Shutdown Fullcast - Behind The Fullcast - A Special Look At How A Terrible Podcast Gets Made

Episode Date: December 23, 2018

Technically, this is our 40 for 40 for the Cotton and Orange Bowls, which are both semifinals in the Playoff. But it's really not that at all. Instead, it's a box of broken Christmas ornaments and mouse droppings. So rather than just give you that box, I'm going to explain why the ornaments are like that and how I don't think we can get rid of the mice. Hooray! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to Behind the Fullcast. This is Ryan and just Ryan here. We're going to do something different with this episode. You're probably expecting our 40-for-40 previews of the Cotton and Orange Bowls, which also happen to be the college football playoff semifinals. Seemingly, games we should take a little more seriously or try to provide some analysis of this episode is not that. Instead, I'm going to try to walk you through how this shambling wreck of a podcast gets made.

What goes wrong? Not just on this episode, but on many episodes. And give you a little bit of a window behind the scenes so you can see how this truly, truly not food-safe sausage is made. Let's begin. I'm trying to decide whether to kill Blue's Traveller for only having 35K followers. Oh, do it. Yeah. How are you going to give people to run around with only 35K?

That's right. maybe you could use a better hook it leads you back okay hold on I'm just glad you're focused this is as focused as I get I took notes for this shit I'm proud of you

I'm proud of you all right is everybody recording a new so let's stop there for a second I've obviously left in some of the pre-episode portion of our conversation for a couple of reasons. One, I want you to know why things are about to go where they're going to go, that it didn't come out of nowhere, that Spencer and his blues

traveler fixation was because of the world around him, or the world he puts himself into, at least. Second, I want to let you know that the recording you're listening to is just a simple grab of the audio conversation as a whole. Normally what we do is we each record a separate audio track, we each have a mic, we each record it locally, I record a backup using our conference call system, and that gives me individual tracks for each one of us, although it's just Skype quality, and it gives me the call as a whole. For reasons of just getting this out there, you're listening to the latter, so it's all going to sound especially crappy, and that's fine. The other thing you're going to hear is I'm going to laugh more. I laugh a lot during the

recordings and I try to edit some of that out because you probably don't want to hear me cackle and things like coughing sneezing shit like that that's all staying in because there's no reason to take it out so I actually do try to clean this up more than you might think and yes I'm embarrassed to admit that no Spencer is roasting blues traveler on Twitter that's fine first things first I am recording okay you got him Spencer no actually

I should have to plug in my laptop about get his ass Zappel blame it blame his big ass fuck you

John Popper wait is somebody fighting with blues traveler is always fighting this blues traveler like tried to do

somebody once like somebody said blues travelers suck are they man I guess they're not busy they got time

to search themselves yeah I've been stitching a garden sampler for my godmother this entire time. Damn. That's good. I know. I hope you bold as hard. Me and my gentle feminine art.

Stab, stab, stab. I decided not to remind John Popper at the time he jacked off so hard, he had a hard fact. You don't know that? John Popper jacked it's so hard. Stop, we have to, we have to, no, stop it. While blown on his harmonica. I don't look things up on the internet. All right, well, all right. All right, Spencer?

Everyone shut up. Oh, my God. So you can see things are already going great. I would like to add for the record that I have not verified Spencer's claims regarding Mr. Popper's health history. And I would not assume that is true. Spencer is often full of lies, half-truths, misremembered stories Jason

this time this time I'm listening I'm listening bro what you got Jason is going to clap Jason is going to clap then I'm going to clap and then either Holly or Spencer

will clap I'm not confident both of them can hold it together Holly do you need to leave the room Holly all right I got it two claps from me here we go Yeah, I'll be honest. I don't totally know why I have everybody do the clap thing. I think I maybe learned that from another podcast, and I'm probably doing it the wrong way, but I have no idea.

So this is how we, yeah, yeah. Welcome to the shutdown forecast. God, we're not going to, oh, we're already going to be way off in left field because you insisted on about talking about John Popper's dick. Yeah, to talk about Mr. Popper's penguin, and so now here we're on. You're the one who just slid that in there, right? What if this shit isn't coming out for like two weeks? What if he dies before, before we release this episode?

