We're mixing things up a bit this week and in partnership with our sister-pod looking at an ad that's actually running in the UK today and asking is it worth A Short Walk and a Handshake?John Lewis Christmas ads were ‘event’ advertising when things like that mattered. Now the world’s fucked do we care and are advertising agencies and their department store clients really best placed to raise national morale?If this ad tells us anything it's that there’s a corner of the internet that's really disappointed there's no 222 to Tooting, pigeons are really ugly birds and attempting to fix a pair of specs with the label off an apple is futile. FUTILE I TELL YOU!Listen with kindness in your heart and watch the ad at…<a href="https://youtu.be/x_3zBeQZKbg" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/x_3zBeQZKbg</a> <hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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Welcome to a podcast hosted by unemployable fourth-rate advertising suit Steve Cooke and eminently-employable award-winning advertising creative and TV commercial director Tony Williams (no not that one - the other one). Each week, in an attempt to transport ourselves back to a world where there was no global plague, we all had expense accounts and white dogshit was still a thing, we review a classic TV ad and try to work out whether or not it was any good. We're already attracting some great reviews..."WTF is this shit?" - Sir John Hegarty"I f*cking hate these people..." - Unnamed bread brand marketing director"Why do they think my name is so funny?" - Award-winning TV commercial director Tom Kuntz"This podcast is brilliant, I'm going to tell all my friends about it..." - Tony Williams' Mum"I'm going to sue these dickheads..." - INSERT NAME HERE"Everyone loves the Hovis ad, WTF is wrong with you c*nts..." - Sir Ridley Scott"I was brilliant in that ad..." - Ray Wilkins"Eccellente." - Colonel Dietrich from Raiders of the Lost Ark"Both these blokes use lady-scented body wash..." - Isaiah Mustapha"Lovely boys. I knew their parents you know. Well worth a listen." - Clarence Frank Birdseye II"The mark 2 Ford Transit is basically exactly the same as the original 1965 version except it has square headlights. Don't edit that out you wanker." - Tony Williams Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.