Cast Iron Brains -- A Podcast

We're back after a week away from the news to briefly talk about the goings on in the world while spending most of our time together yapping about ourselves, as is our prerogative on our very own podcast. 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 RundownOpen — Abe denigrates the most distinctly American art form4:33 — Desecrating various temples28:38 — WGAS NewsBag: Trump sours on Putin; Trump invites South Africa to White House to accuse them of genociding white people; Trump pardons as political favors39:24 — NYT Well Section tells us to stop being so “judgy”52:50 — EXPERTS SAY French president manhandled by old lady, is a wuss1:09:59 — AI is ruining college, brains1:32:32 — Did CBS News's Senior National Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?1:39:06 — Wrap-up! Mission: Impossible — The Final ReckoningRelevant 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.

This week we yap about why sometimes you are in fact supposed to look a gift horse in the mouth, Abe's journeys to multiple new American cities, and the surprising rush of pride upon the announcement of the new American pope. 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 RundownOpen — Baseball rainouts, injured pinkies, and big Mother's Day plans11:07 — Abe in the World27:26 — WGAS NewsBag1:04:33 — America's Favorite Game Show1:11:16 — NBA Draft Lottery FIXED!!!1:20:41 — Wrap-up!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.

This week we're discussing Donald Trump's insistence that there's nothing wrong with America that can't be solved by simply denying your insatiable appetite for ever more dolls and pencils. Does the president's suspicion of all trade speak to the existential malaise of the modern American cursed to live in a time of obscene overconsumption, a people incapable of listening to their inner moral conscience in the face of so many tempting glittering baubles? Is the wage of living hypocritical lives in contradiction of our values a collective victimhood that prevents us from accepting responsibility for our actions? Are we a nation of fucking babies? 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 RundownOpen — Abe places a very lucrative wager…in his mind19:13 — Donald Trump on Meet the Press51:55 — America's Favorite Game Show1:00:40 — Our Bogus Future1:05:07 — Earthquake!1:08:54 — Wrap-up! Thunderbolts; The Rehearsal; Batman Forever; Japanese justiceRelevant 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.

It's been 100 days since Donald Trump took office for the second time, and we celebrate by talking about literally anything else for the first hour or so, including tales of greedy, scheming children, their spineless parents, and drug-addled weirdos trying to steal from the youth baseball concession stand. After all of that we yap about a few things we missed in the first months of the second Trump presidency, and also the sports news of the week. 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 RundownOpen — Abe goes Hollywood10:43 — Bob vs The Children and their Animal Cunning30:32 — Youth Beisbol Update59:18 — Three things we didn't yet mention about the first 100 days1:33:15 — Cast Iron Balls; Bill Belichick interview and Shedeur Sanders2:03:47 — Did CBS News' Senior National Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?2:09:36 — Wrap-up! Shadow Force; The Accountant 2Relevant 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.

It's another episode of your favorite podcast, and it is somehow one of the shortest episodes we've made in a long time but also as it turns out just about our normal two hours of yapping. What strange majicks make such a thing possible? Failure and editing, that's what! 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 RundownOpen — The insatiable, broken-faced man8:08 — WGAS NewsBag; Hegseth in group chat mess redux; unaccountable deportation program continues; FDA to ban some food dyes; SCOTUS hears gay marriage books in class case58:06 — Political scientists say we really screwed up our COVID response1:10:54 — Did CBS News's Senior National Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?1:15:25 — Wrap-up! Sinners; The Last of Us 21:29:00 — Bonus CIB, A Failed Conversation EditionRelevant 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.

CIB takes a slight detour before getting into the news of the week with a discussion that centers around the question: can too much communication actually be bad? That plus Strassmann on the Gulf and 70s kids movies full of bad words. 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 RundownOpen — Abe's Favorite Day of the Year, Non-Federal Holiday Version7:02 — The Perils of Overcommunication!46:50 — Abe and Friends vs Spicy Noodles54:38 — WGAS NewsBag; Trump mad at CBS News again; tariffs rolled back; PA governor assassination attempt1:18:13 — Did CBS News's Senior National Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?1:24:41 — Bill Maher Goes to Washington1:34:55 — Wrap-up! The Amateur; The Bad News BearsRelevant 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.

