I've been reading a lot of articles about how Gen Z (my generation) is going into the trades at much higher rates than people entering the workforce 10 years ago. It occurs to me that a lot of us grew up watching shows like Dirty Jobs and Mythbusters, both of which really highlighted a lot of skills used in the trades like welding, carpentry, and machining. Mythbusters showed these things alongside, and being necessary prerequisites for, the scientific method, programming, engineering, and physics, and I think that helped a lot of people realize that opting for the trades doesn't make them less intelligent than someone who goes into one of the areas that requires a degree, and it allows them to gain that same kind of knowledge through experience. Dirty Jobs also showed off things like plumbing, manufacturing, farming, and building. One of the things that show did really well was showing people who were really satisfied with the work they did, and proud of the contributions they made to their communities. That, combined with him showing a lot of small business owners within these industries who are clearly doing well for themselves had to have an impact on a lot of kids who were deciding what they wanted to be when they grew up. Mike's commitment to showing just how upright and honest many of the tradesmen and farmers he features are helps, too. If you can see a job that looks like it might be fun, and then see that the people who you'd be working with or even for seem personable and fair when you're 7 or 8, you're a lot more likely to sign up for the welding class in high school than someone who hasn't seen that.

Great video! Thank you so much! 🙂

This is several years old, but I loved it! AND Lauren Billys made it to the Olympics! She went to Brazil and Tokyo! She won gold at the 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games last summer!

Best Satan is Constantine Satan, but Blue-Eyes-White-Jesus is a close second

The Green Berets might save our country.

73's (amateur radio talk for 'Many blessings') to Dead Left and companions!

Keep up the good work !!!!!!!

We have to buy American made goods. Back in the day stuff was made to last now we buy stuff to trash. 😢

22years of service here. Thank You, You said what I have been saying, no stars dropped! What a lack of character and integrity.

Sadly, I think you may need to break down of the anatomy of honor.

Mike I’m paraplegic confined to bed and I want you to know that you, your crew and your stories save my life on a daily basis. Seriously, I’m a real fan!!

John Wick, Lawrence of Arabia and the Verizon guy. What an amalgam.

Facts…

I spent 2 years in Afghanistan, and the whole time I kept saying to myself, "Please just let me do enough so my younger brother doesn't have to come here." Now I've been out for a number of years and have two kids, and all I can think is that nothing I could have done was ever going to be enough to prevent my sons from potentially having to go back there when they grow up. It pains me everyday.

Dressage is so hard!!!!! I thought after years of bare back jumping I’d be so good at it. Seat was good…hands….not😂😂

I wish people would just stop worryng so much about what other people think. People need to just be themselves.

Should have went to my aunt and uncle! Uncle Lars won bronze in the olympics for Denmark in dressage and they both train riders in Florida

IAM A MAN WHO HAS RASED HIS CHILD (A GIRL ) FOR 14 YEARS ( SHE IS 16 NOW) WITH OUT HER MOTHER AND I NEVER WANTED TO HAVE A KID AND IF YOU MEET MY CHILD YOU WOULD SEE SHE IS RAISED RIGHT I STEP UP WHERE HER MOTHER NEVER DID TILL THIS DAY. I WOULD LOVE TO TELL YOU ABOUIT MOTHER DSAY 2024.

The best dressage riders should be able to tell their horse what to do without appearing to move at all.

Over regulation is a major problem. I live in So Cal. A furniture factory recently shut down because the South Coast Air quality increase regulations. I grew up during the sixties, then the air was alway brown. The air is so clean today in comparison. They put 900 workers out of work for no reason.

I work at a company with a made in America premium product, we’re the only company who makes our product in the states.one of the most common questions we get is “why should I pay for your stuff instead of the cheap Chinese stuff?” And i get to try to find a good way to explain our product will last you for 30 years, is made in America, and just performs all around better than the imports which will break in a year.

Get job. 😂 Mike your funny.

