Posted on 03/05/2013 11:12:02 AM PST by envisio
Oh I forgot about Deadliest Catch! New season should be starting.
For some reason I couldn’t get into Moonshiners. It was OK but didn’t hold my interest.
Also like Alaska The Last Frontier.
One show mrs p6 and I usually catch at least partially is In The Kitchen With David Sundays on QVC. Enjoy his cookbook and the recipes he presents.
My wife and I tuned into the season 3 premiere to see what all the fuss was about, and after it was over she said “we have to keep watching this!”
These “reality” shows are always scripted and/or edited to within an inch of their life, but what isn’t scripted here is that you have a good old-fashioned US success story. Shows how evil the whole 1% rhetoric is - this family is now in the cursed 1% (and then some) and they got there by virtue of a good idea, hard work, and family values.
I would say a cross between I Love Lucy and Swamp People...
It is extremely annoying to me, with my intellectual pretentions, how hilarious and heart-warming I find this show to be! My second ex-wife was from Kentucky and Tennessee, so I can relate. Her dad, a man who raised quail-hunting dogs and loved to get up before dawn to hunt and fish, would fit right in with this family.
Moonshiners stuck with me because that is my backyard and I have always been around it. Not the moonshine itself but the woods and hills and the desire to do what I want without government intrusion.
Its funny, because they always run subtitles because of their thick accents but I can understand every word they say just fine.
missed, or honestly, didn’t get into seasons 1 and part of 2, but HOOKED now! I love how the show ends - family around the table thanking the good lord for everything that they have. Great all around show, Jack!
I love this show! Glad I’m not the only one. Most of what I watch anymore is on the cable channels...Duck Dynasty, Storage Wars, Swamp Men, Axe Men and gold Rush...
...the desire to do what I want without government intrusion...
Bingo! Yup I like that aspect as well. Mrs p6 and I grew up and live within a stone’s throw of The Whiskey Rebellion.
I think the reason I didn’t get into Moonshiners is my work schedule. I work overnight and have to keep at least two TV stations tuned for news and weather. Sometimes I can have a third or forth on tuned to a regular program. Sometimes I keep one on a religeous program...like Joel Olsteen or a documentary about the Middle East.
So when I get home between 6-8 AM the TV is usually off. Afternoons I prefer live TV hence the harness racing. Later if I’m not busy fixing a car or other problem, cooking or watching grandkids I watch TVland or catch up with the shows I mentioned.
You just KNOW the left is going to dig up some dirt on the Robertsons and try to destroy the show ! It may be interesting to see how they handle it. Dollars to donuts the Robertsons win!
I like the one prayer Phill said at the supper table where Kay had prepared squirrel:
“Lord thank you for all the things you’ve blessed us with and please help us not to take them for granted, amen.
Now let’s get in to them bushy tails”
(”...not take them for granted”) He knows that fortune and fame can send a person down the wrong path in a heartbeat and he has made it his mission to keep his family “on the path they should go”, as he says.
Morrissey.
Ex-lead singer of The Smiths. Great songwriter, great singer, a drip in every single other way.
My wife cracked me up the other day....
We let the dog out and he squeezed threw a crack in the gate and across the field he went.
She turned and looked at me and said “he gone”
I woke up to an email from my 51 year old son that he had sent the previous night. He thanked me for taking him duck hunting and fishing when he was a kid. Thanked me for a couple of other things like pine car derby and being a cub scout leader for him. Scared the cr@p out of me. Sounded like a “Goodby letter”.
I immediately called to see if he was O.K. He was fine. He said he had just finished watching Duck Dynasty and that I reminded him of Phill, and just wanted me to know he appreciated me.
Damn fine show!!! Finer Son!!!
I agree
thank you for that post.
You’re lucky to have a son like that and he was lucky to have a father like that.
Of course no teenagers, at least not mine, appreciate the things parents do. Later in life it dawns on them though.
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Yeah, uncle Si said he thought it was the singer for the Doors. HA!
-— “One time, in Vietnam, I saw a grizzly bear ridin’ a scooter”. Uncle SI ——
That’s freakin’ hilarious.
How about we split the difference and say Cosby and Swamp people?
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