Really Good at the Really Bad Thing (CIB #270)

About this episode

The episode discusses the recent State of the Union address, CBS Evening News updates, movie reviews, and youth sports drama.

The State of the Union might as well have been a month ago, but we’re here to talk about it as the glorious, hilarious, highly watchable, weird, shameful, exploitative circus gameshow that it undeniably was. That and the latest goings on over on the CBS Evening News, Abe’s movie reviews, and plenty of YOUTH SPORT DRAMA. 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 — USA Men’s Hockey Triumphs! 8:29 — State of the Union Exploitation Spectacular 1:29:42 — Did CBS News’ Senior National Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One? 1:39:52 — Wrap-up! How to Make a Killing; Good Luck Have Fun Don’t Die; Little League updates 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

• State of the Union
• CBS Evening News
• movie reviews
• youth sports
• political commentary
• current events

Keywords

• State of the Union
• CBS Evening News
• Mark Strassmann
• youth sports
• movie reviews
• politics
• current events

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CBS Evening News

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