Shutdown Fullcast - Shutdown Fullcast 40 for 40: The 2017 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl

Episode Date: December 14, 2017

A collection of human men and women intentionally built a 12,000 pound fake potato and put it on a truck that has "IT'S REAL" proudly emblazoned on the side and sent it around the country. This potato is a lie and that's gotta be a metaphor for so many things about our world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the shutdown fullcast bowl preview of the famous Idaho potato bowl. Central Michigan versus Wyoming 4 p.m. December the 22nd, the Year of Our Lord, 2017. I'm Ryan Nanny. Spencer Hall remains drowned. I'm John Boyce. How y'all doing? How do you feel about Spencer drowning? I'm sad. We used to talk a lot. He used to show me a lot of videos about like guys. trying to roll down hills on hay bales. And that was, he just had some fun bids he used to send me.

So basically as long as there's like a good searchable video website, you can replace Spencer in your life entirely. Yeah, I have to start Googling again now. I used to not have to. That's the only absence you feel. That's it. Or if like you just like tweeted like, hey, send me some cool videos. And now you've like crowdsourced Spencer back to life.

And that's how he lives. He lives through you. Idiots on Twitter. Sending John's Super videos. There is one thing that I can never remember how to find it on Google. So, like, once a year I ask Spencer for it. It's the video of the Iowa announcers needing 11 points and then getting 11 points. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

He is very good at this. He has a knack for delivering YouTube videos. And if you want to watch the Battle of Nebu, and only the Battle of Nabu. You just go in his unpublished drafts where Ryan loaded him up. Or some of his published drafts to be out. make it through where it is where it is what a what a you know that's what he gets for fucking being too cheap to buy this was probably like three years ago where he accidentally published the battle of fucking naboo in it was in like Portuguese or something right right right and it's like

how much could the phantom menace on DVD costs at this point five dollars fucking cheap motherfucker I'm glad he drowned I'm glad he drowned I'm glad he drowned I saw it on the Xbox one download app yesterday for like $19. Who the fuck is going to pay $19 to download Star Wars 1? Bruce's million situations.

Very specific, Bruce, you have to spend $19 and I will kill your family. Oh, we got a very brief story time. One time I went to a Kmart in 2004 and I saw Captain America and the Avengers for the Sega Genesis on sale for

$59. Sale? Like for sale. It wasn't a sale price. Oh, okay. But it was like they were trying to sell it for $60 as a new product in 2004. For the Sega Genesis? For the Genesis.

I feel like you stumbled into a movie set that takes place in 19th. Like you stumbled onto the set of blank check two and you didn't realize it. But even back then, movies didn't cost, or games didn't cost $59.99. They cost $49.99. Yeah, that's a good point. It was odd. Fucking weird. So, have you all seen the big Idaho potato truck?

Nope. Jason, you Google it. I'm going to show it to John on my, on my computing device. Yeah, I've seen it. Oh, potatoes, that's what they are before they become Arby's curly fries, right? Yes. Okay, yeah. This is a proto-curly fry.

And this is the truck version of that. This is it in its chrysalis form. That's also where Arby's shakes and meats come from. Uh-huh. Oh, man. And it's in the whole hog. It bleeds horsy sauce. The Arby's orb.

Okay, this makes, nothing has made so much sense to me. Yeah. So this is the potato that the Idaho potato commission or whatever tours around the country and has been doing it so for five years. This thing weighs 12,000 pounds and they claim would take more than 10,000 years to grow. and what's confusing is that they have this big signage on the truck and you can Google Big Idaho Potato and find us that says it's real

but they clearly didn't grow this potato because they just said it would take 10,000 years and unless they were like oh thank God a fucking dinosaur planted this for us thanks didn't mean a solid T-Rex this is the worst

realization of like do you remember first of all do you remember the Eddie Murphy film meat date I am aware of it, and I am aware of the promotional vehicle that drove around the country. This is like the worst version of that. Like, I just, what was the process by which they said, okay, we have to make a 12,000 pound potato? It has to be 28 fucking feet long. It just sits on a flatbed truck, but we can't grow it.

How did they do this? Is it just like a potato case full of smaller potatoes? Because they're saying it's real So I assume that this is actually Entirely potato product It's like IBM's Watson Was like someone was like We'll give you a humor chip

And we'll make you like the The branch manager of a trucking company Right Oh potato He got this fucking giant It's I just don't know what it's for Because they don't seem to have any intention to cook it

Potato's running for president It's turned the country like Mark Zuckerberg, like, wink, wink, I'm not actually running for president. Like a 19th century political. I'm voting for potato. Potato is strong on Italian immigrants. 2020 is going to be potato versus Zuckerberg. This is absolutely the Mike Gravel is running in 2020. Yep. That's Mike Ravel's truck. Yep.