Ramblings

01.  Oratory

Rachel Maddow has developed an interesting 8-part podcast titled: Ultra.  Five sessions have been aired so far.  It is about Hitler's spies duping lots of high-level Congressmen into disseminating Nazi literature during the 1930's using those Congressmen's Franking privileges.

Nazi spies would also write speeches for Congressmen to give when in session. Listening to these speeches is very irritating, not just about the content, but also the way those orators in the 1930's thought was the right way to speak.

Sing-song and nasal intonation.  Yelling and spouting off in a phony way, designed to put guys like me immediately asleep.

But they all did it.  Listen to Drew Peardon, Franklin D. Roosevelt and others.

Everybody said that Hitler was a great orator.  No way!  He would yell and bluster and repeat tired false platitudes.  If you were near him when he spoke, you might even get bathed in der fuehrer's spital.

 02.  Ads

Honda is back.  Some podcasts devote more time to Honda's ads than to the desired content of the podcast.

I read somewhere that a single Super Bowl advertisement lasting 10 seconds, costs $10,000.

 

Anonymous says: " When business is good it pays to advertise; when business is bad you've got to advertise."

So, is Honda doing well or not?  They do one hell of a lot of advertising.

Douglas of South Wind says: "You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements."

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