https://youtu.be/BvVgh5uUw-8
From my understanding, there’s a relatively popular TV show called “Hoarders” which depicts people with severe cases of hoarding disorder living amongst huge piles of absolute filth and not seeing anything wrong with it. I don’t actually watch TV so I don’t know much about this show other than that it exists to exploit people who have legitimate mental conditions and that every time I think about it, I think “I might have problems but at least I don’t live in a house that’s falling apart because three decades of cat piss from my seventy non-housebroken cats has turned the floorboards into toothpaste and the only way I can get food is by having a pizza delivery drone drop boneless chicken wings down my chimney one at a time”.
I bring up this show because the creators of “Hoarders” could totally rebrand into a more positive show which depicts Jaylen Hoard’s family, friends, and teammates (collectively, the “Hoarders”) and how they support Hoard’s efforts to break into the NBA after going undrafted. This is exactly the kind of feel-good TV that the world needs more of, assuming of course that Hoard’s story is actually a feel-good story and not a feel-bad story. I choose to believe it’s a feel-good story made even gooder by the fact that he just scored sixteen points.
I’m not a television producer. If anything, I’m a writer, but this new Hoarders series doesn’t need writers. It needs cameramen to candidly capture the candid moments that Hoard shares with the people who are supporting him. Moments of joy. Moments of anguish. Moments of frustration. Moments of Hoard working really hard in an empty gym, periodically pausing to rest his hands on his knees as sweat drips from his forehead, while his mom watches unseen through the door and cries because she’s so proud of her baby boy. All captured on film and creatively edited to form a narrative of Hoard’s ability to succeed in the face of long odds.
Since I came up with this idea, I am hereby entitled to 70% of the revenue from such a series, if anybody decides to make it. Even if it’s just a little three-part webseries. I get the money. But I’m not legally liable if the creators of the original “Hoarders” show decide to go after us for trademark law violations. Hoard is the NBA player here, he can afford a legal defense. I can’t.