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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

350: Rob Long—The Age of Blunder

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

History, Society & Culture

4.940.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

The writer and executive producer of Cheers discusses how American culture is being held hostage to squeaky wheels, how quickly-acquired generational wealth is changing American business, and how every great showbusiness success wouldn't be without a great blunder.
 

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0:00.0

Mike Rowe here with another episode of Say it, Chuck.

0:07.0

The way I heard it.

0:09.2

See?

0:09.6

And you say we never do anything together anymore.

0:12.6

How are you, everyone?

0:14.1

You probably haven't missed me because we haven't missed an episode of the podcast because Chuck is such a diligent producer.

0:19.7

But the truth is, I've been away for the last

0:21.7

couple of weeks. There was a family reunion in Baltimore, and then there was a trip to Italy for a

0:27.3

buddy's birthday, and so we were kind of ahead of the curve for a bit. So this is the first time

0:33.1

in a couple of weeks. I find myself sitting here. Looking at your, your hair, which is growing like

0:39.4

a weed, a gray weed, albeit, but nevertheless, man, I like it. Well, thanks. I'm going to see

0:45.2

how long I can go before it just totally irritates me. You know, I have a friend named Rob,

0:50.4

well, let's just say Rob. Anyway, and Rob had long, long hair way down to his side.

0:56.1

And one day I saw him, he walked into this place where I was, and he was completely bald, absolutely, like, shaved.

1:05.1

His head was shaved.

1:06.1

And it was so unusual, because he's like a rock star guy kind of guy.

1:09.4

I say to Rob, I go, Rob, what happened to your hair?

1:12.4

And he goes, you know, I was driving the car with the window down and I just kept doing this.

1:20.4

And that was it. That was his reason. He had to spit it. You know, his hair was getting in his mouth.

1:24.6

And he just got irritated. And so he shaved it all off. And he says, and now that i've done it and i see how bad my head looks i'll never do it again but that's the way

1:32.5

so many things happen you know like marriage is end because somebody left the cap off the toothpaste right

1:40.2

and like suddenly you're having this terrible fight and obviously, of course, it's not

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