342: Kevin O'Connor—Apple Juice and Saltines

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

History, Society & Culture

4.9 • 40.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

This Old House's Kevin O'Connor talks about the serendipitous non-audition audition that landed him a job on the longest-running how-to show on TV, what it was like to embed with Team Rubicon to film his new Roku show, what masculinity really looks like, and how to treat a razor wound.

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0:00.0	Episode number 342 of the way I heard it is called Apple Juice and Saltines
0:09.5	for reasons that will be made clear momentarily.
0:13.2	Chuck, I don't want to give away too much, but I'm happy to report that the bleeding
0:16.5	has stopped.
0:17.7	That is good news.
0:19.3	And did the Apple Juice and Saltines help as our guest suggested you
0:23.7	tried to bring down the bleeding? I believe I may have misapplied both of them. But enough of that.
0:30.8	Our guest is Kevin O'Connor. If his name rings a bell, it's because your taste in television is excellent.
0:38.9	You've watched this old house.
0:41.2	It's been on for 45 years.
0:43.8	Kevin has been hosting for 20.
0:47.3	This is a show that's near and dear to me.
0:50.8	The longevity is unrivaled in its category anyway. It's such a great conversation for us to have
0:58.6	around Labor Day. MicroWorks will be 15 years old on Labor Day. This old house is a true
1:05.5	love letter to really everything I've hoped to accomplish with the foundation. And it's so gratifying, man,
1:12.9	to be able to talk to a guy like Kevin. You'll remember they had me on this old house about five
1:17.7	years ago. Helped us raise half a million dollars or so for our scholarship program. What a fun
1:23.9	guy to talk to. What a great guy to talk to. We did a test yesterday and I had a great time chatting with him.
1:30.4	He's real nice.
1:31.4	He, like you, is the same on TV and in person.
1:36.0	That's just a fact, you know.
1:37.5	He seems exactly like he does on the show to me.
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