What's
life like for Mike Rowe without a network television show?
Since CNN
dropped Somebody's Gotta Do It, Rowe has had his privacy violated by a drone,
the former host of Dirty Jobs survived the rumors of his own death swirling
about the internet, and in the home stretch of an ugly presidential election, he
worries more than ever about unemployment, the skills gap, and a widespread loss
of meaning in American life.
Yet Rowe himself remains more popular than
ever. Days after Rowe read a letter from his mother detailing how she lost her
purse at Wal-Mart, the post went hyperviral. It was seen by over 100 million
people – "a third of the country!" he exclaims. "I've never seen anything like
it," Rowe tells Reason TV, "I've talked to people at Facebook who said they've
never seen anything like it."
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