—Mike Rowe apprentices himself to people who perform dangerous or disgusting jobs, ranging from rattlesnake catcher and zoo cleaner to road-kill collector. Mike performs difficult, strange, disgusting, or messy occupational duties alongside the job's current employees. In each episode, a worker or team of workers take on Rowe as a fully involved assistant for a typical work day, working hard to complete every task as best he can despite discomfort, hazards, or repulsive situations. Nearly every job is even more difficult than he expects.

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Season 113 of 16 Episodes

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.

Mike samples life as a medical waste processor, learning what medical waste is and then doing his bit to treat it; his new colleagues have some surprises in store.
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Mike tries his hand at working as a water softener technician; Mike takes on the job of a coin washer.
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Mike spends the day working as an onion processor as he slices, dices and tastes onions before cleaning out the juicing machine and parts of the reactor.
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Mike helps to erect a radio communications tower; celebrating the milestone of doing a dirty job in each of the 50 states.
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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.
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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.
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Mike Rowe apprentices himself to people who perform dangerous or disgusting jobs, ranging from rattlesnake catcher and zoo cleaner to road-kill collector. Mike performs difficult, strange, disgusting, or messy occupational duties alongside the job's current employees. In each episode, a worker or team of workers take on Rowe as a fully involved assistant for a typical work day, working hard to complete every task as best he can despite discomfort, hazards, or repulsive situations. Nearly every job is even more difficult than he expects.

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