Is the U.S. in a civil war?

P&C drink and review the Yuengling / Hershey chocolate porter, then discuss why some people think we’re having a civil war right now.

Civil wars don’t always entail big armies in uniforms on opposite sides of a field. Rather, it has more to do with the legitimacy of the government, and that does seem to be under attack.

Is the United States a great country that needs to be preserved, or an evil country that needs to be “fundamentally transformed”? 1619 project, call your office.

The boys discuss the signs that there is something like a civil war brewing.

The show ends with P&C predictions for the upcoming presidential election.

Hunter Biden’s laptop — Nooze and Booze from P&C

Hunter Biden’s laptop seems to have been hanging out in a Delaware computer repair shop for a long time, and the data on it was recently given to (it seems) the FBI, Rudy Giuliani, and the New York Post. The material, if accurate, is very damning.

The media (covering for Joe Biden) has refused to cover the story, and social media is canceling anyone who dares to repeat the info.

P&C drink “Apple Pie Moonshine” and discuss.

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Faith didn’t work and science didn’t work. Now what?

P&C drink and review Pigweed’s homebrewed Russian Imperial Stout.

With special guest Longinus, P&C continue their “shortcut to the classics” series with a review of Albert Camus’ “The Stranger.”

What’s the message of the book? What can we learn from it today?

It’s considered an existentialist novel. What does that mean?

Was Meursault a psychopath? On the Asperger’s spectrum? What’s up with this strange fellow?

Free speech!

P&C drink and review an Octoberfest beer, then talk about restrictions on free speech.

The First Amendment limits the government’s ability to regulate speech. But can other people limit speech? And what speech is in view — only political speech, or all speech?

In the past, the government was a legit threat to free speech. Today, the woke mob, the spineless companies that bow to the woke mob, and the tech titans are the big dangers to free speech.

Is free speech a general value that we want reflected in all of society, or are we only worried about the government?

“You have the freedom to say anything you like, but there can still be consequences.” Is that what we want?

The woke mob may like the power they wield now, but what if the tide shifts and some other ideology has the power to destroy people because they don’t comply?