Just before Abe jets across the Atlantic for a European vacation CIB is sneaking in a preview of Week 5 of the college football season, along with the sports news of the week and a visit from Jimmy Carter in heaven with the Presidential 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 — Abe Live Bets the Games!
3:51 — WGAS NewsBag, Sports Edition: Jaxson Dart made Giants starter; Robot strike zone challenge system; Mike Gundy fired; SEC matchups through 2029 revealed
21:48 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot
44:03 — CIB 2025 Football Pick ‘em Contest
50:50 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week, Live from Plains
55:28 — Wrap-up!

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/

Jimmy Kimmel’s INDEFINITE SUSPENSION was short enough to have come and gone between recordings of this podcast, but we’re here to talk about it anyway. Lots of other silliness, too, including Trump trying to pronounce acetaminophen, Strassmann looking for human connection in a California run club, and a pretty lady looking for another sort of connection at a sports bar. 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 prepares to go to the Old World
4:58 — WGAS NewsBag; Jimmy Kimmel kerfuffle, Ted Cruz responds; Tucker vs The Hummus Eaters; FBI addressing all sorts of conspiracies; Trump DM to his AG accidentally goes to everyone; Trump vs Tylenol; H1B visas get pricey
1:07:11 — Did CBS News’ Senior National News Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?
1:15:23 — Wrap-up! Unknown Number on Netflix, and a couple of very weird Buffalo Wild Wings commercials

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We watched some football and now we will talk about it! 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!

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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.

Your favorite sports podcast is here to yap about the politically and socially and legally allowable content of the day, in only the most regime-friendly way. It’s our College Football Week 4 preview show! 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!
6:16 — WGAS NewsBag, Sports Edition! Dabo Swinney press conference; Diego Pavia eligibility lawsuit goes on; Congress stalled on NCAA reforms; spring transfer window nailed shut; BIG 12 following ACC in replay transparency
22:24 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot
34:27 — CIB Pick’em Contest
40:50 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week
44:53 — 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/

It’s been less than a week since Charlie Kirk was murdered, and we’re here to grope around in the dark for something that resembles a path forward for any of us. 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 at the Hans Zimmer concert
8:47 — The murder of Charlie Kirk
1:42:44 — Wrap-up! The Long Walk; Charlie Sheen documentary on Netflix

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The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Brains were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.

Georgia defeats Tennessee in what might end up being one of the most exciting college football games of the season, and we’re here to yap about it, along with lots of other Week 3 odds and ends. 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 at Flo Rida, and the humiliation of field-storming
14:12 — Week 3 recap!
42:30 — Georgia vs. Tennessee
55:56 — NFL chat
1:00:00 — CIB College QB Fantasy Football and 2025 Pick ‘em Contest
1:04:10 — Wrap-up! ACC referee resigns in protest, LL baseball DRAMA

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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.

Week 3 of the 2025 college football season is upon us, and we’re here to talk about what we’re excited to see, despite the horror and uneasiness of the day. 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!

Open — The problem with constantly raising the stakes
10:15 — Sports-Adjacent Question of the Week
32:42 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot
56:06 — CIB Pick ‘em Contest
1:05:31 — Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week
1:12:50 — Wrap-up!

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/

We start off by having an unforgivably long conversation about avocado habits and HIGHLY PROCESSED and quite delicious snack foods before proceeding on to the awful news of the week, wherein we discover that everything is possibly worse than it seems. 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 — Avocados, Oreos, Doritios, and Goldfish
20:28 — Trump administration brags about destruction of drug boat, killing 11 people
52:02 — Refraining from having a conversation about Eric Schmitt’s awful speech for twenty-two minutes or so
1:14:02 — Wrap-up! Green Zone; Public Enemy; Little League returns!

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The opening and closing themes of Cast Iron Brains were composed by Marc Gillig. For more from Marc, go to tetramermusic.com.