Discovery Channel’s Alaskan Bush People recap: Welcome to Browntown

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1. I just read tonight that it looks as if ‘Hippies Gone Camping’ (aka Alaskan Bush People) Ami is going to share her recipes with us in her new cook book…Putting Something Wild on Your Plate! Really? Wonder what she calls wild. Looks to me as if all their food comes out of a can.

   The more I learn about these people especially old Billy the less I’m surprised about anything. Deadbeats…thieves…liars…cheats…illegal activities…goons….it’s never ending it seems.

2. I would really like to visit Alaska in the near future. The show makes me want to call a Travel Agent. I think Bear is a real Hoot and a true Wolf.
   The show is truly awesome with filming of the wild life in their own habitat. The Brown’s are amazing craftsmen, hunters, and pilgrims in the wild. The Brown Family have strong family values of their own.
   Would like to see more daily chores from and Ami and the girls. I want to see more Alaskan Wildlife!!!

   • Are you kidding me Moose? Amazing craftsman? Seriously? They have built nothing. Nothing! The first season the neighbors had to build their cabin for them. This season they can’t even build a log cabin by themselves. They have to trade stuff for the logs even though they are in the middle of a dense forest. The early Alaskan pioneers built many log cabins with only hand tools. These guys have modern tools like chainsaws and can’t do it. Maybe you are impressed by the shrink wrap house Matt built.
     Amazing craftsman… maybe you were accidentally getting this confused with This Old House
     Maybe when a when Ami and the girls get home from this camping trip they are filming (They don’t live there full time Moose) they can send you a video of them loading the dishwasher and programming their DVR

     • And I have for sale:
       some miniature Alaskan penguins….going real cheap!

       • I was posting to moose.

   • Ya know seeing shows filmed in Alaska I feel the same way. It looks beautiful. However your perception of the Browns is because you have been misled…been lied to. The show is NOT real. It’s all a set up…fake.

     Go to sitnews.us scroll down past all the Ketchikan stuff to view points and find the one about the browns.

3. I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW THEY BOUGHT A ISLAND AND HOW THE HELL ARE THEY GOING TO MAKE IT THROUGH A WINTER. OR ARE THEY GOING BACK TO TEXAS TIL NEXT SEASON. MOST NEED TO SEE A DENTIST BUT THE SHOW WILL PAY FOR THAT IN THE END ALONG WITH THEIR NEW HOME THATS BEING CONSTRUCTED ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ISLAND.

   • Norm, they are on 29 acres of land that was supposedly purchased for them by the film company. The island they are on, Chichagof Island, is over 2,000 square miles and the fifth largest island in the United States. They by no means own the island, nor claim on the show they own it.
     Don’t think for one second they will be staying on their land at the end of filming. They have no permanent home, no food supplies, no real equipment, blah blah blah. They have nothing. When the filming ended they were out of there. It is just a scripted TV show

     • I don’t know about that …them saying they own the island..When the were on the boat arriving to the island pops said that’s yours that’s where your going to live ( or something close) .Based on the first camera view of the island ( the island looked small ) and the comment pops said …I felt that they were leading us to believe they owned the island.
       I did not know how large the land masswas until I WIKI’d it and Google earth’d it …I’m becoming a bit suspicious of the children’s upbringing solely in the bush, they say they haven’t experienced some main stream life style due to growing up in the bush. However they act like they have lived longer in mainstream lifestyle…some things they do and say indicate that it’s not all been learned in the bush… sometime they seem very melodramatic at times
       Getting a bit tired of the Look at me I’m wearing big boy pants attitude , especially the boys. Pops doesn’t show it much , but I think he’s very over bearing and controlling with a bit of a temper > with pops every story turns into life and death situation … thats getting old..
       Lastly pops says on one of the ads ,, no one bother the Brown family , no one,,,I ask then, who burned down the cabin the were building and made them leave…

       • I totally agree with you LT. Especially on the mainstream culture in them. They act like they’ve only seen OLD movies. Seven Brides For Seven Brothers one said once. Yet when that same one was building a hut out of an old tree stump, he said a “Yoda” hut. I have noticed they say a lot of mainstream slang.

         As for the father being controlling….oooh yes. It’s hidden on the show, but look at those young men. Their main objective in life is to please Daddy? Daddy has kept them isolated enough that they are social misfits now….and even if they are too big to beat…he can dismiss them to the horrible world out there. Dad’s a master manipulator.
         Not only that, but if you watch when one of them chopped over a tree and it fell on Bam’s head….really watch Bam’s reaction. He walks over to that brother in anger…and you can see that brother flinch as if to defend himself. Oh yeah, I think there is a lot of violence that is hidden from the camera.