Plenty of fun to be had this week yapping about all the stupid stuff happening in the world, even if we are a couple of days behind the news at this point. Also, a new study says phone are actually BETTER for your kids' mental health, and Mark Strassmann goes to the midwest in search of some sad sisters to lay a nasty pun upon. 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 RundownOpen — Abe in the World, Charleston, SC Edition10:40 — WGAS NewsBag; Tariffs Talk!56:12 — WGAS continued; DOJ suspends attorney for acknowledging bogus deportation; Laura Loomer from HR; SignalGate explained?1:15:21 — Reason says phones are fine, actually, again1:25:15 — Did CBS News's Senior National Correspondent Get Off a Good One?1:41:09 — Wrap-up! Adolescence; Inside Out 2; Shoresy; Dying for Sex; White Lotus finaleRelevant 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.

CIB mostly aimlessly meanders through the news of the week in this episode, with thoughts on the ongoing fallout from the leaked Signal group chat, Trump's executive orders to defund public and state-sponsored media, and plenty of other headlines. Also, though this doesn't come up in our discussion of The White Lotus—if we're right in suggesting that the audience's appetite is what drives content on various news media platforms, what does The White Lotus's various weird incest plotlines say about that audience's appetite? Yeesh. 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 RundownOpen — Abe wrestling a mountain in Syphilis Town, GA11:41 — WGAS NewsBag; Voice of America defunded, other executive orders, SignalGate continues1:03:03 — Quitting social media won't make your life better; lawyer claims client deported to El Salvador not a gang member; Marine La Pen banned from running for public office; NYT's article on US involvement in Ukraine's fight against Russia1:30:11 — Wrap-up! A Working Man; Scream 5; The White LotusRelevant 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.

Today on the show we're discussing the fact that you can do everything right in this tough old world and still end up getting in trouble because some meddling journalist refused to do the right thing and exit himself from the group chat BEFORE you started discussing war plans with your buddies. 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 RundownOpen — DangeRuss Wilson, NYFG, FML6:45 — Subject: Should we bomb Yemen? CC: Prominent magazine editor39:53 — Trump admin claims “mandate of the electorate” allows them to deport any non-citizen without oversight56:14 — Our Bogus Future: 23andMe bankruptcy1:09:16 — Did CBS News' Senior National Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?1:17:22 — “Governor Hot Wheels”1:20:42 — Wrap-up! The Alto Knights; Adolescence; The Electric StateRelevant 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.

It's another week of lawless anti-American nonsense from the Trump administration, couched ever more frequently in appeals to the underlying popularity of the things Trump is aiming to do. This is a democracy, after all, so why should something like the pesky law get in the way of the apparent will of the people? CIB goes full MAGA?! 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 RundownOpen — Lori vs. The Morning11:58 — WGAS NewsBag!51:20 — Did CBS News's Senior National Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?1:05:47 — Wrap-up! Black Bag; White Lotus; SeveranceRelevant 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.

Show RundownOpen — Abe and the Profligate, Pauperish Pub Patron7:58 — The Speech to the Nation34:35 — WGAS NewsBag; Study finds happy wife, happy life; people and their robits; assorted other news bits50:58 — Did Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?57:47 — Mel Gibson's Gun Rights in the Crosshairs! And a romance novel gets cancelled1:16:26 — Wrap-up! Last Breath; Mickey 17; Severance; The While Lotus; ImpossibleRelevant 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.

There's not a whole lot else to talk about besides what happened in the Oval Office last Friday, so that's pretty much all we do this episode. Hopefully we bring some new perspective to the proceedings, or at least provide an opportunity to let off some steam. 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 RundownOpen — Abe discovers eggs in the wild6:57 — Breaking WGAS News! Trump suspends military aid to Ukraine8:40 — Breaking down the Trump/Vance/Zelensky Oval Office disaster1:33:32 — Blind sports commentators, literally1:42:55 — Did Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?1:52:18 — Wrap-up! Remembering Gene Hackman in the modern classic…Under Suspicion; The Gorge; More SeveranceRelevant 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.

