1 00:00:01,800 --> 00:00:04,700 And then he had called me that night and asked if I wanted to 2 00:00:04,700 --> 00:00:09,200 go on a date, all of a sudden, gyrocopter just dropped. 3 00:00:09,500 --> 00:00:11,900 What am I going to do? I mean, where thousands of feet 4 00:00:11,900 --> 00:00:13,800 in the air and death is imminent? 5 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:19,500 What have I gotten myself into HD Studio? 6 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:40,200 This is honored. Welcome back to the unnerved 7 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:44,000 podcast, it's where normal people share their abnormal 8 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:47,900 stories and if you enjoy true, stories of the strange and 9 00:00:47,900 --> 00:00:50,600 terrifying, then you're in the right place. 10 00:00:51,300 --> 00:00:56,300 I'm your host risk for key and if you can already tell, I have 11 00:00:56,300 --> 00:00:58,600 a cold so bear with me on this one. 12 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:06,400 Typically the one who initiates a date is also the one that 13 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:11,600 plans the date leaving the other person, unaware of what the 14 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:16,500 activities might entail. As you can imagine, this could 15 00:01:16,500 --> 00:01:21,600 be anything from the most romantic scenario to an absolute 16 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:26,600 nightmare. Crystal has been a family friend 17 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:30,500 for years. I would describe her as positive 18 00:01:30,500 --> 00:01:35,100 and humorous and she's the kind of person that anyone would feel 19 00:01:35,100 --> 00:01:39,200 comfortable around. I've heard her tell many 20 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:42,300 entertaining stories of dates. Gone wrong. 21 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:47,200 And in today's story, she will share about a date that went 22 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:51,900 from bad to worse. This is her story. 23 00:01:53,500 --> 00:01:57,400 I was in a season of life where I was going on a lot of dates 24 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:02,100 and collected a lot of stories. But this was the most truly 25 00:02:02,100 --> 00:02:05,200 unnerving of all of the dates that I went on. 26 00:02:06,100 --> 00:02:09,000 I had a friend who said, hey, there's this guy. 27 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,600 He's, he seems like a really good guy. 28 00:02:11,700 --> 00:02:14,400 I know him a little bit, he's helped me fix my garage and I 29 00:02:14,408 --> 00:02:18,000 think you guys might be good when I met him, it was kind of 30 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:21,200 at night and he definitely looked older, but I was like, 31 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:23,400 maybe he's just young. Your butt looks older. 32 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:27,200 I couldn't really tell and I had met him and and then he had 33 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:29,800 called me that night and asked if I wanted to go on a date. 34 00:02:29,900 --> 00:02:33,800 And so he had seen me drive away from wherever I had met him that 35 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:37,900 night and noticed that my tail light was out of my car. 36 00:02:37,900 --> 00:02:40,100 And so that was one of the first things, he was like, hey I'd 37 00:02:40,100 --> 00:02:43,000 love to take you out on a date. Take you for, you know, a flight 38 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,300 of my gyrocopter and out to lunch and I also noticed the 39 00:02:46,300 --> 00:02:48,700 tail light was out on your car. So I was wondering if I could 40 00:02:48,700 --> 00:02:51,400 fix it which is kind of, I mean like very nice but also kind of 41 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:54,800 weird to have some I'm gonna go. I'm gonna fix the toilet and car 42 00:02:55,700 --> 00:02:58,600 and or maybe it was my actions. My headlight, sorry. 43 00:02:59,100 --> 00:03:01,400 And I was like, sure. Yeah. 44 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:04,200 I think it's actually a short in the wiring so I don't know that 45 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:05,900 you can fix it. But yeah, you can try if you 46 00:03:05,900 --> 00:03:08,900 want and he was like yeah I can do it so my roommates. 47 00:03:08,900 --> 00:03:10,900 And I ended up nicknaming this guy, mr. 48 00:03:10,900 --> 00:03:17,000 Well, seasoned, because he was definitely older and I was not, 49 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:22,200 I was in my early 30s at the time and I think he must have 50 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:25,200 been Was in his 50s or he's in his 50s. 51 00:03:25,500 --> 00:03:30,300 And so he planned this really elaborate day in his gyrocopter 52 00:03:30,700 --> 00:03:32,300 down in Hot Springs, South Dakota. 53 00:03:32,300 --> 00:03:35,900 So I was living in Rapid City at the time, had three roommates. 54 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:38,100 All of us. Girls are just living the single 55 00:03:38,100 --> 00:03:42,400 dream and he comes to my house. You fix me up the next day and 56 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:45,400 he's like, I'll be there. We'll leave it. 8:39 is like 57 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:47,500 really early in the morning because we'll have to drive 58 00:03:47,500 --> 00:03:49,300 before Collins and I'll take a while, so I was like, okay, 59 00:03:49,300 --> 00:03:52,100 that's fine. So he shows up kind of one of 60 00:03:52,100 --> 00:03:53,800 those guys. You know, who wears leather 61 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:56,000 vests, and they walk with their chest out. 62 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:00,100 And he also had a gun like a handgun in that he kept in his 63 00:04:00,100 --> 00:04:03,600 the back of his pants and then a huge knife just like in the 64 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:05,400 front. So he's like walking with his 65 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:08,300 Swagger in his gun in his knife which like didn't totally 66 00:04:08,300 --> 00:04:09,700 Disturbed me because I'm used to those things. 