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TV production company looking for real 'diggers' - 3/6/2008 5:40:32 PM   
TreasureTVProducer

 

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Status: offline 		Are you an expert Dumpdigger? Coin Shooter or Relic Hunter? Do you take a high tech approach or a low tech approach to find buried historical objects? We - a successful television production company - are searching for real diggers with both types of ‘experience’ to host a history / adventure TV show. We’re looking for a know-it-all that wants everyone to know it.     Please send a recent photo of yourself, and a brief note outlining your passion to cabletvshow1@gmail.com. We love to read blogs and follow web links; have you been on camera? Please send us a link to the video. All replies will be answered.
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RE: TV production company looking for real 'diggers' - 3/6/2008 6:00:39 PM   
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Status: offline 		ok but i want a private delux trailer and i'll be choosing my own co-host. 34-36D range, red hair maybe. I'll also need a personal assistant. I keep the wardrobe correct?

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RE: TV production company looking for real 'diggers' - 3/6/2008 6:16:32 PM   
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RE: TV production company looking for real 'diggers' - 3/6/2008 9:24:06 PM   
whitefish

 

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Status: offline 		Friends if you value the freedom to dig as you do now, be careful of going too public with your hobby.
Leaving posts and pictures on this and other sites is great and I enjoy reading them along with all the other members, but remember we are still a small fraternity flying under most peoples radar. When you use a larger form of media that covers a larger spectrum of people your going to draw attention to yourselves and others that will not always be good. There are many diggers out there who are familiar with the story about privy digging that aired on the travel channel, and what kind of attention that drew. Check out this link...

http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071118/NEWS/711180323

Something to keep in mind.

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RE: TV production company looking for real 'diggers' - 3/6/2008 10:39:01 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'll do it as long as I can have Angelina Jolie as my costar,  kind of a "Tomb raiders" remake involving privies.  In the story, Angie will follow me anywhere, to the ends of the earth, or to the bottom of a privy.  Sounds good to me  :)

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RE: TV production company looking for real 'diggers' - 3/6/2008 10:58:07 PM   
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Status: offline 		What's the good word, Tigue?  When is your TV debut?

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RE: TV production company looking for real 'diggers' - 3/6/2008 11:34:28 PM   
tigue710


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Status: offline 		no word....  Id do it, someone wants to pay me to dig bottles?  come on!  Of course none of em would be worth more then a dollar...




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RE: TV production company looking for real 'diggers' - 3/7/2008 12:21:03 AM   
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Status: offline 		I was on TV  this past Tuesday...about Bottles. But not digging of same, more about the thrill of researching their history...and  trying to create awareness of same...I dinna get paid nuthin'......  
Hope ya have RealPlayer... It is rather brief....even though the actual interview ran almost 1/2 hour and many more bottles were filmed as well... 
heres the link:  http://wcybstream.wcyb.tv/stream/archive.aspThen click....Tuesday News Center 5 At 6......Project Family is the Program...Bottle Bonanza is the  clip title...

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RE: TV production company looking for real 'diggers' - 3/7/2008 1:34:00 AM   
caldigs

 

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Status: offline 		Stay AWAY !  The 'Cash and Treasures' episode on privy digging has had horrible consequences on our hobby.  People fail to acknowledge our true intentions and assume we're after money !!!

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RE: TV production company looking for real 'diggers' - 3/7/2008 2:36:39 AM   
JGUIS

 

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Status: offline 		No way!  This is bad news and I recommend against it.  It's bad enough now after the first piece of crap episode ran, we sure as hell don't want anyone on TV that knows anything.  A history on bottles would be good, but keep the methods and prices out of it.  WE DON'T HUNT TREASURE, WE HUNT BOTTLES.

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RE: TV production company looking for real 'diggers' - 3/7/2008 7:45:55 AM   
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ORIGINAL: whitefish

Friends if you value the freedom to dig as you do now, be careful of going too public with your hobby.
Leaving posts and pictures on this and other sites is great and I enjoy reading them along with all the other members, but remember we are still a small fraternity flying under most peoples radar. When you use a larger form of media that covers a larger spectrum of people your going to draw attention to yourselves and others that will not always be good. There are many diggers out there who are familiar with the story about privy digging that aired on the travel channel, and what kind of attention that drew. Check out this link...

http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071118/NEWS/711180323

Something to keep in mind.



As soon as I read the subject line of this post I cringed.  The last "incident" as linked above should make anyone wary of participating in this.  Flying under the radar as someone already said is much better for the hobby.  Now I don't dig for my bottles, I dive for them and I don't plan on letting a wider audience know where and why I'm doing it.

Those archaeologist and historical types have a way of catchin' wind of things and then spoiling all the fun.

Just my two cents.

Alan

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RE: TV production company looking for real 'diggers' - 3/7/2008 8:03:53 AM   
tigue710


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Status: offline 		they will find someone to do it...  should it be someone who is going to present the hobby as what it is, a hobby, or someone who is going to make it look like you can get rich?

