Hey guys, it's the way I heard it episode number 283.

This one is called You Can't Lead from a Pickup Truck.

That's a quote from today's guest, Jack Nix, who some of you might have seen if you watch dirty jobs.

And really, Chuck, I mean, who wouldn't?

Who doesn't?

Sure.

Certainly everybody on this call.

Dirty Jobs, as I hope you know, after an eight-year hiatus came back about a year and a half ago.

And it was a rough re-entry for me, being older than I've ever been, one of the first jobs I wanted to do that I hadn't been able to do back in the old days was ironworker.

Rod-busting in particular.

We got a line on a company down in Florida called Shelby Erectors, who specializes in doing all the iron work, all the rebar for bridges.

And dude, when I say these guys kicked my butt, I mean, it was so humbling.

I was so out of practice and to suddenly wind up at 6 a.m. on a bridge in the heat,

just humping.

I mean, tons of iron with these half men, half machine creatures

who are iron workers. It just, it was, it was a day. To quote Leslie Nielsen, you picked the

wrong day to quit sniff and glue. You know, uh, that was like of all the jobs that you could come back on, like that one was the worst.

Just in terms of backbreaking, really super hard work.

These guys carry hundreds and hundreds of pounds every day of iron rods.

They carry them quite a distance.

And you're walking on treacherous terrain as well, right?

Yes, everything about it's treacherous.

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