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A Most Unpredictable Life

A Most Unpredictable Life

by Unpredictable Life Press

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#20 - Super Fans Bryan Lewis and Crystal Painter

About this podcast

Jeremy Lewis wasn’t voted Most Talented. He wasn’t voted Best Looking. He definitely wasn’t voted Most Athletic. He was voted Most Unpredictable — and his life has been proving it ever since. A Most Unpredictable Life is a year‑by‑year storytelling podcast hosted by Jeremy and his good friend of eight years, Terry Lewis. Together they jump to a different year of Jeremy’s life each episode, piecing together a story that moves from a chaotic childhood — including a summer living in a van and motels — to cross‑country moves, five brothers, a $500 car headed for Chicago, Army Airborne School, deployments around the world, Tesla leadership, and even a flaming snowman operation that became campus legend. Jeremy tells the stories. Terry opens the door, asks the questions, and keeps him honest — the kind of dynamic only two friends who genuinely enjoy each other can pull off. One week you’re in 1992 cruising Ashland, Ohio in a ’65 Mustang with November Rain blasting. The next week you’re in 1973 learning where the story really began. Then you’re in Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, or back in a Chicago dorm where military cadets accidentally start a campus legend. It’s funny up front, real in the middle, and leaves you feeling good every time. A life that didn’t fit the usual superlatives ended up becoming one hell of a story. If your life hasn’t gone in a straight line either, you’re in the right place.

Episodes

The newest 20 of 21 episodes

  • #20 - Super Fans Bryan Lewis and Crystal Painter · 1 h 53 min · Season 1 Episode 20Twenty episodes in, and the guy who pooped in the urinal is finally sitting at the table. Every tenth episode we stop the clock and bring somebody in. This time it's Jeremy's…
  • #19 - 2003 Part 3 Seizing Baghdad and Coming Home · 2 h 1 min · Season 1 Episode 19It's April 2003, and this is the last of three episodes on the year Jeremy went to war. Part one ended on the first night. Part two ended at Objective Rams. This one goes all the…
  • #18 - 2018-2019 - I Can See Michigan From Here · 1 h 59 min · Season 1 Episode 18In 2018 Jeremy moves his family back to Ohio to run a brand new Tesla region, the Great Lakes. Two months later they pull into a church parking lot at 10:15 for a 10:30 service…
  • #17 - 2003 (Part 2) - First Days of the Invasion into Iraq: It Was Not a Fuel Leak · 2 h 0 min · Season 1 Episode 17It is March 20, 2003. A company commander is trying to sleep on the hood of his Humvee when missiles rip into the sky less than a kilometer away. By that afternoon he is standing…
  • #16 - 1983 - Nine Years Old, Riding the Bus All Day · 2 h 10 min · Season 1 Episode 16It is the winter of 1983 in Shreve, Ohio. A nine-year-old is walking through the snow to the post office to see if the check came. It isn't there. The next day he walks down…
  • #15 - 2003 (Part 1) - Deploying to Kuwait · 1 h 56 min · Season 1 Episode 15It is January 2003. The buses stop in the northern Kuwaiti desert, and there is nothing there. A sand berm somebody had pushed up with a bulldozer. Concertina wire around it. A…
  • #14 - 1994-1995 - Junior Year at Illinois Tech!! · 1 h 43 min · Season 1 Episode 14It is 1994. A guy on the floor says he could take Jeremy in a straight fight. So everyone goes downstairs. The dorm basement had activity rooms nobody used. They pushed the…
  • #13 - 2002 - Getting Married and Our Haunted Apartment · 1 h 50 min · Season 1 Episode 132002. Jeremy is a brand-new captain with 130 soldiers, a wedding in ten weeks, and a war nobody will give him a date for. This is the year he corrected a lieutenant colonel for…
  • #12 - 1982 - Missed Goodbye to Grandma and Five Brothers Split Apart · 1 h 55 min · Season 1 Episode 12
  • #11 - 1993 - 1994 - Sophomore Year of College! · 1 h 30 min · Season 1 Episode 11It is 1993. Jeremy is nineteen, living on the second floor of a dorm in Chicago, and he is about to choose the career he will keep for thirty years by copying another guy's class…
  • #10 - Celebrate 10 Episodes with Guest Star Elsh_a_Day · 1 h 37 min · Season 1 Episode 10Ten episodes in, we stopped moving through time and did something different. We brought somebody else's life to the table. Elle has been standing about four feet away from this…
  • #9 - 1981 - Snipe Hunting!! Are Snipes Real or Fake? · 1 h 30 min · Season 1 Episode 9It is 1981. Jeremy is seven years old, one of five boys at 281 Church Street in Shreve, Ohio, and the whole year runs on one word: sack. The cul-de-sac is French for the bottom…
  • #8 - 2017 - My Tesla Journey Begins · 1 h 31 min · Season 1 Episode 8Twenty years in the Army. Five deployments in ten years. A Lieutenant Colonel with a wife and four kids — and in 2016 Jeremy did the most unpredictable thing he'd ever done. He…
  • #7 - 1980 - Burning Down the House · 1 h 31 min · Season 1 Episode 7Jeremy is six years old, in half-day kindergarten, living in a three-bedroom house on Church Street in Shreve, Ohio with four brothers, his mom, and his stepdad Keith. The school…
  • #6 - 2001 (Part 2) - The Morning of 9/11 Changed Everything · 1 h 30 min · Season 1 Episode 6September 11, 2001. Jeremy is seven days into a new unit, waiting to take command — boots half-laced in front of the TV as the second plane hits. This is Part Two of 2001: the…
  • #5 - 2001 (Part 1) - How I Met Your Mother · 1 h 28 min · Season 1 Episode 5Savannah, 2001. Jeremy is 27, a brand-new Army captain, and about to have the best year of his life — a downtown townhome full of brothers, a handshake with a sitting president…
  • #4 - 1979ish - Come Out With Your Hands Up · 1 h 35 min · Season 1 Episode 4It's 1978. Terry is 18, graduating from Sandusky Perkins High School, guessing weights at Cedar Point, and marching down the ramp as an alternate in The Best Damn Band in the…
  • #3 - 1992 - 1993 - Freshman Year of College: The Snowman is on Fire!!! · 1 h 34 min · Season 1 Episode 3n this episode of A Most Unpredictable Life, Jeremy's back from a wedding in Maryland and a trip to Virginia to watch his son Noah graduate from Coast Guard EM 'A' School and…
  • #2 - 1973 - 1978 - Guess Your Weight · 1 h 31 min · Season 1 Episode 2In Episode 2 of A Most Unpredictable Life, the roles flip. Jeremy Lewis was born in 1973 — so this time it's co-host Terry Lewis in the hot seat, walking us through an era Jeremy…
  • #1 - 1992 - Senior Superlatives · 1 h 33 min · Season 1 Episode 1Most Likely to Succeed? Nope. Most Athletic? Not even close. Most Unpredictable? Now THAT one they got right. Welcome to Episode 1 of A Most Unpredictable Life — where Jeremy…

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