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.

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

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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 takes a slight detour before getting into the news of the week with a discussion that centers around the question: can too much communication actually be bad? That plus Strassmann on the Gulf and 70s kids movies full of bad words. 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’s Favorite Day of the Year, Non-Federal Holiday Version
7:02 — The Perils of Overcommunication!
46:50 — Abe and Friends vs Spicy Noodles
54:38 — WGAS NewsBag; Trump mad at CBS News again; tariffs rolled back; PA governor assassination attempt
1:18:13 — Did CBS News’s Senior National Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?
1:24:41 — Bill Maher Goes to Washington
1:34:55 — Wrap-up! The Amateur; The Bad News Bears

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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.