February 24, 2025 • 20 mins
While the Big Game (TM) is over, some of the ads are still on our brains. Anney and Samantha discuss some of the fumbles and the touchdowns.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey, this is Anny and Samantha, and welcome to stuff
I've never told your direction of iHeart radio.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And welcome to another mundane mini where I'm just gonna
talk about current affair stuff.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I guess it's not really that current because it's been
over a week or two how many weeks?
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Any?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Three weeks, two years?
Speaker 4 (00:29):
And then then I think we're approaching two weeks.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Okay, okay, fine, fine, we'll be what it is.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
But I'm gonna talk about the super Bowl a little
bit just because I found it interesting. I don't typically
watch the super Bowl. It's not something I care about.
I can care less about the you know, the racist
name team versus any I was pulling for the Eagles.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I'm not gonna lie. There was no reason other than
the names.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I think Kansas City, come on, get it together, like
all these things.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
So I'm like, you know what in Kansas City win
last year? I don't know, I don't they did, Oh
they did? Okay, s.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Oh and this will be the first one in history,
right or something like that.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Yeah, I'm glad I lost. Sorry, I don't like it.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
So it's hard to say.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Oh no, there's so many things here. But with all
of that.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I found it interesting because again, this is the first
time I watched it, and I watched it for the
halftime performance. I wanted to see what was going to happen.
I am all in the world of the Kendrick Drake beef.
I think it's kind of entertaining and funny. I have
no dogs in this fight. I have no reason to
have an opinion other than I like certain types of
music and I think it's interesting in the story. So
(01:40):
I definitely was like coming in with like I want
to I want to see what happens with this performance
because I also do enjoy Kendrick Lamar's music. I understand
this was not written for me, but I will help
make money for him and like all of the things
he does because I think.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
It's good music.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
All right.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
With that said, of course, there's all these ads happening
any and you said you haven't seen any of them,
correct now.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
The second I heard Donald Trump was gonna be there, I.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Was like, that's fair enough, fair enough. I will say
there was good booing. There was a lot of people
yelling at him, so that was enjoyable to see. But
I actually missed the part where he was in and
they never really showed him throughout. I kinda was confused
that he just pop up, wave and leave, which would
been fine by me.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Uh but I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
But I think that's the other parts, like Eagles have
already said no, we don't want to hang out with
you before, so I appreciate that anyway, any of all
those things. But I did watch some of the ads
and I was like, okay, because I know they come
out with YouTube videos of them previous, even before the
super Bowl. So some of them I had already heard
about are scene and I was like, hah, I find
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it interesting.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
There are some that I.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Thought I would talk about that I thought I'm putting
them in categories any So at the top I put
some that I saw that was intrigued by but suspicious of.
So when it comes to any corporate into that is
making money off of certain ideals, I'm like, I'm glad
the conversation's out there.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I hate their.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Profiting off of it. Like there's so many thoughts of us,
and one of them was the Nike ad which got
a lot of heat. So Nike will be also under controversial.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Ads that I have as a category.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
And their slogan for this was whatever you do, you
can't win, so whin So essentially it's like when girls
are being told you can't do this, so you should
do this type of conversation. And they had all kinds
of amazing athletes, women athletes in there. Kate ln Abilei
was in there as well, like so many different ideals
and very empowering ideals. You know, Nike does a really
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good job in taking advantage profiting off of such marketings.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
So I was like, okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Apparently there was some transphobic comments and backlash in that,
which I found interesting just from some of the articles,
people were really saying a lot of things that they
did not need to, referring to some of the athletes
as men like that level, Like all these things were
in there, unfortunately, but they premiered it. It was interesting
and I did love like some of the people that
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they featured. There's another one and.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
It was weather Tech.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
And by the way, it took me forever to figure
out what the ad was, which that should be a
whole category I didn't have on here, but like trying
to figure out what they were advertising was half the game.
