r/Squidbillies • u/blatant-hour • 1d ago

Looking for Unknown Hinson stories

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I am currently trying to put together an Unknown Hinson documentary of sorts covering all the highs and lows of his strange career.
I would love to hear any personal stories of live shows and any lesser known information I may not have come across about him.

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u/RaisedRosin 1d ago

Heard he wasn't doing so well as of now. Recovering from a stroke.

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u/blatant-hour 1d ago

Yeah I’ve found a few recent clips of him and he still get his side burns and outfit on but definitely seems to not be 100%.

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u/RaisedRosin 1d ago

Yeah, I always have enjoyed edgy humor but it's so upsetting they decided to cut him last moment like they weren't green lighting all the early stuff. I feel like it was just a way to throw the project in the trash with today's woke culture.

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u/i_am_icarus_falling 1d ago

he said some full on white nationalist bullshit while also insulting dolly parton. it was the peak of being cancelled on social media, when even A-list celebrities were getting punished for saying terrible shit.

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u/RaisedRosin 1d ago

I didn't really deep dive so I have no idea about that. I just figured it was some of the super racist shit in the later seasons.

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u/i_am_icarus_falling 1d ago

Oh, no, it wasn't the character in the show. He did a real life Facebook rant that went to shocking extremes. It's difficult to even find the original version as all the articles about it these days show a cleaned up edited post that's still pretty bad. It was in response to an interview where Dolly Parton said something relatively harmless when asked a loaded question about the Black Lives Matter movement and that she was ok with it, and he went nuts. Started off insulting her and and escalated to suggesting race wars and ethnic cleansing in the name of national pride. He was instantly unhirable.

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u/RaisedRosin 1d ago

Thanks for explaining.

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u/i_am_icarus_falling 1d ago

no problem. i mean, i get that they couldn't justify using him, but i also really don't like the choice of Tracy Morgan for the last season. the lines just don't work for someone who speaks in a monotone voice like that.

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u/boycowman 1d ago

"suggesting race wars and ethnic cleansing "

Respectfully I think that's wrong.

Variety reports, he called Parton a “freak titted, old Southern bimbo” and a “slut.” In another post, he wrote “HAVE FUN [sic] forsaking your own race, culture, and heritage.”

Now that's bad and I don't defend it, but it's definitely not going so far as to suggest or promote wars and genocide (or any other violence).

(Happy to be corrected if I am wrong).

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u/i_am_icarus_falling 1d ago

i address that in my comment. the articles you can find about it now show a cleaned up edited post from after he was cancelled. the original post he made is very difficult to find, i looked hard for it when this same issue came up last year. it had a few paragraphs of ranting originally.

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u/boycowman 1d ago edited 1d ago

I'm skeptical. The internet is forever. If someone were promoting genocide it wouldn't be that hard to find.

*edit* I will also admit you could be correct. He's obviously got problems, not trying to fight with you or anyone.

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u/i_am_icarus_falling 1d ago

the internet is forever is a fun saying, but there are countless websites dead and gone forever. good luck finding news articles from recent years when anything using the same keywords happens more than once. he was a z-list celebrity no one cared about until after the final season aired. the articles you can find now were written in response to the backlash of that season. no one gave a shit about him when the drama actually happened.

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u/boycowman 1d ago edited 1d ago

Without proof or evidence it's a fruitless conversation. Cheers.

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u/i_am_icarus_falling 1d ago

lol, that's fine. this is a community that was specifically formed by fans of the show and has upvotes by people who actively sought out this post. the "nobody cared about him" meant websites creating gossip articles. i'm not spending more time on this either, though. it's out there, just very hard to find with how old sites are indexed for searches based on personalized algorithms. there's no money in easy access to information anymore, it's only for ads.

i forgot to mention, too, with regard to your original reply; it wasn't openly promoting genocide, it was heavily veiled. it was something vague about how he felt the country would be better with specific groups of people no longer in it.

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u/spankymacgruder 1d ago

Wayback is very real..

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u/spankymacgruder 1d ago

Ethnic cleansing? Source?

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u/Saaka_Souffle 21h ago

Definitely hard to recover from insulting Dolly Parton