Ernie!!! How's this for an idea:
I think this has the potential to go viral if it is done right. Find a public domain video of a horse race. The film footage should be good quality, not some grainy B/W from the archives. Something that looks good. Catchy. Call it the Kentucky Stakes, or something to suggest the Kentucky Derby. We could not use the Derby name for obvious reasons. The horse race shows I have seen (not all that many, but a number over the years) all feature a pre-race segment where the horses approach the starting gate. This is when the announcer talks about each horse and the jockey. OK, mute the soundtrack. We supply a new soundtrack. Should be fairly easy to do. Horse racing may be a multi-billion $$ business but it is really simple. There is a race and a crowd and that's about it. The whole schmeer takes about 5 minutes, 2-1/2 minutes for the stuff before the race and about 2-1/2 minutes for the race. You can add about a half minute for post-race comments, That's it, 5 minutes and 30 seconds. We have potential talent for the task. Barry has had a career in broadcast radio and has a really good voice for the project. Chris has a terrific voice for this kind of thing also, and gravitas. I think this is an objective statement of fact. If we could interest either we could have a real winner, If we could interest both, we could have one do the announcing for the pre-race segment, which has its own importance, and the other to call the race itself. If neither is interested we could still do the show even if not with the best voices for the task, nonetheless good enough. OK, there are a dozen or so horses that will be in the race. All you see on TV are their numbers, 5, 7, 3, 10, 8, and so forth. The announcer says something like, "here is Limousine Liberal, who has run in four races this year with three wins, his jockey is Victor Verness, who says that the horse should do well on a fast track." That is pretty much it, for each horse. It takes about 2 or 3 minutes for all of the horses and their jockeys. The idea for a new soundtrack would be to simply use names like the little skit about Belmont, -Cultural Marxist, Green Party Animal, etc and add something about the jockey. Viewers would see horse # 7 or horse # 2 but our announcer would identify the horses as Yellow Dog Democrat of Rabid Republican, etc. Our announcer would also say something about each jockey. Just a short blurb, but enough to help set the stage. Maybe the jockey for Rabid Republican is named David Crump, for instance, and a short comment characterizes his rides this past year as a series of highs and lows with great success at Singapore Downs and a serious setback at Washington Meadows, racing against Russian Story. Something like that. Maybe our jockey could be Teddy Roosenvelt, maybe Jamie Madison, something along those lines as a suggestion -just enough for viewers to make a connection to something good and noble in America's history. No preaching, keep everything really simple. But by all means make sure that we at least try to create warm fuzzy feelings for the horse named Radical Centrist. Then there s the race in which Radical Centrist wins in dramatic fashion. The idea is that by the time the race enters the home stretch everyone watching a YouTube Video would be cheering for Radical Centrist. The post race segment, just a half minute, would be a low key pitch for Centroids. Well, whaddaya think? Billy ________________________________ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Dr. Ernie Prabhakar <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, July 7, 2018 3:02 PM To: Centroids Discussions Subject: Re: [RC] Belmont May it be so :-) On Jul 7, 2018, at 2:57 PM, Billy Rojas <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: The next day the Daily Racing Form predicted a long and successful career for Radical Centrist. -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
