Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill

Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill


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304: Out of date advertising
February 09, 2023

The boys drink and review a chai latte stout from Schlafly, then discuss out of dates ads. You've probably seen the headlines. The basic concept is "ads that are not acceptable today." But why are they unacceptable? In some cases, the old ad i

303 Rights. What are they, and where do they come from?
February 09, 2023

The boys drink and review Stone's Delicious Double IPA, then discuss rights. What is a right? We hear it all the time, but when do we stop to think about it, what does it really mean? Do rights depend on someone granting us a right, or do we h

302: Skills we wish we had
February 07, 2023

The boys drink and review Delicious IPA from Stone, then discuss skills they wish they had learned. Everybody has to make choices about how they spend their time, and some skills require a lot of work to acquire. Pigweed and Crowhill talk about thin

301: Homelessness, "housing first," and common sense
February 01, 2023

The boys drink and review Kostritzer Schwarzbier, then discuss homelessness. When we talk about "the homeless," we have to make some distinctions. Some people with no home have a job, a car, and are making do ... they just don't have a place to live

300: We're on the brink of an AI revolution
January 26, 2023

The boys drink and review Erdinger's Weissbier Dunkel, then discuss developments in artificial intelligence. Our first experiences with artificial intelligence were things like "playing the computer" on the Atari, or spellchecker. Checking grammar i

299: This month in woke with John Wayne Jew
January 22, 2023

The boys drink and review Pigweed's latest robust porter, then welcome John Wayne Jew to the show to help review "this month in woke." We're seeing university struggle sessions where if any of the students disagree with a teacher's liberal agenda, t

298: Vegetarianism
January 22, 2023

With special guest Longinus (a vegetarian), the boys drink and review a small beer, following a recipe from George Washington, then discuss vegetarianism. Sometimes vegetarianism is inspired by religious beliefs, and sometimes by secular ethics and

297 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life ..."
January 18, 2023

Along with special guest Longinus, the boys drink and review Beam Me up, Stouty (a coconut stout) from Saugatuck Brewing, then discuss "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich." The story is not about an escape, or an unusual day, or how something dr

296: A review of 2022
January 11, 2023

The boys drink and review Chimay Grand Reserve, then discuss the big stories of 2022. Top stories included: * Republicans take the House * Musk buys Twitter* The World Cup * Pro-democracy protests in Iran * Hurricanes Sophia

295: Affordable housing
January 11, 2023

The boys drink and review Glacial Drift, a spiced winter ale from Heavy Seas, then discuss housing, and why the prices are so high. What factors have caused home prices to go so high? And how do regular families afford these McMansions? It seems the

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