This week we recorded our episode on site at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival with Byron Miller, proprietor of Broomhilde, where you can get handmade brooms, walking sticks, and wands. We talked with Byron about getting into arguments on the internet. Specifically, we talked about what we will argue about and what arguments we choose to avoid. When Byron got a crack at our five questions, we were able to talk about Guardians of the Galaxy again!
Show notes below the fold
In case you haven’t seen it before, here is a link to the XKCD comic about arguing on the internet.
Because Tim talked about box office performance, here’s information on how Guardians of the Galaxy has been doing at the box office.
At 4:50, is that Geoffrey bellowing at the top of his lungs?
It totally is, yeah. The telltale Dreg cowbell is there, as well.
Topics I don’t argue:
1) Guns – the ‘real’ answer is that everybody should have the right to own a gun, but because of less crime and increased safety nobody should ever feel the need to.
2) Abortion – the ‘real’ answer is that every woman should have the right to a safe abortion, but because of available contraception and increased female safety, education, and empowerment no woman should ever find herself in the position to need one.
3) Israel-Palestine – even I don’t have a glib answer for this one.