Did you help "Take a Bite out of Crime" or keep away from drugs because "Users are Losers?" then that means that these PSA's worked! This episode we go over some of the most memorable PSAs from the catchy to the wacky!
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Did you help "Take a Bite out of Crime" or keep away from drugs because "Users are Losers?" then that means that these PSA's worked! This episode we go over some of the most memorable PSAs from the catchy to the wacky!
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Hey y'all, it's Ashley and this is a public service announcement.
Aaron:Hello. Nostalgic friends, this is Aaron.
garret:I dunno how to follow that up, but this is Garrett
Aaron:Welcome to nostalgic
Ashley:Usually, it's Garrett and Sounds real super swaggy. He'll go, Ha, it's here. I'm like, What? Where is that going from?
Aaron:I think normally I'm playing, and so Garrett jumps in, but I think I was Swaggy. So Garrett didn't know what. to do after that.
garret:You both kinda went in maybe high Since we're talking about what we're talking about
Ashley:What are we talking about
Aaron:today? We are talking about public service announcements. PSAs.
garret:Specifically about what? PSAs. Oh, I don't know. drugs you mean You
Aaron:dunno. Oh, so we only doing drug ones today? Yes.
Ashley:Did you not notice that when you were doing'em or do you have other ones? I
Aaron:only had the two drug ones, but I thought you guys had other ones. No drugs.
garret:We only doing drugs. Ones.
Aaron:Marijuana affects the memory.
Ashley:Yeah. Are you high right now? A little side note before we begin. Today, we are gonna be talking about PSAs, and that does involve drugs. And while we love to have fun we love to laugh we want you to know that the subject of addiction is something that we take seriously. If you or anyone you know are struggling with addiction, you can call. the Substance abuse and mental health services administration 1-800-662-FOUR 3 5 7. It's 24 hours and it is free. It's okay to get help. Okay, back to it.
Aaron:Okay, so today we are talking about public service announcements. Drug edition the ones we remember and how bad they are and how much fun they are.
Ashley:I am cutting that out.
garret:When you Google psa, the first thing that comes up is the prostate specific antigen test, which is a test for prostate cancer. So don't Google that. Actually Google public service announcements if you really wanna Google it.
Ashley:unless you need that And then you can, Oh, please, yeah.
Aaron:If you're a man, of a certain age.
Ashley:be healthy..
Aaron:What is that age? Anyway, I'm, I'm probably getting there. It's 45. Oh.
garret:And I know that I'm closer to, I was like, Do I need to get one? He's like, Not to you're 45. So in a couple years. Thanks doc. Geez.
Ashley:I that, Yeah, women know when their mammograms are, men know when they're
Aaron:So the internet describes a PSA as a short informational clip that is made to raise the public's awareness about an important issue. pretty much a video or a print ad usually from the government trying to get call to action from the public about something. I just did a little deep dive on, the history of public service announcements, how they got started and how they evolved into what we remember and what they have today. public service announcements were used by the government to raise money for war is pretty much how they started. in the Civil War, the US government, printed out. PSAs and newspapers selling goal bonds to raise money to support the war, and these PSAs were actually the first types of advertisements and they were so efficient and so effective the newspapers realized they could sell their advertisement space to businesses and other trades. And that's pretty much how the commercial advertising industry started after the PSAs.
Ashley:And we could have covered that in our commercial episode.
Aaron:they started with the newspapers in the Civil War and then they really blew up and started printing'em out separate from newspapers in World War I you guys will know the posters. Uncle Sam. I want you the selective service posters promoting draft registration, and then also the Red Cross trying to get people to join their cause. And if you weren't in the military, you could still help the war and help your country by doing Red Cross, initiatives so World War II is when Rosie the Riveter came out. And then also the big one in World War II was loose lips, sink ships, which was the government telling citizens to be quiet about what they were talking about because they thought. There were Japanese and German subs patrolling the coastline. So they were afraid that they would catch what people were saying. Information, stuff like that. geez. Yeah. What were they gonna hear?
garret:Nana's
Aaron:recipe for banana brand
Ashley:I would like a recipe being
Aaron:I don't want that. Getting into the wrong hands, man.
Ashley:Yeah, no, my meows apples pies. Recipes is safe. Ok.
