Name: Mike Rowe | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #416
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Mike Rowe | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #416

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today's guest has
been a figure in most of our lives he hosted a show called dirty jobs where he
just got involved
in it all man he's not afraid to to go to the beach and sit in the quicksand
you know
he has been a narrator uh you've heard his voice on shows like deadliest catch
and shark week he's an
activist for the trades and for regular working people i'm grateful to have him
here today mr mike roe
and tell you
house cleaning story of my life man has it been yeah and that and no did you do
chores growing up did you
have any chores i had uh all the like the classic chores right we had um we had
some land
that really wasn't ours but we had access to and my mother was crazy for horses
so we built a barn
and we had three or four or five horses at any given time that we boarded
and the average horse will crap eight times a day oh wow so if you have five
horses
each one crapping eight times a day that's basically 40 loads right so i'd come
home from
school first job was to uh to pick up the horseshit yeah right put in the
compost pile
and then split wood we had a our house was heated mostly with a wood stove so
my main chores from i
guess 13 to 18 were picking up horse crap and splitting wood did you get to see
them do the
craps or you just there was already done when you got there i played a game
called bonus points right so i
mean normally when you come home the field's just full of little loads of turds
and you scoop them
up with your wheelbarrow but if you catch one in the midst and if you can get
over and get the shovel
under its ass the sound that the turd makes when it lands on the shovel yeah it's
weirdly satisfying
you know and you start you're looking over your shoulder when you're out there
waiting for the next
one and really it's strange you know i'm older now than i've ever been but i do
the same thing with
my dog when i'm walking the dog and i see him spin uh-huh it's ridiculous like
a grown man with a
plastic bag in his hand but there i am holding it under its ass they're
catching it in midair like
kirby pocket or whatever just but no i could see that there's something for me
i could totally see that
there would be value if i could like in my head it's like oh if i can get a
little more efficient
here and cut off the time between isn't it crazy the games we play and the
little things we do at
least i do oh yeah over the course of a day right it could be making the light
at the intersection
uh it could be you know the perfect text the right tweet whatever you assign
value to but yeah it's funny
i hadn't thought about it that way but at that point in my life one of the most
satisfying things to do
was to catch a turd in midair yeah god simple things oh i think in some
countries it's still
probably it's a damn it's probably a dang olympic sport i think it ought to be
if you get out there
into some places you know oh yeah i think i mean who knows where things will go
i think that
entertainment's getting pretty out there you think i mean geez you know what i
did the other night
man i'm flicking around not knowing what i'm looking for yeah and i stumble
across the national
cornhole championship yeah grown men them bag boys yeah i mean i like seven or
eight straight
in the hole no sliding no nothing just nailed it we i feel like when i watch
that i can feel their
wives in the distance being like get a job right now darren so proud of you darren
so proud of you
with your little bean bag in your little hole we're proud of you but tiffany
needs her daddy at home
you know what i'm saying you could fit because you know i don't think the money's
there yet we're
like but it's this it's the same it's like as a kid i remember flicking around
and watching bowling
yeah like earl anthony jr bowling and it was the most i mean the intensity and
the focus yeah and it
wasn't a big crowd but it was an engaged crowd and you know and the way the
announcer would step in
there and oh my god the pressure is high and here he is and the focus and the
concentration it's the
same thing with darts yeah darts i love darts and it's like so there so many of
these little hobby type
things get treated like it's the decathlon yeah and if you're just a guy flicking
around in the middle of
the night and you stumble across there he is man bush is tossing the look at
that right in there like
it had eyes amazing yes that bean baby right there yeah and what kind of beans
are in the bag i wonder
maybe that's how bush does it you know what that would be amazing somebody
should open up a bag and see
if bush beans are in there i cut open a golf ball once when i was a kid went in
my grandfather's shop
and put a golf ball in a vice and i took a hacksaw and i opened it up and it
was newton
i'd really it didn't occur to me that at the time i was just like isaac newton
but you're right there i
was looking inside of a golf ball like it was some microcosm of the uh of the
solar system and peeling
these rubber bands away and you know other rubber bands in there oh well there's
something rubber they
look like rubber bands but they're really dense and they're really thin and
they're wrapped really
really tight around this this nucleus in the center of it's a marble type
little thing huh but you know
some guy is at home trying to find a better way to make a better golf ball
knowing full well that some
knucklehead who's been amusing himself by catching in midair is going to take
one put it in a vice and cut
it open to see what makes the world work what uh what's keeping you busy these
days sitting here with
mike rowe thanks so much for coming in man sure um and congratulations for uh
for being in nashville
and for carving out a carving out a piece of something real i mean this is so
