Taylor Swift Fatigue Will Be Happening Soon

It’s almost laughable how many cutaways to Taylor Swift go on during a Kansas City Chiefs game. Last night the Chiefs played in MetLife Stadium versus the New York Jets, Taylor Swift in attendance. Even for an away game, the cameras cut to Tay-Tay if KC scored, if they didn’t score, if there was a KC turnover, if someone sneezed, basically everyone’s wondering what Taylor thinks about every. single. play. Except I bet half the audience doesn’t really care what she thinks, or if she even knows what’s going. OK, it’s endearing when a woman isn’t a little clueless. Let’s just be honest!

With the wall-to-wall coverage and every other shot cutting to her, I can sense Taylor Swift fatigue is on the horizon. OK, it’s not just her… so we can call it Swift-Kelce fatigue. The unfortunate part for her (and him) is that she doesn’t control how many times media show her during the game, what news channels or sports programs say about her, or how many blog writers write about her. The only blame she and Kelce can take is for going along with this farce to begin with.

How soon do you think football fans will be weary of news about Taylor and Travis Kelce? Has it already happened? I’m sure NFL staff is monitoring the situation so they know when to dump the story. Then Kelce and Swift can go back to their normal lives, you know since the stunt will be old news. The jig is up… back to work, folks!

-Out of the Wilderness

SKYRIZI has a new slogan? This commercial says yes!

We’ve all by now heard one of the SKYRIZI commercials featuring their “Nothing is everything…” slogan. Full disclosure, it’s a theme song I find myself singing random times throughout the week. Darn you, SKYRIZI! For a reminder of their catchy jingle, check out this post from a previous commercial. Now, though, they seem to have come up with a variation of the song… check it out in a recent ad. (the link might open in a new page)

The song keeps elements of the original jingle but adds a new phrase, “Control is everything to me.” I’m not sure how I feel about this change. I like the original song and if they go changing it, I might boycott!! All kidding aside, the update to the song might be because SKYRIZI is used for Crohn’s Disease… a prescription not previously mentioned in commercials. As I recall, older ads focused on skin ailments and hadn’t mentioned Crohn’s Disease.

Do you like the new song? Chime in below!

-Out of the Wilderness

Liberty Mutual Insurance – Doug Replaced by Soap Opera Actor

Liberty Mutual is the latest addition to my Popular TV Ads page. It’s not the ad where Doug sends his son off on his first insurance adventure. It’s not Emu getting married. It’s much more dramatic, something like you’d see on a daytime soap opera. Check it out then scroll down to find out which soap actor might be replacing Doug!

The Actor. You may recognize the actor taking the stage next to Doug. He’s been on camera a lot in his acting career and this isn’t his first Liberty commercial either. Remember this one? His name is Tanner Novlan, possibly better known as Dr. John “Finn” Finnegan on The Bold & The Beautiful. One this seems certain, fans think he’s beautiful. And I guess it’s bold to try to take over Doug’s role in the ads. Here’s a clip of Doug coaching his alleged replacement and rehearsing with Emu…

The bibberty’s back, and I’m guessing this won’t be the last time we see Tanner in a Liberty Mutual commercial. Do you think he’ll be a recurring character since fans seem to love him? If you like what you read today, help me out with a tiny donation!

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-Out of the Wilderness

War Songs – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

They go to awards shows, movie premieres, concerts, exotic vacations… but when’s the last time celebrities got together for a good old-fashioned war song? With all this hullabaloo over in the Ukraine, I think it’s time for a star-studded choir to rally morale here at home. Until then, I’ve put together a quick list of ‘war songs,’ which resemble nothing from the all-star track from 1991, “Voices That Care.” I was just a middle school kid, but that moment in time is still something I cherish because my dad was serving over in the Persian Gulf. Wow, that got serious quick, didn’t it? Ok, until Cher comes together with Guy Fieri, Kimmy Gibbler from “Full House,” Deion Sanders, and a group of other randomly assembled celebrities, here are a few war songs… and I just can’t include Brad Paisley’s incredibly bad “Same Here.” If you watch that, you might start a war with me for making you watch it at all.

Edwin Starr “War”… what is it good for?

Guns N’ Roses “Civil War”…

Carbon Leaf “The War Was In Color”…

The Neville Brothers (originally by Bob Dylan) “With God On Our Side”…

Celebrity Choir “Voices That Care”…

-Out of the Wilderness

Second Republican Debate – Infuriating, Loud, or Boring?

Politicians in Washington need to git! Like when you thump a dog on the tooth and say “git”! This was part of what Republicans talked about in the second debate, seven people hoping to run against Joe Biden for president. They’re not wrong about Washington. It’s turning into a nursing home and we’re paying the bill.

The debate. It was about what you’d expect. Potential nominees jockeying for air time during the two hour debate. Can we not do debates (or sports for that matter) in California anymore? This thing started at 9pm and that’s just for the birds. This time there were 7 on stage, Asa Hutchinson didn’t qualify. Another one bites the dust. At times, they ganged up against Vivek Ramaswamy. Other times they all loudly spoke at once and no one could be understood.

Nikki Haley was infuriated by Vivek. DeSantis bragged a lot about his work in Florida. Mike Pence acts like it’s 1993. Tim Scott had a few shining moments. Doug Burgum is from North Dakota. Christie often looked TOO focused.

Standouts were DeSantis, Christie, and Haley. I was surprised to like Christie as much as I did, and same with Doug Burgum. Mike Pence just needs to go away. Obviously, Trump wasn’t there but I’m more sure now more than ever that his time in the politic spotlight needs to end. Americans need someone that *actually* bring people together (it isn’t Biden, either, though he promised to).

-Out of the Wilderness