I thought I would ask a few questions:

1. If you could determine Mike's age, how would you do it: dog years or counting rings?

2. If Mike likes to use your name in vain, what do you say when you need to exclaim in vain?

3. On a scale of 1 to 10, who is the hottest out of the crew?



You're the best!

1. Neither. Carbon Dating.
2. Shazbot!
3. Jones, he's about a 6.

Barsky

Thanks for the answer Dave. I have one more question that may require some thought.

I recall Mike has said that the sump pump episode with the loud sound "haunts his dreams." Could you please give me and others an idea what haunts your dreams?


A few ideas to help you recollect:

1. A tram in Palm Springs

2. A Wind Turbine

3. The Dirty Jobs Mike Rowe Stand-Up SKU ID #10671 from the Discovery Store



Darth

p.s.. I like the boomerang sideburns this season!

Darth-

I have had my dreams surgically removed due to the trauma of this show.

Seriously, I'm not haunted by the subject matter of this show since I am not as tortured an individual as Mike.

Bad edits of the show haunt me.

I just kept dreaming of a college math class final I cannot find the room for because I never attended the class during the regular semester. But the whole dream takes place in my high school.

Barsky

P.S. "Boomerang" sideburns? Never heard that term before.

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I am not as tortured an individual as Mike.

That's debatable.

Dave,

I would like to say this honestly about the show: You and the crew have some of the best cinematography. (Forget about the hired tortured "talent" that you have to drag around from site to site) But I can see how critical editing can be to creating a great story and that is what you and your team do for a day...tell a story. I can understand where you are coming from with bad edits and transitions in film. I think I would have sleepless nights if I were a perfectionist.

Haunted, sleep deprived, tortured editors = great story tellers = Emmy


Too bad the show is stuck with a format with the tortured host. It would be interesting to get a few critter cams for a couple of the shows, where animals are fitted with cameras to see the animal viewpoint once in a while but I'm sure Mike protested when he had to wear the cameras. I remember when David Letterman used to have "monkey" cams and have the critters run loose and film the show. Imagine, the B-roll quality film one little simian like Paddy could do and just for kibble and bananas!


I do confess, I've had a few of those "pinch me" moments when it comes to dreams. At least I remembered to wear a clean pair of shorts and woke up in time to find I was sleep walking in circles. Luckily, no college math skills were involved, except maybe rate/speed and permutation calculations and a few rational and irrational numbers. I attribute it all to cosmic worm holes and bad tequila.


Oh, and the idea of a boomerang sideburn is cool. It's the curved shape with a sharp angle at the jawline. Boomerangs were and still are lethal weapons and every man needs a pair!



-Darth

PS. I forgot to schedule my next dream trephining. Thanks for the reminder.

Does that mean if we throw Barsky's head, it will come back to us... twice? Just wonderin'.

Din0

Din0,

I'm having a hard time picturing Dave as the James Bond hinchman "Oddjob" throwing his head. Oddjob threaw his hat. And besides, lethal boomerangs will never come back when they do what they are supposed. And from what Eddie Barbarini stated in his interview with the Futon Critic, Dave is a "sex symbol" and more than Mike. But I think it's the sideburns:

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JH: Mike has become something of a sex symbol.

EB: I have a big picture on my wall. [Laughs.] We all think Mike is hot.

JH: And I'm sure you get a certain amount of mileage out of that, right?

EB: We actually have a great relationship between production and the field and Mike. Everyone here is really good friends after five years of doing the show but we do give him a hard time when we see those 'Sexiest Man in America.' We actually think [field producer Dave] Barsky is the sexiest man in America. [Laughs.]

Dave grows killer sideburns and becomes America's next hot sex symbol.!?!

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I just kept dreaming of a college math class final I cannot find the room for because I never attended the class during the regular semester

No way! I have had this reoccuring dream, but it wasn't math it was philosophy. Had it for many, many years, I think it may have left for good, but then again, I haven't remembered any of my dreams for awhile.

It must have some hidden meaning to it. Probably working out some unfinished business in our dreams. Weird.