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

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It’s an almost-all Super Bowl 60 reaction spectacular! We watched, we complained, we talked about it. 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 girds himself for SURVIVOR 50
3:11 — Trump stumbles over non-existent bar for his own speech, posts Obamas depicted as apes
12:28 — Super Bowl 60! And the Olympics!
48:07 — Super Bowl 60 commercials!
1:04:38 — Super Bowl 60 halftime shows!
1:41:16 — Canada to lose all hockey privileges
1:46:07 — Wrap-up!

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Rather than another lengthy run through the unpleasant headlines of the week, we are here with a more ruminative discussion about whether the relationships that have been strained by The Trumppening have a chance of being mended when it finally comes to an end. We also talk about a social network for AIs, and what it means to engage with purely arbitrary content created with no intention beyond pattern matching. 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 — Groundhogs of various bigotries
5:09 — A visit with old friends; Abe goes to MJ: The Musical; Jason Statham gets the AMC crowd all riled up
21:48 — What will a post-Trumppening look like?
52:52 — Moltbook, the social network for AIs, and how arbitrary content consumed purely individually breaks human brains
1:22:41 — Did CBS News’ Senior National Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?
1:31:54 — Wrap-up! Shelter; Send Help

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