143- Inflatable Men

99% Invisible

SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

Design, Arts

4.8 • 27.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2014

⏱️ 14 minutes

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You see them on street corners, at gas stations, at shopping malls. You see them at blowout sales and grand openings of all kinds. Their wacky faces hover over us, and then fall down to meet us, and then rise … Continue reading →

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0:00.0	This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.
0:03.6	So just Velcro's onto the base of the fan and then we're just turning on the unit.
0:07.6	We'll be up in a minute.
0:14.0	You see them on street corners at gas stations, at shopping malls.
0:18.4	You see them at blowout sales and grand openings of all kinds.
0:22.8	They're wacky faces hover over us and then fall down to meet us and then rise up again.
0:28.6	Their bodies flop. They flail.
0:31.0	They are men.
0:32.2	Men made of tubes.
0:34.0	Tubes full of air.
0:35.8	Producer Sam Greenspan is full of more than hot air.
0:39.2	You know these things.
0:40.6	A vinyl column perched on top of a fan with skinny little arms and a big dumb grin.
0:45.8	Blowing around goofily on a street corner near you.
0:48.6	People are familiar with it but when they're driving by it's just a...
0:51.8	You have to look and turn your head and you know, for is...
0:55.8	It's the best return on your advertising dollar that you can spend.
1:00.8	If by some stretch of the imagination you have never seen one of these things in person,
1:05.2	you have probably seen them around the internet or on TV.
1:08.4	I'm waiting in plain alarm, I'm feeling too bad.
1:10.6	I'm blacky waiting in plain alarm, I'm feeling too bad.
1:13.0	I am waiting some amazing moves from this guy.
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