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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe — 489 episodes
490: About My Father
489: Michael Easter—The Hard Way
488: Connor Boyack—Spontaneous Order
487: Blake Scholl—Making Supersonic Travel Real
486: Jason Ladanye—Nothing Up His Sleeve
485: Josh Smith—Made FOR America
483: Peggy Rowe—Mother's Day with Mom… LIVE!
482: Xi Van Fleet— Don't Be a Shiny Little Screw
480: Matt Ebert—The Billion Dollar Car Wreck
479: Evan Voyles— The Connoisseur of Irony
478: Nicholas Eberstadt—The New Misery
477: Adam Carolla Has Some Thoughts
476: Michael Cadenazzi—The Department of War is Hiring
475: Jan Jekielek—Killed to Order
474: Jeff Childers—Coffee & Covid
473: Will Swaim—Don't Follow California
472: Anna Vocino—Eat Happy
471: David Zucker—Thanks for the Parking Spot
470: Mark Malkoff—Love Johnny Carson
469: Rep. Riley Moore—I'm Just a Bill
468: Thomas Tull—Adjacent to Greatness
467: BONUS Coffee with Mom—They Couldn't Get Enough of My Groin
466: Winn Claybaugh—Hairdressers Rule the World
465: James Woods—Act Two
464: Palmer Luckey—The Department of War Has a Mullet
463: Cyril Derreumaux—In the Flow
462: Del Bigtree—An Inconvenient Study
461: Danny Combs—TACT, The Future of Workforce
460: Ryan Fink and Ty Frackiewicz—Can AI Build My House?
459: Steven Grayhm—Sheepdog
458: Johnny Joey Jones—Mind Your Wake
457: Alex Epstein—Did Bill Gates Change His Mind
456: Gavin de Becker—Forbidden Facts
455: Philip Diehl—Flying Over the Hump
454: Amie Ichikawa—You Can't Bring a Vagina to a Penis Fight
453: Enes Kanter Freedom—In the Name of Freedom
452: Payton McNabb—Enough of This Crap!
451: Meredith Olson—Better Education Now
450: Elaine Culotti—California is in Real Trouble
449: Theo Von—A Troubled White
448: Sheree Utash—It's Only the Best School in America
447: Tommy Mello—The Secret Sauce is the Grind
446: Nick Searcy—Justify This
445: Coffee with Mom—They Had Their Way with My Right Hip
444: Jack Teetor—Blind Faith to Blind Logic
443: Rick Perry—The Fight of a Lifetime
442: Salena Zito—America's Journalist
441: Jillian Michaels—Keeping It (Very) Real
440: David Mamet—Whore That I Am
439: Codie Sanchez Wants to Make You Financially Free
438: Jan Jekielek—The Terrible Truth About China
437: Neal McDonough—Clear the Mechanism
436: Garry Ridge—Any Dumbass Can Do It
435: Josh Smith & Bayard Winthrop—Shut Up and Make It!
434: Sarah Yourgrau—People You Should Know
433: Coffee with Mom—That Toy Really Sucks
432: Gene Simmons—The Sun Never Sets on Planet Cool
431: David Bahnsen—Poor Smart and Desperate
430: Enrico Colantoni—The Balls on this Guy!
429: Gary Sinise—The Importance of Showing Up
428: Mike Albrecht—Got Wood?
427: Carlos Whittaker—How Fast is Godspeed?
426: Tim Allen Loves the Ballet
425: Darrell Lester—The Eight Letter F Word
424: Anson Frericks—Last Call for Bud Light
423: Alex Epstein—On Littering and Underpants
422: Darnell Epps—Where There's a Pulse There's a Purpose
421: Edward Ring—What to do About Bass
420: Coffee with Mom—Merry Freakin' Christmas!
419: Quentin Schultze & NEW STORY—The Story of His Life
418: David Alan Arnold—Dead Man's Curve
417: Nikki Stratton—All the Gallant Men
416: Nathan Walters—So You Want to be a Builder
415: Ronda Paulson—Drinking from a Firehose
414: Rob Lowe was Here… Literally!
