The first round of the College Football Playoff is right around the corner, and we’re here to talk about a whole bunch of other vaguely sports-related stuff before getting into the games previews. 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!
5:52 — WGAS NewsBag, Sports Edition! Sherrone Moore; Michigan coaching search; QBs in the portal; Heisman to the herb; Knicks win the “NBA Cup”
42:31 — Sports-Adjacent Question of the Week
53:02 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot
1:10:37 — CIB 2025 Football Pick ‘em Contest
1:19:45 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week, Live from Plains, Heaven
1:23:51 — Wrap-up! Athletic fees for non-athletes; Can the Japanese redeem themselves in Abe’s eyes?

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Well, that was a quite unpleasant weekend, from a national and international news perspective. So let’s talk all about it, I guess! But only after a detailed rundown of our gingerbread house-making process first, of course, because we must focus on what matters. 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 — A splash of cold water!
6:57 — Gingerbread house construction recap!
30:15 — WGAS NewsBag! Yikes!
1:47:59 — Did Mark Strassmann, CBS News’ Senior National Correspondent, Get Off a Good One?
1:53:25 — Wrap-up!

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The flagship podcast of the Brain Iron Multinational Media Empire is back and doing what we do best—wondering why exactly we bother doing this at all! 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 — Revving back up after a brief hiatus
2:28 — How the second Trump administration is just like the CFP Committee
17:51 — The drug war is still a bad idea, even when it’s missiles blowing up speedboats
26:19 — DOJ making lists of American “extremists”
35:19 — Our Bogus Future: HBO is Netflix or maybe CBS (again?) now eventually
38:52 — Did CBS News’s Senior National Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?
45:28 — Wrap-up! Rental Family; Zootopia 2; Diddy documentary; Fantastic 4: First Steps; Likely criminal weirdo rides a ride a lot

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College football’s conference championship weekend was an absolute blast, and CIB is here to yap about it. That and chatter about the College Football Playoff field, how Alabama could have fallen out, how Notre Dame could have been kept in, and plenty else! 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!
11:17 — Championship Weekend Games Recap!
1:30:11 — CIB 2025 Football Pick ‘em Contest Update!
1:32:50 — Wrap-up!

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It’s a Conference Championship weekend preview episode, and the relative lack of national action gives us the opportunity to discuss cold remedies, BIG MOON, and youth sport-themed gingerbread displays. And then we’ve got the usual rundown of sports headlines, games previews, and silliness from Jimmy Carter and all the rest. 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!
6:21 — Where Baseball Meets Construction-grade Gingerbread
15:57 — WGAS NewsBag, Sports Edition
42:46 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot
1:03:46 — CIB 2025 Football Pick ‘em Contest
1:13:00 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week
1:18:20 — 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/

We have made it through Thanksgiving largely intact and are excited to talk about all the football we watched, and all the ways Lance Kiffin revealed himself to be just the absolute worst sort of person. 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 — Thanksgiving recap!
8:15 — Football happened! We chat about it!
17:01 — EMERGENCY!
18:51 — Back to the recaps!
53:48 — Lance Kiffin leaves Ole Miss in the worst possible way.
1:13:32 — CIB 2025 Football Pick ‘em Contest
1:15:37 — Wrap-up!

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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!

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/