It’s a week 3 College Football wrap-up show! We’re yapping about the most unacceptable way to ever lose a football game, the most disrespectful thing you can do to an opponent on the football field during a TV-timeout, and Lance Kiffin losing in Oxford. 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!
4:02 — Week 3 games recap!
51:45 — CIB 2026 Football Pick ‘em Contest Update
54:18 — Wrap-up!

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We’re discussing Trump’s ban of mainstream media outlets from the White House and having a chat about whether or why not to take the constantly-advertised GLP-1 weight loss drugs. 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 vs Christmas! Bob vs The Nabisco Test Kitchen
13:14 — Trump kicks disfavored news organizations out of the White House
43:22 — JB Pritzker lost 80 pounds on GLP-1s, what about you, America?
1:15:43 — America’s Favorite Game Show!
1:22:26 — Wrap-up!

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The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Brains were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

CIB is here with the sports news of the week, a Week 3 CFB preview, and our usual shenanigans. President Jimmy Carter calls in to give his take on early 2000s post-alternative teen butt rock, because of course he does. 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!
4:36 — WGAS NewsBag, Sports Edition
51:23 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot
1:07:16 — CIB 2026 Fotball Pick ‘em Contest
1:12:10 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week, Live from Plains, Heaven
1:17:15 — Wrap-up!

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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/

The flagship podcast of the Brain Iron Multinational Media Empire returns to your podcast feeds with an attempt to understand the future of the Republican party after the “midterm convention,” the creeping horror of the populist dummies trying to do a symbolism, and how a CBS news anchor and a candidate for statewide office in Texas committed the same fundamental sin. 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!

***Apologies for the 18-or-so minutes of sub-par audio towards the end of the episode. Technical difficulties resulted in a switch to the back-up for a little while.***

Show Rundown
Open — Abe in the World
8:44 — WGAS NewsBag; Republican Midterm Convention
27:20 — DHS announces permanent war footing
46:41 — Gayle King has to sit with that for just a second
1:04:10 — Experts say… Did Scott Simon of NPR’s Weekend Edition Get Off a Good One in the Fashion and to the Exacting Standards of CBS News’ Senior National Correspondent Mark Strassmann?
1:15:23 — Wrap-up! By Any Means; Seveneves, by Neal Stephenson

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The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Brains were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

Week 2 of college football action did not disappoint, and CIB is here with a quick recap of the weekend’s action, along with a report from CBS News’ Mark Strassmann on parents behaving badly at youth sports and a peek behind the curtain at what an old married couple gets up to when the lights go out. 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!
5:02 — Weekend games recap!
40:36 — Did CBS News’ Senior National Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One? CAST IRON BALLS EDITION
44:05 — CIB Pick ‘em Contest Update
47:32 — Wrap-up!

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The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

The most essential college football podcast is here to put a bow on the LSU vs SEC fight, to discuss the chaotic and absurd end of the Western Michigan vs Michigan game, a Week 2 preview, and all the rest of our usual silliness, including a call in from Jimmy Carter 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!
4:50 — WGAS News, Sportsbag Edition!
50:51 — The Sports-Adjacent Question of the Week!
57:33 — Did CBS News’ Senior National Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?!
1:04:40 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot
1:15:00 — 2026 CIB Football Pick’em Contest
1:30:49 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week, Live from Plains, Heaven
1:35:05 — 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/

The best college football podcast available on your radio dial is back with a preview of Week 1 action, the other sports news of the week, and the long-awaited return of Jimmy Carter’s 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!
5:00 — WGAS News, Sportsbag Edition!
46:17 — The Sports-Adjacent Question of the Week!
53:34 — Did CBS News’ Senior National Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?!
59:01 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot
1:11:27 — 2026 CIB Football Pick’em Contest
1:20:06 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week, Live from Plains, Heaven
1:25:42 — 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.

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/

It’s a Week Zero College Football Spectacular! CIB is here to get you ready for the weekend of (mostly terrible) games as we ramp up for what’s sure to be another exciting and chaotic season of the best sport. 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!
5:53 — WGAS NewsBag, Sports Edition!
38:12 — The Sports-Adjacent Question of the Week!
42:27 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot!
57:38 — 2026 CIB Football Pick ‘em Contest!
1:08:59 — Wrap-up!

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The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Balls were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

This week we’re lamenting the TikTok’ing public’s evident solidarity with a child-murderer, Abe reads self-help but only ironically he swears, and we harrumph our way through the news and culture of the week, as usual. 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 — Lindsay Clancy, American EveryMom
13:40 — Abe, Book Club Infiltrator, Self-Help Enthusiast
30:08 — Supreme Court decides not to preempt Trump administration from doing the bad thing
38:27 — NVIDIA chips used in Russian war drones
43:20 — Data Center Fight!
52:15 — ESPN finds its next Dan Patrick
1:06:40 — America’s Favorite Game Show
1:14:32 — Wrap-up!

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The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Brains were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

This week we take a look at a few different reactions to the Jason Arday story and try to sort out the reasons why fabulism is treated differently by different cultural tribes, and what that might have to do with shame and belonging. That and our usual assortment of other nonsense and complaining, 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 — Sometimes you start the show talking to the robit about theoretical birthday distributions
3:10 — Kitty litter as an appliance in the CONNECTED HOME
14:00 — $220 to watch the big game on a big TV
22:46 — Are we allies with North Korea now?
31:39 — Actual News About Fake Polls in Fake News
46:04 — Many takes on the Jason Arday story
1:26:40 — Did CBS News’ Senior National Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?
1:37:38 — Wrap-up! The End of Oak Street; Spiderman: Far From Home
1:50:54 — Sometimes you end the show by asking “Did Nietzsche or Kelly Clarkson do a better job popularizing ‘what doesn’t kill me makes me stronger’”

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The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Brains were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.