413: Clinton Romesha—It Doesn't Get Better
412: Coffee with Mom—Pimping Out Your Brothers for Halloween with Peggy Rowe
411: Tim Pearce—Accuracy Under Fire
410: Nathan Fillion—Kind of a Big Deal
409: Dan Carlin & NEW STORY—A Perfect Hostage
408: Matt Malone—From the Ground Up
407: Kat Timpf—Hot Soup Goes In Hot Takes Come Out
406: Justin Folk—Am I Racist?
405: Ken Coleman—Meet the Stoics
404: Vinnie Tortorich—Talking Points and Scotch
403: Josh Smith—From First Blood to Last Bite
402: Coffee with Mom—The Bad Grammar Scammer with Peggy Rowe
401: Brent Haken—A Farmer is Fixing it
400:Sabin Howard—Born Cancelled
399: Jason Alexander—I Thought There'd be More Plumes
398: Victor Davis Hanson—So Goes Glory
397: Bishop W.C. Martin—Hope in Possum Trot
396: Frank H. McCourt, Jr,—Selected Garbage from Families of Distinction
395: Dennis Quaid—Getting All the Stuff Right
394: Kris Engelstad—Don't Call Her a Philanthropist
393: Pete Hegseth—The War on Warriors
392: Coffee with Mom—Keep an Eye on Your Son's Stool with Peggy Rowe
391: Chuck Klausmeyer & NEW STORY—Credit Where It's Due
390: Steven Pressfield—Pulling the Pin
389: Gavin de Becker—You Can Learn a Lot in a Smoke-Filled Airplane
388: Riley Gaines—Swimming Against the Current
387: Firefighters Candice McDonald and Jonathan Dayton—Make Me a Firefighter
386: Chuck Klausmeyer & NEW STORY—Here Be Dragons
385: Karey Kirkpatrick—I Don't Want to Manage People Like Me
384: Matt Hagan and Chloe Hudson—Freedom Food and Funny Cars
383: Coffee with Mom—Nude Sunbathing with America's Grandmother
382: Scott Mann—Individualism Rightly Understood
381: Chuck Klausmeyer & NEW STORY—The Face of an Angel
380: Steven Kurutz—American Flannel
379: Jordan Harbinger—Psst… Wanna Buy a Stadium Buddy?
378: Jeff Harmon & Neal Harmon—Surviving Disney
377: Peter Tilden—Sitting in a Puddle of Tilden
376: Will Swaim—An Unholy Incubator
375: Chuck Klausmeyer & NEW STORY—Nasty Little Instruments
374: Bill Whittle—No Man No Problem
373: Coffee with Mom—The Wedgie Kick with Peggy Rowe
372: Jimmy Failla Loves Fat Elvis
371: Denis Chetzan and Mary Sullivan—Chuck Gets a Haircut
370: Rikki Schlott—The Smartest Dropout I Know
369: Gabby Reece is Not in Compliance
368: Neal McDonough—The Luckiest Man on the Face of the Earth
367: Michael Easter—Scarcity Brain
366: Chuck Klausmeyer & NEW STORY—They Put Him in a Cage
365: Coffee with Mom—A Coffee Klatch Christmas with Peggy Rowe
364: John Dodd—Son of a Revolutionary
363: NEW STORY—Something to Chew On
362: Douglas Brunt—Don't Forget the Footnotes
361: Salena Zito—A Place and a Purpose in a World Gone Mad
360: Coffee with Mom—Let's Not Talk About Thanksgiving with Peggy Rowe
359: Brian Kilmeade—Teddy and Booker T.
358: Clint Hill and Lisa McCubbin Hill—Five Days in November
357: NEW STORY—She Blew the Doors Off
356: Travis Mills—The World's Biggest Therapist
355: Michael Shermer—Hunting for Anomalies
354: Coffee with Mom—They Like a Little Bit of Naughty with America's Grandmother
353: Scott Hamilton—I Never Got to Drive the Zamboni
352: Mailbag!
