It’s somehow a week 13 recap and a week 14 preview episode all rolled into one, but still considerably shorter than a regular episode—must be that holiday magic! 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 — Special Guests! And Abe Live Bets the Games!
7:04 — Week 13 Recap!
25:31 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot
37:17 — CIB 2025 Football Pick ‘em Contest
42:16 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week, live from…Springfield?
46:40 — 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/

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/

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.