67 00:04:09,700 --> 00:04:12,500 But also I've never been on a date with a guy who's like 68 00:04:12,500 --> 00:04:15,800 Becky, you know, separate cop maybe one time so it was a 69 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:20,100 little weird so he's like, yeah, I'm gonna go over and check your 70 00:04:20,100 --> 00:04:23,800 light on your car and I'm like, okay, so he goes Verde lift up 71 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:26,100 the hood. Looks at the light and he's 72 00:04:26,100 --> 00:04:28,500 like, yeah, yeah, I definitely cannot fix that. 73 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:35,200 I was like, okay, let's go and I was like, so we get in the car 74 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:40,100 and he had to Subway sandwiches on his console in his car and 75 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:42,500 did not offer me. One did not offer to take any 76 00:04:42,500 --> 00:04:44,500 place was like I got the sandwiches for myself and I was 77 00:04:44,500 --> 00:04:47,800 like, oh okay, so I hadn't packed anything because usually 78 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:51,400 like important date, you get breakfast together that did not 79 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:53,600 happen. So, We start driving and 80 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:57,600 immediately starts grilling me on my knowledge of different 81 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:00,300 things, like trying to decide how smart or not smart. 82 00:05:00,300 --> 00:05:02,000 I am. And he also brought me. 83 00:05:02,500 --> 00:05:04,500 I believe four of the book that he had written. 84 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:06,800 They were all in like how to be a man? 85 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:10,100 And he was big into politics and all these other things but it 86 00:05:10,100 --> 00:05:11,800 was just interesting to be grilled on like what is your 87 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:13,900 intellectual level? And I was like, oh my gosh 88 00:05:13,900 --> 00:05:16,300 serious. So and then we have a 45-minute 89 00:05:16,300 --> 00:05:18,600 drive before us. And on this drive, I start to be 90 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:23,400 like what have I gotten myself into We get to the airport where 91 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:26,300 his gyro copter is and a gyrocopter, if you've never seen 92 00:05:26,300 --> 00:05:31,100 them, I would call them the four wheeler of aircraft and that 93 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:34,700 they're like a helicopter makes an airplane but they're really 94 00:05:34,700 --> 00:05:38,400 small and when you're sitting in it, like sitting next to someone 95 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:40,000 you are shoulder-to-shoulder next to them. 96 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:43,300 So I found out later that they are considered the most 97 00:05:43,300 --> 00:05:46,800 dangerous aircraft that you can fly because you don't see power 98 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:49,100 lines and they tend to fly low and so people die in them all 99 00:05:49,100 --> 00:05:50,600 the time. But I didn't know that at the 100 00:05:50,608 --> 00:05:53,500 time. And we open up the hangar and 101 00:05:53,500 --> 00:05:56,500 immediately someone had parked their airplane in front of his 102 00:05:56,500 --> 00:05:59,300 gyrocopter. You just got so angry that this 103 00:05:59,300 --> 00:06:00,900 airplane was in front of his Jared problem. 104 00:06:00,900 --> 00:06:04,100 He's like and so I was I was trying to help him like, well do 105 00:06:04,100 --> 00:06:05,800 you want me to? I can help and he's like, I'm 106 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:07,600 moving this place. We just like, pushes the plane 107 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:10,700 which moves surprisingly easily and then he's like why don't you 108 00:06:10,700 --> 00:06:13,100 just go over like go hang out with those people over there and 109 00:06:13,100 --> 00:06:16,500 so he like Point since random group of people just on the 110 00:06:16,500 --> 00:06:18,800 other side of the airport and they they were jumping out of 111 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:22,200 airplanes and I was like, mice. Stomach, just dropped because 112 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:25,900 I'm like, I'm so far from home, there is not ruber, there's no 113 00:06:25,900 --> 00:06:28,300 way for anyone to pick me up and I have to go over to this group 114 00:06:28,300 --> 00:06:30,400 of strangers and I guess hang out with them. 115 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:33,300 So at any point in time in retrospect, I'm like why didn't 116 00:06:33,300 --> 00:06:35,200 I call a friend? Why don't I just leave? 117 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:37,400 Like there's so much. I could have done but I just I 118 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:40,900 felt I couldn't and so I walk over this group and immediately 119 00:06:40,900 --> 00:06:43,400 meet this mom with a little boy and I might can hang out with 120 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:45,900 you because I'm on this really weird day in this guy just like 121 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:48,000 kicked me out until he's ready to go. 122 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:50,800 I don't know what's happening and she's like yeah, so we hung 123 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:53,600 out That was the best part of the day, hanging out with this, 124 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:56,600 random woman and her son watching waiting for her husband 125 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:58,100 because they were jumping out of airplanes. 