One more thing while my brain is out. There is about 0% chance the CEO or whomever at Discovery interacted with anyone. Almost all the shows out there are made by production companies. I know. My family business has been on Food Network, and have been approached twice, once by Pilgrim Studios in Hollywood and once by Sharp Entertainment in Manhattan about doing a reality show.
Never once did we interact with any CEO of any network.
Talk about holes in the story. Holes in the ground. Holes in the story. I was born in the night but not last night mornin' glory.
No more implausible than "two of their top executives" of a GPR company coming out to personally redo the GPR survey themselves, when we know that considerable expertise is necessary to effectively design, conduct, and interpret GPR surveys. In other words, you'd have to be a trained GPR surveyor. Hardly something an executive would waste time doing.
Sites being prepped for GPR surveys must be cleared of vegetation and any other obstructions, as the GPR unit must be pushed in a straight line, back and forth, eventually forming a complete grid, so anomalies can be easier to interpret in context.
Seeing that the 1847 site still has plenty of cacti standing, it would be impossible for a GPR unit to be pushed in a straight line.
And how was permission for a GPR survey authorized and granted, and conducted in a national park on such short notice? Without the presence of an archaeologist?
And that "Blake," the GPR guy had, practically overnight, pawned or converted into cash, whatever he had found on site, purchased very expensive things and then moved out of state.
All within the space of a year or so?
For me, that wins the following award:
