The Shutdown Fullcast's Guide to the 2025 Homefield Can't Miss Kickoff Tour, presented by Modelo
00:00Welcome 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 atalex kersner's wedding you are listening to a podcast this is not a laugh by the time when you guysget this episode we will be at alex kersner's wedding um don't do what godfrey's in charge while
00:44we're gone uh there is pizza money on the counter uh do not feed godfrey's middle childafter midnight or do he's not ours go that also goes for godfrey yeah so why is this audiofile 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 partnershipwith Homefield.And Homefield itself, our longest running spots are purveyor of fine vintage collegiate
01:13apparel, 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 theofficial2025Home FieldCan't MissKickoff Tourpresented by
01:31Modello?I'm sorryis that abeer adduring collegefootball season?Freedom.It's so
01:40delicious.Oh, I wasthinking money.Money is delicious.Money isstuff for theoutside of yourbody as well as
01:45the inside.That's everythingyou need.Modello's goingto take careof everything onthe inside.You're going to
01:49consume it responsiblywhile wearingyour flossiestglossiest homefieldapparelon the outside.So, you heard me say the word tour.Folks, what on earth do we mean by that?
02:02Home Field Apparel is taking this show on the roadin 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 countryall 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?
02:31Are 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,
02:49from 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.
03:14We are the delicious middle, the peanut butter and jelly between all this bread.the shutdown full cast segment of the 2025 home fieldcan't miss kickoff tour is as follows you guysit's almost like they gave us these cities because they knew which one we would wantSeptember 25th and September 26thhomefield apparel and medello will be taking their can't miss kickoff tourto Fayetteville arkansas people might not even know thisI feel like a lot of people have not noticed yet
03:48because there's a lot of change in the off season thatNotre Dame is coming to Arkansasfor a game and it's not in Little Rockand it's not in Jerry World. It's in Arkansasass Arkansas at the Razorback'sown stadium.It is and it was originallyscheduled to be played in 2020.
04:05It had to be postponed because ofstuff and they are playingfor the thirdtime, 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.
04:20Yes. 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 onecampus and then there's that other one that people get mad about us when we post yes this is thewild i'm referring to the wild band of razorbacks which is the college football statuary i wantmost in my backyard okay it'll be there right next to the assless jerry richards Richardson statuethat i steal out of charlotte i don't think we have to steal it because didn't they take it downdo we even know where that is i'm going to find out where it is i think it's literallyclose drop in the comments uh if you know where jerry richardson statue is right now yes i'm referring to the25 foot tall, 50 foot wide sculpture, wild band of razorbacks outside of the stadium in Fayetteville.
05:28The 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?
06:36Okay, 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 havea number of threats that will tell us why we forgot the grass names. But it does look, if notquite like a deer stand, at least a little bit like a duck blind. Arkansas, maybe install some ofthis vegetation in your own stadium. Notre Dame, maybe think a lot more about puttinggiant statues of feral animals out around yours. And let me tell you, you will need some roughage.
07:15You 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.
07:50So 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.
08:26And 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,
08:55what 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 intoin 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.
09:23Well, 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 websiteto be the first to hear about the detailsof what Homefield is up to in
09:46your college town.Ahem. Also, I'm not promising anything.The future is unknowable, butyou might want to keep an eye out forcertain locations on this tourwhere certain podcastcrews that you mayknow and have
10:02legally actionable threatsagainst maybeturning up. I am casting an eyeConway, 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
10:24is truly our home away from home,Ann Arbor, Michigan.October 17th to October 18th,the Homefield Can't Miss kickoff tourpresented by Modelo will be in Ann Arborfor 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,
10:53oh, 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 Michiganwill 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 callintellectual fanciness.
11:31And this is also a rivalry that, for those of you who've,I was going to say, for those of you who,watch the2020National Championship game.These schoolshave playedthree times
11:45since 2021.This is going to betheir second timeplaying in Ann Arbor.Don't forgetthey met in Houstonfor the CFPNational Championship.
11:54They met in Seattlelast year for a2717 Washington victory.They kicked this seriesoff in 2021with a 3110Michigan victory,which is almost the
12:04funniest Michiganscore ever,but just reversedtwo of those.numbers um what i'm saying is washington fans if you've never been to ann arbor if you missed yourchance the first time i think you guys might get along better than you might uh better than youmight first think i think you guys uh have a lot in common recreationally yeah like you like a niceparka we like a nice parka you like football we like football you love the rose bowl we love
12:31the rose bowl seasonal effective disorder uh uh we're into it yeah spectacularspectacular 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.
