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Watch Where You’re … Oh.

September 7, 2013December 16, 2013 Shari

So I’m at this party in San Francisco …

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So Damn Funny

September 4, 2013May 11, 2014 Shari

This is quite possibly the funniest 34 seconds in the history of YouTube.

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Challenge Magazine: Mike Rowe Profoundly Disconnected

September 3, 2013December 2, 2015 Shari

In the September 2013 edition of Challenge magazine Mike talks about how he continues to get the message out about the skilled trades with his new initiative Profoundly Disconnected. Read the online edition – HERE

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A Prick in Congress

September 2, 2013February 22, 2019 Shari

As some of you know, mikeroweWORKS was launched on Labor Day back in 2008. Every so often somebody asks me how that came to be, and whether or not Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe had anything to do with it. Read More …

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SkillsUSA Champions Fall 2013 Magazine: Mike Rowe ‘Work Smart and Hard’

August 31, 2013December 2, 2015 Shari

Mike talks about “flipping a negative image of skilled jobs” in the 2013 Fall issue of SkillsUSA Champions magazine.     View the original article here.

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Guideposts – Mike Rowe, Using the Tools

August 31, 2013December 2, 2015 Shari

TV’s Mike Rowe idolized his grandfather. There was one problem—he could never be like him. Or could he? By Mike Rowe, San Francisco, California Never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d make a living hosting and narrating TV Read More …

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Good News (for Me)

August 30, 2013October 11, 2013 Shari

According to the latest Gallup Poll, less than 9% of Americans find me to be “Irritating.”

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Micro Mike Rowe

August 28, 2013September 29, 2013 Shari

Scroll through the whole deal. It’s worth it.

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Bigfoot Bites

August 27, 2013September 18, 2013 Shari

I’m gratified that my lemur encounter has provided an unanticipated public service.

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Your Headline, My Face

August 22, 2013April 6, 2015 Shari

From:  Mike Rowe Re:  Your Headline, My Face. Hi Steve, Mike Rowe here, Dirty Jobs. Thanks to the necromancers over at Google, I’ve been alerted to your most recent Question of the Day: “Are Bad Jobs Good for the Economy Read More …

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A Talk About Ted

August 17, 2013August 16, 2019 Shari

Back in 2008, I got an invite to speak at something called EG, or “The Entertainment Gathering.” The Entertainment Gathering is a conference that evolved from TED, another well-known speaker series that I had never heard of. Against my natural Read More …

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Why “Work Smart, Not Hard” is the Worst Advice in the World – Popular Mechanics Article

August 14, 2013 Shari

Work smarter, not harder? Don’t tell Mike Rowe, who has met some of the hardest-working people in America. In fact, he argues that mantra is the opposite of the attitude we need to beat this lousy economy. Here is what Read More …

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Mike Posts on Facebook about Bill Maher Appearance

July 17, 2013April 6, 2015 Shari

[Bob Reidel: “Mike – Saw you hangin with Bill Maher. I had no idea you were a liberal. Really blew me away. Love everything you do but now that I know who you really are, I won’t be tuning in Read More …

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Fatherhood Issue of Popular Mechanics: Mike Rowe, the Things My Dad Taught Me

May 25, 2013December 2, 2015 Shari

“People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.” —Albert Einstein When I was 14, I woke up one Saturday morning to see my father standing at the foot of my bed, sharpening a double-sided ax. “It’s time,” Read More …

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MTI and Mike Rowe Putting Faces to the mikeroweWORKS Scholarship Project

May 25, 2013April 6, 2015 Shari

So I was in Springfield (Illinois) yesterday, and took a tour of a trade school called MTI. These guys have something like an 85% job placement rate for graduates, and I wanted to see what they were all about. I’m Read More …

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