JK LOL Storytime

She didn't cry in Idaho. She didn't cry in Phoenix. She cried in the back of Elvis's pink Cadillac in the Tunnel of Love at the Little White Chapel in Las Vegas, with a man named Bruce Wayne reading their vows. That was the one. In this episode Jon and Keisha cover Lucy and Ethel's boarding interview that lasted approximately four minutes. The Sushi Fever experience so good that Randy refuses to e...

Jon and Keisha are exhausted.  Genuinely, deeply, happily exhausted.  8,500 miles. Nine weddings. Countless gas stops, snack breaks, and near meltdowns.  We'd change a few things, but we wouldn't change doing it another way.  So much to unpack and share you with. Thank you for being with us on the journey, Regular.  JK LOL Storytime is one take, no breaks, no script — just two people telling the t...

She walked into Starbucks in her wedding dress on a Tuesday morning at 11am in 106 degree heat in Surprise, Arizona, with a full crew behind her, two dogs, a man in a suit, and a Harley guy who had just ridden through the desert. Two retired gentlemen on the patio looked up and said, "Did you guys just get married?" She said, "We sure did." They said, "There's no better place." In this episode Jon...

She wore the vomit dress down the aisle. Not because there was no other option. Because Harper wanted to be in the wedding, and Keisha looked at her stepdaughter covered in regurgitated pizza on the side of a country road in Idaho thirty minutes behind schedule with the officiant missing and Aunt Buff following them the wrong direction — and said okay. Put her mom shoes on. We're doing this. In th...

Jon and Keisha record Episode 15 from the mountains near Ogden in Eden, Utah, a day late because they’ve been on the road for their #WeddingOnTour, heading into wedding number four after Idaho, Phoenix, and Las Vegas.  They recap traveling with four kids, two puppies, a trailer, and Randy on his motorcycle through heat and storms, including a moment where Randy desperately chugs water on Highway 9...

Jon spent months planning a proposal that Keisha would never see coming. She doesn't like surprises. If she had even an inkling she would have figured it out. So he told her his fried rice elbow was flaring up and he couldn't swing a golf club. Then he suggested a walk instead. He had pink flagging tape in the trees two weeks in advance. A trellis pounded into the ground. Polaroids of every signif...

It's June 1st. We're leaving today. We probably should have scripted this one. We did not script this one, just like all episodes.  What you're hearing is two people standing in their basement on a Monday morning with totes full of wedding dresses, four veils, boutonnieres, bouquets, and holy guacamole, about to drive 7,588 miles across two countries to get married nine times. Either we are comple...

She wanted to quit this morning. Not the tour. Not the relationship. The whole thing. The podcast, the brand outreach, the content, all of it. Too stressful. Savings getting tight. Can't do everything at once. She said it out loud in the middle of an ordinary Sunday morning sitting across from a man whose arms were sore from shaking 19 gallons of cocktails for a charity event the night before, who...

Alex and Keisha met at a continuing education course in New York City. The instructor from Ireland thought Keisha was the Canadian. By the end of the week they were roommates, they had walked through the middle of the Pride parade in business attire with no plan, bought flower headbands to blend in, received a free bag of Oreos that tasted exactly the same, gone to Grand Central Station at midnigh...

Adam has been around since he was eight years old. He grew up around Jon's house as his younger brothers best friend, graduated to full-time bartender at the Tap Room, became the Dwight Schrute of the operation, and is now the reason Jon and Keisha are driving through Scranton on the way to Philadelphia. In this episode Jon and Keisha introduce the Philadelphia stop and the friends who make it wor...

Ken and Janet are responsible for all of this. Not the wedding. Not the podcast. Not the six-hour FaceTime that started everything.  Well, actually all three of those things.  Ken was a part-time bartender at a restaurant Jon was consulting for, a man who also happened to be the vice president of a construction company, who just did it for love of cocktails. Soup of the day means Miller Lite. That...

Some people get serious about dating and keep it quiet around the kids. Jon wrote Reagan a letter. Nearly a year before the engagement, when Jon and Keisha decided this was real and they were building something together, Jon sat down and wrote Reagan a letter. He didn't tell Keisha he was writing it. He didn't ask permission. He just decided he didn't want to withhold affection for Keisha in front...

New mics. Queso Thursday. And a completely random Randy sighting at a gas station on the way home: red mirrored sunglasses indoors, white lumberjack beard, and yelling for Grandpa Randy from across the parking lot. In this episode Jon and Keisha introduce the Utah stop and the woman who was influential in Keisha's younger years. Beth. Apartment Building C, Unit Nine. The friend who was just there:...

Before Jon was Keisha's fiance he was her best friend. Before he was her best friend he was the guy who stayed on the phone all night while someone tried to get into her hotel room in Las Vegas — and then quietly booked a 5am flight to be there by morning. In this episode Jon and Keisha tell the Las Vegas chapter of their story. How a Glacier hike led to a Golden Knights dentist. How a consulting...

It is St. Patrick's Day, Jon knows how to make a proper Irish coffee, and Keisha is there for it, always. That is where this episode starts. From there it goes to Arizona — Gail, Keisha's best friend who was supposed to be a bridesmaid at the original wedding that never happened. The chosen family that showed up when things fell apart. The apartment that did not have internet so they watched Vampi...

Jon and Keisha pull back the curtain on Wedding on Tour for the first time — not just what it is, but how it's actually going to work. Three segments, nine stops, one father on a Harley.  In this episode they walk through the first leg of the tour: a roots trip back to Keisha's mountain origins, a grandmother named Minga who crochets one-of-a-kind hats and has never once called Keisha by her actua...

When Keisha was five years old her brother was three and they were hungry. She found a can of peaches and didn't know how to open it. So she got down on her knees, pulled her brother down next to her, and prayed. What happened next is the story that explains everything about who she is. In this episode Keisha traces her origin story from a single mom household where hardship built faith, through p...

Jon's resume reads like a list of dares. In this episode he walks through the career that built him — from digging holes in the backyard and counseling Boy Scouts in Minnesota, to answering 911 calls for five years including one involving a severed thumb in a gallon of strawberry milk, to running the only craft-only beer bar in North Dakota, launching a hot dog cart called Fun on a Bun, and buildi...

Jon and Keisha introduce their new podcast, JK LOL Story Time, aiming for a casual, bar-like conversation that shares life experiences, humor, and encouragement. They explain they’re both unexpectedly “funemployed” after Jon was let go by his employer and Keisha left a toxic workplace where she lacked leadership support. Inspired by a six-hour FaceTime with friends who suggested they start a podca...