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| 3 :01x03 - Roadkill Cleaner (Nov/21/2003) | In this episode,
- Mike stops at the Golfball Depot to recover lost golf balls from the water. After the recovery the golf balls must be cleaned, sorted and packaged.
- Mike works as a horse breeder, performing an embryo transfer.
- Mike travels the roads picking up roadkill and loading them onto a pickup truck | |
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| 4 :01x04 - Chinatown Garbage Collector (Jul/26/2005) | | Mike Rowe assumes the responsibilities of a Garbage Collector as he takes to the streets of San Francisco's Chinatown. After carrying several tons of garbage down the narrow corridors and steep staircases of Chinatown, Mike moves onto Recycle Central... | |
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| 5 :01x05 - Sewer Inspector (Aug/02/2005) | | Sewer Inspector Mike Rowe steps into the shoes of a sewer inspector in San Francisco, and enlists a disaster clean up crew after a Brooklyn toilet explodes from a sewer backup. He then joins up with a demolition company where he works as part of a deconstruction crew. | |
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| 6 :01x06 - Pig Farmer (Aug/09/2005) | | Mike learns about pig farming after feeding, cleaning and artificially inseminating pigs. Mike then meets the "Gum Busters" to clean gum off the sidewalks of New York. Afterwards Mike cleans up after pigeons. | |
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| 8 :01x08 - Vexcon (Aug/23/2005) | | Mike Rowe joins exterminators in their war against rats and bugs. After crabbing in the Chesapeake Bay, Mike learns the fascinating art of shelling crabs. As a blacksmith farrier, Mike makes horseshoes out of raw steel and attempts to shoe a horse. | |
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| 9 :01x09 - Sludge Cleaner (Aug/30/2005) | | Mike Rowe gets dirty as he works with surfboard shaper Matt Barker. Mike masters the art of shaping a surfboard from Styrofoam. And Mike goes underground into a greasy pit of sludge as he joins an environmental company that recycles the gunky grime. | |
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| 10 :01x10 - Hot Tar Roofer (Sep/27/2005) | | Mike Rowe lands on a church rooftop and learns how to melt down chunks of black tar for the purpose of roof repair. Later, he takes a job as a house mover and tunnels under a 60-ton house, before jacking it up and placing it on giant wheels. | | Director: David M. Barsky | |
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| 11 :01x11 - Ostrich Farmer (Oct/04/2005) | | Join Mike Rowe as he rolls up his sleeves and gets dirty on a Hawaiian coffee bean plantation; learns how to nurse an injured sea lion pup back to health; and faces one of his most dangerous jobs yet, working as an ostrich farmer in the California desert. | | Director: David M. Barsky | |
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| 12 :01x12 - Cheese Maker (Oct/11/2005) | | Mike Rowe gets a taste of what it's like to work as a Zoo Keeper at the San Francisco Zoo; He then teams up with Vermont cheese makers, to learn how to turn four thousand gallons of milk into world famous cheese, and mixes volcanic ash mud baths. | | Director: David M. Barsky | |
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| 13 :01x13 - Shrimper (Oct/18/2005) | | Mike Rowe climbs aboard a shrimp boat to help determine this year's shrimping season. He goes to America's largest swamp to team up with a man who catches crawfish for a living. With tire recyclers, he sorts and organizes thousands of tires. | | Director: David M. Barsky | |
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| 14 :01x14 - Bio-Diesel Man (Oct/25/2005) | | Mike Rowe steps into the shoes of a cobb home builder and teams up with the Bee man to evict a swarm of angry bees hidden inside a church building. He recovers grease at a Mexican restaurant and learns to convert cooking oil into gasoline alternative. | | Director: David M. Barsky | |
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| 15 :01x15 - Micro-Algae Man (Nov/01/2005) | | Mike Rowe teams up with a pet groomer and is responsible for preparing special outfits prior to their departure. He works at a Hawaiian pharmaceutical plant that specializes in growing green algae. Mike Rowe gets dirty at a charcoal factory. | | Director: David M. Barsky | |
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| 16 :01x16 - Chimney Sweeper (Nov/08/2005) | | Mike Rowe learns the tricks of the trade at the Chimney Sweeping Safety Institute. He travels to Canada to dive into the frigid water for sunken logs which will be made into expensive furniture. Mike's hired by a scrap metal recycling plant to sort cans. | | Director: David M. Barsky | |
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| 17 :01x17 - Dirtiest Animals (Dec/13/2005) | | Mike revisits some of his old jobs: pig farmer, baby chicken sexer, pet groomer, horse breeder, ostrich farmer. | |
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Season 2 |
| 20 :02x01 - Dirtiest Tools & Machines (Jan/03/2006) | Mike recaps some of the worst tools and machines he's used including:
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- Tire Recycler
- Demolition Worker
- Scrap Metal Recycler
- Golf-Ball Diver
- Hot Tar Roofer | |
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| 22 :02x03 - Avian Vomitologist (Jan/10/2006) | In this episode,
- Mike heads to Colorado to mine marble, pulling out 10-foot blocks of marble that weigh 20 tons. After these openings are made large blocks are cut weighing around 200 tons.
