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Guide to the Unknown

368: Monstrous Mascots

Guide to the Unknown

Kristen Anderson and William Rogers

Tv & Film, Arts, Comedy

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

What do the Jolly Green Giant and The Pillsbury Doughboy have in common? We think we could EAT THEM! But The Michelin Man and McDonald's infamous Grimace? HANDS OFF. Don't even get us STARTED on "The Freakies." WHAT ARE THEY? Mascots? Monsters! [YouTube Version] [Sources & links] Get this episode AD-FREE on Patreon, along with our exclusive podcast The Netherworld Dispatch! Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Watch on YouTube. Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and ...X? For more, cruise through our LINKS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

But that really drove the point home to me that he is dough.

0:04.5

Yeah.

0:04.9

He is to be eaten.

0:06.4

Yes, he is.

0:07.2

That's weird.

0:12.8

Hello, welcome to guides the unknown.

0:15.1

I'm Kristen.

0:16.0

And I'm her little brother, William.

0:18.1

And we are talking about monsters in the form of capitalism.

0:22.1

These are the monsters that sell us products.

0:25.1

Monetary monsters.

0:26.1

Yeah.

0:27.1

Commerce creeps.

0:28.1

Yeah, that's right.

0:29.1

But seriously, like weirdo mascots.

0:31.6

But if you think about it, like, what the hell are these things?

0:34.1

Yes, it's amusing.

0:35.6

I feel like we've done this very sparingly in the past,

0:39.1

but we've recently been dedicated to covering things that are like particularly funny or stupid

0:43.5

or silly. And this felt like it was right in the wheelhouse. And at the end of the last episode,

0:47.7

I don't even remember why now. Seven years in my memory still gets erased whenever we do a show.

0:54.0

Yes.

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