Dimes in the Dozen
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The Bird & The Bear - Session 89 - "Meet the Birds"
05/16/2024
The Bird & The Bear - Session 89 - "Meet the Birds"
On this week’s session of, The Bird & The Bear … Our hosts, Sammy Ray and Daryl Lazer, talk beef … The Kendrick Lamar and Drake beef to be specific … Join us, as our hosts discuss the diss tracks, the allegations, and what the hell this all means for both the artists, and the fans … Let’s sort through it together! (0:00) - Introduction - “We haven’t seen a beef this intense since the days of Eminem and 50 Cent.” (5:43) - How Kendrick and Drake made the beef so accessible - “I don’t think he puts as much weight on whether or not he wrote the verse, as he does, he delivered the verse.” (13:15) - Noticing how the quality of Drake’s music has declined - “There is not a band or an artist worth their f**king salt that has put out that much music in the span of 12 months … And had it be good.” (17:28) - How J Cole’s short engagement with the beef damaged his legacy - “He gets to be ‘Third Person Shooter’ now.” (20:01) - Drake’s allegations Vs. Kendrick’s allegations - “I’ve learned to like Drake … And that was my mistake.” (27:39) - Analyzing their respective diss tracks and visuals - “When you put it into the context of beef … All of his punches were thin.” (33:25) - How Drake might recover from losing the beef - “Because he’s got a guaranteed deal, he can flail all he wants to … And as long as he’s getting gassed up, he’s gonna keep doing it.” (41:20) - Suggestions for Drake’s possible career change - “Maybe he goes down to Memphis with Dennis, his dad … And they make twelve-button suits together.” (45:10) - Analyzing Drake’s relationship with his biracial identity - “It leads you into f**king trouble … It leads you into making f**king AI videos of Tupac.” (52:34) - Questioning Drake’s motivations for escalating the beef - “Drake had to claim a whole a** child.” (58:40) - What fans need to remember about the Kendrick and Drake beef - “The absolute best response that Drake could have right now … Is rapping over ‘BBL Drizzy.’” (1:02:47) - Outro - “Imagine falling into a river, basically a life or death moment, to Macklemore.” Please, remember to share, rate, and review this podcast … Follow us on Tik-Tok, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook @dimesinthedozen … Thank you for listening!
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The Bird & The Bear - Session 88 - "Vault Bear"
05/09/2024
The Bird & The Bear - Session 88 - "Vault Bear"
On this week’s session of, The Bird & The Bear … Our hosts, Sammy Ray and Daryl Lazer, return from their short break to deliver life updates, new music recommendations, new anime recommendations, and their final review of Amazon’s “Fallout” series … Join us, and get to know our hosts a little better as they open up about their lives and interests … Let’s sort through it together! (0:00) - Introduction - “The country is not ‘thiccc’ right now” (4:19) - Daryl talks about his success at the gym - “Now, when I see myself in the mirror … I can kind of start to repeat what other people were saying and shut that back of my brain up.” (8:21) - Daryl talks about managing his alcohol consumption - “I need to find a way to stop excusing myself in moments when I would normally overindulge.” (12:30) - Daryl talks about his first cabin “trip” of 2024 - “Did overindulge quite a bit … Did kind of a lot of DMT.” (18:51) - Daryl shares his experience attending the Sick New World music festival in Las Vegas - “You made a fisting joke, they doubled down on it, and asked us to follow them.” (36:41) - Sammy talks about managing soreness and hitting PRs at the gym - “I love a good set of balls on my back.” (53:30) - Sammy talks about how inspiring it was to watch his partner complete a half marathon - “It’s attractive in a way that you can’t really describe.” (55:51) - Sammy’s been listening to new music and has some recommendations - “I’m a 31 year old man, so you can take that how you want to.” (1:01:27) - Sammy’s newest list of Anime recommendations - “It’s no bulls**t … It’s no filler, all fun.” (1:07:15) - Reviewing Amazon’s “Fallout” series - “She’s pre-war … Meaning, she has that dog in her!” (1:21:59) - Discussing the huge update for Fallout 4 - “That sounds like a glitched model.” (1:25:26) - Outro - “Keep protesting. Keep fighting.” Please, remember to share, rate, and review this podcast … Follow us on Tik-Tok, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook @dimesinthedozen … Thank you for listening!
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The Bird & The Bear - Session 87 - "Operation PaperBird: Two In The Coup"
04/25/2024
The Bird & The Bear - Session 87 - "Operation PaperBird: Two In The Coup"
On this week’s session of, The Bird & The Bear … Our hosts, Sammy Ray and Daryl Lazer, present their second deep dive on the CIA … They’ll discuss the beginnings of the CIA, a timeline of the CIA’s most notable operations, why the CIA is a terrorist organization, and give their reactions to a group of YouTubers sneaking into a CIA base … Content cited in this video; “The Deep State is Real, Here’s why it matters” by Johnny Harris, “The CIA is a Terrorist Organization” by Second Thought, and “We Snuck Into a CIA Base In The Aussie Outback” by Boy Boy … Let’s sort through it together! (0:00) - Introduction - “Definitely balls to the wall for the next 30 years after that … Not to say they’re still not going balls to the wall now.” (4:24) - JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis - “They want to make the money, they want people around to make them the money, and they want people around to buy their crappy products.” (18:05) - The creation of the CIA and it’s earliest operations, starting in 1945 - “If your defending the ideals of America, you can do anything you want … But, if the ideals you hold determine what you defend, you’re severely limited.” (30:21) - The CIA’s operations from the late 1950’s to the Church Commission in 1975 - “The CIA makes for history’s greatest fall man.” (37:49) - The CIA post 9/11 - “The real power is in the authority to do s**t without presidential or congressional oversight.” (42:22) - Is the CIA a terrorist organization? - “You terrorize them with explosions, and discourse, and chaos.” (50:21) - Does America need the CIA? - “Most people don’t want to be a part of any one of the organizations that has the track record that we do.” (1:00:06) - How the actions of the CIA mirror lore in the Fallout universe - “No one really wants to destroy the f**king world … Then the capitalism ends, baby.” (1:13:18) - Reacting to YouTubers, Boy Boy, sneaking into a CIA base in Australia - “I did not f**king know that America pulled what is essentially a coup on Australia.” (1:22:47) - Boy Boy’s attempts to sneak into the CIA base known as Pine Gap - “Just all of sudden black bags and bands … That kid still has a SIM card in his butt.” Please, don’t forget to share, rate, and review … Follow us on all social media @dimesinthedozen
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The Bird & The Bear - Session 86 - "Bear Grade Glycine"
04/18/2024
The Bird & The Bear - Session 86 - "Bear Grade Glycine"
On this week’s session of, The Bird & The Bear … Our hosts, Sammy Ray and Daryl Lazer, go over a variety of topics as they discuss foreign TV, updates on Gaza, Young Biden Vs. Old Biden, the concept of “Exurbia,” the Donghua Jinlong Glycine Factory, and much more … Let’s sort through it together! (0:00) - E-40’s lingo, foreign television, and Amazon’s new Fallout series - “So, It’s Star Wars … But, they cut the commercials into Star Wars.” (10:10) - Active US Airmen Larry Hebert going on a hunger strike in solidarity with the people of Gaza - “As somebody that considers themselves a patriot … America continuously breaks my heart.” (20:32) - All major updates coming out of Gaza as of April 9th, 2024 - “Any commons sense American, who isn’t a f**king war hawk or a hog, they see the writing on the wall … This is untenable.” (30:03) - Comparing Joe Biden’s past position on apartheid South Africa to his current day position on Israel - “Because there is something to be said about what the commander-in-chief can do … And says they will do … And then realize they can’t do” (41:50) - The concept of “Exurbia” and it’s effect on the modern political landscape - “The American Dream was, get away from the minorities … Sold under the idea of, you should have a Cadillac.” (51:11) - Describing “Exurbanites” and what “Exurban” communities look like - “It’s also really easy to hide your political beliefs the less you live on top of other people … The denser you are, the more tolerant you have to be” (58:54) - Why companies use the concept of minimum viable product, as a production model - “They make things and expect the user to be the one that finishes it.” (1:06:59) - The Donghua Jinlong Glycine Factory meme - “That s**t sounds biologically beneficial … I should probably do it.” Please, don’t forget to share, rate, and review … Follow us on all social media @dimesinthedozen
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The Bird & The Bear - Session 85 - “Operation Paperbird”
04/11/2024
The Bird & The Bear - Session 85 - “Operation Paperbird”
