Dirty Jobs
8 episodes
Pool Fixer / Hotel Soap Recycler
Mike gets to clean the dirtiest pool in America as well as learning how to recycle dirty hotel soap.
Feral Cat Fixer / Reaper Keeper
Mike Rowe helps the cat ladies of northern Texas and learns to processes peppers.
Pile Jacketer / Concrete Cleaner
Mike Rowe submerges in a murky Florida river to pour concrete jackets around crumbling bridge pilings. While in North Carolina, Mike sucks out a concrete washout pit and sprays sediment as he turns toxic sludge into potable water.
Caviar Harvester / Spice Maker
Mike returns to his hometown Baltimore to rectify an OLD mistake and learns the recipe for Maryland's most popular crab seasoning.
Baghouse Cleaner / Biochar 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.
Deer Urine Farmer / Necropsy
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
Manhole Rehab / Clock Caretaker
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 an horologist and a priest to set the time right as he restores a historic clocktower.
Beaver Relocator / Slime Master
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.