The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby - The Beeston's on Getting Haunted, Becoming Missionaries & Seeing My Sister-in-Law Topless

Episode Date: February 28, 2024

This week we were joined by Sarah, Derik, Lauren & Tanner Beeston! We covered their experiences with the supernatural, Derik & Tanner's journey becoming missionaries, and Derik's hilarious yet embarrassing story about accidentally seeing Lauren topless while on a family cruise. This episode is sponsored by Curology, Factor, ZocDoc & Jenni Kayne. Curology: For a limited time get your first Curology skincare box for $5 when you go to https://Curology.com/UNPLANNED. Factor: Head to https://factormeals.com.com/unplanned50 and use code UNPLANNED50 to get 50% off! ZocDoc: Go to https://Zocdoc.com/UNPLANNED and download the Zocdop app for FREE! Jenni Kayne: Find your forever pieces @jennikayne and get 15% off with promo code UNPLANNED15 at https://jennikayne.com/UNPLANNED15 #jennikaynepartner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There was a kid in my mission who was held at knife point or gun seven different times wasn't it like top three most dangerous city in the one Holy crap, what did you do? It was the most dangerous city in the world You seen Voyage's boots? You didn't have to tell him! I did! You were saying the other stuff I didn't say the other stuff What happened?

I drive home from work. There's a swing set outside. The swing is in full swing when I park and then it stops Matt! I'm explaining that Explain it I'm sorry Can you explain that? is in full swing when I park and then it stops. We sat down with TikTok stars and our friends, the Beastons. Lo and Sarah Beeston pranked the internet in 2021 by pretending that their husbands, their container, were long lost twins. But their story doesn't start there. They grew up in Utah, became missionaries, lived in the most dangerous city in the world,

and both claimed to have experienced paranormal activity through their encounters with ghosts. We talk about all this and so much more in today's episode. I'm so hyped right now. We're with the beanie boys, the beastens. Do you guys see me wear a beanie today? No Matt, you were getting to borrow a beanie. Let's see how this goes. I wasn't there.

Have you guys ever seen Matt? Please wear a beanie and I was like whatever, I guess I'll be cool like you guys wear a beanie. So here I am. I think this is theanie and I was like, whatever. I guess I'll you know, I'll be cool like you guys were being so I think this is the coolest you've ever looked man. Thank you so much. I really appreciate that Oh, you're a beanie brother. I have a question How are you guys so close because like I'm close with my brother But I feel as if your relationship as brothers and then now sister-in-law as you guys just start your own podcast You're super close You guys just started your own podcast. You're super close.

Oh, the hand. We got the hand. We got the hand on the leg. You need to respect our pain. Wait, I know what you're talking about. Has it always been this way? I think going to Hawaii was huge. It was Hawaii, yeah.

Oh, really? Like that's where our interest just started to become the exact same. Like in high school, I was a sport-o guy. Like Nike shorts, Nike everything. Like just wanting to play basketball, whatever. Tanner was a little bit more on like cool style. I always wore his clothes and

But it was just It was yeah, I don't know. I think we were just always in different phases of life. You did steal a lot of my clothes though I think you still do. How often do people get you guys confused as twins? Because you guys kind of made a trend on social media making these videos of like meeting your long lost brother and they kept going viral. And so I feel like half the internet believes that you're twins, right?

We're sorry about that by the way. Still at the stable. Still tell us. Oh, you're married to the twins? No, someone in our family thought you guys were twins. They're like, you're twins, right? And I was like, no. No, they're not twins.

They're just brothers. And even when we say that they're brothers, people will say, oh, they're brothers, thinking that they were just meeting and they looked like. So a lot of them just... You guys trolled me hard. It was so funny because then we had

our little following on Instagram that just knew that they were brothers and siblings and they all were kind of on our team like ha this is really Funny to see all these other people not know Honestly, he feel bad though when we were in public and someone go oh you're married to the twins and I would have to correct them And then it got kind of awkward. I'm like no they're actually brothers. Yeah, they're like, but wait I saw the video So that was played a joke.

Yeah, so that was just a joke. It was a silly joke. It was a little joke. It was just a little jokie joke. It was so silly. Here's the thing though, right? Like you guys, obviously, like I'm talking to ladies here, you guys probably both think your husbands are pretty

attractive, right? Like you've been together for a while. I know where this is going already, but literally. We get this question. Do you not think that your brother-in-law is attractive? We've answered this one too many times. We honestly just answered this actually in our last walk-in. Really?

Because when I tell you that, when we do any assumptions, anything like that, everyone's like, well, then, are you attracted to the brother? Because I think those look pretty different, I will say. I was just about to say, I think we don't really look that much like that. I mean, there it did fall off the right face. I fell off the left. That changed your face. It did. Before they looked identical. Faces are honestly Curious so the? The sad thing is, is what? Every part of that is sad.

His whole face is redone. That's not what I was just kidding. Oh, it's sad. All right. No, they didn't look like twins before. Okay, I was a little kid, so who knows? Maybe it would have looked the same, but I did look a little bit different.

Yeah, you look different. No, no. Cause you still look exactly like Dad when he was young. He looked like his dad, and he looked exactly different. There was no difference at all. I smashed my nose. My nose was completely flat to my face and in an S shape.

Oh my gosh. So the doctor basically had to recreate my nose looking at my little kid pictures when I was 13, 14 years old. He's looking at the photos going, okay, I think this is what your nose is going to turn into. I'm going to do this. And so this isn't what it was, but and then I have a little bit of,

you can't really tell, but I can tell. There's a little bit of droopiness in my right eye. I can't tell. Yeah. So you had full on facial plastic surgery at what age? 15, 15. Oh crap. And it was everything from like your nose to your cheeks.

This whole side of my face was all reconstructed and my nose. Oh my gosh. I got plates in here face was all reconstructed. And my nose. Oh my gosh. I got plates in here holding it together so hopefully they stay. Do you know how much that medical bill was? Dude, honestly I think about it a lot. I know that it was, I mean, it's crazy.

Just like getting in the ambulance just to get me from an ambulance to the helicopter was like $20,000 or something. That's ridiculous dude. And that was just down the road. And then the helicopter was like $20,000 or something. That's ridiculous dude. And that was just down the road. And then the helicopter and then I get in a plane and then I go to the hospital and then I mean everything in the hospital being there for a week and a half it just. And Tanner witnessed this whole thing right?

I didn't see him fall but I about a time so we were all further down the hike. My parents watched him fall. We came back and one of my little cousins said, oh Derek broke his nose I'm like, of course he did. He's probably crying about it too. And then I get there. He's honest, like a stretcher getting carried down. I, all I see is his hand, bloody hand hanging off the side. And I'm like, Oh, my brother's gone. Like fully thought, like, like in shock. Like, I don't know what's gonna happen and then They had to like cut off his clothes up there like his shirt and like his shoes were off And they asked me to carry them down also blood all over them

And so I'm just like carrying these down like this is the gnarliest thing of my life And then he goes take gets taken off in a helicopter. That's absolutely terrifying. Yeah, did you cry or your parents? No, I was in shock. I was in shock and then I was also like, nothing gnarly like that had ever happened to me. So I was like, this'll be fine. Like they'll figure it out. But then the other half of me was like,

I'm never gonna see my brother again. So it was like this little battle. And then because of that, I was just somewhere in the middle like, uh, yeah. It's crazy. You were 19? No, I was fifth.

