WEBVTT 00:00.766 --> 00:01.866 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65% (muffled speaking) 00:01.866 --> 00:04.133 align:left position:35% line:5% size:55% (laughing) 00:05.533 --> 00:07.966 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% >>Our guest today has spent the past 15 years 00:07.966 --> 00:11.000 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% making award-winning natural history and science programs 00:11.000 --> 00:12.633 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% for National Geographic. 00:12.633 --> 00:16.100 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% He travels all over the world but he and his family 00:16.100 --> 00:19.133 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% make their home right here in Albemarle County. 00:19.133 --> 00:21.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% Join us as we catch up with filmmaker, producer 00:21.833 --> 00:24.000 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% and director Geoff Luck, come on! 00:26.733 --> 00:30.333 align:left position:22.5% line:77% size:67.5% So you started out as a professor, an art professor, right? 00:30.333 --> 00:31.600 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65% >>Yeah, 15 years. 00:31.600 --> 00:32.800 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% >>15 Years, 00:32.800 --> 00:34.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% so how did you find your way to filmmaking? 00:34.366 --> 00:35.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% >>You know, I had studied film in college 00:35.700 --> 00:37.233 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% and that's what I had been teaching 00:37.233 --> 00:40.300 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% and then when my wife got into grad school in New York 00:40.300 --> 00:42.366 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I realized that it was going to be really hard 00:42.366 --> 00:45.200 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% to try to be a teaching guy in New York again, 00:45.200 --> 00:48.566 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% I had tried that before so I started freelancing. 00:48.566 --> 00:51.300 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Mostly as an editor at that point. 00:51.300 --> 00:53.666 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% I was a cameraman and an editor and then I started editing 00:53.666 --> 00:58.000 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% and that sort of targeted places like Geographic 00:58.000 --> 00:59.766 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% or Discovery is where I wanted to end up. 00:59.766 --> 01:00.866 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% >>And then you did. 01:00.866 --> 01:01.700 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65% >>And then I did. 01:01.700 --> 01:02.933 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% >>And you did. 01:02.933 --> 01:06.466 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% And you all started in New York, went to DC 01:06.466 --> 01:09.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and you could really probably live anywhere. 01:09.066 --> 01:11.066 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Why are you here in Charlottesville? 01:12.233 --> 01:14.600 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% >>There was no reason for us to live here, 01:14.600 --> 01:16.333 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% it was kind of-- (Terri laughs) 01:16.333 --> 01:20.300 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% we've had to actually make a lot of sacrifices to do it. 01:20.300 --> 01:22.333 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% We just loved it and thought it would 01:22.333 --> 01:23.866 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% be a great place to raise kids. 01:23.866 --> 01:25.833 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% We had just had a little baby. 01:25.833 --> 01:27.433 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% I mean we had this little baby girl 01:27.433 --> 01:29.300 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% who was born in Brooklyn. 01:29.300 --> 01:30.700 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% And we were like, no. 01:30.700 --> 01:33.033 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% We thought we'd have a little hipster, downtown baby 01:33.033 --> 01:34.466 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and then we were like, no we want to get out 01:34.466 --> 01:36.733 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% to the woods and then to, you know. 01:36.733 --> 01:38.133 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% >>All right, let's talk about your work. 01:38.133 --> 01:39.366 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% What is your focus? 01:39.366 --> 01:41.833 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% What would you say is your main theme? 01:41.833 --> 01:44.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% >>Well I mean, since I've been at Geographic 01:44.866 --> 01:49.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and beyond for the past 12, 15 years it's mostly 01:49.600 --> 01:52.966 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% in natural sciences, and science and natural history. 01:52.966 --> 01:56.600 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% Animals, the environment, evolution, biology, 01:56.600 --> 01:58.766 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% but I've also done things on topics 01:58.766 --> 02:01.633 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% from nuclear physics to Afghanistan, 02:01.633 --> 02:05.466 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% but most of the stuff I do is wildlife, wildlife related. 02:05.466 --> 02:08.533 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% >>Give us a few examples of some of the more interesting 02:08.533 --> 02:10.033 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% projects you've done over the years. 02:10.033 --> 02:11.733 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Favorites or what you think other people 02:11.733 --> 02:13.200 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% would find interesting. 02:13.200 --> 02:15.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% >>For me personally, some of it has to do with where you go, 02:15.266 --> 02:17.900 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% some of it is just the personal satisfaction of that, 02:17.900 --> 02:20.033 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and some of it is the subject matter. 02:20.033 --> 02:22.