The Bird & The Bear - Session 68

Dimes In The Dozen

(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…”