A Podcast with Receipts
Every slogan has an origin story and every jingle has a motive. Lies We Bought pulls apart the marketing myths and cultural conditioning behind what we eat, wear, buy, and believe, asking who actually benefited from all of it.
Hosted by marketer-turned-investigator Emily Rask, this is the show for everyone who grew up trusting the ads and is ready to finally read the fine print.
episode thirty:
Hump DayWhen Wednesday Feels Like the Whole Marriage Is Held Together By Complaining About Wednesday
Everyone yells "hump day" at each other. Almost nobody knows the phrase came from summer camp counselors, not a boardroom, and definitely not GEICO. This episode traces "hump day" from 1940s camp slang through a DuPont origin story that isn't true, into the year a talking camel turned it into nearly a billion dollars of insurance advertising.
Watch on YouTube to the very end for Patreon shoutouts and some extra behind-the-scenes chaos.
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