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I think those two came together for me in a way 02:22.500 --> 02:27.133 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% that was pretty special, I got to make an hour long special 02:27.133 --> 02:29.766 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% about Darwin about the "Origin of Species". 02:29.766 --> 02:30.766 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65% That was amazing. 02:30.766 --> 02:32.500 align:left position:30% line:83% size:60% Just to read the original Darwin. 02:32.500 --> 02:36.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% To then go where he went through South America, 02:36.466 --> 02:38.500 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and Galapagos, Tahiti and New Zealand 02:38.500 --> 02:40.666 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and see what were the many influences, 02:40.666 --> 02:43.966 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% not just the finches that led this young 23 year old guy 02:43.966 --> 02:45.333 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% to figure this out. 02:45.333 --> 02:46.633 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% >>Right. 02:46.633 --> 02:47.900 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% >>Probably the hardest shoot I've ever done, 02:47.900 --> 02:49.866 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and one of the films I'm most proud of 02:49.866 --> 02:52.266 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% we did on Easter Island where we followed 02:52.266 --> 02:54.533 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% a caving expedition that was looking, 02:54.533 --> 02:57.666 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% it's a volcanic island so there's all these caves 02:57.666 --> 03:00.300 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% throughout, giant lava tubes and all of this crazy stuff 03:00.300 --> 03:02.533 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% inside and they were looking for signs 03:02.533 --> 03:05.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% of past civilizations and so we followed them 03:05.833 --> 03:08.133 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and told the history of the island 03:08.133 --> 03:10.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% which was basically "The Lorax" on steroids. 03:10.300 --> 03:11.800 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% >>Right, right. 03:11.800 --> 03:13.766 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Give us a little taste for our viewers. 03:13.766 --> 03:17.500 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% >>Oh, the long story short is that the Polynesians 03:17.500 --> 03:20.166 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% who are these incredible seafarers found their way 03:20.166 --> 03:25.166 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% to what was still is the most remote inhabited spot on Earth 03:26.333 --> 03:27.833 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and then they started chopping down the trees 03:27.833 --> 03:30.633 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% to help make these giant moai, these massive statues 03:30.633 --> 03:32.133 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% the heads of which we see 03:32.133 --> 03:34.500 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% but actually two-thirds of which are below the ground now, 03:34.500 --> 03:37.966 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% most of them, they're giant, and moved them around 03:37.966 --> 03:41.366 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% and by the time they kind of realized it, they had chopped 03:41.366 --> 03:45.333 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% down or lost all of the trees to rats that they brought, 03:45.333 --> 03:47.466 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% and they marooned themselves. 03:47.466 --> 03:48.633 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% >>Right. 03:48.633 --> 03:49.866 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% >>And they got stuck on the island. 03:49.866 --> 03:51.633 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% And they started like having, they fought 03:51.633 --> 03:53.800 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and had cannibalism and then they figured out 03:53.800 --> 03:55.733 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% a way to make that, to survive. 03:55.733 --> 03:57.300 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% It's just this incredible story. 03:57.300 --> 04:00.300 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% So, it's being able to kind of dig in 04:00.300 --> 04:02.633 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% as a professional neophyte. 04:02.633 --> 04:05.133 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% I'm not an expert on any of this stuff. 04:05.133 --> 04:08.900 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% I either get assigned something or I come up with an idea 04:08.900 --> 04:11.500 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and then you get to research it. 04:11.500 --> 04:13.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% You call people up, you read all the books, 04:13.500 --> 04:16.566 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% you learn about it and then you get to go to these places 04:16.566 --> 04:18.233 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% and learn about something new. 04:18.233 --> 04:22.600 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And since the world is so vastly inexhaustible 04:22.600 --> 04:23.833 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% in terms of how interesting it is. 04:23.833 --> 04:25.066 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% >>That's an understatement! 04:25.066 --> 04:26.266 align:left position:42.5% line:89% size:47.5% Wow. 04:26.266 --> 04:27.200 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% >>You know there's always something new. 04:27.200 --> 04:29.766 align:left position:32.5% line:5% size:57.5% (gentle music) 04:38.833 --> 04:40.300 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% >>You wear a lot of different hats, 04:40.300 --> 04:41.700 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% you have throughout the years. 