“I guess you don’t get The Discovery Channel? All the episodes are good in one way or another. Try renting them out from Netflix - you can watch at your lesiure.”

– Will do.

Deadliest Catch is my addiction. having done that kind of work growing up - i’m from maryland and my dad had a boat rigged for longlining and then red crabbing - i know the sight, smell, and feel of that kind of work. do i miss it? yes and no. it’s a backbreaking, often miserable out-in-the-elements grind, but in a way it makes you feel like a combat Marine. staying awake for long stretches isn’t easy, especially when the ocean constantly punches you in the face. i can tell you from experience you can fall asleep standing up with a boat rolling underneath you. the north atlantic - where i was - is just about as bad as the bering sea. when you’re forty, fifty, or a hundred miles offshore, everything turns prehistoric. we used to call the north atlantic an “old witch” since she was always brewin’ something. squalls come up out of nowhere. if i never see another forty foot sea that’s good enough for me.

i think the show though classifies as more of a documentary than a reality show.

on another note, you all missed a terrific show. just finished doing Richard III at the Raven in NoHo.

and production note for www.gentlemanscorner.net : working up production capital to get back into production.

fyi.

What *IS* more interesting is the few new scripted shows with more working-class heroes up against class issues: “Chuck,” “Life,” and “the Unit.”

Part of TV’s problem is that it is a female-gay ghetto for the most part, men depicted as hunky, upper-class status gods (Big in Sex and the City, anything on the CW/WB, the canceled “Moonlight,” and so on).

CBS is an interesting exception: it has a lot of workaholic, middle-working class plus 40 men. Gary Sinise, William Peterson, Mark Harmon, Dennis Haysbert, Rob Morrow, and so on. This appeals to older men, and has been the CBS “formula” for a while.

With the exception of NBC’s “Chuck” however there is little to interest young men on TV. The effect of the lack of any real young male role models in today’s world of single mothers as the default is going to be, IMHO, “interesting.” As in a Chinese curse.

Here are the Lyrics:

“Dedicate it to all the hard working folks who invited us into their homes last year”

“They rolled out the welcome mat, even if it was brown & dirty & poo covered, were greatful”

Now everyone whos got a job has got his dues to pay,
Working for a paycheck & getting through the day,
But if youre bored or otherwise inclined to be a slob,
Grab some boots & lose that suit & get a DIRTY JOB,

Fight a FIRE or Tread a TYRE or Ride a garbage TRUCK,
Save a SEAL or Make some MEAL or Manage miles of MUCK,
Misbehave Inside a CAVE, with 40 million BATS,
Find some Friendly ROACHES in a SEWER Filled with RATS,

DiDIRTY JOBS they’re EVERYWHERE, just take a look around,
Down the Street or Up the Stairs or even UNDERGROUND,
You Dont need to Borrow, Beg & you don’t need to Rob,

All you’ve got to do is get yourself a DIRTY JOB,
All you’ve got to do is get yourself a DIRTY JOB.

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“Dirty jobs arent hide to find”
“Theyre pretty much everywhere”
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Smelly Loads & Foul COMODES, all need to be addressed,
CHIMNEY Sweeps & CHICKS that Peep can make an awful MESS,
Wrangle herds of CRANKY BIRDS that BITE & KICK & STOMP,
Mine for COAL or Dig a HOLE or Navigate a SWAMP,

Dig for CLAMS or Handle HAM or work with Stinging BEES,
Clean a DUMP or Lift a PUMP or Labor out at SEA,
Run a RIG or Chase a PIG, Find VOMIT from a OWL,
Change your course & Shoe a HORSE or Reach Inside a COW,

DIRTY JOBS they’re EVERYWHERE, just take a look around,
DOWN the street or up the stairs or even UNDERGROUND,
You Dont need to borrow, beg & you don’t need to rob,

All you’ve got to do is get yourself a DIRTY JOB,
All you’ve got to do is get yourself a DIRTY JOB.

Cleaning SKULLS, Collecting BALLS or Working Down a DRAIN,
Killing BUGS or Picking SPUDS or Separating GRAIN,
SWEAT & TOIL or DRILL for OIL or TEAR Apart a FLOAT,
Pull a TEET or CHIP CONCRETE or SHAVE an honoray GOAT,

Drive a NAIL, Replace a RAIL or DISEMBOWEL a FISH,
Tackle GRIME or Grow some SLIME inside a petri dish,
TAR a ROOF or Clean a HOOF or handle POISON TOADS,
Brew some BEER or Drag a DEER across a busy ROAD,

DIRTY JOBS they’re everywhere, just take a look around,
DOWN the street or up the stairs or even UNDERGROUND,
You dont need to borry, beg & you don’t need to rob,

All you’ve got to do is get yourself a DIRTY JOB,
All you’ve got to do is get yourself a DIRTY JOB.

Now Dirty Jobs don’t gaurantee no great big pile of loot,
There aint no perks with fancy cars or golden parachutes,
The pension plan is also ran, the pay is far from rich,
But dirty jobs will KEEP YOU FAR FROM OFFICE POLITICS,

So DONT be SCARED or UNPREPARED to tackle something RANK,
Pick up GUM or have some Fun inside a SEPTIC TANK,
Dont Begrudge a little SLUDGE or working in a PIT,
But always ask to wear your MASK when Cleaning PIDGEON SH..

DIRTY JOBS they’re everywhere, just take a look around,
DOWN the street or up the stairs or even UNDERGROUND,
You dont need to borrow, beg & you don’t need to rob,

All you’ve got to do is get yourself a DIRTY JOB,
All you’ve got to do is get yourself a DIRTY JOB,
All you’ve got to do is get yourself a DIRTY JOB.

Dirty Jobs: The Best Reality TV Show In History (Along With Deadliest Catch)