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Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast today is Monday February 8th

2021 I am John Poddhwar. It's the editor of Commentary Magazine with me as always associate editor Noah Rothman

Hi Noah. Hi John. Senior writer Christine Rosen, Hi Christine. Hi John.

An executive editor, Aide Greenwald. Hi Abe. Hi John. So Tom Brady is the greatest football player of all

time the Tampa Bay Buccaneers slaughtered the Kansas City Chiefs and I was struck by the fact that

the most watched broadcast of the year the Super Bowl famous for its Randy Roudi commercials that

are that cost more than the gross national products of most countries had a quality or were missing

the quality that was entirely defining of them for the past 25 years which is sexiness there's no

the coat that responds to COVID and to Black Lives Matter and everything for some odd reason

is this is the conclusion of all connection between sports and sex and the fact that this is

something that men watch in sort of extraordinarily overwhelming numbers and that therefore they

are appealed to when you want to eat a nacho by a girl in a bikini or if you want to you know

do almost anything there's a girl in a bikini and now there are no girls in the bikini is now

apparently as you know as as evil as a as a noose hanging in a you know in a in a barn okay but

can I just chime in to say there was one commercial with a great deal of sexual innuendo but it was

for Amazon's Alexa voice activation device and the idea was that an Amazon employee was imagining

that her Alexa device looked like the incredibly attractive Michael B Jordan and her husband kept saying

you know Alexa stopped dimming the lights because the wife would you know and there's a sea where

she's in the bathtub with the you know Michael B Jordan as Alexa that was the most sexualized

commercial and I it struck me that that was actually okay because it was sexualizing technology

and a man and a man right even he was all covered up when she made a cameo in her commercial right

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