Shutdown Fullcast - 40 FOR 40: The 2025 Gator Bowl

Episode Date: December 26, 2025

WWWWWWWWELCOME to the return of 40 For 40, our bowl preview series where every bowl game gets its own episode and each episode is exactly as long as that game deserves.Who decides what “deserves” means? We do! Thank you for askingNow through December 31, 100% of proceeds from all PTKU merch sales will be donated to Trans Ohio. Visit preownedairboats.com to purchase BRAND-NEW BLUE SHARKS GEAR #EXCLUSIVEThis episode was produced by Michael Ray SurberFullcast theme 40 For 40 intro arranged and performed by Russell PowellFullcast theme 40 For 40 outro arranged and performed by MattDID YOU KNOW: Spencer and Holly write Channel 6, a year-round newsletter that is mostly about football, until it’s notBefore the world ends (again), treat yourself to Jason’s critically praised novel and other workTravel in your mind palace to Phantom Island, Ryan’s new show with Steven Godfrey, which is not a college football show because another simply cannot existCheck out Surber’s band Killer Antz and his new show Podcasterino

Welcome To the 40 for 40 for the tax slayer Gator Bowl featuring Virginia and Missou Virginia and Missouri You both have football seasons We're not going to talk about you at all It's fine

it's just not what I wanted to do today because this game's in Jacksonville so we are going to play a game about Jacksonville the three of you are you can work as a team because all I all I'm going to do is give you three questions and you have to tell me which one does not fit the category that we're talking about ready Holly yeah you get to pick from the category you get to pick from the following categories I wasn't listening because the potato bowl is on what pick for the following categories. Yes, I'm ready. You can, uh, gator bowl players, the trots, dudes born in Jacksonville or titles for Jacksonville. Dudes. Titles born in Jacksonville.

Title, sorry, titles of Jacksonville. Titles for Jacksonville. Okay, I'm going to give you four titles or labels that have been associated with the city of Jacksonville. And all you have to do as a team is, tell me which one is inaccurate, which one has never been associated with Duval. Number one, Jacksonville, better known as the winter film capital of the world. The winter film capital of the world. That's not the one.

No, that one has, that one has been applied to Jacksonville. Yeah, it was actually early Hollywood, yeah. Number two, Jacksonville, home of the first Bitcoin purchase. Jacksonville, home of the first Bitcoin purchase. Number three, Jacksonville, colon is implied in all of the. these. Jacksonville. America's Logistics Center. That's also Boston. America's Logistics Center. And number four, Jacksonville, colon, the Sunshine Factory. Ooh. Which of these is the false Jacksonville? Three of these are accurate. One is not.

So is one of these Jacksonville, Alabama? No. There is no, there is no tricky, oh, it's Jacksonville somewhere else. One of these is an entirely fictional Jacksonville. One of these does not apply to any Jacksonville as far as I know. But the other three apply to Jacksonville, Florida, home of the Gator Bowl. I'm going to assume that Ryan is playing fucking hard ball here. And he gave me a really good but now fake one because, believe it or not, the winner, Hollywood is one is accurate. It was an early competitor with Hollywood before Jacksonville didn't have.

happen um jacksonville didn't happen what a vision of a beautiful world uh the first bitcoin purchase boy that is a great decoy because sounds true but it's also something that would sound true if ryan wanted to be like what is the exact intersection of the like i can use a computer but i'm still a huge fucking flame and dumbass but it might work out anyway that sort of makes up the kind of like wasteoid who ends up becoming successful anyway in florida so like that's good and logistics center, that's so blank, and it's so blah, that you could just put it on there on a platter, and it might not be accurate, but it could be. Like, it's, it's so innocuous. So I'm going to tell you one that sawpuffets got me, and if I get it, it's pure luck. But I'm

going to go ahead and say that the logistics center is the fake one. The Jacksonville Port Authority does indeed claim that Jacksville is America's Logistics Center. You demon. I thought you had it. Yeah. In 2010, a Jacksonville man had two Papa John's pizzas sent to his house for 10,000 Bitcoin, which would be worth approximately $893 million. Which means the false Jacksonville is the Sunshine Factory. This is in fact a nickname for the city of Tucson.

Tucson is known as the Tucson voted to call itself in the 80s, the Sunshine Factor. factory. All right. Jason. So Tucson is the real Jacksonville. Tucson is the real Jacksonville. Yes. If you laugh one time and I'll quit making this just a joke. I'm going to do it forever. Jason, do you want dudes born in Jacksonville or Gator Bowl players? Give me the dudes. All right. Which of the following dudes was not born in Jacksonville? Governor Ron DeSantis. Wesley Snipes. Nate Peterman or Pastor Mason Bell? better known as Mace, M-A-dollar-Sign E.

Which of those dudes not born in Jacksonville, Florida? Three were. One was not. Let's see here. DeSantis, I couldn't tell you exactly where he originated. Where he's swaned. Where he's crawled out of. But North Florida would certainly be my guess. Mace never exactly had the most hardcore New York accent that's for sure

I can't I feel like that is the detail I should know here that's the part I am ashamed to not have immediately on call is Mace's original whereabouts Who are the other two was it Nathan Peterman Nathan Peterman okay the Peterman himself and Wesley Snipes and Wesley Snipes yep Wesley Snipes of course was born near vampires and Jacksonville is known for having a tremendous amount of them.

I'll go with the Peterman. Nate Peterman was born in Jacksonville, as was Mace, as was Ron DeSantis. Wesley Snipes, however, born in Orlando, Florida, Orlando, Florida for Wesley Snipes. Even more theatrical town, which makes sense because Orlando does have a lot of vampires or did. Um, all right, Holly, that leaves us with players from the Gator Bowl. I'm going to give you, oh, that's all. I'll give it to me. Sorry, I'm latching out.

I'm going to give you four players, and you're going to tell me if they've scored a touchdown in the Gator Bowl ever or not. Shit, okay. Lamar Jackson, Philip River, Philip Rivers. Okay. Three of these have one, have not. Oh. Lamar Jackson, Philip Rivers. Russell Wilson and Donovan McNabb

Which one of these has not scored Russell Wilson's your answer? Yes. Server looks unhappy But it could be unrelated. I feel like it's McNabb Because the southern bowl game I remember Syracuse going to

Was the Peach Bowl with him. Let me be clear. I'm guessing. Well, you guess right. Did they do the Gator A Bowl? I don't have a Gator Bowl memory bank. You guessed right. Russell has not scored

a touchdown of the Gator Bowl. Never playing the Gator Ball. Lamar Jackson, 2017, Phil Rivers, 2003. And server, Donovan McNabb, played in the 1996 Gator Bowl and scored a touchdown. The only reason I grabbed that was because of, because of the time he's spent at Wisconsin. I thought you might be trying to thread that needle. So combining these three, we have Wesley Snipes and Russell Wilson hanging out in Tucson, which is a perfect premise for a sitcom, in my opinion. This concludes our preview. nanobbles of the Gator Bowl