March 3, 2025 • 10 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, look at us the extended series of I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Maybe you didn't. I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Yeah, I didn't know. Maybe you didn't.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I didn't know. I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
I didn't know. That's right now. Listen, in February, we're
still going to be giving you twenty eight brand new
episodes every single day of Black lesser known facts that
I didn't know maybe you didn't either.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
But on the extended.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Version, oh man, we get to explore a whole spectrum
of things that I didn't know and maybe you didn't either.
And listen, I graduated high school a C student, so
believe me when I say this series has no end dates.
No man, it's a myriad of things that I ain't know.
And to prove it, I want to start every single
(00:54):
episode off with three useless facts. Now, these are three
of the most random, useless facts that you will probably
need never a day in life.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
So with that being said, let's get to it. Three
useless facts.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Your first useless fact, there's only one NFL team that
has a plant for a logo? What team is that?
I'm gonna give you five seconds to think about it.
That was more than five seconds. But did you say
the New Orleans Saints. If you did your correct the
(01:32):
Saints Lord de Lis is actually a stylized lily historically
associated with the French monarchy. I had no clue. My
team is the Dallas Cowboy. Our mascot should be the Jackass.
But nobody wants Jerry Jones on the side of a helmet.
That'd be silly. Your second useless fact, do I have
any Many and Mickey Mouse fans? Yayu? But did you
(01:54):
know that the voices of Mickey and Many mounse got
married in real life?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
They were married for eight ten years until all wine
went to meet God in two thousand and nine. And
for your third useless fact, just to all my women
out there that is getting married and you're trying to compete,
the longest wedding veil was longer than sixty three football field.
That's right againness world record is held by a woman
(02:19):
from Cyprus. It was down near twenty three thousand feet
long sixty three and a half football field. How does
how who was this woman? You can do your own homework.
That's been your three useless facts. It's only one NFL
team that has a plant for a logo. The voices
of Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life,
(02:41):
and the longest wedding veil was longer than sixty three
football fields. Now, because I'm used to doing it a
certain way, we'll set it up that way. But again,
the show will evolve. But on today's episode, if I
didn't know, maybe you didn't either. I'm a fan of
a bunch of different teams, like college wise, I love
my Carolina tar Hills in basketball right and then in
(03:04):
football professionally, I love my Cowboys. Then in basketball NBA
is my Hornets. You know I'm from North Carolina. I
my hornet is heavy. You did what I'm saying. My
point is I like a lot of different teams and
they all have different mascots. But have you ever wondered,
like where mascots even came from? Okay, so mascots started
(03:28):
as live animals like lions and tigers and bears, Oh
my bulldogs. They will bring them to the games as
live animals in the early nineteen hundred.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Then they changed to human figures.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Like Chief Osceola for Florida State or the Leprechaun for
Notre Dame. Around the nineteen forties and nineteen sixties, costumes
started to emerge. They idea of cartoonish costume mascots started
to gain traction in popular sports arenas. Colleges and minor
league teams introduced, you know, simple hand they made costumes
(04:01):
can represent their team's names or the local culture of
that team. Now, in the nineteen seventies, in the eighties,
that's when the entertainment mascots started kicking in.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
That's when you started to get the Philadelphia.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Phillies fanatic in nineteen seventy eight and that Chicken out
in San Diego in nineteen seventy four. Those sort of
set the standard for mascots and entertainers. Then professional teams
started to, you know, adopt mascots. Baseball they had mascots early,
like they was with it early the NFL. In the
NBA they were a little slower, but then the Denver
Nuggets they got Rocky, the Phoenix Suns they got the Gorilla.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Those became fan favorites.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
If you remember, the Houston Rockets got clutched, the Philly
Flyers they got gritted at are seven foot orange furry
joint to be popping off on Twitter. The Braves they
got blooper like he be on Twitter and Instagram.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
He's a social media sensation.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
To the point that the branding and marketability of mascots
got popular in the nineteen nineties and the two thousands,
teams started branding merchandise and grew with T shirts. Some
of the mascots became larger than life personalities, like the
Chicago Bulls Bennie Benie the Bull, or the Houston Rockets.
Like I told you clutch he out everybody no clutch,
or you've seen them before, you did what I'm saying.
(05:13):
But the future of mascots they talking AI and virtual mascots,
holograms and digital characters, drones and robotics. It's interesting because
not just sports teams use mascots, like businesses have mascots
that have become viral sensations. When you think about my
boy Martin, Yeah, Martin is the gecko on the Geico commercials.
