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Is it a Mascot or Did Sara Make it Up? A Banana Slug and Obscure Mascots that we Looooooove
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Is Shady The Cloud a real mascot? What's UC Santa Cruz's mascot? Sara quizzes Kristina on a variety of absurd college mascots.
Do you think you can guess whether or not these mascots are real?
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Transcript
Introduction and Greetings
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This is our podcast song. It isn't very long.
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Hey, Sarah. Hey, Christina. Thanks, everybody,
Podcast Overview: 'Laughing with Gingers'
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for tuning into Laughing with Gingers. The podcasts were two feisty redheads with loud laughs, share crazy stories, play games, and spread solidus and joy. That person I am actually looking at in real life is my partner in crime on Laughing with Gingers, Christina Curry. God, I know. Sarah elephant in the flesh in front of me. Oh, my god.
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I can't even believe it guys. It's amazing. I'm so
Episode Theme: Mascots
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excited and today's episode is all about mascots. Ooh, I didn't bring anything. I brought personal stories. So I brought obscure mascots and you're gonna tell me whether or not they are real and I have the history of the ones that are real. Oh my god, I'm so excited.
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Should we tell everyone where we're at right now and like what's happening? I think yeah. I mean maybe why we sound so luxurious and amazing right now. And why we're in the same space and maybe why we're normally not. Yeah okay
Live Recording at Podcast Movement
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okay so guys we are recording this live at well it's not live when you listen to it.
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But we're at podcast movement together in Nashville, where we are speaking tomorrow on all about life to tape to fellow podcasters. It is so awesome being here. I've had a blast. And we got we're like lucky enough to record in this amazing
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Yeah, HubSpot, thank you. And the equipment feels very professional and fancy. Yeah, it's definitely it's cool. It's it actually reminds me a little bit of when I was at full service radio with the wedding dish. So I know I've told you a little bit about this. And I'm going to paint everybody a little picture here. So we are essentially in like an enclosed cubicle that is a fishbowl on one side, like floor to ceiling windows that are tinted. So it's dark in here.
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Um, and it's super, super soundproofed. Even the carpet is like squishy. It feels like we're in a jungle gym. Um, but it's cool because when we were at full service radio, we were recording at the line hotel and we were in the lobby, but this was on these floor ceiling windows were on three sides. Oh my gosh. It was really cool. I feel like that's not good for recording if it's windows.
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So it just depends on the type of windows because you know there are different types of glass or plexiglass or you know so you do get that vibration but it just depends on like what kind of vibration it is and in that space it worked out
Mascots Game Rules Explained
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great. Okay perfect so let's get to it I'm excited. All right so you remember the rules of the game right so this is obscure mascots and the rules of the game are is it
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Shit, Sarah made up. Or a real obscure mascot. OK, I'm ready. All right, here we go. Here we go.
Mascot Spotlight: Charlie Choker
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All right, Charlie Choker. Sounds terrible. I don't want to run into Charlie Choker in the back alley of the basketball court. I'm going to say that's real.
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That is the mascot of Gray's Harbor College. Yes. So the Gray Harbor chokers may have the most misrepresented college mascot in America. Anyone from outside the Northern Washington area would take one look at this eight foot wood carving of the brawny man, tightly stretching a thick rope between his giant hands and fear for their necks. But apparently what?
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I have a picture that sounds scary it's terrifying sounding okay but hold on here's the real history and I again haven't read well I didn't say this but I haven't read the history of it because
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It spoils the surprise and laughter when we're on the podcast, when I prepare too much. All right. So, um, but apparently the Gray Harbor administration doesn't see what the big fuss is about. Good old Charlie Choker has been the school's mascot since the 1960s. And that rope he is holding is actually a choker bell used to wrap around logs.
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to make their transportation easier. Though not as threatening as one might originally think, it still makes for some intimidating headlines like, chokers eliminate opponent or chokers show opponent no mercy.
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Oh my God. All right. Ready for the next one? Ready. All right. So is it shit Sarah made up or is it a real mascot? Okay. The quilters. I'm going to say you made that up. I feel like that could totally be a really obscure mascot though. It really could, but I would, but I felt, yeah.
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You just knew because we're sitting in the same room, so now you're gonna kill it on the game. Oh, I can tell by your body language. Oh, shit. All right. Speedy the gooey duck. Okay, I feel like that's not made up. Okay, I figured out how you know because I said the name of these two and I didn't say the name of the quilter.
