The Bird & The Bear - Session 60 - "Wildfires"

Published: Sept. 21, 2023, 9 a.m.

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(0:00) - The boys open the show with some light hearted banter and life updates, \\u201cHope yawl had a great 9/11\\u201d - (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\\xa0

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(27:27) - The boys begin their discussion on wildfires, \\u201cHow serious it gets, and how fast it gets serious, and how quickly you have no f**king control over it\\u201d - (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\\u2019s evacuation plan and what the possible solutions might be, \\u201cIf Jim Bob has a Ford f**kin F250, and he just wants to escape \\u2026 No, that\\u2019s a tool\\u201d - (49:02) - Sammy tells a couple more survivors stories of the haunting images they returned to in the aftermath of the Camp Fire, \\u201cWith the wheelchair, there\\u2019s two ways you can go with it \\u2026 You can go sad, or you can go, this motherf**ker went out fighting\\u201d - (53:16) - The boys discuss what\\xa0 kind of penalties should be placed on power companies who start wildfires, \\u201cFix it as it breaks!? Break is disaster, break is catastrophic\\u201d - (1:01:31) - The boys discuss why we need to nationalize power companies, \\u201cAnd you\\u2019re not saying how na\\xefve, you\\u2019re saying the level of na\\xefvet\\xe9 and I love that\\u201d

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(1:08:27) - The boys move into the final part of their wildfires conversation with a discussion about the recent Maui fires, \\u201cMy jaw was on the f**king floor researching for this topic\\u201d - (1:12:27) - The boys debate if Maui\\u2019s public safety officials were right to not use the island\\u2019s emergency alert system, \\u201cA tsunami is not going to happen as fast as a fire can be on top of you\\u201d - (1:20:11) - The boys struggle to understand why power companies won\\u2019t 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, \\u201cTheir criming us for thinking, dude\\u201d - (1:30:37) - The boys dissect the \\u201cmissing children\\u201d conspiracy, \\u201cWhere are the children? They\\u2019re probably with their parents\\u201d\\xa0

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