Flightless Bird

29 Jul 2025

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In this week’s episode, Rob takes David around Chicago visiting some of his favourite deep dish pi...

22 Jul 2025

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This week’s episode was recorded live in Chicago, where Rob and David brought Flightless Bird to P...

15 Jul 2025

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This week’s Flightless Bird is Live From Denver! Rob and David explore the sights and sounds of De...

Tue, 08 Jul 2025 07:30:00 -0000

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In this week’s Flightless Bird, Rob takes David to Vons. There they each pick their five favourite...

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 07:30:00 -0000

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Trigger warning: Today’s episode is very much adults only. In this week’s episode, Flightles...

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 07:30:00 -0000

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In this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob look at Subway - breaking down what America loves ab...

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 07:30:00 -0000

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In this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob sit down to record on June 10th - a few days after D...

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 07:30:00 -0000

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In this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob explore Scientology in LA and beyond. David goes on ...

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 07:30:00 -0000

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In this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob look at the USA’s very unregulated sperm doner mar...

Tue, 27 May 2025 07:30:00 -0000

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This week’s Flightless Bird is live at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Musician Kelcey A...

Tue, 20 May 2025 07:30:00 -0000

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On this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob look at the history and current trajectory of Topps ...

Tue, 13 May 2025 07:30:00 -0000

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In this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob visit the last Blockbuster videostore in the world i...

Tue, 06 May 2025 07:30:00 -0000

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In this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob look at emo music in the United States, from its ori...

Tue, 29 Apr 2025 07:30:00 -0000

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In this week’s Flightless Bird, David talks to Lisa Didion, an Assistant Professor of Special Educ...

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 07:30:00 -0000

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This week’s episode is from our live show in beautiful Portland that happened on April 13. David a...

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 07:30:00 -0000

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In this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob visit one of America’s most iconic restaurant chai...

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 07:30:00 -0000

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In this week's episode, David and Rob take calls from Flightless Bird listeners, who pitch the topic...

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 07:30:00 -0000

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In this week’s episode, David and Rob look at the recent cases of ICE and other agencies detaining...

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 07:30:00 -0000

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In this weeks Flightless Bird, David sets out to understand the Quiverfull movement, which advocates...

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 07:30:00 -0000

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In this weeks episode, David goes for a ride on the Goodyear Blimp in an attempt to learn more about...

Tue, 11 Mar 2025 07:30:00 -0000

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In this week’s Flightless bird, David looks at the American prison system, attempting to understan...

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:30:00 -0000

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This week on Flightless Bird, David looks at Dr James Dobson and Focus on the Family, a Colorado Spr...

Tue, 25 Feb 2025 08:30:00 -0000

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David and Rob take Flightless Bird to Seattle, doing a live episode to a sold out crowd at the Neptu...

Tue, 18 Feb 2025 08:30:00 -0000

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In this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob are joined by Gareth Reynold’s from “The Dollop”...

Tue, 11 Feb 2025 08:30:00 -0000

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This week, David meets the man who squatted in Kanye West’s Simi Valley house, sleeping in Kanye’...

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 08:30:00 -0000

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"In this week’s Flightless Bird, David continues his series in Australia. This week, he arrives in...

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 08:30:00 -0000

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In this week’s episode, David and Rob take a pause on regular programming to try and make sense of...

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 08:30:00 -0000

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In this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob reflect on the California wildfires, talking to a va...

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 08:30:00 -0000

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In this week’s Flightless Bird David is on the ground in Australia, looking at topics that are dis...

Tue, 07 Jan 2025 08:30:00 -0000

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In this week’s episode, David talks with author Jason Pargin (John Dies At The End & I'm Starting ...

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 08:30:00 -0000

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This week on Flightless Bird, David calls his friend Leon Wadham who plays "Kemen" in Amazon's Rings...

Tue, 24 Dec 2024 08:30:00 -0000

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This week on Flightless Bird, Rosabel slips on a leaf and David and Rob look back at one of their fa...

Tue, 17 Dec 2024 08:30:00 -0000

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In this week’s episode, David visits the American Girl store in Los Angeles, attempting to learn w...

Tue, 10 Dec 2024 08:30:00 -0000

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"In this week’s Flightless Bird, David sits down with Rhys Darby - the New Zealander actor and com...

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 08:30:00 -0000

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"Today on Flightless Bird: Imagine if you have fulfilled the American dream of buying your dream hom...

