Shutdown Fullcast - Prep School, or How to Improve Your 2019 College Football Experience

Episode Date: August 13, 2019

Our listeners share their tips and tricks for a more pleasant Saturday viewing experience, we discuss the college football destinations we have yet to enjoy but want to visit, and somehow we talk about clothes Ryan bought in middle school.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the shutdown forecast. It's 2019. And we got, we have something we usually don't have. Ryan, we have plans. That, that, that's what we're leading with here? Yeah, plans. Like that's, we've never had those before. Usually it's just like, turn on a mic.

Let's roll. That's not entirely true. like all of the preview episodes that many people hated last year. Those were plans. Mm-hmm. That's true. We often have more plans than it sounds like. Yeah, like I actually think you're selling us short.

I think most of the time we have not quite an Ocean's 11 level of planning, but something like more planning than you would think. And then we hit record and one of us, often Spencer, but not always, just gets all Leroy Jenkins. And that's the end of the plan. Like, actually, the whole Leroy Jenkins clip is a good summation of the full cast pre-production experience. It's about spotting opportunities, Ryan. It's about seeing the hole in the defense.

You can't, your quarterback can't be married to the plane. He's got to get out there and react. Sure. Like, I'll do that right here. Can we talk some more about how my dentist has Mountain Dew in the waiting? area. Go on. Well, yeah. Like that, what the fuck is that? Because here's the thing.

It'd be one thing if it was, uh, I'm not saying the fact that they have anything that is ostensibly bad for your teeth in the waiting area. It's surprising. They have coffee as well. And, and I get why, I get why they do. Uh, if they had ginger ale, I could maybe say, okay, like a little strange, but I get it. mountain dew is basically like cavities the drink how on earth what is what is the purpose here and it's not as if mountain dew is something you can just like you just stroll into a Walgreens and they're definitely going to have it they're definitely going to have a big case of Mountain Dew for you to bring to the office like Coca-Cola sure how on earth did we get to the place where my otherwise

seemingly respectable dentist who as when you're a new patient do you know what he gives you mountain dew a bamboo plant so ryan so you can as a person like a panda yeah right the internet often wants to fire you yeah however you have managed to cobble together job security by hooker by crook for quite some time now defying the odds at every turn yeah uh and in fact only growing in prominence and responsibility over the long haul. Much to our collective alarm. Much to our confusion. So you see the value in job security.

You see the value in creating a need for yourself. Right. You know, you become the Blumen Onion and then cover the game in which the Blumen Onion appears. Sure. So to me, that's the logic. Like, if you're the dentist, you want to fuck up people's teeth because then they've got to come back.

Yeah, I think this is the, this is the, this is the, mechanic like where this is the tire shop throwing nails on the road right you're just you got to make your own wind sometimes if you're going to sail yeah throw nails in people's mouths you cowards that i would respect more or just like but those are not delicious and they don't make your mouth taste like nascar here's so okay so the the mechanic the mechanic has to throw nails on the road because you can you an amateur can tell if you have a flat tire or not right I don't know shit about my teeth You know if you have a hole in one

No, you don't How many times You're telling me you can guess with 100% accuracy Whether or not you have a cavity Yeah, I have none My point is If I did, you could see it You could just fucking see it, right?

I haven't had one since I was like nine So I don't know No, they're often in like such weird crevices Well, who gives a shit about that? That doesn't matter. All right. I realize I've watered more into our dentistry is a scam. It's time for Spencer's Dennis takes.

Dentistry is a scam. Spencer is an Old West prospector. All you need to do is chew on a piece of sandalwood, run a piece of felt around your mouth, and drink clear mountain water and whiskey. That's it. Stick to that. Mountain dew. Mountain dew. including flavors like Liberty Brew, 50 flavors in one. Liberate your mouth from Big Dentist.

