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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

279: From Hollybush to Hollywood

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Society & Culture, History

4.839.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Dirty Jobs field producer, Zack Hall checks in from his Kentucky holler to discuss how he snuck his way into reality TV, his encounter with Bigfoot, and the new season of Dirty Jobs (filled with spoiler alerts!)

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0:00.0

Well, hello, my friends. It's the way I heard it episode number 279. This one is called

0:09.9

from Hollywood to Hollywood because that's exactly what my friend's accol has done.

0:16.9

Would you think of him, Chuck? Oh, he's an interesting cat. No doubt about it. He's

0:21.0

a fun guy. I could listen to him talk all day. I love his accent. You know what I forgot

0:26.3

to ask him is, did they get it right unjustified? Did they get the Kentucky accent? Right. Cause

0:33.2

he mentioned it at the beginning. You know, he's a big fan of the show as well. So yeah,

0:38.0

you know, I think he probably would have said they did. I think they got it right. I mean,

0:42.0

what do I know? Zach Hall, by the way, is the field producer on dirty jobs. He's the

0:47.9

guy who I've been traveling with for the last year or so. We've got a new season coming

0:53.2

out second week of December. It looks like December 11th. And I thought it would be fun to

0:58.2

have him on because I get a lot of questions about him. Who's the big guy with the beard,

1:03.0

with the funny hillbilly accent? Well, his name is Zach Hall. And I wanted to introduce

1:09.1

him to you guys because you're going to be seeing a lot more of him on the show this season.

1:14.2

But also because he embodies a lot of what we talk about on this podcast. I mean, he

1:20.2

lives in a holler, a true holler in southeastern Kentucky called holly bush and how he wound

1:28.2

up becoming a producer and a cameraman and a real working producer in Hollywood, a true

1:36.1

freelancer. I thought it was a pretty good story. He did it the old fashioned way, Mike.

1:40.8

He earned it. He was persistent. He showed a lot of work ethic and a lot of gumption.

1:47.9

He volunteered for the crappiest job and he literally drove himself from wherever he

1:55.5

is in Kentucky, from holly bush literally to Hollywood to original productions. He'll

2:00.7

tell you the story. Nox on the door and says, Hey, I want to be a cameraman on Deadliest

2:04.7

Catch, which at the time is, you know, it's like the number one nonfiction reality show

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