Aaron:After World War ii, TV started becoming, more mainstream. that's when they started using it for, Smokey the Bear. a Mind is a terrible thing to waste. The first drug campaigns, cancer checkups, environmental and, pollution, those PSAs, once they started branching out, they realized that they could use these PSAs effectively for other causes besides war and besides raising money for the government. And that is what evolved into the ones that we from our childhood and today.
garret:And that's pretty much all I have on
Aaron:the history of psa. Have it brief.
garret:That's pretty cool though.
Ashley:Yeah, it's a good way to reach the masses, right? When something is Affecting a lot of people Why not slip in a,, good, positive message?
garret:Wait, they started in the Civil War? Is that what you said?
Aaron:Yes. From everything I could read was the Civil Wars, when they really started using, advertisements in psa. Is the government so
garret:interesting?
Ashley:Do you remember when the Simpsons first came out? They didn't have PSAs, but they had a positive message Almost like full house and then it's like later. Oh yeah.
garret:that was all your t I f nineties things
Aaron:you remember? They would always give a lesson. They would, the music would come on and they would talk it out. I knew it was coming and then there was the joke at the end, but you're still grounded, yeah.
garret:I wonder when those went away, those PSAs that were written into the show. Cause I wanna say it mid to late nineties
Ashley:yeah. I think if you're watching certain channels, like the CW is still gonna have them tied in there. Some of the stuff I was watching still had those life lessons Your typical teenage angst and the parents sitting down and talking like, it doesn't happen actually in their life.
garret:It's all part of the story, cuz in the older ones you felt like it was carved out, and that little moment was for that. And then sometimes you feel like it's an organic part of the story.
Ashley:Yeah, I think it got more organic. You're right. It didn't feel as spoon fed of hey let's take this five minutes and teach a lesson. It was a little more subtle. That's a good point. I would be curious to know when that started. Cause I remember watching 9 0 2 and oh and I felt like it was still in. Pretty heavy Any who? Who wants to start us off?
garret:yeah. I could start mine was part of a series. Do you remember McGuff the crime?
Aaron:Oh yeah.
garret:If you guys have never seen these PSAs, McGruff was a series of basically take a bite at a crime and don't use drugs sort of thing aimed at kids, to inform them of the dangers of drugs. And I think a lot of this started with the Reagan era of the wars drugs. so this one came out in the later years when he had already been popular. it was a song that he did with this girl named Regina. It's uber late eighties. She's done up in very high fashion, almost like beetle juice. Remember the mom, which she used to wear clothes like that, and her hair had like vines sticking out of it. And they were different colors and they were wrapped in a different thing. my eight year old self thought she was cool as but when I watched it recently, I was like, Oh, Oh, okay. The video was really cool. It had cool backgrounds back then, but watching it now, this looks like it was done in me mama's basement
Aaron:So
garret:the song was called, Users Are Losers. And it was a song that she was singing with McGruff, the crime dog, who had a very small part, and it was catchy. It was Poppy. she actually sang another song. she was a one hit Wonderer and the song she sang was called Baby Love. I listened to it and Do not
Ashley:know it. Is that Baby Love? I need You
Aaron:No, I would know that.
garret:this one was weird and different. I'd never heard it until I played it. Danny Menno. She, did a cover of it, in the early nineties. so the girl they got was semi-popular. She used to write songs from Madonna. And helped her sing harmony. So they had star power around this, but she never went
Ashley:anywhere. I don't know why. My mind picture is Hold on. Paula Dole, opposites of track. Thank you.
Aaron:Was same exact thing. The
garret:video was similar to that it, it had a lot of the weird backgrounds and the animated things happening. So I could see why you would, see the similarities between them. But this one, I don't think it's aged well, I used to jam after that song every time I would come out like, Oh yeah,
Ashley:now did you associate it with drug use? And you were like, I'm not gonna do drugs. Or you were just like, This is a song that I could hear. I was,
garret:I was always anti-drug as a kid, no matter what. cuz my family was all like, don't do drugs.
Ashley:I think You were like that. Even when I met you, you were very anti weed, anti-smoking I
garret:remember I was anti-everything pretty much, but yeah, the song came out. It was catchy. it did what it needed to do. Kids thought it was cool and it definitely left an impression if you were to sing it right now, I would know it. You probably know it.
