289: There's No Place Like Nome

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 39.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Shawn Pomrenke of Bering Sea Gold shares the circumstances that led him to drop out of high school, how he used his work ethic and MacGyver skills to become a multi-million-dollar gold prospector, and why he describes being 100 feet below an ice shelf in the frigid Bering Sea as... relaxing. That is, until his regulator freezes and the oxygen flow stops—then it gets sporty.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the way I heard it episode number 289.
0:07.4	This one is called There's No Place Like Nome, partially because there's not and also
0:12.5	because I'm terribly clever.
0:14.3	Chuck your thoughts?
0:15.3	I certainly think you have your clever moments and as soon as you did that I did chuckle
0:20.1	so you did say there's no place like no.
0:22.8	My guest is Sean Pumranky.
0:24.8	He has a funny last name and a fascinating life story and if you're familiar with him
0:30.3	it's because you watch the hit TV show Baring Sea Gold which I've had the pleasure of narrating
0:37.4	now for at least 10 years.
0:40.6	Although how many seasons did you say IMB is IMDBD?
0:45.1	I didn't get that from IMDB.
0:46.9	That's probably where I should go.
0:48.6	You probably should.
0:50.1	It gets very strange friends when you work on a show for a long time and there are lots
0:55.0	of reruns and the new episodes take place in different seasons.
1:00.8	The show is Baring Sea Gold and there's an ice mining season and there's the summer season
1:07.4	and the show is basically now in constant production and it has introduced many millions
1:14.0	of people or maybe reintroduced them I should say to a different part of the Baring Sea.
1:19.8	At least catch of course takes place mostly north of Dutch Harbor.
1:25.3	Baring Sea Gold takes place off the shore of Nome.
1:28.5	Nome Alaska is up there toward the top of the state and it's called part and the dark
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