Pay for knowledge?!

I have to say that Rick’s words gave Carter an inspiration!

When it comes to universities, their greatest value is knowledge! There is a lot of knowledge and a lot of ideological collisions here. Even in the future, measuring the value of a university will never be based on how many buildings or shops it has.

It’s about how many scientific research results they have, how many SCI papers they publish every year, etc.

"Knowledge, paid content for knowledge"

Tapping his fingers on the table, Carter spread his thoughts:

"This is a good direction! Brother, your suggestion is very accurate. But I don't think many people will be willing to spend money to listen to some boring courses. What's more, when I got the land from New Haven for free, I was with

The city government has signed a contract, and the profits from electronic copyrights and the like can go to me, but the offline classes provided to the citizens of New Haven must be free, and this cannot be changed."

"As for your talk about student participation, I was thinking, talk show? What do you think?"

"There are a lot of talk shows, haven't you been on some of them yourself? The competition in this track is not small!"

The earliest talk show in the United States, "The Tonight Show" was launched as early as 1954. Now, it has a history of thirty years!

A program can be broadcast for such a long time, and the audience it has accumulated is quite large!

Your new show sounds like it's still going to be a talk show with students as the main actors, and there is no famous actor to host it, and there are no stars to join. Why do you think you can steal the audience from those old talk shows?

!

Without audiences, there are no ratings, and no ratings means that no TV station is willing to pay for this program. What's more, the cost of producing a program is not low. Even a low-cost program like a talk show can only rely on the funding of the council.

It’s also hard to do in Rick’s opinion!

"Competition is always inevitable. Haven't we grown up in struggle since ancient times? Talk shows, relatively speaking, I feel are more suitable for us. Of course, I am not talking about the interview-oriented show like "The Tonight Show"

It’s a talk show, but an art form that I discovered when I was in China. Have you heard of cross talk?”

"No, but I don't think foreign culture can help us solve the problem of the audience. It will probably not adapt to the local environment!"

"No, no, no, listen to me, this is different, there is a difference. Crosstalk is"

After talking about cross talk, especially the interpretation form of stand-up comedy, and telling Rick the concept of "complaint" in his mind, the latter was suddenly stunned:

"Aren't you talking about open mics or stand-up comedy? They are everywhere in bars!"

"Um?!"

"You and I may know, but you've never been to a bar for general consumption, right?"

"No, I've been there! When I was in high school in Georgia, I went to a bar in Atlanta with my classmates. I didn't see anyone telling jokes like the one you mentioned!"

After Rick's explanation, Carter also understood the concepts of open mics and stand-up comedy.

To put it bluntly, it is a bit like a storyteller, who can start speaking at any time and end at any time. The characteristic is a close-up one-man language performance.

This is infinitely closer to the future, the kind of "complaint conference" that Carter has seen.

There are not many such stand-up talk shows on American TV programs today. The more influential talk shows tend to be reality shows or interviews with celebrities.

For example, "The Tonight Show", in addition to the fixed host, there will be guests in each episode. The guests and the host chat and interact with each other through games to create comedy effects.

Therefore, Carter will feel that this is a direction!

Carter has even thought of the name of the entire program system, and it is exactly what will be famous in the future: TED!

Technology, Entertainment, Design,Technology, Entertainment and Design!

Normal knowledge-based public courses belong to the "T" field and are taught offline for free. Not only can the agreement with New Haven be completed, but this part of the course content can also be packaged into the overall TED project.

To put it bluntly, do bundle sales!

Once the stand-up talk show becomes popular, Carter will not worry that no TV station wants to buy the show. At this time, he can play the bundled trick:

What? You just want to buy talk shows? No, no! This is a whole, TED is a unique program! If you want to buy it, buy them all!

"That's in the south, come to the north and have a look! This art form seems to have originated in Scotland, and some say it originated from ancient Greece. But that's not important. What's important is that in the north, especially in places like New England, there are many

There are performances like this in bars and pubs!”

"But this kind of program is really not suitable for being put on the screen. The words are vulgar and the words used are even..."

"That's just a matter of content design, so I'll create an event by myself and see how the response is!"

Without investigation, there is no right to speak!

After his thoughts were interrupted by Rick's words, Carter also came up with the idea of ​​going to some local taverns and small bars.

At the same time, in my own memory

Carter still remembers some classic jokes from the "Tucao Conference". Of course, many of them are not suitable for the national conditions of the United States. These also need to be adjusted.

But Carter believes that this is not too technically difficult. After all, when doing this kind of stand-up talk show, or a program that tells jokes, the content is the most important! And the content comes from inspiration, and what he lacks most now is

inspiration!

It was just a start, and Carter thought he had no problem. As for the follow-up, couldn't Yale's 20,000 undergraduate students even be able to make up a few jokes?

"Are you really going to do a show?"

Seeing Carter's hand already touching the campus activity application form, Rick couldn't help but be stunned.

I know you have strong execution ability, but you decided to do this in just a few words?! Isn’t it too hasty?!

"Of course it's true. I just thought about it. This may be the best thing for us to do. For the filming and production of the show, we can ask people from Bulldog Film Company to assist; the venue is Yale Broadway Theater, and the actors are ready!

.Since you said that this kind of performance can be found in any bar in New England, it means that there is no shortage of this kind of humor actors! Many students should have seen similar performances!"

"If they are asked to write the script themselves, the quality of the jokes may not be very good, but the quantity cannot stand up! There can always be some excellent jokes in it, right?"

He raised his head and glanced at Rick. After Carter finished explaining briefly, he continued to write the application.

For this kind of in-person, experimental performance, it couldn't be easier to arrange!

Three days later, there happened to be a drama club performance at the Broadway Theater. I didn’t want the drama club’s ticket share, so I just stuffed it in and performed a short talk show during the transition time of the drama.

All costs come from your own intellectual contributions. The drama club has already paid for the venue costs. I don’t want any profits, just help them warm up the venue.

Joshua Hall, who wanted to join the drama club, wouldn't refuse.

After writing the application, I signed and approved my activity application. The whole process was smooth and smooth.

What's "someone in the court is good at becoming an official"? Why the hell am I an official! We belong to the privileged class on campus!

"Okay, done! Let me give you a suggestion, Rick, go to the Student Affairs Center to buy tickets now! "Peer Gynt" will be performed in three days. There should be a lot of people. If the action is slow, you may not be able to grab it.

Tickets are here!”

"How about we call Manfred and the others to discuss it first?"

"No, I've decided to do it! Let's wait until the performance is over and see the effect!"

"No, what can you write in three days?!"
Chapter completed!