Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe

That rodent outside of Pittsburgh saw his shadow last week, which as everyone knows means that CIB will blow especially hard these next six long, dark weeks. Today we’re inexplicably yapping about hip hop, balloons, fat Americans, AI chatbots, masks, 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 T...

CIB is here on a day of much rejoicing to yap about morose and awful things, including the Memphis police killing of Tyre Nichols, parents being arrested for letting their kids walk down the street, Rick Ross’s thoughts on Teslas and other “smart cars,” and the HBCU that briefly thought it could rehabilitate an irredeemable racist quarterback recruit. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or...

Tragedy in California leads to bad jokes some 2700 miles away—it’s the podcasting cycle of life, don’t blame us. Also, hecklers, Abe getting roped in by network television, the NFL playoffs, and three different varieties of FAKE NEWS. 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 s...

Worry not, podcast fans—CIB is here to yap about the news of the week, among much else. The news of the week is so stupid, in fact, that we keep the topical stuff mercifully short and spend most of this episode complaining about Imperial Disney’s synergistic CONTENT MAW manipulations, bad football kicking, and a new spin on an old favorite game. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or faile...

The University of Georgia Bulldogs are National Champions for the second year in a row, and CIB is going to gloat about it for an hour. Sorry! We didn’t really see any way around it this week. We’re also yapping about Kevin McCarthy’s selection as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, how the cops tracked down the Idaho student murders suspect, and a lecturer at Hamline University getting s...

Cast Iron Brains is well on its way to unforgivably obnoxious fandom as the Georgia Bulldogs ring in 2023 with a perhaps slightly undeserving win in the Peach Bowl. Join us as we yap about our personal travel woes, react in real time to Damar Hamlin’s tragic cardiac arrest during Monday Night Football, the College Football Playoff, predictions for the next year, and the usual complaining about lif...

CIB is here to plow through the news of the week one last time in 2022, with thoughts on the World Cup, Trump’s NFT drop, an utterly fraudulent NY congressperson-elect, an accounting of our predictions for the last year, and a review of the new Avatar movie. 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 ,...

The only podcast of consequence is back with a quick run through the week in news courtesy of the ever-bulging WGAS NewsBag, a look at some bad movie criticism, and a spoiler-heavy discussion of the end of season two of HBO’s excellent The White Lotus . 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...

CIB kicks off the last month of 2022 and perhaps—who can say, but the Lord?—a nonagenarian ex-president’s life with some thoughts on getting old (opposed), the Dutch (opposed), the GOP, LeBron, DeShaun Watson, SCOTUS, and Our Bogus Future (opposed, opposed, opposed, opposed, and resigned). Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all ab...

CIB returns after a brief Thanksgiving-imposed hiatus to yap about why it's never the parents’ fault except when it’s definitely the parents’ fault, who to definitely-not-racistly root for in the World Cup, and a story on Marketplace neatly shows how some people work to solve inefficiencies in the market while others limply wish the world was a different, better place. All that along with plenty o...

Cast Iron Brains returns as regularly scheduled to discuss the 2022 midterm election cycle, including the things we got wrong and the (considerably fewer) things we got right, the strange way some media types and politicians have reacted to the results, and what it all portends for the 2024 presidential race—among plenty of other, non-politics silliness thrown in. Listen, if you must! Has somethin...

Cast Iron Brains is back—and with a live studio audience!—to yap our way through the news of the week, including conversations about what happens when an anti-woke crusader runs afoul of the dogmatisms of his own cultivated audience, Kyrie Irving’s idiocy, and what to expect from today’s midterm elections, among plenty of other grousing and grumbling. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or...

Cast Iron Brains is here with an extended discussion about the attack on Paul Pelosi and the reaction of right-wing media and Twitter, along with yapping about professional auto racing, the theater, and plenty else. 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 w...

CIB reappears in your podcast feed as regularly scheduled with thoughts on Gen Z’s emoji anxieties, ill-considered climate change protests, another morally bankrupt Ron DeSantis political stunt, and plenty else. 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 websi...

Worry no more, podcast enthusiasts—CIB is here with that juicyfresh content you’ve been waiting to drop into your feed all the week long. We’re talking about how getting old is hell, the simple solution to the problem of not having enough televisions, a whole host of semi-related stories about free speech, and one very silly Twitter conversation, among much else preposterousness. Listen, if you mu...

We’re back as regularly scheduled with some truly atopical nonsense, including inexplicable and unforgivable ramblings about sweatshirts and how to properly handle egg-load in cartons. We also yap about the weekend gone by in football, the dystopian nightmare of working under constant surveillance, and William Shatner’s mixed feelings about his visit to near outer space. Listen, if you must! Has s...

Cast Iron Brains invades your feed once more to yap about the week in sports, COVID-19’s war on Republicans, Hurricane Ian’s war on Florida, Virginia’s war on gender-questioning kids, and Herschel Walker’s war on fetuses, among plenty of other wars. 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 c...

CIB is here near week’s end with an episode we weren’t planning on making but ended up recording anyway because of the insatiable ambition to podcast that we have deep in our CONTENT-making marrow. We’re yapping about the week in sports-viewing, bad NPR interviews, Billy Corgan podcasts of silly intent and dubious merit, bad Twitter reactions, and a whole host of other things that we’re not actual...

This week we’re following the National Football League’s lead in appreciating Hispanic Heritage Month, yapping about terrible football games, trying to figure out what the hell is going on inside Lindsey Graham’s head, and wondering why Ron DeSantis is the way that he is, which is very obviously bad. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tel...

CIB trudges enjoyably through the pointless bog of ceaseless coverage of the British royal family to bring you much yelling about the monarchy, even more yelling about a Racism that Wasn’t at BYU, a quick dip into the WGAS newsbag, and a wrap-up of the week in football, among much else. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about...

The podcast you’re most ashamed to listen to is here once again to yap on about fancy peanuts, America’s crumbling infrastructure, dangerously empty file folders, and what, if anything can be done about the problem of the true-believing, good hearted, disastrously wrong MAGA chuds. All that plus RCV in Alaska, a ridiculous Men’s Health advice column, brief thoughts on the latest House of the Drago...

This week, CIB is here to complain about unbearable morning news programming, the ongoing political fallout of the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago, a preview of the upcoming college and NFL football seasons, and plenty else. 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...

CIB is back to yap about a kerfuffle and attempted cancellation on History Twitter, a Berkeley house with some very…progressive visitor rules, and that one little thing that was wrong with a multi-million dollar mansion in the Hamptons. All that and plenty of other topics—including golf, Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, and more proof that the future is here, and it is quite bogus. Listen, i...

CIB has returned from a vacation here at summer’s end with stories from the beach, sincere horror at the attack on Salman Rushdie and, by extension, all of civil society, and further dismay at the success some folks are having at convincing artists to change their art due to how it makes some people feel, among many other topics. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made y...

This week on CIB we’re talking about the FBI executing a search warrant in Mar-a-Lago, what a failed attempt to end abortion in Kansas tells us about November, the lack of vaccine-testing on pregnant women, and a whole mess of other topics. We are continuing our experiment of not really doing any editing of the show and just presenting our conversation as it happened, so let us know if you think l...