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Mike Rowe

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first: 2016-05-04
most recent: 2016-05-04
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“Well, no, that I'm afraid is a bit beyond my pay grade, but I'd like to thank him for listening to his free associate for three hours. That was very decent of them. And I would Look, advice is that thing you ask for when you secretly know the answer and wish you didn't. So I'm stingy with giving it. But Robert Plant really had it right, man. There is time to change the road you're on, whatever the road is, and I've just had a ball blowing things up in my own fake little career, and I'd encourage more people to as well.”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right. So the way I heard it is really me in advance. You know, when somebody says, hey, that story about Bruno Mars, you know, you said as Peter Hernandez, he went by Pete, you know, not Peter. And I could say, hey, look, man, this is just the way I heard it. What do you want from me? It's a big sloppy, googly world out there. You don't like. I tell you what, you don't like it? Why don't you get a podcast and do your version?”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The way I heard it, I'm managing expectations a little bit, right? Because people get so pedantic now with facts. I mean, how much grief do you get if you get a stat wrong or a date wrong?”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, they're so short that you'll know if you like them, even if the subject matter isn't your favorite right out of the gate. I mean, they're literally five minutes long. So I'd actually start at the beginning. I'd listen to the first one. And then I would listen to the most recent one. And then you'll hear a bit of a shift between the two, but not seismic. You'll just get a better sense of where I'm headed. Not a big change at all. And then if you like them, just cherry-pick one in the middle. And then who are we kidding? You can listen to right now by the time this thing gets posted. What is that? A hundred minutes? Listen”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Going to be fine. It's going to be fine. And then, as sort of a side note, I would have said, stop wearing makeup on camera. It just makes you look weird.”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay, not to be glib, but I I don't believe I would advise myself in hindsight only because you hate to tear a hole in the time space continuum. You know, you step on the butterfly the next thing, you know, right? You know, the mastodons are, you know, singing show tunes when you come back or something crazy stuff. But I would pull myself aside in the very, very early days of, actually, I was hired in QBC at the, I was 28, and when I was 30, I was on the verge of my own, I won't quite say a mental collapse, but I knew I couldn't do that anymore, and I was trying to figure out if I could go into the whole entertainment business and freelance in an effective way. And it gave me hives. I mean, I was really, I was scared, you know, if I could go back, I would have probably just pulled myself. aside and said”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The brain across the table is enormous, and I suddenly look around and say why aren't we recording this? You know, that's a show. But so is this, you know, I mean.”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right, so I don't know about you, but I'm watching this on TV. And the only question tearing through my mind is, what the fuck was that? How the hell is this possible? So I called an astrophysicist, I knew, over at Berkeley. And I said, hey, meet me over at Grumpy's. There's a little bar down in the financial district here in San Francisco. We sit down, get a couple of beers, and I look at him just like I'm looking at you right now, and I say What the hell just happened? And he said, I know, right? You have lots of questions. I said, I have so many questions. I mean, I get that meteorites are out there. I get that sooner or later one of them is going to flip our switch, but how did we not see it coming? How did it get past the satellite net? And for the next 20 minutes, he explained everything I needed to know about meteorites and satellites, right? Interestingly, that same day I had narrated most of episode four of how the universe works. So it's on my mind. The beer is cold.”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh my God. Okay, I just have to tell you that is the story of my life. That's actually why I'm here today, and it's why I'm still in television. I'm working on a project now called Drinking with Geniuses. It's just a title in my head. And I went ahead and locked it up because it sounds like a show or something. And it happened because...”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To people who give a crap in a specific way. And, you know, that's always been the struggle from a connectivity standpoint.”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Everybody has access to these books, not yours specifically, but you know, you get to choose whatever books you want to have in your house or your apartment. You get to choose all these things. Everybody has those same choices. I personally don't think that the democratization of innovation will make more people innovative. I think it'll make the people who are predisposed to be curious and inventive more so. Likewise education. I think it's a trap to suggest that if we build it, they'll come. It just has never happened before. There's always going to be a weeding out process. But I think what you do on this podcast is really valuable in a way that goes beyond whatever it's financial model might be. You're talking specifically.”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Look, you're either, I don't know, when I try and really think in terms of what are the real fundamentals that drive education and ultimately prosperity, however we choose to define it, it's hard to get more granular than curiosity. You're either curious or you're not. And, you know, the real geniuses that I've stumbled across are people who can inspire curiosity. It's not about imparting knowledge. It's about flicking the switch. You've got great books here on your shelf.”