13:04Like 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 bowland so we keep having to throw parties there um my favorite place to go in michigan is actuallywhere to go the day after the game when i need to get caffeine in my system possibly a sconeand get like three hours of work done in a peaceful and calming environment songberg cafe manhave i ever taken either of y'all there i can't remember oh you've taken me thereit's just a good there's nothing like there's nothing super extraordinary about it it's just like a reallynice little spot to go camp out with your laptop get get some get some breakfast or brunch and get a little
13:47bit of work done before you drag your hungover ass back to the airport is this the one with the verylarge desserts yeah okay i have taken you there okay we had like a cinnamon roll the size of our headthe last time we were there um the other thing that i really want to say about in areand 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 Wisconsinthat I realize this summer is really also true about Michigan,
14:18which is that I have been to both of these schools in Augustat the height of one end of miserable weatherand had a great time at a ballgame.And I've been to both of these schools at the dead ass end of the seasonin the driving lake effect snowand also had an equally wonderful time.And I'm not really sure I can say thatabout schools in any other part of the country
14:41that they are equally as gooda vacation destination,a mid-season football trip destination,whether it is miserable hotor miserable cold outside.Like, do you,don't laugh.My second favorite memory
14:58behind our fatefultrip to the Ohio StateMichigan game a few years agowas landing in Michiganarriving in Michigan because I think we drovethat time and realizing that noneof us were prepared garment-wisefor what we were about to
15:16go into. Didn'tone of you have to take the other one shopping forwinter wear? Yes. Yeswe had to do that. I literallydid not own a coat. Likedidn't have a reason to own one.Why would you? Yeah.So, yeah. So we went to Target to
15:31buy and the coats for like five dollars it was amazing yeah like they have so many coats therethat they're just like you grab a handful they paid us to take the coat we'd be crazy not toso i bought a michigan-ish blue coat target for five dollars and it is still to this day it is mydesignated coat like i as if i need one but if something were to pop off and like oh shit i needa coat it's gonna be it's gonna be 60 degrees here shit get the coat thank you anne arbor if youwanted to look like an english hip-hop artist you could you could pull on this puffy endeavorwearing me parka on that festive note uh jason speaking of absolutely nothing at all i have notransition for this because i'm not really sure how one transitions from our second stop in an
16:16arbor to our third stop so why don't you just go ahead and take us to the beach brother i thinkspeaking of well speaking of blue we're going to teal how about that there we go those are bothcolors the color wheel uh hey let me let me tell you about conwaySouth 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.
16:48Yes, 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
17:08myrtle beach um the uh if you're in the area you're probably going to spend a little bit of timeat myrtle beach uh flying fish is the name of the best restaurant that i can recall eating atin myrtle um it's as far as conway itself goes a lot of it is is river themed it is like inhistory class when you read about ancient cultures who establish themselves around rivers um youknow, 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
17:48of South Carolina all in one place, and it's teal.There is a haunted golf course nearby, as I understand, that is sometimes called thewitch, sometimes called man-of-war, sometimes called the wizard. I don't understand enough aboutgolf, but it's also sometimes called mystical golf. And if you were to transfer to Conway, SouthCarolina, you would have the chance to partake in some of this haunted golf. Let me also tell youabout the, I did not know this until researching this. The most famous resident, native of ConwaySouth Carolina is none other thanWilliam Gibson, the
18:28inventor of cyberpunk.The man who discoveredall the shit that's going to go wrongover the next century as far as technologygoes. Conway South Carolina wasformative for himin this area. I'm glad he's got someexposure to sunlight. And I think
18:46for me, this makes the tealnessof the Shanaclear's field.It'slike some radioactiveof substance fromcyberpunk277 was spilled on ityou know like some sort of a
19:00some sort of an experimentgone rye umit's like a mountain dew flavor that hadn't beeninvented yet in a cool way thoughlike like cyberpunk is like shit'sfucked up but it's awesome rightlike that's kind of the sunbelt conference isn't it folkstaking on Marshall this evening
19:17it's a conference game um unlikeNotre Dame Arkansas these twomeet all the time I'm getting that now thatMarshall 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.
19:41It'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.
19:55Shirtless, 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.
20:13Yeah.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 thisThat's just Billy GibsonThat's right
20:27That's down by the smoke shopThat's old Billy GibsonBilly GibsonBilly Gibson get your country ass over hereCyberpunk
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