86: Francisco's Flakes
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
4.9 • 40.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2017
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
A tale of award-winning flakes and delayed gratification.
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes things that are your type on paper don't always turn out to be for you in real life. |
| 0:05.6 | That's why T-levels, which mix classroom and on the job learning, |
| 0:10.0 | can help you decide what to do next while you're doing it. |
| 0:13.2 | Designed with employers, they can help you get the jump into work, |
| 0:17.4 | and apprenticeship, or university. |
| 0:20.2 | With subjects covering software production and design, |
| 0:23.2 | construction and health and science to an MFU, |
| 0:25.8 | search Get the Jump and see what's out there for you. |
| 0:29.8 | This is the way I heard it. |
| 0:37.8 | On a hot July night in Southern California, |
| 0:40.2 | long after the cast and crew had wrapped another 12-hour day, |
| 0:44.2 | Francisco lingered in the shadows of his imaginary town, |
| 0:48.2 | watching the deer wander along his make-believe streets, |
| 0:52.2 | foraging for cereal. |
| 0:54.2 | It's not as weird as it sounds. |
| 0:56.6 | In those days, Hollywood snow was made of cornflakes. |
| 1:00.2 | Special effects artists would bleach them white, |
| 1:03.0 | crush them into little pieces, |
| 1:04.8 | and sprinkle them onto famous actors. |
| 1:07.8 | On screen, the toasted flakes look plausible, |
| 1:10.8 | especially in old black and white movies. |
| 1:13.2 | But in real life, they were also delicious, |
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