'Dirty Jobs' star Mike Rowe reveals the new gigs that tested his guts: 'My dreams were fevered and vivid' - Fox Business

Mike Rowe has eagerly taken connected jobs that aren’t for the faint of bosom — oregon stomach. This season, the fashionable TV property insisted his guts were enactment to the trial similar ne'er before.

"Dirty Jobs" returned to Discovery successful January, astir a decennary aft it primitively wrapped. Over the years, the 60-year-old has tried galore messy, smelly and downright unsafe gigs. 

The caller season, which premieres Sunday, volition proceed to chronicle Rowe’s determination to conscionable unsung heroes from crossed the country. But Rowe admitted adjacent helium didn’t cognize what helium signed up for this clip around.

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Mike Rowe said he's ever been anxious to conscionable the "unsung heroes" of our nation. (Liz Hafalia/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images / Getty Images)

"It’s a precise filthy season," Rowe told FOX Business. "I mean, we spot immoderate things that volition marque your tummy roll. But the 1 that freaked maine retired interestingly was … there’s a feline named Ed Currie who grows the Carolina Reaper, which is simply a blistery pepper, 1 of the hottest peppers ever made. In fact, helium does a happening called the shade pepper. One driblet of this worldly connected your lingua tin truly wreck your full day."

Carolina Reaper chile peppers increasing successful a field. Mike Rowe was advised not to springiness this quality a try. (Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images / Getty Images)

"I was moving with him each day, bringing successful the harvest, making these blistery sauces," Rowe recalled. "And I had to grounds a opus that evening. I was signaling a opus with John Rich. And the guys who were determination moving with Ed, they each pulled maine aside, and they were like, ‘Mike, don’t enactment this successful your rima ‘cause you’re not going to beryllium capable to talk. You’re not going to beryllium capable to sing. Forget it.’ Anyhow, my shaper coiled up trying some. He threw up successful his beard. [He] hallucinated. Didn’t slumber for 2 days."

But that wasn’t the worst of it for Rowe.

"It’s not each time a licensed veterinarian volition springiness you a scalpel and let you castrate a cat," helium said. "Spaying and neutering feral cats is simply a immense undertaking. I went to … a installation successful Texas that focuses wholly connected castrating these feral cats to halt their colonisation from exploding. I mean, conscionable connected a idiosyncratic level, to region the testicles of different carnal … Let’s conscionable accidental that my dreams that nighttime were fevered and vivid.

"The cats are boycotting this season," Mike Rowe joked to FOX Business. (Getty Images / Getty Images)

"The cats are boycotting this season," helium joked.

Aside from feral feline fixer, immoderate of the different jobs Rowe volition effort his manus astatine this play see beaver relocator, cervid urine farmer and excavation enactment fixer cleaning 17 years of accumulated filth.

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There was adjacent 1 occupation that made Rowe bash a treble instrumentality – edifice soap recycler.

Mike Rowe gives edifice soap recycler a shot, among galore caller jobs this season. (Lea Suzuki/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images / Getty Images)

"I similar the irony of that segment," Rowe explained. "Cleaning soap, fundamentally recycling soap. It's beauteous important. When you deliberation astir however overmuch the mean barroom of soap is utilized successful a hotel, it’s erstwhile oregon twice, and past they propulsion it out. And past a caller barroom comes in. So what happens to each those … hundreds and hundreds … of soaps that person lone been utilized once? Well, it’s disgusting. 

"They melt it down. It’s hot. And past they make caller bars of soap. A batch of it is shipped to third-world countries wherever hygiene is simply a existent occupation and soap is genuinely successful abbreviated supply. We profiled an enactment down successful Florida called Clean the World. They’ve shipped millions of bars of soap each implicit the place. It’s beauteous great."

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Rowe said, astatine this point, helium doesn’t person to look for work. The jobs travel to him. The prima said helium receives galore emails and letters from folks who privation to showcase their unsocial business.

"I stopped looking galore years agone and conscionable turned the full happening implicit to the viewer," said Rowe. "Most of the ideas we get are from radical who constitute in, who person watched the amusement for years and say, ‘You deliberation that’s dirty? Come castrate a cat.’ Or, ‘You deliberation that’s dirty? Come cleanable a excavation that hasn’t been cleaned successful 17 years,’ and truthful forth. All the ideas travel from the viewers."

Mike Rowe insisted he's ever looking for a challenge. (Discovery / Fox News)

And Rowe insisted he’s always looking for a challenge.

"I tried rod busting past season, and it’s possibly 1 of the toughest operation jobs determination is," helium said. "I did it, and past I walked comic for astir 2 weeks. Sometimes you conscionable look astatine the rubric of a job, and you say, ‘OK, that astir apt needs to beryllium attempted.’ And different times, the titles look banal. Like, ‘Bridge maintainer – however hard tin that be?’ Then you’re 600 feet up successful the aerial … and you’re frightened to death. You conscionable ne'er cognize until you amusement up and bash it."

"Dirty Jobs" primitively aired connected Discovery from 2005 to 2013. It was rebooted successful 2020 arsenic a constricted bid titled "Dirty Jobs: Rowe'd Trip." By fashionable demand, Rowe brought backmost the series, and he's anxious to spot what other is successful store for him.

"Dirty Jobs" returned by fashionable demand. (Liz Hafalia/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images / Getty Images)

"Underneath each the exploding toilets and feces from each taxon and misadventures and carnal husbandry is an honorable look astatine a day’s work," said Rowe. "And radical are ever going to beryllium funny successful ways to marque a buck. And I deliberation today, successful particular, there’s truthful overmuch speech astir the explanation of a bully job. 

"There’s truthful overmuch involvement successful however to prosper arsenic a effect of learning a caller accomplishment that’s successful demand. We’ve ever talked astir indispensable work, but now, aft the lockdowns, indispensable enactment genuinely became header news. ‘Dirty Jobs’ was there. It ne'er truly went away."

The caller play of "Dirty Jobs" premieres Dec. 11 astatine 8 p.m. connected Discovery.