90's Nickelodeon

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

Society & Culture, Documentary, Comedy

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Flightless Bird, Rob schools David on Nickelodeon, the American TV channel launched on April 1, 1979, when David was just three years old. Nickelodeon gave us Rugrats, Doug, and SpongeBob SquarePants - and a bunch of shows David has never heard of like Are You Afraid of the Dark, Legends of the Hidden Temple, Keenan and Kel, and CatDog. What did it means to be a kid in America growing up with these characters, and what’s it like looking back? To explain: A Rob slideshow to rival all his previous slideshows.Upcoming live show dates:3/29 in Salt Lake City at the Depot https://bit.ly/flightlessSLC4/2 in Austin at Emo's https://bit.ly/flightlessATX4/4 in Dallas at the Texas Theatre https://bit.ly/flightlessDFWFeedback: flightlessbirdchat@gmail.comJoin us for bonus episodes on Patreon: patreon.com/flightlessbird Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh hey man.
0:06.0	Hi Hayden, how are you doing?
0:07.0	Yeah, pretty good.
0:08.0	Hey, I've got a bit of a bone to pick with you.
0:11.0	I don't know, it's been a while since we spoke and it's been kind of bestering for me.
0:16.0	A little while ago you were angry at Stephen Miller and look no issues from me there like I'm not defending
0:23.5	Stephen Miller or anything like this but you called him something like an evil big forehead
0:28.8	motherfucker or something and I just think are you in really any position to be criticizing
0:35.1	other people about their forehead size.
0:41.6	I'm wondering, Hayden, look, I hear you and I see you.
0:44.8	I'm not defending Stephen Miller.
0:47.2	I'm just saying, like, and I'm not in a position myself.
0:48.4	Like, I have a big forehead.
0:53.8	But I feel I can't help but think this is a bit of an attack on me and I wonder if it has something to do
0:54.4	with the fact that Roosevelt got a standalone episode of this podcast and you didn't.
0:58.6	So you was trying to say that I'm acting out in some way?
1:01.3	Mm-hmm.
1:02.3	Mm-hmm.
1:03.0	No, I'm just, I'm just concerned.
1:05.6	I'm just expressing a genuine concern.
1:07.7	I'm not upset at all that Roosevelt got her own episode, got a whole hour to
1:13.2	speak. On to today's episode, we are looking at Nickelodeon, the American TV network that has
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