Feed Your Mascot
Three college football fans explore the on- and off-field wonders of the sport
Episodes
Blu and Geoff are joined this week by Brigit of the Sickos Committee (@SickosCommittee) to discuss topics including gardening, food preservation, what to say to make sure your friends don't steal your seat, photography, rules about bring cameras places, film v digital, Big Sky Media Days, and the upcoming Big Sky football season.
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Geoff and Blu are back for a summer Q&A full of interdisciplinary engineering beefs, physics, metaphysics, games we are excited for, ticket advise, and much, much more.
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Blu and Geoff celebrate Independence Day with an episode of the history of sports on Holidays, from the Ashbourne Game, to Thanksgiving football, to baseball at the summer holidays, and beyond. And as usual in the summer, discuss some weather safety tips.
Q&A form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc9jgf2tYd_EMuzlQoH_cn45nOcOwNgfrhDCzukpNRwQczOng/viewform?usp=header
Sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_...
Geoff is joined by food documentarian Adam Gottschalk of OTR (https://www.youtube.com/@OTRontheroad) to discuss how one goes from Charlottesville, VA to Bangkok, doing sports radio, sports food culture in Asia, following the American sports from abroad, and what sports mean as an expat. And the dogs say hello.
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Blu and Geoff back on their usual hinkyism, discussing nuclear physics history, the 1894 college football season, the great game reviews, long schedules, short schedules, the longest schedule, odd teams to play, a stadium sharing the name with a person, cool college names, and the very different power base of the sport.
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Prof. Sam Ehrlich joins the pod to discuss grilling, the House settlement, how it opens up as many questions as it answers, the origins of the striped pants, IU being good at a sport (swimming), and a fun game about national titles by school.
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Blu and Geoff open discussion with the returning IU Bison, then follow up with the hottest and coldest college football games, and provide some useful weather safety tips.
Blu and Geoff kickoff with some Indy 500 cooler planning, Indy 500 calendar discussion, and then head in to the chaotic world of commissions in college football (the one or two them), and then dive into the history of playing the national anthem at sporting events in the US (such as the Indy 500).
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Blu and Geoff are back together to discuss graduation season, some ancient history of concessions, some modern history of concession, the history of specific snacks, and the recent changes in the space of concessions.
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Due to life things, episodes have been thin, so its time for a very special aviation history episode about that time Purdue had an airline, and how it has to do with an airline you might fly today.
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Blu took a trip to Norfolk for his alma mater's spring game, and broke down the sights, sounds, scheme, and energy with first year coach Michael Vick. And Blu's 900 photos, some of which will end up on Instagram.
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Blu and Geoff discuss extreme weather tips, the difference between watches and warnings, space weather, Coastal Carolina's free concession plan, stats (or the lack thereof) on doping in college football, and speculate on the causes of such.
Sources
- https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/8765531/steroids-loom-major-college-football-report-says
- https://ncaaorg.s3.amazonaws.com/ssi/substance/SSI_DrugTestingManual.pd...
Blu and Geoff continue their offseason shenanigans with a discussion of journalistic corrections, a correction, the Ship of Theseus, the USS Enterprise (real), the Starship Enterprise, Kent State's Kenni Burns administrative leave, Stanford's firing of Troy Taylor, a lot about Andrew Luck, the oldest mascots, and talking about both weather and climate.
Sources
- https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/44319805/...
Blu and Geoff enter fine offseason form with a guest appearance from our favorite sports law professor to discuss an anti-climatic legal action from the state of West Virginia, efforts to revive the IU Bison mascot, the history of the Bison, and a very long sidetrack into Greek mythology, including asking if the Minotaur can block, Geoff forgetting Polyphemus has a name, building a defensive line out of mythological figures, and ma...
Blu and Geoff start with a whopping 45 minute cold open on schools having men's and women's basketball success at the same time, and then do a bit of March Madness themed discussion of an ideal tournament format (spoiler: if you are a selection committee, some things you here may be disturbing).
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Blu and Geoff continue the offseason with a discussion of plans of studies, flowcharts, what exactly is modern physics, , Geoff roasting a pork butt (check the 'gram), the history of stadiums, owning the rights to your own pictures, public transit, the ACC settlement, and Eddie George
Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-tWagymi6H4nrfVkoVyEdbP47Ib0w5g089BdiGpsqTA/edit?usp=sharing
Sources
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Blu and Geoff discuss the R1 status of Howard, Geoff explaining his shirt, hating a terrible person, foods named after athletes, a candy bar and a Yankees player, and our favorite favorite topic, Hawkeye.
Geoff is joined by Tanner Haworth, editor-in-chief of the University of Hawaii's student paper, the Ka Leo, to discuss the culture of sports on the islands, and UH sports.
Find Tanner at https://x.com/TannerHaworth and his work at https://www.manoanow.org/kaleo/ and https://www.espnhonolulu.com/
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Geoff takes some time this week to sit down with legendary surfer and waterman Tom "Pohaku" Stone to discuss the history, culture, and experience of two ancient and native Hawaiian sports: surfing and holua sledding.
Then, a quick discussion of Geoff's experience trying surfing, and his experience at a Rainbow Wahine basketball game.
Find Tom on Instagram @pohatu or at his website https://www.hawaiibc.com/
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Blu and Geoff discuss injury recovery strategy, statistics on football injuries, Soldier Field, way too much about the Bear's stadium situation, who we would pick for our science fiction football teams, and weird 80s comic gambits
Sources
- https://journals.lww.com/acsm-csmr/FullText/2011/09000/Football_Injuries__Current_Concepts.12.aspx
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35593739/
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