Sweet Tooth #3
12-12-2011, 10:14 PM
Do you remember the old days; when the Discovery Channel consisted largely of different animals just hanging around, hunting, or making other animal babies?
Well, they've evolved since then. And they have 2 new shows I really love!
Moonshiners
I've always been interested in moonshine. This may be due to my affinity for alcohol, my Appalachian heritage, or my general disregard for authority.
I've watched several programs on KET (Kentucky public television) on this topic. And I recognize this one guy (Popcorn) from KET, he's on Moonshiners also. He's the guy with the ZZ Top beard. He's a trip!
I haven't got a chance to watch Moonshiners yet, but it looks awesome!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbhrCSwAoQ8
Weed Wars
When I first tuned in to this program, I though I'd just spend an hour checking out some herbal eye candy. But this show is very interesting. It's about medical marijuana in California; and the conflict between state and federal laws. They show a clear portrait of the people who produce this stuff, and the people that use it.
This is very compelling, and educational television.
What really blew me away though; is the merchandise that Discovery is selling to promote this show. They have one shirt with a giant pot leaf on the front! Now I have a couple shirts with giant pot leaves on the front. They're shirts with Bob Marley, Grateful Dead, and other hippy/gangsta stuff. I never thought I'd live to see the day when a Discovery Channel T-shirt had a big ass pot leaf on the front. lol...
http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/weed-wars/
But what makes this even more interesting, is the correlation between the 2 industries. There's quite a large "Weed War" going on in Kentucky, the same place Moonshiners is shot. The reason is that a lot of the old moonshiners are now growers.
Kentucky spends a couple million dollars a year flying around in helicopters looking for pot plants. Now, most are planted on hillsides. So a person or 2 rappels down out of the helicopter and cuts down the plants while the helicopter hovers above. And yes, this costs a couple million a year. Seems a waste of money to me considering the poverty rate in some of these Appalachian communities.
But that's just my opinion, I'm sure others may disagree...
Well, they've evolved since then. And they have 2 new shows I really love!
Moonshiners
I've always been interested in moonshine. This may be due to my affinity for alcohol, my Appalachian heritage, or my general disregard for authority.
I've watched several programs on KET (Kentucky public television) on this topic. And I recognize this one guy (Popcorn) from KET, he's on Moonshiners also. He's the guy with the ZZ Top beard. He's a trip!
I haven't got a chance to watch Moonshiners yet, but it looks awesome!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbhrCSwAoQ8
Weed Wars
When I first tuned in to this program, I though I'd just spend an hour checking out some herbal eye candy. But this show is very interesting. It's about medical marijuana in California; and the conflict between state and federal laws. They show a clear portrait of the people who produce this stuff, and the people that use it.
This is very compelling, and educational television.
What really blew me away though; is the merchandise that Discovery is selling to promote this show. They have one shirt with a giant pot leaf on the front! Now I have a couple shirts with giant pot leaves on the front. They're shirts with Bob Marley, Grateful Dead, and other hippy/gangsta stuff. I never thought I'd live to see the day when a Discovery Channel T-shirt had a big ass pot leaf on the front. lol...
http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/weed-wars/
But what makes this even more interesting, is the correlation between the 2 industries. There's quite a large "Weed War" going on in Kentucky, the same place Moonshiners is shot. The reason is that a lot of the old moonshiners are now growers.
Kentucky spends a couple million dollars a year flying around in helicopters looking for pot plants. Now, most are planted on hillsides. So a person or 2 rappels down out of the helicopter and cuts down the plants while the helicopter hovers above. And yes, this costs a couple million a year. Seems a waste of money to me considering the poverty rate in some of these Appalachian communities.
But that's just my opinion, I'm sure others may disagree...