Mike Rowe's Dirtiest Job? Replacing the Poop Pump

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/05/22/Dirty_Jobs_Mike_Rowe_Chats_with_Makers_at_Maker_Faire

Speaking at the 2011 Maker Faire, Dirty Jobs host Mike Rowe recalls a memorable (for all the wrong reasons) visit to a San Francisco sewage treatment facility. Rowe, who vividly describes the dirty job, helped clean and replace a lift pump covered in human excrement.

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TechShop, the first membership-based DIY workshop and fabrication studio for makers, welcomes Mike Rowe to Maker Faire, the world's preeminent DIY festival.

Rowe, whose own website, mikeroweWORKS.com, was created as a "PR Campaign for Hard Work," dropped by Maker Faire for an impromptu chat with makers and fabricators from around the country.

"The only thing I make these days is a mess," joked the creator and Host of Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs. "But the TechShop idea is phenomenal, and Maker Faire sounds like TechShop on steroids. It'll be fun to hang out with some people who can still make things out of thin air. I'm a big fan." - Maker Faire Bay Area 2011

Mike Rowe has had more jobs than you. In fact, Mike has had more jobs than anyone. As the creator and executive producer of Discovery Channel's Emmy-nominated series Dirty Jobs With Mike Rowe, Mike has spent years traveling the country, working as an apprentice on more than 200 jobs that most people would go out of their way to avoid. From coal mining to roustabouting, maggot farming to sheep castrating, Mike has worked in just about every industry and filmed the show in almost every state, celebrating the hard-working Americans who make civilized life possible for the rest of us.

In addition to Dirty Jobs and his mikeroweWORKS endeavor, Mike is the voice of Deadliest Catch and the national spokesman for Ford Trucks. He has traveled extensively for Discovery Channel, hosting Shark Week in South Africa, where he field-tested a steel-mesh "shark-suit," and Egypt Week Live, where he opened and explored newly discovered tombs in the Valley of the Golden Mummies.

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[unugeorge]

@deathfart2269 Your parents must be proud of you.

[offroadjohnny]

"That will haunt your dreams son"

[kennegun]

Dirtiest job:  US President - Giving the banks peoples hard earned money.

[wntoply6]

@kid29a lol, good answer, but do YOU really care where your shit goes...and if so, WHY?

[kid29a]

@wntoply6 So you'll have something to think about while s(h)itting calmly ;)

[newo82]

WTF is with the 14 min bible warning end of the world crap? ffs i mean we just had another end of the world a few days ago . . . when will people grow the fuck up and stop believing in fairytales. . lets move the fuck on with progress!

[JayJayAbels]

Recession or not... THAT is a job VERY VERY VERY FEW people would be willing to take.

Basically... FUCK that... shit.

[LordNapalm]

Never mind that shit.. check out that Tesla coil!

[oihhow]

Is there an episode where he works as a prostitute?

[WikeddTung]

i wanna get filthy with mike