Brian
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Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
Like I said, I think I drove, but I think, like, you know, there were a couple girls that were outside, too, and we were all just hanging out and probably talking about, like, how cool it was and, you know, Lucas talking about the roller skates and stuff.
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Episode 112: Fike House
I just remember he had this, like, he had this way of talking and, like, he was always, like, talking through a kind of, like, a sinister smile a little bit. He was harmless, but he was just kind of like... There's just something about Lucas that was like... It's like parents loved him for some reason.
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Episode 112: Fike House
He was like a good-looking kid, but he just always had this kind of like comic book villain quality to him that was as scary as it was charming, I guess. But yeah, he was just really, really into these roller skates. They were kids' roller skates. And I want to even say they said Sears and Roebuck on them, but I'm not sure about that. It was like a department store brand.
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Episode 112: Fike House
They were just like metal with straps, like the kind that a kid would strap onto their shoes. And they were like... You know, it was just like a metal, like a bottom plate kind of thing with like two leather straps. I want to say like buckles. But they were definitely small. I remember, you know, we were kind of like, what are you going to do with those? And he's just like, I don't know.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
They're cool, you know. And he was just really excited about them. And Corey had this sheet or something. It was like ripped and stained and molded. I think he just wanted to have like a trophy or something too. And, you know, he was just, Corey was just always a little bit more, um, destructive than any of us were.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
So it was, you know, it could have just been about like taking something or like breaking something. It was, you know, um, that was Corey's fun. But yeah, so he's, he's like looking at these roller skates and, you know, we're all smoking and like looking at them and, and hanging out. And Lucas said he had to go to the bathroom or whatever. And we were getting ready to leave.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
I had my headlights on at this point because I remember them shining at like the, the bush thing or like, it was just like a bush that had turned into a tree, you know, it was like a weed tree kind of thing. And I remember the headlights on it and him walking around that bush. And I don't think we were in, we weren't in the car yet, but the headlights were on, car was started.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
And I remember him coming back around and he was just, his whole complexion had changed. His face was, I just never seen Lucas look like that. He was always smiling. Like Jack Nicholson Joker smile. You know, he was just like kind of that kind of character. Like he wasn't that bad. But, you know, that kind of like energy. And he just looked scared.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
My name's Brian. I live in Milwaukee. I work at an art school. I'm the director of safety. And I've lived here for like 23 years. I was always super, super scared of paranormal stuff. I saw The Exorcist at a really young age. And I remember for like a year just being completely, completely afraid of like becoming possessed.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
And I had never seen Lucas scared or upset before. Even when he was like angry, he would still kind of be like smiling or laughing. But he was shaken. And we were like, what's your problem? And he said that he was peeing and he turned around and there was a little girl there. And she said, please don't take my roller skates.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
and that was all he said and we were kind of like I remember everybody else kind of like laughing at him I was not laughing it didn't the combination of him saying that and like knowing how he usually was and how he was then just it didn't add up for me and I was just like he's either playing the best prank ever Or he did see something, something happened.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
And he was like, I have to go put him back. And we were just like, I remember Corey especially was just like, you're a pussy. Like, shut up. And he did. He went back in the house and he was out pretty quickly afterwards. I don't know if he just like opened the window and threw him back in. Or if he actually went back inside, if he did, he was back quickly and he didn't have them anymore.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
And that was the other part for me that was like, he'd have no reason to just put the, it just wasn't him. It wasn't Lucas to just be like, oh, I'm going to put these back. It didn't make any sense. And I remember him being like really, really quiet on the drive back. But then, like, we got back to Colin's house and, you know, Corey was the most vocal on the drive back.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
You know, he had that sheet or whatever. And he was excited about that. And I think maybe it was also the fact that he had, like, taken something and he still had it. So it's like the attention kind of shifted to him. But Lucas was in the backseat and he was just, like, quiet on the way home. And it was a pretty quick drive back to Colin's house from there.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
I remember getting back to the house and... We were, like, looking at the sheet. And, like, when we got back to the house and we were, like, inside and looking at it, it was like, why do you have this thing? It was just, like, gross, stained. I don't even think it was a curtain. I think it was really just, like, a sheet. Like a bed sheet. And...
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
It was ripped, it was stained and we took a picture of him, like holding it up and he's, I can still see it. Like he had his head turned and he's kind of smiling and he's holding it up. And, um, you know, at the time it was just like, this is dumb. It's a dumb sheet. It was a stupid picture. It didn't really mean anything.
