It's the way I heard it, episode number 337, specifically America's hardest working

garbage man, featuring the one and only, Chad Pagrake. And Chuck, I'm guessing you would agree.

You haven't met anybody like Chad Pagrake recently, if ever? No, he's kind of one of a kind.

I mean, he's a guy who stumbled into the do-goodery accidentally, and now he's on a mission to

clean America's arteries, which are our waterways, the Mississippi, the Ohio River.

He's pulling up just literally millions of pounds of garbage out of these places.

13 and a half million pounds so far over the last 20 years.

If he sounds familiar, it's probably because I've been singing his praises in some way or another since 2010, I think.

Chad sent a video to the Dirty Jobs production office years ago, just outlining what he was doing on the Mississippi.

And in a nutshell, he had raised enough money to

buy a barge a giant garbage barge and he basically was just a self-appointed custodian of the rivers

and he put together a modest crew of volunteers and they took it upon themselves to start pulling

refrigerators and tires and refuse and, I mean,

just everything you can imagine and a lot of things you can't out of our rivers. And so this video

was so good, but dirty jobs had in those days, we were basically booked. I just couldn't fit him in the schedule.

And then I heard about this contest that Mitchum, the deodorant guys were sponsoring,

called the hardest working blank in America, hardest working baker, hardest working bricklayer.

And so people would write in their nominations for people they knew who worked their butts off doing something important.

And I just thought, well, let's see what happens.

I was shooting in a gar, I was at a dump, Chuck, here in San Francisco.

And I thought, you know what, I'm going to nominate this guy and send in this video. And I filmed it at the dump in San Francisco. And I thought, you know what? I'm going to nominate this guy and send in this video.

And I filmed it at the dump in San Francisco.

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