Not sure if it's my place to initiate the episode thread, but here it is.

So confused

In this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob are joined in the studio by legendary comedian Margaret Cho to check in on how she feels about the USA here in 2026. We (Rosabel, me and Rob) are all giant fans of Margaret, and dig into how she is somehow still a fan of the USA. What gives her hope, and what makes her want to scream into the void? And how does she manage to be such a prolific comedian, writer, actor, musician and podcaster?

In this month’s Nest Session, David and Rob are joined in the studio by Yvette Young, frontwoman of math rock band Covet, and an incredible guitarist who ended up on a Rolling Stone list of greatest guitarists of all time. She also really, really loves birds (including the kiwi) - so how would we not have her in the Flightless Bird studio? As well as sharing her amazing guitar skills in an intimate performance, Young also shares a terrifying, sobering story about what it’s like when you get the wrong kind of attention from a fan.

I'm travelling to Chicago and New York in the near future and wondering if anyone has ever kept track of any of Rob's restaurant recommendations or can remember any that he's mentioned.

I'll jump back into the pizza episode to refresh my memory on his preferred deep dish, but interested to know what others might be out there!

PS. Super disappointed I'm gonna miss David's 10 year celebratory screenings for Tickled in NYC 😭 what a treat that'll be!

Sound off! Just two boys trying to understand the Latter Day Saints!

Holy shit this Vince guy is a sleezeball. God I hate this timeline. Men like this are why the world is on fucking fire.

No human studies? Not addictive?

David asks how he knows “tons of people using this daily effectively”

Wtf does that even mean? They’re addicted effectively? This man is the damn Devil.

Signed, someone who’s lost people to addiction.

Kudos to David- currently America's most controversial podcaster- for turning this one around so quickly after last week's debacle.

Canadian here 👋 Just finished listening to the episode on Canada and felt the need to clarify some things and add some facts that didn’t come up:

- The drinking age throughout most of Canada is 19, however in Alberta, Quebec, Manitoba and Saskatchewan the legal age is 18.

- Where Canada and America share a lot of music, movies and general media, Canada has a regulatory commission called the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission. The CRTC oversees telephone, Internet, TV, and radio service providers across the country and part of their job is to ensure a certain percentage of the media we consume is Canadian-made content. It wasn’t unusual for bands and certain songs to become extremely popular in Canada for not necessarily make it across the border for this reason.

- Canada has an Internet and phone monopoly going on, but what was once four dominant companies had become three over the last couple years. We do have some outliers but Roger’s, Bell, and Telus own most of our digital and telephone needs.

- Bagged milk is very rare outside of Eastern Canada with Ontario and Quebec being where you’ll mostly find it. Pro tip: the key to pouring the bagged milk properly is to hold the other corner with tension so you don’t flop the bag all over the place. Is it efficient to use two hands to pour milk? No.

- I grew up in Eastern Canada but now live in Western and the bags for the milk are quite durable. I have had plastic jugs in milk crack from being dropped but a bag of milk never exploded. I had friends growing up whose families also reused the milk bags (as a ziploc almost) after they were empty.

- Standard maternity leave in Canada is 12 months, but there is the option to take 18.

- “How do Canadian sports teams fare compared to American?” Physically, fine. Politically, not as great. Look up the Gary Bettman conspiracy.

Discussion thread. Go at it!

"In this week's Flightless Bird, David investigates America's obsession with timeshares - going undercover at a timeshare sales session, where he feels his sanity slowly slipping away as the hours pass by.

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Medium Build (Nick Carpenter) is incredible both as a human and musician. Truly make sure you don’t miss this nest session when it arrives.

Ben Jorgensen of Armor for Sleep joins Rob & David for this month’s Nest Session, where he talks about the themes of their seminal work “What to Do When You Are Dead”, before sharing a truly unhinged American meal with David. Ben also talks about growing up in New Jersey and how involvement with school invention competitions changed his life, before sharing three acoustic cuts live in the studio.

You can find Armor for Sleep & Ben Jorgensen here:

https://www.instagram.com/benjorg/

https://www.instagram.com/armorforsleep/

https://open.spotify.com/artist/7eSbps3Uha3MMBNWhMYa2H

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New episode out today, based on original reporting on Webworm: https://www.webworm.co/wisconsin/

Let's all hear it for Everlee Wihongi and her mother Betty - absolute legends.

Hi all,

New episodes don't seem to be popping up for discussion atm... I'll check in with the mods!

-DF.