- Mike helps collect owl vomit (in the form of pellets) to send to schools for disection
- Mike uses his arm to determine if cattle are pregnant | | Director: David M. Barsky | |
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| 27 :02x08 - Plumber (Mar/14/2006) | | Mike and his catfish-noodler friend reunite to do some difficult plumbing. Somewhere else, we go drilling mud at a synthetic mud company, and oil drilling with roughnecks. | | Director: David M. Barsky | |
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| 28 :02x09 - Termite Controller (Mar/21/2006) | | Jobs include spreading concrete for curbside and sidewalk foundations. Also: Mike reunites with a termite exterminator and chips concrete out of the back of a truck. | | Director: David M. Barsky | |
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| 33 :02x14 - Geoduck Farmer (Jul/18/2006) | | Mike harvests giant clams called geoducks in Puget Sound, helps preserve the environment in California's Santa Monica Mountains, and helps to restore a Philadelphia church's antique pipe organ. | | Director: David M. Barsky | |
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| 35 :02x16 - Jobs that Bite (Jul/30/2006) | | In South Africa, Mike works alongside shark experts, chumming the water for great whites that will be tagged with satellite-tracking devices; and performs a necropsy on a 9-foot bull shark. Also: testing a shark decoy. | |
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| 36 :02x17 - Jobs That Bite...Harder (Aug/04/2006) | | Mike creates molds from dead animals to create realistic replicas. Then Mike helps make and test a shark suit made of fine chain mail. | |
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| 39 :02x20 - Alpaca Shearer (Aug/22/2006) | | Mike helps gather six thousand pounds of shellfish from the Puget Sound. Next, Mike works as a taro farmer in Hawaii. Then, Mike tries to shear Alpaca fiber. | | Director: David M. Barsky | |
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| 43 :02x24 - Penguin Keeper (Dec/05/2006) | | Mike Rowe joins a California construction crew to learn the art of concrete stamping. He also takes care of penguins and digs for bloodworms. | | Director: David M. Barsky | |
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| 44 :02x25 - Bell Maker (Dec/12/2006) | | Mike teams with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Stamford, Conn., where he helps them wash sediment and marine life from a sea barrier. Also: casting bells at McShane's using molds made of horse manure and mud. | | Director: David M. Barsky | |
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Season 3 |
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| 47 :03x02 - Poo Pot Maker (Jan/16/2007) | | Mike helps make gardening pots out of cow pies. Also: Mike checks the mail bag and answers a question about a segment in which he was bitten by a snake. | | Director: David M. Barsky | |
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| 48 :03x03 - Mule Logger (Jan/23/2007) | | Mike works with a master cooper, also known as a barrel maker, and attempts to master the art of toasting the inside of the barrels over an open flame, a technique that gives the wine a special flavor as it ferments. Also: mule logging. | | Director: David M. Barsky | |
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| 49 :03x04 - Well Digger (Jan/30/2007) | | Mike teams with the Bowie BaySox as a groundskeeper; and works with a water company, digging through mud, rock, gravel, sand and water in Tennessee. Also: letters from the mail bag. | | Director: David M. Barsky | |
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| 51 :03x06 - Salt Miner (Feb/27/2007) | Mike gets dirty underground packing explosives into a wall of salt and blowing it up in order to break up the salt into small blocks.Mike masters the dirty job of salt mining and gets a new respect for the people who get dirty in order for us to get salt.
Source: Discovery | | Director: David M. Barsky | |
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| 52 :03x07 - Wine Maker (Mar/06/2007) | Mike gets dirty in Napa Valley as he takes on the dirty job of making wine. Mike then rolls up his sleeves and gets dirty at a Kansas Cattle Ranch where he gets a lesson on how dirty the cattle business can be.