I bet you didn't know that his name was Martin
(05:35):
DIGGI I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either. Barbie in
nineteen fifty nine, Barbie was just a dog. Barbie Now movies,
blogs giving advice. The future for mascots endless now. In
this extended series, I got some gadgets that my wife
got me for Valentine's Day, and I can go out
(05:56):
in the streets and do interviews. And I'm gonna be
doing that during the extended series. If I didn't know,
maybe you didn't either. And at first I would like
to go visit my folks and I do radio in Charlotte,
North Carolina, Larry, Jessica, Burt, and I'll be infiltrating and
just popping up all types of times you did, what
I'm saying, big Shot, the n COG, big Shot, the
DJ Baller fingerus.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
You did.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
But I'm gonna go holler at them and see what
some of their favorite mascots are. If you would like
to participate, I will let you know how. Right after this,
let's get to the streets, Burt, who is your favorite
mascot of all time?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
The gorilla from the Phoenix Suns in the nineties. That
was my guy.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
And as much as I hated this team, especially in
that late nineties early two thousands, Blood State, when they
cheek from out and throw the spear in the middle
of the field, that's on the ones.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
So yeah, what's Larry.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Uh Dug Hugo like Hugo is so huge, Like Hugo
is one of the mascots, said everybody, Now, I don't
care where you at the world.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
You see, you go, you go.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
That is so you go.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
And the duck from the Miami I used love that
duck from Now.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
I got a question because I put that on Twitter
and folks was telling me the Oregon.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Duck was more famous than the Miami duck.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
If you had to pick the Oregon duck or the
Miami duck, do you still stay Miami duck?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Orgon got a duck. They're the Oregon ducks. Like, we
don't even know why the Miami Hurricanes have a duck.
The Oregon they are the ducks. There's a lot of
ducks in Miami. Ain't no ducks in freaking Orgon. You
duck leric, I'm about to punch it dump bar.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Quick question for you, who is your favorite mascot of
all time?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Hugough you going you go too? Any reason why? Because
it's gran Lea. It's a fucke Thank you, Bud right brother?
Who is your favorite mascots of all times?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Can I do two?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Absolutely one?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Smitty the Golden Bull from Johs. C. Smith University. Why,
because he's Smitty. He's the dopest mascot ever in life
ever created. And Ellie from the New York Liberty.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Ellie had really folks have really started liking Ellie, Like
I think over the past two or three seasons, she's
thought she'd be doing dances, all types of stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
She's really become a fan favorite.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Ellie reps for the women, for the ladies.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
She is that girl.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Black women say that Ellie reps for them as well.
Come on, now, come on now, now, do you take
any special pride being that you're a Delta and Ellie
is an elephant or does that have anything nothing to.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Do with nothing to do with it? Thank you, miss Jessica.
Who is your favorite mascot? Hooter the al at Temple University? Why?
Hooter the Owl at Temple University, because that's where I went. Okay,
thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
I didn't even know who he had a name, But
we're learning things. That's that's awesome special thanks to no
Lannon larry Man. That was birthday, Jessica. And that last
person that was La La La Leslie. And I'd had
no clue one that she went to Temple or that
their mascot had a name. Ramsey's is the name for
the Tar Hills mascot, So I'll put that on the list.
Of course, you heard Hugo is a fan favorite. You're
(08:56):
in Charlotte, but let us know, man, what's your favorite mascot?
You dae what I'm saying thing, do some homework, find
out where your mascot came from.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Share that with me. Where can you share these things?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I d K M yde underscore at the front, underscore
at the end, right there on Instagram, follow us there,
send us dms.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
You talk, We talked back. You did what I'm saying
to you.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
This has been the first episode of the extended series
of I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Maybe you didn't either. I hope you enjoy that.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
That's what I was gonna go minologue up top. You did.
Then I'll give you three useless facts. Then I'll go
into the meat of the episode, and then we'll go
out to the streets. You did what I'm saying. I
b K M y d E.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Maybe you didn't either. Hey be good, be blessed, and
remember this. Me and my daughter we say this in
our affirmations every morning. This is how we close our
affirmations every morning on the way to school. Their repete
after me, can't nobody do what I do quite like
I do it? I need you to say it with
(10:00):
confidence because it's a lot of people that may do
what you do right, but you got to know that
can't nobody do it quite like you do it?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
So again, this is affirmation that you can take on
with you.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Repeat after me, can't nobody do what I do quite
like I do it?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I do it.