126 00:06:58,500 --> 00:07:00,100 We hung out and the person who comes over, he's like, all 127 00:07:00,100 --> 00:07:03,500 right, I'm ready to go. So, we get into the gyrocopter, 128 00:07:03,500 --> 00:07:05,700 and I, immediately start like, Buckley myself anymore because 129 00:07:05,700 --> 00:07:07,700 they're strapped, he's like, oh yeah, let me do that for you 130 00:07:07,700 --> 00:07:10,000 because I want to make sure it's done, right, which was so 131 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:12,200 awkward. And I was like, oh my gosh, you 132 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:15,500 know, I felt like a little kid. You put the headphones on us and 133 00:07:15,500 --> 00:07:18,200 we start taking off, and I was kind of nervous. 134 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:22,400 So I wasn't speaking very loud. Lee, and he's like, what? 135 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:24,900 And I'd say something, he's like I can't hear you, I can't hear 136 00:07:24,900 --> 00:07:26,900 you at. And I was like, I think he's 137 00:07:26,900 --> 00:07:28,700 like, I need to just be quiet for a time. 138 00:07:28,700 --> 00:07:29,800 Trying to figure what's wrong with your headset. 139 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:32,600 And I was like, oh okay, sorry we turn around, we go back and 140 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:34,800 he gets out, takes off my headset, check the batteries 141 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:37,600 checks, everything psycho at all, it all works your voice. 142 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:39,900 Just must be to like something is just wrong with your voice. 143 00:07:39,900 --> 00:07:40,900 And I was like right. Yeah. 144 00:07:40,900 --> 00:07:48,500 Okay. Obviously we get up in the air 145 00:07:48,500 --> 00:07:51,300 and he's like and he finally kind of relax a little bit and 146 00:07:51,300 --> 00:07:54,300 he's like, hey so why don't you tell me if you can see me 147 00:07:54,300 --> 00:07:56,800 animals and I was so irritated at this point. 148 00:07:56,800 --> 00:07:59,300 I'm like, yeah, in my mind I'm like you just buckled me and you 149 00:07:59,500 --> 00:08:01,800 just me. Like, and now you want me to 150 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:03,800 look for animals? Like I'm a two-year-old and I'm 151 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:06,700 like oh my gosh. Okay well hey there are some 152 00:08:07,100 --> 00:08:11,200 cows down there and he's like cows stupid and I was like oh 153 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:14,800 really and we're flying over the black Kills heading towards 154 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:16,900 Custer State Park. So if you've never been to 155 00:08:16,900 --> 00:08:18,900 Custer State Park, like there's Buffalo and different things 156 00:08:18,900 --> 00:08:20,400 like that. So I was like, maybe he wants me 157 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:21,700 to look for Buffalo's there. About them. 158 00:08:21,700 --> 00:08:23,900 Like, oh, look, there's Buffalo. He's like, yeah, it's Custer's 159 00:08:23,900 --> 00:08:29,900 Buffalo everywhere. And I'm like, okay, for me to be 160 00:08:29,900 --> 00:08:31,400 like there's a ground squirrel, I don't know. 161 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:35,000 So we're flying along and things are kind of common down a little 162 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,200 bit and I'm in. He hasn't shushed me recently 163 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:41,100 you so, you know, things are better and all of a sudden 164 00:08:48,100 --> 00:08:52,900 Gyrocopters drops like 20 30 feet and I'd like, you know, 165 00:08:52,900 --> 00:08:56,100 your stomach follows and you're like, I don't know that that was 166 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:58,600 normal but I don't see anything. Because what am I going to do? 167 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:01,300 I mean, where thousands of feet in the air and death is 168 00:09:01,300 --> 00:09:03,700 imminent? And he's just like doesn't say 169 00:09:03,700 --> 00:09:04,500 anything. Don't say anything. 170 00:09:04,500 --> 00:09:06,900 He's like, so did you feel that? And I was like, yeah, definitely 171 00:09:06,900 --> 00:09:08,300 felt that. He's like, hmm. 172 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:12,100 And you're not terrified and I was like, um, I didn't know I 173 00:09:12,100 --> 00:09:16,400 should be so, so, so we just got in or just quiet for a little 174 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:17,800 bit and then he starts grilling me. 175 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:22,200 On aeronautic things and do you know why air speed is faster 176 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:23,800 than Lansky. There's all these different 177 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:26,700 things and I was like, oh my gosh, it's so, you know, 178 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:30,100 continue on that vein and then I see an antelope. 179 00:09:30,100 --> 00:09:32,500 And so all of a sudden like, oh hey look, there's no. 180 00:09:32,500 --> 00:09:35,600 He's like, I'm going to be quiet for a minute because I'm trying 181 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:38,900 to land this Jericho after it. I was like okay you told me to 182 00:09:38,900 --> 00:09:42,300 look for animals and now you're shitting me again so we get 183 00:09:42,300 --> 00:09:44,000 there. Like we get to the airports in 184 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:46,300 the middle of Custer State Park and apparently very wealthy. 