who fathered 550 children ordered to stop: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65429936 - Lawsuit alleges ex-Harvard Medical School professor used own sperm to secretly impregnate patient: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/lawsuit-alleges-ex-harvard-medical-school-professor-used-sperm-secretl-rcna129696 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Just before we kick this episode off, we have two live shows coming up, Rob.
0:05.1	Yes, we're doing July 3rd in Denver at the Savante's masterpiece ballroom.
0:11.3	Tickets are on sale for that already.
0:13.4	And your beautiful city, Chicago, on July 10th.
0:17.3	At Park West.
0:19.3	I can't wait.
0:19.9	I'm so excited.
0:20.9	So go to our website, flightlessbirdpod.com.
0:24.9	All the details there, grab tickets.
0:26.7	Very excited to see you soon.
0:28.7	Also, our show notes.
0:30.5	We're going to have links in our show notes.
0:31.9	So you can go there.
0:33.4	All right.
0:33.9	On with the episode.
0:39.2	Hi, David.
0:40.5	Hi, Hayden.
0:41.3	How are you?
0:42.4	Well, besides both my children being sick and you catfishing me with another podcast call, pretty good.
0:50.8	What's wrong with your kids?
0:52.8	They appear to have some sort of cold. They've had fevers.
0:58.7	They are terrorizing us. As human beings, they have become nightmares.
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