I feel like, yeah, so weather Tech, which is like
a car company, car parks company that you can, like,
I guess, fix up your vehicle with feature like a
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Thelma and Louise like episode or commercial with older women
getting out and about and doing their thing.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
So okay, interesting idea.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I liked that they featured older women older people in
this as like being able to do things. They weren't
the only ones, but like they were the main storyline.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
But at the same time it did fill.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Pandering as well as like they're mocking like.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Older women can't drive.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
All these there were several things but interesting, intrigued, but suspicious.
Another one was a flag football ad so with actual
pro flag football players women players, which you know. I
like this aspect and I feel like I want to
get into this a little bit because flag football is
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intense because they don't wear like protective gear and they
don't care. It's almost like rugby level to me the
way they play. But it is for the NFL, who
obviously they don't want to allow women into mini sports anyway,
but they're going to profit off of this by having
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a flag football league confusion, So like both of those,
I'm suspicious, also kind of concerned, and also intrigued. There's
a lot of there's a lot of emotions in that one.
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There was an category I said, this has just disgusted me.
And again this is kind of like outright like ooh,
I don't like it. And Hellman's is at the top.
How dare you?
Speaker 4 (06:23):
I know, I guess we should say none of these.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Are currents, but yeah, and I probably won't be Yeah,
let me just say that they spent money. So they
brought on Meg Ryan and Bill was his name, Billy Crystal,
Billy Crystal. My mind is gone. So they brought them
on and had them recreate when Harry met Sally, and
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they brought in the younger actor Sydney you know from
Euphoria as a part of that, to be the one
that says, I I'll take the same thing she's got
or I'll have what she's having type of conversation. And
it was based on mayonnaise and it was disgusting and
I hated it.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Samantha does not like mayonnaise.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
My face is in disgust.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
There was another one which was for like colbrew foam
and I already forgot I think it's is it coffee?
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Meat?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Y'all? Everybody was like, what are you doing with this?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
People were so many It was coffee made and essentially
any the commercial is a cgi'd or AI dude's tongue
reacting to it, and it's so gross and so icky
that I literally screamed at the TV.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I screamed at the TV.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Because I was like, why why And by the way,
we were watching it on tub also not a sponsor, hmm,
but like they had the better commercials from what everyone's
telling me, between Fox and TB to be was a
white place to go. Oh, because you could also stream
it for free, which I'm very baffled by streaming services
with football, I'm very baffled.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Wow, someone needs to tell me about.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
There's a whole conspiracy theory about this, which is but
I we don't have time to go into it now,
but about like basically the level of booing you heard
for Trump was different.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Oh yeah, so the same thing with Kendrick Lamar performance
is based on like the audio's reaction. It's like, it's
so quiet, but apparently it wasn't. Like you had several
different views that I'm like, yeah, like we heard it again.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
My partner and.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I like, well on some of the major lines and
I was like, oh my god, that crowd. Yes, like
seventy thousand people are screaming apparently on Fox that was
not yep.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Okay, that's the ext.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
But they can't be verified because it's like you can
look it up on Snopes. That's what I'll say, but
that it sounds like based on the people in there,
they definitely messed with the audio.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
So according to people who are showing their TikTok videos
of it, they're like, this is the live reaction from here,
and it's like, yeah, okay, that's interesting. But some of
the more controversial When I mean controversial, I mean like
they ruffled feathers politically, socially, economically, whatever, however you want
to look at it.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
You have Rocket who talked.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
About owning the real dream, the real touch and how
to do that, and everybody's like, yo, you know what's
happening with the housing market right now? This is is
not what you think, especially a major company who profits
off of other people's inability or like inability to get
a house real off, real off. Another one was Monday Night.
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So here in Atlanta, we have a brewery called Monday
Night Brewery, which has been around for years one of
the first breweries in Atlanta to be honest when it
was popping up, as it was getting bigger and bigger
and bigger, and we if you were watching, Cores has
a limited feature called Monday Nights or Monday Lights are
just Mondays because it's Cores light, bier, and and money.
(10:00):
And I was not happy and tried to go after them.
