Food Trucks with Roy Choi

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

Society & Culture, Documentary, Comedy

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2026

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob have Korean-American chef Roy Choi in the studio to talk food trucks. The creator of legendary Korean-Mexican taco truck “Kogi”, Roy talks about his influences growing up, launching a game-changing food truck, and what makes food trucks so important in America’s DNA.LINKS:Upcoming Flightless Bird live shows:3/29 in Salt Lake City at the Depot https://bit.ly/flightlessSLC 4/2 in Austin at Emo's https://bit.ly/flightlessATX 4/4 in Dallas at the Texas Theatre https://bit.ly/flightlessDFW Join us for bonus episodes on Patreon: patreon.com/flightlessbird Contact us with your feedback: flightlessbirdchat@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, man.
0:09.5	Hi, Hayden, my little truffle nugget.
0:12.6	That's not even a thing.
0:15.3	That's not a thing that exists in the world.
0:18.4	That's how I think of you, Hayden.
0:20.3	What is a truffle nugget? What is a
0:22.6	truffle nugget in your weird little brain? Hayden, when you strip off head to toe
0:28.8	naked in front of the mirror and look at yourself, that is a truffle nugget. Okay. Well, I,
0:34.6	you know what? I'm not sure that I do that very often, but maybe I should, because I haven't
0:43.5	encountered a Truffle Nugget and I need some insight. Yeah, man, get naked, get in front of that
0:48.8	mirror, take it all in. You've only got that one bod, one life. You know, I will. I'm going to get naked and get in front of the mirror and see what a truffle nugget
0:58.9	looks like.
0:59.9	Now, look, I'm going to be honest, I'm going a bit loopy over here.
1:03.0	We're in some kind of a winter heat wave, which is weird.
1:06.6	But the episode we're doing today is about food trucks, which are a big deal in the United States of America, some areas more than others.
1:16.8	But I'm wondering in New Zealand, when I say food truck, what do you think? What's your vibe?
1:24.7	When you say food truck, I think of a food truck.
1:29.5	It's a truck with food coming out of it.
1:32.2	You go up to the food truck and they will serve a particular type of food.
1:37.0	You buy that food and the food comes out.
1:39.8	I don't know what you think this country is, man.
1:42.6	We have food trucks.
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