Hotline Feature – Buy/Sell: Roman Graffiti, the Prego Dinner Recorder, NFL Draft Costs, and Robot Athletes

Dave Weekley, Coop, Ryan Nicholson, and Matt work through four Buy/Sell topics. Ryan opens with a curated selection of actual graffiti from ancient Pompeii and Herculaneum, asking whether graffiti is a fundamental part of the human condition worth celebrating. Coop brings the Prego Connection Keeper, a $20 offline dinner table recording device made in partnership with StoryCorps that captures family conversations with no cloud connection or AI. Matt puts the NFL Draft's staggering spectator costs under the microscope — hotels topping $2,000 a night, Airbnbs running $24,000 for five days — and asks whether it qualifies as the most expensive spectacle built around athletes who may never pan out. Dave closes with a report on a humanoid robot shattering the half marathon record in Beijing and Sony's table tennis robot Ace, asking whether robot athletic achievements are becoming genuinely alarming.