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Podcast: Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill
Episode: 454: Columbus Day vs. Indigenous People's Day
Description: The boys drink a shandy and talk about Indigenous People's Day.
Pigweed suggests various ways to celebrate the holiday, observing some of the customs of the indigenous people.
The boys review some of the negative aspects of indigenous cultures -- such as human sacrifice -- and point out how silly it is to measure people in the past by modern moral standards. If we're going to hold Columbus to modern standards, why not the indigenous people too?
Columbus had his faults, but he also brought about an incredible sequence of events that led...