The deeper issue is not around loan forgiveness, it’s more about the unfair practices by the loan service providers and government to keep the loan balance inflated. The loan practices were built to be predatory and that part has been lost in this conversation. Spend an episode talking about that side of the story and see how many people would love to see the same practices applied to their mortgage loan or car loan.

The problem is when businesses come here and they start doing good. Then unions come in and start creating all kinds of problems and prices go up

I really feel this, I am in the textile industry myself and it is not easy. I am actually an American veteran, I went to university in Europe and due to the availability of labor and materials to work with I stayed. I have some friends that are in manufacturing back home and I am trying to support them the best that I can. I think that the learning curve for manufacturing is very high and very technical but it can be done! Investors must support it and people need to get back into it. The same blue collar type of tradesman (like myself) is perfect to become a manufacturing entrepreneur.

I just fell in love with these two, Mike for the second time!

Remember when they were importing goods and re-boxing them with "Made in America" labels?

Mike, I’ve followed you forever (well, just about), and mostly have enjoyed everything from Deadliest Catch to Dirty Jobs and beyond. I was disappointed to see you put your well-known and respected name in conjunction with two of the most abusive “horse sports” out there. I’m guessing you aren’t aware, so I’ll leave it at that.

So when do the people get the PPP loans, he said if they have to, yet who got those loans? The plumber the hvac tech, the skilled trades guys that have their own company. For the people that are stuck with student loans, when Mike Rowe was a kid, college was virtually free, you could work a minimum wage job and pay for it without a loan, but the left had to offer loans which drove the price through the roof. If it’s about paying for what you use, then why is this country going further into debt for Social Security, and Medicare? The elderly had years to pay into it, to make it feasible, to have enough kids to keep the worker to retire ratio above 2:1, yet they wanted free shit. The moral of the story is no one pays for what this government hands out, everyone gets free shit every single day, but student loans are where you are drawing a line 😂😂😂

Future generations must see the yin AND the yang. All yin and no yang is not a good thang

I love that you covered dressage!!!❤❤. But top hats are no longer legal in USDF competitions.

Demo is so young!

Yay, Mike is awesome

Mike rowe could make a good living as an audiobook narrator😂 late into old age, sipping his whiskey in front of a fire in the den reading books on tape....😂😂😂😂

I love this.

Wow! Mike your are fearless

My granddad, a former US Marine, joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force and re-built railway bridges in Palestine at the end of WWI. Contracted 2 types of malaria and almost died there.

Americans want cheap….cost trumps everything. AND….here we are, in quite a situation.

I was going to join the Navy and this is what they picked for me to do with my extensive construction experience. Unfortunately i wasn't mentally fit enough.

Nike walks the walk as the expression goes. Did you see all the beautiful women there? Why, real men. Not soy boys.

Good to go.

Separation of powers?? Trump wants ALL the power.

Made in America ended years ago when our labor costs were 3x higher than in other countries. the corporations dumped everyone here for being too expensive and paid as little as 3x less to make everything overseas. China, Taiwan, hong kong, Japan all makes things far less expensive than we do, so we lost those industries and we can never get them back because that flannel shirt you're talking about here will cost 50 bucks with a 'made in america' label on it, and the workers making them can't afford them.

I'm getting hungry for bunny know

By by bunny fu fu get in my belly

Y'all should visit an LHD. They dont just send out aircraft they sound out LCACs through the well deck. THATS dirty, and pretty wet.

Thank you for showing that the horse does NOT do all the work!! Riders do not just sit there and look pretty.

Brilliant interview 😊

I understand the windmills. But I sure hate seeing them.

Student Loan companies are out of control. Loan forgiveness is an initiative I can get behind. It helps the younger generation who have been screwed by the system. It also doesn’t adversely affect everyone else. The US has literally been in debt since its founding, but that’s a bigger problem that needs addressing. Trillions on needless wars and a military industry that whips up fake patriotism doesn’t help.