185 00:09:46,300 --> 00:09:49,400 People fly into this Airport. Custer State Park and they land 186 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:51,100 and someone comes out in Safari Chief. 187 00:09:51,100 --> 00:09:54,600 And they pick you up and it's quite the thing when you have a 188 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:58,700 normal working aircraft and so we go and we look at the 189 00:09:58,700 --> 00:10:01,700 gyrocopter engine and so it runs on a belt sort of. 190 00:10:01,700 --> 00:10:04,700 Apparently it's like a NASCAR belt like similar to what their 191 00:10:04,700 --> 00:10:08,900 engines run on and it's really wide is probably six to 12 192 00:10:08,900 --> 00:10:11,300 inches. Wide for a, an engine belt and 193 00:10:11,300 --> 00:10:14,700 it sheared off. There were two inches left of 194 00:10:14,700 --> 00:10:19,100 the middle of whatever happened. We were Lucky that we landed and 195 00:10:19,100 --> 00:10:23,600 that we didn't crash and die. And he was just like, freaking 196 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:27,400 out because apparently, he had wanted to take me to the Wild 197 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:30,500 Horse sanctuary and fly me to see all the horses and his 198 00:10:30,500 --> 00:10:32,600 driver copter and like, go through the Canyons back there 199 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:34,200 or something, which would have been quite lovely. 200 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:39,500 I'm sure, but with a different person and anyway, he's like not 201 00:10:39,500 --> 00:10:41,200 talking to me. She's super stressed about the 202 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:43,900 dark after, and the Jeep. Finally, pulls up and takes us 203 00:10:43,908 --> 00:10:47,000 to the restaurant, and he's like on its own, which was actually a 204 00:10:47,008 --> 00:10:50,300 ginormous type. Bad surgeon things on this iPad. 205 00:10:50,300 --> 00:10:53,200 Like I gotta find a new engine Burton and then we get to the 206 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:55,400 restaurant and we didn't go in the front door. 207 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:57,900 We went in the back door which neither of us knew because I had 208 00:10:57,900 --> 00:10:59,800 never eaten there before. It's I mean it's beautiful. 209 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:01,000 This restaurant Custer State Park it. 210 00:11:01,300 --> 00:11:03,600 So we walk in the back door and we sit down and I'm just like 211 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:06,600 sitting there's like to do and he's just like, you know, 212 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:10,700 finally the waitress comes up and she's like, oh hey we didn't 213 00:11:10,700 --> 00:11:13,400 see you guys. You didn't come in the part that 214 00:11:13,408 --> 00:11:16,200 you're supposed to come in and wait to be seated, just walked 215 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:18,700 in. He just looks up at her and it's 216 00:11:18,700 --> 00:11:20,800 like, yeah. And I'm gonna need you to turn 217 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:24,100 this music down or off and we're gonna need menus. 218 00:11:24,500 --> 00:11:33,200 Thank you. And I was like, oh, he's like, 219 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:37,400 hey, these different parts stores and see if they have like 220 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:40,100 all these other parts stores and I was like, what am I like, your 221 00:11:40,500 --> 00:11:41,800 secretary know? I don't know. 222 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:45,400 So I start calling, and he just listening to me on the phone 223 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:47,200 like, oh, did you and Mike Grill? 224 00:11:47,300 --> 00:11:49,700 Me and then telling me what I did right and wrong afterwards. 225 00:11:49,700 --> 00:11:52,200 And I was like this reminds me I was having flashbacks with being 226 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:54,500 a kid and like doing everything wrong when it came to my dad to 227 00:11:54,508 --> 00:11:55,900 find parts. And I'm like this is why I 228 00:11:55,908 --> 00:11:57,900 didn't get my dad parked, it's always wrong. 229 00:11:58,400 --> 00:12:02,500 So then our food comes and it was not, it was not very good 230 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:04,700 and so he's like, how's your food? 231 00:12:04,700 --> 00:12:06,300 And I was like, yeah, it's not really good. 232 00:12:06,300 --> 00:12:08,400 It's kind of dry ensembles grape-flavored, he's like, oh 233 00:12:08,408 --> 00:12:10,600 yeah, okay that's nice. And I was like, oh my gosh 234 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:13,700 you're seriously, you're not paid any attention to me and 235 00:12:13,700 --> 00:12:16,500 being that we get done eating and he was like oh yeah. 236 00:12:16,500 --> 00:12:17,500 So how was your food? Food. 237 00:12:17,500 --> 00:12:19,600 And I was like, I'm just going to test and see if he remembers 238 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:21,500 anything and I was like oh it was awesome. 239 00:12:21,500 --> 00:12:23,400 That's no I ever had. He's like, okay yeah, that's 240 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:24,900 nice. But I was like seriously. 241 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:29,600 So I just said I am going to go for a walk so I just get up and 242 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:31,400 I leave. There was like a little hiking 243 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:33,800 path over by the restaurant. So I go on a little hike and I 244 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:35,800 called my roommate and I was like, this is horrible. 