Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe

Week 8 of the 2025 college football season is complete, and it was quite possibly the most fun bunch of games we’ve seen this year. We talk about a whole heap of them, including extended yapping about the Georgia/Ole Miss contest, which was both awesome and utterly mystifying. 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!9:03 — Georgia vs Ole Miss30:22 — An incredible weekend of other games, too1:17:45 — CIB 2025 Football Pick ‘em Contest1:21:41 — 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 Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

It’s a week eight college football preview show! What more do you need to know? We’ve got Jimmy’s Presidential Lock of the Week, The Best Game in Every Time Slot, and plenty of other enjoyable yapping about sports. 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! Saudi Arabia and private equity trying to get into college football; Indiana signs Cignetti to big extension23:25 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot54:21 — 2025 CIB Football Pick ‘em Contest59:15 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week1:02:53 — 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/

With children’s birthdays rapidly approaching, Cast Iron Brains is here to discuss when, if ever, is the right time to put always-on communication devices on their wrists or in their pockets. Are we standing athwart the inevitable, or is there a better way to be in the world that one can achieve without incurring too much personal cost and misery? That and plenty of yapping about the news of the week, and a hope that Mark Strassmann is able to return to peak form. 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 steakhouse6:40 — The kids want the devices, the devices want the kids57:05 — WGAS NewsBag; Trump loses the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, becomes frontrunner for 2026 Nobel Peace Prize1:08:31 — JD Vance on ABC’s This Week1:25:33 — Did CBS News’ Senior National Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?1:38:12 — 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 Brains were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

Predictably enough, the Georgia/Auburn game dominates our sports weekend recap today, with much yelling and argument over the inner thoughts and intentions of a man attempting to communicate one simple thing and completely blowing 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 — Abe Live Bets the Games!4:00 — Georgia vs Auburn reactions41:42 — The rest of the games, and James Franklin is out!1:08:07 — 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.

Just in time, it’s a Week 7 College Football Preview Episode! Plenty of yapping about the other sports news of the week, the Best Game in Every Time Slot, and a bonus INSTANT LIVE REACTION to Philly misery at the very end. 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! Trevor Lawrence falls over twice!6:31 — WGAS NewsBag, Sports Edition!32:58 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot53:26 — CIB 2025 Football Pick ‘em Contest59:29 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week, Live from Plains, Heaven1:05:13 — 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/

We plow through the news that caught our attention this week and wonder about a future that promises to feed our eyeballs with images and information that we know cannot be relied upon to contain any truth value. 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 RUSHing to our local arena3:20 — Abe explains the shutdown5:07 — WGAS NewsBag; Baseless speculation about Trump’s bad brain, baseless speculation about the gender status of famous women, Taylor Swift’s new record31:33 — Our Bogus Future is an AI-generated anti-reality nightmare59:19 — Did CBS News’ Senior National Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?1:07:28 — Wrap-up! The Smashing MachineRelevant 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.

Week six of the college football schedule ended up wildly entertaining, especially if you are entertained by teams that are supposed to be very good getting their butts kicked by teams that are not supposed to be very good. 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!3:33 — Mark Sanchez has a bad weekend, to our amusement16:04 — College week 6 recap! Penn State and Texas beclowned, and the rest of the weekend’s action58:03 — CIB’s 2025 Football Pick ‘em Contest1:02:13 — 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 fun-size episode of CIB this week because we are admittedly losing the steam to talk about everything going on in the world at the moment. But tune in for Abe’s European travelogue and our discombobulated dissatisfaction with the state of our so-called politics, 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 World20:49 — While Abe was away…44:25 — Wrap-up! One Battle After AnotherRelevant 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.

Cast Iron Balls is here with a firsthand account of the Virginia/FSU overtime thriller in Charlottesville last Friday, and plenty of TAKES about the state of the Georgia football program. And since it’s already nearly the weekend, we’re also doing our Week 6 preview. 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!4:33 — Virginia storms the field after beating FSU17:24 — Georgia loses to Alabama AGAIN40:40 — Penn State loses another big matchup, and quickly acknowledging the rest of the games53:53 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot1:06:26 — CIB 2025 Football Pick ‘em Contest1:14:00 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week1:18:00 — 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/

Just before Abe jets across the Atlantic for a European vacation CIB is sneaking in a preview of Week 5 of the college football season, along with the sports news of the week and a visit from Jimmy Carter in heaven with 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!3:51 — WGAS NewsBag, Sports Edition: Jaxson Dart made Giants starter; Robot strike zone challenge system; Mike Gundy fired; SEC matchups through 2029 revealed21:48 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot44:03 — CIB 2025 Football Pick ‘em Contest50:50 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week, Live from Plains55:28 — Wrap-up!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/

Jimmy Kimmel’s INDEFINITE SUSPENSION was short enough to have come and gone between recordings of this podcast, but we’re here to talk about it anyway. Lots of other silliness, too, including Trump trying to pronounce acetaminophen, Strassmann looking for human connection in a California run club, and a pretty lady looking for another sort of connection at a sports bar. 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 prepares to go to the Old World4:58 — WGAS NewsBag; Jimmy Kimmel kerfuffle, Ted Cruz responds; Tucker vs The Hummus Eaters; FBI addressing all sorts of conspiracies; Trump DM to his AG accidentally goes to everyone; Trump vs Tylenol; H1B visas get pricey1:07:11 — Did CBS News’ Senior National News Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?1:15:23 — Wrap-up! Unknown Number on Netflix, and a couple of very weird Buffalo Wild Wings commercialsRelevant 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.

