Dirty Jobs

s02e01 Hot Tar Roofer 2005-09-28 02:00 ⌄

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Hot Tar Roofer

s02e01 · 2005-09-28 · 02:00

Mike first heads off to Pasadena, California and discovers the difficult step by step process in patching up a roof. Then Mike goes to New Jersey and helps move a 60 ton, 225 year old house.

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s02e02 Ostrich Farmer 2005-10-05 02:00 ⌄

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Ostrich Farmer

s02e02 · 2005-10-05 · 02:00

Mike visits a coffee plantation in Hawaii and learns about the long process in how to make coffee, from picking the beans to roasting them. Mike then goes to Sausalito, CA to be a marine mammal rescuer and help rehabilitate some injured seals.Finally, Mike learns about ostrich farming, from their daily upkeep to collecting their eggs.

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s02e03 Cheese Maker 2005-10-12 02:00 ⌄

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Cheese Maker

s02e03 · 2005-10-12 · 02:00

Mike visits the San Francisco Zoo and learns what it's like to be a zookeeper, essentially feeding the animals and collecting their poo.Mike then goes to Vermont to a haunted cheese making factory and learns not only how to make cheese, but the art of patience.Finally, Mike learns how to be a volcano ash mud bath mixer (spa technician) in Calistoga, CA and takes a mud bath after a very dirty day. That's not all - Mike also journeys to a live volcano in Hawaii and gets up close and personal with some very hot lava.

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s02e04 Shrimper 2005-10-19 02:00 ⌄

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Shrimper

s02e04 · 2005-10-19 · 02:00

Mike goes to South Carolina and learns about shrimping. He also helps study the shrimp population in order to find out when it's time to open the shrimping season. Mike then goes to the swamps of Louisiana to catch some crawfish. Finally, Mike goes to Washington to clean up an illegal tire dump and recycle some tires.

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s02e05 Bio-Diesel Man 2005-10-26 02:00 ⌄

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Bio-Diesel Man

s02e05 · 2005-10-26 · 02:00

Mike does the work of a cobb home builder, evicts a swarm of angry bees hidden inside a church, greases it up at a Mexican restaurant and converts cooking oil into bio-fuel.

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s02e06 Micro-Algae Man 2005-11-02 03:00 ⌄

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Micro-Algae Man

s02e06 · 2005-11-02 · 03:00

Mike begins by traveling to Palo Alto, CA to learn how to be a pet groomer, from cutting hair to giving baths. Mike then goes to Hawaii to turn happy green algae into unhappy red algae to be used as antioxidant gelcaps for human consumption. Finally, Mike goes to Missouri to learn how to be a charcoal factory worker. Mike ends the day with a barbeque and introduces us to the crew that help make the show.

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s02e07 Chimney Sweeper 2005-11-09 03:00 ⌄

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Chimney Sweeper

s02e07 · 2005-11-09 · 03:00

Mike first goes to the Chimney Safety Institute of America in Plainfield, IN and learns how to be a certified chimney sweeper. Mike then goes to Ontario, Canada to salvage underwater logs, which are then used to make furniture. Finally, Mike visits a scrap metal recycler in St. Louis, MO and learns how to separate different metals and operate some big machines.

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s02e08 Avian-vomitologist 2005-12-14 03:00 ⌄

Avian-vomitologist

s02e08 · 2005-12-14 · 03:00

Mike Rowe revisits some his previous jobs involving animals and talks about some of the behind the scenes action. Mike looks at clips from when he was a pig farmer, a chick sexer, a pet groomer, a horse breeder, and finally an ostrich farmer. 

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s02e09 Turkey Farmer 2006-01-18 03:00 ⌄

Turkey Farmer

s02e09 · 2006-01-18 · 03:00

Mike works on a turkey farm and a potato farm; later he works at a water treatment plant where he removes sewage.

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s02e10 Alligator Farmer 2006-01-25 03:00 ⌄

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Alligator Farmer

s02e10 · 2006-01-25 · 03:00

Mike visits an extremely dirty sugar mill; the Fremont Fire Dept. firefighters teach Mike how to ignite a building, extinguish it and then do some overhauling; day ends at an ominous alligator farm.

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s02e11 Mushroom Farmer 2006-03-08 03:00 ⌄

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Mushroom Farmer

s02e11 · 2006-03-08 · 03:00

Making mushrooms by mixing horse manure and grounded straw; rat-infested rain drains in LA; shower drains in Erie, Penn.

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s02e12 Plumber 2006-03-15 03:00 ⌄

Plumber

s02e12 · 2006-03-15 · 03:00

Mike reunites with his catfish-noodler friend for some tough plumbing; drilling mud at a synthetic mud company, and oil drilling with roughnecks.

