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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'American Holiday Gift Guide w/ Mike Rowe' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-11-28. Transcript available.

American Holiday Gift Guide w/ Mike Rowe

Today, we are presenting a special holiday episode where we recommend some
genuine made
in the USA products just in time for the holiday gift giving season.
These are products that are actually made right here in America.
We really did our research.
So when you're buying something, you're supporting a fellow American.
And joining me for this merry mission is a friend with a laundry list of media
accomplishments,
including the host of Dirty Jobs, as well as he was host on QVC.
He's America's blue-collar champion, and he's here today to help encourage you
to support
American Made while checking off your holiday hitter list.
Today's guest is Mr. Mike Rowe.
I can't believe we're doing this.
I know.
I mean, we talked about this like a year ago as a goof, like Wayne's World
meets QVC
to celebrate American manufacturing.
And Theo's like, yeah, man, I'll do that.
We wanted to highlight American creativity.
Yeah.
You know, we want to just create gifts where it's like a lot of times you want
to give a
gift to somebody.
And a lot of stuff we buy now in America is from other places.
So it was like, well, let's buy stuff that's from our neighbor, from our fellow
American,
because then you're kind of given like two gifts.
It's like I'm giving one gift because I am giving an actual physical gift to my
friend.
Yeah.
But then I'm giving another gift because the money from it is going towards an
American
family or an American company.
Well, the thing that got me, man, you you've been touring for forever.
We've been to 250 something cities over the past four years.
So, yeah, well, anybody who gets around the country sees that things are tough
in certain
areas, like really super tough in other areas.
And the idea of reinvigorating manufacturing and and showing people what's
possible.
I mean, that's the idea.
Like these these products, people should know that nobody paid to be on here.
These are just items that we found made by people that we think are super cool
and it
would be great to crash their website and at the same time give give the
audience, you
know, something cool to stuff in a stocking.
Yeah.
We just picked a lot of stuff that we thought was cool to us, you know?
Yeah.
And like Mike mentioned, we do want to say that none of these products are paid
to be
here and a lot of these products are like companies that we happened upon in
different
places.
Some of them were businesses that we walked into when we're out on the road.
Some are ones that are near and dear to your heart and places that you've been
a champion
of for a long time.
And it's just nice to let people know that there is stuff that is made here in
our country.
You have to seek it out a little bit.
And but that the the desire and and the the ingenuity is still there.
And we put together our best hodgepodge of Christmas gifts that you can give to
somebody
you care about or even somebody that you don't.
Everything on this show is working right.
They've got a heartbeat and they figured something out.
And, you know, maybe you can drag them over the finish line.
I think we can start highlighting them.
Shall we jump in?
Let's jump in.
This is our first item from the Sullivan Glove Company.
Hailing from Bend, Oregon, the Sullivan Glove Company has been keeping their
premium gloves
distinctly American-made since 1941, sourcing everything from within these
United States and
crafting each glove through their dedicated and domestic 10-person team who
managed to churn
out over 12,000 pair every year.
Sullivan Glove products are handsome and made for versatility.
They're perfect for a full spectrum of activities from a night out on the town
to the ranch or the workshop.
Sullivan Glove stand for warmth, durability, and the American spirit.
Get your special holiday someone's hands into some warm American-made goodness
this year.
This feels great.
And what is this, leather?
That's elk.
This is deer.
Touch mine with yours.
Do that.
Oh, it's like two animals meeting in the woods, huh?
Here's what you do if you really want to mix it up.
Give me the one on your right hand.
I'll give you the one on my right hand.
Yeah.
I don't know that this has ever been done before at the Sullivan Glove Company.
But, oh, wow, these are, see, that's a heavier-duty glove.
Yes.
Yeah, this is very, has a very Russian sort of, we can do it type of thing.
I feel like you definitely, this thing a lot, you could do a lot.
You could also train that Falcon with this one.
Sure.
The Falcon will come back.
I feel like if you walked outside with this one on, the Falcon will come back.
This was made for work, for sure.
These feel like almost, almost like driving gloves.
There was a guy on the show a while back, a guy, a small guy, which is a child.
And he was on here, and he found some gloves just in his pocket.
He found some, like, latex gloves in his pocket.
There's gloves in my pocket.
Are there really?
Rizzler.
That's his name, yeah.
Is that really his name?
Yeah, that's his name.
His first name?
Christian is his real name.
And he's somewhere, he's like six to eight years old.
He's a great kid.
And, but he actually, we sent him a pair of these.
Remember when I pulled these out?
Yeah.
Well, now I'm going to upgrade something even better.
Check these out.
These are really nice.
Ooh.
Well, I'll tell you this.
There's nothing I like putting my hand more in than something made right here
in America.
I'll tell you that, you know?
I mean, there was, and that could have gone a few different ways, but I'm glad
it went the way it did towards Sullivan gloves, man.
I am too.
You know, these gloves were created by Edward Sullivan.
He got started producing gloves for World War II, mainly for the Navy.
That's how this glove company started.
And, and it's still here.
And it's up in Bend, Oregon.
And I'll tell you a little bit of something about Bend, you know?
That is a resilient place, Michael.
Sure it is, man.
It's the home of the last blockbuster.
You know what I'm saying?
They're stubborn people.
They like to do things their own way.
There's a lot of like, even just the way it's set up there.
