Um, welcome to Two Brains One Bot. I'm Ashley and my lovely co-host is Christy. How are you, Christy? Doing good. I needed that time to have a sip. To have a little sippy sip of my my beverage. That's definitely water. It's for sure water. Don't come at me. Okay, so I have been waiting and waiting and waiting for for what feels like forever to speak to you about how your half marathon is. And I've been holding off because I really wanted to save it for the pod because I it's such prime content. We've been leading up to it. Yes. I need to know how it went, how it was, how are you feeling? It went so good. Do you wish I would have been there at the end? Yeah, of course I do. Were you still asleep when I finished? No. I was at freaking a child's birthday party. Oh, that's the worst. This is my daughter's birthday. Were you at a birthday party that early? Yeah. I was done at nine. I know. Ew. No, it went so, so, so good. Good. Yeah. So all the differences this time around. I trained differently. Um, I had a different plan for shoes. Okay. So, like normally I feel like my feet don't h hold up, but my feet did great. The only the only body part that really hurt was my knee. I'm having some IT band issues right now, which whatever, but I took some ibuprofen beforehand and in the middle of. And yeah, no, the conditions were really good. It wasn't too cold. Um, it was like 40 degrees at the start line, which I ran it last year and I I swear it was like 30 degrees. It was so cold last year. Um, this year it was medium cold, but like good. Um wait, what time did you start? We started at seven. Okay. Um my and I kind of knew like exactly what I wanted. Like I had kind of broken the the race into like three segments, and so I knew which times I needed for each segment. Uh-huh. Um, and my first two miles were slower than I wanted. Uh just because there are so many people going through the chute. Oh, yeah. Um, there was like 3,000 half marathoners. Yeah. 3,000. Just in our just in our little thing. Like that's a good thing. And then you have to count for everybody doing, you know, the full and the eight mile or in the 5k. Um, but anyways, so there was 3,000 people going through one chute. Um, and so the initial two miles were pretty congested, and it gets it's very hard to like move, like move through people, like you're kind of almost running shoulder to shoulder. So, anyways, my first two miles were slower than I wanted. So initially I kind of felt like a little bit of stress because I was like, I gotta make up two minutes, you know. So I was thinking, okay, 20 seconds on the next six miles. Um, but anyways, it it really went so well. That's so good. So well I didn't want to give up. Um you made it that last stretch, and you were like that last stretch is so hard. That's so hard. The the one that I was just the most worried about, I did really great on. I I stuck with my plan of listening to a podcast until I got to almost the bottom of the canyon. Um, so I think I turned on music at about mile nine, and then which I was just hoping for vibes after that, and I got that, and then um my cute brother randomly was in that last three mile stretch. He was almost at like he was probably at mile 11, and I didn't know he was gonna be there, and so all of a sudden I'm just hearing someone yell my name and I look over and it's my brother, and I was just so excited, and I cried. Yeah, literally cried because it's such a mental game, yeah, and he was just sitting there, he was just like sitting there and just like Christie, and I was just overwhelmed, and then he kind of continued to um he didn't follow along the path, but he would like kind of go on a parallel path, and then he would show up like a little a little ways down, and then a little ways down and a little ways down. So he was kept he kept popping up, and I was just so excited. My spouse was out of town, which totally fine. He was having a great trip. Um, so it was it was great to have my brother there, and then at the end, um like my core like fitness running group people were all there. My kids were there, my friends picked up my kids to take them. So my kids were there, and it was just lovely. And yeah, I got under the time I wanted, I wanted under two hours, I got 156. Good for you. Everything was great. That's amazing. That is a huge accomplishment. So when's your next one? I don't know. Oh, I'm not signed up. You're just gonna take a rest. I'm gonna transition training to weight training. Okay, and then, but still I'm gonna keep I I wanna do like two medium distance runs a week. I like it. Good for you. So because I just it's just with running, it just for me personally, just every little tiny um advance I make in running is just literally clawing at it, but it can go away so fast. So I just don't wanna I don't want to lose the progress