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Working: Working on a Dream

Season 3 Episode 304 | 26m 46s

While early Americans worked the land to survive, the job market of today allows greater freedom of choice. But is it harder to find purpose in our work now? And are we any happier than before? Special guest Mike Rowe helps Gabe figure out if working hard is worth all the hard work.

Aired: 04/02/23 | Expires: 04/02/25
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Gabe visits the Johnson Space Center.
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Gabe hikes the bourbon trail to learn how bourbon changed America and was changed by it.
Gabe takes a journey through cinema history.
How trains catapulted America into the future.
How the (stolen) land of the free neglected to make a home for the braves.
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