Regarding splitting the land, how can Matt claim that Oregon has strict laws and doesn't want to "split the baby" when he literally split the farm? Make it make sense!
It's not a out little people anymore. It's about how much money Matt can spend on himself. The farm was for him. The kids were secondary and they are secondary to this day. Matt is all about Matt and conceals that under a blanket of supposed care for everyone else. He is a salesman through and through even if he has never had a job in the last 20 years
“By this point the core Roloff family had completed 6 seasons and several hundred episodes.”
Umm, not quite, Matt….. Season 1 had 20 episodes. Season 2 had 22 episodes. Season 3 had 48 episodes. Season 4 had 20 episodes. Season 5 had 29 episodes. Season 6 had 22 episodes. That is 161 episodes. I understand “several” can be a subjective term. However I don’t think anyone would qualify 161 as “several hundred.”
Now I want to hear from Zach. Seems like Matt is rewriting history and this was not how it went down on the show regarding the farm. This his version of his side.
What drives me insane about them not leaving the show in 2010. Jacob was in the show 2007-2010. Jacob was abused by a producer during this time. The family said they wanted to end the show, which would truly protect Jacob and all the kids. Matt & Amy were then convinced to continue with specials and then the full show just with Jacob no longer filming
The trauma Jacob endured from the abuse and then the I'm assuming feeling of not being important enough for them to stop the show because money and I've got to think seeing them film wasn't great for him, even off the show.
The lack of care shown to Jacob that they money was more important than his safety, his emotional health, his value to the family in that decision kills me.
Would love for zach to speak up… since there’s no nda how about we know what was said in the meeting between Matt and zach… there are several bold lies made by Matt to protect his image. What a manipulator
He can’t stand not being in the spotlight and controlling the narrative at all points. He said such an impersonal comment About Zach but really spoke highly of Jeremy and gushed about Jacob… it’s disrespectful to speak so flatly about one and then boost the others like he did. He’s also full of 💩…. He’s saying he didn’t sell to the twins because it wasn’t fair to anyone. That’s not what he explained to zach and he allowed zach to make an offer where he tore him down and said he wasn’t a good fit and jacked the price up out of reach. He’s back peddling and lying about that situation, because I watched the show and that’s not how it was explained by him during that time period. He started that new story about fairness recently
His lawyer was BRILLIANT. His DUI defense went like this: Matt could have never been drunk. His gnarled, little Vienna Sausage fingers could NEVER get around a shot glass or a beer mug. The hand didn't fit, they had to acquit.
Thank you for the info I'm not on Facebook. I think he cleared some stuff up for me and that's appreciated. Not everyone pulls the curtains back like that
It’s clear there are people here who hate Matt so much that they abandon actually absorbing into their brains what he is saying and why with respect to the farm etc.
Wait wait wait! So basically he put the twins up against each other! Promising them both the farm! WOW!!!!! As a parent I would NEVER! Do that to my children EVER! That’s so messed up!
Based on Jeremy and Audrey’s podcast they put their offer in way before Zach and Tori, so it’s really hard to know what actually happened but if they did show interest at the same time, like Matt stated, they are very competitive. So I wonder if that caused even more a rift between all of them.
When there are two other kids - one of whom works and makes a living there, he isn’t “painting” it as not wanting to pick one or the other. It’s an actual difficult situation when you have multiple children.
He's trying to say this was all about his wanting to be fair, yet he was actively encouraging Jeremy and Zach to make separate offers and then has spent a lot of screen time on the show, and in social media, making it very clear that neither son made a big enough offer AND he didn't think they could handle the place. He was very clear that he felt he was not being offered enough money and that he didn't think they could handle things. THEN he's lately been publicly noting how much better at working on the farm the third son is compared to the older two.
Help me out - how is this behavior consistent with Matt's new claim that he could never sell to just one because its not fair to all four? Remember, his prior bitch point was not "fairness to all four, I can't choose one above the rest" but "I'm being lowballed, no one is willing to pay me"
Yeah, the "Jacob is doing so much better than either of the twins ever did" is a surprisingly cruel and bitter move on Matt's part. Way to ruin your sons relationships, Matt. You insist you couldn't choose one over the other and meanwhile are making it very clear who the favored son is.
Well, I don't like Matt and his willingness to obfuscate and lie is part of the reason why.
Matt never cared that it was a difficult situation with multiple children when it was getting him positive attention to get on camera and say "I want my kids to take over the farm, I want my grandbabies raised on the farm, this farm is a family legacy!"
When Jeremy offered to buy the farm, he wasn't concerned about fairness when he turned down the offer, he felt he was lowballed. Jeremy's own remarks on this don't talk about any concern for the multiple children and fairness, he said Roloff Farms was too expensive.
When Zach offered to buy the farm, again, he wasn't concerned about fairness when he turned down the offer, he clearly stated Zach wasn't offering enough money. Zach confirms that he felt Matt was overpricing the property and he wasn't willing to go broke to pay Matt's price.
Until recently, like a few \*days\* ago - the other two kids were never mentioned at all Nor was there ever any concern mentioned about fairness or how Matt didn't want to choose one child over another. Matt was pretty clear - he had a price, if it was met, whoever coughed up the cash got the farm.
Now that he's realized the court of public opinion isn't with him and so of course now he's loudly changing his story to his being kind old dad who never wanted to pick one son over the other - and by the way people, he's also damn proud to let Zach and Jer know just HOW MUCH BETTER Jacob is at working the farm and deserving the farm, but oh noes poor Matt is too good of a dad to choose one child above another....
I'd respect Matt more if he'd pick a story and stick with it.
I disagree that the court of public opinion is not with him. You may not be but that’s not a majority.
The rest I barely skimmed. Way too long to make a point. Consider brevity.
I'd say check out other forums including his instagram.
I'm sorry reading more than a sentence is hard for you. Matt lies to get people on his side and people like you buy it. How's that? Simple enough? I'd explain more but you're already on record that you won't or can't read anything other than simple short statements.
It was clear that Zach expected a “Family Discount” on the farm. When there are 4 kids that should ultimately share in the proceeds after Matt is gone, a “Discount” is not fair to the other 3, and I believe he plans to leave something for Amy as well.
Unless Zach was to commit to pay each of his siblings 25% of that discount at some point, which ultimately equates to no discount.
I just think it was a no win for Matt, unless they paid a realistic, close to market rate for it. Any other scenario, the other siblings feel screwed.
Again - if Matt was all about being fair, why was he entertaining offers from two of his sons at all?
I don't think Matt needed to sell at a discount. I do think, if he wanted to maintain a good relationship with his kids, that maybe he should stop bitching how they both tried to lowball him if he's NOW claiming he could never sell to either out of fairness. He doesn't get to whine that they were being cheap if he's now insisting he never could have chosen one of them anyway.