I've made. So but I also don't want to focus just on running because my body's tired. Yeah, amazing. I'm so proud of that. We're gonna focus on yeah, thank you. We're gonna focus on some weight training and some some gains there. So lifting some stuff and putting it back down. Yep. Love it. I've been trying to do that more. Yeah. I go every Saturday to a lift class to me. I love it. Um, but I need to do it more consistently. So women gotta do it. Yeah, but you um now have time for hockey now. Yeah. Because you're not gonna be training all the time, right? Yeah. I mean, not that there's is there hockey games going on over the summer? It's well, it's um we're in the playoffs right now, so the Western Conference just wrapped up, so we know who the Western Conference um champion is, which was the Vegas Golden Knights, which was crazy. Not crazy, they're great. Um, they did beat out the mammoth, but that's alright. And then so I think we're just waiting on the East Coast to get there, and then they'll Gotcha meet up for that Stanley Cup. Alright. So we had talked previously about the mammoth team, and it was a pre it was it wasn't on the pod, but it was between me and you and your husband, and we were talking about their mascot. Oh yeah. And we were like, you mentioned to me, because I haven't been to a mammoth game yet. I really want to, but it I feel like the tickets are insane. So yeah, worth it, but yeah. Um, we'll have to go. But um you mentioned to me that it's the mammoth is brown, and that did not compute in my brain. Blue. It's blue, light blue, light blue, but you think it should be brown. It should be brown. Okay, I like that it's light blue. Oh. When you said I and I mixed that up when I wrote this down because I thought you said it was brown, and that doesn't compute in my brain. It doesn't compute. And I think it's because I still think that I think of the yeti, and so I'm like, it should either be white, because I'm thinking yeti, even though it's mammoth, or it's it's blue, like their color blue. Yeah, that makes sense to me, but brown is weird. So, anyways, um on that note, we're going to talk about mascots today. Oh, okay. Like team mascots and why they're a thing. Okay. Cause like why? Yeah, why? Like, why does like what are we doing? Why? So first I'm gonna tell you what a mascot is. So, quick definition is a mascot is a symbol character or spirit figure representing a team or like a school or like an event. Um, originally it wasn't um entertainment, it was more like a good luck charm. And in fact, the word mascot comes from the French word mascot, meaning lucky charm. Okay, which is interesting. So the OG mascots in the late 1800s, early 1900s for sports teams were often kids, like real children. Okay. And as children? Yeah, real real children. I am your mascot, and I am also your child. Like actual children, animals, and just random lucky objects. So probably like red socks vibes. So an example of these early mascots was the Chicago Cubs. They used a young boy as a good luck charm in the early days, and yes, that is weird. So was it just a boy or was it a boy in a cub suit? Nope, it was a boy, a literal child. Okay. And like, given the history of our country, it's probably not as innocent as we would love to believe, but I'm gonna keep this light and I didn't look into it further. Dills, dills, dills. But it wouldn't make sense to me that it's not as like, oh, it's just a boy. But they named they called him um oh no, that's a different team. Okay, never mind. There was a multiple little boy. I forgot it. I already forgot about it. Don't even know. So teams would also adopt stray dogs as mascots, which I love. Santa's little helper. Like, can just imagine going from begging on the streets for food to then being like showered with love. Like you're coming out in front of all these bands. I love a I love a Cinderella story. Yeah, it's like a doggy rags to riches story. So I love that they adopted stray dogs as mascots. I would I they should just do that. I love that. Oh, that's funny. Another first mascot was the Chicago White Sox in the early 1900s, had a boy named Bingo, and he's one of the first recognized mascots. He didn't, he wasn't in a costume, he wasn't dancing, he was just a kid standing there being lucky. Was his name Bingo? Or are they just nicknamed him Bingo? They named him Bingo. I don't get it. Someone who's like a fan tell me. Because like I love my kids, but the idea of them just chilling at a baseball game and not causing all kinds of chaos is wild to me. Yeah. Like, maybe he What do you mean? Yeah, and like maybe he was lucky because he was like distracting the other team. Like they're just like, what the hell is that kid doing here? This kid just keeps showing up, so we might as well just maybe make him a part of the team, but we can't make