A local news station in Oregon, KATU, had an article today where Matt and Amy Roloff are claiming they are receiving serious death threats. KATU is the local Portland station where Matt and Amy have often appeared on the morning show for fluffy segments. Amy appears to be a friend of one of the hosts.
Matt and Amy claim that they are receiving Facebook messages and emails supposedly "threatening to kill and rape Amy and their daughter Molly by tying them to their beds. There's also a threat to use a bomb to blow up the farm where they live."
The article says: "The Roloffs are a resilient bunch. They've been on television in some form for a decade. But this latest twist in their celebrity life includes threats like "death to the midgets" along with attacks on their disabilities, the sexual orientation of their kids and even their Christianity."
Matt says he called 911 last month because "I'm leaving at four in the morning for the airport, there's a suspicious car outside our gate that's raced off – I tried to chase it – I called 911, and I'm trying to follow it. I'm like, 'OK, I've got the guy on a dead-end road, I know he's got to come out of there.' And they're like, 'Well, OK, we'll try to dispatch somebody' (click)."
In the story, Matt is quick to criticize the FBI and Washington County's Sheriff's office because Matt is not confident they are taking the threats seriously.
Matt goes onto say: "It's concerning," Matt said. "And I'd be lying if I didn't say I was keeping my clip in my weapon at night, wondering if someone's going to come into the house and carry out some of these threats."
Amy adds: "What I'd like to see happen is that you can't hide behind Facebook or emails or any electronic stuff," she said.
Matt: "If you're going to go out and do death threats, you need to be accountable to it. So I think society has to come up with ways to expose people that put out stuff like this."
KATU called Washington County regarding the issue and states: "A spokesman for the Washington County Sheriff's Office says they did send units out that morning – when Matt called 911 – but couldn't find a car matching the description that Matt gave.
The sergeant who spoke to KATU News did make a point of following up with the Roloffs Wednesday afternoon to track down why so little had been done about what they'd reported to Washington County. He said they are now taking this very seriously.
The FBI will neither confirm nor deny it has an active investigation into the Roloff's concerns.
The person or persons behind the threats are using emails and Facebook profiles, but it is unclear whether those are actual people making the threats or if those innocent people had their profiles hacked."
In the video, the KATU investigative reporter says that a skeptic would say that this kind of thing is the "price of fame". Amy responds: "We dealt with another incident; just because we choose to give up some of my privacy does not mean you have every 100 percent of my privacy."
It's unclear as to which "incident" Amy is referring to. She has used that defense before when she or members of the Roloff family have been criticized in the past such as Jeremy's infamous Myspace Scandal when he used racial and homophobic slurs with his friends. When Amy has vaguely mentioned the incident, she has indicated that because it was not meant to be known by the public, that it was private and people don't have a right to know about. She also has used the "privacy" issue when people have questioned her about the Roloffs affiliation with the Solid Rock Church and their message that gay people should pray to Jesus to be cured. The Roloffs have been asked flat out what they believe because of their status as paid diversity speakers about acceptance. When Amy refused to give a definitive answer, she said it was private.
You can read the full article here: http://www.katu.com/news/investigators/Little-people-big-problem-Roloffs-get-death-threats-208581481.html or what the video below:
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Spiritswander's opinion? First of all, obviously, I think any legitimate and serious threats of harm to anybody are awful and the perpetrator should be punished. One would think that threats of rape or bomb threats could be easily traced and tracked.
However, I think that the type of messages they flashed up in the video, the "Death to midgets! U r all stoopid! Die!".....I think those types of messages, while unfortunate, are typical for anyone with any celebrity. Even non celebrities that post You Tube videos or "Vlogs" receive those types of "hate messages".
You can pretty much go to any You Tube or public Facebook video about an athlete or a singer and see similar type of messages - whether it's Lebron James or Justin Bieber - where tough talking commentators say stuff like "I hope he dies!", "Someone should throw a brick at his head", etc. I recall hearing about a story a few years ago about the hockey player Alexander Ovechkin where some kid wrote on a hockey message board following a game where Ovechkin scored against his team that he was going to kill Ovechkin. As I recall, the police did investigate that as a death threat and it was some 15 year old kid that made some weeping apology about how he was sorry and didn't really mean it. I tend to think most of those types of comments are exactly like that.
Personally, I don't think it can be ignored that Matt and the Roloffs have a tendency to exaggerate things for attention. Especially for things that make them out to be victims and sympathetic figures. Case in point, Matt has been posting on Facebook for years alluding to how Molly had a stalker - but he never really gave details.
However, during the Roloffs lawsuit vs Washington County over the trespassing safety inspector - the Roloffs were suing for $250,000 claiming Amy suffered severe emotional distress. The Roloffs were trying to prove that they have a heightened sense of safety because of the fame from the television show. They were trying to prove that's why Amy seeing a County inspector on her property would "freak her out" to the point that she needs $250,000 to compensate her - because of the issues they experience with threats and trespassing.
So under oath - where they faced the penalty of perjury - they were asked to describe these incidents. I find it very revealing that Matt and Amy never mentioned a "Molly stalker" in detail when it came down to the "nitty gritty". It's one thing to say something happened on your own Facebook or in a "fluff" interview where the person interviewing you won't ask any follow up questions, but it's another to talk about it when you are under oath and cannot lie or exaggerate the truth.
By the way, the incidents the Roloffs did talk about mainly involved over-zealous fans. People that drove to the Farm only to find out it was closed, but they drove past the old gate anyway hoping to see the Roloffs. Or a mountain biker that was riding through the woods and went too far onto the Roloffs property. Amy told him to go away and he did. Amy also described an incident during one of the remodels when the house had no windows or doors. Amy and Zach came home and heard someone inside. They didn't call the police. They shouted stuff like "Hey, what are you doing?" and Amy said they saw a boy and a girl run away. They apparently never called the police. Also in the court documents, there was a "weirdo" that was discussed. He was apparently a "doomsday" crazy, that sent the Roloffs things about how the world would end and he would protect them or something. But I believe the documents said it was determined that he's never been to the Roloff property and isn't from Oregon.
Anyhow, I tend to think the Roloffs are trying to exaggerate threats to hop on over to another issue that clearly bothers them - and that is the rights of others to criticize them as public figures.
Speaking of privacy and threats, let's not forget that the Roloffs tried and failed to issue a subpoena of the Spiritswander Blog for all the personal information of myself and *anyone* that has ever posted a comment. I also received threats from a person vowing to "hunt me down". That anonymous person claimed to be close Roloff family friend and former Little People, Big World producer Chris Cardamone, although there certainly is nothing to say that it was him. It was just anonymous comments claiming it was him and sending vitriolic messages.
So when the Roloffs start to say in the KATU article that "She (Amy) said she'd like to have those responsible for the threats exposed.
"What I'd like to see happen is that you can't hide behind Facebook or emails or any electronic stuff," she said." I wonder if they're trying to use a more dramatic issue of "death threats" to carry over to the issue that clearly bothers the Roloffs - and that is the right that people have to criticize them.
