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Friend: Your father is not a man.
Me: Dude, I've seen his d*ck.
Of course, he was not defining man as someone with a d*ck. He meant man as someone who meets the expectations of hegemonic masculinity:
Muscular, hairy chest, beard or five o'clock shadow.
Aggressive, assertive.
A fan of sports, Tool Time, huntin', fishin', and classic cars.
Experiencing no emotion except anger.
Ok with his kid being gay as long as he's a top.
Fleeing from any hint of anything feminine-coded, from flowers to flowery adjectives.
In Spanish, we say un hombre muy hombre.
When I first noticed Derrick Burbage, he struck me as a perfect example of an Hombre Muy Hombre
Derrick returned several times during Seasons 1 and 2 as a stunt driver and Danny McBride's stunt double. He was honored to crash "a classic 1970 Cadillac."
And in Season 3 as a stunt driver.
His IMDB biography talks about military convoys, Afghanistan, light and heavy weapons training, tactical combat vehicle operations, and "real-life high-speed vehicle pursuits."
I'm getting a testosterone overdose just writing those words.
Derrick's stunting and acting work begins in 2014, when he was 38 or 39. I pieced together his early life with LinkedIn, Facebook, his stunting resume, and speculation.
Baseball: He was born in 1974 or 1975. No information on high school, but he's a baseball fan today, so I imagine that he was on the baseball team. After graduation, he probably joined the army.
Policing: Derrick graduated from the South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy in 1998. This is probably not him -- no cell phones in 1998.
He worked as a South Carolina State Trooper (1998-2009) and Charleson County Deputy Sheriff (2009-2010).
Back to school: Troy University, in Troy, Alabama, which is not as bad as it sounds -- they have a LGBTQ group on campus.
He graduated in 2011 with a B.S. in Computer Science and Criminal Justice (3.95 GPA, Phi Beta Kappa). I imagine anyone would do well after working for 13 years as a criminal justice professional.
Geek Squad: For the next few years, Derrick worked as a regional manager at Geek Squad, plus manager of a liquor store and a private investigator. It's a gig economy. Everybody has three jobs.
Realtor: He got a MBA from the online Capella University in 2016 and became a licensed realtor in 2017.
Acting: Derrick started acting as the cop who arrests Terry (Shawn Hatosy, left) on a 2014 episode of Reckless.
Next came Office Don in the short Lucky Luke (2018), about two beach pals (Michael James Daly, Rodney Smith) reminiscing.
Some guest spots on The Righteous Gemstones (2019).
And a driver in Flesher (2019), about two serial killers working together.
More after the break
