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Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
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- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
A Cocktail Party in Megatron’s Butthole (Cast Iron Balls #86)
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…
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The Crushing Existential Weight of an Ever-Expanding Playoff Format (Cast Iron Balls #85)
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…
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How to Prevent Head Injuries (Cast Iron Balls #84)
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…
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Just How Tight is a Whale’s Sphincter, and Other Songs by The Decemberists (CIB #291)
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…
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Integrity Not for Sale At Any (Reasonable) Price (Cast Iron Balls #83)
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…
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Podcasting is All Natural, Baby (CIB #290)
Cast Iron Brains returns to your podcast feeds with some complaining about how uninteresting it is to talk about the things we’re talking about. Feeling like…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Railin’ Dudes on Ice Skates (Cast Iron Balls #82)
Week 6 of the 2026 college football season is in the books, and we’re here to yap about it all. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say…
Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and AbeExtinction-Level Instagram Posts (Cast Iron Balls #81)
Georgia is heading into a hurricane in Tuscaloosa for one of the biggest games of the college football regular season, and we’re here to yap about it along…
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Podcasts Extending Infinitely Upwards (Cast Iron Balls #80)
The sports weekend has come and gone and we’re here to yap all about it. Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all…
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Yet Another Podcast Not Indicative of Our Character (Cast Iron Balls #79)
It’s a Week 5 College Football preview show! We’ve got the sports news of the week, a Sports-Adjacent Question of the Week from the Senate floor, the best…
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“41 Points. You Know. 14 Backwards. That’s For You, Grunter.” (Cast Iron Balls #78)
The news of the week felt repetitive and even dumber than the baseline, so we’re only dropping into your feed with SPORTS this week. It’s a quick recap of the…
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The Podcasters “Told Me A Lot of Things” (Cast Iron Balls #77)
Week 4 of the 2026 college football season is nearly upon us, and it’s going to be a good one! Join us as we discuss the sports news of the week, give you a…
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Georgia’s Offense is a Legitimate Public Concern (Cast Iron Balls #76)
It’s a week 3 College Football wrap-up show! We’re yapping about the most unacceptable way to ever lose a football game, the most disrespectful thing you can…
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We Will Eat KrustBallz™ and Take the Miracle Drugs and Live Forever (CIB #289)
We’re discussing Trump’s ban of mainstream media outlets from the White House and having a chat about whether or why not to take the constantly-advertised…
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The Hilarious Thing was Definitely Not Funny in Any Way (Cast Iron Balls #75)
CIB is here with the sports news of the week, a Week 3 CFB preview, and our usual shenanigans. President Jimmy Carter calls in to give his take on early 2000s…
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Things We Don’t Actually Need to Sit with for Just a Second (CIB #288)
The flagship podcast of the Brain Iron Multinational Media Empire returns to your podcast feeds with an attempt to understand the future of the Republican…
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Week 2 CFB No Frills Recap Episode! (Cast Iron Balls #74)
Week 2 of college football action did not disappoint, and CIB is here with a quick recap of the weekend’s action, along with a report from CBS News’ Mark…
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Imagine If We Had Pro Podcasters (Cast Iron Balls #73)
The most essential college football podcast is here to put a bow on the LSU vs SEC fight, to discuss the chaotic and absurd end of the Western Michigan vs…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Jimmy Carter is Born Again, Again...Again (Cast Iron Balls #72)
The best college football podcast available on your radio dial is back with a preview of Week 1 action, the other sports news of the week, and the long-awaited…
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The Return of Sports! (Cast Iron Balls #71)
It’s a Week Zero College Football Spectacular! CIB is here to get you ready for the weekend of (mostly terrible) games as we ramp up for what’s sure to be…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Defining Psychotic Murder Moms Down (CIB #287)
This week we’re lamenting the TikTok’ing public’s evident solidarity with a child-murderer, Abe reads self-help but only ironically he swears, and we harrumph…
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In the Thrall of the Fabulists (CIB #286)
This week we take a look at a few different reactions to the Jason Arday story and try to sort out the reasons why fabulism is treated differently by different…
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Medically Necessary Elective Podcast Surgery (CIB #285)
Cast Iron Brains returns from a week at the beach and having survived an attempted electrocution by a household appliance to discuss the news and our lives and…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
A Crisis of Rowdy Roddy Piper (CIB #284)
Is there actually more of a “crisis of meaning” in the smartphone AI age? Is it more likely the case that the vast majority of humans always been perfectly…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
The Last* Trump Summer (CIB #283)
We’re here with a rundown of the various things our insane clown president is getting up to this summer, checking in on Mark Strassmann after a few weeks away…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Woodstock '26 (CIB #282)
It’s state tournament recap time! Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by…
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America Rules, Actually! (CIB #281)
We’re finally popping back into your podcast feeds after nearly a month with a special(?) America at 250 episode of Cast Iron Brains. We’ve got patriotism…
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Fortunately, the Forecast is Clear (CIB #280)
Youth beisbol obligations have kept us from our podcasting responsibilities the last couple of weeks, but we’re finally back with our usual assortment of news…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
An Aloneness Enhancement Machine (CIB #279)
CIB returns, soggy and spent, to your podcast feeds with a look at the news of the week and a bit of rambling about the discomfort and anxiety of sharing the…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Abe REDACTED in These Streets (CIB #278)
On the eve of Abe’s Big Detroit Adventure we’re here to discuss a bad New York Times opinion piece, bad food products for children being marketed to adults…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
An Armed-adillo Assassin Takes on President Jesus (CIB #277)