He's only two years older. You were 17. 16, 17? Yeah, I was fifth. He's only two years older. You were 17. 16, 17? Yeah, I think so. Oh, so were you guys in high school? I think I was a junior in high school. No, I met actually after, because I moved out there after that fall had happened

because I remember my friend pointing out, oh, he fell off a cliff and I knew Derek in passing before Danny. It became an identity. You were the cliff kid. Like, they pointed him out and they were like, oh, he fell off a cliff because he had like a nose guard on. Showing up at school, I came in a wheelchair

with a cast on my arm, this one, a sling on this arm. My face was just like purple and I'm showing it at school. Oh my gosh. But that was like two months after. Did you see the white? Were kids nice? Did you get made fun of at all? No, it was right after I got the cast cast off? Um, I think kids were nice

I mean, I'm sure that I had a freaking crew that hated me and in junior high that bullied me a lot So I'm sure that they I think because for a long time you didn't think that it was mean and then you brought it Wait, what do you mean? What do they do to you? They just say mean things. They told me to eat every day. Sorry, sorry But that's their thing. Yeah run around the school and just yell. Did they thought, did they say eat or shiz? Because I know when you talk. I don't know, they said it. They said it.

They said it. That was hard. They made a bad voice in their school. They talked about it. They made a bad voice, yeah. So they could say that stuff. It was a scary clue. The non-LDS kids.

No, the bad LDS kids. Oh, the bad LDS kids. Now worse than not. And how did you respond? I thought it was funny. And I was kind of the kid that kind of yapped back at everyone so I would yell back something.

Like eat shiz. Eat poopy. Yeah. Eat poopy. Eat poopy. No, I got myself into a lot of situations like that because I liked to poke the bear, I guess you could say. You are a poker.

You do a little jab. And so then they would gang up on me and yeah, that was a fun time. It didn't really affect me a whole lot then, but now growing up I'm like, dang, I'm surprised it didn't. And I hope my kids don't have to go there. I honestly think about that a lot. Like things that happened in high school that were like so normal. And then you look back on it and you're like, yeah, that was really weird. Did that actually happen? Or did that person say that?

Like my ex-boyfriend saying that like making videos of him killing Tanner. That was really weird. Did that actually happen? Or did that person say that? Not okay. Okay. Like my ex-boyfriend saying that like making videos of him killing Tanner. What? No, like straight up would tell me he's going to go over to Tanner's house and just like wait for him to answer the door and just like punch him right in the face. Are you kidding me? I'm not kidding. He tried to do that.

He drove straight to his house. I'm in the car and I'm like, if you don't turn this car around, I'm never going to talk to you again. I'm doing everything. His little sister's in the car with me. Oh my God. How did you date this guy? Listen, you can't trust a ninth grader. Once again, the people you date in high school, you can't know how. It's not real. Other than, you know, what I mean. Can we address that? Can we address that for a second, you guys? We all got married relatively young, right? Like all of us in this room. We all had kids fairly young.

And we're still married! We made it! We made it! Woo! Guys, we just gotta get past the seven-year-age. That is so freaking rare. Seven-year-age. We're already in eight.

You did it? We're in eight, baby. Congratulations. Congrats. Yeah, we're coming up on nine. We're already in eight. You did it? We're in eight, baby. Congratulations. Congratulations. Yeah, we're coming up on nine. Oh no. We're only at four and a half. Oh no, you're in for a treat.

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We were the weirdos for being 19, talking about getting married for you guys. If you don't get married by 21, you're old. 21! That's crazy. And that's Utah. Yeah, it's just, it's so normal to get married young. Were your parents all married young?

Like is that? Yeah. Holy cow. My mom was 19. She just turned 19. Had you at 20 or something? And then I was born at 20. Yes, a year later. Yeah. Yeah, my dad was 24

Something like that. Yeah, my mom was 21. It's kind of it is crazy, but yeah, it's it's so normal. I guess here and so Yeah, and then people in the other states or wherever Around the world are like wait. Why are you guys so young like when we are on our honeymoon? They're like, where's your parents? are like, wait, why are you guys so young? Like when we are on our honeymoon, they're like, where's your parents? They literally said that. No way. I would say y'all kind of look like the spouses.

You think so? We actually do that though. I think something happens when you get married to someone, you start morphing into them. It's weird. Yeah. But I wouldn't say that you guys would look like something. I wouldn't say you guys look like nothing.

So what's wrong? We're getting married. It's not going to last. It's not going to last. It's not going to last. It's not going to last. It's not going to last. It's not going to last. It's not going to last. It's not going to last.

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It's not going to last. It's not going to last. It's not going to last. It's not going to last. It's not going to last. It's not going to last. It's not going to last. It's not going to last. It's not going to last. It's not going to last. It's not going to last. I really like it. Also to answer your question too about like Is it an LDS thing or is it a Utah thing? I think it's a little bit of both with people getting married young because in the church

They're just like, you know, we want you to get married have a family Yeah, raise your kids get on it like get to it as soon as possible. So that's kind of the The core of the church. Yeah, but then also with so many people in Utah being a part of the LDS church I think it's become very cultural too. So it's not surprising Anywhere here when someone's like, oh, we've been a gate engaged for three months. I'm 19. She's 20 Yeah, and and going on missions too. I thought like learning about that you guys both went on missions, right? And that's that's pretty hardcore like you're from your family for, is it two years? Yeah.

I only made it six months, but yeah. And I feel like rules have probably changed since then. Six months? Oh, you were gone for six months? Yeah, I was gone six months, but yeah. Gotcha. But yeah, I mean, like, it's pretty hardcore. I mean, it's not like you can just call home

all the time, right? Like you had to write letters if you wanted to communicate with your loved ones. That sucks. Hey guys, talk to me about that. Oh, because you were dating while he was gone? Yeah. Yeah. When I was on my mission, yeah, half they they changed to the year in,

but for the first year I could only write letters. Yeah. You couldn't email or anything. Yeah. So it was like, yeah. We did in the end. Yeah. I'm going to talk about that later. Wait, did you date somebody else while he was on a mission? Yeah. Oh, shoot.

Wait. I was like, I'll ask you this. This story is insane. She got engaged. I literally listened to it. No, she got proposed to. I didn't get engaged. She got proposed to, I mean.

She literally got proposed to by this guy. Wait, I knew this. Yeah. But you said no. It's like a Bachelorette situation where she's in love with you guys. Did you say no in the moment or did you just see it? For me, I'd be like, Sure.

Yeah, totally. Just me. I don't want to hurt your feelings. I don't want to hurt your feelings. I hate confrontation. I don't know what I was thinking. I would have been, I hate confrontation, so yes. I just do, oh yeah, what was your question?

Wait, is that okay to talk about? Yeah, we can talk about it. You got proposed to while you were on a mission. No, it was after you got home. Yeah. So I dated somebody the final year that Tanner had. I dated somebody and I was, you know. Still thinking about Tanner?

Still thinking about Tanner, but I was also falling in love with somebody else. And then when Tanner got home, I wanted to see where things would go with Tanner and I because I wanted to. And then would go with Tanner and I because I wanted to and Then it came to decision time like I had to choose one or the other And they both know about like what was going on. Yes, okay And that's why he wouldn't drag tears house and punch him in the face. No, that's a different guy We're not a wild animal. We've been through a lot.

Jeez. That's what a wild story is. And Derek, you went to a pretty scary area, right? For your mission, right? Yeah. You were, dude, wasn't it like top three most dangerous city in the world? Top one. Holy crap.

What is the most dangerous city in the world? The most dangerous city in the world. Yeah. So I went out there in 2014 and in 2014 it was San Pedro Sula Honduras. Okay. Yeah, so that was ranked across the board, number one most dangerous city in the world at that time. Do you like go to sleep and you hear gunshots at night? Yeah.

It was crazy. So there was a lot of areas in the mission where, you know, they'd call us gringos, just white missionaries could not go. So they wanted the Latin native missionaries to serve in those areas because they were just too dangerous. If they see a white missionary there or anyone, they're gonna rob them. Really?

Yeah, put it, I mean, there was a kid in my mission. Luckily, I mean, I was, again, only out there for six months, so not too many insane things happened. We did get robbed a few times, but there was a kid in my mission who was held at knife point or gun seven different times. Holy crap.

Yeah. Did that happen to you too? So I never got knife or gun, but we just got, there was like a gang of four people a few times that came up to us, four or five people, and they would just circle around us. That's scary. And just stay like, and we wouldn't even say anything.

