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Tonight is the 2 hour season premiere! This is probably my second favorite show behind Gold Rush. Should be an interesting season. Who else likes this show?
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Yea wish I had dvr to do that, I'm watching it as it airs I HATE COMMERCIALS but I guess its a necessity to pay the bills. And i can post here during them.
I think Deadliest Catch is my 1 and gold rush #2. All of the Alaska shows I pretty much like.
Too bad this will be the last season of Alaska State Troopers. I'll miss that show, have always liked the cop shows.
Love the pranks, this year's start was okay but have been better in the past. The best was putting the truck in place of the pot, prank on Cornelia Maries captain, the late GREAT Phil Harris
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Northwestern always Kicking A $$
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I use the DVR all the time. 90% of what I watch is recorded. Tonight I just started watching it about half hour after it started and skipped all the commercials and stopped it when I needed to. That or I record 2 shows and go back and forth to miss all the commercials. It's a wonderful thing!
I'm with ya,, gold rush and deadliest catch are my two favorite shows.
the dvr is a beautiful thing. about the only things I watch "live" anymore are sporting events. all the shows I watch just dvr and watch at my convenience. you can cut a 1 hour show to about 38 minutes.
the dvr is a beautiful thing. about the only things I watch "live" anymore are sporting events. all the shows I watch just dvr and watch at my convenience. you can cut a 1 hour show to about 38 minutes.
I use the DVR all the time. 90% of what I watch is recorded. Tonight I just started watching it about half hour after it started and skipped all the commercials and stopped it when I needed to. That or I record 2 shows and go back and forth to miss all the commercials. It's a wonderful thing!
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I even use it for sports most of the time. For instance, when the Vikings and Nascar are both on at the same time, I record both and go back and forth and miss all commercials and bs between plays. I remember several years ago thinking I would never need a dvr, but I would hate to be without it now!!
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Don't watch it. Have a buddy from here that fished on those boats years ago. He says the show is a joke. It is far more dangerous than the show depicts. He saw 2 guys go overboard and their bodies were never recovered. Both of them had their feet tangled in ropes tied to pots and when the pots went down they did too. Done, over kaput. Another time he was up for 36 hours chipping ice off the boat so it wouldn't sink. When he would come back here in the off season he was ripped like an NFL player. That is the biggest thing wrong with the show he says. Little spindly guys don't even get hired.
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Sounds like the show I watch, to me ,Even the smaller guys like Edgar Hanson and Jake Anderson ,if u see them in short sleeves, Have some pretty big guns.
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I agree! If you don't watch it, how can you comment on it? I'm guessing things could have changed some since he "fished on those boats years ago." They seem to take safety more seriously, but guys have gotten their feet tangled in the ropes and they are chipping ice off the boats all of the time. You wouldn't catch me out there!
problem with sports is being especially if it's a big sporting event its impossible not to hear the final outcome.
social media, espn, smart phones, there's just no getting around not hearing the outcome. maybe if you walked around with a blind fold and ear plugs I guess.....
social media, espn, smart phones, there's just no getting around not hearing the outcome. maybe if you walked around with a blind fold and ear plugs I guess.....
I even use it for sports most of the time. For instance, when the Vikings and Nascar are both on at the same time, I record both and go back and forth and miss all commercials and bs between plays. I remember several years ago thinking I would never need a dvr, but I would hate to be without it now!!
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That's true, but I'm usually only about 15-30 minutes behind live so that is rarely an issue. It always would be if you are watching it several hours later, but I rarely do that. I remember recording the Open Championship a couple of years ago and I couldn't watch the last round as I was driving for 6 hours during that time. I was going to watch it when I got home to see how my favorite player, Phil Mickelson, did and I got a text from a friend on the ride home saying isn't Phil amazing? I knew then he had come from 5 strokes back and won, so it ruined it for me. I did still enjoy watching it!
I did still enjoy watching it!have not seen the show in a few yrs. But every air lift out are part of the peoples lives on the show. I tell u what I have been out there and been listening to the radio when the sos calls come out . if u are any place remotely close u go. u dont think those airlifts weigh on the guys minds every day in reality big part of there story .
