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DO Dan Osborn Dan Osborn Dan Osborn is a former president of a BCTGM union local in Nebraska.

“We're just trying to be different. I think most of us are just sick and tired of the political ads. Ricketts is outspending us five to one. … We're trying to be a little bit more lighthearted and fun with it and still get our message out. I think that's how we've been successful in cutting through the noise of $50 million by being unique.”

Prof G Media · Tech Strategy & Big Tech · October 2026

“We're just trying to be different. I think most of us are just sick and tired of the political ads. Ricketts is outspending us five to one. … We're trying to be a little bit more lighthearted and fun with it and still get our message out. I think that's how we've been successful in cutting through the noise of $50 million by being unique.” — Dan Osborn, Prof G Media

Context

Dan Osborn, the independent candidate for U.S. Senate in Nebraska, speaking with Jessica Tarlov on Prof G Media's live conversation about his campaign's ad strategy, including ads that use AI and a Johnny Cash parody song.

Transcript

Prof G Media
Dan Osborn

…Dan every 40 seconds during the debate. That's all he's got. And so we went in studio with Nebraska musicians and recorded a version of Johnny Cash. I've been everywhere, but Nebraska-specific towns as kind of a rebuttal to his AI slop. So that was probably the most fun I've had doing this so far.

Jessica Tarlov

…to talk about your pitch more, but let's just talk about these ads where you have not shied away from using AI in them. Can you talk about, I guess, the impetus behind the type of ad campaign that you're running and how, I'm so sorry, I don't know why it dinked. And how it's resonating with voters.

Dan Osborn

Yeah, we're just trying to be different. I think most of us are just sick and tired of the political ads. And, you know, Ricketts is outspending us five to one. He's going to spend more on ads and then we will have raised the entire cycle. And they're horrible. All they do is they're just attack ads against me. And so we're just trying to be different. We're trying to be a little bit more lighthearted and fun with it and still get our message out. I think that's how we've been successful in cutting through the noise of $50 million by being unique.

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