I didn't know that's what their first names were. Both horrible names. Fuck these people.

11/19/2014 11:10:29 AM

Their names are extremely annoying to me as well...

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11/19/2014 11:12:38 AM

rhett and link are not these people.

11/19/2014 11:15:17 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ubTQfr_tyY

11/19/2014 11:16:52 AM

^^Thanks for clarifying

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11/19/2014 11:19:46 AM

BTTT

getting their own reality show

12/15/2014 2:12:38 PM

http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/12/13/4397774/holderness-family-gets-reality.html

Quote :

"Q: How did you make the decision to leave your job? A: Kim and her partner had started The Green Room as a media training company, and at first when people asked if they did video, they didn’t. So we went to the Apple store and got a Mac and a camera, and we played with it and put together a portfolio. The company wasn’t sustainable enough to raise a family of four, but Kim just kept putting the bug in my ear that we could do this full-time. Q: How did the success of the “Xmas Jammies” video impact the company? A: We didn’t anticipate the music part of it. We didn’t anticipate our family being involved. But it’s been incredibly advantageous. We got 17,000 emails after the video went out, and some of them were legitimate leads. It really helped us land a couple of early clients. The family videos are not the core of our business, but they’re the most important advertising we have. Every time we put one of those videos out, we get a bunch of phone calls from different companies. Q: Tell us about some of the videos you’ve made that don’t feature your family. A: We did one for Rex Express Care that was really fun because the doctors did the singing and really took center stage. We did a campaign for Shari’s Berries, and we wanted to do a romantic gesture, so we got this middle school kid who did a dance for a girl he liked and gave her chocolate-covered berries. We did one for Halloween for a company in Philadelphia that makes GMO-free candy. We got all these trick-or-treaters to come to our house, and cast this local woman to come to the door and pour cornstarch in their buckets and throw gluten at them. Their reactions were priceless. Q: Are there projects you’ve chosen not to do? A: We’ve turned down a lot of work with junk food companies that reached out to us. Kim’s very aware of what we’re putting in our children’s bodies, and she felt strongly about that. Q: How do you deal with the exposure all this has brought to your children? A: We spoke to our pastor about it, and to the educators at our kids’ schools. Their answer was that we are giving them a unique experience, and they are at the ages when experiences are how they learn. We do some other things to mitigate the effect on them. (For instance), when we make the videos, we treat them like George Clooney. The lighting is done, everything is ready when they come in, and they can participate or not. They have that control over what they do. Lola has really embraced parts of it, even the production side. She has filmed some of the clips, and there’s emotions she can conjure up if we need her to, like acting annoyed, and she thinks that’s fun. Q: Tell me about your upcoming reality show. A: We’ve been working with Figure 8 Films, a (Carrboro-based) production company that did The Duggers’ show. They’re still working out the details, but the network we’re signing with will focus on watching our company at work, how we go about making the videos. They are interested in uplifting, positive entertainment. We aren’t going to be the Kardashians. Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/12/13/4397774/holderness-family-gets-reality.html#storylink=cpy"

12/15/2014 2:17:52 PM

God damnit...

12/15/2014 2:56:37 PM

any white knights up in here?

12/15/2014 4:25:31 PM

lololololol @ H8R

12/15/2014 5:27:42 PM

Hopefully this leads to a bathing scene suit with the wifey.

12/15/2014 5:28:41 PM

Quote :

"BATHING SCENE SUIT "

12/15/2014 10:23:22 PM

DivaBaby19

If you think getting your family on a reality tv show is a good thing, then you are part of the problem.

12/16/2014 10:36:17 AM

Quote :

"We aren’t going to be the Kardashians."

12/16/2014 10:58:57 AM

They just signed their kids' souls away

12/16/2014 11:12:25 AM

Soooo this is pretty much every family in Cary right?

12/16/2014 12:19:34 PM

The first line on my YouTube page:

Quote :

"The Holderness Family - Recommended channel for you"

OPTIONS > NOT INTERESTED

12/16/2014 1:37:49 PM

Here's SNL's take on these assholes

12/21/2014 7:56:59 PM

theeeyre baaaackk

http://youtu.be/PwOqZeeVZmE

2/10/2015 7:25:47 AM

ha.

