Dirty Jobs 5.10 “Gourd Maker” Recap
December 25, 2008 by Healthy Shana
In this episode of which aired back on December 11th, Miked traveled to the middle of Connecticut to be a lake cleaner and a gourd maker. Watch below to see how he gets himself in major trouble…as always.
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The Dirtiest Jobs in the Lowcountry: Shrimping
December 12, 2008 by Healthy Shana
A couple weeks ago, I introduced you guys to some cool work that was being done by Local News 4 in Charleston, South Carolina. They having been doing their own Dirty Jobs investigation and looking up the dirties jobs of the Low Country, as areas of Savannah, GA and South Carolina are refererred to.
Captain Wayne Magwood allowed ABC News 4 to go behind the scenes of the Winds of Fortune shrimping boat to show them just how dirty and dangerous his job can be.
Image Credit: Discovery Channel
Dirty Jobs of the Lowcountry: Wastewater Treatment
December 11, 2008 by Healthy Shana
I found a really cool link to some amazing research that the local news has been doing in Charleston, South Carolina. It seems that Local News 4 Charleston has been taking the lead from Discovery Channels, Dirty Jobs and checking out the Dirty Jobs of the Low Country, as areas of Savannah, GA and South Carolina are refer erred to.
Watch the video below as Local News 4 visit’s the Charleston Water System’s Plum Island Water Treatment plant, where they take the raw sewage from the Charleston area, downtown and area adjacent to make clean water.
Dirty Jobs 5.92 “Leech Trapper”
December 3, 2008 by Healthy Shana
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Dirty Jobs (Discovery Channel)
Episode 5.92 “Leech Trapper”
Original Air Date: Wednesday October 28th 9 PM ET/PT
Do you ever think that you’re stuck in a dead end job with no room for improvement? Well think again as Mike Rowe from Discovery’s Dirty Jobs, heads to Waubun, Minnesota to team up with the boys from Bartos Bait & Fish to catch leeches that will later be sold for fish bait.
Unfortunately for him and the crew, catching leeches is done in a remote lake where the main prey seems to be humans – with mosquitoes the predator! Once the traps are emptied, …read more
Dirty Jobs Sheep Castrator
November 26, 2008 by Healthy Shana
Show: Dirty Jobs
Network: Discovery Channel Episode Title: Sheep Castrator
Original Air Date: First Aired: Wednesday October 21st 9 PM ET/PTMike heads to the Villard Ranch in Craig, Colorado to join forces with modern day sheepherders to shear, tag, worm and castrate young sheep. He also travels to an automobile dealership in Orange County, California to saw down a giant concrete wall to make room for a new wash bay, using a special saw with blades made of diamonds.
Watch the video below as the sheep testicles are pulled out. I’m sure PETA is gonna come calling with this one!
Dirty Jobs: Dirty Chip Maker
November 19, 2008 by Healthy Shana
Show: Dirty JobsNetwork: Discovery Channel
Episode Title: Dirty Chip Maker
Original Air Date: First Aired: Wednesday October 14th 9 PM ET/PTMike travels to the Dirty Potato Chips company in Oxnard, California, the only small-volume, independent potato chip maker in the state, to learn how potato chips are made and what it takes to keep the machines clean and in working order.
He also heads to Rifle, Colorado to visit the town’s waste water facility, where he learns more than he ever wanted about waste management and cleans the “Muffin Monster” – a machine used to separate solid waste matter from …read more
Bat Biologist: Dirty Jobs
November 10, 2008 by Healthy Shana
Show: Dirty Jobs
Network: Discovery Channel
Episode Title: Bat Biologist
Original Air Date: UNKNOWN
In this episode of Dirty Jobs, host Mike Rowe takes on monitoring bats (and wading through bat poop).
How do you describe what it’s like to spelunk into the depths of a bat cave? Mike Rowe finds out and gets stuck in the process.
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Dirty Jobs and our Dirty Presidents
October 31, 2008 by Healthy Shana
On the day the country decides who will be our next President, Discovery Channel’s DIRTY JOBS with Mike Rowe will take a look at the real dirt behind the White House.
For the special Dirty Presidents episode airing Tuesday, November 4 from 9-10PM ET/PT, Mike pays tribute to our dirtiest of Presidents – the ones who were as comfortable in the muck as they were in the Oval Office.
For the special, Mike relates past experiences he’s had on DIRTY JOBS with the past lives and pastimes of Presidents – from James Polk, who hosted the first ever White House …read more
Parade Float Dismantler: Dirty Jobs
October 9, 2008 by Healthy Shana
Show: Dirty Jobs
Host: Mike Rowe
Network: Discovery Channel
So it seems that Mike has a harmless fear of parade floats but he faces his fear when he joins a company responsible for dismantling floats from the Tournament of Roses Parade.The jobs doesn’t sound that bad, right!?! Well, unfortunatley, the floats, which are covered in a variety of flowers and fruit have been rotting in a hot warehouse for weeks.
See the dirty mess that these guys get into as they dismantle the parade floats.
Dirty Jobs October Spoilers
October 2, 2008 by Healthy Shana
Mike Rowe and the Emmy-nominated series DIRTY JOBS return Tuesday, October 7 at 9PM ET/PT with an exciting lineup of 11 new episodes that have Mike serving as apprentice to the honorable men and women with often dirty – yet extremely important – jobs.
For the new episodes, shot entirely in high definition, Mike takes on jobs such as tar rigging, sheep castrating, maggot farming, dirty chip making and abandoned mine shaft plugging.
Currently continuing its fourth season, Mike has walked in the shoes of hard-working Americans to do everything from road kill removing to garbage collecting to ostrich farming, featuring jobs …read more


