Gym Class and Blood Drives

You’ll Never Believe Me But… is a lighthearted storytelling podcast about what’s real, what’s fake, and what’s funny. Guests come on and tell two stories, one real one fake, and laugh and joke about it with host Cutter as they enjoy storytelling while he tries to figure out which story is the real one.

EPISODE TRANSCRIPT:   
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Cutter  00:00

Good morning, good afternoon and good evening everyone. My name is Cutter, though you may know me as three beers in a coat on air on HD one and welcome to this episode of You'll never believe me, but

Cutter  00:19

you'll never believe me, but is a storytelling podcast being produced here at WKNC about lying to me. Every episode I have a guest on, they tell me two stories, one real and one fake and I have to decide which is real between them. For those of you that are new here, or for those of you that need a quick refresher, I'm going to run down the three rules we have here before we get into today's episode. Rule number one, your story should not do significant damage to anyone else or their character. We're not trying to be outwardly mean to anyone other than ourselves. Rule number two, if someone else is featured in the story, you must either have their permission to say their name or use a fake name for them. You agreed to come on the show and tell the stories but unless they agreed to have these stories told just use a fake name. And rule number three, and this is the easiest one all story should start with. You'll never believe me but and then a brief synopsis before starting the story, just so we all know what we're getting into. And as a nice little nod to the show's title. So with all that housekeeping stuff out of the way, let's go ahead and get into today's episode. Today's guest is Jamie, Student Media Associate Director and more importantly, WKNC advisor and an all around wonderful person. I've had the pleasure of meeting through my time at WKNC. Jamie, how you doing today?

Jamie Lynn Gilbert  01:30

I'm doing great. And most importantly, I am the number one fan of You'll never believe me. But 

Cutter  01:35

Aww, well thank you very much you have had access to the show for longer than anyone. 

Jamie Lynn Gilbert  01:41

Yes

Cutter  01:41

What with you giving me my interview for this position and hearing my pitch for this as I desperately begged you to read it over and over again for two weeks straight. 

Jamie Lynn Gilbert  01:50

Yes, I also, I because of my position at WKNC. I get access to the podcast before it becomes live. So I get to listen to it before everyone else. So I get to make my guesses and figure out if I'm right or wrong. And I will say I've said this to you privately. And I will say it to you publicly. I also thought grant was lying in our last episode about his weird trip to Jacksonville on Thanksgiving. So I was with you on that.

Cutter  02:20

That makes me feel much better. I didn't feel particularly bad about that one. I'll be honest, I was I was pretty convinced I was pretty convinced. But hey, that's what the show is about. What can you do? Jamie, you have in front of you a physical piece of paper, which as a as a young person in 2021 is something that I have rarely ever seen. Is that that's all your notes.

Jamie Lynn Gilbert  02:41

Yes, I have typed up notes. So I make sure that I hit the high points of each story.

Cutter  02:47

Mm hmm. May I ask? Are you going to take notes on your notes? You do have a pencil laying beside,

Jamie Lynn Gilbert  02:53

I am prepared. If I need to take my notes. I am ready.

Cutter  02:58

Hey, I don't blame you at all. I have thought about doing the same physical paper is so astonishing. I think if if anything were to reveal that you are not a college student, that would be the one what with that and your position of power within NC State Student Media. But I'm very excited because that is a full page of notes from over here 

Jamie Lynn Gilbert  03:18

it is it's bullet points. But but it is 

Cutter  03:20

Hey, plenty of notes. That means plenty of story, which I'm very excited for because we've been talking about getting you on the show as a guest since you read the pitch. 

Jamie Lynn Gilbert  03:28

Yes. 

Cutter  03:28

And you begrudgingly accepted at first you kept trying to pitch to me other people tha you knew to come on the show. And I was about to drop it. I was like okay, maybe she just doesn't want to come on. Maybe she's self conscious about that sort of thing. But I'm glad I kept pushing because I'm so excited to have you on.

Jamie Lynn Gilbert  03:43

Yeah, I have actually I have been crafting these stories and then re changing them and then changing them again. And then I will tell you, as I a couple days ago, I started writing these out and I changed my fake story again. Their, I've actually put quite a bit of thought into this

Cutter  04:02

amazing. Well, I'm very excited then because I think the ones that are the most prepared for the ones that are the most exciting sometimes. I mean, not every time naturally. But I know you and I'm I'm very excited to get into the story. So unless you have anything else for me, I'm ready to just jump straight into this. I'm very excited. 

Jamie Lynn Gilbert  04:19

I'm ready too

Cutter  04:20

All right. Well, Jamie, take it away.

Jamie Lynn Gilbert  04:23

You'll never believe me. But I passed out in front of my entire high school gym class.

Cutter  04:28

That is exhilarating. I as someone who did take high school gym class kind of recently, would imagine that that would be suboptimal. 

Jamie Lynn Gilbert  04:38

It wasn't my favorite. 

Cutter  04:42

I can't imagine not but yeah, how do we get there? 

Jamie Lynn Gilbert  04:45

Okay, so I kind of have a little history of passing out. Oh, okay. Before we go any further, I do want everyone listening at home to know that I have talked about it with my doctor like I don't have any neurological conditions or anything. It's just something that happens sometimes. So the first time it happened, I was like eight or so. And we were on a field trip to like the local hospital and they went into the blood bank, right? 

Cutter  05:09

Oh, no. 

Jamie Lynn Gilbert  05:10

And so the the nurse pulls out this bag of blood and I'm like, cool, right? Then she pulls out this bag of plasma. I'm out. I ...