Emo Music Pt II
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode, Hayden explains why his old band broke up and David reveals some shocking...
Portland Protests
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s Flightless Bird, we reveal the results of the competition to guess Rosabel’s filt...
Train Hopping
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s Flightless Bird, David talks to a man who lived as a train hopper for two years. Th...
Homecoming
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s Flightless Bird, David attends his first Homecoming football game and Homecoming da...
Christian Chaos
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode, David looks at the downfall of one of the world’s biggest Christian star...
Christian Music
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode David and Rob look at the world of Christian Contemporary Music, or CCM for...
Chipotle
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s Flightless Bird, Rob takes David to his first ever Chipotle Mexican Grill experienc...
Tunnel Girl
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode, David flies to Washington, DC to meet with Kala - AKA “Tunnel Girl” - ...
Kony 2012
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s Flightless Bird, David looks back at Invisible Children’s “Kony 2012” documen...
Streisand Effect
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s Flightless Bird, David Farrier meets Mike Masnick, the journalist and entrepreneur ...
Cryonics
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's Flightless Bird, David Farrier explores cryonics - freezing human corpses in the hope...
Pokemon Cards
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob discuss Pokemon Trading Cards. They’re joined in t...
Home Alone House
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob talk about one of the most iconic American movies of...
Deep Dish Pizza
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week’s episode, Rob takes David around Chicago visiting some of his favourite deep dish pi...
Live in Chicago: Joe Berlinger, Italian Beef, and Possums
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s episode was recorded live in Chicago, where Rob and David brought Flightless Bird to P...
Live in Denver: Cryonics, Hearse Club, Ice Core, & Wolf Reintroduction
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s Flightless Bird is Live From Denver! Rob and David explore the sights and sounds of De...
Candy
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this week’s Flightless Bird, Rob takes David to Vons. There they each pick their five favourite...
Prison Firefighters
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
Trigger warning: Today’s episode is very much adults only. In this week’s episode, Flightles...
Subway
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob look at Subway - breaking down what America loves ab...
LA Protests
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob sit down to record on June 10th - a few days after D...
Scientology
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob explore Scientology in LA and beyond. David goes on ...
Sperm Donation
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob look at the USA’s very unregulated sperm doner mar...
Live in San Francisco: Smart Vibrators, Zizians, & The Room
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week’s Flightless Bird is live at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Musician Kelcey A...
Topps Trading Cards
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
On this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob look at the history and current trajectory of Topps ...
Blockbuster
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob visit the last Blockbuster videostore in the world i...
Emo Music
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob look at emo music in the United States, from its ori...
Autism Reveal Party
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this week’s Flightless Bird, David talks to Lisa Didion, an Assistant Professor of Special Educ...
Live in Portland: Bigfoot, Beavers, and the Oregon Trail
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week’s episode is from our live show in beautiful Portland that happened on April 13. David a...
The Cheesecake Factory
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob visit one of America’s most iconic restaurant chai...
Flights of Fancy: Cheese, Kony 2012, Hot Air Balloons, Troubled Teens, Ice Machines
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this week's episode, David and Rob take calls from Flightless Bird listeners, who pitch the topic...
Deported
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this week’s episode, David and Rob look at the recent cases of ICE and other agencies detaining...
Quiverfull
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this weeks Flightless Bird, David sets out to understand the Quiverfull movement, which advocates...
Goodyear Blimp
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this weeks episode, David goes for a ride on the Goodyear Blimp in an attempt to learn more about...
Prisons
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this week’s Flightless bird, David looks at the American prison system, attempting to understan...
Focus on The Family
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week on Flightless Bird, David looks at Dr James Dobson and Focus on the Family, a Colorado Spr...
Live in Seattle
25 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
David and Rob take Flightless Bird to Seattle, doing a live episode to a sold out crowd at the Neptu...
Gallagher
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob are joined by Gareth Reynold’s from “The Dollop”...
Kanye's Squatter
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week, David meets the man who squatted in Kanye West’s Simi Valley house, sleeping in Kanye’...
Australia: Fake Seizure Guy
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
"In this week’s Flightless Bird, David continues his series in Australia. This week, he arrives in...
Inauguration Week
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this week’s episode, David and Rob take a pause on regular programming to try and make sense of...
LA Wildfires
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob reflect on the California wildfires, talking to a va...
Australia: Shark Attacks
14 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this week’s Flightless Bird David is on the ground in Australia, looking at topics that are dis...
Black Box of Doom
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this week’s episode, David talks with author Jason Pargin (John Dies At The End & I'm Starting ...
Lord of the Rings Revisited
31 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week on Flightless Bird, David calls his friend Leon Wadham who plays "Kemen" in Amazon's Rings...
Leaf Blowers Revisited
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week on Flightless Bird, Rosabel slips on a leaf and David and Rob look back at one of their fa...
American Girl Doll
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this week’s episode, David visits the American Girl store in Los Angeles, attempting to learn w...
Kiwis in America with Rhys Darby
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
"In this week’s Flightless Bird, David sits down with Rhys Darby - the New Zealander actor and com...
