Shutdown Fullcast - The Shutdown Fullcast's Guide to the 2025 Homefield Can't Miss Kickoff Tour, presented by Modelo

Episode Date: August 9, 2025

Wwwwwwwelcome! to a MINIATURE SATURDAY SHUTDOWN FULLCAST PRESEASON SURPRISEYou might have guessed from the episode title, but this here is our guide to the 2025 Homefield Can't Miss Kickoff Tour, presented by ModeloWhat is the 2025 Homefield Can't Miss Kickoff Tour, presented by Modelo? Listen to the episode!Check out alleged other podcasts Phantom Island and Split Zone Duo to learn about the rest of the tourThat thing about Alex's wedding is not a joke, btwFullcast theme song arranged and performed by Wes HuntSubscribe to our new $4 Patreon for more Fullcast stuff big and small, including After Dark episodes each CFB weekendCheck out Surber’s band, Killer Antz and his new show, PodcasterinoListen to Phantom Island, Ryan’s new show with Godfrey, which is not a college football show because another simply cannot existCheck out Jason's critically praised novel and other workDID YOU KNOW: Holly and Spencer write Channel 6, their own year-round newsletter, concerning football and also unfootball thingsAs always, visit HOMEFIELDAPPAREL DOT COM for all your comfy vintage oh-fficially licensed collegiate apparel needs

Welcome to the shutdown full cast. Surprise. It's, folks, this Saturday. What are we doing? We are going to be watching some games. no we're not it's august ninth we're at alex kersner's wedding but while we're at alex kersner's wedding you are listening to a podcast this is not a laugh by the time when you guys get this episode we will be at alex kersner's wedding um don't do what godfrey's in charge while

we're gone uh there is pizza money on the counter uh do not feed godfrey's middle child after midnight or do he's not ours go that also goes for godfrey yeah so why is this audio file appearing in my podcast app. What is the occasion here? Jason, I'm so glad you asked. We talked earlier this week about how we are entering into a new era of our partnership with Homefield. And Homefield itself, our longest running spots are purveyor of fine vintage collegiate

apparel, mostly for the upper body, but more and more I'm hearing for the head and feet. Homefield is entering into its own brand new partnership this year in the form of the official 2025 Home Field Can't Miss Kickoff Tour presented by

Modello? I'm sorry is that a beer ad during college football season? Freedom. It's so

delicious. Oh, I was thinking money. Money is delicious. Money is stuff for the outside of your body as well as

the inside. That's everything you need. Modello's going to take care of everything on the inside. You're going to

consume it responsibly while wearing your flossiest glossiest homefield apparel on the outside. So, you heard me say the word tour. Folks, what on earth do we mean by that?

Home Field Apparel is taking this show on the road in partnership with Modelo all season long. Beginning before September even begins, they are starting in Tallahassee at the Bama, Florida State game. They will be tris-crossing all over the country all the way up to the National Championship game. which I just realized is on, is it like the third week of January this year again?

Are you kidding me? All right, less happy about that, more happy about the home field tour. We are also in partnership with two of our sibling shows. I don't know what either of these other shows are about, but if you circle around the internet today, you will find additional bonus episodes, mini-sodes like this one,

from Split Zone Duo, which I understand is an NFL podcast of some type. And Phantom Island, which is kind of a wrestling and golf, I think, concern. Sounds right. I don't know who these two guys are hosting it. They both look incredibly handsome. Split Zone Duo is segment one of the tour. You can hear about all that with them. You can hear about the final leg of the tour with Phantom Island.

We are the delicious middle, the peanut butter and jelly between all this bread. the shutdown full cast segment of the 2025 home field can't miss kickoff tour is as follows you guys it's almost like they gave us these cities because they knew which one we would want September 25th and September 26th homefield apparel and medello will be taking their can't miss kickoff tour to Fayetteville arkansas people might not even know this I feel like a lot of people have not noticed yet

because there's a lot of change in the off season that Notre Dame is coming to Arkansas for a game and it's not in Little Rock and it's not in Jerry World. It's in Arkansas ass Arkansas at the Razorback's own stadium. It is and it was originally scheduled to be played in 2020.