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Episode 112: Fike House
But for me, things after that, like the trouble that we got into and some of the stuff that happened just got like way heavier and darker after that. It just felt like everything before that night was pretty harmless and just funny. And after that, especially Corey, became like a problem.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
This all took place probably like my senior year of high school and the year after. So that would have been like 1998, 1999. It really started with meeting my best friend, Colin, who he was a year older than me in high school. And we were like the only like alternative kids in my school. We grew up out in the country. It was like really, really rural. My graduating class was like 60 people.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
he just became a little bit more like even more reckless more violent and i don't really know what to attribute it to or anything but um there's so many there's just like so many examples of like stuff that he'd do where you're just like what is he why is he doing this?
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
Like it just like, he just have like a mercury in his hand and he's like, he, I don't know where he got it from, but he'd just be like sitting there in the living room playing with mercury or the air conditioner in the living room. Just like he cracked the, the, like the metal hose, like the Freon hose and just started like sucking the Freon out.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
It was just like stuff like that where you're just like, what is he doing? Like, Just really, like, weird, destructive stuff. We went to, like, a church parking... There was, like, an addition being put on a church a couple blocks away. And he started the Bobcat up. There was, like, you know, those little mini bulldozer things. They had left the keys in it.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
And I remember him starting it up and driving it. And it, like, went into a ditch that was... You know, they were like pouring a new foundation or something, and it just kind of like went down a little bit, but we took the key out and it wouldn't turn off and you could hear it from the house running all night. And it was just a lot of stuff like that.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
It was just kind of like it was piling up and it was getting too, too weird, too risky. You know, I guess maybe that's the natural progression of stuff. You just like crank up the extreme knob. It's like, it's not doing it for you anymore. Just smashing a mailbox. So you've got to like do something bigger. And it was, we were out in the country. There was just like, there was nothing to do.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
And we weren't really like, we weren't indoor cats. No. It came to the, like, I stopped kind of going there as often. And it just, like, the whole feeling of that house, it just, I don't know, it really changed, like, the house that Colin lived in, even. I remember I'd go back, and it was like, Corey had just, like, started knocking a wall down in the living room. And there were, like,
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
exposed it you know like studs where they were just like oh um you know corey got mad about something like kicked a hole so we decided to like tear the drywall out and the house just started like it was a mess it just i don't know it just started feeling like way more just like a
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
I came from like a pretty good home and I was a happy kid and it just seemed to, um, it seemed like a, a, a level that I was just like, not, not used to and not comfortable with where it was just kind of more trouble than I was willing to cause more destruction than I was really into being around. And, like, drinking became more of a thing for some of those guys, too.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
And it was a lot of like kids. you know, Garth Brooks and like, you know, the Robin Hood Prince of Thieves soundtrack and stuff like that. That's like what people listen to. And we were just not into that stuff. We just like causing trouble and stuff. You know, we were like class clowns. So that's how we kind of started hanging out was just, yeah, messing with people, messing with teachers.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
And they were, like... It was just, like, stuff that you could really get in trouble for. And, you know, there was, like, a night where... I was with Corey. I was hanging out with Corey. We had this shed behind, um, behind Colin's house. It was like one of those metal kind of low sheds. You could basically like fit two lawnmowers and a bicycle in it. And that was about it.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
But we had like taken snowmobiles. It was like late spring, early summer. We had taken a snowmobile, at least one from some garage, just like stole it. And, rode it home on a dirt road. It was, there was no snow. It was just like raced it home on a dirt road and parked it in that shed.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
And I was in there with Corey and we had done acid that night and we were spray painting this thing in the shed with no ventilation. And he was, I mean, there's like acid and spray paint involved, but it was just like, he just seemed like,
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
way off just kind of um scarier like capable of more than i was used to seeing from him and um after that the worst night that i remember was it was july it was like close to my birthday we had been walking home from That McDonald's or that gas station, we were walking around. It was summer. It was at night. And some of those older guys, there was three of them, were in a pickup truck.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
And they drove by yelling stuff at us. And we yelled back at them. And we were, like, flipping them off and stuff. And there was the intersection for Hazard Court and, like, the street, the bigger street that led up to it. Hazard Court was a dead end. There was a parking lot right there.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
and we were walking through that parking lot and they pulled up into it and one of them got out and grabbed colin by the neck and like kind of picked him up and we were just like yelling them to let him go and stuff and Corey, who was like the biggest and scariest and most intimidating of all of us ran away. And I just remember being like, we're going to get our asses kicked.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
Like, this is the worst. Just really scared. And I didn't, I wasn't like used to these guys. Like it wasn't my hometown. So I didn't know these guys. I just remember being like really, really scared and just trying to like pull this guy off a column. And all of a sudden, Corey is back. And he had a baseball bat and a rake. And he hit that guy in the head with a bat. And he just dropped.
