Tim Allen Loves The Ballet | The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Tim Allen and Mike Rowe together. I have died and gone to heaven.

As a former engineer who shifted gears to become a teacher, the thing that struck me most when I got back into classrooms was the lack of curiosity of so many kids. Today’s schools, where everything is about teaching to standardized tests, have restricted the teachers from using their creativity to spark that curiosity. Kids don’t ask questions. They just show up and conform. We’ve turned education into McDonalds - consistent and predictable but low quality and not very good for us. Education needs to be more like a garden that you grow in your backyard.

Eavesdropping on two of my favorite gents having a free range conversation is a great way to spend two hours.

I wasn’t going to sit for 2 hours and listen, even if it’s a conversation between 2 people I enjoy. Here I am 2 hours later right to the end.

Retired Ag teacher here & married to a jack-of-all-trades who works at a local industrial plant so he can support his cow hobby. Proud mom of a heavy equipment operator, welder, & electrical/instrument tech. It’s better than having a doctor in the family for our life style. 😆 So fortunate to live in an area where our high schools had programs with trade & technical schools and 2 year colleges that allowed our students to participate in their programs while most of the cost was/is covered by the school system. It really gives our vocational kids a much greater sense of purpose their senior year of high school.

loved this show. I am that kid. My dad passed when I was 11. I had 1 shop class i loved and I made a bench by hand and the school never gave me another. I was president of everything but good grades and graduated last. My life was built by that teacher in that 1 shop class. Spent 50 years restoring historic buildings, super high end work and restoring Rolls and Bentleys, built a company around that and did all trades in house.. Retired at 60 been restoring cars for myself ever since. Yes, all because 1 guy and 1 shop class taught me how to make a bench!

Can we please please please get Mike Rowe to play Tim Allen's brother in law on Shifting Gears? It's be a great dynamic since they'd both be grieving the loss of the same woman from different perspectives. It'd give them the opportunity to be on the show without being a regular and have more than 2 appearance on the series, unlike Last Man Standing. You two gentlemen are the best and thank you both for the lifetime of entertainment.

I don't know what I expected out of a Tim Allen and Mike Rowe convo... but straw sipping, quantum physics, philosophy, and theology were not on my bingo card. This is why I LOVE this podcast!

I'm a cobbler, and this world is not made for slow work of passion, the art of understanding the attachement of folk to they re things. A pair of boots is like an old friend, you always know when something is wrong.

Tim 100% reminds me of my father. He is definitely my favorite actor. As soon as I saw Mike had Tim as a guest, I instantly clicked and watched! Love these two guys!