Tue, 26 Nov 2024 08:30:00 -0000

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In this weeks Flightless Bird, David and Rob discuss their thanksgiving plans, before hearing from i...

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 08:30:00 -0000

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In this week’s episode, David calls his friend Rosabel to see what she thinks about dying, and lea...

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 08:30:00 -0000

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In this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob look back at the last week since the election, tryin...

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 08:30:00 -0000

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This week on Flightless Bird, David and Rob look at some of the defining conspiracy theories of this...

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 07:30:00 -0000

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In this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob sit down with American documentary maker Erin Lee Ca...

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 07:30:00 -0000

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In this week’s episode, David Farrier goes and dines at the Olive Garden as he tries to figure out...

Tue, 15 Oct 2024 07:30:00 -0000

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In this week’s Flightless Bird, David explores the resurgence of interest in slime on Instagram an...

Tue, 08 Oct 2024 07:30:00 -0000

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David Farrier heads to Missouri two days out from the execution of Marcellus “Khaliifah” William...

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 07:30:00 -0000

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In this week’s Flightless Bird, David Farrier takes a darker, weirder deep dive into America with ...

Tue, 24 Sep 2024 07:30:00 -0000

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In this week’s episode, David Farrier investigates the rise and fall - and rise again - of America...

Tue, 17 Sep 2024 07:30:00 -0000

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In this episode, David and Rob sit down with Ant Starr - the New Zealand actor who plays deranged, n...

Tue, 10 Sep 2024 07:30:00 -0000

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In this episode David Farrier sets out to investigate the 7th Day Adventism, a type of Christianity ...

Tue, 03 Sep 2024 07:30:00 -0000

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This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier dives deep into the US Navy’s Marine Mammal program. H...

Tue, 27 Aug 2024 07:30:00 -0000

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This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier sets out to understand OnlyFans, which while based in th...

Tue, 20 Aug 2024 05:00:00 -0000

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This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier discovers that Rhode Island is not in fact an island. If...

Tue, 13 Aug 2024 07:00:00 -0000

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This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier investigates why American opossums are so different to N...

Tue, 02 Jul 2024 07:00:00 -0000

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This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier investigates why American chocolate tastes so different ...

Tue, 25 Jun 2024 07:00:00 -0000

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In this week’s Flightless Bird, David Farrier goes to his first Monster Truck Jam to try and under...

Tue, 18 Jun 2024 07:00:00 -0000

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In this week’s Flightless Bird, David Farrier sets off to understand America's frozen food obsessi...

Tue, 11 Jun 2024 07:00:00 -0000

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"In this week’s Flightless Bird, Monica, David and Rob discuss their favourite (mostly American) T...

Tue, 04 Jun 2024 07:00:00 -0000

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In this week’s Flightless Bird, Farrier sets out to understand why Americans call “Snakes and La...

Tue, 28 May 2024 07:00:00 -0000

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In this week’s Flightless Bird, David Farrier goes to eat at iconic American restaurant chain the ...

Tue, 21 May 2024 07:00:00 -0000

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In this week’s Flightless Bird, David Farrier throws himself back to the reign of Queen Elizabeth ...

Tue, 14 May 2024 07:00:00 -0000

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We’re trying something a little different today - something we’re calling “Flights of Fancy.”...

Tue, 07 May 2024 07:00:00 -0000

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In this week's Flightless Bird, David Farrier talks to the author of 50 Pies 50 States, Stacey Mei Y...

Tue, 30 Apr 2024 07:00:00 -0000

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In this week’s Flightless Bird, David Farrier looks at the process of gaining American Citizenship...

Tue, 23 Apr 2024 07:00:00 -0000

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In this week's Flightless Bird, David Farrier looks at how America surveils its own citizens and ask...

Tue, 16 Apr 2024 07:00:00 -0000

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In this week's Flightless Bird, David Farrier starts to ponder his own mortality and why despite Ame...

Tue, 09 Apr 2024 07:00:00 -0000

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In this week's Flightless Bird, a new format that we will bust out occasionally called "American God...

Tue, 02 Apr 2024 07:00:00 -0000

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In this week's Flightless Bird, David Farrier talks to Terra Newell, who you may well know from the ...

Tue, 26 Mar 2024 07:00:00 -0000

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This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier looks at why so many Americans don’t take their shoes ...

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 07:00:00 -0000

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This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier still finds himself stranded back in New Zealand, waitin...

