Fortunately, the Forecast is Clear (CIB #280)

About this episode

The hosts return to discuss various news topics, including youth sports and political events.

Youth beisbol obligations have kept us from our podcasting responsibilities the last couple of weeks, but we’re finally back with our usual assortment of news, culture, and interpersonal complaints. 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 Live Bets the Games, NBA Finals Edition 20:09 — Trump walks out on Meet the Press 37:32 — Dismantling of 60 Minutes 42:42 — Why we love youth sport 1:37:01 — Wrap-up! Backrooms; Power Ballad Relevant 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 .

People in this episode

Hosts: Abe, Bob

Topics covered

• youth sports
• politics
• media criticism
• NBA Finals
• cultural commentary

Keywords

• youth baseball
• Trump
• Meet the Press
• 60 Minutes
• NBA Finals
• podcast

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Meet the Press, 60 Minutes, Brain Iron, tetramermusic.com

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