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337: Chad Pregracke—America's Hardest Working Garbage Man

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

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The Story of a Romantic Girl Picking Up Trash Out of the Mississippi River

"I grew up right where Interstate 80 crosses the Mississippi River. My brother got me into commercial shell diving, which is essentially spending eight to 10 hours a day in the bottom of the river," he says. "It's kind of like, it's hard to describe down there, but the thing is alive and I always thought like this thing is its own living life force"

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