Worry not, podcast fans—CIB is here to yap about the news of the week, among much else. The news of the week is so stupid, in fact, that we keep the topical stuff mercifully short and spend most of this episode complaining about Imperial Disney’s synergistic CONTENT MAW manipulations, bad football kicking, and a new spin on an old favorite game. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on Facebook or Twitter, leave a comment on the show’s page on our website, or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!

Show Rundown
Open — Disney giveth us the Mannings, Disney taketh from us the Mando, plus SHHHAAAANNNKKS
18:42 — NFL playoffs talk
29:37 — WGAS Newsbag: The NYT as shitty content farm and lifestyle brand
36:03 — You’re gonna have a take on gas stoves, cause fuck you!
54:28 — Biden classified documents turning up everywhere
1:04:35 — George Santos, perpetual worst
1:09:26 — We are not yet talking about Zbiotics and alcohol
1:09:55 — Our Bogus Future, Elon Musk’s Broken Promises Edition
1:21:10 — Wack Shit or Wacky Shit, Other Peoples’ Podcasts Edition
1:44:30 — Wrap-up! PLANE movie, Blood Simple, John Wick, The Last of Us

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The University of Georgia Bulldogs are National Champions for the second year in a row, and CIB is going to gloat about it for an hour. Sorry! We didn’t really see any way around it this week. We’re also yapping about Kevin McCarthy’s selection as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, how the cops tracked down the Idaho student murders suspect, and a lecturer at Hamline University getting shitcanned for showing an important piece of art history in an art history class. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on Facebook or Twitter, leave a comment on the show’s page on our website, or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!

Show Rundown
Open — GEORGIA! An historic beatdown, Stetson Bennett, and trying not to be an obnoxious fan
50:44 — The rest of the week in sports, including Damar Hamlin, bad sports announcing, and Novak Djokovic
1:11:02 — Kevin McCarthy is Speaker. Now what?
1:24:38 — Idaho quadruple murder suspect arrested thanks to public DNA databases
1:37:56 — NYT article on Hamline lecturer fired for showing image of Muhammad
1:48:22 — Wrap up! A riff on non-alcoholic beer, M3GAN, A Man Called Otto, Glass Onion, what ties Ed Norton’s career together, and audiobook recommendations

Relevant Linkage can be found at the page for this episode on our website at https://www.brainiron.com/podcast/episode0126

Cast Iron Brains is well on its way to unforgivably obnoxious fandom as the Georgia Bulldogs ring in 2023 with a perhaps slightly undeserving win in the Peach Bowl. Join us as we yap about our personal travel woes, react in real time to Damar Hamlin’s tragic cardiac arrest during Monday Night Football, the College Football Playoff, predictions for the next year, and the usual complaining about life in Our Bogus Future. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on Facebook or Twitter, leave a comment on the show’s page on our website, or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!

Show Rundown
Open — Christmas travels, Damar Hamlin collapse
23:06 — Shameless and lengthy breaking down of Georgia’s win over anOSU
1:10:39 — 2023 predictions time, and a surprise voicemail from a very special listener
1:31:28 — Our Bogus Future is here to ruin nights out at Madison Square Garden and kitchen faucets
1:41:52 — Wrap up! Babylon, This Place Rules, and Top Gun: Maverick

Relevant Linkage can be found at the webpage for this episode on our website at https://www.brainiron.com/podcast/episode0125

CIB is here to plow through the news of the week one last time in 2022, with thoughts on the World Cup, Trump’s NFT drop, an utterly fraudulent NY congressperson-elect, an accounting of our predictions for the last year, and a review of the new Avatar movie. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on Facebook or Twitter, leave a comment on the show’s page on our website, or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!

Show Rundown
Open — ‘Twas the Week Before Christmas, and a travel conundrum
13:43 — World Cup reactions, Buffalo’s fancy outdoor heated seats, NFL silliness
31:50 — WGAS NewsBag: Trump’s NFTs
45:54 — January 6th Committee final hearing and criminal referrals
52:57 — George Santos, elected to represent NY-3, seems to be a total fraud
1:02:40 — Twitter Files redux
1:10:07 — Ben Shapiro demands that everyone be fully engaged in the culture war at all times
1:15:20 — 2022 predictions recap
1:20:09 — Wrap-up! Abe has thoughts on season 43 of Survivor, and the gang reviews Avatar: The Way of Water

Relevant Linkage can be found on the page for this episode on our website at www.brainiron.com/podcast/episode0124/

The only podcast of consequence is back with a quick run through the week in news courtesy of the ever-bulging WGAS NewsBag, a look at some bad movie criticism, and a spoiler-heavy discussion of the end of season two of HBO’s excellent The White Lotus. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on Facebook or Twitter, leave a comment on the show’s page on our website, or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!

Show Rundown
Open — On the reparability and and modularity of modern life, or the distinct lack thereof
10:45 — WGAS NewsBag: Commonly Misspelled and Mispronounced Names Edition. First up, Brittney Griner and Viktor Bout
26:49 — Raphael Warnock defeats Herschel Walker in Georgia Senate runoff
35:40 — Kyrsten Sinema breaks with the Democrats, declares herself independent of your binary, man
48:58 — Possible major breakthrough in fusion technology
54:09 — Ongoing “Twitter Files” media meltdown
1:01:35 — A bad review of The Whale from Slate
1:14:12 — Another example of content owners behaving badly in Our Bogus Future
1:19:45 — Wrap-up! Lawrence Krauss chats with Cormac McCarthy, thoughts onViolent Night, The Fabelmans, Emancipation, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, and Don’t Worry Darling, along with an extended conversation about the abiding cynicism at the heart of The While Lotus

Relevant Linkage can be found at the page for this episode on our website at https://www.brainiron.com/podcast/episode0123

CIB kicks off the last month of 2022 and perhaps—who can say, but the Lord?—a nonagenarian ex-president’s life with some thoughts on getting old (opposed), the Dutch (opposed), the GOP, LeBron, DeShaun Watson, SCOTUS, and Our Bogus Future (opposed, opposed, opposed, opposed, and resigned). Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on Facebook or Twitter, leave a comment on the show’s page on our website, or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!

