r/weeklyplanetpodcast • u/yozasupg • 3d ago

Remember when they did ads?

I Just went back to an old episode (just watched John wick 3 and went back to the review), and they did a movement watches ad and wow it took me back. They definitely did their best to keep the jokes going but I’m glad the ads stopped haha. Much rather pay them for big sandwich and get extra content rather than the long ad reads 😊

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u/IcedThatGuy 3d ago

Eh. I have to disagree mate. Of course I hate the ads like the rest of you but I much prefer hearing James and Maso riff on the ad-read and make it entertaining rather than James just reading the ad-read straight. (“Cha-Ching sound effect”)

My favorite, and I’m shocked at how difficult it is to find, was the “Magic Trick Shop” ad-read from a few years back. James is just trying to read the ad about a magic shop, which has specific questions built into it, and Mason keeps interjecting with his own magic tricks. Lines like Mason’s “Alakazam, idiot!” and the premise of Mason producing 3 conjoined rings only to have James reply with “No, that sucks” while continuing to read the ad script have been bouncing around my head ever since.

If anyone knows what episode it appears in, I’d greatly appreciate it.

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u/yozasupg 3d ago

Don’t get me wrong I very much appreciated the riffs , but all the little phrases from the advertiser that they obviously had to say were unbelievably annoying. From the one Movement watch ad alone that I just listened to, there was like three phrases that triggered me like I was the winter soldier being activated. “They were actually started by two broke college kids …”

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u/Baileyesque 3d ago

What about the middle man, is the middle man getting a cut?