No Landmass for Experienced Persons

CIB has regrettably allowed the news of the week to turn us into insufferable but righteous cranks about almost everything, including the idiots mucking about with Roald Dahl’s words, the people calling the New York TImes to task for reporting on things they’d prefer they’d not, and plenty else. 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 — Yeeting Yeats, and the XFL improves the kickoff
9:48 — Abe prematurely celebrating the death of a perfectly nice old man
11:48 — Roald Dahl’s works have been updated to better conform to the alleged preferences of the modern age
36:22 — A bunch of disingenuous liars signed their names to a letter accusing the NYT of transphobia
1:14:52 — A doctor insists that obesity is a result of one’s genetics, not the environment, by very clearly blaming the environment
1:28:44 — Wrap up! Marlowe, Deliverance, Years and Years, a fun new toy, Hogwarts Legacy, and The Last of Us

Relevant Linkage

USA Today: How XFL 2023 rule book is different from NFL and college football: What you need to know (need may vary")

NYT Opinion: Jimmy Carter’s Presidency Was Not What You Think

AP: Critics reject changes to Roald Dahl books as censorship

NYT Opinion: The Long Shadow of ‘American Dirt’

Reason: Sensitivity Readers Are the New Literary Gatekeepers

NYT: In an Era of Online Outrage, Do Sensitivity Readers Result in Better Books, or Censorship?

The letter sent to the New York Times by a group of concerned NYT contributors

NYT: When Students Change Gender Identity, and Parents Don’t Know

NYT: The Battle Over Gender Therapy

NYT: They Paused Puberty, but Is There a Cost?

NYT Douthat: How to Make Sense of the New L.G.B.T.Q. Culture War