Mike Rowe, host of Dirty Jobs, Deadliest Catch narrator, prolific spokesperson, creator of the mikeroweWORKS foundation, author of The Way I Heard It, and soooo much more, joins me and goes with my therapy-like approach to interviews. It's fabulous.

We talk:

• Artificially inseminating a turkey
• Behind the scenes of Dirty Jobs
• How he got his start on-air at QVC
• Getting fired
• The secret to Dirty Jobs
• His 6 million Facebook fans
• Politics
• discovery+
• Regrets – or not
• His choice not to have kids
• His career path
• Being a "hobo"
• His favorite novels
• The work ethic his foundation, mikeroweWORKS, is based on
• Politics + if he's going to run in a future election
• His intimate relationships
• His parents, their marriage, and a clear message he sent Mike and his brothers
• Parenting today
• Stuttering
• Being a shy kid
• Innovation vs. imitation
• Efficiency vs. effectiveness
• Following your passion
• Whether or not people change
• And soooo much more!

This was taped in 2021.

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