Show Rundown
Open — Not too young to be old, anymore
05:00 — Watching the World Cup and college football
18:30 — When being a hugely influential figure in the culture isn’t anything to brag about, and the future of the GOP
49:42 — The Biffler Recap & Reaction Show! LeBron, DeShaun Watson, et cetera
1:14:48 — SCOTUStalk on the hypothetical speech rights of a real wedding website designer who has never sold a wedding website design
1:30:29 — In Our Bogus Future, Big Brother gets a rebrand
1:38:00 — Wrap-up! Mere Orthodoxy, a Munk Debate on trust in media, and The White Lotus

Relevant Linkage can be found on the page for this episode on our website at https://www.brainiron.com/podcast/episode0122.

CIB returns after a brief Thanksgiving-imposed hiatus to yap about why it's never the parents’ fault except when it’s definitely the parents’ fault, who to definitely-not-racistly root for in the World Cup, and a story on Marketplace neatly shows how some people work to solve inefficiencies in the market while others limply wish the world was a different, better place. All that along with plenty of other diversions and silliness, including a brief STATE OF THE PODCAST discussion at the end. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on Facebook or Twitter, leave a comment on the show’s page on our website, or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!

Show Rundown
Open — Abe goes adventuring in the big city, and attends one too many Thanksgivings
12:20 — When it’s okay to put put at least a little bit of blame on the parents in the event of mass murder
46:12 — Weird unsolved Idaho college student murders, and Robert Kraft’s benevolence
51:18 — NYT and other media outlets (finally) call for end to Assange prosecution
55:09 — World Cup chat!
1:07:12 — Trying to understand zero non-linguistically
1:12:37 — Trying to shake out a connection between unbelieving Evangelicals and fanatical Trump supporters
1:18:40 — The true depths of Elon Musk’s depravity revealed in a picture he tweeted out
1:21:29 — Marketplace “wonky fruits and veg” segment explains everything
1:27:43 — Wrap-up! State of the Podcast, Black Panther 2, Glass Onion, The Menu, Tar, White Lotus, and Orgasm, INC

Relevant Linkage can be found at the page for this episode on our website at https://www.brainiron.com/podcast/episode0121.

Cast Iron Brains returns as regularly scheduled to discuss the 2022 midterm election cycle, including the things we got wrong and the (considerably fewer) things we got right, the strange way some media types and politicians have reacted to the results, and what it all portends for the 2024 presidential race—among plenty of other, non-politics silliness thrown in. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on Facebook or Twitter, leave a comment on the show’s page on our website, or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!

Show Rundown
Open — A very stupid weekend culminating in local tragedy
14:06 — The midterms are (mostly) over! What happened and why?
1:07:05 — Liz Warren on MTP throws the federal judiciary under the bus
1:18:38 — Did CBS News’ Senior National News Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?
1:23:17 — Sam Bankman-Fried, Elon Musk, and American certainty on the underlying virtue of great success
1:32:08 — Brian Eno interviewed in the New York Times, with some alternative ideas about success and certainty
1:34:54 — Wrap-up! Les Mis, The Martian, sports, and COVID vaccine boosters

Relevant Linkage can be found at the page for this episode on our website at https://www.brainiron.com/podcast/episode0120.

Cast Iron Brains is back—and with a live studio audience!—to yap our way through the news of the week, including conversations about what happens when an anti-woke crusader runs afoul of the dogmatisms of his own cultivated audience, Kyrie Irving’s idiocy, and what to expect from today’s midterm elections, among plenty of other grousing and grumbling. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on Facebook or Twitter, leave a comment on the show’s page on our website, or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!

Show Rundown
Open — Who’s that in the live studio audience? And sports!
14:56 — Wesley Yang tells an anodyne anecdote about being racialized in public, his anti-woke audience calls him a Social Justice Warrior
32:55 — Kyrie Irving says he’s the real Israelite, so how can he be anti-Semitic?
50:43 — Last minute thoughts and expectations on the 2022 midterm elections
1:27:28 — Our Bogus Future is coming, and there will be actual mortal combat
1:30:28 — Wrap-up! HBO’s The White Lotus returns, Hulu documentary on the Falwells called God Forbid

Relevant Linkage can be found at the page for this episode on our website at https://www.brainiron.com/podcast/episode0119

Cast Iron Brains is here with an extended discussion about the attack on Paul Pelosi and the reaction of right-wing media and Twitter, along with yapping about professional auto racing, the theater, and 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 Facebook or Twitter, leave a comment on the show’s page on our website, or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!

Show Rundown
Open — Brains totally colonized by our own children
13:47 — Sports! Georgia football and…Nascar? What?
33:25 — Nancy Pelosi’s husband assaulted
1:28:11 — John McWhorter on racism in the theater
1:38:20 — Our Bogus Future: Photoshop paywalls colors
1:42:44 — Wrap up! Black Adam, Pray for the Devil, and Barbarian

Relevant Linkage can be found at the page for this episode on our website at https://www.brainiron.com/podcast/episode0118.