Alright, so I'm driving and I'm trying to get my car to my cab. Better recording is way up here. I'm trying to actually get to this story. I'm getting really heavy. I'm struggling with the rear end of the driving here. I'm trying to get my car to my cab. I always thought that Uncle Billy was a guy before my eyes. But he didn't. It was on a trip to May, and then he united. He said, Adam, if you want to take a journey halfway across the world, then ask for it. Sure. Well then you have to trust me. I want you to meet me at the airport this time. Don't worry. I know when the semester's over and all that, you can finish your class, finish your education. And all you're learning. You better meet me. And there's no question that's where we're going. Well, I just drove on there. At that point, but I can feed it. Alright, I'm good. I trust you. When I met him at the airport, I'm not sure he held on to the boarding pass because he didn't even tell me where we were going. He's pretty. He had to look at us, wave us on through. I was supposed to know where I was going. He didn't even care. Again, once we get out into the gate, I'm completely all watching the time tables. He's not telling me where we're going. We're going to wait for the very last minute for the plane. Okay, but I can't see how we're not going to know where we're going once we board the plane. It's okay. I'm going to let you find out my name. Are we waiting? Are we waiting? We're in a coffee shop. Slowly heard all the flights being called. There was a flight to Houston. There was a flight to Dallas. A flight to St. Louis. Phoenix. The Addams. LA, San Francisco. Even New York City. I didn't even know where the hell we were going. And finally I realized we're going to very good time here in the completely. We just wait to meet smile. That's right Adam. We are going to stay. That city don't teach you one thing. It's going to teach you. How Chan and Wisdom play a part in your life. What do you mean? We're going to gamble until we learn not to gamble anymore. Come like that. Let's just say I want you to see how much wisdom you can get out of a game of chance. Come on right. We board the plane. Two or three hours. I realize. Wait a minute. I thought you said we're going halfway across the world. We're going to be patient. We're going to be patient. We're going to be patient. Endless line for cabs. We're finally found one. And you said driver take a few measures. You mean the looks are hotel right? Yes, whatever. Just take a few. We get to the hotel. Check in the room. We'll do all that. We really proceed to take me down to. We're going to be in a full. I'm naturally re-ordered some drinks. We just do some tags. We'll observe it. We're going to go over to the table where there's a. There's a young man there. Totally racking up. That's that fair route yet. Keep watching him. When, when, when. I don't know how he did it. I don't know what kind of make he was playing with. He was taking that break. He was holding it. Suddenly I realized I knew this man. He was Google. That's right. John Fyer. Last time I was seeing him. He was ordering me. He was... ...to control the dump that night. I had to clean him again. That's right. Remember me, John? I'd say like that. I actually had to take Google. Looks like he's feeling kind of lucky today. Everybody lives in. They live through suspicious when I call them Google. He obviously clicked the game. He came over to me. Do you want to know? Yeah, it's Adam. Adam, move. Adam, Fletcher, you didn't want to tell me to go out the dump. You had them apples. It gave me a stroke. They're rotten apples. You're going to be... Adam. How's it going, Adam? By the way, I can't come and do Google around here. This is my zone. I need to know. I need to know what's up, you know? Oh, okay, I'm sorry. John, just call your John. What you doing here? I'm here with my uncle Billy. I'm pointing over to Uncle Billy. He started to... Well, let's just say he found a woman there. Who... ...did on it. I didn't think our time here was going to be well spent. Gaining wisdom from a chance by any means at this point. So, if they do, what do you say we get a couple of drinks? Talk about old times. Make sure, sure, sure. Or I can show you how I'm playing the game to the scrap. This roulette table, you know? The roulette is not a game of chance by any means. Well, like, you sure? You're like, absolutely. I can show you. But let me show you over a couple of drinks. We got to get out of here. They get a little... ...spatience that we went on. You know, they got this place, Mike. So, we left. We found some guy bar. He started to tell me how roulette to a casino is just a number of stains. They know the average attention span of every gambler. They can even detect the amount of money that's in your wallet if you got cash. They know the odds with you bringing money every single hotel knows the odds of... ...that, you know, if you're going to spend $300 a night, they know exactly how much you plan to spend in gambling and drinking. It's those who spend $30 a night that they worry about. Those who never stay in their hotel rooms. Those who buy who arrive on the one-way flight with an open-ended ticket. Those are the ones that they watch. Not one of those. I never knew that. I learned something maybe day