Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe

Cast Iron Balls is back with a college football week nine preview episode! We’re recapping last week’s action, trying to understand why Pat McAfee is so upset about Utah, expressing solidarity with those who would exercise their anti-Mormon free speech rights, and all the rest of our usual nonsense. 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!6:15 — Quick recap of last weekend, and Pat McAfee needs a safe space31:56 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot1:08:29 — CIB 2026 Football Pick ‘em Contest1:16:22 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week1:25:16 — 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/

Cast Iron Balls is here with a college football Week 8 preview episode! We’ve got more thoughts about the 24-team playoff format, sad boy SOMBR displacing the WNBA Finals, the Best Game in Every Time Slot, and we check in with President Jimmy Carter in Plains, Heaven, to get his 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!9:12 — WGAS NewsBag, Sports Edition; But first, BUGS!37:50 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot!1:17:04 — CIB 2026 Football Pick ‘em Contest!1:22:04 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week!1:25:37 — 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/

Almost everybody at the top of the college football world lost this past weekend, and we’re here to discuss what it all MEANS. (It doesn’t mean anything. It’s college football. That’s why it’s fun, rather than terrible, to talk about.) 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 — Watching bad football from the dugout3:30 — 24-team playoff a done deal—why?20:21 — Weekend games recap!58:58 — 2026 CIB Football Pick ‘em Contest Update1:03:00 — 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.

Cast Iron Brains is here this week to discuss the Democrats’ chances of taking the Senate, and how advisable it is to take advice about how to vote from a robit that doesn’t know how many Es are in a word it has just correctly spelled. Listen, if your 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 always somebody’s special day2:05 — Katie Zacharia is out, and the Senate is up for grabs42:00 — Virginia Constitutional amendments, and asking the AI robits for help55:21 — What does it mean that God can’t count the number of Es in seventeen?1:14:45 — Horrific and ironic priest death. Sad!1:21:44 — Wrap-up! WHALEFALL; You Can See Everything; TremorsRelevant 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 to preview all the week 7 college football action! We’re also yapping about the sports news of the week, yelling at the encroachment of gambling into every corner of our lives, and listening delightedly as Jimmy Carter calls in again from Plains, Heaven with his 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, Denies Various Prejudices5:42 — WGAS NewsBag, Sports Edition21:33 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot1:04:25 — CIB 2026 Football Pick ‘em Contest1:11:00 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week, Live from Plains, Heaven1:15:32 — 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/