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Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe — 313 episodes

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1

Jimmy Carter is Born Again, Again...Again (Cast Iron Balls #72)

2

The Return of Sports! (Cast Iron Balls #71)

3

Defining Psychotic Murder Moms Down (CIB #287)

4

In the Thrall of the Fabulists (CIB #286)

5

Medically Necessary Elective Podcast Surgery (CIB #285)

6

A Crisis of Rowdy Roddy Piper (CIB #284)

7

The Last* Trump Summer (CIB #283)

8

Woodstock '26 (CIB #282)

9

America Rules, Actually! (CIB #281)

10

Fortunately, the Forecast is Clear (CIB #280)

11

An Aloneness Enhancement Machine (CIB #279)

12

Abe REDACTED in These Streets (CIB #278)

13

An Armed-adillo Assassin Takes on President Jesus (CIB #277)

14

Prayer in the Age of Consent (CIB #276)

15

What Happens on the Dark Side of the Moon... (CIB #275)

16

Bike Headlamp Thief Apologists (CIB #274)

17

I Spent A Week in Northern Europe and All I Got Was A Lot of Complaining About Airlines (CIB #273)

18

Dubious Solutions (CIB #272)

19

Make America Great World Police Again (CIB #271)

20

Really Good at the Really Bad Thing (CIB #270)

21

White Men Can't Soap (CIB #269)

22

Le Hibou Superbe LX: Le Lapin Coquin vs L'Enfant Rock (CIB #268)

23

We Are All Mike D's Cat (CIB #267)

24

Oops! They Did it Again (CIB #266)

25

Human as a Second Language (CIB #265)

26

All of Us Witnesses Found Wanting (CIB #264)

27

Report: Hoosiers Drink Megatron's Butthole Dry (Cast Iron Balls #69)

28

That Time Donald Trump Dark-Knighted a President (CIB #263)

29

Grunter Stockman, Bulldog Hero (Cast Iron Balls #68)

30

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

31

Communing with Idiot Space Whales, Again (CIB #261)

32

Have Some Self-Respect and Self-Possession, and Other Losing Arguments (Cast Iron Balls #67)

33

Cold Showers, Gingerbread, and Unserious People (CIB #260)

34

Podcast Hosts Mark 15,000th Spin on News Ride (CIB #259)

35

Winning Conference Titles Rules, Actually (Cast Iron Balls #66)

36

Chucklefucks Run Amok (Cast Iron Balls #65)

37

Trying to Find the Lance Who Did This (Cast Iron Balls #64)

38

Sharing Our Cast Iron Balls with Visiting Family (Cast Iron Balls #63)

39

A Sickos Quadbox Kinda Weekend (Cast Iron Balls #62)

40

"Hi, my name is Steve Sarkisian, and it has been three days since my last ass-kicking." (Cast Iron Balls #61)

41

Why is the Toyotathon Lady? (Cast Iron Balls #60)

42

How to Become a Youth Soccer Coach (Cast Iron Balls #59)

43

Defending All Our Positions, Except the Ones We Don't (Cast Iron Balls #58)

44

Fall Ball, of Many Varieties, is the Best Ball (Cast Iron Balls #57)

45

Riding Yoshi (the Horse) to Parlay Glory (Cast Iron Balls #56)

46

Maybe All this Gambling is Bad, Actually (Cast Iron Balls #55)

47

Watching 20-Year-Olds Do Dumb Things for Fun (Cast Iron Balls #54)

48

The Herschel Walker Urinals at Peabody Hall (Cast Iron Balls #53)

49

Immiserating Our Kids, One Way or Another (CIB #258)

50

The Universal Signal for Illegal Clapping (Cast Iron Balls #52)

51

We Don't Care for Auburn or French Fire Perverts (Cast Iron Balls #51)

52

Can the Hot AI Robits Be a Bit More Beguilingly Sad? (CIB #257)

53

"Cranky bitches losing just makes me so happy." (Cast Iron Balls #50)

54

Abe's Arms are Tired (CIB #256)

55

Great Games and Less than Ideal Results (Cast Iron Balls #49)

56

Bracing Ourselves to Not Storm the Field (Cast Iron Balls #48)