Well, look at us the extended series of I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Maybe you didn't. I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Yeah, I didn't know. Maybe you didn't.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I didn't know. I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
I didn't know. That's right now. Listen, in February, we're
still going to be giving you twenty eight brand new
episodes every single day of Black lesser known facts that
I didn't know maybe you didn't either.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
But on the extended.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Version, oh man, we get to explore a whole spectrum
of things that I didn't know and maybe you didn't either.
And listen, I graduated high school a C student, so
believe me when I say this series has no end dates.
No man, it's a myriad of things that I ain't know.
And to prove it, I want to start every single
(00:54):
episode off with three useless facts. Now, these are three
of the most random, useless facts that you will probably
need never a day in life.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
So with that being said, let's get to it. Three
useless facts.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Your first useless fact, there's only one NFL team that
has a plant for a logo? What team is that?
I'm gonna give you five seconds to think about it.
That was more than five seconds. But did you say
the New Orleans Saints. If you did your correct the
(01:32):
Saints Lord de Lis is actually a stylized lily historically
associated with the French monarchy. I had no clue. My
team is the Dallas Cowboy. Our mascot should be the Jackass.
But nobody wants Jerry Jones on the side of a helmet.
That'd be silly. Your second useless fact, do I have
any Many and Mickey Mouse fans? Yayu? But did you
(01:54):
know that the voices of Mickey and Many mounse got
married in real life?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
They were married for eight ten years until all wine
went to meet God in two thousand and nine. And
for your third useless fact, just to all my women
out there that is getting married and you're trying to compete,
the longest wedding veil was longer than sixty three football field.
That's right againness world record is held by a woman
(02:19):
from Cyprus. It was down near twenty three thousand feet
long sixty three and a half football field. How does
how who was this woman? You can do your own homework.
That's been your three useless facts. It's only one NFL
team that has a plant for a logo. The voices
of Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life,
(02:41):
and the longest wedding veil was longer than sixty three
football fields. Now, because I'm used to doing it a
certain way, we'll set it up that way. But again,
the show will evolve. But on today's episode, if I
didn't know, maybe you didn't either. I'm a fan of
a bunch of different teams, like college wise, I love
my Carolina tar Hills in basketball right and then in
(03:04):
football professionally, I love my Cowboys. Then in basketball NBA
is my Hornets. You know I'm from North Carolina. I
my hornet is heavy. You did what I'm saying. My
point is I like a lot of different teams and
they all have different mascots. But have you ever wondered,
like where mascots even came from? Okay, so mascots started
(03:28):
as live animals like lions and tigers and bears, Oh
my bulldogs. They will bring them to the games as
live animals in the early nineteen hundred.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Then they changed to human figures.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Like Chief Osceola for Florida State or the Leprechaun for
Notre Dame. Around the nineteen forties and nineteen sixties, costumes
started to emerge. They idea of cartoonish costume mascots started
to gain traction in popular sports arenas. Colleges and minor
league teams introduced, you know, simple hand they made costumes
(04:01):
can represent their team's names or the local culture of
that team. Now, in the nineteen seventies, in the eighties,
that's when the entertainment mascots started kicking in.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
That's when you started to get the Philadelphia.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Phillies fanatic in nineteen seventy eight and that Chicken out
in San Diego in nineteen seventy four. Those sort of
set the standard for mascots and entertainers. Then professional teams
started to, you know, adopt mascots. Baseball they had mascots early,
like they was with it early the NFL. In the
NBA they were a little slower, but then the Denver
Nuggets they got Rocky, the Phoenix Suns they got the Gorilla.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Those became fan favorites.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
If you remember, the Houston Rockets got clutched, the Philly
Flyers they got gritted at are seven foot orange furry
joint to be popping off on Twitter. The Braves they
got blooper like he be on Twitter and Instagram.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
He's a social media sensation.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
To the point that the branding and marketability of mascots
got popular in the nineteen nineties and the two thousands,
teams started branding merchandise and grew with T shirts. Some
of the mascots became larger than life personalities, like the
Chicago Bulls Bennie Benie the Bull, or the Houston Rockets.
Like I told you clutch he out everybody no clutch,
or you've seen them before, you did what I'm saying.
(05:13):
But the future of mascots they talking AI and virtual mascots,
holograms and digital characters, drones and robotics. It's interesting because
not just sports teams use mascots, like businesses have mascots
that have become viral sensations. When you think about my
boy Martin, Yeah, Martin is the gecko on the Geico commercials.