Source: Discovery | | Director: David M. Barsky | |
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| 53 :03x08 - Steam Ship Cleaner (Mar/13/2007) | Mike joins forces with two dirty guys from San Diego who have mastered the art of hydro-seeding. Then he rolls up his sleeves and gets dirty on a steam ship ferry that's over 100 years old. Mike delves into the mailbag and answers a viewer's question.
Source: discovery channel | | Director: David M. Barsky | |
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| 54 :03x09 - Really Dirty Animals (Mar/20/2007) | | Mike revisits some of his old jobs: alpaca shearer, fainting goat farmer, vervet monkey rehabilitator, cattle rancher, penguin keeper, ostrich farmer, food recycler, mule logger. | |
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| 57 :03x12 - Leather Tanner (Jul/17/2007) | | Mike goes back in time by joining Richard Meyers and his sons to learn the ancient trade of tanning leather, transforming ordinary stiff cowhides into soft suede soles for bowling shoes. | | Director: David M. Barsky | |
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| 59 :03x14 - Bridge Painter (Aug/07/2007) | | Mike helps maintenance crews with the annual upkeep on the Mackinac Bridge in Michigan, including sandblasting and painting suspender cables. Also: greasing the NASA crawler. | | Director: David M. Barsky | |
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| 60 :03x15 - Vomit Island Workers (Aug/14/2007) | | Mike Rowe gets dirty as he braves the untamed world of Vomit Island, a place where few have ever been and even fewer would ever want to go. Mike's mission is to help band and count newly hatched Herons on the poo covered island. | | Director: David M. Barsky | |
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| 61 :03x16 - Alligator Egg Collector (Aug/21/2007) | | Mike Rowe gets dirty as he forages the swamps of Louisiana in search of Alligator eggs 90,000 of them to be exact. It's a very Dirty Job that's helping to preserve the population of the American alligator. | | Director: David M. Barsky | |
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| 62 :03x17 - Wild Goose Chase (Aug/28/2007) | | Mike Rowe goes on a wild goose chase literally! After traveling to the tundra, Mike joins forces with a team of workers that round up a flock of wild geese with airplanes. | | Director: David M. Barsky | |
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| 63 :03x18 - Crew's Cruise (Sep/18/2007) | | Mike and the crew take a break from being dirty and board a luxurious Royal Caribbean cruise ship to reminisce about favorite episodes and escapades. | |
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| 64 :03x19 - 150th Dirty Job Extravaganza (Oct/23/2007) | | It's a two-hour Dirty Jobs extravaganza that will keep America entertained with look backs from some of your favorite jobs, never before seen footage, bloopers, down and dirty games, a giant fireworks display and much more as Mike Rowe celebrates 150 jobs | |
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| 66 :03x21 - Reef Ball Maker (Nov/06/2007) | | Mike creates an artificial underwater reef ball, part of an underwater reef to help fish and coral revitalize their population once they are damaged by pollution. | |
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| 67 :03x22 - Exotic Animal Keeper (Nov/13/2007) | Mike gets dirty at a recycling center in San Francisco that requires its drivers to clean out the backs of their garbage-hauling dump trucks after every shift. Then Mike plays with exotic animals and cleans a cougar-sized kitty litter box.
Source: Discovery Channel | |
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| 69 :03x24 - Spray Insulation Technician (Nov/27/2007) | Mike Rowe gets dirty with a team of airport runway painters, examines dirty diapers for bad smells and then teams up with a group of spray insulation technicians that get dirty to keep our houses warm.
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| 70 :03x25 - Dirty Innovators (Dec/04/2007) | Mike Rowe looks back at some of his favorite dirty jobs and salutes the men and women from around the country who have found innovative and entrepreneurial ways to get dirty.