57

But Can I Take the Tylenol If I'm Pregnant With Bison Babies? (CIB #255)

58

Absurdly Wealthy Chucklefucks (Cast Iron Balls #47)

59

No Exit Strategy (Cast Iron Balls #46)

60

Trying to Disprove the Thesis (CIB #254)

61

Humiliation on Hyundai Field (Cast Iron Balls #45)

62

A Weird Day, But We Yap On (Cast Iron Balls #44)

63

Our True Birthright is 11 Varieties of Goldfish Crackers, Oreo Mashups (CIB #253)

64

We're Doing Spitting! (Cast Iron Balls #43)

65

Less Football Despite More Football, Somehow (Cast Iron Balls #42)

66

Various Curious Paths to Higher Social Capital (CIB #252)

67

Sports Takes Fit to be Buried In (CIBalls #41)

68

Week 1 2025 Preview (TM) (Cast Iron Balls #40)

69

Assholes Begatting Assholes, Forever (CIB #251)

70

Cast Iron Balls Returns! (Cast Iron Balls #39)

71

Putin-Trump Summit Goes All Skibidi (CIB #250)

72

Wrapping Up the Dog Days by Fixing Everything (CIB #249)

73

Sydney Sweeney Gets Into Domestic Disputes at Panera Bread (CIB #248)

74

Private Chefs, Organic Ho Hos, and the 1% Doctrine (CIB #247)

75

Viscerally Objectionable Content (CIB #246)

76

What Baseball Pants Can Teach Us About Mass Casualty Floods (CIB #245)

77

Nothing Patriotic Planned Except Generalized Dismay (CIB #244)

78

Walking Boots, Disco Balls, and Massive Ordinance Penetrators (CIB #243)

79

Nothing Else Matters, Just the LOLz (CIB #242)

80

Desecrated Temples, Desiccated Brains (CIB #241)

81

America Finally Gets What We Have Long Been Denied (CIB #240)

82

Doll Decadence and Pencil Profligacy (CIB #239)

83

100 Days Down, 1000 Years to Go (CIB #238)

84

The Insatiable Broken-Faced Man (CIB #237)

85

The Perils of Overcommunication (CIB #236)

86

"You make me sad." (CIB #235)

87

We are the Real Voice of America (CIB #234)

88

We Keep Dumping the Turd Right Back into the Punchbowl (CIB #233)

89

Fasting on Mecca Time (CIB #232)

90

No Surprises Publishing (CIB #231)

91

One Neat Trick to Dismantle the West (CIB #230)

92

The Infrastructure of Immiseration (CIB #229)

93

Did the People Demand a King? (CIB #228)

94

The View from The Floor (CIB #227)

95

More Like Super Bowl LIX...ASS! (Cast Iron Balls #38)

96

Sphere and Walking in Las Vegas (CIB #226)

97

Yankees Fans Know What's In the Box (Cast Iron Balls #37)

98

American Grotesquerie (CIB #225)

99

A Natty for anOSU (Cast Iron Balls #36)

100

A Great Year Already (Cast Iron Balls #35)

101

Abe, Whimsical Snow Artiste (CIB #224)

102

Greg McElroy is Never Wrong (Cast Iron Balls #34)

103

Playoff Football Spectacular! (Cast Iron Balls #33)

104

Shoveling into 2025 (CIB #223)

105

A Sliver of What We Got Wrong About 2024 (CIB #222)

106

Half the Day is Mo[u]rning (Cast Iron Balls #32)

107

Cast Iron Christmas (CIB #221)

108

'Twere the Balls Before Christmas (Cast Iron Balls #31)

109

College Football...Playoffs?! (Cast Iron Balls #30)

110

The United States of Smarm, on CBS (CIB #220)

111

Bashar al-Assad, Ed Snowden, and Tal Bachman in Putin's Heisman House (CIB #219)

112

McConaughey Can't Beat Georgia (Cast Iron Balls #29)

113

Too Many Clowns (Cast Iron Balls #28)

114

No Presidential Pardon from the Black Box of Doom (CIB #218)

115

The Clenched Butthole Contagion (Cast Iron Balls #27)

