The news of the week is depressing and beyond our power to control it, so we first dwell on road races and theme parks, and then close with a brief reflection on the very popular novel James by Percival Everett. Listen, if you must! 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 — Abe vs 43,002 comers
11:22 — A trip to Busch Gardens
33:53 — Texas floods
1:00:51 — The Big Beautiful Bill
1:14:41 — Epstein had no “client list,” died by suicide
1:20:08 — Wrap-up! Jurassic World: Rebirth; Attack on London; James by Percival Everett

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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 here before the Fourth of July to discuss the major rulings handed down by the Supreme Court at the end of the term, along with a handful of other topics, strange headlines, and owls in the national news. Listen, if you must! 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 — Surviving an international soccer match
11:09 — Surviving the local library
17:39 — WGAS NewsBag; Many snakes on many planes! Immigrants in ovens!
28:09 — SCOTUS Talk! Nationwide injunctions and birthright citizenship; curriculum opt-outs; age verification vs. free speech
58:10 — Mamdani wins NYC mayoral primary
1:14:16 — UVA president Jim Ryan resigns under pressure from Trump justice department
1:19:48 — Idaho firefighter assassinations
1:22:51 — Did CBS News’ Correspondent Itay Hod Get Off A Good One in the Fashion of CBS News’ Senior National News Correspondent Mark Strassmann, Owls in a Tree Edition
1:29:23 — Wrap-up! Brad Pitt’s F1 movie; Parthenope; Blockade Billy

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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.

We’re finally back to discuss the recent goings on in the world, which is mostly that the United States decided to directly involve itself in the war between Israel and Iran—and by “the United States” we mean mostly Donald Trump. Donald Trump! A person who seems to think of himself more as a monarch than as a president, and who is no doubt happy to find that the limitations that theoretically exist to prevent him from behaving like an unaccountable monarch are either broken or ignored by those who might impose them. Listen, if you must! 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 — Youth sport update, and Abe in the World
18:17 — US bombs Iranian nuclear facilities
1:32:14 — Wrap-up!

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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.