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Season 4 |
| 71 :04x01 - Big Animal Vet (Jan/08/2008) | | Mike gets a close up look at a Llama with an abscessed tooth when he joins a big animal veterinarian in Montana. Also, working in a barbecue joint in Georgia and a trip to New Jersey where he helps dig up old oil tanks. | |
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| 72 :04x02 - Steel Mill Worker (Jan/15/2008) | | Mike works with metal as he heads to St. Louis to melt scraps steel into molten metal and then works on a demolition team aboard a river barge. | |
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| 73 :04x03 - Cave Biologist (Jan/22/2008) | | Mike joins a cave biologist as they trek through muck and searches for slime eels hidden in piles of mucus. | |
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| 74 :04x04 - Buoy Cleaner (Jan/29/2008) | | Mike learns how they make shingles when he travels to Oregon, and then cleans dirty buoys while aboard a Coast Guard ship. | |
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| 75 :04x05 - Cranberry Farmer (Feb/05/2008) | | Mike heads to South Carolina where he learns how to make bricks by hand, and then tries his hand at farming cranberries while in Oregon. | |
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| 76 :04x06 - Mud Mineral Excavator (Feb/12/2008) | | Mike prepares for a gem and mineral show by digging in Death Valley. also, birds are rescued from a salty lake, and then it's off to South Carolina for a day of working on a rice plantation. | | Guest Stars: Campbell Coxe as Himself | |
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| 77 :04x07 - Tight Spaces (Feb/19/2008) | | Mike looks back at some of his tightest squeezes from the dirtiest, most challenging jobs over the years. | |
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| 78 :04x08 - Brown Plate Special (Feb/26/2008) | | Mike looks back at the jobs dealing with food products. Also, the Dirty Jobs Top Ten list of most disgusting things Mike has eaten. | |
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| 79 :04x09 - Dirty Jobs of the Big Apple (Apr/14/2008) | | Mike heads to New York City where he climbs to the top of a huge building to assist in creating a water tower, followed by learning the art of repairing an elevator. | |
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| 80 :04x10 - Floating Fish Factory (Apr/21/2008) | | Mike takes an epic trip aboard a fish processing ship while in Alaska. The job gives Mike a new appreciation for those who bring in fish for our meals daily. | |
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| 81 :04x11 - Dairy Cow Midwife (Apr/28/2008) | | Mike makes a stop in Indiana where he learns to milk a cow and then clean it's udders. Also, a schooling on how to artificially inseminate a cow and assist on a calf delivery. | |
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| 82 :04x12 - Aerial Tram Greaser (May/05/2008) | | Mike learns about erosion control as he visits the site of a future California neighborhood. Next, Mike helps with the maintenance and repair a tram while 8,500 feet above Palm Springs. | |
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| 83 :04x13 - Turkey Inseminator (May/12/2008) | | Mike attempts to make a home more energy efficient, which calls for him to crawl beneath the dwelling through falling insulation, dead rats and debris Then, he takes a crack at turkey inseminating while on a turkey farm full of large breasted birds. | |
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| 84 :04x14 - Ice Salvage Crew (May/19/2008) | | Mike helps with an oil spill clean up in Alaska, and then travels to Minnesota where he assists on retrieving a car from a lake which had fallen through the ice. | |
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| 85 :04x15 - Wind Farm Technician (Jun/02/2008) | | Mike heads to Oklahoma to help turn a farm green by the use of wind. Then, it's off to Kentucky where a sink hole has been filled with garbage by its citizens. | |
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| 86 :04x16 - Animal Barber (Jun/09/2008) | | Mike head to Kalispell, Montana and the Spring Brook Ranch for his 150th dirty job as he joins a yak and bison rancher. It's a wild celebration of dirt as Mike and the crew go to work. | |
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| 87 :04x17 - Brown Before Green (Jun/16/2008) | | Mike reviews past jobs which helped the environment, including geothermal drilling, wood and tire salvage and building cobb homes. The one constant is that to become green, you usually have to get brown first. | |
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| 88 :04x18 - Greenland Shark Quest (Jul/29/2008) | | Mike heads for the Arctic Circle off Baffin Islands in search for the Greenland sharks, and investigates the ecological changes within that part of the region. | |
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| 89 :04x19 - Tar Rigger (Oct/07/2008) | | Mike hooks up with the tar rigging crew on the oldest active merchant ship in the world, the Star of India in San Diego. Then, Mike looks back at some of the dirtiest tools he's used, all which make life simpler for the rest of us. | |
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| 90 :04x20 - Dirty Chip Maker (Oct/14/2008) | | Mike learns how potato chips are made and what is needed to keep the machines running and clean when he heads to the Dirty Potato Chips factory. Then he makes a stop in Rifle, Co. to clean a "monster" underground. | |
