Chevrolet’s Silverado Ad – The Music, The Location, and Hands-Free Towing?

Imagine bee-bopping down the road, chilling out with an old rock song, and playing cards with the passenger in your Chevy Silverado. Sounds a little crazy, right? Who would take their hands off the steering wheel ever, much less when you’re towing! And just to play cards? Come on, man. If you’re going to go hands-free, be making a sandwich or something. A new ad from Chevy boasts more than you’d expect from a vehicle you buy to pull things with. I have a Silverado that I use to take my travel trailer to campsites around the southeast (more about my trips here) and never in a million years would I evvverrrrrr tow anything hands-free. Honestly, I can’t believe an idea like this didn’t get laughed out of the boardroom. It’s about as dumb as someone from the government knocking on your door and saying, “I’m here to help.”

Here’s the ad, the scroll down for more info…

The Music. The idea of towing hands-free disgusts me. This is an SNL spoof, right? It’s got to be! But let’s just move on to the music… Playing in the ad is a song from the 1970s called “I’m Your Captain (Closer to Home)” by Grand Funk Railroad. Here’s the full track…

The Location. The picturesque shots with the truck and trailer rolling down the road about to crash into a lake because the driver doesn’t have his hands on the wheel is actually not a lake. It’s Green Mountain Reservoir, west of Denver, Colorado (thanks to comments on YouTube for pointing out the location). Highway 9 if you’re ever in the area. Get your camera out and take some videos and photos because remember, you can put the truck in hands-free mode. Good luck not crashing or submerging yourself into whatever body of water is near you. RIP.

I can’t think of a scenario where hands-free towing is a good idea, and I tow often enough. It’s something we always knew we never needed. Maybe it’ll catch on for reasons I haven’t thought of but I certainly don’t see that happening. It’s nearly as smart as a submarine with a screen door, an idea I’d heard some time in middle school and haven’t forgot. Hands-free towing should be added to dumb ideas humans have thought of, don’t you think?

-Out of the Wilderness

The Progressive Pigeons Commercials – The Voices and More

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Give me the keyboard, little pigeon! Hi there. Contrary to what you’re probably thinking, this is *not* part of the novel being written in the new Progressive commercial. Two birds notice how much money they can save by signing up with Progressive, and one of them fantasizes about flying south as a passenger on an airplane. He snacks, he works on his book. He literally hunts and pecks to type and it amounts to complete nonsense (in English, at least), except for perfectly spelling “chuckandgina” so maybe those are the names of the birds starring in the ad? Check out Chuck and Gina below then scroll down for more info…

And also, check out another pair of pigeons in this DirecTV ad, they’re funny, too!

Voices. You’ve probably heard these voices and know the actors already. One has a very recognizable voice, the other stars on a cult favorite TV show. Voicing the birds are actors H. Jon Benjamin (Archer, Bob’s Burgers) and comedian Retta (who played Donna on “Parks and Rec”).

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Give You the Bird. Birds are a bit controversial if you believe conspiracy theories have any legitimacy. Think about it, if they were real, they wouldn’t be able to talk. Secondly, Big Bird is proof that the truth was hiding in plain sight throughout our childhoods. Birds aren’t real. I guess these photos I’ve taken just feature fancy drones.

-Out of the Wilderness

Don’t Start an Insurrection and Other Goals For 2024

We’re already 6 days into 3 A.I. (After Insurrection) so I figure now is a great time to document my goals of the year. The biggest one I really want to do this year is not start an insurrection. So I’m not going anywhere unless I’m expressly invited, double masked, and triple vaccined. I can’t think of a more measurable goal than that and they say, whoever they are, it’s good to set goals that can be measured. Every one has their own battles. Maybe it’s alcohol, or gambling, or being married to a Democrat, but mine is starting insurrections. I hope you can share my joy that I’ve been sober (from starting insurrections) for 6 consecutive days in 2024.

Other goals I have that are less insurrectionistist: Listen more. Fight less. Actually that second one fits hand in hand with not being part of a Capitol riot. Here’s to a new year and hoping I can go 365 days without assaulting democracy.

-Out of the Wilderness

Burger King Without The Jingle – The Voiceover Artist and More!

Burger King is flame-broiling their way into the new year with a new commercial and spoiler alert, it DOESN’T include the full jingle we’ve all come to know and love (or hate). All I can say is God bless whoever greenlit a voiceover artist instead! Check out the new ad then scroll down for more info…

The Voice. Providing his smooth, deep voice for the commercial is artist Heath Martin. I found a post of his on Instagram (@HeathMartinVO) and he’s very proud of the commercial, as he should be! Quite an accomplishment to have work on a national level like this.

Flame-boyant. “Made By Flame” is BK’s twist on a well-known phrase, “Forged By Fire.” I supposed they tweaked it for our palettes, I mean, who wants a burger forged by fire? Sounds like we’d be eating a Ford or something. I know some people love the Burger King jingle (blah blah blah whopper whopper “you rule!”) so I have a feeling we haven’t heard the last of it. But I welcome the change in the new ad, even if they keep the musical melody as a backdrop for future voiceovers. Or perhaps they can use singers with pleasant voices (what a novel idea), like the original ads they’re paying homage to?

Either way, share your comments below! Do you like the use of a voiceover instead of the well-known jingle?

-Out of the Wilderness

Peloton Commercial “Something Is Everything”… Allegedly.

We’ve been told for a few years, thanks to SKYRIZI, that nothing is everythieeiing, and now that song’s stuck in your head, isn’t it? You’re welcome! I’m such a pest. Leave your hate in the comments below. SKYRIZI might be playing a trick on us because now Peloton is saying something is everything. Just when you think 2024 is going to be less confusing than 2023, they go and do this.

It’s so perplexing because when something is everything (allegedly), then nothing is nothing and SKYRIZI duped us all. But when nothing is everything (allegedly), then something is just something and Peloton will have made another annoying commercial.

This isn’t the first Peloton commercial I haven’t liked. In fact, there hasn’t been a Peloton commercial that I HAVE liked. They somehow have a knack for ticking me right off every time. In this ad today, it’s the way the instructor says, “Run. Your. Own…. Race.” Get the crap outta here! Although, it’s much less irritating than the woman in a previous ad who says “Gotta love that!” Not only do I NOT gotta love that, I don’t even LIKE that.

If you have any ideas on what is something and what is nothing, let’s get the conversation rolling in the comments below. It’s better to get this cleared up sooner than later or else we’re in for something this year. Which I guess is everything? (allegedly)

-Out of the Wilderness