Will Oldham fights robot in Dogfish Head ad

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Here's a long, weird and pretty funny commercial for Dogfish Head beer starring indie songwriter Will Oldham as a reporter who is taken on a brewery tour by a robot, played by Dogfish founder Sam Calagione. Robots have killed the humans, taken over the brewery, digitized the operation using lots of old Gameboys and "reduced our diverse and colorful American craft brewing landscape to a monochromatic world of a single commoditized generic beer." As Dogfish points out on the website, "This story almost came to life here in the U.S.

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