We watched some football and now we will talk 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!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.

Your favorite sports podcast is here to yap about the politically and socially and legally allowable content of the day, in only the most regime-friendly way. It’s our College Football Week 4 preview 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!6:16 — WGAS NewsBag, Sports Edition! Dabo Swinney press conference; Diego Pavia eligibility lawsuit goes on; Congress stalled on NCAA reforms; spring transfer window nailed shut; BIG 12 following ACC in replay transparency22:24 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot34:27 — CIB Pick’em Contest40:50 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week44:53 — 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/

It’s been less than a week since Charlie Kirk was murdered, and we’re here to grope around in the dark for something that resembles a path forward for any of us. 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 Hans Zimmer concert8:47 — The murder of Charlie Kirk1:42:44 — Wrap-up! The Long Walk; Charlie Sheen documentary on NetflixRelevant 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.

Georgia defeats Tennessee in what might end up being one of the most exciting college football games of the season, and we’re here to yap about it, along with lots of other Week 3 odds and ends. 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 Flo Rida, and the humiliation of field-storming14:12 — Week 3 recap!42:30 — Georgia vs. Tennessee55:56 — NFL chat1:00:00 — CIB College QB Fantasy Football and 2025 Pick ‘em Contest1:04:10 — Wrap-up! ACC referee resigns in protest, LL baseball DRAMARelevant 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 3 of the 2025 college football season is upon us, and we’re here to talk about what we’re excited to see, despite the horror and uneasiness of the day. 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!Open — The problem with constantly raising the stakes10:15 — Sports-Adjacent Question of the Week32:42 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot56:06 — CIB Pick ‘em Contest1:05:31 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week1:12:50 — Wrap-up!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 start off by having an unforgivably long conversation about avocado habits and HIGHLY PROCESSED and quite delicious snack foods before proceeding on to the awful news of the week, wherein we discover that everything is possibly worse than it seems. 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 — Avocados, Oreos, Doritios, and Goldfish20:28 — Trump administration brags about destruction of drug boat, killing 11 people52:02 — Refraining from having a conversation about Eric Schmitt’s awful speech for twenty-two minutes or so1:14:02 — Wrap-up! Green Zone; Public Enemy; Little League returns!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.

Week 2 of the college football season was better than we had reason to expect it to be and Week 1 of the NFL season was wetter than we could have anticipated, even as the NFL tries to convince us that everyone who watches their product is a giant weird dummy. It all makes for plenty of fun nonsense for us to talk about, so 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 — Indiana Jones: I’ll Take TUA That—or even three!5:55 — Long NFL weekend recap15:05 — Aside for the Sports-Adjacent QotW: The Permission Structure for the One-Handed Catch20:34 — Back to the NFL weekend action24:00 — Abe and Two Special Guests Live-Bet the Games29:06 — The Permission Structure to Spit on One’s Opponents42:09 — Georgia struggles against Austin Pee54:04 — The rest of the college football action1:15:25 — Did Rich Eisen Get Off a Good One in the Fashion and to the Exacting Standards of CBS News’ Mark Strassmann?1:19:46 — CIB College Football QB Fantasy and 2025 Pick ‘em Contest updates1:23:21 — Wrap-up! The NFL thinks we’re a bunch of grotesquesRelevant 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.

This week’s slate of college football games may be a bit of a bummer on paper, but that doesn’t stop us from having a perfectly enjoyable time talking about it. Plus, tune in for Abe’s EXCLUSIVE 2025 NFL preview, the CIB Pick ‘em Contest, and Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week, 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!3:07 — Bill Belichick and UNC mollywhopped by TCU12:38 — WGAS NewsBag, Sports Edition; Abe besmirching young athletes, repealing the Sports Broadcasting Act18:23 — The Sports-Adjacent Question of the Week: What if Donald Trump had bought the Cowboys in 1984?30:31 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot40:20 — CIB 2025 Football Pick ‘em Contest54:27 — Patented CIB Very In-Depth NFL Preview1:00:58 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week1:04:20 — 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 news of the week isn’t always great fodder for purely frivolous conversation, but worry not! We are capable of finding the frivolity! This week we discuss the way that our fractured and willfully half-honest media ecosystem makes it impossible to collectively mourn mass trauma, and also how the local upper elementary school is recruiting the IMPRESSIONABLE YOUTS to Team Gay. 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 — Silly and terrible news stories to avoid talking about the inevitable9:39 — Minnesota church shooting38:52 — Pride Club?! Pride Club!1:05:24 — Wrap-up! Caught Stealing; football footbaw footbawlRelevant 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.