The Way I Heard It With Mike Rowe
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- Duration: 261:05:52
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Synopsis
All good stories have a twist, and all great storytellers are just a little twisted. Join Mike Rowe for a different take on the people and events that you thought you knew, from pop culture to politics, Hollywood to History… The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe is a series of short mysteries for the curious mind with a short attention span.
Episodes
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367: Scarcity Brain with Michael Easter
23/01/2024 Duration: 01h02min367: Scarcity Brain with Michael Easter The journalist and NYT bestselling author shares his research into why our brains are hardwired for overconsumption, how this scarcity mindset can lead us to take unnecessary risks, and how Inveterate gambling pigeons prove that we can change. It’s all from his newest book, Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough.
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366: NEW STORY—They Put Him in a Cage
16/01/2024 Duration: 57minA NEW mystery for the curious mind with a short attention span called They Put Him in a Cage is followed by an installment of The Way I Talked About The Way I Heard It, during which Mike and Chuck discuss first jobs, audition horror stories, and the condition of Mike’s dad.
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365: A Coffee Klatch Christmas with Peggy Rowe
19/12/2023 Duration: 47minMike’s mom discusses Christmases past and present, her decided lack of cooking skills, complaining vs. observing, vertigo-inducing carpet, the perils of drinking dehumidifier water, pratfalls, a Christmas mugging, and Mike singing The Grinch.
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364: Son of a Revolutionary with John Dodd
12/12/2023 Duration: 55minThe appellate lawyer and President General of the Sons of the American Revolution drops by to discuss our nation's founding and celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party by inducting Mike, Chuck, and Mike’s dad, John, into the SAR.
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363: BONUS STORY: Something to Chew On
07/12/2023 Duration: 09minIt was a trip to the dentist, the dentist would never forget…
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362: Don't Forget the Footnotes with Douglas Brunt
05/12/2023 Duration: 01h07minThe New York Times bestselling author and podcaster discusses great writing, the power of storytelling, his newest book, The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel, and how he solved a 110-year-old whodunnit.
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361: A Place and a Purpose in a World Gone Mad with Salena Zito
28/11/2023 Duration: 01h11minThe Washington Examiner columnist and reporter discusses why Lincoln’s Gettysburg address holds up 160 years later, why she’s building a room to hold miniature trains, the “dust up” in the Middle East, our current age of disruption, and why people are searching for something bigger than themselves. Then, by request, Mike serenade’s Salena.
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360: BONUS COFFEE: Let's Not Talk About Thanksgiving with Peggy Rowe
22/11/2023 Duration: 57minTongue twisters, laundry mishaps, Betty the book-club-lady, the Klausmeyer I-told-you-so protocol, steel drums, bad videography, hot cross buns, cannibal hamsters, camping in July, rogue waves, and just a touch of Thanksgiving—It’s coffee with mom.
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359: Teddy and Booker T. with Brian Kilmeade
21/11/2023 Duration: 01h04minThe six-time New York Times best-selling author and prolific FNC host drops by to discuss what made President Theodore Roosevelt and civil rights pioneer Booker T. Washington so great and the role Mike played in Brian writing his newest book Teddy and Booker T. Discussed in this episode: Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington Arthur Lih of LifeVac.net The River of Doubt by Candice Millard
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358: Five Days in November with Clint Hill and Lisa McCubbin Hill
14/11/2023 Duration: 01h11min60 years after that horrible day in November when our 35th president was gunned down in Dallas, one of only two secret service agents from that detail still alive today gives his reflections and first-hand account and explains the difference between facts and theories. Clint Hill is joined by his wife and co-author Lisa McCubbin Hill to discuss the day America lost its innocence, a secret service reunion 60 years in the making, and the 60th anniversary commemorative edition of their book Five Days in November.
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357: BONUS STORY: She Blew the Doors Off
09/11/2023 Duration: 11minIt was late at night and she was pregnant, but Merry still had to go to work. And we're all glad she did.
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356: The World's Biggest Therapist with Travis Mills
07/11/2023 Duration: 01h10minThe former 82nd Airborne Staff Sergeant and quadruple amputee drops by to chat about the first time he met Mike, how he pissed off Bill Nye science guy, why he’s a proud member of the everything-is-great club, and his new book Bounce Back: 12 Warrior Principles to Reclaim & Recalibrate Your Life.
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355: Hunting for Anomalies with Michael Shermer
31/10/2023 Duration: 01h21minThe Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, podcaster, and Presidential Fellow at Chapman University talks about why we believe weird things, how our brains seek patterns to stay safe, the state of science and journalism, intellectual humility vs. certainty, the surprising rise of antisemitism, and his book Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational.
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354: BONUS COFFEE: They Like a Little Bit of Naughty with America's Grandmother
26/10/2023 Duration: 58minPeggy chides her eldest for spending too much time in the sun, then they discuss book clubs and pool sharks, Peggy’s latest borderline inappropriate post, Mike eating dates, geoducks and horses, Picasso vs Cezanne, a briss gone wrong, used condoms in an elevator shaft, a little paregoric on the gums, how Peggy discovered Mike was circumcised, and a tease about her espionage court case. In other words, another Coffee with Mom!
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353: I Never Got to Drive the Zamboni with Scott Hamilton
24/10/2023 Duration: 01h25minThe Olympic gold medalist and four-time national and world ice skating champion is the most upbeat and cheerful human ever, and he shares his amazing journey from a sickly, smaller-than-average kid to an Olympic champion, what it’s like to survive two forms of cancer, and why he claims the brain tumor he was born with was the greatest thing that ever happened to him.
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352: Mailbag!
17/10/2023 Duration: 01h33sWhile answering listener questions, Mike and Chuck sip Knobel and discuss the future of TWIHI, Mike’s trip to Italy, the Rowe family reunion, an inappropriate rendezvous high above the opera house, piano-playing kitties, embarrassing teenage moments, and the day Chuck almost died on a photoshoot.
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351: BONUS STORY: Rough Delivery
12/10/2023 Duration: 09minFor the baby’s sake, it’s a good thing Bobby was there. For Bobby, it changed everything.
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350: The Age of Blunder with Rob Long
10/10/2023 Duration: 01h21minThe writer and executive producer of Cheers discusses how American culture is being held hostage to squeaky wheels, how quickly-acquired generational wealth is changing American business, and how every great showbusiness success wouldn’t be without a great blunder.
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349: How to Get Cal Ripken Jr. with Teresa Strasser
03/10/2023 Duration: 01h19min349: How to Get Cal Ripken Jr. with Teresa Strasser The Emmy-winning writer, TV host, and author swaps stories of near-miss television gigs with Mike, shares tales of growing up blue-collar with her auto mechanic dad, and reveals how she got the Iron Man of baseball to read and blurb her book, Making It Home: Life Lessons From a Season of Little League.
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348: BONUS COFFEE: A Handsome Guy Who Likes to Lick You with America's Grandmother
28/09/2023 Duration: 54minThree-time bestselling author Peggy Rowe reveals her favorite show that Mike’s ever made, talks about her favorite British murder mysteries, tells the story of how her friend once arrested Mickey Mantle in Baltimore the day before a ballgame, and recounts time spent with a seeing-eye dog named Larry. Oh, and Mike talks about a secret upcoming project he has no business talking about.