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"Country's Most Shocking" on CMT
Last month, I agreed to a 3-day interview with a production crew from
Country Music Television. The focus, I was told, was on "real" survivalists who "live off the societal grid" and are constantly prepared for power and water outages, blizzards, and other natural disasters. My suspicious nature must've been off when I agreed to the interview, because it was only after the crew arrived here in Paradise, Michigan that I learned they were filming for a CMT series called "Country's Most Shocking." I warned them that if they were looking for a wild-eyed revolutionary with an arsenal, they were going to be disappointed. I showed them our hideaway cabin on the river, the emergency solar/battery/inverter electrical system I'd assembled, our cache of dried foods,40 gallons of drinking water, dog teams and sleds, snowshoes, working kayaks, etc. I doubt we were the radicals they'd expected to find, but they did seem intrigued by how we were prepared to weather emergencies. The only really unusual facet of our lives are the 3 wolves we keep for public education. Still, we'll see how they treated us when the interview airs in October (2004) under the title "Survivalists." CMT's ad copy for this episode reads: "All those gun-totin', Sun-Tzu reading, NASCAR-watching, Oliver Stone-thinkin' types are out there. Best of all, most of them LOVE to talk. And shoot..." which doesn't make me expect they'll be entirely objective. I couldn't care less about Sun-Tzu's philosophy of war, NASCAR is boring to me, I think Oliver Stone must be mentally ill, and I don't especially like carrying a gun - I'm hardly anti-gun, I just don't need a firearm merely to stiffen my spine. I will admit to being a talker, but that goes with being a writer and teacher. So, good or bad, check out this episode of Country's Most Shocking to see how the latest generation of Country Music fans views the people that, I think, epitomize the free-thinking, calloused-hands, conservative views that created this style of music in the first place. Len McDougall, author of the books: The Encyclopedia of Tracks and Scats * The Log Cabin: An Adventure * Practical Outdoor Projects * The Field & Stream Wilderness Survival Handbook * The Snowshoe Handbook * The Outdoors Almanac * The Complete Tracker * Practical Outdoor Survival |
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"Len McDougall, Outdoor Writer" wrote:
Last month, I agreed to a 3-day interview with a production crew from Country Music Television. The focus, I was told, was on "real" survivalists who "live off the societal grid" and are constantly prepared for power and water outages, blizzards, and other natural disasters. My suspicious nature must've been off when I agreed to the interview, because it was only after the crew arrived here in Paradise, Michigan that I learned they were filming for a CMT series called "Country's Most Shocking." ...(clip)... Good luck, Len. Hope you've got a thick skin. |
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Wear a suit and tie, and speak in an English accent. That will drive them
simply crazy. -- Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus www.lds.org www.mormons.com "Sporkman" wrote in message ... "Len McDougall, Outdoor Writer" wrote: Last month, I agreed to a 3-day interview with a production crew from Country Music Television. The focus, I was told, was on "real" survivalists who "live off the societal grid" and are constantly prepared for power and water outages, blizzards, and other natural disasters. My suspicious nature must've been off when I agreed to the interview, because it was only after the crew arrived here in Paradise, Michigan that I learned they were filming for a CMT series called "Country's Most Shocking." ...(clip)... Good luck, Len. Hope you've got a thick skin. |
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