The whiteness comments are pretty funny.

2/10/2015 7:30:42 AM

wife is still looking good

2/10/2015 8:14:32 AM

Interesting...they switched it to private

2/10/2015 7:30:21 PM

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending-now/holdneress-family-turns-internet-hate-comments-into-new-parody-video-192209716.html

Quote :

"The Holderness family is back with a new video, and this time they aren’t celebrating Thanksgiving or running around in their Christmas jammies. This time, parents Penn and Kim Holderness are turning Internet hate into love. In a new parody video aptly named “Comments of Love,” the pair replaced the lyrics to “Seasons of Love” with actual YouTube and Facebook comments they’ve received, including "These people are so white, you can almost see through them," and “America stop encouraging this yuppie family”. “What do you do when people make mean comments? You sing them!” the family wrote on YouTube. YouTube users have been overwhelmingly positive in the comments section and are happy to see the family shaking off the hate. MiaWheatley writes, “This is so hilarious, way to not let the haters win, love it.” Kristi West comments, “Happiness is contagious! Way to turn the negatives into positives. It is what the world needs more of!”"

Why it got pulled (music rights. they don't have them) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZJrWsZqYTM&feature=youtu.be

[Edited on February 10, 2015 at 7:34 PM. Reason : ]

2/10/2015 7:32:25 PM

^ copyright my ass.

that was a parody. which be legal

[Edited on February 10, 2015 at 7:54 PM. Reason : a]

2/10/2015 7:36:00 PM

http://www.popsugar.com/moms/Holderness-Back--School-Rap-Battle-Video-38041666

8/6/2015 4:19:27 PM

wonder if those kids get beat up on the regular for that shit

8/6/2015 4:24:26 PM

worst one yet, by far.

8/6/2015 4:33:59 PM

hey jbrick, here's your bathing scene suit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rniFft0b520

[Edited on August 6, 2015 at 8:49 PM. Reason : ]

8/6/2015 8:49:01 PM

i was expecting an outfit made out of fabric depicting a form of bathing activity. would not do business with again.

8/6/2015 9:08:41 PM

^^^
seriously. was just an ad for target with little white kids rapping, which is always bad

8/7/2015 1:18:51 PM

11/25/2015 3:25:39 PM

^ dirty thoughts.....

11/25/2015 7:50:14 PM

2015 video

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3363975/North-Carolina-family-love-make-cheesy-Christmas-parody-videos-Kendrick-Lemar-parody.html

(previous 2 videos are also in link)

Quote :

"Dressed as an elf, the video begins with Penn Holderness leaping over a stranger in New York City before it cuts to his wife and children also wearing the green outfits and red Santa hats. The family filmed themselves surprising people in New York and their home state of North Carolina, inviting both strangers and friends to join in with their silly dancing."

How can you do this to a stranger?

What if that woman had planted her face on the ground??? They would have been sued for millions.

They are crazy

12/18/2015 9:44:41 AM

I'm waiting for the scandal

12/18/2015 9:47:20 AM

^^ you think they filmed and jumped over someone without them signing a release form first. Hah

[Edited on December 18, 2015 at 10:36 AM. Reason : Y]

12/18/2015 10:35:46 AM

[Edited on December 18, 2015 at 10:45 AM. Reason : https://www.youtube.com/user/VisitTheGreenroom/videos]

12/18/2015 10:42:22 AM

Quote :

"you think they filmed and jumped over someone without them signing a release form first. Hah"

you don't have to sign a release before being filmed

a lot of the time they're signed afterwards

12/18/2015 10:49:43 AM

The wife would still get it.

12/18/2015 10:56:30 AM

In today's completely unsurprising news:

Quote :

"Thanks, Christmas Jammies. You spoiled Star Wars."

