Social Media Is Swell
Here’s an article that suggests I “hate” using social media. This is simply not true. I think social media is swell, and can’t for the life of me understand how anyone could conclude otherwise.
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Reading the Phonebook Helps Close the Skills Gap
Behold, another dubious episode of C.R.A.P. For reasons not entirely clear to me, over a hundred of you have said that you would listen to The Real Mike Rowe read the phonebook. Equally baffling, is my own irresistible urge to see if you really mean it. But even more incredible than that, is my request that you contribute a dollar to the mrW Foundation if you actually click on this link and watch the entire thing. Go ahead – I dare you. Either way, you asked for it. Mike
My Softer Side
A few months ago, a nice lady called and asked me if I’d like to be on the cover of Guideposts magazine. “Sure,” I said. “I love football.”
Attention, Cat People
To prove my fondness for felines, I’ve agreed to narrate a show called “Man, Cheetah, Wild.”
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.
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.