'I'm willing to try anything that's legal. 'Now people can really appreciate the jobs that they do,' Rachael chimes in.Īn audience member asks Mike if there are any jobs that he wouldn't ever try. Not only do policemen and firemen stop what they're doing to say hello, he says, but 'a garbage man hopped off the back of his truck and literally thanked me for his romance life because he's getting all this action because of the show all of a sudden!' With over 150 dirty jobs under his belt, Mike tells Rachael about some of the attention he's received from doing the show.

Note to self: Though often frighteningly unstylish, safety glasses are the last bit of defense between owl vomit and your ocular devices - meaning 'the less owl puke in your eyes, the better.Rach's brave guest has built up an impressive resume as the host of Jobs with Mike Rowe*](): casino food recycler, avian vomitologist, sewer tank inspector. So Rowe usually starts off the work week in jeans or shorts, a T-shirt and baseball cap before submitting to the necessities of rubber gloves, hip waders and safety goggles. Nevertheless, when it comes to something as mucky as mushroom farming, the optimal clothing instinct is 'less is more.' That is to say layering is bad it would just give the dirt and grime more places to collect and take up permanent residency.

In his pre-'Dirty Jobs' days, Rowe sang for the Baltimore Opera (it's a long way from 'Rigoletto' to pig dung), sold more than $100 million worth of simulated diamonds on QVC and appeared in several dozen Tylenol commercials, which just goes to show you the projected prerequisite trajectory for a bat-guano collector. Not surprisingly, every one of these jobs requires some serious form of protection to keep Rowe from never feeling clean again. Just a quick perusal through the list of the show's episodes and it's easy to see why this guy has more than a passing knowledge on the usefulness of rubberized accessories: avian vomitologist, storm-drain cleaner, hippo caretaker, shellfish farmer, sausage maker, garbage-pit technician, hot tar roofer, casino-food recycler, sewer inspector, baby chick sexer, pigeon poop cleaner-upper and a laundry list of other equally nauseating positions. As the host of 'Dirty Jobs,' he regularly finds himself in dire need of situation-appropriate attire.

The term 'appropriately dressed' holds more meaning for Mike Rowe than for most television personalities.

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