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 email here. Enjoy!

Show Rundown
Open — Halloween!
4:54 — Abe Live-Bets the Games!
6:21 — The World Series is over!
31:55 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot
45:16 — CIB Pick ‘em Contest
56:59 — Wrap-up!

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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 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’s fancy new toy
09:25 — Presidential election on the way!
22:58 — LA Times and WaPo decline to issue presidential endorsements
51:14 — Ballot drop box fire
53:31 — John Fetterman sits down with Lulu Garcia Navarro
1:14:26 — Daylight savings time ending!
1:18:52 — The Billboard Hot 100 Game!
1:31:55 — Wrap-up! Goodrich; Conclave; The Great British Baking Show

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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 email here. Enjoy!

Show Rundown
Open — Bitching about personal circumstances
18:25 — Abe is ready to move on from the Anthony Richardson Era
25:05 — College football happened!
48:11 — Picks recap! And Lori rekindles things with an old flame.
1:04:31 — Wrap-up! Beisbol ratings in Japan, Freddie Freeman rules

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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 yelling about Trump. Nice try, Abe! 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 defends the future, Bob responds by introducing him to Skibidi Toilet
16:56 — Two weeks until election day, and one of us can’t help but harsh various mellows
1:01:16 — “Trump” “works” a “shift” “at” “McDonald’s”
1:14:14 — Trump’s merch team puts a hat on a hat
1:20:27 — The Billboard Hot 100 Game
1:37:39 — Wrap-up! The Apprentice; What makes a terrible wedding guest?

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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 wrong and feeling great
4:52 — Abe Live-Bets the Games
8:13 — CIBalls NBA SEASON PREVIEW SPECTACULAR
11:32 — The weekend in college football besides Georgia vs Texas
27:58 — Georgia vs Texas
1:08:36 — CIB Pick ‘em Contest update
1:11:20 — Wrap-up!

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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 — Abe Live-Bets the Games, finds the world’s meager offerings wanting
07:39 — WGAS NewsSportsBag: Who Gives A Shit: Sports! Tony Bennett, Kirby Smart, NCAA 12-man penalty rule change
28:19 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot
54:15 — CIB 2024 Pick ‘em Contest
1:04:54 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week, Live from Plains
1:10:36 — Wrap-up!

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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 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 got a look at the news, absurd big picture projections about the future of the culture, complaints about NPR headlines, and we let our romantic notions of what it means to be human get in the way of making the baseball field snack stand a simple and profitable enterprise. This is 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 regales us with tales of Cincinnati and Nashville, and the crew considers the eternal question, “Why is Atlanta?”
10:12 — She’s gonna lose. Probably? Who knows.
20:52 — An aside: What is the future of American culture war?
29:53 — Harris campaign’s questionable “black outreach,” and struggles with the rest of the “minority vote”
45:54 — NPR headline claims that only 2% of charitable giving goes to women
54:23 — How gas station nachos represent man’s inhumanity to man
1:16:00 — The Billboard Hot 100 Game
1:41:40 — Wrap-up! Saturday Night; Deep Sky; Coraline

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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 it by joining the conversation on our Substack or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!

Show Rundown
Open — Abe among the blindly committed fans of the Tennessee Titans
9:32 — Abe Live-Bets the Games, and some pondering about Aaron Rodgers
13:06 — College games recap!
56:49 — CIB Pick ‘em Contest recap!
1:08:04 — 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.

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 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, drunk, out in REAL AMERICA
7:14 — WGAS News SportsBag
29:42 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot
50:59 — CIB Pick ‘em Contest
1:02:37 — The Jimmy Carter Presidential Lock of the Week, live from Plains
1:07:15 — Wrap-up! Athlete politicians?

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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/

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 joining the conversation on our Substack or you can send us an email here. Enjoy!

Show Rundown
Open — Struggling to let the Vandy/Alabama game go
5:54 — THE RACE IS TIGHT
22:58 — WGAS NewsBag
45:30 — The Billboard Hot 100 Game
1:01:18 — One year since the Hamas attacks of 10/7
1:17:15 — Wrap-up! Joker: Folie à Deux

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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.