him a part of the team because he's a child. Is there something else we can do? I don't know. We all kind of kind of like chanting his name. Yeah. Or maybe like somebody brought their kid and they're like, like he's just hanging out there, and so then everybody was like, Hey, it's the kid, it's the Was it a paid position at that time? I don't think so. Oh, I'm sure it wasn't. Okay. No, I mean it's it's just child. A lot of questions. And I don't think we know the answers to it. So it's definitely it's weird as hell. But yeah. What? It's not as weird as it could be. And that brings us to the costume era. Okay. So things really take off in the mid-20th century with the rise of like TV teams wanted like an additional component of entertainment. Yeah. The game changer was uh the Philadelphia Phillies that introduced the Fanatic in 1978. So this is Oh, only 1978. The Phillies Fanatic. Okay, yeah. Makes sense. If you're on the absolutely makes sense. It's a it's a the green Phillies guy, I'm sure you've seen him before. He's got like a little honker nose and yeah, like a megaphone nose. Yeah. Um, so fun facts about the fanatic. They he was designed by the same people who worked with the Muppets. Checks out. Checks out. Um so he's big, chaotic, unhinged energy, and he's at the tone for like modern mascots. So he was one of the first like crazy ones that are like costumed, and then from there kind of just was like, That's the norm. We're not gonna have like a random child anymore. We're gonna have those cream it needs to be a theme. Fuzzy monster guy. Okay. So I'm on board. He's known for messing with players, um, driving around on an ATV, like just causing chaos, and just being like a basically a gremlin. He's fanatic. Yeah. So he was one of the first, um, and that's like the first costumed one. But before we go into all the different types of mascots, like the ones that we're thinking of with the costumes, we're gonna talk about why we even have mascots. So there were three core reasons entertainment. So it filled the downtime during games, and it kept the kids or future fans engaged. And it's just like the same thing with like rodeo clowns, like they are the ones who fill in the time between switching out different things, different events that are happening. Makes it an uh makes it a show for everyone. Yeah, it's bring the kids, and then you know, for for companies, because we again I'm gonna say it again, we live in a capitalistic hellscape. Yeah, we do. They want future fans. So if you can connect emotionally with this thing as a child as you grow up, that's your thing. That's the thing that you're gonna recognize forever. Yeah. Okay, the second was branding. So it's easier to connect emotionally with a character than just a logo. So, like for us when we were kids, it was the Utah Jazz Bear. Um, but you know, like there's all sorts of them in our area. There's the wildcat, Waldo the Wildcat for Weaver State. There's the University of Utah doesn't have anything really. No, I don't think so. No, they're just they just have the U. Yeah. And then um BYU has the cougar. So and then Aggies has the bull. Oh yeah. Um, and I think it's named blue, but anyways. Um and then the third reason would be community identity. So it represents local cult culture, animals, history. So for example, the Chicago Bulls, they have Betty the Bull. Um, and then the San Diego Padres have a friar, which I didn't know, and it's it's tied to like religious history and roots. Do you have a picture? No, but I can look one up. I feel like I maybe know what that it's like I think like Shakespearean, like yeah. Which is funny, like that's that that's what you want your mascot to look like, but not something fierce. Yeah, and that's what's strange, is like none of these are super fierce. Who's not fierce? Like none of the mascots are super fierce. What the jazz bear? Yeah, but have you seen the jazz bear? Yeah, he's fierce. Have you looked at him in his face? So this is all that it is. I don't that's like a friar. So I'm I'm assuming it's like a priest. Okay, that's cute. I don't think that they have like a official like person that does it. Because some teams will have a costumed person that doesn't necessarily represent their mascot. Is that kind of I don't know. Like, I don't think they're on the payroll. Like I think the mascots are on the payroll. Oh yeah. But like I don't like a costume person, I don't think is like on the payroll. Well, I'm saying I'm saying like teams that have, I don't even know an example. Um the Thunder. Oklahoma City Thunder. Thunder. The Thunder. Who's the Thunder? I have no idea. Say it more though, that'll help. I think it's Minnesota Thunder. I'm not ESPN. As we've established. I'm gonna get it. Oklahoma City. Show me thunder. Yeah. Is it a mascot? Heck yeah. Okay. Um, no, I'm saying