283: You Can't Lead from a Pickup Truck

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 39.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Jack Nix, chief operating officer of Shelby Erectors and reinforcing ironworker (a.k.a. rodbuster), talks about his appearance on Dirty Jobs, what it takes to tote steel and bust rod, and how it feels to have all your hard work covered up by cement.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, it's the way I heard it episode number 283.
0:07.3	This one is called, You Can't Lead From a Pickup Truck.
0:12.0	That's a quote from today's guest, Jack Nix, who some of you might have seen if you
0:17.7	watched dirty jobs and really chuck.
0:19.4	I mean, who wouldn't?
0:20.8	Who doesn't?
0:21.8	Certainly everybody on this call.
0:27.3	dirty jobs, as I hope you know, after an eight year hiatus came back about a year and a half
0:32.4	ago.
0:33.7	And it was a rough reentry for me being older than I've ever been.
0:37.0	One of the first jobs I wanted to do that I hadn't been able to do back in the old days
0:42.3	was iron worker.
0:43.9	Rod Busting, in particular, we got a line on a company down in Florida called Shelby
0:49.6	erectors who specializes in doing all the iron work, all the rebar for bridges.
0:56.5	And dude, when I say these guys kicked my butt, I mean, it was so humbling.
1:02.1	I was so out of practice and to suddenly wind up at 6am on a bridge in the heat, just
1:08.7	humping.
1:10.0	I mean, tons of iron with these half men, half machine creatures who are iron workers.
1:16.7	It was, it was a day.
1:19.9	To quote Leslie Nielsen, you picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue.
1:24.0	You know, that was like of all the jobs that you could come back on.
1:29.5	I know.
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