After These Messages: The 1957 Chevy Bel Air

After Garfield in Paradise we watched a few related vids, and had a pretty far reaching conversation about society and culture… But first, this 1957 Chevy Bel Air Commercial.We agree that this car does look really cool, and the commercial is effective. Geoffrey even cited topspeed.com's claim that there has never been a more iconic American car. Next we watched this Jack Benny clip with Frank Nelson.Frank Nelson was the hotel clerk and the rental car clerk in Garfield in Paradise, and he seems to have been really famous for always performing as this character. We finished with Wolfman Jack signing off.This one opened the floodgates about parasocial relationships. We talked about modern stuff that encourages them, like TikTok and Podcasts, and Geoffrey even brought up the old story about the audience running away from a train on a screen in the 1890s. This also led to us talking about younger people trolling older people, and eventually Obvious Plant and the Italian artist who recently sold an invisible statue for $18,000. Geoffrey also referred to this clip from The Venture Brothers when we mentioned Gen X…Thanks for listening!If you're having fun listening to us, please tell your friends about us! Subscribe to our newsletter at thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com for free, or pay $5/month to get access to two bonus paid episodes each month! We're also on Patreon if that's your jam! Rate and review us! follow us on Twitter where we're @thisiswhy_pod! And, of course, you can always drop us a note at at [email protected]. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com/subscribe