Why Mike Rowe’s First Big Break Involved A Pencil and a Viking Suit

Before Mike Rowe was the American everyman on Discovery Channel’s Dirty Jobs, he did everything from pitching kitsch on QVC to telling feel good stories alongside Malou Nubla on Evening Magazine at San Francisco’s KPIX.

You can see him now on CNN’s Somebody’s Gotta Do It, but his first big break? Well that involved a viking suit, a Wagnerian opera and a pencil.