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| 91 :04x21 - Sheep Castrator (Oct/21/2008) | | Mike helps saw down a giant concrete wall at an auto dealership in order to make way for a new wash bay. Then he heads to a sheep farm where he tries shearing and castrating a sheep and is treated to a pate of Rocky Mountain Oysters. | |
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| 92 :04x22 - Leech Trapper (Oct/28/2008) | | It's off to Bartos Bait & Fish for Mike to help catch leeches for fishing bait. Next he heads to the Green Tripe factory in Hollister, CA, for a lesson in making BARF (Biologically Appropriate Raw Food) for dogs. | |
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| 93 :04x23 - Dirty Presidents (Nov/04/2008) | | Mike takes a look at what dirty jobs past presidents once performed. This Dirty Jobs Extravaganza will leave us all looking at the country in a new way. | |
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| 94 :04x24 - Mannequin Factory (Nov/11/2008) | | Mike helps break down some homes at the Windsorland Mobile Home Park to make room for a new shopping center. Next, he heads to Patina-V where he learns the art involved in creating a mannequin. | |
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| 95 :04x25 - Egg Farm (Nov/18/2008) | | Mike heads to a farm to see how an egg gets from a chicken to a store. While there he discovers that a lot of poo can come from 1.4 million chickens, which he gets a chance to clean up. Later, Mike goes to Oklahoma where he learns how dirty dirt is sterilized to become clean dirt. | |
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| 96 :04x26 - Vellum Maker (Nov/25/2008) | | Mike harvest hops as he travels to Yakama, WA., a needed ingredient of beer. Then Mike heads to Hudson Valley to help create paper from horse hides. | |
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| 98 :04x28 - Gourd Maker (Dec/09/2008) | | Mike Rowe cleans out a Connecticut lake and then turns gourds into artwork in Pennsylvania. | |
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Season 5 |
| 100 :05x01 - Bologna Maker (Jan/06/2009) | | Mike heads to Pennsylvania and tries his hand at making bologna and then goes to Alaska to repair a very special toilet. | |
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| 101 :05x02 - Abandoned Mine Plugger (Jan/13/2009) | | Mike travels to Ohio to check on the Common Tern population and then he finds himself in Northern California plugging an abandoned mineshaft. | |
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| 102 :05x03 - Animal Rendering (Jan/20/2009) | | Mike takes a trip to the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles to find out about the important work being done in Pit 91. Then Mike travels north where he learns about rendering and discovers how much of a farm animal can be recycled. | |
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| 103 :05x04 - Goose Down Plucker (Jan/27/2009) | | Mike heads to Meridian, California to find out what it takes to harvest walnuts. Then he spends some time in Tulelake where he learns how to make goose down pillows and comforters. | |
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| 104 :05x05 - Diaper Cleaner (Feb/03/2009) | | Mike journeys to Queen Creek, Arizona to press olives into oil and then heads to Sacramento, California to clean dirty diapers. | |
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| 105 :05x06 - Spider Pharm (Feb/10/2009) | | Mike ventures to Payette, Idaho to learn how to make high quality bird food. Then he heads to Yarnell, Arizona to collect spiders from the desert to milk them for their venom. | |
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| 107 :05x08 - 200 Jobs Look-Back (Feb/24/2009) | | Mike takes a look back at his previous jobs, toughest co-workers, and his ongoing encounters with dirt and poo. | |
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| 108 :05x09 - Mike's Day Off (Mar/03/2009) | | Mike Rowe challenges his bosses to see if they have what it takes to get dirty. The two executive producers responsible for sending Mike out to the dirtiest jobs around the country are going to roll up their sleeves and attempt a dirty job of their own. | |
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| 112 :05x13 - Toilet Crusher (Oct/20/2009) | | Mike performs tests on endangered snapping turtles, then travels to San Francisco where he removes and recycles toilets. | |
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| 115 :05x16 - Glass Maker (Nov/10/2009) | | Mike goes to Jonesboro, Arkansas to perform dung beetle research. Then he heads to Williamstown, West Virginia to try his hand at making glass art. | |
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| 116 :05x17 - Rocky Reach Dam (Nov/17/2009) | | Host Mike Rowe maintains a hydroelectric damn and then catches and tags fish before wading through fish poop. | |
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| 118 :05x19 - Reindeer Farm (Dec/01/2009) | | After shrink-wrapping a house in Kentucky, Mike takes off for Alaska, where he works on a reindeer farm. | |
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| 119 :05x20 - Marble Maker (Dec/08/2009) | | Mike returns to Hawaii to make shirts and then travels to Ohio to learn how to make marbles. | |
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| 120 :05x21 - Fireworks Technician (Dec/15/2009) | Mike learns to be a specialty fireworks technician, then checks out a cow with a hole in its stomach.
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