CIB is here to talk through the events of last Tuesday in Uvalde and the awful things our awful politicians have said in its aftermath, and not a whole lot 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 — How not to wish someone a happy birthday
6:38 — Uvalde, guns, and whether or not there’s anything to be done
1:37:02 — Did Mark Strassmann Get Off A Good One, Sporting Nuns Edition
1:41:10 — Wrap up! Top Gun: Maverick, HBO’s George Carlin doc, Ricky Gervais’s Netflix special, Better Call Saul, Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker

Relevant Linkage
Stupid finds a way.
NYT Uvalde Timeline — 78 Long Minutes
Pew Research — What the Data Says About Gun Deaths in the United States

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Last week we talked about the senseless loss of life in Buffalo. This week, we recorded before Uvalde happened. We open with a few minutes devoted to that awful event, before moving on to our regularly scheduled nonsense. We jump around to a bunch of smaller topics this week, include SCOTUS news, primary results in Pennsylvania and predictions in Georgia, Senator Bill Cassidy steps in it, and a piece of new technology that we actually like. 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 — Some unorganized thoughts on what happened in Texas on Tuesday
11:49 — Actual show starts! Did you know the FDA is back on their “let’s ban menthol-cigarettes” thing?
15:50 — Some very important corrections
22:57 — SCOTUS rules that death row inmates cannot introduce new evidence in federal appeals, and that “innocence isn’t enough”
30:00 — Some Texas lawmakers want to ban corporations from their state if they help employees access abortions in other states, and a discussion about primary votes in various states
50:16 — Senator Bill Cassidy puts his foot in various of his own orifices
55:58 — NPR doesn’t even listen to NPR, why are we?
1:01:17 — Grub Hub reaffirms that there is no such thing as a free lunch
1:10:46 — Jay Caspian Kang in the NYT: cars have too many screens!
1:19:01 — The future is good, actually!
1:24:46 — Sam Neill and Laura Dern had a scandalous fake relationship in 1993
1:33:20 — Taylor Lorenz being silly in the Washington Post again
1:42:48 — Strassmann!
1:47:12 — The USMNT did something selfless, Bob disapproves
1:54:48 — A very brief new segment
1:55:35 — Wrap-up! Twitter, Joe Biden and Taiwan, COVID surging, “MEN,” Top Gun, Love on the Spectrum

https://www.timesxbob.com/home/2018/2/15/on-the-gun-or-mustard-gas-and-roses

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CIB is here to reluctantly yap about the pointless and awful mass murder of people just going about their normal lives in Buffalo last Saturday, and our despondency leaks over into gloomy talk about Chuck Schumer, Ron DeSantis, and everything else wrong with the greatest country in the history of the planet. 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 — Random chatter about anything besides the awful topic at hand
17:40 — Buffalo mass murder by self-proclaimed white supremacist
1:01:55 — Schumer’s bogus abortion vote
1:20:37 — DeSantis signs obviously unconstitutional protest bill into law
1:22:40 — Luna cryptocurrency returns from the moon, journeys to the center of the earth
1:25:07 — Wrap-up! Broadcast News, The Untouchables, Being There, and playoff game sevens.

We’re back as regularly scheduled with more of what we do best—digressive meandering about the news of the week, and a good bit of whining about things beyond our control. Among other things, we cover the media’s inexplicable failure to understand The Trumppening, the ongoing Supreme Court abortion story, and the Joe Biden/Vlad Putin Administration economy. 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 — What “forgiveness” means for Donald Trump
14:44 — Revisiting the SCOTUS abortion ruling leak
38:43 — Did Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One, inflation, the economy
49:32 — Quick aside about Facebook getting worse
55:06 — Back to inflation and the economy
1:07:55 — Trawling the screenshots archive for content: megging, Musk harms women and minorities, and 4chan loves The Northman
1:17:34 — Philosophy Class with Abe
1:30:06 — Wrap-up! Dr. Strange, The Big Conn, Avatar 2, HBO’s The Staircase, Hollow Man, and ranting about the Star Wars sequel trilogy

