White Men Can't Soap (CIB #269)

About this episode

The episode discusses the negative effects of short form video on our brains while touching on various cultural and media topics.

Today we’re mostly ignoring the news of the week to instead express wonder and dismay at how short form video is probably breaking our brains in really bad ways. It’s a hoot! 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 Biffler goes full blood-determinism 21:33 — Regressing to an oral culture 36:03 — Maybe weight does in fact correlate with health a bit 58:37 — Did CBS News’ Chief Correspondent Matt Gutman Get Off A Good One in the Fashion and to the Exacting Standards of CBS News’ Senior National Correspondent Mark Strassmann? 1:03:19 — Is the US about to get weird in Iran? Should we…bet on it? 1:13:55 — Wrap-up! Crime 101; Wuthering Heights; Minority Report; Sinners; The Olympics 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…

People in this episode

Hosts: Bob, Abe

Topics covered

• short form video
• brain impact
• cultural regression
• health and weight correlation
• US-Iran relations
• media standards

Keywords

• short form video
• brain health
• cultural commentary
• media analysis
• US Iran relations
• weight and health
• CBS News

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CBS News

Books & works: Wuthering Heights, Minority Report, Sinners, The Olympics

Places: Iran

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