And then we got to monetize that shit. We're very sorry. We're very sorry to the family of John Popper and his dick, and we're sorry. We're sorry we kill John Popper. We're sorry that we have powers, okay? Yeah, I mean, you might as well know that before this, what got us crack it up before. We do plan on discussing the following thing. This is the playoff episode.

This is the one people. This is playoff episode. The semi-final episode, the one that people might actually listen to and want to hear some football content and we're not our fault they invite a Notre Dame Ryan talking about a like three hit wonder lead singer harmonica player jacking off till he had a heart attack again no proof that that story is true and we will make no claim that it is wasn't quite a hard attack I mean he had 90% 95% blockage okay thank you doctor have you seen Brian Kelly's face this is all just him sitting there

yeah yeah yeah yeah if he called 911 he says what's your you know what's your issue God and now blues traveler

Twitter is going to come after us and oh shit and you know and you know they're all and you know they're all you know they're just lay down the followers. Yeah, that's, yeah, we just did that.

You can't, what, you, you don't have, you don't have a Wake Forest, like, stadium full of people following you, man. Damn. Yeah. You see the U.S. crowd. Please. Yeah, Amon, yeah.

You don't even have an Amon G. Carter Stadium worth following you. Come on. Hold on. Um, next blues travelers. They're on a house of, they're on a house of blues kick, so that's not great. Oh, but.

Come meet some ribs. Listen to me play a harmonica. In Anaheim. Buy tickets. Hold on, no. Anaheim. This is going to be Spencer's Christmas gift. 2750.

Hey, you know what? If you live in Anaheim or near Anaheim and you tweet at Spencer about this episode, if you're the first person, I will buy you one ticket to the blue. Blue's Traveler House of Bluish. Yeah, and that offer still stands. I'll absolutely buy one ticket to this stupid show in Anaheim. Yeah, we're talking about the playoffs. That's what we...

Oh, Spencer, you did it. I know. Oh, Spencer. You're going on here. Go ahead, Blue's Travel, Twitter. Go ahead and do the first like this. Go ahead. You're doing this in the middle of the show?

What we're talking about there is that Spencer's decided to tweet at Blue's Traveler as we're recording. I've made a fatal error here where sometimes if I just let the show go down a weird rabbit hole or side path or something that has nothing to do with college football, we can kind of get that out of our system, come back, ostensibly talk about the sport that we cover, and be okay. That's not what happened here. I'm crying so hard. I'm just going to let me. Yeah, man. Why do I do this live? I do this live.

I live my life a quarter mile of the time. Yeah, a demo man lights the fuse, okay? He doesn't really mind whether somebody's recording him or not, all right? The bomb's going off. When I said you look like an undersea diver in that hat today, that wasn't a compliment. The bomb's going off whether you like it or not. Right. Hit record.

Let's talk about, let's talk about the Cotton Bowl. It's at 4 o'clock. on December, I'm trying to keep it real calm here. It's a 4 o'clock on December 29th. It's on ESPN. Number two, Clemson faces number three, Notre Dame. Spencer, do you have anything you want to say about this football game? Spencer, do you have anything you want to say about this football game?

Does his dick do a weird thing? No. Oh, now you think there's a line that's been crossed. Jason, do you have anything you want to say about this? I will push forward through this. So, oh, my God. Yeah. No, we got it.

I will go ahead and say this, I believe. Do you ever think about the fact that you don't get paid for producing this podcast? Just throw that out there. Hmm. I believe that. Oh, that got him. Technically, she's right. if you look at all of our job descriptions, in no place does it say,

host a weird, extremely off-topic college football podcast. It's the thing we do because we enjoy it. It also ends up being probably more work than I would like, but again, I have a lot of fun doing this show, and that's why we keep doing it. But yeah, zero dollars for this. I believe that Notre Dame will lose this game badly. Why? because Clemson has better football players and more of them that's more of them

going to happen yeah Notre Dame ran out of players no Notre Dame did not run out of players theirs is a bountiful crop however I believe that Clemson's defense up front is going to be able to actually pressure Ian book into mistakes particularly their defensive line which is outstanding. I think Clemson could win this game on their rushing attack alone. Throw in Trevor Lawrence actually contributing something over top every now and then. On that, you can't rely. I really only know the one song. And I only know the chorus. Yeah. But that's that's why I think Clemson's just a better football team top to bottom. That's no slide on Notre Dame. Clemson's just really good.

