We’re here with another 90+ minutes of yappity-yap, with a focus on daylight savings time, a quick trip through the news, and a visit to philosophy class with Abe. Enjoy!

Rundown:

Opening — Bickering about daylight savings time

20:09 — The crisis on the southern border

33:57 — Astra-Zeneca vaccine suspended in Europe, and (at 39:55) a discussion about child vaccine trials

47:16 — Amanda Gorman’s poetry needs a very particular kinda translator

1:01:19 — Wack Shit or Wacky Shit, Deepfake Edition

1:07:37 — Philosophy Class with Abe

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Your favorite podcast is back after a week’s hiatus to talk about Dr. Seuss, a quick romp through a couple weeks of news headlines, and another edition of America’s fifty-seventh highest rated podcast game show, Wack Shit or Wacky Shit. Listen! It’s for you!

Show Rundown

6:00 — Dr. Seuss Cancelled?!

21:26 — WGAS News!

24:38 — Congress voting access reform

38:34 — $1.9 trillion COVID stimulus/relief package

49:04 — Biden administration response to MBS murder of Khashoggi

54:43 — Virginia legislature sends death penalty abolition and marijuana legalization to the governor’s desk

58:33 — Texas lifts COVID restrictions with widespread vaccine access two months away

1:05:22 — Wack Shit or Wacky Shit, NFT Edition

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Here we are once again with another hour-and-change about this silly, silly world we share. Specifically, this week we’re on about the multi-faceted disaster in Texas and the indefinite suspension of Slate podcaster Mike Pesca for wanting to talk about what can or cannot be talked about by whom without actually saying—or typing—the thing itself. It’s all absurdia, all the time, here in 2021.

2:22 — Texas mayor’s bad Facebook post and Ted Cruz’s quick jaunt to Mexico

23:33 — Grid failures and political failures in Texas

52:58 — When is it ok to talk about whether or not it’s ok to talk about who should be sometimes allowed to say bad words that we all agree shouldn’t ever be said derogatorily by basically anyone?

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CIB is here once again—a day late, sorry, sheesh, technical difficulties!—with a discussion on IMPEACHIN’ II — TRUMPTASTIC BOOGALOO and the disingenuous bullshit that Republican senators cowered behind when casting their votes to acquit, and a long talk about living in a society increasingly concerned with policing the sounds that come out of your mouth. Enjoy!

Impeachment and GOP nonsense — 4:07

Gina Carano, Taylor Lorenz, and the parameters of acceptable mouth noises — 31:30

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We’re a little Super-Bowl-heavy at the start of the show, with plenty of talk of the big, terrible game and the mostly awful commercials between which the game took place. But then we’re on to the silliness of the San Francisco School Board, a review of the new Hulu documentary/one man show “In & of Itself,” and other topics. Enjoy!

Rundown

Start — Super Bowl LV, Tom Brady, Gambling

22:39 — Super Bowl LV commercials

40:25 — Jim Nantz’ myriad crimes against humanity

45:02 — San Francisco school board silliness

48:28 — A review of Derek DelGaudio’s In & of Itself

1:23:25 — Update on Abe’s 7th grade reading curriculum

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It’s just another podcast, actually! Cast Iron Brains is here with our weekly chat about our silly world. This week we’re on about the hedge fund assholes with massive short positions on GameStop getting taken to the cleaners by the dummies from Reddit, and what makes Tom Brady so gosh-darned great, among other topics and false starts. Enjoy!

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Cast Iron Brains finds itself somewhat adrift this week, but we manage to sound more or less precisely like ourselves in the process. Language and subject matter occasionally extra salty this week—you’ve been warned!

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In which we discuss the waning moments of the Trump presidency, get into whether or not some discussions do anything but confound the problems they’re ostensibly trying to solve, and play a variation on an old favorite game. It’s a podcast! You listen to it, with ears!

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CIB is here to talk through the events of January 6, 2021, and what has happened since. Sorry it’s so long—but what happened last Wednesday was a pretty big deal, and we have so many feelings about it all.

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We talked about all sorts of things on today’s episode, and then I edited most of the non-newsy topics right on out. Sorry! It’s still a pretty good time, though. We focus mostly on the leaked audio of a conversation between President Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Raffensperger, and offer our best guesses as to what will happen in the Georgia Senate runoffs being counted right…now. Well, then, anyway. Still now for me. But you get the point. Enjoy!

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