Zach Schwartz
speaker
423 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 18 Aug
Zach Schwartz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 1.
Appearances
So first it was reverse image searching his face and seeing if I could find anything off of that. So I was like, hey, maybe the reason no one's done this video or found him is because they weren't using the modern tools that we have today. Didn't work. So then, for those that don't know, IMDb is a database where you can look up actors for movies.
They have something similar for actors in commercials. So I was like, okay, I'll use that. Nothing. Couldn't find anything there. I started reaching out to friends of mine that directed commercials in LA. Like, hey, is there a database or a casting director you could put me in touch with? And they kind of were like, from an ad that long ago, no one I know would work on it.
And so, okay, let's see if the charity can help.
There's just not enough information out there about the foundation. There's no interviews or articles. And it kind of triggered this sort of siren in my head, like something weird is happening here because no one talks. No one's ever written a profile about the foundation or what they do. The website, for the most part, looks like it was designed in 2011 and just left.
And so, you know, I called them It's one of those calls where you put on like the nicest voice. Hi, my name is Zach and I have an obsession with this really famous ad that you guys made from a long, long time ago.
And I was like, can you please just help me Locate the actor. The secretary was very kind. I would love to help you. What a neat project. Unfortunately, I can't release any names. You basically have to write the CEO and get his consent and he'll release the information to you. So then I emailed the CEO and he was really dismissive. I read his message.
He was very like, I'm not releasing the name to you. Sorry, go away. Und das machte mich mehr traurig. Oh, ja. Dann dachte ich mir, was ist diese Grundlage? Warum bist du so secretiv? Warum versuchst du zu verstecken, wer diese Person ist? Also habe ich das nächste logische Ding gemacht und 13 Jahre von ihren Kreditkarten ausgewählt.
He is a billionaire. And he's been a billionaire for a very long time.
Fortune also called him the greediest executive. He started running his dad's oil business at the age of 20, made his money drilling, fracking, also ran Union Pacific Railroad.
And then, you know, things that maybe are more in our lives than oil and railroads is that he owns AEG, Anschluss Entertainment Group, who does Coachella. They own Crypto.com Arena. Und er hat auch ein paar verschiedene Sportteams gegründet. L.A. Kings, L.A. Galaxy. Und dann hat er Filme finanziert. Chronicles of Narnia. Er hat den Film Ray gemacht.
Er ist überall, aber man hat keine Ahnung, dass er da ist, weil er wirklich einer der größten Behind-the-Scenes-Billionäre je war.
Ich fand es sehr interessant, dass diese Person, die Coachella hat, die ist so unheimlich, dass du legal gehen kannst, auch diese sehr konservative, göttliche, kirchliche Botschaften drückt. So that was very interesting, kind of as I dove deeper and deeper and found out about the different groups that he was kind of financing and funding and some of the initiatives that they were behind.
Anschutz has reportedly funded anti-gay ballot measures, anti-union, anti-weed, anti-science. I mean, there's a lot of things that he's... done over these years. And you're kind of like, okay, so the foundation for a better life is sort of just like the diet version of those messages, if you will. Like he's sort of like stripped off all the nasty parts that he's doing over on the side there.
I like that he had to go into his coat to take out the values that he wanted to specifically name. Brother, you can't just name loyalty, sportsmanship, honesty, respect off the top. You had to go to the note?
All the ads kind of read like that.
Yeah, it's billboards, radio ads, TV ads. The billboards were really mocking me and seeing them everywhere, seeing them on Santa Monica Boulevard near the 405. It sort of led me on my spiral where I felt like Gyllenhaal in Zodiac, where it's just like this thing is sort of taking over my life to a degree that it really shouldn't. Es gibt diesen wunderschönen Teil, den Shaq Teil hat.
Er spielt Basketball, trägt eine Kappe und eine Schuhe und es sieht so aus, als würde er Zivilität lieben. Ich meine, es heißt Perseveranz. Er spielt Basketball, als ob er seinen Doktorenabschluss in Basketball bekommen hätte, was er tatsächlich machte.
The reach for these campaigns is so impressive. And I reached out to a friend of mine that worked in advertising actually for Viacom for a long time. He did, you know, TV ad sales. The way he kind of broke it down for me is that like, you know, we talk about the Alex ad running during March Madness. Well, those spots for March Madness could be hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars.
And so he kind of gave me a wide range of what they could be. Like, you know, it's something like late at night could be in the tens of thousands of dollars to a March Madness spot that could be hundreds of thousands of dollars. So these spots are obviously very valuable. They're running all the time.
Because the foundation doesn't have some huge operating budget to go out and buy ad times, I was trying to figure out how they're getting these ads auf Billboards oder auf TV. Und die Art und Weise, wie es funktioniert, ist, wenn du als Netzwerk eine Ad-Inventar hast, kannst du das nehmen und es ihnen donatieren.
Showing 361–380 of 423 · page 19 of 22
← Previous
Next →