With the release of my season 2007 video I put it up in many different places for publicity. You’ve probably seen it on youtube in different places. Upon that, I uploaded it to Ebaums World where a guy from CNN saw it and wanted it on CNN - News to me, a self broadcast segment on Headline News. I accepted and sent it out to him. This is the small portion they were nice enough to give me. I’m hopeful…
p.s. This is also going in two places on youtube. They kinda got some info wrong, just so you don’t think i’m talking myself up more with what he says.
“Competed all over the world, including a trip to Aspen for the X-games”?..
USA and Denmark, as far as I know.
“Makes a living off of it”…
I thought Shaun worked at Starbucks(or something like that).
What’s that all about?
I like it how they make it looks snappy and cool and all that, but it’d be nice if the mass media could stick to the facts.
But it’s great promotion for the sport to get that sort of exposure, I suppose. Well done, Shaun! It just pisses me off how they lie even about such simple things. Imagine the fantasy they put into politics… That’s one more reason not to watch the TV for me, I guess.
“p.s. This is also going in two places on youtube. They kinda got some info wrong, just so you don’t think i’m talking myself up more with what he says.”
Thats the explanation for some of the stuff they said.
Yes, I know that and it pisses me off. It would probably piss me off less if Shaun made it all up himself and told it to the naive reporter. That way it would’ve been a naive and incompetent journalist. The way it is now, it’s more of a professional deceiver. They lied about Shaun(to gain more publicity or whatever) and it’s annoying.
It upsets me a bit as well that they said the wrong thing, or twisted the words. I did make some money out of unicycling in California, hardly a living. So they just twisted all the facts. They got that aspen thing from Kris Holm’s website too (must have googled me) since I told them nothing about that at all. However if someone sees this and wants a unicyclist for something, they will thing i’m a lot better in that world than I am (only one show experience). So I guess it can still be a good thing, haha.
we should all go on unicycle related murdering spree. the reporter sounded like a doosh as well. im suprised there was no handrail clips(other than skatepark ones). thats what people find impressive.
props bro, you deserve it… you are really turning unicycling into something great and getting peoples attention… this sport needs more riders like you.
