On the show this week we’re discussing the news of the week, including Belarus forcing down a commercial airliner to arrest a dissident journalist, Facebook and Twitter facing heightened governmental scrutiny, more memes selling for giant piles of money, the utility of social and political identity labels, 60 Minutes wants to talk trans issues, and plenty more. Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on Facebook or Twitter, or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!

Show Rundown:

02:04 —> Serious sports analysis as the NBA playoffs get underway

25:23 —> Government crackdowns on social media companies, and the inevitable failure of an “infrastructure bill”

33:52 —> Charlie bit my finger, and all I got was a lousy three quarters of a million dollars

52:50 —> Everybody loves labels for themselves, and especially for others—what’s the deal with that?

1:12:50 —> 60 Minutes delves into TRANS ISSUES, with a bit of a focus on people who regret their decision to transition, and the internet is displeased

Your least favorite two-thirds of Cast Iron Brains is here once again with another episode chock full of news and culture commentary. (Lori, sadly, wasn’t able to join us until the very end.) Also, an apology! There is some fuzziness on Bob’s microphone for a little bit in the middle of the episode. Hopefully we’ll have that cleared up by next week. In the meantime, we’re yapping about the plague of modern certainty under which we’re all suffering, the easing of CDC covid-related guidance, the Supreme Court, and plenty of other fun stuff. Got something to say about anything we said? You can find us on Facebook or Twitter, and you can send us an email here. Enjoy!

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Show Rundown:

04:21 --> Bob blabbing “On Certainty,” and a follow-up discussion
26:35 --> WGAS News --> CDC adjusts mask guidelines
47:08 --> GOP doesn't actually want a January 6 Commission
55:55 --> SCOTUS talk
1:14:45 --> Pipeline ATTACK!!! and Lori finally turns up
1:21:27 --> THRILLING MEDIA MERGERS
1:29:28 --> Tony LaRussa and more of baseball’s stupid unwritten rules

This week CIB is chatting about the Republicans (probably) kicking Liz Cheney out of leadership in favor of Elise Stefanik, Jeff Bezos’s expensive new toy, and plenty of other nonsense. Listen, share the show with a trusted friend, and remember that you can find us on Facebook or Twitter, and you can send us an email here. Enjoy!

Show Rundown

3:55 —> Bob battles nature

14:53 —> The GOP purges traitors against Trump from positions of power

27:40 —> Did Tim Scott outline what the post-Trump GOP might look like?

37:15 —> Pfizer vaccine approved for use in kids 12 years and older

43:03 —> ESPN grab bag: Kenny Mayne, SportsCenter, the NFL Draft, etc

53:00 —> New game! "Any 5 Words”

1:00:33 —> A new spin on Wack Shit or Wacky Shit—it’s “The Stupid Top 5”

Cast Iron Brains, a podcast that has now been doing this for a whole calendar year, for some reason, is here with another episode. This week we’re talking about our reactions to the second dose of the COVID vaccine and what that could mean to the public’s willingness to get a booster every six months, willfully obnoxious orders at restaurants, a Ukrainian sunglasses tycoon who just can’t quit doing crimes, and plenty of other stuff. If for some reason you still want to talk to us after listening to all that, you can find us on Facebook or Twitter, and you can send us an email here. Enjoy!

Full show note at www.brainiron.com/podcast/episode0054

Show Rundown:

Intro —> The usual nonsense.

10:37 —> Bob and Lori got the second vaccine dose, and had some pretty intense side effects. We discuss that and vaccine uptake in the United States, and wonder about what life will look like in six months.

36:10 —> People are posting their purposefully obnoxious Starbucks orders online, giving Bob a pretty gnarly episode of pizza days PTSD.

53:55 —> The Biden administration announced last week that they would like to ban menthol cigarettes.

1:00:53 —> Amazon has secured the exclusive rights to the NFL’s Thursday Night Football.

1:04:37 —> Verizon sold off Yahoo and AOL to a private equity firm.

1:08:10 —> Bill and Melinda Gates are calling it quits, Lori believes that everyone should get divorced, and Bob has a bad theory about the lottery.

1:15:17 —> A story about a Ukrainian-born sunglasses magnate, of course.

1:25:00 —> MAJOR JEOPARDY CONTROVERSY.

Your favorite podcast is back with a digressive discussion about the Oscars, television viewing vs. watching movies, the Chauvin verdict, and other nonsense. If you’d like to get in touch, you can find us on Facebook or Twitter, and you can send us an email here. Enjoy!

