Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe

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 about, along with our regular assortment of news of the week and enjoyable digressions. 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 Subst...

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 news of the week, the sports news of the week, and plenty of our other usual silliness and digressions. 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 conversa...

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 hour hearing tell of an arena rock concert featuring two of the worst bands from the late 90s and early 2000s as experienced by our intrepid cultural experiencer and reporter, the one and only Abe. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or...

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 thing we most care about and this is, after all, our 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&nbs...

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 baseball and also to discuss the various games and their PLAYOFF IMPLICATIONS. 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...

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 and an interview with the stars of the hit movie musical Wicked and a novel about a depressive incel Lyft driver are all evidence of the same thing—that we should all probably take our magical pocket supercomputers and smash them against the n...

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 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 — What a weekend! 5:52 — Clean, O...

Some technical difficulties delayed this lovely pre-Thanksgiving conversation from hitting your podcast feed until nearly suppertime, and for that we apologize. The good news is that we have a supersized episode for you to listen to as you doze off into your post-meal coma! We preview the weekend of college football action, talk briefly about the sports news of the week, and discuss the traditiona...

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 talking about…outer space? Autonomous cars? Elon Musk? Goddamn 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...

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 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 Live-Bets the Games 6:25 — Georgia technically beats UMASS 11:20...

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 when, and take a call from Plains for 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 Substack or you ca...

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 college football we watched, too. It’s a lot of fun, I promise! 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...

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 something to talk about how we should be talking about such things differently, perhaps. 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 Sub...

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 about everything! Plenty of chatter today about the latest CFB Playoff rankings, the BIG FIGHT tonight between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul, and plenty of other sports topics. We’ve also got the Best Game in Every Time Slot and Jimmy Carter dro...

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, and still have time for our silly diversions and discussions about movies, music, and the rest. It’s not so bad! 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...

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 bouncing around through the sports news 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 or you can send us an email he...

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 college football action. And don’t miss Jimmy Carter’s return to our voicemail inbox—Jimmy’s got a TAKE on Mike Gundy’s fan-disparaging comments from earlier in the week. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FE...

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 this past weekend! 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 —...

As you might have guessed, today we’re mostly just sitting around, rending our garments, gnashing our teeth, and chatting amiably about the presidential election that is happening today. 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 Rundow...

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 from the collective nightmare that next week is going to be. 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 e...

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 decisions by the LA Times and the Washington Post to not endorse Kamala Harris, Abe’s fancy new electronic toy, and our usual whining about the culture. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can t...

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 complaining at some length about our bad luck. Woe is Bob! 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 ema...

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 better than others. Abe tries to start things off on the right foot with a compliment to our tech overlords about the ease and convenience of the modern world, and is then required to endure something called Skibidi Toilet, along with an hour of...

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 Texas talk. 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 — Totally w...

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 and silly digressions. 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...