Sinopsis
A weekly podcast where we talk about the best part of watching television: The commercials! Andrew, Genevieve and their guests discuss the ads they love, the ads they hate, and the ads that they love to hate (we're looking at you, Movantik.) afterthesemessagesshow@gmail.com
Episodios
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#256 Big Name Hunters
30/09/2020 Duración: 01h01minLike a dog that chases a car, but wouldn't know what to do if he caught one, advertisers sometimes find themselves with a celebrity spokesperson that they can't make good use of. Andrew and Vieves look at commercials that are wasting some high-dollar stars. Plus, the universe is trying to tell Andrew something about an old friend via an ad for a shingles vaccine.
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#255 The Hunger Shames
22/09/2020 Duración: 01h01minFast food purveyors across the land are making the case for calorie bombs with extreme close-up shots and lots of slow-mo. It's food porn for the great unwashed. Plus, it's Jingle Time....almost.
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#254 Who Freaked The Dogs Out?
16/09/2020 Duración: 50minDogs may be the species most affected by the various dings, squeaks and buzzes emanating from commercials, but this week Andrew and Vieves look at all kinds of ads that manage to intrude on our real lives in all sorts of ways. Plus, a pickle jingle for the ages.
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#253 Stress Is More
09/09/2020 Duración: 01h19sIf commercials are any guide, literally NO ONE is #TooBlessedToBeStressed. This week, Andrew and Vieves (with an assist from the New York Times) look at ads that claim to offer a solution to the madness. Plus, listeners confess to the gross games lurking in their toy chests.
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#252 The Bowl's In Your Court
02/09/2020 Duración: 01h02minAndrew and Vieves are having a bowl this week -- from the cheeky new ads by Dole to the bewildering campaign for America's grimiest pastime. Plus, Mercedes Benz gives us all a valuable lesson in women's history.
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#251 Gross Domestic Products
26/08/2020 Duración: 49minKids have always loved disgusting stuff, but Andrew and Vieves wonder if adults haven't taken it too far by marketing games that have kids getting sprayed by toilet water and scrambling after loose turds. Plus, in what can only be one more sign of the apocalypse, Pitbull has a cruise ship.
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#250 After These Mixed Messages
18/08/2020 Duración: 01h02minThe continuing uncertainty of quarantine requirements have marketers taking wild swings and sending mixed messages about how people can safely consume their products. Plus, Andrew and Vieves are relieved to discover that bullying remains one of nature's most effective tactics.
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#249 Menutaur and Feather
12/08/2020 Duración: 01h14minJack in the Box's new "Menutaur" mascot gets dragged this week, while comedians Fred Armisen and Amy Shumer surprise and delight. Also, the Mandy Patinkin story just gets weirder and weirder.
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#248 If You've Got It, Haunt It!
05/08/2020 Duración: 01h51sIf the spirit does live on after we shuffle off our mortal coil, how grim to imagine that one could spend eternity shilling for Diet Coke and Ikea! Andrew and Vieves look at commercials that rely on the shades of the departed to make the sale. Plus, Diet Coke has another swing and a miss.
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#247 The Horn Identity
29/07/2020 Duración: 01h03minIt's a real jinglepalooza this week! With the help of a musical listener stuck in quarantine, Vieves quizzes Andrew on some classic commercial jingles. Plus the Ad Council sings the classics of their childhoods.
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#246 Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children
22/07/2020 Duración: 01h19minSpecial guests Gus (who's ten and a half years old)and his mom Phyllis (we didn't ask her age)join Andrew and Vieves for a look at commercials through the eyes of a child. It turns out, the kids are alright...with some SUPER weird commercials. The darkness is real, ya'll.
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#245 Faulty Breaks
15/07/2020 Duración: 01h04minAndrew and Vieves consider commercials built on flawed premises, failed leaps of logic, and shaky foundations. Or is it all just a lot of smoke and mirrors to disguise a rant about Gordon Ramsay? Plus, a cereal commercial featuring implied bestiality proves the 90s were a weird time to be alive.
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#244 Bot And Sold
08/07/2020 Duración: 01h09minA half-baked theory on the emotional range of commercial robots leads Andrew and Vieves to interrogate the true nature of the mechanical man as he endeavors to sell everything from toilet paper to cell phone plans. Plus, a musical legend leaves behind a diverse commercial legacy.
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#243 That New Car Sell
01/07/2020 Duración: 52minWhat happened to the car commercials of yore? Back in the day, carmakers didn't bother with drone footage of cars cruising along a coastline or navigating empty cityscapes. No, they offered us a vision of the fantastic: spandex-clad Romeos, 9-to-5 Tarzans, and women scientists! Andrew and Vieves marvel at car commercials as they once were.
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#242 Innuendo And Out The Other
24/06/2020 Duración: 44min"It." Everyone's doing it, getting it or thinking about it, but what is "it", and why does it sound so gosh dang dirty when it's used in commercials.? It's innuendo galore this week. Plus, thirsty Ja Rule is thirsty.
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#241 Adcolades, Admonishments, and Animals
17/06/2020 Duración: 58minVieves is loving (and hating) a batch of ads related to animals this week, while Andrew interrogates the commercial career of podcast favorite, Malcolm Barrett (don't worry, they explain who he is). Plus, an astute Ad Councilor points out a similarity between two very different commercials.
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#240 Hopin' To Open
10/06/2020 Duración: 01h07minAcross America, COVID restrictions are lifting, and businesses couldn't be more excited to get customers into their - and they can't stress this enough - CLEAN establishments. Plus, a 30-year old dish detergent commercial is too hot for TV.
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#239 Buying The Pharma
29/05/2020 Duración: 50minWhen it's time to sell the drugs that keep the Baby Boomers' hearts, lungs, and everything else working, advertisers rely on the music that turned on a generation, with varying degrees of success. Plus, Andrew launches a new segment designed to make Vieves prove that she really did go to grad school.
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#238 News You Confuse
27/05/2020 Duración: 01h04minIt's rarely good news for a brand when one of their commercials makes it into the news, but in today's show Andrew and Vieves are honestly scratching their heads about what is happening in some of these messes. Is it possible for everyone to agree that a commercial is racist and still not be exactly clear on what even happened?
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#237 Hot Take-Ups On Commercial Break-Ups
20/05/2020 Duración: 01h28sLike every human experience, the end of a relationship is nothing if not grist for the capitalist mill. This week, Andrew and Vieves consider commercials that start with heartbreak, but end with a sale.