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Chapter 1: Who is Mike Rowe and what is his new show about?
Oh, you were on QVC?
Oh, yeah. Yeah. But when I look at those old clips and I can't deny that it's me but I have absolutely no idea what's going to happen. Yeah. Or what I'm going to say next. It's very unusual. It's like biting your lip. There's nothing you do about it. You just sit there and you watch yourself doing things you don't remember doing. And you just hope to God you don't blow it.
I didn't know you got involved in this.
I'm seriously involved. This is the dark arts. Selling jewelry to people that are high on sleeping pills.
Yeah. I mean, they're lonely hearts. They're, you know, look at my nails. So nicely manicured and all that. That was 1989. Are you selling those? Or 90. Were you going to a poison concert? What were you even wearing those for? You know, I mean, as long as you're going to do it, find the cat sack. That's when I knew my life had taken a weird turn. This was 1990. It was my first job in TV.
Was it really? That's crazy.
I don't even know that.
Oh yeah. Yeah.
Oh my gosh. Look at you. Right. Where were you from? Transylvania.
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Chapter 2: What were Mike Rowe's early experiences with TV shopping and selling?
The show's a hit. It's a lot. It's downloaded 450 million times. No way. Okay? Dude, congratulations, bro. You're an infection, and it's a good one. It gets crazier. I win an Emmy, okay? Like, I never wanted it.
I hope it was Emmy Rossum, huh?
Oh, man. Is she cute or not? Sorry, that was a bad joke.
No, no, she's something. She is? I don't even know who she is. I was just thinking of the only Emmy I know.
No, she's a good one. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, she's talented. Rossum damn near killed them, huh? That's an old Emmy Rossum joke. So what you got to know is this never happened. Hits are hard. Emmys are hard. Of all the things that I've worked on to be recognized this way, right? So we got to 100 episodes. I win my Emmy, and we're canceled two weeks later. Now, that's impossible.
But what happened at Facebook was – They decided after four seasons that this whole watch platform, they're just not going to compete with Netflix. So no harm, no foul. But it was – we had two million people on a Facebook page who would watch that show like on the edge of their seat. It was a giant community of people who really gave a shit and they were super interested because remember –
Not so long ago. In fact, today, the country is so divided and there's so few things everybody can agree on. This show was, I think, one of them. It was just a celebration of the neighbors you wish you had. I don't own Returning the Favor, but we're relaunching it next week, May 2nd, under a new title called People You Should Know. And dude, I'm not like overly earnest.
I get all my sentimentality is taken care of in my foundation. But this thing, I mean, whether it's addiction or – you're going to meet a guy – on this show called Steve Hotz. He runs something called the Black Horse Forge down in Fredericksburg. The PTSD thing, you're up to speed with how bad that is? Not how bad.
I mean, I know that it's a, you hear about it so much and it's used so much. I think it's hard to know what's really going on with it.
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