This job takes Mike Rowe to the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland to try his luck working alongside a commercial crabber. Working with a trotline, which include pieces of bait attached at regular intervals and a dip, the job is to drive the boat along the line and scoop the crabs that are hanging on [...]

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Mike Rowe travels to Iowa to a hatching facility where he learns to sex chickens, or sorting them by sex.  The method they use is called venting, or as Mike describes “a couple of guys squeezing the crap out of chicks’.  Over 80,000 chicks are hatched per day ad on an average day a worker will sex [...]

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Mike Rowe heads to Chinatown to work with the sanitation crew collecting garbage in San Francisco’s Chinatown at night. Besides being a dirty job it’s also back breaking work as Mike carries down heavy backs of garbage down steep staircases and through narrow alleys. His partner, LJ provides some comic relief as well [...]

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Mike Rowe heads to Florida to meet up with JP and Andy and dive into water hazards on Magnolia Valley golf course to retrieve golf balls. The balls will be cleaned, sorted and then resold both at their retail store and online. The water hazards have their own dangers, however, they are dark [...]

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In this hilarious clip, our hero Mike Rowe heads off to the Babcock Ranch in Texas to learn all about horse breeding. With a mare in heat first providing the stimulation, the male horse will then be led into another room where they will mount a dummy allowing Mike to take care of business. [...]

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Mike climbs on board the “Honey Wagon” in Wisconsin as they join up for a day of tank pumping. Attaching a hose from the truck they begin pumping and Mike is given a special tool called the “Turd Herder”. It doesn’t take Mike long to figure out the technique for mixing up the layers [...]

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In this clip from the second episode of the first season, Mike heads off to play worm rancher, where he learns that it’s the worm droppings (called castings) that are what is actually so valuable. The castings are sold and used in organic plant food. First it’s time to load up some manure [...]

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This clip comes from the pilot episode from Season 1 (Episode 1), which originally aired on November 7, 2003.  Mike journey into a cave with a bat biologist to collect guano, which is bat droppings which at times are ankle deep on the cave floor.  The biologist enters the cave several times a year to [...]

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