I got other slides for Notre Dame. Yeah, we know people have listened to this podcast before. How many points does Clemson need to win this game? Clemson needs, I think they need 28. I'm just trying to make sure we stay somewhere within the lines of this particular coloring book. Is that the right choice? You'll see. Okay.

How many points is Notre Dame need to win this game? Ryan, keep asking questions because every time you ask something, he looks away from composing another mean tweet to John Popper. Great. Good. I love this. I'm happy we do it. We do it for the same.

I think, I think, you have an advanced degree. No, Notre Dame, I think, I think if Notre Dame gets over 30, it's a game, right? Which, you know, by the way, like Clemson's defense has given up massive yardage through the air. That's happened this year, right? Yeah. That's something that's Notre Dame's best hope. but if that's not going to happen and they're not going to get into the 30s then no Clemson will just run out the clock on them I think all that football information

what you're saying seems right and at the same time you're people typing Spencer yeah Spencer stop tweeting and stop tweeting and blues traveling no watch I'm no I'm gonna block them You don't ever get credit for being meaner than me on the internet, but you low-key are. Stop. Done. Leave me down this primrose path, please. App, blues, traveler.

I have no reason. What is he doing? You can't stop me. No, I was laughing at you, but in a good way. Jason, do you have any different? takes on this important college football game on this a college football podcast. I think everyone is reasonably confident that Clemson is going to win because Notre Dame, while pretty good, is not as good as Clemson. I think this has been consistently demonstrated all

season long. Notre Dame has a really good defense and a pretty good offense. It's been much better since Ian Book took over, but still only pretty good, whereas Clemson is very good on both sides of the ball. And very good, typically beats pretty good. I think the, uh, the line on this is up to like Clemson by 14, which is, that's, that's a lot. That seems, that's the part that seems too high. Like I, that's a bit much. Yeah. If you say Clemson, one by nine, you think Clemson's going to cover that. No, no, no, I think Notre Dame will cover that. I don't think it'll be, right, right, yeah. Ryan Spencer's got opinions now. I've finished John Popper, okay. I just, I could have, I could have, I have spent all of the time we've done this podcast over many years now i could have um could have taken

better care of myself physically could have learned a new skill learned a foreign language could have learned possibly multiple foreign languages could have volunteered in my community ballroom dancing class you could have discussed college football could have discussed college football could have watched college football you could have started a college football you could have been podcasting about college football. Could have listened to a podcast and I played nobody. That's not true. Wouldn't do that.

P.A. P.N. is a wonderful podcast. Bill and Stephen are very smart and very good at what they do. But yes, we will always burn them on our show whenever possible. Also, for the record, I wouldn't have done any of those things. No, God, let's not. Ooh. Come come, my lady, because you're in crazy town. That's a totally different.

God damn. What are we even doing? That's my favorite blues traveler song. Sugar Ray. I guess we can talk about the next semifinal. Wow, that was easy. That's going to be a fast episode. You tell me.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You all tell me where we should go from here, okay? I have, I have a, I've been locked in blues traveler, Dick, Twitter, prison. with you all for some reason for some reason this whole episode has pushed Ryan too far usually we don't have much of a roadmap but but but Ryan has become convinced that this thing needs rerouted so I think we're getting close to the really good stuff I say we keep going it's good a long season you guys I think I'm sick what is the setup here the setup here remember because we stick to the big picture other other podcasts might get

down and the numbers of minutia. But we are focused on the big picture. There are three things that will definitely come out of this bowl game, okay? One, we'll see the promise of Trevor Lawrence before it is ultimately smashed into absolute shards by Alabama's defense in the next round. The second thing that will come out of this is Notre Dame will lose, respectively. People will begin to wonder, is Brian Kelly, the guy who can get this program over the top and have we plateaued.

