Is emotion at the heart of ethics?

We tend to like to break things down into rational bits to make them more easily digestible, but when we started looking at the reasoning behind ethics, it seems to be all about whether or not something makes us feel good. Listen for more details.

If it’s better to have freedom, then why do we continually limit each other?

In this episode, we explore what it means to have freedom and what it means to restrict it.

So crisis actors are a real thing with a useful purpose, but what about their use in conspiracy theories?

In this episode, we touch a little bit on where the term crisis actors comes from and how these actors are traditionally employed, but quickly we get into the juicy bits about how this term came to be associated with conspiracy theories and the “evidence” being presented by random ass blogs on the internet.

As per tradition, here is a reading of the Declaration of Independence to remind us what today is all about.

Enjoy. Drink Responsibly. Stay Safe.

Let’s get the full story leading up to Washington’s classic glasses line.

Mike has told the story before of when George Washington quelled a rebellion by taking off his glasses, but in this episode, in classic Independence Day pub stories tradition, we explore the events leading up to the scene that has now become known as the Newburgh Conspiracy.

Where did the opioid crisis start and what is there to be done to fix it?

In this episode, we discuss the origins of the over prescription of opioids, its development as an epidemic and what can be done to resolve the opioid crisis.

But what ever happened to…

So it’s one thing to follow what’s happening on the internets now, but what about all the shit that came before it? In this episode, we reminisce about how far the internet has come and all the places we had a presence that we really hope don’t  exist anymore.

How old is civilization, really?

Do this guy named Graham Hancock has some unusual ideas about hoenold society is and our frequent guest Blayne is here to tell us about them.

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Judge Roy Bean Coffee Stout – Fairhope Brewing Company, Fairhope, AL

Transgender

This week on SPP we discuss the entire range of ways people identify their gender that fall under the umbrella term, transgender. Does gender really have a place in modern society, if so what is it, and if not what will have to change?

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What does it mean to be a Feminist?

Ok, not going to lie… we botched this one. In a spectacular communication error, what we wanted to do was a show on masculinity, feminity, and transgender. What we got was a show on masculinity, feminism, and transgender. So being SPP, we decided to roll with it. So check out this out of place show on feminism and see if you can hear the confusion in Mike and John’s voice as they try to figure out what is going wrong. Feminism symbol[/caption]

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