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Erika HOH
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| Subject: Re: Around the World for Free starring Jeff Tue Jul 27, 2010 10:03 am | |
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| | | Erika HOH
Posts : 4252 Join date : 2008-09-05 Age : 51 Location : Chicago
| Subject: Re: Around the World for Free starring Jeff Tue Jul 27, 2010 10:17 am | |
| GoodMorningGloucester My View of Life on the Dock Jeff Schroeder From CBS Amazing Race and Big Brother Came To Gloucester To Film Around The World For Free Posted by: Joey | July 27, 2010 We hosted him at our house last night along with the crew, director and my boys The Rabbit and Benny Goodman. But first we had a whole lot of fun in Gloucester. When I first realized he was coming this way my first thought was to have him go lobstering on one of our boats but then midway through the afternoon the perfect idea for some good tv. Any of our loyal readership knows about the triple pincher clawed lobster that we got at our dock last Saturday. it was the first one I had seen like that but we sold it off at the end of the night never really knowing where it was going or if it would be eaten the next day (which I have no problem with BTW). But some of our readers, the newspaper people and television people that came down to cover the story about the triple pincher clawed lobster all asked if we would let it go because it was a “special” lobster. We don’t take special measures to release these lobsters normally as the afternoons here are all about getting the lobsters in and out of the building as quickly as possible and of course to sell them to people that will pay the bill for said lobsters. So when in the very same week one of lobstermen Mike Tupper aboard The Freemantle Doctor brought in an albino lobster one of only two I’ve ever seen in my entire life handling millions and millions of pounds of lobsters down here since I was a kid Mike asked if we could keep the lobster in the tank so he could show his father in law. OK now here is where the idea came to me- We have Jeff make the decision since the name of the show is Around The World For Free- He could eat the special albino lobster and all the lobster he could eat or he would have to walk the Greasy Pole and earn the right to release the incredibly rare albino lobster back to the sea. I presented the two options in two envelopes One said EAT THE LOBSTER- The Other envelope said FREE THE LOBSTER. Mark Ring,skipper of lobster boat The Stanley Thomas took us out to the Greasy Pole and Jeff made his decision- Here is Jeff on the Greasy Pole taking some advice from my boy the Rabbit Here he is on the pole- Jeff Schroeder and Joey Ciaramitaro at The Crows Nest Gloucester MA More to come from our adventures in Gloucester including video, pictures at Passports, The Crows, Nest and of course the fate of the albino lobster. Here is the website where Jeff talks about Gloucester- http://www.cbsaroundtheworld.com/#/journey/the-adventure-begins/photo/139 | |
| | | Erika HOH
Posts : 4252 Join date : 2008-09-05 Age : 51 Location : Chicago
| Subject: Re: Around the World for Free starring Jeff Tue Jul 27, 2010 1:51 pm | |
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| | | Erika HOH
Posts : 4252 Join date : 2008-09-05 Age : 51 Location : Chicago
| Subject: Re: Around the World for Free starring Jeff Tue Jul 27, 2010 2:06 pm | |
| atwfflive Heading into downtown Boston to check out some history! about 4 hours ago via Seesmic for Android from Hamilton, MA atwfflive http://tweetphoto.com/35212877 meadowbrook farms, terrific fruit! 52 years in business! Amazing what u find on the side of the road!!! about 3 hours ago via Seesmic for Android from Wenham, MA atwfflive At Quincy Market in Boston, MA about 2 hours ago via Seesmic for Android from Downtown, Boston atwfflive http://tweetphoto.com/35222008 Faneuil Hall about 2 hours ago via Seesmic for Android from Downtown, Boston atwfflive Getting into patriotic vibe in Boston. Thinking of D.C. now! Heard the train ride along the coast is amazing. Need a hand getting there??? about 1 hour ago via Seesmic for Android from North End, Boston jeffschroeder23 In Boston right now, I love it! thinking of heading down to D.C.? 38 minutes ago via Twitter for Android atwff Jeff is already on his way around the world, but u didn't see his last few hours @ home preparing for his journey! http://bit.ly/b2cq5G 21 minutes ago via web atwff Can we help him out?? RT @ jeffschroeder23 In Boston right now, I love it! thinking of heading down to D.C.? 20 minutes ago via web | |
