CIB has returned from a vacation here at summer’s end with stories from the beach, sincere horror at the attack on Salman Rushdie and, by extension, all of civil society, and further dismay at the success some folks are having at convincing artists to change their art due to how it makes some people feel, among many other topics. 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!

A show note with Relevant Linkage will (eventually) be available at the webpage for this episode: www.brainiron.com/podcast/episode0107

This week on CIB we’re talking about the FBI executing a search warrant in Mar-a-Lago, what a failed attempt to end abortion in Kansas tells us about November, the lack of vaccine-testing on pregnant women, and a whole mess of other topics. We are continuing our experiment of not really doing any editing of the show and just presenting our conversation as it happened, so let us know if you think listenability is suffering as a result. 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!

A show note with Relevant Linkage can be found at this episode’s page on our website: www.brainiron.com/podcast/episode0106

Cast Iron Brains is doing it live (to tape) this week, with two hours of uninterrupted, unedited, and largely unconsidered yapping about everything from the latest doings on Capitol Hill to Bob’s Sure To Succeed LIFE HACKS. No show note, no time stamps—we’re trying to spend the weekend socializing, not in the editing suite hiding all the uhhs, umms, and needless digressions—just pure, unadulterated CONTENT, straight from our lips to your ears. Lucky…you? 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!

This week CIB is here to yap about how ill-equipped we are for Our Bogus Future, why animals attack, when a recession is definitely not a recession, and all the things Congress will and won’t get done in the next couple of months, among plenty of other diversions. 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 — Scattergories at the bar, New Jersey’s curious plan for helping crackheads
9:05 — Our Bogus Future, brought to you by the lithium-ion battery
16:17 — WHEN ANIMALS ATTACK!!!, as explained everywhere but FOX, curiously enough
35:28 — Janet Yellen explains how a recession isn’t actually a recession
46:38 — What will the Democratically-controlled Congress get done before the end of the year?
1:20:38 — Study concludes that the chemical imbalance theory of depression is bogus
1:37:59 — Wrap up! Fire of Love, Nope, M. Night Shyamalan, and other stuff we’ve been watching

Relevant Linkage can be found at the webpage for this episode: www.brainiron.com/podcast/episode0104

Cast Iron Brains is, in fact, podcasting this week, no matter what the haters and doubters have to say. That’s not to say it’s a particularly enlightening 87 minutes of yappity-yap, but we’re here, at least! We discuss the utility of dishwashing machines, dumb and/or lying assholes on Twitter, and Our Bogus Future, among other thrilling topics. 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 — The ESPYs, Golden State Warriors revisionism, Mega Millions
10:29 — Dishwashers, and how to make them work, actually!
22:17 — Matt Walsh is being a dumb lying idiot on Twitter again
42:07 — Vaclav Smil isn’t sure we know how the world actually works
46:41 — It’s too fuckin’ hot!
52:16 — Our Bogus Future: BMW heated seats subscriptions, and Ring Doorbells are snitches
1:06:17 — Terse Missives from the Content Maw To Make You Seem Like An Interesting Person
1:11:59 — Wrap-up! The Mystery of the Pink Underpants, Thor, Where the Crawdads Sing, How to Change Your Mind, The Anarchists, Obsessed with the Babysitter

All Relevant Linkage can be found at the page for this episode on our website, www.brainiron.com/podcast/episode0103

CIB is back after a July 4th holiday week with lottery strategies, what the destruction of the Georgia Guidestones monument says about our current political climate, how Croydon, NH fought back against libertarian interlopers, and what the latest NYT polling says about Democrats’ prospects in 2022 and beyond. 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 — July 4th travels
3:04 — Mega Millions jackpot reaches nearly half a billion dollars
12:45 — Mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois
21:08 — Georgia Guidestones bombed by idiots
57:40 — Croydon, NH vs. Free State-ers who don’t want to pay to educate the YOUT
1:10:07 — Biden at 33% approval, do Democrats have any reason to expect to hold onto power?
1:32:30 — James Webb Space Telescope releases its first images, looking 13 billion years into the past
1:36:26 — Wrap up! Minions, The Old Man, The Bear, weird Netflix Sex Dungeon Home Renovation show, The Simpsons

Relevant Linkage can be found at the webpage for this episode at www.brainiron.com/podcast/episode0102

