Mike Rowe
Self - Host
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Series SeasonSeason 2 episodes2006
Dirty Jobs
Season 2
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Episodes
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Episode 160 min2006-01-10
Avian Vomitologist
Mike first travels to Colorado to help out at a marble quarry. He then goes to California to collect owl vomit which is sold to school children for research projects. Finally, Mike travels to Texas to palpate cows, a process used to figure out if a cow is pregnant. He also gets a little too familiar with a bull.
Episode 260 min2006-01-17
Turkey Farmer
Turkey farmer, potato farmer, waste water sewage plant
Episode 360 min2006-01-24
Alligator Farmer
Sugarcane mill, firefighter (Fremont, CA), alligator farmer
Episode 460 min2006-03-07
Mushroom Farmer
Mushroom farmer, storm drain cleaner, drain cover foundry
Episode 560 min2006-03-14
Plumber
Plumber, drilling mud, Rough necker (oil drilling)
Episode 660 min2006-03-21
Termite Controller
Concrete spreader, termite exterminator, concrete truck cleaner
Episode 760 min2006-06-13
Casino Food Recycler
It's a glitzy Las Vegas premiere as Mike visits the Lance Burton Theater to clean up the pens for Lance's show doves and geese. Mike then gets really dirty by visiting a pig farmer and helping him process and transport yesterday's buffet leftovers to feed the pigs.
Episode 860 min2006-06-20
Parade Float Dismantler
Mike first goes to Pennsylvania at a coal processing plant and learns how to make coke, carbonized coal used to make iron which in turn is used to make steel. Mike then goes to Washington to an oyster shucking plant and works alongside a very dirty girl. Finally, Mike goes to Pasadena, CA to dismantle floats from the Tournament of Roses Parade.
Episode 960 min2006-06-27
Garbage Pit Technician
Mike first heads off to Las Vegas to work at an old fashioned printing press making lithographs of himself for the official Dirty Jobs poster. Mike then goes to Lincoln, CA and helps make large scale terra cotta building sculpture pieces from recycled terra cotta sewer pipes. Finally, Mike visits a garbage processing plant in San Francisco where food and assorted scraps are passed through a rolling cylinder and "digested" to make a methane gas energy supply.
Episode 1060 min2006-07-11
Skull Cleaner
Mike first goes to Sacramento, CA to help repair railroad tracks. Mike then heads to Louisiana to learn how to make "boudin" (Cajun sausage). Mike then cuts and fry's pig skins to make "cracklin" (pork rinds). Finally, Mike goes to Oklahoma and joins a skull cleaning business to learn how to clean skulls and bones using beetles and maggots, including a whale carcass.
Episode 1160 min2006-07-18
Geoduck Farmer
Mike first heads off to California to help tear down a dam so trout on the endangered species list can spawn. Mike then goes to Pennsylvania to restore a church's pipe organ, a process that takes a total of eight years to complete. Finally, Mike goes to Puget Sound in Washington to harvest geoduck clams, otherwise known as "gooey ducks".
Episode 1260 min2006-07-24
Fuel Tank Cleaner
Mike heads to a good old fashioned steel town in Pennsylvania to work at a 75 year old candy store named Wertz Candies making all sorts of candy treats. Mike then goes to California and works as a tire retreader. Finally, Mike goes to McConnell AFB in Kansas to help repair the fuel tanks of a refueling tanker aircraft.
Episode 1360 min2006-08-08
Coal Miner
Mike helps a family in New Jersey demolish and recycle parts from 100 year old buildings on an old college campus. Finally, Mike enters the dangerous world of a coal miner in an upstate Pennsylvania coal mine.
Episode 1460 min2006-08-15
Hoof Cleaner
Mike Rowe first joins a crew at a rock quarry in Washington and learns what it takes to make gravel from loading rocks to blowing up a side of a mountain. Next, Mike gets hip deep in mud and muck working with the hippo keepers at the Adventure Aquarium in Camden, NJ. Finally, Mike helps a crew of hooftrimmers give some cows a pedicure and later cleans a cow foot bath.
Episode 1560 min2006-08-22
Alpaca Shearer
Mike once again joins up with the guys of Taylor Shellfish Farms to help them harvest mussels. Next he goes to Hawaii to learn about harvesting taro. Finally, Mike joins a family of alpaca farmers and learns the hard way that alpacas can be pretty ill-willed animals when it comes to shearing them.
Episode 1660 min2006-08-29
Monkey Caretaker
Mike Rowe meets his match when he travels to South Africa to take care of monkeys that are being trained to go back into the wild
Episode 1760 min2006-11-28
Snake Researcher
Mike Rowe wrangles some water snakes, steps into the shoes of hard working bait and lobster fishermen in Maine, and opens the viewer mail bag which results in some seaweed trimming.
Episode 1860 min2006-12-05
Penguin Keeper
Even though Mike has worked with concrete before in Dallas, he visits concrete workers in California today to learn the art of concrete stamping. Then he goes to New Orleans to care for penguins. Finally, he gets in the mud to hunt bloodworms in Maine.
Episode 1960 min2006-12-12
Bell Maker
Mike Rowe rolls up his sleeve and gets dirty making giant bells at the McShane Bell Foundry. Mike also gets down and dirty with the US Army Corps of Engineers as they conduct yearly maintenance on a hurricane barrier that was raised from the oceans floor.
Episode 2060 min2006-12-19
Mosquito Control Officer
Mike helps New Orleans residents restore, rebuild and revive their city in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.