Month: November 2021

An old friend and podcast fan answers some of P&C’s questions

P&C drink and review Manor Hill brewing’s Amber Ale, then discuss Judaism.

Special guest JR reacts to questions about the first commandment, Jews as the chosen people, proselytizing, whether Jews believe in an afterlife, and what Jews think of Jesus.

They cover the divisions in Judaism: Orthodox, conservative, reformed, etc, and ask why so many Jews are liberal, when it seems it’s the conservatives who are more pro-Israel?

JR addresses the role of Israel in modern Judaism. Plus a lot more.

Why are comic book superheroes so popular?

P&C drink and review Crowhill’s Christmas ale, then discuss comic books.

The boys review their own personal experience with comics, then discuss modern issues with comic books, and movies based on comics.

Is this another example of extended childhood? Or are these superhero movies fulfilling some deep psychological need?

Also, the woke are ruining this too.

Finally, a true dog whistle.

P&C drink and review Southern Tier Nitro Coconut Truffle, then discuss the “Let’s Go Brandon” story.

The “Let’s Go Brandon” chant should have been a 2-day thing. Brandon Brown won his first NASCAR race. Kelli Stavast hears the crowd chanting “F Joe Biden,” and interprets it as “Let’s Go Brandon.” It’s funny and silly, and that should have been that.

But then, people who have a bone to pick with Joe Biden started picking it up as a less crude way of making their disappointment known.

The boys open the mail bag and answer some interesting questions.

Pigweed and Crowhill drink and review Bell’s Amber Ale, then go through reader comments.

They start with an update on The Flashman Incident and a review of indulgences and the crusades.

One listener called the boys out on camping, and another corrected a mistake in the Frankenstein episode.

A listener asks if there’s a racial component to Night of the Living Dead? EricEatsBrains laid a huge philosophical question on the boys, and then MarshaMarshaMarsha asked if P&C support the ERA.

P&C try to field these and several other tough reader questions.

Does the federal government have the authority to mandate the vaccine?

P&C drink and review Pigweed’s winter warmer beer, then discuss the vaccine mandates.

The federal government can tell federal workers what to do. Where do they get the right to tell private employees what to do?

This same cast of characters just recently told us they had no authority to issue a mandate, and had no intention to. Now they’re issuing a mandate. What gives?

It seems as if the government is always moving the goal posts. What we said yesterday was Gospel, which contradicts what we say today, which is also Gospel, and you’d better get in line or we’ll cancel you.

P&C address other questions, such as …

• Is Covid like smallpox?
• Is Covid an emergency?
• Does an emergency justify any proposed action?
• Will the mandate create a bigger problem than it’s intended to solve?

It seems that we now have a professional / government / “expert” class that despises the general population. Or … have we always had that, and they’re only now saying it out loud?

Is it okay for parents to scare their children straight?

P&C review Crowhill’s Kentucky Common, then discuss Wrinkles the Clown.

Parents have been heard to say, “We don’t spank, we use the discipline clown.”

E.g., “You’d better be good, or I’ll call Wrinkles.”

“Hello, Wrinkles,” [child wailing in the background], “I have some very bad children here.”

The story of Wrinkles is very interesting, and more complicated than you might think. What should we think of a clown designed to scare children?

As Democrats go down in flames, what should we learn?

Democrats suffer surprising losses in Virginia and several other off-cycle elections. It seems to be a pretty clear repudiation of Biden and the ultra-left focus of the Democrats.

In Virginia, McAuliffe insulted parents repeatedly, and tried to make the campaign about Trump. Youngkin walked a careful path, neither endorsing Trump nor alienating Trump supporters.

Parents in Virginia punched back against the lies they’ve been repeatedly told, and repudiated the “your children belong to us” attitude of McAuliffe and the Democrats.

P&C drink a Jungle Bird cocktail and discuss the results.