Maybe it used to be the case that everyone believed a bunch of wild and crazy and reality-denying stuff, but at least we mostly shared those reality-challenged…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Prayer in the Age of Consent (CIB #276)
We are back after a beisbol-mandated week off to yap about Iran, a Virginia referendum to redraw the congressional maps, and plenty else. Listen, if you must!…
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What Happens on the Dark Side of the Moon... (CIB #275)
This week we’re yapping about an old favorite topic—how the religious fanatics convinced that they know the mind of God barely seem to have a grasp on the very…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Bike Headlamp Thief Apologists (CIB #274)
Something the Trump administration did was good, we must reluctantly admit. It’s another week of travel stories and meandering through the headlines looking…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
I Spent A Week in Northern Europe and All I Got Was A Lot of Complaining About Airlines (CIB #273)
Lori has made her glorious return from Finland and Estonia and has a lot to say about why flying is bullshit. We also barely contain our glee while discussing…
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Dubious Solutions (CIB #272)
With Lori on a whole-ass other continent, we’re left sad and lonely and drifting through the news of the week, with much talk of American decline, our lack of…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Make America Great World Police Again (CIB #271)
A little less than a week ago, the United States and Israel began a war with Iran. Today, we talk about it. See that?! A masterful sales job! Listen, if you…
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Really Good at the Really Bad Thing (CIB #270)
The State of the Union might as well have been a month ago, but we’re here to talk about it as the glorious, hilarious, highly watchable, weird, shameful…
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White Men Can't Soap (CIB #269)
Today we’re mostly ignoring the news of the week to instead express wonder and dismay at how short form video is probably breaking our brains in really bad…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Le Hibou Superbe LX: Le Lapin Coquin vs L'Enfant Rock (CIB #268)
It’s an almost-all Super Bowl 60 reaction spectacular! We watched, we complained, we talked about it. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to…
Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and AbeWe Are All Mike D's Cat (CIB #267)
Rather than another lengthy run through the unpleasant headlines of the week, we are here with a more ruminative discussion about whether the relationships…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Oops! They Did it Again (CIB #266)
CIB has tunneled through enough ice and snow to record another spectacular episode of the only podcast, and within you will find our discussion of the killing…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Human as a Second Language (CIB #265)
College football and NATO are basically the same, and Donald Trump and Fernando Mendoza are basically the same. That’s your summary! Listen, if you must! Has…
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All of Us Witnesses Found Wanting (CIB #264)
This week we’re here to discuss the shooting of Renee Good by an ICE officer last week, because you can never have too much of that, apparently. And on the way…
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Report: Hoosiers Drink Megatron's Butthole Dry (Cast Iron Balls #69)
It was a long weekend of spectacular playoff football action, and we’re here to yap about it all and ask important questions, like “hey maybe Justin Herbert is…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
That Time Donald Trump Dark-Knighted a President (CIB #263)
Something really weird happened on late Saturday night, and we’re here to try to talk our way through it. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed…
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Grunter Stockman, Bulldog Hero (Cast Iron Balls #68)
Cast Iron Balls is finally here nearly a week later to recap the CFP quarterfinals and look ahead to the semis. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or…
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So Long 2025 Too-Long Spectacular! (CIB #262)
Following the lead of our sibling podcast—the much-awarded and world-renowned The Biffler—Cast Iron Brains has decided to do a year-end wrap-up show with…
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Communing with Idiot Space Whales, Again (CIB #261)
This week we’re yapping about Bari Weiss spiking a 60 Minutes story at the last second, how Reddit didn’t actually help with the manhunt for an accused mass…
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Have Some Self-Respect and Self-Possession, and Other Losing Arguments (Cast Iron Balls #67)
The first round of the College Football Playoff is right around the corner, and we’re here to talk about a whole bunch of other vaguely sports-related stuff…
Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and AbeCold Showers, Gingerbread, and Unserious People (CIB #260)
Well, that was a quite unpleasant weekend, from a national and international news perspective. So let’s talk all about it, I guess! But only after a detailed…
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Podcast Hosts Mark 15,000th Spin on News Ride (CIB #259)
The flagship podcast of the Brain Iron Multinational Media Empire is back and doing what we do best—wondering why exactly we bother doing this at all! Listen…
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Winning Conference Titles Rules, Actually (Cast Iron Balls #66)
College football’s conference championship weekend was an absolute blast, and CIB is here to yap about it. That and chatter about the College Football Playoff…
Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and AbeChucklefucks Run Amok (Cast Iron Balls #65)
It’s a Conference Championship weekend preview episode, and the relative lack of national action gives us the opportunity to discuss cold remedies, BIG MOON…
Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and AbeTrying to Find the Lance Who Did This (Cast Iron Balls #64)
We have made it through Thanksgiving largely intact and are excited to talk about all the football we watched, and all the ways Lance Kiffin revealed himself…
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Sharing Our Cast Iron Balls with Visiting Family (Cast Iron Balls #63)
It’s somehow a week 13 recap and a week 14 preview episode all rolled into one, but still considerably shorter than a regular episode—must be that holiday…
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A Sickos Quadbox Kinda Weekend (Cast Iron Balls #62)
The games may not be all that good this weekend, but that’s not going to stop us from yapping about them, along with the sports news of the week and our…
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"Hi, my name is Steve Sarkisian, and it has been three days since my last ass-kicking." (Cast Iron Balls #61)
Georgia welcomed the Texas Longhorns to Athens for the first time ever this weekend, and it did not go well for the visitors. We discuss a great performance by…
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Why is the Toyotathon Lady? (Cast Iron Balls #60)
Week 12 of the college football season is upon us, and with it comes plenty of talk about credit card rewards and car commercials, obviously. That and our…
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How to Become a Youth Soccer Coach (Cast Iron Balls #59)
Week 11 of the college football season was pretty fun, and we’re here to talk about it! Also, the Falcons and Colts were in Berlin and YOUTH SOCCER hooligans…