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Dirty Jobs is a show that follows host Mike Rowe as he travels around the country doing various jobs and tasks. The jobs tend to be some of the dirtiest, nastiest, most foul smelling jobs there are. Yet every single one is completely necessary in today's society. Mike has visited pig farms and sorted through a truckload of food waste from Las Vegas buffets to make feed for the porcine residents. He has also helped a number of other researchers and animal handlers. His arms and hands received more than a couple bites from snakes he was wrangling for a laboratory to study. He then helped the lab workers as they sexed the snakes, checked their size, and caused the snakes to vomit to study their food intake.
Animal care wasn't Mike's only responsibility. He also rose to great heights and sank to deep lows caring for machines that keep the human world running. Working with a maintenance team Mike climbed a wind power generator to lubricate its inner workings. Altitude was not an issue when he was suspended over a ship's hull to coat the sail's ropes with tar. Mike descended deep into the ground to aid a crew in a salt mine. He has also aided safety minded workers as they capped and sealed a much older, abandoned mine.
Mike has worked in the food industry as well. He helped make tofu, manufactured snack chips, smoked sausage, and harvested and processed cranberries. Of course no job making food is complete without dealing with the waste byproduct. To this end Mike has cleaned and repaired a ship's malfunctioning poo burner.
- Tuesday 9:00 PM et/pt on Discovery Channel
- 1 Season, 164 Episodes
- November 7, 2003
- Comedy, Documentary & Biography
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/10 - Cast: Mike Rowe, David M. Barsky
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Mike and the crew head deep into the Australian Outback to hang out with a group of crusty opal miners. It's a dirty adventure with dangerous work and extreme temperatures. A fly infestation puts things on hold.
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Mike catches crocodiles on the Adelaide River for scientists who study the animals' vomit.
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In Australia, Mike Rowe teams up with local business "Snakes Away" to capture a poisonous Eastern brown snake safely, then joins a posse of local "toadbusters" in their war against the cane toad, a non-indigenous species destroying the local ecosystem.
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In the eighth season premiere, Mike Rowe heads to Australia's northern coast to work with Aboriginals, who have thrived off the land for more than 40,000 years.
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In this special, Mike takes a look back at some of the unusual and quirky conversations he's had with his dirty co-workers. Using 99.9% never-before-seen footage, it's an entertaining look at the art of communication.
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Mike works as an onion processor and then builds wooden ladders for the San Francisco Fire Department.
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Mike works on a radio-communications tower in North Dakota and later visits a Hollywood soundstage to celebrate his experiences in all 50 states.
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Mike heads to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to work as a medical waste processor.
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Mike heads to Mobile, Alabama to get a behind the scenes look at a Mardi Gras "Folly" float. He spends his day assembling cow bladders used to ward off evil spirits during the parade.
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Mike works at a barber shop in Mobile, Ala., and is off to California to work as a landfill operator.
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Mike becomes a water softener technician in Minnesota, and works as a coin washer at a San Francisco hotel.
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Mike helps the Millennium Seed Bank Project, which preserves seeds that could be replanted following a catastrophic event, at the Chicago Botanic Garden.
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Mike digs up some fossils on a paleontology trip to a remote part of Utah.
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Mike experiences a dirty job when he signs up to work for New Mexico's Department of Game and Fish, and takes a trip to Virginia to learn pet acupuncture.
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Mike Rowe speaks about the end of the gross-fest Discovery Channel show, "Dirty Jobs," which has been cancelled after eight seasons.
Discovery has a unique gift: their slate of reality shows are addictively entertaining, but they still make you do all that learnin' stuff that I keep hearing about. I can't resist a good episode of "Mythbusters" or "Dirty Jobs," and new shows like "Weed Wars" only make the channel's lineup that much more appealing.
