The show that facetiously refers to itself as “the Internet’s only college football podcast” is no more. The Banner Society’s Shutdown Fullcast posted its final episode on Wednesday morning.
Last week Barrett Sports Media reported that SB Nation and it’s college football off-shoot The Banner Society were hit particularly hard by furloughs at parent company Vox Media. Two of Shutdown Fullcast’s four hosts, Spencer Hall and Jason Kirk, are among the Vox employees that cannot work for the next three months. They and co-hosts Ryan Nanni and Holly Anderson decided that not only would new episodes not be recorded without Hall and Kirk, no new episodes would be recorded at all.
A one-hour and fifty-four-minute episode titled “Per Aspera Ad Astra” dropped on Wednesday. In it, the four hosts answered every listener question they had received over the last week.
“This was the Shutdown Fullcast, and we hope you enjoyed it, because we sure as hell did,” read the episode’s description.
Shutdown Fullcast episodes averaged between 16,000 and 19,000 listeners per episode. While it wasn’t the most popular college football podcast online, it was a show that counted some well-known college football fans, including Scott Van Pelt, John Walsh, Mina Kimes, Peter Burns, and Bomani Jones amongst its listeners.
Banner Society also lost Richard Johnson and Alex Kirschner to the Vox Media furloughs. They are part of the site’s other podcast, Podcast Ain’t Played Nobody. That show also seems to be over.
