Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe

It’s not often that we do an episode of Cast Iron Brains—especially lately—that feels like a more or less perfect distillation of what it is we generally do around here. But this episode of the show very much feels like an encapsulation of what this show is all about. I don’t mean to oversell it, but if you’re looking for a very Cast Iron Brains episode of Cast Iron Brains, you’re in luck! We’ve g...

It was yet another spectacular weekend of college football action, and the only essential college football podcast is here to chat all about it, along with some questionable asides about Aaron Rodgers and Oregon coach Dan Lanning, along with plenty of other decidedly antisocial takes. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about i...

It’s time to chit chat about some of this week’s sports news stories and preview this weekend’s college football action with your favorite sports and Buc-ee’s enthusiasts, Cast Iron Balls! Abe is on the road and under the beer in Cincinnati, and we’ve got our regular assortment of previews, picks, and Presidents from Plains. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FE...

It’s not always the big news of the week that gets our blood pressure up. Sometimes it’s a trends piece about Mormons going CRAZY and adding weird shit to their soda. Does SODECADANCE prove that we are a culture in decline, or have we always been a civilization of gutter monsters? Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by...

Did that really happen on Saturday? Did Vanderbilt really beat Alabama? We think it did! Cast Iron Balls is here to simply delight in the unprecedented wonder of Saturday night and react to the rest of the weekend’s college football action. 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...

Your favorite sports podcast is back to discuss what’s wrong with the MLB playoffs, contemplate the general awfulness of Auburn, and generally walk you through your sports-enjoying 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 Run...

We’re a little bit all over the place in this week’s CIB, with apocalypses to ponder in Atlanta, North Carolina, Israel, the voting booth, and the movie theater. 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 — Atlanta is defin...

Though we would prefer to pretend that this weekend never happened, Cast Iron Balls is here to discuss Alabama’s thorough humiliation of the Georgia Bulldogs, along with the rest of the weekend’s sports action. 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 h...

It’s Georgia vs. Alabama weekend, and CIBalls is here to discuss the sports news of the week and pretend to know things about what’s to come that we will most definitely be wrong about. We also have plenty of our usual yelling and silliness, and former president Jimmy Carter calls in live to give his Lock of the Week. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL some...

Cast Iron Brains regains supremacy over your podcast feed with stories about Jehovah’s Witness correspondence, missing earbuds, the news of the week, and plenty of other silliness, because sometimes you’ve just got to get real fired up about headphone jacks and 90s Top-40 radio and yell about it with your favorite people. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL...

We watched a lot of sports this weekend, and now we have to talk about it—and we made a lot of predictions last week, and we’d rather not talk about that 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 — Abe live-bets th...

The Cast Iron Balls crew is here to chat through the sports news of the week and preview all the weekend sports action, along with our normal digressions and silliness. We’ve got Shohei Ohtani, Simone Biles, and Jimmy Carter making picks. What else do you need?! 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 conver...

Donald Trump was maybe kinda almost targeted for assassination again, and the pets-eating discourse has entered its second week and shows no sign of getting smarter. CIB has some thoughts on why it doesn’t actually matter if any pets were or were not consumed in a town in Ohio, along with plenty of our other usual silliness. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FE...

Abe returns to the show to continue making flawless live game picks and to chat about the weekend’s sports action. We have thoughts on Georgia’s near-disaster in Lexington, surprising hot starts for some NFL teams, and which former Alabama quarterback should give it all up. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it by joinin...

Cast Iron Balls is here to get you ready for Week 3 of the college football season, and though it may not be the most exciting slate of games we’ll see this year, and we may be down a host and also lacking a little bit of energy, we’re going to power through it anyway! 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...

We couldn’t possibly go six days before responding in podcast form to the debate between former president Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, so we jumped on the horn and recorded some thoughts right after the debate ended. 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...

The original and still the best podcast is back atop your podcast feed with talk of the latest New York Times/Siena poll on the presidential election, a debate preview, sad news from Georgia, a new segment in which we offer a health and wellness tip, and the rest of our regular silliness. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all abo...

The Cast Iron Balls crew is back after ingesting yet another truly unhealthy amount of football action over the weekend to talk about all we’ve seen. 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 — Georgia Tek getting the shaf...

The NFL season kicks off this weekend and CIB is here to yap about a whole bunch of other stuff, instead! We’ve got plenty of college football talk, our picks for the weekend, and President Jimmy Carter’s Lock of the Week, along with plenty of other 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 conversa...

It’s not much of a show this week, but it’s a show nonetheless! Join us as we have an existential crisis about why the news all feels so pointless at the moment, take solace in some nostalgia for kinda good not-songs, and plenty of our usual other antisocial nonsense. 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...

Cast Iron Balls returns to the top of the Brain Iron feed with a recap of some of the weekend’s college football action. 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 — Banter! 6:00 — Three Questions, Two Statements and One Ho...

It’s the world premiere of a whole new podcast from the Brain Iron Multinational Media Empire—CAST IRON BALLS. We discuss the sports news of the week, plow through a few of our favorite games, and make picks! Who doesn’t love picks?! Besides Lori, of course. Lori hates picks. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on our...

CIB is here with a rundown of the last couple days of the 2024 Democratic National Convention, how the next generation of AI-assisted content manipulation could spell trouble for our ability to know things, and NPR is contacting PhDs to sort out if it’s too early in the season for a Pumpkin Spice Latte. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can...

Your favorite podcast is back atop your feed with thoughts on the ongoing Democratic National Convention, a bunch of college football playoff predictions, the Billboard Game, and Abe’s Alien: Romulus review, among 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 our Substack , leave a comment on the show’s page on o...

We’re recapping the Paris Olympics and wondering if the tightening of the presidential polls is real, and if it can be maintained. Listen, if you must! Has something we said, or failed to say, made you FEEL something? You can tell us all about it on our Substack , leave a comment on the show’s page on our website , or you can send us an email here . Enjoy! Show Rundown Open — An immediate halt to...