Dirty Jobs!

My new favorite show is Dirty Jobs. It's fantastic.

Content:
Mostly it has to do with food processing. Increasingly I've become aware that food is gross. It's grosser when mass produced. You hear about the puss on udders of cows when they get milked, and the steroids in cows, and the methane they produce and how they're cooped up and how baby cows aren't allowed to move around so veal is more tasty for us, but being introduced to the people who do this day in and day out makes you second guess complaining about whatever your own job is.

That's what's great about this show. The people who do the jobs are the focus at least as much as the job itself!

I mean, I've caught, gutted and cooked fish myself. It's a gross process when just you and your sister have a fish to do each. Our two fish fed our family and one other family one meal. My fish weighed (before having half of it scrapped) almost 30 pounds, Kelsie's almost twenty. We felt so good about ourselves! This Mike Rowe guy went on a fishing boat in Alaska (already notorious) and learned how to process 12 tons of that a day. Yep. On that scale there's enormous waste and ways to dispose of it and places where it gets backed up etc.

It's fascinating to watch because:
Mike Rowe has an excellent sense of humor (both mental and physical)
The content fascinates everyone's inner rubber neck
You learn stuff!

Excellent!