This week we yap about why sometimes you are in fact supposed to look a gift horse in the mouth, Abe’s journeys to multiple new American cities, and the surprising rush of pride upon the announcement of the new American pope. 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 Rundown
Open — Baseball rainouts, injured pinkies, and big Mother’s Day plans
11:07 — Abe in the World
27:26 — WGAS NewsBag
1:04:33 — America’s Favorite Game Show
1:11:16 — NBA Draft Lottery FIXED!!!
1:20:41 — Wrap-up!

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The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Brains were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

This week we’re discussing Donald Trump’s insistence that there’s nothing wrong with America that can’t be solved by simply denying your insatiable appetite for ever more dolls and pencils. Does the president’s suspicion of all trade speak to the existential malaise of the modern American cursed to live in a time of obscene overconsumption, a people incapable of listening to their inner moral conscience in the face of so many tempting glittering baubles? Is the wage of living hypocritical lives in contradiction of our values a collective victimhood that prevents us from accepting responsibility for our actions? Are we a nation of fucking babies? 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 Rundown
Open — Abe places a very lucrative wager…in his mind
19:13 — Donald Trump on Meet the Press
51:55 — America’s Favorite Game Show
1:00:40 — Our Bogus Future
1:05:07 — Earthquake!
1:08:54 — Wrap-up! Thunderbolts; The Rehearsal; Batman Forever; Japanese justice

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It’s been 100 days since Donald Trump took office for the second time, and we celebrate by talking about literally anything else for the first hour or so, including tales of greedy, scheming children, their spineless parents, and drug-addled weirdos trying to steal from the youth baseball concession stand. After all of that we yap about a few things we missed in the first months of the second Trump presidency, and also the sports news of the week. 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 Rundown
Open — Abe goes Hollywood
10:43 — Bob vs The Children and their Animal Cunning
30:32 — Youth Beisbol Update
59:18 — Three things we didn’t yet mention about the first 100 days
1:33:15 — Cast Iron Balls; Bill Belichick interview and Shedeur Sanders
2:03:47 — Did CBS News’ Senior National Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?
2:09:36 — Wrap-up! Shadow Force; The Accountant 2

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The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Brains were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

It’s another episode of your favorite podcast, and it is somehow one of the shortest episodes we’ve made in a long time but also as it turns out just about our normal two hours of yapping. What strange majicks make such a thing possible? Failure and editing, that’s what! 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 Rundown
Open — The insatiable, broken-faced man
8:08 — WGAS NewsBag; Hegseth in group chat mess redux; unaccountable deportation program continues; FDA to ban some food dyes; SCOTUS hears gay marriage books in class case
58:06 — Political scientists say we really screwed up our COVID response
1:10:54 — Did CBS News’s Senior National Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?
1:15:25 — Wrap-up! Sinners; The Last of Us 2
1:29:00 — Bonus CIB, A Failed Conversation Edition

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The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Brains were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

CIB takes a slight detour before getting into the news of the week with a discussion that centers around the question: can too much communication actually be bad? That plus Strassmann on the Gulf and 70s kids movies full of bad words. 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 Rundown
Open — Abe’s Favorite Day of the Year, Non-Federal Holiday Version
7:02 — The Perils of Overcommunication!
46:50 — Abe and Friends vs Spicy Noodles
54:38 — WGAS NewsBag; Trump mad at CBS News again; tariffs rolled back; PA governor assassination attempt
1:18:13 — Did CBS News’s Senior National Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?
1:24:41 — Bill Maher Goes to Washington
1:34:55 — Wrap-up! The Amateur; The Bad News Bears

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The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Brains were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

Plenty of fun to be had this week yapping about all the stupid stuff happening in the world, even if we are a couple of days behind the news at this point. Also, a new study says phone are actually BETTER for your kids’ mental health, and Mark Strassmann goes to the midwest in search of some sad sisters to lay a nasty pun upon. 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 Rundown
Open — Abe in the World, Charleston, SC Edition
10:40 — WGAS NewsBag; Tariffs Talk!
56:12 — WGAS continued; DOJ suspends attorney for acknowledging bogus deportation; Laura Loomer from HR; SignalGate explained?
1:15:21 — Reason says phones are fine, actually, again
1:25:15 — Did CBS News’s Senior National Correspondent Get Off a Good One?
1:41:09 — Wrap-up! Adolescence; Inside Out 2; Shoresy; Dying for Sex; White Lotus finale

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The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Brains were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

CIB mostly aimlessly meanders through the news of the week in this episode, with thoughts on the ongoing fallout from the leaked Signal group chat, Trump’s executive orders to defund public and state-sponsored media, and plenty of other headlines. Also, though this doesn’t come up in our discussion of The White Lotus—if we’re right in suggesting that the audience’s appetite is what drives content on various news media platforms, what does The White Lotus’s various weird incest plotlines say about that audience’s appetite? Yeesh. 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 Rundown
Open — Abe wrestling a mountain in Syphilis Town, GA
11:41 — WGAS NewsBag; Voice of America defunded, other executive orders, SignalGate continues
1:03:03 — Quitting social media won’t make your life better; lawyer claims client deported to El Salvador not a gang member; Marine La Pen banned from running for public office; NYT’s article on US involvement in Ukraine’s fight against Russia
1:30:11 — Wrap-up! A Working Man; Scream 5; The White Lotus

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The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Brains were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

Today on the show we’re discussing the fact that you can do everything right in this tough old world and still end up getting in trouble because some meddling journalist refused to do the right thing and exit himself from the group chat BEFORE you started discussing war plans with your buddies. 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 Rundown
Open — DangeRuss Wilson, NYFG, FML
6:45 — Subject: Should we bomb Yemen? CC: Prominent magazine editor
39:53 — Trump admin claims “mandate of the electorate” allows them to deport any non-citizen without oversight
56:14 — Our Bogus Future: 23andMe bankruptcy
1:09:16 — Did CBS News’ Senior National Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?
1:17:22 — “Governor Hot Wheels”
1:20:42 — Wrap-up! The Alto Knights; Adolescence; The Electric State

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The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Brains were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.