Live Mascots

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Who wants to be serious on a day that most

(00:02):
of us have off, Like, we're just happy that you're
listening live mascots. If if Nebraska had a live mascot,
what would it be. You can't say human, because I
know that's what the mascot is, But if it was
like a it was just live something else. I mean,
it's an ear of corn. Count like, oh, I see right,
Like just as a living thing. I guess it's got

(00:24):
to be in the ground though, to still be alive. Yeah,
so you just have a growing ear of corn and
it's probably not going to hype people up. Then I
get the sneaking suspicion people might pick fun at that. Yeah,
it's probably a bad stereotype to keep lean into.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
You match you.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
We just wheel out a wheelbarrow with a growing ear
of corn and just just like just sitting over on
the Colorado's got Ralfie, a live bison who runs through
the field. You know, Florida State's got an actual seminal
on a horse. You have, you know, all sorts of
different mascots of the Washington husky who leads them out

(00:59):
onto the field, sprinting.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Onto the field. We have an ear of corn. It's
not really an ear of corn. It's a stalk of corn, right,
and yes, probably bad? Like what would it be like?
I'm trying to think you could just go a.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
Cow that doesn't really relate to corn though, although a
lot of the corn grown in this state is for
a cow's consumption.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, and hogs. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
I feel like I feel like the best we can
do is big Red and Little Red, even though they're
not necessarily what I'd consider a live mascot. Some of
these eagles, like eagle teams or falcon teams that have
the birds, those are cool, those raptors.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
Imagine though, a little bit of wind picks up and
the camera pans over and one of the little leafs
on the ear of corn is kind of flapping in
the breeze. M what's the term for that?

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Just photosynthesis?

Speaker 3 (01:54):
Well, that's the scientific term. I was thinking more of
the artistic sensibilities of that.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
There's a lot of there's a lot of chlorophyll going
on right now.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
Right, no lack for chlorophyll for these corn huskers as
they've got corn boy on the sideline.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Unfortunately, we have to harvest that after a few games.
You know, could you imagine that thing trying to hang
on through November? Oh jeez, would be like the pop
Tarts Bowl mascot. You know, the player of the game
gets to eat the ir of corn. It might not

(02:38):
be as morbid as that was. That was pretty morbid.
He was celebrating going in the toaster. Now that's the
part that's morbid to me, Like, what's going on with
that like that? Like the announcers were saying during the
pop Tart's Bowl this, this pop Tart will die at
the end of.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
He will be celebrating the end of his life.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
I still think that the guy in the mascot costume,
I mean, what's he gonna do after this? He's going
to keep being the pop Tarts guy? No, he's onto
other things. He really should have started screaming like bloody
murder when he was getting lowered into that toaster toaster
like ham it up. They probably told him not to,
but that's what I would have done hundred percent. Well,
he was smiling the whole game, so you know, he

(03:20):
was very excited. He said, my dreams are coming true
with a sign wiley coyote style as he was being
lowered into this toaster. What if you put up a
sign and they said, ah, it hurts so bad, it burns.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Make it stop. And then the winning team got to
eat him right like.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
He came out at the bottom and it was a
warm pop tart and they were eating him.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
So, I don't know, man's hard to beat that.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
People say we're more civilized than the Romans.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
I don't know. Good, he's a pop tart. He's getting
lowered into a toaster on national television and the announcers

(04:18):
just saying wave goodbye. They're having a.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
They're having a celebration of life after the pop Tarts
ball for the pop tart, and they're they're celebrating his
life by eating him.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
I don't know how you can beat that. I just don't.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
I didn't expect to get so emotional about this. Gosh.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
The reason I'm bringing this up is because Tennessee football.
Tennessee is a pretty good football team. Mahe yeah you
know Tennessee. Yeah, pretty good. Tears out of my eyes, jeez.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
The uh.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
They won their first game over Chattanooga sixty nine to three.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
Sixty three. Chatnooga Chu Chu was.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
Not not coming into the station on that day.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
Now, no but I'm sure they got paid good money
to lose that game. Anyway, Tennessee, they're ranked in the
top fifteen. They're pretty good team. But you're not gonna
be seeing their live mascot, Smokey the blue tick coonhound.
You know Smoky You've seen Smokey. Yeah, he's a good
looking dog. Well, Smokey eleven is his name, because he's
the eleventh Smoky Smoky ten is retired now, he's served