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Episode 112: Fike House
And his friends were like, what did you do? You know, like, oh, my God. And we were just like the adrenaline and everything. We were just like. I think I was hitting somebody with a rake. I don't even really remember. Because we were 16, 17, and these guys were older. But Corey just went off on this guy. And he did paralyze him. He paralyzed that guy that night.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
We had a librarian that we really liked to get a rise out of, Mr. Jesperson. Yeah, we just did like lots of really stupid stuff. So Colin was a sophomore. I was a freshman and his girlfriend had just graduated, I think. So she was like out of high school by then.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
I don't really know what happened out of that. That night was the last night I really went there and hung out with those guys. I think I went back maybe one more time right before Colin moved, because he did move to Milwaukee pretty shortly after that was like the last summer we were in, in Michigan, or at least he was after that night. I know that, you know, like law was involved.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
There was court stuff that happened. Corey didn't get in trouble. It was self-defense. Technically, you know, like I said, I wasn't really involved in any of that court aspect of that or really know what was going on with any of that. Um, the only person that really did was Corey. He didn't really talk about it after that.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
I just remember kind of hearing from Colin about the last night they had seen him. He was at the house causing a lot of trouble. they had to call his dad to come get him. And he like ran away before his dad got there. And he came, he ended up coming back like after his dad had left and like kind of continued with stuff. I think he was drunk, but he had like, he had hit his girlfriend.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
I don't know if that happened at the house or not. I wasn't there that night. I was just hearing about it from my friends. But, um, Colin ended up having to hit him in the head with like a rubber mallet. And they took him out on the porch and they left him there and called his dad. And he came and got him. But that was the last night that Corey was around.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
He went into the military pretty shortly after that. I think probably his dad made him. I want to say his dad was like a retired cop or was in the military or something like that. But. He went down south somewhere. And from what I heard, he was doing pretty well. And we never saw him. We never saw him again. He didn't, like, he didn't come home or anything.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
And he got hit by a car crossing a street when he was down there and died. By this time, Colin and I had moved to Milwaukee. And we hadn't gone back and we went back for his funeral. It was pretty brutal because everything had ended so badly. And we never like buried any hatchet or like, you know, had any sort of closure to like the mania that happened before he left.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
Colin, especially, was just like, he was a mess. He was a complete mess at that funeral. So it was the night before the funeral. Colin and I were staying in his mom's apartment. I was sleeping in the living room on the couch. And I had a hard time sleeping that night. He was like, probably the person that I, like, the first person that I was, like, spent that amount of time with that had died.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
And she had been in a plane accident with her brother when she was younger and like almost died, but she got a bunch of insurance money from the accident. And, um, She ended up buying a house. So that was the house on Hazard Court that we hung out in. I had just gotten my driver's license when they bought the house, so I was 16. And Colin must have been 17.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
So the first friend that was, like, that close that had died. And I, you know, I fell asleep. I remember it was really, really late when I did end up falling asleep. But I had, I had a dream that night and he, Corey was in it and it took place in the living room where I was sleeping. It was vivid. It really disturbed me. He was just on the ceiling above me.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
And I feel like he, he had like crawled out from like the hallway. And he was kind of like blue, like dark and blue. And I just, it was like, he kind of descended from the ceiling, like towards me, but it was still his back that was towards me and his head turned around. And I, I wish I could remember exactly what it is that he said in the dream. But I just remember it being like evil.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
It was something, it was just something dark. I don't remember if I woke up right after that, but I did, I did. I remember waking up that morning and like, just not wanting to go to the funeral at all. And it wasn't because I was like sad and I just felt really uncomfortable. Um, and I've always felt like I, for a long time, I felt really, I still do feel like guilty about having that dream.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
Like it was my, it was my, me thinking that, that made like my friend, something evil in my mind that like stuck with me. So I, you know, I still feel kind of like guilty about it and like thinking of them that way, but yeah. So many years removed from that situation and like that night and that summer after it. You know, that's just kind of putting the puzzle together of like.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
I just think something happened. That night at Pike House. I don't think I went back there until like back to Blissfield until this last this past winter. When. Jason died, our other friend Jason. And Colin and I went together for that. And like, that was like a pretty, pretty brutal, pretty brutal funeral too.
