Black Shiny FBI Shoes

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

Comedy, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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This week on Flightless Bird, Rob takes the reins and tells the story of Tom Pfaeffle - a mentor, musician, and the quiet force behind Seattle’s sound. What begins as a look into a mentor’s lasting influence becomes a haunting mystery: a motel shooting, a vanished gunman, and a community searching for answers. Rob speaks with Wild Orchid Children’s Kirk Huffman and Thomas Hunter, who share the story of Tom’s influence, and journalist Trent Moorman unravels the strange events that unfolded at the Blue Spruce Motel. Wild Orchid Children: https://open.spotify.com/artist/48g5S4pDBTkgU4MekOe5yV?si=a4Y9Wd7YRJG6Ei2uzAyQFwBlack Shiny FBI Shoes, the song: https://open.spotify.com/track/3AoUBpJmkZ2f3cqljsH6sn?si=4d2e2eb9fce84853 Kirk Huffman: https://www.instagram.com/realdonmusic Thomas Hunter: https://www.instagram.com/thomashunter____ Trent Moorman: https://www.instagram.com/cookiesnake Email us: flightlessbirdchat@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/flightlessbirdpod Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@flightlessbirdpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, Adan. How are you?
0:07.0	I'm good, thank you. I was not, I wasn't doing so well, but then you didn't call me a cream pie like last time. So I actually immediately felt better.
0:17.8	We're doing something a little bit crazy on the show today, and Rob is making the audio documentary
0:24.5	for the episode, so I actually have no idea what it's about. I know the title is Black, Shiny
0:31.2	FBI Shoes. Yes, I don't know what we should talk about here. Black, shiny FBI shoes.
0:40.8	Any idea what it could be about?
0:47.0	Man, that is rough.
0:51.5	I have no...
0:52.9	Do you guys have particularly shiny shoes
0:55.8	compared to the rest of the world over there?
0:58.0	Like, does he think that we don't have shiny shoes in New Zealand?
1:01.1	I'm almost certain that I have seen shiny shoes in New Zealand.
1:04.9	We are bare feet people,
1:07.2	but I don't know what our law enforcement situation is like. And generally,
1:12.2	I think the law enforcement over here is shooed. So, I don't know, is that unique to America,
1:21.4	shiny shoes? Have you seen a lot of shiny shoes over there? Well, look, these are all
1:25.4	really good questions. It is a really intriguing episode
1:28.7	title, I think, because it makes you want to know more, doesn't it? Not really.
1:36.8	Whenever I see shoes in a title, I'm straight on it. I'm like, oh, let me, let me hear.
1:42.5	No, but it's FBI shoes. It's shiny FBI shoes.
1:46.7	Yeah, you guys think your FBI is so intriguing. You're like, oh, look, my CIA, the FBI,
1:52.6	everyone in the world wants to know about them. How about we make 400 movies about the CIA?
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