Please, don’t forget to share, rate, and review … Follow us on all social media @dimesinthedozen On this session of, The Bird & The Bear … Our hosts, Sammy Ray and Daryl Lazer, present the first installment in their next deep dive series on the history of the CIA … Starting with a discussion about the CIA’s first official mission, Operation Paperclip … Content cited in this session: “Operation Paperclip: The Secret Recruitment,” Available on Tubi and PlutoTV - “Annie Jacobsen, ‘Operation Paperclip,’” presented by Politics and Prose on YouTube - “Joe Rogan | The Harsh Truths of Operation Paperclip (NASA & Nazi’s) w/ Annie Jacobsen” presented by JRE Clips on YouTube … Let’s sort through it together! (0:00) - The session opens with our hosts explaining what lead them to do a deep dive on the history of Operation Paperclip - “It was hungry hungry hippos for Nazi war criminals.” (11:07) - Our hosts discuss the documentary, “Operation Paperclip: The Secret Recruitment“ - “The world’s biggest superpower ever … The richest country in history … That has 1600 scientists … That know nothing other than how to create s**t to kill people.” (17:50) - Our hosts breakdown how Germany exploited a loophole in the Treaty of Versailles - “Even to this day, how western governments still make bad, near sighted policy decisions that ignore the harm that emerging technology almost always creates.” (30:00) - Our hosts focus their conversation on Wernher von Braun and comments he made about the use of V2 rockets in WW2 - “Who does that sound like? Who said, ‘There’s good people on both sides.’” (36:37) - Our hosts tangent for a moment as Daryl explains the multiple decisions that lead Germany to defeat in WW2 - “Like, World War 2 will be a topic as long as humanity exists because it was such a turning point.” (41:28) - Our hosts continue to discuss Wernher von Braun’s actions during WW2 and how he ended up in the hands of the Allied Forces - “I have never seen somebody suck America’s d**k so hard … Trying not to die.” (52:26) - Our hosts discuss the ethics of brining Wernher von Braun and other Nazi scientists to America - “Tactically speaking, I think we made the better play … Ethically speaking, I think we made the worst play.” (1:00:57) - Our hosts discuss Annie Jacobsen’s presentation of her book, “Operation Paperclip” hosted by Politics and Prose - “If your a civilian and you do something really impactful, heroic for the US government, this is the highest honor you can get … Highest f**king honor you can get … And we gave it to a Nazi.” (1:15:31) - Our hosts criticize America for protecting the legacies of Nazi scientists brought over to the US in Operation Paperclip - “Why is it so hard for people to understand this? For liberals, to understand this … That people in power do evil things.” (1:23:47) - Our hosts discuss a dark truth about the Nuremberg Trials before closing out the session with their final thoughts on Operation Paperclip - “I’d rather be the ancestors of this s**t than actually be living in those f**king moments because at least now I can try do what I can to correct the past.”
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The Bird & The Bear - Session 84 - "Bear Bless The USA Bird"
04/04/2024
The Bird & The Bear - Session 84 - "Bear Bless The USA Bird"
Please, don’t forget to share, rate, and review … Follow us on all social media @dimesinthedozen On this session of, The Bird and The Bear … Our hosts, Sammy Ray and Daryl Lazer, are once again back with the variety as they discuss Diddy’s legal troubles, life updates, 2024 resolutions progress, The Baltimore bridge collapse , and Donald Trump’s Bible grift … Let’s sort through it together! (0:00) - The session opens with our hosts discussing Diddy’s legal troubles - “This is how I wanted to … pun intended, touch on the Diddy story.” (8:19) - Our hosts discuss their life updates from the last month, starting with Sammy Ray - “Would I recommend it? Is this part of Sam’s movie recommendations? Ehh … I give it 3 wing flaps out of 5.” (16:56) - Our hosts spend some time discussing the progress and setbacks Sammy’s had with his resolution to be more attentive - “Almost like your attention span has been systematically taken from you by algorithms attempting to sell you things?” (28:16) - Sammy explains how the biggest hurdle in the way of his resolution to be more patient is dealing with what feels like a lack of patience coming from our post-pandemic society - “When you’re also not having your patience tested you don’t know how fragile it might be.” (36:24) - Sammy explains how he’s successfully maintained his everyday routines and how he can improve them by making more time for personal enjoyment - “I’ve just found that like, definitely, I’m a list person … Like, I like my lists … I like lists that I can check s**t off of.” (41:55) - Daryl’s life updates are pretty short this month but he takes a minute to explain the trouble he’s having with maintaining his motivation at both the gym and work - “When you want to have momentum, and you want to have drive and a goal … It’s hard to be told, ‘Hey, now's not the time for that.’” (53:39) - Our hosts have a lengthy discussion about the recent collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland - “It really does go to show just how fragile our infrastructure is … What little of a mistake can turn into a big mistake … Real fast.” (1:13:48) - Our hosts wrap up the session with a quick reaction to Donald Trump’s bible grift - “Like, I really hope Tom MacDonald is sitting at home in his recliner with his Never Surrender 1’s on, flipping through his ‘God Bless The USA Bible’”
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The Bird & The Bear - Session 83 - "The Birdy South: Three Piece and a Biscuit"
03/28/2024
The Bird & The Bear - Session 83 - "The Birdy South: Three Piece and a Biscuit"
Please share, rate, and review … Follow us on all social media platforms @dimesinthedozen On this session of, The Bird and The Bear … Our hosts, Sammy Ray and Daryl Lazer, close out their Deep South series of sessions with their reactions to Peter Santenello's 5th installment in his YouTube series on the Deep South called, “Inside Alabama’s Blackest Region” … Then, as an added bonus, our hosts take one final trip to the south and react to a special video by Peter Santenello called, “Alabama’s Biggest Secret - Operation Paperclip” … Let’s sort through it together! (0:00) - The session opens with Daryl explaining Terrance Howard’s “math” obsession and it leads our hosts into a conversation about dismantling masculine stereotypes - “B.O.B was right, the earth is flat … Neil deGrasse Tyson, suck my d**k.” (12:39) - Our hosts react to the YouTube video, “Inside Alabama’s Blackest Region” by Peter Santenello - “I feel like this was one of his worst ones …. Because, he’s not a dude with nothing to say.” (16:02) - As Peter travels through the Black Belt of Alabama he reaches the town of Beatrice and the community’s condition makes our hosts question where the Black Belt’s economic opportunities went - “They’re getting better in that … Yeah, you might tolerate black people in your community and around you … But your blind to the fact that black communities do not have the same access to resources.” (21:24) - Peter reaches Selma, Alabama and our hosts react to a conversation Peter has with a women cleaning up a heavily damaged home - “And, it made me think of my dad … Because she wasn’t talking in facts, she was talking in folksy feelings.” (31:22) - Our hosts react to a second conversation Peter has in Selma with a man who’s home was one of the few to survive a “recent” tornado - “No, the f**king government didn’t come actually come in there! Are you kidding me? Did you not learn anything from any of the natural disasters over the last 20 f**king years since Katrina?” (41:45) - Our hosts tangent into a conversation about what might happen to the homes that FEMA purchases after natural disasters - “And they’re not gonna sell it … They’re never gonna sell it … They’re just gonna keep it … They’re gonna turn us into a country of f**king renters.” (51:30) - Our hosts react to Peter’s final thoughts as he wraps up the video and makes a comparison between Alabama’s Black Belt and the communities of Appalachia - “In the south, you’re talking about trade schools, rebuilding the community … Appalachia, you’re talking about trade schools, rebuilding the thought process around energy.” (1:02:48) - Our hosts react to the YouTube video, “Alabama’s Biggest Secret - Operation Paperclip” by Peter Santenello - “What are you saying sir? Are you just a rocket nerd? Or are you a Nazi nerd?” (1:08:54) - Our hosts react to Peter as he's taken around an old rocket test site by a man named Theo, who’s a descendent of an Operation Paperclip engineer - “No, your talking about the strategic implementation of scientific principles towards the goal of destruction” (1:18:51) - Peter meets Theo’s mother and our hosts notice some important information she omitted from her story of immigrating to America - “They were Hitler youth! They needed to get that sh*t out of their heads as quickly as possible … They were about to send them to the black south!” (1:28:26) - Our hosts challenge some of Theo’s takes on history before reacting to the last moments of Peter’s video where Theo shows Peter a car trunk full of documents that belonged to his grandfather - “And to remember that those were possible American targets is absolutely the clue into, that your grandpa was a f**king Nazi!”
