Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill

Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill


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354: Game theory
September 06, 2023

The boys drink and review Partake IPA, a no-alcohol beer, then discuss game theory. Game theory is an attempt to express the calculations that go on in a game as mathematics. It makes certain assumptions. 1. The game has to include multiple players 2

353: Cracks in the intersectional coalition
August 31, 2023

The boys drink and review a non-alcoholic black ale from Hairless Dog, then discuss cracks in the intersectional coalition. When the Democrats abandoned the working class as their primary consituency, they decided to try to create a coalition out of all

352: Pigweed quizzes Crowhill on the Bible
August 31, 2023

352 Pigweed quizzes Crowhill on the Bible The boys drink and review Penn's Best NA, then discuss non-alcoholic beers. How they're made, why anyone would want them, etc. Then Pigweed tries to stump Crowhill on some Bible trivia. Starting with th

351: The Manhattan Project and Oppenheimer
August 22, 2023

The boys drink and review Sam Adams' Wicked Easy Light and Hazy Session IPA, then discuss the Manhatten Project and the recent film, Oppenheimer. In 1938 some German physicists discovered nuclear fision, which could potentially become a chain reactio

350: P&C were right again, of course
August 11, 2023

The boys drink and review Guinness and port, then discuss some show updates. The boys suggested that if we rush into electric vehicles to make the world safer and better for the environment, perhaps we should ensure that EVs will do that. Of course they

349: The hard problem of consciousness
August 10, 2023

P&C review a Rye Pale Ale from Seven Locks Brewing, then discuss consciousness. Why does the brain produce the subjective experience of consciousness? Physical things have mass, energy, electric charge, etc., but we don't typically associate such

348: The Suburbs - their history and present relevance
August 03, 2023

With special guest Longinus, the boys drink and review Everyday Amber, then discuss the development, history, and significance of the suburbs. Crowhill mentions his conflict between his preference for free-market solutions, and the reality that some lev

347: 5 short stories from John Cheever
August 02, 2023

With special guest Longinus, the boys drink and review Citrus Squall double golden ale from Dogfish Head brewery, then discuss several short stories by John Cheever. "The Chaste Clarissa" is about a young married woman who vacations on Martha&#

346: Canada sucks!
July 29, 2023

The boys drink and review three malt liquors, then discuss Canada. It's a beautiful place with very nice people, but politically it's the worst country in the western world. Aside from Canada ruining our weather in Maryland with their forest fir

345 Vivek Ramaswamy for President
July 25, 2023

The boys drink and review 41 Year Lapse American Pale Ale from Mobtown Brewery then discuss the presidential campaign of Vivek Ramaswamy. Vivek is a 2nd generation Indian with an impressive record of educational, personal, and professional accomplishment

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