Dimes In The Dozen

On this week’s session of, The Bird & The Bear … Our hosts, Sammy Ray and Daryl Lazer, bring you the final installment of their 4-part CIA deep dive series … In part 4, our hosts discuss the 1954 Coup in Guatemala, it’s connection to United Fruit Company, and how the CIA was involved … Content cited in this session: “The CIA’s Secret Genocide” by Rare Earth on YouTube, “How the US Stole Central America (With Bananas) by Johnny Harris on YouTube, “How CIA overthrew Guatemala’s elected president for United Fruit Company (with historian Aaron Good)” by Geopolitical Economy Report on YouTube, and “Guatemala Coup Fails | Marco Fonseca | TMR” by The Majority Report on YouTube … Let’s sort through it together!   (0:00) - Introduction - “I am not saying, factually, that c**aine was involved in most of the CIA’s decision around this time, but…” (6:43) - Guatemala’s social hierarchy in the 19th century - “They’re free, but they’re not f**kin free.” (8:59) - United Fruit Company takes control of Guatemala - “Man

On this week’s session of, The Bird & The Bear … Our hosts, Sammy Ray and Daryl Lazer, return with another round of flagrant political commentary … They discuss the ICC’s warrants for Israel and Hamas, the man vs. bear hypothetical, Joe Biden’s Moorhouse speech, Trump’s latest unhinged social media post, podcasts schilling for big tech, and so much more … Let’s sort through it together!   (0:00) - Introduction - “I’d let that thin lipped broad do so many things.” (6:02) - The ICC seeks arrest warrants for leaders of Hamas and Israel - “I think the term is, bleach blonde butch body built…” (13:06) - Applying the man vs. bear hypothetical to Israel and Palestine - “Women more often see humanity in things that men don’t.” (20:44) - Analyzing the ICC’s evidence against Israel - “They have terror treasure chests in the water that they fish out.” (29:19) - Debating the enforceability of the ICC’s warrants - “It’s just the boogeyman they’ve created...” (35:42) - Reactions to Biden’s Moorhouse speech -

On this week’s session of, The Bird & The Bear … Our hosts, Sammy Ray and Daryl Lazer, present part three of their deep dive on the CIA … In part three, our hosts will discuss the history of Project MK Ultra, it’s greater effect on society, and some of the notable names who participated in the project … Content mentioned in this session: “Human Experiments, Torture, and Mind Control: The CIA’s Project MK-Ultra” by Eleanor Neale (YouTube), and The Joe Rogan Experience #1459 - Tom O’Neil (Spotify) … Let’s Sort Through It Together!   (0:00) - Introduction (Discussing updates on the Kendrick Lamar and Drake beef) - “It sounds French enough to be right.” (10:03) - The origins and evolution of Project MK Ultra - “That’s patriotism with it’s f**king boots up and buckles on.” (19:43) - The CIA’s failed attempt to acquire LSD - “No, I didn’t say I could get you ‘10 kilograms’ … I said I could get you ‘10, killer grams!’” (23:01) - The utilization of prison inmates for Project MK Ultra - “They probably were

On this week’s session of, The Bird & The Bear … Our hosts, Sammy Ray and Daryl Lazer, talk beef … The Kendrick Lamar and Drake beef to be specific … Join us, as our hosts discuss the diss tracks, the allegations, and what the hell this all means for both the artists, and the fans … Let’s sort through it together!   (0:00) - Introduction - “We haven’t seen a beef this intense since the days of Eminem and 50 Cent.” (5:43) - How Kendrick and Drake made the beef so accessible - “I don’t think he puts as much weight on whether or not he wrote the verse, as he does, he delivered the verse.” (13:15) - Noticing how the quality of Drake’s music has declined - “There is not a band or an artist worth their f**king salt that has put out that much music in the span of 12 months … And had it be good.” (17:28) - How J Cole’s short engagement with the beef damaged his legacy - “He gets to be ‘Third Person Shooter’ now.” (20:01) - Drake’s allegations Vs. Kendrick’s allegations - “I’ve learned to like Drake … And

On this week’s session of, The Bird & The Bear … Our hosts, Sammy Ray and Daryl Lazer, return from their short break to deliver life updates, new music recommendations, new anime recommendations, and their final review of Amazon’s “Fallout” series … Join us, and get to know our hosts a little better as they open up about their lives and interests … Let’s sort through it together!   (0:00) - Introduction - “The country is not ‘thiccc’ right now” (4:19) - Daryl talks about his success at the gym - “Now, when I see myself in the mirror … I can kind of start to repeat what other people were saying and shut that back of my brain up.” (8:21) - Daryl talks about managing his alcohol consumption - “I need to find a way to stop excusing myself in moments when I would normally overindulge.” (12:30) - Daryl talks about his first cabin “trip” of 2024 - “Did overindulge quite a bit … Did kind of a lot of DMT.” (18:51) - Daryl shares his experience attending the Sick New World music festival in Las Vegas - “You

