CIB is back from their exciting appearance on EXTREME MAKEOVER: PAINT THE KITCHEN EDITION to ramble on about Georgia football, college football coaching news, and other assorted musings about the happenings of the last couple weeks. It’s definitely a bit of a messy rambler, this one. Listen! 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 — Lipstick on a Pig Sometimes Works, and other life lessons imparted by sub-$500 kitchen updates
13:25 — Thanksgiving
18:35 — Politics at the table and smarmy NPR hosts
26:45 — Georgia v Alabama III — Kirby’s Revenge
44:32 — NCAA football coaching carousel
58:40 — Old Dude Whines About Current and Future State of Football
1:08:45 — CIB UGA vs BAMA PICK’EM
1:13:13 — Rittenhouse verdict
1:18:10 — Ahmaud Arbery verdict
1:24:38 — Wait a second…Twitter is bad?!
1:44:42 — Organized retail theft. WHAT DOES IT MEAN?!
1:59:48 — Wrap up and what we’re watching this week

CIB is back after a bit of a hiatus to celebrate the Atlanta Braves’ recent World Series victory, a discussion about the Virginia gubernatorial election from a couple weeks back, the approval of vaccines for young children, and a quick talk about Netflix’s hit Squid Game. Listen! 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 — BRAVES WIN! BRAVES WIN! BRAVES WIN!
29:03 — Republican upset in Virginia
1:07:21 — Vaccine rollout for 5-11 year olds
1:28:30 — Rittenhouse / Arbery trials
1:37:11 — CIB discusses Squid Game

Please see the website for relevant links discussed in the episode. www.brainiron.com/podcast/episode0076

CIB is popping into your podcast feed very briefly (for us) this week just to check in, as everything is just too much out there in our little world right now, and we might not get the chance to record next week, unless the Braves have somehow managed to win the World Series in just four games. That would be totally fine, Bravos! Listen! 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!

Cast Iron Brains is here in your podcast feed once again, despite the ongoing protestations of many millions of the haters. This week we’re talking about the rather recently dead Colin Powell, and for some reason Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis, and for some reason random Nazi-adjacent stuff, among many other topics. Listen! 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
01:17 — Colin Powell died today.
13:37 — Just why hasn’t Anthony Kiedis been CANCELLED yet?
30:40 — America’s Favorite Game Show, Captain Kirk Edition
42:26 — A very brief aside about helmets
43:05 — Squid Game reportedly worth a billion dollars to Netflix
50:04 — Thoughts on the Virginia governor’s race
1:07:37 — Quickly on the Atlanta mayoral race
1:10:34 — Is a swastika ever not a swastika?
1:19:27 — Kyrie Irving doesn’t want to take the vaccine.

This week CIB is yapping about the awful and now annual social media discourse about Columbus Day, passing stern judgment about who is the BAD ART FRIEND, and being largely unimpressed with a couple of HBO Max documentaries released in the last couple of weeks. Listen! 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
Intro — Columbus Day vs Indigenous Peoples’ Day — FIGHT!
12:41 — A few minutes on our parochial sports interests
20:47 — An encounter with the modern medical establishment
28:38 — America’s favorite gameshow
32:10 — A long discussion about the BAD ART FRIEND story
1:03:03 — HBO Max documentary 15 Minutes of Shame
1:09:09 — Jon Gruden out!
1:24:51 — Superman out!
1:28:43 — Outro banter, including non-spoilery discussion of the Bond film franchise, and how there’s just too much goddamn television

Relevant Links
Argument over Alabama and Texas A&M football game leads to shooting death.
Mark Strassmann on overcrowding at US National Parks.
NYT: Who is the Bad Art Friend?
Preview for the Monica Lewinsky-produced documentary 15 Minutes of Shame.
Jon Gruden resigns after the NYT publishes old emails.
Another HBO Max documentary—The Way Down—probably not really worth watching.

This week CIB is cackling our way through the horrible news of the week, with riffs on college football, Dan Savage, Facebook, and a whole terrible variety of other subjects. Listen! 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
2:00 — On the virtue of completely humiliating one’s opponents, and other thoughts on college football
14:35 — The NFL’s Red Zone channel, good or bad?
28:36 — Slate’s recent profile of sex advice columnist Dan Savage
49:00 — “Speaking of identity…” On the ongoing pronoun wars and the way social media encourages self-victimization narratives
59:44 — Opening up the WGAS Newsbag, lots of Facebook up top
1:09:07 — A couple stories about Questionable Taking
1:21:21 — The Swiss finally pick a side on the gay marriage issue
1:22:31 — Trump’s CYBER NINJAS finally weigh in on the Arizona presidential vote tally
1:26:48 — Oppressive voice assistants, but not how you’re thinking
1:30:45 — The sad fate of jihadists saddled with becoming civil servants
1:33:22 — A curious case from the Cureus Journal of Medical Science
1:39:48 — TV sucks!

