The Bird & The Bear - Session 71

Dimes In The Dozen

(0:00) - Sammy and Daryl open the show by introducing the topic of this session, pirates - “I feel like there’s a good amount of swashbuckling” - (4:24) – Sammy has some follow up commentary on a story Daryl told in Session 71 - “TELL ME YOU WANTED TO F**K ME!” - (6:22) - Sammy and Daryl don’t have a lot of personal updates other than their shared excitement for a highly anticipated birthday party they’ll both be attending - “I’ll stay sober all night if I get throw people into a van”

(13:16) - Sammy and Daryl begin their discussion on pirates with their reaction to Johnny Harris’ video, The Rise and Fall of Somali Pirates… But first they tangent into a conversation about Will Smith - “This is going to be the most contradictory statement I’ve ever made but your knowledge of Will Smith’s music is washed” - (18:58) - After a five minute tangent into Will Smith, Sammy and Daryl get back to their reaction to Johnny Harris’ video, The Rise and Fall of Somali Pirates - “Excellent use of exacerbate, facetious, and fallacy” - (25:14) - Daryl explains why people shouldn’t be surprised by the existence of pirates, “Piracy is pulling yourself up by your f**king bootstraps, Republican” - (34:41) - Daryl explains the role that corportions play in creating piracy and how they might be able to deter it from happening - “You had the HIV… The HIV organized… And now you have AIDS” - (42:29) - Sammy and Daryl challenge the idea that the Somali people were simply “left behind” by their government - “Both of those statements are the equivalent of watching someone get beat up and say, ‘Why aren’t you fighting back?’”

(49:48) - Sammy and Daryl move into the second portion of their pirate discussion with a reaction to a NAVY Productions video, What Happens when PIRATES attack MASSIVE US Navy ships? | Somali Pirates Documentary - “Their like, ‘They’re trying to protect the coral reefs!’ The fuck they are, you know what a depth charge is?” - (54:28) - Sammy and Daryl talk about how the money spent on the Navy protecting the interests of corporations in the Horn of Africa could be used to benefit the people living there - “But you have boat, you can get a gun, and you know at least ten other motherf**kers that are just hungry as you are”

(1:12:41) - Sammy and Daryl move onto the final portion of their pirate discussion with their reactions to a documentary called, How Modern Pirates Are Still a Threat in The Coast of Africa - “He’s speaking from a position of assumed authority and calling someone else a criminal… That’s exactly what’s colonialism is” - (1:21:25) - Sammy and Daryl go deep into the motivations of the Nigerian pirates presented in the documentary - “These people are not just inherently criminal, they’re not just inherently pirates, they’re pirates because they’re watching you f**k them”