Over one hundred people work 12 hour shifts day and night to keep this show going.  We have night crews, day crews, morning crews, split shifts as well as entire departments including production, art, electric, grip, stunts, and accounting.  We are a traveling city that is extremely mobile and very adaptable to nearly any environment.  If we were a military operation, we would be equated to any upper echelon within any branch of your choosing.

This is not to say that we are flawless in fact we are far from it…we have often spoke of turning the cameras on ourselves as we too are living our lives in a very atypical manner.  Think about it, our sole purpose is to follow kids around and study their every move and hope for good drama so that you the viewer might be entertained and therefore buy more video games, clothes, zit cream...you get my meaning. My point here is that after being on the road for a couple of months in some foreign country, we all begin to show signs of stress etc.  We too have hook ups (showmances in the industry), fights, car accidents, injuries, confrontations, (usually because some countries have people or organizations trying to achieve notoriety and we carry the MTV banner) and any other situation that you can attribute to everyday life…

This being said, the show never stops and we grind on with a professionalism that is organic to our type of work.  It’s a Sunday here and after 6 weeks sitting in a man made trailer in the middle of the Central American rainforest, I too am getting a little edgy.  So, with that, I take you back to the show and the activities of the day...