| | | Lorraine HOH
Posts : 4575 Join date : 2008-09-06
| Subject: Re: Around the World for Free starring Jeff Tue Jul 27, 2010 2:10 pm | |
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| | | Lorraine HOH
Posts : 4575 Join date : 2008-09-06
| Subject: Re: Around the World for Free starring Jeff Tue Aug 17, 2010 9:29 pm | |
| Zsolts blog I am digging through my Tilley vest pockets for the fourth or fifth time, a type of end-stage frantic energy coursing through me, as I try to locate a mini-USB cable for one of my edit drives. It was in my hands just moments ago but now it has disappeared amongst the vest pockets and the seat surface completely swamped by camera gear, headphones and the like. I feel tears coming on since I am convinced I just saw it, and yet I cannot locate it again for the life of me. Is this how it's going to be in my old age? A small Japanese child is eyeing me eagerly from across the way, noticing not only that I'm one of only three gaijin in car 14 of the Yokohama-Hataka express this morning, but also that I'm the only one moving about in my allotted cubic yard of space with frenetic energy. I look at him with an exasperated "And now what?" expression, and slowly, he breaks into a huge smile. They are a reservedly friendly people, the Japanese, and this boy is no different - it takes him a while to warm up. I think his smile has brought me luck though - I find my cable twisted up amongst the cords of my phone charger. That would be vest pocket lower-right in the current configuration of my gear... I'm set. The extreme fatigue is fine, ultimately. The body retains its regenerative capacities, for now. I remember Mike H, our amazingly gracious and generous host, and the first exchanges I had with him. "Tell me you're waking up now and not that you haven't slept!" - he writes me at 4am one morning before we meet. Those emails give way to "Dude, you gotta get some rest!" when we are finally together in Yokosuka... and eventually, when it sinks in to him that this is in fact my modus operandi, he resigns himself to mere quiet gestures of "You alright?" and finally, only a type of reverent silence remains, embellished with a few late night tweets of praise (regretfully those caring tweets unleash an avalanche of concern from the audience, who simply cannot grasp the situation, yet they care. I do appreciate it. I am fine) Mike knows full well we're cut from the same cloth, though, and I think a deeper camaraderie develops between us during the days spent in his quietly manicured neighborhood in Yokosuka. As always, I try to reassure people that I am fine with sleeping only a few hours - but most don't understand, so in the end, I resign myself to evasive answers. Before undertaking the Mount Fuji summit assault, I don't dare tell Mike and Jeff that the only sleep I had gotten was in the car ride to base camp... they probably wouldn't have let me undertake the quest. But alas, here we sit on the Shinkansen, in blissful comfort, resting and relaxing as we hurl towards Fukuoka, the memories of the mountain's brutal pain reduced to a few pangs in the quads, nothing more. Japan. What a place! As with other virgin lands, I do no prior research whatsoever before flying in to Narita. However, memories will not be muted, and I recall many a detail from a great high school friend, years before. Tales of how the sushi is simply incomparable to anywhere else where you might've thought you had the "best of the best of the best". How the Japanese are willing to pay $20 for a nice grapefruit. Their staggering average savings compared to our debt-ridden West. The organized precision of this society - and so on. Would I experience any of this? Our good fortune and the high level of comfort we enjoyed in the US continues at Narita. Tai Hirose is there, well-mannered as all Boy Scouts tend to be, but with an almost unrestrainable joy and a huge smile as he greets Jeff and proceeds to lead him through the airport. We're set - a ride to Tokyo (the perimeter town of Kawasaki, actually), room and board in Tai's house, and ample time for both Tai and his mom to chaperone us around town if need be. There is. We are quite fatigued when we arrive at their house late at night, so there is only energy to appreciate the meal at this time. The delightful details of the Japanese household await to reveal themselves on a future day. I am happily surprised though at the sparkling energy of Tai's mother Yayoi. She's stealing scenes left and right, and not just easy ones like the talking stove and the über-cool toilet - she's hamming it up at the dinner