And that sets up number three, Urban Meyer taking the Notre Dame job in 2021, once they've run Brian Kelly off for only being a really, really, really, really, really good coach there. You know that I already have a theory on this. Wow. You're really just taking my theory that, I think it's going to take an extra year for Urban to rehab himself.

I think he takes the job at 2022. Blues Traveler has an album called Susie Cracks the Whip. Oh, you're back, Ryan. We missed you, buddy. Okay, admittedly, it's my fault at this point, but they broke me. I don't know what to tell you. They have another one called Bastardos. Interesting.

And my favorite, blow up the moon. This is my favorite playoff preview we've ever done. Fine, Clemson's going to win the football game. Clemson's got to win. Notre Dame will hopefully go down admirably. I don't say that with all sincerity because... I'm pulling for Notre Dame just to get wrecked in the time of game. Yeah, if we're being honest, I mean,

what was the most fun we had in the last decade watching a football game? It was absolutely the bad at Notre Dame game. Yeah, yeah. I was there. I mean, I'm not one of those football fans that, like, actively roots against Notre Dame. I don't give a shit. Like, I don't hate it.

But if one team has to lose by 40 points, yeah, I'll go with Notre Dame. I, okay, but I will specify that it would be, because this is the semifinal and not the national championship, for those of us who may feel differently about Notre Dame, it would be funny if-family planning game. Actually, I got it, I got it. It would be funny if Clemson got blown out in this game. Clemson got blown out. If Clemson, because we have been deprived because Clemson has.

been so good and so like well run over the last few years we have been deprived of uh dabbo swenny in a stress situation being interviewed in full on binky mode yeah like we we forget what that's like when language leaves him and he's just sort of like slowly drooling and his brain's like come on come on and i found my binky but i lost myself well you know we're doing we're the out there in the argo bargle of the argy barge and and when you when you can't execute the executor um what was the question and and that's what like there is some value to that that i don't want to dismiss i think the perfect result of this game is this exact score clemson 30 Notre Dame zero that is first and foremost everyone gets gets their laughs out you get to laugh at Notre Dame. More importantly, we all get to remember Clemson beat Ohio State worse. Oh, I really like that. Also, I've already seen Davo get the daylights beat out of him in a big deal ball game at the end of the year.

This is going to be a lot more fun. There is another wrinkle here, and that's, if that happens, Georgia fans are going to be like, well, we didn't have to play a goddamn conference championship game. And Notre Dame did, look at this shit. I wish we could play Syracuse. Wow, Georgia man, but no follow-through. Fascinating. Is this what we remind everybody that Georgia versus Alabama,

Georgia's led 108 out of 120 competition minutes over the last two years. The Georgia Bulldogs that led 118 of them. What's the institutional version of being shipped off to work at Daddy's dealership and Aiken? Listen, man, if you are two minutes. it's behind Alabama in any sense of the word. You've got issues. All right. We're in that central plus two minutes time zone.

You want to go ahead and give us a welcome. I feel like the last 10 minutes were a fever dream. You know what? I might cut this whole episode. Might just say we didn't do one. You know what? We didn't preview the semifinal. Wow.

Because we didn't know how to act. It's true. I handle most of the file production. We do have a producer here at Box Media named Jalani who helps with some of our episodes. He's great and super talented and I'm sorry he's stuck working on our show. But ultimately, yeah, I am the keeper of the files. And if I want to, I can just scrap them and they'll never exist anymore. I don't do that, though, because I'm dumb. We got a coup going on right now. I'm telling the entire internet that we told the Sun Bowl story on it, and I'm giving them your email address. Jesus Christ. How are you making this? Why are you making this worse? Also, I'll just lie.

I'll tell them any old Sun Bowl story. Or I'll tell them the actual Sun Bowl story because I'm not the one who has bridges to burn there. Yeah, I'm not going to tell you the Sun Bull story. Sorry. Yeah, we got all the way through the episode without even mentioning it. We got a damn standoff going here, folks. Yeah. I'm so tired.