Show Rundown:

Intro —> We watched the Oscars, for some reason. We review the show, and talk about TV vs FILM.

40:00 —> Oakland Raiders’ Twitter account had some thoughts on the Chauvin verdict and other Twitter things.

55:00 —> And we have some thoughts on the Chauvin verdict, and the conservative media’s reaction to it.

1:12:33 —> Ma’khia Bryant shot by police while in a violent confrontation.

1:30:56 —> We all saw Mortal Kombat, for some reason.

Cast Iron Brains is back with an hour of questioning why we spend so much time paying attention to things that don’t matter, don’t make us happy or smarter, and that we absolutely already know are bad for us. What are we even doing here, the podcast asked itself, and the podcast had no answer. If you’d like to get in touch, you can find us on Facebook or Twitter, and you can send us an email here. Enjoy!

Cast Iron Brains is here with a bloated episode that is also somehow a solid thirty minutes shorter than it almost was. This week we’re trying to tie together seemingly disparate stories into a cohesive whole with the help of a long-dead Austrian philosopher, with decidedly mixed results. Enjoy!

Show Rundown:

7:32 --> Major League Baseball’s instant replay system blows an obvious one
17:52 --> Bob hears an amusing contradiction on NPR
28:32 --> Daunte Wright “accidentally” killed by police in Minnesota during a traffic stop
56:11 --> Virginia police sued for an unnecessarily hostile and violent traffic stop
1:12:54 --> UVA sued for dismissing a med student for his questions during a panel discussion on microaggressions
1:32:45 --> Philosophy Class with Abe!
1:43:43 --> Listener Tyler with a question about DeShaun Watson

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Cast Iron Brains is back with a discussion about the ethical ambiguity of grabbing the COVID-19 vaccine before your own technical eligibility, and some of the rest of the week’s news. Topics include MLB’s decision to move the All Star Game away from Georgia, Asa Hutchinson’s veto of a bill that would make it harder for transgender youths to access medical care, the way some COVID-KNOWERS are insisting that everything is actually terrible and getting worse, and Matt Fucking Gaetz. Enjoy!

Rundown:

Intro —> VAXXED!

12:37 —> DUMPSTER ETHICS

20:09 —> WGAS NEWS — MLB moves the All Star Game

35:24 —> CIB talks trans issues for the first time

50:07 —> Janet Yellen wants a global minimum corporate tax

55:36 —> Michael Osterholm and other COVID experts still think the sky is falling

1:09:18 —> Matt Fucking Gaetz

1:17:08 —> Getting weird on the “age of consent thing”

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It’s yet another episode of Cast Iron Brains, a podcast you should share with anyone you know who appreciates life but wants to hear somebody they don’t know react with pointless dismay to the particulars. We bounce the headlines of the week off of one another for a while, and wrap up with a quick trip to Philosophy 101 to find out if Abe would plug into The Experience Machine if given the opportunity. Find us on Facebook or Twitter, or you can send us an email. Enjoy!

Episode Rundown

9:10 —> Colorado grocery store shooting

23:41 —> Is “gun control” possible?

41:20 —> A little more on the “hate crime” narrative around the Atlanta spa shootings

56:57 —> The container ship in the Suez Canal is free! Also, Abe’s coin purse.

1:09:20 —> The Derek Chauvin trial for the murder of George Floyd

1:11:49—> Does Abe want to plug into The Experience Machine?

CIB is back with another thrilling and hilarious 90 minutes of disdain, mystification, and general discontent with the state of the world around us. This week we’re talking about the Atlanta spree killings, the wider cultural reaction to the event, and other news of the week. Want to talk to us? Find us on Facebook or Twitter, or you can email the show here. Enjoy!

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Show Rundown

Intro —> Yappity yap

5:13 —> Atlanta spree killings

29:10 —> How Christian movie FIREPROOF explains Atlanta

55:26 —> WGAS News — Ibram Kendi’s The Emancipator

1:03:40 —> Sidney Powell has a surprisingly forthright defense for her Kraken nonsense

1:08:46 —> Jack Dorsey’s NFT tweet sold for $2.9 million, Bob’s brother’s NFTs sold for $1200

1:09:40 —> Polling says a whole lot of Americans got a whole lot bigger this pandemic—did we?

1:13:26 —> Alexi McCammond will not be the next editor of Teen Vogue because of bad tweets

1:18:40 —> A clip from The Cable Guy, for some reason

1:21:00 —> A brief review of HBO’s The Investigation