Suing

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

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

5 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This week on Flightless Bird, David sets out to discover why Americans love suing each other so much - filing over 40 million lawsuits a year. Joined by Dax and Monica, David attempts to figure out how to avoid being sued and talks about the time a New York man sued him... twice. Dax weighs in with his own legal battles and David talks to New York media lawyer Cameron Stracher about what it was like defending the National Enquirer during the Michael Cohen Trump Fiasco. We discover how lawsuits aren’t as frivolous as you might expect - including the famous McDonald's hot coffee incident which saw superheated hot coffee explode on a woman’s lap.

Transcript

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0:00.0	I'm David Farrier, a New Zealander who ended up accidentally marooned in America, and I want to grasp what makes this country tick.
0:08.0	Being new here, there's always this thing looming over me, this fear. But like with so many fears I have I don't know if the fear is
0:16.4	justified or not because I have so many unjustified fears like that maybe I'll
0:22.0	accidentally leave a tap on when I leave the house so that when I
0:24.8	come back there'll be a flooded kitchen or bathroom.
0:28.0	My other big worry here in America being sued.
0:31.9	Are you an idiot or are you just not paying attention?
0:35.0	Just answer my question.
0:37.0	Because the legal system in the United States is scary.
0:40.0	I mean, Americans file 40 million lawsuits a year.
0:44.0	40 million, many of those will be frivolous, but that doesn't mean they're not scary.
0:50.0	Corporations spend over 20 billion a year on commercial litigation, which makes sense when you consider
0:55.7	Walmart get sued about 5,000 times a year, literally.
1:00.4	So get ready to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
1:05.0	This is the suing episode.
1:08.0	Flagless.
1:10.0	Flagless.
1:12.0	Fight this bird. Flagless Bird Touch Down in America.
1:15.0	I'm a flyless bird touchdown in America.
1:17.0	I'm a flyless bird touch down in America.
1:21.0	This is fun because Vax is normally sitting by us and can't talk.
1:27.0	But we've decided to stretch the limits of the exclusivity contract we have.
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