What if much of the infrastructure of the modern world—or at least the technology and the roads and the food—has accidentally put into the hands of humans things that they know make them more miserable and that they absolutely cannot stop using, for an assortment of reasons? We discuss that and many other cheery topics on this week's really quite fun episode! 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 RundownOpen — Abe delighting in the demise of the aged, once again8:32 — Trying to imagine the mind of the reality-denier27:07 — WGAS NewsBag! Trump calls Zelensky a dictator, and what it means when the US turns away from the world59:00 — DOGE wants to know what you did last week1:06:43 — Our Bogus Future: Study shows smartphones are bad for humans1:22:22 — Did CBS News's Senior National News Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?1:38:46 — Wrap-up! Cleaner; The Lex G Movie Podcast; Godzilla Minus OneRelevant 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.

The first month of the second Trump administration has looked almost exactly like what you might imagine it would look like if the president decided that the law, broadly speaking, simply doesn't matter. We discuss that in terms of the specific examples of Mayor Eric Adams, mafia-like demands on Ukraine, and utter contempt for the notion of a free press. 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 RundownOpen — Amazon, youth basketball, and other institutional failures8:06 — WGAS NewsBag; Executive lawlessness abounds! 1:41:40 — Wrap-up! Heart Eyes; Captain America: Hulk is Red Now; The White Lotus; Blind Date; Carry-OnRelevant 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 Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

The Super Bowl is much more than just a football game—it is also one of the last remaining American sacraments, and it is the considered position of this podcast that it is sacrilegious and unamerican to choose not to engage with it, one way or another. If you sinned by skipping the big game on Sunday, your penance is to listen to us yap about all the non-football aspects of the evening. Plenty of that, some of the news of the week, and our usual array of antisocial digressions and 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 RundownOpen — Not enough people watch the Super Bowl6:06 — WGAS NewsBag; Trump administration won't rule out annexing Canada; CBS News sued by Trump; Trump wants to stop minting the penny43:45 — The cultural pressure to retreat from whiteness1:13:20 — Thoughts on Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show1:30:41 — Super Bowl commercials chat2:15:14 — Wrap-up! Love Hurts; I'm Still Here; Apple Cider Vinegar; The FloorRelevant 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 Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

Super Bowl 59 is in the history books and we have no choice but to discuss it, warts and all. 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!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.Show RundownOpen — The Tubi 4K Experience9:12 — A very crappy game20:18 — Finding something nice to say about the broadcast, at least33:46 — Wrap-up!The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

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 RundownOpen — Vegas Vacation recap!40:40 — Trying to describe the indescribable inside The Sphere1:05:51 — WGAS NewsBag; Air disaster over the Potomac; Trump wants Gaza; Trump wants to close the Department of Education1:56:00 — 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 2Relevant 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 Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

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 RundownOpen — Explaining our absence, and getting to the bottom of who made Stone Mountain6:23 — Sportsbook or ManCave?9:56 — Luka to the Lakers?!24:05 — Justin Tucker, Massage Enthusiast34:39 — Conference championship weekend45:55 — Wrap-up! Mookie's Poop Justice; Halftime show preview, Not Like Us indeedRelevant 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 Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

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 RundownOpen — A few minutes of reflection on the recently departed7:48 — Did Trump send Abe back to the office, and news about The Billboard Hot 100 Game14:40 — A second Trump presidency begins with back to back speeches to slightly different audiences37:46 — On Joe Biden's shameful pardons1:03:30 — On illegitimate executive action and the unconstitutional disgrace of trying to end birthright citizenship1:17:05 — Cabinet appointments and how much of a Nazi is Elon Musk, really?1:38:42 — Wrap-up! The Brutalist; Fear and Loathing in Las VegasRelevant 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 Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