And while I don't necessarily subscribe to the theory that a person should let a few "bad seeds" stop them from living the life they want, I do think it is somewhat odd that people who are supposedly terrified of these threats and fear crazy people, that they continue to do all they can to keep themselves in the public spotlight. If I was terrified that someone was going to harm me as Amy states when she talks about worrying if someone is on her property, I don't think I would invite thousands of strangers onto my property every October, even if I was making money off of it. As our frequent contributor Rap541, often points out, the Roloffs will give a private tour to anybody who is willing to pay them $300 for 30 minutes. If I was as frightened as the Roloffs claim they are, I don't think I would be inviting everybody with $300 to have a private tour.
Keeping up with the Roloff family
A commentary on Little People, Big World, the Roloff family - Matt, Amy, Zach, Molly, Jacob and Jeremy Roloff news.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Jacob Roloff Tweets About The "Stupid Show" Little People, Big World - Reveals fake storylines
For anyone that doesn't follow Jacob Roloff's twitter, we thought we'd pass this along. As previous discussions indicate, his public twitter account has generated a lot of attention - sometimes for his rudeness towards fans, his insulting of kids at his school, his tweets about marijuana, his friends behavior/tweets that he likes, or the fact that Jacob has been very vocal about the fact that he despises the show such as posting things like Matt and Amy bribed him to participate in filming by throwing two birthday parties for him - a fake one for the cameras and a real one.
Regardless though, I think everyone would have to admit that Jacob is by far the most (the only??) honest Roloff.
Here are some of his tweets recently:
Jacob Roloff @ffoloR_bocaJ
Just so everyone knows.. If you see me studying on TV.. It's fake
6:20 PM - 15 May 13
Jacob Roloff @ffoloR_bocaJ
I don't study
6:21 PM - 15 May 13
Jacob Roloff @ffoloR_bocaJ
What I wrote for pretend study time: pic.twitter.com/sVchg1yRdH
"I don't know why I'm doing this stupid show anymore."
6:37 PM - 15 May 13
Michaela Capell @Mahhkayla @ffoloR_bocaJ
they really make you pretend to study ?
Jacob Roloff @ffoloR_bocaJ 1h @Mahhkayla
yea because 'I'm a good kid, getting good grades, so I can get my license'
Regardless though, I think everyone would have to admit that Jacob is by far the most (the only??) honest Roloff.
Here are some of his tweets recently:
Jacob Roloff @ffoloR_bocaJ
Just so everyone knows.. If you see me studying on TV.. It's fake
6:20 PM - 15 May 13
Jacob Roloff @ffoloR_bocaJ
I don't study
6:21 PM - 15 May 13
Jacob Roloff @ffoloR_bocaJ
What I wrote for pretend study time: pic.twitter.com/sVchg1yRdH
"I don't know why I'm doing this stupid show anymore."
6:37 PM - 15 May 13
Michaela Capell @Mahhkayla @ffoloR_bocaJ
they really make you pretend to study ?
Jacob Roloff @ffoloR_bocaJ 1h @Mahhkayla
yea because 'I'm a good kid, getting good grades, so I can get my license'
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Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Jeremy Roloff in Teva Sandals ad on You Tube
Just thought we would pass along that Jeremy Roloff appears in a new ad for Teva sandals which they put on You Tube. It was put together with a bunch of Jeremy's circle of friends in Santa Barbara/from Brooks.
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Thursday, April 4, 2013
Amy Roloff Goes Back To The Classroom - To Teach Diversity
Today on Amy Roloff's Facebook fan page she shared the news that she is headed back to the classroom to teach kids - for a limited time.
"I'm so excited! I'm teaching a class tomorrow, first day. Just one day a week, one class for 10 weeks to 12 - 16 year olds. I'm looking forward to it. Love a few prayers. I love to teach."
Prior to or just as the the weekly television series - Little People, Big World, began to air in 2006, Amy was a pre-school teacher.
This time, as she said, she will have one class for 10 weeks. Amy's class will be about diversity and she will be speaking to 12 - 16 year olds.
Matt Roloff used to regularly be invited to schools to speak to kids about dwarfism.
As paid public speakers, both Matt and Amy Roloff have given speeches about diversity. In 2011, Amy described one of her speaking engagements like this: "That talk will be about how to really accept yourself and believe about yourself when you are different or have a disability. Really embracing yourself so you can incorporate yourself among the forest. I call it being the individual tree among the forest."
The topic of members of the Roloff family giving speeches or teaching about diversity always generates some controversy among some people who feel that the Roloffs are "wolves in sheep clothing" when it comes to the topic of diversity because they support un-diverse organizations and ideas in their real lives - the feeling is that they simply use the tag of a diversity speaker to collect a paycheck while they don't "walk the walk" in their own lives.
The primary issue that comes up is the Roloffs own dealings with another "diversity group" - gay people. The Roloffs are connected to or support several organizations that have "anti-gay" stances - such as Focus On The Family. Amy Roloff once linked Focus On The Family on her official website when she first launched it in 2009. After she had received some criticism for the link, the link was eventually replaced by a link for Amy's own charity foundation (ARCF).
The Roloffs support and enthusiasm for a very conservative church in Portland lead by lead pastor John Mark Comer, called "Solid Rock Church", generates much of the controversy. All members of the Roloff family - including Matt and Amy - have attended this church. Matt has publicly referenced the church on his Facebook Fan Page in the past. The Roloffs who are most enthusiastic about the Solid Rock church are Jeremy (22) and Molly (19). As Matt Roloff has posted about in the past, Jeremy and Molly have attended special events held by the Solid Rock Church called "Loveology". Jeremy often links and quotes and shares teachings from John Mark Comer and the church. Here is an example of one of the teachings from John Mark Comer as it relates to subject of homosexuality. He states that gay people will not enter the Kingdom of God and states that gay people should pray to Jesus to be cured of being gay.
Members of the Roloff family, specifically Molly Roloff, also have applauded Kirk Cameron for being "brave" and "standing up for God" after the actor's controversial comments on the Piers Morgan show where he said homosexuality was "ultimately destructive to so many of the foundations of civilizations".
So the issue in many people's minds is that if the Roloffs in their real lives support and associate with such "anti-diverse" views - are they then qualified to be speakers about Diversity and Acceptance of people who are different?
Amy Roloff has been confronted on this topic on at least two occasions. Once during a live web chat - after she gave details on her "How to accept yourself and being an individual among the forest" speech, she was asked about her perceived hypocrisy given the Roloffs support for the Solid Rock church. Amy gave a very vague answer about how she doesn't "necessarily" agree with all ideas from the church and you don't throw out the baby with the bath water. The second time, someone asked Amy on her Facebook fan page about the hypocrisy and if the Roloffs think gay people need to be cured? Amy basically said that their beliefs are private and they don't need to defend or justify their beliefs.
And when it comes to the Roloffs and diversity, there is the old subject of the infamous Jeremy Roloff scandal in which he used several racial, homophobic and ethnic slurs to communicate with his friends online. Jeremy has never to this day apologized or acknowledged any wrong-doing or expressed regret for any of it. At the time, Matt Roloff released a public statement on the TLC website calling it a private matter and essentially instructed people to stop talking about it and focus on the good that the Roloffs do.
So the feeling that some people have is that in their real lives they surround themselves and hold non-accepting views of other groups and people who are different than the Roloffs - but when they have a chance to earn a paycheck -they will present themselves as champions of diversity and speak about the general issue of diversity and acceptance.
