HeyJaredBeer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill
You like beer, and you like conversation, right? Of course you do. Pigweed and Crowhill review a beer (sometimes their own homebrews) and discuss issues of the day. They try to break down serious issues into bite-sized chunks, and add some humor when possible.
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9/11, 25 Years Later: Have We Learned Anything? (ep. 646) (opens the original)
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Twenty-five years after 9/11, Pigweed and Crowhill look back at the attacks, where they were when they happened, and what America did in response.They revisit the confusion and fear of that day, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, expanded government surveillance, immigration, and America's complicated relationship with Islam. They also ask why, a quarter-century later, alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed still hasn't been tried.What
Did the CIA Give Us Gangster Rap? (ep 644) (opens the original)
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For the first time in decades, rap has disappeared from the top of the charts while country music is surging. Has rap simply exhausted itself—or is something bigger going on?Pigweed and Crowhill trace rap's evolution from the relatively harmless early days of hip-hop to gangster rap and increasingly explicit music, and compare its treatment of sex, crime, rebellion, and regret with rock and outlaw country. Why does Johnny Cash shoot a man in Reno and end up regretting his life, while gangster ra
A Republic, If You Can Keep It: The Fragility of Democracy (ep 643) (opens the original)
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We tend to think of democracy as the natural state of a modern society. But what if it's actually a historical anomaly that depends on a surprisingly fragile set of conditions?In this episode, Pigweed and Crowhill discuss what makes democratic government possible in the first place: trust, civic virtue, respect for the rule of law, acceptance of political defeat, shared cultural assumptions, and responsible government. From the American founders' warnings about democracy to tribalism, immigratio
The Lone Juror: One Man Against Eleven (ep 645) (opens the original)
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The Lindsay Clancy trial ended with a hung jury after one juror refused to join the other eleven in voting for acquittal. And then things got really interesting.Pigweed and Crowhill discuss the remarkable reaction to the holdout juror, the outrage that he wouldn’t go along with the majority, the revelation that he was a black man, and the media’s efforts to identify him and dig into his personal life. What does it say about our jury system if jurors know they may be publicly exposed and investig
Giants: From the Nephilim to the Giant of Kandahar (ep. 642) (opens the original)
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Giants are everywhere. They appear in fairy tales and mythology, in the Bible, in ancient legends, and even in modern stories from Afghanistan.Why are stories about giants so common? Crowhill, Longinus, and Pigweed explore the Nephilim of Genesis, Goliath and the giants of Canaan, the famous Cardiff Giant hoax, and the bizarre modern legend of the Giant of Kandahar.Then they ask a more practical question: Could a 12- or 15-foot human actually exist? The square-cube law suggests there are some se
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