After a thoroughly enjoyable weekend of NFL and college football action, your favorite sports podcast is here to rehash it all. Is Ryan Day STILL who we thought he was, or has winning changed everything? 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 RundownOpen — Abe Live Bets the Games! The…hockey games!5:26 — Thoughts on the CFB CFP National Title game23:30 — NFL Divisional Round Playoff recap, CIB Pick ‘em Update42:04 — Wrap-up! 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 Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

We're back to preview this long football weekend's playoff action and discuss the sports news of the week. We've also got a brand new recurring feature: it's CIB's 2025 National Title Game Battle of the Bands, where we determine the winner of the upcoming national title game based on music from the teams' cities. Be sure to head to the Substack to cast your vote. 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 RundownOpen — Abe Live-Bets the Games!4:35 — WGAS NewsBag, Sports Edition!29:19 — 2025 National Title Battle of the Bands: South Bend vs Columbus1:01:37 — CIB Pick ‘em Game and games preview!1:17:43 — Jimmy Carter's Presidential Lock of the Week1:27:23 — Wrap-up! Eagles fan goes full Eagles fanRelevant 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 Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.The background music for Jimmy Carter's Presidential Lock of the Week is "Bama Country" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The fires raging in southern California have us feeling a little helpless and a little philosophical and a little hesitant to come to any firm decisions about who ought to be blamed, contrary to seemingly everyone else out there. We further digress about medical assistance in dying and one forgettable new song and one extraordinary old one. 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 RundownOpen — Snow in Atlanta!9:00 — LA fires43:50 — Joe Biden's first newspaper interview in four years53:50 — NOT Philosophy Class with Abe; medically assisted suicide1:12:32 — The Billboard Hot 100 Game1:22:29 — Wrap-up! Den of Thieves 2: Pantera; The Pitt; CupheadRelevant 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 Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

Cast Iron Balls is back with thoughts about the wildly entertaining College Football Playoff semifinal games and the ret of the weekend in sports, and we somehow end up talking about a recurring nightmare about overwhelming guilt around unspeakable crimes you're not even sure you committed. 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 RundownOpen — Abe Live-Bets the Games, and we discuss Vegas slot strats17:51 — CFB semi recaps: Notre Dame vs Penn State42:50 — CFB semi recaps: Ohio State vs Texas1:07:41 — Carson Beck transfers to Miami1:17:40 — Wrap-up! NFL playoff recap, and a quick diversion about a recurring nightmareRelevant 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 Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

Cast Iron Balls makes its first 2025 appearance in your podcast feed with a recap of the college football quarterfinal action and some thoughts about how the rest of the playoffs will shake out. And Jimmy Carter returns, along with the rest of our usual 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 RundownOpen — Abe safely in Atlanta, live-betting the…NBA games!8:02 — Recapping the CFP quarterfinals36:43 — Thoughts on the playoff format48:31 — Previewing the CFP semifinals and NFL Wild Card round1:09:39 — CIB Pick ‘em Game!1:11:12 — Jimmy Carter's Presidential Lock of the Week1:15:12 — Wrap-up! 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 Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.The background music for Jimmy Carter's Presidential Lock of the Week is "Bama Country" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The weather outside has been frightful, but the aimless chatter is quite delightful as we ring in 2025 with fresh CONTENT. 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 RundownOpen — The perks of being two generations younger than your neighbors14:20 — Collecting ever more sleep technologies20:35 — CIB's 2025 resolutions, and running headlong into the velvet rope bathroom economy41:50 — WGAS NewsBag; terrorism in New Orleans, exploding Teslas in Vegas, and the rest of the news of the week1:29:40 — The Billboard Hot 100 Game1:39:02 — Wrap-up! Harbin; Seven; The Karate KidRelevant 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 Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