I got to tell you, that is the most fallout fucking soda I've ever seen in the wild. The one that has the label with the Statue of Liberty on a hog. Yeah. By that, I mean a Harley Davidson, not an actual hog, which is kind of unfortunate because now you're seeing it. And I admit, it's a superior image. We'll get there. we'll get there so yeah so boom there you go podcast derailed i don't even know what we were supposed to be doing here sorry see now now two of you have derailed and it is on me to steer this thing

back on course folks it is basically college football season and it is time for us to pull up our pants and button our shirts and get this thing in fucking order because football is here so we have to very diligently cover the sport that is connected to our name not we don't really because like if we talk about college football for one minute per episode that is more than any other podcast on earth can devote to the subject but still it's still it's time to get in gear so we're going to Spencer you sent out the call for what now for for to seek to connect readers with each other on the subject of Saturday preparation I did and just ask for basics you know just what are you planning what are you doing out there are you prepping for this and you know what do you need what are the basic essentials and uh my personal favorite here is uh from a rutgers fan who said ruckers fan here this is uh at drifter 17 17 a justin rutgers fan here bam btn subscription bam 50 cubic tons of prozac bam one single can of cape may always ready also he says in an additional tweet he's going to piscataway but isn't

really sure why it's important to start with realistic goals for the season so i salute you jeston what would i have to do to cajole either of you to come with me to a game in piscataway which i've been yeah i know i know you've been but that was a choice you made and we've talked about it no it wasn't yeah it went it went great right that was that was a choice you kind of made Actually, I did get to see that one Rutgers, Kansas play up close. You know the one. The one. I might go to Rutgers Princeton because Princeton would add yet another W in their truly ancient series.

Sure. Yeah, I'm not going to get it. It's not happening. I would prefer not to. I would prefer. not to at brinamania when he asked what i need what we needed for college football gave the most georgia answer available you ready for this or excuse me ordering a bushel of green georgia peanuts to keep in the freezer for boiling up on game days yeah i mean if you have if you've ever boiled

peanuts you don't boil like you know a small serving of them there's yeah there's not there's not an easy mac size here yeah no like you Your measurements are like gallon and drum. So Jay Brennaman, aka at Brennamania, make some friends. Pass these around. Or make some enemies, depending in your opinion of boiled peanuts. Because they're not pro or anti? Anti.

Anti. I'm pro. Okay. I'll stand on the pro side. Okay. All's divided. Now we have our teams. Twas ever thus.

Those who are pro, admittedly kind of slimy, extremely salty peanuts that are wet and served in a bag despite being wet. That's my favorite thing. Do you put them in cola? And scalding fucking hot. Yeah. I have I put them in cola? No, but I have put unboiled peanuts in cola. So you get the chew.

I have done that. And it is deeply underrated. It's delicious. But yeah, scalding hot filled with. liquid and served in a paper bag it's georgia thinking right there hey why don't you take this in the car why don't you take this in the car this sounds like an aggressively 19th century london kind of snack when you're thinking about it isn't this more of like a i don't know when i think about boiled peanuts i think way more about georgia's southern than i do about george proper because

that's just going to get on their khakis um at b milly 24 suggests As an Arizona Wildcats fan relocated to the Eastern Time Zone, the only true essentials are coffee and self-loathing. Buddy, if that makes you an Arizona Wildcats fan, I'm in line. We got this. Why do they need coffee for? Their games start at like 4 o'clock local? What are time zones?

Well, they're cats, so they are napping at this time. That's true. Yeah, sleepy. Yeah. At Taco Trey Kirby. Uh, the starters, uh, says Charles Woodson, Michigan jersey with nothing underneath. Get fucked. That's chafy.

I mean, you got it. That's, that's really chafy. Do you own, do either. Not if it's like a belly shirt. It might be a 90s belly shirt. Yeah. Which on, you know, the average adult grown man, that's definitely what you want. Are you telling me, Trey Kirby wouldn't, wouldn't, wouldn't wear a Woodson belly jersey? There's wood and could and should. And those are all three different things, aren't they?

Okay. Do either of you own a jersey? Actually, not this. I want to ask Ryan, because Jason, you own a jersey, correct? A jersey? Yes. Yeah. Ryan, do you own a jersey? I still do, but I haven't worn them in quite some time. Them? Yeah. Oh, yeah.

All right, so which Tampa Bay bucks? I formerly had. So, originally, I had an Alvin Harper Creamsicle orange bucks jersey That was truly unfortunate Wow And then I want to say I had a

John Lynch bucks jersey as well Well yeah I think those are the only two Bucks jerseys I had I had I definitely had a Florida jersey I think just the standard Like one And a friend of mine got me a like

Game worn jersey From an O lineman that I have in a closet somewhere i have an alan iris in georgetown basketball jersey floating around somewhere is it is sleeveless it is when's the last time we've worn that uh that i that's been a while that's the thing i i bought that in eighth grade and i just every time i go to clean out my closet i think that one's actually still back in my my parents house every time they're like you need to get rid of this i'm like it's an Alan Iverson-Georgetown jersey. I don't care if I never wear it again.

