A Most Unpredictable Life

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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.

  1. 2d ago

    #13 - 2002 - Getting Married and Our Haunted Apartment

    2002. 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 not saluting him — thirty minutes after leaving a meeting about enforcing salutes — and then laughed about it, which did not help. The year he and Lorrie moved into a garden-level apartment in a Savannah mansion that turned out to be genuinely haunted: banging in an empty hallway upstairs, a door that opened on its own, smoke rising above a lamp, and one night, a woman's face beside the bed. The year he cancelled his honeymoon over a deployment date that kept moving. And the year he signed one piece of paper releasing a staff sergeant from a stop-loss so the man could follow his wife to Korea — which is how that sergeant came to be home in Georgia on leave the day he won $150 million. Along the way: a company that nearly mutinied when he jumped them into the deepest woods on Fort Stewart, a full-bird colonel who opened the wrong vehicle door at the worst possible moment, fifteen soldiers crammed into a van singing Hootie and the Blowfish, a saber arch, a brother who was carried home from River Street and immediately ran back downtown, and a Christmas spent playing the same video game for three days straight before an announcement that changed everything. Terry's 2002: four kids, two in the marching band, and a 16-year-old who came home and said he'd like to take a girl to a dance — right after they'd finished reading a book together about not doing that. Also in this one: an argument about Ohio State that takes three minutes and a live Google search to settle, a bobblehead Terry built himself out of scrap wood and ballpoint pen springs, a mailbag message from the woman who introduced Terry's parents to each other seventy years ago, and the house at 104 West Gaston Street — built in 1856, where an infantry unit received its colors before marching off to war, and where a company commander would live 141 years later, getting ready to do the same thing. 603rd Aviation Support Battalion: if you were there, say so in the comments. And help us name Terry's bobblehead — best name wins merch. A Most Unpredictable Life is the true story of Jeremy Lewis's life, told one year at a time, with co-host Terry Lewis (no relation). New episodes every Wednesday.

  2. Sep 9

    #12 - 1982 - Missed Goodbye to Grandma and Five Brothers Split Apart

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  3. Sep 2

    #11 - 1993 - 1994 - Sophomore Year of College!

    It 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 schedule. His roommate Bob says, "You ought to just become a metallurgical materials engineer." So Jeremy registers for every single class Bob is taking — same schedule, same classes, all of it — and only afterwards finds out you are not allowed to change your major that way. Then Bob transfers to Kentucky. The major stayed. Bob left. Before that, there is a $500 Cutlass Sierra that throws a rod outside Milwaukee with a truck full of Bob's furniture in it, and a father Jeremy had met twice who drives hours through the dark to get two college kids home. The car got signed over to the tow operator. That's what it was worth — exactly one tow. And then Terry runs out of gas at midnight in the hills of Tennessee with his wife and three sleeping children in the van, walks a hundred steps up the shoulder, and gets picked up by a minibus full of singing retired people who buy him a gas can. His wife never saw them. To this day he thinks they were angels. Also in this one: the midnight breakfast before finals, and the bagel that started a food fight that outlived him — by senior year the school posted guards. Pennying a senior cadet into his room so he'd miss PT. A manila folder full of shaving cream slid under a door. Smoked fish hidden under a mattress for a week. Four PCs, a coil of IPX cable and a Christmas break spent playing the first networked DOOM three weeks after it existed. And an entire day spent unscrewing a peephole with a racquetball, feeding a rope through it, and fishing for the door handle with a coat hanger while a crowd gathered in the hallway — a method the floor was still using at his ten-year reunion, until the school gave up and glued the peepholes shut. Plus: Michael Jordan announces his retirement, and the press conference is held in the gym at Jeremy's tiny engineering college. A fight song made of trig functions. A summer on the rock pile at Diamonite, bagging seventy-five-pound sacks and being told to stop breaking the records. Who's the person who showed up for you when they didn't have to? Not family — somebody who had no reason to. Tell us in the comments on YouTube, or message us on Instagram. We read them on the show. And the one we still can't close: does anybody remember the High Noon Saloon in Shreve, Ohio? Or Timbo's KISS photos — his wife has them, and we are still waiting. Watch the full video episode: https://youtube.com/@amostunpredictablelife Website: https://amostunpredictablelife.com Follow @amostunpredictablelife on Instagram, TikTok and Facebook A Most Unpredictable Life — Jeremy Lewis and Terry Lewis. We're not brothers. We might be related.

