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7 Episodes 2010 - 2012
Episode 1
26 mins
Rob and Sean embark on two jobs in honor of a major winter sporting event taking place in Vancouver in 2010, the first the burgeoning gay sport of curling. Despite Rob having curled before (only twice in his life) while Sean has not, neither believes Rob has a leg up at the start. At the Vancouver Curling Club, they are under the tutelage of members of the Pacific Rim Curling League, a gay/lesbian league. After getting into the proper attire which includes comfortable easy moving clothes and suitable footwear, the boys are then given the basics, including learning rules of the game and learning the terminology such as "bonspiel", "end", "rocks" or "stones", parts of each "sheet" such as the "house" and parts of it such as the "button", "hack", and the team positions such as "skip" and the responsibility of each of the four positions during different aspects of a game. They are then taught how to do the two physical aspects of the game, namely delivering stones from the hack, and sweeping. On two opposing teams each with three of their instructors as teammates, Rob and Sean have an actual eight end game. The winner of the challenge is not necessarily the winner of the game, but the person who demonstrates the overall best ability in the sport with the greatest improvement from start to finish.
Episode 2
26 mins
The boys try their hand at Canada's favorite past time, Hockey. Teaming up with local Gay Men's Hockey team, The Cutting Edges, Rob and Sean learn everything from puck handling to goal tending but their biggest challenge is staying on their feet.
Episode 3
29 mins
In training to become officers of the Vancouver Police Department (VPD), Rob and Sean visit the VPD's chief recruiter, Sergeant Steve Elson, who gets them to write the entrance exam, which is based primarily on grade 12 Math and English. Beyond passing the exam, Elson talks about what they look for as characteristics for a good police officer. He then takes them on a their next exam, a 2.4 km run around Brockton Point in Stanley Park, which they must complete in under 12 minutes. This test may be difficult for each of them for different reasons. Elson then takes them to see Becky Swan, the VPD Fitness Coordinator, who will administer the POPAT - Police Officers Physical Ability Test - an obstacle styled course which mimics many maneuvers police officers face in real life. The push-pull machine may be the most difficult aspect of the POPAT, which has 4 minute 15 second pass time. They are then taken to the new VPD Tactical Training Centre, where they learn safety aspects from Sergeant Clive Milligan and Constable Darren Hall. This training includes how and when to use the baton, pepper spray, and most importantly their pistol. They are then taken to the scenario room to do some role playing. The experts then decide whether Rob or Sean would make the better police officer.
Episode 4
29 mins
Even though they know it's in large part acting, Rob and Sean are a bit nervous the first time they step into the ring to train to become pro wrestlers, as they learn that it is still a physically demanding activity, and that most of the equipment, such as the mat, ropes and turnbuckles, aren't as soft as they thought. ECCW wrestlers Scotty Mac, Mark Vellios aka 'Gorgeous' Michelle Starr, and Artemis Spencer show them some basic moves. Rob and Sean are, however, most excited about coming up with their wrestling personae and filming a promo as their characters. "Good" wrestler Sean is assisted by who will be his tag team partner, Riley Vincent aka El Phantasmo, while "bad" wrestler Rob is assisted his tag team partner, Scotty. But Sean and Rob have to bring the energy to show night, that energy which has to meet or exceed their promo to get the crowd pumped and excited.
Episode 5
29 mins
Rob and Sean's next job is one they consider stereotypically gay: working in a salon and spa. They meet with Kim McIver, the Division Director for Eveline Charles Academy in Vancouver. Kim tells them that 90% of making a salon/spa customer happy is in customer relations, much of which is covered in the initial customer consultation, which Kim teaches them how to conduct. Then under the instruction of Jessica Robertson and Vanessa Jellis, they are taught how to do three salon treatments: a pedicure, an upper lip wax, and a hair cut of long straight hair. They are allowed to practice on mannequins for the hair cuts, but necessarily practice on live people, albeit salon staff without problems, for the pedicure and lip wax. But judgment day arrives when they are required to perform all three treatments on a test subject of their own bringing, Sean who ends up bringing his own trusting sister, Lindsay Horlor.
Episode 6
29 mins
Rob and Sean head to the Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts to learn how to be chefs. They are both confident in their abilities in this area, Sean who admits to be a cooking show junkie, and Rob who says he likes to experiment in the kitchen. The institute's chef de cuisine and sommelier Tim Ellison shows them the components of steak Oscar, including how to prep and cook the beef tenderloin, the Bearnaise sauce, initially what is the live dungeness crab, and the side vegetables. Their competition the next day is with $50 apiece to go shopping for the components of the main they will cook in two hours or less, the dish which must include at least the following four components: meat, sauce, seafood and side vegetable. Half way through their cook day, they are thrown an additional challenge in shopping for a bottle of wine to pair with their meal. The winner will not only have to have the tastier meal, but show ability and creativity in the kitchen as well.
Episode 7
29 mins
Rob and Sean have no idea what the day holds in store for them when they walk onto the grounds of VanDusen Botanical Garden, where they will learn how to be gardeners. That "not knowing" also includes having no idea how they will be judged in their continuing head-to-head competition. But whatever the competition, both are confident they can win as both gardened as children with their respective mother. James Warkentin, superintendent of the Garden, takes them on a tour of the entire facility, and shows them some of the regular chores that need to be done at the Garden, including weeding, pruning, growing nursery stock, harvesting produce grown on site, and even selling merchandise at the gift shop. After that tour and changing into their gardening attire, Rob and Sean are told by James what their competition will be: what he calls a botanical sprint. They are asked to do some of these chores at various locations on site, the completion of each chore which gives them a clue as to the next location and the next chore. But as the Garden covers twenty-two hectares, the winner may be the person who paid attention to where everything was located and has the greatest endurance to run from place to place while doing some manual labor.