Podcast Episodes

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 f…

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago

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…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

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…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

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…

Published on 5 months ago

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…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

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…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

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…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

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…

Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago

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…

Published on 6 months ago

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…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago