The Kind of Story We Need Right Now: Flaco the Owl Escapes from the Central Park Zoo
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- čas přidán 14. 06. 2024
- Seth steps away from bleak and depressing news to share a news story about Flaco, a Eurasian eagle-owl who escaped the Central Park Zoo and flies freely around New York City.
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The Kind of Story We Need Right Now: Flaco the Owl Escapes from the Central Park Zoo - Late Night with Seth Meyers
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RIP Flaco. You are loved and mourned by many.
Killed by you fools.
As a Certified Big Flaco Fan I have some additional notes:
- someone on Twitter managed to find records of Flaco’s entire family tree going back decades; all of them were born and died in captivity, Flaco is the first in all that time to fly free
- he is often found in the North Woods, lately close to the Loch Waterfall
- Flaco just celebrated his 13th birthday (his first as a free bird!)
I hope some day I can make it to Central Park to see Flaco, I have fallen madly in love with him & am so proud of him ♥
I love how every so often New Yorkers will adopt a mascot onto which we temporarily project all our hopes and fears for the city via Twitter and WNYC
So true. 😂
I just hope he doesn't get poisoned from eating a rat like Barry the owl did. That was heartbreaking. She would have died even if she wasn't hit. It is wonderful that he has his freedom but the food situation is scary for him.
THIS!!
Because living in NYC is miserable. New Yorkers look for hope everywhere.
Damn, breaks my heart to think how he lived in a tiny enclosure for 12 years
I often think zoos are irrelevant...
@@sanseijedi they're CRUEL
@@sanseijedi On the contrary, they are more important than ever. They are not private menageries for the rich who want a zebra to look at. The animals are ambassadors of nature to remind us of the wonders that we are losing and should preserve and protect
@@MarcColten-us2pl you definitely aren't talking about zoos
@@Ducky69247 I definhitely am. They could be better but the gorilla enclosure in Atlanta gives the apes both a wide open space to be comfortable and close up windows where the apes can enjoy watching us as we enjoy watching them. They had a gigantic bear named Ron who was in an awful enclosure but they transferred him to a zoo with more space. You can’t walk away from a modern zoo without appreciating them more,.
Flaco looking at that dog crate is the funniest thing I have seen this month.
Just another reason to love Seth. We 100% need more feel good stories.
THIS!!
@@nikolaipersad4098 Fools.
This was even better than I expected. Go Flocko Go! Be free! ❤️
Flako looks so proud of himself. Just look at him!
Now he dead.
I love how they said owls aren't very smart, and then he outsmarted them 😂
Owls know the difference between captivity/slavery and freedom...many people don't.
Exactly 😂😂😂
@ThatGuy-ot1gt I love how much of a doof you are. If you think that evading capture makes you "smart", try capturing a healthy housefly.
@@alswedgin9274 Your intelligence is comparable to the owl.
@@Maspets thank you.
The idea of Flaco having his Shawshank moment makes me smile. 😁
Love these. Doubt anything will surpass the bobcat strangling grandma 😂, but always appreciated.
Hmmm great one but Willie Murphy remains the champ of “kind of story we need right now”
Owlfits, Seth. He was trying on owlfits. 🦉
LOVE THAT ♥ He was trying on owlfits
I wish Seth did more of these to be honest😊
As someone that used to cut together packages for the morning news, I can tell you that, while some producers will write their own scripts, a lot of the time they are just making slight alterations or even copying verbatim a script that is included with the footage they all download from the same server. Hence the repeated jokes.
"Either get busy livin', or get busy flyin'."
Waka Flaco Flame
😂😶🌫️
The story is so good we needed it twice
So happy for Flaco. Fly free bird!
100% my favourite Story We Need Right Now to this day 💕
I mean, I feel like "The Claw-Shank Redemption" is a much better pun. . .
