So Long 2025 Too-Long Spectacular! (CIB #262)

Following the lead of our sibling podcast—the much-awarded and world-renowned The Biffler—Cast Iron Brains has decided to do a year-end wrap-up show with absolute disregard for the time and patience of our audience. Instead of breaking things up into manageable episodes you might actually want to listen to, here’s an episode about the upcoming college football playoff games, the news of the year, our new year’s resolutions, and Mario Kart World Tour. Enjoy? 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 RundownOpen — Inspired by The Biffler to speak interminably with neither discretion nor regard5:18 — Cast Iron Balls! It’s Time for Sports! The Pop-Tarts Bowl, UVA vs Mizzou, CIB Pick ‘em Contest, CFP preview37:32 — Our Bogus Future; The internet is overrun with AI slop, and resolutions to deal with that1:25:30 — Pop Quiz, Hotshot! 2025 News Recap Edition!1:46:55 — “Notably Dead” or “Still Quite Alive, How Dare You?”2:03:19 — America’s Favorite Game Show: Did CBS News’s Senior National Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?2:11:49 — Wrap-up! Marty Supreme; Mario Kart World TourRelevant 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.