On this week’s session of, The Bird & The Bear … Our hosts, Sammy Ray and Daryl Lazer, present their second deep dive on the CIA … They’ll discuss the beginnings of the CIA, a timeline of the CIA’s most notable operations, why the CIA is a terrorist organization, and give their reactions to a group of YouTubers sneaking into a CIA base … Content cited in this video; “The Deep State is Real, Here’s why it matters” by Johnny Harris, “The CIA is a Terrorist Organization” by Second Thought, and “We Snuck Into a CIA Base In The Aussie Outback” by Boy Boy … Let’s sort through it together!   (0:00) - Introduction - “Definitely balls to the wall for the next 30 years after that … Not to say they’re still not going balls to the wall now.” (4:24) - JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis - “They want to make the money, they want people around to make them the money, and they want people around to buy their crappy products.” (18:05) - The creation of the CIA and it’s earliest operations, starting in 1945 - “If your

On this week’s session of, The Bird & The Bear … Our hosts, Sammy Ray and Daryl Lazer, go over a variety of topics as they discuss foreign TV, updates on Gaza, Young Biden Vs. Old Biden, the concept of “Exurbia,” the Donghua Jinlong Glycine Factory, and much more … Let’s sort through it together!   (0:00) - E-40’s lingo, foreign television, and Amazon’s new Fallout series - “So, It’s Star Wars … But, they cut the commercials into Star Wars.” (10:10) - Active US Airmen Larry Hebert going on a hunger strike in solidarity with the people of Gaza - “As somebody that considers themselves a patriot … America continuously breaks my heart.” (20:32) - All major updates coming out of Gaza as of April 9th, 2024 - “Any commons sense American, who isn’t a f**king war hawk or a hog, they see the writing on the wall … This is untenable.” (30:03) - Comparing Joe Biden’s past position on apartheid South Africa to his current day position on Israel - “Because there is something to be said about what the commander-i

Please, don’t forget to share, rate, and review … Follow us on all social media @dimesinthedozen   On this session of, The Bird & The Bear … Our hosts, Sammy Ray and Daryl Lazer, present the first installment in their next deep dive series on the history of the CIA … Starting with a discussion about the CIA’s first official mission, Operation Paperclip … Content cited in this session: “Operation Paperclip: The Secret Recruitment,” Available on Tubi and PlutoTV - “Annie Jacobsen, ‘Operation Paperclip,’” presented by Politics and Prose on YouTube - “Joe Rogan | The Harsh Truths of Operation Paperclip (NASA & Nazi’s) w/ Annie Jacobsen” presented by JRE Clips on YouTube … Let’s sort through it together!   (0:00) - The session opens with our hosts explaining what lead them to do a deep dive on the history of Operation Paperclip - “It was hungry hungry hippos for Nazi war criminals.” (11:07) - Our hosts discuss the documentary, “Operation Paperclip: The Secret Recruitment“ - “The world’s biggest sup

Please, don’t forget to share, rate, and review … Follow us on all social media @dimesinthedozen   On this session of, The Bird and The Bear … Our hosts, Sammy Ray and Daryl Lazer, are once again back with the variety as they discuss Diddy’s legal troubles, life updates, 2024 resolutions progress, The Baltimore bridge collapse , and Donald Trump’s Bible grift … Let’s sort through it together!   (0:00) - The session opens with our hosts discussing Diddy’s legal troubles - “This is how I wanted to … pun intended, touch on the Diddy story.” (8:19) - Our hosts discuss their life updates from the last month, starting with Sammy Ray - “Would I recommend it? Is this part of Sam’s movie recommendations? Ehh … I give it 3 wing flaps out of 5.” (16:56) - Our hosts spend some time discussing the progress and setbacks Sammy’s had with his resolution to be more attentive - “Almost like your attention span has been systematically taken from you by algorithms attempting to sell you things?” (28:16) - Sammy explains h

Please share, rate, and review … Follow us on all social media platforms @dimesinthedozen   On this session of, The Bird and The Bear … Our hosts, Sammy Ray and Daryl Lazer, close out their Deep South series of sessions with their reactions to Peter Santenello's 5th installment in his YouTube series on the Deep South called, “Inside Alabama’s Blackest Region” … Then, as an added bonus, our hosts take one final trip to the south and react to a special video by Peter Santenello called, “Alabama’s Biggest Secret - Operation Paperclip” … Let’s sort through it together!   (0:00) - The session opens with Daryl explaining Terrance Howard’s “math” obsession and it leads our hosts into a conversation about dismantling masculine stereotypes - “B.O.B was right, the earth is flat … Neil deGrasse Tyson, suck my d**k.” (12:39) - Our hosts react to the YouTube video, “Inside Alabama’s Blackest Region” by Peter Santenello - “I feel like this was one of his worst ones …. Because, he’s not a dude with nothing to say.”

