No Presidential Pardon from the Black Box of Doom (CIB #218)

CIB is back atop your podcast feed with a bit of yapping about the news of the week and then more than an hour of trying to explain how a dead author’s muse and an interview with the stars of the hit movie musical Wicked and a novel about a depressive incel Lyft driver are all evidence of the same thing—that we should all probably take our magical pocket supercomputers and smash them against the nearest brick wall. It’s an old theme of ours, but still plenty to mine from it, apparently! 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 — Thanksgiving recap!10:10 — WGAS NewsBag; Kash Patel to head the FBI?; President Biden pardons his son Hunter48:50 — Cormac McCarthy and Augusta Britt and Wicked and the Black Box of Doom, oh my!1:55:11 — Wrap-up! Gladiator II; Great British Baking ShowRelevant 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.