Shutdown Fullcast - 40 FOR 40: The 2025 Arizona Bowl

Episode Date: December 26, 2025

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Welcome or not to the Arizona Bowl featuring Miami of Ohio versus Fresno State, a game that might merit more consideration if it were not smack in the middle of a day-long slate of acceptable to actually good games. Kind of like how Snoop might merit consideration if he hadn't performed at Trump's cripple. ball, but hey, good news. I guess this game is no longer sponsored by Barstool. Can I tell you guys something weird that I didn't know that was true about this game last year and is apparently a true again this year? It's not actually sponsored by Snoop the person. It is sponsored by Gin and Juice, which is Snoop and Dre's gin-based pre-mixed cocktail line, a thing I didn't know existed. And it's kind of, the full name is Snoop Dog Arizona Bowl presented by

gin and juice. And I can't stop thinking about how much damage um there are there are bowl sponsors of other bowl games and we've talked about them a lot with actual body counts like in the in the high thousands and it's kind of wild the kind of puritanical tropes that stick and the ones that don't why isn't gin straight up this game is in arizona why isn't gin in the title in the title of this game i would love like the gin bowl Yeah, I would love an opportunity. Listen, snoop, snoop aside, politics aside, I would love an opportunity, a sanctioned opportunity to celebrate gin in a can. Please give me the opportunity to do so. The gin bowl. I just see like Jeeves and Worcester.

If someone say, Jim's a ball. That's exactly where the, it's exactly the kind of place they would send them, too, to take the desert air. Air is the host of Buddy Hackett to sing the National Enthome. Alex Kirshner has already applied for a credential to this. Fries for the table. I'm an old Sonoranero here in Arizona. I'm guessing the Snoop Dog Arizona Bowl presented by gin and juice by Drey and Snoop is 65 characters. I'm guessing that's the longest bowl game name ever.

It might be the all-time contender is always you have to beat San Diego County Credit Union Ponsetia Bowl. Yeah, let me see. What do we got? Did PubG get credit for the whole name when they were? A bowl sponsor? I don't think they used the whole thing, though. They didn't use the whole thing? It was just the PubGee.

No, I don't think it was the official title. Okay. Oh, yeah, the poinsetti is nowhere close. Yeah, I don't feel like that one's getting touched in this lifetime. Unless Gronk and Snoop form some sort of a partnership because those are the two. The Snoop and Gronk, Jinterduckin, bowl. The two kings of long bowl names. Sponsored by a shack, pepperoni shack, shack.

Also, I spent my entire adult life. in Los Angeles and Atlanta. It's real weird that I've never encountered like this gin-based cocktail concoction. I think it's pretty new. I've been in a lot of package stores. It's pretty new. That much, I believe.

What an aggressive clip for us to have. Holly's shouting, I've been in a lot of packing stores. That's not the worst thing I've said in this preview. Hey, I don't like to get out of here. Speaking of Desert Air, I don't ever like to get out of this one without shilling for Tucson itself. Did you guys know? So I've talked in previous years about how there's a lab, a science lab attached to the football stadium like underneath that casts giant mirrors for, among other things, the Magellan Space Telescope installation.

I didn't know until this year why they built the lab there. I always just figured it was for some weird university footprint real estate reasons, despite them being in Goddiam, Tucson. Is it a good sign? No, it's a very practical, it's a very practical reason that kind of makes me want to go dig underneath a bunch of other football stadiums. It's because of the electrical grid. They already had the big, super robust electrical grid built there for the stadium. So it was easier to not have to recreate a whole bunch of structures to just plot the lab right there. Anyway, campus is also home at U of A to the Giant Tree Ring Research Lab, which I have been to.

It's awesome. There's all kinds of dark stuff to how you can do. It's Nerd Paradise. Don't go to this game. Go do some other stuff in Tucson instead. Just at one point in his tenure there. With Gin and a Can! with gin and a can sitting there looking at one of the big mirrors going if I'm

naked would look real big if I stand in front of it can you make one I need that don't even give me a bonus fall to see it I feel like there's an Aricebo observatory joke here that's hovering just out of reach that I can't quite I thought you're gonna make a contact joke shit should have said a poet