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Fighting Camels Discussion From November 20th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: We had a cup one second here, I just I
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  Speaker 1: want Katie get that picture, will you? So, Geena, you've
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  Speaker 1: been saying you wanted to buy Flying Camel's merch. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: this is the college that played Cambell Campbell College that
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  Speaker 1: played Weber State yesterday lost to Weber State. Yeah, Campbell University. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: and it's the flying camels. I haven't had a chance
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  Speaker 1: of fighting Yeah. Why did I say flying? Did I
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  Speaker 1: say flying? Yes, the fighting camels. I haven't had a
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  Speaker 1: chance to look up. Why Campbell University is the fighting camels.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to buy this merch that camel. If
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  Speaker 1: you go to x ninety six dot com slash live,
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  Speaker 1: his name is gay Lord. No I want I don't
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  Speaker 1: know I want it, but just look at it. He's
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  Speaker 1: he's camel's he's he's a mean looking Yeah he's no,
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  Speaker 1: he's a fighting No. But the camel I should have no,
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  Speaker 1: But that's not Alec Campbell should look if you look
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  Speaker 1: at the mascot like the guy in the suit, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's goofy like a camel should be. But you don't
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  Speaker 1: want a goofy mascot.
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  Speaker 2: You want to fearsome.
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  Speaker 3: I'm afraid of the fighting cameras.
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  Speaker 2: Camels are goofy looking. Wasn't Gaylord the fighting Campbell erased?
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  Speaker 2: Even so, I think, sorry, that was a joke for
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  Speaker 2: fine people.
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  Speaker 1: Look at me.
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  Speaker 2: Two of them are dead and they're my parents.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a fighting camel up a tree. Oh, I'm all
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  Speaker 1: in on Gaylord. I like him, I know, I want
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  Speaker 1: she should he should be a mean looking I mean,
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  Speaker 1: not a mean looking.
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  Speaker 3: I want a T shirt.
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  Speaker 2: A T shirt, Yeah you should.
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  Speaker 1: I looked it up.
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  Speaker 3: They have long sleeve, they have short sleeves.
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  Speaker 1: Why and we've got to find out why they're the
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  Speaker 1: fighting camels.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, maybe for my next sports cast, I will, all right,
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  Speaker 3: I will the origin the origin of Gaylord.
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  Speaker 2: Jaylor the fighting We all need an origin story.
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  Speaker 1: I'm against him though. He should look, he should look
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  Speaker 1: he should look like a camel, not a mean a
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  Speaker 1: fighting Campbell. I don't know how you can't wrap your
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  Speaker 1: head around that. I just because I just don't think
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  Speaker 1: of camel's that way.
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  Speaker 2: I don't mean, well, this is the this is They're
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  Speaker 2: just the one, you know, different one.
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  Speaker 1: He's there, goofy he's the exception, all right.
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  Speaker 3: Since making his first appearance in nineteen thirty four, Gaylord
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  Speaker 3: the Camel can be seen strutting at the Fighting Campbell's
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  Speaker 3: home games, making appearances. The origins, Campbell University's first sports
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  Speaker 3: teams were nicknamed the Hornets. That mascot gave way to
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  Speaker 3: the Camels in nineteen thirty four. An urban legend about
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  Speaker 3: where it came from suggests that the nickname derived from
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  Speaker 3: people mishearing or mispronouncing the Campbell name. Another one is
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  Speaker 3: that the students in the early nineteen thirties imagined their
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  Speaker 3: own slogan for the school. I'd walk a mile for
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  Speaker 3: a Camel the cigarette mm hmm. But there's little archival
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  Speaker 3: support for these tales.
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  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, it occurred to me, because
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  Speaker 1: they were called camp Campbell University, that people would sort
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  Speaker 1: of make that connection Cam Campbell Campbell. Yeah, yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: there you go. Gaylord the Fighting camp He tried. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the guy who's in the suit, he tries to look fearsome,
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  Speaker 1: but he's just he's just goofy looking. Well, I need
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  Speaker 1: to picture of the guy in the suit. Yeah, I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't pick one of those for Katie.
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  Speaker 3: So uh.
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  Speaker 1: And I wonder if they have a real I don't
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  Speaker 1: see that. Well, like some schools do that, you know
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  Speaker 1: they have.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Texas, Longhorn, I want to thank you for the
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  Speaker 2: origins of Gaylord.
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  Speaker 1: I hope they now go and take a look at
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  Speaker 1: the oranges or the oranges of the oranges.
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  Speaker 2: And secondly, Ray Stevens is fine.
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  Speaker 1: He's just fine.
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  Speaker 2: Although he had a heart attack on the fourteenth apparently,
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  Speaker 2: but he's still.
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  Speaker 1: But he's still. He gave me many hours of entertainment. Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Gaylord has a girlfriend named Gladys, of course, Gladice the
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  Speaker 3: camel Gladys.
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  Speaker 2: Because he can't be asexual or homosexual. He's a fighting camel.
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  Speaker 1: Well a girlfriend