Some also believe - which is what Amy Roloff herself seems to project - that because the Roloffs don't take to very public venues such as Matt and Amy's official Facebook Fan Page or the TV show LPBW to say "We are the Roloffs and we believe that gay people should pray to be cured in order to be right with Jesus" that their own beliefs and views that they support in their own lives and share with their friends should be irrelevant. Roloff detractors respond to that stance by saying of course they don't publicly make a "Kirk Cameron" such statement because they don't want to be cut out of the lucrative "public diversity speaker" circuit and that's why the "wolves in sheep clothing" analogy has been mentioned.
What is your opinion? If a diversity speaker or the teacher of a class on diversity and acceptance, surrounded themselves with organizations that promote the message that people with dwarfism are abnormal and shouldn't raise kids or held racist views - would they still be qualified to teach about the subject of diversity? Does a diversity teacher need to represent all areas of diversity in their own lives?
Or do you think that being a diversity speaker doesn't require them to accept or support every diversity group and they are still wonderful representatives of diversity and acceptance because they have dwarfism?
"I'm so excited! I'm teaching a class tomorrow, first day. Just one day a week, one class for 10 weeks to 12 - 16 year olds. I'm looking forward to it. Love a few prayers. I love to teach."
Prior to or just as the the weekly television series - Little People, Big World, began to air in 2006, Amy was a pre-school teacher.
This time, as she said, she will have one class for 10 weeks. Amy's class will be about diversity and she will be speaking to 12 - 16 year olds.
Matt Roloff used to regularly be invited to schools to speak to kids about dwarfism.
As paid public speakers, both Matt and Amy Roloff have given speeches about diversity. In 2011, Amy described one of her speaking engagements like this: "That talk will be about how to really accept yourself and believe about yourself when you are different or have a disability. Really embracing yourself so you can incorporate yourself among the forest. I call it being the individual tree among the forest."
The topic of members of the Roloff family giving speeches or teaching about diversity always generates some controversy among some people who feel that the Roloffs are "wolves in sheep clothing" when it comes to the topic of diversity because they support un-diverse organizations and ideas in their real lives - the feeling is that they simply use the tag of a diversity speaker to collect a paycheck while they don't "walk the walk" in their own lives.
The primary issue that comes up is the Roloffs own dealings with another "diversity group" - gay people. The Roloffs are connected to or support several organizations that have "anti-gay" stances - such as Focus On The Family. Amy Roloff once linked Focus On The Family on her official website when she first launched it in 2009. After she had received some criticism for the link, the link was eventually replaced by a link for Amy's own charity foundation (ARCF).
The Roloffs support and enthusiasm for a very conservative church in Portland lead by lead pastor John Mark Comer, called "Solid Rock Church", generates much of the controversy. All members of the Roloff family - including Matt and Amy - have attended this church. Matt has publicly referenced the church on his Facebook Fan Page in the past. The Roloffs who are most enthusiastic about the Solid Rock church are Jeremy (22) and Molly (19). As Matt Roloff has posted about in the past, Jeremy and Molly have attended special events held by the Solid Rock Church called "Loveology". Jeremy often links and quotes and shares teachings from John Mark Comer and the church. Here is an example of one of the teachings from John Mark Comer as it relates to subject of homosexuality. He states that gay people will not enter the Kingdom of God and states that gay people should pray to Jesus to be cured of being gay.
Members of the Roloff family, specifically Molly Roloff, also have applauded Kirk Cameron for being "brave" and "standing up for God" after the actor's controversial comments on the Piers Morgan show where he said homosexuality was "ultimately destructive to so many of the foundations of civilizations".
So the issue in many people's minds is that if the Roloffs in their real lives support and associate with such "anti-diverse" views - are they then qualified to be speakers about Diversity and Acceptance of people who are different?
Amy Roloff has been confronted on this topic on at least two occasions. Once during a live web chat - after she gave details on her "How to accept yourself and being an individual among the forest" speech, she was asked about her perceived hypocrisy given the Roloffs support for the Solid Rock church. Amy gave a very vague answer about how she doesn't "necessarily" agree with all ideas from the church and you don't throw out the baby with the bath water. The second time, someone asked Amy on her Facebook fan page about the hypocrisy and if the Roloffs think gay people need to be cured? Amy basically said that their beliefs are private and they don't need to defend or justify their beliefs.
And when it comes to the Roloffs and diversity, there is the old subject of the infamous Jeremy Roloff scandal in which he used several racial, homophobic and ethnic slurs to communicate with his friends online. Jeremy has never to this day apologized or acknowledged any wrong-doing or expressed regret for any of it. At the time, Matt Roloff released a public statement on the TLC website calling it a private matter and essentially instructed people to stop talking about it and focus on the good that the Roloffs do.
So the feeling that some people have is that in their real lives they surround themselves and hold non-accepting views of other groups and people who are different than the Roloffs - but when they have a chance to earn a paycheck -they will present themselves as champions of diversity and speak about the general issue of diversity and acceptance.
Some also believe - which is what Amy Roloff herself seems to project - that because the Roloffs don't take to very public venues such as Matt and Amy's official Facebook Fan Page or the TV show LPBW to say "We are the Roloffs and we believe that gay people should pray to be cured in order to be right with Jesus" that their own beliefs and views that they support in their own lives and share with their friends should be irrelevant. Roloff detractors respond to that stance by saying of course they don't publicly make a "Kirk Cameron" such statement because they don't want to be cut out of the lucrative "public diversity speaker" circuit and that's why the "wolves in sheep clothing" analogy has been mentioned.
What is your opinion? If a diversity speaker or the teacher of a class on diversity and acceptance, surrounded themselves with organizations that promote the message that people with dwarfism are abnormal and shouldn't raise kids or held racist views - would they still be qualified to teach about the subject of diversity? Does a diversity teacher need to represent all areas of diversity in their own lives?
Or do you think that being a diversity speaker doesn't require them to accept or support every diversity group and they are still wonderful representatives of diversity and acceptance because they have dwarfism?
Monday, March 25, 2013
Roloff Family Spending Spring Break On Vacation In Costa Rica
The Roloff family are currently spending Spring Break on a vacation in Costa Rica.
Molly Roloff is going to do an entire semester in Costa Rica in 2014. Molly is currently in her first year at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington. Whitworth is a private Christian College.
However, back to the present, on this trip the entire Roloff family are joined by the girlfriends - Zach's girlfriend Tori and Jeremy's girlfriend Audrey.
Here are a few pictures from the various social media sites.
In Costa Rica, from left to right - Zach, Tori (Zach's girlfriend), Molly, Jacob, Amy,
Matt, Jeremy, Audrey (Jeremy's girlfriend)
Molly (center) with Jeremy's girlfriend Audrey (left) and Zach's girlfriend
Tori (right)
Zach and Tori in Costa Rica
Jeremy's picture on the plane to Costa Rica
While Matt and Amy have been rather quiet and vague about their trip, which is always a sign it will appear on Little People, Big World later, as usual, Jacob Roloff is tweeting a lot about the trip on his public twitter account. While Jacob's twitter has been the subject of much discussion due to his tweets about marijuana, his insults and attitude towards LPBW fans and the conduct and language of his friends that he often retweets and "favorites", I think it is pretty much a consensus that Jacob is by far, the most honest Roloff. There's not much debate about that one. Zach could perhaps be the only Roloff that could rival Jacob for that label, but he does not have a twitter and now that Zach is collecting his own paycheck for Little People, Big World, he tends to be quiet and fall in line more than he used to.
