Happy Holidays everyone...

After another couple of hours of driving in my car this morning and being able to catch up on more of "The History Of Howard Stern" which has been airing on my Sirius Radio over the holidays, I am feeling once again,very inspired. Howard Stern has an amazing story I find incredibly inspirational to say the least.

Maybe the only thing over the years that has ever served me better than a good dose of inspiration every once in a while, is a nice shot of determination. Not just plain old determiation though. The kind of determination that has always motivated me to succeed and persevere in a way that can only be brought on by the email I just read.

It's seems like it has been a while now since I've recieved an email from some guy who at 2:30am feels so compelled to get on his computor and email me because he can't even sleep until he tell's me how much he hates my guts and how much he hates that I'm on Tv. See dude in his mind, is clearly funnier and more interesting than I will ever be and he can't understand how I'm on television and he isn't. The last thing I'm going to do right now is quote any of his actual rant because then dufus would know for sure that I'm talking about him right now which I'm sure would make him happier than he has been in years, but know that the email is mostly filled with incoherent sentences and the kind of negative stuff that only comes from the minds of people so jealous and miserable that all that spews from them now is this crap! They have nothing left to offer that anyone wants. Nobody but me that is!

I take this stuff to heart and it makes me want to proove dufus wrong again and again and again. It makes me want to stay on Tv for another six years and I know if I do, one of these years, I will stumble onto something amazing. For every guy like this, there is someone who kinda likes what I'm doing and who feels just as strong about what I've been trying to do on Tv these days. Those are the ones that will stick with me for the next six years.

So thanks for the email dude. I hope you meant everything you said because I find your words more motivating than you could ever possibly imagine!

It's true, Be Real with JR DIGS is on Tv again...

Just spent over an hour driving around aimlessly in my car just so that I could hear the hour of radio I missed earlier today. While Howard Stern is off for Xmas, they are broadcasting "The History Of Howard Stern" which has been produced as filler over the holidays. It's some of the most compelling radio I have ever heard. I don't want to miss one second of it!

I had to drive to the airport in Buffalo this afternoon to pick up my folks who agreed to come home from Florida for Christmas this year. On the two hour drive down there I heard most of todays radio show but I missed the last hour or so and then tonight on my way home from my sisters house, the stuff I didn't get to hear was on so I ended up just driving around listening to the radio for this past hour.

The History of Howard Stern is very well produced and absolutely entertaining for sure but what's really cool is how inspiring I'm finding it all. The early years of Howard Sterns carreer and his complete unwillingness to ever be too negatively effected by people and the never ending cycle of shit some people have to overcome to keep the dream alive, is something I guess I feel I can relate to. I'm amazed how motivated and inspired I have become over these last few days of listening to these radio shows.

After over six years of wondering what to do next and how to keep things rolling along, I've never been as clear headed as I am right now! As for The History of JR DIGS...A bunch of you have been emailing me to say that you noticed that "Be Real With JR DIGS" aired on E! Monday night and again on Wednesday at 10:30pm on E! This is the series that I was nominated for my Gemini award for and it's the show that got me out of dept once and for all and now it's being aired again on E! Not sure what else to say about it I guess.

Can't wait to drive into the city in the morning with a large hot coffee and another new day of radio to listen to!

I have the crappiest coolest life ever...

I delivered next weekends episode to the station a couple hours ago and the girl at the security desk who seemed to know who I was asked me why I was delivering the show. I guess people who have there own Tv shows aren't usually the ones who also deliver the tape to the station. I just laughed and said something about living the glamarous life of a two bit Canadian Television host.

Who knows though, maybe I am the only dude who has his own show but still has to be the one who makes sure the show gets delivered to the station each week. Not that what I have been passing off as "my show" each week for the last six years is anything at all like an actual Network television show. Trust me, after working on "Be Real with JR DIGS" and seeing first hand what it was like to have a budget and to work with a real producer and director, I can assure you there is a difference. I never once had to deliver an episode of "Be Real" to the station or do really anything other than show up on time, strut my stuff and host the show which is what I was hired to do.

That being said, what if it's another five years before I am given another shot by the network to work on another Network produced series. I'll be honest, I don't think that the work I did on "BE Real" or getting nominated for a Gemini for "Best Host" on my first Network produced series has changed things at all for me. In the USA being one of only five people to be nominated for "Best host in a lifestyle series" would without a doubt, end up landing a nobody like me a bunch of new gig's in Tv or at the very least, find that Network exec's are suddenly interested in you like they never were before. This is Canada though! Enough said!

So I have been kinda waiting for the last few months to see how things would shake down for me and what I have come to realize is that I guess I'll probably always be the guy who needs to make sure the episode gets delivered to the station on time if I want to keep making what some people think is an actual Tv show, my Tv show!

If it takes another five years of toiling away before I get another series, it can't be like the last five years cause well, it just can't. That's why driving around in this cool van I bought, meeting people, shooting footage and then cutting it together all on the fly seems like a great idea these days. It's easy to do, I don't really need much of a budget and it's a blast. It's something I could maybe do for years without kicking the shit out of myself all over again.

In January I'll start airing the shows I have been shooting from my Van, plus I am going to be hosting a game show as well in the new year! Why the hell not! I've always had to be a take what you can get kinda guy so why should that change now. As a matter of fact, I have been asked by the producers if I would consider doing a bit of game show type hosting sometime before the new year in the effort to gain a bit of experience and work the bugs out a little. Not to mention make a bit of scratch before Xmas which ain't such a bad idea.

So that might be happening sooner than later, stay tuned and I'll keep you guys posted about that for sure. Until then, keep spreading the word about your ol pal Digs, cause it looks like I'm gearing up for another half decade of low budget television which will almost certainly go unnoticed by everyone other than you guys!

This has been way too long of a blog, I'm going to stop now.