351: NEW STORY—Rough Delivery
350: Rob Long—The Age of Blunder
349: Teresa Strasser—How to Get Cal Ripken Jr.
348: Coffee with Mom—A Handsome Guy Who Likes to Lick You with America's Grandmother
347: Tim Ballard—Better a Millstone Around Your Neck
346: Coach Bill Courtney—Rolling Up to the Red Carpet in a Purple Crown Vic
345: NEW STORY—Enough!
344: Scott Mann—It's a Wonderful Life with Body Armor
343: Dr. John Delony—A Beer, Some Nachos, and a Barstool
342: Kevin O'Connor—Apple Juice and Saltines
341: Coffee with Mom—I Don't Know How to Arrange My Nickels with Peggy Rowe
340: Dr. Rahul Seth—My Happy Place is the Operating Room
339: Nick Schiffer—Will A.I. Build Your House
338: NEW STORY—It Might Be Worth Remembering
337: Chad Pregracke—America's Hardest Working Garbage Man
336: Nick Gillespie—A Perfectly Reasonable Chat
335: Coffee with Mom—Poetry Gets a Bad Rap with Peggy Rowe
334: Greg GUTFELD!—Coffee Runs the World
333: Chuck Klausmeyer—The Lady Who Puts Them in Me Will Be Thrilled
332: NEW STORY—His Final Destination
331: Stu Segall—Naked Volleyball and Other Strategic Operations
330: Scott Tingle—I'd Go in a Heartbeat
329: Coffee with Mom—You Can Give Them Your Underpants with Peggy Rowe
328: Johnny Joey Jones is Unbroken
327: Tony Ortega Doesn't Like Bullies Either
326: NEW STORY—The Class of '23
325: Bob Crawford—America's Founding Son
324: Jedidiah Thurner— Bonus Day
323: Akash Chougule—Reguflation and the Right to Try
322: Coffee with Mom—We're Gonna Need Both Bibles with Peggy Rowe
321: "Smokin'" Ed Currie—The Ring of Sting
320: NEW STORY—Braving the Elements
319: Michael Easter—Hunger is the Best Sauce
318: NEW STORY—That's Gonna Leave a Mark
317: Jason Williams—Adventure is Disaster Narrowly Averted
316: Dan Clare—Not On My Watch
315: Coffee with Mom—What, No Apple Pie?! with Peggy Rowe
314: Enes Kanter Freedom—Mr. Freedom Made a Promise to His Mother
313: We're Breaking Under the Weight of Our Own Weight with Vinnie Tortorich
312: BONUS STORY: Big Stars, Little Stars
311: It's Not a Job, It's a Lifestyle with Tom Odom
310: The Eternally Radical Idea with Greg Lukianoff
309: Coffee with Mom—Pelvic Thrusts and Ball Squeezing with America's Grandmother
308: Vivek Ramaswamy—Can You Handle the Truth
307: NEW STORY—You Can Look It Up
306: Celeste Headlee Can't Say A**hole on NPR
305: Charles C W Cooke Took an Oath
304: Scott Strode—The Shadow on the Wall is You
303: Bayard Winthrop—The Incredible Symphony of Things
302: Coffee with Mom—Have You Seen My Husband's Teeth?
301: Chad Houser—Give the Children Knives and Fire
300: Phil Keoghan is Fairly Interesting
299: NEW STORY—He Delivered the Message
298: Dan McMurtrie—Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fryer
297: Megyn Kelly and the Irish Goodbye
296: Coffee with Mom—It's Hatchet Throwing Season!!!