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The Bird & The Bear - Session 82 - "The Bear Crisis"
03/21/2024
The Bird & The Bear - Session 82 - "The Bear Crisis"
Please share, rate, and review … Follow us on all social media platforms @dimesinthedozen On this week’s session of The Bird and The Bear … Our hosts, Sammy Ray and Daryl Lazer, have a little political palooza as they discuss the 2024 Primaries, Nikki Haley’s campaign status, the Tik Tok ban, the uncommitted vote, Joe Biden’s SOTU speech, Israel’s assault on Gaza, The GOPs response to the SOTU, and finally, the border crisis … Let’s sort through it together! (0:00) - The session opens with our hosts discussing the results of Super Tuesday and Nikki Haley suspending her campaign - “Individuality is so valued that you assimilate to a group to protect this idea of individuality that you think you have and hold” (12:00) - Our hosts go on a tangent about the United States Congress possibly passing a Tik Tok ban - “When’s the last time 81% of them agreed on f**king anything? Like, that’s the biggest sign that it should probably stick around” (26:28) - Our hosts wrap up their thoughts on Nikki Haley with some theories on who she’ll support for President - “Trumpians aren’t reasonable people … So, they’re not going to look at your politics with reason and any type of like, intellectual fervor” (32:42) - Our hosts discuss how the uncommitted votes are impacting the primaries and how it’s a powerful tool helping Americans bring attention to the call for a ceasefire in Gaza - “The thing I would like to see the most is for him to do something regardless of how it affects his votes” (41:16) - Our hosts react to Joe Biden’s recent State of The Union (SOTU) address - “I do like Biden’s ability to deal with hecklers … When f**kin, Majorie Taylor Face Mask, is up there screaming whatever the f**k she’s screaming in her whack a** outfit” (49:56) - Our hosts react to Joe Biden getting caught on a “hot mic” just moments after the SOTU address discussing what to do about the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu - “He wants the people at home to hear it, not the people in the room to hear it, and that’s what’s under handed about it … Sure, you said it, but say it with your f**kin chest to the room! You’re the commander-in-chief!” (58:53) - Our hosts tangent into a debate over who truly holds the rights to the land that Israel is currently occupying - “Fine, it’s the Hatfields and McCoys but guess what, the Hatfields were backed by the U.S. government” (1:08:32) - Our hosts react to the GOP’s response to the SOTU given by Alabama state senator, Katie Britt - “More serious conversations happened in random contexts rather then they did in some ceremonial event around the kitchen table” (1:19:04) - Our hosts wrap up the session with a discussion about the battle over border policy between Joe Biden and Donald Trump - “We just want reasonable actionable solutions to these problems that we are being told are there but … I don’t know anyone who’s been a victim of migrant crime”
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The Bird & The Bear - Session 81 - "The Birdy South: Two Piece"
03/14/2024
The Bird & The Bear - Session 81 - "The Birdy South: Two Piece"
Please share, rate, and review … Follow us on all social media platforms @dimesinthedozen On this session of The Bird and The Bear … Our hosts, Sammy Ray and Daryl Lazer, continue their discussion about the Deep South with their reactions to the next two installments in a YouTube documentary series on the Deep South by Peter Santenello, “Inside Inner-City America - Breaking Hood Mindset” and “Exploring Wealthy Alabama” … Let’s sort through it together! (0:00) - The session opens with some elite snack picks from our hosts before they introduce the first YouTube documentary they’ll be discussing, “Inside Inner-City America - Breaking Hood Mindset,” by Peter Santenello - “If you were raised right, you would realize that being an American means that you should you care about your f**king fellow man … So yeah, it is your responsibility to care about this community" (16:10) - A man named Tommy shows Peter Santenello around Jacksonville, Mississippi and as they walk through Tommy’s old neighborhood Peter compares crime in Jacksonville to crime in Bangladesh - “His tiny statistic that he used to prop up an entire conversation … Is only good in that narrow window” (24:32) - Peter and Tommy make their way to a community garden and Tommy has a bit of a back-and-forth with an old man at the garden - “There’s no one at the top … They can’t elect anyone who’s gonna lead the charge … To be a communal leader … To, you know, rally the people into change … Like, Tommy is a good example of someone who can help but you need bigger figures than Tommy” (33:23) - Sammy notices that Peter keeps coming back to the argument that kids need their fathers if they want a chance at being successful - “No guarantee that the next generations of fathers is going to step up, is going to fix the problems of today … You can have a crystal ball and go, ‘Look, all the fathers in the future are gonna be there’ … Great, what do we right now?” (44:51) - Tommy takes Peter to his alma mater, Tougaloo College, and it sparks a short conversation between our hosts about traditional colleges versus HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) - “Where as, if your black in America … You have a sturdy vein of understanding, and culture, and experience … You have that thread that immediately connects you” (55:26) - The first documentary wraps up with Tommy taking Peter to a local soul food restaurant where they spoke with more of the locals before driving through one of the nicer neighborhoods in Jacksonville - “The people of Jacksonville have made the most out of what they have but they clearly deserve a chance to have more” (1:05:08) - Our hosts introduce the second YouTube documentary they’ll be discussing, “Exploring Wealthy Alabama,” by Peter Santenello - “These motherf**kers rebuilt a whole 800 square-foot house and it’s gonna be gone in three years” (1:10:51) - A man named Doug shows Peter Santenello around Fairhope, Alabama and they slowly make their way through the coastal town as Doug explains some of it’s history - “No, you f**king haven’t … You live in a white isolated bubble in southern f**king Alabama … Where rich people rebuild there piers, regularly, and the only black guy in town was a bartender … that DIED!” (1:16:22) - Daryl points out another problem with Peter Santenello’s documentaries and the hosts go on to debate Doug’s past life - “Why can’t the philosophy of this place propagate outside of this place? Why can’t this be all of Alabama?” (1:22:45) - The second documentary wraps up with Doug taking Peter to the beautiful home of his friend Michelle where they have a conversation about life in Fairhope - “Didn’t see the Chinese guy and the black guy is dead”
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The Bird & The Bear - Session 80 - "Bird47"
03/07/2024
The Bird & The Bear - Session 80 - "Bird47"
Please share, rate, and review … Follow us on all social media platforms @dimesinthedozen On this session of The Bird and The Bear … Our hosts, Sammy Ray and Daryl Lazer, go wild with the variety as they talk signature scents, share their life updates from the past month, and react to the news of Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation and Donald Trump’s sneaker drop … Let’s sort through it together! (0:00) - The session opens with Daryl telling us about his signature scent and it leads into a quick conversation about the origins of cologne - “It was called, ‘The Sweet Shop,’ and it was the coolest s**t I’d ever walked into … I felt like I was in a foreign land.” (15:13) - Daryl shares his life updates from the past month, starting with his trip to Utah and the drama that followed - “I think that learning to respect my own boundaries is going to push me in the direction of one of my New Year’s resolutions of respecting other peoples boundaries … Like, my extreme lack of boundaries means that some boundaries are invisible to me.” (28:05) - While in Utah, Daryl attended his first Friday Night Smackdown - “I don’t know if I’d go to another live wrestling event … At least not like a professional one.” (35:36) - Daryl wraps up his life updates by sharing some of the progress he’s making with his career resolutions for 2024 - “Saying that my technical skills are well placed with that type of impact, does not incentivize me doing that caliber of work anymore.” (49:33) - Sammy shares his life updates from the past month, starting with his experience at Thunderdome - “The way it shoots on camera looks a lot better because the camera kinda picks up on like the 3D action more … Where as like, your standing in the crowd kind of underneath the screen, you can kinda see the pixels and everything kinda move at you a bit more … It’s almost like when people talk about going to The Sphere.” (1:01:29) - Sammy briefly talks about the elite dinning experience he had for his six year anniversary with his partner before wrapping up his life updates with some of the progress he’s made with his fitness and festival goals for 2024 - “Those are the small things in life that make you feel good.” (1:05:27) - Reactions to the news of Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington D.C. - “If this man gives his life in a foreign land for a war that actually isn’t protecting us as Americans, it’s just servicing capital and the greater military industrial complex, then that seems like dying for nothin.” (1:37:18) - Reactions to Donald Trump unveiling new cologne and shoe line - “HA! They got the Prince of Persia 1’s.”
