79: Bobby Brings Home the Bacon

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 39.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2017

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Only problem is - it's not Bobby's bacon.

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0:00.0	So, will it be skiing?
0:03.0	Or Christmas markets on a city break?
0:06.0	Skiing? Or a city break?
0:09.0	Some problems are good problems to have.
0:12.0	Especially with flights this winter from 29.99 one-way
0:17.0	and package holidays from £159 per person.
0:21.0	Get the king at EasyJet.com.
0:24.0	Selected dates, holidays at all protected based on two adults for three nights,
0:28.0	restrictions and season C's apply.
0:30.0	This is the way I heard it.
0:38.0	At the Grammy Awards, Britney Spears forgot to thank the pig.
0:42.0	Nobody called her on it, but looking back, the facts are clear.
0:46.0	Without that pig, Britney would have never sold 100 million albums.
0:51.0	No way.
0:52.0	Likewise, George Lucas would have never gotten star wars on the big screen.
0:56.0	And Neil Armstrong would have never walked on the moon.
0:59.0	And yet, none of these people ever acknowledged the pig.
1:04.0	Bobby, on the other hand, he thought about that pig every day.
1:08.0	And why wouldn't he?
1:10.0	Thanks to the pig, Bobby died with a net worth of $3.2 billion
1:15.0	at a product that changed everything.
1:19.0	Fundamentally, Bobby was a tinkerer and a risk taker.
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