"Hillbilly Blood: A Hardscrabble Life

Hi all. I stumbled across this thread looking for info on the show. Found everyone's opinion to be quite insightful. As a nearly lifelong resident of West Virginia I have gotten to know quite a few hillbillies, and what I have seen on the commercials is not hillbillies. I will probably end up watching an episode just for curiosity, but if they want to show some real hillbillies they need to be filming in McDowell county, WV.
 
These guys are not real hillbillies.
They must have been born with a silver slingshot in hand.
 
HuntBomb said:
These guys are not real hillbillies.
They must have been born with a silver slingshot in hand.
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:D
You can say that again. :D

I saw part of one their shows the other night, where they were cutting down a tree with a two man cross cut. I couldn't believe what I heard when the one brother was telling the other, how the trick is to pull and not to push the saw.
Seemed odd that these old guys had to review the standard operating procedures on the first cut, to some of us who have worked with these saws before we could drive. :D
 
Yes he does have very nice hair...but us women need to have someone good to look at when we watch TV....I mean let's face it they may have been poor before, but now they are TV stars....and it's all about looking good...but it is a cool show and interesting to watch, especially for someone from the city
 
maybe so...but for us folks from the city...it is like looking into another world.....I mean imagine growing up riding the subways with hundreds of people everyday and then watching how these too guys live...I mean the younger one always looks good....but again.....us ladies want to see a good looking man on TV even if we are old.............Spencer ..... he has some pretty nice clothes for someone without any money....lol....but I still think it is an intersting show overall.........and although I only visited western North Carolina twice...I thought it was so beautiful there............
 
i live in los angeles, calif. at first, this show freaked me out. this is a side of america that i did not know existed. i found the show very entertaining. upon further reflection, i think it is a scripted reality show. as umberto00 noted, the dead battery episode was very contrived. survivalist don't have jumper cables? hmm... eugene has had scuba diving and snorkeling experience. the gentlemen are well spoken and seem educated. living near hollywood, of course i can see the production value. all in all, entertaining, but again, contrived.
 
I grew up in the very part of the country these guys are talking about and I can tell ya this stuff is a bunch of scripted bull!
 
I grew up in SW Ohio, with blood from WV and KY...then, mom married into NC hillbilly blood. I gotta tell ya, the guys on this show talk too fast to be for real. I think it's just another set-up show, like the Amish teenage runaway show awhile back. anything to get a fool to watch, get advertisers to pay, and make a buck. SMH
 
I was born and raised in Haywood County, which is where Cold Mountain is where this show is filmed, and I can confirm that these guys are totally fake. This is where Popcorn Sutton lived and died, I knew him before he killed himself and its a really rural area. You could walk into any gas station/Walmart/whatever and I can guarantee at least 90% of the people there will be more redneck than these guys and the other 10% will be Floridians because this is where they come for vacation. These guy arent "hillbillies", I'm more of a hillbilly than they are. If Doc Trinidad is in Asheville he probably knows unless hes new in the area, all hes got to do is drive west like 20 minutes and hes there.
 
Fine as long as you remember it's entertainment, not documentary - despite the "reality" label. Unfortunately true of the genre, and too many people assume these shows reflect real life. They do not, and are not intended to.
 
I went back through this thread, anybody else notice that there are 7 people that joined up and posted in this thread and nowhere else?
Not sure what that means.

when did this crap show end up on discovery channel, it was on some way off main line cable?

I caught about a minute of a show last night, there seems to be no trespassing laws in this part of NC, they were digging up gemstones on somebody's property.

that's the problem, or one of the problems I have with shows like this. there's people out there that don't know any better and will end up camping or or building shelters or deer traps on your or my property and wonder why they get arrested or charged, if you catch them before they do to much damage.

just because its up in the mountains doesn't make it public property, somebody's paying taxes on it.

To sum up, I think this show sucks and the people in it do as well. They ought to team these toolbags up with the finding big foot people and the storage locker show. They can buy old lockers and then take the stuff inside and build big foot traps in the far off mountains of NC, that would be a show that i wouldn't watch.

