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kleinbl00  ·  1332 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Long videos don't do well on hubski but I teared up multiple times watching this

By the way I did a series of commercials for Aspen Dental in like 2009 or so. It was kind of amazing because we rolled sound on 9 hours of footage for five 30 second spots. That doesn't include two cameras worth of b-roll. I was unfamiliar with "Aspen Dental" because it sure seemed like a used car lot that sold teeth. What the producer told me is it's basically a hang'n'bang denture store for places that know what Mountain Dew Mouth is whereby you pay zero money down and you sign up for payments and they rip your teeth out and like foreclose on your dentures and shit.

A year later it was a goddamn Frontline documentary.

As an aside? It pisses me off SO MUCH that liberals still swoon over JFK without acknowledging that he was a racist who was cheated into office so he could nearly start WWIII and mire us in Vietnam because no one was minding the store while he was on vacation so we fucking accidentally let Diem be assassinated. Meanwhile LBJ passed the Civil Rights Act, created food stamps, and was so fucking unpopular because of it that he didn't even run for fucking re-election. Because he was a Texas hick who worked for a living, rather than a fucking blue-blood illuminati east coast asshole princeling like all the Democrats really want.