TV personality Mike Rowe joins Sean Hannity on 'Hannity.'
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Welcome back to this
Hannity special
as american workers continue to
face economic hardships during
the coronavirus,
dirty jobs. Host Mark Rowe is
exploring the best of what
America has to offer in his
upcoming special
watch. This
might grow here with some
good news.
The great outdoors is right,
where we left it
im celebrating with a
road trip,
a dirty jobs, road trip,
the band is back together,
you are invited to come along
its going to be great
heads up. Things can get a
little messy
five dudes in an rv.
Are you kidding me?
I like that Guy
Sean recently talked with
MIKE Rowe
getting Americans
back to Work MIKE Rowe is with
us.
I have watched the show I loved
deadliest catch.
You are the vise over.
I wish I had your pipes,
the injuries, their risks,
40 foot waves that the fishermen
in the grabbers its crazy,
the roughest conditions,
im amazed at how great
Americans are- and I think, during
coronavirus. If we stop
manufacturing and packers top
packing and farmers stop farming
and truckers stop barking.
New York, wouldve died
of the party is over.
That was the premise of
dirty jobs. From the start, it
was to shine a light on people
who were keeping the lights on,
usually out of sight and out of
mind.
Deadliest catch was another
page out of that same playbook,
early on two thousand and two two thousand and three we began to
realize that reality. Tv could
actually be used to do something
a little more laudable than a
lot of what you see today.
So these are very modest shows,
on the one hand, but theyre also
extraordinarily honest.
What you said before is probably
the most interesting four letter
word in the country right now.
I refer, of course, to risk
risk is always with us.
In the age of coronavirus, we
suddenly realizing that we have
to balance our willingness to
assume risk with the business of
living and with the business of
being safe, but right not at
any cost.
So the country is having a huge
conversation around the reality
of risk and into all of that
shows like deadliest, catch and
dirty jobs. The profile people
who are used to assuming unusual
levels of risk, its instructive
and its always fun when the
headlines catch up to the themes
in a show.
I have been lucky in that way.
Thats been happening to me for
the last twenty years.
You know, I think
back
my audience is going to get mad
because im going to repeat
myself
ive said it
ive washed dishes.
I was a cook in a restaurant.
I washed dishes by hand.
I was a cook busboy, waiter,
bartender,
that was all most a decade of my
life and then I went to
construction for almost a
decade
and I painted houses, and I hung
wallpaper and I did framing and
roofing
sell off a roof,
busted and dislocated my arm.
Didnt have any health insurance,
but I got a job two weeks later.
It is the best thing that ever
happened to me and it keeps me
grounded
this business of tv. Ive got to
be honest, its not as hard as
those jobs that I did
and nobody said great job.
They would say Heres your
check
get out of here.
If you look at it like a
ladder- and you believe in some
semblance of chronology than
the most important rungs on the
latter- are the ones closest to
the ground.
They are the ones that allow you
to climb and if you remove those
wrongs, if you remove those
jobs- and if you take somehow, if
you make it arbitrary, then they
would never wind up where they
get.
We have talked about this
before
I have a foundation called
Micro works
every year we try and help
people who want to learn a skill
thats in demand
this month. We are giving away a
million dollars,
we do it every year.
It coincides with the road trip
on dirty jobs,
to your point, its not for four
year degrees,
its not for the typical jobs
that we view as aspirational,
its for plumbers and
steamfitters, and pipe fitters
and welders, and mechanics
its for heating and
air conditioning specialists and
electricians.
If anybody in your audience is
interested in hitting the reset
button on learning a skill,
thats truly in demand, the
single best thing ive done is
the foundation that evolved out
of dirty jobs,
its a big part of the reason
that I want to reboot that
franchise.
I agree with you.
I think our country needs to see
examples.
You want to know what
makes America great those
people,
the people, the people that work
hard every day
they provide the goods and
services that we want, need and
desire. They give us the
standard of living. That is the
envy of the world where
everybody wants to come here and
a lot of those jobs are hard
and they dont get the thanks
enough and they all deserve it.
I can tell you like the guys in
deadliest catch. Please tell
all those guys, those captains
and crews im the biggest fan.
I watch it on a loop, I watch it
so much
ill tell them.
I see them all the time
I have to tell you. I saw an
interview on your show earlier
in the week a guy named
Mr Anderson, extraordinary
interview.
He said I wrote it down,
he said I dont want to say
things just for saying it.
It was a remarkable interview,
but that really struck me.
I think so many people in our
country today are saying things
just to hear the sound of their
voice,
just to win an argument or just
to club somebody over the head
with a new piece of data.
I am doing the best I can to
keep my mouth shut by and large,
but shine the light of the
people. We feature on our
programs because theyre the
most persuasive in the best case
that ive seen for the
undeniable truth that you can
still prosper by learning a
skill than mastering a trade.
We have forgotten that
we forgot the fact that risk is
not always the enemy
risk is part of the reason we
are compensated,
its part of the reason we are
alive.
The shows you love, which youve
been kind enough to mention, and
the shows im involved with.
Transcript generated on 2020-07-21.