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Katie Nolan (1:11)
Hello and welcome to the third episode of Casuals, the sports podcast that doesn't care what you know. Truthfully. Like bring your knowledge or don't. We're just here to kinda chat. I'm Katie Nolan, your host. I'm gonna be joined today by Dan Soder, a wonderful stand up comedian who, who you may know from Billions on Showtime or his HBO special Son of a gary or his YouTube special on the Road with Dan Soder or from Putting a Ring on My Finger. We're going to get married eventually. We're going to talk about, Listen, it's a lot of NFL today, very football heavy. This is what happens when you launch a podcast in January. It's just we're going to be very football heavy. But I want to make sure that our new listeners know that we will be covering all sports. Mostly it's just like so much football is going on right now. So we're going to talk a lot of football. We're also going to talk about a, a very pricey baseball card that's out there. We're going to talk about like head coaches in the NFL. There's a lot to talk about and we're going to get to all of it. But we start this podcast like we start every podcast by letting me yap and boy do I have something passionate to yap about. Today we are, we have reached that two week period of the sports calendar where there's like nothing until the Super Bowl. It's like we're just kind of building up to the super bowl. And what we, what that usually means is, is ad content and there's this thing that's been happening these last few years, this trend that's like driving me nuts. And it was really driven home during the conference championship games this weekend. I saw so many ads for ads. What are we doing with ads for ads? Like, I understand if you're a company that spends $7 million for the spot alone of a Super bowl ad. 30 seconds, about $7 million. I understand you want to get your money's worth. You're paying on top of that 7 million, whatever talent you've decided to add into your commercial. And if the recent years are any indication, all we're doing now is just shoving multiple celebrities into an ad and calling it creative. So it's a lot of money, and I understand that to make these ads, but please don't act like I'm as excited about your ad as you are. It's an advertisement. If I could push a button and opt out of seeing it, I would. What I definitely don't need to see running for a week or two before the super bowl is a teaser ad for your ad. It's like when you watch a YouTube video, if you're like, oh, what was that, you know, commercial that they ran during the super bowl that I missed? I just want to see it because everybody's talking about it. And you got to watch an ad before the YouTube video of the ad. Like, what are we doing where people are like, yeah, do you see that? Do you see that? Matthew McConaughey Uber Eats Preview super bowl ad where he prepares to be Mike Ditka and takes forever to have a convincing Ditka impersonation. Something that if you're playing Ditka, you should have ready or be closer to before you start trying to do it to the mirror. What the hell is that? I might never use UberEats again. Millennials, they say statistically are the most advertised to generation we've ever seen. We are constantly hit by advertisements on our streaming services, even the ones that we pay for on cable tv. That some of us, it's going soon, but some of us do still have it. I'm raising my hand because I do. I don't like cutting cords. Ads are friggin everywhere. We are constantly being bombarded with content. Influencers are giving us ads that they are legally supposed to disclose to us. But a lot of them, let's be honest, are, aren't doing it. And so everything is an ad. And what I want to make sure is that we don't let these advertising companies make us feel like we should be grateful for the content. I don't want us to start treating it like a show or like a, you know, piece of creative content. It's not. It's an ad. It's trying to sell you something. And the. The time I noticed this was when people started getting excited about reunions of much loved, like, casts from shows happening in an advertisement. There was a Mean Girls reunion that we were teased. That turned out to be an advertisement. There was a Scrubs reunion where everybody was so excited they were going to reunite the best friends from Scrubs. It was for cable. It was for a cable commercial. The Office has reunited for a commercial. What was the big one that I saw this year? Somebody being teased of, oh, it's something. When Harry Met Sally. And they're like, this might be the. A big reunion that we've all been waiting for, for an ad. For an ad. If you want to bring back these great franchises that we all love, these television shows, these movies, if you want us to feel that nostalgia, make a show. Like, make a movie. Make an Internet video. But don't. Don't make me grateful for an ad. Don't make me like, oh, thank you so much, Comcast, for bringing the guys from Scrubs together and making them sing a song. And here's why it pisses me off, because it's like, ads are never going to be written in a creatively free way. Like, if you've ever worked on an advertisement, the people with the final say are the money people. It's the ad people. It's the people who are like, hey, legally, that could be dicey for us. So we're going to play it as safe as humanly possible with our script. We're not going to take any huge risks because we don't want to actually piss people off. And so you're getting these, like, reunion. It's great content with these people that we love. And it's like, yeah, the copy was written, but it was just, this is an ad. I'm just sick of the ads. It's just constant commercials that Matthew McConaughey, I think, sent me into a spiral this weekend. I was like, are you teasing a t an ad? What is this? And there's just going to be so much AI Remember last year, the ads were dystopian. Last year I. Last year I maybe partook in some substances before watching the super bowl. And I watched it alone. And I really do not recommend that, because to make your brain pliable for the moment when every company on Earth lines Up to convince you to buy it is not a good idea. But it was just very dark. There was just a lot of, like, you know, I'm depressed. I feel like I should disclose that I have depressed, suffer from depression. I'm medicated, and I'm working through it. But it's a very hard time to be depressed because everything is sort of backing up evidentiarily. Like, what I feel. It's like everything kind of feels like it's going to. So basically the point of this yap is like, cut it out with making me feel like I should be excited about your commercial. Just sell me whatever you're trying to sell me and get out of the way. And if you find that, well, that's too expensive to spend, the 7 million, plus the 5 million we have to pay Shane Gillis to be in our commercial. If that's too expensive for you, then, like, make a different choice because I'm not. It's not making me want to use your product anymore. I never really used Uber Eats, but now I'm not going to because McConaughey. And also, when did he become king of commercials? When did Matthew McConaughey become, like, yeah, I'll do. I'll do this ad for Salesforce, which if we're getting into it, and let's not, because we're already eight minutes into a yap, but if we were to get into it, that Salesforce commercial makes no sense that an AI would book him a reservation properly, but because it was booked by a human, it was booked outside, question mark. In the rain, question mark. And the waiter wasn't told he doesn't like shrimp cocktail. Why? Those are mistakes an AI would make. Why is Woody Harrelson sitting underneath a thing and he's safe from the rain? And your dear friend is. Why would you sit in the seat if they made you a reservation and it's pouring rain and the reservations outside, why would you sit in a seat? You wouldn't. Matthew McConaughey. All right, all right, all right. That's enough for the apple. Uh, you know, I just hate ads. I'm just sick of being advertised to. Leave me alone. Leave me alone. Okay, let's. And now time to hear from our sponsors.