I think they sent to a Seats and desist and
Cord's response was like, Eh, get over it, it's for
a the minute time calm down. So that did not
go over well. I'm interested to see if anything actually happens.
I doubt it because again, huge corporation versus small independent
brewery here in Atlanta that is I think at least
(10:20):
Southeast wide and I think over East Coast is available.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
So interesting.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
They did respond by doing a Cords beer uh huh
with a gimmicky like can. So we'll see what happens
with that battle. That was controversial here. I put Nike
under this. Uber Eats did a whole thing they paid
Matthew McConaughey to do, like a very meta type of
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like the whole conspiracy of football is to make you
hungry and is to make you buy more food and
make you buy delivery, and it's like all these things
and then like drawing boards and at the end of
it like go, you know, order.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Food from Uber. Yeah mm hmmm, which was.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Like, okay, of course we had the politically morality I
guess type of conversations, uh, the Jesus one which was
their last year too.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
I remember watching it like what what mm hmmm.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
They had another one this year as well as the
one that was for anti Semitic conversations, which is fine,
which is fine on itself, but then do you have
Snoop Dogg and Tom Brady coming together who were both
under fire for a lot of things, doing this conversation
about how they're so everybody's so mean to each other.
Just stop it, seriously, seriously bro okay, okay, Calvin. Uh
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liquid Death. I don't know if many people caught this.
Like everybody loved the commercials because they was like you
could drink on the job, meaning because it's water or tea.
But then like one of the cannon flavors is death
to Billionaires or billionaire death, and.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Everybody was like, oh, I like that one, Let me
have that one. So that was interesting.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
And the big one that really made me want to
have this conversation that made me angry. It made me
so angry that I started again screaming, not in disgust,
in disgust, but more anger is Hymns and Hers. So
I got this from an article written by Northeastern Global
News in this conversation about hims and Hers, and it's
(12:36):
the title Hymns and Her. Super Bowl ad for new
weight loss drugs faces backlash from health experts. Not only
health experts, but people in general who understand this kind
of culture.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Here's a quote.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
The ad begins with a barrage of statistics centered around
obesity and obesity related deaths in the US. Proclamations about
the broken healthcare system repeat throughout like it's really big.
It's making some pretty big claims about how we are
not being taken care of. The US doesn't care about
people all these things, which actually does hit like the
obesity thing, but like about American healthier system being broken.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
RCH hits.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Right about midway through the ad, products begin to appear.
A green pill, a small vial emblazoned with the company name.
In addition to the emotion based framing, Golowakei, who contributed
to this article, says, part of the deception lies in
the presentation of esthetically pleasing products. This is research, for example,
showing that consumers think that products presented in green labels
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are healthier than they really are. She says the lack
of contransparency around their labeling and their description of what's
in their products is of a concern. So essentially, what
this ad did is has all of these things about
how system is broken and no one's really providing care
and all these things, which I'm like, you are correct,
you are correct. And by the way, I did not
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know what this ad was until towards the end, and
then it pops up with hims and hers we offer
you these products.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
I started screaming at the.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
TV because how dare you, of all companies criticize the
healthcare system which has allowed you to profit off of
the people. Don't get me wrong. Telehealth has really helped
in so many ways for people who cannot access care,
So I am not talking about that companies like this
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who offer sometimes offer not all the time cheaper products,
alternative ways to get medication instead of going to the
hospitals to get an up charge from urgent cares and
such helps people who don't have insurance hopefully get a
better access. I say there are benefits. However, using this
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as a way of profiting off of people who are
already seeing things that by Ozimbic and all of these things,
and who are not able to get these products because
it is being misused or now update charged because of
companies like this is infuriating. On top of the fact
that the product they were actually pushing is not FDA approved.
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I know all of the administrations and all of these
organizations are solely falling apart anyway, but having a standard
of being something this has not been proven. There's no
real actual data about what type of product this is.
So they're trying to give you an alternative to Ozenmbic,
which we know what that is, we know how it
can be helpful, and we know what it's actually used for.