Please share, rate, and review … Follow us on all social media platforms @dimesinthedozen   On this week’s session of The Bird and The Bear … Our hosts, Sammy Ray and Daryl Lazer, have a little political palooza as they discuss the 2024 Primaries, Nikki Haley’s campaign status, the Tik Tok ban, the uncommitted vote, Joe Biden’s SOTU speech, Israel’s assault on Gaza, The GOPs response to the SOTU, and finally, the border crisis … Let’s sort through it together!   (0:00) - The session opens with our hosts discussing the results of Super Tuesday and Nikki Haley suspending her campaign - “Individuality is so valued that you assimilate to a group to protect this idea of individuality that you think you have and hold” (12:00) - Our hosts go on a tangent about the United States Congress possibly passing a Tik Tok ban - “When’s the last time 81% of them agreed on f**king anything? Like, that’s the biggest sign that it should probably stick around” (26:28) - Our hosts wrap up their thoughts on Nikki Haley wit

Please share, rate, and review … Follow us on all social media platforms @dimesinthedozen   On this session of The Bird and The Bear … Our hosts, Sammy Ray and Daryl Lazer, continue their discussion about the Deep South with their reactions to the next two installments in a YouTube documentary series on the Deep South by Peter Santenello, “Inside Inner-City America - Breaking Hood Mindset” and “Exploring Wealthy Alabama” … Let’s sort through it together!   (0:00) - The session opens with some elite snack picks from our hosts before they introduce the first YouTube documentary they’ll be discussing, “Inside Inner-City America - Breaking Hood Mindset,” by Peter Santenello - “If you were raised right, you would realize that being an American means that you should you care about your f**king fellow man … So yeah, it is your responsibility to care about this community" (16:10) - A man named Tommy shows Peter Santenello around Jacksonville, Mississippi and as they walk through Tommy’s old neighborhood Pe

Please share, rate, and review … Follow us on all social media platforms @dimesinthedozen   On this session of The Bird and The Bear … Our hosts, Sammy Ray and Daryl Lazer, go wild with the variety as they talk signature scents, share their life updates from the past month, and react to the news of Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation and Donald Trump’s sneaker drop … Let’s sort through it together!   (0:00) - The session opens with Daryl telling us about his signature scent and it leads into a quick conversation about the origins of cologne - “It was called, ‘The Sweet Shop,’ and it was the coolest s**t I’d ever walked into … I felt like I was in a foreign land.” (15:13) - Daryl shares his life updates from the past month, starting with his trip to Utah and the drama that followed - “I think that learning to respect my own boundaries is going to push me in the direction of one of my New Year’s resolutions of respecting other peoples boundaries … Like, my extreme lack of boundaries means that some boundar

Please share, rate, and review … Follow us on all social media platforms @dimesinthedozen   On this week’s session of The Bird & The Bear … Our hosts, Sammy Ray and Daryl Lazer, recap the last four sessions they released in honor of Black History Month, talk interracial relationship with the help of F.D Signifiers video, “SWIRLCONOMICS (The truth about black people and interracial relationships), then they close out the show with some thoughts on Kanye West’s newest album … Shoutout to these YouTube creators for helping add context to the Kanye conversation … “unreviewable l” (theneedledrop), “The Fantano Vultures Review” (ShawnCeeLIVE), “When you can’t separate the art from the artist” (F.D Signifier)   (0:00) - Intro into the Black History Month recap starting with Session 75’s discussion on cultural appropriation and Session 76’s discussion on black representation in Anime - “We should call it, ‘The Bird Bear Black Flash.’” (13:27) - Daryl explains how he feels about  using the phrase “people o

Please share, rate, and review … Follow us on all social media platforms @dimesinthedozen   On this week’s session of The Bird & The Bear … Our hosts, Sammy Ray and Daryl Lazer discuss Super Bowl ads and the Deep South … The Deep South portion of their discussion is based off to two YouTube documentaries by Peter Santenello, “Deep South - First Impressions” and “Deep South’s Poorest Region - What’s It Like?”   (0:00) - The session opens with a short discussion about the Super Bowl that’s mostly focused on the weird “He Gets Us” ads that ran during the commercial breaks - “Money made off of selling crap s**t for your home … Period” (11:40) - Our hosts share their personal experiences with the south before introducing the first documentary they’ll be analyzing, “Deep South - First Impressions” by Peter Santenello - “M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I … I said that cause I wanted to know if I knew how to spell it correctly” (20:34) - The subject of the documentary, Booker T, starts to show some negative feeling

