Posted on 03/20/2021 10:02:01 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Mike Rowe announced Friday that his hit series “Dirty Jobs” is coming back Discovery later this year. Making the comeback sweeter, the beloved host’s news was made public on his birthday.
“As birthday presents go, this was a pretty good one,” Rowe wrote on Facebook Friday, captioning a Patheos post announcing the news.
“I’ll let you all know how things progress,” he said. “We shot all week in Georgia and Florida. I’m pleased to report that everything still works, mostly. On the other hand, everything is sore…”
Rowe tied the hit show’s comeback to the pandemic: as a celebration of essential workers — just as “Dirty Jobs” has done since its premier in 2005.
“Every now and then, the headlines catch up to a TV show and make it relevant in ways that no one imagined. With essential work in the news, it’s impossible not to think of Dirty Jobs, and for the last year, people have asked me every day if the show would make a comeback,” the host said. “Today, I’m happy to say the answer is yes. In other words, just when I thought I was out, they sucked me back in!”
A press release on the announcement offered some details into the new season:
The upcoming season of DIRTY JOBS finds Mike getting back to work and getting his hands even dirtier than before – heading deep in the southern bayous to high up in America’s remote Badlands. The dirtier the job, the better as Mike tackles each job with his typical candid, no non-sense take and wry sense of humor.
Mike plans to lend a hand to those on the frontlines – protecting the nation from invasions, even if it involves glowing scorpions and giant iguanas...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailywire.com ...
He needs to bring on an apprentice or something. I think Mike is getting older, (he’s almost 60 now?) and it could be a good move for the show to add in someone young imo.
I don[t have cable so I’ve rarely seen the show but I love the Mike Rowe mentality.
Most of my youngest son’s friends have gone into the trades and non-college careers. One is a heavy equipment operator, one is a cop. My son is a trucker.
21 year old young men working hard and earning money with zero debt.
I do believe he has a home in SF. Know what that means? Recall candidate.
Love Mike. His show is great. Happy belated birthday!!
Producers might make it a mixed-race black/Indian transgender cripple. But nah, they won't be allowed to get their hands dirty, just the white guy.
The Left hates Mike Rowe.
He hasn’t earned it, but they hate his successful promotion of hard work, trades and American know-how.
He also can defend himself easily, and is very well spoken when the gadflies attack him. People like you and me delight in his quick wit and ability to defend what should be just common sense.
The thing with Mike is he never gives them any ammo to directly call him a racist, white supremacist or conservative, but they know he is, in their fetid minds, and live for the day they can “Gotcha!” and then cancel him...
After they arbitrarily shut down his YouTube channel without even a reason, I thought they might win, but this news is GREAT!
As a kid watching Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom they provided so much unintended hilarity where host Marlin Perkins sat back narrating while poor Jim got screwed way too often in dangerous situations:
"Jim carefully approaches the anaconda floating there, respecting it's place in the chain...Oh! Look out there! Don't worry - Jim knows what he's doing as the giant serpent drags him underwater. Hold on. Yes, there's Jim's bluing hand giving us the "Okay" sign. What a specimen!"
Perfect summary.
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