1
00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:11,080
Speaker 1: Hello, and what come to savor protection of I Heart Radio,

2
00:00:11,119 --> 00:00:12,920
Speaker 1: I'm any reason and I'm more in foc obam And

3
00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:17,080
Speaker 1: today we have an episode for you about sports related

4
00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:26,239
Speaker 1: food mascots. Yes, just let that sink in. This has

5
00:00:26,239 --> 00:00:30,400
Speaker 1: been a long time coming. Oh yeah. We have wanted

6
00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:33,479
Speaker 1: to do this for a while. I was so excited

7
00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:36,960
Speaker 1: when you suggested it. And it has been a terrifying,

8
00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:42,839
Speaker 1: wonderful journey. Oh yeah. And and this is one of

9
00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:48,360
Speaker 1: those things that we could The outline is only the

10
00:00:48,479 --> 00:00:51,479
Speaker 1: length that it is because I ran out of time.

11
00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:54,600
Speaker 1: I could have kept going. I'm not sure how long

12
00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:57,320
Speaker 1: it could have kept going for. Is one of many

13
00:00:57,560 --> 00:01:00,160
Speaker 1: terrifying things that I'm going to say throughout the cost

14
00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:04,959
Speaker 1: of this episode. It it's just that people love food

15
00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:08,080
Speaker 1: and they love sports teams, and they really combine the

16
00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:13,840
Speaker 1: two in fascinating ways. They really do, They really do.

17
00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:16,319
Speaker 1: The other thing is I was thinking about this because

18
00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:18,440
Speaker 1: I know some of you have written in over the

19
00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:24,360
Speaker 1: years about very specific, smaller ones. Um So if we

20
00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:27,280
Speaker 1: don't mention one because I know somebody wrote in about

21
00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:30,000
Speaker 1: a prett soul mascot and I'm just more about that.

22
00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:36,039
Speaker 1: Um yeah, there's there's a whole thing about paroguis yea, yes, yes,

23
00:01:36,240 --> 00:01:40,120
Speaker 1: so it is. It's a whole It's a whole world,

24
00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:46,720
Speaker 1: and we couldn't cover them all, so please please let

25
00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:49,360
Speaker 1: us know if we missed missed an important one. And

26
00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:53,200
Speaker 1: this was partly inspired because we have they have come

27
00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:56,880
Speaker 1: up in past outlines, like recently with Gooey Ducks. We

28
00:01:56,960 --> 00:02:01,400
Speaker 1: talked about that one. Um already the Artich joke some

29
00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:04,560
Speaker 1: people pointed out to us a sour dough Sam, we

30
00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:10,560
Speaker 1: kind of talked about, which is the forty niners? Yeah? Um?

31
00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:15,040
Speaker 1: And and also the super Bowl is ni upon us

32
00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:18,800
Speaker 1: and so I know I said it, I dare uttered

33
00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:22,600
Speaker 1: the name. Yeah, it's that, it's not it's a fact.

34
00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:25,360
Speaker 1: It's a fact that it's happening. This is not a

35
00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:31,440
Speaker 1: promotional episode about the super Bowl or super Bowl related things. Um.

36
00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:34,360
Speaker 1: So yeah, as far as I know, none of none

37
00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:37,400
Speaker 1: of these teams. Most are the ones I'm talking about

38
00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:40,640
Speaker 1: our minor league baseball, so I'm pretty sure they're not

39
00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:43,200
Speaker 1: going to be in the super Bowl. I don't know

40
00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:48,400
Speaker 1: a lot about sports, but me either, which makes us

41
00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:51,920
Speaker 1: all the more fun. But right that that was why

42
00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:56,120
Speaker 1: I was thinking about this episode. And yeah, between between

43
00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:58,480
Speaker 1: you and super Producer Dylan. There's been a lot of

44
00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:01,919
Speaker 1: excitement about this one over the years, so it's true.

45
00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:06,720
Speaker 1: Randomly Superproducer Dylan will just text us or send as

46
00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:11,120
Speaker 1: a picture of like food mascot. Yeah, no further explanation.

47
00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:16,120
Speaker 1: They usually speak for themselves, is the thing, and a

48
00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:23,880
Speaker 1: lot of sit Well. I guess this brings us to

49
00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:29,600
Speaker 1: your question. I guess it does food related sports mascots.

50
00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:38,680
Speaker 1: What are they? Well? All right, A sports team mascot

51
00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:42,840
Speaker 1: is a fictional character that teams management will develop in

52
00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:47,560
Speaker 1: order to inspire participation in the team's fans. Um and

53
00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:51,280
Speaker 1: sometimes those matt scots are are food based. Um. You know.

54
00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:56,520
Speaker 1: Mascots are often anthropomorphized animals or inanimate objects of some kind,

55
00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:59,440
Speaker 1: so this is not unusual in its scope, but it

56
00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:05,240
Speaker 1: can get delightfully weird. Uh. Mascots are represented by illustrations,

57
00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:09,560
Speaker 1: which may range an attitude from like good natured to intimidating,

58
00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:13,720
Speaker 1: but are are generally humorous in style um or tongue

59
00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:17,440
Speaker 1: in cheek at the very least. Uh. These illustrations are

60
00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:21,600
Speaker 1: often then adapted into full body costumes, which a performer

61
00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:25,480
Speaker 1: will wear to promote the team and inspire participation in

62
00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:30,200
Speaker 1: fans during games and other public events. Mascots are nonverbal,

63
00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:35,120
Speaker 1: generally speaking and engage with fans through gesticulation um simple

64
00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:39,800
Speaker 1: instruments like horns, maybe some form of puppetry used in

65
00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:44,760
Speaker 1: the mask um and uh, and or escorts or handlers

66
00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:48,440
Speaker 1: or announcers who will like speak on their behalf. Yeah,

67
00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:54,760
Speaker 1: they are walking publicity stunts. They are like the fever

68
00:04:55,000 --> 00:05:00,160
Speaker 1: dream of Edward Burnet's come to life and so calling

69
00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:03,520
Speaker 1: you hot dogs. Yes, and one of my very favorite

70
00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:09,080
Speaker 1: things is a lot of them. They've gotten wackier and wackier, um,

71
00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:11,640
Speaker 1: at least in my experience, because again I don't. I

72
00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:13,880
Speaker 1: enjoy sports well enough when I'm like hanging out with friends,

73
00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:17,680
Speaker 1: but in general it's not my thing. Um. And for

74
00:05:17,839 --> 00:05:19,560
Speaker 1: in my experience, they've got wack here in whack here.

75
00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:23,880
Speaker 1: And I love how they have like backstories. Oh yeah,

76
00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:26,000
Speaker 1: like a whole back store you can read about how

77
00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:29,960
Speaker 1: when they emerged from the earth. You all know who

78
00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:37,480
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. Yeah, Yeah, they're varying lye intricate in

79
00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:43,599
Speaker 1: their in their creation myth and yes, that's great. Yes,

80
00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:48,159
Speaker 1: And I know, at least at my university, Buzz the

81
00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:51,400
Speaker 1: Yellow jacket was our mascot, and it was like a

82
00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:54,520
Speaker 1: big like a rumor of who which student is it

83
00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:59,400
Speaker 1: because you're not supposed to tell anybody it's you, but

84
00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:01,920
Speaker 1: it was like a big kind of game to try

85
00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:11,039
Speaker 1: to guess like who might be buzz It's it's a

86
00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:14,880
Speaker 1: wacky world out there, y'all. Um. I will note here

87
00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:18,600
Speaker 1: we are not talking about the mascots of food companies

88
00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:24,440
Speaker 1: much today. That is like a separate episode, two episodes

89
00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:30,920
Speaker 1: to mini series to to uh full other podcast. Yes, yeah,

90
00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:33,360
Speaker 1: And I kind of got frustrated because I'm so excited

91
00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:38,400
Speaker 1: about like creepy food based sports mascots and I kept

92
00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:40,880
Speaker 1: getting these company mascots. That's not what I was looking

93
00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:43,159
Speaker 1: for this time. But I did stumble on some that

94
00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:47,600
Speaker 1: I was like, wow, come back and talk about this absolutely.

95
00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:51,960
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, And I will say, you know, like like right,

96
00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:53,880
Speaker 1: like like I'm about on the same page as you

97
00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:57,080
Speaker 1: are with most sports, but like sports fandom is a

98
00:06:57,120 --> 00:07:01,280
Speaker 1: really fascinating type of fandom to me. And I again,

99
00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:06,240
Speaker 1: like I just love that local pride in particular dishes

100
00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:11,720
Speaker 1: or foods um overlaps with local pride in particular types

101
00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:16,240
Speaker 1: of competitions and teams in this way. Yeah, yeah, I

102
00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:22,120
Speaker 1: love how people embrace it so hard, huge fans of

103
00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:27,480
Speaker 1: the mascot, so cool. It's it's like it's just like

104
00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:31,400
Speaker 1: a very to me, like niche kind of nursery. And

105
00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:35,160
Speaker 1: I'm like, heck, yeah, that's great, go for it. That

106
00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:39,880
Speaker 1: makes you that happy, that's amazing. People have strong opinions

107
00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:44,360
Speaker 1: for sure, like especially if they try to change the design. Whoa,

108
00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:47,200
Speaker 1: oh yeah yeah, And there have been a number of

109
00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:51,320
Speaker 1: like team name changes or like team transfers. There's always

110
00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:53,200
Speaker 1: team transfers, but like there have been a number of

111
00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:57,200
Speaker 1: team name changes, especially in recent years, as teams are

112
00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:02,960
Speaker 1: trying to distance themselves from previous super racist mascots that

113
00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,680
Speaker 1: they had, which is great. I really approve of that.

