October 7, 2025 • 6 mins
How far would you go to reclaim lost love? One man in Ohio made international headlines after pretending to be a 17-year-old high school student to reconnect with his former crush—his high school teacher. From joining the track team to submitting anonymous essays, his elaborate plan lasted four months… until authorities uncovered the shocking truth. The Jubal Show breaks down the bizarre story, the legal fallout, and whether this extreme attempt at romance was ever a good idea. Tune in for jaw-dropping drama, relationship debates, and internet buzz you won’t believe.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
How far would you go to get the love of
your life back? It's a double show. Well, one man
is Victoria's got hiccups. Victoria is a mess this morning
as their allergies. Now you got hiccups choking on a
pill earlier, Alex pill? Are you drunk? That sounds more
(00:21):
like you were drunk.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I wish I was drunk. This would be more fun
if I was drunk. Jamison in that door. How would
you go to.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Get the love of your life back? Because one man
is not only making international headlines, but he's also facing
fines and jail time. Also that he could reconnect with
the one that got away? What did he do? And
why is the entire internet talking about it? Will tell
you right after this. It's the Geble Show. Do you
still think about the one that got away? It's the
Jewble Show. You know, dating is a lot like fishing.
(00:52):
You sit there with no bites on your reel, and
then all of a sudden, there's a tug on the
end of the line and you reel it in and
it's a beauty, except you have a limit with your
fishing license, So you toss that weird little trout back
in the water and then after that, it's just guppy
after guppy after guppy after guppy, and you wish you
hadn't thrown that slimy little nugget back into the water ill,
(01:16):
because that's the one that he got away.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
You don't deserve that one.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
And one guy is making international headlines and the entire
internet is talking about what he did in order to
reconnect with his one that got away. Oh and he's
also facing fines and criminal charges. So we'll tell you
about that in a second. But there's also a new
study that says that thirty nine percent of people have
experienced the one that got away.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Feelings about this?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Why because how can there be such thing as the
one that got away? Because if it was the one,
they wouldn't have got away. And if they let you go,
then that's their own fault. You should get fines and
put in jail and all of that stuff. It's a
beautiful trout you threw back in there, idiot. I kind
of agree with you, Nina. I feel like if it
was supposed to be, then it should be right. So
they're not the one that got away, They weren't the one. No,
(02:01):
they can't be the one.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah, they can be. They can't be the one if
they're not staying.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Well they can maybe something happened where they had to
go away. Have you ever listened to Katie Perry song
the One That Got Away? Like that one just got Away?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
And she wrote that song about Josh Groben?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Not funny? Wait? What yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
She actually wrote that song about Josh Groben.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
What w Yeah, but it's okay.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
He wrote a song about her called I Dodged a bullet.
No he did it, No, but she did write that
song about it.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
No.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
But even still, if you let somebody get away, then
maybe you're not the one. You know what I'm saying
at the right time, But that still means that you're
not the one, You're not the right one.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
It's got to be done.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
What about the saying where it says like right person,
wrong time.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I don't believe in that anymore, really don't anymore.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Well, right person, wrong time might have worked out for
the guy who's making international headlines. In what authorities are
calling a gross misuse of the public school system. A
thirty two year old man in Ohio has been arrested
and placed under psychiatric evaluation after successfully posing as a
seventeen year old transfer student in order to win back
(03:01):
his high school crush. Stop it now a teacher at
the same school. He considered her the one that got away?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Wait were they ever together?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
The man was a former middle manager at a regional
insurance firm. He reportedly shaved his beard, altered his records,
and created a fake identity, complete with a forged birth
certificate and vaccination records, to enroll at the high school
that she worked in under the name Zach.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
J Are you okay?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Zach?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
He actually attended the school for four full months without
raising suspicion.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Bro First off, why would you go through schooling for
four full months if you don't have to.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I just also feel like there's such an easier way
to do this. You should just go knock on her door.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Brow right, Just hit her up and be like, hey,
remember me, Zach, I think you're the one that got away.
Would you like to go on a.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Date as her student and try to hit on you?
That's not gonna work.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
More creative. We're talking about a guy who's making international
headlines today because he wanted to get back the one
that got away, and so he quit his job and
posed as a high school student. For four months thirty
two years old too. That's impressive and he was able
to do that, But what was his plan?
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Like, what is he trying to do? Like at a
seventeen year old, how would you win back your high
school teacher?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
He said? He even joined the track team and the
debate team. Oh wow, all in hopes of catching the
attention of miss Dennison.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I mean, so this guy, just where's your confidence, honey?
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I mean well, it was on the track team and
debate team.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
He tried out. He said, he was good.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Here's how he got caught too. Zach's cover was blown
after he tried to give a full Valentine's speech over
the school PA system, quoting lines from the notebook and
apparently fast and furious seven. I don't know if it's
that's very romantic or not, but the principal was suspicion
suspicious of his low voice and his knowledge of two
(05:09):
thousand and eight music.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Lots of investigation and found out that guy was actually
thirty two years old and had just enrolled in the
school to try to reconnect with the one that got away.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
When do you wake up and go I know what
I'm gonna do to win my love, quit my job,
and pretend to be a student.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Authorities also discovered that he had been renting a locker
next to her classroom, paying another student fifty bucks a
month so he could have locker. He doesn't talk to her,
and he still didn't talk to her. He was also
submitting anonymous essays to her class. She was an English
teacher about heartbreak.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Ye.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I think that I'm glad he did it this way
because if he shout up at her door, he would
probably be arrested.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
That's actually insane.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
He's facing charges of fraud, trespassing, identity theft, and violating
state education policy.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah, I think he can do. What's that one? Please? Insanity?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
The teacher who he was there to reconnect with as
the one that got away, said, I've always wanted somebody
to fight for me, just not lie their way into
my classroom.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I feel that fight for me, but not that way,
How far would you go to get the love of
your life back? It's a double show. Well, one man
is Victoria's got hiccups. Victoria is a mess this morning
as their allergies. Now you got hiccups choking on a
pill earlier, Alex pill? Are you drunk? That sounds more
(00:21):
like you were drunk.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I wish I was drunk. This would be more fun
if I was drunk. Jamison in that door. How would
you go to.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Get the love of your life back? Because one man
is not only making international headlines, but he's also facing
fines and jail time. Also that he could reconnect with
the one that got away? What did he do? And
why is the entire internet talking about it? Will tell
you right after this. It's the Geble Show. Do you
still think about the one that got away? It's the
Jewble Show. You know, dating is a lot like fishing.