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And that is a millstone around your neck, and it's no reason for it. Look, each of us in our pockets right now have a device that proves the ultimate democratization of information. Never before has knowledge been so egalitarian. You know, once upon a time I get it, you know, and you can't, it's not fair to compare a Harvard lecture to a deep dive down the YouTube rabbit hole, but it's not completely unfair either because we have access now like we never have.”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Unless I mean look, I only say that because I don't know how we're going to get the cost down. But if we do, then never mind. Then look, I went to a community college for two years right out of high school. I had no idea what I wanted to do. I had just assembled my new toolbox. I didn't have anything in it yet. So I studied everything. At a community college, and I was amazed in hindsight at how good the philosophy professors were and how smart. Communications, philosophy, and speech. But by then I knew what I was paying for. And again, I could afford it. I finished in late in 1984. There's just no way that happens today. A kid in my exact same circumstance, the math isn't there. He cannot afford to do it. And if he does, he's going to finish up about forty-five grand in the hole.”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He's anti education. I'm not. I wouldn't trade my education for anything, and I challenge anybody who says there's any hope of success without it. But when people say how the hell can college get so expensive, man, the answer is right in front of us. We've been telling kids for fifty years the best path for the most people is in this direction. And here's an unlimited pile of money. Borrow as much as you need. Is it any wonder tuition has gone up faster than the cost of real estate food, energy, health care, and five hundred percent of inflation over the last forty years? It's unprecedented. But we're still doing it, Tim. We are lending money. We don't have to kids who will never be able to pay it back to train them for jobs that don't exist anymore.”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“About the work I do is going to be based on caring very much about it. And it just required a complete brain dump and reset button. It's hard to do that at 42, but it's even harder now, I think, at twenty-six, because now you've got your paper, right? You've graduated, you've done well, you've done everything everybody told you to do, but you've just realized there's the opportunity in the field you've studied is not what you thought it was. The ninety thousand dollars in student loans is. That's not going away. And so it's just a terrible thing to have your coffee served to you by, you know, a double major in polycyan medieval French. It's kind of tragic. Whatever we do, it has to happen between high school and this period of declaration and this horrible assumption of mindless debt. Look, when I say things like this, I always get criticism because people say, he's anti-college.”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I would say, look, you got to get a job. You have to do something, call it an apprenticeship, call it an internship, call it a, I don't know, but we have to back away from the pressure that's conspired to drive so many kids so far into debt and start to go down a road so soon. Because really, look, I always think there's time to change the road you're on, Robert Plant last stanza, stairway to heaven, but it's hard. And you know, I was very lucky. I did it at 42.”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, the first thing, I mean, and there is no bromide for all these kids, but in general, I think we make a horrible mistake matriculating right out of high school, right into college. I think it's a hell of a thing to ask a seventeen year old kid to declare a major, borrow money. I mean, the pressure to borrow is my mind numbing $1.3 trillion in student loans today. $5.8 million jobs nobody's trained for, a widening skills gap, and this increasing belief that somebody's moved our cheese. 25% of millennials are living back home. We're just doing it wrong. I think the general answer to your question is, I don't know about books or movies and things. Those impact everybody differently, I would take a year.”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I didn't think anybody was making an affirmative case for work ethic. So we look for kids. I'm less interested in your GPA. I'm more interested in your attendance record. I'm more interested in people who will make a case for themselves with respect to the reasons why I should pay for them to become a plumber or a welder or a steam fit or a pipe fitter or any of the jobs my granddad did intuitively, you know. That's what the foundation is. And it's been around since Labor Day of 2008. And every six months we release another tranche of money raised mostly from our chronic low-rent telethon that really never seems to end and involves me hawking the crap out of my garage, mementos from dirty jobs, in a style not unlike the old where I'm now using my powers for good.”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Just simply didn't want today the number's more like 5.8 million. I decided that it would be good for the show and good for me and hopefully good for the businesses that allowed us to thrive to set up a foundation that functioned as a PR campaign for jobs that actually existed. These are not the glamorous jobs, but these are jobs that make civilized life possible. That PR campaign morphed into a bunch of trips to Congress and a bunch of partnerships with the Fortune 200 and then ultimately into an attempt to reward the kind of behavior that we actually wanted to encourage, which was work ethic. Most scholarship programs, as I'm sure you know, reward the usual stuff. Academic achievement, athleticism, talent, and of course basic need.”