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Stellantis RAM Trucks television ad

Why so many downvotes? First, as an advertisement, this is great consistent stuff, the message does land. Second, it has considerable self-humor, it is so over the top, that even if you take it seriously, you are probably grinning about the message. Third, the irony is perfect, as Stellantis isnt a US company. It is headquartered in the Netherlands. (Stellantis was formed through the merger of the French PSA Group and the Italian-American Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA)). So Yankees who naively DO take this seriously, bloody hell support the fr****g Dutch, of all people.

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Why do radio stations keep playing the same stuff over and over?

In the 80s, I used to be a DJ at a radio station, and had the midnight to 6 a.m. shift. In the beginning, everything was OK, we had a catalogue of about a thousands songs that I could choose and pick from. Commercially the station wasn’t successful so very soon the catalogue was reduced to 500 songs, then 250, then to 100 songs, and then to a dozen songs. It was horrible, I had to come up with ideas how am I getting a story up about this stupid handful of songs. I started reading f****g poetry out loud, my own poetry because we couldn’t buy any of the real poetry stuff. I’m not a poet ! So my salary also dropped. In the end, I had TWO songs that I could choose from: BTO’s You ain’t seen nothing yet and a shitty B side by Shakin’ Stevens. SIX HOURS to play just two songs, if it had been at least three songs, I could’ve mixed them, but you cannot mix two songs! Bloody hell.