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 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 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!

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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/

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!

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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.

Week 12 of the college football season is upon us, and with it comes plenty of talk about credit card rewards and car commercials, obviously. That and our usual assortment of games previews and celestially-sourced gambling guarantees—for entertainment purposes only, of course. 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! And a digression about credit cards?
11:36 — Bitching about commercials again
19:42 — WGAS NewsBag: Sports Edition!
34:30 — Sports-Adjacent Question of the Week: Where Has All the Casual Nudity in American Life Gone?
46:39 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot
1:01:28 — CIB 2025 Football Pick ‘em Contest
1:12:46 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week, Live from Plains, Heaven
1:18:12 — 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/

Week 11 of the college football season was pretty fun, and we’re here to talk about it! Also, the Falcons and Colts were in Berlin and YOUTH SOCCER hooligans got Bob all hot and bothered about sportsmanship. 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, and Colts/Falcons
15:15 — WGAS Newsbag, Sports Edition! Daboll fired; more player gambling problems
29:49 — College games recap!
1:04:53 — CIB 2025 Football Pick ‘em Contest update
1:14:28 — Wrap-up! The President gets six-seven’ed on television!

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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.

Week 11 might be looking a little less than wholly captivating on paper, but that doesn’t stop your favorite sports podcast from having a grand old time yapping about it, along with all the other news and silliness 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, and Bob offers a pro-tip to The Biffler
8:38 — WGAS NewsBag, Sports Edition; Marshawn Kneeland; Antonio Brown arrested; Tom Brady clones his dog; Brent Key says he’s staying put; first CFP ranking; NFL trades
40:57 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot
1:00:11 — CIB 2025 Football Pick ‘em Contest
1:10: 56 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week, Live from Plains, Heaven
1:14:05 — 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/

You might think that after a sports weekend that included a World Series going the distance, the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party coming down to the final moments, and plenty of other thrilling college and pro football action, we would not be leading off our show with thirty minutes devoted to YOUTH SPORT. But you would be very wrong to think that. 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!
3:09 — The two best games of a packed sports weekend
28:49 — The weekend in college football
43:34 — Georgia/Florida was nearly a complete disaster
1:08:57 — World Series Game 7
1:11:02 — 2025 CIB Football Pick ‘em Contest Update
1:24:44 — 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 birthday and Halloween edition of your favorite sports-but-mostly-college-football podcast, with a special guest and our regular assortment of games previews and silliness. 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!
4:37 — WGAS NewsBag, Sports Edition: Brian Kelly Fired! World Series is good!
39:14 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot
56:10 — 2025 CIB Football Pick ‘em Contest
1:05:49 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week
1:08:51 — 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/