Jesus, Michael, your grandfather is not doing well.

He's 92, right?

It would be so terrific though if before he died, he could turn on the television

and see you doing something that looked like work.

Here we are in the Sunday special with Mike Rowe.

We'll get to talking with him. He's the host of Dirty Jobs and the way I heard it. It'll be awesome.

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Well, Mike, thanks so much for coming by. Really appreciate it. That was terrific. Thank you. Honestly. You're the first person who's ever praised the ads at the beginning of the show, so thank you for that. Procrastination is the thief of time. I really thought you're going to sneak it in there with that. But kidding aside,

I love, I love that there's no daylight between you and the people who make the program possible. It's refreshingly, dare I say, authentic. Well, thank you. I appreciate it, because usually

what I get is how dare you interrupt these great conversations with your money grabs? And then I have to remind people that they're watching the show for free because this is how commerce operates. Yeah, people don't like to be reminded of that. You see the filthy lucra somehow pollutes what would otherwise be a really wonderful series of observations. But now I'm afraid we can't take you seriously because somebody somewhere has decided to give you some money. Strange time spent. So folks,, you can see why I love Mike Rowe just from the outset here. But let's start from the beginning. So you now do this podcast that's listened to by tens of millions of people, and you have various billions. Billions. Billions. People yet unborn on planets that have not yet been reached. And you have your TV shows, which have been wildly

popular. You have books. Your mom wrote a book that you've been pressing lately all about her mom,

and that's really fantastic. So how did you get from doing what you were doing when you were

18? Is this what you saw yourself doing when you were 18? How did you get from point A to point B?

Wow. How long is this show? It's about an hour or so. Okay. So the short version is I was convinced

as a young guy growing up in Baltimore that I would follow in the footsteps of my grandfather, who

live right next door. My grandfather was a guy who went to the seventh grade, and then he went to

work. By the time he was 30, he was a master electrician. After that, he mastered every other trade there was. The guy could build a house without a blueprint. He was that guy. Had the chip, right? You just knew how to fix stuff. Take your watch apart, build your house, do whatever. The handy gene, tragically, is recessive. So past me,

I didn't get that. And by the time I was out of high school, I realized that I would have to get

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