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Steve Went His Way
// By Donovan // July 14th, 2009 // No Comments » // Show Updates
Last week Steve definitely “went his way”… all the way to Rwanda! He took off with a friend of ours to volunteer in a clinic/school and hopefully get some rock climbing in at the world-famous Mount Kilimanjaro. I’m staying here in Calgary as two and a half weeks notice for an overseas trip that will last anywhere from two to five months isn’t exactly conducive to the contracts that I have already signed for the next few months.
You can track Steve’s progress on his new website www.WheresNagy.com. It will have random photos from his trip and his Twitter updates.
Have a great trip, Steve! (I’ll be keeping the show warm until you get back.)
A Fancy New Slogan
// By Donovan // June 2nd, 2009 // No Comments » // Show Updates
Wow! It’s been a while since we posted any updates on here… that’s probably because we didn’t really have any BIG reason to. We’re slowly working ahead on this idea and will keep everyone posted through this blog.
Today, however, I got a text message from a friend of mine with a cool potential slogan for the show and I wanted to share it with you…
“Some travel with the stars, others under them.”
That catchy phrase is courtesy of Shawn Farquhar. He’s a two-time world champion of magic, a darn nice guy, and an exceptional friend of mine. Thanks Shawn!
Virtual Production Explained
// By Steve // March 20th, 2009 // No Comments » // Show Updates
Donovan and I have been talking with a lot of you about Going My Way, and every conversation has been very insightful. But we would like to have each of you discuss with each other, as well. So we shot a video. It explains how becoming a Virtual Producer can help us all talk, even while living in different continents. (As with all of our films, you can find this one on our YouTube.com channel.) Please enjoy. Then become a Virtual Producer.
You, the Producer? WHAT?!?!?!
// By Steve // March 9th, 2009 // 15 Comments » // Show Updates
Check this. Our show is called Going My Way because Donovan and I are showcasing travel from each of our very divergent viewpoints. But, wo, has anybody stopped to consider how many ways there are to “go”? Probably at least five, or six, or maybe even as many as four.
Well, because Donovan and I have difficulty contemplating answers to open-ended questions, but we are great at counting, we are opening up the website to hear every travel story, read every comment, and hold back tears through every suggestion you have for our show. We want you to tell us where you have been. Where you want to go. What was the most memorable. Whom we absolutely must meet. And, the more you tell us, the bigger the chance is that we will have a television show that you can call your own.
Here is the deal: somehow the stars aligned into a cosmically ironic Machiavellian machine that has put us in the good books with a very innovative production company that wants to back our show. But the catch is, in order to do so, Going My Way has to be marketable to a wide enough audience to convince broadcasters to buy. Donovan and I have had some great experiences travelling, but so have you…you’ve probably had more, probably crazier, probably gotten shot at or saved a life, or swam with pirates, or swam with dolphins, or swam with dolphin pirates. Plus, you know what you like to watch on TV. You know what you like to see online. You know how you want to interact with two jet-setters who are half-way around the world.
So, become a VIRTUAL PRODUCER. SIGN UP. LOG ON. POST. Talk to us. Tell us. Criticize. Challenge us. Help us make Going My Way a reality.
By Way of Introduction
// By Donovan // March 7th, 2009 // 5 Comments » // Show Updates
When you hear the names Steve Nagy and Donovan Deschner you most likely think: Who? We don’t take that personally… so don’t worry about our feelings. That said, we do think that it’s a simple problem to remedy. So, we created a short video in which both Steve and I introduce ourselves and share a few stories from the years of friendship that we have enjoyed (for the most part). It’s available on our YouTube Channel, but also right here:
Conception
// By Steve // March 4th, 2009 // 4 Comments » // Show Updates
Donovan gave you the story a few days ago about the inception of Going My Way, now I am here to tell you the idea. Consider: vast, gaping void + meteor = fjord^2 a.k.a. ‘Awesome’. Now, for those of you that are not so good with math, I shall expound.
Donovan and I both like to travel; but we do so in very different ways. He enjoys the upscale motif with tasty, high-priced wines, luxurious hotel rooms, and waitresses who smile because he has a big credit card. I find this ostentatious. To defend, I too enjoy massages, I enjoy scuba diving, and I enjoy showers, but I have had repeated, overly-fortunate opportunities to travel out of a sack. That means camping each night, washing in rivers, and barely eating. Because of this ill-defined, relatively ‘impoverished’ (comparing to Donovan) wandering I have sipped tea with remote locals who have never seen foreigners, I have climbed mountains to which no tour has been guided, and I have had the liberty of moving without a binding schedule. It is ultimately wondrous. Even still, Donovan insists his classy jaunts are irresistible. So, we are now putting our ceaseless argument to the test…for all of you to judge.
Going My Way will be a travel show like no other. There will be competition. There will be endless landscapes. There will two guys running around the world, bickering like an old married couple, each trying to ‘gently’ let the other person understand that he really wanted to travel the way the other wanted to travel, in the first place, but he just doesn’t remember it right now because he is so overcome by how right the other one was and, no, chocolates do not make up for forgetting my birthday! ….Sorry, when is Dono’s b-day, anyway? May?
At each destination you will see the two extremes of travel: extravagance, and splendid squalor. Each of us will be weighing the merits of our choices while setting traps to convince the other our way of travel is superior (or traps for unprompted revenge). You will see humanity from myriad angles. You will witness the magnitude of effect that comes from holding a different point-of-view. You will explore the secrets of the world alongside us. And, hopefully, you will be so excited, you will get out there and experience the grandeur with us.
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What is Donovan doing?
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That was nifty. @UnrealTyWilson agrees.
What is Steve doing?
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@donovandeschner does this joke make me look fat?