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Episode 112: Fike House
Jason had like, he had really bad psoriasis when we were kids and he never really took care of it. And I think it led to like internal stuff. And he just never went to the hospital or anything. And he just, like, died of internal bleeding one day in his house. His brother found him. Yeah, we, like, we went back and we drove through all of the areas that we had gone to.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
The house on Hazard Court was still there. It was nice. It looks like somebody bought it and, like, fixed it up. It looked pretty good. The Fike house is gone. I'm fairly certain that it was Lucas and Corey that burned it down. I know that some, like a few people in that group of friends like went back and burned that house down that summer. And I remember hearing about it.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
I didn't, I wasn't there when they did it, but I remember Colin telling me about it. It's, it's weird. Like, him and I don't really talk about this much and I don't think it affected him. You know, like Jason's death and Corey's death, like affected him a lot, but I don't think that like the stuff that we did affected him the way that it affected me. He just kind of, he's kind of shrugs it off.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
Like it's not really, it's not really a thing or, I don't know. Maybe it's just like something he doesn't like to talk about, but I, I tried, I tried to talk to him about it and like, you know, when I, when I wanted to email you guys, I, I tried bringing it up a couple of times to him and he was just kind of like not interested at all or just kind of downplays it a lot. But I don't know that, um,
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
Our birthdays are like two days apart, but a year apart. So that house was in a town called Blissfield. I grew up in a town called Clinton. That's where I met Colin. He moved back to Blissfield. And it's just like a bunch of small towns separated by tons of farms. And that's where like Corey, Lucas, Jason... Those were the three other guys that were most prominent.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
That group of the four of us was really who hung out the most. And a couple other randoms would come and hang out, but mostly we just went there and smoked weed and played Mortal Kombat. And then we have a band room in the back, and that's where we played music and stuff all the time. Corey and Lucas were kind of a unit. They were definitely the more troublemaker of the whole group.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
Lucas was kind of like the Eddie Haskell guy. He was always laughing and just pushing people's buttons. He was nice, but there was just this little devil about Lucas that you never felt completely comfortable around him. Corey was a little bit scarier, but because he was bigger. He was like, I think back on it now, he was like Russell Crowe in the Gladiator with the glasses.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
That's like what I think about physically. He just seemed bigger than all of us and just like kind of like farm strong. So he was kind of scary a little bit, but we always got along really great. We had a lot of fun, caused a lot of trouble. Nothing really where anybody ever got hurt or
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
was all pretty harmless the most of it would be like property damage and stuff like that so yeah it was just you know we stuck out in blissfield too where we where colin lived was close to like a gas station and a mcdonald's obviously we like started smoking cigarettes at a young age we'd go there and get them and then go to McDonald's. I think Corey worked at that McDonald's.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
So he'd always bring us free stuff and, or we'd just go through the drive-thru and he'd give us a bunch of stuff, but we could walk there. And, um, there were like, there were a lot of older, like more farm kids, um, or jocks that, that lived there that I didn't know. Um, but they, they always gave us shit.
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Episode 112: Fike House
Like if we were walking around, if they saw us walking and they were driving by, they'd yell at us and stuff like that and call us the normal, the normal stuff from the late nineties, you know? Yeah. It was a lot of like back roads, driving late at night, getting high and going into old farmhouses, um,
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
And I think the first time we went into one of those houses was because we had started a band and we wanted to get a good picture. And around that time, I was really into photography. That's what I wanted to go to school for. So I was always taking pictures. So we'd break into places and like take pictures of ourselves.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
And, you know, it was going to be like our band of promo shots and stuff like that. a normal Friday would be getting out of school and either Colin would pick me up before I could drive because I did start going out there before I could drive or I drive out there on a Friday night. And those guys in Blissfield would kind of know where places were.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
They always had a plan for like what was going to happen that weekend. I'd always, you know, it was before cell phones and I don't even know if we ever really called each other on the house phones or anything, but like,
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
I would just go out there and there would always be some kind of plan of like what we were going to do, you know, in the summer a lot, it was going for drives on dirt roads and we would go into abandoned houses. There were, there were tons of them where we, where we grew up. That's where I just remember hearing about the Fike House. Like, oh, we got to go check out the Fike House.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
I think they had probably been there before I went with them. But that's the one that I really, really remember. And it's the only one that I remember ever having a name. It just felt different than all the other ones. It was bigger. It felt older. It was a more ominous house. It was harder to get into. It was more secluded than all the others. But it was also...
