Live in Chicago: Joe Berlinger, Italian Beef, and Possums

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

Comedy, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

This week’s episode was recorded live in Chicago, where Rob and David brought Flightless Bird to Park West on July 10. They share their thoughts and feelings about Chicago, before interviewing legendary documentary maker Joe Berlinger about his work. Berlinger talks about recently EP’ing a doc about the “tylenol murders” that took place in Chicago in 1982. They then talk about some of the films he’s directed, including Brother’s Keeper, the Paradise Lost trilogy, and Metallica: Some Kind of Monster. They then chat about the Dahmer Tapes and his narrative film Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile - and his upcoming series The Son of Sam Tapes. Next the Flightless Bird stage is taken by sandwich chef Jeff Mauro who feeds David some unique Chicago food, and then Nina Salem of the Insect Asylum presents Rob and David with a live opossum. Musical guests for this episode are the wonderful drmanhattan. All feedback: flightlessbirdchat@gmail.com T-shirts and other show info: www.flightlessbirdpod.com THANKS TO: - Joe Berlinger is a documentary filmmaker and producer. Director of such films as Brother’s Keeper, Paradise Lost, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster and Extremely Wicked. @joeberlingerfilms - Jeff Mauro is the co-host of the Food Network series The Kitchen, host of Sandwich King, $24 in 24, and the Come On Over podcast, CEO & Founder of @MauroProvisions @jeffmauro - Nina Salem of the Insect Asylum @theinsectasylum - Music by drmanhattan @drmanhattanboots - Photos by Lenny Gilmore @lennygilmore Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello there.
0:14.0	Hi Hayden, how are you doing?
0:16.0	Good, thank you.
0:18.0	What's the weather doing today in New Zealand?
0:22.7	Gloomy and blustery.
0:24.7	Like your personality.
0:25.4	Yeah.
0:28.3	Spitting as well, like I'd like to do on you.
0:33.2	We're about to do a live show in Chicago,
0:37.6	and I'm just wondering what Chicago means to you.
0:40.7	Do I get to the... Is there going to be a live reaction to that one?
0:43.7	Don't let the people of Chicago down.
0:45.4	They're listening right now.
0:46.9	Chicago.
0:48.0	Why do you do this where it's just like word association with the city?
0:52.7	Because now I'm just going to be like deep dish pizza
0:55.5	that then
0:56.7	Michael Jordan
0:58.9	Scotty Bippin
1:00.7	Tony Cuccott
1:02.3	Luke Longley
1:04.4	Phil Jackson
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