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Now you see it: Podcaster Mike Rowe has book deal


AP Photo,FILE - This Nov. 14, 2018 file photo shows Mike Rowe, best known as host of
AP Photo,FILE - This Nov. 14, 2018 file photo shows Mike Rowe, best known as host of "Dirty Jobs" and CEO of the mikeroweWORKS Foundation appears in New York. Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, announced Thursday, Aril 4, 2019, that Rowe is adapting material from his popular “The Way I Heard It” for a book of the same name. (AP Photo/Andrew Kelly, File)

NEW YORK (AP) — Podcaster Mike Rowe has decided to write a few things down.

Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, announced Thursday that Rowe is adapting material from his popular “The Way I Heard It” for a book of the same name. It is scheduled for Oct. 15 and includes 35 stories from his show, “accompanied by wholly original anecdotes and ruminations.” Gallery promises a cast of movie stars, “bloody do-gooders” and other notables. For those who still want to hear his stories, Rowe will narrate the audio edition.

Rowe says in a statement that Gallery publisher Jennifer Bergstrom finally wore him down after asking him for years to write a book. Bergstrom calls “The Way I Heard It” a combination of Charles Kuralt and George Carlin.

Rowe was the host of the former Discovery Channel show “Dirty Jobs.”