Shutdown Fullcast - Shutdown Fullcast 40 for 40: The 2017 Dollar General Bowl

Episode Date: December 19, 2017

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Welcome! I did that one from far away. Bless you. I did it from like a distance. Here, I'll do it again. Welcome! Damn, that's like, that's sound effects stuff right there. Yeah, you know, that's like.

Y'all might not know this, but Ryan, uh, in his day job, he, he does, um, I believe the technical term would be video stuff. So like, he knows how all these special effects type stuff. Yeah, yeah, like Foley artist is, you know. sort of my passion. I'd love to just stomp on some cabbage. That's the sound of like an arm breaking or something. I like throw a

watermelon at a tin at a piece of tin sheeting. That's the sound of a head bouncing off a car. I do a lot of violent work, okay? Yeah. Yeah. His work here at SB Nation. Deeply violent. Dollar General Bowl.

The dollar, yeah, that's the one we're doing. Finally. Mobile's Finest The Great Granddaddy of the Mall Mm-hmm Mm-hmm Because those are your great-granddaddy shocks

A frugal man So One of the phenomenos That follows bowl games Is they usually have Some sort of like Inspirational lunch And by that I mean

Not that the lunch is inspirational It's not, you know Like oh my God This salad it's a regular lunch and then they have somebody usually associated with football come and speak

and I assume I actually have no idea why but like they don't pick necessarily somebody connected to the teams that are in the game like the teams the Harded Dallas

or not the Harder of Alice the Dollar General Bowl has what App State and Toledo? Correct. You know the teams. Look at that. Information provided to you the listener accidentally mostly so so you're thinking okay upstate Toledo who would the speaker at the like bowl week lunch be it's Bob

Stoops Bob Stoops is gonna come by and talk to you about winning and a championship attitude and loving your brother even when he's dumb well you gotta love you gotta love your brother even when he's dumb he's from ohio uh huh sure just Just like Toledo. Sure. And like App State, he is most known for the word big, big game Bob. Sure. App State won in the big house.

Right. There you go. Both teams did not lose to Michigan in 2007. There's that. That, I guess. Yeah, I don't, I don't know. Same goes for, same goes for all of us. I don't, I don't know what Bob Stubbs is going to talk about.

It feels odd. But whatever, you got to have somebody talk at your lunch. That's the important thing. Because you can't, listen. You can't eat in silence. You can't eat lunch. It's horrifying. You can't eat lunch without a coach who's been paid to be there,

giving you a generic TED talk speech, all right? I can't, listen, what am I supposed to? to eat these green beans and prime rib and not try to understand something about what it means to sacrifice for my team? Yeah, I wouldn't know how to digest. That's breakfast, okay? Breakfast is where I eat and I don't get inspired. Lunch, which is why it's, you know, always courteous if you're eating lunch in a public

place in the park or, you know, in a cafeteria or something, just go up to someone and start giving them a pep talk. You mean to tell me you eat breakfast without Lou Holtz in your face telling you about commitment? Yeah, I live at Mark Mays' house and they don't talk anymore. Oh, that's why. Also, breakfast is, we eat a lot of cardboard at Mark May's house. It's not pleasant. Yeah. Let's see. Mobile's good. We reiterate that frequently. We have, we have like nine opinions on the show that we just cycle through. So it's time to mention once again that Mobile is Alabama's best city. There is, there's water.

Not a lot of that in Alabama. Okay, sure. It's kind of like got this like real low-key, chill New Orleans vibe to it. Like, you know, obviously it's not as famous for it's throw up as New Orleans and, you know. Well, Mobile is sort of like when you got too tired to go to New Orleans. Yeah, it's sleepy New Orleans. Yeah, and you're just like, ah, we made most of the drive. It's, you know what it is?

It's like post-New Orleans. It's like, I want just. just a little bit. I went just like 10% of that. Not all 100%. That's a lot. It's like that orange juice that's half water so that it's lower calorie. It's that sort of, it's the G2 of New Orleans.

Quarter water in New Orleans, yes. There is no water in New Orleans, just for the record. Everything is, everything is grain alcohol. All the water's been used. Flesh a toilet, grain alcohol. See? New Orleans is pretty good.