Hey Mike ~ Why CNN?
Hi Jack – As questions go, this one is right up there with “What was your dirtiest job?”
Category: Blog
SGDI Renaissance
Today’s Somebody’s Gotta Do It Redux combines
Unanswered Correspondence
It’s probably none of my business, but with His Majesty on the road, (again,)
Beware, Fellow Traveler
Greetings from Columbus, Georgia, where good and evil
Check out Otto!
Holy Crap! Check out Otto. I dare you to watch this
OFF THE WALL: Disapproval from a Fake Journalist
Mike, a friend of mine posted this article recently. “Mike Rowe’s Dirty Job.” While I fundamentally disagree with every point in it, I would love to hear your rebuttals to the personal attacks. Posted by Joey Defourneaux, 10:02 am, 9/7/2014 Thanks Joey Happy to oblige. When my flight’s delayed, and my entire day goes to hell in a handcart, there’s really no better way to pass the time than by analyzing the thoughtful prose of a fake journalist who has the courage to make shit up. The writer is a guy named Ari Paul, and the publication is called The Read More
Joan Rivers
It was late September, 1991. I had been fired from QVC
Sidewalk Commercialism
Fridays with Freddy … “It started as a spontaneous walk
Marginal Fame Could Be Yours
The other day, I drank a beer and wrote a song
Somebody’s Gotta Make It Real
Dear NPR, Last week, while googling
Ice Bucket Challenge Continues to Pour
Total contributions have now eclipsed $100 million dollars, and I must confess
mikeroweWORKS Turns 6 and 176 Students Are Going to Have Wonderful Lives in 2014
Howdy As some of you know, I have a small foundation called mikeroweWORKS. It began six years ago on this day. Since then, things have since gotten progressively and delightfully out of hand. The purpose of mikeroweWORKS is to encourage more people to pursue job opportunities that actually exist – specifically, opportunities that require the mastery of a skill that’s in demand. That means lots of PR, lots of speeches, and lots of partnerships with companies and organizations that help reinvigorate the skilled trades. Toward that end, we also have a Work Ethic Scholarship Program. So far this year, mikeroweWORKS Read More
Fridays with Freddy: Road Trip!
Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road,
Not Throwing Cold Water on a Cause
“Hey Mike!! Charlie Willis challenges you to do the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge!
Somebody’s Gotta Do It: The Pope
New show suggestion #420