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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And welcome back to Alabama's morning news. I'm John Mounts
filling in for JT. And there is a new series
coming out. We're taking you back to the Frontier and
joining us now are some of the I guess you
could call them contestants, but the real life people were
talking about Jeremy and Lena Hall as well as their daughter.
Jeremy and Lena, welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
You're joining us on a phone. They didn't have those
in the Frontier. But you're going to have to, you know,
suspend your belief right now. But this show that you're on,
it just the first one premier last night and it's
going to be every Thursday night on the Magnolia Network.
And Max on this show, you guys have to live
like you're living back in Frontier two. What's the year like,
eighteen eighty Yes, and so you're having to live like
(00:41):
you would have lived back then and you're facing all
of these challenges. What are some things that you learned
about how to survive in the year eighteen eighty.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Well, we have to basically go on the time machine
from the twenty first century to the eighteen eighties. We
had to live just like they did, no running water,
no electricity, no modern convenience, and we really had to
prove up as homesteaders that we could keep the land
and survive in it. So every day it was a
new skill. We have to learn how to do our
(01:09):
laundry the way they did it back then, cook the
way they did, garden, all those things that you would
expect in the eighteen eighties and that it's so easy
and convenient now, but it was very hard work back then.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Did they give you any sort of training so that
you would know because I wouldn't know what to do
if I was dropped in eighteen eighty and said here
go plant a garden and build a barn, I couldn't
do it. Did they give you training?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Not really.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
We had an almanac, you know, that gave us a
little guidance as to what they did back then, but
there was a lot of missing information you had to
figure out on your own, really.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
And so it's like little house on the prairie. Did
you bring What kind of things could you bring with you?
Like if you imagine if you were on a wagon
traveling west, you brought some things. Obviously not a hair dryer,
but some things, right.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
We brought each other.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Really. We had nothing. We were given clothes, and luckily
we took over a cabin that somebody had left behind
and we had to make it all up from there.
We had nothing. We brought nothing.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
And when he says clothes, it was like two pair
of clothes per person, So you didn't have a whole wardrobe,
a whole closet. It was just very very little.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
It was someone else's clothes. We weren't wearing new clothes.
We were wearing some old boots from the eighteen eighties,
and we took on someone's lives. Like my pants were
way too big, they didn't fit me.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
But I had to make you.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
I had to make it work.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
You know.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
It was challenging.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
And it sounds like you didn't get a chance to
bring a sewing machine. And if you're not a tailor
by trade, I guess you're having to what I don't know,
pin the clothes to make him fit.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Yeah, you had to do what you had to do.
You know, you had to roll them up if you
had to. We had to. Luckily, my daughter Zeolle did
a lot of adjustments. She made some clothes while she
was out there as well.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
So we talked about all the things that you would miss.
There's some modern conveniences that I probably could do without.
I wouldn't mind not having my cell phone or social
media for a while.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah, you know, at first, leaving social media and leaving
technology behind, it was it was hard. You know, you
kind of get that feeling of am I missing out?
What's everyone doing, what's posting, what's going on in the world.
That it was also really refreshing. It was nice to
leave all the noise behind in the modern world and
just live a simpler life.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
And you guys are from Florida, right.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Actor Orlando, Florida.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Do you interact with the other families that are on
the show or is it the show has follow is
following three different families? Are you in the same place
or is it like one of those one of you
will Saw like Survivor and one do you win the
thing and the other two lose.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
No, it's not a competition. We were in the same
vicinity of it, and we did have to come up
as a community because that's a big part of the
show and big part of back then. You had to
rely on each other to hopefully lean on each other
and learn from each other and help each other. That
none of the we had our own struggles as families,
(03:49):
and every family had to really figure it out for
their family on their own.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
And you're talking to an Alabama audience. One of the
families on the show are actually from Alabama.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Right, are from Alabama.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Correct, So say hi to them for us. Hopefully they
also are able to make it out there. What's the
what's the one thing that you learned that you weren't
expecting that you'd learn.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
A lot of patients. It took a lot more patients,
a lot more time to do everything. If you you know,
just to cook, you had to get wood and start
a fire, heat up your stove, you know, a good
hour before you started cooking.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Yeah, we learned to appreciate the small things and the
easy things that we have now, even like a glass
of milk is not a glass of milk without hours
of milk and a cow. In my case, it was ours.
But it was very hard. It was everything that you
had then it was because you worked hard. Everything was
intentional and everything you had to put hard work into.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
And the next time a big storm rolls through Florida
and your power gets knocked out. I bet you guys
are going to be better prepared.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Oh we are, well the family everybody wants to come
stay with when when the hurricane comes.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yeah, you've got you've got it all figured out, you'll survive.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Well.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
We'll definitely keep checking in to see how you're doing
on Magnolia and on Max every Thursday night, and of
course we'll check in to see how our Alabama brethren,
the Loopers are doing as well. Thanks guys for joining us.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Absolutely yes,
And welcome back to Alabama's morning news. I'm John Mounts
filling in for JT. And there is a new series
coming out. We're taking you back to the Frontier and
joining us now are some of the I guess you
could call them contestants, but the real life people were
talking about Jeremy and Lena Hall as well as their daughter.