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what what did this what is so charlie choker and speedy the gooey duck yeah you should have been like quilter the lady bird or something it could be a man it could totally be a man
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So
Mascot Spotlight: Speedy the Gooey Duck
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Evergreen State College has Speedy the gooey duck as their mascot. So for those of you who have never encountered a gooey duck, this creature is a large mollusk that is famous for its long, suggestive body that protrudes from its shell. So as having seen a gooey duck, it looks essentially like a phallic thing that is all muscle sticking out of sand.
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Oh my God, that's sort of what Inora pulled out of the ocean one time. It could have been. It was about eight inches and it was round and it had a little shell on top and she yanked it. It was like five pounds of pure squishy muscle. And she pulled it up out of the coast of Bamberge Island and like it out popped this giant gooey thing, literally like a snail. Was it, did it look phallic?
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no it was literally like round and then flat bottoms but what you're describing is exactly how it was but not phallic okay and i mean that thing that thing was like five pounds had to be more and she just like popped it up out of the out of the sand we were like all freaking out so it looked like um what
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Not phallic, but boob wise so like just picture like a silicone boob implant With like a Madonna like shell bra on top like you know like that is a description, right?
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We have covered all of the bikini cover parts, including the banana hammock. Oh my God. So, okay. So at like, I'm imagining this like long phallic looking snail, just like waving its phallic looking arm above the ground. That's a Dewey duck. Dewey duck. People eat that too. Yeah. Yeah.
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Somewhere. I actually know a lot about gooey ducks. I think they're crazy and fascinating. I'm sure this is shocking given how much I quiz everyone on Animal Facts. Yeah, not shocking. OK, so gooey ducks are the largest burrowing clams in the world and harvesting them is a chore that was recently featured in one of Mike Rowe's Dirty Jobs, which I saw that episode.
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I love my grow dirty job. That looks like a show. He's from my area. Oh, is he? He's such a cool dude. I just want to go grab a beer with him. His parents still live near where I grew up. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. OK. The giant dancing clam is often seen shoeless and airboxing on the court, though we're not sure the display is striking fear into the hearts of opponents. We've heard that the mascot
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even has a theme song to go with its phallically shaped mascot. It goes something like, siphon high, squirt it out, swivel all about, let it hang out. Ew! That's gross! Oh my god!
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We're going to have to find that song. Oh my God. It sounds so gross. Oh my God. All right. You ready for the next one? The banana
Mascot Spotlight: Sammy the Banana Slug
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slug. Sounds a lot like Dewey Duck. I mean, gooey duck. I'm going to say, I'm going to say you made it up.
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It's real and it is Santa Cruz's mascot. You see Santa Cruz, Sammy the banana slug.
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It seems somehow appropriate that a college well-known for its pot smoking would select a yellow banana slug for a mascot. I didn't write this. I have to say shout out to my sister, Esmeralda. That is her school. That's where she goes. And she loves her mascot, the banana slug. Oh my god.
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Everywhere. Yep. They're super proud of it. I actually knew their mascot because they're so proud of it It's a thing. It's super fun. Okay known for his laid-back personality shock and chilled out dance moves The banana slug is a mascot that should never have caught on yet somehow has managed to make quite a name for himself in 1992 Sports Illustrated magazine
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named Sammy the Slug the top mascot in 2004, Reader's Digest did the same. Oh. Why? How did he make it at the top? I... Does he look like a banana? Yeah, with like, I mean like a... Is his head like the banana bit and the peel is like peeled away? There's no, uh, no. He doesn't, he looks like, like a real banana slug. Banana slug's a real animal. Okay, I don't, obviously, did not know. It's a yellow slug.
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He matches your outfit. I have a banana slug right now. Today you are a tuxedoed banana slug, not even just a banana slug. We'll take a picture of what she's wearing and put it on our Instagram for y'all. All right, so producer Leigh is not sure if you're keeping score, but Christina got one wrong and I don't know what number I'm on.
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All right, so, next one, shit Sarah made up or obscure mascot, the flaming flamingos. Oh my God, I won back up and woo! Is it real? No. Damn it! It should be though. It should be real. All right, ready? The fighting pickle.
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Oh my God, is that real? Yeah. Yeah. Okay, okay. That's good. At least that's real.
Mascot Spotlight: Fighting Pickle
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North Carolina School of the Arts has the fighting pickle. Nothing could appear less intimidating than a giant pickle. That is not true. I do not like pickles and I would be terrified if I was like having one stand over me. It's very intimidating for you. I would just not be great. Not ideal for me. I'm the one who offers everyone else their pickle and then they get to pick it off the plate and eat it.