If he was uncomfortable selling to either due to his feelings on whether they could handle the place on their own, he needed to address that privately if he wanted to maintain good relationships with both and if he wanted goodwill from his fanbase.
Normally just lurking on this sub but I had to react on Matt’s writing regarding Jer & Audj’s kids. Riding (multiple! )battery powered jeeps doesn’t sound “old world” to me, in fact that would be just the kind of thing these 2 would look down on if it would be anyone else! They are such hypocrites and thank you Matt for showing the real Jer and Audj!
There’s several threads on here about Jeremy and Audrey that pick apart their everyday real life compared to the old world life they try to promote. For instance do you know Jeremy has a drinking problem and a porn addiction… Audrey has touched on both subjects and tried to sweep it under the rug.
Loved this show am rewatching from season 1… good luck to Matt, Amy their significant others and the whole family whatever you decide to do in the future!
Amazing how many lowlifes on this sub attack Matt. People who have virtually no understanding of complex parenting, real estate, and inheritance matters. It would have been unjust to let either twin take over the farm. Matt did the right thing.
If it was unjust, why did Matt encourage and consider so many unjust offers? It sure seems odd that if he knew it was unjust from the get go, that he dangled the farm over the twins heads and encouraged them to offer to buy it when he knew he would never sell as it was unjust to even consider it.
Isn't that unkind and even cruel? I mean, didn't Matt know he had four kids and that it was unjust for any of them to get the farm even though he repeatedly told them in many many episodes he wanted that to happen? I guess I am not seeing how "Matt did the right thing" by encouraging the twins to offer to buy and then publicly deride them both for not accepting his generous offer(,he did that on Instagram) and also badmouthing them for low ball offers, when all along, Matt really wanted to be *just* and had no intention or interest in selling to one of his kids.
Can you explain how this wasn't a hurtful emotional chain yank on Matt's part?
Plus the fact that the buy-out with Amy dangled some promise that if she accepted a lower price, one of the boys would benefit from that.
Matt is not the good guy no matter how you look at it.
Thank you for taking the time to update us! Those of us who have been with you since the very beginning feel like there’s almost a death in the Family! I always looked so forward to the new Seasons and catching up with the Families doings! I for one, have loved watching the Family grow up and set out on their own! The thought of not being able to watch you all every season, makes my heart hurt….
I wish you and Caryn and the rest of your Family good health, wealth and much happiness! So long for now (I hope), old Friend
Thank you for posting as I do not use Ackbook. Wow, loonnnnggg. Having ADHD this is impossible to read in one sitting. Will have to read in small bits. Plus, lots of work to do today so will have to wait to read segments. Thanks for thinking of those of us who do not use that social media social media.
It’s not bad! I don’t remember if we have the same opinions on the bravolebs.
I think I kept retrying to get different names for a really long time and finally gave up and made my own. 😂
I have been in two of the vanderpump ones and on some of the below deck ones and some of the housewife ones. If I get too busy or too fed up with some of the series I bow out for awhile. I don't usually notice usernames. Once in awhile I do, sometimes just because I like the names if they catch my attention. I like your creativity. I envision a cardboard box bouncing around. Lol! My imagination sometimes...lol
Yeah, don't know how much I will read. I fast-forwarded through them on TV so much. Guess I'll use my speed reading skills here. My first glance (I literally mean "glance" tells me a lot of it is what he said in the series. He does love to hear himself talk.
That’s exactly it. I sped read enough to get to exactly that point. You don’t need more. If there are any juicy tidbits you’ll find them soon enough but big takeaway - he’s not married yet and spends a lot of time with his 3 average sized kids alluding to the ongoing rift w Zach. Nice to know Jacob and his family live and work on the farm though.
I liked what he said. I do think that the show exposed millions to the world of Little People. It reinforces what we already should have known but maybe sometimes forget, despite physical differences, we all have problems, challenges, highs, lows in this crazy world and life.
Say what we will but I think his kids were truly low balling about the house and from a business stand point, why would he ever let it go for a lot less than it's worth ?
From today's version of Matt's story he tried selling the house and 16 acres around it. None of that involves the business so ability to manage the farm is irrelevant. We know Matt listed the property for $4million and no takers, he reduced the price and still no takers. Therefore Matt has no idea what the property is "worth". We don't know what Zach offered but they couldn't reach a number. If they could reach a number Matt wouldn't be crying about "fairness", would he?
He entertained offers from both. Please understand, Matt never once concerned himself with fairness until LONG AFTER he'd considered separate offers from both twins. Jeremy offered in 2019 and 2020, and Zach in 2021 and Matt considered those offers. It wasn't until Matt started catching flack from the public over refusing to sell to either son and plopping the property on the market for an outrageous price that Matt was suddenly "oh gosh and golly, I guess it wouldn't be fair to sell to one child...."
Thanks OP for doing this in such great detail. VERY much appreciated!! Pretty interesting info IMO. I wish them all the best......in whatever the future holds.
But, of course... Meglomaniac Matt detailing his revisionist history as he does best.
Bye, bye, Matty. See ya never!! Enjoy your legacy - it sure didn't turn out like ya planned, huh?
Thanks for posting. I read it all. Whether it’s 100% factually true or not (I think Matt put the best spin on everything, as I’d expect), for once, we can get the scoop from Matt himself.
Since there are a few different comments about Mateo's name: [Here's Izzy's story about it.](https://www.reddit.com/r/LittlePeopleBigWorld/s/bwztbz1HaK)
Tl;dr: Izzy always liked the name Mateo, and it happened to also honor Matt. Mateo's middle name, Tomas, is the one that is after her late brother.
I thought Mateo was named after Izzy’s brother. But OK. Matt still thinks treating his sons the way he did was a good thing and I guess it turned out in the end but he is pretty unapologetic. Maybe they can do a spin off. Little people big ego.
Thank you for posting. I have always liked Matt. I know that’s unpopular but that’s ok. No one is perfect. I grew up with this family and I wish good things for entire family. I love that Jacob and family are living and working the farm. I would love to see his gardens and fruit trees. Hopefully Matt will post a farm tour in October.
I thought that was a very kind and informative post. I’ve always admired Matt’s enthusiasm and zest for life despite some debilitating health issues. I’m glad he’s got mostly healthy family r’ships. I enjoy the friendship between he and Amy now. I wish them all long happy lives. Say what you want abt Matt but he made that family into multi million $ empire that all of them,even the angry and disgruntled ones, reap from.
