Cast Iron Brains is inadvisably back in front of the recording devices this week to bleakly contemplate a future to be determined by people who know enough to care about something but don’t care enough to really know about anything. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on our Substack, leave a comment on the show’s page on our website, or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!

Show Rundown
Open — Alternative milk delivery apparatus and getting lost in Canada
9:52 — Meandering through an encampment of confused and sincere youths, and operating in fear of the low-information public
53:32 — A thought experiment to try to show how small differences in input can lead to seemingly large differences in output
1:15:10 — The Billboard Hot 100 Game
1:23:48 — Wrap-up! Challengers; The Sympathizer; NFL draft

Relevant Linkage

AP: Biden officials indefinitely postpone ban on menthol cigarettes amid election-year pushback

Anti-tobacco group: MARKETING MENTHOL: THE HISTORY OF TOBACCO INDUSTRY TARGETING OF AFRICAN AMERICANS

NPR: Why experts say inflation is relatively low but voters feel differently

NYT: Newly Declassified Video Shows U.S. Killing of 10 Civilians in Drone Strike

Slate: The Last Thing This Supreme Court Could Do to Shock Us