Ellie the Elephant

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Ellie the Elephant.

I think I know where you're putting this

one.

I feel very partial to Ellie the Elephant.

She is the official mascot for the New York Liberty, which we have to kind of mention that obviously being a mascot for a sports team, like you're like, that's like an area where mascots are expected.

Right.

Because you can't even call him Liberty Bibbity anymore because they made the laziest mascot of all time.

Ellie the Elephant, one squillion times better than Liberty Bibbity.

Liberty Bibbity, I know you're not a thing that really exists.

I know that you are a lazily made... furry circle that does not actually have a soul.

She was really doing some things.

And even we cannot forget the queen herself, Ellie the Elephant, was at Sergio Hudson with a little look.

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The Dodgers took care of the Reds 4-1.

Load up for Big Ellie.

Hey, he literally hit a home run out the park.

Out the park.

That to me is something that like I hope, I hope gets addressed or like I hope changes, because it just like makes, to m- to Roy's point, when you say Richmond you think about the Richmond men's team.

So when you say Greyhounds you're gonna think of the men's team, and then you have to say Lady Greyhounds in order to think of the women's team? But like I don't know, like Ellie the Elephant is having her moment in the WNBA, so like let's be creative and come up with new mascots and like embrace what is like feminine or awesome about women's sports rather than trying to just copy and paste from the men's game.

It's done, I think, to such a detriment where, you know, there's so little thought.

Where they go like, "Okay, we're gonna have a women's team." Like, "Okay, what should we do?" And then the, and it's like, it's like it was thought about for five minutes the fact that like we're going to be bringing, we're gonna be creating something where there was nothing.

And I couldn't, you also can't play favorites, right? Like I couldn't just have, I did get some of my, some of my, you know, kicks in there.

Like I do have a chapter on Ellie the elephant.

I was exactly where I was going, Nicole.

I'm like, you know, you kind of have to have fun with it.

Lauren, the thing I really need to ask you about, and I'm not sure I realized we were so similar, but you have an obsession with a mascot, and I am obsessed with mascots of all kinds.

So I read somewhere that you sometimes talk about Big Ellie, like the New York Liberty mascot.

Use her as a case study for brand consistency? Yeah.

Please tell me

She still is the same vibe.

And I think Brands... are often trying to be super regimented, which can be really great, but doesn't allow you to kind of feel the person and feel the world.

Like when I see Big Ellie, I know the kind of nails she wants.

I know her bag.

You could get tickets for like really cheap.

And also Ellie the Elephant is that girl and no mascot has ever done it like her.

I don't give a fuck about baseball, but like, oh, OK, this is cool.

So there's four teams.

Yeah.

They don't care about Ellie the Elephant.

No.

And we fucking do.