Tue, 12 Mar 2024 07:00:00 -0000

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This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier finds himself stranded back in New Zealand, waiting for ...

Tue, 05 Mar 2024 08:00:00 -0000

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This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier sets out to understand the origins of Smokey Bear, an ed...

Tue, 27 Feb 2024 08:00:00 -0000

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This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier sets out to understand Costco, the giant membership ware...

Tue, 20 Feb 2024 08:00:00 -0000

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This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier sets out to the town of Roswell, New Mexico - home of th...

Tue, 13 Feb 2024 08:00:00 -0000

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This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier sets out to understand why Americans guzzle down over 10...

Tue, 06 Feb 2024 08:00:00 -0000

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This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier tries to understand why his entire street smells like se...

Tue, 19 Dec 2023 08:00:00 -0000

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This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier dives headfirst into one of America’s favorite foods, ...

Tue, 12 Dec 2023 08:00:00 -0000

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This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier takes Monica’s advice from an earlier episode and inve...

Tue, 05 Dec 2023 08:00:00 -0000

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This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier seeks to be better understood by his co-hosts by diving ...

Tue, 28 Nov 2023 08:00:00 -0000

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This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier investigates America’s extreme love of cereal. He sets...

Tue, 21 Nov 2023 08:00:00 -0000

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This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier begins to notice how much America loves cars. Why do 92%...

Tue, 14 Nov 2023 08:00:00 -0000

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This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier sets out to understand America’s obsession with pinbal...

Tue, 07 Nov 2023 08:00:00 -0000

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This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier sets out to understand the mysterious world of fantasy f...

Tue, 31 Oct 2023 07:00:00 -0000

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This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier takes Monica to a haunted house to celebrate Halloween. ...

Tue, 17 Oct 2023 07:00:00 -0000

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This week on Flightless Bird David Farrier investigates bail bonds in America, and more specifically...

Tue, 03 Oct 2023 07:00:00 -0000

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This week on Flightless Bird David Farrier investigates whether we have America to thank for the mod...

Tue, 19 Sep 2023 07:00:00 -0000

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After two American surgeons told David he needed back surgery, he fled back to his home of New Zeala...

Tue, 05 Sep 2023 07:00:00 -0000

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This week on Flightless Bird David Farrier investigates pizza, one of America’s favourite foods. H...

Tue, 22 Aug 2023 07:00:00 -0000

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This week on Flightless Bird David Farrier investigates the incredibly American pastime of storm cha...

Tue, 08 Aug 2023 07:00:00 -0000

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This week on Flightless Bird David Farrier investigates America’s obsession with ice. From excessi...

Tue, 25 Jul 2023 07:00:00 -0000

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This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier goes behind the scenes of the food that’s dished up to...

Tue, 11 Jul 2023 07:00:00 -0000

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An update on Flightless Bird! David explains to Monica and Rob why he’s had to take flight to New ...

Tue, 04 Jul 2023 07:00:00 -0000

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This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier sets out to investigate what the heck is going on with I...

Tue, 27 Jun 2023 07:00:00 -0000

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This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier realizes that New Zealand doesn’t have attics or basem...

Tue, 20 Jun 2023 07:00:00 -0000

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This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier sets out to discover why America is yet to fully embrace...

Tue, 13 Jun 2023 07:00:00 -0000

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This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier sets out to discover why America is yet to fully embrace...

Tue, 06 Jun 2023 07:00:00 -0000

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This week on Flightless Bird, David becomes fixated on the beaver, the rodent that’s become synony...

Tue, 30 May 2023 07:00:00 -0000

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This week on Flightless Bird, David sets out to look at drug rehab in the state of Florida. Accordin...

Tue, 23 May 2023 07:00:00 -0000

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In this week's Flightless Bird, David Farrier sets out to understand Florida’s obsession with exot...

Tue, 16 May 2023 07:00:00 -0000

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This week on Flightless Bird, David sets off for The Villages, America’s biggest retirement commun...

Tue, 09 May 2023 07:00:00 -0000

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This week on Flightless Bird, David continues his Florida series by going to EPCOT, Disney’s “Ex...

Tue, 02 May 2023 07:00:00 -0000

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In this week's Flightless Bird, David Farrier sets out to discover Florida’s relationship with its...

Tue, 25 Apr 2023 07:00:00 -0000

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In this week's Flightless Bird, David Farrier sets out to the “psychic capital of America”, Cass...