2024 has come to its natural end and CIB is here to talk about everything we got wrong about it. Or at least the things we remember being wrong about and are willing to acknowledge. It was a fun year, podcasting-wise—thanks for listening along! 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 RundownOpen — Stumping Abe with questions like “How was your Christmas?” and “How much Willie Geist does a person really need in their life?”8:05 — Briefly, the news of the week, and the world says goodbye to Jimmy Carter26:47 — Recapping and scoring our 2024 predictions1:04:31 — Kylie Kelce's podcast launch gets laundered into “news”1:24:56 — The Billboard Hot 100 Game1:47:43 — Wrap-up! A year in podcasts; A Complete Unknown; the last few Christmas movies of the seasonRelevant 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 Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

The most popular spinoff sports podcast of the Brain Iron Media Empire is here to send off 2024 in style, with a playoff preview and a call from the greatest presidential pigskin prognosticator to ever walk the earth, live from Plains. 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 RundownOpen — Abe Live Bets the Games!6:20 — The Pop-Tarts Bowl, and lesser college football action24:01 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot35:24 — CIB Playoff Pick ‘em Game!50:55 — Wrap-up! Google Gemini tells us about ourselves, and Jimmy Carter's Presidential Lock of the Week, Live from PlainsRelevant 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 Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.The background music for Jimmy Carter's Presidential Lock of the Week is "Bama Country" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

We're having a holly, jolly time plowing through the news of the week and we leave plenty of time for Strassmann, the Billboard Hot 100, and our other usual assortment of complaints about the media and culture. 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 RundownOpen — Abe in the burbs taking selfies with The Grinch5:20 — WGAS NewsBag; Matt Gaetz House Ethics Committee report drops14:30 — Biden commutes 37 of 40 federal death sentences21:08 — Lara Trump won't be the next senator from Florida23:16 — Kay Granger has abandoned her seat in Congress, and a local journalist is on the case29:44 — Trump and Musk stop extended government funding bill before Congress passes last-minute temporary solution41:23 — Larry Hogan looks into the mysterious sky and sees…stars?47:30 — Slate columnist hated a book but missed the worst part56:25 — Did CBS News's Senior National News Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?1:02:33 — The Billboard Hot 100 Game1:27:33 — Wrap-up! Homestead; La Palma; Christmas viewingRelevant 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 Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

It's Christmas Eve! You're cozied up by the fire or banging about in the kitchen making your final preparations for the big day tomorrow, and your favorite multinational media empire is putting out fresh content for you to stick in one ear while the Christmas songs blare away in the other. We've got poetry and football and silliness aplenty. 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 RundownOpen — Spittin' playoff-level bars4:03 — The first round of the College Football Playoff!16:35 — What did we learn about this system after the first round, and how should it be tweaked?27:50 — Carson Beck done for the season31:22 — CIB College Football Playoff Pick ‘em Contest Update34:20 — Wrap-up! Towel Boy Technicals, JuCo players granted one more year of eligibilityRelevant 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 Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

The first round of the first-ever 12-team college football playoff is finally here, and Cast Iron Balls returns to the top of your podcast feed to talk all about, along with our regular assortment of news of the week and enjoyable digressions. 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 RundownOpen — It's nearly here!2:35 — Abe Live-Bets the Games!11:40 — WGAS News SportsBag; Aaron Rodgers documentary incoming!19:58 — Diego Pavia gets another year of eligibility; why is college football still so entwined with…college?39:30 — Kirk Cousins demoted!45:22 — NBA in-season tournament champion crowned!58:35 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot!1:17:34 — Wrap-up! 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 Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

It's a plus-size episode of Cast Iron Brains, because we sneak nearly a whole episode of Cast Iron Balls right into the middle of it. We've got the politics news of the week, the sports news of the week, and plenty of our other usual silliness and digressions. 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 RundownOpen — Holiday Cake Pop Autopsy6:57 — WGAS Newsbag; MYSTERY DRONES!19:21 — Daniel Penny verdict27:50 — Pete Hegseth backlash to the backlash will make him SecDef42:56 — ABC News settles defamation suit with Trump50:18 — Black plastic kitchen utensils, the silent killer?1:07:28 — WGAS Newsbag, Sports Edition! Abe Live Bets the Games!1:10:18 — Ohio politician wants to make flag planting a felony1:18:45 — Bill Belichick to coach UNC Tar Heels1:33:03 — Marshall pulls out of Independence Bowl, Army-Navy game brings the smarm1:43:40 — The Billboard Hot 100 Game2:04:04 — Wrap-up! The Order; Tell Them You Love Me; Meditations by Marcus Aurelius; various Christmas moviesRelevant 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 Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