114
00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:08,920
Speaker 1: But occasionally, yeah, I can like ruffle some feathers about

115
00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:13,960
Speaker 1: whenever there's change. And I understand like Wikipedia changed its

116
00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:16,680
Speaker 1: layout about a week and a half ago, and I

117
00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:21,000
Speaker 1: really flipped out. I was like, I cannot handle this today, Wikipedia,

118
00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:27,880
Speaker 1: Why would you do this to me anyway? So I

119
00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:30,280
Speaker 1: get it, I get it, I get it, Yes, I

120
00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:35,319
Speaker 1: do as well, Um, well, what about the nutrition? Definitely

121
00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:38,080
Speaker 1: donate a sports mascot. I mean we're talking about a

122
00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:41,160
Speaker 1: lot of edible things today, But don't eat the mascot itself.

123
00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:44,160
Speaker 1: That's a costume with a human person inside. Don't do that.

124
00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:47,480
Speaker 1: That's that's wrong on a number of levels, nutritional and moral.

125
00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:51,840
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, yeah, even if they look like food exactly,

126
00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:58,160
Speaker 1: food exactly. Well, we don't really have any numbers for

127
00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:01,599
Speaker 1: you because kind of the whole outline is just a

128
00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:06,840
Speaker 1: sampling of some numbers. Yeah, yeah, it's it's just a sampling.

129
00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:12,200
Speaker 1: Um and and right, there's no like collective knowledge about this.

130
00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:16,400
Speaker 1: I you know, we're we're trying, we're breaking we're breaking

131
00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:19,080
Speaker 1: some ground here with the help of a few other

132
00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:25,000
Speaker 1: resources online. But it's a lot. It's a lot, and

133
00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:33,800
Speaker 1: we are only two human maybe podcasters. We're just trying

134
00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:36,920
Speaker 1: to wrap our heads around some of these these mascots

135
00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:41,560
Speaker 1: which we are going to try to describe. It's gonna

136
00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:45,640
Speaker 1: be this is gonna be fun. Yeah, yeah, and I

137
00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:48,640
Speaker 1: and I can I only hope that y'all come out

138
00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:54,000
Speaker 1: of this feeling as delighted and sort of crazy as

139
00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:57,800
Speaker 1: I do right now. A little on edge, A little

140
00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:03,920
Speaker 1: on edge. Well, with that note, we should get into

141
00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:07,720
Speaker 1: some of the history and the examples. But first we

142
00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:09,480
Speaker 1: have a quick break for a word from our sponsor,

143
00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:22,080
Speaker 1: and we're back, thank you sponsoring, Yes, thank you. Okay.

144
00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:25,920
Speaker 1: So ostensibly a food show, this one was kind of

145
00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:29,160
Speaker 1: hard to separate out because I do get really into

146
00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:31,360
Speaker 1: these like research topics, and then I just want to

147
00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:37,160
Speaker 1: know everything about it. But very, very briefly, the history

148
00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:40,640
Speaker 1: of sports mascots allegedly goes back to the eight hundreds,

149
00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:43,920
Speaker 1: when teams might have a person or an animal that

150
00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:46,880
Speaker 1: they believed to be a good luck charm. Often it

151
00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:49,240
Speaker 1: was something this kind of thing still happens to this day.

152
00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:51,200
Speaker 1: But I read a story of an early mascot that

153
00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:53,120
Speaker 1: was just a goat that would like wander onto the

154
00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:56,360
Speaker 1: field a lot um and he became the mascot, Like

155
00:10:56,880 --> 00:11:01,320
Speaker 1: all right, yeah, that kind of idea. Um. The word

156
00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:04,040
Speaker 1: itself is believed to be derived from the French word

157
00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:09,160
Speaker 1: for lucky charm mascots um. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests

158
00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:11,520
Speaker 1: that the first known English usage of the word took

159
00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:14,800
Speaker 1: place in one Some of the earliest records of sports

160
00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:19,080
Speaker 1: mascots started popping up in the eighteen nineties. And yeah,

161
00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:23,680
Speaker 1: over time, a mascot design grew into something bigger, and

162
00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:25,960
Speaker 1: I would say wilder because again the persone was just

163
00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:30,959
Speaker 1: like this goat or this kid. Yeah, right, and then

164
00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:37,000
Speaker 1: over time, oh oh my, especially during the nineteen sixties

165
00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:41,880
Speaker 1: and seventies, really took off and they became more of Yeah,

166
00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:46,560
Speaker 1: these characters, these icons that usually but not always were

167
00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:50,720
Speaker 1: symbols of the region that they were from or the school,

168
00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:54,959
Speaker 1: um specific school, perhaps something that was supposed to inspire,

169
00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:59,319
Speaker 1: something that people could get behind, and ultimately a marketing

170
00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:05,200
Speaker 1: tool you generate excitement and revenue. And sometimes that thing

171
00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:09,840
Speaker 1: is food, as you said, kind of those regional foods

172
00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:12,760
Speaker 1: or things that people are proud of, our our love

173
00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:15,960
Speaker 1: in that area. And yes, also as you said, sometimes

174
00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:21,960
Speaker 1: they are we're are extremely problematic. Um okay, but as

175
00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:25,280
Speaker 1: you also also said, less of what we're talking about today.

176
00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:28,319
Speaker 1: I did want to include a note about food mascots

177
00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:31,000
Speaker 1: for food brands, so like Mr Peanut is a big

178
00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:35,080
Speaker 1: one that kept coming up when I was doing this research. Um,

179
00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:38,920
Speaker 1: there are a perhaps surprising amount of articles looking into

180
00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:42,800
Speaker 1: why companies use mascots, including sports teams um as opposed

181
00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:48,480
Speaker 1: to just logos, and why mascots work. Yeah, and one

182
00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:54,559
Speaker 1: of the biggest reasons is that anthropomorphism essentially giving human

183
00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:59,000
Speaker 1: characteristics and behaviors on something that usually isn't human. I

184
00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:01,520
Speaker 1: guess some of them are, it usually is not. Um.

185
00:13:02,160 --> 00:13:05,280
Speaker 1: Studies have found that people respond more favorably to images

186
00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:10,040
Speaker 1: of animals with more quote human attributes than those without.

187
00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:13,280
Speaker 1: Study found that a smiling mascot makes people feel less

188
00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:18,839
Speaker 1: conflicted about snacking on the products the mascot represents. Um,

189
00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:22,120
Speaker 1: it's not. It doesn't actually increase their desire for the product.

190
00:13:22,160 --> 00:13:24,839
Speaker 1: It just makes them feel like less guilty about it,

191
00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:31,920
Speaker 1: all right, Okay, Yes, some mascots sell a lot of merchandise,

192
00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:37,080
Speaker 1: like not just the thing they're representing, like the mascot itself,

193
00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:40,480
Speaker 1: Like the Eminem Store that that's a whole store that's

194
00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:46,120
Speaker 1: dedicated to these human like Eminem's oh, which also like

195
00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:47,960
Speaker 1: speaking of it calls a lot of controversies, some of

196
00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:58,079
Speaker 1: these gosh heavy sigh indeed. Um, but it is fascinating, uh,

197
00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:00,400
Speaker 1: And I know there's also some people it's kind of

198
00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:04,040
Speaker 1: a running joke, like when you're watching that old timey

199
00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:07,040
Speaker 1: like let's all go to the lobby commercial for the

200
00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:10,679
Speaker 1: movies and it's totally popcorn eating popcorn, and you you

201
00:14:10,679 --> 00:14:16,040
Speaker 1: don't know how to feel about that, but which speaking of,

202
00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:21,920
Speaker 1: in some cases these mascots have gone on to inspire

203
00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:24,120
Speaker 1: horror movies or games, some of them that I didn't

204
00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:26,880
Speaker 1: even realize, but I immediately thought of Five Nights at Freddy's,

205
00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:30,760
Speaker 1: which is obviously Chuckie Cheese inspired. Um, but there are

206
00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:32,600
Speaker 1: a lot of clowns that have inspired a lot of

207
00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:38,560
Speaker 1: clown media. Um. That's a that's also a whole other

208
00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:45,800
Speaker 1: podcast again ostensibly a food show. Yes, which all right,

209
00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:50,400
Speaker 1: that note aside, we did want to go over some

210
00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:54,480
Speaker 1: examples of these food mascots for sports. Um, we're gonna

211
00:14:54,520 --> 00:14:56,400
Speaker 1: try to paint some mental pictures, but some of them

212
00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:58,040
Speaker 1: are just gonna have to look up like I saw them.