Flaco is absolutely beautiful. I feel worried for him. He's not safe. Not because he can't survive in nature, but because it's a crowded city with tall buildings that he, like so many other birds, could crash into and die. Also, some people are a-holes. I also hate the idea that he was in a tiny enclosure. Maybe now the public will put enough pressure on zoo officials to create a much better enclosure for him, if they recapture our hero. Live long, safe and happy, Flaco. Stay in the park.
I hate that animals are in small enclosures but zoos really are super important for conservation. To that end costs have to be managed and big enclosure are unfortunately not cost effective
I'm hoping due to him being in a small enclosure for so long, will make it so that he doesn't feel the need to venture out of the park and face that danger.
It's also that he isn't native to this continent and could be vulnerable to native species including cats.
@@joshuabanning963 Nah. Shut down the zoos and spend the money buying land. Much more effective conservation. Breeding program and outreach excuses are bs.
Maybe some donors will step forward ...
I don't doubt the zoo wanted better enclosure, but $$$ is always a problem.
That is the kinda story we need ❤️
I hope Flaco's last name is "Seagulls"
...Flock'o Seagulls...😅
That joke laid an egg.
Flaco C. Gulls. Now that he has a SAG name, he could try out for "Cicada, Cicada"
@@ZenBeth Omg the C. could stand for "Cicada" 😱
Its not a punny story-- it’s A story about how we have been keeping an owl In a tiny cage for 12+ years…
Escaped a nightmare indeed🥺
FACT
The Ripleys Aquarium here has an Octopus. In a bs tank with NO stimulation or tank mate. Off in a corner by himself. I have fantasy’s about freeing him. Just popping em in my bag and running down to the ocean…Octopi are some of the smartest animals on Earth. Yet we keep him in an empty glass box. sigh. I hate aquariums but I love aquariums…
It’s really no more complicated than giving a hoot🙄
@@MaidenHelll 🤣
@@ThestuffthatSaralikes I agree, wild animals shouldn't be in cages. Humans can be particularly evil. 😞
Rest in Power, Flaco :(
This jackal would love to see “The Kind of Story We Need Right Now” make a regular appearance, maybe even once a week
I second that!
This jackal wants Flaco in charge of Animal Flubs
El flaco is going to be fine, the worst danger to him is some asshole with a gun, as usual
Worse yet…some idiot cos-play fool with a bow and arrow…..don’t think it can’t happen.
You couldn't be more correct/right!
Worse danger than eating a poisoned rat?
Or a poisoned rodent
@@richtintera5524 That's a fair point.
I can not understate how much I enjoyed that tale of intrigue
I like how they didn't mention that Eurasian Eagle Owls are the largest species of owl and regularly take down prey as large as small deer. Rodents and pigeons stand no chance whatsoever. Flaco is gonna be just fine.
Flaco will become an exciting new hazard for tourists with children.
@@KyleRayner12 oh puhleeeese !!!!! Owls do not eat children !!!!
@@KyleRayner12 Unless the tourists in question leave their toddlers unattended at night and all alone, they're in no danger whatsoever. Owls, unsurprisingly, aren't fond of attacking people. Especially not people surrounded by other people. An owl would much rather take down easy prey like a pigeon than something as large as a human child that could hurt it.
@@KyleRayner12 - Why not stop by and catch him with your power ring?
@@KyleRayner12 great new conspiracy theory..
I’m glad they also posted this separately from the monologue. I’m always telling others to look up *The Kind of Story We Need Right Now*
Well that was a hoot.
I kind of hope there was an owl fact mistake in here somewhere so we can get an Animal Flubs in Corrections this week.
The jackals won’t let us down
Noooo, now I'm going to have the song in my head all night!
Go Flaco!
💙
Seth, you missed Flocko and “Are you looking at me?” It was right there, right there.
We need Flaco t-shirts! 😊
Live long & prosper Flaco!
Flaco joins the Mystery Men.
Flaco is like "The Sphinx" ?😅
"If you don't learn to master you're rage.."
"Your rage will become your master? It's what you were gonna say right?"
