CIB is here with solutions for everything that ails a hot and bored nation. This week we’re yapping about a new sports streaming bundle, Trump’s DC takeover, how not to go about ending one’s life, and what unites the conspiracists, the skeptics, and those of us mostly just going along to get along. Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joining the conversation on our Substack or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!

Show Rundown
Open — CTRL-F’ing for “catturd” in the New York Times archive
14:00 — ESPN and Fox bundling streaming service
27:58 — Trump activates National Guard in DC, takes over policing
39:58 — Texas congressional redistricting attempt and how to fix gerrymandering
1:04:48 — Suicide by repeated fancy dinners
1:25:58 — Did CBS News’ Senior National Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One, and how we’re all operating on faith more than we might accept
1:54:52 — Wrap-up! Weapons; Monty Python and the Holy Grail; Iron Man 2

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The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Brains were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

CIB is back after a brief summer trip to discuss yet another day among the filthy rabble at a Virginia theme park, the national news of the moment, and whether or not Sydney Sweeney is hot enough to justify all this upset her ads are causing. Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joining the conversation on our Substack or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!

Show Rundown
Open — CIB is a THEME PARK ENTHUSIAST podcast now
28:20 — WGAS NewsBag!
55:10 — Sydney Sweeney and Her Big Ol’ Cans and a Pun
1:16:05 — Denmark wants your unwanted pets for…reasons
1:18:09 — Panera Bread causes domestic disputes, will stop baking its own bread
1:24:38 — Did CBS News’ Senior National Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?
1:38:12 — Wrap-up! Fantastic 4; The Naked Gun; Happy Gilmore 2; Rudy; The Talisman; Fall or Dodge in Hell

Relevant Linkage can be found by visiting https://brainiron.substack.com/, where, if you would like to support this and the other podcasting and blogging endeavors of the Brain Iron dot com media empire, you can also become a paying subscriber.

The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Brains were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

Despite coming into this week’s conversation fairly well convinced that there was a grand unifying theme to be sussed out from the news of the week, it’s not clear that we ever quite got there. Still, an enjoyable time was had, so check it out! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joining the conversation on our Substack or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!

Show Rundown
Open — Just unforgivable meandering nonsense
15:29 — In Our Bogus Future, the robits know what you’ll pay, and “That’s a dick move!”
36:10 — In Our Bogus Future, you live at the pleasure of AI Donatello
1:01:58 — In Our Bogus Future, old man complains about light bulbs
1:10:20 — Coca-Cola now good for you!
1:15:47 — Acknowledging the MAHA instinct within us all
1:23:02 — Does alcohol contribute to the creation of great societies?
1:34:22 — CBS to cancel The Late Show, PBS and NPR lose CPB funding
1:58:05 — As usual, it all comes back to Dick Cheney
2:14:23 — Wrap-up! Revisiting Balloon Boy; The Great Wall

Relevant Linkage can be found by visiting https://brainiron.substack.com/, where, if you would like to support this and the other podcasting and blogging endeavors of the Brain Iron dot com media empire, you can also become a paying subscriber.

The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Brains were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.