Yet another way the internet has ruined the everyday asshole.
Cast Iron Brains, a podcast that has now been doing this for a whole calendar year, for some reason, is here with another episode. This week we’re talking about our reactions to the second dose of the COVID vaccine and what that could mean to the public’s willingness to get a booster every six months, willfully obnoxious orders at restaurants, a Ukrainian sunglasses tycoon who just can’t quit doing crimes, and plenty of other stuff. If for some reason you still want to talk to us after listening to all that, you can find us on Facebook or Twitter, and you can send us an email here. Enjoy!
Show Rundown:
Intro —> The usual nonsense.
10:37 —> Bob and Lori got the second vaccine dose, and had some pretty intense side effects. We discuss that and vaccine uptake in the United States, and wonder about what life will look like in six months.
36:10 —> People are posting their purposefully obnoxious Starbucks orders online, giving Bob a pretty gnarly episode of pizza days PTSD.
53:55 —> The Biden administration announced last week that they would like to ban menthol cigarettes.
1:00:53 —> Amazon has secured the exclusive rights to the NFL’s Thursday Night Football.
1:04:37 —> Verizon sold off Yahoo and AOL to a private equity firm.
1:08:10 —> Bill and Melinda Gates are calling it quits, Lori believes that everyone should get divorced, and Bob has a bad theory about the lottery.
1:15:17 —> A story about a Ukrainian-born sunglasses magnate, of course.
1:25:00 —> MAJOR JEOPARDY CONTROVERSY.
How Abe tried to buy season tickets for the Atlanta Hawks last weekend:
The New York Times isn’t sure that the United States is going to get to “herd immunity” any time soon.
People are placing annoying orders at Starbucks on purpose, for the clicks and views, because everything is awesome.
Here’s the Washington Post on how the Biden administration wants to ban menthol cigarettes.
Amazon is going to pay the NFL a billion dollars a year for the next eleven years for the exclusive broadcast rights to fifteen Thursday night football games per season.
Verizon takes a $4 billion bath on Yahoo! and AOL.
Bill and Melinda Gates are getting divorced after 27 years of marriage. Why are we talking about this? Because Lori is a big divorce enthusiast, apparently.
Vitaly Borker is the Ukrainian who just can’t stop being a scumbag retailer of sketchy sunglasses on the internet. The New York Times has the very amusing story.
Not exactly the most sympathetic victims he’s selling to, here! Get ‘em, Vitaly!
Yes, a bunch of former Jeopardy contestants are upset about a completely innocent hand gesture displayed for a few seconds on television.
Just over ten years ago, John Cena announced to wrestling fans the world over that US military forces had killed Osama bin Laden. We found this highly amusing.