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The Bird & The Bear - Session 79 - "Vultures & The Bear"
02/29/2024
The Bird & The Bear - Session 79 - "Vultures & The Bear"
Please share, rate, and review … Follow us on all social media platforms @dimesinthedozen On this week’s session of The Bird & The Bear … Our hosts, Sammy Ray and Daryl Lazer, recap the last four sessions they released in honor of Black History Month, talk interracial relationship with the help of F.D Signifiers video, “SWIRLCONOMICS (The truth about black people and interracial relationships), then they close out the show with some thoughts on Kanye West’s newest album … Shoutout to these YouTube creators for helping add context to the Kanye conversation … “unreviewable l” (theneedledrop), “The Fantano Vultures Review” (ShawnCeeLIVE), “When you can’t separate the art from the artist” (F.D Signifier) … Let’s sort through it together! (0:00) - Intro into the Black History Month recap starting with Session 75’s discussion on cultural appropriation and Session 76’s discussion on black representation in Anime - “We should call it, ‘The Bird Bear Black Flash.’” (13:27) - Daryl explains how he feels about using the phrase “people of color” and the recap continues with Session 77’s discussion about “Uncle Toms” and minstrel shows - “So, saying that stereotypes of people of color are damaging, while true, does not communicate the veracity with which white America has destroyed the image of black Americans…” (22:43) - Recap of Session 78’s discussion about the Deep South of Mississippi and Sammy shares his perspective on being a white man speaking about black issues - “Which is understanding the appropriation points, how to avoid appropriation, and how you as a white person who feels like and wants to be an ally can step in motion with that.” (31:02) - The discussion on F.D Signifier’s video “SWIRLCONOMICS,” begins with Daryl sharing the experiences both he and his parents have had with interracial relationships - “I was in relationships with people where because my blackness wasn’t important, I never felt like an accessory … But when I started to make my blackness important, I started to deal with women that wanted to use me as an accessory.” (45:59) - Daryl pushes back on the idea of “unconditional” black love and Sammy explains why he’s never been in a interracial relationship - “White people used to take away my blackness and I had to stop my friends from taking away my blackness … And now, if I don’t just blindly support a black business, I’m also not black?” (56:45) - The problem with Dr. Umar and anti race mixing philosophies - “I don’t want just black people to love black people … I want black people to be loved because being loved is what starts black love in the first place.” (1:09:18) - The “SWIRLCONOMICS” discussion wraps up with commentary on the way white people fetishize black people and why we shouldn’t let our personal ideas of beauty be manipulated - “The fettuccine of white people knows no bounds.” (1:26:09) - The show closes out with a discussion about Kanye West’s new album and why you can no longer separate the are from the artist - “I’m praying on this podcast, live and on air … God, please save Kanye from that antisemitic bulls**t.”
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The Bird & The Bear - Session 78 - "The Birdy South"
02/22/2024
The Bird & The Bear - Session 78 - "The Birdy South"
Please share, rate, and review … Follow us on all social media platforms @dimesinthedozen On this week’s session of The Bird & The Bear … Our hosts, Sammy Ray and Daryl Lazer discuss Super Bowl ads and the Deep South … The Deep South portion of their discussion is based off to two YouTube documentaries by Peter Santenello, “Deep South - First Impressions” and “Deep South’s Poorest Region - What’s It Like?” … Let’s sort through it together! (0:00) - The session opens with a short discussion about the Super Bowl that’s mostly focused on the weird “He Gets Us” ads that ran during the commercial breaks - “Money made off of selling crap s**t for your home … Period” (11:40) - Our hosts share their personal experiences with the south before introducing the first documentary they’ll be analyzing, “Deep South - First Impressions” by Peter Santenello - “M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I … I said that cause I wanted to know if I knew how to spell it correctly” (20:34) - The subject of the documentary, Booker T, starts to show some negative feelings towards welfare recipients - “Not, I had to get out of here because somewhere else was less racist … I had to figure out a place that was racist in a different way” (26:11) - A conversation about people’s guarded attitudes in the Deep South turns into a debate over just how much Booker T’s community really likes him - “They take that line of, ‘He hasn’t been through anything that I haven’t been through … Why’s he important?’” (34:44) - The age, condition, and historical significance of the small communities in parts of the Deep South - “Even if their communities were poorly constructed and poorly made, they worked so hard to make what they had last” (42:28) - Critiques of the documentary turn into a second, but productive debate about combating prejudice - “If I cannot be black, you better stand on business and be not black with me” (51:44) - As the documentary focuses in on Booker T’s personal life, our hosts give their final thoughts on what his true character might be - “He makes sure everybody knows him … So that nobody can cross him … He’s jivin” (1:06:00) - Our hosts move onto a second documentary on the Deep South, “Deep South’s Poorest Region - What’s It Like?” by Peter Santenello - “Those names couldn’t be more old America … Of course, Mr. Bruno and Mr. Brimm Brimley … Monopoly characters … Put alligators in the lake” (1:12:40) - The mayor of Alligator, Mississippi and his desire to bring a dollar store to the community - “They have the land to be self-sufficient … They can have the barter system” (1:20:10) - Our hosts discuss the many issues that have left the Deep South economically stunned and give their final thoughts on both documentaries - “They don’t want you … They took it away from you … They patented your ability to make a living”
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The Bird & The Bear - Session 77 - "Bearboozled"
02/15/2024
The Bird & The Bear - Session 77 - "Bearboozled"
Please share, rate, and review … Follow us on all social media platforms @dimesinthedozen On this week’s session of The Bird & The Bear … Sammy and Daryl discuss men’s health, bad Manosphere advice, and why it’s important to call out “Uncle Toms” … The latter half of this episode is based on a YouTube video by F.D Signifier, “This 20 Year old classic film might take your Black Card” … Let’s sort through it together! (0:00) - The session opens with Daryl getting some bad news that sparks a conversation about the fragility of men’s health and how easily stress can age them - “But I don’t know too many, if any men that can successfully handle emotional or environmental change” (13:47) - Criticizing health advice from Manosphere influencers and how the Manoshpere ends up targeting young black men the most - “Liver King … More like liver cancer” (22:52) - Looking back at a Tik Tok trend that had white people wearing face paint during the George Floyd protests - “It took me a minute to realize I was looking at a face … I was like, ‘Is this somebody’s ass? What am I looking at here?” (36:56) - The discussion on the 2000s movie Bamboozled begins with Daryl explaining his own experience with “Uncle Toms” and Sammy giving a quick rundown of the movie's plot and cast - “They purposely separated us from what would have been our black identity because of what the state of the black identity was then” (50:51) - Breaking down the funniest elements of Bamboozled and discussing who the current day “Uncle Toms” might be - “He does provide resources … But, so did Sammy Davis” (1:07:20) - Finale thoughts on Bamboozled and the movies overall message - “That’s why there’s nothing to say about it … You can’t articulate it … You have to feel it”
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The Bird & The Bear - Session 76 - "Bird Don't Care If He Offends You"
02/09/2024
The Bird & The Bear - Session 76 - "Bird Don't Care If He Offends You"
Please share, rate, and review … Follow us on all social media platforms @dimesinthedozen On this week’s session of The Bird & The Bear … Sammy and Daryl are supplying the variety with a life update from both hosts, reactions to Tom MacDonald and Ben Shapiro’s new song, and a great conversation about black representation in Anime … Shoutout to these content creators on YouTube for providing the backing to our Anime discussion: “Is Anime Racist?” (ibz), “How To Do Black Representation in Anime” (Jet The Prophet), “Why Anime is for Black People - Hip Hop x Anime” (Beyond The Bot), and “Why Do Black People Love Anime?” Blxxk Anime … Let’s sort through it together (0:00) - The session opens with our hosts sharing their life updates from the past month, starting with Sammy talking about the progress he’s made with his 2024 resolutions, seeing the film Iron Claw, the “do’s” and “don’ts” of drinking in public, and how excited he is to once again attend Thunderdome - “ALWAYS with the tired ass millennial rap references!” (28:36) - Daryl talks about his upcoming trip to visit a friend in Utah, the progress he’s made with his fitness journey, his spontaneous choice to go to Sick New World 2024 in Las Vegas, and his experience at the Astra Lumina art display in the Seattle Chinese Garden - “What are you gonna do? Fight me over the Goodwill’s policy?” (42:02) - Sammy and Daryl update Session 75’s white rapper discussion with their reactions to Tom MacDonald and Ben Shapiro’s new song, “Facts” - “I guarantee that Tom MacDonald has at one point in time talked about how negative participation trophies are, and he’s in ‘Hip-Hop’ b**chin about how he’s not getting his participation trophy” (1:18:54) - Sammy and Daryl discuss black representation within Anime, specifically why black people have a connection to it and how they’re portrayal in the art form has evolved - “For whatever reason a certain culture latches on to a specific art form and wants to see themselves in it”
