Flightless Bird: Diners

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

This week on Flightless Bird, David sets out to understand what makes the American diner experience so special, by traveling to Reno, Nevada. There he meets the staff of Peg's Glorified Ham N Eggs and meets the regulars who've made the diner their home away from home - including Rainbow Man, a man obsessed with painting human bodies at Burning Man. What makes a diner a diner? How have they changed over the years? David and Monica discuss their various diner experiences, from fights to excessive milkshake consumption.

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0:00.0	I'm David Farrier, a New Zealander who ended up accidentally marooned in America.
0:05.6	And I want to grasp what makes this country tick.
0:08.6	No New Zealand has a lot of stuff that America has.
0:11.6	We have your cars, your TV shows, your movies.
0:14.7	We have your cheeseburgers and restaurants, Taylor Swifts and Beyoncé's.
0:18.8	But one thing New Zealand is missing?
0:21.0	Dynas.
0:22.0	What is the soup, did you write?
0:24.0	It's the soup of the day.
0:25.6	I think I first clocked Dynas were a thing when I watched Dhamma back in the 90s.
0:31.8	That sounds good.
0:33.0	I'll have that.
0:34.0	And of course, they're scattered all throughout American pop culture.
0:37.4	The first Dyna came along about 150 years ago and it was attached to a horse so they
0:42.4	could pull it around the town.
0:44.2	Things have changed a lot since then.
0:46.1	Dynas are a way of life, a place to gather and talk and eat.
0:49.6	They feel like a safe space in a world that feels increasingly unsafe.
0:54.2	And to think Dynas were once banned in Buffalo, New York and Atlantic City because they
0:58.5	were considered too rowdy.
1:00.5	There are tens of thousands of Dynas all across the US.
1:03.8	New Jersey has the most with 600, making it the Dyna capital of the world.
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