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22 Episodes 2010 - 2011
Episode 1
Tue, Oct 19, 201044 mins
Mike visits an exotic animal ranch near Dallas and is reminded, after a bite or three, that the best way to handle wild animals is not to handle them. Still, in addition to breeding porcupines, exercising the camel, cutting the bearcat's toenails, catching pregnant kangaroos and feeding their babies, he gets to do fun stuff like cleaning up lemur poop.
Episode 2
Tue, Oct 26, 201043 mins
Mike tries to evade a pack of blood hounds to train them for police duty. Then it's into the swamp, on air boats again, to purge the Everglades of invasive plants; first hacking away at unwanted trees then light wildfires to clear grass.
Episode 3
Tue, Nov 2, 201043 mins
Mike works with the Fish and Wildlife Service to discover all the tricks they use to control the sea lampreys that threaten Great Lakes commercial fish. Then Mike makes shark food at the Mandalay Bay aquarium.
Episode 4
Tue, Nov 9, 201044 mins
Mike visits a water powered corm mill that's been in operation over 200 years. Since Mike has to do four jobs at once it's about three jobs too many for him. Then Mike visits another exotic animal ranch, this time to tranquilize and catch a pair of deer that need to be moved.
Episode 5
Tue, Nov 16, 201043 mins
Mike travels to Lucedale, Mississippi to try his hand at installing a lightning rod system on a home.
Episode 6
Sun, Nov 21, 201044 mins
Mike spends a day working at Ohio Valley Natural Fibers where he makes yarn from fleece. Then he goes to work at a day spa in Michigan where he helps wax hair off of his good friend Barsky.
Episode 7
Tue, Nov 23, 201044 mins
Mike travels to Fremont, CA, to help maintain a bowling center. Then he responds to a letter from one of his fans who wants to see more footage of cameraman Doug.
Episode 8
Sun, Nov 28, 201043 mins
Mike learns to collect forensic evidence by studying rotting, putrid, maggot infested, pig carcasses. Then Mike heads to the lab to see if his guesses about how long the pigs were dead is correct.
Episode 9
Tue, Nov 30, 201044 mins
Mike goes to Ketucky to learn about race horse nutrition. That involves collecting the horse's vital statistic from it's blood, poop and pee. Fortunatly there are plenty of flies to distract Mike while he prepares the samples.
Episode 10
Tue, Dec 7, 201044 mins
Mike works with a falconer to chase birds away. Then Mike butchers a cow from the hoof clear through to steaks.
Episode 11
Tue, Dec 14, 2010
Episode 12
Tue, Dec 21, 2010
Episode 13
Tue, Dec 28, 201044 mins
After a quick behind the scenes visit to a gun range Mike scales a male date palm tree to harvest its pollen. Then its up to the top of a whole bunch of female trees to fertilize them. In another behind the scenes sequence Mike fights with an apron and a couple plastic buckets.
Episode 14
Tue, Jan 4, 201143 mins
Mike thinks he has the good job operating the heavy duty paving equipment until he gets to the sweeper. The paver is a bit too complicated for Mike and bad things happen. But he's happy to do some touch up work with the steam roller.
Episode 15
Tue, Jan 11, 201144 mins
You would think that working in a distillery that provides free drinks to its employees would be Mike's dream job. But he quickly learns there is a great deal of work to do before enjoying the fruits of his labor.
Episode 16
Tue, Jan 18, 201144 mins
Mike helps replace a power pole in Wyoming, and then learns about lice at the Hair Fairies shop in San Francisco.
Episode 17
Tue, Jan 25, 2011
Mike introduces clips from previous episodes with a focus on the infrastructure of America.
Episode 18
Tue, Feb 1, 201144 mins
Mike learns all about making Scrapple, then gets a lesson in taking care of shoes from the shoe doctor at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco.
Episode 20
Tue, Feb 15, 201144 mins
Mike harvests sponges from the gulf floor off Tarpon Springs Florida, and then struggles to remove a fence post.
Episode 21
Tue, Feb 22, 201144 mins
Mike cleans a fish guts grinder for an Alaskan fish processor, and then shows us how cedar logs are prepared to become part of a log cabin home.
Episode 22
Tue, Mar 1, 201143 mins
Mike processes crayfish, and the travels to Sapelo Island in Georgia to learn about termites.
Episode 23
Tue, Mar 8, 2011
A clip show where Mike (host) takes us back for a look at previous jobs involving family members.