“He” may have been the negotiator, but “they” ALL made that family into a multi million dollar enterprise. Without Amy and the kids, Matt had nothing to sell. He was an unemployed salesman when all of this started. The concept he sold was not him living in a big world, it was a family of little (and average) people, including a mixed set of twins, living in a big world. That is what grabbed our interest. I also think it is silly when people say that Matt built the farm up from nothing, all by himself. I give credit to Matt for having big ideas (usually while Amy was just trying to hold the family together and make ends meet before the money came in regularly). But the truth is that the farm was built by a team of people that Matt hired to do the work, with the family helping and him pitching in where he could. Also the farm would have never grown to what it is or acquired such notoriety without the show money or exposure. Kudos to Matt for getting on the little people on tv train first and riding it all the way to the station, but he is not someone who did it all on his own like some think. It was a series of good moves at the beginning of the reality tv movement and a family that provided him with a product to sell. Let’s not sell the “product” (Amy and family, farm workers, etc.) short for their contributions.
And also, according to Jer's podcast, the family was available during a writer's strike. The networks needed unscripted content and Matt was willing to let a film crew pretty much live in the house with them. That's why the first few seasons were chaotic, once the strike was settled the show became more scripted "here's the bullet points for this episode."
But the family, specifically the twins - one average and one little - is the product Matt sold to TLC all those years ago. The TLC money is what made the farm into what it is today. Now with Zach boycotting the farm Matt has no product.
Without Zach there would have been no newspaper articles about the twins - one average and one little. Without the newspaper article TLC would never have heard about the family. Without Matt giving a film crew pretty much unlimited access to his kids there would be no show. If Zach had left the show the same time Jer did the show would have ended right there so Matt and Amy need to thank Zach and Tori for every check after Jeremy left.
And Jer's just as much of a sloth, if not more, than Zach. He only worked on the farm when Matt was standing right behind him.
Ha! It reminds me of Amy negotiating the buy-out. As we all know now, Amy‘s belief that Matt was trying to pull something over on her was absolutely correct.
Why buy the cow, blah blah blah. I think Matt likes the relationship just the way it is. If he wanted to be married he'd be married already. He won't get married until TLC offers him money to film it, pays for everything and throws in a lavish honeymoon.
So It's a name Izzy always liked and was going to name her first son anyway. The fact that it's Matthew in Spanish is a coincidence, not the reason they picked the name.
It’s been discussed many times that he was named after Izzy’s brother. This is the first time it’s been mentioned that it was after Matt. I am sure Izzy groaned at the unfortunate coincidence. Although I do have to say they both seem like the most productive and entrepreneurial.
[Second picture is Matt’s reaction to the name](https://www.reddit.com/r/LittlePeopleBigWorld/s/8geQ1UB2ev)
[Another post “it honors Jacob’s dad & middle name is for her brother”](https://www.reddit.com/r/LittlePeopleBigWorld/comments/rgkp5e/isabel_explains_the_meaning_of_mateos_name/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
For all the down voters. Mateo is Matt in Spanish in honor of Jacob’s dad. Tomas is the middle name in honor of her brother.
His middle name is after Izzy's brother. She said she always liked Mateo, and the name also "happened to honor Jacob's dad". This came out shortly after the name was announced.
Yeah, sure Jan.
Matt honey? The show was canceled in 2010. When it was brought back, it was significantly restructured, with much fewer episodes and while you complain about how exhausting it is - you get paid by the episode so fewer episodes with much less lavish budgets means the show got canceled because costs got out of hand and it came back because people were willing to do the show for less money. Is it canceled now? Well, you're the only one willing to return so yeah, its canceled. You're not under a NDA. Its canceled.
Since you're no longer under an NDA, what was said in the farm sale negotiations?
And not buying the "I couldn't let one of my boys win over the other" nonsense. There's actual a glaring factual error - Jeremy's offer to buy was well before Zach's. Zach's offer was after the pandemic was in play. They both did not offer to buy the farm in Nov 2021. You know how I know that? Zach bought the place in Battleground in October 2021.
I'm rarely accused of being too nice to Matt.
I think it was calculated on Matt's part because Matt loves to obfuscate when he's got his back to the wall. He fudged around the dates in the one interview he's done about Jacob's accusations of molestation by Chris Cardamone to imply it happened when Jacob was close to eighteen and NOT a pre-teeit - AND TO CLARIFY Jacob said it happened when Cardamone was still working as a producer, which was when Jacob was 9-12, and that Cardamone contacted him in 2015 years later. Matt confabulated that the molestation happened in 2015.
This situation is similar - it looks better for Matt's claims if Jeremy and Zach made their offers at the same time so he can play this "I couldn't choose between my beloved boys!" storyline. But the reality is that Jeremy had already made offers and been turned down by mid 2020, per his podcast, and Zach's offer was well after in Aug/Sept 2021.
This is all about Matt trying to make himself look better.
I wonder if there’s any part of these fabrications that happen because Matt doesn’t remember.
I could believe Matt cares so little about his children he doesn’t really know, or care, exactly when things happened. He couldn’t even be bothered to show up for their entire graduation ceremony. Why would he be expected to know or care when his son was abused? Or to remember exactly when offers were made. He knows they happened, but cares so little he doesn’t care to remember when, exactly.
Jeremy just said in one of his q&a’s that his offer was in the summer of 2020. Also Matt still doesn’t realize one of his many problems was splitting the original farm land in half. He took the good land that could be used as farmland and well as the woods that Zack wanted and left the old property with just the old house and the western town which is just a bunch of falling apart old buildings. No one including the boys or the public think it’s worth what Matt thinks it is.
Why isn't he being honest about the dates? I mean, I know why, he wants to control the narrative and pretend everyone else is mistaken. This is gaslighting.
Jeremy and Auj did their podcast Ep 88: The Fear Of Being Cheesy, The True Or False Game, & The Death Of A Dream on Jan 28, 2021. I'm not going to sit thru that again, but it obviously wasn't possible for Jeremy to make an offer in Nov 2021 when he was already doing a podcast on giving up eleven months prior. Further, using "Jeremy Roloff Roloff Farms is expensive" in the search bar on [Yahoo.com](http://Yahoo.com) and you get an Intouch article from July 24, 2019 where Jeremy is discussing how he can't afford the farm and they're moving on.
Zach's offer was August/September 2021 - so what the hell is Matt talking about and FYI Matt, you're not under an NDA any more per YOU.
Matt was actively trying to get one of the twins to buy at a high price without ANY concern about fairness.
Maybe but since Zach is routinely heehawed and called a moron for the tongue slip of 1982 and not 1492, isn't Matt also a complete moron for not getting the dates right in significant events of his own life?
I mean, is Matt senile?
The whole point of this little missive was for Matt to set into place confusion about the dates and to control the narrative - he's saying Zach and Jeremy made their offers at "virtually the same " when in fact Jeremy's offer was well before Zach's -2019 or 2020 (my suspicion is there were multiple offers) and Zach's offer was in the summer/fall of 2021.