(05:30):
through twenty twenty two. In twenty twenty two, Smoky eleven
did training with Smoky ten. Now Smoky ten had been
there for this was his tenth season, right, like Smoky
ten is, he's been at it for a while. Yeah,
and he's uh, you know. The Hudson family apparently has

(05:54):
had a lot of these Smokies. The family named Hudson.
They have a contract, I guess to have their familial
blue tick coonhounds. They find a new Smokey after, you know,
they determined that the old Smokey needs to get into
retirement enjoy the last few years of his life without

(06:14):
you know, Saturday game days and showing up which dogs
like to do jobs. I push back against people who
are like, don't live mascots are bad for the health
of the animal. Usually I would disagree. I would say,
you know, my dogs like to have stuff to do.
There are several different breeds of dogs, especially a blue
tick coonhound that usually likes to go hunting.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
They like to have a job. They like to have
something to do right right. Well, during the twenty twenty
two season, Smokey eleven was a pup and he had
just you know, got past a year old I think,
and he was training to be the next Smoky with
this eleven year old Smoky ten.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
But it wasn't going well.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
In twenty three when Smokey eleven was supposed to take
over the games, he's supposed to be the Smokey well,
guess what what. They had to call Smoky ten out
of retirement because smoke eleven was having all sorts of
issues doing his job properly. Like they'd score a touchdown,
you're supposed to run through the end zone. He didn't

(07:13):
like that, he didn't like the noise, he didn't like
the crowd, didn't like the fireworks and stuff like. So
Smokey eleven was having trouble. They brought Smoky ten out
of retirement to fill in for a bunch of the games.
So could you imagine retiring. Not to anthropomorphize his dog,
but he retired, and now all of a sudden, he's like, oh,
you gotta come back and do this. I'm sure he
enjoyed it. I'm sure he was having a good time.

(07:34):
But Smokey eleven then was like, Okay, we're gonna have
him ready for sure this year. Well, they made an
announcement this week or this last week actually, that Smoki
eleven will not be ready to perform his duties in
time for the game that they just had this Saturday
against Chattanooga. University of Tennessee Athletics say this, and I
quote Tennessee Athletics in the Hudson family, who owns and

(07:56):
cares for Smokey eleven, are partnering with the University of
Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine and the Hudson family's trainer
to make sure Smokey's development needs are prioritized. They recently
came to the decision that Smoky eleven will focus solely
on running through the tea this season pregame. He will
not assume the mary out of other Roles associated was
serving as the university's official mascot. End quote Now. Officials

(08:19):
did also say that it's not that uncommon for, you know,
a dog to take time to adjust to the atmosphere
in Knoxville, Tennessee. Right, I mean, like it's pretty crazy.
Most dogs probably be like freaked out if they aren't
used to it. But apparently it is being reported on
social media that Smokey has some anxiety issues for a dog.

(08:44):
So I guess when I come back, we can go
ahead and kind of talk through some of the some
of the stuff, because these blue tick coonhounds are beautiful dogs.
But do we should we just be moving on to
Smokey twelve, a dog that probably will have a little
bit more help, you know, or you know, a little

(09:04):
bit more I don't know the thought process right of
like a dog that's a little more apt to enjoying
that kind of atmosphere. Incent of Smoky eleven, who clearly
is having big issues with big crops, I'll explain more
of what we're seeing here, and we'll talk about some
of the other live mascots and whether or not, you know,
a lot of those controls are worth controlling. On news radio,

(09:26):
eleven ten kfab.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
Emrie Sunger on news radio eleven ten KFAB.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
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Speaker 2 (09:47):
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Speaker 1 (09:49):
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guessing he didn't catch the how That's how our conversation
started anyway, Thanks for the Thanks for the note, Neil.
We were talking about Smokey eleven, the mascot for Tennessee.

