The Bird & The Bear - Session 54

Dimes In The Dozen

“The grass ain’t tall, you just actin small” - The boys kick the show off with some random conversations and life updates - The show opens with Daryl sharing the strange juxtapose The Dana Carvey show created on 90s prime time television - This reminds Sammy of some thoughts he has about adult contemporary music from his childhood, specifically Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” - Daryl spent his weekend celebrating a friends birthday where he found himself on a very awakening mushroom trip and ended up reconnecting with his brother - This leads the boys into a discussion about the moment when people recognize the positive changes you’ve made in your life and how sometimes hearing that can be a tough pill to swallow - Sammy had a long Saturday night getting geeked up and playing Top Golf in between chauffeuring his girlfriend to the Taylor Swift concert - Sparking a conversation about hangover food, curry dishes, and the best Asian food spots in the area

“Were you thinking about God? Or were you thinking about freedom?” - The boys discuss conservative groups planning to expand executive powers for the next conservative president - The immediate problem is the media putting the creation of this policy solely on Trump when in reality the media needs to be targeting the lobbying groups that actually conceive these policies, like the Heritage Society - Daryl’s pride as an American is diminishing and it’s because American people are allowing this to happen right underneath their noses - This leads the boys into a conversation about what influences conservative voters - Conservatives control their base through the fear of “them, they, those,” especially in small towns where the biggest value is “getting by” - God has become detrimental to the ideals of both the small town and religion - These conservative organizations steep themselves in religion and tradition to build their base then they use that momentum to create “God on Earth,” and that’s exactly what they’re going to do that with the next conservative president - The façade of the values their trying to portray are put under the guise of religion, family, and community, but the values of what family? The values of what community? The values of what God? - “Do not f*ck around and think these motherf*ckers aren’t crafty … That they’re not, not smart … They’re just pushing dumb ideas”

“X, gon give it to ya” - The boys react to Elon Musk suing the lawyers who forced him to buy Twitter - Daryl thinks if he had even the slightest chance to get 80 Million back, he’d do it - When you get up to that level lawsuits become stupid and frivolous because at that point your talking about Monopoly money - Elon is basically giving Zuckerberg the “W” with the way he’s running Twitter into the ground - Censorship on Twitter was not the travesty of our generation, it was a problem that did not need solving - “Fix the build quality on Tesla’s, you c*nt”

“We’re just a bottle inside a bottle, inside a bottle, inside a bottle” - The boys discuss the current state of deep fakes with help from a YouTube video by Johnny Harris - Could we use deep fake technology to hold more companies and billionaires accountable? - Daryl has an idea that utilizes QR codes to essentially act as watermarks for the user to tell whether the content they’re viewing is real or a deep fake - There’s most likely going to be an explosion of companies who specialize in deep fake authentication - “Dude, I’m ready for transcendence dawg … I’m going Johnny Depp on these motherf*ckers”