{"podcast":{"title":"What Was That Like - True Stories. Real People.","slug":"what-was-that-like-true-stories-real-people-841594","podcast_index_feed_id":841594,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/GLSS8902204604","website_url":"https://WhatWasThatLike.com","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/c65a7224-b774-11ed-806f-c3362d14b050/image/Copy_of_Who_Smarted_Show_Art.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Scott Johnson & Glassbox Media","episode_count":355,"summary":"A storytelling podcast, with first-hand amazing stories presented by Scott Johnson and Meredith Hackwith Edwards. Each storyteller tells their own personal true story, with all the details of what happened. Animal attacks, plane crashes, mass shootings, and more – you'll hear what happened directly from the person who experienced it, and the inspirational outcome of how they came out on the other side.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-26T16:21:23.376606+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-was-that-like-true-stories-real-people-841594"},"episode":{"title":"255: Jayson prevented a murder","slug":"255-jayson-prevented-a-murder","published_at":"2026-05-15T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-was-that-like-true-stories-real-people-841594/255-jayson-prevented-a-murder","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-was-that-like-true-stories-real-people-841594","url":"https://WhatWasThatLike.com/255","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/tracking.swap.fm/track/6bpBPtHL977KJxLX2zPs/traffic.megaphone.fm/GLSS8574884634.mp3?updated=1776680897","summary":"One of the things that makes this life so interesting is that something can happen that’s life-changing, when you least expect it. I mean, you’re just going about your day – stopping at the grocery store, or putting gas in your car, just a routine day. Then something totally unexpected happens, right in front of you. I remember one time when I was just on my way to work in the morning. Just driving on this rural road in Maine, and there was a pickup truck in front of me. And there was a man riding in the back – in the open bed of the truck. He was standing, facing forward, just hanging out. All of a sudden that truck went to the right, off the road, right into a power pole. I don’t know what caused the driver to lose control, but fortunately there were no serious injuries. Even the guy in the truck bed was mostly okay. But it just happened so fast. My guest today is Jayson. He was having a pretty normal day, just running some errands. Then he found himself unexpectedly witnessing an attempted murder. If you’d like to contact Jayson, you can do that through his website: http://www.jaysoncross.com/ You can also find him on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and TikTok: @jaysoncrosscomedy On X (Twitter): @jcrosscomedy Full show notes and pictures for this episode are here: https://WhatWasThatLike.com/255 Graphics for this episode by Bob Bretz. Transcription was done by James Lai. Want to discuss this episode and other things with thousands of other WWTL listeners? Join our podcast Facebook group at WhatWasThatLike.com/facebook (many of the podcast guests are there as well) Get every episode ad-free, AND get all the Raw Audio exclusive episodes to binge, by joining the other listeners at What Was That Like PLUS. Try What Was That Like PLUS free: iPhone: at the top of the What Wa…","meta_description":"One of the things that makes this life so interesting is that something can happen that’s life-changing, when you least expect it. I mean, you’re just goi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3722,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/what-was-that-like-true-stories-real-people-841594/episodes/255-jayson-prevented-a-murder/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-was-that-like-true-stories-real-people-841594/255-jayson-prevented-a-murder.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}