Various Curious Paths to Higher Social Capital (CIB #252)

The news of the week isn’t always great fodder for purely frivolous conversation, but worry not! We are capable of finding the frivolity! This week we discuss the way that our fractured and willfully half-honest media ecosystem makes it impossible to collectively mourn mass trauma, and also how the local upper elementary school is recruiting the IMPRESSIONABLE YOUTS to Team Gay. 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 — Silly and terrible news stories to avoid talking about the inevitable9:39 — Minnesota church shooting38:52 — Pride Club?! Pride Club!1:05:24 — Wrap-up! Caught Stealing; football footbaw footbawlRelevant 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.