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That Would Be An Interesting Reality Show
||February 05, 2008|730 reads
 

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Jess Stuart
February 05, 2008

I got this after reading Brad Peglow's memo about wanting to go back to the barter system.

I'll Trade You

6 people are each given an identical item.  Each person tries to trade the item for something better.  The camara crews follows each of them around all day.  At the end of the day the person with the most valuable remaining item wins something.  They all get to keep what they ended up with. 

Doyle Crowe
February 05, 2008
 Lord This is Your Life!
LorenDP
February 05, 2008
Jess - that barter thing is interesting.  Did you read the story of the red paper clip?  The guy traded up to a new house just starting with a red paper clip.  It's an intriguing story.  You can google the story I think...

Let's see.....I'd like to see a reality show about people who work for hersheys....I'd like to know how they work around all that chocolate every day and not have sensory overload.  LOL.
Jess Stuart
February 05, 2008

Dolye - I like that!

Loren - Didn't we see that on I Love Lucy? 

Evangelist Keith  Wilson
February 05, 2008
I got one! I have even tried to reach the biggest losser show with it!
how about " The biggest toner" A show for skinny people like me, that has no fat what sowever, that has been that way for years! My weight goes up and down, I am 41 years old six foot tall and has never been over a hundred and fifty pounds! and i eat like a pig!
Jess Stuart
February 05, 2008
Keith - That's an interesting idea.  Sort of like "The Biggest Gainer"?
Brad Peglow
February 05, 2008
How about this one: instead of winning a million dollars, why not give a million dollars to ten different people and see who can use it for the best cause? Every week, the person who is deemed to have wasted the most money, will be voted off. Until their is just one giver left. In essence, everybody wins! Except for the IRS.
Jess Stuart
February 05, 2008
Hm....  Can I be a contestant?
Mike n Laura
February 05, 2008

I saw that Jess!  ....at 3:43

Jay Price
February 05, 2008

Of course you did, Desi!

I have no idea I just enjoyed reading the posted ones! 

MaKelly
February 05, 2008
Brad that the show but let's make it a billion so we can give God his 1/3 then we come up with what we can do withe rest and not for ourselves for others. Like Richard Proyer had to do but it will not be for our own gain.
Jess Stuart
February 05, 2008

Mike, I assume that was the time it was on in syndication =D

Jay, I'm happy you enjoy this too =D

MaKelly, I think they need a show called "Who Wants to Help People".

Cheryl
February 05, 2008
I just love to watch reality shows.  Well, at least the ones that are not just plain nasty! lol
Oh Lara, you're wanted to see who commited the murder reality show! lol
Cheryl Whit
February 05, 2008

I want to play too!!!

Jess Stuart
February 06, 2008

Lara - Maybe they need a show on people who don't watch TV?

Ladies - The Chinese language uses an alphabet that is based on pictures.  The symbol for "strife" represents two women under the same roof. 

Eric
February 07, 2008

"the person with the most valuable remaining item wins something"

LOL!  Did you notice that this is self-refuting?  Take an example:  Alice has a jetski, Bob owns a produce stand, and Charlie is holding a 1909 Honus Wagner tobacco card formerly owned by Wayne Gretzky.  Who owns the most valuable item in a barter system?  If you ask each contestant, they will claim theirs is more valuable, especially with an additional prize in the balance!  But perhaps Bob has always wanted to own a jetski since he was a kid and Alice has a huge garden?  A barter system relies on a subjective value system, but the judging at the end of the show relies on an objective value system.  But which objective standard?  The decision to pick which judge becomes a subjective one.

Just having fun :)

Jess Stuart
February 07, 2008
Good point Eric. Hmmm We can fix this by setting the criteria for the most valuable item at the beginning of each show. Value could be determined by monetary value, by weight, by benifit to humanity, whatever.
Chris Parker
February 15, 2008
Jess, congrats on the new job!!!
That's hilarious about the chinese word for strife!  lol.  Ha, on a more serious note, certain characters have biblical "pictures", maybe you've heard of those.
I read something once about a guy on a quest to hit every Starbucks worldwide... or maybe it was just nationally.  Did anyone hear what happened to that?
sara burnette
July 10, 2008
I am clueless,but have loved reading these ideas.Some are hilarious.I'll be more than happy to volunteer my house for that Ozark Starbucks clean though.