Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe

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, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joining the conversation on our Substack or you can send us an email here . Enjoy! Show Rundown Open — Revving back up after a bri...

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 field, how Alabama could have fallen out, how Notre Dame could have been kept in, 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 by joining the conversatio...

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, and youth sport-themed gingerbread displays. And then we’ve got the usual rundown of sports headlines, games previews, and silliness from Jimmy Carter and all the rest. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FE...

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 to be just the absolute worst sort of person. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joining the conversation on our  Substack  or you can  send us...

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 magic! Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joining the conversation on our  Substack  or you can  send us an email here . Enjoy! Show Rundown Open...

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 regular visit from former president Jimmy Carter with the Presidential Lock of the Week. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joining the conversation on our  S...

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 the Dawgs, Alabama falling to visiting Oklahoma, and what it all means for the College Football Playoff. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joining the conv...

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 usual assortment of games previews and celestially-sourced gambling guarantees—for entertainment purposes only, of course. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joi...

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 got Bob all hot and bothered about sportsmanship. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joining the conversation on our  Substack  or you can  sen...

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 yapping about it, along with all the other news and silliness of the week. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joining the conversation on our  Substack  ...

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 final moments, and plenty of other thrilling college and pro football action, we would not be leading off our show with thirty minutes devoted to YOUTH SPORT. But you would be very wrong to think that. Listen, if you must! Has something we said,...

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 previews and silliness. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joining the conversation on our  Substack  or you can  send us an email here . Enjoy!...

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 against NBA stars for their involvement in illegal poker games and gambling on sports. All that and our usual assortment of silliness and pitterpatter, and, of course, a visit from Jimmy in Heaven for the Presidential Lock of the Week. Listen,...

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 of them, including extended yapping about the Georgia/Ole Miss contest, which was both awesome and utterly mystifying. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joi...

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 Slot, and plenty of other enjoyable yapping about sports. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joining the conversation on our  Substack  or you can&nb...

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 their wrists or in their pockets. Are we standing athwart the inevitable, or is there a better way to be in the world that one can achieve without incurring too much personal cost and misery? That and plenty of yapping about the news of the w...

Predictably enough, the Georgia/Auburn game dominates our sports weekend recap today, with much yelling and argument over the inner thoughts and intentions of a man attempting to communicate one simple thing and completely blowing it. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joining the conversation on our Substack or yo...

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 a bonus INSTANT LIVE REACTION to Philly misery at the very end. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joining the conversation on our Substack or you can send u...

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 know cannot be relied upon to contain any truth value. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joining the conversation on our Substack or you can send us an email...

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 their butts kicked by teams that are not supposed to be very good. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joining the conversation on our Substack or you can send...

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 for Abe’s European travelogue and our discombobulated dissatisfaction with the state of our so-called politics, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joining the convers...

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 the Georgia football program. And since it’s already nearly the weekend, we’re also doing our Week 6 preview. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joining the c...

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 news of the week and a visit from Jimmy Carter in heaven with the Presidential Lock of the Week. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joining the conversation o...

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 other silliness, too, including Trump trying to pronounce acetaminophen, Strassmann looking for human connection in a California run club, and a pretty lady looking for another sort of connection at a sports bar. Listen, if you must! Has so...

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 all about it by joining the conversation on our Substack or you can send us an email here . Enjoy! Relevant Linkage can be found by visiting https://brainiron.substack.com/ , where, if you would like to support this and the other podcasting...