It’s another episode of your favorite podcast, and it is somehow one of the shortest episodes we’ve made in a long time but also as it turns out just about our normal two hours of yapping. What strange majicks make such a thing possible? Failure and editing, that’s what! 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 — The insatiable, broken-faced man
8:08 — WGAS NewsBag; Hegseth in group chat mess redux; unaccountable deportation program continues; FDA to ban some food dyes; SCOTUS hears gay marriage books in class case
58:06 — Political scientists say we really screwed up our COVID response
1:10:54 — Did CBS News’s Senior National Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?
1:15:25 — Wrap-up! Sinners; The Last of Us 2
1:29:00 — Bonus CIB, A Failed Conversation Edition

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.