(15:32):
So they're doing this alternative route without any verification, so
that article keeps going in says the company defended itself
by suggesting, among other things, that its critics are complicit
in the broader system failures. This is a clear attempt
by industry groups to cancel an advertisement that directly calls
out how they are part of a system that fails
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to prioritize the health of Americans.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
What the in gaslighting?
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Hell? What?
Speaker 3 (16:01):
But what? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:05):
My hands are shaking because I'm enraged. I mean, so
there was a lot, There was a lot, and this
is one of those ones that everybody was like, what
is what is this? So I'm glad at the very
least we all recognize.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
This is gross.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Mm hmm, this is gross.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Something in here is not clicking right, and it's the advertisers.
But the fact that again they I think they and
then well, I've already had a problem with HIMS and
her specifically because it's weird when they gender the medication
to begin with, and they did they when they talk
about her. So if a woman is on here talking
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about how they used hems and hers, literally it's all
about antidepressants.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
M ohn.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Wait loss, those are the two things that women want men.
Now they have changed it because this one included men
and women for obesity stuff, so you know, I guess
they did that. But previously it was just uh, erect
aw dysfunction, so EDI was completely aimed toolder's men or
hair products like hair loss and women antidepressants and weight loss.
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Like that's how they like angled or aimed their ads
to begin with.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
So this was a huge switch up of.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Like, well, yes, the healthcare system is bad, pay our
private company more money so we can give you this
maybe useful medication that has not been verified, which some
people have said that it's actually illegal that we know,
with how things are going, probably not because people probably
own shares in that company. Yeah, you know what I mean,
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You know what I mean. So there's a lot and
with that I might kind of end up.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
I will say.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
There was a lot of star powered obviously ads like
I guess movie stars are moving on knowing that they
need money because maybe all the strikes really affected them.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
But like hogandhas had like literally the Fast and Furious
casts coming in being like we're old now, we just
want ice cream. Hey me too, me too, Pringles so
many mustaches. Ron Swanson slash Nick Offerman was in there.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
No one really talked about that.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Silo Artois had Matt Damon and David Beckham pretending to
be brothers, Matt David popping in out of nowhere every time.
Hex Clad had Ramsey Gordon and Pete Davidson talking about
being aliens. All the celebrities are aliens, which you know what,
I believe that, m M.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
That's an interesting new conspiracy theory.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
So Home Sock had Morgan Freeman, Danny Levy, and Heidi
Gardner in there, so like from SNL, so they definitely
pushed that.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
There's so many more. Matt McConaughey was in several ads.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I don't know if he's just he must have a
great I mean, I guess he's so famous he doesn't
really need a a lot of times you have to
have a non compete. You can't do multiple ads, but
they must be like Matthew McCartney.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I think yes, several, But I will say with that
because I've seen him in all of like the car ads,
he's had Watch ads, he has had.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Several ads Ai ads.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Yes, was it with.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Matt Damon in the Bitcoin.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Anyway?
Speaker 2 (19:07):
All of these like they're all climbing up on the ads.
I will say the seal Mountain Dew.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Have you seen this one?
Speaker 2 (19:16):
I wanted to send that one to you and Andrew
because we love that song because from a Rose, and
they decided to use it in Mountain Dew.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Gotta do what you gotta do a lot of good things.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
By the way, apparently Seal does not age either, like
it's awesome to see.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
I guess you know.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
That's my review of the Super Bowl ads. We have
been talking about doing an episode about diet culture and
where we are today with access to things like Zimbek,
which is a very controversial conversation to have. But stuff
like that hymns and hers, stuff with regulations and such
is really concerning, especially when you have it on things
like super Bowl timing. So also, yeah, I love the
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Kendrick Lamar performance.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Real good. Ten ten ten out of ten.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Okay, got it.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Also, we did make we never posted anything about it,
but we did make the.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
John Legends Macaroni and Cheese with Michelle Norris.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Yeah, Michelle, we did. We're gonna post it up soon
to promise two weeks late.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Yeah, yeah, we'll get there. Okay there, but it was delicious.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
And welcome to another mundane mini where I'm just gonna
talk about current affair stuff.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I guess it's not really that current because it's been
over a week or two how many weeks?
