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.

We’re back after a week away from the news to yap about what’s happening in the world, including the Trump/Elon messiness, nationwide immigration protests, and a recent SCOTUS decision. 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 at Metallica!
12:56 — WGAS NewsBag; Iran hates dogs, Iranians love dogs, and what this has to do with the upset in Los Angeles and beyond
38:17 — Joni Ernst wields her faith like a squirt gun filled with Nickelodeon slime; Trump and Elon break up; “reverse discrimination” isn’t a thing; travel ban is back
1:01:07 — Dis CBS News’ Senior National Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?
1:05:58 — Wrap-up! Ballerina; Challengers; youth sport

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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 back after a week away from the news to briefly talk about the goings on in the world while spending most of our time together yapping about ourselves, as is our prerogative on our very own podcast. 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 denigrates the most distinctly American art form
4:33 — Desecrating various temples
28:38 — WGAS NewsBag: Trump sours on Putin; Trump invites South Africa to White House to accuse them of genociding white people; Trump pardons as political favors
39:24 — NYT Well Section tells us to stop being so “judgy”
52:50 — EXPERTS SAY French president manhandled by old lady, is a wuss
1:09:59 — AI is ruining college, brains
1:32:32 — Did CBS News’s Senior National Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?
1:39:06 — Wrap-up! Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning

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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.

This week we yap about why sometimes you are in fact supposed to look a gift horse in the mouth, Abe’s journeys to multiple new American cities, and the surprising rush of pride upon the announcement of the new American pope. 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 — Baseball rainouts, injured pinkies, and big Mother’s Day plans
11:07 — Abe in the World
27:26 — WGAS NewsBag
1:04:33 — America’s Favorite Game Show
1:11:16 — NBA Draft Lottery FIXED!!!
1:20:41 — 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.

This week we’re discussing Donald Trump’s insistence that there’s nothing wrong with America that can’t be solved by simply denying your insatiable appetite for ever more dolls and pencils. Does the president’s suspicion of all trade speak to the existential malaise of the modern American cursed to live in a time of obscene overconsumption, a people incapable of listening to their inner moral conscience in the face of so many tempting glittering baubles? Is the wage of living hypocritical lives in contradiction of our values a collective victimhood that prevents us from accepting responsibility for our actions? Are we a nation of fucking babies? 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 places a very lucrative wager…in his mind
19:13 — Donald Trump on Meet the Press
51:55 — America’s Favorite Game Show
1:00:40 — Our Bogus Future
1:05:07 — Earthquake!
1:08:54 — Wrap-up! Thunderbolts; The Rehearsal; Batman Forever; Japanese justice

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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.

It’s been 100 days since Donald Trump took office for the second time, and we celebrate by talking about literally anything else for the first hour or so, including tales of greedy, scheming children, their spineless parents, and drug-addled weirdos trying to steal from the youth baseball concession stand. After all of that we yap about a few things we missed in the first months of the second Trump presidency, and also the sports news of the week. 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 goes Hollywood
10:43 — Bob vs The Children and their Animal Cunning
30:32 — Youth Beisbol Update
59:18 — Three things we didn’t yet mention about the first 100 days
1:33:15 — Cast Iron Balls; Bill Belichick interview and Shedeur Sanders
2:03:47 — Did CBS News’ Senior National Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?
2:09:36 — Wrap-up! Shadow Force; The Accountant 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.