The Peloton Twerking Commercial – The Music, Pet Peeves, and More…

**UPDATE: Peloton’s latest high-cringe commercial features more irritating phrases, check it out!**

Peloton is back with a brand new commercial for literally everyone. After all, the ad is called “Peloton. Anyone. Anywhere.” Gone are the days where Peloton is just a bike in your bedroom. Now it’s a bike, an app, a coach, a partner… in your home, in the yard, on the court, by the pool, wherever. Take a look at the commercial then scroll down for more info…

The Music. Playing along this minute-long ad is “KILL DEM” by Jamie xx. Here’s the full track.

The Twerking. Viewers were quick to point out the confusing inclusion of a woman twerking on an outdoor basketball court. Random? Yes. But it might fit in the “cardio” category of their app. Just giving them the benefit of the doubt.

Dancing (in whatever form it happens) is a great workout. It’s too bad this particular clip with the twerking woman rates pretty high on the cringe scale.

Pet Peeves. Peloton ads are usually guilty of getting on my last nerve with their buzzy phrases. I wrote about it here and a great example is in the ad below.

Peloton has definitely carved out a spot for themselves in the home workout space. Do you think the ads we looked at today tip people in the direction of buying in to the Peloton world? Or would people at home rather see this buff stud do more workout videos?

See you all tomorrow.

-Out of the Wilderness

The Secret Apple Commercial – The Secrets, the Narrator, and the Music!

Apple has a new commercial airing out everyone’s secrets. No one is cheating on their spouse or stealing their friends brilliant inventions; the secrets are health-related and some are kind of embarrassing! Take a look then scroll down for more info…

The Music. If you thought the music sounded familiar, you might have connected it to the Knives Out! films. The song is called “Knives Out!, Pt. II (The Will)” by composer Nathan Johnson. Here’s the full track.

The Secrets. The commercial reveals some very personal secrets, but I’m sure we’ve all experienced one or two of these, right? Or is it only me that’s had hemorrhoids recently? I’m sharing too much. 🙃 There’s another secret I discovered when researching the commercial. In this People article, Knives Out! director Rian Johnson (cousin of composer Nathan Johnson) reveals that villains in film are not allowed to use iPhones, a condition imposed by Apple. That’s fascinating and quite helpful when trying to solve mystery movies, right? Of course, we’ve always known true bad boys use Android. 😏

The Narrator. Think of your favorite show or movie and chances are this woman has made an appearance or had a recurring role. It’s legendary actress Jane Lynch. Here she is in a great movie, Best In Show.

I love the commercial. What do you think about it? Chime in below and I’ll see you tomorrow…

-Out of the Wilderness

Which addiction would you rather have?

There are days I feel like I have my phone with me for almost every hour I’m awake. I think to myself, “Geez, so this is what addiction feels like, huh?” I think about people who smoke or use drugs or drink alcohol in excess. I can understand what they feel even if the draw isn’t quite the same.

All of this leads to an interesting question…

Would you rather be addicted to smoking or addicted to your smart phone?

Sometimes I think a smoking addiction would be better for me in the long run. Maybe not for my lungs, but I wonder if there’s a higher sense of satisfaction that comes from the cigarettes. Certainly there are some payoffs to the phone addiction, but sometimes it just seems all-consuming. With smoking, you go outside, light it up, finish, then go about your day. The phone, in comparison, doesn’t really have those kinds of limits, and probably a lot less satisfaction. You can pretty much use your phone anywhere at any time.

Scary stuff! Which would you pick and why?

-Out of the Wilderness

Listing an item for $1 on Facebook Marketplace

It’s a pet peeve I’ve had for awhile but it’s my current (least) favorite. I can’t even explain how much it ticks me the heck off when someone lists an item for $1 but the description has the actual asking price. Talk about bad etiquette! THOSE PEOPLE SHOULD GO TAKE A LONG WALK OFF A SHORT DOCK.

It just happened the other day that I messaged a guy about something he listed for $1. I had a little fun with him because he not only listed it for a buck, but he also included “or best offer.” What an idiot. I messaged him a few times and his responses got less and less enthused as we conversed. Eventually he told me to stop harassing him and I knew my job there was done.

What is it with these lunatics that think they’re doing something revolutionary? All they’re really doing is making themselves look slimy and dishonest. Am I overthinking this or should these people GO KICK ROCKS!?

-Out of the Wilderness

Swimming underwater

Sometimes I have dreams where I can swim underwater without coming up for air. In fact, usually when I have to answer that “What would your superpower be?” I answer with this feat. I guess I should make clear that I’m a human and as a human, I can’t swim under water for too long before I need to come up for a breath. It sucks! Fish are so lucky.

I’m not really sure why this is something I dream of doing (Literally. Not like someone dreams of going skydiving one day or visiting Italy.). It just seems like such an amazing ability that would change so much for me (Literally. Not like someone saying that in a metaphorical way). I would’ve done a lot better in my first sprint triathlon where I totally embarrassed myself during the swimming portion of the three-event race.

When I’m swimming, sometimes my mind goes to a tragic circumstance at a state park last year. There’s a state park in Florida that has springs connected to underground tunnels that go hundreds of yards to other bodies of water in the area. I guess it’s called cave diving or something like that. All I know is that in this particular case three divers went down into the tunnels and caves and only two came back up. This happened one of the days my family and I were camping so part of the park was closed off while they figured everything out and searched for the missing person. What terror did this guy experience, knowing his air was getting low, or knowing he was lost, panicking that he might not know which way was out, back tracking or not being able to see his friends further up the path? Whatever the cause, it’s such a frightening thing to imagine. I can think of a lot of other ways I’d like to meet my maker before drowning comes up on my list.

Gee wiz, didn’t mean to get all dark and morbid! But swimming underwater… back to that! How fun would that be? If you’re a fish and feel like describing it to the group(er) of humans reading this, won’t you comment below? Thank you and please accept a virtual fish-bump from me!

-Out of the Wilderness