Vegas is a super weird place, and we’re here to talk about its strangeness and immensity and how we felt just kinda walking all over the strip. And also there was an awful lot of news that happened in the last couple of weeks, so we reluctantly pick a couple of illustrative stories and chat amiably about them, as is our wont. 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 — Vegas Vacation recap!
40:40 — Trying to describe the indescribable inside The Sphere
1:05:51 — WGAS NewsBag; Air disaster over the Potomac; Trump wants Gaza; Trump wants to close the Department of Education
1:56:00 — Wrap-up! Flight Risk; Companion; The Nickel Boys; September 5; Squid Game 2; Homicide: LA; Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever; Stand By Me; Severance 2

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After a couple of weeks away, we’re finally sufficiently recovered from our travels and travel-acquired illnesses to talk about sports and sports-adjacent topics. Lucky for you! We’ve got hoop talk, massage table inappropriateness, poop in the mail, and plenty of other silliness. 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 — Explaining our absence, and getting to the bottom of who made Stone Mountain
6:23 — Sportsbook or ManCave?
9:56 — Luka to the Lakers?!
24:05 — Justin Tucker, Massage Enthusiast
34:39 — Conference championship weekend
45:55 — Wrap-up! Mookie’s Poop Justice; Halftime show preview, Not Like Us indeed

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The second Trump administration is off, as expected, to a running, chaotic, wacky-waving-inflatable-arm-flailing-tube-man start, and CIB is here to talk about the parts of it that seem particularly egregious so far. But worry not, both-sidesers, because we start with a total condemnation of Joe Biden’s actions on his way out of office. 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 — A few minutes of reflection on the recently departed
7:48 — Did Trump send Abe back to the office, and news about The Billboard Hot 100 Game
14:40 — A second Trump presidency begins with back to back speeches to slightly different audiences
37:46 — On Joe Biden’s shameful pardons
1:03:30 — On illegitimate executive action and the unconstitutional disgrace of trying to end birthright citizenship
1:17:05 — Cabinet appointments and how much of a Nazi is Elon Musk, really?
1:38:42 — Wrap-up! The Brutalist; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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