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So in 2008, when the economy went sideways, dirty jobs was in two hundred twelve countries, and the number one show in the network, and I was doing well, and everybody I talked to on the show that owned a business was telling me an extraordinary thing, and that was the biggest challenge that they were facing was technical recruiting, really any kind of recruiting. Help wanted signs. Everywhere I went on dirty jobs, while the headlines were screaming about ten and eleven percent unemployment. So I realized there was a huge parallel but conflicting narrative going on in the country with respect to work. And the skills gap as it existed in 2008 included maybe 2.1, 2.2 million jobs that existed that people either weren't trained for.”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What would you like to put on them? And I said, Jesus, seriously? And he said, yeah, anything you want. And I said, well, we're currently in the midst of a work ethic scholarship program. We've raised about $4 million selling crap out of my garage and various other places. And we have this program, right? And I said, if I send you a picture of me holding a sign that says help wanted and in big letters, microworks.org work ethics scholarships, would you put that up there? And he said in a heartbeat. So all over the country now, that's on a billboard. Wow, that's somebody ask that question.”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Honestly, that's exactly what I said. He goes, Well, your people passed it on because they thought, you know, you would want to answer the question. He was a guy who worked for Lamar. Lamar outdoor advertisement, huge, huge. This guy owns billboards, may mean tens of thousands of them. And he said, listen, I'm a big fan of your foundation, and at any given time, I got twenty, thirty percent billboards that are empty, you know, advertisers do their thing, we pull them down, and every single person listening to this podcast right now has driven down the highway and looked up and seen a blank billboard. Well, he was just calling to say,”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And the reason that question is so crazy in my world right now is I got a call about four months ago from a guy who said Mike, you don't know me. But if you could have a billboard anywhere you want, what would it say? And I said, what am I like inside the actor studio? Well, he was a big shot over at...”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Carl Noble, my granddad, for reasons we touched on before, but a seventh grade education drops out of school to work, becomes a master craftsman, and a tradesman four times over, five times over, and lives to build houses and churches without blueprints that are still standing. He was the guy who said to me when I flunked out of all my shop classes in high school, he said You can be a tradesman. Just get yourself a different toolbox.”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The challenge in all things. Anybody can point a camera At Vesuvius erupting, right? That's great footage. But, you know, it's harder thousands of years later to write a retrospective on Herculaneum before the eruption. You know, do that. Make that interesting and you win.”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'd go with Blueprint for Armageddon, but you can't go wrong with it. But what Dan does is he makes history accessible to people who otherwise wouldn't give a shit. If you can do that with fitness, that's what you did with your books. You find a way to take a thing that most people are either blase or disinterested about and make them care. And so if you can do that with history, if you can do it with biography, the writer you mentioned before, if you can make oranges interesting, you win.”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, yeah. I mean, Harvey, Paul Harvey was all about, I mean, he really distilled it to the whodunit. It was a mystery. And so the whole, his whole thing was just clue after clue. The clues became a little more obvious as you got to the end, so everybody had a chance to kind of figure it out along the way at their own speed. I'm finding it to be a little more interesting to, and maybe a little more indulgent to spend more time in that peripatetic moment, you know, and really try and paint the scene as richly as I can. And sometimes that means I wind up overwriting it, but it's easy enough to correct it. But I just think it's a fun way. I mean, look, you're a fan of Dan Carlin. Definitely a huge fan.”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so we learn that what Peter Hernandez does is simply change his name not as the first thing that most people do who come to town, but as the last thing, the last thing you wanted to give up was his heritage, but he had to because everybody looked at him as this very, very narrow performer, this Latino heart throb. So when Peter Hernandez became Bruno Mars, he was immediately resigned by Atlantic Records, and within a year his first album was gone bananas, and within a year and a half he had sold over one hundred thirty million. And a couple years after that, there he is on my screen during Super Bowl 48. That's how that happened. So, look, it can be as simple as a Wikipedia entry. I could tell you the story a dozen different ways, but what I'm trying to do is...”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And gets immediately put in the Latino heart throb box, and everybody wants the next Enrique Iglesias. But Peter, he doesn't want to be that. Peter wants to be the next Peter Hernandez. He wants to be a little Michael Jackson, a little James Brown, a little Elvis Presley. And he goes broke and he loses everything. He refuses to sing in Spanish. So it's really a story about how Peter Hernandez gets down to his last nickel and decides something's got to give. And he walks outside, and he looks up into the heavens, and he laughs because he finally sees his name and lights. He's looking at the stars, and he chooses for his last name a planet that's truly out of this world. First name he remembers his father's favorite wrestler Bruno San Martino.”