Streaming services are all the rage in TV today. Heck, some of you might even be watching this very newscast on Paramount Plus. There are a ton out there, but none that specifically target the UP. So I’d like to propose that we start our own streaming service– Yooper Plus.
Now, I have some ideas for Yooper Plus. Like all streaming services, we’d need reality shows, and one of them could be “Yooper Yummies” – a cooking competition in which chefs are given 20 minutes to make a single dish consisting of three classic UP foods: fudge, cudighi, and beer.
Or “Don’t Get Me Started,” in which someone new to the area – say, Kevin Hodge – goes into a community, asks about topics like condo development or pot dispensaries or roundabouts, and sees if he can come back without starting a riot.
Yooper Plus could even cater to history nerds with a show like “Fake News…or Not,” in which contestants are given old UP newspaper headlines and have to determine whether or not they’re real.
Of course, every streaming service needs an Emmy-worthy drama or two, and I’d like to think that our new Yooper Plus would have a series like, “The Tales of Tom Izzo.” In the first episode, Coach must help a beach volleyball player overcome her life-long fear of sand.
Give it a few seconds.
What-if stories are always a good go-to, and our service could also have a show like “The Multi-Yoop.” The plot for the first season? What might happen if the town of Norway gets a ten million dollar offer to change its name to Sweden.
Those are but a few ideas. You might have better ones. In fact, I KNOW you’d have better ones.
So mull them over. After all, why should Disney Plus or Apple Plus or Paramount Plus control the market? Not when we can have a Yooper Plus.
I’m Jim Koski, and that’s another slice of “Life in the 906.”
