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The men and women drawn to military contract work do so for various reasons, but the main one is risky jobs pay well. Really well. For example, at the beginning of the Iraq war KBR’s starting salary for a truck driver was around $125,000. To put that into perspective, the starting salary for a US…
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In this episode I go to Pennsylvania to help with something I haven’t done in about ten yrs: help build an Amish barn. There is a special history to the old Stoltzfus barn and residence. It was one of the very original places settled upon when the Amish first came to America in the late…
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The Pol’s graciously invited the whole production crew out to their house for a cookout on Saturday evening. One of our audio guys, “DJ Pesto” moonlights as a DJ so he brought his rig & made sure to have plenty of ABBA (Dr. P’s favorite) on hand. Dr. Pol whisked his wife, Diane, to the…
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Anyone who has ever worked in a controlled environment like a zoo with venomous snakes knows that the possibility of a venomous snake bite is serious business. Protocol including alarms and lock down procedures are common place. The right snake, the wrong timing and fangs meeting flesh merits an emergency situation and the entire facility…
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It’s been just over a week since we launched our Untamed Americas photo contest on Instagram and today we’re thrilled to share a few of the submissions so far. A quick search of the #untamedamericas hashtag is all it takes to be reminded of the incredible landscapes, wildlife and natural beauty in our own backyards. …
Last week the Nat Geo Channel PR team spent a few days in Yellowstone for an Untamed Americas press junket. Several of the scenes featured in “Mountains” were filmed in the park – so naturally it was the perfect setting to screen the episode and experience firsthand the beauty and wildlife depicted in the series.…
Written by Toby Strong, Witness Cameraman. A week into our shoot and already there is a lot to tell. Myself (cameraman), Stuart (producer), Gianni (Edit Assistant) and Tracy (Editor) are based on the Southern fringes of the Kalahari Desert. We are filming a group of twenty-five meerkats, called “Whiskers”, led by Thundercat and Enili; the…
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On Wicked Tuna: Mutiny at Sea it’s a tale of two boats with the same problem: keeping a good deckhand. On the Tuna.Com, Captain Dave struggles with Paul, his talented but temperamental first mate. On the struggling Bounty Hunter, Captain Bill’s wife and best deckhand Donna and Scott, his first mate both have to return…
Mat is beside himself with excitement at the possibility of creating fish tanks for a one of a kind location – the home plate backstop of the brand new Marlins baseball stadium! The MLB believes that this aquarium cannot be done and Living Color is set to prove them wrong. With Miami Marlins President, David…
“People look at the war in black and white and it wasn’t black and white. It was color.” – Art Stone, Civil War Reenactor KABOOM. April 12, 2011. Cannon fire echoes across Charleston Harbor, in South Carolina. Civil War Reenactors portraying Confederate militia are marking the opening salvo of the Civil War by firing on…
