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Cast Iron Brains - A Podcast with Bob and Abe — 304 episodes

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1

Fortunately, the Forecast is Clear (CIB #280)

2

An Aloneness Enhancement Machine (CIB #279)

3

Abe REDACTED in These Streets (CIB #278)

4

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

5

Prayer in the Age of Consent (CIB #276)

6

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

7

Bike Headlamp Thief Apologists (CIB #274)

8

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

9

Dubious Solutions (CIB #272)

10

Make America Great World Police Again (CIB #271)

11

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

12

White Men Can't Soap (CIB #269)

13

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

14

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

15

Oops! They Did it Again (CIB #266)

16

Human as a Second Language (CIB #265)

17

All of Us Witnesses Found Wanting (CIB #264)

18

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

19

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

20

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

21

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

22

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

23

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

24

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

25

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

26

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

27

Chucklefucks Run Amok (Cast Iron Balls #65)

28

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

29

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

30

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

31

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

32

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

33

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

34

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

35

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

36

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

37

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

38

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

39

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

40

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

41

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

42

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

43

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

44

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

45

Abe's Arms are Tired (CIB #256)

46

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

47

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

48

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

49

Absurdly Wealthy Chucklefucks (Cast Iron Balls #47)

50

No Exit Strategy (Cast Iron Balls #46)

51

Trying to Disprove the Thesis (CIB #254)

52

Humiliation on Hyundai Field (Cast Iron Balls #45)

53

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

54

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

55

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

56

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

57

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

58

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

59

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

60

Assholes Begatting Assholes, Forever (CIB #251)

61

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

62

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

63

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

64

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

65

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

66

Viscerally Objectionable Content (CIB #246)

67

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

68

Nothing Patriotic Planned Except Generalized Dismay (CIB #244)

69

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

70

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

71

Desecrated Temples, Desiccated Brains (CIB #241)

72

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

73

Doll Decadence and Pencil Profligacy (CIB #239)

74

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

75

The Insatiable Broken-Faced Man (CIB #237)

76

The Perils of Overcommunication (CIB #236)

77

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

78

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

79

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

80

Fasting on Mecca Time (CIB #232)

81

No Surprises Publishing (CIB #231)

82

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

83

The Infrastructure of Immiseration (CIB #229)

84

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

85

The View from The Floor (CIB #227)

86

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

87

Sphere and Walking in Las Vegas (CIB #226)

88

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

89

American Grotesquerie (CIB #225)

90

A Natty for anOSU (Cast Iron Balls #36)

91

A Great Year Already (Cast Iron Balls #35)

92

Abe, Whimsical Snow Artiste (CIB #224)

93

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

94

Playoff Football Spectacular! (Cast Iron Balls #33)

95

Shoveling into 2025 (CIB #223)

96

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

97

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

98

Cast Iron Christmas (CIB #221)

99

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

100

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

101

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

102

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

103

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

104

Too Many Clowns (Cast Iron Balls #28)

105

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

106

The Clenched Butthole Contagion (Cast Iron Balls #27)

107

A Very Ballsy Thanksgiving (Cast Iron Balls #26)

108

Apparently Everyone Deserves One Roofie Mulligan (CIB #217)

109

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

110

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

111

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

112

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

113

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

114

About Last Tuesday (CIB #215)

115

Frauds Exposed Weekend! (Cast Iron Balls #21)

116

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

117

Election Shmuhlection! (Cast Iron Balls #19)

118

Here We Go Again, Again (CIB #214)

119

RELENTLESS LOSERS (Cast Iron Balls #18)

120

Some Competence, Mostly Buffoonery (CIB #213)

121

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

122

Two Weeks! (CIB #212)

123

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

124

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

125

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

126

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

127

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

128

CoffeeMating Our Way Out of Civilization (CIB #210)

129

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

130

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

131

Patiently Awaiting the Real Apocalypses (CIB #209)

132

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

133

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

134

Thriving in the Current Conditions (CIB #208)

135

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

136

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

137

Many Paths to the Rainbow Bridge (CIB #207)

138

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

139

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

140

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

141

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

142

What the People Demand (Cast Iron Balls #4)

143

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

144

Rounding Up to One Percent (CIB #204)

145

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

146

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

147

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

148

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

149

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

150

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

151

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

152

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

153

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

154

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

155

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

156

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

157

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

158

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

159

The Appearances of Various Improprieties (CIB #191)

160

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

161

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

162

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

163

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

164

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

165

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

166

Bloodbath In Our Hands, Again (CIB #184)

167

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

168

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

169

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

170

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

171

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

172

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

173

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

174

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

175

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

176

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

177

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

178

True Detective: Night Country Sucked (CIB #180)