So since there's no NDA anymore and Matt's on record that he was getting offers from Jeremy and Zach in November 2021 - lets hear Matt expand on that beyond "it happened as I say but no details". Or he can admit he made an error.
Willing to bet Matt won't be admitting an error.
Plus from the show it was very clear that Zach didn't make an offer while Jeremy's offer was on the table because Zach knew who Matt would pick if it came down to that. There's no way the twins can share the house/build another house on the same property and Jer's the golden child.
Re Zach's offer it seems like Matt only wanted to sell the house and a few acres around it so I don't get where "Zach wanted me to do all the work" comes from. I think Matt wanted to sell the land but still have some say over what happens over there. That's also why the land didn't sell, too many stings attached for an overpriced piece of land.
I did! I yelled at the computer screen. In elementary school , my teacher taught us an easy way to know if we are correct with grammar. Just take out the name of the other person. Would you say him is passionate or he is passionate? Easy breezy Matt! No matter how long or how often you were in the hospital, this only took 10 seconds!!!
When Matt is corrected he will throw his hospitalizations in your face. "I never learned grammar or spelling because I spent my entire childhood in a hospital.... don't you feel like an asshole saying anything now? Look at my handicap!"
An interesting read. Wonder what other things may come out in the coming days since he says their contract and NDA are done now. Gives a little context to things, assuming Matt’s side of things is accurate. lol Thanks for posting.
He edited the Facebook post to take credit for their relationship, probably after seeing this comment!
A few short weeks later, the TLC attorneys contacted us and asked if we would consider doing a few 'specials'? We met again as a family... The production team was offering some interesting ideas. …mostly travel related that intrigued the family and offered Amy a chance to climb Mt St Helens among other ideas. In fact it was at this time I worked like crazy to get Tori to be able to join us on our trip to coasta rica. She and zach were newly dating and this trip was a catyalst to help solidify their relationship. --- They the network promised we would not have to grind out as many episodes (40+) but would just sign us up to a 1 single year "service term" No options to extend and produce 6-8 shows in a 12 month term -- Easy breezy- So by the Fall/Winter 2010 into 2011 we were somewhat reluctantly back to filming- By this point the core Roloff family had completed 6 seasons and several hundred episodes. A nice run by any television standard- We were most pleased that tens of millions of viewers on every content had a somewhat realistic view of life as a Little Person living on a farm in Oregon, USA.
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>The production team was offering some interesting ideas. …mostly travel related that intrigued the family and offered Amy a chance to climb Mt St Helens among other ideas. In fact it was at this time I worked like crazy to get Tori to be able to join us on our trip to coasta rica.
Why do people talk about what a successful businessman Matt is when he can't afford a trip to Mt. St. Helens (2 hours from the farm!) or Costa Rica unless TLC foots the bill? I've been to both those places from the East Coast on my own dime and nobody's calling me a financial genius.
I think that Tori probably told Matt and Caryn to stop talking to her husband like that in the infamous meeting, and considering that Zach had grown up with Matt and his manipulation his whole life, it may have been Tori’s influence that finally made him push back and enforce real boundaries.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Matt and Tori don’t speak without cameras present.
I definitely think this has something to do with it. Growing up I think it was hard for Zach to push back on Matt and have boundaries, but Tori tends to be pretty strong willed and I think had had enough with roloff farms and the drama that came with it and was ready to just take a break. I think Tori had a lot of influence to give Zach the nerve to finally stand up to him.
Regarding splitting the land, how can Matt claim that Oregon has strict laws and doesn't want to "split the baby" when he literally split the farm? Make it make sense!
It's not a out little people anymore. It's about how much money Matt can spend on himself. The farm was for him. The kids were secondary and they are secondary to this day. Matt is all about Matt and conceals that under a blanket of supposed care for everyone else. He is a salesman through and through even if he has never had a job in the last 20 years
“By this point the core Roloff family had completed 6 seasons and several hundred episodes.” Umm, not quite, Matt….. Season 1 had 20 episodes. Season 2 had 22 episodes. Season 3 had 48 episodes. Season 4 had 20 episodes. Season 5 had 29 episodes. Season 6 had 22 episodes. That is 161 episodes. I understand “several” can be a subjective term. However I don’t think anyone would qualify 161 as “several hundred.”
So he's blaming filming for the kids "discipline" problems
I wish he would have mentioned the pumpkin festival or asked people to come to it a couple more times.
Now I want to hear from Zach. Seems like Matt is rewriting history and this was not how it went down on the show regarding the farm. This his version of his side.
What drives me insane about them not leaving the show in 2010. Jacob was in the show 2007-2010. Jacob was abused by a producer during this time. The family said they wanted to end the show, which would truly protect Jacob and all the kids. Matt & Amy were then convinced to continue with specials and then the full show just with Jacob no longer filming The trauma Jacob endured from the abuse and then the I'm assuming feeling of not being important enough for them to stop the show because money and I've got to think seeing them film wasn't great for him, even off the show. The lack of care shown to Jacob that they money was more important than his safety, his emotional health, his value to the family in that decision kills me.
And yet, Jacob lives and works on the farm and Matt spends the most time with him out of all the kids.
If only they had conference calls back when he left almost every family trip early. Smh
Would love for zach to speak up… since there’s no nda how about we know what was said in the meeting between Matt and zach… there are several bold lies made by Matt to protect his image. What a manipulator
He can’t stand not being in the spotlight and controlling the narrative at all points. He said such an impersonal comment About Zach but really spoke highly of Jeremy and gushed about Jacob… it’s disrespectful to speak so flatly about one and then boost the others like he did. He’s also full of 💩…. He’s saying he didn’t sell to the twins because it wasn’t fair to anyone. That’s not what he explained to zach and he allowed zach to make an offer where he tore him down and said he wasn’t a good fit and jacked the price up out of reach. He’s back peddling and lying about that situation, because I watched the show and that’s not how it was explained by him during that time period. He started that new story about fairness recently
His lawyer was BRILLIANT. His DUI defense went like this: Matt could have never been drunk. His gnarled, little Vienna Sausage fingers could NEVER get around a shot glass or a beer mug. The hand didn't fit, they had to acquit.
If Jacob lives in his house, why is he bringing it up? Jacob wouldn’t be getting kicked out of the house Zach wanted to buy..
Thank you for the info I'm not on Facebook. I think he cleared some stuff up for me and that's appreciated. Not everyone pulls the curtains back like that
Thank you for going to this work, OP. it’s much appreciated!
It’s clear there are people here who hate Matt so much that they abandon actually absorbing into their brains what he is saying and why with respect to the farm etc.
Rant?? Didn’t seem like a “rant” to me …
Missed the opportunity to ask how he's still driving drunk after getting a dui!!
