Not much, living well! – Here are a couple short vids, to kind of update you guys. thanks for stopping by, Later  Ed.

The July Update from my Youtube Channel:

And a four part  series on How to make tongs:

Plus I got roped into a Nerdwar about Star Trek and Star Wars, Check those vids out, over on my Channel; YouTube.com/edwyrd.

A couple days ago I got this email:

>Edward, been trying to get a hold of you. XXXXX XXXXXX here, reality TV producer. I think you’d be great for a concept we’re working on. Would love to talk to you and explain everything. Let me >know! -J.

This was just one of three he sent to each place I frequent on the web. My homepage, my you-tube channel and my face-book. Now at first I didn’t know what to make of it, I figured it was one of you guys out there messing with me, so I googled the guy, yep, he was what he said he was. Then I made a couple calls, yep, legit. I emailed him back. In the back and forth, I found out he watched my you tube vids, cool. He then he sent me the concept email:

Well, being level headed is important and you are approaching it the right way.

Let me explain the concept, the opportunity for you, the expectations, the
process and the compensation potential.

CONCEPT: The concept would revolve around your blacksmithing. If you are familiar with the show American Choppers, think of it like that. So what we’d capture is you making things, and any interaction you have with clients and employees (I know you’re saying, “I don’t have clients or employees”, we’ll get to that.) :) But we’d like to see you making things, being you and having some drama as you build your business. Believe it or not, reality tv shows are ultimately about promoting someone’s business. American Choppers is a 1 hour commercial for Orange County Choppers. Same with other shows such as Mounted In Alaska, etc. Anyway, that is the concept. You, blacksmith, drama, cool things that you make, your success.

Wow, I was flabbergasted – me on TV – however, right off the bat I could see some some problems. Besides the potential (huge problems there) upset to my family and the added drama of being on TV in the public eye, was that I really believe that TV is a bad thing. It would be a huge sell out on my part, I have said time after time TV is bad for kids and people, here and on my channel before. It is basically Evil! Then I end up on TV, no, that is a sell out – big time. I and my family have not watched TV for almost 11 years now. Act like the guys on American chopper, wow, I could not do that, yea, I rant and rave, but having public fights with friends and family, no, sorry buddy, just no way I could do that.

Also, if you follow me over on you tube, you know he was just looking at my fuck you attitude, my rant vids, the straight out, you people are morons stuff that I do, yep, it would make great TV. But that isn’t all there is to me. I called a family meeting and explained what was going on, the women got it right off the bat, nope, no way, to much drama, selling out and problems, No, no amount of money ( The fist season, if picked up, at the low end could have been as much as 40 or 50 thou, for a months filming!) was worth that junk. The kids all thought it was cool, but eventually they got it and agreed with us.

So the upshot is, no, we are not going to do it. I wrote the guy back and thanked him for his time and the opportunity but no thank you.

However, this did give me a tremendous boost to the ego, wow, I am getting to people, my channel is good ( right now it sits at 1100 some subscribers) my rants mean something, people are listening. My choice of the Internet to get my stuff out there to people really does work, I really believe though, if I got it on TV, it would get lost in the drama, the hype and the crap. On you-tube I am a voice that is heard, on TV I would be a voice lost in the Gabble. So I will keep doing it my way and find even more ways to get it out there, hell, maybe I’ll write a book!

Thanks for the time, later Edward.

Here is the You-tube vid a made about it:

Do I even need to say anything?

“If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall
for anything.”