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Speaker 1: Welcome to you stuff you should know from house stuff

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Speaker 1: Josh Clark. There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant. Have you noticed

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Speaker 1: that Jerry has a more aggressive countdown since we're shooting video.

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Speaker 1: We're shooting video now for those of you not watching

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Speaker 1: to Kevin and Bill. Yeah, guys, you're listening. You know, everybody, Mike, Joel,

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Speaker 1: anybody ever had anything to do with that show. TV's

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Speaker 1: Frank who's now a successful tweeter. Yeah, I don't know

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Speaker 1: if you follow him. He's he's pretty liberal. You know.

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Speaker 1: Joel went out and did his own thing as well.

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Speaker 1: Like they're both doing similar versions of their previous job.

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Speaker 1: What is it. Cinematic Titanic is Joel's and then Riff

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Speaker 1: Tracks is Mike's. Uh yeah, I'm I'm all aware, you know. Um,

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Speaker 1: Robert Lamb interviewed Joel Hodgson on and there's like a

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Speaker 1: really awesome, lengthy blog interview on the stuff to blow

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Speaker 1: your mind blog cool check it out. Yeah, so that's

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Speaker 1: the intro for commercial jingles, which is what we're talking about. UM,

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Speaker 1: I really don't have anything except chuck. Have you ever

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Speaker 1: heard of a little uh songwriter named Lynn Duddy? Nope?

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Speaker 1: I had neither. Apparently Lynn Duddy out the I Love

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Speaker 1: Bosco jingle, which I've never heard before, but it's listed

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Speaker 1: as a famous jingle, So I feel like I'm missing out.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know the actually I Love Bosco jingle. That's

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Speaker 1: the one that we list. What's with this? And Barry

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Speaker 1: Manelo wasn't in here, no, which let's just get that

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Speaker 1: out of the way. Hanelo, Who I love? You mean?

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Speaker 1: I have seen him front Row Center in Vegas. It

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Speaker 1: was an awesome show. Did he he looks so scary now?

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Speaker 1: I he's a great guy. I don't know if I

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Speaker 1: want in front Rows all I'm saying, he h. It

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Speaker 1: was cool. He said something to me, I had to

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Speaker 1: go to the bathroom, and I like went and left

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Speaker 1: in the middle of one of his songs, and while

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Speaker 1: he was singing, didn't miss a beat. He says to

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Speaker 1: my back, don't leave now it gets better, And then

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Speaker 1: just like went into the song yeah, and you was like, man,

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Speaker 1: did Josh Yeah? Did you hear it? Did you know

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Speaker 1: it was? I didn't hear. I came back and she

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Speaker 1: was still like, oh my god, did you hear? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: But Barry Manelo, in addition to his incredible singing career,

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Speaker 1: also is um one of the better UM commercial jingle

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Speaker 1: writers of all time. Yeah, performed and co wrote h

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Speaker 1: jingles like like a good neighbor state farm is there?

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Speaker 1: That's a big one. Man. They're still using that stuck

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Speaker 1: That's huge. Grab a bucket of chicken. I haven't heard

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Speaker 1: that one. Grab a bucket of chicken. It was like seventies. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and that that was for KFC, obviously, and you deserve

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Speaker 1: a break today at McDonald's Big one, And he apparently

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Speaker 1: recently did one for Dodge. I saw Randy Newman obviously.

