The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Between the Scenes - Colin Kaepernick's Nike Ad & The Downside of Aligning with Brands

Episode Date: September 8, 2018

While Trevor is a fan of Colin Kaepernick's Nike ad, he worries about the problematic nature of supporting corporate brands based on their political messaging. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Shout up to the ad. I do worry, though, that people have become a little too, a little too convinced by corporations that suddenly seem to have political stances. That's what I worry about. And so my thing is, at the end of the day, we always have to acknowledge and remember that corporations are trying to make money. So a corporation is trying to make money. And they're always going to go for the best interest of the corporation.

So as much as people are like, yeah, I'm going to buy Nike because they support it. They're also trying to make money and their alignment behind brands. You know, buy the shoe because you like the shoe. Don't be like I buy the shoe because it represents my political beliefs, because I don't know that it completely does. You know, because you very quickly go down a rabbit hole of things that Nike may not do or do that you don't like. That all of a sudden puts you put put put put put put put put put put put put put put put put put put you in that, that, that, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, th, thin, th, th, th, thin, thi, thin, thin, thin, thin, tho, tho, tho, tho, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. th a quagmire. So like to call and I go, yeah, make your money, and they're supporting you and what you're doing and you use that money for your causes, so do that. But to people, I go like, come on.

Otherwise, we will go crazy as people. Tracking down the political ideology of every single item that is sold and made in the world and in America. I promise you now you will buy nothing, you will do nothing, you will eat nothing. Because if you track everything like it's you it's just like it's one of those things where like you, you'll go crazy. You know what, I'm going to start a company where we sell, you know like you have reversible clothing, I'm going to sell reversible labels just in case, you thi thi thi that like, you that that that that that that that th. th. th. thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, you thi, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you'll the the thi, you'll thi, you'll thi, you're the thi, you're they, you're they, you're they, you're they, you're they, you they, you they, you they, you they, you they, you they, the the the the the the the their, the the the their, their, their, the the the thi, thi, thi, thi, thiiiii, thr-niiiiiiii, try try try try try try try try try try thi, thi,. So I'll be like, yeah, you buy it as Nike, but you can flip it to Adidas just in case.

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