We would just instantly give them everything we got, and then they'd start cussing us out and then we'd leave that's terrifying And so everything you got and you're like I got you didn't even yeah They only let us carry Five bucks on us Really, I think was yeah what it was so we just carry that around but it's actually cleaned up a ton like the country of Honduras now is Not I don't if you look at the list. I don't even think they're on the top 50 now and so it's actually cleaned up a ton. Like the country of Honduras now is not, if you look at the list, I don't even think they're on the top 50 now in San Francisco.

So it's crazy. Yeah, they changed a ton but it was scary and my mom was so stressed all the time and yeah. And you had to learn a different language too. I think that's so cool. You guys both learned Spanish, right? Yeah, so that's the cool part about it. I mean, you're immersing yourself in this culture of,

and the people there are amazing. Obviously, there's some scary stuff going on at that time, but the people were the kindest humans you will ever meet in your entire life. And so that was really cool to just kind of immerse yourself in a completely different culture, learn their language, and obviously teach them the stuff that you believe in. And if they don't believe it, that's fine,

but you get to meet a lot of great people. And it was cool. There must have been a lot of... I mean like the character building that must have came out of that could it must have been immense to learn a different language, go somewhere where you don't know anybody and just get thrown in and train for the you know few months leading up to it. Yeah. You're young and you are fresh out of high school. I mean that's just that's crazy and I feel like every young person could benefit from something like that, almost like trial by fire, you know? Doing something hard and uncomfortable.

Yeah, maybe it doesn't have to be a mission, but just like, I don't know if it would be the Peace Corps or going to just like volunteering somewhere. Just getting yourself to another country that can open your perspective a little bit. If you're able to, I mean, it's all, everything's relative, you know? country that can open your perspective a little bit. I mean, everything's relative, you know? And it's perspective.

And if you're able to experience these different cultures, I think it's great too when little kids are able to travel. I would love to take our kids to different countries and just show them, hey, you know, it's not always like this. You know, we've been really blessed. We're fortunate with a lot of different things, but for them to see that,

I think is one of the most valuable things. Did you ever get like, bull-eater people making fun of you for like, oh, there's the missionaries coming on their bikes with the white shirt in the black tie? Yeah. Look, look, look, look. Actually, every day.

Dude, it is funny though. Like, it's cool. I feel like even when we see this missionaries, we're like, oh, it's cool. I feel like even when we see this in Missionaries, we're like, oh, that's so cute. And it's even funnier that I was a missionary, and then it's been 10 years and 10 years. Holy cow. And now I just was like, dude, I was you.

I was wearing the goofy helmet on the old mountain bike and just like every like. Did they require you to wear a helmet? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, you guys should have too, right? Yeah. And bike and just like every like. They require you wear a helmet? Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. And you're just like in your matching little uniform. And you can't leave your computer.

And so hard on your 10 years old. Tanner would ride his bike as fast as he could. Just to get it through. Because you don't get away from unless you're in the back and you ride your bike fast. Yeah. You have to be within sight. I liked a lot of them and then I like them less. Yeah. Derek, just the people who like or got it. You have to be in with insight. I liked a lot of them and then I liked them.

Plus, yeah. Derek, what about you, man? I did have a lot, a lot of anxiety and that's when I kind of all came down on me is when I went out and. Like you were experiencing before you went on your mission and then the mission kind of stayed in. Yeah, experienced it since I was like nine

but then when I went out there, it was just insane. Just absolutely insane. I couldn't even function. And then all of a sudden got this weird brain fog stuff, which is also kind of a result of that cliff accident that happened. Where all of a sudden I'm sitting there, I'm riding home to my family, because again, we're emailing back and forth. And I was sitting in the room and everything just turned completely blurry

and I couldn't recognize where I was. It felt like I was in a dream and then that feeling lasted for the next three months and I was super anxious and I would look at people and just be like, I can't really process that you're in front of me right now and I don't know how to talk to you very well. That's scary. And so, and I'm thousands of miles from home in a really dangerous part of the world. I was like, so yeah, there's someone

that oversees the whole mission and he was just like, you gotta go home, you gotta see a bunch of doctors, we gotta get this fixed. I think you have a disease or something going on. So it took forever to get through that. And that was a weird time. But that's when I met Sarah. That was so sweet.

And a brain fog. And then we met. And then we met. She didn't know what I looked like for a long time. She's like, yeah. Sarah. That's so sweet. In a brain fog. In a brain fog. We met. She didn't know what I looked like. She's pretty. She's like, yeah, I think she's cute. Can't tell.

That's funny. I didn't even know what she looked like. She met me through the fog. It's beautiful. It's amazing. When you finally came to life, he's like, oh, yes. Yeah, she is. She's cool.

The fog went away and he's like, yes. I listened to your podcast today about your love stories and I found it so interesting that Sarah did show her missionary boyfriend and married Derek. Here we go. And whoa, stop with her missionary boyfriend and married Tanner. I know, I think that's why Derek.

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The longest pause? No way. Because I think that it's like so I don't think I would say I wouldn't use the word regret I think we regret me but Tanner would move back tomorrow I think I think I'd move back tomorrow too yeah yeah I think it would not be hard to pick up. Pack up your bag. And you think it's gonna be all that? None of us are talking. It's hard because, yeah.

You say it, you say your thing. You say your thing. I'll say mine, I think. I love it here. Yeah, same. And I'm fired up on it. And there's so many great things that are so fun to do. There's awesome it here. Yeah, and I'm fired up on it and like there's so many great things that are so fun to do There's awesome people here all our families here, which is like number one. That's what got us over here pretty much besides you

Yeah, I do love it here. Nothing bad about the place or the people Hawaii is just like Every day can be really the day-to-day of being able to go outside. It's sunny you go to the ocean, every day can be really, the day to day of being able to go outside, it's sunny, you go to the ocean. Surfing every day. Surfing. And we had that tight-knit group of friends. It was just like...

Special. Yeah. Special. You guys have had a lot of like, really cool stuff happen in your life. You've blown up on social media in the past couple of years. Probably, you know, something that you never thought would happen in the way that it did. And obviously, like as a human, you always want to like keep going, keep pursuing new goals, keep dreaming. But like, does there get to a point where you're like, okay, what's the point of more?

Like, when do I just stop pursuing, like endlessly pursuing more and just be content with what I have? Sarah. Wait, what? I feel like that you could appreciate that question. Can you say it again, sorry. Matt, you got so deep in it, cause you kind of lost me for a second. That was really deep.

No, no, sorry. I just got curious again. Do you feel as if you're endlessly pursuing more? Cause personally I've definitely felt that in my life. I feel that. Where it's like, oh, sick, I got a hundred thousand subscribers on YouTube. Let's get a million.

Oh, we got a million. Let's go to five million. And then it's like, oh, sick, I got 100,000 subscribers on YouTube. Let's get a million. Oh, we got a million. Let's go to five million. And then it's like, when do you, like, when's the end? You know? That's the problem with social media is there isn't an end. So I try and focus on being grateful for just what we have now, because I think we have been so lucky

and built such a good platform. I feel pretty content. I think Derek more, you like the chase more, I think than me. I think it's hard. Well, so going from thinking that I was gonna just, cause again, no idea that this was gonna happen. This was COVID, realistically.

Like we were posting on social media and stuff like that before, but COVID hit and we started doing this full time She lost all her weddings as a photographer. I'm in school. I don't really know what I'm doing but I'm probably gonna go work in the corporate world focused on that and Whatever I'm doing I want to do really well and so I get put into this position of Instagram husband or just honestly, I

Kind of felt like I worked for my wife. And so, yeah, it was hard. And I guess I just want to find purpose in anything that I'm doing. And so if it's content creation, I mean, Cesar is way bigger than I am on social media, but I'm like, I just want to work hard with whatever we're doing.