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Any?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Three weeks, two years?
Speaker 4 (00:29):
And then then I think we're approaching two weeks.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Okay, okay, fine, fine, we'll be what it is.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
But I'm gonna talk about the super Bowl a little
bit just because I found it interesting. I don't typically
watch the super Bowl. It's not something I care about.
I can care less about the you know, the racist
name team versus any I was pulling for the Eagles.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I'm not gonna lie. There was no reason other than
the names.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I think Kansas City, come on, get it together, like
all these things.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
So I'm like, you know what in Kansas City win
last year? I don't know, I don't they did, Oh
they did? Okay, s.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Oh and this will be the first one in history,
right or something like that.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Yeah, I'm glad I lost. Sorry, I don't like it.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
So it's hard to say.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Oh no, there's so many things here. But with all
of that.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I found it interesting because again, this is the first
time I watched it, and I watched it for the
halftime performance. I wanted to see what was going to happen.
I am all in the world of the Kendrick Drake beef.
I think it's kind of entertaining and funny. I have
no dogs in this fight. I have no reason to
have an opinion other than I like certain types of
music and I think it's interesting in the story. So
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I definitely was like coming in with like I want
to I want to see what happens with this performance
because I also do enjoy Kendrick Lamar's music. I understand
this was not written for me, but I will help
make money for him and like all of the things
he does because I think.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
It's good music.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
All right.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
With that said, of course, there's all these ads happening
any and you said you haven't seen any of them,
correct now.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
The second I heard Donald Trump was gonna be there, I.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Was like, that's fair enough, fair enough. I will say
there was good booing. There was a lot of people
yelling at him, so that was enjoyable to see. But
I actually missed the part where he was in and
they never really showed him throughout. I kinda was confused
that he just pop up, wave and leave, which would
been fine by me.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Uh but I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
But I think that's the other parts, like Eagles have
already said no, we don't want to hang out with
you before, so I appreciate that anyway, any of all
those things. But I did watch some of the ads
and I was like, okay, because I know they come
out with YouTube videos of them previous, even before the
super Bowl. So some of them I had already heard
about are scene and I was like, hah, I find
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it interesting.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
There are some that I.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Thought I would talk about that I thought I'm putting
them in categories any So at the top I put
some that I saw that was intrigued by but suspicious of.
So when it comes to any corporate into that is
making money off of certain ideals, I'm like, I'm glad
the conversation's out there.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I hate their.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Profiting off of it. Like there's so many thoughts of us,
and one of them was the Nike ad which got
a lot of heat. So Nike will be also under controversial.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Ads that I have as a category.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
And their slogan for this was whatever you do, you
can't win, so whin So essentially it's like when girls
are being told you can't do this, so you should
do this type of conversation. And they had all kinds
of amazing athletes, women athletes in there. Kate ln Abilei
was in there as well, like so many different ideals
and very empowering ideals. You know, Nike does a really
(03:41):
good job in taking advantage profiting off of such marketings.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
So I was like, okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Apparently there was some transphobic comments and backlash in that,
which I found interesting just from some of the articles,
people were really saying a lot of things that they
did not need to, referring to some of the athletes
as men like that level, Like all these things were
in there, unfortunately, but they premiered it. It was interesting
and I did love like some of the people that
(04:11):
they featured. There's another one and.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
It was weather Tech.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
And by the way, it took me forever to figure
out what the ad was, which that should be a
whole category I didn't have on here, but like trying
to figure out what they were advertising was half the game.
I feel like, yeah, so weather Tech, which is like
a car company, car parks company that you can, like,
I guess, fix up your vehicle with feature like a
(04:35):
Thelma and Louise like episode or commercial with older women
getting out and about and doing their thing.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
So okay, interesting idea.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I liked that they featured older women older people in
this as like being able to do things. They weren't
the only ones, but like they were the main storyline.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
But at the same time it did fill.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Pandering as well as like they're mocking like.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Older women can't drive.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
All these there were several things but interesting, intrigued, but suspicious.