04:41.700 --> 04:45.800 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% You've worn the hat of filmmaker, producer, director, 04:45.800 --> 04:48.433 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% writer, talk about those different roles 04:48.433 --> 04:52.466 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% and what you like best and sort of the evolution for you 04:52.466 --> 04:54.500 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% of how you've gone through, 04:54.500 --> 04:57.200 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% where you started and what you do now. 04:57.200 --> 05:00.466 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% >>For me, I kind of went from the academic realm 05:00.466 --> 05:02.700 align:left position:15% line:5% size:75% where I kept working primarily with the camera 05:02.700 --> 05:06.866 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% as an editor to then becoming a director and a producer 05:06.866 --> 05:09.000 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% to then actually executive-producing 05:09.000 --> 05:12.400 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% where I was overseeing 25, 30 hours of TV a year 05:12.400 --> 05:15.966 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and looking at it strategically as part a network. 05:15.966 --> 05:20.966 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% And now I've come full-circle and I'm directing 05:22.366 --> 05:24.100 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% but I'm also shooting again, I'm editing again. 05:24.100 --> 05:25.333 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% >>That's great. 05:25.333 --> 05:27.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% >>And my hands are dirty in the projects again 05:27.200 --> 05:29.566 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% and I'm happiest this way. 05:29.566 --> 05:33.333 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% I really like doing fewer things and just focusing on it 05:33.333 --> 05:35.933 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% for a year or two if it takes 05:35.933 --> 05:38.733 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and just kind of doing with my hands again. 05:38.733 --> 05:41.700 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I can find a way to feel energized by what I do 05:41.700 --> 05:44.233 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% as opposed to having that energy pulled out of me. 05:44.233 --> 05:45.266 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% And that happens sometimes. 05:45.266 --> 05:46.133 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% That happens with everybody. 05:46.133 --> 05:47.400 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% >>Right. 05:47.400 --> 05:48.866 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% And in the arts there are different projects 05:48.866 --> 05:52.466 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% that you do that, you did one on urban wildlife, 05:52.466 --> 05:56.433 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% which is really interesting, but it was tricky too because-- 05:56.433 --> 05:58.433 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% >>Yeah, it was tricky. 05:58.433 --> 06:01.766 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% Well it was tricky because I'd wanted to do it 06:01.766 --> 06:04.333 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% for many years, I had been pretty astonished 06:04.333 --> 06:08.333 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% to see how wild creatures have been making their homes 06:08.333 --> 06:11.066 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% in suburbia and in the heart of cities. 06:11.066 --> 06:15.266 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% We followed coyotes in the middle of the polar vortex, 06:15.266 --> 06:16.566 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% if you remember that from a couple of years ago, 06:16.566 --> 06:19.433 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% 40 below zero in downtown Chicago, 06:19.433 --> 06:20.633 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% there's no part of Chicago 06:20.633 --> 06:23.600 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% that doesn't have coyotes living in it. 06:23.600 --> 06:26.300 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Not passing through, but living there. 06:26.300 --> 06:29.900 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% Some of them never leaving the loop, you know the downtown. 06:29.900 --> 06:34.900 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% And we're filming them hunting rabbits at 40 below zero 06:36.333 --> 06:39.833 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% with the streets empty with the sirens going you know. 06:39.833 --> 06:43.000 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% And so I wanted to celebrate this and then was given 06:43.000 --> 06:45.933 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% an edict to make it scary. 06:45.933 --> 06:49.000 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% And we tried to walk the line between letting people 06:49.000 --> 06:49.966 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% go "What's going on?" 06:49.966 --> 06:51.700 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% and trying to be celebratory. 06:51.700 --> 06:53.533 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% But that was frustrating when you face 06:53.533 --> 06:56.300 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% some of the politics that can come up. 06:56.300 --> 07:00.433 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% >>Talk about the great project that you did in Africa 07:00.433 --> 07:04.133 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% on African elephants, that story, talk about that. 07:04.133 --> 07:06.533 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% >>I mean this is where my whole family 07:06.533 --> 07:08.633 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% we uprooted ourselves, we moved to Amsterdam 07:08.633 --> 07:11.033 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% where the production company was based, 07:11.033 --> 07:12.500 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% so that was an adventure in itself. 07:12.500 --> 07:15.033 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% And then I spent probably a quarter of the year 07:15.033 --> 07:19.000 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% in Botswana filming this incredible herd of elephants 07:19.000 --> 07:20.233 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% and the men who look after them, 07:20.233 --> 07:23.066 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% this group of basically misfits and orphans 07:23.066 --> 07:27.033 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% that have been rescued, and then given a second chance; 07:27.033 --> 07:28.466 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65% circus elephants. 07:28.466 --> 07:31.833 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% You know the calves from culls when they used to think 07:31.833 --> 07:33.