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Q: Do you currently host any other TV shows?
A: Busted.
Oh well, it was bound to come out sooner or later. I host a show in Baltimore called
Your New Home. It's been on for 15 years, and for reasons I don't fully understand, it continues to hold an audience. Nothing much happens on
Your New Home. I sit in tastefully decorated models and ask leading questions to builders who are very good at making people want to move out of their current dump and buy one of their new houses. I wear the same khakis and the same blue shirt week after week, and never, ever get dirty. I also do another version of the same show in Virginia, because I'm greedy.
There are some other small transgressions that I will not admit to unless I'm ratted out. As for voice work, I've been narrating Discovery shows for a long time.
Dirty Jobs is the network's way of saying thanks.
Q: I think I saw you in a blue shirt and khaki pants in a pharmacy commercial. Was that really you?
A: Got me again.
Epic Pharmacies are all over the mid-Atlantic, and it's true that I have been doing their commercials for the last eight years. It's also true that I wear the same clothes in those commercials that I wear when shooting
Your New Home.
In fact, I believe that all actors/spokespeople/hosts should be forced to wear the same uniform whenever they are in front of a camera. Ideally, khakis and blue button-down oxfords. It makes things simpler for the viewer.
Q: I saw you host Egypt Week Live. It was awesome. Though I wonder, were you nervous about going into the tombs? I've read about the mold and stuff that can grow on the walls over time — were you at all nervous about that?
A: Yes, I was fairly concerned by my surroundings in Egypt. I was basically tomb raiding with a mad archaeologist as he crawled through ancient tunnels and pitch-black grave shafts on his belly. As for the mold, I was made aware of that particular hazard in advance, but with 50 tons of crumbling limestone overhead, mold isn't scary. The situation was unstable at best, but live TV has a way of distracting you from the terror you should actually be feeling.
So, yes, I was scared — I just didn't know it at the time.