  4. Aug 26

    #10 - Celebrate 10 Episodes with Guest Star Elsh_a_Day

    Ten 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 entire podcast since before it existed. She is the best server at the place where we play pickleball every week, she has listened to us plan these episodes out loud across a table for months, and it turns out her story is considerably better than ours. She was born in Addis Ababa. She came to Los Angeles at five, to Ohio at eight, and graduated from Westerville South at seventeen. Her name means Almighty God. She has three daughters, five years apart, and she raised the first one alone after the girl's father died. And about an hour in, she tells us what happened on a drive back from Michigan when she was five months pregnant — a traffic stop, a car that wasn't hers, and a man who let her be arrested rather than say a word. they can go home, then it's mine." She spent four days in a jail cell. He spent six years in one, and never admitted it was his. Also in this one: the real reason half of Smash Park thinks Jeremy owns the building, which is not the tipping. Why the karaoke crowd calls him Jerome. Terry quitting the swim team at fifteen because a girl named Betty Bell beat his butterfly time. A decapitated Woody Hayes bobblehead, a Jesus bobblehead, and a book that came out four days before we recorded. The Ark of the Covenant, and where it actually is. A ten-year-old with 2.3 million unread notifications who has built her whole following out of roasting her mother. And two people at the same table discovering they both grew up in houses where the food stamps got hidden from the cashier. Plus the line the whole episode turns on, which is hers, not ours: there's strength in the struggle. Elle is @elsh_a_day. She has an audience considerably bigger than ours and she came and sat with us anyway. Go follow her. Who's the person in your life whose story should be a podcast? Tell us in the comments on YouTube, or message us on Instagram. We read them on the show. Next week the DeLorean goes back to 1993 — Chicago, sophomore year, and a car that does not survive the trip. Watch the full video episode: https://youtube.com/@amostunpredictablelife Website: https://amostunpredictablelife.com The book — The Birth of the Sentients: https://amostunpredictablelife.com/book/ Follow @amostunpredictablelife on Instagram, TikTok and Facebook A Most Unpredictable Life — Jeremy Lewis and Terry Lewis. We're not brothers. We might be related.

  5. Aug 19

    #9 - 1981 - Snipe Hunting!! Are Snipes Real or Fake?

    It 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 of the sack. The snipe hunt is run with paper grocery sacks. Terry's college roommate is from a town called Intercourse, Pennsylvania. And in the men's room of the High Noon Saloon, a five-year-old does something that stops the entire bar. "Who pooped in the urinal?" Nobody confessed. The night was over. But the thing you need to stay for is what happens forty minutes later, when Terry admits that at forty-five years old, in a very nice high school, he did something worse — on purpose — and then told his children about it in the car. Also in this one: a grandmother who drank her coffee out of a saucer with her pinky up, kept a pet groundhog and fed it out of an ice cream cone. A davenport with plastic on it that you stuck to. A snipe hunt in a cut cornfield at dusk that took six months and a brother to explain. Miss Lemon, first grade, tall and blonde, who taught Jeremy to read and then watched him knock a full glass of milk across a dinner table. The milk crate, the walk-in refrigerator, and twenty-one chocolate milks. A t-ball catcher whose only job was putting the ball on the tee, and who wandered off mid-game because there was a sandbox. And a note in Mom's handwriting, carried down to the Quick Check: please give Jeremy, my son, a pack of Winstons. Seventy-five cents. Plus: Doc Stone's roadkill stew, an Ohio State roommate with a pet quail named Bob White, and the Lewis family word for a crush. Where's the strangest place you've ever gone to the bathroom? And what do you remember about your grandma's house — the plastic on the furniture, the things you weren't allowed to touch? Tell us in the comments on YouTube, or message us on Instagram. We read them on the show. Does anybody remember the High Noon Saloon in Shreve, Ohio? It's gone, and there is no trace of it anywhere online. If you were ever in it, we want to hear from you. Next week is episode ten, so the DeLorean doesn't go anywhere new. We're pulling over. Nine episodes in, four lives in one, and we're not doing it alone. Watch the full video episode: https://youtube.com/@amostunpredictablelife Website: https://amostunpredictablelife.com Follow @amostunpredictablelife on Instagram, TikTok and Facebook A Most Unpredictable Life — Jeremy Lewis and Terry Lewis. We're not brothers. We might be related.

