The Bird & The Bear - Session 87 - "Operation Paperbird: Two In The Coup"

Dimes In The Dozen

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 defending the ideals of America, you can do anything you want … But, if the ideals you hold determine what you defend, you’re severely limited.”

(30:21) - The CIA’s operations from the late 1950’s to the Church Commission in 1975 - “The CIA makes for history’s greatest fall man.”

(37:49) - The CIA post 9/11 - “The real power is in the authority to do s**t without presidential or congressional oversight.”

(42:22) - Is the CIA a terrorist organization? - “You terrorize them with explosions, and discourse, and chaos.”

(50:21) - Does America need the CIA? - “Most people don’t want to be a part of any one of the organizations that has the track record that we do.”

(1:00:06) - How the actions of the CIA mirror lore in the Fallout universe - “No one really wants to destroy the f**king world … Then the capitalism ends, baby.”

(1:13:18) - Reacting to YouTubers, Boy Boy, sneaking into a CIA base in Australia - “I did not f**king know that America pulled what is essentially a coup on Australia.”

(1:22:47) - Boy Boy’s attempts to sneak into the CIA base known as Pine Gap - “Just all of sudden black bags and bands … That kid still has a SIM card in his butt.”

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