THESE GUYS! - NFL... FAKE? + BEST MASCOTS + NICK SABAN BARISTA

Episode Date: September 22, 2026

"Imagine walking into a seasonal coffee shop where Nick Saban is behind the counter refusing to serve light roast, Pat McAfee is standing on the counter shouting latte orders, and Darren McFa...dden runs your drink out to your car like a read-option play." That is the exact college game day fever dream we constructed in the clubhouse today while trying to fix Saturday mornings. Why does an NFL game scheduled for 7:30 PM not actually kick off until 7:52 PM while some guy wearing bright orange oven mitts up to his elbows holds the entire stadium hostage for TV commercials? We break down why college football feels like a real holiday every single Saturday, while the NFL feels completely fake until Week 8 when Halloween bonfires hit.Then, Mel's Best Available returns from a month-long hiatus for the ELITE brand and team mascots. We establish the official Holy Trinity of culture (Jesus, Santa Claus, and Mickey Mouse), debate why Joe Camel in black Ray-Bans playing pool would steal your girl, and relive eating 1998 KFC Zingers while watching Adam Sandler put on lipstick in Billy Madison. We salute the Icy Bear's baggy jeans and shades, explain why Pizza King's model train delivering breadsticks directly to your booth was pure childhood magic, and crown the Suns Gorilla for dunking off trampolines in a Steve Nash jersey. To close things out, we run through honorable mentions including the Stanford Tree, Boltman, Uga drooling on his spiked doghouse, and why the Nesquik Bunny deserves way more respect than actual human beings🤝 *JOIN THE CLUBHOUSE DISCORD*TG CLUBHOUSE https://discord.gg/7X63C4HF8y📬 *SUPPORT THE SHOW*Hit us up on the email line: teamtheseguys@gmail.com🎧 *Listen to the full pod*https://open.spotify.com/show/0DCF4F4r78p0eXiD3fyh2Lhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/these-guys/id1649757408🍻 *Follow us on Instagram*These Guys! https://www.instagram.com/theseguyslolBenedict Polizzi https://www.instagram.com/benedictpolizziJoey Mulinaro https://www.instagram.com/joeymulinaroFollow our Facebook Page!https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61579678466463🧢 *50% OFF ALL MERCH with code BALD at checkout*https://www.benedictmerch.com

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Starting point is 00:00:00 My dad hit me up last Saturday. He goes, every Saturday is a holiday in the fall, B. I was like, pretty good, pretty good. Let's go. Not bad for a fat guy. What up, Clubhouse is Benny Plitzing, Joey Mulnero. On this week's T.G, did they both listen to Take Me Home Tonight in their cars and cry a little bit? No, they didn't do that.
Starting point is 00:00:24 Did they invent their own college game day coffee shop and is Pat McAfee yelling out the orders and is Nick Saban the marista? Nah, they would never talk about that. Does the NFL feel fake until week eight? Absolutely. And who's the coolest mascot? Is it the Sun's gorilla? Or is it the icy bear?
Starting point is 00:00:43 Is Santa more influential than Jesus? Pretty much. Let's start the show. Can feel my heartbeat faster, faster, faster, take me home. Tittat, T, T, T. TG204. That's those 80 songs that you know that your dad was rocking with in 1985 and you're rocking with it the same way.
Starting point is 00:01:11 And it just feels good. I think I've listened to it 74 times in a row. I'm not kidding. Just for like two days in a row. I'm like, I cried in my car to it on the way home from an open mic. I swear. I was like, it's just hitting, dude. It's such an emotional song.
Starting point is 00:01:29 It is. And it does. It makes you want to be in 1984. And like you're driving your hot rod red car to go chase down the girl down the street that you're supposed to be with that you just now realize. Like it's just such a movie scene song. It's a movie song for sure. It's got so much like a heart in it and soul. Take me.
Starting point is 00:01:53 Like I've never heard of like they just don't do songs like that anymore. Or maybe I just don't know song. Or maybe we're just 52 Or maybe that's just me Yeah Sometimes I wonder about New Clubhouse Like I said they follow
Starting point is 00:02:09 And I see class of 28 in high school Class of 30 in high school I'm like wow You are in for a different world here kid Glad to have you And for a different world Yeah Why do they talk about
Starting point is 00:02:24 All the 80s songs But that's all good That's all good. You know what, man? Where do you stand on, where do you stand on pregame shows and the festivities? Like in general or like what league? Like NFL?
Starting point is 00:02:42 Yeah. NFL college. Dude, week one NFL. Seahawks Patriots. I almost blew my head off watching that pregame show and all the festivities leading up to it. I was like, when can we start the game?
Starting point is 00:03:02 How many songs, dude? How many songs do we need to sing before the game starts? Do I'm making up songs now? I'm really surprised. I'm really surprised that you said that. But I'm the same way. Guys who are 52. Here it is.
Starting point is 00:03:20 This has been a whole life thing for me. I'm like National Anthem. I'll be back when it's over. I mean, I, you know, typically. and I feel it hits me to start of every football season because you forget kind of what all goes into it
Starting point is 00:03:38 and this could be said to for college football in their primetime game in the primetime game it's a 730 start time 735 kick that shit won't kick off till 752 and they're just vamping vaping vamping vamping vamping vamping filling in filling it
Starting point is 00:03:54 there's something there's yeah there's a there's a live animal on the field and then they do their lead-in that has the crowd chant and then they have to do the Heisman house thing and it's just, holy Lord guys, can we not just, hey, literally I want the alert when the kicker is setting the ball on the tee.
Starting point is 00:04:16 That's too much to ask. That's when I want to start watching the game. When the kicker goes like this with the ball. You know what they do that? They make the ball fat. When I was a kid, I was like, Ooh, that's so cool. I'd always try to do it with the ball, like in my garage.
Starting point is 00:04:31 You know, like, you had your football that you, like, rocked with for a little bit. You always had, you always had that football for like a year and then something would happen to it. Could never do it, though. I know. The corners were too hard. Yes, but that's where I want to start. I did. I just, like, I texted in the freebie, I was like, man, I'm.
Starting point is 00:04:55 Yeah, it was, it was Thursday night kickoff. And I was watching the dark. dark night at like 8, 18 p.m. And I was like, I'm not, I'm not switching. I'm not switching because I know when I switch over, we're still going to be having Cam Chancellor beat a drum or Richard Sherman raise up a flag. Oh my God.
Starting point is 00:05:18 A half part of me is like, why are we even showing this? Like, this is for the Seahawks fans. Like, this isn't, right? This isn't for us. Like, I almost feel like we're getting played a little bit. I'm like, what are you guys stalling for? Like, let's go. Right. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:05:34 That's why I think I'm a little bit more partial to college and college game day. You know, obviously love game day, Herbie, all the fellows. It's just a staple in the household. But I kind of like when they run over on the picks because the picks are fun to watch. But then all of a sudden, you know, you know that Beth Mowens is waiting on ESPN2 to take it right away. It feels real. It feels real. And they're holding all the people in the stadium.