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s02e13 Termite Controller 2006-03-22 03:00 ⌄

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Termite Controller

s02e13 · 2006-03-22 · 03:00

Mike steps into the shoes of a concrete spreader for some curb side and sidewalk foundation. He reunites with the Vexcon exterminator crew to wage war against millions of termites that have attacked a local church and chips concrete out of giant mixers.

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s02e14 Casino Food Recycler 2006-06-14 02:00 ⌄

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Casino Food Recycler

s02e14 · 2006-06-14 · 02:00

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.

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s02e15 Rose Parade Float Dismantler 2006-06-21 02:00 ⌄

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Rose Parade Float Dismantler

s02e15 · 2006-06-21 · 02:00

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.

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s02e16 Garbage Pit Technician 2006-06-28 02:00 ⌄

Garbage Pit Technician

s02e16 · 2006-06-28 · 02:00

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.

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s02e17 Skull Cleaner 2006-07-12 02:00 ⌄

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Skull Cleaner

s02e17 · 2006-07-12 · 02:00

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.

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s02e18 Geoduck Farmer 2006-07-19 02:00 ⌄

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Geoduck Farmer

s02e18 · 2006-07-19 · 02:00

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".

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s02e24 Geoduck Farmer 2006-07-19 02:00 ⌄

Geoduck Farmer

s02e24 · 2006-07-19 · 02:00

Mike harvests giant clams called geoducks in Puget Sound, helps preserve the environment in California's Santa Monica Mountains, and helps to restore a Philadelphia church's antique pipe organ.

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s02e19 Fuel Tank Cleaner 2006-07-26 02:00 ⌄

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Fuel Tank Cleaner

s02e19 · 2006-07-26 · 02:00

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.

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s02e25 Fuel Tank Cleaner 2006-07-26 02:00 ⌄

Fuel Tank Cleaner

s02e25 · 2006-07-26 · 02:00

Mike makes candy, repairs tires and then travels to McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita to clean KC-135 Stratotanker fuel tanks.

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s02e26 Jobs that Bite 2006-07-31 02:00 ⌄

Jobs that Bite

s02e26 · 2006-07-31 · 02:00

In South Africa, Mike works alongside shark experts, chumming the water for great whites that will be tagged with satellite-tracking devices; and performs a necropsy on a 9-foot bull shark. Also: testing a shark decoy.

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s02e27 Jobs That Bite...Harder 2006-08-05 02:00 ⌄

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Jobs That Bite...Harder

s02e27 · 2006-08-05 · 02:00

Mike creates molds from dead animals to create realistic replicas. Then Mike helps make and test a shark suit made of fine chain mail.

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s02e20 Coal Miner 2006-08-09 02:00 ⌄

Coal Miner

s02e20 · 2006-08-09 · 02:00

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. 

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s02e28 Coal Miner 2006-08-09 02:00 ⌄

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Coal Miner

s02e28 · 2006-08-09 · 02:00

Included: demolition and salvage at an abandoned New Jersey college; coal mining.

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s02e21 Hoof Cleaner 2006-08-16 02:00 ⌄

Hoof Cleaner

s02e21 · 2006-08-16 · 02:00

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.

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s02e29 Hoof Cleaner 2006-08-16 02:00 ⌄

Hoof Cleaner

s02e29 · 2006-08-16 · 02:00

Host Mike Rowe attends to bovine foot problems; mucks out hippo stalls; and joins a crew at a rock quarry.

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s02e22 Alpaca Shearer 2006-08-23 02:00 ⌄

Alpaca Shearer

s02e22 · 2006-08-23 · 02:00

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.

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s02e30 Alpaca Shearer 2006-08-23 02:00 ⌄

Alpaca Shearer

s02e30 · 2006-08-23 · 02:00

Mike helps gather six thousand pounds of shellfish from the Puget Sound. Next, Mike works as a taro farmer in Hawaii. Then, Mike tries to shear Alpaca fiber.

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s02e23 Monkey Caretaker 2006-08-30 02:00 ⌄

Monkey Caretaker

s02e23 · 2006-08-30 · 02:00

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

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s02e31 Monkey Caretaker 2006-08-30 02:00 ⌄

Monkey Caretaker

s02e31 · 2006-08-30 · 02:00

Mike gets in touch with his inner ape when he travels to South Africa to train monkeys to return to life in the wild.

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s02e32 100th Dirty Job Special 2006-09-06 02:00 ⌄

100th Dirty Job Special

s02e32 · 2006-09-06 · 02:00

Featuring behind the scenes of the show and best-of moments. This episode is a two-hour special.

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