Shutdown Fullcast - 40 FOR 40: The 2025 68 Ventures Bowl

Episode Date: December 17, 2025

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Welcome. Are we going to get it every time? Sure. They get one every time. 40 for 40, y'all. We're going to get straight to it. This is shutdown on full cast 40 for 40, where we talk about every bowl game

and we do it for exactly the length of time required. 68 Ventures Bowl. oh man that's a lot of ventures there's so many ventures so many ventures in between two meme numbers oh god that could have been so much worse you're right you know what you know what they say if you got 68 ventures you don't have you don't have one yeah 68 ventures by the way is the sponsor for this bowl all heads you know this better as the gmac bowl uh the g this is the old Mobile Bowl yeah

and sure enough thank you for honoring our history it's important it's important I'll still call it in GMAC bowl because some things still matter it's still real to me

GMac everything just ain't been the same since they banned old GMAC man see and a few years ago we could have had fun writing an AI country song called it's still GMAC to me and now we can't even do that can't do it now my buddy GMAC he used to say in my day we had johnny cash bob hope and gmac and now we have no GMAC or hope can we derail this completely and talk about the terrific idea we had after we heard that indiana built a

special hut on top of their press box for john melanchamp to smoke in which is true a real thing that happened yeah which is that we do it we do it with morgan wallin but we built it a duck blind and we build it on top of the Neeland Stadium press box but then I'm allowed to shoot at it from the parking lot food. What you're talking about putting Morgan Wallin in a duck costume? Yeah, we call it duck cunt.

To avoid copyright issues if there are no other words. Duck comma, I do like the overall the little giggling noise that dog pops up but it's smoky. The dog kind of looks like smoky. Yeah.

Right? Yeah. The overall suggestion by the way that we should take the unruly donor to the program and put him in a shack on top of the press box the best time i've ever had at a football game like a viewing experience was on a thursday night stanford oregon game like 15 years ago when there was everything was crowded and stephen godfrey and i sat on the roof of the stanford press box which you can just climb up to uh and actually i think literally just sat on the roof and smoked and watch the stanford what you're telling me is that john mellencamp is

the donkey kong of indiana football and you have to climb up to his top layer while he throws cigarettes at you the whole way to defeat him jump on his head three times that's right that's right that way he won't steal your woman while he throws barrels that are also filled with cigarettes yep b yu just has the cookie dome up there just has the crumble guy this is a terrific 68 ventures bull preview as always and delaware are playing in this game lafayette Delaware in their first year of fbs not even supposed to be okay yeah holly holly when you put this on the board it says lafayette and i for some reason thought it was the FCS team. I was super

confused. It was so lost. I didn't even notice I did that. I didn't realize like I didn't even put together. ESPN has it right. ESPN has Louisiana v. Delaware which just sounds like a court case. Yes. So I really for a moment I was like holy shit how like what happened with

bull eligibility? We heard that did so many teams turn down a bowl that Lafayette was like, we'll do it. We'll take the fight. I don't know what Louisiana did well this year. I looked at their stats. I'll tell you what they didn't do well. Did you hear that they sent a cease and desist to that guy

who had been coming to their games dressed up as an alabino alligator trying to get them to have a mascot again? Yeah, that's why I'm rooting for Delaware, because that guy, you should let him live. Yeah. Also, it's their first time here. You got to root for Delaware. Yeah.

Also, they overachieved. Louisiana is just here. First season in Conference USA, right? Six and six. overall and you know they're good because they beat Yukon so they must be an outstanding football team damn damn yeah 44 41 and OT that's the only way you can beat the huskies you gotta take them to the deep water

they beat our Yukon Huskies the I also know that Delaware might suck because they lost to Sam Houston which are they not generous have you never had a bad day are you oh you've only had great weekends fuck you hey listen let none of us who

Spencer, you were at the Battle of San Jacinto. You know how it feels to... Delaware's got to wake up every Sunday. Sick to death over which AFC team Joe Flacco is playing for this week. And you want to talk shit because they lost one, Sam Houston? Hey, I know who Joe Flacco's, like, son. And I suspect he is actually his son. And that's right because, one, Joe Flacco's old enough to have kids who could be starting in FBS.

Two, because Nick Minicucci has been incredible. Nick Minicucci... Minicucci. Yeah. There's no good way to say his last name. None. I can't call him Nick Minnacucci and I can't call him... Yeah, that sounds like a skin condition. I'm glad that there's no good way, so you're going to explore all of the bad ways. I could just say his name a lot. Nick Minnacucci. No, it's U.S. Tentorian and it becomes absurd. Nick Minnacucci. Do the like, do the like Jersey Italian thing where you drop, where you drop vowels all this. Hey, Nick, me to cooch.

Oh, no. You sent me up. Got him. Got him. Got him. How did you get him to get out? Oh, my God. That was a, that was a cardboard box prop on a stick with an index card under it that said trap.

And I don't head long into it. Ooh, I bet there was trees. I bet there's a piece. Brian, I thought there were treats and there weren't. I'm so mad. Kind of. You were just like, what kind of trap and stuck your head in it? Alternate jersey.

What if we softened the same? Meena gooch. No, that's worse. That's worse. Kind of a treat. Yeah. Caught in a snatch trap. Yeah. You're the fourth leading passer in the FBS. Because we love you too much, baby. You're going to keep going. Okay, cool. Fourth leading passer in the FBS and we're sitting here telling jokes about this last night. Not we? No. You, my man. You are doing this. I take his last name very seriously. It's normal to me. It's not a big deal.

that's why we don't say it we've all moved on yep a betrayal of the robust italian ex community that listens to this show the i've looked at louisiana and so far the only notable thing i can find out about this team i can't figure out how they won any games uh because i've looked at all their stats and indicators this just so they're just mid so let's move on then no no one thing though their quarterback is named and this is the last thing i want to say about this game 37 more of these episodes uh one it's in mobile so it'll be the best time that you'll ever have that you won't remember and two uh their quarterback name uh louisiana is is lunch windfield you say that for last