317: Jason Williams—Adventure is Disaster Narrowly Averted

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

History, Society & Culture

4.9 • 40.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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This documentary filmmaker, TV producer, and treasure hunter has traveled to some of the most beautiful and dangerous locations on the planet. The discussion includes ancient Assyrian artifacts, sunken ships, the treasures of Nimrud, underwater safecracking, a billion dollars in gold, and the greatest sizzle reel no one's ever seen.

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0:00.0	You know what adventure is?
0:05.6	Adventure is disaster.
0:07.9	Narrowly averted.
0:10.2	That is the title of this episode.
0:12.3	It's episode 317 of the way I heard it.
0:16.1	And that's a quote, Chuck, from my old buddy, Greg Stem, who is not our guest today.
0:22.7	Wow.
0:23.9	He's not.
0:25.1	He is quoted by Jason Williams, who is my guest.
0:28.9	Aha, we got to it, yes.
0:30.5	It's such a good quote.
0:31.4	It's now the title.
0:32.4	Adventure is disaster narrowly averted.
0:35.5	What do you think of Jason?
0:37.0	Jason is a lot of fun.
0:38.7	He is quite British, I believe.
0:41.3	And terribly British, and he's got a wonderful accent.
0:45.7	He can spin a yarn, you know.
0:47.0	He can tell a story.
0:48.5	And he's been around the world and done some really crazy things from, you know, under the ocean to the deserts of Iraq.
0:57.0	He's been everywhere. Yeah. He's done a lot of docs.
0:59.9	His wife actually hired me many years ago to narrate some program for Animal Planet about
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