Have You Heard of Swamp People?

I walked through the den and saw a large H on the lower right corner of the television screen. Could it be that my teenage sons had a change of heart and decided they like history? I sat down on the couch across the room from them to see what was on the History Channel that had them so engrossed. Would you believe it was “Swamp People”.

That’s right. A show about some guys in Louisiana who chase alligators, or as they say, “gators.”

Here are two of the stars of the show.

And here is what the History Channel has to say about them…

Brothers Glenn and Mitchell Guist were born, raised and still live in their grandparents’ house on Conway Bayou. They’re master hunters, taught to live off the land by their father and so close neighbors call them by one name: “glenmitchell.” If the fish in Conway Bayou aren’t biting, the Guists aren’t bothered—any bush meat will do, and that means squirrel to nutria to wild boar could be on the menu.

I struggled to understand what the two men were talking about. The dialogue went something like this….

“Beep…..beep…..beep…..gator…..beep…..beep…..gator…..beep….etc., etc., etc.”

“What exactly do you find interesting about this?” I asked.

“I dunno,” one mumbled in between text messaging, eating chips and slurping cola.

“It’s exciting,” the other one said as he stole the chips from his brother and got swatted over the head with a couch pillow.

I scratched my head. took the chips away from my boys and gave them some parental advice that they have probably heard a few hundred times, “Don’t eat chips before supper it will ruin your appetite.” Then I gave my soon-to-be-high school-graduates some advice they hadn’t heard before, “And don’t get any ideas about becoming a Swamp People. You aren’t allowed to say bad words, ride in a boat without a life jacket or chase gators!”

They didn’t hear me. They were too busy watching Swamp People.

 

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9 Comments

  3. Uh-oh. You’ve stumbled upon a pet peeve of mine. The channels that used to be “educational”–like the History Channel and Discovery–have a lot of shows that can be called educational only in the broadest sense. Sometimes they are anti-educational in that they propagate far-fetched ideas that aren’t backed by any real research or science. Yuk.

  4. I don’t do gators! I was scared in Florida when we went down a few years ago. I don’t think I’ll watch em’ on TV!

    I’m here from Follow Me Friday (Madame Deals) — thanks!

  5. Thanks for the laugh. My boys are hooked on Mythbusters – something about explosives and a crash dummy with 1,000 lives, I guess – I don’t know. I can’t say I like the beep, beeps in that show either – and there are a lot of them, but I have to laugh… because my 7 & 10 year old boys have NO IDEA why there are beeps in between the words. It’s too funny. Oh, and Wednesday night, my boys had chips WITH dinner – they thought they were in heaven. Ahh… the joys of childhood. If only it lasted forever!

  6. I’ve never heard of swamp people. Thank you so much for stopping by my blog today. I look forward to visiting your lovely blog again. Hugs

  8. This really made me laugh. My oldest son, who is 31 now, loves the history channel. I have to admit, whenever I go to his house, I get sucked right in to whatever is on 🙂 It is a great channel, full of fascinating information. I am so happy to have found your blog, after you found mine 🙂

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