It’s one of the more baffling pieces of press outreach we’ve received. It starts “Exclusive! T-Mobile Reveals Gwen Stefani, Blake Shelton Origin Story.” And frankly, we’re not sure it’s even an exclusive since it’s apparently something that was in a Super Bowl ad last night.

But we’re sharing it because it’s from T-Mobile, and we can only assume that they’re testing the waters for relaunching their legendary cycling team.

Actually, they probably just reached out because we mentioned T-Mobile on this site and their keyword scraper picked it up. Either that or they think we’re popular TV celebrity gossip show ‘Extra.’ Sorry, T-Mobile, we just like the 80s and 90s. We’re not actually Mario Lopez. Though we do have Mark Paul Gosselaar’s phone number from our CTV days.

Anyway, here’s their nonsense. Maybe if we share it they’ll give us a free upgrade from the Moto e4 we’re using.

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Exclusive! T-Mobile Reveals Gwen Stefani, Blake Shelton Origin Story with Adam Levine & Much More

Okay, so maybe not quite the real story … But sending up a norm of pandemic life – the glitchy video call – T-Mobile’s first Big Game ad today urges trusting the biggest 5G network for the biggest decisions.

Un-carrier releases a second spot with Anthony Anderson and Mama Doris returning to the Big Game and battling it out in The Anderson Bowl – with a little help from “distant cousin” Travis Kelce.

T-Mobile giving away 300 Samsung Galaxy S21+ 5G smartphones throughout the game.

T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) just revealed in a Big Game spot that Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton’s fated pairing resulted from a spotty video call with former The Voice costar Adam Levine on a spotty Carrier connection. T-Mobile reunited Levine, Stefani and Shelton for the first time since The Voice, and today the Un-carrier unveiled documented footage revealing the SHOCKING TRUTH* about the unlikely couple: they were set up as a result of a garbled convo between Stefani and Levine.

“All I know is, that’s the one time I was thankful for Gwen’s crappy phone signal. Glad we got together. And glad we got T-Mobile.”

In the spot, Stefani tells Adam that she is “looking for someone cultured, maybe from another country, someone unafraid of a strong woman.” But the signal cuts out and Adam heard something completely different … so when Blake showed up for their date, Stefani was shocked. “I mean … spurs? Really? Who wears those to dinner?”

“Who DOESN’T ride a horse to a first date,” responded Shelton. “All I know is, that’s the one time I was thankful for Gwen’s crappy phone signal. Glad we got together. And glad we got T-Mobile.”

“Gwen’s video was cutting out, and I heard her say that she wanted someone uncultured, country and afraid of strong women,” explained Levine. “I thought it was odd, but I instantly knew her perfect match.”

The iconic duo lucked out this time … but potentially life-changing convos shouldn’t be trusted to anything but the nation’s largest and fastest 5G network, and that’s T-Mobile’s.

*This didn’t actually happen. But it was fun to film.