(10:13):
He's a live mascot. He's a blue tick coonhound. He
just turned I've just found out he turned three years
old a month ago, so he's pretty young by Bluetick
coonhound standards, but has already been told that during this
season he's likely just to do his first Like in
the beginning of the game, they do this thing called
running through the tee like the band and things, or

(10:34):
they make the shape of a tee and the team
runs through the tee. The dog is the first one
that goes through there. Though he's not going to be
doing anything during the games. He's not going to be
doing like the run in the end zone and very
well could you know, will probably not even be visible
for most of the games because apparently he's got a

(10:55):
little doggy anxiety when it comes to being in this
being in this big stadium. So I guess the first question, Matt,
should we be moving on to Smoky twelve already? Are
we doing the dog at disservice in some way of continuing, Yeah,
we're training him, and yeah we're giving him like anxiety
help because he's a dog and we there are ways

(11:16):
we can medicate that while also socializing him in a
way that maybe at some point down the line, he
could end up being.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
A little bit more you know, apt.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
To enjoying himself and it could be a real triumphant
moment for him and the people around him. I don't
know if he's thinking that way. He's a dog for
the rest of his life. Maybe he just doesn't like
the loud crowd and gets spooked by loud noises like that.
That's not uncommon for dogs. Is it time to move
to Smokey twelve, or are we doing the dog a

(11:46):
disservice by continuing to train him and put him through
the ringer here at Nieland Stadium.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
In this particular scenario, it.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
Seems like, I mean, it's been a couple of years,
so yeah, I mean you kind of feel like, yeah,
after a couple of years, if it's not working and
maybe it is time.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
Have they ever done that before?

Speaker 1 (12:04):
Well, I'm looking at there's a Wikipedia for Smokey. You
can find all of the Smokies dating back to nineteen
fifty three when the first Blue Smokey popped up, and
they have like the records the team was under these
different Smokies. Smoky five, for instance, became the mascot when
he was only twelve weeks old. They said he outgrew

(12:25):
five jackets in one season, but unfortunately a few years
later he was hit by a car and that was
the end of his reign. Oh yeah, because he's just
a regular dog during the week, right Like he lives
with his family during the week. Smoky four never produced
any offspring, so Smoky five was the nephew of Smoky four.
They try to keep it in the family that that
didn't work well.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
It is Tennessee after all.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
In nineteen sixty three, Smoky two his reign ended in
Lexington shortly after the volunteers game against Kentucky, reportedly because
someone fitted him chocolate pie. Oh no, yeah, I don't know.
Smokey seven. Smokey seven roamed the sidelines for just three years,
but was forced into early retirement after he nipped at

(13:08):
the same University of Tennessee band member in consecutive games.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
In nineteen ninety four.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
The same guy went after the same guy twice, and
they said, I think Smoky seven probably needs to he
needs to go into retirement.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
I think maybe that guy should be investigated. Why was
it the same guy?

Speaker 1 (13:25):
You know?

Speaker 2 (13:25):
Yeah, and he owed him some money. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah, Smoky Smokey eight was apparently a great smoky Smokey
nine Smoky ten seemed to have pretty you know, I
don't know. Not a whole lot happened for either of
them that would make you feel pretty weird. It's just
Smokey eleven. He's just do like the big crowds. So
I don't know, man, what do you think. It doesn't
seem like this particular lineage of dog has had this issue. Now,

(13:52):
what about Bevo? Right, Like Beavo's a giant longhorn. They
get him into all the games. Doesn't seem like he bothers,
although he did charge after the.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
One time he did. Remember that.

Speaker 1 (14:02):
I remember when Texas playing Georgia and like a big
Bowl game or something, and then Bevo like charged at Uga,
which is funny, you know, isn't that funny?

Speaker 3 (14:13):
Like UGA's just a little bulldog. Yeah, he just he
saw him and he just he took off after him.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:19):
There was also a thing with Uga in Georgia. Uga
like try to bite a Auburn player near the sidelines.
Like a play ended and an Auburn player was near
the sideline and Uga just like tried to take a
bite out of him, which was hilarious. Yeah, there's a
bunch of different ones. Here's another one. University of Arkansas

(14:41):
has one called tusk. It's a pig tusk.

Speaker 3 (14:46):
So it's not like a legit razorback because those are wild.
Yeah no, no, well I mean maybe he is.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
I mean, let me let me look real quick. Yeah,
so it's a male. Yeah, he first uppeared. He's a
Russian boar. He's a Russian boar, but domesticated. He has
to be in a cage though, because you know he'll
go after some people. Ralphie the Buffalo, obviously we know Ralphie.
I don't think Ralphie travels with the team though, so

(15:15):
we won't be seeing Ralphie tomorrow or not tomorrow this weekend.
Dubbs is the husky, the Washington Husky. He's really good.
Revee is it reve or Revee? Reveil is the Texas
A and M dog is like a collie, like a
border collie. Okay, I don't know. It looks like a
border collie anyway. Those are some of them. Traveler Traveler

(15:38):
is the horse that is at the USC. The Trojans. Yeah,
Renegade is the horse for Florida State. So I don't know.
Are we a fan or are we not a fan
of the live mascot, the live non human mascot. I
think it adds a lot of charm. I just think
you got to be pretty picky and selective about each
one that you use, right, Like Ralphie the Buffalo is

(15:59):
a little bit different, Like, yeah, let's get the buffalo
to run for five seconds, and that's the like that's
pretty much all he's gotta do, Bevo. I mean, he's
he's just kind of there, right, You don't have to
really do anything.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
He's just there.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
The dogs, you have a little bit more app to,
like do other stuff, you know. Drake Drake. Over there
in de Boine, they have a live bulldog mascot.

