Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update - Second Date Update Classic: Blunder Down Under

Episode Date: May 18, 2024

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give a crap and try. That's a big key, Jeff. I feel like that's too much work. The thing is, don't try too hard because that comes off desperate. Oh yeah, that's a trick. You can't try too little either though because then you seem like a jerk who just doesn't care.

Try just right amount. Goldilocks it and try medium until it's just right. Okay. And one of our listeners, William, emailed the show saying he's worried he may have tried too hard on his date. Oh, boy. William, you didn't channel your inner Goldilocks for this? I tried. I might have tried too hard. God, you didn't wake your inner Goldilocks for this? I tried. I might have tried too hard.

You didn't wake up in a strange house with three bears? Failure! If you're not down in porridge, you ain't doing it right, buddy. Well, we can't undo anything that happened, but why don't you tell us about it a little bit? What's the name of the woman that you went out with? Her name is Stacy.

So where'd you meet her? I met her online. Okay. And, you know, at first I was actually pretty intimidated just by her profile pictures. Oh, because she's, like, really attractive to you? Well, that for sure. But also she seems to have kind of an extravagant,

sophisticated, cultured life, more so than myself, I'll say. Okay. What did she put in her pictures to like depict that yeah uh there's like pictures of her on a sailboat with what looks to be her very well-dressed family maybe in greece somewhere oh my gosh okay it was you know at soccer games in europe oh that's a match, sir. Yeah. Wouldn't expect you to be fancy enough to know that. That's amazing.

So yeah, it was really intimidating, which I actually told her that in the initial messaging. You did. Yeah. I mean, I'm pretty honest, maybe to default, but she obviously liked it.

Cause she responded. Alexis, if a guy writes to you, I'm intimidated by you. I'm like, yeah, I don't know. Is that not a strong move? No, not really. I mean, a football game in Europe doesn't cost that much.

It's like, don't be that intimidated. Wow, okay. I'm just saying. They don't take it to get there. I mean, yeah. I'm just saying. I take it bad. Wow.

But the bottom line is she responded. Yeah, she responded, all right. She said, ha-ha line is she responded. Yeah, she responded all right. She said, ha-ha, you should be. Oh, she liked it. Okay, great answer. My type of woman. So what did you do for a date? I made dinner reservations.

Okay. Nice little spot. I got dressed up, even borrowed a nice shirt from my roommate. Oh. Oh, the good shirt that everyone shares. Do dudes normally do that? Like share fancy clothes when you have a roommate life i used to have a blazer and we had like a community blazer

i mean yeah it's like the little black dress for bed exactly all you gotta do is did that pay off for you i mean i i was feeling good so that's helpful i think and she told me i look nice and she looked incredible. Did you tell her that was scary, too, how good she looked? Yeah. I mean, I reiterated how intimidated I was. I imagine you, like, cowering at everything. Just wincing every time she lifts up her fork to eat.

You're too beautiful. We're playing it up for you, man. I'm sure you were fine. I think so. I mean, she was really nice for the to eat. You're too beautiful. We're playing it up for you, man. I'm sure you were fine. I think so. I mean, she was really nice for the most part. I mean, I brought her... For the most part.

I saw that she loves chocolate also on her profile, so I thought I'd bring her a gift and I brought her almond roca. Oh, that's cute. Okay. Ew. Sorry.

Are we all gonna act like that was the best option? Almond roca. Kind of a grandparent's grandparents chocolate, but you know. But good for you, sorry. I always see it at the store and it looks nice. It has like gold foil. I thought it looked kind of fancy,

but she said it's not really chocolate, which I'd never had really eaten it myself. It's kind of toffee. It is a lot of toffee. Yeah, it's true. It's harsh to say when someone's giving you a gift. That's not actually chocolate. Take us to the highlights of the date.

What were the good moments? Well, during dinner, I was so curious from her profile, and I kept asking her a lot of questions, and I might have kind of asked too many questions. Is that possible? Maybe if it starts to feel like somebody's giving you the third degree interrogating you which wasn't really my intention but i mean if there's not like a real natural flow to it i guess you don't want the date to come off sounding like a job interview

yeah so tell me here where you see yourself five to ten years can you think of one question that went too far? I asked her if she's ever been engaged before. Oh. What? What? I thought you were going to ask. Common first date question. I was going to say, no, it wasn't in no way normal. Okay.

And what was her response? Well, because we talked a little bit about house relationships, and she was dating a guy in Spain for a long time, and that's how it came up, because she said it was really serious. Oh, man. That's kind of intense. I was not trying to pry, though. You're not trying to pry?

I'm sure it was. Okay. I don't think it's that bad. Let's go to the end of the day. What happened at the end? Well, we had the almond roca for dessert, which was nice at the restaurant. Good. You just opened up the package right there?