Ashley:I don't know I'll look it up. We'll post it at the end. What's the deal with He's a detective crime dog, and then he rolls up in gives
garret:Speeches. their whole slogan like, take a bite at a crime. I think he did more PSAs than just drugs, but I think that was like the big thing,
Ashley:I dunno why I picture, if you see something, say something But I don't know if that was him or not
Aaron:it sounded good though.
garret:you should do a PSA
Ashley:I don't know where I got that, I watch a lot of first 48 and they're pretty I ain't seen nothing. I ain't saying nothing. I'm like, okay. I ain't no snitch.
Aaron:Yeah.
garret:But do you guys remember this song? at all?
Aaron:I remember the psa, I remember Scr. What's his name? McGuff. McGuff? Yeah, But wasn't there, There was a junior McGuff. Scruff. McGruff, right?
Ashley:I don't know. Are you taking a Scooby? Do No.
Aaron:Anything is scrappy. Scrappy, guff. There was like a junior one for a while. His name was Scruff. I don't see it. Scruff. McGuff. I remember. I'd But yes, I do remember I couldn't tell you the song, but I remember the psa.
garret:They repeat the same lyrics over and over, users are losers and losers are users, so don't use drugs. that's not the only line in the song, but they repeat it a lot and I'm like, Wow. They're really nailing this
Aaron:in Part of an effective PSA is Oh yeah.
garret:you gonna use drugs, Johnny? No. I'm not users or losers.
Ashley:I wanna shirt with that on it. There's no hope with dope.
garret:Oh, I remember that.
Ashley:I think that was saved by the bell?
Aaron:Oh, that was the greatest episode. Like smelly, stupid,
Ashley:Kelly gets put in a situation where they pass the weed
Aaron:the popular pop star, Dakota something. Wait, it was Kelly?
Ashley:Yeah. Kelly started not dating him, but he is like, Do you wanna come to this party? And they're doing an anti-drug campaign but there's drugs at the party.
garret:the only reason why that stands out to me is if you remember when she came on 9 0 2 1 oh Tiffany Amber Easton in the very first episode, she's like this goody little two shoes and at the very end you see her like rolling a joint up in her room.
Ashley:The other one I think too is what was the one that had the diet pill problem?
garret:Oh god, Jesse, that's so scared.
Aaron:The original script was supposed to be meth on that I saw. Oh, shut up. Yes. It was not supposed to be diet pills. Oh crazy. That's a think They had to tame it down a little
Ashley:bit. They'd only do that on Punky Bruiser.
garret:Lisa Turtle walks up the room, she's What are you doing? Meth?
Ashley:You guys crack pipe. that's Oh, PSA meth is not funny. the first one that I wanted to go over is called Above the Influence and. It's kind of weird. the camera goes into a living room and there's two girls sitting on the couch somebody's interviewing one of'em and he's like, Hey Sarah, do you wanna tell me what this is all about? her friend answers for her because Sarah looks like a des stuffed cabbage patch doll on the couch. Sarah is flattened out and she's deflated and her friend is like, She's not gonna answer you. And she's been that way since she started smoking pot. We don't do anything. We just sit here. And Sarah never moves.
Aaron:It looks like on who framed Roger Rabbit when he gets totally ran over by the steam roller and he is Flat swing. Yeah. Exactly. I guess it was to show that if you smoke weed, all you wanna do is sit around and not do anything.
Ashley:it was straight to the point. It was like We used to have fun and now we don't.
garret:did you try any?
Aaron:Right, Sarah might be having the best time of our life just sitting there
garret:look at this wall, it looks amazing.
Aaron:You ever watch Senti of a woman on weed?
garret:I remember that one. Cause she's like a pancake
Ashley:I feel like she might maybe move at one point, but I'd have to rewatch it to. Just a little, Maybe her fingers a fidget or something. I
Aaron:bet if you brought out a, fiery bowl of some funk, she might be like,
Ashley:this was an anti weed commercial, so who knows what else. It is a gateway drug.
garret:Serious. Was like, I'm in the meth now. Weed sucks.
Ashley:And now she can't stop doing stuff.