It had to be postponed because of stuff and they are playing for the third time, fourth time. No, this is unprecedented. You know what else is unprecedented? I've never been to a Fayetteville game. They're playing for the bones of Lou Holtz.

Yes. Neither has Notre Dame. Notre Dame has never been in Fayetteville and neither have you. I've never been to Fayetteville, have you? I've never been to Fayetteville. That's why. Does this mean we're Notre Dame? Whoa. That means, unfortunately, we are Notre Dame here. Yes. But we're going to get to experience so many wonderful things for the first time when we go to Fayetteville. For instance, we can look at the wild band of Razorbacks, Notre Dame fans. Dude, I'm going straight to the statue. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Which statue? Yes, both of them, because there's the one campus and then there's that other one that people get mad about us when we post yes this is the wild i'm referring to the wild band of razorbacks which is the college football statuary i want most in my backyard okay it'll be there right next to the assless jerry richards Richardson statue that i steal out of charlotte i don't think we have to steal it because didn't they take it down do we even know where that is i'm going to find out where it is i think it's literally close drop in the comments uh if you know where jerry richardson statue is right now yes i'm referring to the 25 foot tall, 50 foot wide sculpture, wild band of razorbacks outside of the stadium in Fayetteville.

The guy who sculpted it, his name is Dick Idle, I-D-O-L, and it is each of the hogs is seven feet tall. It has its own changing lighting, like the lighting will shift to suit the time of day, and water features built into the statuary. Notre Dame, I respect your traditions, I hear them, your illustrious history, the mythos surrounding one of college football's trademark programs. But I counter with, you do not have a water feature and lighting heavy installation celebrating the power of the razorback outside your stadium. And you need to work on that, frankly. Can I offer a suggestion where these two storied programs might be able to learn from one another? Because while Notre Dame, and this is to their detriment, does not have an enormous statue of multiple wild hogs rampaging towards their football field, they do surround their own field with a number of... You know how Athens has the hedges, Auburn has the hedges?

Okay, so Notre Dame has also these vegetative installations around the football field, but there are these tall grasses. I'm sure they have a name of some significance. I can't quite remember what that is right now. Notre Dame fans, you can yell at me, or you can just tune in next week when we will have a number of threats that will tell us why we forgot the grass names. But it does look, if not quite like a deer stand, at least a little bit like a duck blind. Arkansas, maybe install some of this vegetation in your own stadium. Notre Dame, maybe think a lot more about putting giant statues of feral animals out around yours. And let me tell you, you will need some roughage.

You will need something green on the plate because if you are eating, I have consulted a friend of ours, Chris Driver, aka a jerk wheat on social media to give us places we can recommend that you eat there. This is a man who has test driven this many times himself. Speaking of Driven, do you want to mention his license plate if you want to know how bona fide in Arkansas man we consulted? Remind me exactly what it is again. His license plate on his truck says hog to go. Yes. So you know these picks are legit. But also this man went to China and was called a bear by random Chinese people.

So his barbecue picks are on point. The one everyone loves is Wright's barbecue that you should check out. If you are a hush puppy fan and if you're breathing, you are catfish hole is also superb. The catfish gets high recommendations as well. It's actually the one that he goes to most. So Catfish Hole, bump that up on your wrecks. Hammond trees, got great sandwiches. Hugo's, if you want the prototypical burger, you get at a bar, like the bar burger.

And you also want to, you know, get some amazing people watching in. Hammond trees, great place to go. And the veteran place, the institution for ribs, Hermann's, okay? Maybe a little bit on the ripe side in terms of the life cycle of a rib joint. but still really, really good. So that's what we've got from Chris for Fayetteville. So the next stop after that on the tour, and by the way, I should mention,

what are we expecting to see on these tour stops with Homefield and Medallo? Well, there will be pop-up shops for the home team. There will be pop-up shops for the home team, with one exception that they are going to get into in the Split Zone Duo episode about this tour, but I'll let them tell you about that. Pop-up shops, special guests, live entertainment, free giveaways, complimentary beer and food, access to Homefields.

