CIB is here with a rundown of the last couple days of the 2024 Democratic National Convention, how the next generation of AI-assisted content manipulation could spell trouble for our ability to know things, and NPR is contacting PhDs to sort out if it’s too early in the season for a Pumpkin Spice Latte. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on our Substack, leave a comment on the show’s page on our website, or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!

Show Rundown
Open — Why Lori’s super mad
03:51 — Definitely not talking about football
15:34 — A brief aside about a headline
18:05 — DNC recap talk
57:42 — Our Bogus Future: AI image generation is about to change everything
1:09:11 — Experts Say, Pumpkin Spice Edition
1:29:27 — The Billboard Hot 100 Game
1:46:26 — Wrap-up! Blink Twice; PBS Frontline: Two American Families

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Your favorite podcast is back atop your feed with thoughts on the ongoing Democratic National Convention, a bunch of college football playoff predictions, the Billboard Game, and Abe’s Alien: Romulus review, among plenty else. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on our Substack, leave a comment on the show’s page on our website, or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!

Show Rundown
Open — The glorious return of volleyball to midtown Atlanta
3:35 — Just how crunk are the Democrats?
31:11 — How a call to the Dan Savage podcast explains Democratic politics since 2015 or so
54:10 — College Football Playoff Predictions!
1:17:36 — The Billboard Hot 100 Game
1:26:55 — Wrap-up! Alien: Romulus and remembering one of the worst penalties of all time

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We’re recapping the Paris Olympics and wondering if the tightening of the presidential polls is real, and if it can be maintained. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on our Substack, leave a comment on the show’s page on our website, or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!

Show Rundown

Open — An immediate halt to the proceedings to fulfill birthday messaging duties

2:48 — A brief paean to public schooling and firefighters

8:11 — Paris Olympics recap!

47:40 — Complaining about the Paris Olympics commercials

1:24:10 — Presidential polling weirdness

1:36:47 — The Billboard Hot 100 Game

1:45:14 — Wrap-up! It Ends With Us; Incest Dragons season 2 finale

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Once a year or so, all of CIB gets together in person and records an episode. This is that episode, and coincidentally it’s a milestone episode—number 200 of this iteration of the show! Did we do anything special, or really prepare anything at all for such a momentous occasion? No, of course not! We’re just chatting with the Olympics on in the background, and we play our usual assortment of games. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on our Substack, leave a comment on the show’s page on our website, or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!

Show Rundown

Open — Podcasting awkwardly in person!

7:27 — Paris Olympics chatter

25:36 — Harris VP chatter, couch copulation

44:34 — Russian prisoner swap

51:35 — Did CBS News’ Senior National News Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?

1:00:51 — The Billboard Hot 100 Game

1:11:33 — Wrap-up! Trap; Channing Tatum, Josh Hartnett, Brad Pitt, Bob, and other aging beauties

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CIB returns to podcast feeds all over the known universe with freshly COVID-inflected takes on the latest world-shattering push notifications you probably swiped away without a moment’s hesitation. That plus a final YOUTH BASEBALL update for the summer, our usual nonsense and bickering and games, and a brief review of The Bear. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on our Substack, leave a comment on the show’s page on our website, or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!

Show Rundown
Open — COVID-spreading band leaders run amok in CVILLE
10:10 — State tournament recap, or, How We Are Owned
32:08 — Biden announces, via tweet, that he’s not seeking re-election
1:53:54 — The Billboard Hot 100 Game
02:10:25 — Wrap-up! Twisters; The Bear; Incest Dragons

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A very busy news weekend has turned what was supposed to be a little league baseball recap episode into 90 minutes of discussion about Donald Trump’s brush with death. We talk about how much worse this could have been, the staggering failure of the Secret Service, and how and why we might have gotten here. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on our Substack, leave a comment on the show’s page on our website, or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!

Show Rundown
Open — What we’re not talking about tonight
3:50 — Someone tried to shoot Donald Trump in the head on national television
1:31:04 — The Billboard Hot 100 Game
1:43:10 — Wrap-up! Fly Me to the Moon; Game of the Year; Cast Away; Incest Dragons

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CIB returns to find out if we overreacted to Biden’s disastrous first debate performance, if the Supreme Court has gone FULL MAGA, and to discuss the garbage pop culture we’ve consumed in the last week. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on our Substack, leave a comment on the show’s page on our website, or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!

Show Rundown
Open — In which we pointlessly banter
6:45 — Did the MEDIA ELITES overreact to Biden’s debate performance?
36:00 — Did SCOTUS just go FULL MAGA?
48:48 — Bronny James drafted by the Lakers
52:03 — Experts Say!
57:04 — The Billboard Hot 100 Game
1:09:15 — Wrap-up! Horizon Chapter 1; Eyes Wide Whut; Worst Roommate Ever, Incest Dragons

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Two old men got together on Thursday night and one of them proved that he has no business being president, and the other was Donald Trump. Cast Iron Brains is here to discuss our mounting dread and panic and if anything can be done about it. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on our Substack, leave a comment on the show’s page on our website, or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!

Show Rundown
Open — Straight into debate reaction chat
1:29:31 — The Billboard Hot 100 Game
1:40:52 — Wrap-up! Quiet Place III

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We are once again here to discuss thrilling YOUTH SPORT, along with really not very much else. Sorry! Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on our Substack, leave a comment on the show’s page on our website, or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!

Show Rundown
Open — Abe explains what we’ve missed in the news, and a presidential debate preview
17:45 — Youth Baseball Update
1:23:52 — Did CBS News’ Senior National News Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?
1:26:25 — The Billboard Hot 100 Game
1:36:17 — Wrap-up! Bikeriders, Incest Dragons

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It’s more or less summer around here, so we’re largely ignoring the news in favor of the DRAMA and INTRIGUE of youth sport. Surely the Supreme Court will make big news over the next couple of weeks that we’ll have no choice but to talk about, but for now you can enjoy us blathering on about swim meets and corrupt little leagues. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on our Substack, leave a comment on the show’s page on our website, or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!

Show Rundown
Open — Being rude about a holiday
07:00 — Youth swimming update
17:12 — Youth baseball update
1:08:22 — Louisiana classrooms must display the Ten Commandments
1:11:17 — This Week in ‘Experts Say’
01:20:00 — Did CBS News’s Senior National News Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?
1:28:12 — The Billboard Hot 100 Game
1:37:00 — Wrap-up! Bad Boys 4: Ride or Die; Inside Out 2; Incest Dragons

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