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RE: TV production company looking for real 'diggers' - 3/7/2008 10:09:13 AM   
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Status: offline 		        Please reconsider Tique, and anyone else who might be looking to do this.You are primarily a dump digger so it won't hurt you.You will be screwing those of us who knock on doors all of the time.You will also be hurting the large city diggers who rely on construction sites by educating the workers.I have dug in places where the workers stay late and dig the privies with the equipment,because they can make more than they did working that day.This was because diggers did a local cable show.Several GC's in the area keep tabs on the bottles and secure sites just for this reason.Not that it is a bad thing but you are as much about the money as anyone so it won't be an asset to the hobby I am sure.I am sure if I did a bunch of newspapers articles,created a digging website,and went on cable from time to time I would get alot of permissions and not have to knock on doors.What I would do is screw things up for guys doing it the old fashioned way.Keeping others in mind is very important in these matters.Also when you create a public forum,you create one for those who oppose what we do.A recent newspaper article here in Ohio,done by one of the most down to earth diggers around,went AP,along with the rebuttle by local archeologists.STUPID,STUPID,STUPID.

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RE: TV production company looking for real 'diggers' - 3/7/2008 10:12:25 AM   
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Status: offline 		Go for it Tig!

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RE: TV production company looking for real 'diggers' - 3/7/2008 10:13:35 AM   
Poeticallyinsane

 

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Status: offline 		Like most things, it takes only one person to start spoiling things for everyone. Seems like you need a permit to do a lot of things, things that at one time didnt matter but it took that one person to screw things up. Pretty soon people will need a permit to use the bathroom.  I certainly wouldnt go on TV. I like the peace and quiet when I'm bottle hunting. Who needs all those "treasure hunters" sniffing around? Think of the people who wouldnt give a rats butt about the history, they'd only see dollar signs when they take bottles and leave huge gaping holes all over.

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RE: TV production company looking for real 'diggers' - 3/7/2008 1:59:48 PM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: adshepard

As soon as I read the subject line of this post I cringed.

Those archaeologist and historical types have a way of catchin' wind of things and then spoiling all the fun.



That was my exact response as well. It is blazingly clear that divulging the secrets and methods of this hobby, which aren't originally yours or mine to begin with anyway, without also communicating the years of experience, knowledge, and intuitive appreciation necessary to make the finds TRULY valuable would only bring negative attention from uptight anthropologists, and attract hordes of people who want in because of the money, and not the deep experience of the history intrinsic to the items that we unearth. How much info could really be communicated in a 30 minute segment? The TV audience just wants to see action and money, and that is all that the show would present the hobby as being a source of. They want good ratings, ya know…

If you are hunting "treasure," then at least in my mind, if you even have a smidge of intelligence then you wouldn't want to stir up more competition for the scarce gold than there already is. The production company, if it even exists to begin with and if that gmail account wasn't actually set up by a form member looking to quietly make fun of some of the people here who responded, only wants to PROFIT off of your years of hard work. "We’re looking for a know-it-all that wants everyone to know it," they say, and if this is all real then such a criterion, well... lets just say it pisses me off, as I've explained my views regarding know-it-alls before. Damn, maybe if what they want is some pompous, pretentious, flamboyant treasure hunter it will turn people off to the whole digging thing after all!

Probably not, though.

We don't want people in general associating antique bottles and privys/dumps with doubloons and treasure chests. Let the people who can adequately handle this HOBBY come to it on their own, and we can help show them the ropes far better than a TV show ever could. The few people who can dig for a living; I respect any of you who manage to do so, but come on, you'll need to get a real job if more people start seeing the dollar signs that you also do. Anyway, if it comes to it I'd much rather be on the archaeologist's side than the side with 10,000,000 treasure hunters. I hunt for history, and would like to continue doing so for the next 60 years. The value is coincidental, and when I was 5 money had nothing to do with loving old things. Lets not ruin this prematurely, as us humans are prone to do, particularly when profits are involved...



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RE: TV production company looking for real 'diggers' - 3/7/2008 2:11:42 PM   
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Status: offline 		I say, increasing the diggers out there by a thousand, heck maybe ten thousand fold will bring more bottles to light. Imagine the unknows out there waiting to be discovered. You'll get your history, you'll just have to pay for it. The bottles available on the market will increase by hundreds of thousands.

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RE: TV production company looking for real 'diggers' - 3/7/2008 2:54:33 PM   
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RE: TV production company looking for real 'diggers' - 3/7/2008 3:19:40 PM   
digger don

 

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Status: offline 		I agree with Gunther I can't afford most of the bottles I really want so digging is the only chance I have to get them . Lets keep this hobby for the people who really care about the glass and not the profit.

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RE: TV production company looking for real 'diggers' - 3/7/2008 3:31:53 PM   
lobeycat


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Status: offline 		if every man woman and child in america found and dug a crapper there'd still be more to find. The bottles in the ground belong to anyone and everyone. Share the wealth.

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