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
It was like there was one tree next to it and then nothing. There was just nothing around and it was like the driveway was overgrown and everything too. It was just like a little dirt path. It was probably either a Friday night or a Saturday night that we ended up going out there. Jason drove a lot of the time and I would drive because I had a station wagon so I could fit a lot of people in it.
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Episode 112: Fike House
the dirt roads in Blissfield are, are kind of like domed, you know, they're for runoff because it's a lot of farms and they're really rutted. And then on the sides of the road, they're just like the deepest ditches, just like super deep. So we would like swerve around and kind of like fishtail. And my, my station wagon was really, really fun for that.
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Episode 112: Fike House
So that's what we ended up doing a lot of the time was just kind of like driving around and doing that. But, That night, everything seemed normal. Everything was kind of run-of-the-mill, a typical weekend. But that night was the turning point for this friendship and this group of friends to me. Everything just kind of changed after that and got dark. I feel like things got dark after that.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
So you pull up to Fike House, and you had to go in through the basement, which was the worst part. It was the first time that I had been in the house, and it was the only time I ever went there. So you'd go in through this kind of short basement window. It was like a storm window. You had to pull it up and... And you'd open that window and there was, we never had flashlights.
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Episode 112: Fike House
Obviously there were no lights inside. So you just kind of, you'd swing your legs in and you couldn't see where your feet were going to hit. You just had to kind of, it was like a leap of faith. Just, you're going to, there's a ground, there's ground there. You're going to stop. But you didn't know where it was.
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Episode 112: Fike House
So you kind of had to wait for the person before you to say that it was all right to come in. Or you'd hear him kind of like walk off or whatever. But you couldn't jump in right away. You might land on somebody. So I don't know what the basement looked like. You couldn't see anything. I know it was a dirt floor.
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Episode 112: Fike House
It smelled, you know, kind of like a basement would smell, but just like old wood and dust. I guess like being from the city and not being used to that kind of stuff, it just didn't, it was just kind of another world to me. It was, it was really foreign. Like these old farmhouses with these old structures that had been around, like, and were so old and abandoned.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
It just didn't really make sense to me. It was like, why is this still here? Why didn't somebody knock it down? Or like, why isn't somebody living here? Like what, My mind would just go to awful places in that house. Why did people leave this place? They must have left it for some reason. I'd have tons of anxiety being in that place. At this point, in the basement, everybody's laughing.
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Episode 112: Fike House
Those guys were always way more comfortable with this stuff than I was. So I just remember my heart racing. I'm in this basement. I can't see where I'm going. I can hear like voices of my friends in front of me and I'm just like scurrying, trying to get to those voices and be as close to them without holding on or, you know, tripping over them.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
And you go up these stairs and then you're on the first floor. There were definitely rooms that you couldn't go into because the floor had deteriorated. And like I said, they had a better idea of the layout of that place than I did. So all I remember is like heart racing, the weird old house smell. And like the walls were exposed, laugh, like all the plaster had just kind of like fallen away.
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Episode 112: Fike House
Some of the wiring, you know, for the old lights had, had drooped downs and they were like, you know, obviously spider webs and stuff like that. So it was just kind of like random things would kind of hit you in the face and you didn't know what they were. I'm pretty sure it was like a Victorian.
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Episode 112: Fike House
because the ceilings were really tall, staircases were kind of windy, and it just, it seemed out of place too for where we grew up. It just seemed like in its time, it was probably like the nicest house, the biggest house that would have been around there. When I went into Fike, I just remember kind of staying put. I could hear people moving around throughout the house.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
I was just way too scared of falling through the floor or not knowing what was in there and being extremely frightened of just ghosts and demons and stuff like that at that age. I was just trying to play it safe, I guess. So I could hear...
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
cory and lucas going through the house i want to even say they were on the floor above me and you could just hear their voices and i was just like i'm just gonna stay here when they come down i'm gonna leave with them through the same way i came in and um you know i i don't really remember where colin was at that time or jason um but
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
I think I actually got scared enough that I tried to get out before everybody else left. At some point, I was getting out of the house, crawling through the basement window, and I heard Lucas mentioning that he had found some roller skates. I want to say that Lucas was the last one out. Lucas or Corey was the last out. And Corey was like talking about this sheet.
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
It was like a sheet or a curtain that he had found too. And I remember being, we kind of dismissed that. We were like, why would you take Lucas?