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Speaker 1: He writes whatever pays the most. He wrote a bunch

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Speaker 1: back in the day. And then this guy Jim Brickman,

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Speaker 1: We're flint Stone's Kids. Oh yeah, for the vitamins. I

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Speaker 1: while my mom just buy the cheaper knockoff ones and

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Speaker 1: like she would find like sticky knockoff flint Stone vitamins

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Speaker 1: like in my Lincoln Logs, just stuck to things because

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Speaker 1: course Lynn Duddy and Brickman's other big one was Gere

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Speaker 1: Good Things to Do. You know how rich these people

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Speaker 1: must be if they had even just a halfway decent agent. Well,

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Speaker 1: it points out on this article. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: it's still the case, but if you wrote the jingle,

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Speaker 1: you own the rights to it. I know, I don't

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Speaker 1: I guarantee you Manilow owns the rights to the ones

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Speaker 1: He just came I had tickets for his Atlanta show. Really,

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Speaker 1: he just cancel it. Cancel I'm not playing sorry, huh

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Speaker 1: they are? Oh really Yeah that's pretty lame. Yeah, I thought, well,

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Speaker 1: So Chuck, what is a commercial jingle? It's one of

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Speaker 1: these things that you know, you anybody can define it,

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Speaker 1: but it's actually a little specific. Uh yeah, Well it

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Speaker 1: is a song or a snippet um of a hopefully

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Speaker 1: memorable melody written about a product. And that's the original jingle.

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Speaker 1: We'll get into how it's changed over the years. So. Um,

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Speaker 1: it can have just about anything in it, like a

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Speaker 1: into that. That is what they now call audio branding

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Speaker 1: PC said theirs or the ding ding ding from NBC

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Speaker 1: like you just said, but that's a big business now,

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Speaker 1: Or that jingle like who can never get rid of

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Speaker 1: that one once it's in your head. Uh, but that's

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Speaker 1: a new thing. Like that's even more specific now than

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Speaker 1: jingles are what they call audio branding. And every time

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Speaker 1: I hear the word branding, a little piece of me die. Um.

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Speaker 1: But the dude from the Human League, remember that band? Ye,

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Speaker 1: he has a company now that's like getting rich doing this. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Basically it's a little more complex in a jingle because

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Speaker 1: they're trying to capture like the essence of your brand

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Speaker 1: like an LG dryer instead of hearing at the in

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Speaker 1: it plays this little melody. It's like laundrys time. No,

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Speaker 1: a little dinging chiming melody. Who who was it that

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Speaker 1: wrote the Yahoo one Yahoo man? Who was that? We

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Speaker 1: who wrote? Uh? Oh man, I can't remember. Oh, well,

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Speaker 1: somebody right in it was a previous podcast that's less

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Speaker 1: than two months old. It's all gone now. Uh alright,

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Speaker 1: So anyway, that's audio branding. But oh we left out

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Speaker 1: one other, one other part of a jingle. It can

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Speaker 1: also tout the benefits of a product. Yeah, especially back

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Speaker 1: in the day, that was huge. Like you'll wonder where

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Speaker 1: the yellow went when you brush your teeth with PEPs

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Speaker 1: it in Really you're not familiar, No, I remember the

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Speaker 1: crest Um the Crest Patrol. Yeah, we make holes and teeth.

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Speaker 1: Remember that? No? That that? Oh man, I wish I

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Speaker 1: would look this stuff up. In the seventies, that was

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Speaker 1: the cartoon of the Crest, I remember that. Yeah. And

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Speaker 1: then there were the the the yup mouse who were

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Speaker 1: the bad people in that? I don't remember. The enemies

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Speaker 1: were the ones we make holes and teeth, the cavity creeps.

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Speaker 1: you know. Um. I remember being in like third grade,

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Speaker 1: I think, and we got a bunch of promotional materials

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Speaker 1: which I was I think a toothbrush talk about infiltrating schools,

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Speaker 1: in school. Wow, that is weird. It's a little weird,

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Speaker 1: So Chuck Jingles. They've been around since the Egyptians, as

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Speaker 1: I understand it, that is not true. Technically, it is

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Speaker 1: true because the Egyptians were around in the nineteen thirties.

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Speaker 1: Funny Guy Christmas Eve six they have credited the um.

