Hugh Simpson (Coast to Coast AM Guest) Exposed as a Fraud

Hugh Simpson: Hillbilly George Senda.

I first heard of Hugh Simpson on a warm September night in 2012, September 25 to be exact. Listening to C2C, as I often did during that time, my ears perked up with amazement when a nameless guest (I tuned in late) talking about disaster preparedness mentioned my little hometown of Franklin, NC. I went to the C2C website as quickly as possible to get the name of the guest, which turned out to be Hugh. I thought it was pretty cool to a local guest on, especially one from my hometown.

Hugh was well spoken, and downright enjoyable on the show. George was, well, George, and the novelty was just that, a novelty. Little did I know that Hugh Simpson would go from relative obscurity on a fringe overnight talk show to becoming a household name in our sleepy little town.

In August of 2013, controversy erupted in Franklin after an elderly man began secretly recording townspeople as they dined at local restaurants and posting the videos on YouTube. The videos have since been deleted. While recording people in secret is creepy, what made the incidents nefarious was the videographer’s commentary on the video’s subjects. The narrator, a self-proclaimed fitness expert, made disparaging comments on the health of the people in the videos.

That narrator was none other than Hugh Simpson. I knew that name sounded familiar, but it took a few days before the lightbulb clicked that this was the same individual who had appeared on Coast not even a year before.

The videos quickly went viral in this small town, leading to an outrage on social media from the towns residents. Macon County Sheriff Robbie Holland posted on the matter below:

One of our local newspapers first picked up the story, followed by a segment on our local ABC affiliate out of Asheville (included below) a short time later. A couple days later, Hugh gave this interview to a local Franklin resident.

After the video controversy died down, Hugh shifted focus from fat shaming to other exhilarating content including prepping, exercise balls, shirtless ramblings about the Knights Templar, filming motorists as he“hiked” down major highways, a 10 part series on toe nail fungus, and not knowing how to do basic math. I've included some of Hugh's amazing content below, trust me they are worth a watch. Also, to avoid being linked to the prior scandal, Hugh had now taken up the pen name MR Valentine Knights Templar, or MR Valentine for short. While the videos are fun to look at from a comedy standpoint, don't confuse Hugh for a court jester. He has a much more nefarious plan than being a irrelevant YouTuber.

I didn’t look into Hugh any further until the August of 2017, when ol’ Huey was booked for his second appearance on Coast. When I began looking into Hugh’s efforts of the last couple of years, two patterns emerged: one of a “serial entrepreneur” con-artist and one of an angry old man yelling at the sky.

Why is Hugh a con-artist? Well let me lay it out for you. Hugh has many websites (his personal ones include hughsimpson.com and mrvalentine.solutions) relating to a wide range of topics from survival preparedness to the Knights Templar to “eco resorts” to a “club” of millionaires, called the Infinity X club, which has since been taken down. In all instances, Hugh uses middle school computer class level webpages to showcase his products and services (which are either non-existent or produced by others), and then uses short ebooks that probably take a solid morning to write to get on Coast to con listeners into believing his businesses are legitimate. If you’ll bear with me, I’ll go over this one by one.

Xtreme Preparedness

• “Team Xtreme Preparedness” who, besides Tim Crockett who appeared on Coast with Hugh in 2012, are individuals who would seemingly have no contact with a lonely old man in Western North Carolina. Take “The Adrenaline Man”Andre Alexsen for example, who is responsible for this fucking pile of gold on YouTube.
•  This site claims to offer a “dodecahedron domes, tiny hunting lodges, timber frame homes and container homes as featured on HGTV." If you build the frame for the dome, Hugh can provide the exterior shielding through one of their “ex-military authorized dealers”.
•  The Xtreme Preparedness store is just links to other sites that offer real products.

Full Out Adventure

• Founded by Hugh and former Atlanta area trailer park owner Ron Rich
•  Full Out Adventure claims to be developing “eco-resorts”, putting on a Paul Mitchell Xterra Trail Run Series event, founding an Inflatable Catamaran Racing Association, and offers 41 worldwide vacations to exotic destinations as well as trips around “the world of the mysterious KNIGHTS TEMPLAR by MR Valentine, a descendant of the Scottish Knights Templar.”
• Hugh also claims that Full Out Adventure offers to “consult, design and build so that you and your loved ones are as SAFE and SECURE as possible! We even provide 24/7/365 SECURITY both PHYSICAL and ELECTRONIC. Our teams are all vetted highly trained former members of US and UK Special Forces.
• The Full Out Adventure store is exactly what you’d think it is, a bunch ads for other sites. No method is available to purchase any of Full Out Adventure’s claimed products and services beyond contacting the shitbag himself.

The Templar Commandos

• Consists of Hugh, who has given himself the title of “Master”, along with “marshalls” Tim Crockett and Andre Alexsen.
• On this site, Hugh claims to offer 3-day survival bootcamps, and you’re definitely going to want to read about it.
• Hugh also hocks a 6-day diet that WORKS!
• Perhaps what’s most disgusting is that Hugh wants to lend his Templar expertise to teens.
• The Templar commando store is the first of Hugh’s business ventures to actually offer anything original for sale other than books.. However, instead of being able to book one of Hugh’s excellent boot camps, instead all you can buy are cafepress items with the Templar Commando logo, and his latest ebook.

Infinity X Club

• Founded by Hugh Simpson and trailer park millionaire Ron Rich.
• Hugh took down this site sometime in late 2017/early 2018, and the domain name is now a scam video game store. Fortunately, the wayback machine provides some proof to my claims.
• The club involved several “self-made millionaires” who were graciously offering their expertise on how you too could become a millionaire!
• The website also offered luxury yacht rentals for its club members.
• The site mainly consisted of daily ramblings by MR Valentine (Hugh), both in blog and vlog form, about how to live the “millionaire lifestyle” as evidenced by the picture below:

Recent business “ventures”

• Valentine.International, which seems to be a “parent company” for all of his bullshit scams.
•  Hugh is using google images and cafepress shirts to bring professional women’s softball to the Atlanta area.
•  And he made a website for his “eco village” business he will no doubt be hocking on coast tonight.

Conclusion

Hugh Simpson is a lonely old man who relocated to WNC to become a professional hermit. Although he lives the hermit lifestyle, he desperately seeks the validation of others, hence the publishing of ebooks, daily youtube rants, and appearances on coast. He is poor, potentially living in poverty, which is strange for someone who runs so many successful businesses.

Hugh pumps out these bush league ebooks to try and get on the radio so that some, probably elderly, listener buys into his bullshit and cuts him a check for a service he cannot provide. So the question becomes, why would I give him the attention he do desperately seeks? It’s a hard ethical question, but ultimately I feel the story needs to be told. I will do exponentially less damage with this post than George Noory will do by having this shitbag on air. I simply present this information to inform and warn, not to showcase.