Well, until then, it will be top secret line of Homefield Modelo Gear and more. They did a version of this last year, if you were able to catch any of it, and there were hundreds of folks at each stop at the tour. It was very cool. They are expecting passionate capacity crowds yet again. You can follow Homefield and sign up for all of their tour updates on the website to be the first to hear about the details of what Homefield is up to in

your college town. Ahem. Also, I'm not promising anything. The future is unknowable, but you might want to keep an eye out for certain locations on this tour where certain podcast crews that you may know and have

legally actionable threats against maybe turning up. I am casting an eye Conway, South Carolina. in the week of Halloween. That doesn't look like anything to me. But more on that later. Our second stop on the tour they have given us

is truly our home away from home, Ann Arbor, Michigan. October 17th to October 18th, the Homefield Can't Miss kickoff tour presented by Modelo will be in Ann Arbor for the Washington Admission game. a game that I'm really looking forward to on a, just a vibes basis. You know, this is, you know, we all had a lot of fun with, you know,

oh, these Pac-12 schools are joining the Big Ten, and geographically, it's still ridiculous. But I feel like a lot of people who might not be super familiar either with Washington or Michigan will know just how vibes aligned these two programs are. You know, Washington, I think, in particular, Michigan's reputation is well-known and well-burnished, especially by us. Washington also has that same kind of degree of what I'm going to call intellectual fanciness.

And this is also a rivalry that, for those of you who've, I was going to say, for those of you who, watch the 2020 National Championship game. These schools have played three times

since 2021. This is going to be their second time playing in Ann Arbor. Don't forget they met in Houston for the CFP National Championship.

They met in Seattle last year for a 2717 Washington victory. They kicked this series off in 2021 with a 3110 Michigan victory, which is almost the

funniest Michigan score ever, but just reversed two of those. numbers um what i'm saying is washington fans if you've never been to ann arbor if you missed your chance the first time i think you guys might get along better than you might uh better than you might first think i think you guys uh have a lot in common recreationally yeah like you like a nice parka we like a nice parka you like football we like football you love the rose bowl we love

the rose bowl seasonal effective disorder uh uh we're into it yeah spectacular spectacular legal weed available in both states. Don't listen to this episode in states where it's not legal. I mean, you should listen to it everywhere. Can I swerve a little bit on places to stop through town? And somebody will yell at me because I'm blowing up their favorite spot. But everyone knows to go to Zingermans and get the giant sandwiches and whatnot. But I go to Michigan all the time, what feels like for work.

Like I've definitely been to Michigan more in the past few. years for work than any other single city in most part because they keep winning the charity bowl and so we keep having to throw parties there um my favorite place to go in michigan is actually where to go the day after the game when i need to get caffeine in my system possibly a scone and get like three hours of work done in a peaceful and calming environment songberg cafe man have i ever taken either of y'all there i can't remember oh you've taken me there it's just a good there's nothing like there's nothing super extraordinary about it it's just like a really nice little spot to go camp out with your laptop get get some get some breakfast or brunch and get a little

bit of work done before you drag your hungover ass back to the airport is this the one with the very large desserts yeah okay i have taken you there okay we had like a cinnamon roll the size of our head the last time we were there um the other thing that i really want to say about in are and I find I only say this about Big Ten schools. I'm about, guys, I'm about to say something nice about Big Ten weather. This is weird. There is a thing that I love about Wisconsin that I realize this summer is really also true about Michigan,

which is that I have been to both of these schools in August at the height of one end of miserable weather and had a great time at a ballgame. And I've been to both of these schools at the dead ass end of the season in the driving lake effect snow and also had an equally wonderful time. And I'm not really sure I can say that about schools in any other part of the country

that they are equally as good a vacation destination, a mid-season football trip destination, whether it is miserable hot or miserable cold outside. Like, do you, don't laugh. My second favorite memory

behind our fateful trip to the Ohio State Michigan game a few years ago was landing in Michigan arriving in Michigan because I think we drove that time and realizing that none of us were prepared garment-wise for what we were about to

go into. Didn't one of you have to take the other one shopping for winter wear? Yes. Yes we had to do that. I literally did not own a coat. Like didn't have a reason to own one. Why would you? Yeah. So, yeah. So we went to Target to