Aaron:We used to have fun. And Now all you do is run around the house and take your lawnmower part at three o'clock in the morning
Ashley:All right.
Aaron:my first one is the one that you are all gonna remember. I it was a 32nd psa. It starts out with a guy in his kitchen he holds up an egg and he says, This is your brain and there's a hot skillet he cracks it and opens up the egg inside the skillet and he is like, This is your brain on drugs. And it, he shows the fried egg and asks any questions.
Ashley:have a question. Is that gonna go on a bagel? My
Aaron:I watched it again when we started talking about this. I'm like, man, that egg fried up pretty good. Is bacon in that? What
garret:does the bacon and the hash brown represents? Cause how are the craft
Ashley:when I think of these, I'm like, yes, we remember them. Were, are they effective? Did I get that messaging out of it?
Aaron:I always think of it as weed, but I guess it does say drugs. So this is your brain on drugs. So it could be anything. Yeah. You should have scrambled it though. I think,
Ashley:Agreed.
garret:Yep. It was simplistic it gets its message across whether or not the person on the other end is gonna receive that message.
Ashley:Yeah. if you said PSAs, I'm pretty sure that's the one that people would think of first.
garret:A hundred percent Actually I have the sequel to that one. If you remember, there was one starring this teenage girl named Rachel she has the same pan. It's an iron skillet, and she says, this is your brain on heroin and this is what it does to your body. And she smashes the egg with the iron skillet. And she's like, This is what happens to your brain. But we're not done. This is what happens to your family. she starts to like beat the living hell out of everything that's around her,
Ashley:Like a rage room where you can just go in and smash things.
garret:Oh yeah. This is what happens to your family and your money and your friends. And she just goes to town and by the end, the entire room's destroyed. And then she's like, Any questions? this one Took the other ad that Aaron talked about and just turned it on its head and just made it a little bit more dramatic and crazy. Do you guys remember this one
Ashley:I don't or specifically saying heroin, but I can hear her voice
Aaron:I didn't until you started talking about it, but as soon as you said Rachel and the sequel, it just popped into my head Effecti give, Yeah, probably I
Ashley:never did heroin. No, Thanks Rachel. Me Neith.
Aaron:any questions? Who's gonna clean all this up like, like
garret:when I was doing this research, I saw this extended trailer and it was actually a parody. It was the real commercial, the real psa. And then after it's the commercial, it's her parents and they're like, Rachel, what are you doing And she's like, I'm getting my message across, and they're like, You couldn't send an email. And her brother's like, I got these wine glasses from Pottery Barn. My dinner night is ruined. Thanks. She's like, I was being dramatic and trying to get a message out. The mom says to her, I told you if you wanted to smash things, use the garage. And they're just berating her. And they're like, Why are you doing this anyway? And she's like, Heroin and it's bad. And you don't even know, You didn't even think it out. You're doing all
Aaron:this
garret:And then at the end she's like, the yolk is your brain. And the utensils are the drugs as they won't break. She's like, I don't know guys. I'm on a lot of Coke right now. I was dying. I was like, who made this? Cause it's hilarious.
Ashley:Is it newer, newish, the parity or?
garret:I think so I'll definitely post it on our page somewhere, I just thought it was hilarious. You should definitely watch it cause I think it's right up our humoristic alley. I did find out though, she did an updated version of this PSA in 2017. And basically was on the other side and said the war's drugs doesn't work and that the war's drugs hurts families, it incarcerates the wrong people It went deep and they got to come back and do this and I was like, Wow, this is pretty big.
Ashley:I feel like weed incarcerates a lot of people all those people who are in jail now, but there still has to be consequences.
garret:In this psa, this specific one, She was basically saying if you're, a person of color, then the consequences are gonna be more aggravated and more severe than other things. What the war on drugs does to families and what it does to the person and is it really worth it?
Ashley:It should be like also pedaling drugs. I feel like there should be high consequences for pedaling drugs Not always necessarily using them that brings me into My next one, which is if you know who Peewee Herman is, the actor who plays Peewee Herman is Paul Rubin, but he did a PSA as Peewee Herman, and I remember it, but I couldn't remember the content that well. And so when I looked it up, I started watching it on YouTube and I was like, Oh my gosh. No wonder nobody took this seriously. And then I realized it was a parody of it. So they basically had him, like, cocaine was the word of the day. So every time he said crack cocaine, they did the, like the La they were like in the playhouse.
