Attention, Cat People
To prove my fondness for felines, I’ve agreed to narrate a show called “Man, Cheetah, Wild.”
Author: Shari
A Cat Called Waldorf
Here’s a cat called Waldorf. Waldorf is watching an episode of Planet Earth, which I narrated once upon a time.
Today in Beaverton …
When Mike Rowe the policeman appears in my email inbox it reminds me that a more responsible version of myself is out there.
The Voice in Your Head
Many of you say you hear my voice when you read things I’ve written. What do I hear when I read YOUR posts? This.
A Night to Remember
Writing about my own experience at the Emmys is difficult. But nonetheless, here I go.
Making of the Poster
Mike Explains Further In the long history of bad advice, you’d have look pretty hard to find something dumber than Work Smart Not Hard. It first appeared years ago as part of a recruitment campaign for college. It was bad advice then, but today, it’s just plain dangerous. Google Work Smart Not Hard and you’ll see just how far this idiotic cliche has wormed it’s way into our collective conscious over the last forty years. It’s repeated daily by millions of people like some timeless chestnut of conventional wisdom. Is it possible we actually believe such nonsense? You bet Read More
On the Cover
It appears I’m on the cover of a magazine called Challenge, available now in a truck stop near you.
Watch Where You’re … Oh.
So I’m at this party in San Francisco …
So Damn Funny
This is quite possibly the funniest 34 seconds in the history of YouTube.
Challenge Magazine: Mike Rowe Profoundly Disconnected
In the September 2013 edition of Challenge magazine Mike talks about how he continues to get the message out about the skilled trades with his new initiative Profoundly Disconnected. Read the online edition – HERE
A Prick in Congress
As some of you know, mikeroweWORKS was launched on Labor Day back in 2008. Every so often somebody asks me how that came to be, and whether or not Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe had anything to do with it. Here’s my original reply to that question. A couple years ago I went to Congress, to see if anyone there was still up for an honest day’s work. Turns out, there is. Dave Moralez has worked in Congress his whole career, but holds no elected office. He’s a third-generation cattle rancher in Congress, Ariz., a tiny town in the Sonoran Read More
SkillsUSA Champions Fall 2013 Magazine: Mike Rowe ‘Work Smart and Hard’
Mike talks about “flipping a negative image of skilled jobs” in the 2013 Fall issue of SkillsUSA Champions magazine. View the original article here.
Guideposts – Mike Rowe, Using the Tools
TV’s Mike Rowe idolized his grandfather. There was one problem—he could never be like him. Or could he? By Mike Rowe, San Francisco, California Never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d make a living hosting and narrating TV shows. My plan was to follow in the footsteps of my grandfather, a man who worked with his hands, not his voice. A man who avoided the spotlight. I grew up outside Baltimore, Maryland. We were just a few miles from the city, but it felt like a whole different world. Our family’s land bordered 60 acres of woods, so Read More
Good News (for Me)
According to the latest Gallup Poll, less than 9% of Americans find me to be “Irritating.”
Micro Mike Rowe
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