Another one was a flag football ad so with actual
pro flag football players women players, which you know. I
like this aspect and I feel like I want to
get into this a little bit because flag football is
(05:25):
intense because they don't wear like protective gear and they
don't care. It's almost like rugby level to me the
way they play. But it is for the NFL, who
obviously they don't want to allow women into mini sports anyway,
but they're going to profit off of this by having
(05:45):
a flag football league confusion, So like both of those,
I'm suspicious, also kind of concerned, and also intrigued. There's
a lot of there's a lot of emotions in that one.
(06:11):
There was an category I said, this has just disgusted me.
And again this is kind of like outright like ooh,
I don't like it. And Hellman's is at the top.
How dare you?
Speaker 4 (06:23):
I know, I guess we should say none of these.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Are currents, but yeah, and I probably won't be Yeah,
let me just say that they spent money. So they
brought on Meg Ryan and Bill was his name, Billy Crystal,
Billy Crystal. My mind is gone. So they brought them
on and had them recreate when Harry met Sally, and
(06:54):
they brought in the younger actor Sydney you know from
Euphoria as a part of that, to be the one
that says, I I'll take the same thing she's got
or I'll have what she's having type of conversation. And
it was based on mayonnaise and it was disgusting and
I hated it.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Samantha does not like mayonnaise.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
My face is in disgust.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
There was another one which was for like colbrew foam
and I already forgot I think it's is it coffee?
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Meat?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Y'all? Everybody was like, what are you doing with this?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
People were so many It was coffee made and essentially
any the commercial is a cgi'd or AI dude's tongue
reacting to it, and it's so gross and so icky
that I literally screamed at the TV.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I screamed at the TV.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Because I was like, why why And by the way,
we were watching it on tub also not a sponsor, hmm,
but like they had the better commercials from what everyone's
telling me, between Fox and TB to be was a
white place to go. Oh, because you could also stream
it for free, which I'm very baffled by streaming services
with football, I'm very baffled.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Wow, someone needs to tell me about.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
There's a whole conspiracy theory about this, which is but
I we don't have time to go into it now,
but about like basically the level of booing you heard
for Trump was different.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Oh yeah, so the same thing with Kendrick Lamar performance
is based on like the audio's reaction. It's like, it's
so quiet, but apparently it wasn't. Like you had several
different views that I'm like, yeah, like we heard it again.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
My partner and.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I like, well on some of the major lines and
I was like, oh my god, that crowd. Yes, like
seventy thousand people are screaming apparently on Fox that was
not yep.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Okay, that's the ext.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
But they can't be verified because it's like you can
look it up on Snopes. That's what I'll say, but
that it sounds like based on the people in there,
they definitely messed with the audio.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
So according to people who are showing their TikTok videos
of it, they're like, this is the live reaction from here,
and it's like, yeah, okay, that's interesting. But some of
the more controversial When I mean controversial, I mean like
they ruffled feathers politically, socially, economically, whatever, however you want
to look at it.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
You have Rocket who talked.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
About owning the real dream, the real touch and how
to do that, and everybody's like, yo, you know what's
happening with the housing market right now? This is is
not what you think, especially a major company who profits
off of other people's inability or like inability to get
a house real off, real off. Another one was Monday Night.
(09:37):
So here in Atlanta, we have a brewery called Monday
Night Brewery, which has been around for years one of
the first breweries in Atlanta to be honest when it
was popping up, as it was getting bigger and bigger
and bigger, and we if you were watching, Cores has
a limited feature called Monday Nights or Monday Lights are
just Mondays because it's Cores light, bier, and and money.
(10:00):
And I was not happy and tried to go after them.
I think they sent to a Seats and desist and
Cord's response was like, Eh, get over it, it's for
a the minute time calm down. So that did not
go over well. I'm interested to see if anything actually happens.
