Blockbuster

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

Comedy, Flightless Bird, Documentary, Society & Culture, David Farrier

5 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

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 physical media. This week’s feedback is all very emo (in a good way). Email us: [email protected] LINKS: - Robin Hood change: https://nichegamer.com/robin-hood-film-censored-to-remove-anti-establishment-intro-message/ - The Last Blockbuster in New Zealand? https://web.archive.org/web/20201021165435/https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/entertainment/2020/01/credits-roll-on-nz-s-last-blockbuster-video-store.html - https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/small-business/final-credits-dargavilles-blockbuster-dvd-and-video-rental-store-blue-2-video-is-closing/EJVFKWDEV5TONP6VFR2C7CUHAQ/?c_id=3&objectid=12301650 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey man.
0:04.7	Hi Hayden, how are you doing?
0:06.4	Yeah, I'm okay.
0:07.9	Thanks for asking.
0:09.1	Thanks for being interested.
0:10.6	What's been the highlight of your day so far?
0:13.6	Well, I've woken up and I've had a coffee.
0:18.2	Just recently, I took some medication and did a weed. That was pretty good, too.
0:22.4	It's good. The topic on today's flightless bird is the Blockbuster video store chain. And I'm just wondering if you've ever been to a Blockbuster.
0:33.5	Yeah, they're in New Zealand. They've got yellow writing in blue, a blue sign with yellow writing and I used to go there and hire some stuff.
0:42.4	Yeah, for sure.
0:43.3	What was your favourite thing about perusing the aisles of Blockbuster?
0:47.1	Oh man, there's just too many things. Like it's hard to get into that space now because everything is available to you all the time and also
0:54.6	nothing is available to you. But I think it's the freedom, right? Anything. There was a world
1:01.1	of possibilities. It wasn't dictated to you necessarily by Netflix or by the various
1:06.6	streaming services. You could choose it and you could create bargains. It was like, you know, three for seven dollar rack or whatever.
1:14.1	The whole world was there and it was visibly in front of you and you could pick out the
1:19.9	thing that you would enjoy the most.
1:21.5	And there was still choice paralysis, but it wasn't as unsatisfying and spiritually destructive as like picking from a streaming service.
1:32.6	Oh, and there was porn.
1:33.8	There was porn in there.
1:34.8	You go through the curtain and you could like, I always wanted to go through that curtain
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