  6. Aug 12

    #8 - 2017 - My Tesla Journey Begins

    Twenty 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 took the uniform off and went to go sell a car. Except Tesla didn't find him. He'd been calling them for eleven years. His 2005 Army email password was "TeslaRoadster." In 2008 he told a friend on Facebook to buy a Roadster. In 2010, in a plywood building in northern Afghanistan, he walked out of his office holding a Wired magazine with Elon Musk on the cover and told a room full of day-trading lieutenants: this is the stock you should be buying. None of them listened. There is still a text thread. Then on December 8, 2016, a LinkedIn message arrived — and this is the story of what eleven years of asking looks like when somebody finally picks up. Also in this one: Terry wins a radio call-in contest and ends up at the San Diego Comic-Con watching the Star Trek premiere on an outdoor IMAX with the San Diego Symphony playing the score live. Jeremy runs a job hunt like a recon mission — ten LinkedIn profiles a day, every day, for seven months. Eleven interviews in one weekend at Fremont. An offer accepted in a used-tire lot outside San Francisco. Day one: Autopilot on, hands off, FaceTiming his dad from the freeway. And then the Tesla Regional Manager spends his first six months driving the Mid-Atlantic in a Honda Civic. Plus: the Cavs come back from 3-1 and the Indians blow 3-1 in the same Ohio year, a customer accuses Jeremy of laughing at him, a job candidate confesses to smoking in the parking lot, and one casual sentence to his boss in December — "if anything ever opens up in Ohio" — creates a region that didn't exist. Ever reinvented yourself completely — walked away from twenty years of something? Tell us in the comments on YouTube, or message us on Instagram. We read them on the show, and we reply to everyone. Next week the DeLorean goes back to 1981. Jeremy is seven years old in Shreve, Ohio, and one of his little brothers does something in the men's room of the High Noon Saloon that the entire bar is still talking about. Watch the full video episode: https://youtube.com/@amostunpredictablelife Website: https://amostunpredictablelife.com Follow @amostunpredictablelife on Instagram, TikTok and Facebook A Most Unpredictable Life — Jeremy Lewis and Terry Lewis. We're not brothers. We might be related.

  7. Aug 5

    #7 - 1980 - Burning Down the House

    Jeremy 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 is close enough to see from the front yard. And every day at noon he opens that front door with no idea what's on the other side of it. One day it's every piece of furniture they own, sitting out on the front lawn — because his little brother found a lighter, lit the bathroom curtains, and then shut the door and went back to watch Romper Room. The cat is the one who raises the alarm. His brothers watch the fire trucks pull up from their classroom window next door and slowly realize whose house it is. A few weeks later he opens that same door and Space Invaders is glowing on the Zenith. Terry's 1980: sophomore into junior year at Ohio State learning every instrument in the band room, the first summer he didn't go home, and the night his own house caught fire when he was ten — and the family dog woke everybody up. Also in this episode: the Halloween witch that looked exactly like Mom standing in the doorway. Four words every Lewis boy knew. A backyard hosed into a mud slide, and a hand that came out of the dark. A babysitter who turned off every light in the house — and the push pins that ended her. And the music box they broke, glued back together, and got away with for years.

  8. Jul 29

    #6 - 2001 (Part 2) - The Morning of 9/11 Changed Everything

    September 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 day America was attacked, what it means to stand in front of 130 soldiers and say "it's not if, it's when" — and how the same year still managed to end with a piece of charcoal in a Christmas stocking and a Tiffany ring in Jeremy's pocket. Terry's side of the year: planting a brand-new church in Lewis Center ("we almost named it the Dam Church"), a Survivor sermon series with real torches, and the neighbor who knocked on his office door asking for a wire hanger — "for my TV antenna. We're under attack." Also in this episode: the mouse that gave all, the reply-all email disaster heard across an entire battalion, Wonder Woman and Superman at the hail-and-farewell, and the proposal story you'll be retelling at dinner. 👉 New here? Subscribe and hit the bell — new episodes and clips every Wednesday. ▶️ Catch up from Episode 1 so you don't miss how the story connects. #AMostUnpredictableLife #Podcast #Savannah #ArmyLife #2001 #StorytellingPodcast #Veteran #lovestory

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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.

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    2026
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