Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update - Blind Love Is? Fluent in Flirting

Episode Date: March 16, 2025

We've got a special new episode you this weekend! Two of our listeners are going to test the waters & see if they connect romantically when they speak to each other for the first time in a new edition of “Blind Love Is."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Everything's sticking to the second date updates for sure right here. We're adding. Yes, it's Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning. It's just that we do a full radio show. Yep. And so there's a- Some people are shocked when they find that out. We have a literal brand new full hour episode every day. And there's some of the segments that we do that we think our second day audience would love,

because it's all about relationship drama. So while you have the Sunday scaries, you can just sit back and listen to this and feel better about yourself. And this is a segment we do call Blind Love Is. Totally not a ripoff of a very well-known reality show. Not an obvious ripoff. Only original content here.

But we're two listeners meet for the first time on our show. But I'll let Jeffrey explain that here in a second. All I'm going to say is I'm very excited about the wheel of accents that we added to the segment. You know what? The TV show's not doing that. That's right. That's a fact.

Hey, let us know in the comments if you like it, and don't forget to share and subscribe. Let's get it started. Where do you go to find real, meaningful love connections nowadays? Hmm, that's tough. Yeah, I mean, Bumble isn't what it used to be. The dentist is such a tease, full of mouth stuff. You're just loopy from the gas! You would like the dentist.

Yeah. You want more gas? Oh, yeah. Sure. And Madame Tussaud's waxax Museum, it had potential. It was just more confusing than anything. Which one's real? Oh, none of them. Princess Diana was coming on to me. No, dude, she's been gone.

The only place that's left to meet fun, available, non-wax-based singles is right here on our radio show. During a little segment called Blind Love Is. Two of our listeners will test the waters and see if they connect romantically when they speak to each other for the first time on our show. That's coming up right after this. They say love happens when you least expect it And that quote isn't just talking about the honey bucket outside of Port Authority because I was not expecting what happened in there But it is also kind of unexpected to fall in love live on the radio with millions of strangers listening in and that's what we're hoping happens today with another edition of blind love is if you've

never heard it before we've got two single listeners who've emailed us to do other things on the show sometimes they wanted a second date update that didn't work out or they wanted to be in a different dating segment but they have agreed to meet for the very first time right here on our show. We're getting to a point where people are emailing us asking us to set them up. Yeah. Yeah, I'm not sure why. It's funny because yeah, that's like the scraps of the scraps. Yeah, because the apps are that bad.

Maybe that's what it is. Yeah, that's why. But the whole thing is they've never seen each other, they don't know anything about each other beforehand. We're just putting them together to see if sparks fly, just like they did in that porta potty. Okay. The porta potty should not be sparking.

Well, I think it's near its construction though. I think that's what it was. But today we have two new people who are both open to meeting a total stranger. Their names are Sandra and Richie. Again, never spoken before this. this will be their first interaction and we've encouraged them to try and ask each other fun questions they work with our producer right to come up with some good stuff so they don't bore us to death that's the rude way to say small talk can be a little brutal of course it along well let's

not small talk amongst ourselves anymore let Let's just get right into this We're gonna put them together and find out if blind truly love is All right, so here. We go. I'm gonna step away. We're all stepping away Sandra stepping away. I'm expecting love okay. I'm gonna be quiet. Okay. I'll lean slightly back Richie are you there? Yeah, I'm here all right Sandra. Are you on the line? Yeah, hey perfect. Okay. We're done talking Richie say are you there? Yeah, I'm here. All right, Sandra, are you on the line? Yeah, hey. Perfect, okay.

We're done talking, Richie. Say hi to Sandra, go ahead. Hey, Sandra. Hi. How are you? I'm good. All right, hopefully this goes well. Okay, yeah, I'm excited.

I'm excited if you're excited, yeah, I'm excited. I'm excited if you're excited. Yeah, I'm excited. Okay, so I have a couple of questions for you. Okay, I'm ready to go. Okay, okay. I'm an animal lover, so I'm wondering, do you have any pets? Yeah, I've had three different cats. All in the last year, they were all from a shelter.

The first one was like a little too aggressive, so I had to bring him back. Oh. Oh no. Yeah, the second one, you guys think I'm weird here, but I felt like it was the ghost of my grandfather. Huh? Oh. Like, he kept trying to get into my cigar drawer, I felt like it was the ghost of my grandfather. Huh? Well, he kept trying to get into my cigar drawer.