(00:52):
You sit there with no bites on your reel, and
then all of a sudden, there's a tug on the
end of the line and you reel it in and
it's a beauty, except you have a limit with your
fishing license, So you toss that weird little trout back
in the water and then after that, it's just guppy
after guppy after guppy after guppy, and you wish you
hadn't thrown that slimy little nugget back into the water ill,
(01:16):
because that's the one that he got away.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
You don't deserve that one.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
And one guy is making international headlines and the entire
internet is talking about what he did in order to
reconnect with his one that got away. Oh and he's
also facing fines and criminal charges. So we'll tell you
about that in a second. But there's also a new
study that says that thirty nine percent of people have
experienced the one that got away.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Feelings about this?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Why because how can there be such thing as the
one that got away? Because if it was the one,
they wouldn't have got away. And if they let you go,
then that's their own fault. You should get fines and
put in jail and all of that stuff. It's a
beautiful trout you threw back in there, idiot. I kind
of agree with you, Nina. I feel like if it
was supposed to be, then it should be right. So
they're not the one that got away, They weren't the one. No,
(02:01):
they can't be the one.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah, they can be. They can't be the one if
they're not staying.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Well they can maybe something happened where they had to
go away. Have you ever listened to Katie Perry song
the One That Got Away? Like that one just got Away?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
And she wrote that song about Josh Groben?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Not funny? Wait? What yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
She actually wrote that song about Josh Groben.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
What w Yeah, but it's okay.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
He wrote a song about her called I Dodged a bullet.
No he did it, No, but she did write that
song about it.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
No.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
But even still, if you let somebody get away, then
maybe you're not the one. You know what I'm saying
at the right time, But that still means that you're
not the one, You're not the right one.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
It's got to be done.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
What about the saying where it says like right person,
wrong time.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I don't believe in that anymore, really don't anymore.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Well, right person, wrong time might have worked out for
the guy who's making international headlines. In what authorities are
calling a gross misuse of the public school system. A
thirty two year old man in Ohio has been arrested
and placed under psychiatric evaluation after successfully posing as a
seventeen year old transfer student in order to win back
(03:01):
his high school crush. Stop it now a teacher at
the same school. He considered her the one that got away?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Wait were they ever together?
Speaker 1 (03:13):
The man was a former middle manager at a regional
insurance firm. He reportedly shaved his beard, altered his records,
and created a fake identity, complete with a forged birth
certificate and vaccination records, to enroll at the high school
that she worked in under the name Zach.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
J Are you okay?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Zach?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
He actually attended the school for four full months without
raising suspicion.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Bro First off, why would you go through schooling for
four full months if you don't have to.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I just also feel like there's such an easier way
to do this. You should just go knock on her door.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Brow right, Just hit her up and be like, hey,
remember me, Zach, I think you're the one that got away.
Would you like to go on a.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Date as her student and try to hit on you?
That's not gonna work.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
More creative. We're talking about a guy who's making international
headlines today because he wanted to get back the one
that got away, and so he quit his job and
posed as a high school student. For four months thirty
two years old too. That's impressive and he was able
to do that, But what was his plan?
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Like, what is he trying to do? Like at a
seventeen year old, how would you win back your high
school teacher?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
He said? He even joined the track team and the
debate team. Oh wow, all in hopes of catching the
attention of miss Dennison.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I mean, so this guy, just where's your confidence, honey?
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I mean well, it was on the track team and
debate team.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
He tried out. He said, he was good.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Here's how he got caught too. Zach's cover was blown
after he tried to give a full Valentine's speech over
the school PA system, quoting lines from the notebook and
apparently fast and furious seven. I don't know if it's
that's very romantic or not, but the principal was suspicion
suspicious of his low voice and his knowledge of two
(05:09):
thousand and eight music.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Lots of investigation and found out that guy was actually
thirty two years old and had just enrolled in the
school to try to reconnect with the one that got away.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
When do you wake up and go I know what
I'm gonna do to win my love, quit my job,
and pretend to be a student.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Authorities also discovered that he had been renting a locker
next to her classroom, paying another student fifty bucks a
month so he could have locker. He doesn't talk to her,
and he still didn't talk to her. He was also
submitting anonymous essays to her class. She was an English
teacher about heartbreak.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Ye.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I think that I'm glad he did it this way
because if he shout up at her door, he would
probably be arrested.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
That's actually insane.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
He's facing charges of fraud, trespassing, identity theft, and violating
state education policy.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah, I think he can do. What's that one? Please? Insanity?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
The teacher who he was there to reconnect with as
the one that got away, said, I've always wanted somebody
to fight for me, just not lie their way into
my classroom.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I feel that fight for me, but not that way,
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