Tunnel Girl
Flightless Bird
David Farrier
4.9 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi David. |
| 0:08.0 | Hi, sweet cheeks. How are you? |
| 0:10.0 | What? Is that a new thing that you're trialling? |
| 0:13.0 | Yeah, what do you think? |
| 0:15.0 | I hate it. How come? |
| 0:16.0 | I just didn't, I felt very confronting to me. |
| 0:19.0 | You do have a sweet pair of cheeks. Do you mean my face cheeks or my butt cheeks? |
| 0:24.9 | Oh, up to you. It's in the eye of the beholder. |
| 0:29.9 | I don't think either is one of that good. |
| 0:32.4 | Today on Flightless Bird, I'm meeting an American woman who's digging a tunnel under her suburban home. |
| 0:39.1 | And I'm just wondering what you think of people that dig tunnels under their suburban homes. |
| 0:44.6 | Is this a particularly American activity? |
| 0:47.2 | It's a great question, Hayden. |
| 0:48.7 | Are they kind of like a mole people over there? That wasn't something that I knew about them. |
| 0:52.6 | No, look, I've got to be honest, there are a lot of tunnel diggers all over the world, including myself and New Zealand as a child, |
| 1:00.0 | but this is one particularly enthusiastic woman who happens to be an American. I fully support |
| 1:06.6 | and endorse it. And I think there is something uniquely human about wanting to dig a big tunnel and just |
| 1:15.2 | disappear because you just need to be in a tunnel. |
| 1:19.4 | You need to be where it's dark and peaceful and no one can bother you and no one can |
| 1:23.4 | call you, talk on flightless bird. |
| 1:26.5 | And it's beautiful and dark and wet and you just want to be in a |
| 1:31.9 | tunnel. I totally get it. I think it's a really beautiful thing that she's doing. I'm David Farrier |
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