Your favorite podcast is back atop feeds all over the universe to discuss the most important news of the week, by which we mean we will first spend half an hour hearing tell of an arena rock concert featuring two of the worst bands from the late 90s and early 2000s as experienced by our intrepid cultural experiencer and reporter, the one and only Abe. 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 RundownOpen — Abe in the World, Concert Edition38:12 — WGAS NewsBag: United Healthcare CEO murder suspect caught1:05:00 — The fall of Bashar al-Assad1:16:00 — The Word of 2024 is “brain rot”1:18:04 — Did CBS News' Senior National News Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?1:33:14 — Train Ruins The Billboard Hot 100 Game1:52:00 — Wrap-up! Y2K, Die Hard, Station ElevenRelevant 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 Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

Conference Championship weekend was awesome, and we're here to discuss all of the games, but mostly just to yap about Georgia beating Texas, as that's the thing we most care about and this is, after all, our show. 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 RundownOpen — Abe Live-Bets the Games!5:15 — WGAS NewsBag, Sports Edition; Juan Soto signs with Mets; Heisman finalists announced14:21 — Conference Championship games recap57:00 — Playoff bracket breakdown1:17:25 — Wrap-up!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 Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

Cast Iron Balls is here ahead of conference championship weekend to complain about what cannot possibly be a legitimate suggestion for improving the sport of baseball and also to discuss the various games and their PLAYOFF IMPLICATIONS. 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 RundownOpen — The birthday boy must scrub the tub or else he gets the club6:05 — Abe Live Bets the Games8:11 — WGAS NewsBag: Sports Edition; Just what the fuck is the GOLDEN AT-BAT?!27:39 — College Football Playoff Rankings51:30 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot1:01:05 — CIB Pick ‘em Game1:09:13 — Jimmy Carter's Presidential Lock of the Week1:13:47 — Wrap-up!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 Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.The background music for Jimmy Carter's Presidential Lock of the Week is "Bama Country" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

CIB is back atop your podcast feed with a bit of yapping about the news of the week and then more than an hour of trying to explain how a dead author's muse and an interview with the stars of the hit movie musical Wicked and a novel about a depressive incel Lyft driver are all evidence of the same thing—that we should all probably take our magical pocket supercomputers and smash them against the nearest brick wall. It's an old theme of ours, but still plenty to mine from it, apparently! 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 RundownOpen — Thanksgiving recap!10:10 — WGAS NewsBag; Kash Patel to head the FBI?; President Biden pardons his son Hunter48:50 — Cormac McCarthy and Augusta Britt and Wicked and the Black Box of Doom, oh my!1:55:11 — Wrap-up! Gladiator II; Great British Baking ShowRelevant 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 Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

The long holiday weekend of rivalries in college football delivered a series of awesome finishes, and Cast Iron Balls is here to yap all 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 RundownOpen — What a weekend!5:52 — Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate30:09 — The rest of the slate48:11 — Abe Live-Bets the Games, CIB Pick ‘em Update56:04 — Wrap-up!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 Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

