206: Who's Your Granddaddy

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 39.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

After sharing the true story of a hard-charging master sergeant with a voice like a jackhammer who went on to become a famous artist, Mike recalls the lessons learned from his soft-spoken grandfather – an artist of a different kind - whose unique talents inspired a show called Dirty Jobs, and a foundation called mikeroweWORKS. It’s a rumination on men who scream, and men who whisper, complete with a song about a nose that wouldn’t stop bleeding.

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0:30.0	Hey guys, it's Mike Grove. This is the way I heard it episode number 206.
0:37.0	It's called Who's Your Grand Daddy?
0:39.0	Not Who's Your Daddy? Who's Your Grand Daddy?
0:43.0	For the record, this is a rhetorical question.
0:46.0	I'm not asking for an actual answer.
0:48.0	It would be the name of your grandfather, either a maternal or paternal.
0:53.0	I am instead posing a broad-based query designed to make you consider the impact of grandfathers on polite society in general.
1:02.0	And more specifically share with you the impact of mine on me.
1:06.0	Apologies, incidentally, for the sound quality.
1:10.0	My trusty microphone has officially crafted bed and it is no longer interfacing the way it's supposed to with garage band.
1:18.0	So you're hearing me on the microphone from my computer.
1:23.0	I hope you don't mind.
1:25.0	Point being this rumination on grandfathers regardless of what it sounds like is preceded by the true story of a master sergeant in the Air Force who spent the first part of his career yelling at his recruits and the second part becoming a famous artist.
1:42.0	This man, this master sergeant with a voice like a jackhammer, reminds me a lot of my own grandfather, a man named Carl Noble.
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