Smokejumpers

There's a documentary show on Netflix, I think, about them. It is a few years old now, but is worth the watch.

I work with a guy who was a smoke jumper in his younger years. After the stories he has told me, I want no part of that shite

Insanely hard to get into, and once people (mostly men, but a few women) make the cut, the usually stay on as long as they are physically able. You basically have to pay your dues on ground based firecrews before you get a tryout. There are only a handful of full time positions. The rest are part timers, so lots of teachers, carpenters, and other seasonal workers. Fun fact: You have to repair your own gear, which means learning how to sew. Another fun fact: There's a deep smoke jumper-CIA connection. The Agency used them in the fifties and sixties to run their air ops. A little about that here LINK

Young Men and Fire is a great read. Sad but informative.

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Vince really blew that role.

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Quite the opposite. He got the lead in Scorcese’s Great Gatsby because of it.

The little bit of the film I saw, Vinny looked really good. Verner (the director) really fricked up what would have been a great movie. It’s probably what fed into Vinny’s drug addiction.

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Vince really blew that role

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Newsflash. Vincent Chase was a terrible actor from the beginning. He self-sabotaged nearly every opportunity he had in the film industry with the mindset of “frick it, we can always move back to Queens”

I mean, even his mentos commercial was sub-par and it speaks to Ari Gold’s reputation for cashing in all of his chips with this guy.