I'm definitely keeping it. Yeah, but you should wear it. Okay. Over a turtleneck. I mean, how's this? This will determine whether you should wear it and how to wear it. Were you an early bloomer or a late bloomer? I was an on-time bloomer.

Okay. So you should definitely just wear the jersey. You should wear the jersey over a shirt. Sure. So it just pulls everything in. Yeah. Yeah. No, but I've owned many a jersey in my life.

I just don't wear them anymore. I think we have, I think those are the extent of tips I thought were actually like. That's it. Reparations that I think. That's it, man. Everyone else, everyone else pretty,

pretty basic things that as adults, I think we can all agree are like gibbons. Doesn't matter if I own jerseys. Do you own jerseys? Jersey? I didn't assume you did. We moved on. Let's move on. No, no, no, no. I want to know. What Tennessee jersey do you own?

No, we moved on. Let's move on. Okay. Okay. Well, now I'm curious. Go listen to podcast. Ain't played nobody's. By the time this come out, it might be there. Not most recent, but the one before that episode. You can learn something about what you should do if you're cord cutting this year.

Many of you probably already have cut the cord. Others may be exploring it. I got to tell you, I am looking forward to. the maybe like five years from now when people are like, no, cable is the like retro cool thing to do.

AM radio. Have you considered it? Yeah, it's time to record. It's like when you snip the other kind of cord and then put it back. The surgery kind? You know what I'm saying.

We've got this scheme where we're going to broadcast things for free over the air. it'll never catch on never yeah I think PAPN their ultimate recommendation was

the YouTube TV and the ESPN Plus and I mean I'm on board with that and I think most of the people who replied to Spencer that was one of their top tips so great that's done that's settled that's settled

this leads us to plans plans for 2019 i.e uh but where where are we going which this is this is a hard question because I think all four of us have varying degrees of been to right holly's the road warrior you've been everywhere yeah pretty i've been to most of the big ones um right thank you for including me as though i'm a member of this show and not just tacked on for diversity you're welcome um which by the way me as a diversity he hires a tragic fucking commentary

on this industry. Ryan, you're on the other end of the spectrum. You're like Mr. Never Been Nowhere. I can tell you, I can list every non-Gainesville place I have gone to for a game. Jacksonville, the Orange Bill,

and the whatever the new one is. Landshark bullshit. Hard knock life stadium. Yeah, that one. Joe Landshark Robby Knock Stadium

Let's see I've been to Neeland I've been to The Outback Pole On at least three occasions Shit is that it That really might be it You went to South Dakota

Something or other I think that one was played at Black Hill State If Memory Serfs Other than that Um, yeah, that's it. That's the entire list of places I, oh, wait, no, I have been to one Rutgers game. So I've, those are all the stadiums I've ever been to, to watch college football. For fun, for fitness and for fun.

So the standards here are, it's a, it's a wide band that doesn't include anything at the top, right? Yeah, I suppose that's true. yeah you mean like for for places like for instance places Ryan will go like you actually you're an honorary Stanford student because unlike a lot of Stanford students you've been to a Stanford football game in Stanford right yeah I have nobody nobody listening to this knows who you're talking to pointing at Holly no I heard I heard that's why I can't just string it you so that you would say my name yeah I heard I heard the angle of Spencer see look what happens when you try and include me in the show let this serve as a lesson to

everyone holly what are you just gonna can you just depose spencer at this point please deposed like oh you mean like the throne yeah not like deposition not like joe jamail although that would be good too could do that hey fat boy i mean i already deposed bill connolly um all right anyway what was your fucking question all right people but you've been to it you've actually been to your weird because you've been to an actual stanford football i've been to multiple stanford games and i believe i'm on the record multiple years previously on this podcast uh decrying them as a criminally underrated tailgate scene i have a list of places i have not been it's pretty long but the big ones that i could