table too. The father is a quiet gentleman, hanging back from the table but always ready with his well-oiled movements to refill the sake glasses. I recall my friend Jonathan saying how much pure, rich tastes and textures were valued in food, and tonight is no exception - the noodles are simple, as are the various pickled vegetables and tempura - but the tastes definitely give you pause, in a good way. It's only the following morning that I notice the extremely neat, compact, tidy and elegant aspect of nearly everything in this smaller house. The lines are precise, the colors generally neutral, the use of space throughout is ingenious - you never feel cramped even though there are many more bodies now. I am digging the very elegant gate markers on all homes in the neighborhood - all of them individual, yet somehow conforming to the same overarching aesthetic - a simple, quiet beauty. I regret not being able to see Tokyo at night, beyond the drive from the airport. On its own, that drive stands as a jaw-dropping experience too - a ride across the Rainbow Bridge with the massive skyline on the other side of Tokyo Bay - definitely up there with NYC from the Triboro at night. However, I had planned to spend at least a couple of hours in Ginza, Shinjuku or Roppongi at night... this was not to happen. The reality of production hit once again... we were either producing too much or too little, delivering too much or too little, always with imperfect timing - so cuts had to be made, and it was easy to cut the night shoot after we had already experienced Shibuya and Harajuku during the day. So how is it to walk across the intersection made famous by Baraka and countless other films, the Shibuya Scramble? Well, it's pretty amazing, but we were all surprised that human density notwithstanding, the Japanese maintain a very comfortable bubble of personal space everywhere. No matter where we trekked across Tokyo, we were never jostled or treated in an unfriendly way. The time will hopefully come when I can return on a private visit and perhaps stay for a few days with these great friends we've made along the way. The roller-coaster of the emotional connections we make with each new host family is one of the blessings of this journey - though at times it can be intense, especially for the ATWFF host, since he is most often thrust into the position of "entertainer" while the crew hunkers down for the endless edits. Jeff has done an admirable job on this front - and we'll see how he holds up down the line. Well into the Season One trek, I remember Alex, charming smile never leaving his face, being eternally grateful when he could finally close the door after long stints of entertaining everyone around him. But apart from this, for me personally, one of the great sparks of interaction is seeing how a given family reacts to the extreme production environment that they're suddenly parachuted into when we arrive. It starts easy enough. They are usually surprised when one of us is unable to attend a dinner at the house - "But why? Aren't you hungry?" - and it builds from there, mild layers of disappointment stacked one on top of the other. Cables taking over every surface of the house is easy... but cutting a sightseeing day short is sometimes a very personal defeat. I remember sweet Yayoi looking up at me in disbelief, when, after a solid four hours of sightseeing through Shibuya, I decided to cap the day after our shoot at the Meiji Shrine. "But we can't stop!" she exclaims, clutching the Japanese version of her top-ten sightseeing book, "We still have so much to see! I have activities planned until 11PM!" She points to page after page of botanical gardens, more shopping avenues, museums and so on. "We can't. It's too much footage already." I try to reassure her, but her expression has clouded over and she never really recovers her smile that day. I have to grin and bear it - it's happened before and it will happen again. On we go. After Tokyo, our time in Yokosuka is still comfortable, but it's a different vibe since we're now in an American home. Our host, Mike, runs a tight ship, not just because he's with the Navy base in town but as a result of a long tradition of scouting (his connection with Tai). They live in a nice quiet neighborhood not far from the water and the vibe is really nice. The Tropicana in the fridge is a nice touch and it's only a matter of time before they're aware of my chocolate affiliation too. Regrettably, I'm arriving in Yokosuka with a huge backlog of editing, so I start missing family events right from the get-go. Luckily, Mount Fuji looms