245 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:39,200 I know it's a long drive, but can you please come pick me up. 246 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:42,300 I cannot endure this any longer, so my room. 247 00:12:42,300 --> 00:12:43,600 It's like, okay, yeah, I'll get you. 248 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:45,700 I'll get you in. I walked back to the restaurant 249 00:12:45,700 --> 00:12:47,200 and like totally relieved. Everything's good. 250 00:12:47,500 --> 00:12:52,100 Out of this longest day ever. And he he walks down and I was 251 00:12:52,100 --> 00:12:56,700 like oh hey great news I found a ride so I'm just going to get a 252 00:12:56,700 --> 00:12:57,900 ride home and everything would be ok. 253 00:12:57,900 --> 00:12:59,800 He's like oh no that's not going to work. 254 00:13:00,100 --> 00:13:01,800 I actually need you so this is gonna be good. 255 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:04,900 I got Custer State Park to let me use their one of their 256 00:13:04,900 --> 00:13:08,100 Suburbans and so we're going to drive to the airport and then 257 00:13:08,100 --> 00:13:12,100 you're going to pick up my car and then we'll both drive my car 258 00:13:12,100 --> 00:13:13,100 back here and we'll leave them there. 259 00:13:13,100 --> 00:13:14,300 So I know you have to come with me. 260 00:13:14,300 --> 00:13:16,900 I need you to help me and it was like again at that point I could 261 00:13:16,900 --> 00:13:19,800 have been like yeah no that's a good word for me but no I'm like 262 00:13:19,900 --> 00:13:22,300 I don't know what was wrong with me this season of my life but I 263 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:24,400 felt like I was like you know maybe it'll get better you know 264 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:27,100 baby now that we leave here and he'll stop treating me like a 265 00:13:27,100 --> 00:13:30,000 child and it'll be okay. We get in the car and we start 266 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:33,400 driving and he's quiet and then all of a sudden he just reaches 267 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:38,600 over and put his hand on my leg. And I'm like instantly like I'm 268 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:42,700 alone in a car in the middle of the Black Hills and on a dirt 269 00:13:42,700 --> 00:13:45,900 road, I don't actually know where I am and you just put it 270 00:13:45,900 --> 00:13:49,100 on my leg he's like, wow, you did really good today and I was 271 00:13:49,100 --> 00:13:51,300 like, can you maybe take your hand? 272 00:13:53,100 --> 00:13:56,800 Oh yeah. Yeah, down a little bit because 273 00:13:56,800 --> 00:13:59,300 it was another like 45-minute drive and we get back to the 274 00:13:59,300 --> 00:14:03,300 airport and we get out and he's like, hey, give me a hug. 275 00:14:03,300 --> 00:14:08,400 We've really went through a lot today and I'm like, Again, I 276 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:09,800 should have said, no, but I did it. 277 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:13,200 And he so he like brings me in for this fog and I'm like, okay 278 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:15,300 I'll just give him like a quick one and you know how you do the 279 00:14:15,300 --> 00:14:17,200 tap out your like tapping on their back shoulder. 280 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:20,200 Like I'm not and he's like is not reading to tap out he's just 281 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:22,100 holding onto me. And I'm like, what? 282 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:26,700 I'm tapping out, he's just like keep it on there and I'm like, 283 00:14:26,700 --> 00:14:29,600 oh my gosh, Lord save me from this date so he finally stops 284 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:32,200 and we are heading back to Suburbans and I'm like sweet. 285 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:33,200 We're gonna head back to custard. 286 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:36,600 He's like oh yeah, so I was thinking I need actually A drop 287 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:38,800 some stuff off, I'm kind of moving and I have a cabin over 288 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:42,000 here by angostura and so I thought I'd have you like, help 289 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:46,200 me unload some stuff and I was like, yeah I guess I mean, at 290 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:48,000 this point it's like, 3:00 or 4:00 in the afternoon. 291 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:52,500 I follow him out to his house and it's like way back in this 292 00:14:52,500 --> 00:14:55,300 Canyon. And it's a cute little cabin and 293 00:14:55,300 --> 00:14:56,700 he, like, apparently writes his books there. 294 00:14:56,700 --> 00:14:58,700 And so we're moving his stuff in. 295 00:14:58,700 --> 00:15:01,400 And I had to bring something into the back, bedroom, where 296 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:04,100 his bedroom was, and he was in there on the other side of the 297 00:15:04,108 --> 00:15:06,600 bed. And, as I set the box down, Like 298 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:10,800 stands up and he's holding this child's rifle in his hands. 299 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:13,300 And he looks at me, he's like, I bought this in hopes that 300 00:15:13,300 --> 00:15:16,200 someday I would have a son. And I was like, uh-huh. 301 00:15:16,500 --> 00:15:19,500 And he's like, I kind of given up hope. 302 00:15:19,500 --> 00:15:22,000 But, you know, and I was like, yeah, we're here. 303 00:15:22,100 --> 00:15:26,000 And he's like, oh yeah, it's over there. 304 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:28,200 It's all like, staying there for a little bit, kind of regroup, 305 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:31,700 like that was weird. And then I walk out and he has 306 00:15:31,700 --> 00:15:33,700 reported my glass of wine. And he's like, well, you know, 307 00:15:33,700 --> 00:15:35,700 we're pretty much done now. So I was thinking, I just wanted 308 00:15:35,700 --> 00:15:38,000 to show you a couple of Videos of my gyrocopter. 