Some technical difficulties delayed this lovely pre-Thanksgiving conversation from hitting your podcast feed until nearly suppertime, and for that we apologize. The good news is that we have a supersized episode for you to listen to as you doze off into your post-meal coma! We preview the weekend of college football action, talk briefly about the sports news of the week, and discuss the traditional Somalian thanksgiving. 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 RundownOpen — Abe Live-Bets the Games, Thanksgiving around here, and a distressing run-in with a potential KILLER21:50 — WGAS SportsBag! Mack Brown fired, Daniel Jones a Viking37:41 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot!1:21:44 — CIB Pick ‘em Game!1:29:55 — Jimmy Carter's Presidential Lock of the Week, live from Plains1:33:36 — Wrap-up! Doctor by day, MMA fighter by night; a clenching Jared GoffRelevant 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 Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.The background music for Jimmy Carter's Presidential Lock of the Week is "Bama Country" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Lori takes off to make a couple of Thanksgiving pies giving the boys a precious few minutes to digress as they see fit, and naturally they immediately start talking about…outer space? Autonomous cars? Elon Musk? Goddamn 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 RundownOpen — On the difference between openers and closers8:24 — WGAS NewsBag1:32:58 — The Billboard Hot 100 Game1:48:25 — Wrap-up! BonhoefferRelevant 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 Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

It was a thoroughly bonkers weekend of college football action and we are here to belatedly revel in it all. 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 RundownOpen — Abe Live-Bets the Games6:25 — Georgia technically beats UMASS11:20 — The rest of the crazy day in college sport47:00 — CIB Pick ‘em Recap50:13 — Playoff picture1:09:22 — Wrap-up! 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 Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

It's more podcast silliness, just in time for the sports weekend! We're rendering judgment on athletes who dare to dance poorly, tell you what games to watch when, and take a call from Plains for the presidential lock of the week. 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 RundownOpen — Abe Live-Bets the Games, and much vulgarity ensues11:34 — WGAS News SportsBag; Athletes doing the Trump Dance; workout enthusiasts worried about looking like right-wingers; NBA All-Star Game reimagined43:35 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot58:00 — Complaining about the Playoff Rankings1:09:24 — The CIB Pick ‘em Game1:20:33 — The Jimmy Carter Presidential Lock of the Week, Live from Plains1:25:03 — Wrap-up! 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 Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.The background music for Jimmy Carter's Presidential Lock of the Week is "Bama Country" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The best podcast for the sports enthusiast in your life is back with an in-depth recap of this weekend's boxing action, and plenty of other yapping about the college football we watched, too. It's a lot of fun, I promise! 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 RundownOpen — Abe scouting the hoop class of 20315:38 — Abe Live-Bets the Games!9:29 — Boxing!33:59 — Tennessee comes to Athens, and the rest of the college football weekend1:13:06 — CIB Pick ‘em Game Update1:18:36 — Wrap-up! Inside the NBA traded from TNT to ESPN for some Big 12 gamesRelevant 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 Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

We enter the first real week of the second Trumppening with a flurry of patently absurd Cabinet nominations, which gives us something to talk about and also something to talk about how we should be talking about such things differently, perhaps. 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 RundownOpen — Abe just walking around telling women precisely how big their bellies are7:19 — WGAS NewsBag; Hegesth, Gaetz, Gabbard, and RFK Jr to the Cabinet?1:28:30 — The Billboard Hot 100 Game1:49:28 — Wrap-up! Mr. McMahon; Music by John WilliamsRelevant 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 Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

It's the weekend sports preview show, delivered at the last possible moment before it becomes entirely irrelevant beyond listening to find out how wrong we are about everything! Plenty of chatter today about the latest CFB Playoff rankings, the BIG FIGHT tonight between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul, and plenty of other sports topics. We've also got the Best Game in Every Time Slot and Jimmy Carter drops in to give us his lock of the week. 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 RundownOpen — The briefest possible acknowledgement of the absurdity of the world around us, and Abe Live-Bets the Games6:30 — WGAS SportsBag; Second playoff rankings are bogus; Netflix brings us a dubious boxing match; Diego Pavia and Thomas Castellanos and Aaron Rodgers future plans53:20 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot1:19:40 — Jimmy Carter's Presidential Lock of the Week1:22:26 — Wrap-up! Whoops—CIB Pick 'em Contest; Cam Ward allegedly drops $2 million on jewelry for his offensive lineRelevant 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 Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.The background music for Jimmy Carter's Presidential Lock of the Week is "Bama Country" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Nearly a week later, it's finally time to talk about the election that happened on November 5, 2024. We do so for less time than I would have guessed we would, and still have time for our silly diversions and discussions about movies, music, and the rest. It's not so bad! 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 RundownOpen — Abe out and about with TOP INTERNATIONAL EXECUTIVES4:47 — About last Tuesday1:20:55 — The Billboard Hot 100 Game1:39:31 — Wrap-up! Anora; Here; What's wrong with Gen-ZRelevant 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 Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

