Your favorite sports podcast is back to discuss what’s wrong with the MLB playoffs, contemplate the general awfulness of Auburn, and generally walk you through your sports-enjoying weekend. 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!
4:07 — The Braves have been eliminated! And lots of talking about fixing the MLB playoffs
24:20 — Auburn flips 5-star Notre Dame quarterback commit
31:07 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot
1:03:23 — CIB Pick ‘em Contest
1:13:18 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week, live from Plains
1:21:30 — Wrap-up! FanDuel sued for aggressively pursuing a degenerate gambler; Antonio Pierce penalty

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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/

We’re a little bit all over the place in this week’s CIB, with apocalypses to ponder in Atlanta, North Carolina, Israel, the voting booth, and the movie theater. 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 — Atlanta is definitely not at the beginning of a zombie apocalypse
4:15 — Reading Elon’s tweets, for some reason
16:43 — Hurricane Helene
25:49 — Israel expanding its fight against Hezbollah in Lebanon
30:54 — Quick election update and a look at a Trump ad
43:08 — Did the medicalizing of obesity hurt more than it helped, and how this relates to Rob Gronkowski
58:15 — The Billboard Hot 100 Game
1:08:19 — Wrap-up! Abe on Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis

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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/

Though we would prefer to pretend that this weekend never happened, Cast Iron Balls is here to discuss Alabama’s thorough humiliation of the Georgia Bulldogs, along with the rest of the weekend’s sports action. 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 MNF games
4:06 — A vicious coup d’youth beisbol
6:45 — Georgia vs Alabama
38:57 — The rest of the college football weekend
52:30 — One Hot Take: Intentional Grounding is a dumb rule
1:05:00 — CIB Pick ‘em Contest and Jimmy Carter Lock of the Week Update
1:10:05 — Pete Rose and Dikembe Mutombo, both dead now while the Braves live
1:15:30 — Wrap-up! Listener mail; Abe at Truist Park

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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/

It’s Georgia vs. Alabama weekend, and CIBalls is here to discuss the sports news of the week and pretend to know things about what’s to come that we will most definitely be wrong about. We also have plenty of our usual yelling and silliness, and former president Jimmy Carter calls in live to give his 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 — Jimmy vs. Abe and the Hurricane
9:15 — WGAS NewsBag Sports Edition; Is the UNLV quarterback standing up for himself and those behind him or is he just a dumbass or maybe both?
20:20 — Zach Lowe laid off from ESPN
26:25 — Abe Live-Bets the Game
28:14 — MLB season wrapping up in chaotic fashion
37:30 — Sports Adjacent Question of the Week: Is Georgia vs. Alabama a rivalry?
48:47 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot
1:12:39 — CIB Pick ‘em Contest
1:20:29 — Jimmy Carter’s Lock of the Week, live from Plains
1:25:01 — 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/

Cast Iron Brains regains supremacy over your podcast feed with stories about Jehovah’s Witness correspondence, missing earbuds, the news of the week, and plenty of other silliness, because sometimes you’ve just got to get real fired up about headphone jacks and 90s Top-40 radio and yell about it with your favorite people. 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 gets a new pen pal!
7:42 — Missing earbuds cause local man to lose his mind
16:23 — WGAS News
1:03:33 — Did CBS News’ Senior National News Correspondent Get Off a Good One?
1:09:43 — The Billboard Hot 100 Game
1:27:16 — Wrap-up! The Substance; Survivor season 47

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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.

We watched a lot of sports this weekend, and now we have to talk about it—and we made a lot of predictions last week, and we’d rather not talk about that 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 — Abe live-bets the Monday night games and the gang internet-shops for General Booty swag
10:18 — YOUTH SPORT updates
15:44 — Three Questions, Two Statements, and One Hot Take; Is Michigan good, actually? Is Arch Manning bad? What’s wrong with NFL quarterbacks? You can always be right, even when you’re wrong. Betting on the NFL is a bad idea. Hugh Freeze seems like an asshole.
53:08 — CIB Pick ‘em update, and a spectacular day at the track for a listener
57:03 — Wrap-up! Reggie Bush, revolutionary.

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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 Cast Iron Balls crew is here to chat through the sports news of the week and preview all the weekend sports action, along with our normal digressions and silliness. We’ve got Shohei Ohtani, Simone Biles, and Jimmy Carter making picks. What else do you need?! 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 — Pickleball vs Drag Show vs Nachos vs National Anthem Etiquette
7:56 — WGAS Sportsbag! Shohei Ohtani, like Abe with his many hearts, a non-human doing non-human things; D3 school in Springfield cancelling events; Tennessee raises ticket prices to cover NIL expenses; Georgia governor signs order making it legal for schools to directly pay players; Simone Biles robbed of gold?!
39:43 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot this Saturday
51:23 — CIB Pick ‘em Game!
59:35 — Jimmy Carter’s Lock of the Week, live from Plains
1:03:18 — Wrap-up! American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez; Woj Bomb incoming?

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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/

Donald Trump was maybe kinda almost targeted for assassination again, and the pets-eating discourse has entered its second week and shows no sign of getting smarter. CIB has some thoughts on why it doesn’t actually matter if any pets were or were not consumed in a town in Ohio, along with plenty of our other 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 — Mr. Aalen Goes to Washington
16:05 — WGAS NewsBag: Another Trump assassination attempt, and JD Vance doubles down on the pets-eating nonsense
1:03:08 — Thinking about our relationship to AI tools
1:23:01 — The Billboard Hot 100 Game
1:38:14 — Wrap-up! The English Patient and Beetlejuice

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