
Based on his podcast 'The Way I Heard It', Mike Rowe tells true tales and unique back-stories about people, places and events with a unique twist. From code breakers to Hollywood bombshells, and unlikely inventors to naked bank robbers.
Air Date: 2022-05-07
Hedy Lamar, known to the public only for her sensational beauty, creates the technology that makes our modern lives p...
Air Date: 2022-05-14
In the middle of a baseball game, the newswire giving radio broadcasters the play-by-play goes down. So, the radio br...
Air Date: 2022-05-21
Fred was tasked to create a potato chip that wouldn’t turn to crumbles in the bottom of a bag after shipping. Instead...
Air Date: 2022-05-28
Small town girl, Peg Entwhistle, failed on Broadway and went to Hollywood to pursue her dreams. Her one movie bombed ...
Air Date: 2022-06-04
During the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, Bank of America founder, Amadeo Giannini, made a deal on a handshake wit...
Air Date: 2022-06-11
Allen Hale Jr's odyssey to an audition that would change his life forever and give him a role in one of the most synd...
Air Date: 2022-06-18
Jim Thorpe is one of history’s greatest athletes. He didn’t let his education, his heritage, or even someone stealing...
Air Date: 2022-06-25
Charles Schultz was given creative control to create a half-hour Christmas program for CBS, however, upon screening t...
Air Date: 2022-07-02
A young code breaker in the air force, intercepts a coded message that Stalin is dead. He turns the actual Morse code...
Air Date: 2022-07-09
Former drill sergeant becomes a celebrity and icon as one of the most calming voices on television.
Air Date: 2022-07-16
A silent Christmas Eve in in 1955 at a strategic defense center is interrupted by a call on the single line red phone...
Air Date: 2022-07-23
Experiment, after experiment, after experiment, a lonely inventor finally creates the fix-all compound.
Air Date: 2022-07-30
The creation, flop, and success of an iconic film and how it all hinged on fake snow.