"...Not Necessarily." 🤣🤣🤣
Flaco is a rockstar🤘
A new yorker 🤘 star
A flock-star!!!
Si se puede, Flaco!
I luv this story so much 🥺 You go, Flaco!!
Long live Flaco!
Love this new segment. Heartwarming but still very funny ❤❤❤
#Corrections: Chicken nugget factories don't typically cook the product prior to shipping so unless the child was proficient and had a portable deep fryer then they'd still likely not do well
Yeah but they wouldn’t starve. They might get food poisoning or something, but they wouldn’t starve
Kids probably wouldn't really want to see how chicken nuggets are made, if you consider the first step...
Trying for corrections? 😊
@@CalamityCannon Tell that to Jamie Oliver
🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 yay Flaco! This is so great!
So an owl expert and a clam expert walk into a bar...
Your story on Flaco is thee best Seth! He proved everyone wrong and defied all odds. People worship celebrities, we worship Flaco! Thee Owl Queen just wrote a book on Flaco called Flaco the Fearless! I hope you get to check that out.
Falco finally getting to be free and do owl stuff and best of all FLY HIGH ! 🦉
Jackal here. A kid would probably starve in a chicken nugget factory because the nuggets would be unsafe to eat in factory form.
Counter correction! a chicken nugget factory likely has a cafeteria. So the kid would be fine. Though it might die a slow death from malnutrition.
I'm so glad that Flaco saw Hamilton!😂😂😂😂
I need another one of these!
Free Bird ... Where's my lighter. Love that song.
🦉🦉🦉🙀😱🦉🦉🦉
I love this segment 😍🥰
I love this story!!!
Viva El Flaco!! Be free brother!!😂❤😂
Flaco was like #LandBack
Welocome, back Flaco, try to stay out of trouble and safe travels 🦉💞😇🪶
I feel bad for the owl taking his place inside that bus stop prison.
I'm convinced this segment was only included to add fuel to the Animal Flubs narrative.
Worrying Flaco would starve, now that's hilarious. It really shows that humans think they need to control animals. How about controlling ya rats LMFAO
Rats spend their entire lives finding food for themselves, zoo animals spend their entire lives having it delivered to them. So how would Flaco, who's been in captivity for his entire life, know how to hunt?
@@bibliomane7461 Obviously he can, must be instinct.
Rats are animals 😂🤣
@@bibliomane7461it’s kind of like humans. If you got rid of the supermarket. Many would starve but plenty would figure it out. It wasn’t unreasonable to be worried but he proved his chops and will be fine.
@@bibliomane7461 Ya can't take the Wild out of an animal just by putting it into captivity. You gotta do that through (in)breeding like cats and dogs and even then you still are left with an animal that has a brain that is 100 million years old in evolution. Your cat might be domesticated, just toss it out: it will survive in the Wild. We perfected (in)breeding with dogs, they actually think they need us but i would still dare someone to put a dog out in the woods at a mature age, it will most likely find a way to survive.
I was today's years old when I found out there's a zoo in Central Park. 😅
It’s the zoo in the film Madagascar!
"Today's years old"?
Please explain for the unenlightened.
I miss these stories please bring them back more often!
Serious déjà vu here.. was this not part of the previous video ?
JÀ VÉ DOUS DA!!!❣️😜🥳🤩😍🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm glad I'm not the only one. I thought I was going nuts.
it was on colbert like 2 weeks ago
@@moonliteX no, this EXACT segment
@@abbycross90210 they’re uploading the segment after the monologue with the monologue for some reason. And then uploading the second segment again.
Cute. Thanks Seth
Flacka Flaco!!!
This is the kind of thing they'd make an entire movie around
“Howl could you not come up with a better joke?”
Heck Flaco maybe replacing Joe Flacco as a backup qb for the New York Jets. 🦉
More Flaco please
Someone knew when they named him. It wasn’t long before the owl flocko’d off. 🦉❤
This is how the owl infestation of NNYC in Futurama begins...
