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Cast Iron Balls is back with a college football week nine preview episode! We’re recapping last week’s action, trying to understand why Pat McAfee is so upset about Utah, expressing solidarity with those who would exercise their anti-Mormon free speech rights, and all the rest of our usual 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 conversation on our Substack or you can send us an email here. Enjoy! Show RundownOpen — Abe Live-Bets the Games!6:15 — Quick recap of last weekend, and Pat McAfee needs a safe space31:56 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot1:08:29 — CIB 2026 Football Pick ‘em Contest1:16:22 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week1:25:16 — 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/

Cast Iron Balls is here with a college football Week 8 preview episode! We’ve got more thoughts about the 24-team playoff format, sad boy SOMBR displacing the WNBA Finals, the Best Game in Every Time Slot, and we check in with President Jimmy Carter in Plains, Heaven, to get his 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 RundownOpen — Abe Live-Bets the Games!9:12 — WGAS NewsBag, Sports Edition; But first, BUGS!37:50 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot!1:17:04 — CIB 2026 Football Pick ‘em Contest!1:22:04 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week!1:25:37 — 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/

Almost everybody at the top of the college football world lost this past weekend, and we’re here to discuss what it all MEANS. (It doesn’t mean anything. It’s college football. That’s why it’s fun, rather than terrible, to talk about.) 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 RundownOpen — Watching bad football from the dugout3:30 — 24-team playoff a done deal—why?20:21 — Weekend games recap!58:58 — 2026 CIB Football Pick ‘em Contest Update1:03:00 — 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.

Cast Iron Brains is here this week to discuss the Democrats’ chances of taking the Senate, and how advisable it is to take advice about how to vote from a robit that doesn’t know how many Es are in a word it has just correctly spelled. Listen, if your 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 RundownOpen — It’s always somebody’s special day2:05 — Katie Zacharia is out, and the Senate is up for grabs42:00 — Virginia Constitutional amendments, and asking the AI robits for help55:21 — What does it mean that God can’t count the number of Es in seventeen?1:14:45 — Horrific and ironic priest death. Sad!1:21:44 — Wrap-up! WHALEFALL; You Can See Everything; Tremors 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 Brains were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

Cast Iron Balls is here to preview all the week 7 college football action! We’re also yapping about the sports news of the week, yelling at the encroachment of gambling into every corner of our lives, and listening delightedly as Jimmy Carter calls in again from Plains, Heaven with his 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 RundownOpen — Abe Live Bets the Games, Denies Various Prejudices5:42 — WGAS NewsBag, Sports Edition21:33 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot1:04:25 — CIB 2026 Football Pick ‘em Contest1:11:00 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week, Live from Plains, Heaven1:15:32 — 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/

Cast Iron Brains returns to your podcast feeds with some complaining about how uninteresting it is to talk about the things we’re talking about. Feeling like hitting that play button yet?! We’re also answering important questions, including but not limited to “Why jump in the enclosure of a Siberian tiger,” and “Are wolves better than humans?” 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 RundownOpen — It’s a not-sports podcast!4:32 — There is nothing to talk about except one man’s psychology23:05 — WGAS NewsBag58:48 — Flock cameras are just the tip of the surveillance iceberg1:10:06 — Did CBS News’ Senior National Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One? And are wolves better than humans?1:25:35 — 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 Brains were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

Week 6 of the 2026 college football season is in the books, and we’re here to yap about 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 RundownOpen — Recapping all the other college games from the weekend28:20 — Georgia 20, Alabama 1749:25 — CIB 2026 Football Pick ‘em Contest Update, and total incompetence in the NFC East58:50 — 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.

Georgia is heading into a hurricane in Tuscaloosa for one of the biggest games of the college football regular season, and we’re here to yap about it along with all the rest of the CFB weekend. Throw in some Dodgers hate, the Giants EXPLOITATION of a former great, and Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week, and you’ve got another great episode of your favorite sports podcast. 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 RundownOpen — There is occasionally crying in or about beisbol5:55 — Abe Live-Bets the Games!7:07 — WGAS NewsBag, Sports Edition32:54 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot58:50 — CIB 2026 Football Pick ‘em Contest1:06:34 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week, Live from Plains, Heaven1:11:24 — 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 sports weekend has come and gone and we’re here to yap all about it. 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 RundownOpen — Abe Live-Bets the Games!7:24 — Braves playoff beisbol!13:27 — College football weekend recap!47:46 — CIB 2026 Football Pick ‘em Contest Update56:49 — 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.

It’s a Week 5 College Football preview show! We’ve got the sports news of the week, a Sports-Adjacent Question of the Week from the Senate floor, the best games to watch in every hour of the college football weekend, and Jimmy Carter calls in from Plains, Heaven to give his 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 RundownOpen — Abe Live-Bets the Games!8:35 — WGAS NewsBag, Sports Edition;35:00 — The Sports-Adjacent Question of the Week54:13 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot1:18:34 — 2026 CIB Football Pick ‘em Contest1:26:11 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week, Live from Plains, Heaven1:32:49 — 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 news of the week felt repetitive and even dumber than the baseline, so we’re only dropping into your feed with SPORTS this week. It’s a quick recap of the weekend’s football action and an expression of total mystification about touchback rules. 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! Open — Abe Live Bets the Games!7:53 — The weekend in college football47:17 — CIB 2026 Football Pick ‘em Contest Update51:51 — A very quick visit to the unknowable land of NFL country1:04:09 — 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.

Week 4 of the 2026 college football season is nearly upon us, and it’s going to be a good one! Join us as we discuss the sports news of the week, give you a game or five to keep an eye on throughout the weekend, and benefit from Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week called in from Plains, Heaven. 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 RundownOpen — Abe Live-Bets the Games!8:06 — WGAS NewsBag, Sports Edition!42:31 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot1:17:56 — CIB 2026 Football Pick ‘em Contest1:26:08 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week1:30:43 — 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 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 RundownOpen — Abe Live-Bets the Games!4:02 — Week 3 games recap!51:45 — CIB 2026 Football Pick ‘em Contest Update54:18 — 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.

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 RundownOpen — Abe vs Christmas! Bob vs The Nabisco Test Kitchen13:14 — Trump kicks disfavored news organizations out of the White House43:22 — 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! 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 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 RundownOpen — Abe Live-Bets the Games!4:36 — WGAS NewsBag, Sports Edition51:23 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot1:07:16 — CIB 2026 Fotball Pick ‘em Contest1:12:10 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week, Live from Plains, Heaven1:17:15 — 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/