Episode 400 • • 59:58 - 1:03:42
400: This is How We Spin
Pharmaceutical Advertising and Vintage Radio Commercials
A modern advertisement for the rheumatoid arthritis drug Orencia is analyzed for its list of severe side effects, including fatal infections and lung cancer. This is contrasted with a 1939 Campbell's Soup commercial from the Orson Welles "Campbell Playhouse" era. The hosts remark on the shift in advertising tone and the "dead voice" style of mid-century radio announcers.