{"id":7977,"date":"2015-02-05T17:58:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T22:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=7977"},"modified":"2015-02-05T17:58:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T22:58:09","slug":"anarchy-regicide-beer-another-brian-wilson-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/05\/anarchy-regicide-beer-another-brian-wilson-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Anarchy, Regicide, &#038; Beer: Another Brian Wilson Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianwilson.net\">B<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Flying-Dog-Raging-Bitch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7980\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Flying-Dog-Raging-Bitch.jpg\" alt=\"Flying-Dog-Raging-Bitch\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Flying-Dog-Raging-Bitch.jpg 507w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Flying-Dog-Raging-Bitch-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianwilson.net\">rian Wilson<\/a> and I had a rowdy chat on his<strong> Libertas Media Podcast<\/strong> this afternoon.\u00a0 After his great opening bit, I didn&#8217;t have the heart to tell Brian that <a href=\"http:\/\/flyingdogbrewery.com\/beers\/raging-bitch\/\">Raging Bitch<\/a> is no longer my favorite beer.\u00a0 After a discussion of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Freedom-Chains-State-Demise-Citizen\/dp\/B00ANYAFJE\">Freedom in Chains<\/a> and a \u00a0foray into the Shenandoah Valley for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2015\/feb\/4\/book-review-shenandoah-a-story-of-conservation-and\/\">redneck ethnic cleansing<\/a>,&#8221; we wrangled over anarchism but Brian didn&#8217;t have any objections to the beheading of English King Charles I.\u00a0 That dude launched several wars against Presbyterians, and those folks don&#8217;t mince around with wrist slaps. 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