Can't wait to see how this resolves. Can we just do the Orange Bowl? I can see through time. Spencer, welcome us to the Orange Bowl and free me from this prison. Spencer is definitely going to solve problems. Spencer, welcome us to the Orange Bowl, please. Ryan's stuck in the Cotton Bowl forever. Do you know how screwed you are if I'm the genie in your story?

Ryan, forced to relive the. the relive the cotton bowl forever like that black mirror christmas episode computer welcome me to the gorge ball time enough at last hi listen three wishes how many hey guys hi listeners um the full gas from this point i thought brian had just hit the button on a dick pill reads the full guys we'll just be dick pill reads because that's all we're good for anymore At least the dick pill reads have a beginning, a middle, and an end.

No, if the end doesn't, it takes more than four hours. Hey, broke dicks. Hey, guys with broke dicks. Speaking of guys with broke dicks. Welcome to the shutdown. You just got to know the right words. I really thought you were going to. take another swing at John Popper there.

No, no, no, no. Oh, yeah. Oh, it was his heart that broke, not his dick. We're talking about the Orange Bowl. That's the chapter of the playoff that I think many have been waiting for since last year, because unfortunately, the one team that probably could have competed against Alabama was eliminated by Georgia. The one team that could have, the game went to fucking overtime.

Yeah, but it involved Georgia. It involved Georgia, though. You garbage animal, even I think that's a bridge too far that could have competed. What the fuck is Georgia going to do in overtime? Yeah, come on, man. But Alabama put it in their backup in one. Come on. Twice.

And you called him for a garbage animal like you invited a literal house and you're surprised. It's washing your phone in the dog bowl. Yeah, please. I don't even have a dog. Yeah, how'd that happen? Yeah, you know who took that dog? Alabama. Two years in a row, fruit and a river.

Wow. Yeah. It was sick anyway. It's fine. Wow. Goodbye, fluffy. This is for the best. Brian's out.

Old Yellowwood. Ryan's out here to the Rainbow Bridge work. I'll take care of people. Again. Again, this is us previewing a fucking semi-final in the college football playoff. Oh, Miss. Mr. This podcast is very important. Yeah, but you know Alabama's going to win.

I just sometimes I think like, hey, wouldn't it be fun if more people listen to this podcast and if people share it with their friends and say, hey, this is what this podcast is, but instead... Who's not going to share this? It's 57 minutes of cross-talk and bad audio about nothing. I don't know how people find our podcast. I mean, I know that sometimes people on Reddit talk about us or you tweet us or you maybe read something we wrote, something like that, and that's how you sort of get looped in. But I don't know how you would take a total stranger who maybe likes college football, but doesn't know who any of us are and has never heard of our show, and explain it to them and get them to listen to it. If you have successfully gotten a friend without any previous context to listen to our show, please tell me about it. so I know that it is at least possible.

I'm not saying it's going to happen a lot, and maybe it's already happened as much as it ever will, but hope is a very dumb thing that still lives somewhere within my broken body. My audio is great. Your voice actually cut out in the middle of the word audio, which is fantastic. It's not my fault.

You're on that bootleg New York internet. I just would like to... We got that good country shit down here. I just would like to be dead. I just want to be dead. Spencer's on that comcast, now. I'm on that Comcast, you're a good network.

This is downloading movies while he does this. I know. I'm sitting here, listen, I actually have a Skype window open and John Popper and I are beefing. I'm muting in between takes and beefing with John Popper. You know what? I actually love the idea of perpetuating

the notion we do tape for the show because that suggests that what we're putting forward is the best version of what we Yes, this is the one we thought worked the most. we had one before this it kind of got kind of got off topic hate when that happens Alabama and Oklahoma this is this could have been Alabama Ohio State but Ohio State messed up by losing Purdue if instead of Godfrey we just tell people to add John Popper whenever they have problems

with our podcast what if we tell people that Godfrey is John Popper okay like in a fun house mirror maybe it'd be a hook stop it we got we should probably figure out if he has another song this is this is i think the better matchup than between elabama and ohio state because i really don't want to watch whatever elabama's offense was going to do to ohio state's defense because there is the hope that ohio state's defense might be good i have no such hope with oklahoma this is just this is just ping pong we're just we're just returning the ball back and until somebody flinches. That's all that's going to happen in this game

because Oklahoma's offense is incredible. Lincoln Riley is the best offensive mind in college football, and he's going to be going up against an Alabama defense that has at times proven to be poorest. Don't trust my jaded opinion. Trust Vegas, because if we have discussed in previous podcast, hey, Ryan, what's the over here? Over under?

