Pigeon Kings: Inside the World of Pigeon Rolling
KEY MOMENTS
0:00 – Intro and sponsors
0:59 – Meet the stars and director of Pigeon Kings
2:18 – What roller pigeons and their competitions are
4:24 – How Chew got hooked on rollers
5:10 – How Milena Pastreich found the roller world
6:51 – The World Cup and how judges score a roll
10:05 – Newcastle disease quarantines and COVID
14:07 – The hawk incident and news coverage
17:23 – Where roller pigeons came from
19:14 – What's happening when a pigeon rolls
21:05 – How COVID changed the hobby
24:32 – Keith on the federal case and what it cost him
28:25 – An undercover agent in the pigeon club
29:40 – Lou's favorite scene: cleaning the coop
32:40 – Upcoming season, new script, and a fly for cancer
35:30 – Wrap-up
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Keith London and Darrian "Choo" Hogg, stars of the documentary Pigeon Kings, and the film's director, Milena Pastreich, join Lou to talk about pigeon rolling, defending your birds from hawks, and the federal agent who went undercover to bust them.
We also get into what roller pigeons and their competitions are, how Choo got hooked, how Milena found the roller world, the World Cup and how judges score a roll, Newcastle disease quarantines, where roller pigeons came from, what's actually happening when a pigeon rolls, what the federal case cost Keith, Lou's favorite scene (cleaning the coop), and a fly for cancer.