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I love that. That has been an ongoing conversation this week. It's come up a few times. It really has where pickles are the only food that you can offer off your plate to a random stranger or ask for off of the plate of a random stranger and it is not weird and you will eat it without a thought and nobody notices. It's so
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crazy it is it's like the old I mean if you have a plate of potato chips like that's that's pretty normal you wouldn't offer that to a random person but if I had a pickle in here and I walked out in that hallway right there I could say does anybody want my pickle and someone would surely take it but if I said does anyone want my potato chips people would be like yeah I would take your pickle before you're gonna be going out there and offering it to someone you would tackle me for that
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All right, so yet as a result of a costume contest, the North Carolina School of the Arts selected the fighting pickle as their team mascot. It is said that the pickle was first suggested as a joke, but isn't hard to see why. And that isn't hard to see why. Prancing around in his big green costume and sporting a gap tooth grin, the fighting pickle can be seen greeting fans and dancing with cheerleaders at the school's many athletic events.
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Sadly, the pickle seems to represent very little to the school as the university is known for producing not consuming especially good pickles. Oh, okay. Bump, bump, bump. All right, ready? Yeah. Shit's are made up or obscure mascot. Shady the cloud.
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Shady the clock. Poor Shady. I don't know why I felt sad for him. I thought to myself, wow, I'd love to have him follow me around when it's really bright and sunny.
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I just like pictured this sad little gray cloud and I got sad. Real or shit, Sarah made up. I'm gonna say shit, Sarah made up. Ding, ding, ding. I guess I named that one, huh? Yeah, you did. All right. The fighting artichoke. Oh.
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Oh, I love artichokes. Okay, I'm gonna say that's real. Ding, ding, ding! Yes! Scottsdale Community College has Artie the Fighting Artichoke. Aw, that's not very unique of a name that they picked, but still really cool. It is cool, and also not very unique. It's a gimme.
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Like, maybe Jimmy, the fighting artichoke or...
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Thaddeus. Let's make it a girl fighting girl artichoke. Seriously. Unlike so many college mascots, Artie the Fighting Artichoke is one with some real history behind him. During the 1970s, the students at Scottsdale Community College were infuriated to learn that the administration's shady practice of using scholarship money intended for Native American students
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to bribe athletes into the school. Ooh. Super shady. Not cool. That's Shady the Cloud. Thanks, you owe me a soda. Oh, my God. If both hit us at the same time. Oh, my God. My eye is watering. God, it's so much better when we're in the same thing.
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In a school-wide protest, the students voted to change the mascot to something utterly ridiculous that would stay with the school as a badge of shame for years to come. The fighting artichoke was the result, and although the administration tried to prevent the decision from going through, here we are in 2010, is I guess when this was written, and the vegetable still makes an appearance at the Scottsdale games. I wonder if it still does.
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Cause that was a very long time ago. Um, all right.
Mascot Game Progress Check
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Well, on that note, Christina, you're killing it. I'm not keeping score. Hopefully Liz is, but we are going to take a break on laughing with gingers and we will be right back.
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And we are back on Laughing with Jinders. We are so excited to be here today at Podcast Movement in the HubSpot Podcasting booth recording. And we are playing Shit Sarah Made Up or Obscure Mascots.
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Boom, I'm pretty sure I'm winning. Producer Liz? Yes, she is. She has six points so far out of eight. Oh, look at her go. I think she's finally figured out, Sarah. I know. I think she finally figured out. I think it's because we're in the same room. Oh, God. All right, are you ready? Yeah, I keep wiping my eye and keep laughing too much. OK, I'm ready. The agua cates.
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Sarah's eye me and raising her eyes up and down. I'm gonna say it's real.
Mascot Spotlight: Keggy the Keg
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Blomp. I made it up and for everyone who doesn't know that is how you say avocado in Spanish. Oh really? Did you know that lives? Agua cate? Mm-hmm.
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That's how you say it. How did you say it? I said Agua Calte. Oh, I didn't hear it. It sounded like you said water or something. Yeah. I mean, that that's essentially the way that like you say it. Oh, you just said it weird, I think when you first said it. Oh, it also could have been the inflection because I'm trying to throw Christina. All right. Whoops. That one is OK.
