What is to stop him from setting up a YouTube channel and doing this?
He even says "They can come to Middle Georgia or, at worst, Atlanta" obliviously unaware that Alton Brown filmed all 249 episodes of "Good Eats" there. And Alton didn't wait around for someone to answer a 'pitch', he just did it.
Erick is a 1st-World 1st-Class NeverTrumping WHINER.
“What is to stop him from setting up a YouTube channel and doing this?”
Exactly. I’m busy upping my video skills to do exatly that. And if not Youtube, there are now alternatives.