Immiserating Our Kids, One Way or Another (CIB #258)

With children’s birthdays rapidly approaching, Cast Iron Brains is here to discuss when, if ever, is the right time to put always-on communication devices on their wrists or in their pockets. Are we standing athwart the inevitable, or is there a better way to be in the world that one can achieve without incurring too much personal cost and misery? That and plenty of yapping about the news of the week, and a hope that Mark Strassmann is able to return to peak form. 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 at the steakhouse6:40 — The kids want the devices, the devices want the kids57:05 — WGAS NewsBag; Trump loses the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, becomes frontrunner for 2026 Nobel Peace Prize1:08:31 — JD Vance on ABC’s This Week1:25:33 — Did CBS News’ Senior National Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?1:38:12 — Wrap-up!Relevant 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 Brains were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.