actually hit up this year are they're good and um i think three out of the four have legitimate football interest and one of them is just I want to see something stupid go through years and I'll go last because I have this it's an extremely hashtag blessed problem I have trouble thinking about where I've been at this point because I did this for 10 years yeah um and I've hit most of my wish list but let me let me scroll through real quick go through years first yeah I think I've actually been with you in a stadium where you go oh I've been here before I forgot where I forgot where was that um I'm gonna think where I forgot that I had been there until I got there yeah yeah I'll remember which stadium. Was it LSU? It was probably LSU. Yeah, that explains them

forgetting. Um, the number one place I haven't been is Madison, Wisconsin. God, it's so good. I haven't been there for a game and everybody I say, oh, I haven't been to Madison. Everyone's like, you idiot. Can I give you, can I lay out a recommendation, a letter of recommendation for Wisconsin that the three of you will specifically understand, uh, as will the target audience of this podcast? Yeah. I had, I had never been to Wisconsin before. before, I want to say like four or five years ago. And then I ended up going twice in one year, both times for work. The first time was at the dead ass end of July. It gets surprisingly hot in Wisconsin. There are an astonishing amount of mosquitoes. The second time, I went that following

football season for the Paul Bunyan game at the dead ass into the season in November. It was 12 degrees, I want to say. And we stayed on the lake, which made it even cold. I'm absolutely in love with Wisconsin and I visited it during I visited Madison during the two most inhospitable times of the year and y'all know how we how we function in cold on here that one that Wisconsin Minnesota game the week after Thanksgiving was a fucking ball and I cannot encourage you strongly enough to go also features one of the most important things in college football which is Goldie and Bucky doing ladder matches the ghost of Jim Sorgie It's actually just Jim Sorgie Speaking of which my jersey is a Brandon Stokely jersey You're welcome Wow

Yeah I am I think that should be Jim Sorgie right Like if I were an ex-Wisconsin quarterback I would just wandered the sidelines Dressed as the The like Christmas Carol ghost of Christmas past version of myself But instead of rattling all of his chains

That he rattles have like little wrist playbooks at the end of them. Yeah, either that or just a chain of beer cans, right? I will say also, you can, and I do not oversell this in any way, you can eat like a god in Madison for fairly cheap. Extremely important. Yeah, like a Thor comic book god, like one of those tables. I have been holed up in this village for a week.

Yeah. Holly, who should we be more concerned about? Alex Kirshner going to Baton Rouge for the first time or Spencer going. Yes. Okay. Yes. I am extremely concerned about my youngest son being placed into the surly embrace of LSU. I love and admire and respect his immediately older sibling in the Banner Society family, Richard Johnson.

That does not mean that I think that Richard will not place Alex in endangering situations in Baton Rouge, not because Richard is irresponsible but because he will think it is funny he will be right but it's a real Milo and Otis situation he will be right but as his boss I feel like I can't encourage this but you're laughing so

I'm just I'm imagining Alex bellying up to the bar at Chimes hey guys statutory grape shot is that a pun are you guys aware that's a problematic pun there's two kinds of people who get in trouble people who get in trouble by asking questions and people who get in trouble by not asking questions

I'm the person who gets in trouble by not asking questions Alex is the former I have I think that's a good way to put it this I want to do a heist with Alex one day I really want to pull off a bank heist just because we're pulling every we're doing everything right we're pulling away from the bank and Alex sees a cop around the corner

and he sticks his head out the window and goes officer I'm aware this was a fire lane but we were only here for the purposes of loading and unloading passengers. I think he'd just say it. He'd just be like, hey, we're robbing this bank, but we're going to be really brief. You know, guys, this is my first bank robbery. Yeah. And it would be perfect because nobody would believe it.

To be clear, I mean, yeah, this actually might make him low-key and amazing spy. Yeah. To be clear, I would die for Alex Kersner. I just don't want him to die in Baton Rouge. What if this is all a ruse and Alex is actually like the hardest hit in Motherfell? fucker any of us know a ruse or a rue because he might end up in a gumbo pot not knowing the difference hey kind of hot in here guys not that i don't like it might do hey do you guys do you guys ever hear that story about the boiling frog you think there's anything to that

let's see uh you if you want to check that out by the way prime spots uh Wisconsin you could go Michigan Wisconsin on September 21st prospects don't very good for that uh Nebraska that might be like November November 16th little cold Nebraska coming into town in Madison that might be the way to go Washington's the other one I've never been to Washington I've been I feel like this I don't know this feels like setting myself up doesn't know at all because I'm like ooh I've been there uh underrated but I'm predisposed to love all water tailgates I've heard it's loud underratedly loud It's not like, okay, it's not Oregon loud.