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Are you ready? Yeah, oh my god, her eyes just got big. It's real, I think it's real. It just occurred to me I wasn't 100% how to say this. You are correct, it is real. It is the University of Arkansas at Monticello, the Bull Weevil. Oh yeah, I would have known this was real. I don't know why I know this, but I know that.
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And I used to know what a bull weevil is. It's like a bug. I'm gonna read it to you. Okay, perfect. Yes, it is not a bug. It is a fierce animal. Some, oh, maybe, nope, you might be wrong. I might be wrong, I mean, you might be right. Some schools choose fierce animals for their mascots in hopes of frightening other teams. Others choose a mighty knight or a king as a symbol of power and status.
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The University of Arkansas, on the other hand, chose the Bull Beagle, a pesky little insect. Look at you. Yeah, I knew it. Known for damaging crops. Oh, I knew this too. And I'm glad I did say it right now that I've read the description, I think. It doesn't say much about your team when your mascot is an insect that is probably being crushed by the players on the field during the actual game.
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All right. Oh, God. A keg. A keg? Real? Sure about that? Yeah. It's real. Yes. It's Dartmouth's mascot. Is it literally just like a dancing prancing keg? It's keggy, the keg. Oh, my God. Come on, guys.
00:20:42
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They do that a lot. It's like their three year old naming their cat. Kitty the cat. Kitty the cat.
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Like, we can think beyond this, guys. OK, carry on. Sorry. OK, Kegi the Keg is the unofficial mascot of Dartmouth. We say unofficial because the administration refuses to accept the giant dancing Keg of beer represents the athletic department. But the students have all but shunned the official mascot of the team and await the arrival of the giant Keg
00:21:18
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each time around. It's the job of the mascot to tap into the spirit of the school and what better way to do so than by getting at everyone's true reason for being at school. Excessive drinking. Oh my god. Alright. Yup, shenanigans. The laughing top hats. Oh my god, you made it up. Actually, I took it from real life inspiration.
00:21:47
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So yes, it's not. You mean my fancy shirt that I'm wearing? My fancy tuxedo outfit I mean that I'm wearing. Not a shirt. I tried to find this school, but I couldn't. Apparently there is a school in Delaware. It's a high school that has the dancing top hats as their mascot, but I couldn't find it. So I can't prove it. So I chose to make up the laughing top hats. You modified it. Yes. The dirt bags.
00:22:16
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year that's real how do you know I don't know I just pictured like a bag of dirt like a burlap bag like with gloves and it just made sense okay well all right
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It is the Cal State Long Beach mascot. Oh my God, how did I not know this? I actually thought you might have known because you lived there. Maybe I subconsciously like knew and remembered back in the deep recesses of my brain. I really thought you would know why. Oh, I was like, why she asked me why? That's weird.
00:22:56
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Okay, so the Long Beach State baseball team has been unofficially sporting the name The Dirt Bags since the late 80s. Apparently, the students find Dirt Bag a more accurate representation of the team than the official name of the 49ers.
00:23:16
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Which is interesting because I didn't know you could take a mascot that was already a mascot and use it for your school, but that's fine. I mean, I guess there are lots of, my high school was the Patriots. There are no rules in the world of mascot. Yeah, that seems about right. That seems about right. All right. The name comes from the team's off-campus practice field that leaves you caked in, you guessed it, dirt.
00:23:42
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Wait, they're like putting dirt all over themselves, like mud? No, it's it's because when you play baseball, you like run in the actual dirt and then it comes up and then it blows out into wherever the fans are. So the fans must be close enough to where they're moving. And it's probably a little extra windy there and it's not very humid. So probably travels a little bit more based on my experience of watching my husband play softball and going home with dirt all over myself.
00:24:09
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Okay, got it. Boom.
Reflections on Game Performance
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Well, I think you killed it. I think I did too. She totally killed it. She got 10 out of 13, right? Oh, snap.
00:24:25
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I think the last time I did that good was the office quiz. Yeah. I only missed one. And the romance versus horror movie. The romance versus horror movie episode. That was really fun too. I think you normally do a lot better than you think you do, but you have gotten better. I think you're reading Sarah better. I am. I know you.
00:24:46
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Yeah, a heartfelt laugh was the romantic comedy one. Oh, yeah. You were like, I'm going to be so good at this. Good memory. I do have a good memory. I know. Well, thank you. All right. Well, this has been fun recording in real life, like in real life. IRL with you. So much fun. I'm so excited.
Closing and Listener Engagement
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00:25:13
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Bye!