Some of the volunteers have passed on some illuminating details of how this thing has worked.
The show doesn't really pay for much of anything as far as the actual building of the house. It's all donated from local places and all the work is done by skilled and unskilled volunteers. All the food for all these people working 24 hours a day is donated by local restaurants. Don't get me wrong if some needy family gets helped by all this great, but that's not why I write.
It seems that the head guy (I forget his name is kind of a phony). He was there for the opening scene and then evaporated until day six when they were just about done but that's not why I write.
In today's local paper was a casting call for "blended families" to come to a local park this afternoon for an EMHE production of an idyllic scene of multi-cultural families frolicking together with the subject family. Potential families were advised that shooting would take several hours due to the need for multiple takes of the same scene while the producers adjusted backgrounds and settings for the maximum desired effect.
It would seem that it is not only homes that they're fabricating.
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That is very interesting Doug. I suspect that their are multiple projects going all at once around the country and that is why the host of the show, shows up for some promo filming then off again to who knows where.
I will have to tell my friend about that because her son's business is involved in a project with EMHE in Phoenix. My friend is under the impression that when this project starts and then finally airs on TV that they will be getting a lot of free publicity. He builds those foam pre-fab homes where they build all the walls in a factory with styro-foam with steal framing then assembled on site in just a day or two.
Doug say it aint so. The Media is fabricating..Naw.hahaha.I guess you never watched this show before but yea, it's for a good cause but the network milks it for all it's worth.
Ty Pennington is the host. He used to have a show on HGTV I think. He has a lot of other commitments besides the show.He used to be on the show a lot but as it grew in popularity and got renewed and he started getting payed more. He probably negotiated a lucrative contract where he doesn't have be on camera as much. We should be so lucky.
Yep, that was the trade off for the builders I guess, the publicity.
Again it's for a good cause and I'm all for it.
Just seems like if they had run an ad looking for white only families or "blended" families need not apply it would have raised an eyebrow.
Teresa and I are looking to have a house built, if we can't find our dream home, a log cabin. We went to a place called Westchester Modular Homes, they build pre-fab homes. Got to walk through there factory. Amazing how they do it!
Doug, I glad that family is getting some sort of help, from the community and the show. Sounds like they are going through some tough times.
Ty was the carpenter on "Trading places".
A couple things to remember about any show that is made to make the viewer "feel good". That is what it is intended to do, "make you feel good". That is what makes ratings. They could do this stuf out of any cameras eye. Oh, they do. It is called "Habitat for humanity". There are many others that donate without publicity.
Remember when Opra Whinfry (sp?) gave away the bunch of cars to women that needed them. It ended up being a farce. Opra did not give them away. No her billions of dollars didn't help these ladies in need. They were all poor women that could not afford to fix up there cars. The deal was they traded in there cars for the new ones. Sounds good, until you fend out the car manufacturer did donate the cars, but the recipient still had to pay the tax. These were women that could not fix something as simple as a starter, how could they come up with the thousand or so dollars to pay the tax. The other bad part was, they had traided in there old car. Now they have no car. Opra was asked to pay the tax, she said "no". That is until the press got ahold of what happened. Then she reluctantly paid the tax. But, she was in it for ratings!
It is not all for the good of the family, but for the profits made of the ratings.
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