Yeah. Well, because they asked if we wanted any of the desserts. She said she wasn't that hungry, but I said, oh, I brought this for you, and that's when I presented her with the roca. That's when she turned up her nose and said, it's not really chocolate. I didn't say that, but then we did actually enjoy it together, and I hope she thought it was funny that I tried, even though I failed at even bringing chocolate. Some pity, Rocha.

Yeah. All right. All right. Well, I'm going to give it a B plus so far. Are you? That's my grade. Maybe like a C. I don't know.

I'm grading it on a curve. Have you heard from her? Well, I haven't really heard from her, but it ended okay. Like, we hugged. We said goodbye. Yeah, that's what Brooke does with her children, though, so you can't really heard from her, but it ended okay. Like, we hugged, we said goodbye. Yeah, that's what Brooke does with her children, though, so you can't really judge by that. And also gives them almond roca.

They may complain about every food item I give them, so. The good news is there's a lot of room to improve from here. Sure. And we're going to try and do that when we come back and do your second date update right after this. Second date update. If you're just joining us, we're on the phone with William, who went out recently with a world traveler named Stacy. Yeah. Stacy has studied in the universities of Europe.

She's dated the men of Spain and cheered for the football clubs of Lichtenberg, where instead of cheering hooray there they cheer in reverse. Oh really? Jose can you say hooray backwards? Yarrrr! That's right. Yarrrr! It's classy because it's European. Yarrrr! Well hopefully we'll all be saying yarrrr at the end of the second date when we get stacy and william to meet up again i like it but obviously she is clearly a world traveler he was intimidated by that which led me to the question william why would she want to go out with you in the first place oh jeffrey that came off so hard he said himself that she's so worldly, she's so traveled. What would be the appeal for her?

Well, I'm a nice guy, and I'm open to going on more traveling ventures. I mean, I've traveled a little bit myself. Oh, you've traveled the world? Come on, Jeffrey. Not everybody can afford that. But I think what would be appealing is he seems like a really curious guy, right? Like that's who someone who likes to travel wants to be with. There's websites for curious men.

And I think that's a totally different issue, Brooke. I think you sound totally fine, by the way, William. I'm honestly interested in her adventures. He asked a ton of questions. Yeah. Have you traveled at all before? Are you not travel? What's your travel experience?

No, yeah. I mean, I've been out of the country. I've gone to cabo twice oh okay wow i've driven to scottsdale before scottsdale wow okay but there's something to work with here it's not quite you know the vienna opera house but it's close so yeah plus the positive is she could show him all these places jeffrey right we just have to convince her and he can show her the golf course at scott's day yeah let's just get her on the phone i'm excited to talk to this worldly lady let's get

her on the phone right now here we go you ready she does speak english right well oh yeah i think she speaks a couple languages actually but english is one on your date otherwise this call is going to go really really badly all right i'm going to try english see how it goes here i'm dialing the number right now hello um bonjour is this stacy We are looking for Stacy. Je m'appelle Brooke. I'm so sorry for this. Hey, at least I use French. I won't try. Hello.

Sorry. Hey, Stacy, I'm hoping this is a radio show called Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning. Can I help you? Yeah, we need a lot of help. We really do. But mostly we're looking for help for one of our listeners named William because he's a guy who rumor has it you went on a date with recently. What is this about, a date? Yeah, it's a segment we do called Second Date Update

where our listeners go out with someone, and if they're not hearing back or if they feel like they're getting ghosted, they can email us, and we'll try and reach out to that person for them it's a real north american continent type thing yeah sorry for being weird about all the north america stuff it's just we we heard that you're very well traveled yes i am well traveled uh who is the guy or what which date was this i've been on a couple recently it was was Willie. Oh, yeah. William. Oh, William. Yes. Yes. You guys went and got dinner together the other night?

Yes. We went out to dinner. Okay. Did you enjoy it? I don't know what you want from me here. It was a nice time. I guess that's what we want is honesty. Yeah, we're trying to help out William a little bit because he doesn't understand why there hasn't been a second meetup. He really liked you a lot and thought that maybe they saw some potential

between you two. I just, honestly, he just wasn't cultured enough for me. And I don't know, he just lacked manners. Oh. Lacked manners? Hold on, are we nitpicking? Did he not, like, have his fork in the right area of the plate? No, he just, he didn't have, he doesn't have good etiquette.

Okay. Can you, example. Yeah. An example is he kind of yelled out when he had to go to the bathroom, you know? We're in this really nice restaurant. Wait, what? I gotta pee! Potty, potty time!

He announced it to the whole room, or what do you mean? Yes, he got up and he says, I'm going to the bathroom. It was like it was a big announcement. Oh, yeah. Wait, what? That's bad etiquette? Brooke, you do that!