309 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:42,800 And I was like, oh, okay. So like again could have said 310 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:45,600 no, but for some reason I'm like, yeah, shirt, let's all. 311 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:50,000 Look at your gyrocopter video. So we go out on his front porch. 312 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:52,300 And I'm like, sitting across from and I was like, oh no, you 313 00:15:52,300 --> 00:15:55,300 need to sit by me so you can see the video and I was like, oh, 314 00:15:56,800 --> 00:16:00,100 can I sit next to him? And he showed me like the 315 00:16:00,100 --> 00:16:02,700 creation of the gyrocopter, the first our copter, the First 316 00:16:02,700 --> 00:16:05,100 Flight of the gyrocopter, multiple flights of gyrocopters 317 00:16:05,100 --> 00:16:08,700 overseas, pissed. First Flight learning to fly a 318 00:16:08,700 --> 00:16:12,000 gyrocopter and like an hour and a half later as the Sun is 319 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:13,100 setting. I'm finally like, yeah. 320 00:16:13,100 --> 00:16:17,400 So we should probably get going. He's like, oh yeah. 321 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:20,600 Yeah we leave. And I called my mom and I'm like 322 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:23,000 Mom because so he's in His Garment my car and I'm like I 323 00:16:23,008 --> 00:16:24,800 don't know what to do, like this guy's. 324 00:16:25,100 --> 00:16:27,600 I'm like trying to just like show him that I'm not interested 325 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:30,900 in him. Like I told his hand on my leg 326 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:35,200 and I tried to not sit close to him and not touch it, and I'm 327 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:37,200 not doing anything. Things that are like years that 328 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:39,800 he is, like not picking it up and moms, like probably just 329 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:41,500 going to have to be straight with him Crystal and just tell 330 00:16:41,500 --> 00:16:44,300 him and I was like, I don't think he's gonna get it. 331 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:46,400 So we get to Custer State Park who dropped his bourbon off. 332 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:48,800 Its like probably seven or eight at this point, and we're driving 333 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:50,600 back into town. And so, she starts grilling me 334 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:53,400 like, hey, so what do you want relationships and love? 335 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:56,600 And I was like, okay, I still instead of just being clear, 336 00:16:56,600 --> 00:16:57,800 like, hey, I don't like you at all. 337 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:00,100 I'm still like, I'll just get dropped more hints. 338 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:02,000 So he's like, so what do you got love? 339 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:04,400 And I was like, oh my gosh, I'm so in love with my ex-boyfriend 340 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:05,599 like I wish we could get back together. 341 00:17:05,599 --> 00:17:07,500 I just I really I love him. I'm pretty sure we're going to 342 00:17:07,500 --> 00:17:10,300 get back together. Actually like, I'm deeply madly 343 00:17:10,300 --> 00:17:13,400 in love with him and I go on and on and I get done and he's like, 344 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:15,900 yeah, you know, love doesn't really matter. 345 00:17:15,900 --> 00:17:18,300 I've been in love with million people like that comes and goes 346 00:17:18,300 --> 00:17:22,700 like, I'm sure you'll be fine. I was like, okay, so then he 347 00:17:22,700 --> 00:17:25,700 goes. So how many kids do you want to 348 00:17:25,700 --> 00:17:29,800 have some day? And I was like, you know, at 349 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:32,800 least four but probably like six to ten like if I could have six 350 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:36,000 to 10, that would be great, but at least for bottom line and I 351 00:17:36,008 --> 00:17:38,900 do Found out later. That was the one thing. 352 00:17:38,900 --> 00:17:40,400 Like not me being rude. Nothing else. 353 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:42,800 That finally made him be like, maybe I'm not interested in her 354 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:45,200 house, but I made one more mistake. 355 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:47,600 So we're getting close to the house and he starts talking 356 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:50,800 about being hungry and I was like, I cannot be with him any 357 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:52,600 longer. Like I can't go to a restaurant, 358 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:56,400 like that is not going to work and so I was like, hey actually, 359 00:17:56,800 --> 00:17:58,400 I have some Roast Beef in my house. 360 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:00,600 I made a roasted the day you can just have some of that meat and 361 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:03,100 just you just take it to go, great. 362 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:05,300 And it was a good roast. I had done an excellent job but 363 00:18:05,300 --> 00:18:07,400 I do anyway. We get to the house and he's 364 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:10,700 like, yeah, that's a great idea. And I was like, oh well you guys 365 00:18:10,700 --> 00:18:12,300 let me do. And so we pull up and he's like, 366 00:18:12,300 --> 00:18:14,800 hey I just I feel really bad. I couldn't fix the headlight on 367 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:18,000 your car. So I would really love to I just 368 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:21,800 want to try to fix something for you and I was like, okay, okay 369 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:25,100 well I mean most things I fix but you know, I I have an air 370 00:18:25,100 --> 00:18:26,800 conditioner, it's been leaking into the basement. 