Shutdown Fullcast - 40 FOR 40: The 2025 Independence Bowl

Episode Date: December 29, 2025

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Oh, boy. That's exactly how you just start this. Don't do the welcome. Just start it like this. The audio is already going. This one is already under. Oh, boy. We're in quantum leave.

You signed up for this one of your own free will. We're not even doing a welcome. We are already underway. one is already going that's it oh dear oh bother what yemeny village vaporizing laser is sponsoring this year's independence bowl i cannot wait technologies right you'll be radiant when we're done with you buddy what a spider man villain ass company you'll be so radiant you can't go through an airport security like a normal person for the rest of your walking life but at least you're in shreveport uh you see i'm a little bit of a wedding of

evaporator too. And that's why that's why I work for radiance technologies because I like making shit real radiant. Why you got to do this to our fancy chickens? That's I know. That's it. Why you got to be like, hey, you live in Myrtle Beach. Where do you want to go on vacation? Wait, we haven't talked about this a lot. We, because we, we, we talk a lot about like teams from Wisconsin getting to come to Orlando, you know, Ohio getting to play in the, in the orange bowl or whatever we don't ever talk about teams from actual good weather that have to go to shitty weather bowl games because there's not that many of them yeah coastal this is a rare downgrade for like team environment it's it's rough it's rough and then la tech which is basically like

lot tech might wrap up like a is there an ikea in shreveport is there some kind of big box store they don't have in rusting that they do in shreeport because they might just double up We got errands to run at the Independence Bowl. That's right, they're like, I'm going to go see my aunt. She lives there. Shit, while we're there. Yeah, I need some, yeah, I need some PVC pipe. Oh, wait, sorry, I forgot Miami has to go to Arlington, and we all know what postseason weather in Arlington is like, that's probably the new worst one.

Remember when we were talking about how, if you read about what these companies do, the explanations on the website explain. Are worse? yeah so here hey man radiant technologies founded in 1988 they pioneered and developed the first pharaoh electric test system which quickly became the

worldwide industry standard for characterizing non-linear materials this stuff got it got it not evil not evil yeah not evil we just provide a pharaoh electric tester

that's all this does I think I'm going to spend money on that that's fine it's right next to technologies hang on on eBay I'll check I am how I was looking on Etsy

I just wanted to see if they had merch Yeah this is This is the yeah this is the independence bowl and louis Sadly it's just Independence Bowl merch that I'm finding I mean I can't buy a fair electrical Tester for nonlinear materials on site What kind of a bullshit bowl operation is this? Hang on let's see what Etsy pops up can I even can I even test drive it? Come on

Yeah. Yeah. What does it do? Well, the noise is very alarming. You just, I have a feeling the more questions I would ask about the Farrow Electric tester, the less it would become clear to me what it is, right? Wait a second. What is this 1888 patent print for solar energy technology doing on Etsy?

Yeah. Yeah. Answer the important questions. Oh, my goddamn second. yeah yeah this is mostly like this is mostly like cute stuff for like radiology texts to give as christmas gifts although i do like this gingerbread ornament with an x-ray rib cage that's cool i would prefer to focus yes louisiana tech and coastal carolina are technically going to fill out the ranks of this bowl game um and i will make a little slight historical note that the

independence full used to acquire used to attract i think a more expensive brand of of five and seven team like this used to be where the SEC would dump its like six and six teams this was a Mississippi state favorite four years and years both five times yeah this is the and now it's now it's you know we're we're at the sunbelt sort of level of things which is fine love the sunbelt respect to you to the conference USA levels but there is this and I would think that this is the angle for the game I don't want you watching this game unless you've ever used the county police

to help you move your shit after you got evicted. I don't want that. If jelly roll songs do not appeal to you, if you don't even, if you don't understand a single word. That's recently pardoned jelly roll for the record. I'm sorry. We're focusing. Totally innocent

of all charges. You can't prove nothing. Yeah. All right. If you've never, if you've never helped your sister in the middle of a divorce recover the Xbox that her ex-husband took out of their home

all right in the middle of the night in Winder, Georgia. Is that very specific? Fucking right it is. If you've never done that, I don't think you should be allowed to watch this bowl game, okay? If you've never looked at somebody and gone, hey man, I got a vape cartridge,

I got some dryer lint, and I got some cans of tuna. We can last three months out here. I don't want you watching. this game okay this is a game for it's the game for people that a lot tech and coastal fans you understand what i am okay if you've never used your your second husband's insurance payout from his death to take your third husband to cancun don't watch this game don't watch this game you're not allowed to okay you're independent unruly unruled this game's for freedom is what i'm saying which is why you have the freedom not to watch it you can just

watch something else i feel so liberate yeah that's right get out there be squirley punch a police horse i don't care