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The Bird & The Bear - Session 75 - "Young Black Bears"
02/01/2024
The Bird & The Bear - Session 75 - "Young Black Bears"
Please share, rate, and review … Follow us on all social media platforms @dimesinthedozen On this week’s session of The Bird & The Bear … Sammy and Daryl breakdown the problem with white rappers … This conversation being based on two YouTube videos by F.D Signifier, ‘Eminem and the White Rapper Problem’ and ‘The REAL greatest white rapper of all time’ … Let’s sort through it together (0:00) - Sammy and Daryl jump right into this session’s discussion on white rappers - “Basically, you cannot stop the inexorable advance of white colonialism on any culture” (6:00) - The problems with gatekeeping art - “So if you expect me to follow your formula, youre dated and youre wrong” (15:48) - The early history of white rappers in Hip-Hop - “My personal theory on how you get a Rappin’ Rodney…” (23:24) - Snow’s ‘Informant,’ Jim Carey’s time on the TV show ‘In Living Color,’ and the white Hip-Hop group, Young Black Teenagers - “Speaking of white people in black spaces…” (35:33) - Arsenio Hall questioning Vanilla Ice about his presence in Hip-Hop - “I won’t lie, my mind drifted off for just a second because I was thinking about, ‘I really wonder what the Young Black Teenagers are doing now?’” (43:37) - Eminem’s influence on white rappers - “I’m more so pointing to the trends that he set for white rappers going forward … It stagnated white rappers because they just thought they either needed to be an edge lord or rap really fast on the beat” (56:36) - Rock-Rap and comparing the impact of Limp Bizkit versus Linkin Park - “If you get down to the roots of it, your taking two black art forms and just mashing them together and on it’s face value; that can work” (1:06:08) - The rise of Nerdcore in Hip-Hop - “That’s why you can’t say that like Nerdcore and white kids rappin’ about white s**t is not at its core Hip-Hop” (1:10:55) - The short lived rap career of John Cena - “But one thing that all this reminds me of is that at one time the WWE had this tag team group called, ‘Crime Tyme’” (1:15:50) - Lil Dicky and the experience Sammy and Daryl had at one of his concerts - “I though it was really f**king stupid how he started the show with the national anthem” (1:20:32) - The negative effects Macklemore has had on the Seattle Hip-Hop scene - “He made us lose a lot of credibility…” (1:25:41) - Mac Miller’s Legacy and why Eminem probably listens to Joe Rogan - “But I think he was on his way to be a GOAT, and his sudden death left his legacy at more of a respectable legend level” (1:30:36) - Why El-P is the greatest white rapper of all time - “Adult Swim was low key one of the most influential segments on TV…” (1:36:36) - Sammy and Daryl close out the show with their final thoughts on white rappers and the future of Hip-Hop - “Also, notice how we didn’t even touch on Kid Rock…”
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The Bird & The Bear - Session 74 - "Bird/Bear 2024"
01/25/2024
The Bird & The Bear - Session 74 - "Bird/Bear 2024"
Please share, rate, and review … Follow us on all social media platforms @dimesinthedozen On this session of The Bird & The Bear … Sammy and Daryl discuss the latest updates on the 2024 presidential campaign, the discovery of a unmarked mass gravesite in Mississippi, and the “controversy” surrounding the new Lil Nas X song … Let’s sort through it together! (0:00) - Sammy opens the show with a pitch for a new business venture - “It’s called … Cakes for Vivek” (4:59) - Sammy and Daryl discuss Donald Trump winning the Iowa Caucus and his removal from the ballot in Colorado and Maine - “Anytime you have that caliber of character that just is unrelentingly irreverent and ostentatious … You don’t know what’s gonna happen … He’s like the Flugtags” (20:30) - Sammy and Daryl discuss Ron DeSantis and what his loss in Iowa means for his campaign - “So to constantly simplify things to back to how people voted in 2016, or 2020, or whatever, isn’t gonna give you true metric of how people are looking at the President of the United States … They want someone likable, they can have a beer with, and makes them forget that their government exists in the first f**kin place” (43:29) - Sammy and Daryl discuss Vivek Ramaswamy’s performance in the Iowa Caucus - “Ok, here’s how it went … Vivek was simultaneously 69ing Trump … While also trying to take a dump on his face” (56:12) - Sammy and Daryl discuss the biggest issue hurting Joe Biden’s chances for reelection - “Shit like that is directly where the apathy comes from … I physically do not know a world without an America in conflict” (1:09:42) - Sammy and Daryl discuss the recent discovery of a mass unmarked gravesite near a prison outside Jacksonville, Mississippi - “We cannot stand on any of our morals as a country, as long as we have for-profit prisons … As long as prison is an industry … I don’t wanna hear any politician say anything about American exceptionalism” (1:25:53) - Sammy and Daryl react to the controversy surrounding the new Lil Nas X song, ‘J CHRIST’ - “It’s like yeah, that’s cause it was the Inquisition … We don’t have the f**king Inquisition on purpose … So I don’t need to hold myself to the standards of the f**king Inquisition”
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The Bird & The Bear - Session 73 - "A New Bird, A New Bear"
01/18/2024
The Bird & The Bear - Session 73 - "A New Bird, A New Bear"
Please share, rate, and review … Follow us on all social media platforms @dimesinthedozen On this Session of The Bird & The Bear … It’s a new year, and the boys are back with a list of resolutions and goals for 2024 … Let’s sort through it together! (0:00) - Sammy and Daryl open the show with some quick life updates - “Thirty-fun as I like to call it” (9:03) - Sammy and Daryl start their discussion on resolutions for 2024, beginning with Sammy’s personal resolutions - “I’m a very, ‘What about tomorrow?’ person” (21:22) - Daryl runs through his entire list resolutions for 2024 - “You can’t be an almost 40 year old man saying this to me right now” (39:56) - Sammy finishes his 2024 resolutions list with a few social resolutions and Daryl riffs off a few of Sammy’s ideas - “I freeze up … My activist heart, my bleeding liberal heart freezes up and I can’t make the decision” (54:08) - Sammy and Daryl move the discussion into a conversation about their goals for 2024, starting with Sammy and Daryl’s fitness goals for the year - “I kinda want there to be a level of enjoyability that comes back to drinking” (1:06:30) - Sammy moves to the next goal on his list which is about the podcast and what he’d like to accomplish with it in 2024 - “There’s dominos in effect is what I’m trying to say” (1:14:43) - Sammy and Daryl breakdown their career goals for 2024, starting with Daryl - “I don’t want to not do what the f**k I was hired to do” (1:31:06) - Sammy wraps up the show with his hobby goals for 2024 - “4 and 76”
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The Bird & The Bear - Session 72
12/29/2023
The Bird & The Bear - Session 72
(0:00) - Sammy opens the show introducing the topics for this session, quickly followed by a life update from Daryl - “Got a whole NPR swag going on there” - (11:23) - Sammy shares his life update and it leads Daryl to spark a conversation about omens and the fear of success - “My dad always use to say, ‘You have to be ready for mothership.’” (20:13) - Sammy and Daryl begin the discussion of their first topic, Henry Kissinger - “It doesn’t matter that he’s dead … The things he did will have an impact for millennia” - (26:58) - Sammy quickly runs through some of the more notable war crimes of Kissinger - “It’s so surprising they like America as much as they do…” - (33:18) - Sammy argues against the justification that Kissinger’s war crimes are just things Cold War leaders had to do - “I don’t think genocide is just a little Cold War oopsie” - (39:13) - Sammy and Daryl breakdown how Bernie declaring he’s not friends with Kissinger most likely gave the DNC candidacy to Hillary in the 2016 primary - “They played every single dirty republican trick in the f**king book to get Hillary Clinton as the nominee … No nobody wanted Hillary!” (45:41) - Sammy and Daryl move on tot he second topic for this session, George Santos expelled from Congress - “You mean the absolute sufferer of borderline personality disorder, George Santos” - (50:51) - Sammy and Daryl point out just how truly horrible George Santos is at lying - “I’m gonna make a guess here that Zoomers don’t like you because they think your a ground breaking politician … They like you because your great f**king meme” - (56:59) - Sammy and Daryl react to George Santos’ claims of corruption in congress - “It’s almost like Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and George Santos are the conservative response to The Squad” - (1:04:18) - Sammy and Daryl give there final thoughts on George Santos - “It makes for good entertainment but doesn’t make for good policy” (1:10:00) - The last 25 minutes of the session Sammy and Daryl give their 2024 predictions for a handful of current events including Donald Trump’s legal troubles, Elon Musk’s Twitter, and if Kanye West can make a comeback - “I stand by my statement that Hunter Biden is quite possibly the pinnacle example of a true American”
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The Bird & The Bear - Session 71
12/21/2023
The Bird & The Bear - Session 71