295: Todd Rose—We're Still We the People
294: Will Swaim—The Ballad of Tom Odom
293: Matt Walsh Made a Great Movie
292: Stacey Shumacher—When Animal Lovers Eat Their Own
291: Coffee with Mom—America's Grandmother is Done with Christmas Cards
290: Give Me a Sink Plunger and I'll Save the World
289: Shawn Pomrenke—There's No Place Like Nome
288: BONUS: Vacuuming in the Nude Chapters 15 & 16
287: Chuck Klausmeyer—Sooner or Later, You've Gotta Squeeze the Beaver
286: BONUS: Vacuuming in the Nude Chapters 13 & 14
285: Justin Hart—Scream Inside Your Heart
284: BONUS: Vacuuming in the Nude Chapters 11 & 12
283: Jack Nix—You Can't Lead from a Pickup Truck
282: BONUS: Vacuuming in the Nude Chapters 9 & 10
281: Mike Rinder—I'd Like to Buy a Vow
280: BONUS: Vacuuming in the Nude Chapters 7 & 8
279: Zack Hall—From Hollybush to Hollywood
278: OCCASIONALLY—Halloween 2022
277: BONUS: Vacuuming in the Nude Chapters 5 & 6
276: Clint Hill & Lisa McCubbin Hill—Best Road Trip Ever
275: BONUS: Vacuuming in the Nude Chapters 3 & 4
274: Nicholas Eberstadt—It's Worse Than You Think
273: BONUS: Vacuuming in the Nude Chapters 1 & 2
272: Coffee with Mom—"You Must be that Dirty Mother" with Peggy Rowe
271: Michael Shellenberger's Punk Rock Moment
270: Chuck Klausmeyer—Holy Crap, It's Thomas Crapper's Birthday!
269: Nick Searcy—Chuck Really Wants Me to be Friends with Nick Searcy
268: Salena Zito—A Place for the Placeless
267: Chuck Klausmeyer—A Prick in Congress
266: Tim Cotton—America's Cop is Always on Doodie
265: Tyrus—I've Been Fired Too Many Times to be Cocky
264: Coffee with Mom—Does Your Mom Really Vacuum in the Nude?
263: Let's Get Alex Epstein on Bill Maher
262: James Nestor—Let's Talk About Septums and Scrotums
261: Jack Carr is a Tomahawk Kinda Guy
260: Sue & Mike McCloskey—There's No Nipples on that Almond
259: Rick Beato—In Another Time He Could Have Been a Star
258: Best Guest Ever
257: Greg Lukianoff—Where the Chili Meets the Cheese
256: Evan Hafer—Just Because You're Pooping Doesn't Mean You're Out of Harm's Way
255: Michael Reagan—Just Say Nyet
254: Robert Kiyosaki—What the Hand Does the Mind Remembers
253: Bill Whittle—"They Get to Shoot Nazis... That's Fun!"
252: Luke Mickelson—The Gospel of Do-Goodery According to Luke
251: Matt Hagan—You Wear 40 Pounds of Gear Because, You Know, You're on Fire Quite a Bit
250: Jessie Hagan—They Want You to Find Them
249: Coffee with Mom—Sometimes When He Goes Stinky He Forgets to Hold Mr. Beeper Down and Winkles on the Wall with Peggy Rowe
248: I'll Attend His Graduation in a U-Haul
247: The Other Side of the Fourth Wall
246: Best Preamble Ever!
245: Mom, Do You Have a Stud Finder?
244: Where's the Beef?
243: The Best BBQ Comes From a Crockpot
242: Coming Out Blue Collar
241: The Maddest March Ever
240: The Crushing Certainty of Scientology
239: The Best Business Card in History
238: He Has Nodded on Our Undertakings
237: The Cookie Rojas of Cable
236: Don't Fly Over the Story
235: The Reports of Our Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
234: Diapers and Masks and Sharks, Oh My!
233: Jay Leno Makes His Own Sandwich
232: Wanna See Something Really Scary?
231: A Cornhole Christmas!
230: It's Not the Itching, It's the Chafing
229: A Symphony of Balls with John Rich
228: Good Question
227: About Those Safe Spaces
226: We're Not Making The Godfather
225: Why Does Jake Maynard Think My S.W.E.A.T. Pledge is Bonkers?
224: Rick Bitzelberger—"I Didn't Get It!"
