Hotline Feature – Buy/Sell: Celebrity Reality TV, the Grilled Cheese Manifesto, and Nature's Narrative

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So go ahead and hit the music because it's time to play Byer Cell.

Thanks.

Byer Cell.

You know, Mac guitar Murphy's here.

No, he's not here.

He said he had to pull duty.

He's out front.

Oh, he did.

Yes, if you swing by, you can stick your head in the store and say, hey, Matt.

So it's not anything I said.

No, but he gave me the answer to mine.

Oh, he did.

Yeah, I ran it by him just a minute.

Okay.

All right.

So here we go.

Byer Cell.

Time for Byer Cell.

We're thinking every Thursday when Amy Smith from investors business daily comes on the

show to talk about buying and selling stocks in the markets.

Why don't coupon I do a segment where we use the same idea for sports, music, pop culture,

more.

So that's what we're doing today.

So let's get started with Byer Cell.

Guys, would you mind if I start?

Please.

Let me start.

Let me start.

Your name's on the show.

Oh, wait.

That's a point.

Talk a little bit about Survivor on CBS Survivor on CBS.

Their fourth episode of the year got the lowest rating ever.

It featured an extended cameo by Zach Brown, the singer.

He received four confessional interviews and dedicated scenes showing him spearfishing

and performing songs for the winning tribes reward fans criticized the lengthy celebrity

segment, arguing it wasted valuable screen time that could have showcased player strategy

during a major blind side.

Brown personally pitched his appearance to the host of the show Jeff Prost calling Survivor

his favorite show.

However, viewers felt the celebrity cameos contradict this this seasons in the hands

of the fans theme.

The guys Byer Cell reality shows really aren't built for celebrity contestants.

I mean, you know, we already know so much about our celebrities because of social media.

We see them on Instagram and we see them on the entertainment shows.

You know, maybe 30 years ago, it would have been exciting to see like a country music

singer appear on a reality show, but those days are over.

So Byer Cell reality shows really aren't built for celebrity contestants.

Yeah, I think that especially in this case, because you're talking about a celebrity

going on to like if this was celebrity survivor, that's a different story.

I think people tune into that for a different reason than what they tune into this for.

And I think when you drop somebody into the middle of this, it does a lot of things.

To me, the problem I've always had was survivors suspending the disbelief.

You know, early on in its run in an early internet forum, I remember producer quit and they

posted all kinds of behind the scenes photos and you know, here are the people who are

I'm starving and then like there's this huge like lobster buffet that the crew and stuff

you know, and that's it's on the island.

You know, it's kind of hard to rock those two things together sometimes.

So I think that that it for fans of the show, I think I can see how this would really

take you out of that moment.

It's supposed to be about surviving.

It's supposed to be about decisions in the moment and stuff like that.

And now people are like just laying back and watching Zach Brown, who I like just fine.

Me too.

I just lay back and watch and perform it.

It really takes the idea that there's any stakes that all involved off the table, I feel.

I just kind of feel like if I wanted to watch Zach Brown do some spearfishing, there's

probably some social media out there that I could have looked at as opposed to watching

him do it on survive extra and what CBS do and couldn't they put this behind a subscription

paywalls or something?

Pick a bit on like CBS extra or whatever you have to pay for it or you have to get one

now, what paramount or whatever to see the extras of survivor was Zach Brown.

That's actually pretty good point.

What do you think Ryan, the buy or sell reality shows aren't really built for celebrity

contestants?

I'm going to buy, I think in general, they're sort of a celebrity fatigue, I guess outside

of stuff like actors and movies, you know, but like I'm kind of tired of like just having

to put celebrities in everything, you know, it's like, oh, it's a game show with the celebrity

host.

It's like, well, what are the other hosts to do and why can't I get a new guy in there?

Soapbox Derby, but with celebrity, yeah, do you like, do you like jeopardy celebrity

jeopardy?

Cause I thought I thought I would like it, but I'm really not intrigued by it.

Not particularly.

Well, the problem is some of the celebrities aren't smart.

Yeah.

Well, so they don't do well, but 30 years ago, you never saw celebrities enacting in these

types of forums, you know, but now it's used to have to go to Japan to make commercials.

That's right, because it was considered a low form of art here.

And now you can't get them off the TV for Bitcoin or whatever.

Yeah.

Now, Cooper, you got the short change in time last week or maybe you got skipped last week.

Yeah, just skip this.

Okay.

Okay.

So what do you got?

What's your buy or something?

Super easy this week.

Won't take a lot of time.

Okay.

So a few years back, I think there's 11 years ago, someone on Reddit had finally had enough.

This person had been lurking on the subreddit are grilled cheese or slash grilled cheese

for three years, silently seething, watching post after post of people slapping pork, spinach,

and pretentious breadcrumbs on a sandwich and calling it a grilled cheese.

And one morning, this person snapped.

Now, this is this is ground that we have tread before.

They created a brand new Reddit account for the sole purpose of posting a manifesto.

And I quote, the fact that this subreddit is called grilled cheese is nothing short

of utter blasphemy.

The person described themselves as a bland Midwestern white male, but declared themselves

without irony the most passionate grilled cheese human being on the planet.