Quote :

"I was refreshing Fandango every 10 minutes waiting for those tickets to go on sale. And when the greyed-out “buy” button finally turned green, I was among the first in the U.S. to buy opening night, 7 p.m. tickets to Star Wars: The Force Awakens. In mid-October — a full two months before the movie’s opening night — I, my wife and our two oldest kids were assured a spot in the IMAX theater at Cary’s Regal Cinemas for a movie that would sell out within minutes. It’s very important to note at this point that these were not reserved seats. Remember this before moving forward. On Dec. 17, my wife and I left work early, got our kids in their favorite Star Wars shirts, and made the 30-minute drive to Cary to get a good spot in line a few hours before showtime. We were about 30th in line when we arrived — not bad considering the theater seats about 200. It was looking like we’d have pretty good seats for a movie my family’s been excited about since that helmetless stormtrooper first popped up in that trailer over a year ago. You can imagine my disappointment, then, when we finally walked into the theater and turned the corner to find our seats only to find five or six of the premium rows — each 20 seats across and perfectly centered in the theater — marked off with poorly made name tags taped to each seat. And “guarding” the ends of those rows were adults (maybe 10 to 12 of them) telling people to move along because these seats were taken. My moment of confusion soon morphed into anger when I realized what was going on. Whoever got to the theater early that day had brought with them these “reserved seat” signs and duct tape (it might have been painter’s tape … but I wasn’t paying attention) and made a dash to get them up before the rest of us walked in. Go back to my second paragraph and re-read it. The tickets we bought did not reserve seats. I was angry. Mostly for my kids (honestly), because despite my careful planning, we were going to get bad seats. But also for me, because, despite my careful planning, I was going to get a bad seat. I sought out the manager. I never seek out the manager. But maybe five seconds into my calm explanation of what was going on, I understood very clearly what was going on. The manager had pretty much helped make this happen. “Can they do this?” I asked. “Uhm,” he said. “Hang on.” He proceeded to talk to someone on his walkie-talkie. Are they still called that? After a brief chat, he turned to me and assured me he’ll “see what I can do.” I returned to the theater, noticing other people starting to grumble about the situation, and decided to just pick a seat. Any seat. Name badges be damned. “Oh, look Scott … we got a seat crasher,” a tall bro called out. I was immediately approached by said bro and an older guy with a white hoodie. They calmly, though bitterly, explained the situation. “Yeah, this isn’t reserved seating,” I said. “We’ve been here since 8,” the older guy replied. “Yeah, and you got good seats,” I said. “The other 80 people in your group aren’t here.” They sought out the manager. I motioned for my family go come join me, but two of the guys in the group sat on each side of me, to prevent my kids (ages 6 and 4) to join me. I gave up. “This is eff’d up,” I whispered to the older guy. I didn’t say “eff.” “Oh nice,” he answered. “Why don’t you punch a kid on your way back to your seats.” I don’t know what he meant by that. He did take great joy in pointing out where my seats were, though. And so I went back to my seat and sat with my family. The group next to me (back three rows) had been at the theater since 2. They were among the first to arrive. The closer we got to the movie, the more those reserved seats filled up. Families, friends, some kids, humans in general … some arriving five to 10 minutes before the first trailers. I chatted with a woman in full Jedi gear in line for popcorn, and she was equally upset. She’d been in line all day as well and was relegated to the front two rows — she’d have to look up the whole time despite her careful planning. We were talking about refunds before the popcorn guy interrupted us. Before the show, another manager walked up to the back rows and began handing out free passes for future movies. This was Regal Cinemas’ solution for the chaos they’d created. Five minutes to showtime, I finally accepted my fate. I had bad seats — toward the back and far left — but I wasn’t going to let it ruin the movie. Then he came in. Joining the group — his seat reserved in the middle of the pack — was Penn Holderness. The Christmas Jammies guy himself. Han Bro-lo. Assumed mastermind of this whole plan (at least the beneficiary of it). My wife had spotted him in the lobby before the movie earlier and noticed him with a camera. The Rant has playfully razzed his videos before. Others have been more vicious. When we saw him sit down and join his group, it finally all made sense. The viral video guy had parlayed his local celebrity status to score him and about 100 others premium seats — the other 100 of us be damned. His movie-going experience led to this blog. And this video. And some fun dad Tweets. And maybe some content for their TV show. And about $1,000 in free passes and refunds that Regal Cinemas will end up eating so this group could have the best seats in the house. My experience led to this blog. Now look, my family did love the movie. As for my kids, the seating debacle only miffed their parents, and they’re clamoring to see Rey and Finn at least two more times in the theater before we end up buying it. One of those will be on the house."