Aaron:Oh, so you were watching the parity?
Ashley:Oh, At the beginning, started the same, but he was running around doing the Whoa. And I was like, no wonder this didn't work. but the actual PS. Is under a minute and he's in a black and white studio. He's got the voice, but he's not doing over the top. And he says, this is crack cocaine. Don't even try it once. And the thrill can kill is how it ends. It's him saying This is crack It's not worth it. He sets it down. It shows it. So that's more of what I remember. He's wearing this whole peewee outfit, it's a little strange. Did he ever have any, I know he had some charges, but do you ever have any drug charges?
garret:I don't know. I almost could see like the extended version, like the last one and you hear the capo being unscr and you're like,
Aaron:Or it scrolls back and he doesn't have any pants on, or he is in a movie theater,
Ashley:I know. He's don't even try it. Not even once. Cause you'll get caught.
garret:The word of the day is hooker. Huh?
Aaron:I do remember this one. And it's probably the Fringiest psa because he looks like he's on drugs. He's in his peewee Herman attire. Yeah. And he's talking like Peewee Herman, but he is trying be serious he's saying everybody wants to be cool, but crack cocaine is not the way to do it,
Ashley:You would wonder why he didn't do it in a Hey, I'm so-and-so that plays Peewee Herman, but he goes as Peewee Herman. And it's just a, strange strategy I thought,
Aaron:they did a lot of these with just the black room with the two spotlights, because I remember there was Clint Eastwood. Did one with the crack cocaine, Michael Jordan. It was, celebrities all talking about it was supposed to be like, just the basic, here's the raw information. Here it is, but I think Kiwi Herman is just a very, it was an odd choice. He's
Ashley:probably super popular then though,
Aaron:I could see that if you hadn't seen it since we were kids and you went to watch it and you saw the parody one, Yeah. Yeah.
Ashley:I would recommend looking it up. It's definitely not anti-drug. If anything, it's totally making fun of it. But I just was like, Wow, they're in the playhouse talking about cocaine and everybody was running around and then I think on the second time he said cocaine and they did the la I was like, ok, this is not a thing. So funniest thing
Aaron:that, and seeing you do it with your,
Ashley:Yeah. It was uh, it was something I'm all about the not even once campaign though, because, that's something that I think kept me from doing drugs a lot. And then I was asking myself Is it because addiction is really big in our family, but I just never understood why people tried heroin one time thinking I'm not gonna get addicted. why even risk it? I don't think it would be worth it.
garret:I think maybe it reinforced it if you had parents or siblings or whatever and people around you were anti-drug and you saw antidrug PSAs. Then maybe it just reinforced that it's not acceptable anywhere.
Ashley:To plan on that Peer pressure factor.
garret:Maybe.
Ashley:If I'm being honest, a lot of the things I didn't do isn't my trust issues I don't trust people. So someone trying to get me drugs, first of all, I don't know you and I don't know where you got this. And I don't know who made it
garret:but I also live in a state Where it's legal And so it's made in a laboratory I think what you used to get from like a dealer Joe behind a fricking Dominoes by the trash cam. It's completely different.
Ashley:Hey, you know Joe
garret:Oh my god.
Aaron:he's still back by the Dominoes fan,
Ashley:I think weed is gonna be legal soon. Weeds, honestly, not really. Very druggie to me. No, Aaron and I, when we were in Amsterdam, weeds legal there, it's big drinking party town. But then like we said before, weed is the gate. Air quoting here, Gateway drug. And so what they did there is they had places that would test your drugs for you because they would rather have you be safe than overdose on something that wasn't a legit drug because they were seeing a lot of overdoses of people dying from Oh wow. Like bad. I'm gonna say bad smack. Like I know I'm talking about bad smack, smack. You're so street. I know. I felt cool saying that I was like, this is a trick. Hey, test for drugs for me. And they're like, Here's some handcuffs, But I,
garret:they're like, take,
Aaron:some of it. I remember when we got across the border, they handed out these pamphlets and they were talking about, weed in Amsterdam is not really legal, but is tolerated. Drugs are illegal, but if you have some you can bring in here and get it tested to make sure that it's safe before you try it. And we're like, No. We're
Ashley:like, Okay, sure.
