The math goes like this. Every year, five skilled trades people retire. For every five who retire, to replace them.

So we're seeing an incredible lack of interest and enthusiasm around these skilled trades.

I guess my answer is, it's true. Inflation, super bad. The cost of college. An enormous problem. But the entrepreneur, who took the time to master a skill that's in demand, is crushing it in this economy. And nobody's talking about them.

On this episode of the Sunday special, Mike Groh joins us for a conversation about America's backbone, the American workforce. Best known as the Dirtiest Man on TV from the Emmy Award-winning TV series, Dirty Jobs. Rose Talent for Storytelling and Commitment to American Labor are evident through his ongoing work to highlight hardworking citizens across the country. The Mike Groh Works Foundation has awarded millions of dollars in work ethic scholarships, which came to close the skills gap by funding training for jobs that are in demand. On his podcast, the way I heard it, Ro hosts conversations with guests on everything from history to Hollywood. And this summer, Roe's latest project is an unapologetically patriotic feature film called Something to Stand For. Part historical reenactment and part documentary, Road travels to our nation's capital to honor the patriots who built our country.

In today's episode, we discuss what it means to be a patriot, and Roe's best advice for a high school graduate in today's economy.

We also explored the implications of AI on white-collar workers and forgotten institutions of community in American lives.

Don't miss this inspiring conversation with Mike Roe, one of America's most prominent advocates for American labor.

Hey, Mike, it's great to see you again. It's been a while.

Been a hot minute. 2018, I want to say.

Yeah, now we were back in Los Angeles at the time, a terrible place. And now I'm over here in Florida. Sodom in the springtime. Yes, exactly, exactly. And now we're here in Florida where it is hot and humid but free. We all have pet alligators and it's awesome. But a lot has happened for you in the meantime. You have a brand new movie coming out called Something to Stand for. Why we start with that?

What made you interested in doing this project?

What is the project?

Well, it's a project I've been doing for years.

I just didn't know it, you know.

Sort of the...

That's happened to me in a lot of things.

It happened with dirty jobs.

It happened with the foundation.

The headlines, sometimes if you're lucky, will, like, catch up to your smack and make you relevant in ways that you didn't fully plan or anticipate.

Something to stand for is really a collection of nine stories that I wrote on my podcast years ago that wound up getting adapted for the big

screen, specifically for Independence Day. They're all, it's not a, it's not a political movie.

I should be clear about that, but it is very patriotic and unapologetically so. So some people

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