Starting point is 00:05:58 at Ross Aide. They're holding all the people because they got to wait for the TV to be good to go. So it's 12.06 p.m. Kickoff was supposed to be five minutes ago. But they have to hold everybody because everybody on TV is watching McAfee
Starting point is 00:06:14 scream at the audience, make us big. And so I'm like, all right, this is good. We get some of the energy going with the crowd and game day. And now I'm fired up. And then, oh, yeah, they're going to roll right into it. And there's no, we don't got to set the scene with the announcers because they,
Starting point is 00:06:28 The announcers are already doing that shit. They got to get to kick off. Let's ride right now. That's funny. Like, you think about the behind the scenes. Are the refs, like, holding on to the game? Like, hold on, Sabin's about to pick, and then we can. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:43 Bro, you don't remember that revelation moment in your child? Revelation station. You don't remember that revelation in your childhood when you'd go to the RCA dome? And this didn't happen with you with your dad? Probably. Or your dad would be like, because those. questions always came to my mind too. When you're younger, you're like, well, how does the TV, how does the game know
Starting point is 00:07:05 that when TV's back? Like, you never really miss any action. How do they just know? And then you go to a game. I'll never forget, my dad and my grandpa, they said, yeah, hey, you see that guy down there standing on the field with the bright orange gloves? It's like, yeah, obviously can't miss that guy. Like, yeah, he's the guy that lets them know when they're good to go.
Starting point is 00:07:28 like watch him. So the guy with the orange dealt up to his elbows, literally two oven mitts on. Two ovens, two orange ovens up to his elbows would be standing there, standing there on the field.
Starting point is 00:07:42 And you're watching them and you're like, the players would be out in the field and they'd be jumping up and down and stuff. You're kind of like, let's go. What are we waiting on? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:07:50 You look in the orange glove guy is still there. And you'd be like, they're still in commercial? Still holding. Still holding people on the field. Brown down Wow
Starting point is 00:08:01 Bois Bois Got orange orange gloves still staying man Yeah Yeah You're like Wow
Starting point is 00:08:12 Okay I'm getting how we do this now Good little live game tip right there I've never seen that guy I've never seen orange glove guy He's always like He's always at like the 25 or 30 yard line
Starting point is 00:08:27 by like Typically In his like X-Men thing he's in Like why does he get that Typically on the Home side I'm pretty sure the home side line Because typically
Starting point is 00:08:42 The broadcast booth And all the people who are up in the press box Are on the home side of the field See look in that area And just look for a guy That'll come out and he'll stand He won't go like in the middle of the field But he'll stand on the field
Starting point is 00:08:56 To where he's noticeable Yeah, okay. And he'll have the gloves. Yep. Check out that guy next time. Hey, dream job. Yeah,
Starting point is 00:09:06 for a while there, I'd be wondering, dude, like you said, it'd be like, is he messing with us now? Like, are we,
Starting point is 00:09:12 is the cameras just back on the field? And the players are just jumping up and down? Yeah. Like a little bit of ego takes over in that guy. And he's like, let's give it a couple more seconds. Oh,
Starting point is 00:09:23 yeah, for sure. It's my world. He's like, hey, Pey, man, you decide when we play? Check out the gloves, boss.
Starting point is 00:09:31 I am CBS. Yeah. I don't know. Because I used to be all into that. I was like, give me the pregame shows, give me the festivities, give me the intros, give me the, you know, because it's here and it's exciting. And boy, I'm like, man, I'm not missing Heath Ledger's performance as Joker. I'll soak up two more minutes of that so I don't have to watch the fucking Seahawk fly in.
Starting point is 00:09:57 You feel like a putt watching all that stuff. I like, I feel like a lab rat, like watching all the pregame. I'm like, the Eagle, the band, there's 17 songs. I'm like, this is just so insane. Like for the Super Bowl, yes, but like they're just doing it for so much stuff. That's why I like college football more than NFL football. It's just like more pure. It just seems more real.
Starting point is 00:10:24 I don't know. I get a better vibe from it. I go through this thing. There's been so much college football slander that I'm like, no. I don't know. I'm just, I, I, I, no, dude, that's, hey, hey, hey, speak your truth, man, speak your truth. You too, though. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:41 But I go through this weird thing every time of year, every time the calendar rolls into where we are right now. The best time ever. And I think we talked about this before. the first month of the NFL Ew, dude, Ew! Thank you, man.
Starting point is 00:11:06 If you understand that, we are friends. But I don't ever have that feeling about college football. No, because it's like real football. It's like true and it's like passion. NFL's like, money gambling,
Starting point is 00:11:20 beer. It's just like gross feeling. But here's what happens. And it's like fake too. You know, there's fake football guys out there that are like, football. And you're like, dude, you don't know. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:11:37 But then it also flips. It flips to where once we get kind of mid to late October, you start getting into some, you know, some big matchups, some week seven, week eight. Week eight to real NFL. You start hearing the ghosts out there. And then really it's the cowher theory. of like November and December.
Starting point is 00:11:58 You know, it's like, once you get to Thanksgiving. Then you start to come and figure out who are. Thanksgiving is like the like, okay, football. Football's really starting. NFL is really here. Like there's injuries, there's adversity. Like, yeah. Yeah, right.
Starting point is 00:12:14 Right around those holidays. So then I become NFL guy. And then while that's happening simultaneously, as much as I love bowl season, even though it's degrading from what it used to be, as much as I love bowl season at that point in time I'm kind of like
Starting point is 00:12:29 college football like no one plays any bowl games you know it's like it's going to be the same for my interest in college football kind of wanes a little bit more the deeper the season goes
Starting point is 00:12:43 so when it's post Thanksgiving and the bowl season and even the college football playoff to some extent I'm kind of like yeah I want to watch because I'm a football freak but I'm really locked in on the NFL
Starting point is 00:12:54 So it's going, it's, it's, you're going this way. Dude, crazy how both, they're both going at the same time. It's just insane how like we have college football on Saturday and NFL on Sunday. It seems, it seems like it shouldn't be like happening at the same. The first, I think maybe that, okay, this might go into some of it too. The first six weeks of college football lines up in the first part of school. And so to you, in your head still, You're like Saturday, dude.
Starting point is 00:13:26 Friday and Saturday, college football, it's the weekend. Let's go. That first six weeks of the NFL, five, six weeks of the NFL, it's still the beginning of school. You're like, ew. It's hot on Sunday still. I got CYO football. I got homework I have to do. Like the Patriots aren't good right now, but they're going to be good later.
Starting point is 00:13:50 I don't know. It just seems kind of, it's just, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, I hate the phrase fraudulent, but like it's just, it's not the same. Big scam. You know? But then all of a sudden you start going to bonfires and it's Halloween and it's pitch black when the Eagles play the Steelers. And on October 25th, you're like, okay. Now we're talking.
Starting point is 00:14:17 Now we're playing. Now this is the NFL. Yes. Yes. The NFL I kind of know. Right. The NFL. I used to know
Starting point is 00:14:26 Betty Is that our new song coming out? I'm trying to The NFL I used to know Why can I know It's all by I'm trying to think of a Pre-east home
Starting point is 00:14:43 Ingerald Betis A name for somebody Fuck Damn Now you're just an NFL I used to know. Hey, my dad hit me up last Saturday.
Starting point is 00:15:05 He goes, every Saturday is a holiday in the fall, B. I was like pretty good, pretty good. Let's go. Write it down. See, that's where we need in the Discord from Coach P. Every Saturday is a holiday in the, and I was thinking about it, I was like, he's kind of right.