213
00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:02,240
Speaker 1: I don't think I can capture. I couldn't give them

214
00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:08,320
Speaker 1: all the worth the weight. Yeah yeah, so I yeah,

215
00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:09,760
Speaker 1: and and like and like we're gonna kind of like

216
00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:13,440
Speaker 1: like trade off back and forth. Um. And so some

217
00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:16,360
Speaker 1: some of the ones that you don't have descriptions for,

218
00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:21,880
Speaker 1: like I might try to live like Google and and

219
00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:26,360
Speaker 1: live cast. Well, well we'll see, we'll see what happens. Yeah, yeah, Oh,

220
00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:29,440
Speaker 1: it's gonna be fun. Um. And I will say I

221
00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:31,240
Speaker 1: there were a couple of that really helped me out.

222
00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:32,880
Speaker 1: I think thrill List and Buzfee had a good one.

223
00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:38,520
Speaker 1: They weren't food specifically, um, food mascot specific, but a

224
00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:40,440
Speaker 1: lot of them would appear on like the I don't know,

225
00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:46,520
Speaker 1: nineteen creepy ist mascots. So I appreciated that there there

226
00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:49,480
Speaker 1: are a lot of lists out there, and like, I

227
00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:51,680
Speaker 1: like again yeah, like I could have kept going for

228
00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:54,240
Speaker 1: like apparently quite a long time, Like it's just the

229
00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:59,560
Speaker 1: rabbit hole doesn't stop. Um so yeah mm hmm and

230
00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:03,800
Speaker 1: yeah again. Also super producer Dylan, thank you or for

231
00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:07,920
Speaker 1: bringing this to our attention over the years. Um and uh.

232
00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:09,760
Speaker 1: And I did want to include a note. I don't

233
00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:14,840
Speaker 1: know about you, Annie, but for for most of these,

234
00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:19,640
Speaker 1: like in the interest of brevity, I've only included mascots

235
00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:25,240
Speaker 1: that are actually anthropomorphic foods, not teams that are named

236
00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:29,440
Speaker 1: for foods, who have a food themed logo, but not

237
00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:36,040
Speaker 1: a working food mascot. Yeah. Well, we had to draw

238
00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:44,160
Speaker 1: some lines somewhere, right, Okay, So let's get started. Yeah,

239
00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:48,640
Speaker 1: and let's start with the Montgomery Biscuits out of Montgomery, Alabama.

240
00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:51,800
Speaker 1: One of the reasons I love this one is because

241
00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:56,000
Speaker 1: it has like I love the very silly, you know,

242
00:16:56,080 --> 00:16:59,320
Speaker 1: in between like halftime shows, halftimes off the right word. Again,

243
00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:01,000
Speaker 1: I'm not super sports, but you know when they have

244
00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:04,679
Speaker 1: like the races or the little games they do in

245
00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:08,840
Speaker 1: between innings or something. Um. So for the Montgomery Biscuits,

246
00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:13,360
Speaker 1: there's a biscuit bunch run. Uh, there's biscuit cannon. There's

247
00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:17,200
Speaker 1: a biscuit cannon, and it's all led by an anthropomorphic

248
00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:21,119
Speaker 1: biscuit named Monty. But also Big Mo, who is this

249
00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:26,840
Speaker 1: like giant ant eater thing who loves biscuits. At one point,

250
00:17:26,840 --> 00:17:28,879
Speaker 1: Big Mo was put on a diet in order to

251
00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:34,880
Speaker 1: promote health. You're eating. Okay, I say, leave Big Mo alone,

252
00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:38,199
Speaker 1: but you know he is an adult monster and he

253
00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:41,560
Speaker 1: can make his own life choices. Um. But but yeah, okay,

254
00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:45,760
Speaker 1: so some Monty. Monty is like head is a biscuit

255
00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:49,680
Speaker 1: like split open where the mouth would be okay, and

256
00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:53,360
Speaker 1: and it has like a pad of butter as a tongue. Um.

257
00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:58,000
Speaker 1: It has hands and feet nobody, um, And it has

258
00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:01,320
Speaker 1: googly eyes on top of the biscuit that that look

259
00:18:01,359 --> 00:18:05,080
Speaker 1: a little bit like eggs. Maybe. Uh yeah, that's what's

260
00:18:05,119 --> 00:18:09,480
Speaker 1: that's what's going on to Monty. Yeah, yes, uh and

261
00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:13,080
Speaker 1: I love this. They apparently gave cell biscuits and gravy

262
00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:16,520
Speaker 1: from carts, so well, yeah, I mean it only makes sense,

263
00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:23,359
Speaker 1: of course to write. All right, then we've got Colonel

264
00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:27,760
Speaker 1: cobb Um and this is the mascot um out of

265
00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:31,840
Speaker 1: Concordia College in Minnesota, Minnesota being a corn growing state,

266
00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:37,200
Speaker 1: and this is, yes, an anthropomorphic corn coub mascot. Um.

267
00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:41,440
Speaker 1: The mascot has its roots apparently and arrival schools fans

268
00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:45,359
Speaker 1: attempting to insult Concordia by calling them corn cobs and

269
00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:48,760
Speaker 1: like the late eighteen hundreds like like, oh, you have

270
00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:51,840
Speaker 1: a corn cob out back behind like the boys dorm,

271
00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:55,240
Speaker 1: like what you corn cobs? Um? But Concordia leaned in

272
00:18:55,880 --> 00:18:58,800
Speaker 1: and by the early nineteen hundreds was using corn imagery

273
00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:02,639
Speaker 1: in their marketing. Um. The mascot developed over the course

274
00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:08,959
Speaker 1: of time from the more anonymous Cobber into Colonel cobb Um,

275
00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:14,320
Speaker 1: who is a ferocious, anthropomorphic corn cub, usually wearing a

276
00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:20,480
Speaker 1: team jersey or maybe a college sweater. Mm hmmm uh.

277
00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:23,560
Speaker 1: The n c double A named them the number one

278
00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:30,639
Speaker 1: meatless mascot in college sports. Okay, accolades, yeah um. And

279
00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:33,800
Speaker 1: there there is also a baby faced corn cob named

280
00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:36,800
Speaker 1: Niblet that has gained fame in plush form because you

281
00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:38,719
Speaker 1: can really, you can really take them anywhere. It's very

282
00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:46,320
Speaker 1: instagram mouble. That's true. That's true. It's important all right.

283
00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:55,800
Speaker 1: That brings us to making bacon out of making Georgia. Um.

284
00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:58,879
Speaker 1: This one was the results of the always Risky online

285
00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:01,160
Speaker 1: voting contest. It is a piece of bacon with a face.

286
00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:05,359
Speaker 1: It's got kind of like it's got kind of like

287
00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:13,240
Speaker 1: a skillet. I think on its head, I think it's

288
00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:17,119
Speaker 1: a cast iron skillet. Yeah, no, that's a it's like

289
00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:20,800
Speaker 1: a combination baseball cap cast iron skillet. I think. I

290
00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:25,240
Speaker 1: think is the concept. Yeah, I think I think so too.

291
00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:28,960
Speaker 1: His face to me does look a little like it's

292
00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:35,040
Speaker 1: the mix between surprised and like I'm going to terrify

293
00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:37,240
Speaker 1: you in your sleep. You know that mix. Oh yeah,

294
00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:40,040
Speaker 1: that's what's going on. I'm deeply familiar with it. Yeah,

295
00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:42,480
Speaker 1: it's sort of like it's sort of like if Gumby

296
00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:45,520
Speaker 1: was going was a piece of bacon and he was

297
00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:48,840
Speaker 1: thinking about eating you, but he got he stopped and

298
00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:58,640
Speaker 1: played a baseball game first. He does look like Gumby. Right. Well,

299
00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:01,720
Speaker 1: they had yeah, his official name is given as I said,

300
00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:03,960
Speaker 1: so they could have gotten a lot of worse names.

301
00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:06,960
Speaker 1: That is what I can say, um, from an online

302
00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:12,639
Speaker 1: voting contest. But m Kevin, sir, sure, thank you for

303
00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:16,840
Speaker 1: your service, Kevin. Mm hmmm. Well that brings us to

304
00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:21,080
Speaker 1: the Savannah Bananas. Also out of Georgia, Savannah, Georgia. This

305
00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:23,840
Speaker 1: is mostly from what I can gather. A name that's

306
00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:27,560
Speaker 1: based on writing, and that's it. Yeah, yeah, because they're

307
00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:31,240
Speaker 1: there aren't really banana's grown in Savannah, but but it

308
00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:34,920
Speaker 1: is very catchy to say Savannah Banana. Um. And this

309
00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:39,360
Speaker 1: is okay, this is like, this is like if Johnny Bravo,

310
00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:45,040
Speaker 1: we're a baseball playing banana. Um uh, like like big sunglasses,

311
00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:51,280
Speaker 1: big grin, kind of open shirt, um sort of yeah

312
00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:53,639
Speaker 1: yeah yeah yeah and the and the stem at the

313
00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:57,120
Speaker 1: top is sort of like a flat top. So yeah, yeah,

314
00:21:57,119 --> 00:21:59,840
Speaker 1: he's a real He seems like a real cool dude.

