Here's Proof You Can Get Away With Pretty Much Anything in a Radio Ad

Enjoy making that kale hamster smoothie, says Radio Mercury Awards

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It's no great epiphany that radio can be a more forgiving format than video. But you may not have considered the full range of horrific opportunities that liberation from a camera can afford you.

You can wear white pants after Labor Day. You can pretend to hit your grandmother over the head with a frying pan. Or you can make a kale and hamster smoothie. It's all kosher, because if you're not actually showing the violence, then it's not actually real.

That's the gist of the amusing call for entries for the 2017 Radio Mercury Awards.

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