Starting point is 00:15:21 Like, it does feel like that. Every Saturday is very, like, significant. Like very, yep, uh-huh, yep, got to have it. Big matchup. I get excited going to bed on Friday nights. And I'm pumped to wake up on Saturday morning because, and I'm, hey, one of those, the earlier the better, wake me up at 5.30 on a Saturday morning. Let's go.
Starting point is 00:15:44 There needs to be like a coffee at Dunkin' Donuts or Starbucks. That's called like College Game Day coffee or something like that. College Game Day roast. I know. Because like college college game day Right when you wake up in coffee is just Man there's something about that mix
Starting point is 00:16:03 Hey let's take it a step further Not just a roast Why is there not a coffee shop That is just for college football And it's fans College game day College game day College coffee
Starting point is 00:16:17 Now I know what you're asking yourself But Joey how are you going to stay in business The elder 340 days out of the year I mean, yeah, we'll cross that bridge and we can count to it, but I'm just saying there should be a place that maybe it's just transformed for those 13 or 14 Saturdays.
Starting point is 00:16:38 Yeah, it's like a spear of Halloween. It just pops up. Yeah. Seasonal. What's wrong with seasonal stuff? I think everything should be seasonal. Like, low-key malls should be seasonal. Like, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:16:51 Now, I love malls. Like holiday season. Like, the mall's jumping. The mall's the malls. Like the NFL's the NFL. The mall is the mall when you get into like Christmas. You're like, this is the mall. I used to know.
Starting point is 00:17:05 But like sometimes in the summer, you're like, the mall's kind of dead. Yeah, the mall's kind of weird. I feel like a hangover. When it's hot outside, the sun's real bright. Oh, God. Yeah. Tough. Am I going to get killed in here?
Starting point is 00:17:20 Yeah. Still going. Blondy's 50 samples. I like a local pod. My first stop. Yeah, seasonal mall, seasonal coffee shop. Just like Halloween. Shut up about it.
Starting point is 00:17:35 All college football themed. Hey, you're walking in. You have one of those life-sized bobbleheads of Lee Horso greeting you. You know who the barista is? Here we go. Sabin the barista. Can I get a, hey, oh my God, do the impression. Why was I about to do the impression?
Starting point is 00:18:02 Like I'm the guy doing impression. Well, I'm going to do a light roast, Ty. It's not going to do a light roast. We don't have light roast. We got dark roast. They got a problem with it. We can do a pourover, so stop asking. You know, and they always do the pourover.
Starting point is 00:18:15 I'm like, what is that? Why do you think I'm trained on coffee? I see it on the Instagram. You see it on the internet. You want the pour over. We do the pour over. You just stop asking. Dude.
Starting point is 00:18:26 Yeah. But hey, dude, it's just like in Spirit Halloween. Like you said, you know, you walk in there and they have those like nine foot statues of the Grim Reaper, you know? They got a life size Michael Myers. Where does it come from? Where they get it from? I don't know. But it's there.
Starting point is 00:18:43 Seasonal. Same shit. Same shit. Life size bobblehead Lee Corso. Put a different head, put a different headgear on it. Big Penn State nitty lion next to it. It's a robetronic. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:18:57 Can you imagine that? walking into the college football coffee shop and all the mascots are in there kind of like sports center this is sports center commercials Syracuse Orange Yeah but not even like the whole Not even everybody just like I said
Starting point is 00:19:11 Like at the front of Spirit Halloween Okay so now we're Now we're doing it like at the front of Spirit Halloween At the front of this coffee shop or inside Like you said you got the Lee Corso You got the Syracuse Orange There's kind of a random hodgepodge of ones Like six of them
Starting point is 00:19:24 You know what I mean? A little bit of rubtronic You have a wall You have a wall of the different headgear Heads that you can put on Wall of helmets Wall of helmets but then also the wall of the headgear So you can like be corso for Hey
Starting point is 00:19:39 Dude take a picture with Bevo Bevo Pumpkin spice Dude the only coffee shop your girl hates Finally We've made a coffee shop That's a safe space here guys Oh my God
Starting point is 00:19:58 Hey, do you want it like a macha? Do you want like, she's like, I'm good. You're like, yeah. Yeah. No, I was thinking, I was thinking you walk into the college football coffee shop and it's like, it's like our imaginary world, you know? You see Darren McFadden suit it up. Yeah. So, hey, dude, do you know the bathroom code?
Starting point is 00:20:18 He's like, yeah. Yeah. He delivers your, he delivers your orders to you. Takes it from the bracelet like a read option. can you uh yeah there's a mobile order but they're parked down the street Darren McFadden gets there in three seconds out of the out of the wildcat he acts like he's going to throw it and then runs it
Starting point is 00:20:42 he's busy right now but Felix Jones is available your your girl orders like a green tea like I didn't just I guess I'll have like a green tea or something comes out in a Tulane Green Wave mug slides across what the hell is this I like
Starting point is 00:21:06 don't know if I like it sees Brady Quinn in the corner working on his laptop never mind we can stay here for a little bit McAfee's get people to chant at you if you mess up your order you know Maggie yelling out names
Starting point is 00:21:26 Joey Mogulatte Oh, standing on the counter. We have a spice latte for the good luck and guy in the corner. Yeah, dude, that'd be so thick. College, college game day coffee. Dude, how your dad would love to go there. Like, taking your dad there? Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:21:59 Desmond Howard is like. Hey, I know a place. Desmond Howard's just like popping in it out laughing at different people's conversations with his laugh You're like yes the Desmond Howard laugh All right do it do it do it Every time you do it
Starting point is 00:22:13 Reef Davis is just he's the head barista he's the one taking the orders Mm-hmm Yeah God I do anything Mm-hmm Reese Davis making my coffee Oh It's really the last thing I need
Starting point is 00:22:36 Honestly put a bullet in my head How's your experience Right when you walk out It's just the last thing I needed Honestly I can die now Yeah I see my mind I'm already just like
Starting point is 00:22:54 What can be a good location for this Can we slide this in Who's some people with some money That we can talk to What's a good location Honestly probably Probably Pat McAfee Is it's a good one to talk to
Starting point is 00:23:06 You'd be all about that. Hey, Pat. Hear us out, buddy. Hang with me here. You know how to make coffee? Yeah. You just, hey, just a few Saturdays a year, man. Just a few Saturdays a year.
Starting point is 00:23:21 Popping. Yeah, we're good. We'll run it. Me and you just turn into baristas. It's called Clubhouse coffee. All right. All right. Swear, this is the first we've talked about this, guys.
Starting point is 00:23:34 I've never thought about it before. There's just one crazy college football fan, though, still dresses Michael Myers in the corner. Full out. The whole time. Mask on. Who's that? Who's that guy standing up next to Joey Harrington's table? Everybody wore.
Starting point is 00:23:57 Dude, all the jerseys in there would go so hard. No, babe, you have to wear a jersey. It's like the thing. You have to wear a jersey. She'd be into it. I think girls would be into it. Oh, me. girls aren't too dissimilar from us.
Starting point is 00:24:13 It's like they just want to have something, you know, just if something is a thing. A thing with it. A theme. Good theme. Good theme. A lot of good mascots there. A lot of good mascots there, I'm sure.