Please share, rate, and review … Follow us on all social media platforms @dimesinthedozen   On this week’s session of The Bird & The Bear … Sammy and Daryl discuss men’s health, bad Manosphere advice, and why it’s important to call out “Uncle Toms” … The latter half of this episode is based on a YouTube video by F.D Signifier, “This 20 Year old classic film might take your Black Card…”   (0:00) - The session opens with Daryl getting some bad news that sparks a conversation about the fragility of men’s health and how easily stress can age them - “But I don’t know too many, if any men that can successfully handle emotional or environmental change” (13:47) - Criticizing health advice from Manosphere influencers and how the Manoshpere ends up targeting young black men the most - “Liver King … More like liver cancer” (22:52) - Looking back at a Tik Tok trend that had white people wearing face paint during the George Floyd protests - “It took me a minute to realize I was looking at a face … I was like,

Please share, rate, and review … Follow us on all social media platforms @dimesinthedozen   On this week’s session of The Bird & The Bear … Sammy and Daryl are supplying the variety with a life update from both hosts, reactions to Tom MacDonald and Ben Shapiro’s new song, and a great conversation about black representation in Anime … Shoutout to these content creators on YouTube for providing the backing to our Anime discussion: “Is Anime Racist?” (ibz), “How To Do Black Representation in Anime” (Jet The Prophet), “Why Anime is for Black People - Hip Hop x Anime” (Beyond The Bot), and “Why Do Black People Love Anime?” Blxxk Anime … Let’s sort through it together   (0:00) - The session opens with our hosts sharing their life updates from the past month, starting with Sammy talking about the progress he’s made with his 2024 resolutions, seeing the film Iron Claw, the “do’s” and “don’ts” of drinking in public, and how excited he is to once again attend Thunderdome - “ALWAYS with the tired ass millenni

Please share, rate, and review … Follow us on all social media platforms @dimesinthedozen   On this week’s session of The Bird & The Bear … Sammy and Daryl breakdown the problem with white rappers … This conversation being based on two YouTube videos by F.D Signifier, ‘Eminem and the White Rapper Problem’ and ‘The REAL greatest white rapper of all time’ … Let’s sort through it together    (0:00) - Sammy and Daryl jump right into this session’s discussion on white rappers - “Basically, you cannot stop the inexorable advance of white colonialism on any culture” (6:00) - The problems with gatekeeping art - “So if you expect me to follow your formula, youre dated and youre wrong” (15:48) - The early history of white rappers in Hip-Hop - “My personal theory on how you get a Rappin’ Rodney…” (23:24) - Snow’s ‘Informant,’ Jim Carey’s time on the TV show ‘In Living Color,’ and the white Hip-Hop group, Young Black Teenagers - “Speaking of white people in black spaces…” (35:33) - Arsenio Hall questioning Va

Please share, rate, and review … Follow us on all social media platforms @dimesinthedozen   On this session of The Bird & The Bear … Sammy and Daryl discuss the latest updates on the 2024 presidential campaign, the discovery of a unmarked mass gravesite in Mississippi, and the “controversy” surrounding the new Lil Nas X song … Let’s sort through it together!   (0:00) - Sammy opens the show with a pitch for a new business venture - “It’s called … Cakes for Vivek” (4:59) - Sammy and Daryl discuss Donald Trump winning the Iowa Caucus and his removal from the ballot in Colorado and Maine - “Anytime you have that caliber of character that just is unrelentingly irreverent and ostentatious … You don’t know what’s gonna happen … He’s like the Flugtags” (20:30) - Sammy and Daryl discuss Ron DeSantis and what his loss in Iowa means for his campaign - “So to constantly simplify things to back to how people voted in 2016, or 2020, or whatever, isn’t gonna give you true metric of how people are looking at the Pr

(0:00) - Sammy and Daryl open the show with some quick life updates - “Thirty-fun as I like to call it” - (9:03) - Sammy and Daryl start their discussion on resolutions for 2024, beginning with Sammy’s personal resolutions - “I’m a very, ‘What about tomorrow?’ person” - (21:22) - Daryl runs through his entire list resolutions for 2024 - “You can’t be an almost 40 year old man saying this to me right now” - (39:56) - Sammy finishes his 2024 resolutions list with a few social resolutions and Daryl riffs off a few of Sammy’s ideas - “I freeze up … My activist heart, my bleeding liberal heart freezes up and I can’t make the decision” - (54:08) - Sammy and Daryl move the discussion into a conversation about their goals for 2024, starting with Sammy and Daryl’s fitness goals for the year - “I kinda want there to be a level of enjoyability that comes back to drinking” - (1:06:30) - Sammy moves to the next goal on his list which is about the podcast and what he’d like to accomplish with it in 2024 - “There’s dominos