I thought it was just too weird. I think it was my grandpa, so I definitely brought him back. And the third one has been going great so far, so yeah, I stuck with him. What about you? Oh yeah, I yeah, I stuck with him. What about you? Um, yeah, I actually I have a parrot. Yeah. And you know, as you know, I'm single. So she's kind of like my best friend. And we hang out and talk a lot. And we love listening to like this radio show together. Cool.

Yeah, thank you. I bet they get along. Wait, what? I don't know if cats and parrots really get along great, but maybe, yeah, maybe. Your parrot could fly him around and stuff. It'd be great. Oh, what?

No, no. Wait. OK. What? I mean, yeah, hopefully they wouldn't fight or anything. I have a question for you. If you could have dinner with anybody in the world, dead or alive, who would it be? Oh, that is a good question.

Okay, I have to think about it for just a second. Do you have an answer ready to go for that one? I actually do. I've thought about this a lot If I had to pick two people, one would be definitely be Nicolas Cage. I love his movies He's great and yeah, right who wouldn't want him at dinner and then I would also want Bigfoot And I would also want Bigfoot. Oh. Oh God.

Wait. He's so funny. Why is that funny? You only ever see him in blurry photos? Like it'd be cool to hang. Yeah. You know what I mean? I mean, yeah, I guess if you like,

you believe in him, do you believe in him? You believe in Bigfoot? You don't? What do you mean? Uh oh. I don't, you know know what I guess I would just need to have an open mind on that one I guess I mean and I I'd want to see who could eat more too between them I couldn't do anything it would be obviously

eat a lot and I'd like to see them head to head. Okay, yeah, I can see the logic there. For sure. Well, okay, so now that you've thought about your answer, who would it be? Oh, man. Okay, ah, okay, this is gonna be lame, but probably my parrot. There you go, yeah, I'd have dinner.

You could have dinner with anybody, and it's the one you have dinner with every night? No, I mean it's not that like we have dinner every night but I'm just like a routine person. And you know what yeah actually I lied we do have dinner every night and it's great. And it's a cheap date I guess so I think I mean Actually a little more expensive than you would think because I like to cook her food Like specifically in a way, so You'd be surprised I really think I'm intrigued. Okay. Well, you know, I think we're gonna step in here and just

Yeah, it was getting so sexy. I know that's the reason I was worried that maybe it was gonna get too steamy The arousal was going a little bit too hot and remember. This is a children's show so For some water on a family show Jeff not children Was child-friendly it's not just for kids No, it's not just for kids don't talk about kids anymore. You know what? Maybe I should stop talking, but there was a lot going on in that conversation something at least personally I noticed just like an episode of miss Rachel. Yeah Let's review what we all learned today because I heard I don't know about you. I heard lots of laughing on both ends Yeah, I will say there is that laughter is good. Yes

Conversation flowed. I didn't mean they agreed on everything There was a back-and-forth sure obviously was gonna pick his grandpa to have dinner with Didn't even want to live with him as a cat Keep your grandpa for the end of time that read him well definitely Could be jerks to yeah Interesting lives both of them with some interesting answers. But at the end of the day, they both seemed like they were willing to compromise. They were open-minded with each other.

So I think they keep going. No? I think so too. But again, that's not up to us. We always leave it up to our listeners to text in 78592 if you want to hear more from Richie and Sandra and continue their conversation Please only text in if you're 18 and older though despite what Jeffrey says about our show I'm 5 I don't think they should date

Well sometimes they're the best truth tellers but that's okay Good point We're gonna keep them on hold we'll review the text board and when we come back we'll see if we continue with Richie and Sandra Maybe more hot cat and parrot talk part two. We're in the middle of a very hot but still child friendly edition of Blind Love Is with Sandra and Richie two of our listeners who've just met for the very first time on our show. And we found out they're both animal lovers. Sandra is very close with her pet parrot,

possibly a little too close. Meanwhile, Richie has gone through three different cats in the last calendar year. Which is not something you should tell people. No. It's honest. He did return two of them to the shelter, one of which he believed was inhabited by the spirit of his dead grandfather

So that one had to go that one had to go the quickest Par for the course for our show and our listeners We did ask the audience to text in seven eight five nine two Do you feel the chemistry happening between these two and should we continue? Because we do have other couples waiting on the line in case they say no. Oh my God, what was the outcome? The listeners this time said 61% yes. There could be something there between them.

Wow. We agree. That is not an overwhelming majority, but still majority. Yes. And that means Sandra and Richie are sticking around for more of Blind Love Is, and we're adding a brand new wrinkle to the conversation going forward. And they don't know this yet.