I bet you didn't know that his name was Martin
(05:35):
DIGGI I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either. Barbie in
nineteen fifty nine, Barbie was just a dog. Barbie Now movies,
blogs giving advice. The future for mascots endless now. In
this extended series, I got some gadgets that my wife
got me for Valentine's Day, and I can go out
(05:56):
in the streets and do interviews. And I'm gonna be
doing that during the extended series. If I didn't know,
maybe you didn't either. And at first I would like
to go visit my folks and I do radio in Charlotte,
North Carolina, Larry, Jessica, Burt, and I'll be infiltrating and
just popping up all types of times you did, what
I'm saying, big Shot, the n COG, big Shot, the
DJ Baller fingerus.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
You did.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
But I'm gonna go holler at them and see what
some of their favorite mascots are. If you would like
to participate, I will let you know how. Right after this,
let's get to the streets, Burt, who is your favorite
mascot of all time?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
The gorilla from the Phoenix Suns in the nineties. That
was my guy.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
And as much as I hated this team, especially in
that late nineties early two thousands, Blood State, when they
cheek from out and throw the spear in the middle
of the field, that's on the ones.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
So yeah, what's Larry.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Uh Dug Hugo like Hugo is so huge, Like Hugo
is one of the mascots, said everybody, Now, I don't
care where you at the world.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
You see, you go, you go.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
That is so you go.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
And the duck from the Miami I used love that
duck from Now.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
I got a question because I put that on Twitter
and folks was telling me the Oregon.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Duck was more famous than the Miami duck.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
If you had to pick the Oregon duck or the
Miami duck, do you still stay Miami duck?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Orgon got a duck. They're the Oregon ducks. Like, we
don't even know why the Miami Hurricanes have a duck.
The Oregon they are the ducks. There's a lot of
ducks in Miami. Ain't no ducks in freaking Orgon. You
duck leric, I'm about to punch it dump bar.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Quick question for you, who is your favorite mascot of
all time?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Hugough you going you go too? Any reason why? Because
it's gran Lea. It's a fucke Thank you, Bud right brother?
Who is your favorite mascots of all times?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Can I do two?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Absolutely one?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Smitty the Golden Bull from Johs. C. Smith University. Why,
because he's Smitty. He's the dopest mascot ever in life
ever created. And Ellie from the New York Liberty.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Ellie had really folks have really started liking Ellie, Like
I think over the past two or three seasons, she's
thought she'd be doing dances, all types of stuff.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
She's really become a fan favorite.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Ellie reps for the women, for the ladies.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
She is that girl.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Black women say that Ellie reps for them as well.
Come on, now, come on now, now, do you take
any special pride being that you're a Delta and Ellie
is an elephant or does that have anything nothing to.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Do with nothing to do with it? Thank you, miss Jessica.
Who is your favorite mascot? Hooter the al at Temple University? Why?
Hooter the Owl at Temple University, because that's where I went. Okay,
thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
I didn't even know who he had a name, But
we're learning things. That's that's awesome special thanks to no
Lannon larry Man. That was birthday, Jessica. And that last
person that was La La La Leslie. And I'd had
no clue one that she went to Temple or that
their mascot had a name. Ramsey's is the name for
the Tar Hills mascot, So I'll put that on the list.
Of course, you heard Hugo is a fan favorite. You're
(08:56):
in Charlotte, but let us know, man, what's your favorite mascot?
You dae what I'm saying thing, do some homework, find
out where your mascot came from.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Share that with me. Where can you share these things?
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I d K M yde underscore at the front, underscore
at the end, right there on Instagram, follow us there,
send us dms.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
You talk, We talked back. You did what I'm saying
to you.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
This has been the first episode of the extended series
of I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Maybe you didn't either. I hope you enjoy that.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
That's what I was gonna go minologue up top. You did.
Then I'll give you three useless facts. Then I'll go
into the meat of the episode, and then we'll go
out to the streets. You did what I'm saying. I
b K M y d E.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Maybe you didn't either. Hey be good, be blessed, and
remember this. Me and my daughter we say this in
our affirmations every morning. This is how we close our
affirmations every morning on the way to school. Their repete
after me, can't nobody do what I do quite like
I do it? I need you to say it with
(10:00):
confidence because it's a lot of people that may do
what you do right, but you got to know that
can't nobody do it quite like you do it?
Speaker 2 (10:09):
So again, this is affirmation that you can take on
with you.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Repeat after me, can't nobody do what I do quite
like I do it?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I do it.
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Brian "B Daht" McLaughlin
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