Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe

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. It’s our College Football Week 4 preview show! 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 ....

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 us. 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 — Abe at the Hans...

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 lots of other Week 3 odds and ends. 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 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. 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! Open — The problem with constantly raisin...

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 awful news of the week, wherein we discover that everything is possibly worse than it seems. 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 o...

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, even as the NFL tries to convince us that everyone who watches their product is a giant weird dummy. It all makes for plenty of fun nonsense for us to talk about, so listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL...

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 it. Plus, tune in for Abe’s EXCLUSIVE 2025 NFL preview, the CIB Pick ‘em Contest, and Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week, Live from Plains. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You ca...

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 the way that our fractured and willfully half-honest media ecosystem makes it impossible to collectively mourn mass trauma, and also how the local upper elementary school is recruiting the IMPRESSIONABLE YOUTS to Team Gay. Listen, if you mus...

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 seen it coming, because it’s all really just so obvious, in retrospect. 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 &nb...

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 week. All of them. The answer is all of them. 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...

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 WOKIFICATION of Cracker Barrel. 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...

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 SPORTS, especially if “everything” means “mostly just about college football” to you, too. This week we’re wading slowly back into things with a dip into the WGAS NewsBag, Sports Edition and we live draft our College Quarterback Fantasy Footba...

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 about living in Our Bogus Future. 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 — Baseb...

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, how not to go about ending one’s life, and what unites the conspiracists, the skeptics, and those of us mostly just going along to get along. Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by jo...

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 or not Sydney Sweeney is hot enough to justify all this upset her ads are causing. 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...

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 clear that we ever quite got there. Still, an enjoyable time was had, so check it out! 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...

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 news of the week and our review of the new Superman movie. 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...

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 on the very popular novel James by Percival Everett. 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...

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 topics, strange headlines, and owls in the national news. 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...

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 Israel and Iran—and by “the United States” we mean mostly Donald Trump. Donald Trump! A person who seems to think of himself more as a monarch than as a president, and who is no doubt happy to find that the limitations that theoretically exis...

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 a recent SCOTUS decision. 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...

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, as is our prerogative on our very own podcast. 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 ....

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 surprising rush of pride upon the announcement of the new American pope. 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...

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 for ever more dolls and pencils. Does the president’s suspicion of all trade speak to the existential malaise of the modern American cursed to live in a time of obscene overconsumption, a people incapable of listening to their inner moral cons...

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, including tales of greedy, scheming children, their spineless parents, and drug-addled weirdos trying to steal from the youth baseball concession stand. After all of that we yap about a few things we missed in the first months of the second Trum...