The Tucker Carlson Show - Tucker Carlson - Mike Rowe, still one of the best guys in the world.
Aired: 2024-03-28
Duration: 03:37


=== Mike Rowe On AI & Jobs (03:37) ===

[00:00:00]  So the current debate over AI, artificial intelligence, is about whether the technology will become sentient and autonomous and enslave us all.
[00:00:10]  And of course, that'll probably happen.
[00:00:12]  But in the meantime, we thought it'd be interesting revisiting the original debate about AI, which is about how it affects work.
[00:00:20]  What are the rest of us going to do for a living when machines can do it for us?
[00:00:25]  And there's nobody who's thought more deeply about this and about work in general and its centrality.
[00:00:29]  To Human Dignity, then Mike Rowe, and we are, as always, honored to have him in the studio.
[00:00:33]  Mike, thank you for coming on.
[00:00:34]  First of all, you win.
[00:00:35]  The desk?
[00:00:36]  It's wood.
[00:00:37]  Are you kidding?
[00:00:38]  I got a link from a buddy who said, hey man, not for nothing, but I went on to one of these sites and I said, narrate for me, in the style of Mike Rowe, these two paragraphs, right?
[00:00:53]  And he sent me a link to this, and basically it was two paragraphs from an old episode of Deadly's Catch.
[00:00:59]  And I hit play, and I listened to me.
[00:01:02]  Now, had I not known it was not me, I would have thought, well, that's something I narrated, you know, four or five years ago.
[00:01:10]  You couldn't tell the difference.
[00:01:11]  Couldn't tell.
[00:01:11]  When I listened for it, I heard some things that made me go, ah, maybe not quite, but that was two months ago, which might as well be two years ago or 20 years ago.
[00:01:20]  My entire career is actually based on AI. Early on in Dirty Jobs.
[00:01:27]  There was this big conversation at the network when they were like, look, this show is, it was a nightmare for them because it was rating really, really well, but it was off-brand.
[00:01:39]  Dirty Jobs was not supposed to be the show that people went to Discovery to love.
[00:01:44]  No.
[00:01:44]  It was, those were still the days of Attenborough and Jacques Cousteau and Jane Goodall, right?
[00:01:49]  Yes, it was me, a smart aleck looking under rocks making poop shows.
[00:01:52]  That's not supposed to be the number one show.
[00:01:55]  So they're like, can you smarten it up a little bit?
[00:01:57]  And I said, well, I've been looking at some science-type jobs.
[00:02:01]  And they're like, what?
[00:02:02]  I'm like, well, I'd like to take a deep dive into AI. And they're like, that's great.
[00:02:07]  That's great.
[00:02:08]  If you can find dirty jobs in AI, we're golden.
[00:02:13]  Now, did they think I was talking about artificial insemination?
[00:02:17]  Probably not.
[00:02:19]  Probably not.
[00:02:20]  Did you do that episode?
[00:02:22]  Four days later.
[00:02:23]  I was at the Circle X Ranch, somewhere outside of Houston, with my arm up to my shoulder inside a couple of dozen cows taking instructions from a cowboy named Steve.
[00:02:33]  I gotta ask you, you were an opera singer?
[00:02:36]  Well, I sang in the opera.
[00:02:39]  I've also skied down mountains, but very few people say, oh, this might grow the skier.
[00:02:45]  I've skied down many mountains.
[00:02:46]  I've never sung opera.
[00:02:48]  But do you, I mean, is there ever a time when you do it still?
[00:02:51]  Oh, yeah.
[00:02:52]  Weddings, funerals.
[00:02:53]  For real?
[00:02:54]  I sing all the...
[00:02:55]  On my podcast, I write unauthorized jingles for all the sponsors and sing them in four-part harmony because it amuses me.
[00:03:03]  Do you ever sing in Italian still?
[00:03:05]  It goes on.
[00:03:20]  I gotta ask about the sheep castration story because now that we've...
[00:03:26]  You've done a deep dive, haven't you?
[00:03:28]  We've done a very deep dive.
[00:03:30]  We do.
[00:03:31]  Thanks a lot for watching us on X. There is a lot more to see and you can find it on TuckerCarlson.com.