(0:00) - Sammy and Daryl open the show by introducing the topic of this session, pirates - “I feel like there’s a good amount of swashbuckling” - (4:24) – Sammy has some follow up commentary on a story Daryl told in Session 71 - “TELL ME YOU WANTED TO F**K ME!” - (6:22) - Sammy and Daryl don’t have a lot of personal updates other than their shared excitement for a highly anticipated birthday party they’ll both be attending - “I’ll stay sober all night if I get throw people into a van” (13:16) - Sammy and Daryl begin their discussion on pirates with their reaction to Johnny Harris’ video, The Rise and Fall of Somali Pirates… But first they tangent into a conversation about Will Smith - “This is going to be the most contradictory statement I’ve ever made but your knowledge of Will Smith’s music is washed” - (18:58) - After a five minute tangent into Will Smith, Sammy and Daryl get back to their reaction to Johnny Harris’ video, The Rise and Fall of Somali Pirates - “Excellent use of exacerbate, facetious, and fallacy” - (25:14) - Daryl explains why people shouldn’t be surprised by the existence of pirates, “Piracy is pulling yourself up by your f**king bootstraps, Republican” - (34:41) - Daryl explains the role that corportions play in creating piracy and how they might be able to deter it from happening - “You had the HIV… The HIV organized… And now you have AIDS” - (42:29) - Sammy and Daryl challenge the idea that the Somali people were simply “left behind” by their government - “Both of those statements are the equivalent of watching someone get beat up and say, ‘Why aren’t you fighting back?’” (49:48) - Sammy and Daryl move into the second portion of their pirate discussion with a reaction to a NAVY Productions video, What Happens when PIRATES attack MASSIVE US Navy ships? | Somali Pirates Documentary - “Their like, ‘They’re trying to protect the coral reefs!’ The fuck they are, you know what a depth charge is?” - (54:28) - Sammy and Daryl talk about how the money spent on the Navy protecting the interests of corporations in the Horn of Africa could be used to benefit the people living there - “But you have boat, you can get a gun, and you know at least ten other motherf**kers that are just hungry as you are” (1:12:41) - Sammy and Daryl move onto the final portion of their pirate discussion with their reactions to a documentary called, How Modern Pirates Are Still a Threat in The Coast of Africa - “He’s speaking from a position of assumed authority and calling someone else a criminal… That’s exactly what’s colonialism is” - (1:21:25) - Sammy and Daryl go deep into the motivations of the Nigerian pirates presented in the documentary - “These people are not just inherently criminal, they’re not just inherently pirates, they’re pirates because they’re watching you f**k them”
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The Bird & The Bear - Session 70
12/14/2023
The Bird & The Bear - Session 70
(0:00) - Sammy and Daryl open the session with their life updates from the Thanksgiving break - “COVID, f**king hunts me…” - (6:56) - Sammy watched The Ballad of Song Birds and Snakes over the break and gives his review - “I’m just a movie watcher… I’ve enjoyed the movies… I thought it was super good” - (8:30) - Sammy and Daryl talk about some parties they attended over the break - “Everybody was like, ‘Spray him with the champagne! Spray him with the champagne!’” (13:53) - Sammy and Daryl begin this sessions main discussion with a conversation about the mistake liberals have made in undermining conservative intelligence - “I’m very serious about the idea of knowing what the hell your enemies are up to” - (23:21) - Daryl breaks down some of the nuances in understanding the roots of the Republican Party - “Like him freeing the slaves doesn’t make him a good man… It makes him a pragmatic and practical man” - (27:39) - Daryl gives his theory on where the liberal misconception of conservatives comes from - “Ignorant and redneck are not mutually exclusive terms… You can be a redneck and be highly intelligent… You can be ignorant and not be a redneck” - (33:44) - Sammy uses his initial reaction to the 4th GOP primary debate as an example of how liberal bias can creep into our way of thinking - “Yeah, your right, the deep state did do it… The president did it” - (38:29) - Sammy and Daryl talk about the ways we can be more aware and even combat our bias in politics - “Because it doesn’t matter how stupid I think they are… If enough people think they’re not stupid… That dumb motherf**kers in the White House now” - (43:53) - Sammy and Daryl point out how often fringe political conversations are happening in the mainstream - “As we’ve seen in the last couple years all that crazy stupid stuff has become platformed politics” (51:43) - Sammy and Daryl move onto the second portion of this sessions discussion with a conversation about Project 2025 - “They published their f**king plan… So for us to not be aware of it would be incredibly irresponsible” - (59:29) - Sammy finds some serious hypocrisy in a particular passage form Project 2025s mandate - “Hey, keep the government out of my home but put them in my soul instead…” - (1:03:29) - Daryl makes an important observation of the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025 - “Any political group putting out a 900 page agenda that basically strips 90% of the rights away from Americans, basically including the freedom of religion… That’s a terrorist organization”
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The Bird & The Bear - Session 69
12/07/2023
The Bird & The Bear - Session 69
(0:00) - Sammy and Daryl react to the 3rd GOP primary debate - “For every anecdote like that, just go, ‘Yeah, but Hitler…’” - (5:22) - Sammy and Daryl react to Ron DeSantis’ take on why he should be the GOP nominee over Donald Trump - “He’s going back to more obscure, far from home but at our doorstep threats” - (11:27) - Sammy and Daryl react to a few of the candidates takes on what they would be urging the Israel prime minister in this moment - “The goblins on this stage are so blood thirsty, dude … It’s crazy” - (20:25) - Daryl points out one of the weaker talking points from Vivek Ramaswamy before they quickly react to Ron DeSantis’ take on giving Ukraine more funding - “Nobodies interests got advanced? Nobodies? Absolutely Nobodies? F**k off…” - (25:12) - Sammy and Daryl react to Chris Christie’s take on what he would say to Muslim Americans who are feeling afraid - “The comparison is Hamas and Israel... The conflation is Hamas and Palestinian citizens” - (27:46) - Sammy and Daryl react to Nikki Haley’s take on abortion rights - “And that’s just coded religious speak for pro-life stuff” - (30:28) - Sammy and Daryl discuss the candidates obsession with making border security a major talking point - “I think we far too easily, and this is the problem with politics, we f**kin rip the humanity from people… In a heartbeat” - (34:25) - Sammy and Daryl tangent for a moment and discuss the ways that America has misused it’s wealth and power - “We don’t recognize as a country how terrifying we are and how much humility we should have around it…” - (41:34) - Sammy and Daryl react to the candidates takes on what they would say to Jewish students who feel unsafe and college campuses who don’t condemn Hamas - “Take Jewish out, what do you say to any student in America right now?” - (43:48) - Sammy and Daryl start giving their final analysis of the 3rd GOP primary debate - “Not innovative with their answers in anyway… Not even a slight inch of progressive modern thought… It’s all reductive and it’s all regressive…” - (50:00) - Sammy and Daryl give one final react to Vivek Ramaswamy’s dream debate moderator line up - “The most 4chan online motherf**ker ever to be platformed in politics”
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The Bird & The Bear - Session 68
11/16/2023
The Bird & The Bear - Session 68
(0:00) - Sammy and Daryl open the session with a little conversational edging - “Oops, we didn’t get there…” - (6:01) - Daryl shares his life updates and it turns into a deeper conversation about the importance of social connections - “My cousin met his wife at a yo-yo convention … Just on a whim” - (16:41) - Sammy takes Daryl on a tangent into some internet drama surrounding a date to Cheesecake Factory - “This is the one adjacent Manosphere take I think is good for ANY person out there dating someone…” - (22:09) - Sammy shares his experience taking his partner to the new Taylor Swift movie - “The last like four days … I’ve just been singing random Taylor Swift songs from the movie in my head” (29:34) - Sammy and Daryl begin this sessions main discussion with their reactions to Last Week Tonight’s latest segment on abortion rights - “It’s interesting to see over the course of your lifetime how pervasive the urge to regress is…” - (39:31) - Sammy gets on his soap box for a moment and cements his position on reproductive rights - “Women are owed our respect, full reproductive rights, and any medical service they need to maintain those rights, and most importantly, their health … Full stop” - (49:45) - Daryl uses the history of Planned Parenthood to explain the true intention behind the abortion ban - “I don’t see the banning or prohibition on abortions as anything other then a way to control the masses through just … Throwing spaghetti at the wall” (58:43) - Sammy and Daryl begin the second part of this sessions discussion with their reaction to Leeja Miller’s video about the Heritage Foundation, The Shady Nonprofit Trying To Ruin Our Democracy - “Was the Conservative Party always this shitty? Or was it the corruption of the Nixon era that really turned the party towards the direction it’s in now?” - (1:04:56) - Sammy quickly points out how the Heritage Foundation has tried to control America’s politics since President Reagan - “That’s when he SWEPT black America!” (1:12:30) - Sammy and Daryl reach the final part of this sessions discussion with their reaction to Second Thought’s video, The Growing Threat Of Christian Nationalism - “Thin Lipped Colonizers … TLC” - (1:19:03) - Sammy and Daryl wrap up the show by breaking down the flawed logic of believing we’re gifted by God - “Christian Nationalism is the product of land being tangible and God being intangible…”