Aaron:And it's just crazy how many people are trying to sell you drugs It was a lot. If somebody says hi to me or nods at me, I'll just say, Hey, but if you do, then they like swarm me. I got coke, I got shrooms, I got Hashi. It's I'm like, bro, I just said hi
Ashley:I know. I'm really drunk right now, so I'm friendly. Everybody.
Aaron:Isn't it
garret:legal there though? Like now,
Aaron:It may be. This was years ago, When did y'all
garret:go? Oh six. No, it was not that long ago. Yeah, it was. Ooh. Oh my goodness. It was the year we got
Ashley:outta the Coast Guard, or I got outta the Coast Guard.
garret:Oh yeah. Geez, man.
Ashley:Yep. All right. Aaron, are you next?
Aaron:Oh, I thought Garrett Was looking up to see when it got legal.
garret:I am. It says, While recreational use, possession and trade of non medicinal drugs described by opium law are all technically illegal under Dutch law official policy since the late 20th century has been to openly tolerate all recreational use while tolerating the other two under certain circumstances.
Ashley:I do not understand any of the words that have come outta your, Like we said,
Aaron:it's not legal, but it's tolerated. I guess it's still the same, they have shroom shops where you can go there and they have a menu and I wanna see pink elephants, or I wanna see tracers
Ashley:I liked the day of the week joint packets. Like they're gonna do one, but still Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, wake and bake pink
garret:Apparently they have soft drugs and soft drugs are stuff that you really can't get addicted to, which would be hash marijuana, sleeping pills and sedatives. While hard drugs there are heroin, cocaine, amphetamines, L s D and ecstasy. And so I guess policy has been to largely tolerate the sale of soft drugs while suppressing the sale of hard drugs. Okay.
Ashley:Sleeping
Aaron:pills. You want hush? Sorry, Aaron. Go ahead. Go. Oh, we're good. I'm glad we got that clarified. My next PSA is one that I quote way too much and people normally have no idea what I'm talking about. There's a, young, teenager, he's got his Walkman headphones on. He's jamming with some drumsticks. It's a teenage room guitar in the background. And the dad walks in with this box, like the cigar box, and turns the stead area off and opens it up. And he's got a fat stash in this bag. Like this kid was packing, man. I'm like, Dang, you had that much as
Ashley:where, Very organized, right?
Aaron:He had this user probably two ounces in there. I'm like, Dang, dude. And he asked, your mom said she found this in your closet, where'd you get this? And the kid he keeps on trying to say, It's not mine, Every time the kid tries to make up some lie or something, excuse, the dad cuts him off Finally he says, Where'd you learn this? And he is like I learned it from watching you Ok..
Ashley:and then the dad's speechless.
Aaron:I think it ends with Parents that do drugs to have kids that do drugs. So set the example, something of that manner.
Ashley:So Dad comes in with this really organized box. That was in his closet, but he didn't get it out of his closet right then. So he had been holding onto it and the kid didn't miss his box. He wasn't like, Hey, where's mustache? I went to my dad and been like, Hey dude, you better not be tapping in on my He's like, I'm confiscating this.
garret:The dad was probably like, who taught you how to do this stuff? And he's You all right? And the dad's like, you definitely didn't, cuz I would roll these a lot tighter. Let me show you how to roll
Aaron:this amateur. Yeah, your pops wouldn't smoke this trash weed You haven't been watching close enough, boy. Yeah. Take note. Smoke dog, baby. Been smoking some too.
Ashley:All right, We of asked on and off, what do you think the efficacy of PSAs are? Do you think that they are effective
Aaron:I think it brings awareness, but I think most of'em are trying to use a scare tactic and I don't know if that always works. Proof.
Ashley:If they would do them similar to, those truth ones, where the lady took off her wig and was talking through the thing to make you not smoke That's pretty effective.
Aaron:we, They're talking through the trach I smoked three bags a day and I'm like, Yeah. Smoking through her trach at one time. like, Oh.