315
00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:03,120
Speaker 1: He doesn't. I guess I should specify the six pack

316
00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:07,199
Speaker 1: of apps would if he had a six pack of

317
00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:14,200
Speaker 1: beer to be honest. Oh goodness, um uh huh uh huh.

318
00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:18,919
Speaker 1: Also out of Florida, we have, um, the Jacksonville Jumbo shrimp.

319
00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:24,560
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Okay, so in the minor league baseball

320
00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:28,640
Speaker 1: team formerly known as the Jacksonville Sons switched to this

321
00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:34,520
Speaker 1: new mascot slash team name. Um, the illustrations. Actually, I

322
00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:37,040
Speaker 1: don't know if I googled to see whether there was

323
00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:39,240
Speaker 1: like a person in a costume that looks like this,

324
00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:44,160
Speaker 1: but but the illustrations look like if trog door were

325
00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:47,200
Speaker 1: a shrimp, because it's it's like a shrimp, but it's

326
00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:51,560
Speaker 1: got like these big beefy arms. Um, and it's pretty.

327
00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:54,879
Speaker 1: It's like fearsome. It's like a really like fearsome beefy

328
00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:58,800
Speaker 1: arm shrimp. See, I'm a little on edge. I'm a

329
00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:00,720
Speaker 1: little on edge. Yeah, need to be beat up on

330
00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:05,000
Speaker 1: my shroom. I think it's fighting for you or like

331
00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:08,960
Speaker 1: with like yeah, okay, yeah right, well that's all right then.

332
00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:17,639
Speaker 1: Um the next one are the Chicago Dogs. Okay, Um,

333
00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:24,400
Speaker 1: so I'm a little perplexed by this one for multiple reasons. Um, okay,

334
00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:29,320
Speaker 1: well how to explain this? So they had this thing

335
00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:34,800
Speaker 1: called the Wieners Circle. Oh my gosh, yes, and it's

336
00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:41,840
Speaker 1: like a really smug looking catchup squeeze ketchup bottle who's

337
00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:46,000
Speaker 1: got like he looks like he's he's gonna he's wearing

338
00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:48,560
Speaker 1: like a sleuth, like a detective jacket. Said, well, a

339
00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:52,680
Speaker 1: detective jacket as well. Um, and then I believe related

340
00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:57,920
Speaker 1: as Squeeze whose mustard mustard based Yeah, Scott, who looks

341
00:23:57,920 --> 00:23:59,600
Speaker 1: a lot more. He looks kind of like a Yoshi

342
00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:02,200
Speaker 1: with the little mustard head on. Yeah. Yeah, it's in

343
00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:06,000
Speaker 1: the kind of Muppet category of of mascots. But but

344
00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:08,240
Speaker 1: he's got a musty, he's mustard colored, and he has

345
00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:13,600
Speaker 1: a mustard uh Squeeze bottle shaped hat. Right, Yeah, I'm

346
00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:16,359
Speaker 1: definitely getting like a spive versus spive I from this

347
00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:20,160
Speaker 1: where I'm supposed to trust mustard and not trust ketchup.

348
00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:23,680
Speaker 1: And in fact, there is a rumor. So the article

349
00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:26,960
Speaker 1: I found this from was from Takeout and at the

350
00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:29,400
Speaker 1: time they were only I think also only in drawings

351
00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:32,360
Speaker 1: hadn't come out yet, but it said that the team

352
00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:35,760
Speaker 1: allegedly had a strict no ketchup policy and that if

353
00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:38,520
Speaker 1: you had catchup on your hot dog, it's not like

354
00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:41,280
Speaker 1: you would be bent, you would be kicked out of

355
00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:46,359
Speaker 1: the team, like serious. So if they've really taken firm

356
00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:50,640
Speaker 1: stance on the mustard versus getting debate when it comes

357
00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:52,600
Speaker 1: to hot dog Well, I mean right, I mean, people

358
00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:56,960
Speaker 1: are very serious about their Chicago dogs. I still can't

359
00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:01,199
Speaker 1: entirely identify what is supposed to be on it. But

360
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:04,000
Speaker 1: but I but I understand that ketchup is not supposed

361
00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:06,560
Speaker 1: to be on it. So right, I have not been

362
00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:09,959
Speaker 1: to there. I need to visit. Oh it's lovely, um,

363
00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:14,000
Speaker 1: lots of good hot dog places there, and they do

364
00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:18,000
Speaker 1: have I guess I'm eating greet with Chicago's most famous

365
00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:22,840
Speaker 1: hot Doggervors. That involves cheerleaders at these games, or at

366
00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:26,560
Speaker 1: least it was an event that happens because they do

367
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:34,200
Speaker 1: take their hot dogs very seriously Chica. But that sounds nice. Yeah,

368
00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:38,160
Speaker 1: all right, I've got another one for you. Um, toasty, toasty,

369
00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:45,000
Speaker 1: this somemores Okay, I'm interested. Okay. So there's this independent

370
00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:48,080
Speaker 1: baseball team in the Pioneer League out of Colorado called

371
00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:53,840
Speaker 1: the Rocky Mountain Vibes, which is already pretty aces um

372
00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:58,600
Speaker 1: and their mascot is a giant flaming s'mores. Um Like,

373
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:01,560
Speaker 1: his main body is it out of marshmallow, his arms

374
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:04,160
Speaker 1: are made out of marshmallow. He's wearing this like cool,

375
00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:08,400
Speaker 1: like Graham Cracker jacket and sunglasses. His hair is made

376
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:14,440
Speaker 1: of flames um and according to like the team's website,

377
00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:18,800
Speaker 1: I quote, Toasty was born a healthy some more on Monday,

378
00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:24,600
Speaker 1: November nineteen in beautiful Colorado Springs, Colorado. Toasty was born

379
00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:27,920
Speaker 1: big for a some more at two and eighty four

380
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:32,159
Speaker 1: pounds and nine ounces. A proud Colorado Springs native, Toasty

381
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:35,720
Speaker 1: enjoys spending his free time watching baseball, hiking Pike's Peak

382
00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:38,199
Speaker 1: and Garden of the Gods with his best friend Socks

383
00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:43,560
Speaker 1: the Fox, and just going with the vibe. I'm hean again.

384
00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:48,680
Speaker 1: I love these descriptions rich in stories. He does look

385
00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:51,280
Speaker 1: like he's going with the vibe. He does. He does,

386
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:55,160
Speaker 1: this is a this is a vibe positive more. I mean,

387
00:26:55,200 --> 00:27:01,360
Speaker 1: his head is definitely on fire. But yeah, that big deal. Yeah,

388
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:06,080
Speaker 1: Oh they're comparing with the guy here. Oh no, just

389
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:09,119
Speaker 1: my hair kind of stuff. Share. I don't know, I

390
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:11,960
Speaker 1: see it, I see it, I understand. Yeah, that's pretty good.

391
00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:16,159
Speaker 1: That's pretty good. I like it. Uh. This one I

392
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:23,600
Speaker 1: found since the Fresno Tacos. Since the Fresno Grizzlies transformed

393
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:30,440
Speaker 1: to the Fresno Tacos. Every Tuesday home game because Taco Tuesday. Yeah, yes,

394
00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:33,200
Speaker 1: And I will say, of the mascots on this list,

395
00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:38,159
Speaker 1: I feel like he doesn't look threatening to me. He

396
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:41,520
Speaker 1: looks well, the close ups a little threatening, but the

397
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:43,679
Speaker 1: other like a farm of distance. He looks like a

398
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:47,160
Speaker 1: happy taco with a hat on. I mean, hey, that's

399
00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:51,959
Speaker 1: that's all right, you know, but I do like that

400
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:57,200
Speaker 1: it's Taco Tuesday. That's a fun little a fun little gimmick. Yeah. Yeah,

401
00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:00,440
Speaker 1: he looks a little bit like he looks a little

402
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:03,399
Speaker 1: bit like, um, he might be a Toy Story character,

403
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 1: like he's he's giving me like his eyes and like

404
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:12,119
Speaker 1: face shape are giving me strong like Jesse the cowgirl

405
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 1: from Toy Story vibes. But but like on a taco shell.

406
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:20,800
Speaker 1: M M. I wonder if they got any blowback or

407
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 1: flak about because you can kind of see what's on

408
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:29,199
Speaker 1: the inside. Oh the increasing. Yeah, and there's there's some

409
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:35,560
Speaker 1: like there's like some shredded lettuce contentious. Well listeners, let

410
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 1: us know. Oh heck, alright, this next one, um, next up,

411
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 1: we've got Al the almond, Wally the walnut, and Shelly

412
00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:52,800
Speaker 1: the pistachio. All right, and these are the three mascots

413
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:56,720
Speaker 1: of the California Minor League baseball team, the Modesto Nuts.

