Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe

Your favorite podcast is back to discuss how utterly sick we all are of one another after so many years of this, how science has proven that smart people keep their worthless emotions in check, preview last night’s GOP primary debate, and demean CBS News’s hardest-vacationing senior national newsman, along with plenty of other stuff. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, ma...

The only rightthinking podcast in the land is here with some extended and meandering yapping about Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, how a few sentences from a book Jon Ronson wrote twenty years ago explains maybe everything, and more pointless complaining about human hydration habits. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about i...

The first and still only podcast in the world is back after a brief summer hiatus with absolutely no discussion of the news of the week at all and instead a punishingly myopic recap of what we did on our summer vacation. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on Facebook or Twitter , leave a comment on the show’s page on...

Podcasting through the dog days of a slow news summer has us discussing RFK Jr’s curious ideas about THE JEWS, why governments enforcing speech norms is bad, actually, a silly upset about a Tracy Chapman cover, and CBS’s great Mark Strassmann heads to Panama City to scold the riptide heroes. Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on Facebook...

CIB returns from our traditional July 4th break to discuss vacations inside the panopticon, being the judgmental turd in the bachelor party punchbowl, and the latest round of Supreme Court decisions. It’s an all-around good time, so, listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on Facebook or Twitter , leave a comment on the sh...

CIB turns 150 episodes young with an extended summation of the end of Little League season, quick thoughts on the Titan submersible, a response to Peter Singer’s famous essay about ending world poverty, and plenty more. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on Facebook or Twitter , leave a comment on the show’s page on o...

Since the Great Bud Light Wars of 2023-2035 began in April, CIB has been a conscientious objector, watching against our will on the sidelines and offering no takes at all. But the war has come to our very shores, finally, and this podcast is left with no choice but to, at long last, say something about it. That and plenty else in the 149th episode of the last true podcast. Listen, if you must! Has...

Sometimes your podcast starts with twenty minutes about expensive shorts and what various mothers think of various hosts, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it. We also yap about the latest Trump indictment, briefly consider Pat Robertson, who deserves no consideration at all, and discuss what a piece in The Atlantic about Lara Logan can tell us about our fellow humans, if anything. Listen, i...

CIB returns from international gallivanting to dig around in the WGAS NewsBag and stare blankly into the void after watching Tucker Carlson steer directly into the worst currents in American political discourse in his return to public commentary. And other stuff! Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on Facebook or Twitt...

Cast Iron Brains—the only podcast to survive the Great Podcastaclysm of 2023—has endured so that we might briefly discuss the debt ceiling deal before an expansive discussion about reparations and why we choose to talk about the things we choose 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 on Facebook or Twitter...

It’s more CIB than you can possibly have imagined, with commentary on the swimwear choices of today’s YOUTS, a Dianne Feinstein’s Brain Update, racism in sports in the US and Europe, and the Surgeon General’s warning about social media. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on Facebook or Twitter , leave a comment on the...

The only podcast is back once again with a lengthy discussion about a shoplifter shot and killed by a security guard at a Walgreens in San Francisco. It’s about as fun as it sounds! Great sales pitch for this one, eh? Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on Facebook or Twitter , leave a comment on the show’s page on our...

CIB carves a couple of hours out of its busy social life to yap about Donald Trump being found civilly liable for sexually assaulting a woman in the 1990s, the debt ceiling standoff, the killing of a homeless person on the subway in New York City, and what the No Labels party is trying to do in the 2024 election. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something...

It has somehow been a week since the last episode of Cast Iron Brains, so here we find ourselves once again. Today we yap about the NFL draft, dip briefly into the WGAS NewsBag, talk about Kevin Smith’s monologue about trauma, and poke fun at some silliness in the Washington Post and over on NPR. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us...

This week your favorite podcast is here to yap about Little League baseball DRAMA, Joe Biden’s ridiculous plan to keep being the president until 2029, and a UVA student brought up on racism charges by her classmates, along with plenty of other stuff. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on Facebook or Twitter , leave a...

CIB reluctantly repels into the news of the week to find a man-child sharing top secret government intelligence with his gamer buddies, less-than-amusing one-off castle-defense shootings, and The Atlantic pricking the bubble of Millennial malaise. All of that plus little league fun, online shopping for mens’ athletic wear, and Mark Strassmann. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed...

This week we’re yapping about Easter, Clarence Thomas and his rich buddy with the Nazi napkins, where anti-individualism meets identity, and Medhi Hasan vs. Matt Taibbi. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on Facebook or Twitter , leave a comment on the show’s page on our website , or you can send us an email here . En...

This week we’re discussing the arrest of Donald Trump, the start of baseball season, Apple AirTags leading to death in Our Bogus Future, and whether or not representation actually matters. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on Facebook or Twitter , leave a comment on the show’s page on our website , or you can send us...

Lori returns from COVID exile to trash what CIB became in her absence, Strassmann heads to bourbon country to get off a good one, and we discuss the pitfalls of euphemizing everything. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on Facebook or Twitter , leave a comment on the show’s page on our website , or you can send us an...

While Lori is away the fellas will take CIB into awful new conversational realms, including discussions of shirts-off guys, March Madness, and how everything is social contagion, now. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on Facebook or Twitter , leave a comment on the show’s page on our website , or you can send us an e...

Between the Oscars and Daylight Savings Time, our society has conspired once again to rob us of about five hours of our lives, and if you include tonight’s yapping about those things, you can add another two hours to the tally. We are accelerating towards oblivion faster than ever, and it’s all our own fault. Throw in some culture war talk and trying to figure out what happened with the Silicon Va...

The only good podcast returns with thoughts on CPAC 2023, blogging again, and why living in our subscription-based future is bogus as hell. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on Facebook or Twitter , leave a comment on the show’s page on our website , or you can send us an email here . Enjoy! Show Rundown Open — Afric...

Unable to care and therefore talk about anything besides the things we care and therefore want to talk about, this week CIB is focused on what’s in the WGAS Sportsbag, weird race talk on the internet, and the ongoing failure of our national media to simply communicate what’s happening in the world, rather than what they think we want to hear. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed t...

CIB has regrettably allowed the news of the week to turn us into insufferable but righteous cranks about almost everything, including the idiots mucking about with Roald Dahl’s words, the people calling the New York TImes to task for reporting on things they’d prefer they’d not, and plenty else. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us...

Super Bowl LVII has come and gone and your favorite podcast is here to yap about it for an extended period of time, whether you like it or not. We also quickly touch on last week’s State of the Union and a local kerfuffle over the name of a nearby elementary school. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on Facebook or Tw...