so, like, it's not like necessarily a lightning bolt, but it might be like a costumed Mubbit's character, right? So a mascot. Yeah. Oh, look at me. I am a Espien. So they bring the mascot. Let's see. Is it? Oh, okay. So he's just uh an ox? Oh, is he like a costumed ox? Oh, a bison, sorry. Uh rumble the bison. Oh. Oh, rumble. Thunder rumble. Oh my god. Bison, got it. Well, listen, I didn't look at it. I bet bison are like something in Oklahoma. I bet there is a bison in Oklahoma. Probably. There's bison here. Shut this down. Listen, I didn't look up every single team's master. Okay, but no, that's what I'm saying is like some like you going back to the you. No, the San Diego Friars. Friars. They're not gonna have some guy out there in like church robes. They might have a seagull. Yeah, they probably have like a bison. That actually brings up a funny TikTok I saw the other day where this guy was like, I think I sent it to you, but he's like, we're gonna rename all of the NFL teams to the animal that's most prominent in their state. Okay. And then he just starts saying the Kansas City ants, the Miami ants. Just go through all of them. All of them ants. We're all just ants. So that's perfect. I Googled, sorry, your favorite thing when I fact check you live. Um, San Diego Padres. Look at their mascot. Yeah, he's a friar. I know, but like a very uh animated, yeah, a very cartoony. He's a Muppet. You can't see you can't see the person. It's a very enlarged I was just about to eat some chips and then I realized we're literally recording a podcast happens. Don't mind me. I'm chips are good. Living my life over here. Okay, so some of the psychology of why we're obsessed. So mascots for us equal safe chaos. Not only do we associate that like as kids, but like when we think of like rodeo clowns, they're like the sports version of a rodeo clown. They're like, they fill in the time, but they're like okay public mischief. Yes. You know what I mean? Like they're crazy. Yeah, we like them to we like them to get in trouble, we like them to taunt people, we like them, but it's all safe, it's all fun, it's all in jest. Yeah, yeah. They break the social rules, they can be annoying, but they don't really have consequences. And yeah. So they're like a mix of a clown, a cartoon, and a sports hype machine. Okay, so let's talk about the legends, the the icons that chat, bestie, and Google, the goo, gave me. So some of the legends are the San Diego chicken. So he looks like the San Diego chicken. It looks like a grasshopper. No, it's a chicken. Oh, the top one? All three of those. All three of those. All three of those are the chicken. If you say so. So um he was one of the first performance mascots and helped define mascot comedy. Okay. The Phoenix Suns gorilla. Look at his little Hawaiian. Makes sense. I'm showing Christy pictures right now if you're on the pod. He's literally a gorilla dressed up in all sorts of different costumes, and one of them is a hula skirt and um coconut bra. That should have so funny. The Phoenix, it's the Suns. Yeah, Phoenix Suns. Gorilla. Should have been a scorpion. We'll talk about the origins of this in a little bit. Um, nope, right now. We're gonna talk about it right now. We are gonna we're gonna talk about that later, so shut up. Okay, we are on to talking about origins. Let's go. So the the gorilla specifically started as a singing telegram gone wrong and then became permanent because fans people loved it, loved it. Okay, I'm in for that. Yeah, I am in for something that like all the fans really rally behind. Yeah, for sure. He was a guy in a gorilla suit that was delivering a singing telegram, and the arena let him perform. And then fans went like absolutely feral in a good way, and the team was like, Okay, well, you live here now, so this is you are ours now. Are you employed? And so that's apparently how the gorilla, the Phoenix Sun gorilla, like showed up. And it's literally like just a dude in like a Halloween costume gorilla. We never knew that about the Phoenix Suns. Our neighboring state mascot. It's wild. I love it. Okay. Um, so unhinged and funny mascot moments. So um, we've probably seen these now viral on the internet. Um, but there have been instances where mascots have gotten tackled by players. Oh. We've had incidents where mascots are beefing with refs. Um, one of, and I'm sure it's faked, but one of my favorites is um I think it was at a hockey game, and they had like the kiss cam things. And a guy was like on the phone or something and not paying attention to his girlfriend, and so the mascot like got pissed and went and got involved and kissed his girlfriend. I like it. And then dumped the bear in his lap. It was pretty funny. I'm pretty sure it was staged. Definitely very cute though. Yeah, very fun. Um hey, really quick. I'm so sorry to do this to you. What the youth's mascot is a bird. A bird? Yeah. Uh show me. Like a hawk? It probably is a big one. Is it a seagull? So like a hawk, probably. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I've never seen that before. Oh, my neighbor's gonna be so mad at me. He played for you. Um and like he was kind of a big deal. Let me see what let me see what type of animal it is. Super duper sad. Is it a hawk? Is it a hawk? Yeah, it looks like a hawk to me. Uh it is. Swoop. The anthro p anthropo. Morphic red tail hawk. Okay. That was really illuminating for me. Thank you for. Well, I just knew that about your neighbor, and I was like, I don't want to actually get in deep water. Gotta make sure the squeeze. Yeah, you gotta make sure we're really just gonna keep going with that, huh? You're gonna hurt my Fifi's. Forever. Fifi's. Fife's. Christy Fifies. Are we even sick? I don't know. Squeeze my juice and tell me. This is a family show. No, it's not. It is not. I click not suitable for children every time. We do. Yeah. And then she lets her kids listen. Hi, Christy's kids. My kids are cool. Your kids are cool. Okay. Um where was I going? Oh, so another unhinged mascot moment, which is pretty fascinating. Um there have been lawsuits over mascots designs, like we talked about before, the Utah Mammoth and Yeti debacle. Yes. Um, but another example that I found is the Philadelphia Phillies. So they had a legal battle over the fanatic design. Um, the Philadelphia Phillies were engaged in a multi-year copyright battle with the Philly Fanatics' original creators who attempted to reclaim the mascots' rights after 35 years. Oh, so whoever initially did it was like, hey, that's my design. Yeah, and I like when I was looking into this a little bit more, and I don't have like all of the specific details, but it said something to the effect of like after a certain amount of time the copyright expires and they can reclaim certain things. Um, and so the dispute led to temporary mascot redesigned by the team before both sides reached a confidential settlement in late 2021. So this is really recent. Oh wow, yeah. Um, and it allowed the Phillies to keep using the character. But I think it upset a lot of fans too, because they were like, that's ours. That's that's the fanatic. He's ours. You can't just like recall. So they were they were bad that somebody was gonna try and take it. Well, yeah, and it's not like it wasn't like the original creators, like they have claims to that artwork. I mean, it's it's theirs, but like the team was essentially gonna just discontinue that the use of that mascot instead of like creating a new one. And I'm sure the the fans were pretty upset about that. Do you know? Um, a lot of people don't know this, but I actually know about this. The settlement was actually just one of the creators wanted to be the mascot. So now that creator is in the costume. He's like, you know what? I'm so tired of seeing this guy get to have all the fun I wanted to do. He's not even doing it right. Like, let me do it. That's not how I created it. Be so for real right now. I was so for real. Oh yeah. Come on here to be real. Let's this is my detox time. You are going off the rails, and so let's just talk about the mascots that have gone off the rails. Narrowing in, laser, laser focused. Um, so I'm so glad that you looked up the fryer because now this picture makes so much more sense to me. Oh, I can't wait to see. San Diego chicken is there. Oh but that's the fryer. Yeah, that's the fryer. Wait. So they must have been who's the San Diego chicken? He's another team. Oh. Yeah, so they must have been playing each other or something and got this picture. So that's the fryer in the background. Yeah. I know that. So the chicken is a legend, and he leaned hard into chaos. He's known for mocking the umpires at games, stirring up crowds, and at one point got arrested during a game. Sometimes staged, sometimes not super clear. Yeah. Some games amuse your imagination. And chat said about this. He walked so modern mascots, mascots can sprint into the nonsense. Lean the way, he's a trailblazer. So speaking of craziness and the Philadelphia Phillies fanatic. Um this is one of the mascots that has injured people. This man is a menace. So crimes include shooting hot dogs into the crowd. Sounds fun until you get hit in the face with a literal hot dog. Shooting. You gotta be paying attention. You gotta be you gotta be hot on your your game and gotta have that bun just dressed and ready to go for that hot dog. But like, look at this picture. Look at that frigging hot dog cannon. Oh, that's amazing. What would be even more amazing is if like they like passed out buns beforehand to the section that he's gonna shoot it, and then they could just literally just catch him. That they should. They should say, like, come