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Flightless Bird

Spiritualists

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

Comedy, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.93.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In this week's Flightless Bird, David Farrier sets out to the “psychic capital of America”, Cassadaga. On the way he comes across his first Big Tent Revival, so stops to find out what’s going on. Eventually winding his way to Cassadaga, Farrier encounters a group of Americans who not only believe in life on the other side of death, but the fact that you can communicate with those who have crossed over. David discovers Spiritualism, a religion that once boasted 8 million followers in America - amongst them, a former president! David visits a seance room, and comes face to face with a lot of cats - because this sleepy village has also become the unofficial home of hundreds of stray felines. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm David Ferrier in New Zealander accidentally marooned in America and I want to figure out what makes this country tick.

0:07.0

Now if you've been listening along in order and not randomizing flightless burrowed on your playlist,

0:12.0

you'll be aware that we've been on a string of episodes based in Florida.

0:16.0

The state of Florida is unlike anywhere else I've ever been.

0:20.0

And at some point on my trip I found myself pulling into a tiny unincorporated community called

0:25.3

Casa dega.

0:26.5

For more than 125 years, the quiet community of Casa dega has been somewhat of a mystery to many Central Floridians.

0:35.6

Found between Orlando and Del Sona, I'd come here for one reason and one reason alone.

0:40.7

I'd heard that Casa dega has so many psychics and mediums it's become known as the psychic capital of the world.

0:47.0

With that unofficial slogan it seeped into pop culture.

0:51.0

Bright eyes had an album called Casa dega. And Tom Petty, rest in peace, wrote a song called

0:56.8

Casa dega. Kessah d'Ager got.

1:05.0

And the sun beephe down on Casaeda.

1:12.4

Kessidega got this way because it's home to a religion called spiritualism, which is basically

1:18.1

a religion that says you can communicate with the dead.

1:21.5

I see dead people.

1:23.0

Fascinated, I knew I needed to visit this town of living people who decided they wanted

1:28.2

to chat with those who had stopped living.

1:31.1

So think of someone on the other side you want to talk to and formulate

1:34.8

some good questions for them because this is the spiritualist episode.

1:39.2

Like this.

1:41.2

Flag this. Flightless, Flag Bess,

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