And it's been, luckily we're fortunate enough to be able to do what we do and make money from this and have an awesome community. It's really cool. It is cool. But I feel like I have to work really hard at it. I was just going to say, I think it's important to have a balance of being content

and wanting to perform well, like you're saying. I think if you're always chasing that, then you just get lost in it. 100%. Because you're just wanting more and it never ends. And it's grasping at air almost. I think you have to be content with the life that we have and what we've built.

But if you want to be good at it, then trying to do better. I have shifted my mindset on this as well, where I got caught up in views and being like, oh, like this video must suck because it only got however many views or whatever it was. And now if a video does worse or does really good, I don't care because I'm making a video and if I like the video, then I think it's cool

and it doesn't have to be based off of views anymore. So I feel like I don't even look at that stuff anymore. You've got a lot better at that because you did struggle with that for a while and it was kind of like day or week ruined because video didn't do good. Because I must be the worst content creator ever'm the worst, yeah, everybody hates me. And yeah, stuff like that.

And I'm like, nobody hates you. Like the algorithm didn't pick your video. Or maybe it's a video, people just weren't into it, but who cares? Because I thought it was cool. And I think it's cool, and what else matters. And I think you've done a really good job about being like, I'm just gonna, you've shifted a lot, your mindset has shifted a lot. It's matters and and I think you've done a really good job about being like I'm just gonna you've shifted a lot

Your mindset shift a lot. It's awesome. Yeah, how is it working with your spouse? the question of questions Do you guys I'll be honest like Here's here's how we've saved our marriage like for our podcast Abby just shows This is what's kind of happened with us where I feel like it gone. You kind of just show up Tanner is that your job? I mean there was a while yeah I mean right now I'm showing up. We're showing the red notes. Six cameras on you right now.

We're just showing them. And I'm loving being here with my friends. Yeah. Um hey and my brother. And my brother. Sis. I'm glad. My great friends.

My great great friends. Oh man. He has to acknowledge our person. I'm hot. You're here, man. My great friends. My great great friends. Oh man. He has to acknowledge her first. Yeah, there was a while there. I was just like, dude, this, I'm not, I'm not down. It feels like I'm working for my wife, not with my wife. It feels very like this is your dream, not mine.

And nothing against the dream. It just, it just wasn't initially mine. And I saw how awesome it was, what kind of life it could provide for our family, and I wanted to do everything I could to help out. But it kind of got to a point where I was getting burned out and I wasn't stoked and I was doing things that I wasn't stoked about, and Lauren loves it. And so she took on a lot more of the work,

and I said, all right, I'm just going to go kind of like full dad. Let me know when we need to be in some content and like I'll help out with literally whatever. I do all the back like the annoying house stuff, the taxes, anything that's like back there. And... Wait, do you do your own taxes? Working.

Now I don't do my own taxes. I was like, do you not hire someone? Dude, don't act like you didn't. Just stuff, you're the tax person. Don't act like that.. I set up all the bank accounts. I file the paperwork. I sign the documents. I do all that kind of like boring stuff. And then I just play with kids all day and it is incredible. And I'm a lot happier. We found a really good balance with it. Yeah. It's a give and take. But. That's sweet.

That's really sweet. Sarah over here just nodded. Sarah, are you in the same boat? Of balance? Are we balanced? They're fine in there. I don't know. We have not yet found our balance, but we are.

No. Well, we're working on it. A big thing, again, is, okay, starting off doing all this, I was like, okay, I gotta do all this stuff that Sarah doesn't wanna do, or emails, for example. So for the last four years, I've been doing all of our emails. But I wanted to do emails, so. And she really, it was so hard because I'd get these emails

of people saying, hey, we'd love to do this with Sarah, whatever, and I am not a very good communicator. I'll see it. No, you're kidding. Gosh. You don't answer your phones or emails? Because usually when I text you four times, it takes you like a month to get back to me.

So I mean, that's pretty quick. So imagine going through this person to get people. But it was like, I felt like I had to answer all of our emails for some reason. Okay, can I just roast you first? Please roast. You can't roast him on your podcast. Every time. I think that's first? You can roast me. You can roast me. You can roast me on your podcast.

Every time. Every time. I think that's why I need to buy this. I'll text Tanner. And then, like, a couple of days will go by. I'm like, maybe I should follow up on the text and I'll text him again. No response. Wait, you're talking about Tanner or Derek?

I'm talking about Derek. You're talking about Derek. You just said Tanner. Okay, I'll text Derek. No response. A couple of days go by. Text him again. No response. Then I'm like, you know what, maybe he just like, doesn't wanna be friends anymore,

which is totally cool, like we can go our separate ways, whatever. And I'm like, no, I think Derek just sucks at responding to his phone. So I'll send another text, still no response. And then I'm like, eff it, I'm done. Frick it, you know, whatever. Frick it, frick him.

And then like a month later, Derek will send me like a five minute voice message that's like, dude, I am so sorry this happened again Like I'm gonna be better and like respond to my messages I'm so sorry. Don't take offense. It literally happens to us. I really really am. I really hope I'm not the only one out there that struggles with this Dude I feel so bad every time and I'll be honest dude. I'm really bad. I'm not that bad I leave people hanging for like a day or two sometimes. Maybe three days.

I told him he asked to respond to me though, so he pinned mine and I'm the only weird one. I think it's been my New Year's resolution for the last three years is, this year you're gonna be a good texture. This is one of these years it's gonna happen. I hope so. What's your notifications look like on your phone?

Is it like a thousand notifications on iMessage? Yeah, it is. And I think the thing that gets me is group messages. Group messages suck. I hate it. He was by himself. I know, but it kind of just like leads to me not responding to anyone.

It's like overwhelm. I'm over one. I'm over one two people. I should have. I should have. I should have. Thank you to ZockDoc for sponsoring today's episode. I have a new theory.

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Is that okay? Wait, this is inappropriate. Abby can do whatever she wants. She can do whatever she wants. Only wrong comments. Just need my approval. Why do I have so many words that I want to be in this, but only wrong comments?

Unfortunately, I like books about killing. Abby likes free Twitter books. Yeah, very graphic. We like to watch Game of Thrones together. Do you and Sarah? Oh, wow, wow, wow. Do you and Sarah have the same sense sense of humor and I think we do Game of Thrones bring it on why do you guys like violence? I don't know

What's your favorite movie what's your favorite movie is John Wick in the top three Cuz that's like top movie Is John Wick in the top three? I do like John Wick. Cause that's serious like top movie. Yeah, I watched that. You did not like John Wick. No, you watched John Wick. That was a rare one that you didn't like, I feel like.

Abby, this kind of surprises me actually. I didn't think that you were... What's the... What's the one? I'm so proud of you. Oh, that's great. Abby wouldn't hurt if I... Most.

There's that movie that has like the most cuss words out of any movie in the world. Oh, I really liked that movie. It was called... It's with... Freakin... Freakin... Freakin... There's that movie that has like the most cuss words out of any movie It's with It's with Matt Damon's about the Irish the mafia Gentlemen gentlemen Leonardo DiCaprio, what's the movie? Oh, is it the horse one where he gets inside the horse? Wait, this guy, Jack Nicholson, he's in it. The Revenant?

Oh, oh gosh. Oh, I know your tree. I know your tree. I know your tree. The Horde! The Horde! That's it! I love that movie.

Abby watched it. I've never seen that. I've never seen it. She said, Matt, you know what I appreciate about that movie? There were no cuss words. And I was like, Abby, they dropped the F bomb every 10 seconds. I didn't know.

I went ear blind to the F word and that was so bad like I just love that they didn't say the f-word. I didn't say it like that. I was like you know I love that it was good it was like violent but it wasn't like gruesome and it was like there was no sexy scenes and I was like it's pretty clean he's like they said the f-word fun every minute on average I was like wow. She doesn't want the sexy No, did you hear that? Is that your house wait the green balloon is now behind the jail banging on the window or something Can somebody open the window or check the door? No, don't open it. Do you guys think your house is actually haunted?