Here are some of Jacob's tweets during the Costa Rica vacation:
Jacob Roloff @ffoloR_bocaJ
This hotel is unreal.
Oh yea there's literally sloths climbing around my resort
... And the money here is pretty neat too..
I cannot wait to post my brothers pictures lol.
Lol the power at the whole resort just flickered on/off like 4 times.
SWEET IM SO UPSET SHOOTER IS ON BUT IT'S IN SPANISH. #CRprobs
Lol supposed to "wake up" in 2 hours... Jooookes.. First all nighter in not The USA
I have no covers cus greedy brother and am still sweating. #CRprobs
Whoa Zach. What the deuce are you dreaming about..
"No seriously I did it I swear! It's on TV!" -My defense against everything
Literally a lightning storm happening rn.
The activities today > the family interactions today
Can't wait to get back home and be no where close to either of my parents...
My siblings > my parents
Molly Roloff is going to do an entire semester in Costa Rica in 2014. Molly is currently in her first year at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington. Whitworth is a private Christian College.
However, back to the present, on this trip the entire Roloff family are joined by the girlfriends - Zach's girlfriend Tori and Jeremy's girlfriend Audrey.
Here are a few pictures from the various social media sites.
In Costa Rica, from left to right - Zach, Tori (Zach's girlfriend), Molly, Jacob, Amy,
Matt, Jeremy, Audrey (Jeremy's girlfriend)
Molly (center) with Jeremy's girlfriend Audrey (left) and Zach's girlfriend
Tori (right)
Zach and Tori in Costa Rica
Jeremy's picture on the plane to Costa Rica
While Matt and Amy have been rather quiet and vague about their trip, which is always a sign it will appear on Little People, Big World later, as usual, Jacob Roloff is tweeting a lot about the trip on his public twitter account. While Jacob's twitter has been the subject of much discussion due to his tweets about marijuana, his insults and attitude towards LPBW fans and the conduct and language of his friends that he often retweets and "favorites", I think it is pretty much a consensus that Jacob is by far, the most honest Roloff. There's not much debate about that one. Zach could perhaps be the only Roloff that could rival Jacob for that label, but he does not have a twitter and now that Zach is collecting his own paycheck for Little People, Big World, he tends to be quiet and fall in line more than he used to.
Here are some of Jacob's tweets during the Costa Rica vacation:
Jacob Roloff @ffoloR_bocaJ
This hotel is unreal.
Oh yea there's literally sloths climbing around my resort
... And the money here is pretty neat too..
I cannot wait to post my brothers pictures lol.
Lol the power at the whole resort just flickered on/off like 4 times.
SWEET IM SO UPSET SHOOTER IS ON BUT IT'S IN SPANISH. #CRprobs
Lol supposed to "wake up" in 2 hours... Jooookes.. First all nighter in not The USA
I have no covers cus greedy brother and am still sweating. #CRprobs
Whoa Zach. What the deuce are you dreaming about..
"No seriously I did it I swear! It's on TV!" -My defense against everything
Literally a lightning storm happening rn.
The activities today > the family interactions today
Can't wait to get back home and be no where close to either of my parents...
My siblings > my parents
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Episode Preview/Review of Little People, Big World: "Little People, Big Climb" on TLC March 19, 2013
The new episode of Little People, Big World airs tonight.
Here is the official TLC preview write-up, followed by our Guest Reviewer, Rap541's take on the preview:
Little People, Big Climb @10pm: "With three of four kids out of the house, Amy is feeling restless and decides to take on the challenge of climbing Mount St. Helens. Meanwhile, Matt secretly builds Amy a schoolhouse as a special gift. It's apparent that neither has plans to slow down."
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Review submitted by Rap541
So I flip over to TLC and realize just how late the Little People Big World episode is on. 10pm is late. I actually turned over to it a little early, in time to see a vaguely offensive fake sketch between JimBob Duggar and some Japanese people sword fighting. Then they head off to a capsule hotel and its basically what this show is all about – a bunch of kids screaming while their parents act like breeding is amazing. Then we are regaled with the Duggar Wifelet buying a pregnancy test since people must always be testing for that next baby!
You can almost see the terror in Michelle’s eyes as she realizes her youngest child is a toddler and she’s still not pregnant with J-20. And Josh hasn’t lost his baby weight. We leave the Duggars chowing on pickles. Oh and if anyone complains, just be glad I didn’t recap Tosh.o, ok?
Anyway, to the Roloffs! So we start with some photos of how the house is still a pigsty. And Amy starts with the moaning about the quiet house and how she has nothing to do since her parenting time is over, Then she gets weepy with how she’s a mom. Cue the credits which btw were completely old.
Amy meets with her trainer. To be perfectly fair, she’s lost a lot of weight. We get a training sequence and trainer guy notes that *something* is bothering Amy. He wants her to have a performance goal and suggests she hike a mountain. Amy chats with David on climbing Mt St. Helens. He thinks it’s a tough climb and they’ll need to camp out. Zach wanders in looking for food and Amy asks him to go with her. Zach looks cleaner than normal.
Now Amy is telling Mat, and Matt thinks Amy should think smaller and not reach for the stars. Mind you, this whole conversation feels fake. Matt thinks she’s taking a huge risk! He’s always so supportive with that “you shouldn’t do it” and “think smaller” attitude.
So now we see Matt at the church site. Matt notes his idea of a challenge is building stuff and since Amy has fond memories of that year she taught preschool, why not hire a bunch of guys to build a schoolhouse while Matt shouts whoo! I mean, that’s not in any way almost completely unrelated to the entire plot of the story.
Amy trains with a backpack. We get a montage of Amy walking and muttering to herself while she voices over how her childhood sucked. Yes, this is the Amy Self Esteem episode. We get it, Amy. You have hang ups. When you get like this on tv, I sometimes feel bad for you because you’re never going to see your own worth, and that’s a shame.
Amy and Zach hike and share moments while Amy voices over how it’s nice to spend time with Zach. It’s cute. It’s also nice to see Zach not be a whiny kid.
Matt shouts “HOLY” and then brags about how he ordered his contractor to build the school house. Matt basically goes on about how he needs a project and how the farm spaces need to be filled, oh, and yeah, he’s doing this for Amy, not himself.
More training montages of Amy and David the trainer with motivational talk. I start to zone out.
It’s the day of the climb. Matt notes how silly and dumb he finds the whole business. Matt also sounds really congested. Matt of course worries that Amy won’t complete the hike. Jake wanders in and out. Matt notes how deadly wrong things can happen on these mountain hikes. Good lord, isn’t this the same idiot who nearly killed his own kid with a trebuchet?
David and Amy chat on the car ride. Now we see the volcano! ITS ON! Zach and Amy do lunges. Then they start hiking.
Ok, my cable is fuzzing out. This might be a problem.
So everything is fuzzy but still pretty. More hiking, and encouraging remarks. Now there’s rocks and obstacles and the whole time Amy is narrating how tough it is. Inspiring music plays as Amy huffs and puffs. They stop for trailmix. There’s more inspirational talk from David.