   • Discovery is leasing the land for the show. They are paying people to come out and build for them. The Browns stay in town with the film crew and make trips out by boat when they are filming.

     The Browns have a very nice home…one that you or I would live in with very nice furniture. I haven’t been able to find those pictures again. I heard that the browns removed them.

     If you do a Google search you can find this info and much more.

     • What you say makes a lot of sense Theresa. Especially about the land.

       I googled this subject but could not find pictures of the house they live in though.

       • Google stoopidhousewives.com. there is a load of stuff about the browns.

4. Excellent recaps Ryan. These are far more entertaining than the actual show which is so drug out. In the last episode it took basically an hour of TV to get a deer and for Matt to make a hobbit cave.
   Being from Alaska this is such a black mark on this great state. These guys are up on felony charges for stealing money from the state. With little fact checking the whole “lived in the bush our whole lives” falls completely apart. They are on facebook, youtube and have web pages hawking their books and other assorted things. I just amazes me anybody could take any of this seriously. I do watch the show but just for the train wreck factor.
   Think about it people… We are about to go on episode 5 and they have no food, no permanent shelter, lost their “supposedly” only crab pot, broke their only chainsaw, have had to have the film crew rescue them, on and on. I could write a book on how contrived this show is. They are whispering while trying to sneak up on game while having a camera crew walking right beside them the whole time. If you think for one second these people are staying on this land for five minutes after the final cut you are delusional. They have no intentions of wintering there or making it their home. BTW they are very close to a town called Hoonah, not isolated as they like to portray it. But these are the same people that were basically living in a neighborhood last season and portrayed it as in the wild

5. We watched last nights episode (1/23/2015) where Gabe missed the shot at a deer. Of course he missed the deer, his scope was covered! I love the show, but my husband is a hunter, and he never misses anything! In the first episodes, all the guys were good shots, now, Birdie has to show Gabe how to shoot????? Really!

   • I watched it too and missed that!
     There were so many ‘shake your head moments’ in that episode, I was cold and wet just watching them. Haven’t they ever heard of rain gear?
     I can’t wait for Mr. Berenz’s take on it.

   • LMAO! I just re watched that. You’re right! It’s sooo obvious this show is scripted. When he shoots, the scope lid is still on. Yet when he is looking through the scope to see if he got the shot, the lid is off the scope….then it’s magically back on. Also it clearly shows the “acting”. One close shot of him before he takes the shot, while the clan is over there saying “take the shot”, he looks over towards them with this worried look on his face.

6. This is my favorite show right now. I admire the Brown’s tremendously. The are healthy, happy, constructive people. I feel glad for them. I would like to spend some time with them. Does anyone know if I can mail anything to them? I was thinking solar Christmas lights. Peace

   • They might be in prison by now as 5 of them were facing felony charges for fraud because they were living in Texas for years while receiving federal money for being full time Alaska residents.

   • Sure Allison, you can probably mail them as they normally live down in the states and don’t live in the wilds of Alaska. Part of why they are up on felony charges for stealing money from the state of Alaska and lying about living full time in Alaska. Also you can go to their Facebook page, their Youtube channel or one of their “official” webpages and talk with them or even buy one of their books or perhaps a T-shirt. The one place you cannot find them Allison is living in remote Alaska because they don’t live there. They go camping for a few weeks for a television show and get the heck out of there as quick as they can. It is a scripted television show Allison, not real life

   • You can mail anything you want to:
     Browns
     PO Box 1665
     Ward Cove, AK 99928
     The Browns lived in Ward Cove just north of Ketchikan before they started the TV shows so used a PO Box here. Put the name of the person you want the mail to go to someplace on the outside of the envelope or package, like on the back, and the mail will be given to the Browns for that person. Make sure you clearly write the PO Box number: 1665.

     • And don’t forget to include a few hundred dollars. Maybe if they get up enough to pay the state back the entire 13 thousand they stole from the PDF the court my go easier on them.

7. I would like to get to know Matt Brown from the show Alaskan Bush People. I think we have a lot of the same interests and I would actually pack up and go be his bride. I can send a picture. But where would I send it? I think he has a beautiful mind and appearance. I want to get out of this crappy city life. I feel cagged. Well if he is interested in writing or calling my Email is JenRK77@gmail.com please let me know!!!!!!