223: David Keltz—Would You Care to Have Your Head Read?
222: Enrico Colantoni—I Don't Want to Recover From This
221: Tim Allen Lives on a Runway
220: Tim Cotton—The Duck of Justice Flies Again
219: Chris Poche—The Beard is Getting Itchy
218: Scott Flansburg—The Human Calculator is on a Mission
217: OCCASIONALLY – A Chat with Gary Sinise on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11
216: Off the Wall – A Message to Garcia, and Tim Johnson
215: Bill Whittle—Han Shot First
214: Travis Mills—There's a Fine Line Between a Hero and an Asshole
213: "It's Not What You'd Call a Page Turner"
212: Michael Orkin—It's Better than Good. It's Done!
211: "Can You Tell Me About the Testicles?" with Tim Ferriss
210: Don't Just Do Something, Stand There!
209: Oops, I Did It Again
208: The Potpourri is About to Hit the Fan!
207: That Time I Knocked a Famous Movie Star on His Ass
206: Who's Your Granddaddy
205: A King and a Crouch and Me on a Couch
204: A Quick Look Over the Railing
203: There's a Hole in Daddy's Arm
202: The Leaf Blower Stays In
201: Everybody Pees in the Pool
200: Smart Stupid – Now With Slightly More Stupid
199: Mothers Day - Now With Fewer Worms
198: Where Do I Begin
197: Everybody Run For Your Lives
196: Call It Macaroni
195: The Epistemological Jack-in-the-Box
194: Jon Stewart Owes Me $20!
193: Who Ya Gonna Call
192: Not Really a Ghost Story
191: Ghost Writers in the Sky
190: "That's a big-ash tree!!!"
189: Damnatio Memoriae (That's Latin for Cancel Culture)
188: How Much for a Round Trip
187: Beware the Irish Hammer
186: That Was Perfect Do It Again
185: Off By Roughly Two Trillion... AGAIN!!!
184: "I can't imagine Facebook is going to let you air this!"
183: Play That Funky Music White Boy
182: Mother Knows Best
181: Off by Roughly Two Trillion
180: Mike Rowe is Nothing but a Sellout
179: A Shot in the Dark
178: Be Wary of All Earnestness
177: It's Thanksgiving! What the Chuck?!
176: The Trouble With 159
175: His Brother's Keeper
174: Once Upon a Time in the Wild Wild West
173: Visiting Hours
172: An Unforgivable Overreaction
171: He Really Stuck With It
170: They Were All at Risk
169: A Mouse in the House
168: A Hooker You Can Trust
167: They Knew It When They Saw It
166: A Disaster in the Kitchen
165: The Feel Good Hit of the Summer
164: A Line in the Sand
163: He Was Not Inclined To Judge
162: OCCASIONALLY--Independence Day
161: Excess Baggage
160: A Groundbreaking Structure of Staggering Possibility
159: He Was Just Trying To Get Home
158: On the Pursuit of Satisfaction
157: A Novel Hero
156: A Bridge Too Far
155: Lullaby for a Crackhead
154: OCCASIONALLY--Quarantined Edition
153: An Offer They Couldn't Refuse
152: They Had Their Way With Her
151: He Was Ready For His Close Up
150: Dude Looks Like a Lady
149: Broadswords in a Pit
148: A Book to Pass the Time
147: Her Biggest Fan
146: OCCASIONALLY--Christmastime
145: Does This Look Infected
144: A Legend In His Own Mind
143: Rude Awakenings
142: OCCASIONALLY--Halloween
141: On Average 15 Times a Day
140: Another Band of Brothers
139: A Penniless Singer
138: An Extraordinary Swap
137: A Bona Fide Sex Symbol
136: A Boy And His Dog
135: The Illegitimate Son-of-a-Smith
134: Not Your Typical Homemaker
133: Call It What You Will
132: Harvey's Future Ex-Wife
131: The Mystery of the Vanishing Woman
130: A Tale of Two Pupils
129: Mother Knows Best
128: One Hell of a Toll
127: No Polite Way To Put It
126: Smooth Operator
125: On The Importance of Staying Grounded
124: At The Crossroads
123: Another Tortured Artist
122: The Cherry Pie Is To Die For
121: Her Most Notable Assets
120: 30 Minutes of Disappointing Television
119: They Shook On It
118: A Rapacious Capitalist
117: Some Kind of Consequence
116: A Little Town Up North
115: A Conventional Hero
114: A Manly Man, A Gold Medal, and A Really Big Sea
113: According To Peter
112: No Ordinary Fan
111: Can You Be There By Nine?
