Not All Knowledge Comes From College.

Good Jobs Look A Lot Like Kids Playing And Adults Working.

I Come From A Blue Collar Family, But My Personal Life Isn't. I Didn't Get The Gene That My Grandfather Had In Spades. He Was A Local Hero. Built The Church That I Went To. Built The House I Grew Up In. Steamfitter, Pipefitter, Electrician, Mechanic And Plumber. I Wanted To Do Those Things. But It Just Didn't Come Easy.

It’s About, When Did It Make Sense To Say One Size Fits Everybody? It Never Ever Ever Made Sense To Do That, And Yet We’re Still Selling Education The Same Way We Sold It When You And I Were In High School.

It's Funny; It's A Real Balancing Act. In Tv, Everybody's Talking About Authenticity. In Order To Make 'dirty Jobs' Authentic, I Really Can't Be Overly Informed. The Minute I Am, I Become A Host It's A Very Tricky Business Paying A Tribute To Work, Because Tv Is Very Bad At It.

My Mothers Dad Dropped Out Of The Eighth Grade To Work. He Had To. By The Time He Was 30, He Was A Master Electrician, Plumber, Carpenter, Mason, Mechanic. That Guy Was, To Me, A Magician. Anything That Was Broken, He Could Fix. Anybody Anywhere In Our Community Knew That If There Was A Problem, Carl Was There To Fix It.