267: Chuck Klausmeyer—A Prick in Congress

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 39.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

They say you can’t judge a book by its cover and that is certainly true with this week’s special Labor Day episode. It begins with a true story written by Mike about a particularly industrious Dirty Jobber, and it ends with Mike and Chuck discussing the origins of Labor Day, America’s work ethic crisis, and the pros and cons of labor unions.

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0:00.0	Well, hello there, and happy Labor Day, unless, of course, you're listening to this,
0:09.4	and it's not Labor Day, but right now it's Labor Day, by golly. And this is the way I heard it,
0:14.8	episode number 267. And Chuck, after a careful consideration, I've decided to call this one a prick in Congress.
0:23.6	What do you think?
0:24.1	I think that's a very good call.
0:25.3	Very good call indeed.
0:26.4	That's the title of the story you're going to read, isn't it?
0:29.2	Yes.
0:29.6	This episode started out as what we used to call in occasionally, and I was going to celebrate
0:34.7	Labor Day by reading a story that I wrote some years ago called a prick in Congress.
0:40.5	But of course, as some of you may know, Labor Day is also the occasion of MicroWorks' – that's hard to say.
0:49.4	It is.
0:50.1	Awkward to hear, really.
0:51.8	It is. It's hard to say and annoying to hear it.
0:53.7	But MicroWorks's birthday is also today.
0:59.5	You know, what is the rule on that? So happy birthday to us.
1:01.7	Yeah, happy birthday to us, right. But more importantly, is it MicroWorks's or MicroWorks? When you have two Ss like that, it ends in an S and then you add an apostrophe. It's the,
1:11.7	what is it, the possessive. Possessive, exactly. And so I think it's fair to say micro works
1:18.0	instead of micro workses. Well, I mean, I hope it's more than fair. I think anything other than
1:25.1	that really makes you think, gosh, the guy I'm listening to just had a stroke or something.
1:31.6	He stuttered, yeah.
1:32.9	Yeah, it sounds awkward, and it looks awkward on the page, too.
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