‘Dirty Jobs’ is just ‘people getting to know each other,’ says host Mike Rowe

Mike Rowe is again for a brand new season of "Soiled Jobs" premiering Sunday, Dec. 11 at 8 p.m. on Discovery.
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“Soiled Jobs” has been airing constantly for practically 20 years now — and collection host Mike Rowe stated there’s a motive for its longevity.

“There’s some consolation to it, some certainty,” Rowe, 60, instructed The Put up. “You’re not going to see a ‘Very Particular Episode’ of ‘Soiled Jobs’ the place ‘Mike ventures into the sewer with the Kardashians to get down and soiled,’ blah, blah, blah.’

“That’s simply not gonna occur.”

What viewers will see within the new season of “Soiled Jobs” — premiering Dec. 11 (8 p.m.) on Discovery — is Rowe tackling the hands-on work of a “Feral Cat Fixer” (actually), a “Reaper Keeper,” a “Biochar Maker,” a “Pile Jacketer” and extra along with his inimitable mixture of curiosity, humor, arduous work and, above all, respect for the individuals with whom he interacts.

“It’s actually a chat present and not using a set, whereby the members are normally engaged in one thing that’s so optically bizarre that it’s arduous to show away,” he stated. “In the long run, it’s simply a few individuals attending to know one another, greater than the rest.”

Mike Rowe says “Soiled Jobs” is “actually a chat present and not using a set.”

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“Soiled Jobs,” which initially aired from 2003-2012, returned for a four-episode run in July 2020 as “Soiled Jobs: Rowe’d Journey,” by which our host tooled across the nation in an RV within the midst of the pandemic. In January 2022, the collection was again for a full season with its authentic title.

“I believe, for me, it’s again as a result of the headlines as soon as once more caught up with the underlying themes of the present,” Rowe stated. “With the lockdown … the entire sudden, in a single day, important work was again within the information and I used to be inundated with ideas for the present and requests to convey it again.

“All of the concepts at this level, actually from the second season on, come from ideas from viewers,” he stated. “Even when the present as out of manufacturing … not a day glided by after I didn’t get ideas. Folks had been shocked when the present got here again [in 2020], I believe, as a result of a whole lot of them didn’t even realize it went away. That wouldn’t have occurred with out viewers actually programming the present.

“And, to be sincere, additionally they host it,” he stated. “I’m only a Christmas ham, an avatar passing by means of.”

Rowe vows that we gained’t see a “‘Very Particular Episode’ of ‘Soiled Jobs’ the place ‘Mike ventures into the sewer with the Kardashians to get down and soiled.'”

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This season, his help as a Feral Cat Fixer discovered Rowe in Texas. “They’ve bought a complete crew of volunteers who exit and spherical up dozens, perhaps a whole bunch of cats, on daily basis and produce them again to the power, in a strip mall, the place a few good-natured volunteers and a veterinarian castrate cats all day lengthy,” he stated. “To be clear, [the cats] are scratching and snarling and there’s hissing and urinating. There’s not a whole lot of continence happening in an operation like this.”

He additionally traveled to Oklahoma for his stint as a Baghouse Cleaner. “It’s an asphalt plant the place the entire positive mud created within the asphalt-making course of finally ends up hanging in these large filter luggage that need to be maintained and switched out — and it’s past soiled,” he stated.

The Biochar Maker episode unfolds at a plant in Oklahoma.

“They’re principally burning burnt wooden … and distilling it into pure, extremely granular bits of carbon which they’re utilizing a form of fertilizer, which is having a big impact on the agricultural neighborhood,” he stated. “As filthy as it's, it’s one of many greener issues you are able to do within the vitality area.”

Rowe stated the collection has enabled him to department out, primarily along with his Mike Rowe Works Basis.

“My foundationhas grow to be actually strong over the previous couple of years, and ‘Soiled Jobs’ offers me an opportunity to reconnect with that, to speak about our Work Ethic Scholarship program and to advertise a present that, to be sincere, actually hasn’t modified in any respect,” he stated.

“The one factor that’s completely different is that I’m older than I’ve ever been — and issues harm greater than they used to.”