The Bird & The Bear - Session 60

Dimes In The Dozen

(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”