Wyatt Cenac

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312 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 15 Jul

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Panic World · Bad things happen when we let robots decide what’s good · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

I would be very curious to talk to like a line producer today and say, if you were going to make that commercial today, how much would it cost?

And it's a commercial for Huffy Bikes.

And the commercial is a guy, it's like the perfect 80s guy in like short shorts and a button up, like plaid button up shirt, some aviator sunglasses, a sweet mustache, blonde hair flowing as he just rides around.

along like this sort of mountainside that overlooks the ocean and it's all just that sort of you know that amber glow is on everything and it's i want to say a christopher cross song hell yeah dude but it's just this guy just fucking hauling ass beautiful like sunset there's a bird whatever

And I watched this thing and I'm struck by the fact that today that would probably, who knows what that would cost to make, to license that song, to lock up the street, to do any of those things.

And also to think this is for Huffy Bicycles.

I don't know the last time I saw a TV commercial for a bicycle.

And that kind of breaks my heart.

Can I just pose to you a conspiracy theory around that?

So I have a good friend who is a commercial actor and has done well for himself as a commercial actor.

And he's talked about how things have dried up and often talks about the fact that you have all of these A-list celebrities who are now doing ads and just what it's doing now.

to the middle-class commercial actor, where the opportunities are fewer and further between for people like him, who used to work really well and really consistently.

And commercial acting is a skill unto itself.

The idea that you can create a character and make me believe something in 30 seconds to a minute, like, there's a real skill there that, you know, whether it is you are a dad talking to their kid about...

driving for the first time or something, you pull out a lot of emotion in a very little bit of time.

And now it's been replaced with all these Hollywood celebrities.

And my conspiracy theory around this is because we're now in an age of being able to just zip through the commercials,

As you zip through, you will get little, you know, screencaps of somebody.

And I think in this moment where we've got that going on and also everything is being fucking rebooted, if you're zipping through and you're like, I don't want to see these commercials, but then you see Steve Carell and John Krasinski.

And just have a screen cap of it that you're like, wait a minute, are they making an Office reboot?

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