{"podcast":{"title":"Flightless Bird","slug":"flightless-bird-6992938","podcast_index_feed_id":6992938,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/RGP4217667012","website_url":"https://flightless-bird.simplecast.com","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/707b62be-12b2-11f0-b3c1-cf72f62eb71a/image/e02bd2c61ab9cb9a40e291b91230aca8.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"David Farrier","episode_count":203,"summary":"Flightless Bird follows journalist David Farrier as he learns about what makes America special from his unique perspective as a Kiwi accidentally marooned in the Land of the Free. Infinitely curious but never judgmental, each week, David (along with cohost and American Rob) seeks to understand what makes America so unique, strange, and wonderful.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-28T16:19:12.849931+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/flightless-bird-6992938"},"episode":{"title":"Titanic Panic","slug":"titanic-panic","published_at":"2026-06-09T07:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/flightless-bird-6992938/titanic-panic","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/flightless-bird-6992938","url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/clrtpod.com/m/mgln.ai/e/10/arttrk.com/p/ARTS0/traffic.megaphone.fm/RGP5437378887.mp3","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/clrtpod.com/m/mgln.ai/e/10/arttrk.com/p/ARTS0/traffic.megaphone.fm/RGP5437378887.mp3","summary":"In this week’s Flightless Bird, David looks into a small but dedicated group of Americans who are still obsessed with the (alleged) sinking of the Titanic. They find it terrifying, they find it moving, they find it all quite hard to believe. In fact - did the Titanic even sink, or was it the sister ship, the Olympic? Farrier wants to understand why this tragedy is still felt so strongly, so many years on.Feedback: flightlessbirdchat@gmail.comWatch on Spotify. Spotify subscribers get fewer ads on our episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices","meta_description":"In this week’s Flightless Bird, David looks into a small but dedicated group of Americans who are still obsessed with the (alleged) sinking of the Titanic…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3294,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/flightless-bird-6992938/episodes/titanic-panic/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/flightless-bird-6992938/titanic-panic.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}