We're gonna be bringing in the romantic Wheel of Accent! It means whatever foreign accent the wheel lands on, they have to use it to discuss the topic that they are given They might they might both get the same accent they may get different accents for the same conversation Let's spin it this one's gonna be for Richie Richie let's spin that wheel. It's a pretty big wheel. Richie you got Russian. Oh man. All right so we're hearing from Russian Richie and for Sandra let's spin her wheel. Oh no. Sandra you get British. Okay, I think I can do that. That was pretty good.

That's already going well. So now, the topic that you're both being given is discuss what type of meal you two want to go out and get for your hot date tonight. Ah. Richie, you're going to start us off. Go ahead.

So, what would you like to eat? Yes, yes, it's so good. So angry. That's perfect. I love it. Well, it depends. I don't want to have stinky breath if I've got a kiss after.

Oh, stinky breath. I thought she said stinky breath. So nothing garlic, I guess. Nothing garlic. Italian food! What's he saying, darling? From Brooklyn, I think. He's a drunk Russian, so that's why I said that.

No, I think I think Italian food has too much garlic in it. Maybe a light salad. She's good. Can we put vodka all over it? He's like in character. Wow. He needs to eat some beef. Or is that your real life answer?

Borscht. I'm not sure where my accent ends. When can they drop again? All right, I think we've decided we're having salad topped with a little bit of smirnoff on top Okay, well done on your first topic I felt the chemistry he was really hoping for that Italian vodka pasta though Beautiful there was compromise going on they were listening to each other sounds like a great couple so far Let's go to the next topic and your brand new accent richie. We're spinning our wheel again

Your second accent is We Have the bathroom break for after the show, okay, Richie? So you're gonna be French for this next conversation. Meanwhile, Sandra, your accent is going to be... Please be the English accent. Please. Ooh, Southern Hick.

Yay! That's a fun one. Wow. A Southern Hick, okay. Okay, French and Southern, a little Creole hick, okay. Okay, French and southern, a little Creole combination here maybe. Why does her southern hick sound also like her English? Yeah.

Oh no. Okay, now we have our accents. Your next topic to discuss is future children. Oh my god, Jeff. How did we choose that? This is a conversation that tends to come up earlier and earlier in relationships Richie you love the name raisin for a baby girl, but Sandra you are dead set on the name Hannibal

And you two are not seeing eye to eye You need to make your point and convince the other person why you think your name is better go ahead the other person why you think your name is better. Go ahead. Okay, so right off the bat, ain't nobody want a child named Raisin. What is it? They were raised and they dried up in the sun. Hannibal is like, it's like a powerful name. It's like fear in people's hearts.

Oh, strong baby girl. But if we had a bunch of babies, they could be raising it. Oh, raising it. Raisinettes. Oh, raisinettes! Raisinette. The accent didn't get it. Dang, French boy. Talk to me about raisinettes. French, yeah, we would say that.

I just want to ease my children with the name Hannibal. That is possibly the worst French accent I've ever heard. He sounds more English than he did when he first started the golf. It's from Eastern France, that's what it is. Oh, that's what it is All right, I move there as a child No, I wish that we can let them argue about baby names for longer, but I'm on board with raisin

Like the cutest hot new girl name of the year, but we're out of time We have to decide once and for all do we think that we ship Sandra and Richie as a couple do we want them to? Meet up in real life. Do they want me in real life? That's what I want to know they're gonna have as much fun in real life as they would on our show Jeff I mean, and it's also a little bit up to them. So You know, they have a choice I guess we'll let them choose a little So we're gonna have a date with you. Okay, she wants to continue to use his French accent to talk about it He's feeling like a really sexy man Sandra do you want to use an accent and say how you feel about Richie? Okay, I guess I feel more comfortable like this, yeah.

Yeah. Like this means the accent that you're talking to? I don't know, or with him. Actually, a little bit of both. Oh, okay. Old Southern Belle. Maybe Richie needs to keep his French accent when they meet up in person.

He's got me blushing. Okay. That's cute. So you guys are gonna meet up in real life? Yes. That wasn't your accent, Richie. Wee-wee. That's the first time you've... Yeah, thank you. There we go. Wee-wee. Okay, and Sandra, how you feeling? I say, wee-wee too.

Yeah! In that accent, it sounds like a private part. That was a successful edition of Blind Love Is. We're gonna set up Sandra and Richie on a real in-person date, and we're gonna pay for it too. Yeah, and keep us updated on how it goes. I want an update from you too.

You bet your bottom. Okay, all right. I think he's exhausted his French, but make sure to text in to 78592 and tell us what you think about the wheel of accents. Did it add to the romance? Heck yeah. So anyway, that is blind love is tuning for the next edition soon. It's Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning. Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning. I'm Mary Kay McBrayer, host

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