as the big equalizer the following day. It's easy to write these lines from the comfort of the Shinkansen, but only two short days ago we are getting into a car at 2am and heading towards the iconic mountain with Mike and daughter Victoria. What makes a man want to climb a mountain and expose himself to all the pain and suffering? The answer, as I am walking up the slopes of Fuji in the early going, is a resolute "stupidity". The climb is an endless torture. Jeff and I both go into it with a shocking naivete, even though we are forewarned by Mike several times. I still remember Jeff in his tank top, spraying himself with suntan lotion in the parking lot at base camp. Fast forward two hours, and a bitter arctic wind is beating down on us, the lunar landscape is bitter and visually impenetrable, we are completely frozen, eyes fixed on the ground in front of us, mechanically advancing our sweaty bodies to near collapse, turn by turn... I pride myself on my mental endurance, but to physically challenge oneself to near-marathon feats is simply baffling for me. "But you'll be so proud of your achievement afterwards" says Mike. Small comfort. We are nearly blown off the mountain several times on the way up. But even before, just walking the trail through the forest at base camp, I'm checking the beating of my heart several times. Heavy moisture hangs in the air and my lungs are struggling even on the gentle slope. Luckily, the vapor dries out soon after reaching the 6th station (there are ten in all, and the bus takes us to the fifth, about halfway up the 3700m mountain). It is extremely rare, but thoughts of mortality are entering my mind. Mentally, I think both Jeff and I give up several times along the tortuous climb to the top, but this is probably completely normal. Mike's encouraging words and gentle guidance keep our stamina up. His daughter bounds up far ahead of us - she's under 18 and it's already her fifth time summiting. For Mike, it's his tenth. For me, most likely my one and only - on any mountain. No need to frame the summit pic and mount it on my desk - it'll be a good story down the line, but for the moment, no desire whatsoever to pursue anything similar again. How I eventually make it to the top is beyond me, but over five hours after setting out, we are enjoying not only a hot bowl of ramen noodles but also the boisterous, zenmaster-like laugh of the chief engineer of the tenth station, whom Mike affectionately calls "Yoda". Only a few minutes pass, and I'm already flirting with the coy waitress who's circling around us in the cold wooden hut. "I work on mountain only one week more!" she exclaims with a huge smile. All staff have to live on the summit for the July-August "open season." Her joy accompanies me down the slope, which is in some ways even worse than the climb - an endless series of switchbacks of loose gravel. My knees are buckling and unlike Jeff and Victoria, I am unable to run down, but need to take it one meticulous, measured step at a time. I take a hard fall at one point with parts flying off my trusted Sony V1U in all directions. Somehow, the waterlogged camera survives to fight another day. The tape survives as well, although I have to digitize the footage in 5-second chunks. It's worth it in the end. We are vegetables on the drive back home, it's been an 18-hr day, but when I look over the footage in the wee hours of the morning, I can tell it's going to be an epic tale. All the ingredients are there. Characters, camaraderie, hardship, struggle, triumph and heart-soaring adventure. Now, all I need is time. | |
| | | Lorraine HOH
Posts : 4575 Join date : 2008-09-06
| Subject: Re: Around the World for Free starring Jeff Sun Aug 22, 2010 12:02 pm | |
| Jeff in Korea! | |
| | | Lorraine HOH
Posts : 4575 Join date : 2008-09-06
| Subject: Re: Around the World for Free starring Jeff Sat Jun 25, 2011 10:44 am | |
| So we have a new person traveling around the world for free.....I will NOT be watching. Check out this interview with her though...she is one arrogant, snotty bitch!! No wonder her last name is "Shallow". Parvati from 'Survivor' dishes on her new show, beating up 'Big Brother' contestants, and whether she'll ever return to the islandby Dalton Ross Image Credit: Cliff Lipson/CBS It’s not like Parvati Shallow is short on money, having already won over a million dollars courtesy of three appearances on Survivor (including winning Survivor: Micronesia). But that won’t stop the cheapskate from trying to travel the globe without paying a single penny. Starting on July 5 th, she’ll be starring on CBS.com’s Around the