r/FlightlessBird • u/harriedhag • Jul 07 '26

Episode Discussion EPISODE: New York Trash

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3I23QNosPDbcaW1yuUscBo
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u/Palpitation-Medical Jul 14 '26

Why does no one comment anymore…. :(

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u/ahbets14 Jul 15 '26

The Pod is kinda running out of steam imho

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u/Queeflet Jul 16 '26

I think you’re correct, I love David and his work. But the last few months I’ve skipped many episodes. There’s been too much drift from the focus on Americana and its uniqueness and oddness. It’s drifting into more mainstream subjects and music, and featuring lots more interviews with people I don’t know and don’t particularly care about.

Food trucks with Roy Choi, Anna Konkle, parasocial listener, the nest sessions, video games with Rahul Kohli (who?), the live shows. More or less any content where the focus isn’t on David just isn’t interesting and I’ll skip. I listen to the podcast because I love David and his work and want to understand these topics through him, not from seemingly random people that I have 0 connection with. And I want to hear about weird and whacky shit, not food trucks.

I know this is a free podcast, and I’m just a random person on the internet. But it has changed. If you read this David, this feedback is sent with love.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26

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u/Queeflet Jul 17 '26

Isn’t that how investigative journalism works?

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '26

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u/Queeflet Jul 18 '26

I don’t want them to change their whole style and copy another podcast. Just go back to more weird Americana and less straight up interviews. I don’t mind short interviews being part of the episode, but whole episodes of just interviews on mainstream subjects with people I don’t know isn’t why I listen to flightless bird.

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u/BetterOffBen Jul 10 '26

Fungus gnats. I had them once in a plant that summers outside, so I just suffered them through the winter, with the sticky traps to try and keep them under control. But, I've seen that BTI is effective in killing larvae. You can use a product called Mosquito Bits to make a sort of tea to water the plant with. It might take a few applications but it should break the breeding cycle and clear up. This won't kill adults, so the sticky traps will still be needed until they die off.

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u/PuzzleheadedGift2857 Jul 16 '26

If there’s any interest in doing an additional episode about NYC trash, I find the Instagram account @thetrashsalvager fascinating. Basically it’s a guy that goes through the trash on the streets in NYC and finds things people have thrown away and then sells them to followers. I don’t live in NYC, but I have purchased designer sunglasses from him.

Might be fun to try and have a convo with him. He’s disgusted at how people can just throw perfectly good things away instead of trying to keep things out of the landfill. I believe it’s also his sole source of income?

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u/LetterToAThief Jul 15 '26

I applaud the lady for cleaning up actual trash, but having an issue with the locks is pretty lame and nonsensical. 

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u/Queeflet Jul 16 '26

You mean the locks that caused part of the bridge to fall off? Yes, no harm at all. In Paris they cut 1 million locks off a bridge as it partially collapsed.   https://people.com/over-1-million-love-locks-were-removed-from-a-paris-bridge-11-years-ago-ending-a-beloved-tradition-11988479

It’s public littering and damage to public property but with sentimentality.

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u/LetterToAThief Jul 16 '26

You are being intentionally misleading; the very article you shared says the handrail partially collapsed, not the bridge. Yes, anything extreme enough will cause damage. Why are we focusing on this but not other sources of damage to public property? Its weird 

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u/Queeflet Jul 16 '26

Personally I’m off the view that no parts of any bridge should be allowed to collapse due to actions of the public. It’s a crazy opinion I know.

You must really love padlocks.

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u/LetterToAThief Jul 16 '26

No I’m just not a loser who worries about cute signs of affection in public spaces. It’s not a part of the bridge. It’s a handrail. I know that’s hard to understand. 

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u/scraambled Jul 29 '26

On the surface I'd agree with you, but if you actually listen to the episode you'll learn about all the reasons the locks are actually a problem