12. I don't care anymore. 81. 81 points. There is a blues traveler song that goes with this bull, so it's... Ryan, can you stop getting us off topic? We're trying to discuss football. We're talking about fucking blues traveler.

Hardcore football talk here. Yeah, I hate my co-host. They're bad people, and they want me to suffer. It's runner. No, nobody wants to talk about Gainesville when it comes to the playoff. All right. No, it's not 2008, please.

the matchup that I think people actually want to see here is just to see hopefully for the viewer Tua and Kyler just going back and forth that's what you want to see is you want to see Tua Taka Vala and Kaila going up and down the field willy-nilly at you know at leisure just scoring points back and forth for the better part of four hours and 20 minutes and then at the end you want them to be best friends like the Android commercial where the baby lamb rides around on the back of a duck yeah yeah the baby lamb is definitely Tua and the duck is definitely Kyla Murray because he lives because he lives in two worlds

that's what Kyler Murray does oh yeah yeah also too it comes from Hawaii where it's very warm so he's cold he's a wool coat he does that this is maybe more of like a lilo and stitch situation Tyler Murray opening his mouth and putting his finger on the phonograph. Yeah, I'm going to love this game. I also have no expectation of Oklahoma actually pulling this out because it's Alabama. And they have a great offense and they also have a defense. And he's got special teams, though. Well, first, you know, who doesn't have special teams.

I know who has... Give me a second. Georgia does tend to miss pretty big field goals in very large games. I would also point out that Georgia is innovative in that they sometimes put out their special teams and asked them to play offense. Yeah, yeah. Which is not, which I realize is not just a SEC championship game reference. It's also the LSU loss. Yeah, yeah, that did happen.

Good job, Georgia. Oklahoma is much better at special teams than Alabama. So if you're looking for multiple reasons, this thing could stay close, there's another. The spread on this one is also 14, which, again, that's pretty large. That's pocket change for these two teams. I want to say something that doesn't sound like us,

but I mean it, I think that at the end of this season, and we actually are at a healthy place with Alabama, which is, and we've mentioned this multiple times on the show throughout the season, but they are what they are going to be, and we are at peace with that, and we are just kind of enjoying the parts of the spectacle that are pleasing to us

and not super worrying about the rest. Yeah. Yeah. Also, if Bama wants this to be fun, great. Yeah, that's fine. That's great. We've been begging for it for years, if we're going to be subjected to you, fuckers, year long, longer than anybody else in the sport,

and it appears that we are, it could at least be fun to watch. Thanks, Pam. Appreciate it. Every time Oklahoma has played in the Orange Bowl in recent memory, it's just been like a weird shit show in one way or the other. Like, I'm talking from the 90s on. There's the 2001, the 2000 season BCS Championship game where Oklahoma wins a national title. Does anybody remember the final score of this game? 13-2.

13-2. Their next appearance, also in the BCS championship, against number one USC. Do you remember the final score of this game? 50. Many to none. 55. 17. That's really, 5519, yes, 5519.

And then most recently, three years ago, they played number one, number one Clemson, and they lost by 20 points. So, can I tell you when I knew that USC Oklahoma game was done when it was over? Like, the start of the second quarter? Do you know it's over now? No, it was, because the Oklahoma actually comes out. Yeah, they come and score. Hang on, hang on, hang it. I think we've jumped, we've crossed timelines again.