Meanwhile Matt intends to finish the school! For Amy! He futzes around sings while painting and its very obviously being done for show.
Ok now back to the hiking. More and more hiking. They started at 1pm. They stop at 5pm. They set up camp and David takes them on a training hike. Ominous music plays as Amy crawls up. More and more motivational talk. I start to look forward to the commercial breaks.
The gandam style commercials are funny.
So its 7pm and still full daylight. They eat camp dinners. Now there’s a discussion on where to pee. In the woods, Amy. Pee in the woods.
Matt makes a show of helping with the schoolhouse. We see some home movie clips. Matt subtly concedes Western town is really for him. Now it’s evening and he calls Amy. Amy and Zach meanwhile have deep bonding moments at campsite.
Now its 6:30am and my tv defuzzed. Zach is told to zip up his pants. Now we’re to the dangerous part of the hike!
Matt has a really big bell for the school and we get our obligatory scene of Matt driving a track hoe and shouting baby! Heh… they made the school too big to get out of the barn.
Matt does this “Matt Roloff is an idiot” line where for the first time I really see how he’s Zach’s father. Then he fake “yays!” as his contractor fixes the problem.
Amy is at the boulder field. She pushes. I think David is clearly spotting her. More shots of Amy climbing.
More montages of Matt on the trackhoe. He shouts “yeah baby!” and “we did it!”
Now they’re at the end of the boulders and heading into the ash. More montages of people hiking in the ash field. More motivational talk. Push, push, push, I’ve come so far… Commercial break!
Amy notes how climbing a mountain is a metaphor. Amy reaches the summit! Triumphant music plays! There’s a stunning montage of the mountains. We get to see the volcano smoke. Now everyone high fives and Amy has a bit of a breakdown. We really need to get her on Survivor, I think.
Meanwhile back at the farm, Matt is amazed that Amy isn’t dead or mauled by a bear. Matt takes her to the school house, and for a change Amy seems to like it. They basically do a skit for us in the school house and then we’re done.
Kinda dull. Interesting mostly because I think this is the first episode of LPBW where we didn’t hear anyone moaning about Jeremy.
Here is the official TLC preview write-up, followed by our Guest Reviewer, Rap541's take on the preview:
Little People, Big Climb @10pm: "With three of four kids out of the house, Amy is feeling restless and decides to take on the challenge of climbing Mount St. Helens. Meanwhile, Matt secretly builds Amy a schoolhouse as a special gift. It's apparent that neither has plans to slow down."
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Review submitted by Rap541
So I flip over to TLC and realize just how late the Little People Big World episode is on. 10pm is late. I actually turned over to it a little early, in time to see a vaguely offensive fake sketch between JimBob Duggar and some Japanese people sword fighting. Then they head off to a capsule hotel and its basically what this show is all about – a bunch of kids screaming while their parents act like breeding is amazing. Then we are regaled with the Duggar Wifelet buying a pregnancy test since people must always be testing for that next baby!
You can almost see the terror in Michelle’s eyes as she realizes her youngest child is a toddler and she’s still not pregnant with J-20. And Josh hasn’t lost his baby weight. We leave the Duggars chowing on pickles. Oh and if anyone complains, just be glad I didn’t recap Tosh.o, ok?
Anyway, to the Roloffs! So we start with some photos of how the house is still a pigsty. And Amy starts with the moaning about the quiet house and how she has nothing to do since her parenting time is over, Then she gets weepy with how she’s a mom. Cue the credits which btw were completely old.
Amy meets with her trainer. To be perfectly fair, she’s lost a lot of weight. We get a training sequence and trainer guy notes that *something* is bothering Amy. He wants her to have a performance goal and suggests she hike a mountain. Amy chats with David on climbing Mt St. Helens. He thinks it’s a tough climb and they’ll need to camp out. Zach wanders in looking for food and Amy asks him to go with her. Zach looks cleaner than normal.
Now Amy is telling Mat, and Matt thinks Amy should think smaller and not reach for the stars. Mind you, this whole conversation feels fake. Matt thinks she’s taking a huge risk! He’s always so supportive with that “you shouldn’t do it” and “think smaller” attitude.
So now we see Matt at the church site. Matt notes his idea of a challenge is building stuff and since Amy has fond memories of that year she taught preschool, why not hire a bunch of guys to build a schoolhouse while Matt shouts whoo! I mean, that’s not in any way almost completely unrelated to the entire plot of the story.
Amy trains with a backpack. We get a montage of Amy walking and muttering to herself while she voices over how her childhood sucked. Yes, this is the Amy Self Esteem episode. We get it, Amy. You have hang ups. When you get like this on tv, I sometimes feel bad for you because you’re never going to see your own worth, and that’s a shame.
Amy and Zach hike and share moments while Amy voices over how it’s nice to spend time with Zach. It’s cute. It’s also nice to see Zach not be a whiny kid.
Matt shouts “HOLY” and then brags about how he ordered his contractor to build the school house. Matt basically goes on about how he needs a project and how the farm spaces need to be filled, oh, and yeah, he’s doing this for Amy, not himself.
More training montages of Amy and David the trainer with motivational talk. I start to zone out.
It’s the day of the climb. Matt notes how silly and dumb he finds the whole business. Matt also sounds really congested. Matt of course worries that Amy won’t complete the hike. Jake wanders in and out. Matt notes how deadly wrong things can happen on these mountain hikes. Good lord, isn’t this the same idiot who nearly killed his own kid with a trebuchet?
David and Amy chat on the car ride. Now we see the volcano! ITS ON! Zach and Amy do lunges. Then they start hiking.
Ok, my cable is fuzzing out. This might be a problem.
So everything is fuzzy but still pretty. More hiking, and encouraging remarks. Now there’s rocks and obstacles and the whole time Amy is narrating how tough it is. Inspiring music plays as Amy huffs and puffs. They stop for trailmix. There’s more inspirational talk from David.
Meanwhile Matt intends to finish the school! For Amy! He futzes around sings while painting and its very obviously being done for show.
Ok now back to the hiking. More and more hiking. They started at 1pm. They stop at 5pm. They set up camp and David takes them on a training hike. Ominous music plays as Amy crawls up. More and more motivational talk. I start to look forward to the commercial breaks.
The gandam style commercials are funny.
So its 7pm and still full daylight. They eat camp dinners. Now there’s a discussion on where to pee. In the woods, Amy. Pee in the woods.
Matt makes a show of helping with the schoolhouse. We see some home movie clips. Matt subtly concedes Western town is really for him. Now it’s evening and he calls Amy. Amy and Zach meanwhile have deep bonding moments at campsite.
Now its 6:30am and my tv defuzzed. Zach is told to zip up his pants. Now we’re to the dangerous part of the hike!
Matt has a really big bell for the school and we get our obligatory scene of Matt driving a track hoe and shouting baby! Heh… they made the school too big to get out of the barn.
Matt does this “Matt Roloff is an idiot” line where for the first time I really see how he’s Zach’s father. Then he fake “yays!” as his contractor fixes the problem.
Amy is at the boulder field. She pushes. I think David is clearly spotting her. More shots of Amy climbing.
