Editing Mental Engineering (section)

==History==
Forde started ''Mental Engineering'' in 1998 on cable access in St. Paul.<ref name="nytimes-2000">{{cite news |last1=Schoemer |first1=Karen |title=TELEVISION/RADIO; Making TV By Biting the Hand That Feeds It |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/16/arts/television-radio-making-tv-by-biting-the-hand-that-feeds-it.html |work=The New York Times |date=16 April 2000}}</ref>
Mental Engineering is considered by some sources to be the first public-access television show to air nationally.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}  By September 2001, the program was airing on various public TV outlets including [[WGBH-TV|WGBH]] in [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] and [[WNET]] in [[New York, New York|New York City]].{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}

In 2002, the episode ''Super Commercials: A Mental Engineering Special'' followed [[Super Bowl XXXVI]] featured guest personalities [[Aisha Tyler]] and [[Lizz Winstead]] along with other guests from [[Minnesota]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Mental Engineering - Aisha Tyler, John Forde, Lizz Winstead |date=2000 |url=https://archive.org/details/super-commercials-aisha-tyler}}</ref><ref name="latimes-2002">{{cite news |title=Super Bowl Ads Get 'Mental Engineering' on PBS |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-feb-01-et-brian1-story.html |access-date=31 January 2023 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=1 February 2002}}</ref>

By the end of 2008 140 episodes had been produced.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}