TV Party for Tuesday, August 2nd

Start off your night at 8 with a little old school technology on the History Channel’s “Wild West Tech”. In this episode, we find out that size did matter in the Old West, where cowboys wanted big toys! Big profits required big equipment to dig, dredge, paddle, and plough through the wilds of America. Technology would replace the pan and the pick with massive machines roaming the forests and deserts like dinosaurs, feeding on the minerals above and below the soil. Even weaponry was super-sized! We take a look at the huge and deadly Hotchkiss cannon and the cumbersome Colt Buntline Revolver, carried by famous frontier personalities like Wyatt Earp, Frank and Jesse James, and Judge Roy Bean. And we review the history of the infamous Mankato Gallows, built to execute 38 Dakota warriors at the same time on December 26, 1862 in Minnesota--the largest mass execution in US history.

At 9 it’s time for Discovery’s “Dirty Jobs” which is not, as I originally thought, about the founder of Apple Computer wearing leather and being spanked. No, this is a show about the dirtiest jobs in the county, and tonight host Mike Rowe steps into the shoes of a sewer inspector in San Francisco, and enlists a disaster clean up crew after a Brooklyn toilet explodes from a sewer backup. He then joins up with a demolition company where he works as part of a deconstruction crew.

If you like that, stay on Discovery at 10 for a second episode in which Mike scours the bottom of a creek to find the granddaddy of all catfish, braves the underground and underappreciated world of septic tank cleaners and checks out a farm that specializes in worm droppings. All I can say is I hope he’s being paid well…

If you’d rather not be grossed out while watching tv, at 9 ABC has you covered with the CMA Music Festival, Country Music's Biggest Party. Four days, 30 hours of autograph signings, 70 hours of live music, more than 200 Country Music artists and celebrities, and more than 130,000 fans add up to one major musical event - "CMA Music Festival: Country Music's Biggest Party." This is the first time ABC will broadcast this special -- which invites the whole country to America's biggest Country Music bash -- since the original Fan Fair was launched in 1972.

Taped in Nashville, concert highlights will feature performances by Dierks Bentley, Big & Rich, Cowboy Troy, Sara Evans, Alan Jackson, Jo Dee Messina, Dolly Parton, Rascal Flatts, Sugarland, Keith Urban, Lee Ann Womack, Wynonna, Trisha Yearwood and many more.

That’s your TV Party for Tuesday, August 2nd, for Northwest Indy Radio I’m Scott Chicken