First I would like to welcome you to this site. I'd like to begin here by explaining why and how this site came to be and tell a little about Jack and myself. I hope you can follow along. I'll try to tie it all together as best I can.
I'm a machinist employed by a local tool and die shop a few miles from where I live. It used be I'd stop in the bar after work for a few drinks (usually much more than a few)... then leave town... get closer to home and stop somewhere else. Well that's where I met Hillbilly Jack. Introduced to me by a girl that used to live here with me.

Jack was pretty much just some whacked dude that tended to get on everyone's nerves when he was drunk. I learned to just avoid sitting around the guy. He could be rather obnoxious at times and many, many occasions his antics were quite comical. It was VERY hard to understand anything he was saying. For most people it was near impossible, especially after he'd already been drinking which was more often than not. After a good while I learned to understand the language .... Jackonese.

Well hopefully as everyone knows drinking and driving do not mix. March 17, 2005 put an end to my drinking days. I got a DUI and decided enough was enough once again and so I quit altogether. One of things people can't understand is how I manage to still go to bars whenever I want, hang out and not drink a drop. From what I gather its something not many people can do. Well with the drinking stopped, still I smoked a little weed now and then. ( At this time I am 100% alcohol, drug and tobacco free )

Now, I have to mention my dog Champ , a newfy, black lab, cocker spaniel mutt. At this time he's going on 15 years young. He does some rather silly things now and then that really used to crack me up. I was telling my sister this one day and she said that I should get a video of it and upload it to Youtube... Well.. I had absolutely no idea what youtube was, even though I've been on the internet since before windows even existed, a long time eh ? So I checked it out.. hmmm it was cool... but I uploaded nothing...

My job is OK some of the time, it bites some of the time, and it positively pisses me off to no at end other times. So there came a day in the fall of 2006. I was pissed off bad, I don't even remember why anymore, god I wanted a shot and a beer, I was so pissed... but I didn't fall off the wagon, that would have been a big mistake. Instead, well I had a little hooch and went to a friends place on the way home. She was always good for a laugh and after a few hits she'd have ya rolling on the floor. So I stops and knocks on her door.. no answer, she was across the street still at work. Well next stop was go grab a bite to eat at the Inn. Save the doob for another day.

I remember well what happened next. I went in, sat down. Jack was there, so naturally I sat across the bar from him.... a major annoyance while one is eating. He appeared to be in fine shape already tuned up on Seven and Seven and double shots of Yukon. Jack calls this setup a Combo. The bartender was the usual one, definitely putting up with Jack once again. I ordered my food and the usual root beer. I'm sitting there eating, still mad as hell about work and needing a chuckle. I get this evil grin on my face. I needed a good laugh and this was the perfect opportunity. I tell the barmaid "hey I'm gonna take Jack outside and burn one with him then bring him on back in and leave him here with you" Wow what a reaction I got... LOL... "Don't you dare!!" "yup just watch what I do soon as I'm done eatin"

We went out, burned, and came back in. I didn't leave like I had planned but stuck around, it was just too funny to leave and it was exactly what I was looking for. Now Jack is on my side of the bar sitting in the next barstool over. Speaking in some unknown dialect of Jackonese, he commenced to spout off continuously for the next hour and a half until I left. All I was able to catch was a quite interesting story about growing up with Grandpa on the farm. Most of what was being said I could not understand.

So I sit there for the next 90 minutes. Not being much of a smoker, I had a really good buzz going. I caught his story and the rest, well it was just too much to try and decipher, so I tried to ignore it as best I could. Impossible! Every 5 minutes or so I couldn't help my self from laughing, this is exactly what I needed, a good laugh to get my mind off of work. As I sat there it came to mind that wow, if I could get this on video, maybe I could figure out how to upload it to youtube, and hey maybe someone would find it and get a laugh too.

A few days later I saw Jack and asked him if he wouldn't mind me getting a few short clips of him. I explained what youtube was. I told him if he could tell the story of Grandpa that would be great (we did attempt it) but that anything would do. He said he would do it but I don't think he actually understood what I was up to for some time to come.

I think we have 22 videos posted on youtube at this time, some good, some not so good. Reading some of the comments that viewers have posted I couldn't believe yall wanted more Jack. So we did more, this Website got started, and I've got a few T shirts printed.

That's it for now.... Now you all know how this happened. To be continued.

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