I think he was just trying to tell her where he was going so that you didn't think he was ditching you or something. Well, he could have just said, excuse me for a minute. Exactly. I'll be right back. Pardon me. I'll be right back. You have a lot higher standards than I do.

I'll tell you that. I think that's a little bit picky, at least for us. Is that all that he did? No. We're at a very nice steakhouse, and he waved down the waiter to get more bread. Okay. Is that rude? What is that? I love that bread. that bread i know if the bread's good you want more well it would just seem a little low class to me you could have waited till the they came to refill you know my wine or i guess a good

server at a nice restaurant's gonna check on you all the time so you expect him to be around every five minutes i guess if i remember back to my private school, you are supposed to wait for the waiter to come to the table. You're not supposed to shout across the restaurant. That's why they ask, hey, can I get anybody anything? Nobody lives by these rules anymore. They're like, they're old. Well, that's okay to Fuddruckers, Brooke, but it's not okay when you go to an actual

respected place. He took her to a beautiful steak dinner, right? He's the one that picked it. He's the one that took you there. Yes, the restaurant was great. It's just, I mean, there's more stuff. He was just so loud, and I was whispering because there's other people around,

and it was just really inappropriate for such a nice place. I'm sorry, guys. Excuse me. Excuse me, I'm sorry. This is William. We were at an Outback Steakhouse. I'm sorry, guys. Excuse me. Excuse me. I'm sorry. This is William. We were at an Outback Steakhouse. What?

Wait, what? It's not like... It wasn't a Michelin star type of restaurant. I mean, it... Oh, sorry. Hold on, hold on, hold on, William. I need to let Stacey know that William has been waiting on the other line

listening to this whole conversation. He's wanting to talk to you, obviously. It was an Outback? Yes, it was an Outback Steakhouse. It was the first time I've ever been. It was a very lovely Australian steakhouse. It was lovely. So hold on.

This is kind of funny. You're so worldly that you've never been to an Outback, which is not worldly. What do you mean? Stacey, you think that an Outback Steakhouse is a very fine dining establishment? I'm sorry. It's a big compliment for any Outback people listening. It's not that it was like the best steakhouse I've ever been, but it was just. It's cute.

It felt authentic. Wait, wait, wait. Did you look around at the other guests? You can wave down all the free bread you want there. Yeah, totally. I have traveled a lot, and not all restaurants are five-star, you know, Michelin restaurants, but they're beautiful and there's culture, so I thought that that was just an authentic, you know, thing. You were giving it the respect it doesn't really deserve.

There's definitely culture at Outback, but it's not high society culture. Yeah. That's rude. You know, honestly, I'm just happy he didn't take me to a chain restaurant. Chain restaurant. Oh. That would be bad. You know, I wouldn't recommend Googling Outback Steakhouse.

That would be awful. But you should try Applebee's. It's this little quaint place. Oh, yeah. Great Long Island iced teas. I've heard it's the neighborhood bar and grill. Ooh, and maybe a TGI Friday's. Oh, yeah. Great Long Island iced teas. I've heard of the neighborhood bar and grill. Maybe a TGI Friday's. Uh-oh.

I don't want to give you too many ideas. Honestly, I don't even know what you guys are talking about. Oh, okay. Well, good. Don't worry about any of that. What you should be worried about is William, who had a great time with you the other night, restaurant and etiquette aside. And what he really wants is just to see you one more time

and give it another chance. Yeah, and you know what? If you do agree to go on a date with me on a second date night, I really do hope you do. I will take you to a really nice place, and I will show you that I have proper etiquette. I am a classy guy. I know how to behave depending on where I'm at.

Okay. Wow. I want you to give me a chance to show that to you. That was a gentleman response if I have ever heard one. Well crafted, very thoughtful. And all that's left now is Stacy, a yes or no. If you want to go out with him one more time, we'll pay for it. And tell us if you're curtsying while you're doing it.

You know what? I don't do charity. I'm okay. Oh. what i i don't do charity i'm okay oh oh what you don't do charity you also hate charity you like that good manners and you really are worldly aren't you i do charity i don't take charity oh okay uh will man i i am sorry, dude. Yeah, yeah, he can't win them all. I guess I'll give it another crack out there. Wave your hands around and ask for help again.

Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning. Ugh, we're so done with New Year, New You. This year, it's more you on Bumble. More of you shamelessly sending playlists, especially that one filled with show tunes. More of you finding Gemini's because you know you always like them. More of you dating with intention because you know what you want. And you know what? We love that for you.

Someone else will too. Be more you this year and find them on Bumble. Jon Stewart is back in the host chair at The Daily Show, which means he's also back in our ears on The Daily Show Ears Edition podcast. Join late night legend Jon Stewart and the best news team for today's biggest headlines, exclusive extended interviews and more. Now this is a second term we can all get behind. Listen to The Daily Show Ears Edition on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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