The Hub mainly watches three things on television. "Mythbusters" is a show which claims to be about finding out how true various urban myths are....but, essentially is about a bunch of guys and a token woman blowing stuff up with a sprinkling of physics thrown in.
Then there's "Dirty Jobs" is my favorite one out of the three, mostly because of Mike Rowe, the host. I think he's kind of hot.

Well, even if he wasn't, he has a beautiful speaking voice, which is hot in and of itself. But as far as I can tell, Mike is the total package: great voice, good looks, sense of humor AND not afraid to get his hands dirty. Even better, he's from Baltimore, so I'd have something to talk to him....

about if I ever get the opportunity to put into effect the "Infidelity Clause" in our marriage.

The "Infidelity Clause" should probably be more properly called the "Improbability Clause". It's a joke that The Hub and I have that each of us can have one person about whom the other one would give "a pass" if we ever committed an act of infidelity. Naturally, this can't be anybody like "The girl on register 6 at Home Depot" or "The guy at the coffee shop": nobody we actually know. This is all in the realm of total fantasy. For instance, if The Hub ever has the opportunity to sleep with the newscaster Paula Zahn then we have agreed that he can do so without a guilty concience. Recently, Mike Rowe has surpassed the actor Nicolas Cage as my pick. Sorry, Nicolas, but after such horrible movies as National Treaure and Ghostrider, well, what's a woman to do?

But, I digress. (Still, The Hub wants me to state that he is distressed to hear that Mike Rowe is single)

The other show that he enjoys watching is "Digging for the Truth" which he likes much better now that it is no longer hosted by Josh Bernstien, who got on his nerves. Well, he won't admit that it was so much Josh Bernstein who got on his nerves as it was Josh Bernstein's hat. "You're not Indiana Jones, man! Lose the hat!" he'd sometimes yell at the t.v.

The Hub has a long history of yelling at the tv. Once, when we came over to my mother's house to watch the election results, he fell asleep on the couch, woke up abruptly, forgot where he was and yelled at CNN personality Tucker Carlson to get a haircut.

But, I digress. I think it WAS Josh Bernstein that got on his nerves, though, because he also said that he was "pompous" and he had a disrespectful attitude (slow to take his hat off when entering a church) during the show on the Holy Grail. Personally, I think he felt much more threatened by Josh Bernstein as a possible Infidelity Clause candidate for me. Not that I'm any more likely to meet Josh Bernstein than I am to meet Mike Rowe. Just that The Hub feels like he has more in common with someone with Mike Rowe's on-screen persona. After all, The Hub is pretty good looking, has a pleasant voice, when he's not acting like a goof-ball, he has a good sense of humor and isn't afraid to get his hands dirty. And The Hub is at least from Maryland: his parents are from one town over from where my dad grew up, so we have all that in common. I think The Hub feels that he would be on a more even playing field, in my fantasy life, with Mike Rowe. I don't have any idea why he thinks Josh Bernstein, presumabley the more intellectual, is a more threatening "Fantasy Man" - except he does sometimes talk about "the guy (he has totally made up in HIS imagination) I'd leave him for.....the guy with the leather elbow patches on his jacket" (?!?!)

I have no idea what any of that is really about. The Hub has a lot of carpentry projects, war trivia, information about plumbing fittings, ancient history, the Old Testement, and stories about dogs going on in his head: it's a gray, finely detailed, and foreign land in there....lots of math floating around. I find it easier to just take most of what he says at face value.

What the hell was my point, here anyway?

Oh yes! So anyway, lately all of these shows have seemed to run together. Since Hunter Ellis is now hosting Digging for the Truth it seems that there is much more "getting the hands dirty" happening on that show. And they also seem to be exploring more "New World" archeological sites, in the process, challenging conventional wisdom about how civilization on this side of the Atlantic has carried on.

So maybe they could all fold in and become one show "Digging for The Dirty Mythbusters".

Whadaya think?