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Speaker 1: The Wheaties Quartet was singing about the Wheaties Breakfast Cereal

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Speaker 1: first ever jingle, UM, And apparently Wheaties was in pretty

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Speaker 1: until they noticed that in markets where they were playing

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Speaker 1: maybe this jingles. Maybe he's got something to it. And

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Speaker 1: they probably call it a jingle at the time. UM.

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Speaker 1: And then they put it nationwide and Wheaties was saved. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Have you did you listen to it? No? Is it

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Speaker 1: pretty bad? No, it's great. It sounds like the b Sharp's,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's barbershop quartet. It sounds like Baby on Board, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: except singing about Wheaties. So that whole Wheaties thing is

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Speaker 1: pretty well established, but some still dispute it. And it

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Speaker 1: depends on how you look at, um what a jingle is, um,

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Speaker 1: whether that's the first one or not. But there's a

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Speaker 1: My Merry Old Mobile, like Gus Edwards and Vincent Brian

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Speaker 1: It seems more like nineteen forties to nineteen seventies. Maybe

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Speaker 1: Vincent is pretty low back then. Um, but those two

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Speaker 1: guys made in My Mary Oldsmobile and Oldsmobile used it

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Speaker 1: Tim Faulkner, points out that you're probably more accurately call

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Speaker 1: it the first pop song licensed for commercial use. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that makes more sense. So it's technically not a jingle.

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Speaker 1: So the Weaties Quartet still stands Christmas Eve, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: Is there any place more desolate than Hey it worked, yeah,

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Speaker 1: because we still have wheaties today. So the whole reason

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Speaker 1: Jingles came about was because you know, I'm all about

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Speaker 1: my like nineteen thirties consumer history. Yeah, and like in

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Speaker 1: in the thirties, like consumer protection was like way stronger,

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Speaker 1: and one of the things was direct advertising was very strict.

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Speaker 1: So funny now yeah, it's so like no holds bart

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Speaker 1: preventing direct marketing to kids. Yeah, they're really protecting their kids.

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Speaker 1: It is very cool. Plus beer you can only market

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Speaker 1: here exactly. If you remember when there used to be

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Speaker 1: Um So. But in the in the thirties, like if

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Speaker 1: we're not really willing to share their time for something

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Speaker 1: that's just an ad like an infomercial, right, so they

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Speaker 1: It's like a feature film the same same company. Um. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: pop songs getting back to that, Uh they credit the Beatles,

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Speaker 1: UM seven Nike commercial. I would Nike famously use Revolution.

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Speaker 1: Do you remember that. Yeah, it's kind of starting this

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Speaker 1: whole new wave of let's use like pay a lot

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Speaker 1: of money to use really popular songs because it's not

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Speaker 1: enough anymore. You can't say our brand is better than yours.

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Speaker 1: You like, you want to identify your brand with a uh,

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Speaker 1: the public consciousness and a lifestyle like um, that Cat

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Speaker 1: Stephen's song Wind of My Soul and like the Timberland

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Speaker 1: ad that kind of struck where it's like, put these

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Speaker 1: shoes on and you will automatically went for that. I

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Speaker 1: am too. I'd like to look into that. I wonder

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Speaker 1: if he doesn't have the rights. It doesn't seem like

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Speaker 1: something he would do. There's no way he doesn't have

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Speaker 1: the rights to the song. But um, it is kind

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Speaker 1: of you. You raise a point like it is surprising

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Speaker 1: that he would have gone for that. But apparently if

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Speaker 1: you work on artists long enough, or just wait for

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Speaker 1: them to grow old and need money, they will eventually

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Speaker 1: cave or think he didn't need the money. But who Sting? No,

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Speaker 1: I doubt if he did it because he needed the money.

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Speaker 1: I guess that's right. He has a castle. He did

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Speaker 1: it for a reason though, and it was probably money.

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Speaker 1: Um So in the eighties when Sting was still because

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Speaker 1: you know the Police started out as a punk band, yeah, um,

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Speaker 1: and in the eighties it was postpunk, but Sting still

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Speaker 1: thought of himself as a pretty cool dude, and apparently

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Speaker 1: I don't know the company, but they approached Sting and said, hey,

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Speaker 1: we want to use don't stand so close to me

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Speaker 1: for our deodoric commercial. It's a terrible idea, and he

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Speaker 1: very wisely said no way. But then Jaguar said, hey,

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Speaker 1: you know this terrible desert rose thing you have going on,

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Speaker 1: we want to use that for our egg campaign and

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Speaker 1: Sting said, way right. The cheers to that, uh and

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Speaker 1: that's a big you know, bands get accused of selling

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Speaker 1: out uh less these days, I think because especially smaller bands,

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Speaker 1: you just you know, you people think music is free now,

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Speaker 1: so that making money selling records like they used to.

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Speaker 1: They break even on tours, these small bands, So I like,

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Speaker 1: I've done a one eight. Used to think like, I

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Speaker 1: don't sell out, but now I'm like, dude, make whatever

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Speaker 1: money you can while you can. I know, Band of

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Speaker 1: Horses one of my favorite and Jerry's favorites. Um, they

463
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Speaker 1: were kind of taken in the map by some of

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Speaker 1: their fans because they did they license her movie to Chevy,

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Speaker 1: and the dude Ben Bridwell came out. It was like, no,

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Speaker 1: you know, I drive a Chevy it's old and maybe

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Speaker 1: now I can get the A C fixed. You know,

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Speaker 1: he drives an old pickup chucking. He's like, what's what's

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Speaker 1: the problem, Like, we're trying to make a little dough here,

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Speaker 1: and it's a product I believe in, you know. Um

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Speaker 1: they're that part in the movie The Doors where like

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Speaker 1: two Morrissons like off on like whatever for a while

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Speaker 1: and comes back and sees that, like, um, light my

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Speaker 1: fire has been Chevy commercially the ray Coniff singers or

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Speaker 1: something doing it, and he's likes catchy tune that starts

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Speaker 1: breaking sty that brings up my my biggest pet peeve

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Speaker 1: today is this new thing and it's not super new

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Speaker 1: because they've been doing it, but it's like worse than

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Speaker 1: it's ever been. When they will take a great classic

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Speaker 1: song and bastardize it and have some like Lady Session

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Speaker 1: singer come in and sing like Satisfaction by the Rolling

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Speaker 1: Stones but in a different way and talking about being

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Speaker 1: like satisfied with your you know, your new car, and

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Speaker 1: it's just it's all over the place now and it's

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Speaker 1: just the worst. Like I would rather hear someone licensed

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Speaker 1: their real song then hear them remake it with some

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Speaker 1: awful session singer and change the words to fit their product,

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. But then that corporation would

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Speaker 1: take the Ben Bradwell stands and Ben Bridwell Ben Bridwell

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Speaker 1: stance and be like, hey man, we gotta make our

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Speaker 1: quarterly earnings. Yeah or not true. I was being totally facetious.

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Speaker 1: That doesn't count. It's not the same thing or the

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Speaker 1: other thing now that um like, the Black Keys are

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Speaker 1: suing Pizza Hut right now because what companies will do.

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Speaker 1: And Tom Waits to sue people a bunch of times,

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Speaker 1: like every other year he sees someone because they'll go

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Speaker 1: in and they'll say, give us something, Tom Waits, he

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Speaker 1: or boy listened to Gold on the Ceiling by the

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Speaker 1: Black Keys, can you do something like that? And these

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Speaker 1: you know dudes that write these songs basically rip them off.

