Wisconsin: Cheeseheads

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

Society & Culture, Documentary, Comedy

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Flightless Bird, David Farrier travels to Madison, Wisconsin, to investigate the World Championship Cheese Contest. With 3375 entries and 150 classes, we are talking a lot of cheese. Hosted by the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association, the comp has been running since 1957 - and this year was bigger than ever. Why is cheese so big in this part of the US, and what exactly is a cheesehead? All will be revealed in this very cheesy episode. Links: Join us for bonus Flightless Bird 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.
0:07.1	Hi, Hayden, my little precious fruit loop.
0:09.4	How are you?
0:10.6	Precious fruit loop, like the breakfast.
0:13.5	Breakfast cereal, American breakfast cereal.
0:15.8	What do you think of that?
0:17.1	Yeah, I don't love it.
0:20.7	I don't love it. It doesn't feel personal. It doesn't feel that creative. You've gone with foods before.
0:29.2	Well, you know what is personal? I know that you love cheese. Is that right? Cheese, cheese, cheese.
0:36.6	Do I love cheese?
0:38.8	God, David.
0:40.7	I have night cheeses every night.
0:44.3	I don't know.
0:44.9	I can't stop it.
0:46.2	I want to actually lose a little bit of weight, but I can't stop eating my night cheeses.
0:52.4	About 10pm every night, I get the cheese out of my fridge
0:56.2	and I start chopping it up. I had maybe eight slices of cheese last night. And you know what?
1:02.4	I'm not sure that I dream. Like, everyone says they get cheese dreams. I think that maybe it's just
1:07.5	incorporating itself into my consciousness. Like, I'm sort of living in a constant state of cheese hallucination now.
1:14.9	So was your question whether I like cheese, if anything, a little too much?
1:20.5	Well, look, you're going to be delighted to know that the episode today is about cheeseheads.
1:25.3	Do you know what a cheesehead is?
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