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Mike Rowe joins a second-generation pool fixer in West Palm Beach, Fla., and cleans dirtiest pool in America to clean 17 years of accumulated filth; in Orlando, Mike and a Soap Whisperer recycle dirty hotel soap in an effort to Clean the World.
Mike Rowe helps cat ladies of northern Texas to fix a clowder of feral cats at a spay and neuter facility; Mike and his crew feel the burn as he processes peppers with the mad scientist inventor of the Carolina Reaper.
Mike Rowe submerges in a murky Florida river to pour concrete jackets around crumbling bridge pilings; in North Carolina, Mike sucks out a concrete washout pit and sprays sediment as he turns toxic sludge into potable water.
Mike Rowe harvests caviar from the muddy Mississippi River; Mike brings his parents to work and rectifies misconceptions in his hometown of Baltimore by preparing blue crab seasoning with a fourth-generation spice maker.
Mike Rowe attends a dusty baghouse party to clean the filtration system at a North Carolina asphalt plant; in Colorado, Mike gets his dirtiest yet, pyrolyzing waste lumber into the planet's most efficient fertilizer: biochar.
Mike Rowe descends into the depths of an aging manhole, coating it with a polyurea liner to extend its warranty in Murfreesboro, Tenn.; Mike joins a horologist and a priest to set the time right as he restores a historic clock tower.
Mike Rowe travels to Anna, Ill., and wades knee-deep in diarrhea to collect deer urine for America's buck-hunters; Mike strands Maryland's shore to perform a necropsy on an ocean sentinel to determine its cause of death.
Mike Rowe goes to the mountains in Utah and gives a dam to a couple nuisance beavers causing havoc for municipalities; Mike gets a little sticky while working with a special effects artist at a glue factory in LA.
Mike works his hardest construction job yet; he helps a team of rod busters, who carry 2 tons of reinforced steel each for overpass construction.
Mike Rowe joins a fourth-generation fisherman's crew in Georgia as it harvests cannonball jellyfish for food, a trade known as jellyballing; Mike helps a father-son team install epoxy flooring at a restaurant in time for the dinner rush.
Mike visits a ship-building community in Coden, Ala., to learn the ins-and-outs of building a tugboat; he makes a long climb to the top of a dirty water tower in Magee, Miss., to clean inside the tank.
Mike sucks rocks off an industrial roof with a massive vacuum; then, he travels to the Black Hills to carve one of the largest monuments in the world: Crazy Horse.
Mike Rowe crams into a hockey arena's escalator, where he scrapes and cleans a special kind of shmutz from the bottom; Mike and a zookeeper venture into the hot, treacherous Arizona desert at night to round up stinging scorpions.
Mike trains as a trauma surgeon, learning under simulated battlefield conditions; Mike helps to control iguanas on the Florida coast.
Mike Rowe and his dirty crew hit the highway to see the sights and reminisce about classic American infrastructure jobs from the show's history; along the way, they check in with some of the hard-working men and women who keep the country moving.
En route to explore a cave, Mike Rowe and his crew reminisce about classic jobs from the show's history that had them getting into tight spaces; then, they check in with some of the hard-working people that have been featured on the program.
Driving out to an ostrich farm in search of eggs, Mike Rowe and his dirty crew reminisce about classic animal-related jobs from the show's history.
Mike Rowe and his dirty crew take a drive in search of a cold beer and reminisce about classic jobs from the show's history, featuring innovators and problem solvers.
Mike travels to Texas to help out a ranch that has and breeds different species of exotic animals including; lemurs, sloths, bearcats and camels.
Mike acts as a fugitive attempting to outsmart a team of bloodhounds and evade being captured; combating invasive species in the Florida Everglades.
Mike helps the U.S. Department of Fish & Wildlife control the sea lamprey population in the Great Lakes; Mike makes meat gel to feed to the fish in the shark reef aquarium at Mandalay Bay Casino.
Mike travels to Mississippi, to spend a day at an old-fashioned stone ground corn mill; then he heads to Texas, to help relocate a pair of exotic Père David's deer.
Mike spends a day installing lightning rods on a home that looks like a castle, while being told to wear multiple pairs of underwear to protect him from being burnt while on the rooftop.
Mike spends a day working at Ohio Valley Natural Fibers, where he makes yarn from fleece; then he goes to work at a day spa in Michigan, where he helps wax hair.
Mike spends the day at a bowling center to learn how they keep the lanes running smoothly. Then he responds to a letter from a fan who wants to see more footage of cameraman Doug.
Mike joins students from Purdue University who are digging through pig carcasses searching for maggots and other insects as they study what is known as PMI, or time of death.
Mike visits an Equine Research Facility to help with testing athletic horses, including helping with blood testing during a fitness test and checking pH levels in feces.