It's way louder than you think a fairly nice, bogey stadium in the Pac-12 would be. And it's open. Like, it's an open stadium. Yes, it's got, um, it's got the, it's got one of those architectural feats where, uh, everything just vibrates with the noise. Like it feels like at the top,

it feels like the whole stadium is made of like not too thick, corrugated tin. Yeah. Uh, and it rattles. Okay, good. Structurally unsound stadium. Beautiful setting. Yeah, no, I mean, in terms of, like, there is nothing louder in the Pact 12th and Oregon. I think we can all agree, but Washington, I would put it a close second. Let's see, I've also got on here, this is the one that doesn't make sense,

and I'm just going to cop to it because it's not exactly like, it's not, you know, like, when you hear marquee, marquee location, destinations, right? That's the one that you were asking me if I wanted to go to this season, and I said I would not? Yeah. Okay. Fayetteville. No, thank you. Fayetteville, y'all.

I would prefer not to. Because if you don't know, they have a massive, massive statue, paid for in part by Jerry Jones of, and here's where it gets topical. I prefer the Texas A&M statue. They call it a monument. I would call it an ode to feral hogs.

It's a massive installment. like it's it's 20 feet it's 25 feet high at its tallest point and 50 feet wide and it's called the wild band of razorbacks this is a visual medium i can't really convey the splendor of this thing other than to say water features yes wait and the hog statue yes in the hog statue there's water flowing what part of the hog is sprouting water yeah though they're on they're on rocks so Oh, okay, so it's not like, they're not like with little wings and bows and arrows. Jerry Jones didn't say, I want water shooting out of every hole of that hog. The hog's got weeping wounds.

They're crying tears of joy. They have a stigmata hog? Yeah. Hog Mata? This here's a graven image. This isn't a statue. Pig Mata. It's right there.

Shit. While I do believe this is a. noble reason to go to a game. I'm still not going. Did I tell you? I've been banned from Hogville. Did I tell you that there are there are like mood lights on it at night? What what moods? Horny? Is it designed to invoke? Yeah. All of the

all of the moods of the Arkansas Razorback. Horny. Desolate. Horny and desolate. Tired but still horny. Tired but horny. Hang on while I Google wedding photos taken in front of this statue. Bloaded and Horny? Wait, wait, wait. There's a new hog statue in West Fayetteville.

Can I also give you this, that the name of the sculptor who did this is a noted sculptor of wildlife out of Montana whose name is Dick Idol. So, there's an entirely different brand-name 3,500-pound hog sculpture that was installed along a highway last summer. yeah and this is different from the one that you're talking about this is just there are there are just

metal pigs just porcine art breaking out all over Arkansas who knew Arkansas was the hard thing looks like sauron look at that shit it's got a blue eye man this is this is fantastic yeah this is it's on US 62 between Fayetteville and Farmington it is 30 feet tall which is taller than the statue of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial well they've never been a fan of this at about the same height as the Martin Luther King Jr. Statue in Washington, D.C., separate but equal. Well done, Arkansas.

This was the point at which I knew. It's nicknamed the Dancing Boar. It stands vertically on its back legs with its hooves in the air. Do you know what's the most disturbing thing about Razorback Stadium? It has multiple earnest Yelp reviews. oh no

yeah like just a lot about like how the stadium like how it had a lot of places to get food and drinks and water and I had a good time and like this is very disconcerting

why are multiple people leaving legit Yelp reviews for a stadium they did come up short though because this is a description from the whole hogsports.com article that features a

fantastic picture of Dick Idol. Dick Idol. Which was The monument will include a waterfall and vanishing cool and water will shoot out six feet wide in some areas. Lights under the water will create illusions, Idle said.

And the lights and audio can be synced with video boards and the audio system inside the stadium. Y'all, if you're going to go that far, just make it a showbiz pizza. Just make the hogs' mouth. move. Okay, I would show up for that. So they can sing along with whatever

they're playing in the stadium. What are they playing in the stadium? I was thinking Flo Rida. I was going to say Thunderstruck. Thunder. Thunderstruck covered by Flo Rida.

