Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe

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The podcast currently has 376 episodes available.

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November 21, 2025 A Sickos Quadbox Kinda Weekend (Cast Iron Balls #62)
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 Substack or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!
Show Rundown
Open — Abe Live Bets the Games!
4:45 — WGAS Newsbag, Sports Edition!
34:05 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot
48:40 — CIB 2025 Football Pick ‘em Contest
55:45 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week, Live from Plains, Heaven
1:01:08 — Wrap-up!
Relevant Linkage can be found by visiting https://brainiron.substack.com/, where, if you would like to support this and the other podcasting and blogging endeavors of the Brain Iron dot com media empire, you can also become a paying subscriber.
The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.
The background music for Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week is "Bama Country" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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1h 18min
November 18, 2025 "Hi, my name is Steve Sarkisian, and it has been three days since my last ass-kicking." (Cast Iron Balls #61)
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 conversation on our Substack or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!
Show Rundown
Open — Abe Live Bets the Games!
4:00 — WGAS NewsBag, Sports Edition!
13:40 — Horns go down in Athens, Georgia
50:11 — All those other games
1:16:38 — CIB 2025 Football Pick ‘em Contest Update
1:23:42 — Wrap-up!
Relevant Linkage can be found by visiting https://brainiron.substack.com/, where, if you would like to support this and the other podcasting and blogging endeavors of the Brain Iron dot com media empire, you can also become a paying subscriber.
The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.
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1h 36min
November 14, 2025 Why is the Toyotathon Lady? (Cast Iron Balls #60)
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 joining the conversation on our Substack or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!
Show Rundown
Open — Abe Live Bets the Games! And a digression about credit cards?
11:36 — Bitching about commercials again
19:42 — WGAS NewsBag: Sports Edition!
34:30 — Sports-Adjacent Question of the Week: Where Has All the Casual Nudity in American Life Gone?
46:39 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot
1:01:28 — CIB 2025 Football Pick ‘em Contest
1:12:46 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week, Live from Plains, Heaven
1:18:12 — Wrap-up!
Relevant Linkage can be found by visiting https://brainiron.substack.com/, where, if you would like to support this and the other podcasting and blogging endeavors of the Brain Iron dot com media empire, you can also become a paying subscriber.
The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.
The background music for Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week is "Bama Country" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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1h 29min
November 11, 2025 How to Become a Youth Soccer Coach (Cast Iron Balls #59)
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 send us an email here. Enjoy!
Show Rundown
Open — Abe Live Bets the Games, and Colts/Falcons
15:15 — WGAS Newsbag, Sports Edition! Daboll fired; more player gambling problems
29:49 — College games recap!
1:04:53 — CIB 2025 Football Pick ‘em Contest update
1:14:28 — Wrap-up! The President gets six-seven’ed on television!
Relevant Linkage can be found by visiting https://brainiron.substack.com/, where, if you would like to support this and the other podcasting and blogging endeavors of the Brain Iron dot com media empire, you can also become a paying subscriber.
The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.
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1h 44min
November 07, 2025 Defending All Our Positions, Except the Ones We Don't (Cast Iron Balls #58)
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 or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!
Show Rundown
Open — Abe Live Bets the Games, and Bob offers a pro-tip to The Biffler
8:38 — WGAS NewsBag, Sports Edition; Marshawn Kneeland; Antonio Brown arrested; Tom Brady clones his dog; Brent Key says he’s staying put; first CFP ranking; NFL trades
40:57 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot
1:00:11 — CIB 2025 Football Pick ‘em Contest
1:10: 56 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week, Live from Plains, Heaven
1:14:05 — Wrap-up!
Relevant Linkage can be found by visiting https://brainiron.substack.com/, where, if you would like to support this and the other podcasting and blogging endeavors of the Brain Iron dot com media empire, you can also become a paying subscriber.
The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.
The background music for Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week is "Bama Country" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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1h 26min
November 04, 2025 Fall Ball, of Many Varieties, is the Best Ball (Cast Iron Balls #57)
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, 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!
3:09 — The two best games of a packed sports weekend
28:49 — The weekend in college football
43:34 — Georgia/Florida was nearly a complete disaster
1:08:57 — World Series Game 7
1:11:02 — 2025 CIB Football Pick ‘em Contest Update
1:24:44 — Wrap-up!
Relevant Linkage can be found by visiting https://brainiron.substack.com/, where, if you would like to support this and the other podcasting and blogging endeavors of the Brain Iron dot com media empire, you can also become a paying subscriber.
The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.
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1h 34min
October 31, 2025 Riding Yoshi (the Horse) to Parlay Glory (Cast Iron Balls #56)
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!
Show Rundown
Open — Abe Live Bets the Games!
4:37 — WGAS NewsBag, Sports Edition: Brian Kelly Fired! World Series is good!
39:14 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot
56:10 — 2025 CIB Football Pick ‘em Contest
1:05:49 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week
1:08:51 — Wrap-up!
Relevant Linkage can be found by visiting https://brainiron.substack.com/, where, if you would like to support this and the other podcasting and blogging endeavors of the Brain Iron dot com media empire, you can also become a paying subscriber.
The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.
The background music for Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week is "Bama Country" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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1h 18min
October 24, 2025 Maybe All this Gambling is Bad, Actually (Cast Iron Balls #55)
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, 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!
4:10 — WGAS NewsBag, Sports Edition: Gambling and Poker, but the Bad Kinds
45:46 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot
1:02:05 — CIB 2025 Football Pick ‘em Contest
1:09:35 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week
1:13:31 — Wrap-up!
Relevant Linkage can be found by visiting https://brainiron.substack.com/, where, if you would like to support this and the other podcasting and blogging endeavors of the Brain Iron dot com media empire, you can also become a paying subscriber.
The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.
The background music for Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week is "Bama Country" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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1h 23min
October 21, 2025 Watching 20-Year-Olds Do Dumb Things for Fun (Cast Iron Balls #54)
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 joining the conversation on our Substack or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!
Show Rundown
Open — Abe Live Bets the Games!
9:03 — Georgia vs Ole Miss
30:22 — An incredible weekend of other games, too
1:17:45 — CIB 2025 Football Pick ‘em Contest
1:21:41 — Wrap-up!
Relevant Linkage can be found by visiting https://brainiron.substack.com/, where, if you would like to support this and the other podcasting and blogging endeavors of the Brain Iron dot com media empire, you can also become a paying subscriber.
The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.
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1h 45min
October 17, 2025 The Herschel Walker Urinals at Peabody Hall (Cast Iron Balls #53)
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 send us an email here. Enjoy!
Show Rundown
Open — Abe Live Bets the Games!
5:15 — WGAS NewsBag, Sports Edition! Saudi Arabia and private equity trying to get into college football; Indiana signs Cignetti to big extension
23:25 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot
54:21 — 2025 CIB Football Pick ‘em Contest
59:15 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week
1:02:53 — Wrap-up!
Relevant Linkage can be found by visiting https://brainiron.substack.com/, where, if you would like to support this and the other podcasting and blogging endeavors of the Brain Iron dot com media empire, you can also become a paying subscriber.
The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.
The background music for Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week is "Bama Country" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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1h 15min

FAQs about Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe:

How many episodes does Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe have?

The podcast currently has 376 episodes available.