   • You are a complete idiot.

   • Jennifer, just go to one of their many internet pages and they would be happy to sell you some of their merchandise

   • Jennifer . I would never let my daughter hang with any of the Brown boys, if they truly lived a secluded life, which I don’t believe.
     So many holes in they story , the more they say , the more things they do make me think it’s more fake than real …You’d be better off getting a job training dog teams in Tanana Alaska , check out Yukon men Tv show … I can’t believe you put your email address on this site for every nut and ding dong to see a very naive thing to do…

   • Honey putting any email address out like you have done is not smart. I don’t know how old you are but i suspect you are young or have had a sheltered life. but what you have done here is dangerous. I hope you do not respond to any emails you receive even if he says he’s Matt brown because he very well might not be. There are ways to contact matt. Go onto facebook. In the meantime honey please ditch this email address and be very careful what information you give out on line. It’s not a safe place.

8. Another thing. Billy said in the last episode that he knew all the boat people because he worked as a commercial fisherman for 35 years. ??? One minute they are saying they lived in the bush, the bush way. Now he’s saying he worked 35 years? It’s just one contradiction after another.

   • Yeah I’ve been wondering how they supposedly lived in the bush if he was a commercial fisherman. Another lie!

9. OK guys, we have a 2 thousand dollar, windproof, super heavy duty, 400 square foot tent. So we better build a little shack out of ill fitting sticks and stick some moss in there, ah much better!

10. Noah says that adding the lid to the container creates water pressure. He has no understanding of air or fluid dynamics, since putting the lid on the container actually prevents the water from flowing
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    I loved that part, he said that makes sure the water only has one place to go. Is he the only person that has not put a finger over one end of a straw to hold the liquid in it when you take it out of the glass?

    • I caught that too! He even tried to say putting the lid on forces the water out better, like a shower. LOL It would be wiser to leave the lid off, therefore catching the rain water and having to fill it by hand less. And HE’S the smart one! lol

    • Oh yeah, and now you are all showered…..but now you’re standing in a mud puddle! You would think they would have at least sliced up some logs and made a wooden floor.

    • Yup I caught that as well,,, home school sometimes is just that, look who’s the teachers

11. So where was the film crew when they went to get the crab trap and got “lost”? That was a big plot point of this episode!

    This show is hilarious, they have shown them in the wood for about 3 days total, living in a tent eating franks and beans wearing clean clothes.

    Nevermind that in real life they owned a large house, ran Utube and webpages for several years and lived in Tennessee and Texas for years yet pretend to not know what twitter or a microwave are….

    • Let’s not forget… it all started when they went into town to buy a generator, and the government people came and burned down their cabin. They lost everything? Then I guess when they went to town, they also took with them that old film footage of them back in the day that they keep showing….as well as the photos of them when they were young.
      Then when the boat sank, which had everything they owned on it, Ami is crying because she lost a poem Billy wrote her? Umm, what about the pictures and videos of the kids when they were young?
      This whole show is a joke.

    • Oh yeah, and remember when the cast was asked what they thought of people saying they are not real? Gabe said “Well I guess you will have to come up to Alaska and knock on our door, and say are you real?
      “Knock on our door”? They don’t have a door! Or was that a Freudian slip?

    • All the melodrama and each issue turns onto a life and death experience ,, it’s so fake…their all eccentric coo coo’s…
      Bush people , yeah right, why would they bring cans of food into the wild wilderness ,, they’re supposed to live off the land ?

12. Where exactly does the Brown family live on the island?

13. This is another example of the audience being duped… (it’s actually kind of funny).
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UpSlpvb1is
    So, whenever the Browns act like they’re on the razors edge of surviving, I know there’s probably a 7-11 about a mile away!

    • The lot where they got “shot at” was a subdivision with a neighbor about 200 yards away. They were 1/2 mile away from Grizzly Pizza shop!

14. The blog was more entertaining than the episode. I had to give it a chance because the first season was a train wreck I couldn’t look away from. Now, after finding out the true story of the Bush Family Robinson, the act is tired. We all know the lies and manipulations, the show has lost any charm it had.

