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 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/