Reality TV

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

Society & Culture, Documentary, Comedy

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 139 minutes

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In this week’s Flightless Bird, David and Rob delve into the deeply American world of Reality TV. They talk to Sara Reddy - one of the minds behind Honey Boo Boo and a number of record-breaking reality TV shows - before meeting reality TV veteran Jordan Wiseley. - JOIN US ON PATREON: www.patreon.com/flightlessbird - 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	Hello.
0:06.7	Hi, Hayden. How are you?
0:08.5	You know what? I've been better.
0:11.8	Am I right in thinking you've just been to New Zealand's first IKEA store?
0:15.7	And I know IKEA isn't an American brand, but I do associate it with America because that's
0:20.2	the country that
0:21.0	I first went to IKEA in. Yeah, I had to go to the opening of our first IKEA store. It was
0:27.0	pretty humiliating for us as a nation, I think, and the whole saga has been. It's really eliminated
0:33.7	what shreds were left of our dignity. Now, you went in your capacity as a journalist.
0:40.1	Just what can you report back from the opening of IKEA in New Zealand?
0:44.9	Well, I can say that our Prime Minister went to open the IKEA.
0:50.5	Are you serious?
0:52.1	The Prime Minister opened the IKEA, yeah. Can you imagine Donald Trump
0:57.8	just like turning up to the opening of a target? I mean, I kind of can actually. Maybe he would
1:03.7	open a target. But that's just to give you a little taste of what it's like being in New Zealand.
1:09.2	Today's episode is about reality TV because it was sort of birth in the United States.
1:15.7	I'm not a big reality TV watcher.
1:18.8	I honestly don't know if you are either, and I'm just wondering what your hot take is on
1:23.0	reality television.
1:25.6	I'm not the hugest watcher of it.
1:29.1	I think that America did birth it, right?
1:32.0	But we have a claim to fame that we did the first music reality TV.
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