again. That's right. So, after an hour or two of explaining how this roulette can be completely again... ...that is played under your will and not... ...at randomness of the surface of the table or the spinning of the wheel or the roll of the ball. That game can be 100% played by you. You're going back there. We made a lot of money. I can't remember how much we made. But it was at that point that things started to get blurry. From where I'm at now, I just can't remember. And what's weird is that's when I also realized there was something going on with Google and my stale growth. A blackout. The hospital told me they were strokes. But I had a stroke. I don't know if I had had another one. Can you have a stroke and then wake up in a different place? Well, if and no, I guess. I'm not sure. Can you have a stroke of luck and wake up in a different place? Well, whatever I had, stroke of... ...in ebree-ation. I woke up halfway across the world. That's right. I woke up in a room that was one quarter the size of the hotel room at the looks of hotel. But I wasn't in Vegas anymore. Everybody around me talked like him, a whole war movie from World War II. Five. I looked out the window and the cars were going the wrong way. I was still confused. I was in that day where... ...at Hayes of... When you're coming to, just like you're coming to, someone just had surgery on you. The doctor just... ...heard the recovery room. Then it dawned on me that I was in London. There was nothing. There was nothing. Uncertain about it. I don't know how I got there. I clearly must have loaned because I certainly wasn't. I was in the store for... ...so I stumbled out of the hall. I obviously found my clothes. I stumbled out through the hall. I head down through the mall lobby. I don't really pay attention to being in that mall. I can't stand it. I just couldn't figure out how I got here. I thought I'd walk in the streets. I turned the corner to what I think seems to be like a busy intersection where I could find the stores. I'm on a path bike. I'm on that side. It's like a blue stop sign. I'm not telling you to stop. It's telling me to go over there. It will be great. I don't really know what that means. I figured out it was their tomb. That's right. We got these two to go under this bear subway.

So the first thing I do is figure it out. I can get a map of the subway. Oh, by the way, yeah, I clearly had a wallet full of money. I don't know where I got it, but I had it. And they're all in pound notes. You know what I mean? So I hop into the store and I ask for a map of the subway. They're pouring over to this rack. There's like 15 different maps of the subway. I have to take the cheapest one and I go about my business. I was lucky because it had a little street map. A few of the streets. But I need to know what the hell was going on. So I start wandering the streets. And I come across an internet cafe. And that's when I realized, wait a minute, I still have my phone on me. Maybe my phone can help me figure this stuff out. Sure enough, I saw this text message from Google. I'm in the British Museum. Or heading to the British Museum. You can meet up if you want. So Google's with me. Google and I, when I showed the date, they'd only been 24 hours. Hell, I guess they had some kind of red eye from Vegas to London. Oh, and the funny thing is, you know, the last time I had one of these blackouts, I was back in the dump and I couldn't speak. But this time I could speak. It wasn't a problem anymore. Maybe it was just my body's first time getting used to one of these blackouts. So maybe... But anyway. So I started heading in the direction. I asked the guy, hey, can you point out the British Museum here on this map here? And he shows me and I'm figuring it out. I decide I'm going to walk. So I walked through this area, side of London. I'm sure you would, that's it, not that bad. So kind of awkward and all, you know, having cars drive on the wrong side of the road, across the street in all these funny ways. I've got to look left before you look right. But yeah, I mean, that place. Do all right. So, you know, by the time I'm... As I'm getting closer and closer to the British Museum, I'm still trying to figure out what the hell was it about that luxury hotel that made me end up here. I thought it was strange how Uncle Billy said, this is Java, we want to go to Egypt and not the luxury hotel. But he wasn't with us. He didn't even say goodbye. As I'm walking the main street that takes you to the British Museum, I'm starting to see funny signs of Egypt all over the place too. There's plenty of reminders that there was something definitely going on at that hotel. I see Pharaoh's face carved out on the front of buildings. The other buildings are like same-dan entrance, temples here and there. I don't really know how to describe it, but I couldn't stop seeing Egypt. Egypt was in the news. A revolution was still going on, even though the President had their post-memorow market stepped down. Anyway, I get to the museum and I buy a ticket and I start looking around for doozle. I tried to text him but he wasn't getting any service. I thought to myself, where would Google be? That will help. Egypt's gotten you this far. Maybe it'll get you to where Google is now. If I look on the map, sure enough, they've