I doubt it because again, huge corporation versus small independent
brewery here in Atlanta that is I think at least
(10:20):
Southeast wide and I think over East Coast is available.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
So interesting.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
They did respond by doing a Cords beer uh huh
with a gimmicky like can. So we'll see what happens
with that battle. That was controversial here. I put Nike
under this. Uber Eats did a whole thing they paid
Matthew McConaughey to do, like a very meta type of
(10:48):
like the whole conspiracy of football is to make you
hungry and is to make you buy more food and
make you buy delivery, and it's like all these things
and then like drawing boards and at the end of
it like go, you know, order.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Food from Uber. Yeah mm hmmm, which was.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Like, okay, of course we had the politically morality I
guess type of conversations, uh, the Jesus one which was
their last year too.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
I remember watching it like what what mm hmmm.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
They had another one this year as well as the
one that was for anti Semitic conversations, which is fine,
which is fine on itself, but then do you have
Snoop Dogg and Tom Brady coming together who were both
under fire for a lot of things, doing this conversation
about how they're so everybody's so mean to each other.
Just stop it, seriously, seriously bro okay, okay, Calvin. Uh
(11:44):
liquid Death. I don't know if many people caught this.
Like everybody loved the commercials because they was like you
could drink on the job, meaning because it's water or tea.
But then like one of the cannon flavors is death
to Billionaires or billionaire death, and.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Everybody was like, oh, I like that one, Let me
have that one. So that was interesting.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
And the big one that really made me want to
have this conversation that made me angry. It made me
so angry that I started again screaming, not in disgust,
in disgust, but more anger is Hymns and Hers. So
I got this from an article written by Northeastern Global
News in this conversation about hims and Hers, and it's
(12:36):
the title Hymns and Her. Super Bowl ad for new
weight loss drugs faces backlash from health experts. Not only
health experts, but people in general who understand this kind
of culture.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Here's a quote.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
The ad begins with a barrage of statistics centered around
obesity and obesity related deaths in the US. Proclamations about
the broken healthcare system repeat throughout like it's really big.
It's making some pretty big claims about how we are
not being taken care of. The US doesn't care about
people all these things, which actually does hit like the
obesity thing, but like about American healthier system being broken.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
RCH hits.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Right about midway through the ad, products begin to appear.
A green pill, a small vial emblazoned with the company name.
In addition to the emotion based framing, Golowakei, who contributed
to this article, says, part of the deception lies in
the presentation of esthetically pleasing products. This is research, for example,
showing that consumers think that products presented in green labels
(13:34):
are healthier than they really are. She says the lack
of contransparency around their labeling and their description of what's
in their products is of a concern. So essentially, what
this ad did is has all of these things about
how system is broken and no one's really providing care
and all these things, which I'm like, you are correct,
you are correct. And by the way, I did not
(13:55):
know what this ad was until towards the end, and
then it pops up with hims and hers we offer
you these products.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
I started screaming at the.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
TV because how dare you, of all companies criticize the
healthcare system which has allowed you to profit off of
the people. Don't get me wrong. Telehealth has really helped
in so many ways for people who cannot access care,
So I am not talking about that companies like this
(14:26):
who offer sometimes offer not all the time cheaper products,
alternative ways to get medication instead of going to the
hospitals to get an up charge from urgent cares and
such helps people who don't have insurance hopefully get a
better access. I say there are benefits. However, using this
(14:48):
as a way of profiting off of people who are
already seeing things that by Ozimbic and all of these things,
and who are not able to get these products because
it is being misused or now update charged because of
companies like this is infuriating. On top of the fact
that the product they were actually pushing is not FDA approved.
(15:09):
I know all of the administrations and all of these
organizations are solely falling apart anyway, but having a standard
of being something this has not been proven. There's no
real actual data about what type of product this is.
So they're trying to give you an alternative to Ozenmbic,
which we know what that is, we know how it
can be helpful, and we know what it's actually used for.
(15:32):
So they're doing this alternative route without any verification, so
that article keeps going in says the company defended itself
by suggesting, among other things, that its critics are complicit
in the broader system failures. This is a clear attempt
by industry groups to cancel an advertisement that directly calls
out how they are part of a system that fails
(15:53):
to prioritize the health of Americans.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
What the in gaslighting?
