Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill
Society & Culture
P&C drink and review Hell or High Watermelon from 21st Amendment Brewery, then, with special guest Longinus, discuss the cost of professional sports.
Why are we, in the words of Pigweed, willing to spend so much money to watch grown men play children’s games?
But that’s not to the point. The boys are focused on the cost of a baseball or football game. Why has it increased so much? Is it worth it?
From 1970 to the present – in today’s dollars – the cost for a family of four to attend a baseball game is about 4x. Who pays this, and why?
Along with this increase in prices, we have an increase in coverage. When Pigweed was a lad, there was one, one-hour show on sports. Now, we have several 24x7 sports stations talking about sports all year long.
There’s also the moral question. In a world that can’t decide what a woman is, sports provides some clear guidelines. The player is either in or out. The ball is in the strike zone or it’s not.
Another angle – people can’t sit quietly with their own thoughts. They need a distraction. Every bar and restaurant has constant sports.
Is sports filling a hole left by the lack of religion, or community? Also, to what extent is this a public question? Is it in the local government’s interest to get people involved in local sports?
244: Gun control, the second amendment and SCOTUS
243: WeWork -- The rise and fall of the cult-like office sharing business
242: Abortion, Dobbs, Roe, etc., Part 2
241: Abortion, Roe, Casey, and Dobbs. The history of abortion in America and how SCOTUS has intervened
240: Political polarization in America. What is causing the political divisions in our country today?
239: Hell and Satan. Their origins and history. Where did we get the idea of Hell, and how has it developed over time?
238: Changes in the restaurant industry. The boys review changes from Covid, from technology, and things they don't like about restaurants
237: Matt Walsh, transgenderism, walruses and women. Walsh is standing against the looney left saying "stop." P&C love it.
236: Air conditioning. Some history of climate control and how it changed America
235: The Great Gatsby. The boys review F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous classic work
234: The public education system. P&C review the failures of the system and discuss alternatives
233: Cultural literacy - what is it, and does it matter? What does cultural literacy mean in a multi-cultural society?
232: "Man of the week," pronouns, etc. The boys discuss woke efforts to get rid of "man" as the description of the species, and the narcissism of pronouns.
231: Florida, casual dress, bikinis and Florida Man. The sunshine state is an odd mix of wonderful and redneck.
230: Las Vegas -- the glitzy city in the desert. Where did this crazy town come from and how did it develop?
229: Herman Melville's Billy Budd. In another edition of P&C's "shortcut to the classics," the boys review a classic moral tale
228: The intersectional coalition and the Democratic Party. It's as if people are vying to be more of a victim than others. Is that a sound political base?
227: The jury system. When did juries start, and what is their function?
226: Five topics in Five Minutes - May 2022. Cringe comedy, earring boy, anti-intellectualism, Lee Greenwood, and mandatory breathalyzers in cars
225: Nooze and Booze: Elon Musk Buys Twitter. The right rejoices while the left melts down. What's all the fuss about?
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