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
curtain or a sheet like it just didn't make any sense to me the roller skate thing was kind of cool Lucas was really really excited about it and and none of us it was like we were out of the house so I felt just relief I was kind of like you know I had accomplished something it was like that was done I was over it I made it out I I was kind of like manically happy
Otherworld
Episode 112: Fike House
I remember still like my heart was still racing kind of. I was definitely smoking a cigarette and was just relieved to be out of that house. I remember Lucas coming out of the house and he had the roller skates in his hand and he was just like, look at these. And there was a pretty good group of us there, but I don't think everybody went inside. There were definitely two cars there.
Savage Lovecast
Savage Lovecast Episode 950
Hey Dan, it's Brian calling from Lincoln, Nebraska. I wanted to comment on the caller who had a question about having photos developed. If you do, in fact, go to Walgreens and have them develop, someone will see them. At least when I worked there, that's the way it was. And they have a policy of not providing them to you.
Savage Lovecast
Savage Lovecast Episode 950
They won't destroy your film, but they will put a note in your packet saying that your pictures weren't printed because they're inappropriate and you won't receive the photos.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Gulf of America, Greenland, Mark Zuckerberg, and More
Brian, go ahead. Yes. Happy New Year, by the way. Thank you. We have some breaking news. You may not be aware of this, but it looks like Cannon has blocked the DOJ from releasing the Smiths report until further court proceedings. Get your thoughts on that.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Gulf of America, Greenland, Mark Zuckerberg, and More
And if I can just follow up real quickly, you want to comment. Many Americans are angry that we're sending millions of dollars every month to the Taliban. Do you anticipate?
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Gulf of America, Greenland, Mark Zuckerberg, and More
Could you give us a preview of what you might be talking to leaders of Congress who are expected to come here in the next couple of days? And you've got a very supportive Congress behind you.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why Christians Need to Stand Up — Live With Riley Gaines at Dream City Church
Charlie, my name is Brian Storm and I'm from Conway, Arkansas. What role do you, I just want to say thank you for standing up for all of us that feel like we don't have a voice. America needs more people just like you. What role do you see for faith and religious values in the public square? And how should people of different beliefs coexist in that society?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why Christians Need to Stand Up — Live With Riley Gaines at Dream City Church
Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
The MeidasTouch Podcast
MeidasTouch Full Podcast - 4/1/25
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The Ramsey Show
Skip the Scams, Build Real Wealth
Hello, Mr. Rizzi. Thanks for having me on. Sure. What's up? recently passed away, and they're with the Lord, and they left myself and my brother in inheritance. We both paid off our mortgages, and then we both invested.
The Ramsey Show
Skip the Scams, Build Real Wealth
He invested in a way I'd say the typical average way, and I sought out like a Christian financial advisor, and I invested in, I guess what we'd say, more Christian-friendly stocks. And he invested around June last year. And so he had his money in about six months and he had made probably 50% more than what I had made with my stocks. And they had only been in there about, uh, three or four months.
The Ramsey Show
Skip the Scams, Build Real Wealth
Uh, when I, I talked to his advisor then and told her how I was investing and she said, Oh, uh, she just, she didn't say it out loud, but basically what she was saying is I'm going to earn about half as much as he is if I invest that way. Uh, so I wanted to see what your thoughts were on that.
The Ramsey Show
Skip the Scams, Build Real Wealth
I am in that one. There's 10 different funds that I'm in.
The Ramsey Show
Skip the Scams, Build Real Wealth
I'm not really sure what it is. I just invested with them. Uh-oh.
The Ramsey Show
The Key to Financial Success: Slow and Steady
We started out in 2021 with $102,361.45 in debt. Wow. Since then, we just started Ramsey in October of 2023, and we paid off in the last 15 months, we paid off the remaining $38,727.90. Whoa. Okay, so how long did this full journey take to pay off the $102,000? Go ahead. Since May of 2021. Okay.
The Ramsey Show
The Key to Financial Success: Slow and Steady
We started out at $140,000 and then we ended up at about $158,000. Wow. What do you all do? I'm a truck driver.
The Ramsey Show
The Key to Financial Success: Slow and Steady
Just looking back at what I hadn't done and what I did do was what was wrong and what I should be doing for my family and my wife.
The Ramsey Show
The Key to Financial Success: Slow and Steady
Right. Yeah. I was embarrassed. You know, I should have done better. And Taylor was a numbers person and she's an ex-teacher. And so I kind of learned from her. Yeah.
The Ramsey Show
The Key to Financial Success: Slow and Steady
That's amazing. Change that family tree.