2024 has come to its natural end and CIB is here to talk about everything we got wrong about it. Or at least the things we remember being wrong about and are willing to acknowledge. It was a fun year, podcasting-wise—thanks for listening along! 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 — Stumping Abe with questions like “How was your Christmas?” and “How much Willie Geist does a person really need in their life?”
8:05 — Briefly, the news of the week, and the world says goodbye to Jimmy Carter
26:47 — Recapping and scoring our 2024 predictions
1:04:31 — Kylie Kelce’s podcast launch gets laundered into “news”
1:24:56 — The Billboard Hot 100 Game
1:47:43 — Wrap-up! A year in podcasts; A Complete Unknown; the last few Christmas movies of the season

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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 most popular spinoff sports podcast of the Brain Iron Media Empire is here to send off 2024 in style, with a playoff preview and a call from the greatest presidential pigskin prognosticator to ever walk the earth, live from Plains. 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!
6:20 — The Pop-Tarts Bowl, and lesser college football action
24:01 — The Best Game in Every Time Slot
35:24 — CIB Playoff Pick ‘em Game!
50:55 — Wrap-up! Google Gemini tells us about ourselves, and Jimmy Carter’s Presidential Lock of the Week, Live from Plains

Relevant 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.

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’re having a holly, jolly time plowing through the news of the week and we leave plenty of time for Strassmann, the Billboard Hot 100, and our other usual assortment of complaints about the media and culture. 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 in the burbs taking selfies with The Grinch
5:20 — WGAS NewsBag; Matt Gaetz House Ethics Committee report drops
14:30 — Biden commutes 37 of 40 federal death sentences
21:08 — Lara Trump won’t be the next senator from Florida
23:16 — Kay Granger has abandoned her seat in Congress, and a local journalist is on the case
29:44 — Trump and Musk stop extended government funding bill before Congress passes last-minute temporary solution
41:23 — Larry Hogan looks into the mysterious sky and sees…stars?
47:30 — Slate columnist hated a book but missed the worst part
56:25 — Did CBS News’s Senior National News Correspondent Mark Strassmann Get Off a Good One?
1:02:33 — The Billboard Hot 100 Game
1:27:33 — Wrap-up! Homestead; La Palma; Christmas viewing

Relevant 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.