395: Dennis Quaid—Getting All the Stuff Right
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
Release Date: 07/16/2024
492: Jon Erwin—Young Washington
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
Before he became the Father of His Country, George Washington was a young man with doubts, ambitions, failures, and a calling that would eventually shape a nation. Mike sits down with filmmaker and entrepreneur Jon Erwin to discuss his new film Young Washington, and to explore the remarkable true story behind America's most iconic founder. Jon also shares how he launched The Wonder Project and his mission to tell stories that elevate faith, hope, and the human spirit. Along the way, he recounts the extraordinary legacy of his grandfather, a recipient of the Medal of Honor whose courage during...
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491: MacKenzie Price—The Most Talked About School in the World
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
What if school could be reimagined from the ground up? This week, Mike sits down with entrepreneur and education innovator , the founder of , a model that's attracting global attention for helping students learn twice as much in half the time. Using artificial intelligence, personalized learning, and an unconventional approach to education, MacKenzie is challenging nearly every assumption about how kids should be taught. She also makes the case that meaningful change in education won't come from top-down mandates, but from bottom-up solutions created by parents, teachers, and entrepreneurs...
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490: Peggy Rowe—About My Father
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
In honor of Father’s Day, we’re sharing several hilarious chapters from the audio version of Peggy Rowe’s bestselling book About Your Father. Buy all three audiobooks from bestselling author Peggy Rowe for $30 or $15 individually at: Tip o’ the hat to our excellent sponsor Pure Talk is matching donations dollar for dollar until they hit two hundred fifty THOUSAND DOLLARS for America’s Warrior Partnership, who is on the frontlines of supporting our veterans.
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489: Michael Easter—The Hard Way
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
Why do so many of the things that make us stronger, healthier, and happier require doing things the hard way? Mike sits down with bestselling author, journalist, and researcher to explore the surprising benefits of discomfort, challenge, and voluntary hardship in a world engineered for convenience. Easter, whose work has appeared in Men’s Health, Outside, Esquire, and Scientific American, discusses the ideas behind his bestselling books The Comfort Crisis and Scarcity Brain, along with his newest release, . From carrying heavy loads to carrying life's burdens, Michael explains why the...
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488: Connor Boyack—Spontaneous Order
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
Spontaneous Order might sound like a contradiction, but according to author, entrepreneur, and educator Connor Boyack, some of society’s most important innovations emerge without a master plan. Mike sits down with Connor, the bestselling co-creator and co-author of The Tuttle Twins book series that inspired the hit animated show, founder and president of the and a leading advocate for teaching the principles of liberty, entrepreneurship, personal responsibility, and free markets to the next generation. Connor shares the mission that drives his work: helping families understand how free...
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487: Blake Scholl—Making Supersonic Travel Real
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
Mike Rowe sits down with Blake Scholl, the former Amazon software engineer turned aerospace entrepreneur who walked away from Silicon Valley to revive supersonic passenger travel. As the founder of , Blake explains the century-long pursuit of faster flight. From the Cold War race to break the sound barrier to the rise—and fall—of the Concorde, Blake explains why supersonic travel disappeared just as it seemed destined to change aviation forever. He also shares how Boom Supersonic is working to make high-speed passenger flight practical again, and what it will take to shrink a 12-hour...
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486: Jason Ladanye—Nothing Up His Sleeve
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
Mike sits down with master card mechanic and sleight-of-hand expert , whose impossible demonstrations of gambling moves and psychological deception have earned him a reputation as one of the best card handlers working today. Jason explains how a childhood obsession with cards—and an influential mentorship with legendary magician Darwin Ortiz—shaped his career performing around the world. Along the way, Jason shows Mike how magicians secretly track cards through a shuffled deck, demonstrates the art of bottom dealing, and reveals why the real secret behind great magic isn’t fast...
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485: Josh Smith—Made FOR America
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
Founder and president of Josh Smith sits down with Mike to discuss his unlikely path from working as a lineman to becoming one of America’s premier master bladesmiths. The conversation dives into the grit, craftsmanship, and obsession with quality that helped turn a small operation into one of the fastest-growing knife manufacturers in the country. The two also talk about the grand opening of MKC’s brand-new 50,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Missoula, where Josh explains why controlling his supply chain matters now more than ever—and what “Made in America” actually...
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484: Tom Albanese—The Metals at the Bottom of the Ocean
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
In this episode Mike explores the growing race for critical minerals hidden deep beneath the Pacific Ocean with mining executive Tom Albanese, Chairman of and former CEO of Rio Tinto and Vedanta Resources. Tom has spent more than four decades in the global mining and metals business, overseeing some of the largest resource projects on earth. Now he’s focused on something even more ambitious: harvesting polymetallic nodules from the ocean floor—potato-sized rocks packed with nickel, cobalt, copper, manganese, and rare earth elements that are critical to batteries, AI infrastructure,...
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483: Peggy Rowe—Mother’s Day with Mom… LIVE!
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
In this special LIVE edition of Coffee with Mome, Mike heads home for Mother’s Day and sits down with the woman who taught him everything worth knowing — his mom, Peggy Rowe. Recorded in front of a live audience at the place Peggy refers to as The Home, this episode is filled with the warmth, wit, and wonderfully sharp observations fans have come to expect from America’s Grandmother. From family stories and hard-earned wisdom to laughter that only comes from decades of shared history, Mike and Peggy talk about motherhood, growing older disgracefully, and the strange adventure of becoming...
info_outlineThe veteran actor and gospel singer recounts his early career, what made him give up his dream of becoming a veterinarian, how he realized he had a problem with cocaine and what he did to fix it, how Jerry Lee Lewis taught him to play the piano, and what it was like playing Ronald Reagan for his upcoming movie. And at the end of the episode—he sings a song! See the trailer for REAGAN HERE.