get your buns, because then they, you know. Yeah. But um, there have actually been injury lawsuits against this one. So fans talk about it. Yeah, right to the freaking face. Um, there's also been ATV chaos on the field, so he does drive around this like ATV little red guy. Uh-huh. So he's rather large on that. Yeah, he's caused a lot of chaos. Um rather, again, fanatical. Fanatical, yeah. The Chicago Bulls, Benny the Bull, he picked a fight with a player and lost. He also has a hot dog gun, which is crazy. Okay, I just didn't know they were so prolific. I know. Look at him. He's just he's dressed as a hot dog and holding a hot dog gun. I don't get why do we need meat sticks flying at our faces? The juice is definitely not worth a squeeze. Do you like hot dogs? I do like a good hot dog. It's gotta be the right hot dog. Like it's like I love a camping hot dog. A camping hot dog, like a hot dog grilled over a fire, yes. Yeah or like on a flat top, like a seared hot dog. Honestly, though, I prefer a cheddarwurst. Yeah. Noted. Noted. Um, I'm gonna get a hot dog gun and shoot you with cheddarwurst from my desk. It'll be phenomenal. What? Don't threaten me at a good time. I know. I'm not threatening. Stop talking dirty. Trying to find out what you're doing tomorrow. Catching hot dogs with my mouth. Yeah, yeah. Can you imagine though? You're just sitting at your desk and I just get pelted in the back of the head with hot dogs. Cold hot dog. What the that reminds me of. That would be the freaking best way to get fired. Yeah. If I ever if I ever get that other parking ticket, I'm gonna walk around throwing hot dogs at people. I'm gonna get myself a hot dog. You are the most annoying person. Hot dog. Okay. This is for all those years of stupidness. Hot dog. I don't think we would have to get at least like 12 eight packs. Yeah. I'd be dishing those things out. I'd be just flinging hot dogs left and right. Look for us in the news. But that um Instagram DM that we got of that guy that got arrested for having hot dogs taped to himself. Oh, yeah. In Florida. Yes, Florida man. Florida man. Oh my gosh. So funny. That's so funny. At times. Continuing with the chaos. Mascots used to be real animals. So they were actual live animals. Live bears, live dogs, live goats, live kids, live children. Um, they were unpredictable, sometimes dangerous, and they had no training whatsoever. And my favorite thing is that they went from child to like bear. Hear me out. A bear. A bear. Like what could go wrong by bringing in like a wild animal to a very crowded girl. We're in an arena. This is perfect. Yeah, what could go wrong? Um, so I already talked to you about the origin of the Phoenix Suns gorilla, but now let's talk about the one and the only gritty. Oh, I feel like we were talking about this recently, right? We were we were talking about gritty. So gritty, if you were on the pod, is the orange guy with like he's like kind of fluffy, he's a hockey mascot. Um so the backstory is that Gritty arrived in 2018, but before that, the Flyers had did not have a mascot for decades. And he was designed by Brian Allen of Flyland Designs evolving from an early concept simply named Monster D. When he was first introduced, there was lots of backlash. Um, the internet hated him. He was mercilessly roasted, called a terrifying Muppet, and mopped across local media. Yeah. Yeah. But then came the Philly effect. So, true to form, Philadelphia rallied around him the second that outsiders started taking shots. Yeah. The mentality quickly became he's ugly, but he's our ugly. And then finally he achieved internet stardom when he won the internet with a viral goodnight internet post and quickly became a Webby Award-winning meme. Oh and a beloved cultural figure. So I figured he was a good one to end on because that's a fun director Rich's stories. Oh, I love it. Yep. And hockey also. No, he's well loved. Yeah. So now that we know the history of mascots and seen a few, let's play a game. Dill. So if you think in your brain of all the ones I just showed you between the Philly Fanatic, Gritty, San Diego Chicken, Benny the Bull, the Gorilla, and the Fryer. We are going to go through each one and rank them on a tier. Okay. Not hot or not. Oh my god. Do you want I had a plan, but now I'm changing the plan. Oh, okay. Because I want to do Smasher Pass. Okay. Dill. So I'm going to show you a picture and then you're going to do Smash or Pass. Smasher Pass. Or I guess we could do the other one. Oh. Let's do Smash or Pass. Smash or Pass. Okay. My kids listen to this. Alright. Fair. Okay, at home. Our listeners can do the other one. The other one. Okay. The three option. The three option. Um, okay, so the chicken. No, no, we're gonna start we're gonna start strong with our roots. The BYU cougar. Pass. The Toronto's Raptor. Raptor. Uh