Jeremy and Lena, welcome to the show.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
You're joining us on a phone. They didn't have those
in the Frontier. But you're going to have to, you know,
suspend your belief right now. But this show that you're on,
it just the first one premier last night and it's
going to be every Thursday night on the Magnolia Network.
And Max on this show, you guys have to live
like you're living back in Frontier two. What's the year like,
eighteen eighty Yes, and so you're having to live like
(00:41):
you would have lived back then and you're facing all
of these challenges. What are some things that you learned
about how to survive in the year eighteen eighty.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Well, we have to basically go on the time machine
from the twenty first century to the eighteen eighties. We
had to live just like they did, no running water,
no electricity, no modern convenience, and we really had to
prove up as homesteaders that we could keep the land
and survive in it. So every day it was a
new skill. We have to learn how to do our
(01:09):
laundry the way they did it back then, cook the
way they did, garden, all those things that you would
expect in the eighteen eighties and that it's so easy
and convenient now, but it was very hard work back then.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Did they give you any sort of training so that
you would know because I wouldn't know what to do
if I was dropped in eighteen eighty and said here
go plant a garden and build a barn, I couldn't
do it. Did they give you training?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Not really.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
We had an almanac, you know, that gave us a
little guidance as to what they did back then, but
there was a lot of missing information you had to
figure out on your own, really.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
And so it's like little house on the prairie. Did
you bring What kind of things could you bring with you?
Like if you imagine if you were on a wagon
traveling west, you brought some things. Obviously not a hair dryer,
but some things, right.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
We brought each other.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Really. We had nothing. We were given clothes, and luckily
we took over a cabin that somebody had left behind
and we had to make it all up from there.
We had nothing. We brought nothing.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
And when he says clothes, it was like two pair
of clothes per person, So you didn't have a whole wardrobe,
a whole closet. It was just very very little.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
It was someone else's clothes. We weren't wearing new clothes.
We were wearing some old boots from the eighteen eighties,
and we took on someone's lives. Like my pants were
way too big, they didn't fit me.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
But I had to make you.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
I had to make it work.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
You know.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
It was challenging.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
And it sounds like you didn't get a chance to
bring a sewing machine. And if you're not a tailor
by trade, I guess you're having to what I don't know,
pin the clothes to make him fit.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Yeah, you had to do what you had to do.
You know, you had to roll them up if you
had to. We had to. Luckily, my daughter Zeolle did
a lot of adjustments. She made some clothes while she
was out there as well.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
So we talked about all the things that you would miss.
There's some modern conveniences that I probably could do without.
I wouldn't mind not having my cell phone or social
media for a while.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah, you know, at first, leaving social media and leaving
technology behind, it was it was hard. You know, you
kind of get that feeling of am I missing out?
What's everyone doing, what's posting, what's going on in the world.
That it was also really refreshing. It was nice to
leave all the noise behind in the modern world and
just live a simpler life.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
And you guys are from Florida, right.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Actor Orlando, Florida.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Do you interact with the other families that are on
the show or is it the show has follow is
following three different families? Are you in the same place
or is it like one of those one of you
will Saw like Survivor and one do you win the
thing and the other two lose.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
No, it's not a competition. We were in the same
vicinity of it, and we did have to come up
as a community because that's a big part of the
show and big part of back then. You had to
rely on each other to hopefully lean on each other
and learn from each other and help each other. That
none of the we had our own struggles as families,
(03:49):
and every family had to really figure it out for
their family on their own.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
And you're talking to an Alabama audience. One of the
families on the show are actually from Alabama.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Right, are from Alabama.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Correct, So say hi to them for us. Hopefully they
also are able to make it out there. What's the
what's the one thing that you learned that you weren't
expecting that you'd learn.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
A lot of patients. It took a lot more patients,
a lot more time to do everything. If you you know,
just to cook, you had to get wood and start
a fire, heat up your stove, you know, a good
hour before you started cooking.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Yeah, we learned to appreciate the small things and the
easy things that we have now, even like a glass
of milk is not a glass of milk without hours
of milk and a cow. In my case, it was ours.
But it was very hard. It was everything that you
had then it was because you worked hard. Everything was
intentional and everything you had to put hard work into.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
And the next time a big storm rolls through Florida
and your power gets knocked out. I bet you guys
are going to be better prepared.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Oh we are, well the family everybody wants to come
stay with when when the hurricane comes.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yeah, you've got you've got it all figured out, you'll survive.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Well.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
We'll definitely keep checking in to see how you're doing
on Magnolia and on Max every Thursday night, and of
course we'll check in to see how our Alabama brethren,
the Loopers are doing as well. Thanks guys for joining us.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Absolutely yes,
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