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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
Defending All Our Positions, Except the Ones We Don't (Cast Iron Balls #58)
Week 11 might be looking a little less than wholly captivating on paper, but that doesn’t stop your favorite sports podcast from having a grand old time…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Fall Ball, of Many Varieties, is the Best Ball (Cast Iron Balls #57)
You might think that after a sports weekend that included a World Series going the distance, the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party coming down to the…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Riding Yoshi (the Horse) to Parlay Glory (Cast Iron Balls #56)
It’s a birthday and Halloween edition of your favorite sports-but-mostly-college-football podcast, with a special guest and our regular assortment of games…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Maybe All this Gambling is Bad, Actually (Cast Iron Balls #55)
It’s a Week 9 college football preview episode, but first we have to talk about the big sports news of the day—the Trump Justice Department bringing charges…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Watching 20-Year-Olds Do Dumb Things for Fun (Cast Iron Balls #54)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
The Herschel Walker Urinals at Peabody Hall (Cast Iron Balls #53)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Immiserating Our Kids, One Way or Another (CIB #258)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
The Universal Signal for Illegal Clapping (Cast Iron Balls #52)
Predictably enough, the Georgia/Auburn game dominates our sports weekend recap today, with much yelling and argument over the inner thoughts and intentions of…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
We Don't Care for Auburn or French Fire Perverts (Cast Iron Balls #51)
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…
Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and AbeCan the Hot AI Robits Be a Bit More Beguilingly Sad? (CIB #257)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
"Cranky bitches losing just makes me so happy." (Cast Iron Balls #50)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Abe's Arms are Tired (CIB #256)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Great Games and Less than Ideal Results (Cast Iron Balls #49)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Bracing Ourselves to Not Storm the Field (Cast Iron Balls #48)
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…
Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and AbeBut Can I Take the Tylenol If I'm Pregnant With Bison Babies? (CIB #255)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Absurdly Wealthy Chucklefucks (Cast Iron Balls #47)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
No Exit Strategy (Cast Iron Balls #46)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Trying to Disprove the Thesis (CIB #254)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Humiliation on Hyundai Field (Cast Iron Balls #45)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
A Weird Day, But We Yap On (Cast Iron Balls #44)
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…
Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and AbeOur True Birthright is 11 Varieties of Goldfish Crackers, Oreo Mashups (CIB #253)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
We're Doing Spitting! (Cast Iron Balls #43)
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…
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Less Football Despite More Football, Somehow (Cast Iron Balls #42)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Various Curious Paths to Higher Social Capital (CIB #252)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Sports Takes Fit to be Buried In (CIBalls #41)
Week One of the 2025 college football season is (all but) complete, and we’re here to discuss all the things we were wrong about and how we really should have…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Week 1 2025 Preview (TM) (Cast Iron Balls #40)
Cast Iron Balls is here to avoid discussing the awful news of the day and instead focus on important things, like which college football games to watch this…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Assholes Begatting Assholes, Forever (CIB #251)
Early morning jogging with the best and worst people in the world has CIB contemplating public displays of provocative virtue, the news of the week, and the…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Cast Iron Balls Returns! (Cast Iron Balls #39)
The Brain Iron Multinational Media Empire is proud to renew Cast Iron Balls for a second season. We’re back to yap about everything going on in the world of…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Putin-Trump Summit Goes All Skibidi (CIB #250)
This week we’re yapping about Trump and Putin in Alaska, Trump’s unconstitutional excise tax on AI computer chips, and how there’s absolutely nothing we can do…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Wrapping Up the Dog Days by Fixing Everything (CIB #249)
CIB is here with solutions for everything that ails a hot and bored nation. This week we’re yapping about a new sports streaming bundle, Trump’s DC takeover…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Sydney Sweeney Gets Into Domestic Disputes at Panera Bread (CIB #248)
CIB is back after a brief summer trip to discuss yet another day among the filthy rabble at a Virginia theme park, the national news of the moment, and whether…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Private Chefs, Organic Ho Hos, and the 1% Doctrine (CIB #247)
Despite coming into this week’s conversation fairly well convinced that there was a grand unifying theme to be sussed out from the news of the week, it’s not…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Viscerally Objectionable Content (CIB #246)
We open this week’s podcast with some deep audio engineering analysis of our highly respected rival podcast, The Biffler, before moving on to discussion of the…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
What Baseball Pants Can Teach Us About Mass Casualty Floods (CIB #245)
The news of the week is depressing and beyond our power to control it, so we first dwell on road races and theme parks, and then close with a brief reflection…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Nothing Patriotic Planned Except Generalized Dismay (CIB #244)
CIB is here before the Fourth of July to discuss the major rulings handed down by the Supreme Court at the end of the term, along with a handful of other…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Walking Boots, Disco Balls, and Massive Ordinance Penetrators (CIB #243)
We’re finally back to discuss the recent goings on in the world, which is mostly that the United States decided to directly involve itself in the war between…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Nothing Else Matters, Just the LOLz (CIB #242)
We’re back after a week away from the news to yap about what’s happening in the world, including the Trump/Elon messiness, nationwide immigration protests, and…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Desecrated Temples, Desiccated Brains (CIB #241)
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…
Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and AbeAmerica Finally Gets What We Have Long Been Denied (CIB #240)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Doll Decadence and Pencil Profligacy (CIB #239)
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…
Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe100 Days Down, 1000 Years to Go (CIB #238)
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…
Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and AbeThe Insatiable Broken-Faced Man (CIB #237)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
The Perils of Overcommunication (CIB #236)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
"You make me sad." (CIB #235)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
We are the Real Voice of America (CIB #234)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
We Keep Dumping the Turd Right Back into the Punchbowl (CIB #233)
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…
Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and AbeFasting on Mecca Time (CIB #232)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
No Surprises Publishing (CIB #231)
Show Rundown Open — Abe and the Profligate, Pauperish Pub Patron 7:58 — The Speech to the Nation 34:35 — WGAS NewsBag; Study finds happy wife, happy life…
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One Neat Trick to Dismantle the West (CIB #230)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
The Infrastructure of Immiseration (CIB #229)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Did the People Demand a King? (CIB #228)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
The View from The Floor (CIB #227)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
More Like Super Bowl LIX...ASS! (Cast Iron Balls #38)
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…
Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and AbeSphere and Walking in Las Vegas (CIB #226)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Yankees Fans Know What's In the Box (Cast Iron Balls #37)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
American Grotesquerie (CIB #225)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
A Natty for anOSU (Cast Iron Balls #36)
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…
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A Great Year Already (Cast Iron Balls #35)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Abe, Whimsical Snow Artiste (CIB #224)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Greg McElroy is Never Wrong (Cast Iron Balls #34)
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…