371 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:30,000 Oh I can definitely fix that. I was like, I don't think you 372 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:31,400 actually can because I think it's kind of a weird 373 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:33,800 condensation thing and I don't know how I got it. 374 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:36,800 I can fix it and I was like, okay, so, We walk over to the 375 00:18:36,808 --> 00:18:39,500 air conditioner and he looks at it and he's like, yeah, no, I 376 00:18:39,508 --> 00:18:40,900 definitely I can't fix that I've noticed. 377 00:18:42,100 --> 00:18:44,700 Oh good. Okay, well let me know you can 378 00:18:44,700 --> 00:18:47,100 head out thanks for the day I guess. 379 00:18:47,100 --> 00:18:50,000 And so we get into the house and and I'm getting the roast beef 380 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:52,600 out and I'm cutting it and all my knives were really do, like 381 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:56,200 he's like, wow, your knives are super dull and I was like, yeah, 382 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:58,500 they're older. Migrans, like, I just got them 383 00:18:58,500 --> 00:19:01,100 kind of as a me down and he's like, hey, you know, I actually 384 00:19:01,100 --> 00:19:05,200 have a nice Diamond Knife, Sharpener out in my car, so I 385 00:19:05,208 --> 00:19:08,200 can sharpen those knives. For you and I was like, yeah, 386 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:10,400 sure. He's like, that's really want to 387 00:19:10,408 --> 00:19:12,900 do something for you and I was like, okay. 388 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:21,900 He sharpens, all of my knives, many leaves. 389 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:29,100 And I was like, oh my gosh, is like 10:00 at night, but I kept 390 00:19:29,100 --> 00:19:32,000 his books just because I was like, I don't ever want to 391 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:35,600 forget this date because that was the most crazy random 392 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:40,100 experience of my life, all of the different situations like 393 00:19:40,500 --> 00:19:43,500 we're in a gyrocopter. It malfunctions, we almost 394 00:19:43,500 --> 00:19:45,900 crash. He's showing off a gun. 395 00:19:45,900 --> 00:19:49,100 He's sharpening my knives. Like all these different 396 00:19:49,100 --> 00:19:50,400 situations? You are in. 397 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:52,900 You know, thankfully, nothing horrible. 398 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:55,300 Happened. But you know it's just like it's 399 00:19:55,300 --> 00:19:57,100 just crazy. The amount of situations you 400 00:19:57,108 --> 00:19:59,200 were in in one day with this guy. 401 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:01,500 Yeah, yeah. I called it the longest day 402 00:20:01,500 --> 00:20:05,600 ever. And I should have I think my I 403 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:08,500 think I sort of just like, disassociate a little bit and 404 00:20:08,500 --> 00:20:11,000 I'm like, no, no, this is fine. It's gonna get better. 405 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:12,800 Every it's good, everyone's good. 406 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:16,800 And then in retrospect, I'm like, oh my gosh, I almost died. 407 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:20,300 Yeah, in more ways than one potentially. 408 00:20:20,500 --> 00:20:26,700 Yeah, so my favorite part of Story is that this guy comes 409 00:20:26,700 --> 00:20:32,200 across as the definition of masculinity and manly man and I 410 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:36,600 love the multiple attempts at trying to prove that I think he 411 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:39,500 failed at every attempt at trying to show his manliness 412 00:20:39,500 --> 00:20:42,100 except for sharpening the knives that was the only thing you 413 00:20:42,100 --> 00:20:46,500 successful laughs yeah I can fix that for you, I know. 414 00:20:46,500 --> 00:20:52,800 But yeah, I'll fix the gyrocopter actually do. 415 00:20:54,900 --> 00:20:57,100 Oh my gosh, that's so funny. I want to talk about the 416 00:20:57,108 --> 00:20:59,500 gyrocopter for just a second. Okay. 417 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:03,200 I didn't know what a gyrocopter was until I looked it up. 418 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:06,500 Yeah, those things look terrifying. 419 00:21:06,500 --> 00:21:10,000 I'm not afraid of flying at all. Like, I've gone skydiving. 420 00:21:10,100 --> 00:21:11,600 I like heights and all that stuff. 421 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:14,700 Bothers me. But when I saw a photo of the 422 00:21:14,700 --> 00:21:18,800 gyrocopter, I was like that does does not look safe at all. 423 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:22,000 Yeah, was it enclosed? Or was it? 424 00:21:22,100 --> 00:21:24,100 Was it one of the 10? That we're open. 425 00:21:24,100 --> 00:21:27,600 This one wasn't closed. So it really had the feel of a 426 00:21:27,608 --> 00:21:32,200 mini helicopter, but it also had the feel of like one strong gust 427 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:33,800 of wind and more dead. Right. 