A Podcast with Receipts
Every slogan has an origin story and every jingle has a motive. Lies We Bought pulls apart the marketing myths and cultural conditioning behind what we eat, wear, buy, and believe, asking who actually benefited from all of it.
Hosted by marketer-turned-investigator Emily Rask, this is the show for everyone who grew up trusting the ads and is ready to finally read the fine print.
episode thirty-seven:
Buy One, Get One“Buy one, get one free” usually gets credited to an 18th-century English potter, but the phrase actually turns up in a 1908 Pittsburgh newspaper ad, and somehow that one deal grew into a paint company fighting all the way to the Supreme Court, a menswear chain giving away seven suits with every one you bought, and a pillow sale from my old retail job that cost customers exactly one dollar more than half off.
Watch on YouTube to the very end for Patreon shoutouts and some extra behind-the-scenes chaos.