116

A Very Ballsy Thanksgiving (Cast Iron Balls #26)

117

Apparently Everyone Deserves One Roofie Mulligan (CIB #217)

118

Getting the Suck Out of the Way (Cast Iron Balls #25)

119

A Scatted Prayer for a Blazin' Blackgoat Thunderbird (Cast Iron Balls #24)

120

Paul/Tyson defeat Our Dignity, Unanimous, 8 rounds (Cast Iron Balls #23)

121

Perils of a Cashless Society, 17 y/o Hookers Edition (CIB #216)

122

The Best Bus Drivers are Highly Interruptible (Cast Iron Balls #22)

123

About Last Tuesday (CIB #215)

124

Frauds Exposed Weekend! (Cast Iron Balls #21)

125

"We're [mostly] not talking about that." (Cast Iron Balls #20)

126

Election Shmuhlection! (Cast Iron Balls #19)

127

Here We Go Again, Again (CIB #214)

128

RELENTLESS LOSERS (Cast Iron Balls #18)

129

Some Competence, Mostly Buffoonery (CIB #213)

130

The Best Statues are Placid and Flaccid (Cast Iron Balls #17)

131

Two Weeks! (CIB #212)

132

Wrong About Everything But the Main Thing (Cast Iron Balls #16)

133

All Physicality, Limited Composure (Cast Iron Balls #15)

134

Skyline Chili vs Gas Station Nachos vs Humanity (CIB #211)

135

What Dan Lanning Gets Up To Around the Trailer Park (Cast Iron Balls #14)

136

Miranda Lambert's Cowpoke Fuckhouse (Cast Iron Balls #13)

137

CoffeeMating Our Way Out of Civilization (CIB #210)

138

A Diego Pavia-Sized Blind Spot (Cast Iron Balls #12)

139

We Don't Care for Auburn (Cast Iron Balls #11)

140

Patiently Awaiting the Real Apocalypses (CIB #209)

141

The Cope is Strong with This One (Cast Iron Balls #10)

142

Life is Fleeting, but Sport is Not (Cast Iron Balls #9)

143

Thriving in the Current Conditions (CIB #208)

144

Specify the Doors that General Booty Opens (Cast Iron Balls #8)

145

The Fine People at Little Debbie's Favorite Coach (Cast Iron Balls #7)

146

Many Paths to the Rainbow Bridge (CIB #207)

147

"Fade the public, and especially Abe." (Cast Iron Balls #6)

148

Week 3 is here! And so are two of us! (Cast Iron Balls #5)

149

THE PEOPLE ON TELEVISION: A Debate Recap (CIB #206)

150

A New Test for Racism (Really!) (CIB #205)

151

What the People Demand (Cast Iron Balls #4)

152

Not Mayo Spon-Con, But Trustworthy Nonetheless (Cast Iron Balls #3)

153

Rounding Up to One Percent (CIB #204)

154

The "Shoving it Down Our Throats" Strategy (Cast Iron Balls #2)

155

A Podcast Shaped Like the Platonic Sportsball (Cast Iron Balls #1)

156

No Need to Workshop Anything More Offensive (CIB #203)

157

Thoughts on the Relative Crunkedness of the DNC, and Other Proofs that We Live in a Fallen World (CIB #202)

158

At the Mercy of the Coin of the Flip (CIB #201)

159

The Fantastic Voyage Continues, 200 Episodes In (CIB #200)

160

Greeting the End of the World with a ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (CIB #199)

161

Not a Sickness. A Fact. (CIB #198)

162

Experts Say the President's Brains Are Real Bad (CIB #197)

163

"The Cats Have No Tape On the Aliens" (CIB #196)

164

Fighting Mountain Bears and Combatting Hillbilly Baserunning (CIB #195)

165

"I'm not pitching a no-hitter with regret, like you." (CIB #194)

166

"It's not great, but it's better than that other thing." (CIB #193)

167

Pretending We're Like the Others (CIB #192)

168

The Appearances of Various Improprieties (CIB #191)

169

A Special Set of Skills for the Post-Apocalypse (CIB #190)

170

Smashing Everything We Love About Humanity Into One Convenient Package (CIB #189)

