Electing to Drink
Hosted by author + professor David Faris, produced by Good Beer Hunting, exploring progressive politics, personalities and policies over a guest’s favorite beer.
Hosted by author + professor David Faris, produced by Good Beer Hunting, exploring progressive politics, personalities and policies over a guest’s favorite beer.
David and Michael speak with University of Maryland political scientist Lilliana Mason, who drinks a Groove City Hefeweizen and shares her insights about political polarization in America. Did you know that the least informed voters are the ones most likely to be persuadable in an election? Did you know that Americans now fear their kids marrying someone from the opposite political party more than almost anything else? If you’re wondering how we got into this mess and maybe how we get out, this is your episode.
Special guest Dave Karpf talks about the tweet that drove New York Times columnist Bret Stephens off Twitter and ignited a national conversation about civility and bedbugs. We also talk about the responsibilities of fame, why a certain kind of white guy is so fragile, why Dave and David love Dogfish Head beers so intensely and how Michael won’t drink one if it’s warm.
An errant tweet from a Republican strategist forces Ashley, David & Michael to ask themselves whether they live in a cultural bubble of fussy craft beer and corner-window Peletons. Michael expounds on the great capitalist success story of craft brewing, David talks about the origins of the right-wing 'real America' discourse, Ashley shreds the so-called Bubble Quiz and everyone dunks on Patrick Ruffini.
Michael interviews David about the upcoming Democratic primary debates—two mind-numbing nights of 10-person cattle calls and desperate attempts to break through the huge field. Are such large debates unprecedented? Do they even matter? Is it bad for Elizabeth Warren that she's marooned with a bunch of also-rans on the first night while Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris get to take it right to frontrunner Joe Biden on the second night? We've got all your primary debate questions covered.
What would you do if you found yourself waiting on the man who was more responsible than any other civilian in America for starting the disastrous Iraq War? Michael and David join writer Luke O'Neil, who wrote a column for the Boston Globe in which he imagined pissing in Bill Kristol's salmon, then watched as he became the Fox News outrage du jour and a national target of right-wing rage. O'Neil's insane story raises important questions about journalism, civility and how we deal with monsters when we see them at the grocery store.
Joe Biden—is it inevitable? We explore the former VP's recent announcement that he'll be running for President in 2020 with Robyn Pennacchia, writer for Wonkette and early denizen of the the internet.
Robyn, who wrote a piece about Biden’s run, talks to David and Michael about why Biden's biggest selling point is attacking Trump and questions how the media seems to have forgotten about the slew of female politicians running for the top office. Robyn also definitively proves why she's been right about everything since the seventh grade while drinking Totally Roasted from Vander Mill Cider.
David and Michael have a very “confronting” conversation with writer Linda Tirado, who talks about what it's really like to be poor, shreds meritocracy, talks about how Chicago is more racist than Ferguson, and explains why you're both right and wrong about who Trump voters are.
Hosted by author + professor David Faris, produced by Good Beer Hunting, exploring progressive politics, personalities + policies over a guest’s favorite beer.
