Mike Rowe and The Resurgence of The Trades
The Rich Zeoli Show
Audacy
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Mike Rowe, of Dirty Jobs fame among many other things, joins us to discuss his podcast, the rise of trade jobs, the suspicion of the 4-year degree among Gen-Z, and the scholarship program he has been overseeing for trade school attendees. Mike argues we have created a degree lunacy ever since we took shop class out of high school curriculums, and details how things may have to “go splat” in the job market before the giant shift back to trade jobs. And tell us about that whiskey you’re selling! Mike Rowe, The Vice President?!?
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| 0:21.7 | things happen just kind of magically. |
| 0:24.0 | The guy that I have kind of known at a far orbit distance now for three decades |
| 0:31.0 | and watch the work he's done and just applaud it every step of the way. |
| 0:35.1 | Mike Rowe is joining us today. |
| 0:36.7 | Hello, Mr. Rowe. |
| 0:38.0 | Wow, Mr. |
| 0:40.8 | Yeah, that's what three decades gets you, I guess. |
| 0:43.0 | Yes, it does. You have consistent success, unlike the rest of us who will fall and then try and get up and then fall again or get knocked down. |
| 0:51.0 | But we're still getting up that's the key always |
| 0:54.7 | the key man it is Mike I have to tell you many things you do I appreciate but none I |
| 1:01.4 | appreciate so much as the regular |
| 1:05.9 | podcast you do the way I heard it. |
| 1:08.6 | And it's such a great variety of interesting stories. And I think your gift for telling a story and pulling a story out of people is amazing and I will tell you the one person that really surprised me because he's kind of hard to in my |
| 1:24.2 | experience to get the story out of when you only know him a little bit is Bill |
| 1:28.4 | Whittle what a great episode that you had I'm glad you liked it. |
| 1:34.0 | Oh, it's they're all good. |
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