Skyline Chili vs Gas Station Nachos vs Humanity (CIB #211)

It’s not often that we do an episode of Cast Iron Brains—especially lately—that feels like a more or less perfect distillation of what it is we generally do around here. But this episode of the show very much feels like an encapsulation of what this show is all about. I don’t mean to oversell it, but if you’re looking for a very Cast Iron Brains episode of Cast Iron Brains, you’re in luck! We’ve got a look at the news, absurd big picture projections about the future of the culture, complaints about NPR headlines, and we let our romantic notions of what it means to be human get in the way of making the baseball field snack stand a simple and profitable enterprise. This is us! 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 regales us with tales of Cincinnati and Nashville, and the crew considers the eternal question, “Why is Atlanta?”10:12 — She’s gonna lose. Probably? Who knows.20:52 — An aside: What is the future of American culture war?29:53 — Harris campaign’s questionable “black outreach,” and struggles with the rest of the “minority vote”45:54 — NPR headline claims that only 2% of charitable giving goes to women54:23 — How gas station nachos represent man’s inhumanity to man1:16:00 — The Billboard Hot 100 Game1:41:40 — Wrap-up! Saturday Night; Deep Sky; CoralineRelevant 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.