4.8 • 27.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2014
⏱️ 14 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
0:00.0 | This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars. |
0:03.6 | So just Velcro's on to the base of the fan and then we're just turning on the unit. |
0:07.6 | We'll be up and running. |
0:08.6 | You see them on street corners at gas stations at shopping malls. You see them at |
0:19.3 | blowout sales and grand openings of all kinds. |
0:23.0 | Their wacky faces hover over us |
0:25.0 | and then fall down to meet us and then rise up again. |
0:28.0 | Their bodies flop. They flail. |
0:31.0 | They are men. |
0:32.0 | Men made of tubes. |
0:34.0 | Tubes full of air. |
0:36.0 | Producer Sam Greenspan is full of more than hot air. |
0:39.0 | You know these things. |
0:40.0 | A vinyl column perched on top of a fan, with skinny little arms and a big dumb grin, |
0:46.0 | blowing around goofily on a street corner near you. |
0:49.0 | People are familiar with it, but when they're driving by, it's just a, you have to look and turn your head and you know |
0:54.6 | four is it's the best return on your advertising dollar that you could spend |
1:01.3 | if by some stretch of the imagination you have never seen one of these things in person, |
1:05.0 | you have probably seen them around the internet or on TV. |
1:08.0 | Rocky waving inlative alarm sailing tube man. |
1:11.0 | Wacky waving inseableammable arms and 2 men? |
1:12.8 | I am learning some amazing moves from this guy. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.