Starting point is 00:24:27 Naming the coffee? Yeah, I know. Well, step it all over by Segway. A lot of good mascots out there. A lot of good mascots on this show. Mel's best available. makes its return to a month-long hiatus. Oh, oh!
Starting point is 00:24:48 Mel's Best Available Mascots. Talk to me, baby. This is a fun one. The more, when you... Poopie, boy. Oh, whoa. When Ben first brought it up to me, I was like, yeah, mascots okay.
Starting point is 00:25:06 But then he was like, brand or team. And I was like, oh, now we're real. This is, this is fun. Let's open some doors here. Any mascot ever. Yeah This is something that like Yeah
Starting point is 00:25:20 You're gonna kick my ass on this I'm sure No I'm not I mean everybody has their own like Everybody has their own guy that they like I've got about 15 I can't really think But I'll start Go ahead Mel's best available
Starting point is 00:25:35 Best Mascot Crazy one Always had him in the back of my head Joe Camel Camel cigarettes I mean dang invented cool Good one
Starting point is 00:25:58 Growing up I'm just like That's the guy He's playing the piano Got the got the Ray bands on Like how do you make a camel cool Huh? You know
Starting point is 00:26:16 Like the camels are cool It's kind of, he served really a point for everybody. Similarly to how we talk about, hey, hey, you think your fit's good? Picture fat guy in it. On the other way, it's like, hey, you're not cool. Okay, you want to be cool? Put on some black ray bands and a cigarette in your mouth. He's so cool.
Starting point is 00:26:39 Playing pool. Throwing darts, shades on. Nobody looks better in a suit than Joe can. That guy in your wedding? Just rip and heaters. Cool's voice ever. Oh my God. Doesn't even need to say anything, though.
Starting point is 00:27:01 I don't think he needs to talk. Hey, man. Congratulations on your nuptials. You're like, invented being cool. Joe Camel, number one. Hey, probably been talked about before,
Starting point is 00:27:16 but is Chester Cheeto kind of a weird nepo baby of Joe Camel? Yeah, they're definitely boys. Like they definitely saw each other and they're like, hey, hey, love your stuff. Man, see, I think that like,
Starting point is 00:27:35 for some reason Chester Chito's kind of looking like Joe Camel. I can see it is where Chester Chito is like the birth, the love child of Joe Camel and Chester Chito is just like, yeah. Yeah, my dad, you know, my dad is. My dad's Joe Camel. You know, he's getting real fucked. up a lot real, we're really doing
Starting point is 00:27:53 like hard drugs, slammed his head into glass and shit. Chester Cheetah. Chester Cheetah, is it Cheeto or Cheetah? Chester. Whatever. He's a Cheeto mascot. That's not my pick, but. Kind of feel like he's just Snoop Dog.
Starting point is 00:28:09 Like if like is that just Snoop? He has like a goat tea. Like that's a Snoop. That's a good point. That's a good point. All right, my, uh, Mel's best available for me off the board.
Starting point is 00:28:25 I mean, that Gimich more iconic than this. It's everywhere. Owns everything. Mel's best available mascots. Mickey Mouse. Hmm. A real kingpin in the game. Not only, like it or not.
Starting point is 00:28:42 Yeah, not only are you talking for war, the theme parks, the most magical place on earth, Disney World, Disneyland. But just for the entirety of the brand itself, merchandise, movies, shows. He's the guy holding the hand of the founder. He's got a statue holding the hand of the founder. It's him and Walt Disney. You know, Disney has a whole bunch of different characters. Everybody loves their characters, Pluto, Goofy, Daisy Donald.
Starting point is 00:29:19 You know, it goes all the way. You go all the way up to current times of shit that's just come out. recently. But Mickey Mouse is Disney. He's like top three all time. Jesus, Santa, Mickey? Like really, though? Hey, Mickey?
Starting point is 00:29:38 They call it the House of Mouse, bro. Mickey might take out Santa one of these days. Like, Mickey's real deal. Hey, there's been some Disney Christmas episodes, of stuff where Mickey's playing Santa and you're like, yeah. Could be the guy. Could be our new guy. Makes sense.
Starting point is 00:30:01 Jesus Santa, Mickey Mouse. Who do you pray to? Holy Trinity, baby. Jesus. Holy Trinity of this show. Jesus Santa, Mickey Mouse, and Dante Cole Pepper? But he's got the logo too. You see the ears, you know. Just the ears, too.
Starting point is 00:30:21 All right. Everybody at Disney World Disneyland, they got all the custom ears, all the different, you know, I've done it. I've been a Disney adult. I've worn the ears. The wife wears the themed ears. You see him everywhere. It's just Mickey's ears. It's not Donald. It's not Goofy's hat. Wouldn't even be able to identify Goofy's hat.
Starting point is 00:30:38 He's wearing Mickey ears. Right. Everybody's into it. Makes for a great dessert food shape. The Mickey pancakes. The Mickey ice cream bar. Mickey ice cream bars. Mickey Rice Krispy Treat bars
Starting point is 00:30:56 Mickey Waffles I gotta look this up Best Mickey food I mean they got it all Those are just a few that come off the top And it just it works perfectly Circular enough To where you're eating in a pancake form
Starting point is 00:31:10 Like yeah I got one big one I got two little ones Mickey Mouse pizza Mickey Mouse pretzel Yeah It's gonna be like the most proud My wife's ever been of me Picking Mickey
Starting point is 00:31:27 That's my first took Mickey out one. Good pick. Yeah, was pumped. I knew you weren't going to take him one, but still nonetheless, pumped to have him. Now for me,
Starting point is 00:31:42 it's a little tough because... Yeah, yeah. It's all like very personal... Sure. From here on out. I might not even pick a mascot in the top three. Is that crazy?
Starting point is 00:31:55 I mean, if we're picking best mascots and you don't pick a mascot, kind of, but let me hear it, yeah. No, like, I mean, like a... sports mascot like sideline mascot oh oh yeah that's what I mean my bad my bad no no no this is just
Starting point is 00:32:10 true to my heart got to roll with it kind of in my DNA best mascots Mel's best available Colonel Sanders a real toss up dude there's a lot there stuff but Colonel Sanders is like for a minute I was like
Starting point is 00:32:31 is that my grandpa Like that's how much KFC means to me, honestly. Like you have a lot grown up? You guys are KFC? Oh my gosh. My grandpa owned a KFC. Oh, okay. So like I was like locked in.
Starting point is 00:32:49 Like when we went to my grandpa's house, it was like, and you know when you have like fried chicken as a kid, you're like, oh my God. It's like a different kind of special, different occasion. And not to be that guy, but to be that guy. I'm probably talking mid-90s, late 90s KFC, a lot different than KFC today. Oh, yeah. Like 1998 KFC.
Starting point is 00:33:13 Fuck. Is there ever been two better restaurants than 1998 KFC and 1998 Pizza Hut? And they're the same thing. Oh my God, they're homies. Oh, not to mention. LeBron D. Wade, maim. What it is? KFC and Pizza Hut.
Starting point is 00:33:37 Oh my God. To fried chicken, macaroni, unbelievable, just blowing my mind every time. Still does. And, you know, I mean, pretty wild staying power. I know they had to switch some things up, but like, Colonel Sanders been around. And Colonel Sanders has been around during some pretty, you know, turbulent times that probably maybe shouldn't still be around. Yeah, he's been holding it down. And still, you see a KFC commercial.