You see that last lonely doughnut in the corner of the box on the breakroom table, the one everyone else left behind because it’s overstuffed with too much dull red jelly leaking out its side, a grease stain spreading out from under it—what you know about that doughnut is that you’re going to eat it, each bite less satisfying than the one that preceded it, and at some point a couple hours from now you’ll be asking yourself why you felt compelled to power through and finish the thing. That doughnut is this podcast, a pastry too insubstantial to contain all the SCOTUS stuffed in and now leaking out. 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 — NIMBYs and YIMBYs battle it out in these (Facebook) streets
10:02 — SCOTUS suddenly no longer boring; first up New York gun case
21:27 — Vega v Tekoh (cops can’t be sued in civil court for Miranda warning violations)
28:43 — Kennedy v Bremerton School District (prayer in school by teachers and coaches)
36:59 — Can we talk about Dobbs now?
37:21 — A prophetic aside about Freddie Freeman
39:32 — Now we can talk about Dobbs!
2:00:37 — Nance v Ward (Georgia death row inmate can petition to choose his method of execution)
2:03:56 — Wrap up! Elvis, The Black Phone, and a trip to Farmville, VA

Relevant Linkage can be found at the show’s website: www.brainiron.com/podcast/episode0101

Cast Iron Brains is 100 episodes old this week, and we’re celebrating with an extended rambling on about trains and America’s failing infrastructure before getting to the horrible news of the week, which includes a new party platform from the Texas GOP, the arrest of a dog puppet and insult comic, and plenty of other nonsense. 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 — New York City…Good or Bad? Discuss!
15:53 — America’s got travel problems! Also, have we been underestimating Mark Strassmann’s appeal?
22:05 — Trains…Good or Bad? Discuss! And everything wrong with US infrastructure and public transit.
52:17 — Texas’ Republican Party has a new platform, and it’s really quite something.
1:29:13 — Triumph the Insult Comic Dog Arrested! Tucker Carlson demands he and his handlers be sent to GITMO
1:40:59 — WGAS News Bag: Burkinis outlawed in France, Is Google Dying?, and SCOTUS on public funds for private schools
1:54:19 — Wrap up! Lightyear, Web of Make Believe, Mission: Impossible 4, The Music Man on Broadway

Relevant Linkage can be found at the website, www.brainiron.com/podcast/episode0100

CIB is here to escort you affably into the weekend with an episode trying to unravel just what we mean when we say “everything is everything.” After a quick review of the first chunk of the January 6th hearings, we discuss a terrific article by Ryan Grim over at The Intercept about how internal politics and infighting are tearing apart progressive advocacy groups, and explain how a libertarian-leaning cryptocurrency exchange isn’t managing any better. Plenty of other stuff, too, including a quick Content Maw segment from people who aren’t even allowed to listen to this show. 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 — Truly unforgivable and deeply pointless opening banter
4:15 — 1/6 Hearings recap
24:20 — How everything is everything, from non-profits to trans journalism to crypto tech bros
1:24:13 — WGAS NEWS BAG: El Salvador’s BTC bet looking sketchy, GOP election meddling, UK’s curious plan for asylum seekers, and Netflix declares satire dead
1:36:20 — Wrap up! Kids’ Content Maw, Jurassic World Dominion, and Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey

Relevant Linkage can be found at this episode’s page on the website: www.brainiron.com/podcast/episode0099

This week we make a conscious decision to lighten the mood a bit after last week’s slog through issues of guns and child murder, and definitely not just because we spent all week focused on YOUTH SPORT rather than preparing for a show in line with our usual high standards. Whatever the reason, we’re explaining inside jokes at great length, doing a Little League Season Recap, discussing Dave Weigel’s suspension from the Washington Post, and are quite skeptical about the upcoming televised January 6th committee hearings. 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 — How to grow an audience without actually telling anyone you have a podcast
10:16 — CIB / The Buffer Content Crossover Extravaganza, and lengthy, digressive joke explanations
40:52 — Little League Season Recap
55:26 — Dave Weigel suspended for retweeting a bad joke
1:30:25 — Predictions about the 1/6 hearings
1:35:26 — Screenshot-Trawling for CONTENT: Kavanaugh assassin, Ibram X. Kendi’s new book, GOP heroism
1:39:11 — Stop letting Matt Walsh and his ilk win!
1:47:11 — Wrap up! Twitter updates, more joke explanations, The First Lady, Norm’s Nothing Special

Relevant linkage can be found at the show’s website, www.brainiron.com/podcast/episode0098