414
00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:02,280
Speaker 1: Um Al the Almond appears to be a baseball player,

415
00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:08,280
Speaker 1: Wally a catcher, and Shelly a cheerleader. I'm gonna go

416
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:12,320
Speaker 1: ahead and say that Al's current incarnation looks like a

417
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:23,880
Speaker 1: Santarin from Doctor Who. Yeah, and my their plastic grins

418
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:32,600
Speaker 1: will haunt my waking dreams. Yeah, yeah, I definitely recoiled

419
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:35,239
Speaker 1: a moment when I Lauren got to Witnesses. When I

420
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:38,040
Speaker 1: first looked at these, yeah, I had to take a

421
00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 1: breath before I could like jump into this one. And

422
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 1: in the meanwhile, Annie googled it and I knew when

423
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 1: it had come up because she just goes, wow, oh wow.

424
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:58,560
Speaker 1: I mean, what can we say? I I don't know,

425
00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:06,280
Speaker 1: And I like, there's some that have a different facial expression. Yeah, yeah,

426
00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:11,160
Speaker 1: there's a few, like iterations and stuff. A new rabbit hole,

427
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:15,680
Speaker 1: a terrifying one. Also, the Modesto Nuts. We've just got

428
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 1: to say, that's pretty funny. That's a good that's a

429
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:22,040
Speaker 1: real good team name. That's a real good team name.

430
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:29,560
Speaker 1: I like it. WHOA. This brings us to the Fighting

431
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:34,800
Speaker 1: Okrah of Delta State. And in this Fighting Okra's backstory.

432
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:39,200
Speaker 1: They gave it like its own botanical name. Yes, vegetable

433
00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:44,760
Speaker 1: meanness um quote, a large, prickly bipedal vegetable with an

434
00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:50,240
Speaker 1: inherently bad temperament. I mean, so at first you'd be like, well,

435
00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:52,000
Speaker 1: I love Okrah. I feel like it's had a bad

436
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:55,040
Speaker 1: rap for a long time. It's not mean. But then

437
00:30:55,080 --> 00:31:00,520
Speaker 1: you see the picture. I wouldn't mess with the fighting No,

438
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 1: no terrifying. And this is one Dillan put on our

439
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 1: radar um. But essentially like it's a it's a okraw

440
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 1: but mean. Yeah, this Oakra means business. It's like, oh gosh,

441
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:23,800
Speaker 1: every picture it's like hands on hips, fierce stance. It's

442
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 1: got this kind of scowl, yeah, like a glower and

443
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 1: a frown. Yeah yeah, Oh gosh, Oh some of these

444
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 1: are kind of freaking me out. Back from the oak

445
00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:41,360
Speaker 1: come back from oh god. And here's a quote I

446
00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:45,680
Speaker 1: found from Times Higher Education dot com and it was

447
00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 1: all about like these very mascots were talking about his

448
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 1: old list um famous thanks to his TV appearance on

449
00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:55,160
Speaker 1: the Food Network channel. The Fighting Okra was voted in

450
00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:58,280
Speaker 1: as Delta States unofficial mascot by students in the nineteen nineties.

451
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 1: The Okra has a fierce expression and is equipped with

452
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 1: boxing gloves, adding to its formidable exterior. Popular myth claims

453
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 1: that the fighting Ochra was inspired by a stubborn Opra

454
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:11,520
Speaker 1: plant your first base on the baseball pitch that kept

455
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 1: growing back despite continually being cut. Um. Which, if that's true,

456
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 1: that's a that's a great reason. That reason to have

457
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:27,400
Speaker 1: a mascot absolutely good, A good of a reason as any. Yeah, yeah, no,

458
00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:30,560
Speaker 1: I all right, So that to be honest, I did

459
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:32,320
Speaker 1: not watch this video. There are days when I cannot

460
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:35,440
Speaker 1: handle my computer making noises at me. Um. But but

461
00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:42,400
Speaker 1: there is a video that I saw called Fear the

462
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:49,520
Speaker 1: Okra and and the the preview says nine national championships,

463
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 1: one overly aggressive Okra, and I, from what I can gather,

464
00:32:53,200 --> 00:33:00,240
Speaker 1: it's a video of the Okra tackling people. Got it? Yeah,

465
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 1: As mentioned, I would not mess with it. No, no, um.

466
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:10,760
Speaker 1: This brings us to otto the orange Um. Syracuse University

467
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:14,120
Speaker 1: in New York has as its mascot an anthropomorphic orange.

468
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:19,240
Speaker 1: It is an orange, It has arms and legs, sometimes

469
00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:23,720
Speaker 1: a nose, and it is wearing a baseball cap. I

470
00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:30,720
Speaker 1: mean that makes sense? Yeah? Yeah, does it? Well? Makes sense?

471
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:37,600
Speaker 1: Maybe it's a stretch, but oh he looks like a

472
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 1: happy orange. Yeah, he's an affable, young orange, I think. Yeah. Indeed,

473
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 1: if you haven't looked at pictures of this one, Lauren,

474
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:49,760
Speaker 1: you've got to um, okay, alright, alright on it. Okay.

475
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 1: This is the fighting pickle out of University of North

476
00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 1: Carolina School of the Arts. Um. So Yeah, When deciding

477
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:01,160
Speaker 1: on a mascot for their intramural football team in nine two,

478
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:04,480
Speaker 1: the school went with a pickle. I believe there's nobody else.

479
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:07,800
Speaker 1: There's like no other team in their league or something,

480
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:11,879
Speaker 1: so that the running joke is that he's undefeated. Um,

481
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:17,279
Speaker 1: this pickle, you listeners, It was not what I thought

482
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 1: it was going to be because I think I was

483
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:22,000
Speaker 1: like coming from the you know, Fighting Okra. In my head,

484
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:25,280
Speaker 1: this is a decidedly This is like if the Fighting

485
00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:28,480
Speaker 1: Okrah had a cousin who went to France. Yeah, this

486
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:31,880
Speaker 1: is an art school pickle. This is a decidedly art

487
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:37,280
Speaker 1: school pickle. Dodeed. He's got some cool facial hair. Um,

488
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:41,080
Speaker 1: he's got like a little two two uh huh, or

489
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 1: a keyboard. He's got like a little keyboard keyboard to two. Um,

490
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:52,080
Speaker 1: and a cool a cool hat. Um the feather. Yeah, yeah,

491
00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:57,920
Speaker 1: accepter like a like a film clapboard. Yes, like he

492
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:02,200
Speaker 1: he accessorizes, you know, based on the day, which I appreciate,

493
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:08,239
Speaker 1: you know, that's important. Yeah, and he he's just got

494
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:11,440
Speaker 1: a very like I don't know, he's giving me kind

495
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 1: of a Three Musketeers. Oh yeah, because he's got a

496
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:16,920
Speaker 1: little mask. I forgot to mention the mask. He's got

497
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:21,320
Speaker 1: a little mask. And then on the on the movie

498
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:25,960
Speaker 1: clapper board it says, uh, fighting pickle. So and he's

499
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:29,000
Speaker 1: kind of wielding this paint brush. Oh that's a paint brush,

500
00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:31,880
Speaker 1: not a scepter. I guess, okay, kind of like a

501
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:39,680
Speaker 1: fencing Yeah, it's quite the site I really recommended. Oh yeah,

502
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:44,279
Speaker 1: oh yeah. Um, speaking of I need to talk about

503
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:48,920
Speaker 1: Muddy the mud cat, please um. Mud cat being another

504
00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:53,279
Speaker 1: term for catfish. Um. This is the mascot of a

505
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:57,520
Speaker 1: currently North Carolina minor league baseball team. It's like it's

506
00:35:57,520 --> 00:35:59,759
Speaker 1: like the body, the body of a baseball player in

507
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:04,360
Speaker 1: to form and then just the head of a catfish. Um.

508
00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 1: Like honestly reminds me a whole lot. If y'all ever

509
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 1: watched the show Far Escape of the character call Dargo.

510
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:16,080
Speaker 1: Oh wow, this is so funny because we're like giving

511
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:22,760
Speaker 1: you all the nerdiest like sci fi yea for these sports.

512
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:26,719
Speaker 1: That's that's where my brain goes. And I that it

513
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 1: just is what it is. Yeah, it is, um it is.

514
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:33,920
Speaker 1: But yeah, he seems he seems he seems like a

515
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:37,720
Speaker 1: he seems like a cool fish. He kind of gives

516
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 1: me the sense that he's like a fish who stumbled

517
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:45,719
Speaker 1: into some radioactive stuff and it's trying to pretend he's

518
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:50,840
Speaker 1: a human, um, trying to pass off ye kind of

519
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:52,719
Speaker 1: like when the Ninja Turtles go out, but they're like

520
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:57,040
Speaker 1: literally just wearing like a trench coat and you're like, buddy,

521
00:36:57,080 --> 00:37:00,719
Speaker 1: your head is green, Like yeah, that's yeah, that's the

522
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 1: vibe I'm getting here. Yeah. Um okay, I I actually

523
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:11,280
Speaker 1: have a whole series of North Carolina seafood related mascots here. Alright.

