Hello, everyone. You're probably looking at the title of this and saying, what is Ed doing?

He's not usually one to jump upon a bandwagon like I think so many media outlets and all sorts of people from all over the spectrum have done in regards to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie.

Well, you should know there are going to be no ads with this episode.

In addition, there are going to be no ads on this when I turn this into a video for YouTube either. I'm not going to make one cent on

this. This is going to be very educational, just like I think everything has been that I've done for my

podcast since it started almost 10 years ago.

And it comes from all of the people who are in my life,

but I don't think they listen to my podcast at all,

and that's fine.

Nobody is obligated to listen to my podcast at all, and that's fine. Nobody is obligated to listen to my podcast.

And of course, there are many people who are not into true crime, not into disappearances,

not into serial killers, none of it. And that's fine too. Granted, I wish the general public did take more of an interest in disappearance, not just Nancy Guthrie's, but everybody's, but that's just too much to hope for.

And I take an attitude very much like former Steelers coach, Mike Tomlin, in that we want volunteers, not hostages.

When it comes to people who take interest in the disappearances and want to help,

I don't want to have anybody involved who feels like I have to be here.

We have to be here.

But what has happened over the past month is people out of the woodwork who I don't think

follow the podcast, follow disappearances, follow true crime.

But people who know me or even really know me well, people who have known me for decades

who have never spoken to me about my

podcast before, never asked me about it. I don't think they listen, but kind of just on the

periphery, they know Ed does this thing with disappearances. You don't know how many of those

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