World For Free, taking over for previous host Jeff Schroeder (of Big Brother and Amazing Race fame). On the show, Parvati will spend 100 days on the road — with rides, shelter, and meals provided by viewers themselves. (She gets four free flights along the way to handle longer journeys.) Viewers will also help determine where Parvati goes next on her journey via an online interactive map at cbs.com/world. I talked with the Survivor champ/minx to get the lowdown on her latest adventure. Okay, Parvati, tell me what the hell you’ve gotten yourself into this time.Basically, this is my dream come true from the day I was born. I love more than anything in the world to travel, and meet people, and learn about different cultures. And being able to do that and meet people from incredibly remote places like shamans in the Amazon rain forest or Bushmen in the Kalahari Desert, I am so excited. It’s going to open up this whole new way of life for me and for everybody that’s watching the show. How many boys do you plan to seduce on this trip?[ Laughs] At least one in every country. Survivor: Get the latest news, photos, and moreThat’s how you’ll get around for free, I suppose then. So this show used to be hosted by Jeff Schroeder from Big Brother. Does that mean you’re now taking his sloppy seconds?I never watched Jeff on Big Brother. Big Brother to me, I find it to be a little less than exciting. How diplomatic.I definitely think I’m going to make this my own. I have a very strong personality and very strong opinions on the direction I want to take this show in. It’s going to be much more focused on adventure, culture, meeting people in more remote places. I know Jeff kind of trekked around big cities, and I want to be in the jungle, in more uncomfortable places where people aren’t given all the comforts that we have in America. I want to experience life. So what you’re saying, basically, is that you’re tougher than Jeff Schroeder.I’m definitely saying I’m tougher than Jeff Schroeder! And if he wants to have a boxing match to prove it, I am down for that. Your fellow Survivor villains Russell and Boston Rob also have new shows coming out. Why should people watch yours instead of theirs?Because I’m cooler. Because I beat both of them! Also, with this show, I’m the first girl to do it — to go out there and travel on her own with no money. Basically, I’m independent. I’m relying on myself to get from place to place but I’m also building this huge team behind me to support me on this journey. It’s very raw and very real time and very in the moment, and that’s where I excel. On this show, you’re really dependent on the kindness of others. Who is the former Survivor contestant that would be least likely to help you?I think, honestly, every Survivor contestant would help me because they all want to be back on TV. Even Sugar Kiper?Definitely Sugar! I was thinking maybe Jonny Fairplay, but I know he would want to be back on TV so he would help me for sure. He would send me someplace horrible, but even sending me somewhere horrible is still helping me. How shamelessly are you going to be pimping your new Santa Monica spa/gym, ESP Wellness Center, throughout the course of the show?You can expect ESP Wellness Center to throw up all over your face. It’s a huge part of the show. I’m leaving, essentially, my home, which is ESP, that I’ve spent the past year-and-a-half building with my blood sweat and tears — and I’m leaving it. It’s like my child. So I’m definitely going to be checking back in, finding out what’s going on in the studio, and how our clients are progressing. You told me earlier this year you were done with Survivor and I said I didn’t believe it and that you’d return one more time. Where is your head at now as far as appearing on Survivor again at some point?I definitely think every thing I’ve done in my life has prepared me for this show. I think competing on Survivor three times has prepared me for being able to do Around the World for Free. I think that I’m moving in a new direction and I’m pretty much closing the book on Survivor, but I’m taking those lessons that I learned from that experience with me as I move forward and take on this new challenge. You’re full of it, Parvati. You’ll be back.Never! Well, I don’t want to say never, because we all know what happens when I say that. | |
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| Subject: Re: Around the World for Free starring Jeff Sat Jun 25, 2011 1:54 pm | |
| I like Parvati, but I won't be watching. I didn't even watch when it was Jeff.... | |
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