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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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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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?
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?
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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,
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
Bois
Bois
Got orange
orange gloves still staying man
Yeah
Yeah
You're like
Wow
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
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
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
To where he's noticeable
Yeah, okay.
And he'll have the gloves.
Yep.
Check out that guy next time.
Hey,
dream job.
Yeah,
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,
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,
yeah, for sure.
It's my world.
He's like,
hey,
Pey,
man,
you decide when we play?
Check out the gloves, boss.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
Now we're playing.
Now this is the NFL.
Yes.
Yes.
The NFL I kind of know.
Right.
The NFL.
I used to know
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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
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
Best Mascot
Crazy one
Always had him in the back of my head
Joe Camel
Camel cigarettes
I mean dang
invented cool
Good one
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
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.
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.
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,
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,
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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,
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?
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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,
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.
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?
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.
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.
2002 season.
Yeah.
It's from Jimmy Smith.
So,
yeah.
All right.
Santa.
What the hell are they talking about?
Mel's best available
mascots
number
wait this is my
this will be the
my third one
okay
yeah
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
Mel's best available
best mascots
the icy bear
God
some about
not being able
to have it
a lot.
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?
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
Got to
I think like
Yeah
It's in the bloodline
Neighbors
Neighbors for sure
Yeah I grew up with
Icey Bear
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,
wow.
Okay,
same family.
Yeah.
They saw each other on Christmas.
Can you imagine being at that Christmas?
The bear.
Bear Christmas.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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,
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.
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?
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.
Do you want to play?
Oh my God.
Yeah,
I love to.
Just has a very sentimental
Very sentimental.
Yeah.
How many rewrecks?
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.
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.
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.
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
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
NFL season
I said
2011
that 2011 season
like I mentioned
it'd be me
my sister
my parents
DJ Dionelon
a few other
random people
who would just come over
every Sunday
and we would get
Pizza King
every Sunday
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Just because of him
Dozeki's guy
Yeah
Kind of a father figure
Kind of a father figure
Yeah
Yeah yeah
And also
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
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.
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,
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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.
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
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
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
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
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,
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.
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.
Yep.
Real sentimental.
Obviously, the NFL commercials,
Clubhouse sends it to us all the time.
Love them.
Icon.
Icon.
Wish you was still around.
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?
Like coming out with him?
All right, yeah, he's back
Yeah
Burger
The Burger King
Killer
Um
I think especially too
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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,
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Do anything
Meet and greet
Nest quick bunny
I'm there
How much
Picture with the
That's part of it too
Yeah
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
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.
Thank you.
Thank you.
The listeners.
Listeners.
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Masked that shaped your life.
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oh, why do we know that?
How do they miss that?
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Let us know.
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