Dimes In The Dozen

(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

(0:00) - Sammy and Daryl react to the 3rd GOP primary debate - “For every anecdote like that, just go, ‘Yeah, but Hitler…’” - (5:22) - Sammy and Daryl react to Ron DeSantis’ take on why he should be the GOP nominee over Donald Trump - “He’s going back to more obscure, far from home but at our doorstep threats” - (11:27) - Sammy and Daryl react to a few of the candidates takes on what they would be urging the Israel prime minister in this moment - “The goblins on this stage are so blood thirsty, dude … It’s crazy” - (20:25) - Daryl points out one of the weaker talking points from Vivek Ramaswamy before they quickly react to Ron DeSantis’ take on giving Ukraine more funding - “Nobodies interests got advanced? Nobodies? Absolutely Nobodies? F**k off…” - (25:12) - Sammy and Daryl react to Chris Christie’s take on what he would say to Muslim Americans who are feeling afraid - “The comparison is Hamas and Israel... The conflation is Hamas and Palestinian citizens” - (27:46) - Sammy and Daryl react to Nikki Hale

(0:00) - Sammy and Daryl open the session with a little conversational edging - “Oops, we didn’t get there…” - (6:01) - Daryl shares his life updates and it turns into a deeper conversation about the importance of social connections - “My cousin met his wife at a yo-yo convention … Just on a whim” - (16:41) - Sammy takes Daryl on a tangent into some internet drama surrounding a date to Cheesecake Factory - “This is the one adjacent Manosphere take I think is good for ANY person out there dating someone…” - (22:09) - Sammy shares his experience taking his partner to the new Taylor Swift movie - “The last like four days … I’ve just been singing random Taylor Swift songs from the movie in my head”   (29:34) - Sammy and Daryl begin this sessions main discussion with their reactions to Last Week Tonight’s latest segment on abortion rights - “It’s interesting to see over the course of your lifetime how pervasive the urge to regress is…” - (39:31) - Sammy gets on his soap box for a moment and cements his posit

(0:00) - The boys open the show with some answers to the question, what would send a Victorian man into a coma? - “A Sybian … You know what that is?” - (5:06) - The boys tangent into a quick conversation about mixing alcohol with caffeine - “Caffeine so dense that they have to put different flavors that still suck on top of it” - (7:57) - Sammy finally has some gossip to share from his weekend - “So they have a pole in their house to practice, and they’re really good at it, and they have friends that also work them, and they’re all really good at it…” - (14:53) - Daryl talks about his experience attending  Haunted Forest in Portland, Oregon, and it tangents into a deeper conversation about  empathy - “Because if you had one hundred percent true empathy, if you heard anybodies heartbreaking story you would be absolutely debilitated…”   (26:34) - The boys begin this sessions discussion with a update on the Israel/Hamas War - “If you wanna make an example, get the guy your looking for … Don’t be the example o

(0:00) - The boys open the show with some updates about their studio space, “If I was not me and I walked into this room, I’d go, ‘I don’t wanna touch anything’” - (5:53) - The boys take a few minutes for personal news, Sammy is on vacation mode, and Daryl’s been “tumbling” towards happiness, “Who’s Biggie Papa?” - (10:22) - The boys discuss the “smarmy” reaction some people tend to have towards personal growth, “Like, it’s tasking to be negative … It 100% is … It’ll wear on you”    (17:25) - The boys begin their revisions with Daryl addressing some of his statements on gender dynamics from Session 63, “Where that thought came from was a disingenuous comparison” - (21:23) - Sammy describes the importance for both indirect and direct methods of accountability, “That’s the thing that men don’t understand is that you can be direct but you also need to understand the indirect” - (26:20) - Daryl talks about the ways in which he tries to help make space for women in his career field, “They're engineers too …

(0:00) - The boys open the session with a short conversation on the "seen it all before" mentality of older generations, “I guess those philosophies become a little bit shaky” - (3:30) - Daryl shares his life updates and how important communication will be in achieving his goals, “That’s a lot of platitudes” - (13:15) - Sammy quickly shares his life updates since not a lot happened while he was on call for jury duty, “I was reminded how annoying traffic is…” - (16:46) - Sammy touches back on some of his commentary from Session 64, “So if we have a nation of men who need to better themselves, then that means we have a nation that needs to better itself”   (18:46) - The boys begin their discussion on “The Red Pill Economy,” starting with a conversation on the business of exploiting lonely men, “and it’s making them a living, and that’s just crazy to me … and they’re not fixing a damn thing” - (24:50) - Daryl gives his thoughts on the “nice guy” defense, “Being a nice guy is keeping your opinion about some

(0:00) - The boys open the show with their individual life updates, Daryl came back sick from a cabin trip, and Sammy has been called in for jury duty, “I’ve had enough people in my life cough directly in my mouth…” - (9:05) - The boys take a minute to talk video games, Sammy has been playing the hell out of Stardew Valley, while Daryl has been balls deep in Starfield, “It’s kind of objectively boring, but for some reason it’s like, compelling” - (19:37) - Daryl tells a quick story about the time he tested the psychological horror FPS, Fear 3   (21:05) - The boys kick off their discussion on the “conservative grift” with a conversation about the billionaires behind some of the major conservative media outlets, “These small amount of topics have so much energy that they over shadow the things that really f**king matters” - (28:55) - The boys point out the lie that Hollywood controls the country or is controlled by democrats, “Oil runs the f**king country … Corn runs the f**king country”   (35:50) - The

