About this season
Host and everyman Mike Rowe gets the grimy scoop on downright nasty occupations.
Episodes (6)
1. Rodbuster / Galvanizer
Aired 2 January 2022 • 60 min
Mike installs rebar with a team of rodbusters, then he galvanizes steel.
2. Jellyballer / Epoxy Installer
Aired 9 January 2022 • 60 min
Mike Rowe joins a fourth-generation fisherman's crew in Georgia as they harvest cannonball Jellyfish for food, a trade known as Jellyballing. Then Mike helps a father-son team install epoxy flooring at a restaurant in time for the dinner rush.
3. Tugboat Fitter / Water Tower
Aired 16 January 2022 • 60 min
Mike visits a ship-building community in Coden, Ala., to learn the ins-and-outs of building a tugboat; he makes a long climb to the top of a dirty water tower in Magee, Miss., to clean inside the tank.
4. Rock Sucker / Mountain Carver
Aired 23 January 2022 • 60 min
Mike sucks rocks off an industrial roof with a massive vacuum. He then travels to the Black Hills to carve the largest monument in the world: Crazy Horse. Both stories involve several generations working together to pass on their life's ambitions.
5. Escalator Maintainer / Scorpion Sweeper
Aired 30 January 2022 • 60 min
Mike Rowe crams into a hockey arena's escalator where he scrapes and cleans a special kind of shmutz from the bottom. Then, he and a zoo keeper venture into the hot, treacherous Arizona desert at night to round up neurotoxic stinging scorpions.
6. Combat Surgeon / Iguana Hunter
Aired 6 February 2022 • 60 min
Mike Rowe trains as a trauma surgeon using hyper-realistic scenarios and specialized equipment to learn under simulated battlefield conditions. He then controls an invasive mess of iguanas which are posing health risks to humans on the Florida coast.