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The Bird & The Bear - Session 67
11/08/2023
The Bird & The Bear - Session 67
(0:00) - The boys open the show with some answers to the question, what would send a Victorian man into a coma? - “A Sybian … You know what that is?” - (5:06) - The boys tangent into a quick conversation about mixing alcohol with caffeine - “Caffeine so dense that they have to put different flavors that still suck on top of it” - (7:57) - Sammy finally has some gossip to share from his weekend - “So they have a pole in their house to practice, and they’re really good at it, and they have friends that also work them, and they’re all really good at it…” - (14:53) - Daryl talks about his experience attending Haunted Forest in Portland, Oregon, and it tangents into a deeper conversation about empathy - “Because if you had one hundred percent true empathy, if you heard anybodies heartbreaking story you would be absolutely debilitated…” (26:34) - The boys begin this sessions discussion with a update on the Israel/Hamas War - “If you wanna make an example, get the guy your looking for … Don’t be the example of f**king war crimes” - (36:05) - The boys react to Steven Crowder’s latest take on the Israel/Hamas War - “It’s easy to fight something you don’t see as human” - (44:11) - Daryl points out the similarities and differences between the public’s reaction to the Vietnam War and the Israel/Hamas War - “You can not hide information … If somebody puts it somewhere it is now geo-redundant” - (49:01) - The boys discuss the accusation of Israel being a racist state - “Everything they’re doing fits into the same behavior of the people they were freed from in WW2” (1:03:29) - The boys start the final portion of this sessions discussion with their reaction to federal authorities push to get fentanyl classified as a WMD - “Here we are with another scheme from federal authorities to get more money out of the government … Out of us really” - (1:13:06) - The boys talk about the negative effects the previous drug war had, and continues to have on poor and black communities - “I don’t know what it’s going to take to make society understand that motherf**kers just wanna get high … Let em’ get high”
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The Bird & The Bear - Session 66 - "Revision 01"
11/01/2023
The Bird & The Bear - Session 66 - "Revision 01"
(0:00) - The boys open the show with some updates about their studio space, “If I was not me and I walked into this room, I’d go, ‘I don’t wanna touch anything’” - (5:53) - The boys take a few minutes for personal news, Sammy is on vacation mode, and Daryl’s been “tumbling” towards happiness, “Who’s Biggie Papa?” - (10:22) - The boys discuss the “smarmy” reaction some people tend to have towards personal growth, “Like, it’s tasking to be negative … It 100% is … It’ll wear on you” (17:25) - The boys begin their revisions with Daryl addressing some of his statements on gender dynamics from Session 63, “Where that thought came from was a disingenuous comparison” - (21:23) - Sammy describes the importance for both indirect and direct methods of accountability, “That’s the thing that men don’t understand is that you can be direct but you also need to understand the indirect” - (26:20) - Daryl talks about the ways in which he tries to help make space for women in his career field, “They're engineers too … We’re all engineers, we’re all at the table” (30:50) - Sammy addresses some of his statements on Israel/Palestine from Session 64, “I’ve said things and come here with attitudes to make it seem like, ‘Well you put yourself in that situation so you know, good luck’” - (34:05) - The boys discuss how Israel’s current reaction to Palestine will be recorded as a stain, “This attitude to be involved in so many things … To be the police of the world again … It’s a lot like the things that lead to the Vietnam War and that failure” - (40:17) - The boys discuss the facade of America’s morale compass, “And that’s the f**king problem … You wanna make America great again? Be honest” - (46:10) - The boys discuss the fog of war surrounding Israel’s siege of Gaza, “I got sick of hearing, ‘But 9/11, but the Holocaust’ … Okay, we get it … That doesn’t justify what your doing”
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The Bird & The Bear - Session 65
10/27/2023
The Bird & The Bear - Session 65
(0:00) - The boys open the session with a short conversation on the "seen it all before" mentality of older generations, “I guess those philosophies become a little bit shaky” - (3:30) - Daryl shares his life updates and how important communication will be in achieving his goals, “That’s a lot of platitudes” - (13:15) - Sammy quickly shares his life updates since not a lot happened while he was on call for jury duty, “I was reminded how annoying traffic is…” - (16:46) - Sammy touches back on some of his commentary from Session 64, “So if we have a nation of men who need to better themselves, then that means we have a nation that needs to better itself” (18:46) - The boys begin their discussion on “The Red Pill Economy,” starting with a conversation on the business of exploiting lonely men, “and it’s making them a living, and that’s just crazy to me … and they’re not fixing a damn thing” - (24:50) - Daryl gives his thoughts on the “nice guy” defense, “Being a nice guy is keeping your opinion about someone’s appearance to your f**king self” - (28:52) - The boys talk about the reverse effect Andrew Tate’s “anti” Redpill attitude had on his audience, “The term for that is obfuscation” - (35:05) - The boys debate what makes men valuable to women, “Read a book …Watch Gossip Girl … Have something to talk about” - (43:55) - Daryl talks about how being a great man doesn’t mean your a great man in the eyes of women, “My beard is a funny example … Beards in general are a funny example” - (51:37) - Sammy helps Daryl work through some outdated (and slightly misogynist) social concepts, “You first give someone the confidence to fix themselves, when first give them the confidence to feel like a human” (58:46) - The boys move into the second half of their discussion on “The Red Pill Economy,” with a conversation about the un-pickable pick-me, JustPearlyThings, “She’s the token Stepford housewife … Except she’s never been a housewife” - (1:04:16) - The boys react to some of JustPearlyThings worst takes, “I keep going back to f**king David Clarke in my head, because she’s playing off it one-hundred percent” - (1:11:44) - The boys talk about the need for a countermovement as well as some practical solutions men can apply to themselves immediately, “There’s all theses different moments of Pearl doing all this math that ain’t mathin, but every time she does the whiteboard, it’s Glenn Beckin”
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The Bird & The Bear - Session 64
10/19/2023
The Bird & The Bear - Session 64
(0:00) - The boys open the show with their individual life updates, Daryl came back sick from a cabin trip, and Sammy has been called in for jury duty, “I’ve had enough people in my life cough directly in my mouth…” - (9:05) - The boys take a minute to talk video games, Sammy has been playing the hell out of Stardew Valley, while Daryl has been balls deep in Starfield, “It’s kind of objectively boring, but for some reason it’s like, compelling” - (19:37) - Daryl tells a quick story about the time he tested the psychological horror FPS, Fear 3 (21:05) - The boys kick off their discussion on the “conservative grift” with a conversation about the billionaires behind some of the major conservative media outlets, “These small amount of topics have so much energy that they over shadow the things that really f**king matters” - (28:55) - The boys point out the lie that Hollywood controls the country or is controlled by democrats, “Oil runs the f**king country … Corn runs the f**king country” (35:50) - The boys move into the second portion of their “conservative grift” discussion with a conversation about Fox News anchor, Jesse Watters, “Watters can dance that line between the mainstream conservative voter and the Trump conspiracy freak…” - (43:01) - The boys talk about the different psychological tactics that Watters uses in all of his reporting, “First off, I wanna bring up the fact that he looks like Stick Sickly and Earthworm Jim” (47:49) - The boys begin the third part of their “conservative grift” discussion with their analysis of Ben Shapiro’s YouTube content, “The team of people editing your video probably don’t f**king agree with you … You’re just paying them to” - (55:34) - The boys point out how Ben makes bad faith arguments by manipulating facts and presenting them as truths, “Anybody that says they deal in facts and never changes their position … Is factually, a f**king liar” (1:03:30) - The boys make it to the last portion of their discussion on the “conservative grift” and give their reactions to some of Ben and Jesse’s recent Israel/Palestine takes, “There’s no desire for peace in his heart, and you can tell” - (1:13:19) - As an added bonus the boys react to a debate between Cornell West and Alan Dershowitz on the Israel/Palestine situation, “I think there’s a whole documentary about this … Oh god, what was it … District 9” - (1:25:52) - The session wraps up with the boys reactions turning into their own friendly debate, “If you so much as smell the thought of firing a bullet …. Everything we give you is gone”
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The Bird & The Bear - Session 63
10/13/2023
The Bird & The Bear - Session 63