you know i do a podcast too
keeps me pretty busy but i'm on the road all the time so i'm doing it on like
riverside or zoom or you
know and it's not the same as you know sitting in an upholstered chair with the
guy in his house with
the you know it's it's like cable access meets you know real i mean honestly
like we're this far from
wayne's world yeah we are and people are watching like lots of people are
watching so congrats on that
oh thank you man yeah i think we've been looking for different studios recently
but there's a level of
not i don't want to there's a level of rogueness that has to accompany a
podcast space yeah it's like
in la because we have a studio in la and we've been looking there and it's like
man this is there's a
chase bank in the lobby that's not it we need like a missing person poster
within 60 feet it doesn't need
to be on the building but you know i'm saying there needs to because there's a
level still of grunge to it
right um that i think always needs to be there if i walk into a corporate place
i in my head feel more
corporate and so it puts me in a different head space um so i'd imagine it does
that for other folks
but you can't fake it right i mean if you're going to be in a corporate space
there's a way to behave
that's consistent with your surroundings and when people look at that they
might not like it but they're
not going to judge you for being a sellout or a fake or a poser like like you
don't think so huh
well not i mean i'm not i'm not saying that came off a little uh well they
might yeah oh you don't
think so huh uh came off a little bit outsiders well i mean it's like if when i
see somebody uh working
hard to be grungy i don't see it as much different than somebody who's working
hard to be corporate
if you're working hard to create an appearance then you become part of the
production and if you're part
of the production then you're part of the enemy to authenticity and i and what
i take from what you're
saying is that the thing that's for sale in the podcast space that is also for
sale you know in
any good comedian's act uh in any tv show that feels real and any song that
feels real there's authenticity
yeah right and so there's this weird trap if you if you work really hard to
create it well then
you're manufacturing it and that makes you fake but if somehow or another you
can function in your space
ask the questions you want to ask give the answers you want to give in a time
frame that you want to
create you know you then then i think people will at least give you a listen
right that's a good point
so maybe i'm over maybe i'm giving that too much credit maybe you know maybe
like i know on dirty jobs
that i mean i think the reason the show lasted as long as it lasted was because
we never did a second take
it was i just said look if i'm gonna do a reality show this is back before
reality meant something
unreal yeah like if we're for literally i mean you came up in that world too
yeah i'm like look we're
not gonna do any pre-production we're not gonna do any writing we're not gonna
do any real casting
all we're gonna do is follow a guy around doing his job and i'm gonna have a
normal crew and they're
going to shoot the show and they're going to cut the show you know however we
agree to do it but i'm
also going to have a camera that never stops rolling and i called it the truth
cam and um you know like
right now when i'm looking at this that's camera a shooting me walking and
talking in this uh dump
actually down in uh down in san francisco but over my left shoulder there's
another camera that's rolling so if
that camera there suddenly craps the bed or if i have an audio problem or a
plane flies over or i screw
up my line or something or dog attack anything happens i can turn to the truth
cam and i can tell
you i can tell the viewer here's what's happening right now i love that right
here's what's happening
right now and it's in it and it wasn't planned and i i just want you to feel
like you're there with me
so that's that's reality yes if and and and and you don't need to do it like
every second you just have
to remind the viewer from time to like that there i am smear that's actual i'm
smearing on the lens
of the camera oh wow now that's japanese as as heck you know japanese and
german yeah we dirty jobs was
always one click away from a german porno right and uh and i mean look at me
that's me 20 years ago wow
right that crazy show is still in there there again you see it that that's you
know that's actual mud
exploding from an oil well onto the lens of the camera that that's chicken
squirted onto the lens of the camera like oh yeah when you put stuff like that
into the viewer's face and
there's the truth cam oh yeah that's me showing you what i'm seeing as it's
happening so that's
all just a long way of saying that you're you're doing a version of that with
this podcast you know
you're right we want to keep it as authentic as possible yes because it really
is what the truth
is i think so yeah you know i think it has changed over the years a lot of
those shows now are so different
it's so it's just all so manufactured and the algorithm has gotten so strong of
as to like what
the what people want what do they need it's like there's all these testing
points and stuff it just
the reality has gone out of a lot of stuff and it's been replaced by feedback
like everybody it's normal
to want to know how you're doing yeah and you know back when i used to do that
show you know there i am
with my arm literally passed my elbow inside a cow and you know it didn't deep
huh it didn't occur to
me what are you trying to what is this part of uh is this um this isn't one of
those like uh it's not
like a crystal ball thing is it i don't think so man i think that that episode
we were uh we were
showing the realities of artificial insemination oh yeah and i was trying to
make the point that
you know there there is no mcdonald's there is no carl's jr there there are no
mi