The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Podcasters
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!
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The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Podcasters
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.
PBS: What the media got right and wrong covering the 2022 midterms
AXIOS: Analysis: How most late-cycle polls actually performed
NYT: Trump Wanted I.R.S. Investigations of Foes, Top Aide Says
NYT: Comey and McCabe, Who Infuriated Trump, Both Faced Intensive I.R.S. Audits
WaPo: Trump’s wild claim about using the FBI to stop 2018 vote counting, explained
The Hill: DeSantis gains ground on Trump in hypothetical match-up: poll
Business Insider: Chaos unchecked: A comprehensive timeline of Elon Musk's Twitter-verification saga — for now
VOX: The ridiculous but important Twitter check mark fiasco, explained
VICE: Sam Bankman-Fried Was Supposed to Be Different. He Wasn't.
Reuters: Exclusive: Behind FTX's fall, battling billionaires and a failed bid to save crypto
VOX: The spectacular implosion of crypto’s biggest star, explained
NYT Magazine: Brian Eno Reveals the Hidden Purpose of All Art