And welcome to the shutdown forecast. I am Spencer Hull as you can hear broadcasting from a backyard in Atlanta, Georgia joined by wildlife.

Both hired and free the free in my backyard that you can hear through this microphone. The hired being our my two co hosts both wildlife on the internet. That would be Jason Kirk. Hello, sir.

What's that name? And guest guest commentator of SB Nation, late of the SBN late of the University of Florida. That would be Richard Johnson. Hi, Richard.

Hey, guys. I'm playing the role of Ryan Nanny. I moved to the Northeast with one career plan and against my best wishes. I now work for SB Nation.

Why do people keep doing this? Yeah, that's that should tell you how much work sucks that you'll skip it to work for us.

Yeah, come work here. Everyone. It's good. That's good. Now normally Jason is joining us from Kennesaw, Georgia. He is tonight, as I can see him on Scott Kent, joining us from Kennesaw, Georgia, from the set of the others or some other terrifying suburban horror movie from what I can gather via the camera.

Yeah, there is we're doing this with actual cameras for the first time. This is this is the most professional episode in our history other than our few live episodes.

There is a light behind me, which if I how about I say like this and sort of silhouette myself, but I'll point out Spencer has no light at all. And with his beard and glasses, all you can see is sort of his nose and forehead like Santa.

So that's pretty cool like like like like like like Bray Wyatt as Santa. I'm like smoking out in Santa gunshot gun shop St Nick. That's me Santa Claus Richard, what you are joining us from beautiful Bristol Connecticut, correct?

Beautiful Bristol Connecticut, the the cradle of civilization in Central Connecticut. I went out of burger. There's some steam burger place. It's like a central Connecticut staple. Yeah, and one of the toppings was salt and pepper and I wonder why I wanted why would salt and pepper be a topping.

I'm not going to order that while I need some pepper on a burger, then I tasted the burger and that's when I realized why I saw on the menu did it have like like a pepper logo like to let you know it's spicy.

No, it was just salt and I'm assuming cracked black pepper, but it says something that the staple food of Central Connecticut is bland and boring.

And then you then you had mose in an emergency situation, right? Yeah, you had to do it had to do it better than Chipotle. Don't add me.

Trolls, those better than Chipotle. Those is better than Chipotle six days a week twice on Sundays. That is the hottest take in the history of this podcast. You're slinging heat from day one.

I'm coming in hot. I'm coming in hot because it was like 40 degrees outside. So something's got to be hot here.

So there is a place on earth that is cold right now. That's cool to know. Yeah, this is trash. The North, the weather in the North is trash and everybody won't be everybody and I didn't listen. I live here now.

I mean, I think I seriously think it's interesting that there's a place on earth where autumn exists. That's cool to know. Thank you. Thank you for exploring and for finding that out for us.

This is service journalism. That's what we do here. It box me here.

Well, thank you for thank you for being bold enough. Please don't disrespect Yankee Thrift. He'll make you pay for salt and pepper. Remember that.

These are the people who founded our country. Pay for the salt and pepper.

I think of Jim Calhoun when I think of Connecticut who you know when suggested that you know he he have he shared the money that he makes with the football program or something was like not a dime.

Yeah, they said how how dare you make so much money? Was it hammer? Was it the men's coach? It was him. Yeah, it was him. How dare you make so much money and you know, well how much money have I made for this school?

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