I’m not a big “podcast” person.

But since I got a car that reads my phone’s bluetooth without a lot of muss and fuss, I wind up listening to some of them anyway.

It’s probably not a huge leap that I found my way to Mike Rowe’s The Way I Heard It podcast. It started years ago as a riff on Paul Harvey’s old “The Rest Of The Story” blurbcast, and has evolved into something more like Joe Rogan or Jordan Peterson’s podcasts, for people who like their great interviews in one hour chunks.

Like Rowe’s Dirty Jobs, it focuses on people who are just a tad off the beaten path who nonetheless have fascinating stories to tell.

Johnny Joey Johnson – a Marine EOD tech who lost both legs in Afghanistan – iis one of them. If you haven’t heard it, I’ll. commend it to your attention:

In it, Jones plugs his new book, in which he talks about ten people who shaped him, sometimes without knowing it until long after the fact, and for whose influence he’s grateful.

The idea grabbed me – especially since gratitude has become such an important theme for me lately (more on that in November).

So over the next couple of weeks, I’m going to do the same…

…well, not the same thing. Something similar.

More on Monday.