We asked Mike Rowe, the former host of “Dirty Jobs,” which hands-on, tough job he’d make a requirement for elected figures and celebrities to do.

Stumped, Rowe said “Wow! No one has ever asked me that before.”

After thinking about it for a while, Rowe said he would like elected officials to do “any of the jobs from Season One.” Watch the clip above to see him go into specifics about one particularly “dirty job.”