Speaker 2 (16:20):
What's his name?

Speaker 1 (16:21):
I can't remember his name, but he's got a name.
They're on what's his name? Dang it something, the drake bulldog.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
Dang it?

Speaker 1 (16:28):
Why did you come on, Matt, help me?

Speaker 2 (16:31):
Let me look it up. I got it, I got it.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
Live mascot there he is, all right, Griff, his name's Griff.
Griff too, Griff too. Live mascots started in twenty fifteen,
so it's a pretty new thing there. And he wears
a little Drake letterman's jacket.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
It's very cute. It's fun.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
Yeah, anyway, live mascots. I'm in on him. I just
think I'm not sure I would continue to train Smokey eleven.
I think I'd let smoke You eleven just kind of
live in the way that he wants to live and
find Smokey twelve, who's going to be able to you know,
handle the crowd. It's just my thoughts. If you got
thoughts on this or anything else, you can call us.
Four H two five five eight eleven ten. Four H
two five five eight eleven ten. Just having some fun

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on a labor Day on news radio eleven ten kfab.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
Oh, Maurice Sellner on news radio eleven ten kfab.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
Here's where I'm at here. Very rarely, it's usually individuals.
Very rarely does like a production company or a team
or a league get involved in this sort of thing
for the exact reasons that we just mentioned, right, Like,
at the risk of alienating a bunch of people who
otherwise would be supporting this brand. Why would we alienate

(17:35):
them in a way that would be so obvious that
they would have a reason not to watch a movie,
not to support our team, not to watch our games. Right,
I'm going to show you a picture of an ad
and you tell me what it says. Tell people to
describe this advertisement.

Speaker 3 (17:55):
Well, it's a it's a picture of a looks like
probably the quarterback I would imagine, or maybe running back,
just a player for the Philadelphia Eagles. Well it's not
a player, it's someone with a helmet on. But it's
it's football.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
Oh wait, you know what that logo. That logo tricked me.
I that logo looked like it was on the shoulder.
I thought she was wearing a jersey. Nope, it is
a she though it is. It's Kabala Harris. If you
could believe it.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
Wearing an Eagles helmet. It's animated, right, this is not
a thing that she actually posed with. Could you imagine
holding a football with an Eagles helmet? What does it say?

Speaker 3 (18:38):
Official candidate of the Philadelphia Eagles.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
It says that, doesn't it? So the team, the whole team?

Speaker 1 (18:45):
It says official candidate of the Philadelphia Eagles. So what's
your initial reaction to this? Like, like, just take that
for what it's worth.

Speaker 3 (18:55):
My first thought is, you wonder if there's one person
who works in that organize who's like, it's not who
I'm voting for, right? So is it? Or maybe there's not.
Did they make them all sign a letter beforehand? Like
it there's there's some there's a lot of things about
this that would give me pause as to this being
a good idea for a lot of reasons. But they

(19:16):
can do whatever they want. I would assume that the
owner of the team probably is like here you go,
you know, like it's his team. He can do whatever
he wants he wants.

Speaker 2 (19:23):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
Well, As of a few hours ago, the Philadelphi Eagles
have put out a statement we are aware of counterfeit
political ads that are being circulated and one that has
our logo on it. We are working with our advertising
partner to have all of them removed. Okay, so I
apparently what this looks like is don't be fooled, ladies
and gentlemen. The Philadelphia Eagles, despite how crummy their fans

(19:48):
are and how stupid their team is, and how awful
Nick Sirianni is as a person, and how overrated Jalen
Hurts is as a quarterback, come on, and how annoying
they they are to watch. I like the Jalen hurt story.
I think it's kind of cool. I think I think
they all can If they finish last and lose every game,
I would be very happy.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
Really.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
Oh yeah, they're there. I'll lump them in with Kansas City.
I don't I don't need to see them win. So
the Chiefs Eagles Super Bowl would be your nightmare.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
It was. It wasn't because they did the other year.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
Yeah, yeah, anyway, the Philadelphia Eagles, right, they say this
is counterfeit, don't believe it.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
But how does this happen? How does this happen?

