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Channing Tookes and Eitan Rosenberg, The Sellout Boys, host a brand new podcast talking about what's good and what's bad, about ads. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Channing Tookes and Eitan Rosenberg turn questionable advertising choices into nimble riffs, improvised scenarios and sharp observations about selling.
Please Sponsor Us turns commercial breaks into launchpads for Channing Tookes and Eitan Rosenberg. They watch ads, test the logic on screen, then push each premise into increasingly absurd territory.
A metal crab wanders into Ashley Furniture, and now you want Channing and Eitan to keep talking.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Holiday tree-trimming spins into back pain, a rectangular gold pool pitch, and recurring crutches.
The episode turns a Christmas tree into a springboard for back pain, tangled lights, and a salesman pitch for a rectangular gold pool. Its best stretch comes from the way the duo keeps swerving between setup and escalation, then snapping back to the tree without losing the joke.
A furniture-ad joke that keeps growing into a stranger and stranger bit.
Please Sponsor Us keeps turning ad copy into a running joke, and it works because the hosts stay inside the bit instead of explaining it away.
A forgotten recording becomes a sauce-stained hangout full of sponsor jokes and fast detours.
The episode opens with the hosts admitting they forgot to record during the big game, and that admission gives the discussion its loose comic shape.
A scrappy quarantine Zoom episode that turns PSAs and sponsor pleas into the joke.
This quarantine-era remote session keeps turning PSAs, sponsor pleas, and shaky connections into the joke. The Sellout Boys fold the setup into the bit, splitting the audio across two recording sessions, sending it back and forth, then stitching it together after a long gap.
A brisk ad takedown that turns a Microsoft-versus-Mac spot into a running joke.
This episode leans on the return of the files and the fact that the material was recorded pre-COVID, then drifts into a long stretch on a Microsoft-versus-Mac ad. The discussion keeps coming back to the same idea: the spot feels forced, a little ridiculous, and easy to mock.
Fake bone lore, delivered with crisp confidence.
Fake facts, real pedantry, escalating nonsense.
Real animal science, told with zero decorum.
One fast, dry voice turning gripes into rules.
Comic-book talk and political fury, same breath.
The hosts are putting up a Christmas tree when one of them immediately throws out his back.
The Sellout Boys come back from a short hiatus and get the whole machine running again.
The sellout boys admit they forgot to record because the big game took over.
The Sellout Boys open by noting the episode was recorded a while ago while they were both in quarantine, remotely via Zoom, with the audio stitched together from two halves recorded weeks apart.
The hosts kick things off by saying the missing files are finally back and treat the whole episode like a delayed return of pre-COVID recordings.
Two friends follow a rabid-looking coyote into its house and rummage through its fridge and pantry, finding nostalgic snacks.