I have been dead in the water in the dark in a big storm in the bering hoping some one was going to show that was the last summer I spent on the old mans boat.
no I am pretty sure the majority of the boats out working are still packed with pill poppers/sniffers what ever it takes to stay awake. boats go down all the time still even summer gillnet they are going down an a reg biases. the old man had 1 leased out few yrs back that went down guys had been up for 3 +days. way over loaded getting greedy. he has lost a few boats over the yrs all leased to other guys . crazy thing is 3 of 4 all popped back up and drifted in to some sort of shipping lane and been towed to port .
I quit watching will catch a few min now and again deff not reality tv
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You don't think they are out there really working? I don't think its scripted ? What do you mean by not reality tv? Seems pretty real to me. More than some other "reality tv"
think they are out working yes . I have yet to see any one unload for cash at a Japanese canning ship. have not seen the strung out cannery girls working the docks . there boyfriends or the Russia guys swinging meth/coke/speed . u really think these guys are staying awake 2 /3 /4 days at a time busting ars on willpower ? those crews are hand picked by a casting crew for a close to a reality the lower 48 can understand and cheer on . the reality outlaw cowboys on drugs degenerate gamblers x cons and the captains who know how to make a lot of money off them
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They do make reference to drug use, and how much of the money they make has gone to it. They most likely due to insurance companies these days, probably have drug testing policies, and safety factors that mandate alot less drug use these days than in years past.
Staying up on long endurance like that wirh no drugs is quite possible, we do it all the time plowing snow. Nor unusual to go 48 to 56 hours on coffee alone. When I drove tow truck, and we would be doing snow emergency towing those kinds of straight through hours were common also. We're not making anywhere near the kind of money that these guys are. 30 to 60K for 3 months, sometimes more. That money could definitely motivate me to 60+ hours or more on no sleep, with just coffee, and energy drinks and those energy shots. I'm sure they get in the 15 , 20 minute power naps. Some of the big grinds they even do a rotation to the racks for sleep. The deck is working 24 hours 4, 5 days but one crew guy at a time gets rack time. I'm sure there is some exaggeration when it comes to "we've been awake for 4 days" alot of the time the statement is "we've been at this for 4 days straight", so that says to me rack rotation.
Sure they most certainly hand pick crews that are not completely strung out, and have a look that is appealing to the masses. I probably wouldn't watch either if they were a bunch of low life looking degenerates. The scum crews and boats you mention surely exist, but discovery channel would surely steer clear of those, and for the girls working the docks that shows coming next year. LOL. I'm sure they are around and kept pushed back, these days may even be more in town, than right on the docks. Not like these are big factory ships with a thousand crew members going on and off, the girls would be where the guys with the money are, at the bars.
Staying up on long endurance like that wirh no drugs is quite possible, we do it all the time plowing snow. Nor unusual to go 48 to 56 hours on coffee alone. When I drove tow truck, and we would be doing snow emergency towing those kinds of straight through hours were common also. We're not making anywhere near the kind of money that these guys are. 30 to 60K for 3 months, sometimes more. That money could definitely motivate me to 60+ hours or more on no sleep, with just coffee, and energy drinks and those energy shots. I'm sure they get in the 15 , 20 minute power naps. Some of the big grinds they even do a rotation to the racks for sleep. The deck is working 24 hours 4, 5 days but one crew guy at a time gets rack time. I'm sure there is some exaggeration when it comes to "we've been awake for 4 days" alot of the time the statement is "we've been at this for 4 days straight", so that says to me rack rotation.
Sure they most certainly hand pick crews that are not completely strung out, and have a look that is appealing to the masses. I probably wouldn't watch either if they were a bunch of low life looking degenerates. The scum crews and boats you mention surely exist, but discovery channel would surely steer clear of those, and for the girls working the docks that shows coming next year. LOL. I'm sure they are around and kept pushed back, these days may even be more in town, than right on the docks. Not like these are big factory ships with a thousand crew members going on and off, the girls would be where the guys with the money are, at the bars.