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July 28, 2005
Dirty Jobs
Husband and I watched a show on the Discovery Channel last night - Dirty Jobs. The idea of the show features the host - a very handsome Mike Rowe - traveling around the US, looking for and working the dirtiest jobs. Some parts of the show are just plain funny and other parts, well, they are pretty frigging gross. Some of the things I've seen on the show - garbage collection, sorting garbage, collectiing roadkill, assisting a marine biologist who studies sharks (Mike barfed during this one - can't say I blame him), collecting stallion semen, inseminating a mare, retrieving golf balls from an pond while avoiding alligators, the jobs get worse and worse.
To all the people who actually have to do dirty jobs every day - thank you.
tags: mike rowe dirty jobs + dirty jobs + mike rowe
Posted by Cate at July 28, 2005 12:38 AM
Comments
A while back, Discovery did a pilot for this show (the guy had to clean out a sewer), and I was glad to see yesterday that they turned it into a series. My favorite part of last night's episode was the golf balls. I had no idea how much effort goes into collecting and reselling those things.
Posted by: marydell at July 28, 2005 09:04 AM
Suddenly my job doesn't seem all that bad!
Posted by: ken at July 28, 2005 09:27 AM
icky...
Oh, and I got a callback from that phone number, she said she is going to give my name and number to the producer of the show. :)
Posted by: Susan at July 28, 2005 09:48 AM
Try pediatric nursing during rotavirus season. All that poop! The smell, the diapers, the laundry. Fun stuff!
Posted by: Da Goddess at July 28, 2005 08:16 PM
Hey, I work in an office and listen to people drone on and on about Sarbanes-Oxley. Where's the love?
Posted by: zonker at July 29, 2005 08:33 AM
The episode with Eric Polich at the hog operation was just funny! I showed hogs for 9 years and am a 4-H hog leader, plus raised commercial hogs for years. I was just rolling when I saw him try to work piglets (clipping needle teeth, docking tails, and shooting up the piglets) it was like, don't just stand there holding that piglet, you're not hurting him you're just scaring him and making momma sow kinda upset. The cleaning of the replacement gilt nursery was just funny when they let the traps go. I could have seen him just die if they would have had to let him assist a sow in labor sticking his hand up inside the sow trying to find piglets. That my friends would have been funny. The wierd thing about that episode is that Eric Polich's hogs are exhibited in Logan County Colorado's fair which is my home fair. Not only did I get a good laugh I got to preview some nice gilts.
Posted by: Jennifer at August 10, 2005 03:30 PM
