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Podcast: Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill
Episode: 374: What's up with Freemasonry?
Description: The boys drink and review Anderson Valley Brewing Company's Winter Solstice Ale, then discuss Freemasonry.
How do you learn about a secret society without becoming a member? It's hard to know what to believe about them.
Still, P&C did their best to find the essential details.
Stone mason guilds started to have outsized political power and started to admit people who weren't stone masons. The organization grew in numbers and power, and was very influential in the founding of the United States.
They became closely associated with Englightenment thinking and...