Starting point is 00:34:12 It's like now it's kind of like the sleek or skinnier one, you know? Yeah. But the character's still there. He's had a couple of rebrands, but boss, boss. On that bucket. You just trust them. You just trust them on that bucket. When your aunt brings a KFC bucket to the family party, it's crazy.
Starting point is 00:34:38 I like it. Thinking about you eating KFCs funny. It's an interesting juxtaposition there. Never thought I'd hear that. Oh my God, I love it. Every time I see a KFC, I'm like, what if I did? What if I did? I did a brand deal with KFC like three years ago.
Starting point is 00:35:00 That's cool. That's my dream. They were, because they were coming out with, for football season, they were branching out into their own version of wings. Yeah, that's a lot of things I always think about that too Wings at KFC Used to be my go to wing
Starting point is 00:35:18 when I didn't know wing game I'd get the honey barbecue Bownless wings from KFC Dude KFC invented popcorn chicken Like what the hell? Their popcorn chicken with some mashed potatoes A little mixie The container for popcorn chicken
Starting point is 00:35:36 It just looks like a party in there You're like, yeah. And then they put in the famous pool? What the hell? That's amazing. Hey, the, what they used to call them? Oh, my God. There were zingers.
Starting point is 00:35:56 Yeah. Oh, the little sandwiches. Slept on. Yeah. Oh, man. Great bread. And it was just like lettuce and a sauce on the chip. Great name.
Starting point is 00:36:08 Zinger. My mom would bring home a bag of eight. of those Michigan States on TV. Hey, you want to go get some Zingers B? I can get my dad on some like KFC. Like I could hype him up enough to be like, all right, KFC night. Like all of a sudden, four o'clock rolls around.
Starting point is 00:36:29 He's sick of hearing about it. I thought we were doing KFC tonight. That's too good. A, B. A, B. Extra crispy tonight, B. All of a sudden, he's KFC guy.
Starting point is 00:36:46 All of a sudden, he's Colonel Sanders. Yeah. You look over. Oh my God. It's my mind playing tricks on me? What the hell? I didn't know CS was here. Cs, CS, CS, CS.
Starting point is 00:36:58 Hey, also, too, weirdly played as if, as most things did. And from this time of my life and still is. The line from Waterboy? No kind of sand is yo wrong. Mama's right. Dude. the professor and fucking water boy
Starting point is 00:37:16 yeah CS he's everywhere I thought of a random Adam Sandler moment today and it's just never mind it's so off topic never mind
Starting point is 00:37:27 I gotta hear it now okay I think the funniest moment I've ever seen like the craziest left turn of my life was when in Billy Madison he like called
Starting point is 00:37:44 that guy back that he like always bullied and he had like the hit list yeah he had the hit list and then he put on lipstick after that bro i think it was the funniest moment of my life when i saw that like i was like oh ho like i had like a like a i was like that is just the funniest thing i've ever did not see that comment like him on his bed like being understanding and like crossing his name off of billy madison and then hey look the lipstick bro oh my god i geeked. And I thought about that randomly today and I was like, that might be the funniest moment of my life right there.
Starting point is 00:38:21 Holy. Whoever was like, yo, make him put lipstick on after that. I love that guy. Dude, and the song too. Dude, that makes like, fried. You nailed it, though. When I'm nine years old watching that, I'm like, I want to be in movies. I want to make video.
Starting point is 00:38:44 Like, I want to do that. Like, that is so fun. Close your mind. Yeah, blew your mind. And after that, I was like, I got to do something. I got to do stuff I got. I got to do that. I got to be that guy.
Starting point is 00:38:55 100%. And if I ever, the day that we have Adam Sandler on this show or that we get to meet or whatever, I think I'm going to bring that up to him. I'm going to say, hey, that's scene in Billy Madison. Yeah, he'll be thinking it'll be like one of the classic ones of like him yelling or something. I'm like, no, no, no, no. The Bashimi scene. That's it.
Starting point is 00:39:15 That's why we're here. That's, you know. That's a good. back pocket like gem to have because you see Adam Sandler randomly he was at a comedy club I'm always at the other night and I was like damn I could have been there I'm busting that out
Starting point is 00:39:29 so good all right Mel's best available best mascots you mentioned a little bit earlier glad you didn't go there Santa Claus but to be more specific the Coca-Cola
Starting point is 00:39:51 Santa Claus That's the real Santa. Oh, they made Santa Claus, didn't they? Did you tell me that? They, no, there was talks about that. People were wondering. They just formed him into, I guess, kind of. I think they kind of formed him into the commercialized version that we all know and love now
Starting point is 00:40:10 of the big fat, jolly guy with the white beard and the red suit. Because the origins obviously come from like St. Nicholas and the whole religious tie and everything. but, dude, Santa. Christmas, Santa. Santa Christmas. Snow meets shorts, shorts meets snow. Red cheeks, red nose.
Starting point is 00:40:36 So happy. Everything about them, just jolly. Nothing is, you can't think of the word Christmas or jolly without thinking about Santa Claus. Love the guy. Right. I mean, and then you spend how varying different levels. you know, and clubhouse parents out there
Starting point is 00:40:54 who are listening with some young kids give you a little bit of a beat here, three second beat to press pause, turn down the volume, turn it off, what have you, whatever you got to do. You spend the first seven to, spend the first six to eight years of your life. Worshiping.
Starting point is 00:41:15 No one better than that guy. Literally being good the whole year. Santa. Hey. Roald into September? Me and my wife would bust out to our kids. Hey, Christmas, not too far away.
Starting point is 00:41:34 Better start thinking. He's watching. Get it together. Dude, I was on the... Straight narrow? No, I was like, you know, not being the best kid, dude. And my mom would bring that out.
Starting point is 00:41:52 Hey, remember Santa. Dude, the way I'd get my act together. Boom. Immediately. Locked in. Doing chores without being asked. Saying trying to say something funny. Never mind. Yep. Santa. But he encompasses the whole season. He encompasses the holiday. He makes you want to get and give presents.
Starting point is 00:42:20 He makes you want to wear the hat and dress up like him. he makes you want to eat cookies drink Coke drink milk like I mean talk about mascots what they're there for basically just to like raise like raise spirits
Starting point is 00:42:40 and spread marketing and awareness tool like Jesus Santa what an influence wouldn't inspiration the rest of them holy shit the amount of movies is about this guy guys got movies
Starting point is 00:42:54 guys got people dressing up like I'm at the mall every mall in America there I got a hat I got Santa merch everybody's got a little Santa hat everybody has Santa merch
Starting point is 00:43:08 we're putting up trees in our houses yeah yeah just for this guy it's for this guy Hey, our dads are excited for this guy Uh-huh Hey, this guy's working at the North Pole
Starting point is 00:43:29 And he's also at Lambo catching Packers vikes December 20th Guys's everywhere This guy does it all I'm a more versatile guy Oh, that's one thing Santa God
Starting point is 00:43:46 What's the bad that Santa's bringing You know I'll never get off Santa's dick I swear Dude There's just few things I love more in this world Than when It's like December 9th
Starting point is 00:44:10 And they're in Jacksonville Great Dave CBS Patriots Jags in Jacksonville They get a crowd shot The guy in a full Santa outfit You're like Oh
Starting point is 00:44:25 It is time. It's 74 degrees in Jacksonville. It's Santa's still out there rocking. Something about Santa red with Jacksonville Jaguar's colors. It's just banging. Hey, wouldn't mind if the Jags threw the Santa hat on their helmet. Please? God.