Mike heads to a San Francisco dump to learn how hawks are employed as a seagull-removing method; then he is off to work on a mobile meat processing truck.
Mike Rowe climbs date palms with the pollinators guaranteeing a good crop of fruit, cuts granite, and tries his luck at the gun range; he also answers viewer mail.
Mike heads to Newport Distillery to help the crew turn molasses into rum; scouring copper, working with scalding liquid and hauling hoses are all just part of a hard day's work.
Mike Rowe is working at 9,300ft to replace electricity pylons in Wyoming; learning how to identify and treat schoolchildren's head lice.
Mike learns the process of making, wrapping and shipping scrapple or "pan-rabbit" as it is known by the Pennsylvania Dutch.
Mike visits a jelly bean company to create a flavored jelly bean based on the smell of his boots; he then travels to Maine to harvest blueberries, before joining in a pie bake-off.
Mike heads to Florida to help collect sponges off the sea floor; then answers viewer mail and recounts his struggle with a metal fence post at an abandoned mine.
Mike works on a fish-processing boat in the Bering Sea, cleaning out the fish grinder; debarking, peeling and processing wood at the Rapid River Rustic Mill.
In Louisiana, Mike discovers he can't keep up with the crayfish pickers; working with termite researchers to find and remove the destructive creepy crawlies.
In a uniquely odd tour-de-force, Mike helps out at a Colorado marble quarry, collects owl vomit...yes, owl vomit, and then checks cows to see if they're pregnant.
Mike works on a turkey farm and a potato farm; later he works at a water treatment plant where he removes sewage.
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.
Making mushrooms by mixing horse manure and grounded straw; rat-infested rain drains in LA; shower drains in Erie, Penn.
Mike reunites with his catfish-noodler friend for some tough plumbing; drilling mud at a synthetic mud company, and oil drilling with roughnecks.
Mike spreads concrete for curbside and sidewalk foundations; then reunites with Vexcon for some termite extermination and chips concrete out of the back of a truck.
Going behind the scenes of Lance Burton's magic show; a pig farmer finds a way to recycle leftovers. Host: Mike Rowe.
Antique printing press; converting trash into electricity. Host: Mike Rowe.
Mike tries his hand at dismantling floats from the annual Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California.
Keeping trains on track; making boudin sausages; cleaning animal skulls and bones for display. Host: Mike Rowe.
Mike harvests giant clams called geoducks in Puget Sound; restores a Philadelphia church's antique pipe organ.
Mike Rowe travels to the McConnell Air Force Base near Wichita, Kan., to clean the Stratotanker fuel tanks.
Mike helps with the demolition and salvage of an abandoned dormitory at a college; Mike also tries his hand at coal mining.
Working in a rock quarry; cleaning out the hippo tank at the Adventure Aquarium; attending to bovine foot problems.
Mike gathers thousands of pounds of shellfish at Taylor Shellfish Farms; harvesting taro in the tropics; shearing alpaca fiber.
Mike travels to South Africa on a mission to train monkeys and prepare them to return to life in the wild.
Mike plays the role of garbage collector on the streets of San Francisco's Chinatown, going up and down steep staircases with tons of garbage.
San Francisco sewer inspector; Brooklyn toilet explodes from a sewer backup; demolition work with a deconstruction crew.
Mike gets the whole pig farming experience after feeding, cleaning and artificially inseminating pigs; helping the Gum Busters clean gum off NYC sidewalks; cleaning up after pigeons.
Mike Rowe learns the importance of separating the male and female baby chicks at the Murray McMurray Hatchery.
Enter Billy the Exterminator as Mike joins exterminators in their war against rats and bugs; shelling crabs after crabbing in the Chesapeake Bay; making horseshoes out of raw steel and trying his hand at shoeing a horse.
Mike shapes surfboards with master shaper Matt Barker; goes underground to learn how to recycle gunky grime, diving into a greasy pit of sludge with an environmental company.
Mike learns how to melt down chunks of black tar for the purpose of fixing a church rooftop; learning how to move a house by tunneling under a 60-ton house, before lifting it up and placing it on large wheels.
Working on a Hawaiian coffee plantation; nursing an injured sea-lion pup; ostrich farming in the California desert.
Vermont cheese-makers show how they make their world-famous products; Zoo keeping at the San Francisco Zoo; volcanic ash mud baths.
Climbing aboard a shrimp boat to determine the shrimping season; America's largest swamp for crawfish catching; tire recycling.
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 biofuel.
Mike prepares special outfits with a pet groomer; Hawaiian pharmaceutical plant grows green algae; getting dirty at charcoal factory.
Getting schooled at the Chimney Sweeping Safety Institute.;diving into freezing water for sunken logs in Canada for high-end furniture; scrap metal recycling.