Ashley:But I do think cigarettes are a thing with vaping now you start to see the vaping ones. those aren't as scary. they don't know The health risks of it. we don't really have research on this, so we don't know.
garret:I do think your truth ones, if they're more geared where they show the after effects and real. cuz some of these are comical and they're trying to get their point across. But I don't think scare tactics always works. If people wanna do drugs, they're gonna do drugs, but giving them, Hey, this is what happens when you do drugs and this may happen to you if you use X, Y, or Z would be more beneficial. I think they can reinforce things that are already in play, but I don't think they really work
Ashley:For me, in therapy, if I'm reading a self-help book, I could read something and I could have my therapist say something, but if I'm not at that level in my life, or at the time we watched these, I'd never even seen or heard of a drug really. So I wasn't where this was geared, or it's maybe trying to catch you before you see'em, later I'm like, Okay, I see where they were going with that. But if you can't really, put those together, I don't know how effective they were
Aaron:Because at that time they were probably going for older than what we were. Yeah. for people that actually were around it and having peer pressure and seeing family members,
Ashley:all right, so my next question, and we can't end here, so you all gotta think it's something fun to talk about, but Do you think they should have PSAs against alcohol? Because most of the things I see are commercials of how fun drinking is I would like to see a truth commercial on what drinking really looks like.
garret:drinking and driving, they have commercials on there.
Ashley:That's the only one though. So it's not against drinking, it's just don't get behind the.
Aaron:You're right though, the alcohol commercials definitely make it look glamorous. They don't show the white girl wasted, puking on a curb. Or the drunk guy a game with, 12 cups, Staggering down the stairs.
Ashley:And they're not going to, they're gonna try and sell their booze I have a statistics, it's my own psa, you guys know this, but if anyone's listening, they don't know. I just got my five year coin, so I haven't had any alcohol in five years
garret:Oh,
Ashley:Thank you. I am the, not even once, I'm zero to 60. So I could pick of a drink tomorrow and be right where it was. No time missed. That's just how my brain reacts to it. But my own psa, 86% of homicides and 60% of rapes have alcohol involved.
garret:Wow.
Ashley:Can we switch it and make weed legal? I know I'm getting a little on my own thing here, cuz not everybody's dangerous with it, but it seems like we made the weird drug legal
Aaron:I know that I have done so much more ridiculous and stupid stuff drinking, Did not ever have smoking
Ashley:I should have looked up statistics on weed, I was listening to a funny podcast earlier. I can't remember what it was. They're like, someone's gonna come and rob you on weed and they're just gonna sit there and knock on your door forever and forget while they're there. It's just what are we doing? Yeah. Forget what like, it seems a little less
Aaron:the other day Snoop Dog was talking he said if you put a hundred people in a room with nothing but alcohol, it will end up in fights and people getting killed Put a hundred people in with weed that hate each other and by the end of it they'll be best friends taking selfie. We boys. Yeah. Singing, he said alcohol may start like that. But it won't end like that.
Ashley:And of course I'm not anti drinking. There are people who can drink normal and be perfectly fine, but I feel like the majority of us it's not cute
Aaron:I can finish it on something kind of light. While I was researching this, I just put in worst PSAs and the first one was the Peewee Herman one. it was so bad. I found another one. It was R two R2D2 and C3 PO from Star Wars and C3 PO is standing there and there's a cloud of smoke coming from the back. And he said, r2d2, you're on fire. And he runs around and R two D two has a cigarette, in his little pincher It's an anti cigarette psa he's explaining to him how if you had a heart or if you had lungs, you would be damaging them right now, it was terrible.
Ashley:I just feel like all people are gonna see is him with a cigarette. Be like, You look so cool.
Aaron:R, you have builtin roach clips.
garret:I r
Ashley:We're going back to the Prowe. I
Aaron:I learned it from watching you
Ashley:All right. Any last words on the PSAs? Any final nuggets?
Aaron:I think that pretty much covered it,
Ashley:if anything, don't do drugs because we can't trust people. These people do not have your best interests in heart and don't do it. There's funner things out there, like Sarah's friend said I dunno her name. I don't think
Aaron:they ask, Sarah gets all the credit, but her friend She's a real mvp.
Ashley:And we're definitely gonna do other PSA ones. This was just drugs. So if you have any of your favorite drug ones, we'd like to hear about'em.
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