Mike Rowe Spotlights Oklahoma Lyft Driver’s “Pretty Good” Small Business After Ride To The Airport

You never know who you might meet!

Leave it to Mike Rowe to turn a 15-minute ride to the airport into a life-changing experience for a complete stranger.

Rowe was in Oklahoma in late November when he decided to use Lyft for a ride to the Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City. When his driver, an older man with a big white beard, pulled up in a red F-150, the Dirty Jobs host got in the front seat.

Noticing the tools and lumber in the truck bed, Rowe asked his driver about his profession.  According to a lengthy Facebook post recounting their conversation, the man, whose name is Mike Morse, said that he builds custom campers.

“I build them small ones you can tow pretty much anywhere,” Morse explained. “They call ‘em teardrop trailers. Got real popular during the lockdowns. I build ‘em by hand, one at a time.”

He told Rowe that he calls his business Mike's Pretty Good Campers, in hopes of underpromising and over-delivering. At this point, the television host said couldn’t decide if Morse was “messing” with him or not.

Morse, however, appeared earnest. “I like to manage expectations,” he explained.

At the airport, Morse asked how the ride was, to which Rowe responded: "It was a pretty good lift."

"Somewhere behind his mustache, Mike might have smiled, as I walked into the only airport in America named for a cowboy who never met a man he didn’t like," his Facebook post concluded. "There, I boarded my plane and checked to see if there really was a website called 'Mike’s Pretty Good Campers.' Son of a gun..."

Morse told KOCO that he didn’t realize who his passenger was until he dropped him off at the airport. He described their interaction up until that point as a “pretty standard ride.”

"I opened up the back of my truck and was unloading the suitcases, and I recognized him,” he recalled. “I said, 'Hey, who are you?' And he said, 'I'm Mike. Mike Rowe.' And I said, 'All right, Dirty Jobs.”

Since Rowe’s Facebook post, Morse told KOCO that he’s received inquiries from hundreds of people interested in his trailers. Though he’s thankful for the attention, he said he isn't letting it go to his head.

"I'm getting my 15 minutes of fame,” Morse told the local news station. “By next week, it will all be over.”

Check out mikesprettygoodcampers.com to see his “pretty good” work for yourself.

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