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Producers’ Pick | Peggy Rowe: Mike Rowe hated getting dirty as a child!

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August 21, 2022 12:00 am

Producers’ Pick | Peggy Rowe: Mike Rowe hated getting dirty as a child!

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August 21, 2022 12:00 am

Mike Rowe’s mother Peggy spills the details on what Mike was like as a child. Hint: he hated playdough. PLUS: Pick up Peggy’s third book out now: Vacuuming in the Nude and Other Ways to Get Attention.

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Talk show that's real. This is Brian kill me show she came right walking the clock and realized how late I was so I jumped right in the shower. Fortunately I vacuumed the nude and we were all just get some clothes on now know I always take shower right after I said what you were home alone right now. No canvas in the next and I never forgot that I thought now putting herself right out there.

Then she said sometimes he joins me in the shower that is paid you roll the author brand-new book vacuuming in the nude. You got the talk doubts whether target I got other ways to get attention. Her special Americas grandmother about her new book is this Sunday the 21st at 10 o'clock on Fox news channel 11 and FBI drops on Fox nation and on FB, I should say in our Fox nation will be available to an August 21 go to that app you click on a watch and a time that the commercials and guesses and studio fees wanted to watch Fox nation. Now, Peggy Rowe, the mother of micro but you should say you should be the son of patient because she's early best-selling author at 80 years old who was that like for you to become a bestseller lady. Oh, it was exhilarating.

It really lies. I've been wanting to have a book my entire life in writing every day for years four years and I've published in magazines and newspapers, but I've always wanted a book and it didn't happen until I was 80, and golly it really has been exciting right it's hard in some ways it requires a lot of energy to go out and do book events and be on television, etc. but you know there are advantages.

I've never been part of the need to movement sexual harassment really hasn't been a problem. Yes, thank goodness you this week of the glass half-full yet right so so Mike, how great has been you to see your mom become best hugs you knew her ability, talent and dedication. Yeah, I mean it's the greatest gift a lot of great things happen to me dirty jobs was sort certainly game changer in like that on the list but watching for as long as I remember my mom gets up she grabs her yellow legal pad and she goes out in the world with a number two pencil. She starts interviewing people, strangers, a cop on horseback. She writes a story you know and the next day it's it's it's stuck to the refrigerator magnet and my dad takes it down and walks around the neighborhood reading its people you know this is how they live 60 years to 60 years. She wrote without was with some encouragement right there is a bank there's an article in the horse magazine.

There's one in the local paper to see her finally become a New York Times best-selling author, 80 yeah personally was gratifying, but to but to see the reaction in other people who aren't writers who are simply doing what we were talking about before trying to find a discipline that Hemingway had trying to find a passion in their life. My mom proved it's it's really never too late.

So what it would do people tell you when they come up to what did they ask you where they would've a remark about paying well there first question is what does it feel like to be an overnight success in 80 and I want to say I beg your pardon. I've been writing for years. I am not an overnight success and so often people say you know I think I have a book in me. I think I'm going to start writing.

And I remind them that they have to do their homework. You take writing courses you go to writing conferences, you do join critique groups and you work at it, but most of all, you write every day.

That's so important and you you type or write, I use my computer my wordprocessor made the adjustment indeed.

And you know I think about people like Irma Bombeck who lived years ago. She is a typewriter and I white out and white and all the times I delete I'm so blessed to have a computer, especially because I have arthritis and I think I couldn't use the typewriter repartee.

You can hire someone to type for you could just piece around the house and say take this down I could to that while I'm talking you could absolutely visit with so where the title come from like you did you help or not. Well I read her draft and buried in one of the stories was this reference to her friend who vacuums in the nude. You'll hear the whole story on the special this Sunday but like mom, you know, as as as visuals go, you know that's a title that's a title that people are going to beg the question and the question of courses you vacuuming the nude.

Mrs. Rowe not really yes or no answer, but I have I have a social media presence.

I have hundreds of thousands of followers and they comment regularly and one woman actually said to me Peggy.

I think maybe you're starting a trend I'm going to try that that was not my intention really, but you know I you can help it if you very could feel more comfortable that way just to get Americans off the couch.

We can't be judging now.

I look. Here's the part of the title, but I think it's actually more important. It's the it's the little prick that says and other ways to get attention because if there's a metaphor for these times. That's it right to talk, snap traps, Facebook got them influencers. Everybody everywhere is crying to get somebody's attention and my mom's from a different age is from a different time and and so too are her friends, and the idea you can get the attention of your significant other, just by pushing a vacuum through the living room in the altogether. I mean that's both that's a weird mix of sweet, dirty, and it would be very offputting. If I am right so yeah okay let me ask you some about about my we see somebody like to get dirty was he someone like a grease monkey. O'Brien as a child I worried about him what had such an aversion to Derek, he would walk around mud puddles, he wouldn't touch Plato because it was icky. Plato was icky and listen. One day we went to her friends and she was having a fingerpainting session and Mike wouldn't even come in the room. He didn't want any part of fingerpainting history like it's true. I worried about him.

I was different.

I was a different person leave the door bell would ring I like the idea of meeting people shy he would dive under the kitchen table when the doorbell rang, or run into the hall closet and have you figure that out. Why yeah I was I was painfully shy. I had a weird stammer. I was just you and stuttered yeah yeah I was a different person growing up, partly because I was traumatized by the side of my naked mother cleaning the house is yeah right, a circle is horrifying, but not all III decided in high school literally to with with the help of the really gifted teacher to be somebody else yellow and literally I changed every match as well thought out dirt work.

I strange well thought about people, about talking about everything.

I got hit the reset button. What is the real you. No one else really is real like this is the real Mike and absolutely yes and you know the other day we were doing an interview on the sidewalk a spontaneous interview and a man walked by and consulted with Mike did a double take and eat. He just yelled.

I love you micro and he went on about his way bumped into somebody with so I pray for you as his mom I feel very proud that Mike is so gracious. People feel safe with my thinking he's going to be polite to them. He's not going to brush them off. But he's also not really nice to me that much, but still vacuuming the nude in other ways to get attention is outgo by watch Sunday Fox News contrasts network subscribing.

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