Bird Road Podcast

Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. We talked with journalist PJ Perez, the director behind Parkway of Broken Dreams, a retrospective on the culture created along Las Vegas’ Maryland Parkway in the 1990s — a scene that birthed this very podcast. 

After a deep dive into the unique coffee-stained ’90s weirdness that spawned his idea for the documentary, we took a stroll down memory lane in a rousing game of Defunct Vegas Venue Trivia, testing PJ’s memory and mettle as a Sin City music-venue-knower. 

Visit parkwayofbrokendreams.com to find out where and when you can catch the doc, and follow PJ on Twitter @PJPerez.

Does your senior healthcare system hang low? Does it wobble to-and-fro? Can you tie it in a knot? If you died would anyone know? 

We discussed the bleak landscape of the future of healthcare through the lens of two apps aimed at helping old folks and mental health, all watched over by machines of loving grace. Papa is an app that erases your guilt about being a shitty son or daughter in the throes of late capitalism, and Brave is an app that improves your mental health by letting you complain to a robot about Brenda from accounting who thinks she’s soooo great but somehow is still single. Maybe look at yourself, Brenda. Maybe take a good long look in the mirror and ask yourself why you’re still single and pushing 35. 

It’s Election Day across and a disinterested nation yawns! In a Just Dem Boyz episode, the fellas go deep on how little there is to actually vote for in places like New Jersey, Virginia, and right here in the city of Miami. Then, we discuss the Satanic infusions of Luciferase in our vaccine supplies. Read the last book of the New Testament to see how this ends! 

The main crux of this episode deals with the so-called Facebook Papers, the kabuki theater it represents, and whether it is feasible for people to drop the social network and salt the ground that birthed it. 

Chance the Rapper voice: “And we back, and we back, and we back (AH! AH! AH!)”

After an extended late-summer/early-fall hiatus, we’re back with a new season of Bird Road and we are coming out of the gates hot with our guest Jen Perelman of JENerational Change. We are talking all things from Noam Chomsky to COVID recovery to Ron DeSantis to meth lab real estate. 

Follow Jen on Twitter at @JENFL23 and on her site at jenerationalchange.com.

We recorded this like one hour before Andrew Cuomo resigned but we probably wouldn’t have done anything differently anyway. Don’t come to us for Andrew Cuomo takes. 

We went into the other news of the day, including COVID, mask mandates, the IPCC report, Proud Boys culture and your own righteous anger. 

Here comes the new August. Same as the old August. Q and Jewish Dave clear the cache of pent up frustrations surrounding our collective inability to repel a very basic and easily understood virus. 

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Disfrutalo.

You can find Juliá Macías Tovar’s thread about the Twitter astroturf campaign for #SOSCuba here. 

*** You can donate to the victims of the Surfside Champlain Towers disaster at supportsurfside.org.***

We caught up with Maria Guido from The Worst Week Yet Podcast to talk about Juvenile Justice reform and Ron DeSantis’ capricious (or more likely malicious) veto of a bill that would have expunged the records of youth offenders, despite the bill’s unanimous support among Tallahassee Democrats and Republicans. She lends her expertise as a social worker in the realm of Juvenile Justice to explain the challenges facing kids who run afoul of the law. 

Later, we started feeling those vibes, yo. Which vibes? Oh, you know which vibes. It’s Bistro Vibes my man. Join us.

Then, stick around to the end of the episode and learn about the free speech journey of the MILF Mobile.

Follow Maria on Twitter @sandernista412. Check out The Worst Week Yet on Twitter @WorstWeekYet and worstweekyet.com. 

Florida Politics – Gov. DeSantis vetoes juvenile arrest expunction bill: https://floridapolitics.com/archives/438562-gov-desantis-vetoes-juvenile-arrest-expunction-bill/ 

GQ.com – Introducing Bistro Vibes: https://www.gq.com/story/introducing-bistro-vibes

The Intercept – MILF Mobile: https://theintercept.com/2021/07/04/milf-mobile-maine-free-speech/

*** You can donate to the victims of the Surfside Champlain Towers disaster at supportsurfside.org.***

Q & Jewish Dave sat down for an hour with the fellas from Red Tide Radio to go over a whole host of news items, and to try to have a bit of fun on a dour week marked by the tragedy of what could end up being a large loss of life in the Surfside Champlain Towers disaster. We talk about Miami-Dade’s fetish for development at all cost, and how that ravenous pursuit of profits translates to worse living conditions for our citizens.

Then we got into a recent Bloomberg piece about the value of young people working extra hours for free, and how their sweat and blood greases the same great wheel that breaks their backs.

We finish up with a rousing game of “Republican, or just a Florida Democrat?” which Thomas, frankly, dominated. 

Check out Gerry and Thomas on Red Tide Radio on Youtube: 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbzQLM59unB1smJd_dnKm2A

And on Soundcloud.

Follow Thomas on Twitter @tomaskenn and follow Gerry at @tostonesoprano.