{"id":1771913,"date":"2022-12-12T06:30:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T11:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1771913"},"modified":"2022-12-12T06:34:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T11:34:37","slug":"mike-rowe-says-dirty-jobs-is-just-people-getting-to-know-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-rowe-says-dirty-jobs-is-just-people-getting-to-know-each-other\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Rowe Says \u201cDirty Jobs\u201d Is Just \u201cPeople Getting to Know Each Other\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmike-rowe-says-dirty-jobs-is-just-people-getting-to-know-each-other%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1771913&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>\u201cDirty Jobs\u201d has been airing continuously for nearly 20 years now \u2014 and series host Mike Rowe said there\u2019s a reason for its longevity. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s some comfort to it, some certainty,\u201d Rowe, 60, told The Post. \u201cYou\u2019re not going to see a \u2018Very Special Episode\u2019 of \u2018Dirty Jobs\u2019 where \u2018Mike ventures into the sewer with the Kardashians to get down and dirty,\u2019 blah, blah, blah.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s just not gonna happen.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>What viewers <em>will <\/em>see in the new season of \u201cDirty Jobs\u201d \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discovery.com\/shows\/dirty-jobs\/episodes\/baghouse-cleanerbiochar-maker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">premiering Dec. 11 (8 p.m.) on Discovery <\/a>\u2014 is Rowe tackling the hands-on work of a \u201cFeral Cat Fixer\u201d (really), a \u201cReaper Keeper,\u201d a \u201cBiochar Maker,\u201d a \u201cPile Jacketer\u201d and more with his inimitable mix of curiosity, humor, hard work and, above all, respect for the people with whom he interacts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really a talk show without a set, wherein the participants are usually engaged in something that\u2019s so optically weird that it\u2019s hard to turn away,\u201d he said. \u201cIn the end, it\u2019s just a couple of people getting to know each other, more than anything else.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mike-rowe-dirty-jobs-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/mike-rowe-dirty-jobs-2.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Mike Rowe at work. He&#039;s wearing a baseball cap with the word \" Schindler  style=\"display:none\"><\/a><figcaption>Mike Rowe says \u201cDirty Jobs\u201d is \u201creally a talk show without a set.\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">School of Humans<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cDirty Jobs,\u201d which originally aired from 2003-2012, returned for a four-episode run in July 2020 as<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/06\/23\/mike-rowe-takes-dirty-jobs-back-on-the-road-in-return-to-discovery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> \u201cDirty Jobs: Rowe\u2019d Trip,\u201d <\/a>in which our host tooled around the country in an RV in the midst of the pandemic. In January 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discovery.com\/shows\/dirty-jobs\/articles\/Dirty_Jobs_with_Mike_Rowe_Returns_for_a_New_Season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">the series was back for a full season with its original title.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think, for me, it\u2019s back because the headlines once again caught up with the underlying themes of the show,\u201d Rowe said. \u201cWith the lockdown \u2026 all of the sudden, overnight, essential work was back in the news and I was inundated with suggestions for the show and requests to bring it back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the ideas at this point, really from the second season on, come from suggestions from viewers,\u201d he said. \u201cEven when the show as out of production \u2026 not a day went by when I didn\u2019t get suggestions. People were surprised when the show came back [in 2020], I think, because a lot of them didn\u2019t even know it went away. That wouldn\u2019t have happened without viewers literally programming the show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd, to be honest, they also host it,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m just a Christmas ham, an avatar passing through.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mike-rowe-dirty-jobs-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/mike-rowe-dirty-jobs-3.jpg\" alt=\"Dirty Jobs Mike Rowe\" class=\"wp-image-24965716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mike-rowe-dirty-jobs-3.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mike-rowe-dirty-jobs-3.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/mike-rowe-dirty-jobs-3.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Rowe vows that we won\u2019t see a \u201c\u2018Very Special Episode\u2019 of \u2018Dirty Jobs\u2019 where \u2018Mike ventures into the sewer with the Kardashians to get down and dirty.&#8217;\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Discovery<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This season, his assistance as a Feral Cat Fixer found Rowe in Texas. \u201cThey\u2019ve got a whole team of volunteers who go out and round up dozens, maybe hundreds of cats, every day and bring them back to the facility, in a strip mall, where a couple of good-natured volunteers and a veterinarian castrate cats all day long,\u201d he said. \u201cTo be clear, [the cats] are scratching and snarling and there\u2019s hissing and urinating. There\u2019s not a lot of continence going on in an operation like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also traveled to Oklahoma for his stint as a Baghouse Cleaner. \u201cIt\u2019s an asphalt plant where all of the fine dust created in the asphalt-making process ends up hanging in these giant filter bags that have to be maintained and switched out \u2014 and it\u2019s beyond dirty,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>The Biochar Maker episode unfolds at a plant in Oklahoma. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re basically burning burnt wood \u2026 and distilling it into pure, highly granular bits of carbon which they\u2019re using a kind of fertilizer, which is having a huge impact on the agricultural community,\u201d he said. \u201cAs filthy as it is, it\u2019s one of the greener things you can do in the energy space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rowe said the series has enabled him to branch out, primarily with his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mikeroweworks.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mike Rowe Works Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy foundationhas become really robust over the last few years, and \u2018Dirty Jobs\u2019 gives me a chance to reconnect with that, to talk about our Work Ethic Scholarship program and to promote a show that, to be honest, really hasn\u2019t changed at all,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only thing that\u2019s different is that I\u2019m older than I\u2019ve ever been \u2014 and things hurt more than they used to.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDirty Jobs\u201d has been airing continuously for nearly 20 years now \u2014 and series host Mike Rowe said there\u2019s a reason for its longevity. \u201cThere\u2019s some comfort to it,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1771916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[7986,5458,4330,4301,5688,4370,3819,4669],"class_list":["post-1771913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-dirty","tag-bongino","tag-jobs","tag-mike","tag-other","tag-people","tag-report","tag-rowe"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1771913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1771916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1771913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1771913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1771913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}