Starting point is 00:44:46 Can we have a little fun? Because they've had it on the field. We know that. They used to have it on the field. Oh, what fun? Am I right? Oh, their glossy-ass helmet. Come on that jag.
Starting point is 00:44:58 If there was just a little tiny Santa cap, geez. Another way. Another thing that all I'd need to see was that, and then I could get shot in the head. It'd be perfect. Dude, black and gold, two-tone Jaguar's helmet. That helmet,
Starting point is 00:45:19 Jaguar on the side, Santa hat, I would die. My heart would stop. A, Blake Bordle's back at quarterback. Actually, maybe Brunel. I know, I know. I'm just inventing my head.
Starting point is 00:45:32 I'm going to talk about glossy. I know. Glossy Brunel out there slanging touchdowns of Jimmy Smith and Keenan McArdle like Santa's doing out of his slick. Mcardell's Santa helmet. Reflective flakes on it?
Starting point is 00:45:49 Yeah, I know what helmet you're talking about. I know exactly that. Those flakes, bro. Put those on. Put those on me. Yeah. In my casket, Jaguars Flakes.
Starting point is 00:46:00 Mm-hmm. You got it. Riding it all down. You're seasoning your food before you cook it. Oh, what did you put on there? Jaguars Flakes. Ooh.
Starting point is 00:46:13 2002 season. Yeah. It's from Jimmy Smith. So, yeah. All right. Santa. What the hell are they talking about?
Starting point is 00:46:25 Mel's best available mascots number wait this is my this will be the my third one okay yeah
Starting point is 00:46:33 cause is tough here damn I'm trying to think what is the most impact on my life I just can't I can't deny it it
Starting point is 00:46:51 Mel's best available best mascots the icy bear God some about not being able to have it a lot.
Starting point is 00:47:04 You walk into a store, the AC hits you, and you see the icy bear in a Walmart, like in the entrance. He's on the, he's got the snowboard, the shades. He's got the fit on. God dang it, man. That's such a cool ass bear. That bear's stealing your girlfriend. Yeah, one of those that's like, hey, you know, that big husky offensive linemen?
Starting point is 00:47:27 It's like six, five real big, you know, sweater. But you're like, dang, the chicks love that guy. God, got some sauce. That's the polar bet. That's the icy bear. Got some sauce for sure. This right here? Hey, come on.
Starting point is 00:47:51 Yeah, the shades. Cool ass bear. Hey, the fit he's got on to come back around, you know? Because that fit to me, I'm like 99, 2000. Here we are, 26. I'm like, Ben's going to be wearing that tomorrow. loose baggy jeans so that is the coolest bear of all time
Starting point is 00:48:11 and those glasses I mean those glasses are it's like what Justin Jefferson would wear and like the like I've only had two icies before like I've only I've only shook up with I've only met icy bear two times once on spring break senior year and a little
Starting point is 00:48:33 little mixy in there Oh my god Dude I was putting it down Red white I was naming them Giving them my friend Dude do do do do Well
Starting point is 00:48:44 That's what I was talking about Yeah yeah Yeah With the colors Yeah Having the time of my life In that 711 Hey on the pier
Starting point is 00:48:54 That's crazy That's a good call Yeah Correct me from wrong Available at movie theaters No I think they have always been there Yeah
Starting point is 00:49:08 And not to mention Icey Bears like I think they're boys Slush puppy Like Real one Icey bear Any relation to the Coca-Cola polar bears
Starting point is 00:49:23 Got to I think like Yeah It's in the bloodline Neighbors Neighbors for sure Yeah I grew up with Icey Bear
Starting point is 00:49:32 You're interviewing the Coke polar bear He was over at our house He's over at our igloo all the time. See, I don't think they're neighbors. I think like, I think the Coca-Cola bears are like Eli and Peyton Manning to I see bears Arch Manning. Oh,
Starting point is 00:49:50 wow. Okay, same family. Yeah. They saw each other on Christmas. Can you imagine being at that Christmas? The bear. Bear Christmas.
Starting point is 00:50:01 They're all at the same one. The sugar bear. All of them. Yeah, I think that's in the bloodline right there I think it's in the bloodline right there, partner All right All right. Just ripping off Lee Corso sound bites from
Starting point is 00:50:19 NCAA 07 just randomly. I was going for a little bit more guy Fieri there But Same guy All good, all good. Man, my tough stuff Don't feel too bad
Starting point is 00:50:36 because we got honorable men I know, I know we got honorable mentions, but like what's going on the graphic, you know? I've been thinking about that. Yeah, the graphics going to be sick. How are you going to live up to Mickey and Santa? I know, that's pretty, pretty damn good start there. Elite level mascots. All right, here, okay. I think I just, I got to go with this.
Starting point is 00:51:07 Do it. Yeah, go with your heart. Mel's best available mascots. The Pizza King. Oh, wow. Not a local pod. Pizza King, not available everywhere. Very, very Indiana.
Starting point is 00:51:28 Is it? Yeah. Is it just, oh, that pizza. I love that king. He's like very similar to the king on the card. That king is a cool, that king on the car. I'm like, damn, that is just the king. Like, that is the number one king to me, the guy in the card.
Starting point is 00:51:47 Very, very similar to that. Looks good on the box. Looks like something from home alone. I feel like when I get a pizza king box back of the day when I used to, because I don't really think there's that many around anymore. And it rarely happens. but I felt like I was getting a movie pizza because of the king,
Starting point is 00:52:13 because of the logo and the picture on the box. And back in the day, like Pizza King was, it was banging, it was hot, it was fresh, it was thin slices. There was those little tiny cute pepperoni's on there.
Starting point is 00:52:26 Like, it was good breadsticks. Then, oh, by the way, you go into the Pizza King, you're sitting in a booth, you're watching TV,
Starting point is 00:52:33 playing video games up there. Choo-choo, train comes in, leaves your breadsticks. and your drinks at your table. Really magical experience for a young kid. But, old too.
Starting point is 00:52:46 Yeah, but just, man, that's something that I was like, you know what? I could see myself wearing a t-shirt with the Pizza King on it. A hat?
Starting point is 00:52:58 Absolutely. Pizza King face on a hat? Oh my God. Hey, playing beer pong. Hey, the guy in the Pizza King hat needs a partner.
Starting point is 00:53:07 Do you want to play? Oh my God. Yeah, I love to. Just has a very sentimental Very sentimental. Yeah. How many rewrecks?
Starting point is 00:53:19 Let's go. Zipper. Oh. Pizza King guys looks like he's just having a great time eating that too. Right. He's eating the pizza.
Starting point is 00:53:30 Yeah, it's kind of like a dolphin situation where the dolphin's helmet has the Miami Dolphin also wearing a Miami helmet on it. It's kind of like inception. Inception. Like you're a pizza.