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% that the elephant population was a problem 07:33.566 --> 07:35.433 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% they'd go out and kill all of the adults 07:35.433 --> 07:38.700 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% and these are the calves that were left over 20 years ago. 07:38.700 --> 07:42.433 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% So there's this camp where they rescue them 07:42.433 --> 07:45.633 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and they help them to rewild eventually. 07:45.633 --> 07:47.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And so this little baby elephant was born there 07:47.966 --> 07:50.800 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% and tragically her mother passed away 07:50.800 --> 07:53.900 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% from natural causes about six weeks after she was born 07:53.900 --> 07:57.366 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% so it fell to these men to try to save her life. 07:57.366 --> 07:58.833 align:left position:25% line:5% size:65% And that's the story of the film; 07:58.833 --> 08:02.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% these incredible guys who are just to this day 08:02.400 --> 08:03.733 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% are feeding her, looking after her 08:03.733 --> 08:05.633 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% 24 hours a day, seven days a week. 08:05.633 --> 08:08.333 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65% (emotional music) 08:08.333 --> 08:10.733 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% >>We have to save our elephants one at a time. 08:12.400 --> 08:13.633 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% Every elephant counts. 08:17.333 --> 08:19.000 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% >>It changed your perspective, 08:19.000 --> 08:20.533 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% >>It did. >>Talk about that. 08:20.533 --> 08:25.000 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% >>I've been very lucky to meet a lot of different creatures, 08:26.366 --> 08:28.966 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% chimps, wolves, great white sharks over the years 08:28.966 --> 08:32.133 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% and I've been moved by them and see them all as being 08:32.133 --> 08:36.333 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% a lot smarter and a lot more as individuals and variegated; 08:36.333 --> 08:39.300 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% that's a nice shark, that's a troublesome shark, 08:39.300 --> 08:44.300 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% that wolf is kind of timid but to experience that 08:45.500 --> 08:47.200 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% with elephants the way I was able to, 08:47.200 --> 08:52.200 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% to be so close to them and to experience their sentience 08:53.433 --> 08:55.633 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and that's really the best word I could use. 08:55.633 --> 08:59.866 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% They are thinking, feeling beings with a society 08:59.866 --> 09:03.400 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% that I frankly think is every bit as complex as ours. 09:03.400 --> 09:05.100 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% It's astonishing what they're able to do. 09:05.100 --> 09:07.700 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% They could peg us based on the language we speak 09:07.700 --> 09:10.566 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and which language means you're more dangerous 09:10.566 --> 09:11.966 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% or whether you're male or female 09:11.966 --> 09:13.433 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% or whether you're old or young. 09:13.433 --> 09:16.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% They're watching us, and they're responding to us 09:16.466 --> 09:18.133 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and they're reacting to us all the time 09:18.133 --> 09:19.900 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% to try to survive because they have to. 09:19.900 --> 09:23.766 align:left position:22.5% line:5% size:67.5% >>See now people are sitting here thinking, 09:23.766 --> 09:26.400 align:left position:20% line:5% size:70% "Oh, he has a dream job. 09:26.400 --> 09:28.166 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% "This is the dream job." 09:28.166 --> 09:30.866 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% And you would probably say, "Yes". (laughs) 09:30.866 --> 09:32.366 align:left position:10% line:5% size:80% >>Absolutely, it's my dream job. 09:32.366 --> 09:35.533 align:left position:12.5% line:5% size:77.5% It wasn't something I thought I would do when I was a kid, 09:35.533 --> 09:36.800 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% you know when I was a little kid I would have loved to do it 09:36.800 --> 09:38.566 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% and then I kind of forgot about it. 09:38.566 --> 09:41.533 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% And it certainly has become a dream job for me. 09:41.533 --> 09:46.533 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% But that's not by accident and that's also not without cost. 09:47.700 --> 09:49.200 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% You know what I mean? >>That's what I want 09:49.200 --> 09:50.733 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% to talk about too, because you have this beautiful family. 09:50.733 --> 09:53.333 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% When you go away, how long are you gone, usually? 09:53.333 --> 09:55.900 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% >>I tend to be gone for maybe three weeks at a time 09:55.900 --> 09:57.333 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% a couple of times a year. 09:57.333 --> 09:59.466 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% With "Naledi" and those films it was more. 09:59.466 --> 10:03.933 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% For the Darwin film I was probably gone overall 10:03.933 --> 10:05.533 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% for about a month and a half. 10:05.533 --> 10:08.233 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% But it's trying to find that balance and work together 10:08.233 --> 10:12.266 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% as a family so that I can be there to support her 10:12.266 --> 10:14.966 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% when she's directing a show at Live Arts or something 10:14.966 --> 10:18.266 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% or that then she can take the ball 10:18.266 --> 10:20.333 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% when I've got to go off on a trip. 10:20.333 --> 10:23.466 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% And the kids they step up too to handle themselves. 