This is the best of Neuchworld coming up my conversation with Mike Rowe.

On this episode of Newt's world, you know him from his hit Discovery Channel show,

Dirty Jobs, and his podcast, The Way I Heard It, as a TV host, writer, narrator, producer, actor, and spokesman, his performing career began

in 1984 when he faked his way into the Baltimore Opera to get his union card.

I'm pleased to welcome as my guest today, Mike Rowe, a great entertainer and great American.

Mike has made a career out of shining a light on the lives and experiences of American laborers.

Mike became known as the dirtiest man on TV.

He traveled to all 50 states and completed 300 different jobs,

transforming cable television into a landscape of swamps, sewers, ice roads, coal mines, oil daricks, crab boats, hillbillies, and lumberjack camps.

For this, he has received both the credit and the blame.

For Labor Day we're sharing stories about the skilled workers who have crossed

Mike's path, the importance of work and Rose's fascinating life. Just take a look around down the street or up the stairs or even underground.

You don't need to borrow a vague and you don't need to rob.

All you've got to do is get yourself a dirty job. I am particularly excited to have somebody who I think has come for many Americans to

personify the work ethic, the legitimacy of work, the requirement that we understand

how many different jobs have to be done for a civilization to succeed, and somebody who's also become in his own right a household name.

Mike Rowe I'm just thrilled that you're with us.

Newt hello and thanks I'm flattered it's great to talk to you again.

Did you ever imagine when you were younger that you would end up doing national television, doing podcast, writing books, speaking to the Congress?

I mean, you know, you become sort of an institution. writing books, speaking to the Congress.

I mean, you know, you've become sort of an institution in your own right.

When you were in your teens and your 20s, did you have any notion

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