110: The Man Who Ran Away
109: The Biggest Name In Town
108: Words Worth Remembering
107: His Last Letter Home
106: Keep Your Voice Down
105: Just What the Doctor Ordered
104: The One Percenters
103: A Girl Named Frank
102: The Manchester Cowboy
101: The Way I Talked About The Way I Heard It
100: How Not To Ruin Your Most Expensive Suit
99: My Little Machine
98: Send Me The Bill
97: A Very Lucky Lady
96: The Pilot and the Passenger
95: Something Is Missing
94: On The Importance of Better Driving
93: As Long As It's Legal
92: Sharp as a Tack
91: A Potty Mouth With a Secret
90: A Man Well Hung
89: Armed For Love
88: The Missiles of December
87: A Town Where Anything Can Happen
86: Francisco's Flakes
85: Strange Bedfellows
84: A Very High Bar
83: How Soon They Forget
82: The Men Behind Bars
81: The Consultant
80: How The Game Was Played
79: Bobby Brings Home the Bacon
78: Give That Man a Cigar
77: How To Get Rich and Save Lives by Talking Dirty
76: A Hot Babe Who Liked It Rough
75: A Safe Space
74: The Ride of His Life
73: Monkey Business
72: Better Late Than Never
71: Head In The Clouds
70: You Might Feel a Little Pinch
69: "A Little Dab'll Do Ya!"
68: A Nice Girl From Wisconsin
67: Charlie's Big Break
66: A Serial Inventor
65: A Full Figured Gal
64: It's Good To Be The King
63: Render Unto Caesar
62: I'd Like To Buy a Vowel
61: When the World's on Fire
60: Something to Stand For
59: A Hero Under the Influence
58: A Lesser Known Vessel
57: But Who's Counting
56: Something Unforgettable and Real
55: The Man Behind the Microphone
54: The Boy Who Loved to Fly
53: A Simple Solution
52: A Patient Man
51: Kids Stuff
50: Size Matters
49: Dream Job
48: An Unmistakable Sound
47: On Thin Branches
46: Fair Warning
45: The Biscuit Bomb
44: The Greaseman Cometh
43: The Paint Salesman
42: A Standing Ovation
41: Words, Words, Words
40: Chip Off the Old Block
39: A Rose By Any Other Name
38: On Self Abuse
37: Man of Faith
36: Oh Brother!
35: The Code Breaker
34: That's All Folks
33: You Don't Know Mike
32: The Dreamer
31: The Hangman & The Windsor Knot
30: The Demoted Deserter
29: The 100 Billion Dollar Bar
28: An Incredible Reinvention
27: Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
26: Rose Garden Rubbish
25: The Prisoner
24: Big Guy, Little Guy
23: Donnie's Secret
22: In Laws on the Outs
21: The Coward of the Deep
20: Fred's Final Wish
19: John's Portuguese Cousin
18: The Toymaker
17: The Lady Calls the Shots
16: The Orphan Hero
15: Sorry, Wrong Number
14: The American Rock Star
13: On My Honor
12: One Hit Wonder
11: Lord of Loud
10: Lord of Light
9: The Longshot
8: It's a Shame About Your Face
7: "Be right back, hon!"
6: "This isn't funny!"
5: Breaking The Silence
4: Little Bits Of Corpse
3: Clean Up On Aisle 4!
2: He Had It All
1: The 25 Million Dollar Kiss
Introducing 'The Way I Heard It'