Cast Iron Balls makes its first 2025 appearance in your podcast feed with a recap of the college football quarterfinal action and some thoughts about how the rest of the playoffs will shake out. And Jimmy Carter returns, along with the rest of our usual 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 safely in Atlanta, live-betting the…NBA games!
8:02 — Recapping the CFP quarterfinals
36:43 — Thoughts on the playoff format
48:31 — Previewing the CFP semifinals and NFL Wild Card round
1:09:39 — CIB Pick ‘em Game!
1:11:12 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week
1:15:12 — 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/

The weather outside has been frightful, but the aimless chatter is quite delightful as we ring in 2025 with fresh CONTENT. 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 — The perks of being two generations younger than your neighbors
14:20 — Collecting ever more sleep technologies
20:35 — CIB’s 2025 resolutions, and running headlong into the velvet rope bathroom economy
41:50 — WGAS NewsBag; terrorism in New Orleans, exploding Teslas in Vegas, and the rest of the news of the week
1:29:40 — The Billboard Hot 100 Game
1:39:02 — Wrap-up! Harbin; Seven; The Karate Kid

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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.

2024 has come to its natural end and CIB is here to talk about everything we got wrong about it. Or at least the things we remember being wrong about and are willing to acknowledge. It was a fun year, podcasting-wise—thanks for listening along! 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 — Stumping Abe with questions like “How was your Christmas?” and “How much Willie Geist does a person really need in their life?”
8:05 — Briefly, the news of the week, and the world says goodbye to Jimmy Carter
26:47 — Recapping and scoring our 2024 predictions
1:04:31 — Kylie Kelce’s podcast launch gets laundered into “news”
1:24:56 — The Billboard Hot 100 Game
1:47:43 — Wrap-up! A year in podcasts; A Complete Unknown; the last few Christmas movies of the season

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.