The Calderas Left Behind
CIB is back with another thrilling and hilarious 90 minutes of disdain, mystification, and general discontent with the state of the world around us. This week we’re talking about the Atlanta spree killings, the wider cultural reaction to the event, and other news of the week. Want to talk to us? Find us on Facebook or Twitter, or you can email the show here. Enjoy!
Show Rundown
Intro —> Yappity yap
5:13 —> Atlanta spree killings
29:10 —> How Christian movie FIREPROOF explains Atlanta
55:26 —> WGAS News — Ibram Kendi’s The Emancipator
1:03:40 —> Sidney Powell has a surprisingly forthright defense for her Kraken nonsense
1:08:46 —> Jack Dorsey’s NFT tweet sold for $2.9 million, Bob’s brother’s NFTs sold for $1200
1:09:40 —> Polling says a whole lot of Americans got a whole lot bigger this pandemic—did we?
1:13:26 —> Alexi McCammond will not be the next editor of Teen Vogue because of bad tweets
1:18:40 —> A clip from The Cable Guy, for some reason
1:21:00 —> A brief review of HBO’s The Investigation
Atlanta Spree Killings
Robert Aaron Long, a self-hating Christian moron, killed eight people in and around Atlanta last week. The murders were quickly folded into a narrative of anti-Asian, white supremacist hatred and violence, despite there being no evidence for that particular explanation. It was everywhere.
No, we’re not saying that anti-Asian hate and violence isn’t a thing—it surely is—just that it almost certainly wasn’t a factor in this instance.
Here is a thought-provoking piece from Jay Kaspian Kang of The New York Times Magazine from a couple of Sundays ago about anti-Asian animus.
There are plenty of Evangelical Christians who understand the killer’s professed “motivations.”
Here’s the video we played about thirty minutes into this episode, a clip from the terrible Christian movie FIREPROOF, a movie that I’ve seen more than a couple of times, somehow.
I was so frustrated by the stupid conversation that I took to tweeting at people! That’s pretty frustrated!
Ibram X Kendi is launching an antiracist newspaper in a partnership between his program at Boston University and the Boston Globe.
Sidney Powell’s lawyers are arguing that no reasonable human being should have taken her seriously when she was promising that she had evidence of massive voter fraud, election theft, and a forthcoming KRAKEN. They’re not wrong, obviously, but that’s quite a defense to mount!
Jack Dorsey sold the first ever tweet as an NFT. Proceeds will go to charity, he says.
Americans have gotten a good bit fatter during the pandemic.
A link about the Teen Vogue controversy, if you’re feeling like punishing yourself in that sorta way.
And, yes, we played this clip at the end of the show, and I’m still not sure why.
Oh, and one more thing. The bet we made about 55 minutes in? It was settled pretty conclusively Tuesday morning despite the fact that the shithead at the grocery store in Colorado on Monday evening turned out not to be white in the way most people think of the term. The so-called receipts:
And an obnoxious Twitter thread pointing out a whole lot more of silly narrative building out of nothing:
See you next week.