Because before the podcast you're like, I think my house is haunted. No, I don't think this house is haunted. Do you believe in that though? Do you think houses can be haunted? Yes, they can. 100% true. Because I've been haunted before.

And so have they, and so has he. No way. Okay, we need to discuss this right now. Because I'll be honest, I don't believe in that at all. I just don't. Then you're wrong. You're just straight up wrong explain explain to me how there could be a haunted house What was your story? Because there's ghosts living with a You don't believe in any spirits. I don't believe in ghosts. Do you think when we die we just die in the gone?

Tell what's yours to go story. I want to know I want to know what happened to you guys. It's too long It's too long for this. It's too long. It takes like a two minute one day and she cannot. Okay, Tanner, give us a two minute ghost story go. But it's just gonna be botched so here we go. You're not gonna get the details. It's not gonna have the same effect. Okay, no. You're not gonna have the same effect. Can you believe it? If it's just two minutes.

That's true. Lauren does like to build up the emotions that you really get spooked. I mean I'm really really really in it. I'm gonna make you believe in ghosts. That's a part of having it self. We'll save it for another time. It could be a full podcast. It's a part of having it self. We'll save it for another time. It could be a full podcast. It's a little bit of a challenge. Can we do the two minutes?

In two minutes, here's Hannah. Can we do the Spark Notes version and then you can do the full rundown later? I can't. Bring them in, give them the, give them the grid. Bring me into the ghost story. Ghosts are real.

His name was Ralph. I don't think they are real. They are real. His name was Ralphie. His name was for sure Ralphie. Okay, this is what happened. This is what happened. To start, we move into a really old house,

old basement, really old landlords that live above us. They go on a cruise with their whole family. Everybody's gone. It's 1130. I hear footsteps upstairs. Don't think anything of it. There's snow outside, by the way. Hear footsteps and then I just like 20 minutes later,

I'm like, wait a second. Because we were used to hearing footsteps upstairs. Wait a second. That was weird. I heard footsteps upstairs. Lauren, nobody's supposed to be here. Lauren goes, Oh yeah, nobody's supposed to be here. We go back out. I hear the footsteps again creaking on the wood and the, we call the police because nobody's supposed to be into their house. So we kind of thought break in, somebody broke in, right?

Please come, they scan the whole house, nobody's there, there's no footsteps outside, nothing came in or out, no cars, nothing. We're like, damn. That was scary, we go sleep at a brother's house. Okay, so for that week, the whole week they're gone, one or two things happen per day that are just like so spooky.

I mean another example. So I find, I don't go to work the next day, I'm like dude I'm freaking scared. Well you left and then you came back because you were really scared to leave me. Yeah. I'm just gonna go on my timeline. That's the dumbest little insert, I'm sorry.

Yeah, it's okay. It's just details that are foreign. I'm just gonna tell them really fast. Okay, I'm like probably at the bed over here because there's so many things you don't know still that I'm just like tell them really fast. Okay, I'm like probably at the bed over here because there's so many things you don't know still that I'm just like, you're crying out. Okay, so the next thing, Lauren comes out of, I'm not home, Lauren comes out of the shower,

she's in a towel, sits on the couch that's facing the wall that faces their unit, because they have like a downstairs room, super loud bang right against the wall behind her head, freaks out. That night we lay into bed, I'm asleep and Lauren shakes me awake and says stop shaking the bed. I said I was asleep, thank you.

And then I wake up and then I feel the shaking of the bed. No, we were not soaking. And then- Oh my gosh. To the point where I got off the bed to look underneath if somebody was shaking the bed. Could have been earthquake, I don't know. Nobody else felt it.

Then the next time there's motion lights outside that just go on and off for like a little bit. Could have been deer, could have been a ghost. But they have to walk in there? Yeah, they have to be really close. Once again, it's like this is winter. There's fresh snow. We're looking out the window. There's no hoof prints.

There's no footprints. The lights keep going on and off. The next thing was, we brought Jesse, her brother's dog over. The dog comes inside, goes to the one door that's connected to there. Part of the house where the wall smack was. And just all the hair up on his back,

growling, growling, barking super loud. In like, maybe he has to go to the bathroom. We send him outside, come straight back to that door. And then when he's done, he goes like this, looks up in the corner and like for like 20 minutes is just going like this up at the corner. And it's like, like making growls. Staring at something. Literally. And there's nothing there.

Nothing there. You're seeing your dog. The next time I drive home from work, there's a swing set outside. The swing is in full swing when I park. I park, it's still going in full swing, and then it stops. Matt, I'm gonna explain that. Explain it. I'm sorry.

Can you explain that? I'm missing some stuff for this part. You're missing a lot of much too. For this part too. It was so sweet. You see, my eyes are tearing up, I'm getting a little scared. I believe you guys.

Maybe that balloon is haunted. I'm just saying, what the are tearing up, some getting a little scared. I believe you guys. Maybe that balloon is haunted. I'm just saying, what the frisk? Okay, okay, so I really do think that there's logical explanations for all this. I really do. I do too, but when it all happened all at once, while they were gone, it was like, that was a lot. Then the logic line, I'm like, yes, there's a guy.

We wanted, we kept trying. Hold up, was that it? Was that the end of it? So then it came back, and then every noise we would hear, oh that's them. We would just blame it on them. You know, but like. Maybe your neighbor's really ghost.

Maybe like you thought that they existed and they actually did it. I thought that they, oh whoa. Well that is so scary. Well dude, I just did a rewind of every moment. Whoa. They were behind us. You're like when he snatched up and that was not real. That was the time that I saw it. You're like, when he's not up, and that was the night we were up.

It's not real. Oh, wait, what? No, no, no, no, no. I'm so scared. No, no, no, no, no. I'm so scared. I'm not. 3 AM in the hot tub.

Dude, he was there. There was one every night. Wait, what? What I saw, that was our man. He had a look for a hand. He had a look for a hand. He had a look. What?

He had a look for a hand. I realized. Yes, you had a look. One night, had to... He had to look for a hand! I really left. I said yes, you had to look! One night, we get home. Okay, we get home. And he had to hands? I love you, we get home one day. He had to hands!

He was sitting in this hot tub. Okay, the hot tub placement was really weird because when they were in the hot tub, we had to go down the stairs below the hot tub to get to our front door. And so when they were, okay. Imagine a balcony. We'll take you, it's right down the street.

A balcony, like a normal. This house is down the street. This house is just down the street. I wanna go check it out. Okay, okay, so picture a balcony on like ground level, like grass level. We, our apartment was in the basement. So we had to take stairs that went underneath the hot tub

to go to our front door. So there was a time when we were going to our front door and he was just chilling in the hot tub. And we were like, hey, he was like, I'm not joking. I was just like that. It was so, it's been weird. And no, no, it was just like, both like for the show. Like men in black, like he was wearing a man suit and he like did some alien talk.

I'm like, that was not a person. He was wearing a suit in the tub. No, like he was wearing a man suit and he like did some alien talk But no one like he was the suit All right you win I'm so you actually think, hold on. I don't know what I can do. I think he's the ghost now. I still don't believe that stuff. But it's so freaky that it happened to you. Yeah, it was scary.

But then it just ended though. Yeah. And it was like you're in the, you know when you're like watching moving, you're like, you guys just leave the house, like get a new place. We were like there. We were like poor and we couldn't leave the place. Oh yeah, you said we couldn't go through this.

We couldn't leave the place. We were like, well, a poor going through this. We couldn't leave the place. We were like, well, we slipped at my brother's house the first night that things happened and then we were like, I guess I gotta go back home now. Okay, you guys, I think this would be such an interesting YouTube series. Like I would love to have people submit who have had crazy, you know,

supernatural experiences or whatever and then go like document it, documentary style, whatever, and see if it's legit, and then report on it. I think that'd be the most interesting crap. It's never. I call it like Ghost Hunters. No, but like YouTube style. Ghost Hunters.

Like you do it on your YouTube like. Yeah, because I have a hard time believing in that stuff. I think even with Ghost Hunters and those TV shows, I know that they make up a lot of that stuff. They have to to probably like keep views. Yeah, and so I would love to debunk it I would love to figure out what's actually going on You'd be perfect for it cuz you would hunt. I'm so curious

You would see it go to me like see that's a projection See that's a projection I'm just thinking that because I'm a little delulu today Like you would I haven't eaten in a while I'm a little delulu today That wasn't real Okay, um, what's your ghost story in two minutes? I haven't eaten in a while. I'm a little to Lulu today. That wasn't real.

Okay, what's your ghost story in two minutes? He's not gonna let me tell this because I'll give Tumay details so he can shorten it up. Okay. I don't know if Derek likes stories too. Did you ever tell them about you getting haunted by the way? Yeah. Were you like calling them? Oh yeah.

There was like a week later. The book of Mormon is like... Bro. Okay, that... There was like a week later. The book of Mormon is like... No, bro. Okay, that... But for real though? I didn't hold a fucking Mormon, but bro, I was like... We were like... Staying our prayers, we do that sometimes at night.

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I'm going to say one thing because during this whole week to each other, we'd never admitted anything. We would just be like, this is fake, right? Like we did not say that this was real. We didn't talk. We would hear something upstairs and we'd be like, that was ghosty boy. But we did not say that this was real. We didn't talk. Like we would hear something upstairs. We'd be like, that was ghosty boy. But we wouldn't say it out loud.

We would just like be cuddling. And then all of a sudden we'd hear something and then just like roll away from each other and like go to sleep. And so we just hadn't admitted it at this point, but go for it. Okay. Two minute version.

Here we go. You can't jump in though. I will not. You're going to. I will not talk. No. Sarah and I have been dating for, I don't know, maybe like three weeks or something.

No, no, it had been like a week. You already messed it up. Too many details. You already messed it up. Okay, it was the night after Tanner and Lauren's. Do you want to do the detail boy? I don't know what you're talking about. It was the night after Tanner and Lauren's wedding.

We drove up a canyon in my parents' suburban because we wanted to just go. What color was the suburban? Red. We wanted to go make out in a canyon because. You guys were making out. Because you liked each other? Because we weren't even dating canyon because we were not even married we weren't married no we I thought it would be fun to take the suburban all the way up the canyon and no one could find us it's

notorious for being a haunted canyon it's supposedly where Ted Bundy's cave is his head bunny actually killed people in that other. He did, yeah. And in that canyon. In that canyon. Yeah. Okay, not to pose me. It is. I don't know if that's true. Bad vibes up there. You guys have friends or something like acquaintances that like their mom was like killed by him or something?

Yes. My cousin's mom's best friend. Cousin-in-law's mom's best friend was killed. Oh, that's so sad and horrifying. Yeah. Okay, sorry to interrupt. Sorry. You can keep going.

Okay, back to the story. Okay. So, sorry to interrupt. Sorry. You can keep going. Okay, back to the story. Okay. So I'm going up the canyon. There's a great spot, like right when you get up there, Cool Lake, but I thought it would be fun to go another 30 minutes up this dirt road to the very top of the canyon. We didn't see a single soul anywhere in this canyon. It's like 10 degrees, no one out.

It's almost December. And I stopped him a few times to say I had a really bad feeling about it. So I kept saying don't go, don't go, let's not do it. And I was just like, ah, this is kind of just like. No, he asked me if I wanted to turn around and I said, no, it's okay. I think I was just getting free. You were respectful.

That's right. So we got to the top and I pulled up in a bunch of trees around us. And Sarah and I just obviously we started talking first and we're having a great talk. Cars off by the way. Cars off, we started kissing. No, no, no, no, no.

First were the lights in the window. The Sarah would just want to tell the story. He's just missing some details. Lights in the window. No, but we, oh, while we're talking. While we're talking. I didn't start kissing yet. Just keep going, you're doing great. Timelines, man, timelines. Lights in the window while we're talking. While we're talking. I had to camera. Hadn't started kissing yet. Just keep going, you're doing great. Timelines, man, timelines.

Lights in the window while we were talking. Okay, but we hadn't seen a single car going up. And then we start making out and... No, Derek. No. Sarah, you need to tell this. I'm sorry. Okay, Sarah, take one of you.

I was gonna fully let him do it, but he's missing such a huge chunk of the story. Sarah, you're talking. Sarah, take one of the stories. Lights, I'm gonna really try and get it. Lights in the window, and then we open the door, it's a cop, he's being so freaking weird. He wouldn't look Derek in the eyes.

Normally they ask your age if you're in a car together, it's turned off, we're up there so far, and he would not make eye contact with Derek. I'm sitting there watching them talk, and he's like being really weird. What are you guys doing up here? What if he's a fake cop? This is part of the story.

So he's like what? Didn't Ted Bundy do that? Yes. Oh Fred. Is that so? Oh Fred. I just got the chills. I'm so terrified.

Okay, he did he actually. He was not getting. Yes, he would pretend to be a cop to take people. Maybe he was, wait, he was a copycat. Well, people do that, right? They like copy real criminals. You guys, this is why it's so scary. So, and this, he was, you're about to miss this part of this.

Also, we realized all of this after it happened. Okay, yeah, so we're thinking, but no, this part. Here's your standing up. I got chills. This part I thought was so weird because he, no joke, will not look Derek in the eyes. And this is a cop. Normally a cop would be like, hey, what's up?

You guys, like looking at you. And he was just looking down. And I'm like, this guy's weird. And he didn't ask for our IDs. He didn't ask for our age. He just said, what are you guys doing up here? And we said, oh, we're just hanging out. We're talking.

He goes, ah, sorry. Sometimes we have to come up here because people get stuck in the snow. It had not snowed once this season Like no snow anywhere and then he goes all right y'all have a good night shuts the door doesn't ask our age Doesn't ask any questions. You open your door. Yeah. Well Derek open the door for him Yeah, and the guy was outside and he opened the door then he just shuts the door and doesn't do anything And I please far we saw his police car? We saw a suburban, but I didn't see-

We saw lights, but we couldn't identify it as a police car. I couldn't identify it. Why? It was too dark? It was just the lights on us, and it was dark outside. The lights were just shining in the window, but we couldn't really see- Couldn't see if there were lights on top of it.

Were they cop lights or were they just the headlights? I don't know, honestly, I don't know. There was no lights of a police car. He just had his headlights off. Did he have a police car, a police uniform on? He had a tan shirt with a badge. So it looked like a police uniform. I would have said it was.

But he said people get stuck in the snow, but it had not snowed. And that's why he was doing a patrol up there. But we didn't pass one car on the way out. So the whole thing was just weird. Where does it get spooky though? OK, so then we shut the door. We start making out.

The whole car gets fogged up, obviously. And it's freezing outside. And you can't see. Oh, I hate this part. Oh. And Derek and I were kind of on. We were not doing anything crazy, but we were on top of each other.

There was a little movement. There was a movement. No, this is like the pre-soaking. OK. No. Help. Help. Help.

Get me out of here. My respect for you to skyrocket, my brother. All right. No. Oh man, Derek, go ahead and take it away from here. Do you want me to keep going? No, keep going, because I'm gonna forget. I can't remember.

I'm gonna forget. Anyway, so I kept hearing this knocking sound, and I thought it was Derek's knee or arm, something hitting the side and then at the same time while we were kissing we both realized stop, stop this is not us. Can you crop in on my arm? At the same? Crop in on my arm. Chills.

Crop in on those chills. And so we both stopped. We're dead tired, the car is off and there's just a knock on the window. Slow knock. Oh. But it was clear as day. Clear as day. the car is off and there's just a knock on the window. Slow knock. Just dink, dink, dink. But you kno- but it was clear as day. Clear as day. Someone is outside the car knocking on the window.

Normally I would say she's being a little dramatic. I'm not being dramatic. It was clear as day knock. Clear as day. And I go, Derek, someone is outside the car, get to the front now. And he flies to the front of the suburban, turns the car on. We can't see anything

because the windows are just so fogged and he turns on, I'm giving way too many details. I'm sorry. No, I'm locked in right now. I'm so sorry. I'm lost in keep going. So he turns on the air and half of my window in the back was getting hit by air and I, half of it unfogged

and I just see a pair of legs by the tree and it's a guy wearing shorts, and it is, we're talking like 20 degrees max. Less than that. Less than that. And I say, Derek, there's a guy by the trees, go now. I don't know, like it's so creepy at this point. I don't even know.

So he says, I can't see, I still can't see anything. He said, I don't care, go. And so he starts driving and we're in this big parking lot. His window starts to unfog a little bit. We're driving down the canyon and the suburban lights are going bright and dim, bright and dim. And the air is doing the same thing. It's going, shh, and then stopping.

And it's just going, and I was like, is this normal? Is this normal for this car? And he goes, no, no, it always works. We drive down the whole canyon like that and I'm just pretending that this is not happening. And then the second that we get out of the canyon, the lights go bright, the air starts going full. Literally the second we get out of,

like to the tee of the last rock. The canyon where Ted Money would do his murder. Yes, it's also known as like a haunted canyon. Would he hide his victims there? What's the story? He took girls up there to rape and kill. And that's what people would always say. I'm not sure.

Are you saying like you feel like it's almost his ghost or you feel like it's a copycat criminal? We don't think anything of it at the beginning until it was actually when we texted you guys and Tanner sent us an article the next day. You sent us the article, dude. You sent us an article. Some killers will You sent us the article, dude. You sent us an article about it. Some killers will dress up as cops

to kill their victims. It's a popular thing. Oh, yeah, I found an article about that thing. Yeah, you sent it to us. Yeah, I did here. I wonder why we started to put the pieces together. And then after that, I got 10 times scarier. That's really freaky.

Here's my question, though. How do we know the guy in the shorts wasn't just some dude who forgot to wear pants and just needed a wet shirt? Nobody was up there. No, no cars up there. You drove up there and nobody was there. No cars.

Have you ever been? No, no cars. The lake is like, you have to drive on dirt road. And what's this day? One rode up. It's called American Fork Can't We Win Off. We could, but that's not where it got. Then I got haunted after that.

She got something linked to her. Something linked to her. She got. A bad vibe and I. And you just got haunted after that. I mean I'm talking, we're hearing like little kids laughing in my parents' house. I saw it and you heard it too.

I heard it. It wasn't just Sarah. I saw it full on heavy metal door just slam shut in front of me. Yeah. At her apartment. At my apartment. Guys, why do I still, I believe you but I don't

at the same time. No, it's crazy. I was having breakdowns to Derek because I felt like I was in a horror movie where I didn't think I was gonna be okay because random crap like that kept happening. I said something bad is connected to me and I don't know why. Was there something that you did to get it off of you?

He gave me a blessing actually, a prayer in our church and nothing happened after that. So that's what Tanner was doing. Yeah. But he didn't do anything? a prayer prayer in our church and nothing happened after that so of That's what Tanner was doing. Yeah, I didn't do anything My yeah after that I didn't have any crazy experiences But the last straw was at his house and everyone had left and we were there alone and we heard this glass bowl Shaking upstairs and I kind of in my head. I was thinking this is happening again some crazy and I kind of in my head was thinking this is happening again. Some crazy thing is about to happen. No one was there, we went upstairs, we checked,

and then we both heard this crazy little girl laughter coming from his parents' room. And I just broke down, started crying, he gave me a blessing, prayer, nothing happened after that. It's crazy. But. Did that work for you, Tanner? Oh yeah.

No, no, no, no, no did the blessing you said you did a blessing to yeah, my prayer work Yeah, yeah, is that is that when you're the first time that we said it to each other while living in the house It was the scariest moment of my life because his voice like completely changed. Oh, yeah I was starting to tell that yeah, yeah, I know you're talking about now. Yeah, you're always changed. Yeah Oh, yeah, did I say that. Yeah. Yeah, I know what you're talking about now. Your voice changed. Oh yeah, dude, I sounded like Zeus. Like all of a sudden? I can try to do it. Were you like, I command you, ghost, out of this house.

Dude, I went full, I didn't, I've never been so scared about it. I have no experience doing like, by the power of whatever, no, just heard about it. But I was like, I was saying a prayer out loud and then all of a sudden I felt it getting really dark like like in close like it just it just felt like it like the feeling of Darkness just felt like it was getting all over us, and I was like all of a sudden my voice changed and I was just like Leave I don't I was just like he just commanded it to leave. I think I don't remember what you said But but my voice was like, man, thank you for this day.

Thank you for the day. No, I mean, you have a great voice, but it's never been deeper. I'm a little careful, man. It got lower. But my voice was like, it just got the loudest I could ever project my voice, kind of just unintentionally.

And I was just like, I don't remember what I said. Yeah. Get me out of our house. Get the brick out of our house. Maybe I went just like, I don't remember what I said. Yeah. Get me hands. Get out of our house. Get the brick out. Maybe I went to scripture, did I? Scripture, like get the hints or did I just say like, get out?

I don't remember, I just remember being scared because you admitted it in that whole man. Yeah, because it was like real. Because we had been, we were trying to not admit it. But yeah, nothing happened after that. Do you have trouble watching horror films now? I hate them. Dude, horror films.

After Kids, yes. After Kids. We could watch them before having kids and now I can't do it. Can you guys watch them? No, I don't like it anymore. Matt, you watch them by yourself? Every night.

Every night, poor guy. I still love a thriller. I still really love a thriller, but if it gets demonic, I can't. Especially demonic dealing with kids. Our first date was The Conjuring Part II. We like kissed each other during it. That is the scariest freaking movie.

We were like, I couldn't even think about the movie. I was just so nervous. I was just like, horny. That makes it better, doesn't it? That makes it better. I was less scary if you're not thinking about it too much. Is Matt more unhinged on this podcast than on the other part? I feel like everybody's unhinged.

This is typical Matt. This podcast episode is straight just unhinged. That's what I'm feeling. The Beast is unhinged. Go stories with the Beanie Boys. With the Beanie Boys, the Beanie Babies. Quick one before we get back into the episode. Just give me 30 seconds of your time.

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I think your mold is sick. Thanks. I actually, a lot of people said to cut it. I actually am pretty secure about my mullet. But. The mullet's great. Yeah, I'll cut it soon. Why'd you point to the A7 mullet?

No, she actually loves the mullet. I said the mullet's great. I'll cut it soon. Yeah, do you think the A7? No, she actually loves the mold. I said the mold, it's crazy. I'll cut it. This one over here. Do you think the mold is super hot, Sarah? It is, it's hot. It's hot. Nothing's really hot when you move to Utah.

It's hot. You get all pasty white and you're in a freaking brace. This brace. This brace is hotter. Yeah, let's talk about your brace. How are you feeling, man? Feeling good. Just excited to not do anything this year.

I just feel awful for you, because I've been through that. I tore my meniscus when I was in high school, and that might have been one of those few times where I felt the closest thing I've ever felt to depression, because you just can't do anything, and you don't feel like yourself, and you're stuck in a room,

and so this is your second time tearing it in a year, and I just feel horrible that you're stuck at home. I'll be completely honest. The first time I'm tearing this, so I got my surgery back in July, those six weeks were the most depressed I've ever been, ever. And honestly, I didn't think that that would be a thing. I was just like, I can get through this.

I've had so many injuries and I've never really gone into that mode. But I think again, it came at a time where, you know, we just moved, got surgery, we're trying to figure out how to work together. It's hard. We got two kids that don't like to sleep and couldn't do anything.

And you just start to get in your thoughts and you start to feel like crap because you can't do anything. And Sarah's out there shoveling our driveway, you know, because there's snow, or she's doing all the dishes every single day, she's putting the kids down. She's frustrated because she's like,

I cannot keep doing this, the kids don't sleep. And so, yeah, it sucked. And so, then I tear it again, and we're like, what the crap, we're gonna have to go through this all again. Luckily this time, I think we've gone through it. And we'll go through it again. We're more prepared. It's been a little easier so far,

but it's only been week one, so we'll see. But so far, I feel good. It hasn't only been a week. Yeah, sorry. Oh man. Five more. We should probably just not count. Five more.

But I think learning from last time, you feel kind of helpless. So all I would do is, okay, I'm just going to help her with social media stuff. I'm going to help her sitting on the couch. So I just edit videos all day and just work. And I'm like, I'm not doing anything for myself. So now I'm going to join your book club. And that will be helpful.

I still get that's one of my resolutions. I was going to join my local library, but yeah, they want me once for every book. That's not really what I wanted to do. You want me every day? I need a lot more social night. Yeah, I think just finding time to because I'm a very outdoorsy hobby oriented person. I got to go do these fun things and I can't do any of that for this whole year, so. I find other outlets this year. Yeah. Obviously, we kind of just talked about how kids can throw a wrench in

Marital satisfaction. I mean like having kids is so incredibly Amazing and it's the best but at the same time it can really turn things around for at least your relationship with your spouse 100% and you guys have both had two kids and You know outside looking in everything everything looks so happy and fun and I'm sure you guys, just from talking to you, probably want to have more, are you afraid to have more knowing how that affects your relationship with your spouse during those tough times?

I think I am excited to have more, but definitely there's a fear of, the newborn stage is crazy. I think I am excited to have more but definitely there's a fear of You know the newborn stage is crazy. You are not sleeping and You don't really have time for each other So there's definitely fear there, but at the same time excited. I don't know how you feel. I feel excited. Yeah I just think it's been it's it's hard having Jack I mean that that was looking back on it now

I'm like man We thought that was hard and then adding another one to the mix for whatever reason it just kind of threw our schedules off and Luckily, she's finally starting to sleep through the night and it has 14 months and she's finally And so I think over the next like we've talked about it. We want to have probably four kids. Whoa. That's a lot.

Yeah. It went down from five. I started at six. How many kids do most families in Utah have? I think four. I think that's four is an average. 14. My friend has 15. Yeah, that's true.

You're joking. Your friend has 15. 15 kids. He's the only person I know. Yeah, it's a 10. friend has 15. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, Derek's friend has 15. No, the kids. He's the only person I know. Yeah, it's everybody. Everybody. Everybody. That's insane. But how do people afford that? I don't know. That's a great question. They're good at budgeting. That is another thing I think people in Utah are good at. They budget their finances.

If you go around Utah, there's a lot of actually really successful people, and I wanna attribute that to people, like you said earlier, they get married young and they're like, I need to get my finances and my life in order. There's a lot of really smart, wealthy people around here at school. Dude, that's my theory actually, is getting married young

and then missions. I think the fact that you get thrown into trial by fire as a young person and you're just, you know, leave your family, you have to like dig deep and mature and grow up and yeah. I feel like that, that combo right there, I feel like is why you see somebody successful because you're like, we're missing two years of college. That's two years. And so we're behind. Yeah, you think you'd be behind, but you're not. I think that experience of getting out there and seeing something else that you're not used to and immersing yourself, you talk to people, you knock on doors, you whatever, you know, that is more valuable to me than sitting in a classroom.

Was that nerve-wracking? Like knocking on random people's doors all the time? It sucked. Yeah, I mean nine out of ten times you kind of just know that they're gonna say leave yeah, and Yeah, it never feels fun to sit have someone say no to you But I again it also was really good to learn how to accept no and so Got easier over time, but did you guys know that we had missionaries over one time? We made them cookies. We tried to watch movie with them, but we found out we can't. They couldn't watch movie?

Yeah. I was like, I was like, My brother? I told him, I was like, Hey, if you ever want to watch a movie, you can go over to my house. So my brother never cries. And on their mission,

they were allowed to watch Wally one of the days like his mission president allowed them. And my brother cried in Wally. And when I tell you he's cried like maybe three times in his whole life, like because he hadn't seen a movie. He was so crying. He cried during Wally, which is a very sweet movie, but it's just so funny.

Cause when you just haven't seen something in two years, you know? It does something. The screen lit up his eyes. He's like just gonna. Okay, how can we end this on a fun, how can we end this? Can someone think of something funny? How can we end this? Can someone think of something funny?

How can we wrap this up? So I usually have something funny. No, I was just gonna say Lauren's seen Derek's butt. That's all I was gonna say What you've seen Derek's butt Teen tanners, but you know your brother-in-law's butts I did you were saying the other stuff. I didn't say the other stuff. What happened? The last time I saw your butt, I don't even remember what it looks like it was so long ago.

That's the last time I saw his butt. Guys, that's like, that's kind of a big deal. I still remember the image, okay? I'm sorry, yeah. Derek's on. And you're welcome. Just kidding. How does that make you feel? I actually feel that. I am good. Oh, and Derek punched me in the face of the door after.

Well, I was so shocked. I was like, are you kidding? So good. And there needs to be context. So you saw your sister-in-law's boobs. I walked in on their room. Their room was connected to ours on the cruise. No, actually, Sarah opened the door.

You were standing there. I said, don't come in because you were standing there like, OK, you're going to go on the other side you're standing there. Don't come in because you were standing there like, okay, can I tell the story real quick? Yeah. Okay, so Tanner and I are in our crew's room and it has a conjoining door to their room. Sarah was in there with me and she was putting on Al O' on my bag, I got a burn.

The worst sunburn. So my shirt was off, it was a really bad burn, I needed her help. And then, so I'm helpless because she's helping me. And Derek was closed, the door was closed and he was in his room, so I'm topless because she's helping me. And Derek was closed, the door was closed and he was in his room, but he was like waiting by the door, we didn't know this. He was waiting by the door to be able to come in

when we told him he could come in. And Sarah wanted to double check that he wasn't gonna come in because I didn't have a shirt on. And I was facing the door like on, I don't even know what I was doing is, look it down. So I didn't know this happened. Sarah opens the door to say.

Boom! And boom, Derek goes straight. Derek is just right there behind the door. I don't know why he was standing there. And Derek, he slants the door shut to try and like close it and then it hits Sarah in the face. It's Matt falls to the ground. To the ground.

It knocked me right in the freaking face. I was just leaning up against the door, waiting for them to be ready to go. He could have just sat on the bed like two feet away. I was probably looking at my phone or something. He was. He had his phone in his right hand. And I was just distracted and then the door opens. And then, boom, flash of light.

Lights, for real. Yeah, right there. Lo, how did that make you feel? I was the most embarrassed of everybody in my life. So if you could picture, if you could picture Lauren screaming, hiding, me getting hit by the door on the ground. I slammed the door. At this point, I didn't remember you. He was in there.

No, Tanner was in the bathroom. I was in the bathroom. Yeah, Tanner was in the bathroom. I didn't know he had seen, because I didn't make eye contact with Derek, so I didn't know he saw. And then I was like, well, maybe he didn't see. So then I was like, Derek, and he's like, I saw. I saw it. And I was like, oh!

When we got back from the cruise, Derek and I were sitting in our room and he goes, now I've seen three pairs of boobs. And I'm like, wait. Who was the other pair? He said, yours, Lauren's, and my mom's. Oh, no! That was fricking awesome. Yeah, I did. That's no, no. Oh.

Yeah, I did. That stars me. There you go, you wanted something to end. There you go. You guys should check out Lowe and Sarah's podcast. It's pretty cute, fairly odd sisters. I love your branding, by the way. Looks great.

You guys can also. A little blast from the past. Yeah, you can also find the Beestons. They both have their own individual. YouTube channels are also all over tick-tock Instagram Sarah Beeston low Beeston tanner Derek you you know where to find them We'll link all their stuff in the description three two one Did it anyway