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Flightless Bird

The Parasocial Listener

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

Society & Culture, Documentary, Comedy

4.93.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Before Flightless Bird takes a few weeks off for the holidays, we hear from self-proclaimed parasocial podcast listener Nick. He emailed us with a story he wanted to share - explaining how it all started on a Zoom call with his boss, when suddenly he felt like he’d been hit over the head with a bat. We think Nick’s story is intriguing and inspirational - and we wanted to share it with you as we head towards the end of 2025. Flightless Bird is taking a few weeks off, and returns on Tuesday January 6. LINKS: The Friendship Paddle: https://www.friendshippaddle.org Nick’s bands are Uncle Uncle (https://www.instagram.com/uncleuncleband/?hl=en) and Pookie - whose track “Thank You For Your Service” played us out this week: https://open.spotify.com/track/7zOeJ0T7S5VEgp5RvsRCAL?si=f5277282b92043c6 JOIN US ON PATREON: www.patreon.com/flightlessbird Email us: flightlessbirdchat@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/flightlessbirdpod Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@flightlessbirdpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello. Hi, Rosabel. How are you?

0:07.0

Hi, David. I'm good. How are you? I'm good. I've got some big news. This is going to be the last flightless

0:13.3

spirit of 2025 because we're having a couple of weeks off. Oh my gosh. Yeah. How do you feel about

0:19.6

that? What a year it's been? What a year? What have you

0:22.7

learned? What have we learned? Have we learned anything? We've learned so much. I've learned about

0:30.2

that Mexican chain store that I've already forgotten the name of. Chipotle. Chipotle. I was like

0:37.4

jalapeno. Close. Okay, that's one thing. What else have you learned? Has flightless bird taught you anything else? I'm sure it has, but at the moment, I couldn't really say. But if, you know, if it was, if I had to write a eulogy, I would have some things to say for sure. Okay, well, the show's not going

0:55.3

away. It's just going on a holiday. It's not a eulogy. We're actually, we're coming back on January

0:59.9

6th, which is a very important day in America. It's Capital Riot's Day. We like to honor that

1:06.7

wonderful day by returning on January 6th. That's great. It's good to acknowledge your history.

1:14.3

I had another question for you, and it relates back to today's topic.

1:19.5

We're looking at a parasycial podcast listener, and I was thinking about this because

1:24.8

I was wondering, you know, as I've gotten much more

1:28.7

famous and I'm quite a big deal now here in America and sort of worldwide, do you feel

1:34.9

our relationship has become a bit more parisocial?

1:38.3

Like, do I have a parisocial relationship to you?

1:41.2

That's what I was angling at.

1:43.0

Yeah, okay.

1:43.6

I suppose I've always felt that,

1:48.2

you know, do I really know the real you? Are you just calling and recording our conversations

1:53.4

for money and actually, do we even have a real friendship? Yeah, and if we don't anymore, when did that real friendship stop?

2:03.3

Or when did it start?

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