Bird Road Podcast

Bienvenido.

Our live show coming to you from Union Beer Store in Little

Havana covers all the biggest challenges facing the Magic City and the villains

perpetuating them.

Billy Corben (director

of “Cocaine Cowboys”, “The U”, “Square Grouper”) illuminates the weak spots in

our local and statewide governance, and explains how the same goons, who keep

getting elected over and over, continue stealing and grifting.

Then, Nucleus Shelton

(AFL-CIO) dives into the plight of the worker in Miami, and tells us how

right-to-work laws make it so difficult to organize and bargain collectively. But

there are some ways to come together for better labor outcomes, and he’s got

some advice.

Don’t forget to subscribe, rate and review to the show,

Piecing It Together, and Entre Dos.

Big thanks to the team at Union Beer Store for booking us.

The music in this episode was brought to you by David Rosen.

A/V work to make the episode happen was done by Justin

Azpiazu.

Photography of the show was done by Josue Brizuela.

And folks, please don’t ever forget: Joe

Carollo beat his wife.

Hope ya’ll like dudes talking True Detective. If you’re in Miami, come check out our show at Union Beer Store in Little Havana at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 21. We’ll have guests including Billy Corben, Nucleus Shelton and more.

Be sure to subscribe, rate and review.

Music by David Rosen.

A powerhouse work of investigative journalism leads to another scandal in a southern state. PBS and ProPublica tell the story.

Well it’s been a really stupid week, and we went a little long on this one but don’t act like you don’t love it and lap up every second of it. We’re back on the “Do I Have To”-thing and we’re talking about good hip-hop in an era of bad hip-hop, and White Anderson’s charming 2018 animated feature, “I Love Dogs (And Casting White People)”.

They’re both great!

It took me nearly 78 man-hours to make this episode happen. It’s a veritable feat of ingenuity. We talked about this State of the Union, and True Detective, and Jewish Dave’s creative process.

We talk about how there’s no correct Venezuela take and all the soon-to-be presidential also-rans throwing their lame hats into the ring. James joins us to talk about the government shutdown, media, walls, and other things.

Music in this episode is by David Rosen.

We talk about heroes in the struggle for civil rights who were unfairly vilified in their time like Martin Luther King Jr., Muhammad Ali, and the creepy weird douche in the MAGA hat video with the Native American guy. Unrelated, we go deeper than you’d probably like on our own personal Mandela Effects. There’s some stray video game talk but don’t worry, it wasn’t for long.  I put an end to that noise because I’m in charge bay-bee.

We have a live show coming up! Thursday, February 21, Union Beer Store, Miami, Florida, in the heart of Little Havana. Be there. Free entry. 

GTFOOOOOOOOOOOOutta Latin America, and pay yo’ f*ck’n bills. That’s a start. We explore bipartisan solutions that, like every bipartisan solution, don’t work and acquiesce to our worst nature. We also talked about R. Kelly and being fat.

We forgot to mention it on the show, but here’s the official weigh-in:

Jewish Dave: 246 lbs

Q: 274 lbs

Our next live show will be Thursday, Feb. 21 at Union Beer Store in Miami. We’ll see who lost a greater percentage of their body mass during that event. Loser has to do the show in a Miami Heat jersey and eat a bowl of pasta.

This could very well be our last episode before the end of 2018, or it might not be. One or the other. We talk about the manufactured outrage aimed at manufactured outrage that probably doesn’t even exists. Jewish Dave fiddles around with a cat for most of the episode. Q is funny but you can tell he’s thinking about more important things. 

About 38 minutes into this episode I sent Jewish Dave a DM of a meme that makes us laugh for most of the rest of the episode and I’m not going to tell you what I sent him. It’s like the end of Lost in Translation. You’re going to need to embrace the mystery of what it could be, and appreciate the inherent romance contained within the fact that knowing what I sent him would only cheapen the content of what was sent. This is how art works.

So, the election is (mostly) over, and here’s the takes:

* The House is blue. The Senate is red. The country is still f*cked. 

* Nevada has fully embraced centrist Democrats and it beats the alternative. 

* Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) is going to be a Senator and all she had to do was take horrible positions on every issue. 

* Florida voters bloc decided that felons should be able to vote, greyhound racing is wrong, offshore drilling is bad, and Republicans Ron DeSantis and Rick Scott best represent their interests. So you can either believe, a.) Floridians en masse are capable of making nuanced, complex, thoughtful decisions that thread the needle between issues and candidates and appear to be inherently in conflict, or, b.) Republicans cheated. 

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Music in this episode is by David Rosen.