More montages of Matt on the trackhoe. He shouts “yeah baby!” and “we did it!”
Now they’re at the end of the boulders and heading into the ash. More montages of people hiking in the ash field. More motivational talk. Push, push, push, I’ve come so far… Commercial break!
Amy notes how climbing a mountain is a metaphor. Amy reaches the summit! Triumphant music plays! There’s a stunning montage of the mountains. We get to see the volcano smoke. Now everyone high fives and Amy has a bit of a breakdown. We really need to get her on Survivor, I think.
Meanwhile back at the farm, Matt is amazed that Amy isn’t dead or mauled by a bear. Matt takes her to the school house, and for a change Amy seems to like it. They basically do a skit for us in the school house and then we’re done.
Kinda dull. Interesting mostly because I think this is the first episode of LPBW where we didn’t hear anyone moaning about Jeremy.
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Sunday, March 10, 2013
Next Little People, Big World Episode March 19th - Little People, Big Climb
The next episode of Little People, Big World, featuring the Roloff family, will air on TLC Tuesday March 19th at 10pm est/9 central. The episode is titled "Little People, Big Climb".
In a preview clip on TLC's site, Amy Roloff, her personal trainer, Zach and Molly climb Mount St. Helens.
http://blogs.discovery.com/tlc-new-now/2013/03/little-people-on-a-big-climb.html
"The thought of climbing a mountain -- any mountain -- is daunting enough. But when it's Mount St. Helens, well then double forget about it. But you know who's up for tackling a major mountain? The Roloffs of Little People Big World. Watch as Amy, Matt and their kids Jeremy, Zach, Molly, and Jacob climb to the top!
Now that the kids have moved out, Amy and Matt are up for a little adventure, and they're taking the whole family along. The family takes on the steep five-mile route, with a vertical gain of more than 4,500 feet. Watch as the Roloff's conquer boulders -- both literal and metaphorical -- that get in the way.
Don't miss it: Tuesday, March 19 10|9c"
In a preview clip on TLC's site, Amy Roloff, her personal trainer, Zach and Molly climb Mount St. Helens.
http://blogs.discovery.com/tlc-new-now/2013/03/little-people-on-a-big-climb.html
"The thought of climbing a mountain -- any mountain -- is daunting enough. But when it's Mount St. Helens, well then double forget about it. But you know who's up for tackling a major mountain? The Roloffs of Little People Big World. Watch as Amy, Matt and their kids Jeremy, Zach, Molly, and Jacob climb to the top!
Now that the kids have moved out, Amy and Matt are up for a little adventure, and they're taking the whole family along. The family takes on the steep five-mile route, with a vertical gain of more than 4,500 feet. Watch as the Roloff's conquer boulders -- both literal and metaphorical -- that get in the way.
Don't miss it: Tuesday, March 19 10|9c"
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Molly Roloff Twitter Account & Blog Post Writings
Molly Roloff appears to be getting more involved with posting publicly online, so we're doing an item about that.
Thanks to those of you who sent emails and posts after discovering these.
Molly very, very recently got a twitter account.
Her twitter handle is @mollyjoroloff
Molly Roloff twitter account
As if Feb 07, 2013 at 7:00am, it is public.
It has been confirmed to Spiritswander that this is indeed the real Molly Roloff.
Molly joins her brothers Jeremy and Jacob in having twitter accounts. Zach is the only Roloff "kid" that does not really have a twitter (he had a twitter handle when he was doing an internship with the Portland Timbers but that was rarely used and not his personal account).
Jeremy Roloff's twitter account
Jacob Roloff's twitter account
You can find links in the sidebar to the right about Jacob's twitter and lively discussion about it.
As Jeremy was developing photo sites and getting ready to sell items, he, for the first time, asked fans to follow his twitter account.
Jacob's twitter is much more "real and raw", therefore more "controversial" since he and his friends mostly tweet about drugs and insult people. For a long time, Jacob would block any fans that pressed his public "follow" button on twitter. Now, for the most part, if fans tweet at Jacob, he calls them annoying and Jacob and his friends tell (in much stronger wording than this) to leave him alone - although he has kept his twitter completely public.
Molly Roloff only has 4 tweets at this time, so it's unknown what type of twitter Molly will maintain. Up until now, Molly's only real public social media account (You Tube) was short-lived. She had a You Tube account and made a video with her friends featuring a "Dr. Hemp" character. When fans posted comments regarding the Dr. Hemp character compared to Molly's outspokenness regarding her Christian faith and referenced some of Jeremy's and Mueller's actions - Molly got upset, basically said that people had no right to judge Roloffs and their friends and turned the video private.
Molly also has some public posts on a Whitworth University blog. Thanks to the folks that passed that along.
It's rare for the public to get a taste of what the Roloff "kids" (3 of whom are adults) are like when they post things themselves compared to how Little People, Big World or Matt Roloff portrays them. If you would like to see Molly's blog post responses, here they are:
Whitworth University Blog
Molly Roloff Post 1
Molly Roloff Post 2
As for Amy and Matt Roloff, as most people already know, they each have very fan oriented Facebook Fan Pages.
They are on twitter, though.
Amy appears to be tweeting much more frequently through her Charity foundation account.
Amy Roloff twitter account
Matt has a twitter account, but rarely uses it. It used to be linked to his Facebook account (his Facebook posts would automatically be transferred to twitter) but he disabled that feature after it sort of "bit him in the butt" (he had posted on Facebook about how issuing a subpoena was probably the funnest thing he had ever done in life...then he deleted his Facebook post. However, twitter does not automatically delete when the Facebook post is deleted, it was found by a Spiritswander reader and Matt's twitter post was cited in the successful Motion to Quash the subpoena).
Matt Roloff twitter account
Since this item is turning into a list of Roloff related twitter accounts, we will pass along two more that some followers of the Roloffs like to follow also.
Jeremy Roloff's girlfriend Audrey Botti
Jeremy's girlfriend - Audrey's twitter account
And finally, here is Jacob Mueller's fiancee's (Destiney Pizer) twitter account. Some people have noted that they like following the pregnancy and wedding plans of Jeremy's best friend who was often featured on the show.
Jacob Mueller's (Jeremy's best friend) fiancee's (Destiney Pizer) twitter account
Thanks to those of you who sent emails and posts after discovering these.
Molly very, very recently got a twitter account.
Her twitter handle is @mollyjoroloff
Molly Roloff twitter account
As if Feb 07, 2013 at 7:00am, it is public.
It has been confirmed to Spiritswander that this is indeed the real Molly Roloff.
Molly joins her brothers Jeremy and Jacob in having twitter accounts. Zach is the only Roloff "kid" that does not really have a twitter (he had a twitter handle when he was doing an internship with the Portland Timbers but that was rarely used and not his personal account).
Jeremy Roloff's twitter account
Jacob Roloff's twitter account
You can find links in the sidebar to the right about Jacob's twitter and lively discussion about it.
As Jeremy was developing photo sites and getting ready to sell items, he, for the first time, asked fans to follow his twitter account.
Jacob's twitter is much more "real and raw", therefore more "controversial" since he and his friends mostly tweet about drugs and insult people. For a long time, Jacob would block any fans that pressed his public "follow" button on twitter. Now, for the most part, if fans tweet at Jacob, he calls them annoying and Jacob and his friends tell (in much stronger wording than this) to leave him alone - although he has kept his twitter completely public.
Molly Roloff only has 4 tweets at this time, so it's unknown what type of twitter Molly will maintain. Up until now, Molly's only real public social media account (You Tube) was short-lived. She had a You Tube account and made a video with her friends featuring a "Dr. Hemp" character. When fans posted comments regarding the Dr. Hemp character compared to Molly's outspokenness regarding her Christian faith and referenced some of Jeremy's and Mueller's actions - Molly got upset, basically said that people had no right to judge Roloffs and their friends and turned the video private.
Molly also has some public posts on a Whitworth University blog. Thanks to the folks that passed that along.
It's rare for the public to get a taste of what the Roloff "kids" (3 of whom are adults) are like when they post things themselves compared to how Little People, Big World or Matt Roloff portrays them. If you would like to see Molly's blog post responses, here they are:
Whitworth University Blog
Molly Roloff Post 1
Molly Roloff Post 2
As for Amy and Matt Roloff, as most people already know, they each have very fan oriented Facebook Fan Pages.
They are on twitter, though.
Amy appears to be tweeting much more frequently through her Charity foundation account.
Amy Roloff twitter account
Matt has a twitter account, but rarely uses it. It used to be linked to his Facebook account (his Facebook posts would automatically be transferred to twitter) but he disabled that feature after it sort of "bit him in the butt" (he had posted on Facebook about how issuing a subpoena was probably the funnest thing he had ever done in life...then he deleted his Facebook post. However, twitter does not automatically delete when the Facebook post is deleted, it was found by a Spiritswander reader and Matt's twitter post was cited in the successful Motion to Quash the subpoena).
Matt Roloff twitter account
Since this item is turning into a list of Roloff related twitter accounts, we will pass along two more that some followers of the Roloffs like to follow also.
Jeremy Roloff's girlfriend Audrey Botti
Jeremy's girlfriend - Audrey's twitter account
And finally, here is Jacob Mueller's fiancee's (Destiney Pizer) twitter account. Some people have noted that they like following the pregnancy and wedding plans of Jeremy's best friend who was often featured on the show.
Jacob Mueller's (Jeremy's best friend) fiancee's (Destiney Pizer) twitter account
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Jacob Mueller Is Engaged And Will Be A Father
We thought this might be of interest to some longtime viewers of Little People, Big World: Jacob Mueller, who is known for being Jeremy Roloff's best friend and being featured in many episodes, is engaged to be married. His fiancee is expecting their baby.
His fiancee, Destiney, has a Twitter page that is currently public as of 8:45pm Jan 26, 2013.. Here are some of her tweets which are obviously related to the wedding plans and the baby:
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http://twitter.com/DestineyPizerr
3 Jan Destiney Pizer @DestineyPizerr Geez sometimes I just want to punch @jtmueller123 in the face #truelove
4 Jan Destiney Pizer @DestineyPizerr Looking at wedding dresses today !! #soexcited
6 Jan Destiney Pizer @DestineyPizerr Why does planning a wedding have to be so stressful :(
7 Jan Destiney Pizer @DestineyPizerr I can't wait to be married to my best friend ❤ #may25th #love #wedding #soexciting
8 Jan Destiney Pizer @DestineyPizerr Picked out the bridesmaids dresses! Just one more thing to check off the list!!
17 Jan Destiney Pizer @DestineyPizerr Well there goes all the wedding plans I had ... #needanewvenue #thissucks
18 Jan Destiney Pizer @DestineyPizerr @tamcoop22 can't use the barn
20 Jan Destiney Pizer @DestineyPizerr Everything is falling into place #sohappywithlife
21 Jan Destiney Pizer @DestineyPizerr 10 days till we get to see baby again !!❤
23 Jan Destiney Pizer @DestineyPizerr Finally decided on a boys name !!!
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Friends report that "Mueller" went through a steady string of 4 or 5 girlfriends for a period of about 18 months before getting involved with Destiney. Readers of our site will remember that Mueller had a French girlfriend who made a video that featured Mueller and other friends who were all underage at the time, drinking in the Roloffs garage. Mueller is about a year younger than Jeremy and Zach.
In addition to being the Roloff friend that has been most frequently on Little People, Big World (many vacations -the BVI's, the Michigan and Mississippi trip, he often accompanied Jeremy to LPA conferences), Mueller is also unquestionably the most controversial friend from the show.
Pretty much every little scandal that Jeremy Roloff had, Mueller has been involved with. Many of the racial and homophobic comments were between Jeremy and Mueller, the fan insults (most memorable was Mueller calling a big Jeremy Roloff fan a loser B*tch and Mueller was known for mocking smiling fans that posed for pictures with the Roloffs and calling the fans "creepers" with the Roloffs). Mueller and Jeremy were also at the center of the cat tossing activity and some of the other animal videos and stories that some found distasteful and cruel. On the show, he caught viewers attention because of his friendship with Jeremy -- they seemed inseparable with Mueller always tagging along to keep Jeremy company on family vacations and their over-the-top embraces on LPBW when they were reunited.. Mueller was also the subject of Jeremy's graduation speech where the show announced that Mueller had been held back from graduating with the rest of his high school class.
If you want a quick history about Jacob Mueller you can checkout our previous article about him and his history with the Roloffs (more specifically - with Jeremy)
http://spiritswander.blogspot.com/2011/06/jeremy-roloffs-best-friend-jacob.html
In fairness to Jacob Mueller, because he is often discussed on our blog due to his involvement in many of the controversies, we did extend an open invitation for him to do an interview with Spiritswander so he could explain his side of certain events, but like the Roloffs, Jacob Mueller has never taken us up on the interview invitation.
His fiancee, Destiney, has a Twitter page that is currently public as of 8:45pm Jan 26, 2013.. Here are some of her tweets which are obviously related to the wedding plans and the baby:
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http://twitter.com/DestineyPizerr
3 Jan Destiney Pizer @DestineyPizerr Geez sometimes I just want to punch @jtmueller123 in the face #truelove
4 Jan Destiney Pizer @DestineyPizerr Looking at wedding dresses today !! #soexcited
6 Jan Destiney Pizer @DestineyPizerr Why does planning a wedding have to be so stressful :(
7 Jan Destiney Pizer @DestineyPizerr I can't wait to be married to my best friend ❤ #may25th #love #wedding #soexciting
8 Jan Destiney Pizer @DestineyPizerr Picked out the bridesmaids dresses! Just one more thing to check off the list!!
17 Jan Destiney Pizer @DestineyPizerr Well there goes all the wedding plans I had ... #needanewvenue #thissucks
18 Jan Destiney Pizer @DestineyPizerr @tamcoop22 can't use the barn
20 Jan Destiney Pizer @DestineyPizerr Everything is falling into place #sohappywithlife
21 Jan Destiney Pizer @DestineyPizerr 10 days till we get to see baby again !!❤
23 Jan Destiney Pizer @DestineyPizerr Finally decided on a boys name !!!
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Friends report that "Mueller" went through a steady string of 4 or 5 girlfriends for a period of about 18 months before getting involved with Destiney. Readers of our site will remember that Mueller had a French girlfriend who made a video that featured Mueller and other friends who were all underage at the time, drinking in the Roloffs garage. Mueller is about a year younger than Jeremy and Zach.