428 00:21:33,900 --> 00:21:38,200 Gotcha. So the belt that broke apart and 429 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:40,200 there was only like two inches left of it. 430 00:21:40,500 --> 00:21:44,900 Did he say how much more air time that you guys probably had 431 00:21:44,900 --> 00:21:47,800 like, how much longer before you guys will have made like an 432 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:50,200 emergency landing? He didn't say. 433 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:53,600 But based upon like the look on his face when he looked At it, 434 00:21:54,100 --> 00:21:56,100 he was pretty terrified. I don't think we could have 435 00:21:56,100 --> 00:21:58,400 flown much farther than what we did. 436 00:21:58,700 --> 00:22:01,500 His face actually looks like surprised that we even made it. 437 00:22:01,700 --> 00:22:04,400 It's how he shouldn't have even made it on the two inches. 438 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:07,600 That was their right and he couldn't show Fear because he's 439 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:09,900 the manly man so he can't show these scared. 440 00:22:09,900 --> 00:22:12,500 Yeah, so instead he just you know kind of got angry and shut 441 00:22:12,500 --> 00:22:16,100 down that day, showed me that I needed to be more aggressive 442 00:22:16,100 --> 00:22:18,400 assertive in what I needed and wanted. 443 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:22,500 But I was like if he hadn't been a good guy like he was a good 444 00:22:22,500 --> 00:22:25,200 guy. You know, weird and it didn't go 445 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:27,700 his way. But in retrospect, I remember 446 00:22:27,700 --> 00:22:30,800 laying in my bed that night him like he had like tried to 447 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:32,400 kidnap. How far would I have gone? 448 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:35,200 I think it just kind of scared me like because I am a people 449 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:37,400 pleaser but I'm not only a people pleaser. 450 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:40,900 I also really want to give people chances and I'm like, you 451 00:22:40,900 --> 00:22:42,900 know, it's gonna get better. Like I always kind of believed 452 00:22:42,900 --> 00:22:45,800 in the best and like there's going to be a silver lining and 453 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:49,100 I don't really listen to like my own fear or my own anger. 454 00:22:49,100 --> 00:22:51,800 So like the times when I got afraid I'd be like, nope you're 455 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:53,900 fine, don't be afraid. You know, instead of being like, 456 00:22:53,900 --> 00:22:57,700 maybe this is a sign, I just listened to or frustration of 457 00:22:57,700 --> 00:23:00,300 like hey maybe that actually matters and you should voice 458 00:23:00,300 --> 00:23:02,100 this. And so I just like know, it'll 459 00:23:02,100 --> 00:23:03,400 be okay. Like you know I'm just going to 460 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:06,500 give he's trying like I'll give him a chance to look at better 461 00:23:06,500 --> 00:23:09,900 get better and just kind of convince myself of that until in 462 00:23:09,900 --> 00:23:12,600 retrospect, when I got home, I was like yeah, that was I went 463 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:15,600 way too far. I guess, my advice would be know 464 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:19,400 yourself know your boundaries also have a Escape Plan like I 465 00:23:19,408 --> 00:23:21,300 did not have an escape plan for that date. 466 00:23:21,300 --> 00:23:22,800 I should have thought that out way. 467 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,400 Way better. But I was just so excited to get 468 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:28,100 it going a gyrocopter. So also when the date sounds too 469 00:23:28,100 --> 00:23:31,900 good to be true, it really might be when you have horrible dates, 470 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:34,400 just turn him into a comedy show and then they just become a 471 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:37,000 great story and that makes life way better. 472 00:23:37,100 --> 00:23:39,700 And then keep dating because I did meet an amazing man later 473 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:48,200 Crystal story. Although humorous could have had 474 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:53,900 a much more devastating result going on a date with someone and 475 00:23:53,900 --> 00:23:58,900 put you in a difficult situation especially with someone you 476 00:23:58,900 --> 00:24:02,200 hardly know. I'm not saying you shouldn't 477 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:05,000 date. I'm simply saying that during a 478 00:24:05,008 --> 00:24:10,300 date a friend or family member should know where you're at and 479 00:24:10,300 --> 00:24:14,500 who you're with. Some of the most dangerous 480 00:24:14,500 --> 00:24:19,200 individuals in history. Also happened to be the most 481 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:22,800 Charming. Famous screenwriter, Troy 482 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:25,700 Kennedy. Martin once said, I trust 483 00:24:25,700 --> 00:24:30,300 everyone I just don't trust the devil inside them. 484 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:37,300 Thanks again for listening to unnerved. 485 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:40,200 If you enjoyed this episode please share it with your 486 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:44,300 friends and leave a review wherever you get your podcast. 487 00:24:44,900 --> 00:24:48,800 And if you guys want to see photos related to each episode, 488 00:24:49,100 --> 00:24:50,700 be sure to follow us on Instagram. 489 00:24:50,700 --> 00:24:56,100 I am at unnerved podcast there. You'll be able to see photos of 490 00:24:56,100 --> 00:24:59,600 Crystal and some of the locations where her date took 491 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:03,400 place. Thanks again for listening and 492 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:04,500 we'll see you next time.