(0:00) - The boys open the show discussing the state of the Internet in 2013, “If Andrew Tate was around when WorldStar was at it’s peak…” - (8:04) - Daryl talks about his weekend and a confrontation that almost had him in a bar fight, “I was giving this guy a hand hug…” - (19:25) - Sammy’s weekend was much calmer, with his only highlight being a quick outing for some birria ramen (23:03) - The boys begin their discussion on the political compass, starting with a conversation about the Manosphere to Alt-Right pipeline, “It seems like the strength of these online groups can just immediately tap into the emotional well of their spite…” - (30:28) - Daryl addresses the unrealistic standards that men feel society has placed on them, “Scale of 1 to 10 … A strong 5 … A strong 5 is still a strong dude!” - (37:29) - Sammy brings up everything wrong with the Manosphere’s obsession with feeling like they were born in the wrong generation, “Why would the f**k, would I wanna be born any other time then right f**king now? I’m having lasers and bass blasted into f**king my face!” - (44:25) - The boys talk about how necessary it is to break gender-norms within relationships and the lie that men want a “kept” women, “Your not kept … I’m not a caregiver … We are a partnership, and we experience and explore life together” - (53:48) - Daryl points out the lack of personal accountability that leads men to find these fringe groups in society, “The best thing you can do is get on the f**king train … and adapt” (1:04:50) - The boys react to Jubilee’s Middle Ground video, “White Liberals Vs. Black Conservatives” - (1:13:28) - The boys discuss the conservatives view on Affirmative Action, “Here’s why that statement and that thought is f**king stupid” - (1:27:10) - A question about shifting political views sends the boys on a tangent, “There’s like three or four people in Congress that I think aren’t racist” - (1:35:24) - The boys react to the liberals who admitted to being white saviors, “Anyone of them black people could of thrown that stool and beat his a**, and it would of been perfectly fine” (1:46:29) - The boys complete their discussion with a quick conversation about the actual political compass and it’s corresponding test, “I’ve lost my leanings to any political disposition…”
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The Bird & The Bear - Session 62 - “Lost Lands 2023”
10/05/2023
The Bird & The Bear - Session 62 - “Lost Lands 2023”
(0:00) - The boys open the show discussing how essential the podcast has become in their lives, “How often do you sit down and talk about the world or your life with you best friend?” - (5:02) - Daryl adds some notes to our previous session on the police state, “If they do get caught for something … They still are entitled to the rights that they will willing take from you” - (9:43) - Daryl uses Alec Baldwin’s legal troubles as an anecdote for why we don’t always punish the right people - (15:35) - The boys tangent into conversation about the current state of men in America, “You need to figure out what your communicating that’s being perverted in their heads to put them on that path … That takes self reflection” - (19:42) - The boys talk about Jordan Peterson’s weird obsession with Elliot Paige and some of his other cringe takes, “If everything is worth the fight, then everything will be a fight” - (23:04) - Daryl discusses how all forms of repression will eventually end in violence, “The freest thing that you can do is be unapologetically you” (26:05) - Sammy begins his recap of his trip to Lost Lands 2023, “It just feels like festivals can function so much better when they work with private owners” - (29:30) - Sammy describes arriving in Columbus, the shuttle rides to the festival, and the process of entering the festival grounds - (34:28) - Sammy talks about the festival curator, Excision, and his relationship to the community Lost Lands is held in - (36:19) - Sammy describes some of the infrastructure of the festival grounds and Daryl’s got some questions, “What did the water station water taste like? Like, was it heavy? Was it minerally?” - (40:42) - Sammy talks about all the different stage setups, from the pits to the sound systems, and of course the after party, “But It basically was a nerd bukkake” - (50:57) - Sammy talks about his late start on day 2, finding his “melting spot” inside the festival, and the jaw dropping sets he saw form NGHTMRE, LSDream, and Subtronics, “It’s the f**kin dubstep Super Bowl” - (1:00:32) - Sammy talks about the final day of the festival, the amazing closing ceremony, and the super fun after party set from Stumpi - (1:07:09) - Daryl shares a personal anecdote about how festivals have impacted him, and Sammy gives his final thoughts on Lost Lands, “I don’t think aliens are gonna bother us, cause look at us man, we got this s**t figured out”
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The Bird & The Bear - Session 61
09/28/2023
The Bird & The Bear - Session 61
(0:00) - The boys open the show with some criticisms of Ohio, “When’s the last time something major, that like wasn’t a court case, came out of Ohio?” - (4:57) - Daryl signed up for a six week challenge at his gym, and the boys discuss what it takes to build routines and how easily we can fall out of them - (11:36) - Sammy is heading to Lost Lands music festival and is feeling nervous about the trip, but Daryl gives him some sage advice - (16:48) - Daryl talks about a Jungle concert he recently attended, “I don’t know how to properly articulate the dopeness of the audio in that show” (22:42) - The boys begin their discussion on the police state, starting with mass government surveillance - (26:42) - Daryl makes a great point about that the NSA using our tax dollars to spy on us, “A big a** net around The Untied States of America is not going to replace f**king spies” - (31:21) - Sammy feels that our complacency as citizens allowed the government to push more laws giving them access to our private information, like the Patriot Act - (38:41) - Daryl pitches the idea of getting “receipts” for what government surveillance actually accomplishes, “There’s bad s**t still happening in the world, but we’re being observed up our a**holes” - (42:23) - Sammy believes America has shown extreme disloyalty to it’s citizens by having the British government spy on them - (45:49) - Daryl explains just how unchecked the power of agencies like the NSA are, and the lengths their willing to go to keep that power, “It’s gonna take big f**king government to dismantle this s**t” - (54:18) - The boys discuss how politicians, specifically Republicans, might use surveillance to enforce things like abortion bans (1:01:54) - The boys begin the second part of their discussion on the police state with a conversation about police conduct and the jail sysytem - (1:05:09) - Sammy brings up the current situation with the “cop town” in Atlanta and how protestors are being labeled terrorists, which leads the boys into a conversation about the way law enforcement treats “anti-police” groups vs. white nationalist groups - (1:11:55) - The boys discuss the recent prison escape in Philadelphia and why police shouldn’t be allowed to photograph their arrests or busts, “Is he a burger or a buck?” - (1:18:00) - Daryl explains the need for prison reform and making the punishments for crimes benefit society, “You can’t have a cruel and unusual punishment, but that’s mainly because of the cruel part … I’m such a fan of unusual punishments” - (1:31:12) - The boys wrap the show up discussing Ice Cube’s former “anti-police” image, and why he’s having a conversation about “bootstrap” politics with Tucker Carlson
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The Bird & The Bear - Session 60
09/21/2023
The Bird & The Bear - Session 60
(0:00) - The boys open the show with some light hearted banter and life updates, “Hope yawl had a great 9/11” - (6:19) - Daryl feels like his personal patterns are becoming stagnant and Sammy has suggestions for how he might be able to switch up his routine - (18:05) - Sammy talks about his progress at the gym and how close he is to reaching his fitness goal for the year (27:27) - The boys begin their discussion on wildfires, “How serious it gets, and how fast it gets serious, and how quickly you have no f**king control over it” - (34:39) - Sammy highlights that we tend to take firefighters for granted and shares a survivors story from the Camp Fire - (38:47) - The boys discuss the issues with Paradise’s evacuation plan and what the possible solutions might be, “If Jim Bob has a Ford f**kin F250, and he just wants to escape … No, that’s a tool” - (49:02) - Sammy tells a couple more survivors stories of the haunting images they returned to in the aftermath of the Camp Fire, “With the wheelchair, there’s two ways you can go with it … You can go sad, or you can go, this motherf**ker went out fighting” - (53:16) - The boys discuss what kind of penalties should be placed on power companies who start wildfires, “Fix it as it breaks!? Break is disaster, break is catastrophic” - (1:01:31) - The boys discuss why we need to nationalize power companies, “And you’re not saying how naïve, you’re saying the level of naïveté and I love that” (1:08:27) - The boys move into the final part of their wildfires conversation with a discussion about the recent Maui fires, “My jaw was on the f**king floor researching for this topic” - (1:12:27) - The boys debate if Maui’s public safety officials were right to not use the island’s emergency alert system, “A tsunami is not going to happen as fast as a fire can be on top of you” - (1:20:11) - The boys struggle to understand why power companies won’t spend the money to update or improve their lines and build trust with their customers - (1:26:24) - The boys address the conspiracy theories around the Maui fires, “Their criming us for thinking, dude” - (1:30:37) - The boys dissect the “missing children” conspiracy, “Where are the children? They’re probably with their parents”
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