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.
Category: Blog
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.
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
Good News (for Me)
According to the latest Gallup Poll, less than 9% of Americans find me to be “Irritating.”
Micro Mike Rowe
Scroll through the whole deal. It’s worth it.
Bigfoot Bites
I’m gratified that my lemur encounter has provided an unanticipated public service.
Your Headline, My Face
From: Mike Rowe Re: Your Headline, My Face. Hi Steve, Mike Rowe here, Dirty Jobs. Thanks to the necromancers over at Google, I’ve been alerted to your most recent Question of the Day: “Are Bad Jobs Good for the Economy and the People Who Work Them?” Immediately under your headline I noticed a photo of me, taken on the Mackinac Bridge while filming a segment on Dirty Jobs. Given the juxtaposition of my face with your headline, a reasonable person might conclude that a “Dirty Job” and “Bad Job” are one and the same. This sentiment is not only inconsistent Read More
C.R.A.P.: Collectibles Rare And Precious
See what C.R.A.P. is available THIS week (and remember, proceeds help pay for trade-school scholarships).
A Talk About Ted
Back in 2008, I got an invite to speak at something called EG, or “The Entertainment Gathering.” The Entertainment Gathering is a conference that evolved from TED, another well-known speaker series that I had never heard of. Against my natural instincts, I wound up attending EG, and spoke for exactly 20 minutes, as instructed. I had no recollection of what I actually said until several months later when people started asking me about “my relationship with sheep testicles.” That’s when I realized my comments at TED had been posted on the interweb. I have no complaint about being recorded, and Read More