524
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:15,840
Speaker 1: So the second one in the series are Um, Sam

525
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 1: and pay them the clam Oh I love it already. Hum.

526
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:22,920
Speaker 1: These are the mascots of a collegiate summer baseball team

527
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:28,640
Speaker 1: out of North Carolina, the Eddington Edenton Steamers. Uh. Their

528
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:31,759
Speaker 1: their heads are clams with the shell opening like kind

529
00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:36,920
Speaker 1: of where a smile would be oh wow, oh wow.

530
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:38,959
Speaker 1: They've got a lot of outfits that look like they're

531
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:42,960
Speaker 1: just vacationing, you know, all right, they're clams that like

532
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:49,239
Speaker 1: to have a good times, right, the steamers and the steamers. Right,

533
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:53,720
Speaker 1: it's so good, I love it. Uh. And then rounding

534
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:58,279
Speaker 1: out the trio, we have another duo, Um Conrad the

535
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:04,160
Speaker 1: craw Dad and his now wife, Candy the Crawdad. Okay,

536
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:08,520
Speaker 1: so um they're from this this minor league baseball team

537
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:12,040
Speaker 1: also out of North Carolina, that the Hickory Crawdads. And

538
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:16,960
Speaker 1: yes they have these two crawfish crayfish crawdad, however you

539
00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 1: want to say it. Mascots, Um Conrad and Candy. Um.

540
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:23,480
Speaker 1: She has like little bows on her antenna and like

541
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 1: a more pronounced tail um. Uh no pun intended. I'm sorry. Uh.

542
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:34,160
Speaker 1: They got married um in an on field ceremony attended

543
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:36,880
Speaker 1: by other mascots, and they held up like little signs

544
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:40,880
Speaker 1: that said I do it was I didn't know the

545
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 1: mascot world. Of course they would invite each other, but

546
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:47,359
Speaker 1: it seems like they'd have so much competition there. There

547
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 1: was a moment where I think that maybe Candy like

548
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:52,560
Speaker 1: like hit one of the other mascots with her sign

549
00:38:52,840 --> 00:39:06,680
Speaker 1: I think, yeah anyway, well, oh yeah, yeah, okay, well

550
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:09,560
Speaker 1: this brings me to one of my very favorite ones

551
00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:18,000
Speaker 1: I found. Um Wichita states woo shock wou shock shock,

552
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:21,400
Speaker 1: all right, and this is like I wouldn't have guessed

553
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:23,800
Speaker 1: this until I read it. It's a bundle of wheat,

554
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:27,680
Speaker 1: but it's the most terrifying bundle of wheat you've ever seen. Yeah.

555
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:31,000
Speaker 1: It was chosen at nine to No. Four to reference

556
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:32,640
Speaker 1: the fact that many of the players worked in the

557
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:35,360
Speaker 1: wheat fields and again like the importance of wheat to

558
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 1: that area. But this is the one Lauren, Like, I

559
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:41,880
Speaker 1: don't I don't know how to describe this in a

560
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:43,600
Speaker 1: way that's going to give you the full effect, to

561
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:48,279
Speaker 1: be honest, alright. So, so if you're familiar with the

562
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:52,080
Speaker 1: image of a of a of a bundle of we

563
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:54,040
Speaker 1: I might be using the wrong term of like a

564
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:57,839
Speaker 1: bundle of wheat standing in a field. Um to wear

565
00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:00,160
Speaker 1: it has like a like a pinched like waste of

566
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:03,719
Speaker 1: and then like a flat top. Yeah, that's that's the

567
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:08,440
Speaker 1: basis of this form. Um but but yeah, but like

568
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:12,560
Speaker 1: it's just like the face is very over emphasized, and

569
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:17,360
Speaker 1: I it's really giving me like Neil Patrick Harris is

570
00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:23,680
Speaker 1: dr horrible vibes. Yeah. Um, it's menacing, but it's a

571
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:26,480
Speaker 1: very menacing like it's got right, it's it's got this

572
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:32,800
Speaker 1: very deeply furrowed brow, mum. And this smile that says

573
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:36,719
Speaker 1: I might have killed someone you care about I don't know.

574
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:42,880
Speaker 1: S Yeah. The smile is like the oh we're at

575
00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:51,840
Speaker 1: the fine out stage? Are we cool? A side show bob? Oh. Yeah,

576
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:54,480
Speaker 1: that's a good one. That's a good one. Yeah, like

577
00:40:54,520 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 1: he he revels in the chaos and mayhem. M mm hmm.

578
00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:07,440
Speaker 1: So boy, you gotta look it up, you do, you do? Um,

579
00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:11,400
Speaker 1: I've got one for you that's apparently defunct right now. Um.

580
00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:16,839
Speaker 1: Cayenne previously the mascot of the University of Louisiana's Raging

581
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:19,840
Speaker 1: Cagents Um. And this is like the body of a

582
00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:22,440
Speaker 1: football player in uniform, the head of a Cayenne pepper

583
00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:26,879
Speaker 1: and like that, the stem and cap are its hair,

584
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 1: and it has like little flame wings coming off of

585
00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:35,280
Speaker 1: its sleeves. Apparently we lost Cayenne due to budget cuts

586
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:41,920
Speaker 1: in and I do not believe that they have returned yet. Yeah.

587
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:44,080
Speaker 1: It also feels like the plot of a movie where

588
00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:49,839
Speaker 1: you know all the defunct mascots. No one will hire

589
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:58,680
Speaker 1: me out of the job. I like his flame sleeves.

590
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:01,680
Speaker 1: Yeah right, he's got his ass, he does. It is

591
00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:07,799
Speaker 1: a little cap Yeah well, oh dear. This brings us

592
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 1: to another one out of Louisiana. This is a it's

593
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:15,360
Speaker 1: not necessarily food, but it's food related enough, and I

594
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:17,319
Speaker 1: just had to conclude it is it is. I think

595
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 1: we've talked about this one before, yes, because I believe

596
00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:24,800
Speaker 1: this has inspired some horror movies. For um, we're talking

597
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:28,880
Speaker 1: about the New Orleans Pelicans. The New Orleans Pelicans. Kincake

598
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:37,359
Speaker 1: baby mascot. All right, um, okay, where to begin? Okay, well,

599
00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:40,120
Speaker 1: all right, So, so, if you're unfamiliar with kincakes, they

600
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:43,040
Speaker 1: frequently come with a token, such as a tiny plastic

601
00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:45,719
Speaker 1: baby that you put into the cake somewhere and then

602
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:50,080
Speaker 1: whoever finds it, um, either wins or loses whatever you want. Um,

603
00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:53,279
Speaker 1: it's sort of part of the tradition. Yeah, so so

604
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:58,440
Speaker 1: tiny so tiny plastic baby is the genesis of the

605
00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:02,280
Speaker 1: concept here, right, which, from what I gather as semi recent,

606
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:04,319
Speaker 1: I feel like I remember when this was happening in

607
00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:07,520
Speaker 1: like twenty twelve is or something I could be wrong,

608
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:10,400
Speaker 1: But here's a quote from Yahoo Sports before we attempt

609
00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:14,200
Speaker 1: to explain it. But everything about Kincake Baby, the always

610
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:18,200
Speaker 1: watching eyes, the airbushed bib, the scooter enabled mobility, and

611
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:21,000
Speaker 1: perhaps most especially the evidently ready to come off at

612
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:25,239
Speaker 1: a moment's not as diaper is deeply, deeply unsettling. I

613
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:29,320
Speaker 1: would add to it. It's at least in the pictures

614
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:34,080
Speaker 1: I've seen, it's tall, it's big, and it's like, coming

615
00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:35,880
Speaker 1: back to Toy Story again, it's like the baby who

616
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:39,000
Speaker 1: turned out to be super nice. Yeah, but like the

617
00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:42,920
Speaker 1: baby doll from the first Toy Story. But he's just

618
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:48,200
Speaker 1: the look on the baby's faces unsettling. It's, to say

619
00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:50,600
Speaker 1: the least, it's thinking like I'm gonna eat your head

620
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna enjoy it. Like yeah, it's kind of

621
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:57,840
Speaker 1: that creepy like you know, dead doll eye. Yeah, like

622
00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:02,400
Speaker 1: a little vacant that the bibs says I heard King Cakes,

623
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:06,920
Speaker 1: which is for some reason unsettling in this context. The

624
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:09,080
Speaker 1: arms are much smaller than the rest of the body,

625
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:15,080
Speaker 1: much smaller, uh, And that diaper is only loosely affixed.

626
00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:22,399
Speaker 1: It's it's true, it's the same. It's the same kind

627
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:24,399
Speaker 1: of thing. I think a lot of people experienced with

628
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 1: um when Burger king and he just had that kind

629
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:33,480
Speaker 1: of like creepy smiling face that would pop around a corner.

630
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 1: Same thing, and that like plastic sheen. Yeah, it really

631
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:43,319
Speaker 1: sends you into like an uncanny valley kind of territory. Indeed,

632
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:45,920
Speaker 1: and I could be wrong, but I believe Happy to

633
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:49,080
Speaker 1: Day that mascot in that movie is inspired by this.

