The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Podcasters

The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Podcasters

C.K. Taverner
Cast Iron Brains

Cast Iron Brains returns as regularly scheduled to discuss the 2022 midterm election cycle, including the things we got wrong and the (considerably fewer) things we got right, the strange way some media types and politicians have reacted to the results, and what it all portends for the 2024 presidential race—among plenty of other, non-politics silliness thrown in. 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!

Show Rundown
Open — A very stupid weekend culminating in local tragedy
14:06 — The midterms are (mostly) over! What happened and why?
1:07:05 — Liz Warren on MTP throws the federal judiciary under the bus
1:18:38 — Did CBS News’ Senior National News Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?
1:23:17 — Sam Bankman-Fried, Elon Musk, and American certainty on the underlying virtue of great success
1:32:08 — Brian Eno interviewed in the New York Times, with some alternative ideas about success and certainty
1:34:54 — Wrap-up! Les Mis, The Martian, sports, and COVID vaccine boosters

Relevant Linkage

CNN: What we know about the suspect in the deadly University of Virginia shooting

Brennan Center: Why Does It Take So Long to Count Mail Ballots in Key States? Blame Legislatures

At no point did the House of Representatives in the 117th Congress of the United States have a full cohort of 435 congresspeople.

Belief in the Divinity of Caffeine Free Diet Christ

Belief in the Divinity of Caffeine Free Diet Christ

Another Election Day at the Nonchurch of the Freely Associated Temporary Denizens of The Great Internet Brain Iron