Inside Florida's Elite Dolphin Training Center Hey Reader, This week on Unique America, we’re in the Florida Keys going behind the scenes at Dolphin Life to find out what it really takes to become a dolphin trainer. We went into the day thinking we’d be learning a few hand signals and spending a lot of time in the water. We quickly found out there is a whole lot more happening behind the scenes before a trainer ever asks a dolphin to do a trick. From the early morning prep to learning how...
29 days ago • 1 min read
Inside the World’s Largest Truck Stop Hey Reader, This week’s video takes us inside Iowa 80, the world’s largest truck stop, during one of the biggest trucker events of the year. But what we found was so much more than a massive truck stop. We went in curious about the size, the trucks, the museum, the food, and the people who come from all over the country to be there. But the deeper we got into the day, the more this story became about the men and women behind the wheel. The drivers...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Inside the Town Where Cell Phones Are Banned (Appalachia) Hey there Reader, Deep in the Appalachian Mountains lies one of the strangest places in America, a region where cell phones, Wi-Fi, and even microwaves are supposedly against the law. The internet is full of wild claims about why this place exists, so we traveled there to separate fact from fiction. What we discovered was far more surprising than we expected. Thank you to our friends at Turo for making this adventure possible! Book...
2 months ago • 1 min read
Inside America's SINKING Town (Before It Disappears) Hey there Reader, There’s a tiny community in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay with no bridge to the mainland, a mail boat that delivers many of life’s necessities, and water that is never far from anyone’s front door. Tangier Island has already lost much of its land. Entire communities that once stood nearby are now underwater. But despite the shoreline moving closer, the people who call Tangier home are still fighting to remain. We flew...
3 months ago • 1 min read
Inside America's Infamous Retirement Community Hey there Reader, This week, we’re taking you inside one of the most talked about places in America: The Villages, Florida. If you’ve heard of The Villages, you’ve probably heard the rumors. Golf carts everywhere. Wild stories. A retirement community that people either seem to love, judge, or completely misunderstand. So we decided to spend a day there and see what life is actually like on the other side but what surprised us most wasn’t the golf...
3 months ago • 1 min read
Inside America's Rarest Honey Harvest Hey Reader, This week’s video started with one jar of honey. While filming along Florida’s Forgotten Coast, we picked up a jar of Tupelo honey and immediately understood why people talk about it differently. It didn’t taste like any honey we’d ever had. That jar led us to Wewahitchka, Florida, where America’s rarest honey harvest happens for only a tiny window each spring. The Tupelo bloom lasts about two weeks, and everything has to line up perfectly. So...
4 months ago • 1 min read
Inside America's Forgotten Coast This week’s video takes us along one of the most unspoiled coastlines in America, the Forgotten Coast. We had one day to explore 80 miles of small towns, empty beaches, seafood history, old Florida charm, and the kind of places that still feel like they belong to the people who built them. We started in Carrabelle, where we found the world’s smallest police station, met locals who remember when the seafood industry was booming, and quickly realized this...
4 months ago • 1 min read
Inside The Town That Summons Worms From The Ground We thought we were just going fishing but instead we ended up deep in the Florida Panhandle chasing a 100-year-old tradition that almost no one is still doing. It’s called worm grunting — and it looks like magic when worms starting coming out of the ground. But when we got into town, everything started falling apart. Our experts canceled and no one wanted to take us. What followed was one of the most unexpected, hands-on, and honestly wild...
5 months ago • 1 min read
Inside The World's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup We spent 48 hours inside a small Texas town where thousands of rattlesnakes are brought in every year… and what we found was way bigger than we expected. Sweetwater, Texas is home to the World’s Largest Rattlesnake Roundup — a tradition that’s been around for decades and one that sparks a lot of strong opinions. From hunting rattlesnakes in the Texas wild, to stepping inside the snake pit, to experiencing the people and community that keep this...
5 months ago • 2 min read