634
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:59,000
Speaker 1: N it looks like that's what it looks like. So yeah, well,

635
00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:02,960
Speaker 1: um uh this I'm going to close us out with

636
00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:08,960
Speaker 1: a relatively innocuous one. Um, except for the slightly confusing name. Okay,

637
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:12,239
Speaker 1: So the name of this mascot is Barley, and it

638
00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:17,000
Speaker 1: is in fact a hop Okay, like an anthropomorphic hop

639
00:45:17,239 --> 00:45:20,239
Speaker 1: um like you would use in beer brewing. Yeah, just

640
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:24,040
Speaker 1: like a big, fresh green hoop wearing a baseball cap.

641
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:28,680
Speaker 1: It's the mascot of an Oregon minor league baseball team

642
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:34,480
Speaker 1: called the Hillsboro Hops. Yeah, name is Barley. That's funny.

643
00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:42,000
Speaker 1: I like it. Yeah, I do too. It looks cute. Yeah,

644
00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:44,919
Speaker 1: kind of your warm, friendly turtle face, I would say

645
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:47,480
Speaker 1: in cartoons, because turtles can look real mean and real life. Oh,

646
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:50,480
Speaker 1: turtles are real mean in real life sometimes, yeah, sometimes

647
00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:54,160
Speaker 1: can be for sure. Um, I like it. He's got

648
00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 1: a picture where he's wearing like a COVID mask. I

649
00:45:57,200 --> 00:46:04,319
Speaker 1: appreciate solidarity. Thank you, Thank you, Barley. Yeah, hops don't

650
00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:11,120
Speaker 1: get COVID, but I appreciate it. Oh, this has been

651
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:13,760
Speaker 1: such a delight to do. I can only hope listeners

652
00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:17,360
Speaker 1: that we've painted some fixtures and you'll go look them up. Yeah,

653
00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:22,360
Speaker 1: oh please, please, please please, because right like words, words

654
00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:26,359
Speaker 1: do not do justice to the like like like what

655
00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:30,040
Speaker 1: sites we have to show you? Yes? And what what

656
00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:33,280
Speaker 1: things did we miss? Because I'm sure there are plenty

657
00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:37,400
Speaker 1: out there that we need to know about. So absolutely, yeah,

658
00:46:38,719 --> 00:46:43,279
Speaker 1: I again I had to stop. So so you tell us, yes,

659
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:47,560
Speaker 1: we're counting on you. Yes, Well that's what we have

660
00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:55,080
Speaker 1: to say for now. Um. We do already have some

661
00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 1: listener mail for you, and we are going to get

662
00:46:57,239 --> 00:46:58,839
Speaker 1: into that as soon as we get back from one

663
00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:09,520
Speaker 1: more quick break for a word from our sponsors. And

664
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:12,319
Speaker 1: we're back. Thank you, censor, Yes, thank you, and we're

665
00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:26,759
Speaker 1: back with yeah cheering at the sports games. Oh my,

666
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:31,440
Speaker 1: oh my, oh my. Um, Valerie wrote in the Lettuce episode,

667
00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:33,600
Speaker 1: you were talking about whether kale has a strong taste.

668
00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:35,880
Speaker 1: My answers that I think kale is a very different

669
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:38,680
Speaker 1: taste to different people, depending on their genetics. Back when

670
00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:40,640
Speaker 1: I was in high school, I had a biology elective

671
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:43,280
Speaker 1: class where one day the teacher handed everybody a strip

672
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:45,239
Speaker 1: of paper with chemical on it. I think it was

673
00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:47,640
Speaker 1: called P P P. She had us all chew in

674
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:50,000
Speaker 1: our piece of paper. Mine tasted like I was chewing

675
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:52,000
Speaker 1: on an ordinary piece of paper. It had no taste

676
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:54,279
Speaker 1: at all. Most of our class reacted the same way

677
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:56,880
Speaker 1: as me, but a couple of students started rolling around

678
00:47:56,880 --> 00:47:58,880
Speaker 1: on the floor because the paper had such a horrible

679
00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:01,880
Speaker 1: taste to them. The teacher explained that three fours of

680
00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:04,480
Speaker 1: people have genes to be able to taste this chemical,

681
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:07,160
Speaker 1: and one fourth of people don't. She said that her

682
00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:09,600
Speaker 1: class was an anomaly, and then on average, there would

683
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:12,319
Speaker 1: have been more of us who could taste it. She

684
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:14,920
Speaker 1: said that it's thought that supertasters have two copies of

685
00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:17,359
Speaker 1: the gene to taste this chemical, and so for them,

686
00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:20,240
Speaker 1: foods like kal and broccoli have an extremely strong taste

687
00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:23,400
Speaker 1: that is different from what other people experience. I was

688
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:26,000
Speaker 1: not convinced and thought that my glassmates were rolling on

689
00:48:26,040 --> 00:48:30,960
Speaker 1: the floor were being outrageously melodramatic. My home room was

690
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:33,640
Speaker 1: in the same room right after this class, so I

691
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:35,200
Speaker 1: gave a strip at the paper to a guy who

692
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:37,840
Speaker 1: I liked. He chewed it and ended up rolling on

693
00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:40,880
Speaker 1: the floor from the incredibly bad days. It's probably not

694
00:48:41,040 --> 00:48:43,920
Speaker 1: the best way to express appreciation for a guy, but

695
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:45,799
Speaker 1: I did end up going to prom with him, so

696
00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:49,439
Speaker 1: there's that. Anyway. I think there are probably a number

697
00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:52,280
Speaker 1: of genes that make things taste very different to different people,

698
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:55,080
Speaker 1: and that would explain a lot about people's widely varying

699
00:48:55,120 --> 00:49:00,640
Speaker 1: reactions to the same foods. Yes, this is something that

700
00:49:00,640 --> 00:49:04,440
Speaker 1: fascinates me. Um. I know we've talked about this before

701
00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:06,120
Speaker 1: and it's been on our list for a long time.

702
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:08,640
Speaker 1: I also did this in high school. I thought it

703
00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:10,839
Speaker 1: was the other way around, but it's a very like

704
00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:14,319
Speaker 1: vague memory my brain. But I thought there's less supertasters

705
00:49:14,360 --> 00:49:17,160
Speaker 1: as opposed to more um But yeah, I don't I'd

706
00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:19,799
Speaker 1: have to look into it. Uh. I tasted it, but

707
00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:21,840
Speaker 1: to me, I think it's kind of similar to what

708
00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:24,479
Speaker 1: you've said, Lauren, like I don't hate that taste. Yeah,

709
00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:26,839
Speaker 1: it was very very show. It was kind of like

710
00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:31,920
Speaker 1: the most soapy bitter taste. But I didn't hate it, um,

711
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:34,440
Speaker 1: but people there were some people who certainly certainly did.

712
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:36,080
Speaker 1: And I'm very glad that it's worked out with this

713
00:49:36,160 --> 00:49:41,839
Speaker 1: fellow and you got that's a wonderful story. Yeah, yeah,

714
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:45,480
Speaker 1: taste is such an interesting thing. Oh side story, when

715
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:49,680
Speaker 1: we originally started doing like field trips and interviews and

716
00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:53,520
Speaker 1: changed the show name from food Stuff to Savor um,

717
00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:56,280
Speaker 1: our boss really wanted us to go with taste and

718
00:49:56,400 --> 00:50:00,200
Speaker 1: um and because right, it's so interesting, just like what

719
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:04,200
Speaker 1: makes up a person's set of tastes and all of

720
00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:08,880
Speaker 1: the um like like history and psychology and all of

721
00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:12,960
Speaker 1: that that can go into it, combined with probably genetics

722
00:50:12,960 --> 00:50:17,080
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. So yeah, it blows my mind

723
00:50:17,120 --> 00:50:19,759
Speaker 1: that people can eat the same thing and have such

724
00:50:19,760 --> 00:50:27,280
Speaker 1: a different experience with well. Um, My cousin Elizabeth wrote

725
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:30,560
Speaker 1: thoughts on a whole bunch of episodes. I told Grandma

726
00:50:30,600 --> 00:50:32,960
Speaker 1: Lou that you mentioned her in your Cream of Tartar episode,

727
00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:36,479
Speaker 1: so now she's riding high on her internet fame. I

728
00:50:36,520 --> 00:50:39,120
Speaker 1: was cutting baby Brussels sprouts and cooking bacon for them

729
00:50:39,120 --> 00:50:42,560
Speaker 1: when Lauren mentioned needing a good roasted sprout recipe. Here's

730
00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:46,120
Speaker 1: the one I use. They received near universal acclaim at Thanksgiving,

731
00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:49,480
Speaker 1: and we're requested again at Christmas. Even my dad, who

732
00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:53,240
Speaker 1: describes trail mix as eminem's with obstacles, ate his portion

733
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:57,800
Speaker 1: without complaint. Uh, for my mother and your uncle Bruce's happiness.

