Storm Chasers

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

Comedy, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

This week on Flightless Bird David Farrier investigates the incredibly American pastime of storm chasing. There are about 1200 tornados in America each year - for some, they are a source of fear and worry, but for others, they are a challenge to be bested. David travels to tornado alley, visiting Oklahoma in search of answers. There he meets storm chasers Stephanie & Justin Cox (@oklahoma_weather_couple) who talk about falling in love while chasing storms and their shared obsession with finding the next big Twister. David reads that the nearby town of Cole has recently been hit by a tornado (two, in fact) so heads off to investigate, meeting the resilient people there who talk about what it’s like to be hit by a twister. Along the way Farrier talks to storm chaser Jennifer Brindley (faceofastorm.com), and her veteran storm chasing partner Skip Talbot (www.skip.cc), who timed the birth of his children around his storm chasing sensibilities! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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 1996 was a huge year for action movies.
0:11.0	We had Independence Day, Mars Attacks, and the first Mission Impossible film. We also
0:16.2	had Twister.
0:17.2	What are you doing? I want to see it!
0:22.2	I want to see it. I want to see it!
0:24.0	Now!
0:26.0	Twister introduced me to the world of stormchases.
0:30.0	Americans who put themselves in the middle of hideous weather just for the thrill of it all.
0:35.0	Before Twister, storm chasing wasn't really all that well known to me.
0:39.0	Today of course it's everywhere thanks to various reality TV shows and YouTube channels.
0:44.6	And while people do chase Storms the world over, America is where it really pops off,
0:50.3	getting craziest in May and June in a place charmingly called Tornado
0:54.3	alley the Great Plains of the United States. There are about 1,200 tornadoes in
1:00.3	America each year and so what else was I to do but set off for Tornado Alley to see what all the fuss was about.
1:07.0	I set out to meet some of those who chased the storms, but I also wanted to find out what it was like for those that weren't chasing.
1:14.6	For those that were out there having a normal day in America, only to have a giant tornado arrive
1:19.7	on their doorstep and change their lives forever. So, grab your weather gear, GPS and heavily fortified
1:26.6	vehicle because this is the Storm Chases episode.
1:30.9	Fly this. episode. I'm a flyless bird.
1:43.0	That's down in America.
1:45.0	When you first told me that you were thinking about doing this episode. This was while we were at the DMV the first time.
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