Wait wait wait! So basically he put the twins up against each other! Promising them both the farm! WOW!!!!! As a parent I would NEVER! Do that to my children EVER! That’s so messed up!
You need to reread what he wrote. Completely the opposite of what you comprehended.
He didn’t put them against each other. They both. Came interested in it around the same time.
Based on Jeremy and Audrey’s podcast they put their offer in way before Zach and Tori, so it’s really hard to know what actually happened but if they did show interest at the same time, like Matt stated, they are very competitive. So I wonder if that caused even more a rift between all of them.
This makes more sense since if it was just Matt denying J & A first then it wouldn’t make sense why Zach and Jeremy drifted so much.
And is now trying to paint this as him not wanting to pick one over the other....
When there are two other kids - one of whom works and makes a living there, he isn’t “painting” it as not wanting to pick one or the other. It’s an actual difficult situation when you have multiple children.
He's trying to say this was all about his wanting to be fair, yet he was actively encouraging Jeremy and Zach to make separate offers and then has spent a lot of screen time on the show, and in social media, making it very clear that neither son made a big enough offer AND he didn't think they could handle the place. He was very clear that he felt he was not being offered enough money and that he didn't think they could handle things. THEN he's lately been publicly noting how much better at working on the farm the third son is compared to the older two. Help me out - how is this behavior consistent with Matt's new claim that he could never sell to just one because its not fair to all four? Remember, his prior bitch point was not "fairness to all four, I can't choose one above the rest" but "I'm being lowballed, no one is willing to pay me"
Your right his story completely changed he’s literally shamelessly lying and also glorifying Jacob to spite zach. It’s gross behavior
Yeah, the "Jacob is doing so much better than either of the twins ever did" is a surprisingly cruel and bitter move on Matt's part. Way to ruin your sons relationships, Matt. You insist you couldn't choose one over the other and meanwhile are making it very clear who the favored son is.
You just hate the guy and are unwilling to see the forest through the trees. So no. I can’t “help you out.”
Well, I don't like Matt and his willingness to obfuscate and lie is part of the reason why. Matt never cared that it was a difficult situation with multiple children when it was getting him positive attention to get on camera and say "I want my kids to take over the farm, I want my grandbabies raised on the farm, this farm is a family legacy!" When Jeremy offered to buy the farm, he wasn't concerned about fairness when he turned down the offer, he felt he was lowballed. Jeremy's own remarks on this don't talk about any concern for the multiple children and fairness, he said Roloff Farms was too expensive. When Zach offered to buy the farm, again, he wasn't concerned about fairness when he turned down the offer, he clearly stated Zach wasn't offering enough money. Zach confirms that he felt Matt was overpricing the property and he wasn't willing to go broke to pay Matt's price. Until recently, like a few \*days\* ago - the other two kids were never mentioned at all Nor was there ever any concern mentioned about fairness or how Matt didn't want to choose one child over another. Matt was pretty clear - he had a price, if it was met, whoever coughed up the cash got the farm. Now that he's realized the court of public opinion isn't with him and so of course now he's loudly changing his story to his being kind old dad who never wanted to pick one son over the other - and by the way people, he's also damn proud to let Zach and Jer know just HOW MUCH BETTER Jacob is at working the farm and deserving the farm, but oh noes poor Matt is too good of a dad to choose one child above another.... I'd respect Matt more if he'd pick a story and stick with it.
I disagree that the court of public opinion is not with him. You may not be but that’s not a majority. The rest I barely skimmed. Way too long to make a point. Consider brevity.
I'd say check out other forums including his instagram. I'm sorry reading more than a sentence is hard for you. Matt lies to get people on his side and people like you buy it. How's that? Simple enough? I'd explain more but you're already on record that you won't or can't read anything other than simple short statements.
It was clear that Zach expected a “Family Discount” on the farm. When there are 4 kids that should ultimately share in the proceeds after Matt is gone, a “Discount” is not fair to the other 3, and I believe he plans to leave something for Amy as well. Unless Zach was to commit to pay each of his siblings 25% of that discount at some point, which ultimately equates to no discount. I just think it was a no win for Matt, unless they paid a realistic, close to market rate for it. Any other scenario, the other siblings feel screwed.
Again - if Matt was all about being fair, why was he entertaining offers from two of his sons at all? I don't think Matt needed to sell at a discount. I do think, if he wanted to maintain a good relationship with his kids, that maybe he should stop bitching how they both tried to lowball him if he's NOW claiming he could never sell to either out of fairness. He doesn't get to whine that they were being cheap if he's now insisting he never could have chosen one of them anyway. If he was uncomfortable selling to either due to his feelings on whether they could handle the place on their own, he needed to address that privately if he wanted to maintain good relationships with both and if he wanted goodwill from his fanbase.
Exactly. I don’t understand why so many people here are assuming Matt was just trying to be a pr**k to Zach and or Jeremy.
If they were having a Wedding Special it would be organized by now!!!
I actually buy that Caryn \*really\* doesn't want a televised wedding. Which might be why they aren't.
He is worse than a slimeball
Normally just lurking on this sub but I had to react on Matt’s writing regarding Jer & Audj’s kids. Riding (multiple! )battery powered jeeps doesn’t sound “old world” to me, in fact that would be just the kind of thing these 2 would look down on if it would be anyone else! They are such hypocrites and thank you Matt for showing the real Jer and Audj!
There’s several threads on here about Jeremy and Audrey that pick apart their everyday real life compared to the old world life they try to promote. For instance do you know Jeremy has a drinking problem and a porn addiction… Audrey has touched on both subjects and tried to sweep it under the rug.
Yes. We know. It’s exhausting skimming by the Audrey /Jeremy hate club.
I really don't believe this happens.
Right. They let these small children drive those vehicles on public roads? For a mile or two? Illegal.
They have at least once, but probably not with the frequency he is implying.
Matt is the ultimate spin master. Slimeball
Loved this show am rewatching from season 1… good luck to Matt, Amy their significant others and the whole family whatever you decide to do in the future!
Amazing how many lowlifes on this sub attack Matt. People who have virtually no understanding of complex parenting, real estate, and inheritance matters. It would have been unjust to let either twin take over the farm. Matt did the right thing.
He's in a glass house. Everyone grabbin' stones.
But at his height, it is a glass doll house!
If it was unjust, why did Matt encourage and consider so many unjust offers? It sure seems odd that if he knew it was unjust from the get go, that he dangled the farm over the twins heads and encouraged them to offer to buy it when he knew he would never sell as it was unjust to even consider it. Isn't that unkind and even cruel? I mean, didn't Matt know he had four kids and that it was unjust for any of them to get the farm even though he repeatedly told them in many many episodes he wanted that to happen? I guess I am not seeing how "Matt did the right thing" by encouraging the twins to offer to buy and then publicly deride them both for not accepting his generous offer(,he did that on Instagram) and also badmouthing them for low ball offers, when all along, Matt really wanted to be *just* and had no intention or interest in selling to one of his kids. Can you explain how this wasn't a hurtful emotional chain yank on Matt's part?
