>>932293I was the on-set Paramedic for several episodes of 'The Woodsmen', a SHIT TIER SHOW from History Channel.
Basic premise if you haven't seen it is it follows several different individuals or groups who supposedly live 'off grid' in the Inland Northwest.
>Arrive at the set, it's got a legitimately cool tree house...right above his mom's house. They only live 12 miles out of town>First episode sets these guys up as being way off in the wilderness off grid>Show storyline devolves to them firing pistols blindly off in the woods at 'illegal loggers' cutting wood; basically never happens here>One episode they are 'starving' -12 miles from a grocery store- and are hunting with a bow and arrow>Have to chase poachers away but they get away with the deer these fags were trying to huntThe 'poachers' were a couple of the set helpers hired locally. And for one of the scenes where they were 'chasing poachers', I had to move my medic truck, and they actually had to position the cameras to not catch the food tent in the fucking shot.
These people are all jokers. None of this shit is real. It is so contrived and fake. What killed me most about this was two things:
1. It just made every one of us up here who lives even remotely rurally look like a bunch of jackasses. Especially the 99% of us who are responsible, careful gun owners.
2. There are so many people up here who live off grid, or at least live remotely, and have GENUINELY interesting stories to tell. Stories of how they got to be where they are, stories of how they deal with the challenges that come with it, everything. Ways they grow food in a short growing season. Ways they generate power, or get water in the winter. Really cool shit. You COULD make a show about it, an actually informative one.
But no. These Californian fucks come out here and have to cook up a bunch of tomfuckery to sell to the Shitstory Channel.
Fuck television. This is why I will never allow it in my home.
