National Geographic Weekend
Summary: National Geographic Weekend, hosted by Boyd Matson, is a weekly talk show featuring interviews with some of the most fascinating explorers and scientists on the planet.
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Podcasts:
This week, we take a tumble off an ice cliff, then we isolate the gene that makes us explore, and finally we survive the most outstanding solo journey ever recorded in Antarctic history.
This week on National Geographic Weekend, a photographer survives a rhino attacking the elephant he's riding, then we walk the Rim of Africa, and finally, we get the history of the world in just eleven minutes.
This week, we celebrate National Geographic's 125th birthday! We chat with a filmmaker whose leg was colonized by some Ecuadorian jungle flies, then we go hunting with some well armed chimpanzees in Senegal, and finally, we walk in the foosteps of early man... from Africa to South America.
This week, we make some tools with Congo's chimps, then we go for a swim on top of Mount Kilimanjaro, and finally, we teach a grizzly bear how to fish in Alaska.
This week, we learn to be the lead dog in the pack, then we smuggle a lion into the West Bank, and finally, we prove the Mayan prophecies wrong by still being alive.
This week, we fight a polar bear with a shovel in Canada's arctic, then we search for aliens inside our solar system, and finally, we dive for thousand year old human remains in Mexico.
This week, we ride reindeer in Mongolia, then we meet a heroic caribou in the Falkland Islands, and finally, we smash some nuts with Brazil's capuchin monkeys.
This week, we summit the world's tallest peak on each continent, but have to go back to finish high school, then we run with Chicago's resident coyotes, and finally, we climb high into Costa Rica's canopy with Barbie.
This week we climb Mt. Denali in winter for the third time, then we dig up ancient whales in the driest place on earth, Chile's Atacama Desert, and finally, we dive in Cuba's famous Bay of Pigs.
This week, we climb Yosemite's El Capitan with an all disabled climbing team, then we stalk leopards in South Africa and finally, we go island hopping in the South Pacific
This week, we've got good reason to hold our breath, as we dive two hundred feet beneath the ocean, survive an attack by a cheetah, and finally, sail 16,000 ft high above the Sierras, and then crash land.
This week on National Geographic Weekend, we fix up a yacht and sail it through the Northwest Passage, then we dine with vultures in Turkey, and finally, we meet carnivorous kangaroos and tree-climbing crocs in Australia.
This week, we're headed to the bottom of the ocean to try and prevent a war, then we're going where it's hot, toxic, and volcanic, in search of Ming the Merciless, and finally, we're off to Namibia, to run with the cheetahs.
This week, we get a house call from the doctor to write us a prescription for some good music, then, we might need to call the doc back because we get a deadly virus from a monkey, and finally, we outrun an antelope.
This week we go to Washington State to break a record by going over a waterfall in a kayak, we make some money by selling human poop, and then head to Kenya to wrestle baby elephants in order to save their lives.