God damn it. Yeah, are you out of sync? Oh, this is another fun thing that sometimes happens on our show. For some reason, in the middle of recording, someone's connection will just start to lag. So I'll say something, and Jason or Spencer hears it four seconds after I actually said it, or it'll happen to somebody else. And this is fun because it makes what is already a discussion that is barely coherent, completely disastrous. Am I leaving this in here so you can see what I have to deal with? Yep, sure I am.

Well, I don't know. I'm not certain it's me. You pick it up from there, Spencer. Did I ever tell you all I was at that 13-2 game? why i was a half-time show dancer um why didn't why didn't they at that 13 two game they shouldn't have i'm gonna pick it up hey stop i'm gonna i'm gonna pick it up from there because for some reason for some reason it did the thing again where it didn't record that first part of this so motherfucker i don't know it just never all right ready i was gonna tell

the story of a hilarious leg injury but so wait does that I mean we don't have anything for the semifinals at all? Not on, no, not on this end. It just stopped. It just fucking stopped. Why does this keep doing this? It stopped after like six seconds. And another fun thing.

Sometimes our local recordings don't happen at all. I love this show. It sustains me, and it's extremely gratifying. I feel so vindicated. I feel so vindicated. This is the exact same thing it did last night. Last night we had like a one second long file. Yeah.

So like I watched them do it. We're not doing anything different. Can you use that Zoom file? Could you do the same thing we did last night for that? I could. Oh, Ryan has so much power now. If we're going to do that, let's just keep going and don't worry about recording on your end because then it makes no sense for me to paste it all together.

Okay. Cool. We'll just see what person. I wanted to tell the story about me shattering my leg at half time. All right. That's all right. So I knew that game was over, because Oklahoma goes out and scores against USC in that game on the first drive. They look awesome.

But I knew it was over the first time that Jason White dropped back. His first three steps, like, lurk, der, der, lurking against the defense. Oh, this is over. It's bad. They might score, but they're going to catch up to this shit. Yeah, USC. Oklahoma scored first, and then USC scored the next four touchdowns and led 3810 at halftime.

It's right neighborly. Yeah, yeah, that was, it is one of the most definitive beatdowns in 21st. century football period like it we talk about like if you go like worst title game performances um beat down next to Bama Notre Dame it's up there and Notre Dame by the numbers isn't as bad as that but physically when you watch it it hurts more the Orange Bowl has had speaking of Bama oh Jesus what is happening it just restarted

you're kidding me no it's fine it's fine you know what this all stays in all of it I'm not editing this you know what you're right we should be true to ourselves we should be true to what this podcast is and what it isn't this this are double semi-final preview

not going to touch it even slightly I don't know what it took to get you over here on the same, like, depths of despair, L-O-L playing with us. I'm sure I'm glad you're with it. Because I have that broken part of my brain that's like, if you can do better, you should try. And for some reason, but not today. No, this is it.

This is the shutdown forecast, 40 for 40, almost done. I guess we're still talking. Are we still talking about the semifinal? I'm not even sure anymore. I'm unstuck. Yeah, hell yeah. Hell yeah. We're talking about the 2000s.

Spencer, you want to throw some shit at three doors down? I like that we are providing our listeners with this terrible listening experience and talking about blues traveler so that in their brains they'll be like, oh, this sucks. I should listen to blues traveler. It's not the worst listening experience. No, that was the live show. That was the live show audio. Yeah.

I was thinking of the conference call when 900 of them tuned in on 30 minutes notice on a Sunday night just to listen to us yell at each other. You know what? I'm just going to right here, and this is a warning for everybody, I'm going to drop in three random minutes from last year's semifinal preview. Just for that's a good idea. That's a great idea. Yeah, let's build this content out. Just fluff up this word count. Yep. Make it look like a big old long form. People will share it. It'll be like, like, uh, That's a beautiful storytelling. Yep, I meant it. Here's three minutes of last year's semifinal preview. Dude, I am so happy that I was right about Luke. And even more so, when he went and he drank like that mysterious liquid that came out of like the walrus giraffe sitting derelict animal thing that was on the coast, right?

