"Welcome to my backyard, ladies and gentlemen! Don't mind the snow, we're out here firing up the grill because, that's right, you've just tuned into GRILLIN' WITH GLEEL!"
Wasrabi Gleel expanded his media presence by partnering with the Food Network for his weekly cooking show--an all-weather grilling show where Gleel shows off his best skills besides getting after the QB. This week, Gleel will be showing us how to make the best blue cheese burger around!
"As you can see here we've got some lovely brioche buns that we baked earlier in the day. The fluffy texture of the brioche roll will elevate any simple burger to gourmet status in it's own right, but remember to toast your buns on the grill to build some complexity in texture. Next I want to talk about the meat. Today we are using an 85% lean ground beef from a local VT farm called "Cloudland Farms." We chose this beef because even though it is lean, there is still enough fat to add some juice and flavor to the finished product. By choosing a leaner ground beef, we'll also avoid shrinkage and the dreaded hockey puck look of our cooked burger. We're keeping things simple today with just four toppings: for cheese we're going with Jasper Hill's Bayley Hazen Blue, which is one of the best blue cheeses in the entire world; we'll be playing off the sharp and pungent flavor with a decadently sweet fig jam on the roll; we'll add some zesty arugula for freshness, and of course, we're adding some cobb smoked bacon from Northcountry Smokehouse in Claremont, NH.
These quality local ingredients are sure to elevate this humble burger to something restaurant worthy coming from your own backyard, and of course we are grilling over charcoal to imbue the meat with a deep level of smoke and char flavor.
Tune in next week when we'll be grilling up swordfish steaks with sundried tomato pesto, right here from my own backyard to yours!"
Well blackstone's agent has been telling him that he needs to get on tik tok for like ever now and he's right. You never know what might happen on a new platform that was going viral. Unfortunately Blackstone never did heed the advice and missed his chance at stardom in the the Ju Ju Smith Schuster way. Nevertheless he's going to make an account and see what he can do to at least try and advance his outreach a little bit. The difficult thing of course is the content. Content content content is what its all about, but who would really be interested in a big ol arab guy that's more than a little quiet and plays a position that no one but the real football aficionados really notice? It would be different if he had an engaging personality and a pretty face and flashy position like Ju Ju, but he doesnt. And even if he were to carve out a bit of a following on tik tok what is the kind of content that people would be interested in seeing? He doenst really want to be just another ad factory anyway and he certainly wouldn't be comfortable working out these random dances under the glow of the neon lights. Needless to say, its going to be a work in progress, but he'll be starting to ask his (actually relatively large in comparison to others in the league) twitter following to join him in another platform before too long.
Imagine, you are Nicholas Ayers. Ew, ok stop doing that. Imagine you are instead a radio producer who has worked with ESPN Radio for most of his relevant radio production career, only to get laid off as the COVID-19 pandemic struck the nation. You are searching around looking for a new way to restart your life. You have interviewed with CBS, FOX, NBC, and other big-name radio and television networks, and while they do like you, you don't feel like going back to the same grind. "I need an athlete to be the face of a new talk show, where we combine the serious nature of the gridiron, turf, and court, with the goofiness of 'guys being dudes,'" you say to yourself. That's when you look to the ISFL. Some characters stick out immediately, but to you, they may not work. You fly from city to city asking athletes to star in their own radio show, but they are too busy. As a last-ditch effort, you fly to Honolulu and make a meeting with GMs and your production crew. They initially are skeptical because of contractual things, but they realize that Nicholas Ayers is a great entertainer, his teammates acknowledge that. You make a deal, you get his signature, you buy out a space in downtown Honolulu, and thus begins Ayers@9, a radio show talking about the current topics that plague the sports world, whether it be some kid talking smack to a real quarterback in the ISFL, or big trades involving the switchings of quarterbacks. The people love it, and you land a deal with SiriusXM that allows the program to thrive for many years to come. You are happy, Nick is happy, both of your pockets are happy, and everything is just hunky-dory.
A fair bit of warning, any producer who gets the idea to follow Tree around should be ready for the possibility of finding more than they asked for. Tree lives a very “interesting” life for lack of a better term for it. But the best format if you want to try and turn Tree into a super star would be to get her on an unsolved crime podcast. One where they just discuss famous cold cases and try and piece together stuff using modern evidence. Except the twist on each episode is that every cold case in question on the podcast is a cold case that was tied to Tree at one point in time. There have been allegations that Tree might be a murderer, but those who usually bring up these allegations either mysteriously drop them or mysteriously vanish, so nothing has been proven yet. But imagine the views and listens as people tune in week and week out while teams of forensic experts and crime scene analysts pour over evidence trying to find that one straw that solves the case, all while Tree just lounges and throws in bits of vague evidence that sounds like she knows something about it, but doesn’t reveal enough to actually help progress.
"You relieve the same day over and over again, you kind of start to see who you really are."