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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
Playoff Football Spectacular! (Cast Iron Balls #33)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Shoveling into 2025 (CIB #223)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
A Sliver of What We Got Wrong About 2024 (CIB #222)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Half the Day is Mo[u]rning (Cast Iron Balls #32)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Cast Iron Christmas (CIB #221)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
'Twere the Balls Before Christmas (Cast Iron Balls #31)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
College Football...Playoffs?! (Cast Iron Balls #30)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
The United States of Smarm, on CBS (CIB #220)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Bashar al-Assad, Ed Snowden, and Tal Bachman in Putin's Heisman House (CIB #219)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
McConaughey Can't Beat Georgia (Cast Iron Balls #29)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Too Many Clowns (Cast Iron Balls #28)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
No Presidential Pardon from the Black Box of Doom (CIB #218)
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…
Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and AbeThe Clenched Butthole Contagion (Cast Iron Balls #27)
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…
Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and AbeA Very Ballsy Thanksgiving (Cast Iron Balls #26)
Some technical difficulties delayed this lovely pre-Thanksgiving conversation from hitting your podcast feed until nearly suppertime, and for that we…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Apparently Everyone Deserves One Roofie Mulligan (CIB #217)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Getting the Suck Out of the Way (Cast Iron Balls #25)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
A Scatted Prayer for a Blazin' Blackgoat Thunderbird (Cast Iron Balls #24)
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…
Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and AbePaul/Tyson defeat Our Dignity, Unanimous, 8 rounds (Cast Iron Balls #23)
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…
Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and AbePerils of a Cashless Society, 17 y/o Hookers Edition (CIB #216)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
The Best Bus Drivers are Highly Interruptible (Cast Iron Balls #22)
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…
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About Last Tuesday (CIB #215)
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…
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Frauds Exposed Weekend! (Cast Iron Balls #21)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
"We're [mostly] not talking about that." (Cast Iron Balls #20)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Election Shmuhlection! (Cast Iron Balls #19)
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…
Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and AbeHere We Go Again, Again (CIB #214)
As you might have guessed, today we’re mostly just sitting around, rending our garments, gnashing our teeth, and chatting amiably about the presidential…
Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and AbeRELENTLESS LOSERS (Cast Iron Balls #18)
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…
Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and AbeSome Competence, Mostly Buffoonery (CIB #213)
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…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
The Best Statues are Placid and Flaccid (Cast Iron Balls #17)
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…
Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and AbeTwo Weeks! (CIB #212)
By some strange trick of time and space and gravity, we are somehow just two weeks away from the 2024 presidential election, and some of us are taking it…
Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and AbeWrong About Everything But the Main Thing (Cast Iron Balls #16)
It was another outrageously fun weekend of college football action, and your favorite sports chucklefest is here to ignore most of it in favor of Georgia vs…
Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and AbeAll Physicality, Limited Composure (Cast Iron Balls #15)
We’re here with a preview of the weekend’s sports action and a brief look back at the sports news of the week, along with our regular assortment of hot takes…
Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and AbeSkyline Chili vs Gas Station Nachos vs Humanity (CIB #211)
It’s not often that we do an episode of Cast Iron Brains—especially lately—that feels like a more or less perfect distillation of what it is we generally do…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
What Dan Lanning Gets Up To Around the Trailer Park (Cast Iron Balls #14)
It was yet another spectacular weekend of college football action, and the only essential college football podcast is here to chat all about it, along with…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Miranda Lambert's Cowpoke Fuckhouse (Cast Iron Balls #13)
It’s time to chit chat about some of this week’s sports news stories and preview this weekend’s college football action with your favorite sports and Buc-ee’s…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
CoffeeMating Our Way Out of Civilization (CIB #210)
It’s not always the big news of the week that gets our blood pressure up. Sometimes it’s a trends piece about Mormons going CRAZY and adding weird shit to…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
A Diego Pavia-Sized Blind Spot (Cast Iron Balls #12)
Did that really happen on Saturday? Did Vanderbilt really beat Alabama? We think it did! Cast Iron Balls is here to simply delight in the unprecedented wonder…
Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and AbeWe Don't Care for Auburn (Cast Iron Balls #11)