(0:00) - The boys open the show discussing the state of the Internet in 2013, “If Andrew Tate was around when WorldStar was at it’s peak…” - (8:04) - Daryl talks about his weekend and a confrontation that almost had him in a bar fight, “I was giving this guy a hand hug…” - (19:25) - Sammy’s weekend was much calmer, with his only highlight being a quick outing for some birria ramen   (23:03) - The boys begin their discussion on the political compass, starting with a conversation about the Manosphere to Alt-Right pipeline, “It seems like the strength of these online groups can just immediately tap into the emotional well of their spite…” - (30:28) - Daryl addresses the unrealistic standards that men feel society has placed on them, “Scale of 1 to 10 … A strong 5 … A strong 5 is still a strong dude!” - (37:29) - Sammy brings up everything wrong with the Manosphere’s obsession with feeling like they were born in the wrong generation, “Why would the f**k, would I wanna be born any other time then right f**king

(0:00) - The boys open the show discussing how essential the podcast has become in their lives, “How often do you sit down and talk about the world or your life with you best friend?” - (5:02) - Daryl adds some notes to our previous session on the police state, “If they do get caught for something … They still are entitled to the rights that they will willing take from you” - (9:43) - Daryl uses Alec Baldwin’s legal troubles as an anecdote for why we don’t always punish the right people - (15:35) - The boys tangent into conversation about the current state of men in America, “You need to figure out what your communicating that’s being perverted in their heads to put them on that path … That takes self reflection” - (19:42) - The boys talk about Jordan Peterson’s weird obsession with Elliot Paige and some of his other cringe takes, “If everything is worth the fight, then everything will be a fight” - (23:04) - Daryl discusses how all forms of repression will eventually end in violence, “The freest thing that

(0:00) - The boys open the show with some criticisms of Ohio, “When’s the last time something major, that like wasn’t a court case, came out of Ohio?” - (4:57) - Daryl signed up for a six week challenge at his gym, and the boys discuss what it takes to build routines and how easily we can fall out of them - (11:36) - Sammy is heading to Lost Lands music festival and is feeling nervous about the trip, but Daryl gives him some sage advice - (16:48) - Daryl talks about a Jungle concert he recently attended, “I don’t know how to properly articulate the dopeness of the audio in that show”   (22:42) - The boys begin their discussion on the police state, starting with mass government surveillance - (26:42) - Daryl makes a great point about that the NSA using our tax dollars to spy on us, “A big a** net around The Untied States of America is not going to replace f**king spies” - (31:21) - Sammy feels that our complacency as citizens allowed the government to push more laws giving them access to our private informa

(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

(0:00) - Sammy opens the session sharing a theory he heard about modern counterculture, explaining how the rise of the "Alt-Right/Manoshpere" counterculture is partly a reaction by youth to push back against the "woke" counterculture that became mainstream with millennials - (8:58) - Daryl once again applies his social artifacts theory and gives his take on how the Alt-Right was created, "It's sad … To see someone fight so hard for such a little kickball … Like, gross"   (12:54) - Daryl is heading back to Burning Man, but before they discuss Daryl's trip, Sammy gives podcast, life, and most importantly, gaming updates - (21:59) - Daryl shares all the things he's excited and concerned for with his return to Burning Man, "If you can get passed dessert must, that’s a keeper"   (29:28) - The boys react to Mike Lindell's new plan to secure our nations elections with "WMDs" - (34:29) - Sammy admits that he loves conservatives like Lindell who crash out over their beliefs, "Life wouldn't feel so alive if I didn

(0:00) - The boys open the show reminiscing of when apps were a “moment" - (3:03) - The boys recap their night out together in Tacoma and attending Emo Nite - (9:26) - The boys discuss their hotel accommodations while staying in Tacoma, “Bruh … My tub didn’t drain, none of my outlets f**king worked, I didn’t have lightbulbs by my bed” - (13:38) - The boys debate the recent improvements to The City of Tacoma, “We need take a page … A single f**king page out of Japan’s book” - (20:29) - The boys breakdown why the extension to Tacoma's trolley system has primed it to become the next big city in Washington, “Like, Tacoma's not just so tight that it was attracting people all the time”   (28:00) - The boys discuss the concept of “social artifacts,” starting with the example of the homeless crisis - (35:04) - Daryl breaks down how the hiring tactics of IT companies are contributing to homelessness, “They should just get rid of the real estate and build low income housing … But they won’t do that” - (44:24) - Dary