Flako looks at camera like
R u F-king kidding me
Who do U Think u R?
I can't believe he died! He escaped the tiny prison cell he was in, only for his story to be cut short. Rest in peace, buddy!
Owls don't have hands, they have. Talons
More good news segments please, Seth!!!💖
CORRECTION: I’m a local news producer with 25News in Central Illinois. The joke book says “Bartlett’s Puns for Reporters,” but your “whodunit” clip only showed one live reporter preceded by two news anchors. Anchors, while often capable of being reporters on low-staffed days, do not consider that role their official job title.
You know we're in dystopia when reporters don't even think of themselves as reporters or responsible for reporting.
CPZ now has Flaco’s digs for rent on air BNB, but you have to share with Nathan Lane
Can hear him saying…. I’m getting the Flacko out of here!!!
Next thing that will happen: they'll start introducing more owls to Central Park to help with New York's rat problem. Also, Central Park owls will become an attraction.
You heard it here first.
The rat poison kills them. Even if the Central Park Conservatory doesn't use it rats will still come into the park with it. Central Park is already known for it's owls. Barry a very, very beloved owl was was killed by an employee driving a truck on an evening "loop", it turned out though that she had rat poison in her system when she was hit so sadly her death was inevitable. More owls would just lead to more sad deaths while barely doing a thing to the rodent population.
If they thought he was unable to hunt for food then they could’ve quite easily have continued putting out food on top of his enclosure. And had some outdoor spaces at the zoo for him.
Thanks Seth 😎
They weren't vandals they were liberators 🦉
Flacoooooo!!!!!!
My dude :)
Obvious animal flub: Flaco is not scaled correctly in the graphics where he tours NYC
You mean *feathered* correctly?
@@SuppenfischeintopfBirds have scales on their feet, so both apply 😁
Long live Flocko - FREEDOM!
Owl don’t give a flocko.
You could get additional owls. I mean New Yorkers liked the first owl, and worst thing that could happen is that the rats evolve to survive the owls and then the rats start feeding on the subway masturbators. Would that be so bad?
Tòo funny
I saw a Hawk-Owl once
We got a hawk owl almost every winter where I live in Canada they are amazing creatures and day time hunters.
YAAASSSS #FreeFlaco
Flaco - expanding the borders of the Central Park Zoo.
He lived next to the Penguin exhibit? Looks like Skipper and the crew are up to their tricks again...
Flavor is your spirit animal. Y he's there he found ya 😳
Ever get that feeling you've been somewhere before?
This isn't a story I need anymore.
I see so much compassion for zoo animals in the comment! Maybe this will start a new campaign against this barbaric practice of locking up animals. Zoos are horrendous, torturous hells. Let's stop being such cruel people.
Not all zoos. In my country, the owls are kept in big enclosures (we have very strict laws regarding animals) and are important parts of breeding programs so they don't become extinct.
If it's always perfect? No, but the law states that animals must be permitted to behave naturally, so here you aren't allowed to cage your dog.
My thoughts exactly. Maybe more zoos can let perfectly healthy owls return to the wild. Flaco is the hope that other owls & other animals can some day live free like he is. Someone sent me a photo of Flaco in his enclosure, the sides and back of it where white and the only place he could actually view the real world is if he looked up. I cried pretty hard for the 12 years inside that enclosure and I cried happy tears now that he is free. If animals could speak and you asked everyone of them would you rather one month of freedom or a decade in a cage they would all pick one month of freedom.
Guess you haven’t been to a modern zoo.🤨
Pretty sure there are plenty of rats and squirrels in CP lmao
💜🍀
Biden is Flaco! Underestimated because of his age and nice guy image, Biden's kicking ass and living his best presidential life! 🙌
Not wst hing nite tv anymore. For few yrs as I am moving west. This guy's funny. I like him. He jumped onto my phone wile I was listening to Joe Rogan & Russel Brand on psycholilics.