They eat almost one every day, sometimes more than one, and they have their credentials.

Their argument is simple.

Cheese plus bread plus butter equals a grilled cheese.

The moment you add anything else to the bacon tomato, whatever you have made a melt, a totally

different sandwich.

So the question today for our panel is, bought or sell, a grilled cheese is simply bread,

cheese, and butter, anything else is something else.

Finally, finally, someone speaking truth to power.

This man is a hundred percent right, and like, here's the thing, like people always try

to get all fainty, schmancey with these grilled cheese is like, oh, I made a triple grilled

cheese that uses three different types of cheeses.

If one of those cheeses ain't American cheese from like a craft singles, like little cheap

radio light.

It's not real grilled cheese individually wrapped.

You have to have at least one slice of individually wrapped cheese on that sandwich.

As you might imagine, I'm going to take the other side on this.

Oh, you.

Okay.

So I'm going to sell this because, you know, for example, if you have a grilled cheese sandwich

and you've got like maybe some bacon bacon bacon, bacon, but what are you what are you

eating?

What are you?

Bacon.

I've got a grilled cheese sandwich, man.

That's what I'm eating.

Oh, so you have cheese bread and butter with with some with some bacon, bacon, bacon

belt.

Congratulations.

That's a great sandwich, but it's not a grilled cheese.

Yeah, Dave, the rules are so explicitly lined up that you were not mistake these for

anything other grilled cheeses, and yet you insist you insist like, oh, I need to have

my meat.

I need to have my protein in this grilled cheese sandwich, even if it destroys my food.

What if you what if you have a hamburger, does the same rules apply for hamburgers is like

if I put like a tomato on a hamburger, it's no longer a hamburger.

No, because that's a hamburger and this is a grilled cheese.

Yeah.

That doesn't make a lot of sense.

Sorry.

I didn't mean to blow out the mic.

No, no, no, no.

I think that that works.

My favorite to hack to a grilled cheese is hummus and tomato, but that's a hummus and

tomato milk.

Yeah, I don't know, I really like to part this guy was like hiding in the weeds for

three years.

Yeah, and his final thing said anything else is heresy.

He had to make sure he was 100% correct, which he is, Dave.

All right, Ryan, what is your buy yourself?

All right.

So you've ever been to South Africa, Dave?

Have not.

Almost went once for work.

So there was this crazy thing that happened at the Kruger National Park in South Africa

in 2007.

It's called the Battle at Kruger and it is an eight minute, there's an eight minute amateur

wildlife video on it.

It is an encounter between a herd of Cape Buffalo, a pride of lions and two crocodiles.

And basically what happens is a family of Buffalo are their near a watering hole and

this pride of lions goes up, attacks them, gets a calf from one of the buffaloes and takes

it away from the herd.

The herd starts running off and then things just get worse for the calf because it tumbles

near the water and then near the water, the crocodiles come up, try to take the calf away

from the lions, the lions get it back.

But by the time that the lions are ready to chow down on this juicy buffalo calf, the

rest of the herd of Cape Buffalo come back.

And in this like miraculous act of nature's vengeance, they like trample over the lions and

save the calf and all of this, all of this was captured on tape by a lucky wildlife photographer.

And it is phenomenal, the photographer's name is David Budzinski and it's available

free on YouTube to watch it's eight minutes and it is like pure storytelling just happing

naturally.

So by or sell, sometimes nature's got a respected narrative.

How old is this video?

It came out in 2007 so it's okay, I think I've actually seen part of this.

Yeah, man, absolutely, yeah, I'm going to buy that.

Yeah, those lions shouldn't have taken that calf, you know, and the crocodiles were that

that's kind of an interesting twist of the whole thing.

Yeah, I'm going to buy that.

Nature knows the narrative.

I think that's a really, really good one.

Sometimes it seems to work out that way and I didn't, when you asked me if I knew the

park, I didn't know the park, but as you told the story, I am familiar with the video.

So I know, I know what you're talking about, I didn't remember where it was from.

It is, it looks like it's, I mean, it doesn't, it's obviously not AI, I wasn't staged,

but it seems so narratively strong that it's like, wow, this is exactly what would happen

like at the end of the Disney movie or whatever, like it's, it's like you really don't expect

that to happen in nature because honestly, usually the lion eats the thing and that's

pretty much the way it goes, you know, as that's the way nature works.

So yeah, you know, sometimes, and you run across that sometimes, whether you're in travel

or you're, or you're observing other things, occasionally things work out in such way,

you're like, wow, well, that worked out exactly the way that it maybe should have, that

surprises you.

Yeah.

It has a satisfying conclusion.

Exactly.

It's not all the time, but sometimes you've got to respect the game.

Man, let me ask you, what's the name of that subreddit account about grilled cheese sandwiches?

Grill cheese.

Just our slash grilled cheese, all right, all right.

That's it.

That is it for buyers.

That was, that was spirited.

Very spirited.

Oh, by the way, Matt bought my premise as well.

He did.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Bread, butter, and cheese is a grilled cheese.

Yeah.

And nothing else.

Until, until, until next time, that's by yourself.

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