Private Chefs, Organic Ho Hos, and the 1% Doctrine (CIB #247)

Despite coming into this week’s conversation fairly well convinced that there was a grand unifying theme to be sussed out from the news of the week, it’s not clear that we ever quite got there. Still, an enjoyable time was had, so check it out! 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 — Just unforgivable meandering nonsense15:29 — In Our Bogus Future, the robits know what you’ll pay, and “That’s a dick move!”36:10 — In Our Bogus Future, you live at the pleasure of AI Donatello1:01:58 — In Our Bogus Future, old man complains about light bulbs1:10:20 — Coca-Cola now good for you! 1:15:47 — Acknowledging the MAHA instinct within us all1:23:02 — Does alcohol contribute to the creation of great societies?1:34:22 — CBS to cancel The Late Show, PBS and NPR lose CPB funding1:58:05 — As usual, it all comes back to Dick Cheney2:14:23 — Wrap-up! Revisiting Balloon Boy; The Great WallRelevant 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.