The Bird & The Bear - Session 70 - "Betrayed By Our Bias"

(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”

(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”