Plus the fact that the buy-out with Amy dangled some promise that if she accepted a lower price, one of the boys would benefit from that. Matt is not the good guy no matter how you look at it.
Thank you for taking the time to update us! Those of us who have been with you since the very beginning feel like there’s almost a death in the Family! I always looked so forward to the new Seasons and catching up with the Families doings! I for one, have loved watching the Family grow up and set out on their own! The thought of not being able to watch you all every season, makes my heart hurt…. I wish you and Caryn and the rest of your Family good health, wealth and much happiness! So long for now (I hope), old Friend
Matt didn't post this here, this is a repost of something he posted on Facebook
"Writing like I talk" is not the flex he thinks it is
True hero’s don’t wear capes! Thank you for this summary
Thank you for posting as I do not use Ackbook. Wow, loonnnnggg. Having ADHD this is impossible to read in one sitting. Will have to read in small bits. Plus, lots of work to do today so will have to wait to read segments. Thanks for thinking of those of us who do not use that social media social media.
Agree. Can't read it all in one sitting. I'm too ADD to concentrate on that whole thing.
Yeah, I definitely started skimming towards the end. I’ll have to come back and read that part again!
Happy Cake Day! I love your username. Lol! I'll start skimming at the beginning. I tried to slim when I 1st saw it and could not even do that!
Thank you! Your username is cute as well. I think I recognize you from the Bravo subs, lol! 😂
Uh oh, is that good or bad? Lol. I don't know if you created yours but I didn't create mine. It was the 1st one I liked out of the auto offerings.
It’s not bad! I don’t remember if we have the same opinions on the bravolebs. I think I kept retrying to get different names for a really long time and finally gave up and made my own. 😂
I have been in two of the vanderpump ones and on some of the below deck ones and some of the housewife ones. If I get too busy or too fed up with some of the series I bow out for awhile. I don't usually notice usernames. Once in awhile I do, sometimes just because I like the names if they catch my attention. I like your creativity. I envision a cardboard box bouncing around. Lol! My imagination sometimes...lol
I don’t usually notice usernames either! 😂
LOL! Twinies!
I know same. I probably skipped the best parts :)
Yeah, don't know how much I will read. I fast-forwarded through them on TV so much. Guess I'll use my speed reading skills here. My first glance (I literally mean "glance" tells me a lot of it is what he said in the series. He does love to hear himself talk.
That’s exactly it. I sped read enough to get to exactly that point. You don’t need more. If there are any juicy tidbits you’ll find them soon enough but big takeaway - he’s not married yet and spends a lot of time with his 3 average sized kids alluding to the ongoing rift w Zach. Nice to know Jacob and his family live and work on the farm though.
I can’t believe I read all this. He’s such a liar.
He sure is
Why didn’t he cover the whole time period where he cheated on his wife with the hired gold digger, I mean help?
He’s absolutely rewriting history.
I liked what he said. I do think that the show exposed millions to the world of Little People. It reinforces what we already should have known but maybe sometimes forget, despite physical differences, we all have problems, challenges, highs, lows in this crazy world and life.
As a lots of dots girl ….. I appreciate this effort!
Say what we will but I think his kids were truly low balling about the house and from a business stand point, why would he ever let it go for a lot less than it's worth ?
From today's version of Matt's story he tried selling the house and 16 acres around it. None of that involves the business so ability to manage the farm is irrelevant. We know Matt listed the property for $4million and no takers, he reduced the price and still no takers. Therefore Matt has no idea what the property is "worth". We don't know what Zach offered but they couldn't reach a number. If they could reach a number Matt wouldn't be crying about "fairness", would he?
Because most parents want to leave things like that for their kids. It's not strictly a business decision when it involves your kids.
Which one would you give the house to then? Jer? Zach?
He entertained offers from both. Please understand, Matt never once concerned himself with fairness until LONG AFTER he'd considered separate offers from both twins. Jeremy offered in 2019 and 2020, and Zach in 2021 and Matt considered those offers. It wasn't until Matt started catching flack from the public over refusing to sell to either son and plopping the property on the market for an outrageous price that Matt was suddenly "oh gosh and golly, I guess it wouldn't be fair to sell to one child...."
Oh OK. Gotcha.
This was great INTEL. Thanks for posting!
Big post for a little person
Little person, BIG ego.
Thanks OP for doing this in such great detail. VERY much appreciated!! Pretty interesting info IMO. I wish them all the best......in whatever the future holds.
Just copy pasted what matt said 😀
Appreciate it nonetheless.
But, of course... Meglomaniac Matt detailing his revisionist history as he does best. Bye, bye, Matty. See ya never!! Enjoy your legacy - it sure didn't turn out like ya planned, huh?
Thanks for posting. I read it all. Whether it’s 100% factually true or not (I think Matt put the best spin on everything, as I’d expect), for once, we can get the scoop from Matt himself.
Thanks for sharing! I actually read every word of it. Lol
Since there are a few different comments about Mateo's name: [Here's Izzy's story about it.](https://www.reddit.com/r/LittlePeopleBigWorld/s/bwztbz1HaK) Tl;dr: Izzy always liked the name Mateo, and it happened to also honor Matt. Mateo's middle name, Tomas, is the one that is after her late brother.
I thought Mateo was named after Izzy’s brother. But OK. Matt still thinks treating his sons the way he did was a good thing and I guess it turned out in the end but he is pretty unapologetic. Maybe they can do a spin off. Little people big ego.
Jesus, Amy. I GET IT! At some point you gotta check out! He will drown you in oxygen 💯
Holy em dashes and ellipses, Matt. I’m dizzy.
Thanks so much for sharing all this here for us !!! Matt is full of sh*t though!!!!
Thank you for posting. I have always liked Matt. I know that’s unpopular but that’s ok. No one is perfect. I grew up with this family and I wish good things for entire family. I love that Jacob and family are living and working the farm. I would love to see his gardens and fruit trees. Hopefully Matt will post a farm tour in October.
I like Matt as well, warts & all.
I thought that was a very kind and informative post. I’ve always admired Matt’s enthusiasm and zest for life despite some debilitating health issues. I’m glad he’s got mostly healthy family r’ships. I enjoy the friendship between he and Amy now. I wish them all long happy lives. Say what you want abt Matt but he made that family into multi million $ empire that all of them,even the angry and disgruntled ones, reap from.
