Drawing on his experiences picking up roadkill, feeding swine, and castrating a lamb with his teeth, Mike Rowe, host of Discovery Channel’s Dirty Jobs, discusses how modern American culture belittles necessary labor.
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Mike Rowe has had more jobs than you. In fact, Mike has had more jobs than anyone.
As the creator and executive producer of Discovery Channels Emmy-nominated series Dirty Jobs With Mike Rowe, Mike has spent years traveling the country, working as an apprentice on more than 200 jobs that most people would go out of their way to avoid. From coal mining to roustabouting, maggot farming to sheep castrating, Mike has worked in just about every industry and filmed the show in almost every state, celebrating the hard-working Americans who make civilized life possible for the rest of us.
On Labor Day 2008, Mike launched a Web site called mikeroweWORKS.com, where skilled labor and hard work are celebrated in the hope of calling attention to the steady decline in the trades and bolstering enrollment in trade schools and technical colleges.
In addition to Dirty Jobs and his mikeroweWORKS endeavor, Mike is the voice of Deadliest Catch and the national spokesman for Ford Trucks. He has traveled extensively for Discovery Channel, hosting Shark Week in South Africa, where he field-tested a steel-mesh shark-suit, and Egypt Week Live, where he opened and explored newly discovered tombs in the Valley of the Golden Mummies.
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iunno, the trick he …
iunno, the trick he does in this video is pretty good …
If it ain’t broke …
If it ain’t broke don’t fix it. I enjoy every episode, maybe If he were to dress up in a yellow sponge costume and get into so many G rated hijinks with his dull-witted companion you’d like it but, that’s why there is other shows and other hosts so watch them and stop being a douche to Mike.
He is a one trick …
He is a one trick pony,
Watching new episodes of dirty jobs, is the same as watching a repeat.
Heres how the show goes…
He shows up, is bad a t the job, doesn’t know what he is doing, then he cracks some sex or penis jokes and thats a wrap
why?
why?
mike rowe is a …
mike rowe is a douche
The Great …
The Great Reskilling. I hope we can do it for its own sake and not because our fossil fuel based economy fell apart.
These so called …
These so called jobs that Obama and everybody like him want to create are paper jobs. They don’t exsists and do nothing. These jobs are at the state and federal level. Most are some type of upper managment where their real effectivness is obscure. Obama is a paper hanger.
not you lol sorry . …
not you lol sorry ..
usvioletswan is the one I was talking about ..
I have a question …
I have a question for PETA…. When I eat my girl out is that consider eating meat? YOU PETA YOU BUNCH OF ING COW EATING PANSIES.
There’s an episode …
There’s an episode of Cosby where Bill was trying to explain to one of his kids the value of a good education and getting a good job. In the episode he has to hire a team of plumbers. They’re all around the age of his oldest kids and they all had high degrees in psychology and so forth, but they were plumbers. He couldn’t understand how they claimed they were happier. Mike Rowe has it right, so did Morgan Freeman in Bruce Almighty: Some of the happiest people go home stinking too high heaven.
Yeah, I totally …
Yeah, I totally agree. PETA is also guilty of killing tens of thousands of family pets. They promise the past owners that they’ll find them good homes, but actually euthanize them just minutes after taking them into their vans. They do this because they disagree with the concept of a “pet”.
Some people are …
Some people are born with that gift, and others develop it just by spending a lot of time with intelligent, insightful people. I can write very well, but if I were on stage I’d stumble too. I completely lack the ability to communicate in real-time, let alone engage an audience so well. I’d make a fool out of myself even if I were discussing something I’m familiar with.
He really is. I …
He really is. I hadn’t thought about it until you said something. I’d just stutter all over the place.
The man is a …
The man is a fantastic speaker, and I genuinely enjoyed listening to every minute of this lecture.
This was oddly …
This was oddly fascinating…
lol
lol
He’s right that …
He’s right that we’ve declared war on blue-collar work, but I’d take it a step further, and say that we’ve declared war on white-collar work, too.
Hollywood only portrays white-collar workers in movies like Office Space, Michael Clayton, Flight Club, etc. where they’re seen as dumb, money-grubbing losers. The only time politicians or the media mention corporations is to portray them as greedy or evil.
What bull.
Mike Rowe is a …
Mike Rowe is a genius wrapped in the body of the common man. Work has become a dirty word, something to avoid and belittle. I wish I could go back to running the steel shear again like I did in the 70’s. But those jobs are all gone, farmed out to countries where they can screw the locals for a bigger profit margin.
Mike Row is so …
Mike Row is so awesome.
This was one of the best speeches i’v ever listend to.
Mike Rowe 2012.
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Mike Rowe 2012.
This is the first time I have ever seen a person like Mike Rowe know how it is for the working people of America…not to poke at Obama or anything, but I would rather have Mike Rowe for President.
Also; Just because …
Also; Just because some jackass says something stupid like “Shoes cause tooth decay” doesn’t mean anything in relation to Weston Price’s research. And blanket statements? I could say the same thing about your argument, and you could post all the “research” you want, but if Weston Price’s work is a blanket statement without justification then you obviously have low standards for what a blanket statement is.
You obviously don’t …
You obviously don’t have a clue who Weston Price is or anything about his extensive research.
The entire brochure explains the importance of meat in diet, the dangers of harmful pesticides on fruit and vegetables and the misconceptions about the health value of many things considered healthy, such as soy.
I take it you mean …
I take it you mean point 8 of ‘dietary dangers’ “Do not practice veganism. Animal products provide vital nutrients not found in plant foods.” and other blanket claims without any justification? are you aware that the same site claims that tooth decay is because we wear shoes and use tools and therefore isn’t in direct contact with earth’s energies?
rather than provide you with a direct link to that I’ll let you find it yourself.. I wont answer you again
westonaprice . org/ …
westonaprice . org/brochures/wapfbrochure . html
Navigating the internet is not that hard.
Itreeye, Dr. …
Itreeye, Dr. Mercola has obvious profit motives for exaggerating the alleged dangers of soy. The controversy surely drives traffic to his web site, which sells not only “health information” but also products such as whey protein and pea protein.
Of course he may be honestly mistaken, and not just trying to drum up business by making the competition look bad.
Either way, there’s nowhere near enough evidence yet to justify comparing soy products to tobacco or even refined sugar as a health risk.