179

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

180

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

181

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

182

Making Noise Only About Things We Fully Understand, As Always

183

The Morning Press for Tuesday, February 13, 2024

184

The Morning Press for Monday, February 12, 2024

185

The Morning Press for Friday, February 9, 2024

186

The Morning Press for Thursday, February 8, 2024

187

The Morning Press for Wednesday, February 7, 2024

188

We're All in the Night Country Now

189

The Morning Press for Monday, February 5, 2024

190

The Morning Press for Thursday, February 1, 2024

191

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

192

The Morning Press for Tuesday, January 30, 2024

193

The Morning Press for Monday, January 29, 2024

194

The Morning Press for Friday, January 26, 2024

195

Flying Down the Mountain at Top Speed and with No Regard

196

The Morning Press for Thursday, January 25, 2024

197

The Morning Press for Wednesday, January 24, 2024

198

The Morning Press for Tuesday, January 23, 2024

199

The Morning Press for Monday, January 22, 2024

200

The Morning Press for Friday, January 19, 2024

201

The Morning Press for Thursday, January 18, 2024

202

In the Stoppage Time of Life

203

The Morning Press for Tuesday, January 16, 2024

204

The Morning Press for Monday, January 15, 2024

205

The Morning Press for Friday, January 12, 2024

206

The Potential for Much Fuckery

207

The Morning Press for Wednesday, January 10, 2024

208

The Morning Press for Tuesday, January 9, 2024

209

The Morning Press for Monday, January 8, 2024

210

The Morning Press for Friday, January 5, 2024

211

A New Month

212

The Morning Press for Thursday, January 4, 2024

213

The Morning Press for Wednesday, January 3, 2024

214

The Morning Press for Tuesday, January 2, 2024

215

Sending Out 2023 While Still Fully Recumbent

216

The Morning Press for Friday, December 22, 2023

217

The Morning Press for Thursday, December 21, 2023

218

The Morning Press for Wednesday, December 20, 2023

219

Trying to Tush Push Our Way Through to Christmas

220

The Morning Press for Tuesday, December 19, 2023

221

The Morning Press for Monday, December 18, 2023

222

The Morning Press for Friday, December 15, 2023

223

The Morning Press for Thursday, December 14, 2023

224

The Morning Press for Wednesday, December 13, 2023

225

Sometimes a Birthday Soda Turns Into Tough Shit

226

The Morning Press for Tuesday, December 12, 2023

227

The Morning Press for Monday, December 11, 2023

228

The Morning Press for Friday, December 8, 2023

229

The Morning Press for Thursday, December 7, 2023

230

The Morning Press for Wednesday, December 6, 2023

231

And Now, Back to Your Regularly Scheduled Programming

232

The Morning Press for Tuesday, December 5, 2023

233

The Morning Press for Monday, December 4, 2023

234

The Morning Press for Friday, December 1, 2023

235

The Morning Press for Thursday, November 30, 2023

236

The Morning Press for Wednesday, November 29, 2023

237

Prejudiced Against Because We're Podcasters

238

What Grown-Ups Do

239

Tankie on a Train, and Other Moral Stains

240

Sorry for Podcast Rocking

241

Successful Quagmires, and Other Inevitabilities

242

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

243

A Big Planet, with Tumult in Parts

244

Death in a Braves Hat

245

The Fellas Go to Parti-Gras

246

Living OJ Simpson's Best Life

247

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

248

Danse du Petit Tout Étoiles

249

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

250

Familiarity Breeds Tight-Lipped Tolerance

251

Lil Oppie Wants to do WHAT?!

252

Portrait of the World in a 19.5:9 Aspect Ratio

253

"On the Jewish Front..."

254

The Ascetic in the Punchbowl

255

I Got Yer Consequentialism Right Here

256

Depraved Sickos Getting Their Rocks Off

257

Regarding Buying Stuff

258

Now We Know

259

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

260

No Sympathy for these Asshats

261

Just Big Burly Dudes Being Dramatic

262

Another Podcast, Unfortunately, or Fortunately

263

Demanding Term Limits for Podcasters

264

Devastating Moments in Hydration History

265

A Classic Body Shape for Suspenders

266

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

267

Manhattan DA Makes In-Kind Campaign Contribution to Trump 2024

268

Where Euphemists Fear to Tread

269

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

270

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

271

Spielen Sie Die Trumpfkarte Für Den Sieg

272

A Serious Conversation Always Starts with a Hostile Takeover

273

No Landmass for Experienced Persons

274

The Virtue of Ambivalence, and Vice Versa

275

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

276

When Acronyms Attack

277

No Ordinary Year of the Rabbit

278

Scams with Dogs, and Other Things

279

Glory, Glory to Old Georgia! REDUX

280

Shannnnkkkkkkking In the New Year

281

The Everlasting Jimmy Carter

282

That Hearty Yankee Bullshit

283

Buffered, Biffled, and Baffled

284

Belief in the Divinity of Caffeine Free Diet Christ

285

The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Podcasters

286

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

287

Crashing Into Things at Top Speed for Truth and Victory

288

Not Locally Real

289

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

290

Productivity Software Malfunction

291

The New York Jets Phase of the American Experiment

292

There's Always a Foghorn / Singing You to Schoolwreck

293

"Unmistakable Latin Flavor"

294

Power, Privilege, and Farcical Aquatic Ceremonies

295

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

296

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

297

A Two Ice Cream Sandwiches Kinda Episode

298

An Indispensable Civic Exercise

299

Everyone is Born, and Other Incontrovertible Truths

300

Three Friends Beneath One Ceiling Tapestry Part II

301

Tickling Our Own Priors Bone

302

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

303

The Paranoid Style in American Podcasting

304

Justice Thomas Lights the Way