Brain Iron

View Original

There's Always a Foghorn / Singing You to Schoolwreck

CIB is here near week’s end with an episode we weren’t planning on making but ended up recording anyway because of the insatiable ambition to podcast that we have deep in our CONTENT-making marrow. We’re yapping about the week in sports-viewing, bad NPR interviews, Billy Corgan podcasts of silly intent and dubious merit, bad Twitter reactions, and a whole host of other things that we’re not actually going to talk about this week, we swear. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on Facebook or Twitter, leave a comment on the show’s page on our website, or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!

Your browser doesn't support HTML5 audio

There's Always a Foghorn / Singing You to Schoolwreck Cast Iron Brains -- A Podcast with Bob and Abe

Show Rundown
Open — Local schools preparing for The Day After Tomorrow?!?!?!
11:25 — The Week in Sports: Giants/Cowboys, Manningcast, NFL RedZone, the Pro Bowl, Aaron Judge
33:48 — An extended discussion about two things that we’re definitely not here to talk about
55:20 — Why we’re actually here, inexplicably: something Ross Douthat tweeted
1:31:58 — One more thing we’re not actually talking about: free speech online in Texas and on campus in Florida
1:35:19 — Wrap up! Don’t Worry Darling and the Incestuous Dragon Show on HBO

Relevant Linkage
Here’s all I could find on my wild claims about Barry Bonds’ elbow armor.

Associated Press: NFL ends Pro Bowl; skills competitions, flag game instead

An illustrative example of the kinda NPR interviews that annoy Bob: Brandon Kyle Goodman embraces their authentic self in new book

Billy Corgan’s new podcast: https://www.wpcthirtythree.com/

The tweet that made a whole bunch of assholes call Ross Douthat an awful racist:

Some absurd things people said about the tweet:

The Guardian: Hillary Clinton: Europe must curb immigration to stop rightwing populists

Reading assignments for next week:

The Atlantic: Is This the Beginning of the End of the Internet? How a single Texas ruling could change the web forever By Charlie Warzel

Chronicle of Higher Education: It’s Not Clear Whether Public-College Professors Have First Amendment Rights When They’re Teaching

Reason Magazine: Florida All in for Assault on Academic Freedom

Olivia Wilde’s Don’t Worry Darling trailer: