Lockdown Quiz - British ads of the 1970s (part 2)

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State Secrets: Inside The Making Of The Electric State

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Family Secrets: Chris Pratt & Millie Bobby Brown Share Stories From Set 22:08

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Host Francesca Amiker sits down with directors Joe and Anthony Russo, producer Angela Russo-Otstot, stars Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt, and more to uncover how family was the key to building the emotional core of The Electric State . From the Russos’ own experiences growing up in a large Italian family to the film’s central relationship between Michelle and her robot brother Kid Cosmo, family relationships both on and off of the set were the key to bringing The Electric State to life. Listen to more from Netflix Podcasts . State Secrets: Inside the Making of The Electric State is produced by Netflix and Treefort Media.…

לפני 4 שנים 35:06

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Both of our listeners will remember that we left off in part one with our lockdown quiz not so much teetering on the cliff edge of bad taste as flying off it like the Milk Tray man. I have tried to explain to Tones that every time he mentions Jimmy Saville a nun gets syphilis but he remains unconvinced.

Part two is the riveting quiz denoument and a cheeky listen will hear us dragged into discussions about bad jeans and worse ads. What’s that you say? It’s like deja vu all over again, again?

If you liked the first part then you’re in for a treat. If you weren’t that keen then we’ve got nothing for you except to confirm that we’re about to live down to your expectations.

Thanks for tuning in peeps.

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#Business #Comedy #Steve Cooke & Tony Williams #Epic Podcast Productions #Advertising #Tv Ads #Nostalgia #1970s #1980s #1990s #Funny #Marketing #Tvc #Tv Commercials #Middle-aged Men

Lockdown Quiz - British ads of the 1970s (part 2)

Classic Ads From Simpler Times

published לפני 4 שנים

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MP3•בית הפרקים

Part two is the riveting quiz denoument and a cheeky listen will hear us dragged into discussions about bad jeans and worse ads. What’s that you say? It’s like deja vu all over again, again?

If you liked the first part then you’re in for a treat. If you weren’t that keen then we’ve got nothing for you except to confirm that we’re about to live down to your expectations.

Thanks for tuning in peeps.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

32 פרקים

#Business #Comedy #Steve Cooke & Tony Williams #Epic Podcast Productions #Advertising #Tv Ads #Nostalgia #1970s #1980s #1990s #Funny #Marketing #Tvc #Tv Commercials #Middle-aged Men

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Telstra : "The Emperor Nasi Goreng" 1:00:48

לפני 4 years1:00:48

1:00:48

This week you can eavesdrop as Tones manages to insult our Tokyo correspondent (who also happens to be Mrs Tones), drops in a reference to expensive 1970s British furniture, and humble-brags his way through turning down a night on the slops with that bloke from Maroon 5 and sitting next to Daman Albarn at a pissup in Hong Kong. Steve puts on his favourite cocktail dress to act as the quizmaster for some questions about the winners of the 2005 MTV Australia music video awards, leading to some painfully bad audio as two middle-aged blokes try unsuccessfully to remember the lyrics to Hollaback Girl...and Tony has a bit of a thrombo as he recalls the joy of dealing with Australia’s leading telecoms company. Oh, and an extinct cartoon bird pops up as an example of what is carefully described as the ‘retail’ nature of Australian advertising. All this and much, much less as we welcome you back to the WA Salvage of podcasts about old advertising with a look at a Telstra TV commercial from 2005 pushing the telco giant’s BigPond internet service offering. Have a look at the ad in question here... https://youtu.be/Rh3Eu2NtG_U Have a listen and I think you’ll agree…we aren’t fancy but we really are cheap. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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Levis Launderette - Nick Kamen tribute 52:20

לפני 4 years52:20

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I’m afraid you’re going to have to indulge us in another BBH-John Hegarty fan club swoon type of thing this week. We’d had decided to give BBH a bit of a swerve for a while but recent events made a review of this ad pertinent so let's put away the wobbly lips and jog on shall we? Buy a ticket on this week’s fun bus and you’ll be part of the discussion about what Levis want in their ads where we discover that unsurprisingly its America and arse shots in that order. Tones mines a rich vein of personal experience to talk about casting bum doubles before revealing a hitherto undiscovered ability to be discreet and there’s a bit of chit-chat about rodent eating as a PR strategy. It's 1985 and Tony’s watching Grange Hill, desperately trying to make sure he doesn’t catch girl germs and BMXing with his mates… whilst I’m discovering fashion and loose underwear in-between hangovers. More importantly Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher are installing nuclear weapons in Berkshire and this forces the agency of the decade to hire a pretty boy, take him back to the 1960s and then force him to act in a 60 second soft core porn movie for teenage girls…in the process creating an ad so successful that the client demanded that it was taken off air. Have a listen as we review the only ad ever to feature as talent a man who turned down Kate Moss for that bird that worked with Terry Christian on The Word and have a loo at the ad here https://youtu.be/G1c-bfv2sds . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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Scores on the Doors - Our Top 20 ads ranked 6:23

לפני 4 years6:23

6:23

Welcome to a tiny-weeny bonus bit of Classic Ads from Simpler Times. We’ve reviewed quite a few ads on the pod now so it seemed like as good a time as any to have a quick look at what we loved and what we didn’t and to create a hit parade of the top 20. Of course once we looked at the top 20, a couple of glaring errors became obvious…so we changed them around. You probably won’t agree with the list, ten minutes after we’d finished it Tony didn’t either, but there’s lots more important stuff for us to be dealing with. For instance, we seriously need to get to the bottom of why all the cheese in Coles is now named after porn video categories. Vintage, Natural, Hard, Semi-hard, Mature, and of course, that perennial favourite Blue Vein. Anyway. Enjoy the list of the top 20 ads. Then the argument about the list. Then the new list. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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KitKat + Shake & Vac (feat. Captain Alberto Bertorelli & Jenny Logan) 43:55

לפני 4 years43:55

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This week the pod takes a slightly different format to the usual assault on your credulity. All will become clear as you do the listening thing. In the year that Bonn Scott drank himself to death, Kleenex went to a remote Scottish island to make a TV advert with an adult grizzly bear as the talent. The bear escaped. Of course it did, 1984 was that kind of year. Join as we have a chat about a KitKat ad that features Captain Alberto Bertorelli, a Connect 4 ad of unknown provenance and the ad voted the UK’s 18th favourite in a poll that Tony mocks every time it’s mentioned. Oh, there's a quiz as well. And Tony sings. Basically more of the usual bollox. Join us as we let you gaze in horror at the advertising that’s stuck with us like holy on the Pope. One features a spiv-like character about to rip-off a load of kids who’re desperate to get into the music industry and the other stars a chainsmoking housewife with a really smelly dog whose idea of fun is to drop a pinger and do the vacuuming. Have a look here https://youtu.be/kZXl_FBUfpQ and be more kinder whydontcha. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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BONUS : Don Tacos (feat. Jason Ayers) 10:14

לפני 4 years10:14

10:14

Any time there’s a temptation to take this whole podcast lark a bit seriously we'll just play a loop of Jason Ayers saying “When you asked me to do this I didn’t put much thought into it.” That’ll give us a bit of perspective. Jason's the founder and CEO of Sector 5, the Asia Pacific’s foremost Executive Search business for advertising agencies and their clients. The team at Classic Ads Towers were on a Zoom call with Jason (who lives in Tokyo) and thought it'd be great to get him to tell us about his favourite ad, because, you know, he's in the business and all that. So this episode is a quick review of Jason’s favourite advert. It’s bound to be a work of creative genius right? A showcase of the best Japan’s advertising industry has to offer? Well you be the judge… It's all in the sombrero apparently. Have a look at the ad here... https://youtu.be/yLq0YyzLXcU Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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John West - Bear (feat. Bob the Builder) 54:15

לפני 4 years54:15

54:15

Thanks for joining us again as we continue our mission of making it impossible for you to underestimate us. This week on the pod Tony’s Uber passenger rating raises its ugly head before we segue into me having a generic old man ranting at the clouds session about exotic birds parrots in ride-sharing vehicles. We meander down memory lane, swerving the white dogshit and that bloke your parents called uncle who spent an inordinate amount of time trying to get you to come and have a look at the train set in his shed… to find out how Tones vandalised his Mum’s car with the cigarette lighter before not being allowed in the monkey enclosure at Dudley Wildlife Park because the family Ford Escort had velour seats. And if you stick with it you’ll hear as a veteran fisherman gets in touch and leaves us a personal message for inclusion in this episode where we review the John West TV commercial voted as the UK’s funniest telly ad…ever. Yes, the love child of Worzel Gummidge and Tony’s Dad joins the list of celebs who’re now using the world’s foremost podcast about old ads and paedophile celebrities as a platform to amplify their media profile, after Enya and Wolf Kahler, the original John West now gets on the blower to reveal himself to be a cuddly old chap deeply committed to the use of pilchard juice as an aphrodisiac and hell-bent on raping the ocean of all suitable fish-based protein. So join shit advertising suit Steve Cooke and award-winning advertising creative and TV commercial director Tony Williams as we take a look at a TV ad featuring a bloke in a bear suit with Bob the Builder as the voiceover talent. Have a look at the advert on our YouTube channel here https://youtu.be/rj4T-cZKbB8 and also as promised, here's the link to the most Australia video ever... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIRT7lf8byw Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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Sony Bravia - Balls (feat. Jose Gonzalez) 49:50

לפני 4 years49:50

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This episode is recorded live in Tony's kitchen here in sunny Perth, Western Australia, where the time is 20 past 1987 and we’ve just been dropped back into a mini-lockdown because some bellend from Melbourne got Covid then went for a chicken parmi in Kardinya before dropping in at Coles so he could fuck up a long weekend for 2.8 million people. UK listeners probably have little sympathy over a mere three day lockdown when they haven’t been outside since April last year, but let’s be honest, if you live in Britain you probably don’t want to go outside anyway when the entire place is ankle-deep in litter and smells like a tramps arse most of the time. Anyway… join has-been advertising suit Steve Cooke, and Mount Lawley’s premier noodle expert and TV commercial director Tony Williams as we explain how Colonel Dietrich got a face transplant, before moving on to find out whether Tones would leave Jennifer Aniston for Angelina Jolie, how long it takes to train a crack squad of squirrels to crack nuts and whether the leader of the Mujahadeen Brigades has a future in advertising. This is the episode where Tony reveals that his cold, shriveled heart has no room in it for even one of the 250,000 colourful bouncing balls used in today’s ad for Sony’s Bravia TVs. The levels of downbeat on display from Western Australia’s foremost Jimmy Saville impersonator will remind some of our listener of the Lego Kipper ad where the absence of Tommy Cooper led to Tony sitting in the studio for an hour and a half displaying the face he usually reserves for a difficult poo. Yes, Tony’s an absolute fun sponge in this one. Behaving like a man from a near future where happiness has been banned and everyone has to walk to work in bare feet over paths strewn with Lego… but for you and I it’s 2005, 100 million people in Indonesia are sat in the dark, devastated because they can’t watch Ken Barlow getting married again, and more importantly, Fallon London is about to get a Gold lion at Cannes after buying every ball in the contiguous United States. Enjoy the show and have a look at the Sony ad on our YouTube channel here https://youtu.be/-MzEuJKjc3I Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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Nissin Cup Noodle - Primitive Man (best Japanese ad ever?) 44:41

לפני 4 years44:41

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Hello pod-people. This week after a less than optimal start where once again I forget to turn on the voice recorder, we eventually get off the beaten track and look at the first ad from a Japanese advertising agency to ever win the Grand Prix at Cannes. Luckily enough Tones has a bit of experience working in Tokyo and even more luckily we persuaded his wife Natsuko to put in her 10 Yen’s worth as we look at an ad for the world’s most popular cup noodle brand. By the end of this episode we can pretty much guarantee that you’re going to be equipped to hold up your end of any conversation about the difference between ramen and udon, expound knowledgeably on noodle-eating technique, and have a great story for cocktail parties about how a 61 year old man stumbled across a way to create a product that 40 years later sells 25 billion units a year across the globe. Have a listen and find out whether this ad really turned the word ‘hungree’ into a Japanese version of ‘wassup’, who took PeeWee on a Big Adventure and got the gig doing the effects, and how come there are still at least three people around the world who haven’t heard of Bananas in Pyjamas. All this and much, much less as we continue to spectacularly live down to your expectations of what actually constitutes entertainment. Join us as we look at a Japanese TV commercial from 1993 that will either have you shaking your head in bemusement or will get your smiley muscles back into tip-top working condition. Either way, we’re just glad to have a platform where we’re able to share our annoyance at the American ban on all things kangaroo, even as hordes of the hopping bastards attack our pensioners, devastate our petunias and cause global warming with their outback gas. Have a look at the ad on our YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/iiuiWnforTo and give us a review if you’ve got a minute? Ta very. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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Maxell - Me Ears Are Alight (feat. Desmond Decker) 40:30

לפני 4 years40:30

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Hello pod people and welcome back to Classic Ads from Simpler Times, where the tone of recent email correspondence suggests that if this podcast were the prize at the end of the race people would be learning to run backwards. Some of our listeners, or at least those who are not permanently glued to the sunny window in a fugue state, may remember that we recently reviewed a 30 second ad for lemonade that managed to shoehorn the brand name in 24 times. Well brace yourself, we’ve been contacted again by Ireland’s best-selling solo musical artist and it’s safe to say that’s she’s unhappy with the current podcast content, sending us an abuse burger with the lot to get her point across while managing to drop the f-bomb 37 times in just under 3 minutes. Elsewhere in this week’s episode we follow the mind-blowing revelations about how Lexus source the leather for their car seats with some less mind-blowing esoterica about Mondegreens. What’s a Mondegreen I hear you ask? You have two options here - option a - look it up on Google and then have a nice lie down or option b - have a listen...you'll find out why Jimmy Hendrix is kissing a guy. So, strap in, buckle up, take your meds, brush the crumbs off your onesie and join rubbish suit Steve Cooke and his co-host, award-winning advertising creative and TV ad director Tony Williams, as they take a look at a telly ad from 1989 that won the Cannes Grand Prix. If that’s not enough for you we’ll hear how Steve won the lottery of life and got the non-farty chair, find out which on-screen father and son duo shagged the same Nazi and get all nostalgic about Sunday nights at 6pm on Radio 1. So, don’t go out tonight, everything’s going to be alright, there’s a bathroom on the right. Have a look at the ad on our YouTube channel here https://youtu.be/JZ07FbgQkqk and give us a review whydontcha it would make everybody involved extremely happy:) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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Honda - Cog (Feat. Garrison Keillor) 45:12

לפני 4 years45:12

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In this episode we will deliver a piece of trivia about how a well-known Japanese car brand sources the leather for its car seats that will literally. Blow. Your. Mind. Your mind. Will. Be. Blown.* This week the Pound shop time machine that is our podcast about old ads makes a crash landing in 2003… where I haven’t slept for two years, Tones is probably still out and about with Jennifer Love-Hewitt hanging off his every word and everyone’s worked out that if you’re doing an impersonation of Morgan Freeman and you say the words “Titty sprinkles” you’re pretty much a shoe-in for a job as his double. In this episode Tony decides he’s taking over researching the year’s event during the actual recording and whilst it's not actually a car crash there is a total absence of any information about Ken Barlow. Have a listen as we look at an ad for the 7th generation Honda Accord, a car so boring that it’s quite possible to believe that a Klingon cloaking device came as standard on the base model. And yet…the ad that launched it is a thing of balletic, kinetic beauty, that nearly 20 years later has yet to be matched for the complexity of its simplicity. Find out how a commercial that would take £1m to make was pitched using the Mousetrap board game and a clip from a film that features the world’s worst Cockney accent, what Heath Robinson and Rube Ginsberg have in command have a listen to the 20 year old rap song Honda thought would help the brand get down with da yoof innit. Have a look at the ad on our Youtube channel at https://youtu.be/_RzULJpl8Jw *Terms and conditions apply. Some minds may not be blown. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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QANTAS - I Still Call Australia Home (feat. Wolf Kahler) 52:15

לפני 4 years52:15

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In this week’s drama-filled episode Tones let’s his guard down and reveals that he’s still not recovered from the shock of finding out that Tommy Cooper didn’t do the voiceover for the Lego Kipper ad. He snaps out of it just in time to seize the opportunity to go full-Bill Clinton during the intro then indulges himself with some vintage Jimmy Saville / Operation Yewtree references before insulting the entire population of Ireland. Perhaps more importantly we’re treated to some phone-in action when the one and only Wolf Kahler calls up to personally thank us for reviving his career after the positive review of his performance in the 1993 Ferrero Rocher advert. This week we're taking a look behind the cat litter box of history and rewinding to 1993 with an advert that set a new record for lack of casting diversity whilst managing to bin more cash in production than had ever been spent before in the making of an Australian telly ad. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Geoff Dixon from QANTAS and John Singleton from Singleton Ogilvy & Mather had a love child and it wasn’t rock and roll, it was an advert that became an icon of Australian advertising, central to the building of a global brand. And it all came about because the Chairman of QANTAS has no mates and had nowhere to go on New Year’s Eve in 1997. So two big egos and a shedload of cash. Global locations. Busloads of cute children. Boab trees. The outback. Random blokes on horses. Footy. Don Bradman. Sam Kekovitch. Lamingtons. Drop bears. Mullets. V8 utes. The Sydney Harbour Bridge. Mrs Mangle. The Wiggles. I still call Australia home. All the ingredients are there… But after Singo had edited out all the ugly kids did the end product have the consistency of a week-old QANTAS bread roll or was it as light and fluffy as Geoff Dixon’s Filofax? Check out the ad on our YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/zr0qV1r0aUM. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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Boddingtons Bitter - Gondola (feat. Duckface) 30:53

לפני 4 years30:53

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This week on the pod we'll hear how Enya cracked the shits with Steve and Tones over the Jean-Claude Van Damme Volvo advert review where Tones suggested she was from Scandinavia. The girl certainly has a bit of a potty mouth on her and may have over-reacted a tad…you can judge for yourself. Elsewhere there’s a lot of love for the actress universally known as ‘Duckface’, more speculation about the Queen’s toilet habits and some erotic anticipation on a canal up north. In another edition of our BBH love-fest we're having a chat about a 1993 TV advert for Boddingtons beer that parodies the Walls Cornetto Gondola ad by replicating it virtually scene-for-scene but with a better script, better talent, a better director, a better DoP, and a better location. The ad also improves on its Cornetto-based inspiration by featuring a swan and of course isn’t for ice cream that tastes of 1970s bedsits and the disappointment of being rejected by your first true love at your best friend’s sister’s party when you were 14. How about a review? At least think about it. Even a one star jobbie would help fill the deep and empty reservoir of need that consumes our waking lives. Ta very much. Have a look at the ad on our YouTube channel here if you fancy it https://youtu.be/zrtqWoyo1pE . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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(Just one) Cornetto - Venice Gondola 54:44

לפני 4 years54:44

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In this week’s episode we’ll find out what an advertising agency specifically created to flog deodorant, washing powder and margarine comes up with when they’re presented with a brief to sell ice cream made in a factory just off the A38 in Gloucester. We’ll hear how a young Gene Wilder got his big break in a gondola and how one half of a one-hit wonder got the gig massacring a classic piece of 19th century Italian music so that Walls could put a chest freezer in every Spar in the UK. More importantly however, this is the week where Steve cons Tones into singing you the top ten advertising jingles of all time as voted by the British public in 2006. Have a look at the Cornetto ad on our YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/M1y-juB0RuU and get a load of a bonus look at the Apple ad for the launch of its 'Lisa' IBM business computer competitor. Climb on board pod-people. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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R.Whites - Secret Lemonade Drinker 36:58

לפני 4 years36:58

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This week TV sitcom dinosaurs roam the earth and you can't pitch a TV ad to a client unless you're playing the jingle on a white grand piano whilst wearing fancy dress. Ah yes the seventies, where a glass of lemonade is a guilty pleasure to be taken in the middle of the night and the ad industry believes the only way to get you to buy some is to sing the brand name to you 24 times in a 30 second advert. Come along with us as we hopscotch through the white dogshit of 1973 and we'll introduce you to Elvis Costello’s Dad and gargle our way through a review of a 30 second TV ad for a 176 year old carbonated drink that features two actors who would go on to forever have the words “Star of the Secret Lemonade drinker advert” appended to their names, because everything they ever did after it was shit. See the ad for yourself on our YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/ciD3XCTr0h0 and get in touch if you fancy it at steve@welcometoepic.com. Subscribe, give us a like, give us a review and look out for us on Twitter if that's your thing. Tara for now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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Maltesers - Lockdown Saggy Pants 29:05

לפני 4 years29:05

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This week another in our occasional looks at interesting ads on your screens right now (or right recently in this case) in this episode we look at some ads for Maltesers that ran in the spring of 2020 during the first UK COVID lockdown. There’s a bit of friction between Steve and Tones about the quality of the talent’s knickers and what they say about veracity in advertising. Some chat about when a pot plant can be referred to as a bush and we’ll find out why one of the ads needed an MA certificate so that they could show the results of some home baking. ‘Saggy Pants’ – the one with the knickers and ‘Cock and Balls’ the one with the cock and balls, are our favourites but will any of them end the awards season with Short Walk and a Handshake for the creative team? Have a listen and see what you think. Feel free to drop us a line at steve@welcometoepic.com and if you fancy it, give us a like, a review and a subscribe and have a look at the ads we’re talking about on our YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/fEQbyZHvRI4 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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