10:23.466 --> 10:26.166 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% >>Well, and how do you transition? 10:26.166 --> 10:29.400 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% You must feel for a few days like "Who am I? 10:29.400 --> 10:30.500 align:left position:32.5% line:89% size:57.5% "Where am I?". 10:30.500 --> 10:31.733 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% >>I think part of it is 10:31.733 --> 10:33.133 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% that I simply feel home at this point. 10:33.133 --> 10:34.833 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% I've lived here longer than any place 10:34.833 --> 10:36.433 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% I've ever lived in my life. 10:36.433 --> 10:38.600 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% I mean when Bree and I met I pretty much lived out of my car 10:38.600 --> 10:41.300 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% so I settled down. (Terri laughing) 10:41.300 --> 10:43.200 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% So, I-- >>Things have changed. 10:43.200 --> 10:45.300 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% >>Yeah, things have changed 10:45.300 --> 10:47.966 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% So I think there's also feeling part of a community. 10:47.966 --> 10:50.200 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% I mean I almost always go straight to Dr. Ho's 10:50.200 --> 10:53.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% and sort of just ground here in the community 10:53.033 --> 10:56.300 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% in the quietude of the house for a couple of days, 10:56.300 --> 10:58.033 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% just to the family itself. 10:58.033 --> 11:00.033 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% And Bree's always saying when I come back, 11:00.033 --> 11:02.233 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% "Oh you I can tell you've been hanging out with boys." 11:02.233 --> 11:05.366 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Evidently my energy-- >>You just throwing-- 11:05.366 --> 11:06.566 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% >>My cadence-- >>Everything on the floor. 11:06.566 --> 11:09.433 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% >>Whatever it is I'm just acting differently. 11:09.433 --> 11:13.366 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% I kind of have to settle down and get in the domestic groove 11:13.366 --> 11:16.166 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% again after having been out there being silly. 11:16.166 --> 11:18.000 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% >>With the boys and the elephants. 11:18.000 --> 11:19.233 align:left position:25% line:89% size:65% >>Not always boys. 11:19.233 --> 11:20.466 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% >>So, what are you working on now? 11:20.466 --> 11:21.933 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% You've got some exciting projects. 11:21.933 --> 11:24.366 align:left position:12.5% line:83% size:77.5% >>I'm really lucky, Geographic has asked me to come back 11:24.366 --> 11:26.200 align:left position:15% line:89% size:75% and I'm working with them 11:26.200 --> 11:28.500 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% on several different film projects. 11:28.500 --> 11:33.500 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% One is a film about the impact of climate change 11:34.600 --> 11:36.233 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% on the Inuit in Nunavut and Greenland. 11:36.233 --> 11:38.566 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% And this area that 40 years from now 11:38.566 --> 11:40.966 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% scientists predict is going to be the last area 11:40.966 --> 11:43.333 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% in the Arctic with sea ice. 11:43.333 --> 11:44.800 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% Where it's the last place it's gonna be 11:44.800 --> 11:47.233 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and how they want to protect that area now. 11:47.233 --> 11:48.500 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% Because it's incredible. 11:48.500 --> 11:51.033 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% It'll sort of be the Serengeti of the North 11:51.033 --> 11:54.766 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% where this is the one spot left where narwhal and polar bear 11:54.766 --> 11:56.033 align:left position:22.5% line:89% size:67.5% and all those things 11:56.033 --> 11:57.966 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% that depend on the ice will be able to survive. 11:57.966 --> 12:01.533 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% I'm prepping right now to head to Gabon 12:01.533 --> 12:03.900 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% because it's the largest intact portion 12:03.900 --> 12:07.033 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% of equatorial rainforest in Africa 12:07.033 --> 12:11.366 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% and it has the largest population of forest elephants, 12:11.366 --> 12:12.766 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% which are a separate species 12:12.766 --> 12:14.400 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% than the savanna elephants I've been filming. 12:14.400 --> 12:16.200 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% All last year I did savanna elephants 12:16.200 --> 12:17.733 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% and now I get to go do forest elephants 12:17.733 --> 12:19.500 align:left position:12.5% line:89% size:77.5% and we're profiling the people 12:19.500 --> 12:21.233 align:left position:25% line:83% size:65% who are trying to save them there. 12:21.233 --> 12:23.700 align:left position:15% line:83% size:75% >>Oh, this is fascinating hanging out with you. 12:23.700 --> 12:24.900 align:left position:35% line:89% size:55% Thank you. 12:24.900 --> 12:26.133 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% >>Oh, it's awesome, thanks so much, 12:26.133 --> 12:27.166 align:left position:22.5% line:83% size:67.5% it's so great to spend some time with you.