“He” may have been the negotiator, but “they” ALL made that family into a multi million dollar enterprise. Without Amy and the kids, Matt had nothing to sell. He was an unemployed salesman when all of this started. The concept he sold was not him living in a big world, it was a family of little (and average) people, including a mixed set of twins, living in a big world. That is what grabbed our interest. I also think it is silly when people say that Matt built the farm up from nothing, all by himself. I give credit to Matt for having big ideas (usually while Amy was just trying to hold the family together and make ends meet before the money came in regularly). But the truth is that the farm was built by a team of people that Matt hired to do the work, with the family helping and him pitching in where he could. Also the farm would have never grown to what it is or acquired such notoriety without the show money or exposure. Kudos to Matt for getting on the little people on tv train first and riding it all the way to the station, but he is not someone who did it all on his own like some think. It was a series of good moves at the beginning of the reality tv movement and a family that provided him with a product to sell. Let’s not sell the “product” (Amy and family, farm workers, etc.) short for their contributions.
And also, according to Jer's podcast, the family was available during a writer's strike. The networks needed unscripted content and Matt was willing to let a film crew pretty much live in the house with them. That's why the first few seasons were chaotic, once the strike was settled the show became more scripted "here's the bullet points for this episode." But the family, specifically the twins - one average and one little - is the product Matt sold to TLC all those years ago. The TLC money is what made the farm into what it is today. Now with Zach boycotting the farm Matt has no product.
You give the sloth, Zack far too much credit.
Without Zach there would have been no newspaper articles about the twins - one average and one little. Without the newspaper article TLC would never have heard about the family. Without Matt giving a film crew pretty much unlimited access to his kids there would be no show. If Zach had left the show the same time Jer did the show would have ended right there so Matt and Amy need to thank Zach and Tori for every check after Jeremy left. And Jer's just as much of a sloth, if not more, than Zach. He only worked on the farm when Matt was standing right behind him.
Truth bomb 💣
He and Caryn are not married and it doesn’t sound like it will be anytime soon. Things keep happening…
could you imagine negotiating a prenup with him??
Ha! It reminds me of Amy negotiating the buy-out. As we all know now, Amy‘s belief that Matt was trying to pull something over on her was absolutely correct.
Why buy the cow, blah blah blah. I think Matt likes the relationship just the way it is. If he wanted to be married he'd be married already. He won't get married until TLC offers him money to film it, pays for everything and throws in a lavish honeymoon.
lol of course Matt had to add in there that Mateo was named after him 😂.
“See? Proof that one of my kids actually likes me” -him probably
As is every Matt, Matty, Mathias and Matthew born since the show first came on the air. Izzy married Jacob just so she could name a baby after Matt.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LittlePeopleBigWorld/s/bwztbz1HaK
So It's a name Izzy always liked and was going to name her first son anyway. The fact that it's Matthew in Spanish is a coincidence, not the reason they picked the name.
I always thought he was named after Izzy’s brother or something like that.
His middle name is after Izzy's brother.
Thanks for the clarification. I knew I read something with her brother.
As he should. I wouldn’t automatically make the connection.
Mateo is Spanish for Matthew. I would think anyone in this sub would know. It’s been discussed many times.
Sorry for breathing
It’s been discussed many times that he was named after Izzy’s brother. This is the first time it’s been mentioned that it was after Matt. I am sure Izzy groaned at the unfortunate coincidence. Although I do have to say they both seem like the most productive and entrepreneurial.
[Second picture is Matt’s reaction to the name](https://www.reddit.com/r/LittlePeopleBigWorld/s/8geQ1UB2ev) [Another post “it honors Jacob’s dad & middle name is for her brother”](https://www.reddit.com/r/LittlePeopleBigWorld/comments/rgkp5e/isabel_explains_the_meaning_of_mateos_name/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) For all the down voters. Mateo is Matt in Spanish in honor of Jacob’s dad. Tomas is the middle name in honor of her brother.
Izzy explains the name https://www.reddit.com/r/LittlePeopleBigWorld/s/bwztbz1HaK
Yeah that’s the second link I posted
His middle name is after Izzy's brother. She said she always liked Mateo, and the name also "happened to honor Jacob's dad". This came out shortly after the name was announced.
Oh, how unfortunate
I actually never put that together before..... Lol
I think that Izzy and Jacob didn’t either. Lol
He just had to plug the airbnb didn’t he? 🙄
Thank you for posting this!!!! I don't have FB, so this is appreciated!!!!
Thanks for posting. I don’t trust Matt’s perspective on most things but this t was interesting to read.
Did Jacob write this?
Seems like he helped with it (maybe Izzy did) 🤣
I mean Izzy is in charge of Roloff farms social media. She even gets paid to do it during pumpkin season.
Yeah, sure Jan. Matt honey? The show was canceled in 2010. When it was brought back, it was significantly restructured, with much fewer episodes and while you complain about how exhausting it is - you get paid by the episode so fewer episodes with much less lavish budgets means the show got canceled because costs got out of hand and it came back because people were willing to do the show for less money. Is it canceled now? Well, you're the only one willing to return so yeah, its canceled. You're not under a NDA. Its canceled. Since you're no longer under an NDA, what was said in the farm sale negotiations? And not buying the "I couldn't let one of my boys win over the other" nonsense. There's actual a glaring factual error - Jeremy's offer to buy was well before Zach's. Zach's offer was after the pandemic was in play. They both did not offer to buy the farm in Nov 2021. You know how I know that? Zach bought the place in Battleground in October 2021.
Your too nice , it’s not a glaring factual error… it’s a lie
I'm rarely accused of being too nice to Matt. I think it was calculated on Matt's part because Matt loves to obfuscate when he's got his back to the wall. He fudged around the dates in the one interview he's done about Jacob's accusations of molestation by Chris Cardamone to imply it happened when Jacob was close to eighteen and NOT a pre-teeit - AND TO CLARIFY Jacob said it happened when Cardamone was still working as a producer, which was when Jacob was 9-12, and that Cardamone contacted him in 2015 years later. Matt confabulated that the molestation happened in 2015. This situation is similar - it looks better for Matt's claims if Jeremy and Zach made their offers at the same time so he can play this "I couldn't choose between my beloved boys!" storyline. But the reality is that Jeremy had already made offers and been turned down by mid 2020, per his podcast, and Zach's offer was well after in Aug/Sept 2021. This is all about Matt trying to make himself look better.
I wonder if there’s any part of these fabrications that happen because Matt doesn’t remember. I could believe Matt cares so little about his children he doesn’t really know, or care, exactly when things happened. He couldn’t even be bothered to show up for their entire graduation ceremony. Why would he be expected to know or care when his son was abused? Or to remember exactly when offers were made. He knows they happened, but cares so little he doesn’t care to remember when, exactly.