buy and the coats for like five dollars it was amazing yeah like they have so many coats there that they're just like you grab a handful they paid us to take the coat we'd be crazy not to so i bought a michigan-ish blue coat target for five dollars and it is still to this day it is my designated coat like i as if i need one but if something were to pop off and like oh shit i need a coat it's gonna be it's gonna be 60 degrees here shit get the coat thank you anne arbor if you wanted to look like an english hip-hop artist you could you could pull on this puffy endeavor wearing me parka on that festive note uh jason speaking of absolutely nothing at all i have no transition for this because i'm not really sure how one transitions from our second stop in an

arbor to our third stop so why don't you just go ahead and take us to the beach brother i think speaking of well speaking of blue we're going to teal how about that there we go those are both colors the color wheel uh hey let me let me tell you about conway South Carolina, home of the Coastal Carolina. The Ann Arbor of the Carolina Coast. The Ann Arbor of Greater Myrtle Beach, it has often been said. Listen, let me tell you, going to Conway for a beer-sponsored tour. Yes.

Yes, we're going to the nest. So to be clear, this is Marshall Coastal. Do I have that right, Holly? Yeah, Halloween week. I believe that is a Thursday night game. Indeed, it is. The pop-up tour there is from the 29th to the 30th. yes so some fun facts of course about uh about conway is very close to the the the famous

myrtle beach um the uh if you're in the area you're probably going to spend a little bit of time at myrtle beach uh flying fish is the name of the best restaurant that i can recall eating at in myrtle um it's as far as conway itself goes a lot of it is is river themed it is like in history class when you read about ancient cultures who establish themselves around rivers um you know, the Mediterranean, the Nile, Conway, South Carolina, it is right up there. And a lot of the, a lot of the stuff to do is around the river. There's a river walk, so on and so forth. Basically, it's San Antonio, the San Antonio and the Egypt and the Harvard and the Ann Arbor

of South Carolina all in one place, and it's teal. There is a haunted golf course nearby, as I understand, that is sometimes called the witch, sometimes called man-of-war, sometimes called the wizard. I don't understand enough about golf, but it's also sometimes called mystical golf. And if you were to transfer to Conway, South Carolina, you would have the chance to partake in some of this haunted golf. Let me also tell you about the, I did not know this until researching this. The most famous resident, native of Conway South Carolina is none other than William Gibson, the

inventor of cyberpunk. The man who discovered all the shit that's going to go wrong over the next century as far as technology goes. Conway South Carolina was formative for him in this area. I'm glad he's got some exposure to sunlight. And I think

for me, this makes the tealness of the Shanaclear's field. It's like some radioactive of substance from cyberpunk 277 was spilled on it you know like some sort of a

some sort of an experiment gone rye um it's like a mountain dew flavor that hadn't been invented yet in a cool way though like like cyberpunk is like shit's fucked up but it's awesome right like that's kind of the sunbelt conference isn't it folks taking on Marshall this evening

it's a conference game um unlike Notre Dame Arkansas these two meet all the time I'm getting that now that Marshall is in the Sunbelt. And yeah, you know, the beautiful thing about the Sunbelt is every team is equally good. It's pretty much a conference where, you know, other than like JMU, like, every team, they hit equalized rosters at the beginning of the season. So highly competitive league.

It's on a teal field. There is a river nearby. There is, everything is cyberpunk. It's incredibly futuristic. Halloween is the day before. Go there in a trench coat. and some crocs. That's what you do.

Shirtless, trench coat. What's out of the trench coat? Nothing. It's your cybernetically augmented body that you have hacked to handle the temperatures of Conway. That's right. Also, you've got them special feat that makes you look like a giant chicken. That's right. Giant fighting chicken.

Yeah. His name is Chauncey. Yeah. But for real, the cyberpunk future is a gigantic chicken mascot coming in on a jet ski with wheels. William Gibson. he foresaw all of this That's just Billy Gibson That's right

That's down by the smoke shop That's old Billy Gibson Billy Gibson Billy Gibson get your country ass over here Cyberpunk