http://rantnc.com/2015/12/21/thanks-christmas-jammies-you-spoiled-star-wars/

12/22/2015 10:54:22 AM

Everyone in the theater should have just come together and said fuck this and just sat in those seats and let the holders try to stop them. Its one thing to save a seat for 2 or 3 people no one is gonna bother about that fuck every single person ever who has one person stand in the front of a line then save a spot or seats or something for more than 2-3 people.

12/22/2015 11:25:56 AM

Quote :

"Actually it nothing to do with the jammy guy. A local CEO purchased 60 tickets for his employees and their families. Him and about 20 employees got there around 8am and held seats for employees who had to work."

If that's true, I wonder what company/CEO did this...

12/22/2015 11:27:17 AM

Even if thats the case I still say fuck that shit. Those who got there early get the good seats and the people who had to work get whats available when they get there. When you cant buy reserved seats then you dont get to dick over other people just because you bought a lot of tickets. If you want to do that then buy out the whole theater and then people can sit where they want or let all your employees off work early to come stand in line like everyone else.

[Edited on December 22, 2015 at 11:30 AM. Reason : .]

12/22/2015 11:29:15 AM

Oh yeah that's still completely in the "fuck that shit" category, i'm just wondering who the assholes were.

[Edited on December 22, 2015 at 11:33 AM. Reason : some convo here: https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=penn%20holderness&src=typd]

Quote :

"@KimDHolderness 18m18 minutes ago @NewRaleigh do you honestly think @pennholderness was organized enough to save seats? No offense Penn - but seriously."

[Edited on December 22, 2015 at 11:34 AM. Reason : ]

12/22/2015 11:31:36 AM

Quote :

"I’ve been trying to comment, perhaps they are not being approved? This is Kim Holderness. The wife of the man you have written about. Penn, no offense, is not organized enough to have saved seats. A well-intentioned friend had the idea. It was wrong. But Penn had nothing to do with this. You’ve published statements that are completely untrue. We have a well published email address. I suggest you use it when wanting to check facts or I don’t know… ask a question while writing about our family. I’m requesting you change you blog post to reflect the facts. Well, I guess there really wouldn’t be a blog post if you wrote “Man take family to movies.”"

[Edited on December 22, 2015 at 1:25 PM. Reason : haha "kim" is going to battle in the comments]

12/22/2015 1:16:05 PM

Quote :

"I'm waiting for the scandal"

12/22/2015 1:18:55 PM

SOME BODY CALL DA POOOOOOOO LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECE. SOME DAMN THEATER SEAT DRAMA IS HAPPENININ.

12/22/2015 1:36:01 PM

sounds like they're still douches

but i mean, you should expect douches if you go to the premiere of star wars

also

Quote :

"Cary"

[Edited on December 22, 2015 at 2:10 PM. Reason : .]

12/22/2015 2:10:10 PM

12/22/2015 2:43:13 PM

Quote :

"this reminds me of a similar situation a couple of years ago. I was taking my 6 year old son to his basketball game at the YMCA. When we got there, there were signs taped to the doors of the gym that said some filming was taking place and by being in the gym you were giving your permission to have you and your children’s likeness to be used in a television production. I asked the staff what was being filmed. It was some holderness family thing… their kids were playing in the game and they wanted to include it in their show. I told the staff 1) i did not want my kid or me to be filmed and 2) we were actually going to sit in the gym and watch our child play. We were told by the holderness film crew that we had to leave. The ego, the sense of entitlement, the narcissism, and the douchebaggery of this family never ceases to amaze me."

12/22/2015 2:50:43 PM

Someone commented that the seats were bought by the CEO of Atlantic BT - https://www.atlanticbt.com

Which would be this fella:

12/22/2015 2:55:53 PM