Starting point is 00:53:43 with the pizza king on the box, it's also eating pizza from pizza king? This makes too much sense to me. It's good stuff, man. It's good stuff. A little fact here. I thought you'd like this. 75 to 80 locations primarily in Indiana.
Starting point is 00:54:08 There are two that are not in Indiana. Ohio in Virginia Virginia I was going to say Michigan for sure I don't know that's crazy to me that's crazy like if you were in Virginia and saw a pizza king you'd be like oh
Starting point is 00:54:28 totally think it was fake I would totally think that I was dead and I was just like something happened and I got a new crash and going back to a couple episodes ago with Scott Hanson where we talked about the or even before that when we picked our favorite
Starting point is 00:54:44 NFL season I said 2011 that 2011 season like I mentioned it'd be me my sister my parents
Starting point is 00:54:53 DJ Dionelon a few other random people who would just come over every Sunday and we would get Pizza King every Sunday
Starting point is 00:55:00 and it was the best I've never even thought emotional tie there they've got sausage and pepperoni do they have like all the all the toppings
Starting point is 00:55:11 yeah because randomly this was like like I just always thought not a local pod but like where I grew up I just always thought it was like yeah it's like these three that are around here those are the only pizza kings I thought so dude and then I got older and my my wife's family is from the east side of Indianapolis kind of in the McCordsville area around there and there was a pizza king out there and so they'd be like one one time or one time when I was first around there they were like
Starting point is 00:55:42 get a pizza king then I Mm-hmm Do you guys know what that is? Right. So I was that to say, yeah, and they get like the deluxe. I got good deluxe pizza pizza king. The Supreme.
Starting point is 00:55:55 They're supreme, yay. Green peppers. God, put a green pepper on anything. Mushroom. They got the crumpled. They got the crumpled sausage. Little drizzled crumple sausage. That's the best sausage.
Starting point is 00:56:10 And then the little cubed pepperoni. I'm getting Pizza King soon You'll never sway me That's the best sausage I've ever seen Sausage on pizza is weird to me When people just be like, oh, I'm gonna get a sausage I'm like, that's way too much sausage, bro Big clumps of sausage
Starting point is 00:56:26 Yeah, the sausage pebbles I'm like, that's too much sausage Why would you ever want that? If they're just kind of Jaguars Flakes on there Jaguars Flakes Perfect That was a fun one Let's get some honorable mention here because I know I know both of us got some.
Starting point is 00:56:46 Honorable mention, Little Caesar. Yep, it was on there for me. But I was like, I think Pizza King's just better. Little Caesar's always had, he's always had your back. Like he's always been there college. Ah, it's $5. I still want one now. Very true.
Starting point is 00:57:04 Very true. He's like, man of few words, but he says a lot. He says a lot. Cool. like he's got that pattern the Greek yeah yep hey and he's also got
Starting point is 00:57:17 slogan pizza pizza it's all it's all he needs to say I kind of think Little Caesars invented the Hawaiian pizza I don't know why
Starting point is 00:57:29 but the first time I had pineapple on pizza it was a big Little Caesar's thing and I was like I think they're the OG originator of the do you like pineapple in your pizza like that's a little Caesar's
Starting point is 00:57:41 question. Interesting. Just me. This thing on? You want me to go or do you want it? What do you want? You want to knock yours out? I got a ton. Okay, I'll do a couple more. If we're doing sports mascots on the sidelines,
Starting point is 00:57:58 Stanford Tree. Crazy. Play them in the game. Mascot Challenge? A tree running down the sideline? It's just like a, when you're a kid, you're like, oh, They really like, they really leaned into that.
Starting point is 00:58:14 Like, yeah, yeah. What is Stanford? You know, like, when you're a kid, you're like, what is their mascot? You know, you're trying to figure all that out. Like, hard, what? But it's a tree. That's kind of cool. Then you see a tree with a mouth and eyes.
Starting point is 00:58:28 And you're like, Christmas kind of? This is sick. That's, that's like the coolest mascot, I think. Uh, the Western Kentucky big red guy. The hilltopper. Yeah. Yeah, big red guy. Just a big red guy with eyes.
Starting point is 00:58:45 That's all we need. Kind of like Grimmis' cousin. Yeah. Dude, a big red just gumdrop leading him out of the tunnel. Oh my God. His eyes on their helmets? Yeah. Western Kentucky's a sick, cool.
Starting point is 00:59:02 I would show to have gone there. Randomly with legs. Randomly with legs and shoes too. Big white shoes. Oh Yep That'll sell me I'll go there
Starting point is 00:59:17 Just because of him Dozeki's guy Yeah Kind of a father figure Kind of a father figure Yeah Yeah yeah And also
Starting point is 00:59:27 Is he Related to the Red Baron guy Same guy Yeah Like you know the brother that you don't hear about much, but he's like really, he's found his I don't think they were related, but I think that they hung out. They went to the same school. Like, you can't wait
Starting point is 00:59:52 for them to meet. You like see him at a party and you're like, oh my God, they're about to shake too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. These two guys are legends. Right. The Tulane Greenwave. Green wave. Second mention this week. Love it. Yeah, I mean, that's just like, it's a, it's a Roll wave. Roll wave. Phoenix Sun's gorilla.
Starting point is 01:00:16 That one blew my but still blows my mind, dude. So sick. Like, how do you not love that? Hey, when teams are schools, yeah, I mean, the same is Stanford. Like,
Starting point is 01:00:28 when teams are schools have a nickname, but then they're masking us. Nah. Just like a gorilla. Why don't they land on that? I don't know, but it's like you just love it. God, you just love it.
Starting point is 01:00:43 It makes it cooler. Yeah, they easily could have had like a walking sun, you know, like some dumbass and a big old round shaped sun outfit with legs and white shoes. They're like, nah, not doing that. I love the guy that was like, we're not doing the sun. We're doing a gorilla. I love that guy, whoever made that call.
Starting point is 01:01:08 Him jumping off trampolines dunking? Why don't I have that in my head? Probably because he was on He was on SportsCenter Like not top 10 or some crazy shit Like once a week Backboard at a high school Hold on
Starting point is 01:01:24 What's that dude's name? The Phoenix Sun's gorilla Was always doing some crazy shit He can get mad at him though That weird year When Shaq played there And you know that like Shack was always messing with him
Starting point is 01:01:42 Jack's so much fun That's why It's a grain into my head Bro His name His name is His name is Go The gorilla
Starting point is 01:01:56 I love mascot names To me he's just Steve Nash But That's so funny Just a big gorilla Out there with 25 Dance Team girls Like it's just so funny
Starting point is 01:02:14 Yeah but like has the sun's uniform on Like shorts Dude it's always the The Steve Nash Suns jersey too Like I can't picture that dude In a Devin Booker you know No
Starting point is 01:02:27 It's always like the WNBA Looking suns jersees Yeah Yeah On some Grant Hill We're in a headband and shit too Yeah What kind of shoes is he wearing?
Starting point is 01:02:45 Oh my, bro. Man, I just looked up a picture of it's even better. How do you not get hype when you see Go? The gorilla. That's like great. Great mascot. Do do do do do do. Yes, dude.