171

A Lot of What Goes On In Boarding School (CIB #188)

172

Sometimes You're Not the Prick, Experts Say (CIB # 187)

173

The Eclipse Goes 28% Further in Canadian Dollars (CIB #186)

174

Even More Thoughts on Famous People's Faces (CIB #185)

175

Bloodbath In Our Hands, Again (CIB #184)

176

Revisiting "Donald Trump, World's Greatest Sports Fan" (The Narcissist’s Archivist #1)

177

The Morning Press for Wednesday, March 13, 2024 (TMP #54)

178

Exactly Where We Are Meant To Be (CIB #183)

179

The Morning Press for Monday, March 11, 2024 (TMP #53)

180

Abe vs. Nature v Bob vs. Modernity (CIB #182)

181

The Morning Press for Monday, March 4, 2024 (TMP# 52)

182

The Morning Press for Wednesday, February 28, 2024 (TMP #51)

183

Musical Theater Bathroom Reviews and Other Essential Talk (CIB #181)

184

The Morning Press for Tuesday, February 27, 2024 (TMP #50)

185

The Morning Press for Friday, February 23, 2024 (TMP #49)

186

The Morning Press for Thursday, February 22, 2024 (TMP #48)

187

True Detective: Night Country Sucked (CIB #180)

188

The Morning Press for Tuesday, February 20, 2024 (TMP #47)

189

The Morning Press for Friday, February 16, 2024 (TMP #46)

190

The Morning Press for Thursday, February 15, 2024 (TMP #45)

191

Making Noise Only About Things We Fully Understand, As Always

192

The Morning Press for Tuesday, February 13, 2024

193

The Morning Press for Monday, February 12, 2024

194

The Morning Press for Friday, February 9, 2024

195

The Morning Press for Thursday, February 8, 2024

196

The Morning Press for Wednesday, February 7, 2024

197

We're All in the Night Country Now

198

The Morning Press for Monday, February 5, 2024

199

The Morning Press for Thursday, February 1, 2024

200

The Secret of Our Success (Lori. It's always Lori.)