Your favorite sports podcast is back to discuss what’s wrong with the MLB playoffs, contemplate the general awfulness of Auburn, and generally walk you through…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Patiently Awaiting the Real Apocalypses (CIB #209)
We’re a little bit all over the place in this week’s CIB, with apocalypses to ponder in Atlanta, North Carolina, Israel, the voting booth, and the movie…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
The Cope is Strong with This One (Cast Iron Balls #10)
Though we would prefer to pretend that this weekend never happened, Cast Iron Balls is here to discuss Alabama’s thorough humiliation of the Georgia Bulldogs…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Life is Fleeting, but Sport is Not (Cast Iron Balls #9)
It’s Georgia vs. Alabama weekend, and CIBalls is here to discuss the sports news of the week and pretend to know things about what’s to come that we will most…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Thriving in the Current Conditions (CIB #208)
Cast Iron Brains regains supremacy over your podcast feed with stories about Jehovah’s Witness correspondence, missing earbuds, the news of the week, and…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Specify the Doors that General Booty Opens (Cast Iron Balls #8)
We watched a lot of sports this weekend, and now we have to talk about it—and we made a lot of predictions last week, and we’d rather not talk about that at…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
The Fine People at Little Debbie's Favorite Coach (Cast Iron Balls #7)
The Cast Iron Balls crew is here to chat through the sports news of the week and preview all the weekend sports action, along with our normal digressions and…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Many Paths to the Rainbow Bridge (CIB #207)
Donald Trump was maybe kinda almost targeted for assassination again, and the pets-eating discourse has entered its second week and shows no sign of getting…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
"Fade the public, and especially Abe." (Cast Iron Balls #6)
Abe returns to the show to continue making flawless live game picks and to chat about the weekend’s sports action. We have thoughts on Georgia’s near-disaster…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Week 3 is here! And so are two of us! (Cast Iron Balls #5)
Cast Iron Balls is here to get you ready for Week 3 of the college football season, and though it may not be the most exciting slate of games we’ll see this…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
THE PEOPLE ON TELEVISION: A Debate Recap (CIB #206)
We couldn’t possibly go six days before responding in podcast form to the debate between former president Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, so we…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
A New Test for Racism (Really!) (CIB #205)
The original and still the best podcast is back atop your podcast feed with talk of the latest New York Times/Siena poll on the presidential election, a debate…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
What the People Demand (Cast Iron Balls #4)
The Cast Iron Balls crew is back after ingesting yet another truly unhealthy amount of football action over the weekend to talk about all we’ve seen. Listen…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Not Mayo Spon-Con, But Trustworthy Nonetheless (Cast Iron Balls #3)
The NFL season kicks off this weekend and CIB is here to yap about a whole bunch of other stuff, instead! We’ve got plenty of college football talk, our picks…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Rounding Up to One Percent (CIB #204)
It’s not much of a show this week, but it’s a show nonetheless! Join us as we have an existential crisis about why the news all feels so pointless at the…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
The "Shoving it Down Our Throats" Strategy (Cast Iron Balls #2)
Cast Iron Balls returns to the top of the Brain Iron feed with a recap of some of the weekend’s college football action. Listen, if you must! Has something we…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
A Podcast Shaped Like the Platonic Sportsball (Cast Iron Balls #1)
It’s the world premiere of a whole new podcast from the Brain Iron Multinational Media Empire—CAST IRON BALLS. We discuss the sports news of the week, plow…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
No Need to Workshop Anything More Offensive (CIB #203)
CIB is here with a rundown of the last couple days of the 2024 Democratic National Convention, how the next generation of AI-assisted content manipulation…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Thoughts on the Relative Crunkedness of the DNC, and Other Proofs that We Live in a Fallen World (CIB #202)
Your favorite podcast is back atop your feed with thoughts on the ongoing Democratic National Convention, a bunch of college football playoff predictions, the…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
At the Mercy of the Coin of the Flip (CIB #201)
We’re recapping the Paris Olympics and wondering if the tightening of the presidential polls is real, and if it can be maintained. Listen, if you must! Has…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
The Fantastic Voyage Continues, 200 Episodes In (CIB #200)
Once a year or so, all of CIB gets together in person and records an episode. This is that episode, and coincidentally it’s a milestone episode—number 200 of…
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Greeting the End of the World with a ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (CIB #199)
CIB returns to podcast feeds all over the known universe with freshly COVID-inflected takes on the latest world-shattering push notifications you probably…
Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and AbeNot a Sickness. A Fact. (CIB #198)
A very busy news weekend has turned what was supposed to be a little league baseball recap episode into 90 minutes of discussion about Donald Trump’s brush…
- Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe
Experts Say the President's Brains Are Real Bad (CIB #197)
CIB returns to find out if we overreacted to Biden’s disastrous first debate performance, if the Supreme Court has gone FULL MAGA, and to discuss the garbage…