Speaker 1 (20:29):
Did somebody in this organization say this or or did
somebody who advertises decide to do this rogue and slap
the Eagles logo on this without their copyright? Remember, like
if the Eagles doesn't give you written permission to use
their their stuff on something like this to advertise for something,
then like that's grounds for sue suing, right, like you

(20:52):
get sued for that?

Speaker 2 (20:54):
And where did those show up at?

Speaker 1 (20:55):
It was in Philly, like they it was on like
a bus stop in Philadelphia. Yeah, so it absolutely could
be like like that, that's a lawsuit waiting to happen
for Philadelphia. First of all, for the Eagles because like
they you're putting their brand like in Jeopardy with a
group of people who I'm sure were outrage when they
saw us, Like what the heck? You can't speak for

(21:16):
me the officials Canada of the Eagles. I guess I
can't cheer for the Eagles anymore if I'm not a Democrat, right, So,
I mean the Eagles have great reason to suit. But
because this is like a legitimate advertisement, like this isn't
ai like this is something that actually is out there
on this bus stop. Is there like a way that
you could call that, like the company that sets up

(21:40):
that advertising in that location and get the information of
the person who did this. There should be a way
to do that, right, So I don't know, man, that's weird.
There are multiple people, multiple multiple people who are seeing
this now. Apparently the Philadelphia Eagles say that the City
of Philly somehow works with someone to put those up

(22:03):
and they're trying to figure out who it is. Somebody
with Eagles insiders said the bus shelters are owned by
the city and so far we've not heard anything about
the ads appearing on certain parts of the city's property.
And they are working specifically with the advertising partner they
work with for their own advertising to get those removed.
So they're calling their advertising people to do this. So

(22:25):
apparently those are down now like those they were there
and now they're gone. It didn't take long. So what
do you think what needs to happen so this doesn't
keep happening because you know there are going to be
people out there that are going to try to use
brands to help promote a candidate or an ideology. If
it's that easy, especially if you can do it covertly

(22:47):
and not have any repercussions, what kind of thing needs
to happen to the person who perpetrated this to avoid that?

Speaker 3 (22:54):
Well, you just wonder was it someone who is a
part of the localized campaign efforts and just kind of
went rogue?

Speaker 2 (23:02):
Maybe?

Speaker 1 (23:03):
Right, It's just like, hey, if we can get this
up for a day before anybody notices that the Eagles
aren't actually involved, is that going to be enough to
like swing some people and get good publicity?

Speaker 2 (23:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (23:14):
Unfortunately, I think it's doing a little bit of both. Right,
there's a lot of bad publicity with people are saying
this shouldn't be like keep the politics out of sports.
Philadelphia Eagles, how dare you? Even though they had nothing
to do with it? Apparently, isn't that dangerous though, Like
the trademark wouldn't have been unless it's somebody on the
inside of the organization that pulled that off. But like
the trademark and all that stuff, it's protected. Man, that's

(23:36):
protected by law. You can't just like pull that out
and do something with that.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
Like that.

Speaker 1 (23:40):
I don't know something to think about. It's four forty five,
I know, if like, could you imagine if Nebraska corn
Huskers ended up like endorsing a political candidate somehow, even
if it was fake, Like what the outrage would be?
Could you imagine Kamla and a corn Husker helmet or
wearing a corn cob head hat thing in a pair
of overalls?

Speaker 2 (24:00):
Outrage? Right?

Speaker 3 (24:01):
Would she drop into the vernacular just to make us
feel more campy?

Speaker 1 (24:04):
Oh you mean, like the real Kamala and not the
cartoon Kamala that somebody probably use. I don't know, I
feel like I feel like that. Would she would Howard
Dean herself if she did, that might win her some Nebraska.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
Votes, But at what cost? I think?

Speaker 3 (24:17):
I mean, if we're talking seriously, in all likelihood, this
would be Tim Walls.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
Since he you know, uh, he's all right.

