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Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe

Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe

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Episodes
  • We Don't Care for Auburn or French Fire Perverts (Cast Iron Balls #51)
    Oct 10 2025

    Just in time, it’s a Week 7 College Football Preview Episode! Plenty of yapping about the other sports news of the week, the Best Game in Every Time Slot, and a bonus INSTANT LIVE REACTION to Philly misery at the very end. 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! Trevor Lawrence falls over twice!
    6:31 — WGAS NewsBag, Sports Edition!
    32:58 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot
    53:26 — CIB 2025 Football Pick ‘em Contest
    59:29 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week, Live from Plains, Heaven
    1:05:13 — 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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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • Can the Hot AI Robits Be a Bit More Beguilingly Sad? (CIB #257)
    Oct 7 2025

    We plow through the news that caught our attention this week and wonder about a future that promises to feed our eyeballs with images and information that we know cannot be relied upon to contain any truth value. 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 — Not RUSHing to our local arena
    3:20 — Abe explains the shutdown
    5:07 — WGAS NewsBag; Baseless speculation about Trump’s bad brain, baseless speculation about the gender status of famous women, Taylor Swift’s new record
    31:33 — Our Bogus Future is an AI-generated anti-reality nightmare
    59:19 — Did CBS News’ Senior National Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?
    1:07:28 — Wrap-up! The Smashing Machine

    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.

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    1 hr and 25 mins
  • "Cranky bitches losing just makes me so happy." (Cast Iron Balls #50)
    Oct 7 2025

    Week six of the college football schedule ended up wildly entertaining, especially if you are entertained by teams that are supposed to be very good getting their butts kicked by teams that are not supposed to be very good. 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!
    3:33 — Mark Sanchez has a bad weekend, to our amusement
    16:04 — College week 6 recap! Penn State and Texas beclowned, and the rest of the weekend’s action
    58:03 — CIB’s 2025 Football Pick ‘em Contest
    1:02:13 — 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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    1 hr and 13 mins
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