Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill

The boys drink and review Jubelale from Deschutes brewery then discuss Candace Owens. Candace is a very intelligent, very articulate woman. She's the type who has done her homework and has her facts ready. She used to be with Prager U, Turning Point USA, and Daily Wire. She's testified before Congress. After the October 7 attacks on Israel the cracks started to show. She left the Daily Wire and started out on her own. Now she's relentlessly anti-Jew, anti-Israel. She seems to have gone conspiracy theory crazy. Some of them are disturbing, but one of them is just funny. Candace has taken up the story that Brigitte Macron is a man, which has caused international problems. If that was the extent of her conspiracy theorizing it would just be amusing. But now she seems to say that the Jews control everything, the moon landing was faked, and Turning Point USA was complicit in the death of Charlie Kirk. It's hard to parse it all out, but P&C give it a go. Join us for a deep dive into this fascinating topic. 📬 Send us your thoughts: [email protected] 🌐 More episodes: pigweedandcrowhill.com👍 Like, subscribe, and tell a friend

The boys drink and review Brother Joseph's Belgian-style Double Ale from Straight To Ale then discuss the war on beauty. Pigweed wonders why everything is so ugly. Older buildings -- even sewage plants -- were beautiful. They were built to lift the human spirit. Modern buildings are built to be hideous. Why? It's so cheap to make things beautiful these days. Why don't we? It's almost as if we're choosing ugliness. Even churches are ugly. What about a banana taped to the wall as "art"? That's not an aesthetic statement, it's a statement about standards and meaning. That is, that there is no meaning. The boys discuss the present reality of omnipresent ugliness and review its possible historical origins. Join us for a deep dive into this fascinating topic. 📬 Send us your thoughts: [email protected] 🌐 More episodes: pigweedandcrowhill.com👍 Like, subscribe, and tell a friend

The boys drink and review Sam Adams winter white ale, then smoke their pipes and discuss the origin and history of smoking. When you sit around the fire, you don't want the smoke coming your way. It's annoying. So who came up with the idea of intentionally breathing smoke into your lungs? People in Africa, the near east, and in China did smoke some cannibis-like weeds, but smoking really took off when Columbus brought tobacco from the new world. The whole world loved the stuff and tobacco became a key crop in the Americas. The boys discuss the interesting history of smoking. Join us for a deep dive into this fascinating topic. 📬 Send us your thoughts: [email protected] 🌐 More episodes: pigweedandcrowhill.com👍 Like, subscribe, and tell a friend

The boys drink and review a Kolsch from Sky Blue Brewing, then discuss the influence of an old sociology paper by Cloward and Piven. These 60s-era "intellectuals" lamented that not enough eligible people had signed up for welfare benefits. They proposed overwhelming the welfare system by deploying an army of activists and troublemakers to (1) get more people to sign up for benefits, and (2) riot, demonstrate, protest, and generally cause trouble. The goal was not to get more wealth to the poor, but to cause the welfare system to fail, create a crisis, and force the federal government to institute a new system. Their proposed "solution" was called "guaranteed minimum income," which is an idea so stupid you have to be an intellectual to believe in it. Their overall proposal seems to define the basic playbook of the left, which is to cause disorder and crisis, destroy the current system, and replace it with socialism. Cloward and Piven believed the only way for poor people to get their way is to riot, set fires, and cause trouble. Incremental change is not enough. There has to be a revolution. Join us for a deep dive into this fascinating topic. 📬 Send us your thoughts: [email protected] 🌐 More episodes: pigweedandcrowhill.com👍 Like, subscribe, and tell a friend

The boys drink and review two imperial stouts, then discuss the possible relationship between Tylenol and autism. RFK Jr. has announced a relationship between pregnant women taking Tylenol and autism in their children. There is some evidence for that claim, but there are a lot of confounding issues as well. Is autism really on the rise? It seems so, but some people say it's just that we're detecting it better these days -- although that doesn't seem to account for the severe cases, which are also supposed to be on the rise. If it is on the rise, why? Is it something we're eating, something we're injecting into our bodies, or maybe the way we're cooking? What do we do with all the anecdotal evidence from parents that their child's autism came on suddenly? It seems as if the health establishment is not taking this as seriously as they ought to be. 📬 Send us your thoughts: [email protected] 🌐 More episodes: pigweedandcrowhill.com👍 Like, subscribe, and tell a friend