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“mimic wind up becoming somebody so completely original. And so that was my sort of like, okay, I'm going to tell a very, very simple story and I'm going to unwind it. But that's the theme that I want to kind of find. And usually with these things you start writing them, not quite knowing how they're going to end, and it takes care of itself. And so in this case, it was interesting because his name was Peter Hernandez in real life. So this is really a story of Peter Hernandez, a guy who is impersonating Elvis Little Richard and Michael Jackson, who at seventeen years of age decides to go for it. He moves to Hollywood, spends his last dime, gets immediately signed by Motel.”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What's his deal? And I read a lot of stuff that anybody can find really, really simply by doing a simple Google search, but went a little deeper and found what I thought was an interesting hook. His dad in the delivery room was playing oldies. And his mother was a Filipino hula dancer. And the guy was surrounded by music his whole life, and his parents were basically in a traveling variety show. And he was imitating Elvis Presley at three years old. And I looked at some old footage of it, and it was amazing, and he was imitating Michael Jackson, and it was incredible, and he was imitating little Richard. And it's breathtaking. And this guy was a genius mimic. And so I started thinking, well, how does this genius?”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sure. The one I just did, I haven't recorded yet, so I hate to give it away, but like the okay, so Bruno Mars I'll just tell you how it ends, right? So everybody knows who I was watching the Super Bowl a couple years ago and watching this kid on the biggest stage there is. You know, absolutely killing it, this unbelievable crossroads of pop and rock and funk and just wow.”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Good grief. You pick up your handheld device, tap into the large compendium of shared knowledge, and everything is at your disposal, so it really is just an exercise in writing and then recording, and then see if people like it”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The way I heard it is my attempt to pay an homage to Paul Harvey, get into the podcast space without sucking up too much bandwidth, and at the same time scratching what for me is a really indulgent itch, and that's writing. I don't have time to write I'm going to make time because I love it. But I just right now I'm having a ball identifying people who are well known, doing a little bit of research, which is so much easier today than it was when Paul Harvey was around. So much easier.”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“If that happens, call me. We'll come over and we'll recreate the old Mutual of Omaha while Tim and I watch from the brush. Molly will attempt to approach the elusive sparrow.”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, look, I'm always late to the party social media or otherwise. And I don't think what I'm doing right now, maybe I just don't know what podcast means, but what we're doing right now, I think, is about as honest an example of two people having an unscripted conversation that's touching on a lot of interesting things. I love that, but I don't, and I would love to do what you're doing. I'd love to have people over to my home and have these conversations and have a glass of wine. I mean, my God, if you're actually making money and prospering from this, Tim, you win. At the moment, I can't do it, but I'm still scratching this. I'm watching your adorable dog Molly having a dream and slapping her tail into your hardwood floor. You should actually get some clean audio on that because that's just remarkable.”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“American Idol Episode one of any season We see this great collision of reality and dreams. It's not the fact that these twenty year old kids can't sing that's so fascinating. It's the fact that they're realizing it for the first time in their life, that they always thought that their dream and their passion and their love of music would be enough to push them into the top forty, and then to suddenly have it all come crashing down it's more than shade and Freuda as a viewer. It's very personal because you can't watch that if you're not associopath and not look at the own giant soft spots. We're covered with them. We're all just rotten fruit.”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“that focuses on work ethic scholarships and trains people to do those very things. But the truth is it all goes back to the recessive gene that I confessed about an hour ago. I didn't get it from my granddad. What I got was an appreciation for it. But it's remarkable, Tim, how separate those things are in people's minds and how difficult it is for people to reconcile this idea that, you know, yeah, that's Mike. He narrates deadliest catch. Surely he knows how to fish for crab. He hosts dirty jobs. Surely surely he can overhaul the engine in a garbage truck. I can't, you know, and it's been fun working hard to set the record straight, but it's also been futile, which is another great lesson. Just because it's futile doesn't mean it can't be fun. And just because you love something doesn't mean you can't suck at it.”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's the kind of realization, the changes, the direction of the narrative. And that's the Aristotelian definition of a tragedy, right? It's those moments in our life when we realize our identity or our version of ourself is either at odds with something we just learned, or more often than not at odds with the way the rest of the world sees us. And so look, for me today, the biggest jolt of cognitive dissonance that I deal with on a daily basis is from fans of dirty jobs who believe that I can fix their toilet, who believe that I can pour a foundation and hang drywall and take care of all that stuff because I was just around people who do that for so long. And they assume it also because I run a foundation.”