It's not like a regular little city.
It's little pockets of this and that, and somebody's in the woods sucking tree
sap out of something.
You know, it's just that kind of people.
If I see somebody sucking on something, I'll look the other way.
You know, I'll support them.
You're walking through the woods, and you see a fella sidled up to a tree.
Say a maple.
Just slurping it?
Yeah.
And he's sucking on the tree to get the sap out.
Do you approach?
Do you take a photo?
Do you step back?
Oh, I think you wait a few minutes until he steps back, and then you just let
him spit
it on your hotcakes.
That's what I'm saying.
That's, I mean, if it's pure maple, I don't know what he was getting.
But let's get back to the gloves here, Michael.
I do want to say there's only five glove companies left that manufacture in the
USA.
They've got work gloves.
They've got driving gloves.
They've got rodeo gloves.
They've got going around town gloves.
They're all soft.
They're all supple.
They're all tough.
It's a great company.
Yeah, these can be great.
They have classic, it says, leather motorcycle.
Wow.
So if you want to get out there and you want to get your baby girl one of those
big sodas
and let her sit behind you on a gold wing or something, and you want to get out
there
and show off, you want to be a little Sturgis baby out there, you can do it in
these Sullomons.
And they have rodeo and ranch.
If you want to, if you like dipping your nuggets in some deep ranch, you can
wear these gloves
and do it.
Is that what they mean, you think?
I don't think so.
Oh, these feel good, man.
Honestly, you can feel quality.
Like you really, really, really know it.
You know it when you see it.
You really know it when you touch it.
But to your point, when you push your hand slowly into something that is undeniably
of quality,
then all of your fingers come together in a joyous fist of solidarity.
Come together.
Right now.
And how do they smell?
Like, if you really had to sum it up, what is the aroma?
They smell great.
The insides smell a little different than the outsides, but that's kind of nice.
That's how I like it.
Sullivan Gloves.
Thank you guys for sending us a few pairs so that we could show them off.
All you need is glove.
All you need.
Bang, bang, Maxwell, Silver, Hammer, King.
Remember that?
That is a serious copyright infringement right there.
Is it?
I'll be amazed if you can get away with that.
Are you serious?
We'll see.
The Beatles, they're very grabby with their, what you call their IP.
Yeah.
But yeah, I think when people look back at this and wonder what the heck just
happened,
the image that's really going to stick with them is the guy in the woods
sucking the sap out of the maple tree.
Well, let's chat about a new product here, Mike.
I hate to keep us moving along, but we got a lot of products to hit.
Miles to go before we sleep.
Amen.
Some of those Sullivan Gloves are so dexteritous, you could actually enjoy a
fine piece of fruit in them.
I got to admit, I hadn't thought about that.
But as Tim comes in with these delicious looking, beautifully wrapped,
perfectly boxed pieces of fruit,
I will say that the idea of eating them with gloved hands is appealing.
And we're talking about Chukar cherries out of Yakima Valley, Washington.
Can you give us a little bit more intel on those?
In the heart of Washington state's cherry country,
an idea was hatched by a woman named Pam Montgomery, whose family owned a
cherry orchard.
As Pam strolled beneath the cherry trees, enamored by the sweet smell of the
sun-dried fruits,
she began to experiment with storing the cherries without adding any sugars or
preservatives,
as was recommended.
Instead, Pam made a commitment to keep her cherries additive-free
and eventually combined them with chocolate and Chukar cherries were born.
Now sold in Seattle's famous Pike Place and from its headquarters in Prosser,
Washington.
You can also find these in a variety of cherries and chocolates at Chukar.com.
That's Chukar.com.
Oh, I love that.
Yeah.
You got to think.
If you think about a cherry, it's really, some people say it's just a little
apple.
Have you ever seriously heard of anybody referred to a cherry as a little apple?
Ever?
Nope.
All right.
There's no wrong answer, but part of why I wanted to do this was just to sit
close enough
to you for a protracted period of time to see if I can become one of the few
people on the
planet with some insight as to how your brain actually works.
Well, I think it actually doesn't a lot of times, the real truth.
But there is something beautiful about a little cherry, because sometimes you
want an apple.
Sometimes you want 40 apples, and you're like, oh, I can't eat all these 40
apples at one time.
And you see a cherry, and you're like, oh, okay.
So I'm going to-
Shawty showed up.
Put some out here.
Yeah, I'd love to have one.
You can see them.
Oh, wow.
They don't look like your normal cherries.
I would say they look like a dehydrated cherry, almost.
God, these are good.
I know.
They're amazing.
And I think just knowing that they're natural, knowing they're not all jacked
up.
You see a lot of fruit these days, and it's doing peptides.
It's on GLMP1 or whatever, and it's on, you know, you will get a pear or
whatever, and
it's been doing creatine.
You're like, what in the hell is this?
It's as big as a pumpkin.
You know, the most suspicious thing is the color.
When they're really super vibrant, and when they look so delicious, that, you
know, that's
just not how it is in life, man.
That's not what natural is.
This is natural.
Who would you get these for in your family?
Be honest with me, Mike.
Maybe for an office worker, you know?
It's a thoughtful thing to do.
You know, once you're talking about an ingestible, you are getting into like a
personal kind of
thing.
You give it to perfect strangers.
Oh, I've sold bad pills to people over the years.
So i