15. I’m so glad to see this show come back. I have missed it.
    On the last episode, the Professor designed a new hut, as well as a shower. He’s so smart.
    MaryAnn and Ginger found a box of voodoo dolls that looked like the castaways, and began playing with them.
    The Skipper and his little buddy Gilligan went out fishing for crab. Unfortunately they did not calculate the depth of the water and lost the crap pot to the Sea. (They should have brought the Professor with them to calculate properly)
    As usual Mr. and Mrs. Howell did very little. They just told everyone else what to do. Lovey did do the dishes, but made a point to say it was not her week to do them.
    All in all….a good day on the island.

    In all seriousness, I don’t know what to think of this family. They contradict themselves over and over. In one sitting the mother says her friends were mad at Billy for taking her off to Alaska. She insisted she wanted to go and it was not Billy’s fault. YET…. after the drama at the cabin, and they moved back to where they had come from, Ami said she didn’t want to move to where they built the cabin. She said that she almost kissed the ground when they came back. Soooo, If she didn’t want to move to the cabin build…but she went anyway….how am I to believe she really ever wanted to go live in Alaska at all?
    I try to get my mind around this family because I really do like them. It just seems to me the boys are afraid of their father. I really find myself questioning if they really love and respect their father…or are they afraid of him. Loving a parent and fearing them can look the same.
    When they lost the crab pot….they didn’t want to tell Billy. Then they go out and get lost trying to find the pot. I mean it contradicts this “family sticks together” message they always spout off. Then why are the boys afraid to tell dad they lost the pot and ask for help? Notice when the patrol found them and brought them back….there was no mention still of the lost crab pot. Gabe and Matt sat alone eating and beating themselves up emotionally for messing up and disappointing dad.
    Then of course they go on and on about you have to watch out for bears…they can sneak up and you won’t even hear them. They tip toe through the woods looking for where the one went that they saw…..yet over and over again there goes Bear running through the woods! No fear he’ll run up on one? It’s contradicting.
    When the bear snuck up on the camp site, they showed the Brown’s inside sleeping. I swear it looked like one of them sleeps sitting up! You can see one person sitting up with a blanket over them, kinda hunched over. ??
    To me they all seem to have one thing in common. Keep dad happy. Ami is the same way. When they cut the widow maker tree down, you can hear Ami saying after it fell “right where you wanted it”. Like everyone seems to feed Billy’s ego constantly.
    I have come to the conclusion that this whole life is really for Billy. I think if Billy had a stroke or something and could no longer live in the bush….they’d all leave the bush and never return to it to live.
    Billy just seems like a master manipulator. It saddens me that these young kids are living this. They should be finding love and their own lives, but their isolation has really damaged their social skills. I’m all for family, but this is a little weird.
    Then again of course, this could all just be entertainment. Good show…hard to get my mind around it though.

    • Best part was the film crew for some reason did not film them going to retrieve the lost pot when that was a big part of the episode. OMG they are lost!

    • By the way the Skipper and 4 of the mates are facing felony fraud charges for lying about their residency in Alaska to receive the money full time residents get…

16. Where does the film crew stay when filming the bush people?

    • Local hotel

17. I love your recaps of the show! I look forward to a new one after every episode! I die of laughter every time! Bravo Sir, you are an excellent writer.

    • Thank you, Desi! Clearly you understand what this whole thing is about.

18. I admire and are confused by the Browns. To live free is admirable. The work that it takes to do this is amazing. My one question is, why don’t they place any importance on the condition of Birds teeth?

19. I have thoroughly enjoyed your Bush People recaps… until now. I understand you missed part of the episode, and that you were drinking prior to watching, but were you still drinking as you wrote this? You seem almost angry and belligerent! I envision you reeling around the room, screaming to the heavens for the cursed wanna-be-bush-people, while intermittently banging away those curses on your keyboard… and before you had time to sober up – BOOM! You hit send to the publisher!

    • To be clear, I watched the show after the party. I did not actually write the recap until the following afternoon. Didn’t intend to be belligerent. Probably was trying too hard to make something entertaining out of a very dull episode.

      • Well, can’t argue there! Again, your recaps are hilarious, and perhaps I came off a bit harsh as I do blame you for the fact that I put the Browns back in my queue – it’s so much funner to read when I’ve seen what you’re talking about. 😉

        • No worries. You definitely get what’s going on here with this show and these recaps. So appreciated!

20. Where was Bam? Why wasent he seen or mentioned till the last few min of the episode. Not on shot of him helping build the house

    • Probably updating their Utube and web pages they have run for years selling Billy’s many books….

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