Mysterious Sound
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
"Today on Flightless Bird: Imagine if you have fulfilled the American dream of buying your dream hom...
Shower Curtains & Porn Revisited
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this weeks Flightless Bird, David and Rob discuss their thanksgiving plans, before hearing from i...
Death Doulas
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this week’s episode, David calls his friend Rosabel to see what she thinks about dying, and lea...
Election Night
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob look back at the last week since the election, tryin...
Election Conspiracies
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week on Flightless Bird, David and Rob look at some of the defining conspiracy theories of this...
Catfishing
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob sit down with American documentary maker Erin Lee Ca...
Olive Garden
22 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this week’s episode, David Farrier goes and dines at the Olive Garden as he tries to figure out...
Slime
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this week’s Flightless Bird, David explores the resurgence of interest in slime on Instagram an...
Capital Punishment
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
David Farrier heads to Missouri two days out from the execution of Marcellus “Khaliifah” William...
Spaceman Barry
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this week’s Flightless Bird, David Farrier takes a darker, weirder deep dive into America with ...
Creed
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this week’s episode, David Farrier investigates the rise and fall - and rise again - of America...
Homelander
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this episode, David and Rob sit down with Ant Starr - the New Zealand actor who plays deranged, n...
7th Day Adventists
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this episode David Farrier sets out to investigate the 7th Day Adventism, a type of Christianity ...
Navy Dolphins
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier dives deep into the US Navy’s Marine Mammal program. H...
OnlyFans
27 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier sets out to understand OnlyFans, which while based in th...
Rhode Island
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier discovers that Rhode Island is not in fact an island. If...
Possums
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier investigates why American opossums are so different to N...
Chocolate
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier investigates why American chocolate tastes so different ...
Monster Trucks
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this week’s Flightless Bird, David Farrier goes to his first Monster Truck Jam to try and under...
Frozen Foods
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this week’s Flightless Bird, David Farrier sets off to understand America's frozen food obsessi...
Top TV Episodes
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
"In this week’s Flightless Bird, Monica, David and Rob discuss their favourite (mostly American) T...
Chutes and Ladders
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this week’s Flightless Bird, Farrier sets out to understand why Americans call “Snakes and La...
Bubba Gump
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this week’s Flightless Bird, David Farrier goes to eat at iconic American restaurant chain the ...
Renaissance Fair
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this week’s Flightless Bird, David Farrier throws himself back to the reign of Queen Elizabeth ...
Flights of Fancy
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
We’re trying something a little different today - something we’re calling “Flights of Fancy.”...
Pie
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this week's Flightless Bird, David Farrier talks to the author of 50 Pies 50 States, Stacey Mei Y...
Citizenship
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this week’s Flightless Bird, David Farrier looks at the process of gaining American Citizenship...
Surveillance
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this week's Flightless Bird, David Farrier looks at how America surveils its own citizens and ask...
Loma Linda
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this week's Flightless Bird, David Farrier starts to ponder his own mortality and why despite Ame...
Taylor Swift
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this week's Flightless Bird, a new format that we will bust out occasionally called "American God...
True Crime
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
In this week's Flightless Bird, David Farrier talks to Terra Newell, who you may well know from the ...
Shoes Indoor
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier looks at why so many Americans don’t take their shoes ...
Lord of the Rings
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier still finds himself stranded back in New Zealand, waitin...
Feijoas
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier finds himself stranded back in New Zealand, waiting for ...
Smokey Bear
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier sets out to understand the origins of Smokey Bear, an ed...
Costco
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier sets out to understand Costco, the giant membership ware...
Roswell
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier sets out to the town of Roswell, New Mexico - home of th...
Donuts
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier sets out to understand why Americans guzzle down over 10...
Callery Pear Trees
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier tries to understand why his entire street smells like se...
Hot Dogs
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier dives headfirst into one of America’s favorite foods, ...
Quilts
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier takes Monica’s advice from an earlier episode and inve...
American Accents
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier seeks to be better understood by his co-hosts by diving ...
Cereal
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier investigates America’s extreme love of cereal. He sets...
Cars
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier begins to notice how much America loves cars. Why do 92%...
Pinball
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier sets out to understand America’s obsession with pinbal...
Fantasy Football
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier sets out to understand the mysterious world of fantasy f...
Haunted Houses
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week on Flightless Bird, David Farrier takes Monica to a haunted house to celebrate Halloween. ...
Bail Bonds
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week on Flightless Bird David Farrier investigates bail bonds in America, and more specifically...
Laundromats
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week on Flightless Bird David Farrier investigates whether we have America to thank for the mod...
Healthcare II
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
After two American surgeons told David he needed back surgery, he fled back to his home of New Zeala...
Pizza
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week on Flightless Bird David Farrier investigates pizza, one of America’s favourite foods. H...
Storm Chasers
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week on Flightless Bird David Farrier investigates the incredibly American pastime of storm cha...
Ice
08 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas • Default Dataset
This week on Flightless Bird David Farrier investigates America’s obsession with ice. From excessi...