Shutdown Fullcast - Shutdown Fullcast 40 for 40: The 2017 Halamo Bowl

Episode Date: December 23, 2017

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Ramp.m.p.com slash easy. Currents issued by Sutton Bank and Celtic Bank members of DIC terms and Conditioned Supply. Welcome to the shutdown fullcast. This is the 40 for 40 bowl preview series. And you know what? There are two games that are at the same time on different networks. We're going to make them fight.

The Alludey bowl preview. No, it's the Hallamow. It's the Hallamow. No, no, no. It's the Hollow Man Bowl. The Hollow Man Bowl starring Kevin Bacon. Kevin Bacon is back. From where?

Kevin Bacon as the Alamo. And the Hollow. The Alamo holiday. So in these games, we have the following teams in alphabetical order. Michigan State, Stanford, TCU, and Washington State. Who knows which two are playing which two? Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter.

This could have been our most chaotic playoff. It could have been. We were sort of lined up for it. Were we not? Well, it would have been tough to get two teams from the Pax 12 North in the playoffs. but I mean, hold Just to be clear

The SEC West came very close Pack 12 North and the SEC West perfectly comparable They're basically the same thing Everyone knows this People are always getting the two confused They're like Oregon State

Where do they play? SEC West Did they beat Arkansas? Probably Is this combination of teams By the way The unlicensed college football game playoff right like if you can't get the real one they're like well yeah this is the this is you

you asked mom for the college football playoff for christmas and she went to ross and she was like they had this it was 1199 it seemed just as good next to the macafelli brand sweatpants none of the kids in school no honey the kids aren't going to make fun of you for saying that washington state michigan state is a playoff game this looks perfectly fine wear it in your school pictures these are the knockoff jamboles okay cool i got it yeah this is this is also by the way two fantastic locations i'm all right like if i had to pick one right because we're making them fight uh san antonio versus san diego uh everyone talks about how beautiful san diego it's just like zanex the city i don't really it's just smooth

seamless no one cares about anything you can just yeah two two cities that don't have an nfl team that that's correct san antonio I'm going to take San Antonio because it's in Texas, and Texas is great. Additionally, in San Antonio, you can buy George Strait's house now if you wanted to live there. That's advantage. George Strait's house isn't in San Diego. It's only like 5 mil. Like, it's pretty modest.

If you want to go San Diego, you could buy and rehabilitate a Ponsetiable, which is not with us this year. Oh, I miss them. Yeah, I've, that's so many, so many pointsidiable memories. here we'll fill those in in post we'll figure out what the fuck those are yeah is is qualcomm stadium is qualcomm stadium just going to become like the the silver dome convertible version no because like the silver dome even even in its sort of decrepitude the city was like well we got to figure out what to do with it and somebody bought it and they're like oh just blow it up and i think san diego is just like gonna let the earth take it back

just be like ah don't worry everything everything's biodegradable with enough time. That and that and this that if you had to go, man, which one's going to provide me with more entertainment? More bang for my buck if I'm going to watch

two games, which are both at 9 p.m. on the same night. I don't really know. Because you want to go, man, Washington States and they're playing Michigan State, y'all. Michigan State. Washington State's going to be like, Bo, Rock, let's roll. The state's going to be like,

I need 10 minutes to get ready. I don't know. Michigan State and San Diego, all their powers are not. Like, it's going to be a normal Washington State game. Michigan State in perfect weather, what good are they? Hold on. I have a story from San Diego lore that may disagree with you. Oh, we got San Diego lore.

This is the story of Charles Hatfield. This story takes place in 1915 and 1916. So San Diego needed rain. They had been going through a dry store. spell, and they got pressured by the San Diego Wide Awake Improvement Club. I'm not making that up to produce rain to fill a local reservoir. So they talked to Rainmaker Charles Hatfield, who had already promised L.A. and succeeded at giving them 18 inches of rain for which he was paid $1,000.

He had sort of, like, had built this weird company of saying, I promise to get you rain. And then whenever it eventually rained, he was like, and now my money, please. So, at first he offered to produce rain for free, but then he was going to charge $1,000 per inch for between 40 and 50 inches of rain and free for anything over that. So the council voted to pay him $10,000,

and that was payable when the reservoir was filled. Now, on January 5th of 1916, it started to rain in San Diego, And it grew heavier and heavier every day to the point where flooding started, destroying bridges, cutting phone cables, 20 farmers died eventually in this. And Hatfield had to go to the press and say that the damage was not his fault, and the city should have taken better precautions, that he had fulfilled his contract and filled the reservoir. But the city refused to pay his pay him because there were already about $4 million worth of damages against him. So they sued. In both trials, the rain was ruled an act of God and absolved him of any wrongdoing.

But, you know, that also meant that our buddy Charles Hatfield did not get his fee. After this, did he still get fees for rainmaking? Yes, he did, including trying to stop before. fire in Honduras in 1929. This all ended during the Great Depression

when business dried up and his wife divorced him.