Bashar al-Assad, Ed Snowden, and Tal Bachman in Putin's Heisman House (CIB #219)

Your favorite podcast is back atop feeds all over the universe to discuss the most important news of the week, by which we mean we will first spend half an hour hearing tell of an arena rock concert featuring two of the worst bands from the late 90s and early 2000s as experienced by our intrepid cultural experiencer and reporter, the one and only Abe. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joining the conversation on our Substack or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!Show RundownOpen — Abe in the World, Concert Edition38:12 — WGAS NewsBag: United Healthcare CEO murder suspect caught1:05:00 — The fall of Bashar al-Assad1:16:00 — The Word of 2024 is “brain rot”1:18:04 — Did CBS News’ Senior National News Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?1:33:14 — Train Ruins The Billboard Hot 100 Game1:52:00 — Wrap-up! Y2K, Die Hard, Station ElevenRelevant Linkage can be found by visiting https://brainiron.substack.com/, where, if you would like to support this and the other podcasting and blogging endeavors of the Brain Iron dot com media empire, you can also become a paying subscriber.The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.