201

The Morning Press for Tuesday, January 30, 2024

202

The Morning Press for Monday, January 29, 2024

203

The Morning Press for Friday, January 26, 2024

204

Flying Down the Mountain at Top Speed and with No Regard

205

The Morning Press for Thursday, January 25, 2024

206

The Morning Press for Wednesday, January 24, 2024

207

The Morning Press for Tuesday, January 23, 2024

208

The Morning Press for Monday, January 22, 2024

209

The Morning Press for Friday, January 19, 2024

210

The Morning Press for Thursday, January 18, 2024

211

In the Stoppage Time of Life

212

The Morning Press for Tuesday, January 16, 2024

213

The Morning Press for Monday, January 15, 2024

214

The Morning Press for Friday, January 12, 2024

215

The Potential for Much Fuckery

216

The Morning Press for Wednesday, January 10, 2024

217

The Morning Press for Tuesday, January 9, 2024

218

The Morning Press for Monday, January 8, 2024

219

The Morning Press for Friday, January 5, 2024

220

A New Month

221

The Morning Press for Thursday, January 4, 2024

222

The Morning Press for Wednesday, January 3, 2024

223

The Morning Press for Tuesday, January 2, 2024

224

Sending Out 2023 While Still Fully Recumbent

225

The Morning Press for Friday, December 22, 2023

226

The Morning Press for Thursday, December 21, 2023

227

The Morning Press for Wednesday, December 20, 2023

228

Trying to Tush Push Our Way Through to Christmas

229

The Morning Press for Tuesday, December 19, 2023

230

The Morning Press for Monday, December 18, 2023

231

The Morning Press for Friday, December 15, 2023

232

The Morning Press for Thursday, December 14, 2023

233

The Morning Press for Wednesday, December 13, 2023

234

Sometimes a Birthday Soda Turns Into Tough Shit

235

The Morning Press for Tuesday, December 12, 2023

236

The Morning Press for Monday, December 11, 2023

237

The Morning Press for Friday, December 8, 2023

238

The Morning Press for Thursday, December 7, 2023

239

The Morning Press for Wednesday, December 6, 2023

240

And Now, Back to Your Regularly Scheduled Programming

241

The Morning Press for Tuesday, December 5, 2023

242

The Morning Press for Monday, December 4, 2023

243

The Morning Press for Friday, December 1, 2023

244

The Morning Press for Thursday, November 30, 2023

245

The Morning Press for Wednesday, November 29, 2023

246

Prejudiced Against Because We're Podcasters

247

What Grown-Ups Do

248

Tankie on a Train, and Other Moral Stains

249

Sorry for Podcast Rocking

250

Successful Quagmires, and Other Inevitabilities

251

"Get me to Palestine with Some Medical Shears and a Bible!"

252

A Big Planet, with Tumult in Parts

253

Death in a Braves Hat

254

The Fellas Go to Parti-Gras

255

Living OJ Simpson's Best Life

256

Remembering Where You Were the First Time Someone Asked You If You Remember Where You Were On 9/11

257

Danse du Petit Tout Étoiles

258

An Idea Whose Time We Have Eventually Gotten Around To By Default

259

Familiarity Breeds Tight-Lipped Tolerance

260

Lil Oppie Wants to do WHAT?!

261

Portrait of the World in a 19.5:9 Aspect Ratio

262

"On the Jewish Front..."

263

The Ascetic in the Punchbowl

264

I Got Yer Consequentialism Right Here

265

Depraved Sickos Getting Their Rocks Off

266

Regarding Buying Stuff

267

Now We Know

268

The Sorts of Stories We Would Tell About Ourselves, Were We Not Ourselves

269

No Sympathy for these Asshats

270

Just Big Burly Dudes Being Dramatic

271

Another Podcast, Unfortunately, or Fortunately

272

Demanding Term Limits for Podcasters

273

Devastating Moments in Hydration History

274

A Classic Body Shape for Suspenders

275

What Your Collections, Music Tastes, and Favorite Podcasts Say About Your Moral Soul

276

Manhattan DA Makes In-Kind Campaign Contribution to Trump 2024

277

Where Euphemists Fear to Tread

278

30 Helen Mirrens Agree, Whatever You're Thinking About Helen Mirren, Just Stop It

279

Five Hours You'll Never Get Back in Just Over Two Hours

280

Spielen Sie Die Trumpfkarte Für Den Sieg

281

A Serious Conversation Always Starts with a Hostile Takeover

282

No Landmass for Experienced Persons

283

The Virtue of Ambivalence, and Vice Versa

284

Trying to Make the Robits More Human, But Not Like That

285

When Acronyms Attack

286

No Ordinary Year of the Rabbit

287

Scams with Dogs, and Other Things

288

Glory, Glory to Old Georgia! REDUX

289

Shannnnkkkkkkking In the New Year

290

The Everlasting Jimmy Carter

291

That Hearty Yankee Bullshit

292

Buffered, Biffled, and Baffled

293

Belief in the Divinity of Caffeine Free Diet Christ

294

The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Podcasters

295

Another Election Day at the Nonchurch of the Freely Associated Temporary Denizens of The Great Internet Brain Iron

296

Crashing Into Things at Top Speed for Truth and Victory

297

Not Locally Real

298

As Rudy Giuliani says, "With Absolute Power Comes Sudden and Startling Wisdom and Maturity"

299

Productivity Software Malfunction

300

The New York Jets Phase of the American Experiment

301

There's Always a Foghorn / Singing You to Schoolwreck

302

"Unmistakable Latin Flavor"

303

Power, Privilege, and Farcical Aquatic Ceremonies

304

How Fancy Peanuts, Men's Health Magazine, and 43 Empty File Folders Herald Societal Collapse

305

So The Incredible Hulk, Britney Spears, and Mark Strassmann Walk Onto A Rocketship...

306

A Two Ice Cream Sandwiches Kinda Episode

307

An Indispensable Civic Exercise

308

Everyone is Born, and Other Incontrovertible Truths

309

Three Friends Beneath One Ceiling Tapestry Part II

310

Tickling Our Own Priors Bone

311

The Only Reason To Go To Your Neighbor's Open House

312

The Paranoid Style in American Podcasting

313

Justice Thomas Lights the Way