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Hell? What?
Speaker 3 (16:01):
But what? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:05):
My hands are shaking because I'm enraged. I mean, so
there was a lot, There was a lot, and this
is one of those ones that everybody was like, what
is what is this? So I'm glad at the very
least we all recognize.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
This is gross.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Mm hmm, this is gross.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Something in here is not clicking right, and it's the advertisers.
But the fact that again they I think they and
then well, I've already had a problem with HIMS and
her specifically because it's weird when they gender the medication
to begin with, and they did they when they talk
about her. So if a woman is on here talking
(16:41):
about how they used hems and hers, literally it's all
about antidepressants.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
M ohn.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Wait loss, those are the two things that women want men.
Now they have changed it because this one included men
and women for obesity stuff, so you know, I guess
they did that. But previously it was just uh, erect
aw dysfunction, so EDI was completely aimed toolder's men or
hair products like hair loss and women antidepressants and weight loss.
(17:09):
Like that's how they like angled or aimed their ads
to begin with.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
So this was a huge switch up of.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Like, well, yes, the healthcare system is bad, pay our
private company more money so we can give you this
maybe useful medication that has not been verified, which some
people have said that it's actually illegal that we know,
with how things are going, probably not because people probably
own shares in that company. Yeah, you know what I mean,
(17:38):
You know what I mean. So there's a lot and
with that I might kind of end up.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
I will say.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
There was a lot of star powered obviously ads like
I guess movie stars are moving on knowing that they
need money because maybe all the strikes really affected them.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
But like hogandhas had like literally the Fast and Furious
casts coming in being like we're old now, we just
want ice cream. Hey me too, me too, Pringles so
many mustaches. Ron Swanson slash Nick Offerman was in there.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
No one really talked about that.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Silo Artois had Matt Damon and David Beckham pretending to
be brothers, Matt David popping in out of nowhere every time.
Hex Clad had Ramsey Gordon and Pete Davidson talking about
being aliens. All the celebrities are aliens, which you know what,
I believe that, m M.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
That's an interesting new conspiracy theory.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
So Home Sock had Morgan Freeman, Danny Levy, and Heidi
Gardner in there, so like from SNL, so they definitely
pushed that.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
There's so many more. Matt McConaughey was in several ads.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I don't know if he's just he must have a
great I mean, I guess he's so famous he doesn't
really need a a lot of times you have to
have a non compete. You can't do multiple ads, but
they must be like Matthew McCartney.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I think yes, several, But I will say with that
because I've seen him in all of like the car ads,
he's had Watch ads, he has had.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Several ads Ai ads.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Yes, was it with.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Matt Damon in the Bitcoin.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Anyway?
Speaker 2 (19:07):
All of these like they're all climbing up on the ads.
I will say the seal Mountain Dew.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Have you seen this one?
Speaker 2 (19:16):
I wanted to send that one to you and Andrew
because we love that song because from a Rose, and
they decided to use it in Mountain Dew.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Gotta do what you gotta do a lot of good things.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
By the way, apparently Seal does not age either, like
it's awesome to see.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
I guess you know.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
That's my review of the Super Bowl ads. We have
been talking about doing an episode about diet culture and
where we are today with access to things like Zimbek,
which is a very controversial conversation to have. But stuff
like that hymns and hers, stuff with regulations and such
is really concerning, especially when you have it on things
like super Bowl timing. So also, yeah, I love the
(19:53):
Kendrick Lamar performance.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Real good. Ten ten ten out of ten.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Okay, got it.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Also, we did make we never posted anything about it,
but we did make the.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
John Legends Macaroni and Cheese with Michelle Norris.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Yeah, Michelle, we did. We're gonna post it up soon
to promise two weeks late.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Yeah, yeah, we'll get there. Okay there, but it was delicious.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
But yes, listeners, If you have any thoughts about this
or anything else, any suggestions, you can email us at
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