Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill
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274: Happy Yorktown Day!
P&C review Kentucky Pumpkin Barrel Ale, then discuss the annual celebration of Yorktown Day. Why do we celebrate the day that we declared our independence rather than the day we actually won it? The boys review the history leading up to th
273: Why male employment matters
The boys drink and review Pigweed's D.C. Bro, an attempt to clone D.C. Brau's India Pale Ale. Then they discuss male employment. Does it matter if men are unemployed? P&C say yes, it matters. In fact, it's a serious problem, and our culture is n
272: The Vodka Challenge
The boys take a break from beer and do The Vodka Challenge, in which they do a blind taste test between Titos, Skol, Smirnoff, and a mystery vodka. They start off with a general discussion of vodka -- what it is, what it's made from, how it's made,
271: Friedrich Nietzsche and his provocative ideas
With special guest Longinus, P&C drink and review Warsteiner Dunkel, then discuss the philosophy of Nietzsche. He's famous for his declaration of the death of God -- which is not the smirky, triumphalist statement of a modern atheist, but a lame
270: Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis
In this latest edition of "shortcut to the classics," the boys review Czechvar Lager, then review The Metamorphosis. Special guest Longinus joins the show to contribute his literary expertise. After a very brief biography of Kafka, the boys re
269: Suburban preppers - How much is too much?
The boys drink and review Yeungling's Porter, then discuss disaster preparation. What's responsible and what's over the top? What would it take to be ready for a big snow storm, or a 3-day power outage? What if it's 2 weeks? Or 2 months? What
268: The male Canadian teacher with the huge pretend boobs
In this mini-episode, the boys discuss the case of the Canadian shop teacher who decides to dress in an outrageous costume that parodies women. You may have seen the photos of the male school teacher wearing enormous prosthetic boobs. Is this
267: ESG policies are a new form of totalitarianism
The boys drink and review Copper Legend from Jack's Abby, then discuss ESG. ESG stands for Environmental, Social, and Governance. It's a way to rank companies by their compliance with left-wing social goals. People have every right to invest i
266: California and crazy energy policies
The boys drink and review The Troegenator by Troegs brewing, and then discuss our non-sensical energy policies. In the same week California announced that all new cars in California could not be powered by gasoline after 2035, they announced the gri
265: Howard Zinn and his commie take on American history
P&C drink and review Sunny Little Thing from Sierra Nevada, then discuss Howard Zinn and his partisan "history" books. Zinn was a 60s leftist and one-time communist who wrote a "people's history" of the United States, which has become way too in