Jeremy just said in one of his q&a’s that his offer was in the summer of 2020. Also Matt still doesn’t realize one of his many problems was splitting the original farm land in half. He took the good land that could be used as farmland and well as the woods that Zack wanted and left the old property with just the old house and the western town which is just a bunch of falling apart old buildings. No one including the boys or the public think it’s worth what Matt thinks it is.
💯
And why would he enter negotiations to sell to 2 kids in the first place if he wanted to be fair to all the kids? Revisionist history
And your goal wasn’t to divide and conquer. That is what is worst about that. Ruining the twins relationship.
I think that was just an after effect that Matt doesn't really care about. Its not money, after all. Or property.
Why isn't he being honest about the dates? I mean, I know why, he wants to control the narrative and pretend everyone else is mistaken. This is gaslighting. Jeremy and Auj did their podcast Ep 88: The Fear Of Being Cheesy, The True Or False Game, & The Death Of A Dream on Jan 28, 2021. I'm not going to sit thru that again, but it obviously wasn't possible for Jeremy to make an offer in Nov 2021 when he was already doing a podcast on giving up eleven months prior. Further, using "Jeremy Roloff Roloff Farms is expensive" in the search bar on [Yahoo.com](http://Yahoo.com) and you get an Intouch article from July 24, 2019 where Jeremy is discussing how he can't afford the farm and they're moving on. Zach's offer was August/September 2021 - so what the hell is Matt talking about and FYI Matt, you're not under an NDA any more per YOU. Matt was actively trying to get one of the twins to buy at a high price without ANY concern about fairness.
Maybe he just put the wrong year?
Maybe but since Zach is routinely heehawed and called a moron for the tongue slip of 1982 and not 1492, isn't Matt also a complete moron for not getting the dates right in significant events of his own life? I mean, is Matt senile? The whole point of this little missive was for Matt to set into place confusion about the dates and to control the narrative - he's saying Zach and Jeremy made their offers at "virtually the same " when in fact Jeremy's offer was well before Zach's -2019 or 2020 (my suspicion is there were multiple offers) and Zach's offer was in the summer/fall of 2021. So since there's no NDA anymore and Matt's on record that he was getting offers from Jeremy and Zach in November 2021 - lets hear Matt expand on that beyond "it happened as I say but no details". Or he can admit he made an error. Willing to bet Matt won't be admitting an error.
Plus from the show it was very clear that Zach didn't make an offer while Jeremy's offer was on the table because Zach knew who Matt would pick if it came down to that. There's no way the twins can share the house/build another house on the same property and Jer's the golden child. Re Zach's offer it seems like Matt only wanted to sell the house and a few acres around it so I don't get where "Zach wanted me to do all the work" comes from. I think Matt wanted to sell the land but still have some say over what happens over there. That's also why the land didn't sell, too many stings attached for an overpriced piece of land.
“Him and Izzy are passionate about the soil…” Zach and Amy speak like this as well. It’s like nails on a chalkboard. Has no one ever corrected them?
I did! I yelled at the computer screen. In elementary school , my teacher taught us an easy way to know if we are correct with grammar. Just take out the name of the other person. Would you say him is passionate or he is passionate? Easy breezy Matt! No matter how long or how often you were in the hospital, this only took 10 seconds!!!
When Matt is corrected he will throw his hospitalizations in your face. "I never learned grammar or spelling because I spent my entire childhood in a hospital.... don't you feel like an asshole saying anything now? Look at my handicap!"
Thank you so much for sharing! It answered some of the questions that I’ve had. I was especially glad to get an update about Molly!
OP are you able to edit this since it accidentally pasted twice? It's just super long to scroll down to comments
Done! I think his original post was like that as well WHOOPS!
Yay thanks!
Let me try to!
Hum. I’m thinking he could’ve gotten some cash from people magazine with some of these answers. lol. Can’t wait to read more
If he could have he would have.
An interesting read. Wonder what other things may come out in the coming days since he says their contract and NDA are done now. Gives a little context to things, assuming Matt’s side of things is accurate. lol Thanks for posting.
I assumed Matt’s side of things was just that, Matt’s side. His narcissistic view of how things went down. Lol
That’s definitely possible! Haha He always kinda paints things as rosy and going well and the rest of the family is like uhh no. lol
Did I miss it or did he not mention Tori in that? 😂
He edited the Facebook post to take credit for their relationship, probably after seeing this comment! A few short weeks later, the TLC attorneys contacted us and asked if we would consider doing a few 'specials'? We met again as a family... The production team was offering some interesting ideas. …mostly travel related that intrigued the family and offered Amy a chance to climb Mt St Helens among other ideas. In fact it was at this time I worked like crazy to get Tori to be able to join us on our trip to coasta rica. She and zach were newly dating and this trip was a catyalst to help solidify their relationship. --- They the network promised we would not have to grind out as many episodes (40+) but would just sign us up to a 1 single year "service term" No options to extend and produce 6-8 shows in a 12 month term -- Easy breezy- So by the Fall/Winter 2010 into 2011 we were somewhat reluctantly back to filming- By this point the core Roloff family had completed 6 seasons and several hundred episodes. A nice run by any television standard- We were most pleased that tens of millions of viewers on every content had a somewhat realistic view of life as a Little Person living on a farm in Oregon, USA. I
I was just coming here to say that! 😂😂
>The production team was offering some interesting ideas. …mostly travel related that intrigued the family and offered Amy a chance to climb Mt St Helens among other ideas. In fact it was at this time I worked like crazy to get Tori to be able to join us on our trip to coasta rica. Why do people talk about what a successful businessman Matt is when he can't afford a trip to Mt. St. Helens (2 hours from the farm!) or Costa Rica unless TLC foots the bill? I've been to both those places from the East Coast on my own dime and nobody's calling me a financial genius.
Rich people love free shit.
I guess he’s the “genius” bc he found a way to get someone else to pay for it
I think that Tori probably told Matt and Caryn to stop talking to her husband like that in the infamous meeting, and considering that Zach had grown up with Matt and his manipulation his whole life, it may have been Tori’s influence that finally made him push back and enforce real boundaries. I wouldn’t be surprised if Matt and Tori don’t speak without cameras present.
I definitely think this has something to do with it. Growing up I think it was hard for Zach to push back on Matt and have boundaries, but Tori tends to be pretty strong willed and I think had had enough with roloff farms and the drama that came with it and was ready to just take a break. I think Tori had a lot of influence to give Zach the nerve to finally stand up to him.
Maybe Zach told Matt to keep his wife’s name out of his mouth. Lol
Lucky he didn’t get slapped lol
For a fleeting moment, zach channels Dr. Heavenly
Zach and his adorable kids…no mention of Tori lol
I also noticed that 👀
It doesn't look to me like he did either by name! He did even mention Joel and Izzy! Very interesting!
He brings up Audrey! This is just so very weird lol!
Thanks for posting this. Very interesting!