You know Jerry Jones asked for that too, right? Can you make it sing Thunderstruck? The song gets me aunt. Song gets me desolate and horny. Desolate, horny. And amped. That's Pete Razorback. Speaking of Desolet, give us your fourth choice, you idiot.

Cal! Cal! You want an idiot? There you go. That's fine. Because I think Jason and I feel the same way about this. An essential stadium is one that's built on a fault line. Man, you miss the old one, though, which is the most decrepit falling ass apart stadium I've ever been to in real life, and I've been to multiple Liberty Bowl games.

I'm trying to see a fucking spectacle. And if I'm part of the spectacle, all the better. like you can sit on a fucking chair and watch a football game anywhere can you sit on a falling chair anywhere no there are 76 reviews for this stadium what the shit stop reviewing stadiums on yelp it's not an option you either go to that game or you don't you can't go to a different location if you're arkansas you can't that's that's true actually arkansas is the one place that does justify having yelp reviews for their stadiums they can be like, listen, your kids aren't ever going to leave because they're spectral hogs. They're hypnotic. They call the children, do them. It's hard to get them to leave.

Yeah, this is, you can, they have, like, Tightwad Hill, don't have to pay to get in. You can sit up there while everybody smokes pot, watches the game. And also, the game this year, special allure, because have you ever been to a Pac-12 game that ended 5-0? You might, if you go to a cow game. yeah it sounds great sounds really really really great why why fine there are i don't know if

they've closed these off but at one point not too long after it opened there used to be spots in the cal stadium where you could get up onto the roof of the stadium like through the big steel rafters it's great viewing from up there i'm sure but like is that legal i do not know and i will not name the employee who took me up there at this time but I have pictures that we can put out with the show notes which we always say we're going to do and never did it's a lot of fun at the top because it's always kind of foggy right wow and you can kind of get up above the fog line I'm now I'm I'm more intrigued than ever frankly thank you bad ideas university jason you only want like you got one spot right so on my list of like FBS schools

to get to it's real short like sure Wisconsin sure great you know like I don't care to do like the I must see Notre Dame and all that shit no I'll be totally fine if I don't make it to the fucking whole internet list of the best stadiums um

Gillette field got to man the UMS Amherst Minuteman playing in Foxborough yeah the one on the list this year that I'm going to try to get to is Montana, Montana State, Bozeman, by an hour north of Yellowstone.

That'd be a few days before Thanksgiving. Weather should be, I hope it's nightmarish. I hope it's just fucking abominable. I hope I nearly die. Nearly, emphasis on nearly. There's an asbestos tornado coming through. If there's some way I could predict Montana State having a home playoff game, which would not at all be far-fetched.

They're very good this year. I would probably save the trip for that but give me a rivalry game at the fucking middle at a college town in the fucking middle of nowhere no I like it is this the one that's uh this is at the mouth of Hellgate Canyon

it's my favorite just every time they do that every time they do that for a playoff it's always like death levels of snow and they mention you know they mention It's at the mouth of Hellgate Canyon. Yeah, if you want to completely destroy any argument against expanding the playoff in FBS,

just go watch a home Montana playoff game when like, you know, the fucking, the sky is falling. Everyone in the crowd doesn't have a shirt on. It's negative 10 degrees, you know. It looks like the best and worst place on earth. And instead, we play it Glendale, Arizona indoors. so montana let's do it it's going to be deeply uncomfortable and i can't wait to do it thank you this is not on brand for us no it's completely on brand

now you don't have many places to go but you do have a couple right holly uh yeah the the big hole in my schedule uh happened due to a long ago illness i was supposed to attend Johnny Mansell's a home game he played versus a little football team out of Alabama that ended up being a game of somewhere now and got strep that weekend

and as a result I have never been to the hate barn which I would I would call by far the biggest gap in my in my traveling resume may um although this is uh i'd want a buddy for that one because this is very much one of those situations where i tend to forget that the fans the texas an m fans i know and texas a and m fans at large uh exist pretty far apart um on on just about every imaginable human spectrum um yeah the home slate if you wanted to go this year holly has amazing fighting potential oh yeah that's that's

kind of what caught my eye. We'll take Lamar out of it. Your choices are, Auburn, Alabama, Mississippi State, will take UTSA out of it as well. South Carolina. Like, the South Carolina one is actually the one I wanted. Because by that point in the season, something awful will have befallen one of these teams.

