Dirty Jobs
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Dirty Jobs is a program on the Discovery Channel where host Mike Rowe is shown performing difficult job duties alongside workers. It premiered on July 26 2005 and features American laborers who make their living doing "unthinkable, yet vital" vocations.
The appeal of the show is the juxtaposition of Mike Rowe, a well-spoken man of television with a sharp, sarcastic wit, and the hellacious (or hilarious) blue-collar situations in which he's put, often at times with cameraman Troy Paff and Doug Glover getting just as dirty, or, in one episode, covered in bees as he is. Mike Rowe often makes jokes about his jobs and describes them as "dirty jokes."
The show is a spin-off of a segment host Mike Rowe once did on a program in San Francisco, and gave the idea to the Discovery channel. It is produced by Pilgrim Film & Television, Craig Piligian, executive producer. The Discovery Channel executive producer is Gena McCarthy.
The show's theme song is Faith No More's "We Care A Lot" which features the lyrics, "It's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it."
One of the more popular segments is where a man makes his own biodiesel from the used cooking oil discarded from a local Mexican restaurant, sparking interest in home-made (if slightly hazardous) biodiesel processing plants.
On March 7, 2006 host Mike Rowe participated in an [online chat] during which he answered questions from fans of the show.
Some \"Dirty Jobs\"
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Some of the dirty jobs featured on the show include:
- surfboard maker,
- pig farmer,
- ostrich farmer,
- sewer inspector,
- septic tank technician,
- chicken sexer,
- beekeeper,
- crayfish trapper,
- shrimper,
- gum-buster,
- pigeon-dropping cleaner,
- zookeeper,
- noodling,
- horse-inseminator,
- whale autopsy technician,
- trash worker,
- vulcanologist,
- cheese-maker,
- demolition worker,
- charcoal sorter,
- guano collector,
- organic coffee-farmer,
- Major League Baseball mud collector,
- mushroom farmer
- exterminator
- garbage man
- owl pellet collector
- firefighter
- Maryland crab fisher
- brewery worker
- oyster collector
- parade float disassembler
- Gandy dancer
- taro puller (as yet unaired)
- Malibu stream restoration (as yet unaired)
Promotion
Discovery Channel issued the following statement in its publicity of the program:
- In the feisty DIRTY JOBS, host and everyman Mike Rowe gets the grimy scoop on downright nasty occupations. The featured "foul play for pay" could be processing smelly seafood in a fish factory, collecting bat guano for prized fertilizer, combing creek bottoms for edible wildlife, or cleaning septic tanks to maintain a fresh-smelling environment.
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