Now that we have satellite tv, my viewing options are significantly broadened (yes, until a few months ago, we were the only people in the 21st century to still have rabbit ears). Now not only can I watch shows like Burn Notice and the endless NCIS reruns on USA, I also can watch Andrew Zimmern on the Travel channel eating bizarre foods around the world and Mike Rowe doing the disgusting or just dirty jobs no one else wants to do (or even knew were jobs in some cases).

The aptly titled “Bizarre Foods”, or as I like to think of it, “Dude Eating Weird Shit”, is Andrew Zimmern’s show on the Travel channel. You’d think that watching a guy eating strange regional foods around the world wouldn’t be very interesting, bur it’s extremely watchable. Andrew is a personable guy and the gusto with which he eats weird shit is strangely endearing. He’s just so damn excited to try everything, and he likes almost everything. The overseas episodes are my favorites for the views, but the American episodes are fun too because who knows, maybe I’ll run across these foods one day.

Mike Rowe’s Dirty Jobs is on Discovery if I recall correctly, and is equally entertaining and very funny too. Mike cracks me up. This show is slightly more well-known I think, since I’d actually heard of it before. He is a very funny guy and clearly a good host too, it’s great how he interacts with the people whose jobs he’s showing that week. He says on one episode, “We did research, and you guys will watch anything.” Yep, we will, if Mike’s snarky commentary is involved