734
00:50:57,880 --> 00:51:01,040
Speaker 1: I up the crushed red pepper for your Aunt Kathy

735
00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:03,839
Speaker 1: and my dad. I can tie trate that down. I

736
00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:07,600
Speaker 1: like it spicy. Um. Here's that recipe. Apologies for the handwriting.

737
00:51:07,600 --> 00:51:09,600
Speaker 1: The recipe has morphed a long way since I ripped

738
00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:12,200
Speaker 1: it off the internet. The splatters on the recipe indicate

739
00:51:12,280 --> 00:51:16,080
Speaker 1: its repeatability. You'd also mentioned roast potatoes a k a.

740
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:19,480
Speaker 1: Roast ease, and here's my heavily annotated version of what

741
00:51:19,640 --> 00:51:22,959
Speaker 1: can be best described as the best roast ease ever.

742
00:51:23,719 --> 00:51:25,879
Speaker 1: That's a quote from my brother, who is a connoisseur.

743
00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:28,359
Speaker 1: You may notice that I indicated that this wild feed

744
00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:31,279
Speaker 1: six to eight amateurs. I doubled it for nine and

745
00:51:31,280 --> 00:51:35,200
Speaker 1: a half of us, and we only had a few leftovers. Also,

746
00:51:35,520 --> 00:51:38,200
Speaker 1: I don't think that I told you that you were unwilling,

747
00:51:38,520 --> 00:51:42,960
Speaker 1: unknowing participants in an ongoing present war between Stephen and

748
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:46,560
Speaker 1: your aunt's Sandy. It started before I married Stephen, but

749
00:51:46,680 --> 00:51:50,400
Speaker 1: I have very much collaborated since then. I think it

750
00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:54,360
Speaker 1: started with Stephen giving Sandy a zam Fear The Master

751
00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:57,919
Speaker 1: of Pan Flute c D. Then Sandy ripped a CD

752
00:51:58,160 --> 00:52:01,200
Speaker 1: that said Christmas were turned out up that every single

753
00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:05,120
Speaker 1: track of fifteen was I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas.

754
00:52:05,920 --> 00:52:09,080
Speaker 1: We've countered over the years with a life sized frog statue.

755
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:12,200
Speaker 1: As Uncle Tom calls her the frog Whistler, they come

756
00:52:12,280 --> 00:52:14,840
Speaker 1: visit her when she calls. The next year, it was

757
00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:18,600
Speaker 1: Snoop Dogg's Crook to cook Platinum Recipes from the Boss

758
00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:22,399
Speaker 1: Dog's Kitchen, which was well received. So short story long,

759
00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:25,520
Speaker 1: this was last year's gift with a customized cover. Um

760
00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:28,920
Speaker 1: and uh. It was like a that Bob's Burger's cookbook

761
00:52:28,960 --> 00:52:34,000
Speaker 1: but um but like family customized Yeah yeah, um okay.

762
00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:38,279
Speaker 1: Continuing your panatone episode gave me the feels. Um. This

763
00:52:38,360 --> 00:52:40,280
Speaker 1: was one tradition that I brought back from my years

764
00:52:40,320 --> 00:52:42,920
Speaker 1: living in Italy. It also reminded me that I had

765
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:47,080
Speaker 1: bought one previous day. I'd also brought Teddy around to

766
00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:50,000
Speaker 1: visit his grandma's and then spent several minutes where Kathy

767
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:52,800
Speaker 1: and I tried to explain it to your grandma. I

768
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:54,880
Speaker 1: should have just played your description, Lauren. I don't have

769
00:52:54,920 --> 00:52:58,839
Speaker 1: your talent for multi sensor sensorial food descriptions. I gave

770
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:01,640
Speaker 1: some to both my husband and my baby. The baby

771
00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:03,680
Speaker 1: licked it, put it in his mouth, took it back

772
00:53:03,719 --> 00:53:07,280
Speaker 1: out and put it in my hand, and my husband

773
00:53:07,280 --> 00:53:10,520
Speaker 1: fake wretched his into the bin. So not for everyone.

774
00:53:12,160 --> 00:53:15,200
Speaker 1: I played your Christmas ham episode after I made hours.

775
00:53:15,239 --> 00:53:18,520
Speaker 1: I had sort of vaguely looked up basting liquid and

776
00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:20,920
Speaker 1: then sort of mixed a few bits of stuff together

777
00:53:21,040 --> 00:53:24,440
Speaker 1: for a very technical recipe. But it was well received.

778
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:28,479
Speaker 1: I found that it pulled the over salty taste out.

779
00:53:29,040 --> 00:53:31,520
Speaker 1: All of these measurements have a wide margin of error.

780
00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:34,000
Speaker 1: You'd want to use your own best judgment. I mixed

781
00:53:34,040 --> 00:53:37,040
Speaker 1: about a cup of Lauren's Famili's maple syrup, two cups

782
00:53:37,080 --> 00:53:40,960
Speaker 1: of apple cider, half a cup of cream d balsamicco,

783
00:53:41,080 --> 00:53:43,680
Speaker 1: and about a table spoon of Dijon mustard in a pan,

784
00:53:44,040 --> 00:53:47,439
Speaker 1: warmed it to emulsify and mix, then baste it over.

785
00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:51,680
Speaker 1: It made a deliciously calmely tangy tart kind of glaze

786
00:53:51,719 --> 00:53:56,640
Speaker 1: on the meat. I've been enjoying your repartee and D

787
00:53:56,719 --> 00:54:02,000
Speaker 1: and D updates. Um just mentioned half Elf Silt Siliqui,

788
00:54:02,400 --> 00:54:06,239
Speaker 1: Silackwi Smith, my first character who was pretty brutally and

789
00:54:06,320 --> 00:54:10,680
Speaker 1: descriptively decapitated by a bugbear. And I still feel like

790
00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:14,440
Speaker 1: a real Housewives of New Jersey style flipping tables. And

791
00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:18,760
Speaker 1: it's been like seven years. I get you, I think.

792
00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:20,960
Speaker 1: I mean, we've talked about it before, but there have

793
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:23,719
Speaker 1: been certain sessions in our campaign that I'm not sure

794
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:26,839
Speaker 1: I'll ever let go. Oh yeah, no, you hold onto

795
00:54:26,880 --> 00:54:29,920
Speaker 1: that forever. And I can't tell you not to. No. No,

796
00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:35,200
Speaker 1: it's a serious business. Um, it's too bad decapitation as well,

797
00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:42,200
Speaker 1: and by a bugbear. Yeah yeah, But thank you for

798
00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:46,400
Speaker 1: sharing all of these recipes, handwritten recipes, listeners that we

799
00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:48,319
Speaker 1: always feel bad when we're like telling you about these

800
00:54:48,320 --> 00:54:51,280
Speaker 1: images people have saying we're like, well, the recipe looks great,

801
00:54:51,640 --> 00:54:57,080
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, and I have one sounds good. Um. I

802
00:54:57,239 --> 00:54:59,319
Speaker 1: also we used to have I had a friend group

803
00:54:59,360 --> 00:55:02,160
Speaker 1: that did something similar with the gift exchange. It's kind

804
00:55:02,160 --> 00:55:05,920
Speaker 1: of like a prank gift exchange. Um, and I love it.

805
00:55:05,920 --> 00:55:10,279
Speaker 1: I support it, so oh yeah, oh yes, all the time.

806
00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:15,920
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm. And yeah, not everybody can love panatone, but

807
00:55:16,239 --> 00:55:19,960
Speaker 1: that's okay, that's all right. You know, I think I

808
00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:22,920
Speaker 1: think I think there's time maybe not maybe not for Steven,

809
00:55:23,160 --> 00:55:25,960
Speaker 1: but but for but for little bubs. I think that,

810
00:55:26,040 --> 00:55:30,279
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think so. Maybe check

811
00:55:30,320 --> 00:55:33,279
Speaker 1: back in, keep trying every now and then and let

812
00:55:33,360 --> 00:55:39,160
Speaker 1: us know. Well, thanks to you both of those listeners

813
00:55:39,160 --> 00:55:40,680
Speaker 1: who are writing to us. If you would like to

814
00:55:40,719 --> 00:55:42,680
Speaker 1: write to us that you can our emails hello at

815
00:55:42,719 --> 00:55:45,400
Speaker 1: savor pod dot com. We're also on social media. You

816
00:55:45,440 --> 00:55:49,480
Speaker 1: can find us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram at saver pod,

817
00:55:49,520 --> 00:55:51,759
Speaker 1: and we do hope to hear from you. Savor is

818
00:55:51,760 --> 00:55:54,120
Speaker 1: a production of I Heart Radio. For more podcasts my

819
00:55:54,160 --> 00:55:56,400
Speaker 1: heart Radio, you can visit the I Heart Radio app,

820
00:55:56,680 --> 00:55:59,520
Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.

821
00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:02,759
Speaker 1: Thanks as always to our super producers Dylan Fagan and

822
00:56:02,760 --> 00:56:05,160
Speaker 1: Andrew Howard. Thanks to you for listening, and we hope

823
00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:14,680
Speaker 1: that lots more good things are coming your way. H