If anyone out there actually watched "Secrets of the Founding Fathers" on the Hysterical Channel last night -- on behalf of my friends and brothers Chris Hodapp, Mark Tabbert, and Brent Morris, I sincerely apologize for the two hours you will never get back. And if you were planning to watch one of the repeats because you missed the original broadcast -- don't.
Or be damn sure you've got plenty of liquor handy.
Did you know that our Founding Fathers were high on hemp and drunk on wine and booze when they wrote the Constitution?
Did you know that George Washington could trace his lineage back to the priesthood of Solomon's Temple?
Did you know that Ben Franklin spent his time in England mostly whoring it up underground with the Hellfire Club?
Yeah, me neither. And you sure didn't hear that from Hodapp, Tabbert and Morris, that is, when the producers actually let them talk.
Hell, they gave the stoner who runs the USA Hemp Museum more yak-yak time than Tabbert got, and Tabbert is actually a real historian. Christopher Knight is clearly in need of the medicine that laces up the back, and Ralph Epperson needs a dose of sanity as well.
And...GHOSTS!
Ai yi yi.
This piece of crap was supposed to be based on Chris Hodapp's Solomon's Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C., and if they had kept him and Tabbert and Morris, dumped the rest of the "experts", and done a straight show on Chris's book, it would have been accurate, interesting, and -- above all! -- HISTORICAL.
What a shame the History Channel can't even do good history.
Another perfectly good reason that I dropped satellite service. Of course, it's free on the net.
http://www.tvpc.com/Channel.php?ChannelID=1794
I gave up on the UFO, Bigfoot, and Nazi Ghost Sexcapades channel some time back.
On the upside, if you ever watch the A&E show Crime Wave, that's my Remington 11, S&W Military & Police, and S&W Regulation Police that the actors are using. On the downside, the guns had a bit more wear on them when I got them back from Jupiter Productions, but on the upside, I got quite a few boxes of blanks out of the deal.
It was bad enough back when they were just the Hitler Channel. The only reason I was even tuned in was for this particular show.
Dick, I just found your comment from 6/30 in the spam bin.
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