He just milked it and drank it straight out of a glass. I think that's the first time he did it. And he did it just to fuck with Ray. he's like i don't even know what this liquid is like i've passed these teats for weeks and today's the day i do this shit it's just dispensing kalua it's amazing oh it's shamrock shake that's where it comes from i think luke probably looked up it and goes please say the animal doesn't look happy please say it doesn't look ecstatic but it did it did it looked at ray like you went in on this I just with Luke too you know it wasn't the first time

I did also cackle in the theater when they showed the X-wing in the water Luke learned how to fly an X-wing unlike anyone in the galaxy but never learned how to land it you just said fuck this thing Star Wars 9 the search for a boat trailer I also like people like as if this wasn't a defined enough cold Ultra War.

Like on Twitter you just put three opinions about it and somebody's like it wasn't a good movie. What kind of a conversation is that? I don't know you. I don't care. I'm not going to convince you.

Like, oh, wow, what a novel thing. You didn't like a Star Wars movie. That's amazing. What a bold stand. That's like saying, I don't know, but you don't want to watch Clemson

and Alabama play again. What a novel opinion. Well, I have some sympathy for the latter opinion. Yes. Thank you. like one of what like eight people like no don't you want to see the best play the best no no i don't actually no get middle cnesee in here let's just call why don't you you know what why don't we call

america's most important team wake forest that's right call wake forest assa iowa wake forest sugar bowl hold up hold up what color was laura durn's hair in the movie that's right clems and purple that's true and what it what happened to her in the movie She also ran a legal pick play That was legal She split the seam, didn't she? Yeah, straight up the middle. That's true.

You know what? Football's a team game. Sometimes someone has to block. That's a problem with cover Hoth. Do you actually, like, by the way, like, in this, do we have, do we have any idea what's going to happen? because I think people who are certain about this game either way are just fools. Like I feel way better about saying, yeah, Georgia will probably just grind Oklahoma out. This is a powerful statement on the transit.

If we drop like a five-hour podcast on them, we'll have like Dan Carlin sharing it. Like I think I made this episode. This isn't a podcast anymore. It's art. It's sad and twisted art. And it's about the limits of clean soul. It's different things for different people. Yep.

what if you paste in our entire playoff preview from last year just the whole thing no I think it's a powerful statement on the transience of media I'm not against it like we needed another one of those in 2018 I think it's just

taking accountability for our takes you know because I'm sure last year we had like bold predictions on like which left guard was going to outplay which knows you know no we didn't It is, that does not sound like us. It is, you know what?

It is really confidence inspiring. Wait, what if you did have, like, three minutes of Bill and Stephen's preview? Did she just call him Stephen? Who is that? Yeah, I've never heard anyone call him Stephen straight out, except for his wife. So that's just weird. He's Godfrey. Why is that funny?

I don't know. It just is. because I've also nobody wants to hear about like the AFC wild card game yeah you're right I guess an NFL podcast wouldn't really match with our whole thing

It just There is one point Guys let's just die Well that's what I was going to say There is one point of solace to all of this And I guess this is where we're going to end the episode Because why the fuck not We are recording this

Just for posterity's sake Today is Tuesday, December 18th, 2018. So obviously a lot could change in terms of, you know, player could get injured, coach could get fired, the Orange Bowl could fall into the ocean, whatever. Don't at me. I know they don't play this game at the Orange Bowl, which doesn't exist anymore.

You get my meaning. On the other hand, we could all get fired. So then we don't have to put this episode out. no then it's even better it's from beyond it's from beyond the grave yeah that would be so spooky how'd they do it

can something die that never truly lived it'd be like we'd be showing like look what you're missing look what you're missing out I would like you know that blues traveler took their name in part from Ghostbusters wait what from Gozer the Traveler yeah

no should yeah you weren't even smoking good weed if that's what you were doing. No, we're stopping it there. That's 37 minutes. Man, I thought that when Spencer finally broke Ryan, it'd be a lot funnier. So, yeah, that's the episode. I won't say I hope you enjoyed it because I'm not stupid.

I hope you have a better understanding of what it is that goes into making this bad podcast. will it get better maybe one day probably not but it's nice to think about isn't it okay bye i love you