In addition to being the Roloff friend that has been most frequently on Little People, Big World (many vacations -the BVI's, the Michigan and Mississippi trip, he often accompanied Jeremy to LPA conferences), Mueller is also unquestionably the most controversial friend from the show.
Pretty much every little scandal that Jeremy Roloff had, Mueller has been involved with. Many of the racial and homophobic comments were between Jeremy and Mueller, the fan insults (most memorable was Mueller calling a big Jeremy Roloff fan a loser B*tch and Mueller was known for mocking smiling fans that posed for pictures with the Roloffs and calling the fans "creepers" with the Roloffs). Mueller and Jeremy were also at the center of the cat tossing activity and some of the other animal videos and stories that some found distasteful and cruel. On the show, he caught viewers attention because of his friendship with Jeremy -- they seemed inseparable with Mueller always tagging along to keep Jeremy company on family vacations and their over-the-top embraces on LPBW when they were reunited.. Mueller was also the subject of Jeremy's graduation speech where the show announced that Mueller had been held back from graduating with the rest of his high school class.
If you want a quick history about Jacob Mueller you can checkout our previous article about him and his history with the Roloffs (more specifically - with Jeremy)
http://spiritswander.blogspot.com/2011/06/jeremy-roloffs-best-friend-jacob.html
In fairness to Jacob Mueller, because he is often discussed on our blog due to his involvement in many of the controversies, we did extend an open invitation for him to do an interview with Spiritswander so he could explain his side of certain events, but like the Roloffs, Jacob Mueller has never taken us up on the interview invitation.
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Round Up Of Recent Roloff Online Postings - Jacob Roloff Despises Being Filmed For TLC's Little People, Big World
We thought we would do an item to summarize the Roloffs recent activity on the various social media sites for anyone that doesn't keep up with the Roloffs and their social media sites.
Jacob Roloff
The one that has been generating the most buzz - primarily because of the honesty (which in my opinion is a rare thing for a Roloff online!) has been Jacob Roloff's completely public twitter account.
A few days ago, Jacob Roloff posted a series of tweets talking about his hatred of being filmed and how Matt and Amy are pressuring and trying to coerce him into having his birthday party filmed. Jacob Roloff will be 16 on Jan 17, 2013.
Jacob then tweeted that Matt and Amy told him he could have two parties - one party for filming and a real party that isn't filmed. He posted his disgust at that idea.
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http://twitter.com/ffoloR_bocaJ
Jacob Roloff
The one that has been generating the most buzz - primarily because of the honesty (which in my opinion is a rare thing for a Roloff online!) has been Jacob Roloff's completely public twitter account.
A few days ago, Jacob Roloff posted a series of tweets talking about his hatred of being filmed and how Matt and Amy are pressuring and trying to coerce him into having his birthday party filmed. Jacob Roloff will be 16 on Jan 17, 2013.
Jacob then tweeted that Matt and Amy told him he could have two parties - one party for filming and a real party that isn't filmed. He posted his disgust at that idea.
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http://twitter.com/ffoloR_bocaJ
Lol @ my parents.. Thinking my birthday is gonna be filmed. I'd rather just sit by myself in my room.
Seriously if there are cameras there I'm going to just run ✌
Lol "We'll have a filmed party then a private one just for you" OR I could just not be around for the filmed one. And invite no one.
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The other thing about Jacob's public twitter that has generated some attention is that his twitter feed is filled with references from Jacob and mostly his friends (tweets "favorited" or retweeted by Jacob) about their love of smoking marijuana. We had already touched on it in a previous item that Jacob and his friends were following the path of Jeremy Roloff and his friends by insulting fans on their social media sites and the friends use of slurs (which are often "favorited" or retweeted by Jacob), but now it's the constant talk of marijuana that is garnering some attention.
A couple of Jacob's friends from school, who according to their public twitter posts - he invites over to hang out at the Roloff home - I think would best be described as "potheads" - meaning that the majority of their twitter posts are about how they are smoking pot, want to smoke weed, will smoke marijuana later. Jacob and one of his "pothead" friends recently were teasing/sarcastically insulting a girl from school. As she was getting upset, they suggested that she "smoke a bowl" and relax. She responded with a "No, thanks, I'm not a pothead. I don't do that shit."
Matt and Amy Roloff
Then, over on Facebook, there is Matt Roloff, doing what Matt always does on Facebook. Projects a wholesome family image. While Jacob is on twitter venting about how Matt and Amy are basically forcing him or at least trying to convince him to let them film him and while Jacob and his friends that he hangs out with are posting about pot, Matt is on his Facebook fan page posting about how he went to the movies with Molly and Jacob, sat in between them as they "ohhhed" and "awwwwwed" and gasped together at the film.
As for Amy Roloff, just finished posting about the holidays with her kids and their friends and how much she loves having the sweet kids all in her house.
It's all so comical.
The other thing noteworthy about Matt and Amy on their Facebook Fan Pages is that at roughly the same time, they both began begging for people to "like" their page and posts to reach certain numbers. Matt's goal was 80,000 fans on Facebook. Amy's goal was 25,000. The speculation about Matt and Amy pleading for "likes" on their fan pages is that they're trying to prove something to someone or some entity about their popularity that they can use in negotiations.
Some fans on Amy, weren't all that harsh, but pointed out that Matt had a lot more fans or that Amy rarely responds to fans yet asks them to like her page, perhaps with a monetary goal in mind and some pointed out that she has a private Facebook page.
Amy did not take those rather tame criticisms well and made another post expressing her dismay and disappointment at the reaction to her post asking for Facebook "likes" and she pointed out that Matt's page has been around much longer than hers (which is true).
Jeremy Roloff
Jeremy, who is the Roloff leader in online scandals (racial and homophobic slurs, fan insults, cat tossing and other mistreatment of animals, drug and alcohol references while 'publicly' in books declaring that he was drug and alcohol free) has been staying out of trouble on his public twitter lately. Some skeptics point out Jeremy is helped by the fact that Mueller is not on Twitter, while others think Jeremy has *finally* learned from the past (although he has never acknowledged or apologized for anything).
These days, Jeremy's twitter consists of mostly him posting his Instagram picture or a Bible verse. He occasionally tweets a fan with a "thank you" after they compliment him on his photography or on being a Christian, etc.
Cynics point out that Jeremy has only become "fan friendly" or shown any interest in fans (he did ask fans to follow his twitter and Facebook Fan Page) after he decided that he would soon be selling his photography and would be looking for customers. As of yet, Jeremy's website is not up and running, but he has indicated that it's in the works and it's his plan to start selling soon.
Zach and Molly Roloff
Zach and Molly both have no public online presence. Molly Roloff had a public You Tube channel that she changed to private after a brief exchange with fans. That was the only time Molly has spoken uncensored to fans. She had posted a skit with friends where they named a character "Dr. Hemp". When some people commented on the drug reference Vs The Roloffs frequently talking about being Christians and representing Jesus and some fans went on to reference Jeremy and Mueller's behavior as an example, Molly got upset, told the people that they had no right to judge Roloffs and their friends and then deleted her video and made her channel private.
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