Starting point is 01:03:10 Bum, bim, bidabum, bum, but da'abum. That's the best. that's it that's the jersey that right there oh shit and like kind of low quality too they didn't like overdo it on his like mask
Starting point is 01:03:32 it's just like a mask you'd literally see at spirit Halloween and be like yeah hey that's what about a month from now you'd be hitting that for Halloween be a good costume all right I think I got one oh the seven up dot
Starting point is 01:03:47 do you remember that 7 up dot And also just 7 up Do they make it anymore 7 up was sick Such a weird relationship with 7 up Because I liked it But I was correlated so much
Starting point is 01:04:02 When I was sick Like with the flu Or I just had a You know my stomach ache And just wasn't mom all the time And here's a glass of 7 up And some saltine crackers I was like this is cool
Starting point is 01:04:14 But I did it too 7 up Went right to a croaker on 135 and I was sick. Got a seven up. I was like, do we have any, yeah,
Starting point is 01:04:26 do we have any medical insight on this? Or is this just kind of a wives tale that seven up and the bubbles? I don't know, but I had it every time. So good. Yeah. All right. All right.
Starting point is 01:04:40 Honorable missions for me. Oh, I got a number of go. I know you're going to have it on your list. This is tough. That this one didn't make. it, the Burger King. That was it.
Starting point is 01:04:51 Yep. Real sentimental. Obviously, the NFL commercials, Clubhouse sends it to us all the time. Love them. Icon. Icon. Wish you was still around.
Starting point is 01:05:03 He kind of is. Funny. Like those commercials where he really leaned in like being kind of creepy, you know? I always thought that was pretty funny. But you'll randomly see him like at a Jake Paul fight. I'm like, the Burger King guy?
Starting point is 01:05:15 Like coming out with him? All right, yeah, he's back Yeah Burger The Burger King Killer Um I think especially too
Starting point is 01:05:26 When it's rival Kind of is McDonald's with Ronald McDonald I'm like you're going against A really creepy Weird clown Yeah
Starting point is 01:05:35 I think he's kind of out I think Ronald I haven't said Ronald in a long time Mm-hmm Uh Going into some sideline ones here
Starting point is 01:05:44 Uh Oga The Bull Bulldog for Georgia? Hmm. I just, there's nothing like when you're watching a college, you're watching either college game day or a Georgia game. And they're right in the middle of the action.
Starting point is 01:06:01 You got, rah, crazy crowd. And the Bulldog faithful are loving it. And then they turn. And then they cut to a shot of Ogun. He's just, doesn't care. Yeah. Doesn't give a shit.
Starting point is 01:06:17 So. fat, so drooly. You know, the announcer making a comment, and Uga, Uga 5 loves it too. So funny, every time. Pure, pure white dog. Yeah, like, and it's just like a live mascot too. There's, you know, you have a few of them in college football, but just the fact
Starting point is 01:06:37 that he's like, he's got his little like bulldog house that has the spikes and shit on it on the sideline. Got all live in there. A brutus Buckeye. I have no tie or affiliation at all, but I just, when do you think of college football, when do you think of mascots in college football, Brutus, dude, you know, it's the head gear. It's the Corso head gear, like, it really is. Brutus is a good mascot.
Starting point is 01:07:05 He really ties it all together. Brings the energy, like, I don't know. And he's kind of like, he's kind of like trolling too. Like he's always like on, he's always doing like a little. Like he's always making fun of Michigan a little bit, and you got to respect him for it. For sure. This one,
Starting point is 01:07:24 a little interesting here because it's not technically the mascot, but it kind of is. How about Boltman from the Chargers? Look at Boltman. I actually met and got to talk to him when I was out in Pittsburgh for the draft and I was doing stuff with PNC Bank. Boltman was just walking around.
Starting point is 01:07:42 I was like, oh, I got to talk to this guy. Seeing this guy everywhere, Chargers games. He's kind of cool. Yeah. Cool name. It's like a superhero. And that's fully like he made that himself. That's custom made for himself. So he's not the like legit mascot. This is just a guy. No. Yeah. He's not the official. It says it's not the official mascot of the Chargers. But he's the official unofficial. Like when you think of a Chargers and mascot, people would be like, oh yeah, that guy that has the, it kind of looks like a lightning bolt. That guy. It's Bolt man. just a mad like he he like some like a woman loves him yeah yeah 17 weeks 17 Sundays in the fall
Starting point is 01:08:34 honey sorry wow what's your husband do he's bold man he uh he works in uh he works he's an electrician he's an electrician he travels a lot of the fall he uh yeah yeah He hooks it up. Then last one for me, another nostalgia tie here. Old Chucky Cheese. Not the new slim fit, hip one that's kind of like, oh, hey guys, what's going on? I'm talking about the old fat rat that would plop his way through
Starting point is 01:09:19 when you're at Chucky Cheese for a birthday party or at my case, Christmas Eve. like the live guy yeah not the roptronic like we're talking the actual one oh my god the robot was so wild like this guy yeah that's like a little like
Starting point is 01:09:38 bobblehead but yeah that looks like a that looks like a gnome and that would be out in the front yard purple shirt Chuck E yeah Chuck E yeah oh this dude's so cool are you talking about him hold on
Starting point is 01:09:54 how cool is this guy You show me the wrong guy. No, no, no. How cool is this guy, dude? I mean, that's the cool. Yeah. Yeah. That's a cool.
Starting point is 01:10:06 Skateboarding, playing electric guitar. Chuck E. But they had a rebrand probably like a decade or plus more ago. And it was just, you know, they were trying to modernize it and get a little sleeker. And I was like, oh, man, gave me that old school Chuckie cheese. Right there. Cool. You did great name.
Starting point is 01:10:28 You want to be friends with them. You're going there for a party. You know you're going to have fun. Getting pizza. Rats and pizza, man, you know? It is kind of a weird thing. They always have the best pizza. Another honorable mention Nesquick Bunny.
Starting point is 01:10:47 Oh, God, that's tough. That's a good one. It's a really good one. There's somebody with, so we're going to put this in the title. I feel like everybody's just going to automatically. I think we're going to be talking about. you know, the Panthers.
Starting point is 01:11:01 And it's like there's so many better, cooler ones that are for brands. They're almost like they seem like real people. Like I actually respect like the Nesquick Bunny more than people. Like more than actual people. I'm like, means way more to me. Dude's a star. I mean, guys shaped you. He's been around.
Starting point is 01:11:27 All right. Mel's best mascots. Can't wait to see you in the Discord. Can't wait to say. So cool. He's not Sipping on some chocolate milk And having a great time with that guy
Starting point is 01:11:36 Do anything Meet and greet Nest quick bunny I'm there How much Picture with the That's part of it too Yeah
Starting point is 01:11:48 Because if you do actually see it Like they can't say anything That's guys are so funny The way they can't talk I'm like I'm glad you can't talk You'd ruin it I know It would
Starting point is 01:12:00 That's good lesson on life for you, the listener. Sometimes it's better left out said. All right. Mel's best available mascot. I think that'll put a pin in it. Good show. Good show.
Starting point is 01:12:15 Thank you. Thank you. The listeners. Listeners. Yeah, let us know in the comments. Masked that shaped your life. I know there's a million we're missing that you're going to be like, oh, why do we know that?
Starting point is 01:12:28 How do they miss that? Fine. Let us know. Let us know. You know, we only get three on the board. Then we got the honorable mention. So, you know, you got to have a fine, fine tune in there when you're picking. So you guys know the deal.
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