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We weren’t even going to podcast this week, and then something crazy happened on Monday night—Elon Musk tweeted! No, not really that. We’re here to yap about what literally everyone else is yapping about—the leaked draft of the pending Supreme Court decision that would overturn Roe v Wade and allow for the outlawing of abortion by any state that so chooses. No show notes, no time-stamps—it’s just SCOTUS abortion talk for about 90 minutes before we wrap up with our usual stray meanderings. 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 we chat as little as possible about the news, sticking instead to exploiting the un-homed for content, prattle on about Little League baseball, and eventually get around to inevitable and bad future SCOTUS decisions, our geriatric ruling class, and Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. 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 — CIB encounters the homeless, on two coasts
24:45 — Little League responsibilities too much for one host
38:40 — Coach Kennedy and GOD vs the United States Government (link)
1:09:41 — Senator Dianne Feinstein may no longer be fit to serve, according to colleagues (link)
1:28:06 — The media class’s inexplicable meltdown over Elon Musk buying Twitter
1:40:05 — Wrap-up! Yard work, The Northman, and Netflix’s The John Wayne Gacy Tapes

This week we kinda let ourselves ramble a bit, and the conversation hopefully takes a few interesting turns. First, a recounting of the Passover story and a discussion about whether parents should overly concern themselves with what their children believe about such things, news from Florida and Texas about what is taught in schools and available in libraries, America’s Favorite Game Show, and a lengthy discussion about Jerrod Carmichael’s new HBO special. 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 perfectly normal Passover Seder, and rambling about religion
36:45 — Florida rejects a big pile of math textbooks
43:18 — LLano, Texas library censors
53:55 — Tucker Carlson has some thoughts on what you should be doing with your balls
1:15:22 — Mark Strassmann of CBS News, and Ricky Martin
1:20:43 — Jerrod Carmichael’s new HBO Special, Rothaniel
1:49:06 — Wrap up! Bentinho Massaro, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Coachella, and The Ultimatum

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We’re back after a week off for spring break with uncontrollable yapping about ourselves circa 2009, new rawk’n’roll, and how reading the New York Times opinion section sometimes feels like an exercise in separating the satire from the sincere—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 — Spring break adventures and reminiscing about the good ol’ days
15:35 — Very brief new music reviews
26:56 — Should the federal government take over baseball?
41:29 — Shanghai’s COVID lockdown
48:10 — Is there a more responsible way to observe human suffering?
1:14:28 — Straight people must not be allowed to copulate without supervision
1:34:20 — The Whitmer Kidnopping Plot, by the FBI
1:39:45 — Wrap-up! Abe goes to the movies, Bob reviews an American classic, a Vonnegut documentary, and Lori forces Bob to watch Netflix’s The Ultimatum.

Relevant Linkage
NYT — Inside Shanghai’s COVID Lockdown
NYT — Nationalize the National Pastime
NYT — Straight People Need Better Rules for Sex
NYT — In the Rush to Return to ‘Normal,’ What Happens to the Vulnerable?

The topic list is short but the content is no less girthy for it on this week’s CIB. First we must endure a fifteen-minute opener from Bob about Naomi Osaka and NPR before we get into the fun of yapping about Will Smith and Chris Rock, other Academy Award highlights, and the clownshow that was last week’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing. 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 — Naomi Osaka, NPR, and the making of a funny
25:57 — An absolutely unacceptably long recap of the 2022 Oscars
1:23:53 — Ketanji Brown Jackson SCOTUS conformation hearings
1:37:59 — Wrap up! Abe on Euphoria’s dong problem, West Side Story, Deep Water, and street-running

A perfectly innocent attempt to make fun of Chuck Todd deranges everything, and we never really recover. We try to escape the wreckage of our Todd-derailed psyches by talking about comfortable and familiar topics, including the Supreme Court, con-man docu-series, bad Floridians, and sportscasters.. 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 — Chuck Todd, a map, and DST make CIB question everything
19:11 — New Netflix doc BAD VEGAN
40:11 — Supreme Court nomination hearing talk
57:05 — Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” legislation
1:06:42 — In Sweden, the truth is no defense
1:16:26 — What counts as a “jury of your peers”
1:23:55 — NFL announcer musical chairs
1:29:43 — Wrap-up! “X,” The Batman, and Oscar-nominated Drive My Car