that middle one, pass, but the other two smash. The middle one has like a plastic looking. Yeah, like an inflatable. I don't like it. Yeah. What's the other one? Uh probably pass. Pass. Actually, uh, let's just pass all around. Pass all around pass the raptor around? Let's pass the raptor around. Is it a raptor? Yeah. Oh. Yeah, I don't like it. No? So pass on that one too. How about the fryer? Smash! Smash. Smash. Smash in that robe. Chicken? Pass. Gross. Chickens are gross. Chickens are gross. They're only delicious. Or smash. Billy is the smash. Smash. I agree. I think everybody. Does he bring the hot dog gun? Probably. For after? It's like a snack. You're just smoking a hot dog. Yeah. Smoke anything. A smoke dog is delicious. How do you prefer your hot dog after a smash session with a Philly? From a gun. Straight to the face. Crowd full of people. Yes. Smack in my face. Oh. Bernie from Miami Heat. Look at him. Look at him. Can you zoom it? I can't really. I can just see colors. Yeah. Pass. Pass. Yeah. I don't like it. Smash. Oh. The jazz bear. Smash or pass. Smash. Uh Mammoth. Smash. Yeah, smash for sure. Aggie's ox. Smash. I had to, maybe. Um Waldo. Smash. Smash. The bull. Benny the bull. Look at those eyes. Smash, of course. Smash, of course. Gorilla. Smash. Smash, probably, yeah. It's the hula skirt for me. Gritty. Smash. Smash. Alright. He's he's a lovable cuddler. I'm glad we um made that sexual. Yeah, I'm glad we really took it there because mine was ranking it on tears between harmless probably smells like fabric softener, just a little guy, to sleep paralysis demon. I bet they I bet those all stink. Oh, I bet they like a costume. Like you know how costumes get those smells gross. Also, I think I haven't like researched this, so don't quote me, but I think there's a show where people are like competing to be mascots. Oh. For things. I don't remember what it is or where it's at or anything like that, but yeah. Anyways, that's on mascots. I love it. So have I things I never knew before about hot dogs. No, dreams about hot dogs. Yeah. Have dreams about hot dogs hitting your own. When if it's a good hot dog. A good hot dog. Yeah. Because we you talked about going to the mammoth games but and it being expensive. We got some like discount tickets that are like meant for like families, so you can take your family to go and you can only see one goal or whatever. It's kind of silly, but yeah. Still fun. Like still fun to take your kids. But it comes with a free hot dog, and it's like the literal worst hot dog you've ever seen. And I'm like, I'll pay you to keep that hot dog. It's just sitting in the water. Don't warm mine up because I'm not gonna take it or eat it. It's like the leftovers from 7-Eleven that have been rolling all day. They're like so gross. And even my family was like, Yeah, we'll eat the hot dog, and then they got it and they're like, We're not gonna eat the hot dog. Yeah, because it's gross. That hot dog water just wasn't worth it. It wasn't even heated up, no. It wasn't heated up. Oh, it was, I'm sure. I'm just kidding. Oh my gosh. It was heated, it was heated in the bun. Guarantee. Gross. Yeah, gross. Like the ones they give you that are like wrapped in the foil. Yeah, it was wrapped, it was already wrapped in the foil. Yeah, it was just gross. They just ran a blow dryer over the top of it really quick. Yeah. They probably were boiled, and that's gross. I only like grilled or fire. I like a boiled when you put it over macaroni and cheese. Yeah. Oh no, just pan fry it. No, I like a good boiled hot dog. Here's a big thing. One time you came to uh we went on a river float. We've already talked about this. I know, I'm gonna bring it up again though. And you wear in a pink swimsuit and you're like, I'm like a boiled hot dog. Felt like a boiled hot dog. That's great. That's a good thing. If you feel like yucky, you can just say I feel like a boiled hot dog. Because everybody can relate to that, you know? And sometimes that's really how you feel. Busted out of both ends, and just I just feel like a boiled hot dog. A boiled hot dog. The skin I'm ripped through. Should we have called this two hot dogs one something? The podcast in general? Yeah. No. We always talk about hot dogs. Like it's actually kind of a theme. Is that our niche? Is it hot dogs? Hot dog walk. Hot dog connoisseurs. Yeah, except for like I don't know anything about hot dogs. Me either. Except for that I like them shot out of a cannon at my face. That's one thing we know. One thing uh about me. Is I like a hot dog. Yes. Alright, let's end this. Okay. End of the torture. This has been Two Brains, One Bot. Remember to stay human. Stay curious. And don't let the robots win. Never, not one time. Bye. Bye. Makes me want a hot dog real bad. Makes me want a hot dog real bad. You look like the 4th of July.