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

garbage man, featuring the one and only,

Chad Pagraki.

And Chuck, I'm guessing you would agree.

You haven't met anybody like Chad Pagraki

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 it's 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.

13.5 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, he 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 Brick Lare 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

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