Flightless Bird
Flightless Bird follows journalist David Farrier as he learns about what makes America special from his unique perspective as a Kiwi accidentally marooned in the Land of the Free. Infinitely curious but never judgmental, each week, David (along with cohost and American Rob) seeks to understand what makes America so unique, strange, and wonderful.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 61 minutes
- Episodes
- 150
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Tunnel Girl
In this week’s episode, David flies to Washington, DC to meet with Kala - AKA “Tunnel Girl” - a woman digging a tunnel under her suburban home. David descends into Kala’s tunnel, trying to figure out…
01:09:16 |
Tue 09 Sep 2025
Kony 2012
In this week’s Flightless Bird, David looks back at Invisible Children’s “Kony 2012” documentary through the eyes of Lilly, an intern at the time - and Jedidiah Jenkins, the director of idea developm…
01:21:22 |
Tue 02 Sep 2025
Streisand Effect
In this week’s Flightless Bird, David Farrier meets Mike Masnick, the journalist and entrepreneur who came up with the term “The Streisand Effect” 20 years ago. The term has its origins in Barbara St…
01:13:58 |
Tue 26 Aug 2025
Cryonics
In this week's Flightless Bird, David Farrier explores cryonics - freezing human corpses in the hope they may one day be resurrected by future humans! We interview James Arrowood, CEO of Alcor, Ameri…
01:23:37 |
Tue 19 Aug 2025
Pokemon Cards
In this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob discuss Pokemon Trading Cards. They’re joined in the studio by Alex (@chantastic_collection) to get schooled on Pokemon fandom and trading cards (David a…
01:25:42 |
Tue 12 Aug 2025
Home Alone House
In this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob talk about one of the most iconic American movies of all time: Home Alone. David then meets Lauren, who not only loves Home Alone - but grew up in the Ho…
01:15:02 |
Tue 05 Aug 2025
Deep Dish Pizza
In this week’s episode, Rob takes David around Chicago visiting some of his favourite deep dish pizza spots. The pair check out Pizano’s, Pequod’s, Lou Malnati's and Chicago's Pizza. They also stop b…
01:16:51 |
Tue 29 Jul 2025
Live in Chicago: Joe Berlinger, Italian Beef, and Possums
This week’s episode was recorded live in Chicago, where Rob and David brought Flightless Bird to Park West on July 10. They share their thoughts and feelings about Chicago, before interviewing legend…
01:55:37 |
Tue 22 Jul 2025
Live in Denver: Cryonics, Hearse Club, Ice Core, & Wolf Reintroduction
This week’s Flightless Bird is Live From Denver! Rob and David explore the sights and sounds of Denver, CO, presenting their findings to a very fun crowd at the beautiful Cervantes Ballroom. They are…
01:59:12 |
Tue 15 Jul 2025
Candy
In this week’s Flightless Bird, Rob takes David to Vons. There they each pick their five favourite American candies, ready to taste test back at the studio. They also pick a bunch of American candy D…
00:50:04 |
Tue 08 Jul 2025
Prison Firefighters
Trigger warning: Today’s episode is very much adults only.
In this week’s episode, Flightless Bird explores incarcerated firefighters, talking to former inmate Matthew Hahn who signed up to fight…
01:14:46 |
Tue 01 Jul 2025
Subway
In this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob look at Subway - breaking down what America loves about the sandwich, before dining at a Subway and ordering all things footlong. Of course, they also ex…
01:05:43 |
Tue 24 Jun 2025
LA Protests
In this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob sit down to record on June 10th - a few days after David got a dose of pepper spray to the face at Sunday’s protests outside the Metropolitan Detention C…
01:14:26 |
Tue 17 Jun 2025
Scientology
In this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob explore Scientology in LA and beyond. David goes on a mini tour of LA Scientology, attempting to visit the Museum of Psychology, Big Blue and the Celebri…
01:39:03 |
Tue 10 Jun 2025
Sperm Donation
In this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob look at the USA’s very unregulated sperm doner market. Along the way David meets Sheena, who recently met her biological father and discovered over 80 ha…
01:14:45 |
Tue 03 Jun 2025
Live in San Francisco: Smart Vibrators, Zizians, & The Room
This week’s Flightless Bird is live at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Musician Kelcey Ayer reimagines the FB themesong, before David and Rob share their thoughts on the city and peruse the…
01:44:14 |
Tue 27 May 2025
Topps Trading Cards
On this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob look at the history and current trajectory of Topps Trading Cards. They talk baseball cards and baseball cards, before looking at all the strange traject…
01:24:28 |
Tue 20 May 2025
Blockbuster
In this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob visit the last Blockbuster videostore in the world in Bend, Oregon. On the way they stop off at the Overlook Hotel (sort of) and discuss their love of ph…
01:22:21 |
Tue 13 May 2025
Emo Music
In this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob look at emo music in the United States, from its origins to where it is today. Rob presents David with a lesson in emo bands and reaches out to them to a…
01:50:10 |
Tue 06 May 2025
Autism Reveal Party
In this week’s Flightless Bird, David talks to Lisa Didion, an Assistant Professor of Special Education at the University of Kansas. Lisa wrote in after the Fake Seizure Guy episode, saying that Flig…
01:11:39 |
Tue 29 Apr 2025
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