Episodes 20

1

Avian Vomitologist

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January 10, 20061h

Mike first travels to Colorado to help out at a marble quarry. He then goes to California to collect owl vomit which is sold to school children for research projects. Finally, Mike travels to Texas to palpate cows, a process used to figure out if a cow is pregnant. He also gets a little too familiar with a bull.

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2

Turkey Farmer

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January 17, 20061h

Turkey farmer, potato farmer, waste water sewage plant

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Alligator Farmer

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January 24, 20061h

Sugarcane mill, firefighter (Fremont, CA), alligator farmer

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Mushroom Farmer

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March 7, 20061h

Mushroom farmer, storm drain cleaner, drain cover foundry

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5

Plumber

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March 14, 20061h

Plumber, drilling mud, Rough necker (oil drilling)

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6

Termite Controller

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March 21, 20061h

Concrete spreader, termite exterminator, concrete truck cleaner

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7

Casino Food Recycler

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June 13, 20061h

It's a glitzy Las Vegas premiere as Mike visits the Lance Burton Theater to clean up the pens for Lance's show doves and geese. Mike then gets really dirty by visiting a pig farmer and helping him process and transport yesterday's buffet leftovers to feed the pigs.

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8

Parade Float Dismantler

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June 20, 20061h

Mike first goes to Pennsylvania at a coal processing plant and learns how to make coke, carbonized coal used to make iron which in turn is used to make steel. Mike then goes to Washington to an oyster shucking plant and works alongside a very dirty girl. Finally, Mike goes to Pasadena, CA to dismantle floats from the Tournament of Roses Parade.

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Directed by: Dave Barsky

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9

Garbage Pit Technician

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June 27, 20061h

Mike first heads off to Las Vegas to work at an old fashioned printing press making lithographs of himself for the official Dirty Jobs poster. Mike then goes to Lincoln, CA and helps make large scale terra cotta building sculpture pieces from recycled terra cotta sewer pipes. Finally, Mike visits a garbage processing plant in San Francisco where food and assorted scraps are passed through a rolling cylinder and "digested" to make a methane gas energy supply.

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10

Skull Cleaner

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July 11, 20061h

Mike first goes to Sacramento, CA to help repair railroad tracks. Mike then heads to Louisiana to learn how to make "boudin" (Cajun sausage). Mike then cuts and fry's pig skins to make "cracklin" (pork rinds). Finally, Mike goes to Oklahoma and joins a skull cleaning business to learn how to clean skulls and bones using beetles and maggots, including a whale carcass.

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11

Geoduck Farmer

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July 18, 20061h

Mike first heads off to California to help tear down a dam so trout on the endangered species list can spawn. Mike then goes to Pennsylvania to restore a church's pipe organ, a process that takes a total of eight years to complete. Finally, Mike goes to Puget Sound in Washington to harvest geoduck clams, otherwise known as "gooey ducks".

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12

Fuel Tank Cleaner

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July 24, 20061h

Mike heads to a good old fashioned steel town in Pennsylvania to work at a 75 year old candy store named Wertz Candies making all sorts of candy treats. Mike then goes to California and works as a tire retreader. Finally, Mike goes to McConnell AFB in Kansas to help repair the fuel tanks of a refueling tanker aircraft.

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13

Coal Miner

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August 8, 20061h

Mike helps a family in New Jersey demolish and recycle parts from 100 year old buildings on an old college campus. Finally, Mike enters the dangerous world of a coal miner in an upstate Pennsylvania coal mine.

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14

Hoof Cleaner

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August 15, 20061h

Mike Rowe first joins a crew at a rock quarry in Washington and learns what it takes to make gravel from loading rocks to blowing up a side of a mountain. Next, Mike gets hip deep in mud and muck working with the hippo keepers at the Adventure Aquarium in Camden, NJ. Finally, Mike helps a crew of hooftrimmers give some cows a pedicure and later cleans a cow foot bath.

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15

Alpaca Shearer

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August 22, 20061h

Mike once again joins up with the guys of Taylor Shellfish Farms to help them harvest mussels. Next he goes to Hawaii to learn about harvesting taro. Finally, Mike joins a family of alpaca farmers and learns the hard way that alpacas can be pretty ill-willed animals when it comes to shearing them.

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16

Monkey Caretaker

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August 29, 20061h

Mike Rowe meets his match when he travels to South Africa to take care of monkeys that are being trained to go back into the wild

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17

Snake Researcher

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November 28, 20061h

Mike Rowe wrangles some water snakes, steps into the shoes of hard working bait and lobster fishermen in Maine, and opens the viewer mail bag which results in some seaweed trimming.

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18

Penguin Keeper

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December 5, 20061h

Even though Mike has worked with concrete before in Dallas, he visits concrete workers in California today to learn the art of concrete stamping. Then he goes to New Orleans to care for penguins. Finally, he gets in the mud to hunt bloodworms in Maine.

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19

Bell Maker

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December 12, 20061h

Mike Rowe rolls up his sleeve and gets dirty making giant bells at the McShane Bell Foundry. Mike also gets down and dirty with the US Army Corps of Engineers as they conduct yearly maintenance on a hurricane barrier that was raised from the oceans floor.

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20

Mosquito Control Officer

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Season Finale
December 19, 20061h

Mike helps New Orleans residents restore, rebuild and revive their city in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

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