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Speaker 1: And the Black Keys are watching Pizza Hut and they're like,

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Speaker 1: wait a minute, that's my song in a different, slightly

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Speaker 1: different way selling pozzones and so we're going to see

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Speaker 1: you and take you to court. And that's when they

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Speaker 1: get in court and like compare them side by side,

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Speaker 1: and you know Ray Parker Junior famously yeah, yeah, got

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Speaker 1: messed up because he apparently ripped off I need a

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Speaker 1: new drug. We lose song, that's right, and I never

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Speaker 1: really heard it, and then finally I it clicked and

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Speaker 1: I was right, Oh wow, that is really sicky. Settled

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Speaker 1: he lost that would be settled or what, But he

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Speaker 1: definitely lost that case. I guess finally we should talk

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Speaker 1: a little bit about product placement because, um, but we

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Speaker 1: had a whole product placement episode. Oh yeah, that's right. Well,

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Speaker 1: obviously with TiVo and DVRs now, people are speeding through commercials,

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Speaker 1: so you are going to find some product placement in

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Speaker 1: your shows, quite possibly our own even it happens. But um,

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Speaker 1: there are better ways than others to do it. And

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Speaker 1: if you want a good laugh, go to the YouTube

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Speaker 1: and google soap Opera Cereal and um just watch it's great.

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Speaker 1: That's all I'm gonna say. I watched that the other day.

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Speaker 1: It's so funny and awful. It's just it's colossally bad.

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Speaker 1: But it's so bad that like it's earned a place

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Speaker 1: in the pantheon of pop culture now, so it did

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Speaker 1: his job. Yeah, I bet you. There's a lot of

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Speaker 1: hits on that on YouTube. Honey, what are you doing?

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Speaker 1: Just having some delicious hunting that cheerios. Boy, these things

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Speaker 1: really packed in fiber and the thing. It's like a

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Speaker 1: seven minute long scene. Yeah, it was like they just

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Speaker 1: started talking about cheerios the whole time. Yeah, it's pretty funny. Um.

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Speaker 1: And there was a little product placement right there for

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Speaker 1: your cheerio. So it's all over the place. Bonus. No,

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Speaker 1: I mean just now, no, but I'm saying, jeez, all

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Speaker 1: we did was talking about brands. If we don't cook's

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Speaker 1: pest control is a check. Yeah, we're just combined. Get

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Speaker 1: the termites out of my house. I want to check. Um,

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Speaker 1: let's see. If you want to learn more about commercial jingles,

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Speaker 1: how stuff works dot com. And I said search bar,

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Speaker 1: which means it's time for listener mail. I'm gonna call this.

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Speaker 1: You remember you asked for good uh good causes in

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Speaker 1: the white collar crimes. Yeah, this one was from matthe

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Speaker 1: Ands Georgia. Oh hey, so it made the cut. I've

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Speaker 1: been there. Uh love the show, guys. And now a

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Speaker 1: a nonpro off it in Athens, Georgia, I represent free

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Speaker 1: I t Athens FREDA. It's an all volunteer um nonprofit

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Speaker 1: cold nugget. Yeah, well maybe I'll do that instead. We

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Speaker 1: serve mostly low income populations that cannot afford the latest

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Speaker 1: need of working laptops for a volunteer program. I know

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Speaker 1: a whole room full of them. Seriously, laptops are distributed

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Speaker 1: that stuff off. You know, we really should see what

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Speaker 1: they're gonna do with those, see if we can get

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Speaker 1: good to discuss. Uh, donating can change someone's life. I

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Speaker 1: already said that, but it can really change someone's life.

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Speaker 1: Financial donations are also welcome, so you can visit www

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Speaker 1: dot free I t Athens dot org and thank you

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Speaker 1: so much guys. That is from Joel Isler in Athens.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Joel, appreciate that. It is a very good cause.

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Speaker 1: We'll see if we can help. Thank you. If not,

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Speaker 1: we're in addition to hopefully there's a lot of listeners

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Speaker 1: in the Athens in Atlanta area that can help. Agreed,

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Speaker 1: or people can mail them from all over I'm sure

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Speaker 1: do that too. What was it a free I t

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Speaker 1: Athens dot org. That's right. Nice. Um. If you have

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