The Bird & The Bear - Session 72

Dimes In The Dozen

(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”