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I just, I'm. I just think that if you're good, if you're too good at it, it either means, well, it probably just means you've been practicing it, you know. And it's something I think everybody ought to do later in their life when they become interesting enough to do it. Everybody is always more interesting from the outside. We know our own secrets too well. And so we probably feel a bit fraudulent if we try and stack the deck. But look, what you're really talking about is peripatia, you know, the peripidae, the part of the narrative where the protagonist realizes everything he thought he knew about himself was wrong, you know, where Oedipus realizes, oh, this beautiful woman who I love, who I married to, who I have children. Children with. She's my mother”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Wow Well, I mean, the key to what Paul Harvey did was find an obscure moment in the life of a famous person and then try and make that moment relevant. And it almost always is. You know, sometimes it's a bigger stretch than others. But if it were, you know, I mean, given all that we've just talked about, I would probably circle back to the home shopping salesman who somehow or other became closely associated with Well, a blue collar apologist or an opera singer who took a very, very crooked path and wound up becoming a purveyor of podcasts. I mean, who knows? I guess. I guess I don't know how to tell my story.”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Of the Simpsons or your favorite show, and what if you call that eight hundred number to access the long distance platform? What if you were confronted by a voice, say mine, that said Welcome to the Star Trek Information Platform to place a long distance call, hit one to listen to original content from your favorite Star Trek characters press two. So you press two and you open this world of old time radio where you can take a Klingon language lesson or listen to you send a wake up call from Bart Simpson, all this crazy stuff. So Bill Shatner loved that idea and invested in that company. I was the voice of the company. He was the investor. He was a couple years too early. Didn't really work. But the fact that he was there and the fact that Priceline came along right on its heels, I'll never forget watching him.”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, you know, I don't know if he would remember it, but we were actually in business together for a brief time back in New York. He's always ahead of his time, Shatner is. And I think one day, years from now, when people who write books about this stuff look back at celebrity and the cults of personality and just the arc of a career, I suspect his will will be unexampled, you know. And we were in business. I had a friend who got the license to do phone cards, which at the time, you know, in the early 90s, were very, very big in Europe and never caught on here to the degree everybody thought they were. But you'd buy your long distance time in advance. And he had the idea of saying, well, what if you buy $100 a long distance and you put it on a calling card? But what if the calling card had a picture of the enterprise on it or the X files?”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Out on some poor lime producer. It's just awesome. Bill Shatner actually has done some remarkable voice work, in my opinion.”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You hear him in the booth, and the pages are rustling and he's getting his copy together and he starts with. I know a man in the fjords of Norway, a man, and he's read a copy, and it's like there's some split infinitive, or maybe a dangling participle. And he's just pissed off, and he just, I can't read this shit. And back and forth he goes with the producer, and it is, I mean, the greatest living director and actor is at that point in his career where he's doing gallo and all these things. And you know he's just consumed with loathing.”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Some of those old commercials you'll hear a woman narrating all of them, and there's a famous actress. I don't know if she's even around anymore, but she was in Mash, the original Mash her name's Sally Kellerman. Sally Kellerman had a fantastic voice, and it was so what made her voice so unusual is that it didn't strike me anyway when I was watching her act. It was just part and parcel of her, but it was just one of those voices when it's disembodied and right there on the radio. Oh my God, it was amazing. Orson Welles, same thing. I mean, just unbelievably impressive in every way, but all of a sudden, you know, to hear that guy just vocally, you really want to laugh. Listen to the old. Some stuff on the YouTubes with him coming unhinged at being directed.”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, son of a bitch got it and I didn't. Heartbreaking. But the... Honestly, the best ones you don't know their names And that's part of the deal. I'm very lucky because I've used what Little Notoriety I have to just relentlessly leverage my way into that space because I just love doing it so much. But the really great narrators are utterly anonymous and transparent.”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think that's the right pronunciation. It's him. It's him. He is a wonderful narrator. We were up for the same big project a couple years ago. I have no idea.”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Likewise, James Earl Jones. You got a guy, though, like Peter Coyote narrates As much or more than anyone, and he has a really interesting way of being flat and engaged at the same time. You watch Donovan? Is it Ray Don?”
2016-05-04 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #157: The Importance of Being Dirty: Lessons from Mike Rowe · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT