Vegas is a super weird place, and we’re here to talk about its strangeness and immensity and how we felt just kinda walking all over the strip. And also there was an awful lot of news that happened in the last couple of weeks, so we reluctantly pick a couple of illustrative stories and chat amiably about them, as is our wont. 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 — Vegas Vacation recap!
40:40 — Trying to describe the indescribable inside The Sphere
1:05:51 — WGAS NewsBag; Air disaster over the Potomac; Trump wants Gaza; Trump wants to close the Department of Education
1:56:00 — Wrap-up! Flight Risk; Companion; The Nickel Boys; September 5; Squid Game 2; Homicide: LA; Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever; Stand By Me; Severance 2

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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.

After a couple of weeks away, we’re finally sufficiently recovered from our travels and travel-acquired illnesses to talk about sports and sports-adjacent topics. Lucky for you! We’ve got hoop talk, massage table inappropriateness, poop in the mail, and plenty of other 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 — Explaining our absence, and getting to the bottom of who made Stone Mountain
6:23 — Sportsbook or ManCave?
9:56 — Luka to the Lakers?!
24:05 — Justin Tucker, Massage Enthusiast
34:39 — Conference championship weekend
45:55 — Wrap-up! Mookie’s Poop Justice; Halftime show preview, Not Like Us indeed

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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 second Trump administration is off, as expected, to a running, chaotic, wacky-waving-inflatable-arm-flailing-tube-man start, and CIB is here to talk about the parts of it that seem particularly egregious so far. But worry not, both-sidesers, because we start with a total condemnation of Joe Biden’s actions on his way out of office. 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 few minutes of reflection on the recently departed
7:48 — Did Trump send Abe back to the office, and news about The Billboard Hot 100 Game
14:40 — A second Trump presidency begins with back to back speeches to slightly different audiences
37:46 — On Joe Biden’s shameful pardons
1:03:30 — On illegitimate executive action and the unconstitutional disgrace of trying to end birthright citizenship
1:17:05 — Cabinet appointments and how much of a Nazi is Elon Musk, really?
1:38:42 — Wrap-up! The Brutalist; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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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.

After a thoroughly enjoyable weekend of NFL and college football action, your favorite sports podcast is here to rehash it all. Is Ryan Day STILL who we thought he was, or has winning changed everything? 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! The…hockey games!
5:26 — Thoughts on the CFB CFP National Title game
23:30 — NFL Divisional Round Playoff recap, CIB Pick ‘em Update
42:04 — 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.

We’re back to preview this long football weekend’s playoff action and discuss the sports news of the week. We’ve also got a brand new recurring feature: it’s CIB’s 2025 National Title Game Battle of the Bands, where we determine the winner of the upcoming national title game based on music from the teams’ cities. Be sure to head to the Substack to cast your vote. 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!
4:35 — WGAS NewsBag, Sports Edition!
29:19 — 2025 National Title Battle of the Bands: South Bend vs Columbus
1:01:37 — CIB Pick ‘em Game and games preview!
1:17:43 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week
1:27:23 — Wrap-up! Eagles fan goes full Eagles fan

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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 fires raging in southern California have us feeling a little helpless and a little philosophical and a little hesitant to come to any firm decisions about who ought to be blamed, contrary to seemingly everyone else out there. We further digress about medical assistance in dying and one forgettable new song and one extraordinary old one. 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 — Snow in Atlanta!
9:00 — LA fires
43:50 — Joe Biden’s first newspaper interview in four years
53:50 — NOT Philosophy Class with Abe; medically assisted suicide
1:12:32 — The Billboard Hot 100 Game
1:22:29 — Wrap-up! Den of Thieves 2: Pantera; The Pitt; Cuphead

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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.

Cast Iron Balls is back with thoughts about the wildly entertaining College Football Playoff semifinal games and the ret of the weekend in sports, and we somehow end up talking about a recurring nightmare about overwhelming guilt around unspeakable crimes you’re not even sure you committed. 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, and we discuss Vegas slot strats
17:51 — CFB semi recaps: Notre Dame vs Penn State
42:50 — CFB semi recaps: Ohio State vs Texas
1:07:41 — Carson Beck transfers to Miami
1:17:40 — Wrap-up! NFL playoff recap, and a quick diversion about a recurring nightmare

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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.

Cast Iron Balls makes its first 2025 appearance in your podcast feed with a recap of the college football quarterfinal action and some thoughts about how the rest of the playoffs will shake out. And Jimmy Carter returns, along with the rest of our 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 — Abe safely in Atlanta, live-betting the…NBA games!
8:02 — Recapping the CFP quarterfinals
36:43 — Thoughts on the playoff format
48:31 — Previewing the CFP semifinals and NFL Wild Card round
1:09:39 — CIB Pick ‘em Game!
1:11:12 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week
1:15:12 — 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/