(0:00) - The boys open the show as boys do, talkin’ balls - (4:06) - Daryl’s got a bunion problem and Sammy is very unserious about it, “It’s shaking hands with me from across the f**king room” (7:59) - The boys discuss the Alabama river boat brawl - (10:19) - Daryl has some strongly worded thoughts on why he agrees with the form of people’s justice used in the river boat brawl, “Crimes that show and illustrate that you don’t care for the time, energy, and lives of other people, should be met with maximum force” - (13:04) - Sammy points out how common public incidents with inconsiderate people are becoming and this leads the boys into a tangent about small towns, “They tried that s***t in a small town and got hit with a chair” - (19:17) - The boys give their opinions on who did, and didn’t deserve the beats in the river boat brawl, “In this race based brawl … my feminism left my body” - (26:26) - Daryl discusses how this situation shows the level of privilege these white people felt when they started the b

(0:00) - The boys open the show with a quick call back to their Dana Carvey discussion, “The Diet, Dimes in The Dozen presents…” - (5:13) - Sammy shares a small piece of news about the UPS Teamster strike - (6:51) - The boys discuss how they will not be discussing the recent UFO hearings in congress - (10:50) - Daryl shares some life updates, “This ain’t nothin’ but a wobbly wheel” - (14:20) - The boys have a moment of solidarity as they share news of their respective father’s recent stints in the hospital (27:42) - The boys discuss the NBC Universal tree trimming scandal, “Not even chump change, it’s gutter money” - (30:09) - Daryl says the City of LA has set a dangerous precedent - (32:03) - Daryl shares a thrilling personal anecdote about a time he got lost in the mountains, “You could ride a unicycle and go broke!” - (36:45) - Daryl has a new game plan for the protestors outside NBC Universal and shares one final anecdote about the importance of making fines hurt (41:48) - The boys discuss the recent e

“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 “It’s in the middle of the f*ckin mountains, but they’re th

“What the f*ck is Sciatica?” - The Dimes discuss life updates - Daryl’s got a pinched nerve and shares how deadlifting helped alleviate the pressure - This leads the boys into a conversation about the importance of pacing yourself when weightlifting and the necessity of stretching before your workouts “You know what, make it a $100 an hour” - The Dimes discuss the summer of strikes (SAG/AFTRA, Teamsters, & more) - They begin with the recent allegations that Paramount deliberately trimmed trees in front of it’s headquarters to remove the shade they provided striking workers - Daryl shares an interesting anecdote about tree removal and it provides a clue into what Paramount could legally be faced with - From here the boys dive deep into the people who make up the majority of SAG/AFTRA and WGA - It’s the extras that make film and television come to life but studios will portray even their biggest films as financial losses just to avoid paying those essential extras more - This leads into a conversation ab

“I think that’s what America needs, more opium conventions” - The Dimes kick the show off with a little lesson about the origins of international drug laws - Sammy breaks down a timeline he found within a 100 page document called “One Hundred Years of Drug Control,” written by The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime - Most of the timeline can be pointed towards western nations interests and history with drugs - The United Nations wrote this study to see how effective international drug control has been over the last 100 years and it ends up being a reminder that most things that start with wholesome ideas are usually crushed   “You don’t wanna be the boat buddy, you don’t wanna be the plane buddy, you just wanna be the guy who can drive it from time to time” - The Dimes quickly discuss some life updates - Daryl shares the experience of his first flying lesson and comes to the conclusion that he wants to become a pilot - Sammy is still cleaning up from Electric Forest and shares a pro tip for washing

“Let’s interpolate our interpretations” - The Dimes discuss their life updates… and CAKE - The boys start off the show breaking down CAKE ’s iconic song “Short Skirt / Long Jacket” - Leaving them with the burning question, why did she trade her MG for a white Chrysler LeBaron? - It was Daryl’s birthday recently and he was gifted flying lessons - As Daryl begins to fantasize about the ability to fly himself to his newly acquired cabin, Sammy brings him back down to earth when he reminds Daryl he should probably get a truck up to the cabin before a plane - This leads the boys into a conversation about Daryl’s concerns with the future upkeep of his new cabin “Sounds like a bad idea, does not sound like a bad cocaine idea” - The Dimes react to Secret Service discovering cocaine in The White House - First thing we can establish is whoever found this bag is the ultimate nark - The difference is how much was found, if it’s crumbs, then it’s a tourist or worker who lost their bag, if it’s rocks, it starts to get a

“Happy Forest. F**k your Burn.” - The Dimes skip the life updates and get right into discussing Sammy’s experience at Electric Forest - Sammy has a glowing review of the festival and goes into many different details including music performances, food venders, campgrounds, security, and the venue as a whole - Some highlights from the conversation: Sammy’s favorite art installations, delicious late night jambalaya, fire breathers in the mosh pit during a Voyd set, two exceptional Chromeo performances including a house set, and the flash storm that destroyed the campgrounds on the last day “They’re sober when they do it” - The Dimes react to a shooting at The Gorge Amphitheater during the Beyond Wonderland music festival - It’s reported that the shooter was an active service member attending the festival and this information gets the boys into a couple different conversations, Sammy thinks service members should be required to live “straight edge” lifestyles, and Daryl asks why people who are trained to kill