Both. Yeah. Like, they'll both have played Clemson and Bama. Like, they'll both have played maybe the two hundred of schedules in the country. look at who both of them are coming off of like that month yeah they're going to be an awful like south carolina has a er a and m has a virtual buy the week before but this is after they have run like an early gauntlet that is you know clemson auburn alabama south carolina stumbling into that game at college station is just a that's a dangerous animal i'm not saying

this is going to be this this is going to be the two the two angry guys from high school who come to the 10-year reunion just to prove something. Also, they have to do this shit every year. That's a protected rivalry. I know. I know. It's my favorite. It's the dumb shit is protected rivalry of all, and that makes me love it.

When I'm going down my list of other places that I haven't been to want to, I'm noticing a theme. You know, your North Dakota states, your Utah states, your app states. My big goal game right now for the season is Appalachian

State on Halloween night versus Georgia Southern. Heat. Which I know we've talked about before. Real heat. Guys, if I don't come back, just don't find me. I'm happy. There's a, speaking of mountain, like, while I'm going to weird, like, mountain home games, I was thinking about fake mountain home games. I've never been to NC State, but I'm not sure what it says about me that I'm bothered

that I've never been to NC State. anyone been to i haven't been to nc state no i don't i don't have fake rocks you just want to see the fake rocks but also i've been to splash mountain like do i need to do i need to go to nc state have you been to splash mountain with dave dorrit oh christ dude that sounds way worse than i wanted it too upsetting and you were making eye contact when you said it oh god i feel unclean

Oh, are you unclean? It's fine, we'll get through this. Yeah. Okay. I'm very clean right now. You also, this is, I... I just want to hear from the person who thinks NC State is like, like the NC State homer who would say online, write it down in front of everyone, like, best home atmosphere in college football. Y'all, our Canaera's got to drive through.

Cookout, y'all. Cookout. You can't go anywhere else and get cookout. Oh, you haven't been to. Raleigh? You haven't lived, brother. You got to see how we do. I mean, there's, there's caravas, and then there's triangle caravas.

You got to, you haven't, listen, you haven't eaten until you do it with the pack. Most of my wish list tends towards the real or fakely mountainous. I've never been, a clarification, I've never been to Texas A&M, the new one. I went to the old one, the only game I've seen, and I kind of, like, I'm on that thing where I'm like, I don't know, do I want this to be the only game I've seen at A&M? I went to the last Texas A&M, Texas game. Oh, shit, dude. You kind of want to sit on that, right?

Yeah, I might want to sit on that because, like, the last thing I saw was not the prominent football play McCoy, but I saw McCoy the Younger. Ah, not that one. Yeah. I saw Case. McCoy um clip no no no no clip clip clade clippy clark clark clod clod I saw Claude macoy C LOD not C O D not the French name yeah Texas fans if you think that should be the last A&M game Spencer ever attends let him know let me know you can reach him at 38 Godfrey I I would

like to make one one last push for Holly to go to an NC state game And that's that you can take your picture with Russell Wilson's retired number. And it's a state. Did he attend school? Did he matriculate? You got to choose baseball or football. Okay. Later.

What does it say that every time I tried to summon the name of that coach, I just kept coming up with Tom Osborne? Which I know is incorrect. Yeah, that's fine. Tom O'Brien prefers to. to lurk in the shadows anyway. They look exactly the same. At what point,

at what point do we just credit Russell Wilson for being an unstoppable, like, force of, like, optimism and humanity? Because he gets out of NC State, right? Like, he's a good quarterback there. And Tom O'Brien's like, yeah, football and baseball, dude, up or out. Russell's like, later, goes to Wisconsin.

The transfer actually works, which doesn't always happen. see Tartel Oh wait The South Carolina A&M game Is military appreciation Oh God

Oh God What A&M game Is not military That means two things South Carolina Also is going to show up In the under armor Troop appreciative camo

That's what I was getting to Those god awful digital camo Unis are going to be one thing And two I'm going to walk into a VFW hall It just never reemerged That and the That in South Carolina

has to be the most frustrating team to compete with A&M because... They don't say... Oh, you notice that the website for Texas A&M doesn't say whose military they appreciate. They're weighing their options. Y'all, the marching band's going to honor Chinaman Square. They're Italy and World War I.