Sorry this turned into a rant, I am so tired of reality TV
 
I just caught this - it's now 5/2013 - now it's on Discovery. Looks 100% bogus to me. $1000 for a $500 chainsaw? $650 for a $300 used saw? Not in Appalachia. The one "brother" looks like he just came off of the set of "Portlandia" - the other (Eugene) is more like what you'd find in the mountains - no teeth and all haggled. If they are only a few years apart the older dude was definitely road hard and put away wet. I live in the sticks and don't make boats out of grape vines, or eat acorns and the like. Even in rural W.Va. it ain't that bad. Reality - there's a Home Depot at every turn here now where you can buy a $100 made-in-China Homelite - just like the rest of the world.
 
Yeah Ditto
"Reality TV" is anything but 'real'. It's a bunch of crap a producer dreams up - and then find the 'reality stars" to follow. We're supposed to believe that in NC guys hike around for days looking for someone who's encroaching on their "moonshine" biz - and when they find him they wind up helping him fix up his old car? And then they can't bust on him b/c he showed the 'boys' how to rinse out their still with Ketchup? WTF? It's idiotic. The worst one of these I've seen was called "Rock Stars" and it was about a road gang who knocked rocks down onto roads before they fell down on their own The whole show was a bunch of idiots hanging on ropes 10-20' above a road (not far enough to be interesting) - and here's the thing... it was a different crew every day because most likely nobody wanted to come into work. Complete waste of videotape.
 
I "grew up" in Brooklyn and we had a brownstone in Manhattan. Show looks pretty legit to me! Lol. Having been a city kid I find the show quite entertaining even if the situations are fabricated!
 
Koa22345 said:
. If Doc Trinidad is in Asheville he probably knows unless hes new in the area, all hes got to do is drive west like 20 minutes and hes there.
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Nope I was born and raised here, run all over Madison County and you are right most people around here (unless they are transplants) are a hell of a lot more country than the boys on that show are!!!
 
doc trinidad said:
Nope I was born and raised here, run all over Madison County and you are right most people around here (unless they are transplants) are a hell of a lot more country than the boys on that show are!!!
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There are people around here more country than those guys. :D
 
555 said:
Doesn't the one dress a little Trendy to be a real Hillbilly? :D

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ya know....I was thinking sort of the same thing.. I like the style though.
 
Are you kidding... These two guys are as fake as they get! Ok, soooo where to begin, neither of them have the "Southern Accent!" the episode with the "gems" sure they just happen to find gems in the creek shortly after they start looking, right..... BULL! I lived there for ALOT of years and never found any, and if they really did find them, why did they only look ONE day instead of going back daily with a mother load like they claim to have found???? Ok...

And lets see, the episode with the rebuilding the pig fencing... UMMMMM BOYS... the first shot of them showing up just in time to help wrestle the big brute back in his pen, the panels were empty!!!!!! yeah caught that one :)
the first two gy=uys claiming to be trying to get the hog back in its pen alone, look close at the panels, one is red the other is grey, then the next shot is of our heros showing up in the nick of time, they grab a piece of STRYFOAM to close the gap and get the big hog in??? wrong! look at the panels again, instead of red and grey, now they are red and RED!! yeah ok, bad editing!

Then lets see, the episode where they are lost, oh this was to funny! How often do you ever wander thru the woods lost, and happened to come across a little old woman , in a neck brace, weighing no more than a mouse turd, who just HAPPENS to have a huge pile of fried chicken with all the fixings in the middle of the afternoon, and shw wasn't even expecting company!!!! wow! impressive!!!! BULL!!!!!!

So the show can keep on piling on the crap, and that is exactly what it is.... ohhh and the walnut oil, haha! it would work but the only problem is the only walnuts that grow there is BLACK walnuts, and the oil has to be from ENGLISH walnuts.... nice try, no go........ I could pick apart every episode, but enjoying REAL tv shows, not fake REALITY shows like HILLBILLY BLOOD!! THEY GIVE REAL HILLBILLIES A BAD REP.....
 
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