Relevant Links
Jaguars return missed field goal 109 yards for the longest play in NFL history.
Ravens kicker makes NFL-record 66-yard field goal.
Slate’s Dan Savage profile.
Local news report on civil asset forfeiture at North Carolina airports.
The New Yorker on civil forfeiture.
The Atlantic on civil forfeiture.
Facebook’s propagandistic Project Amplify.
Apple wanted to kick FB out of the App Store over slavery concerns.
Internal FB report shows how harmful its apps are to children.
Sovereign citizens just claiming people’s shit as their own.
Switzerland on gay marriage and capital gains taxes.
Cyber Ninjas fail to find voter fraud.
NYT OpEd -- I am being oppressed by my voice assistant.
”All of my men, they love Jihad and fighting.”
This guy is ejaculating into his own ass.

CIB is here with plenty of Norm Macdonald appreciation, COVID-talk, how everything bothering us today is kinda related to the same thing, and a brand new game to play. Listen! 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
00:60 — CIB remembers Norm Macdonald
16:30 — Vaccine updates, mandates, general COVID talk
32:50 — Does California tell us anything about the GOP’s future
59:22 — America’s favorite game show!
1:03:43 — Weirdo South Carolina Family of the Week
1:11:27 — How fake letters to an advice column contribute to the CULTURE WAR
1:27:28 — Listener reviews and what we’ve been consuming

Relevant Links
Norm tells a long joke that upsets Conan — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3LMSflEN54
The Hill: Trump lawyer offered six-point plan for Pence to overturn election: book
San Francisco mayor on not wearing her mask at the club: https://twitter.com/dailycaller/status/1439962097958412288
WAPO: Alex Murdaugh surrenders in alleged suicide-for-hire plot as police launch new probe into housekeeper’s death
Gawker: Writer confesses to sending in a bunch of “Dear Prudence” letters that got published, and eventually shared by Tucker Carlson
Oregon school teacher showed up to school in blackface for only the very best reasons

This week we’re chatting amiably about NEVER FORGETTING various things, including the perils of shitty cars, cats, purposely missed social connections, flying with VIPs, and twenty years of the War on Terror. Listen! 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
00:30 — Never Forget intro essay
05:28 — Remember shitty old cars?
13:53 — Cats, dogs, and weaponized bladders
20:33 — An unusual flight home from Vermont
30:53 — When to talk to strangers (Never.)
38:55 — What to remember about 9/11
1:04:20 — Whining about obnoxious commercials

Relevant Links
Cats terrorize football stadium — https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2021/09/11/fans-catch-falling-cat-miami-game-american-flag/8303179002/

TSA isn’t particularly good at doing the job with which it has been tasked — https://abcnews.go.com/US/tsa-fails-tests-latest-undercover-operation-us-airports/story?id=51022188

Gronk selling insurance poorly — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpqk10L4NdI

Nike isn’t so sure about that whole JUST DO IT thing any more — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm_aiDpkGmQ

We’re reading The American War in Afghanistan: A History, by Carter Malkasian. If you’d like a copy, buy it here — https://amzn.to/3AfGDZJ (Brain Iron Dot Com is a (somewhat reluctant) participant in the Amazon Associates program, and we may get a small share of qualifying sales referred to Amazon via these links. Shop local when possible!)

CIB is here with a much more fun-sized episode than we’ve been offering all summer, including talk of Texas’ new abortion law and the Supreme Court’s subsequent inaction, the IVERMECTIN WARS, and our thoughts on HBO’s recently concluded limited series The White Lotus. Listen! 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
5:03 — Texas abortion law and SCOTUS cowardice
27:57 — The ivermectin discourse got dumber, somehow
49:20 — China bans effeminate men from television
53:17 — A review of HBO’s The White Lotus

Relevant Links
Bob on SCOTUS allowing Texas to secede from the constitutional order: https://www.brainiron.com/blog/0000057

Bob on the media-wide meltdown around Joe Rogan’s coronavirus diagnosis and treatment: https://www.brainiron.com/blog/0000058

A good blog I found just this morning that highlights everything wrong with the ivermectin silliness: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/too-good-to-check-a-play-in-three

China’s ban on effeminate TV presenters: https://www.npr.org/2021/09/02/1033687586/china-ban-effeminate-men-tv-official-morality

HOT PODCAST SUMMER concludes with the story of a road trip nearly ruined by THE MACHINES, discussion of the nation’s current COVID situation, the Supreme Court’s heartless decision to recognize that private property is still a thing, the still-ongoing tragedy in Afghanistan, and so much more. Listen! 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
Intro — The tyranny of navigation apps
16:31 — Return to school, outdoor masking, the ivermectin silliness, vaccine boosters
44:05 — SCOTUS kills the eviction moratorium, and the failed Rental Assistance Program
56:51 — Maine passes “transformational” new recycling law that forces companies to pay for their own waste
1:11:56 — On the US exit from Afghanistan

Links:
NYTimes — About 89% of Rental Assistance Funds Have Not Been Distributed
PRI — A new law in Maine requires large companies to pay for recycling packaging waste
NYTimes — The Cotton Tote Crisis
The Atlantic — Are Tote Bags Good for the Environment?