Speaker 1 (24:24):
About here, it'd be a lot less interesting if he
was doing it. I want to see Kamala in the overalls.
That's what I want to see. You want to win
Omaha Kamala show up at a rally in overalls and
we can talk. How far are you willing to go?
What about the Omaha vote. Maybe show up looking like
a hipster, you know, get some of those cool Omaha kids.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
What does Idian look like in twenty twenty four.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
I don't know, that's I'm kind of out of the game. Yeah,
I mean, like, what does a hipster look like these days?
I feel like the hipsters are the ones that are
wearing like the super baggy clothes again, especially the women,
like the girls.

Speaker 3 (24:58):
It's like I'm telling you though, I think that right
there is punk rock. The reason why that's in fat
in vogue is because the establishment is telling them to
be as skimpy as possible.

Speaker 1 (25:10):
Is the establishment doing that or is society doing that?
Because society is what God it went the other way.
Nobody's trying to advertise, like like the jeans, the cut
up jeans that these girls are wearing that don't even
fit them anymore. Like they're way bigger than they used
to be. You know, we're past the skinny jean, Like
skinny jeans are out man Like when we were coming
through school and right afterwards, I mean, it was skinny jeans.

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If you wanted to be like super cutting edge, you
were wearing like super skinny jeans. Now it's just fitted, like,
like you want something that fits you. We used to
have like the big baggy shorts. Now like the shorts
are supposed to fit nice and around your leg the
right way, right, like not necessarily super tight. But you know,
society goes through like phases of this. You know what's

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more expensive than all of that, these cut up baggy jeans.
These girls you're wearing. That stuff's like two hundred bucks,
and I'm like, they don't even look good. The skinny
jeans I was wearing fifteen years ago, Like, I paid
like fifty bucks for those, and I felt great wearing those.

Speaker 2 (26:09):
I felt cool, I felt hip.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
That's what That's where I was at, right And now
the girls are paying four times as much for something
that looks stupid. So if you, if you want to
try to explain to me what a hipster looks like
in twenty twenty four, please do. Would love to learn.
But again I'm I'm probably a bad guy to ask
because I have no style. And you can call in
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have five hundred dollars that you can spend on any
one thing in the world. What are you spending it on?
Cannot be bills? Okay, it has to be something like
you know when we do our thousand dollars contest and
people win it, and they're always like, I'm gonna spend
it on this, or I was gonna invest in this,
or I was gonna go on this trip or whatever.

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What are you spending that money on? You can't use
it on a bill? Five hundred dollars, five hundred bucks.
Where's it going?

Speaker 2 (27:02):
Huh?

Speaker 3 (27:04):
Something entertainment?

Speaker 2 (27:05):
Okay, So it's not like a thing. Oh, I guess
it could be a thing. Well, what would it be?
What I want?

Speaker 3 (27:11):
That's five hundred dollars that I don't have? Probably lots
of things. I'd really have to look at a cat
Do you have a Sears catalog?

Speaker 2 (27:17):
By chance?

Speaker 1 (27:18):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (27:19):
From what year? Solid?

Speaker 1 (27:21):
Let's go, uh nineteen ninety two? Oh, I don't, no, no.
What would you buy in the series catalog?

Speaker 2 (27:28):
Though?

Speaker 1 (27:29):
For five hundred dollars? I feel like inflation, Like they
were selling jeans in nineteen ninety two for like twelve bucks.

Speaker 3 (27:36):
You know I always loved so Okay, nineteen ninety two
Super Bowl was that Cowboys Bills Washington. Don't call them
Redskins against the Buffalo Bills. Okay, yeah, they were of
the nineteen ninety one season, the nineteen ninety two Super Bowl,
got it? Yes, yes, okay, they were wearing these uh
starter jackets of course, Oh, the classic classic starter jackets. Yes,

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all had these pants on that were like classic nineties pants,
but they were the same color as the jackets, but
they had like zigzags in them. Really cool, really cool,
real fresh look, you know, like windbreaker pants. Yeah, so
I'd buy myself a set of those.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
Hey, like the Charlotte Hornet starter jacket maybe the most
goaded like piece of apparel of our lifetimes. Yeah, Like
people in this era are still trying to get a
hold of those things from twenty five years ago. I
mean you have to pay good money to get one
of those now. And let's be honest, does anybody really

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like the Charlotte Hornets or they just like the jacket
because it's got the teal in the purple and the
hornet logo, which is also a sweet logo, you know
what I'm saying. Yeah, there's something, there's there's something with
the branding there that they got right, even though their
teams stunk most of the time. Something to keep in mind.
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