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No Reservations: USA Tour '08

By No Reservations Crew on August 5, 2008 12:56 PM | Permalink | 15 Comments

by Jared Andrukanis, Segment Producer

It starts to get strange at hour six of driving.

First to go are the cluster of muscles in your neck. It begins as a subtle stiffness, and then, before you know it, your head is locked in a forward position. To turn and look at the side mirror becomes a full body motion.  Speaking of the side mirror, the gaff tape we used to keep it from lolling uselessly forward above 50mph is flapping wildly as we rocket down TX-287 South.

Hour seven brings the lower back cramping.  This is most likely from wrenching your body around in the seat to look out the broken side mirror. There is no real way to fix this you just have to deal with it. I toss four Advil in my mouth like candy and wash them down with an entire can of some sort of Red Bull clone. I hope the inevitable stiffness will not be too crippling tomorrow.

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The One Thing You Don't Do

By No Reservations Crew on April 7, 2008 12:14 PM | Permalink | 34 Comments

By Paul Cabana, producer

When filming a prison interview, the one thing you don't do is keep a shot tape in the camera, in case they ask you to hand it over. When you're producing a home makeover show, the one thing you don't do is become the middleman between a homeowner and a contractor, because you effectively become the contractor. When directing No Reservations, the one thing you don't do is tell Tony what to say because, well, you just don't.

I've worked with a few different hosts and a lot of times, you just feed 'em lines. It's not disingenuous or manipulative. When you do, you have no choice.

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Careful With That Wish Eugene

By No Reservations Crew on February 26, 2008 11:09 AM | Permalink | 31 Comments

By Chris Martinez

Once and a while someone on one of these message boards makes a comment
to the effect of "I wish I had your job" or "You have my dream job" usually
directed at one of the 'No Reservations' producers.

I recently had the opportunity to observe producer/director Paul Cabana and
segment producer Rennik Soholt "living the dream" as it were and it was
an interesting reality check.

I met the whole crew when they arrived at our hotel in Tokyo with the intention of taping their arrival. They were coming off of a week in Laos and looked it. In fact, they looked so sick, tired and out of it I actually took pity on them and turned off my camera.

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To: Tony, Re: Your Recent Blog Post About Caving in Jamaica

By No Reservations Crew on January 29, 2008 12:16 PM | Permalink | 28 Comments

By Diane Schutz, Producer

Tony: I love you like a brother ... but after hearing you talk about the difficulty of our caving adventure in Jamaica, I needed to chime in here! I'm convinced you've become, as your British pals might say, a big girl's blouse.

You wrote that this was "the hardest, most physically demanding, insanely foolhardy and irresponsible venture ever on NO RESERVATIONS". Really? I know your memory is somewhat selective, but can I remind you of such shoots as Malaysia, where we hauled ass through the jungles of Sarawak for 6 hours, trying to keep up with our 80-something-year-old, amazingly fit Iban guide? Or New Zealand, where we huffed and puffed up 45-degree-angle hills to hunt a 400-pound wild boar ... an angry boar that could have turned on any of us at a given moment, carving us into carpaccio?

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Hello Kendo

By No Reservations Crew on January 28, 2008 1:12 PM | Permalink | 16 Comments

By Christopher Martinez

Hi. I'm Christopher Martinez, editor of some of your favorite No Reservations shows. And Sweden.

Yeah, Sweden. I'd appreciate you not sharing with me any further insights on the that show until after publication of my 3 volume critical analysis/after action report with the working title, "Sweden: An ABBA Joke Too Far".

Moving on...

For no particularly good reason I've been allowed to accompany the ABNR crew on the shoot for the upcoming Japan show which I'll start editing when we return.

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