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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

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...

Episodes

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508: Toby Rice—Got Gas?

What do you get when you combine labor, energy, and intelligence? According to Toby Rice , you get the ingredients for abundance—and a bette...

01:24:02Oct 20, 2026

507: Jim McKelvey—A Square Peg in a Glass Hole

Jim McKelvey is an entrepreneur, innovator, computer engineer, and master glassblower who helped build a billion-dollar company. That's not...

01:11:20Oct 13, 2026

506: Nick Nichols—Folds of Honor

What does it really feel like to fly into combat knowing you may not come home? Colonel Nick Nichols knows the answer. A 30-year Air Force v...

01:49:22Oct 6, 2026

505: Brooke Rollins—Where's the Beef?

This is a two-parter in one episode! Part One was recorded in May, when Mike sat down with Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins to talk abou...

01:07:49Sep 29, 2026

504: Victor Davis Hanson—The Counter Revolution

What happens when a nation forgets the value of the people who make, build, fix, and grow things? Historian, classicist, farmer, and Hoover...

01:34:05Sep 22, 2026

503: Alex Clark—Don't Eat That

What if some of the food we've been told is convenient, affordable, and perfectly safe is actually making us sick? Alex Clark , host of the...

01:13:33Sep 15, 2026

502: Chris Power—The Other Hadrian's Wall

Nearly 2,000 years ago, Roman Emperor Hadrian built a wall to protect the empire's northern frontier. Today, another Hadrian is building som...

01:03:48Sep 8, 2026

501: Andy Stumpf—Gray Noise

Andy Stumpf knows what it takes to operate when everything goes wrong. A former Navy SEAL who served with SEAL Team Six, Stumpf spent 17 yea...

02:33:06Sep 1, 2026

500: Tamara Thornton—The Mother of Mach

What happens when your son drops out of MIT at 19, starts a defense company in his twenties, and sets out to reinvent the way America builds...

49:20Aug 25, 2026

499: Ted Decker & Ian Cinnamon—Orbiting Home

What do a Home Depot employee and a satellite have in common? More than you might think. In this episode, Mike Rowe talks with two CEOs abou...

01:12:28Aug 18, 2026

498: Bill Whittle—Communism for Dummies

What exactly is communism—and why has it failed so spectacularly everywhere it's been tried? Bill Whittle has spent years answering those qu...

01:33:28Aug 11, 2026

497: Ethan Thornton—I Like a Lotta Problems

Ethan Thornton doesn't shy away from problems—he goes looking for them. At just 22, the founder of Mach Industries is tackling some of the b...

02:02:45Aug 4, 2026

496: Dr. Philip Ovadia—Meat is Medicine

For decades, Americans have been told that cholesterol is public enemy number one. But cardiologist and heart surgeon Dr. Philip Ovadia says...

01:48:18Jul 28, 2026

495: Todd Rose—One Good Thing

Todd Rose , bestselling author of Collective Illusions , former Harvard professor, and co-founder of Populace , joins Mike for a conversatio...

01:50:39Jul 21, 2026

494: Scott Bessent—What's Up with Those Trump Accounts

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent joins Mike for a wide-ranging conversation about the state of the U.S. economy, the ideas behind his influe...

52:19Jul 14, 2026

493: JD Vance—Communion

Vice President JD Vance joins Mike for a wide-ranging conversation about faith, family, and the future of America. From the dignity of work...

01:10:23Jul 7, 2026

492: Jon Erwin—Young Washington

Before he became the Father of His Country, George Washington was a young man with doubts, ambitions, failures, and a calling that would eve...

01:41:12Jun 30, 2026

491: MacKenzie Price—The Most Talked About School in the World

What if school could be reimagined from the ground up? This week, Mike sits down with entrepreneur and education innovator MacKenzie Price ,...

01:55:31Jun 23, 2026

490: About My Father

In honor of Father's Day, we're sharing several hilarious chapters from the audio version of Peggy Rowe's bestselling book About Your Father...

29:57Jun 20, 2026

489: Michael Easter—The Hard Way

Why do so many of the things that make us stronger, healthier, and happier require doing things the hard way? Mike sits down with bestsellin...

01:56:56Jun 16, 2026