Week 11 of the college football season is mercifully over, and we're here to rehash what went wrong, along with a brief look at some NFL games and our usual bouncing around through the sports news of the week. 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 RundownOpen — Abe Live-Bets the Games!5:38 — Weekend sports action recap!53:44 — CIB Pick ‘em Game Update!57:10 — Wrap-up!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 Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

We may not be talking too much about THAT, but there's plenty of important and silly sports news to discuss, along with our usual preview of this weekend's college football action. And don't miss Jimmy Carter's return to our voicemail inbox—Jimmy's got a TAKE on Mike Gundy's fan-disparaging comments from earlier in the week. 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 RundownOpen — Abe Live-Bets the Games!02:04 — A very brief reaction to the events of Tuesday06:37 — First College Football Playoff rankings released15:50 — A brief aside about a near-death experience21:48 — WGAS NewsBag: Billy Napier keeps his job, Colbie Young narrative changed, Bogus Ole Miss injury report, Kirk Herbstreit's dog dies46:23 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot1:02:08 — CIB Pick ‘em Game1:08:37 — Jimmy Carter's Presidential Lock of the Week1:17:25 — Wrap-up! Joel EmbiidRelevant 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 Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.The background music for Jimmy Carter's Presidential Lock of the Week is "Bama Country" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Is it election day? Sure! But there was plenty of that talk in the other podcast. Let's focus on what really matters—rehashing the events of AMATEUR SPORT from this past weekend! 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 RundownOpen — Abe at the Chili Con Carnival7:54 — Abe Live-Bets the Game! 9:48 — The World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party #10316:35 — The other games36:15 — CIB Pick ‘em Contest recap!47:21 — Wrap-up!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 Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

As you might have guessed, today we're mostly just sitting around, rending our garments, gnashing our teeth, and chatting amiably about the presidential election that is happening today. 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 RundownOpen — Is Donald Trump becoming the 47th President of the United States secretly the least bad option?1:35:39 — The Billboard Hot 100 Game1:51:51 — Wrap-up! Smile 2; Juror #2Relevant 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 Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

The World Series is already over, we're days away from the 2024 presidential election, and thankfully there's plenty of fun college football to distract us from the collective nightmare that next week is going to be. 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 RundownOpen — Halloween!4:54 — Abe Live-Bets the Games!6:21 — The World Series is over!31:55 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot45:16 — CIB Pick ‘em Contest56:59 — Wrap-up!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 Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

Are we still freaking out about next week's presidential election? Of course! But there's plenty of other fun to be had, including a discussion on the decisions by the LA Times and the Washington Post to not endorse Kamala Harris, Abe's fancy new electronic toy, and our usual whining about the culture. 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 RundownOpen — Abe's fancy new toy09:25 — Presidential election on the way!22:58 — LA Times and WaPo decline to issue presidential endorsements51:14 — Ballot drop box fire53:31 — John Fetterman sits down with Lulu Garcia Navarro1:14:26 — Daylight savings time ending!1:18:52 — The Billboard Hot 100 Game!1:31:55 — Wrap-up! Goodrich; Conclave; The Great British Baking ShowRelevant 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 Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

We are collectively sufficiently healthy enough to podcast, so podcast we must! We're here to discuss the exciting weekend of sports action, but only after complaining at some length about our bad luck. Woe is Bob! 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 RundownOpen — Bitching about personal circumstances18:25 — Abe is ready to move on from the Anthony Richardson Era25:05 — College football happened!48:11 — Picks recap! And Lori rekindles things with an old flame.1:04:31 — Wrap-up! Beisbol ratings in Japan, Freddie Freeman rulesRelevant 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 Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.