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!

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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

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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!

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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 a fun-size episode of CIB this week because we are admittedly losing the steam to talk about everything going on in the world at the moment. But tune in for Abe’s European travelogue and our discombobulated dissatisfaction with the state of our so-called politics, 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 in the World
20:49 — While Abe was away…
44:25 — Wrap-up! One Battle After Another

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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.

Cast Iron Balls is here with a firsthand account of the Virginia/FSU overtime thriller in Charlottesville last Friday, and plenty of TAKES about the state of the Georgia football program. And since it’s already nearly the weekend, we’re also doing our Week 6 preview. 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!
4:33 — Virginia storms the field after beating FSU
17:24 — Georgia loses to Alabama AGAIN
40:40 — Penn State loses another big matchup, and quickly acknowledging the rest of the games
53:53 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot
1:06:26 — CIB 2025 Football Pick ‘em Contest
1:14:00 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week
1:18:00 — 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/

Just before Abe jets across the Atlantic for a European vacation CIB is sneaking in a preview of Week 5 of the college football season, along with the sports news of the week and a visit from Jimmy Carter in heaven 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!
3:51 — WGAS NewsBag, Sports Edition: Jaxson Dart made Giants starter; Robot strike zone challenge system; Mike Gundy fired; SEC matchups through 2029 revealed
21:48 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot
44:03 — CIB 2025 Football Pick ‘em Contest
50:50 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week, Live from Plains
55:28 — Wrap-up!

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/

Jimmy Kimmel’s INDEFINITE SUSPENSION was short enough to have come and gone between recordings of this podcast, but we’re here to talk about it anyway. Lots of other silliness, too, including Trump trying to pronounce acetaminophen, Strassmann looking for human connection in a California run club, and a pretty lady looking for another sort of connection at a sports bar. 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 prepares to go to the Old World
4:58 — WGAS NewsBag; Jimmy Kimmel kerfuffle, Ted Cruz responds; Tucker vs The Hummus Eaters; FBI addressing all sorts of conspiracies; Trump DM to his AG accidentally goes to everyone; Trump vs Tylenol; H1B visas get pricey
1:07:11 — Did CBS News’ Senior National News Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?
1:15:23 — Wrap-up! Unknown Number on Netflix, and a couple of very weird Buffalo Wild Wings commercials

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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.

We watched some football and now we will talk about it! 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!

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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.