Mike Rowe has made a living from telling stories. And not just in Dirty Jobs, the TV show that made him famous. He has a podcast, The Way I Heard It, a book with the same title, and a TV show called The Story Behind the Story, all dedicated to telling interesting historical tales with a twist.
Inspired by Paul Harvey’s 1970s radio program The Rest of the Story, Rowe makes you wait till the end of the story to find out, for example, the name of that guy who had to eat bull testicles in order to woo a young farm girl. (Spoiler alert, we’re talking about former Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who didn’t end up marrying former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor after all.)
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