got a big Egyptian collection. I tell you I didn't know where to start. That really didn't bring me any closer. I thought to myself, what would Google be interested in? I mean, he was one of those who just loved every kind of subject. I got to tell you, for all I know, he probably just snapped his fingers and sent us here. He sent me here, help, for all I know, he snapped his fingers and made me black out. I saw something funny on the map, something that I hadn't thought about in quite a while. Actually, something that when you realize it, you don't realize how you never made the connection. I saw my mother's name on the map. Now I didn't see her name as an artist or a collector or anything like that. I saw her name on an object. The Rosetta Stone. Did I tell you my mother's name was Rosetta? That's right. It was kind of peculiar seeing her name there. Now, let's go look at this Rosetta Stone. I get there and guess who's there? Good old Google. He's sitting there staring at this thing like he could read it. I guess it looked like just a stone to me, but obviously it was pretty fancy. You know, with that black shiny color. I don't know how they got those straight lines on those inscriptions. There certainly were no straight lines on the stone to guide them. He was looking at it like he was just doing it like that. Like one of the master brewers knows just the right moment when he's going to bottle that brew and store it so that it tastes like sweet, sweet nectar. He was looking at it and he looked at me and he's like, hey Adam, you know what this is? I was like, no, no it doesn't. Why don't you tell me? Look, there's three languages here. How's it going really? That's right. So, what's the big deal? Three languages. Hey, there's three languages up on their sign right there. You check them. It's not like direction, Adam. It's not like all you English-speaking people go this way. All you French-speaking people go this way and the Chinese you go that way. Yes, what's it? It's like a key. It's like this, right? It was a key. A key to what? A key to the past. But who cares about a key to the past? You've never cared about who you are, or where you come from. I thought about it. I mean, I come from Texas. What's there in motor care about? Like your family didn't just come from Texas. They came from Europe. They came from Europe. Hey, your last name is Fletcher. And you're in... You're just a hop-skipping a jump away from Scotland. Where your namesake came from. Why don't you just say that? I thought more about how this stone was named after my mother or my mother. It's named after the stone. I don't really know what to think of it. As I did you know, my mother's name was Rose Eda. Funny how the world works, Adam. So anyway, there's this guy from France. His name was John Francois Champotillon. He figured out what all these three languages are saying. They're saying the same thing. That's what he said. You see there you got to Greek. Then you got your lady Egyptian. And then you got your hieroglyphs. You see, he knew the Greek. And I think he had to figure out the lady Egyptian in the hieroglyphs. And he did all that. That's right, we did it. Well, bam. That sounds like a lot of work. Sure is. It's almost just as hard as collecting everything you know about a place. And trying to make sense of that. The chaos. It comes from knowing too much. Chaos from too much knowledge. That's right. So what's the point of all this? Well, life is a puzzle. Your life is a puzzle. I said, what do you mean by that puzzle? You said that's exactly what I mean. Something tells me... You were meant to find this stone. I was. Got packing like an idiot Adam. This stone has meaning to you. Sure there wasn't anything strange about your mother. Oh, that was a... Well, my dad met her in the best dorm. Go on. Now remember, as a child, she always told me, the world is an amazing place. Go on. She actually was a valedictorian of her high school. So I assume she went on to lead a successful life. Well, now she and my father didn't get along. I think... I don't think... She kind of felt like he saved her life. And that she owed him for that. But there was a lot of stuff she didn't tell him. And I think that's where they... They had fights about what? Well, fights about... Well, me, I guess. Who's going to take care of Adam? You can't take care of Adam. No, I thought something was going to happen. Sure enough, did. She died. Well, what'd she die of? Well, before you answer that, let me know... Let me get to sleep. Okay, your mom... It's valedictorian of her high school. Did she go to college or anything like that? I think no. Wait a minute, she didn't go to college? That thing, no one knows where she went. Well, we'll hold on a second here. You're telling me that after high school, for how many years, no one knows where your mother went. Yes, suppose it was about three or four years. I'm not sure to be exact. For three to four years, no one in your mother's family knew where she was. That's right, she just came back as spontaneously as she left. And you never asked any questions about it? Well, I just said to my dad once, how long did you know? How long did you and mama know each other before you got married? He said one day. But I knew her in high school, and she never talked to me. Oh.