Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update - Second Date Update Classic: In The Air Up There

Episode Date: December 2, 2023

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Good or bad idea? Depends on the vibe. I'm going to go bad. I'd love to say good though, Jeff. I love romantic gestures. I think you're right. Maybe it does depend on the gesture. Like carving your initials into a tree.

Sweet? No, terrible for the tree. Just stop defacing nature. Don't worry about the tree. Just sweet for the relationship. Bro, plant seeds in your initials. Thank you. 500 years you'll have a flourish. Okay. Sweet for the relationship. Brooke, plant seeds in your initials. Thank you. Thank you, Jose.

Maybe carving initials of all your former victims into the tree. Maybe that one's not so sweet. Why are they victims of one? The tree's also a victim at that point. You have to remember them somehow. It's just like a whittled stick by the end of it. But one of our listeners, Patrick, says he's worried that his grand romantic gesture may have accidentally backfired on him. We'll get to that in just a second.

But first, Patrick, welcome to the show. Hey, guys. How are you doing? It's always, like, kind of cringy waiting to hear what you did. Why? I don't know. It's just, like, outside of maybe, even flowers feels like pushing it on a first date. Brooke, you're already hating on all romantic gestures in

any form. We haven't even heard what he did. Maybe for something really, really nice. Brooke wants a firm handshake and eye contact. Hello there. Be careful with the eye contact. That's a little bit too aggressive. I don't want to be too romantic. Actually, who did you go out with? That's where

we should start, right? Yeah. What's her name? So her name so her name's ashley we uh we met up online man i'll tell you she's so beautiful like she had the most insane smile oh that's sweet an insane smile like a joker like kind of joker smile but then with the tattoos it really did it for me. Oh. Are you being serious? No, I'm totally kidding. Okay.

I mean, insane in that, like, you don't see this smile every day. Oh, that's really nice. I love a great smile. Can I just ask on your dating profile, did she have any inkling that you were some sort of romantic person? How would that? Did you describe yourself that way? Can't people describe themselves that way? They can. I just don't swipe to them, but they can do it.

Maybe she would like it, you know? No, I don't describe myself as a romantic or anything like that. So she didn't know it was coming either. I think the key to a grand romantic gesture is to be surprising someone with it, not telling people I'm going to surprise you with a grand romantic gesture. Yeah, that's a good point. How many surprises on a first date have we heard that end well? Well, if they're coming to us, there's not good. There's got to be

a good one, though. We're waiting for the one good one. Tell us that you came up with a good one, Patrick. Well, I think so. So, basically, we talked for a few days, right? We go out to this mom-and-pop pizza shop because our chemistry seemed like it was really good. Okay.

So, invite her out to this place, right? Literally the best pizza I've ever had, guys. Always those little places. Nice, dude. So, what was it like when you first saw her? Well, like I said, her smile was insane. It made me want to go crazy. Aww.

Right? That's a sweet comment to you. It sounds a little psychotic because he keeps using the word insane and crazy, but I know what he means, and I just think it's nice. Like a welcoming, beautiful smile. Her beautiful eyes made me want to have a mental breakdown. It was amazing. Truly.

That is a kind gesture. What was the grand romantic gesture, though? I want to know. So, as we, like, walking into this pizza place, there's this guy that's selling flowers on the corner. And like I said, I'm not really one to be romantic, but it felt right. And when you're walking by, you're like, that seems like a nice idea.

Okay. Get her some flowers? Yeah. Yeah. So he's selling these bouquets for, like, 20 bucks. That's a lot of money. I only had 15 bucks. Oh.

Oh, no. What'd you do? Ask her to spot you five bucks so she could get her some flowers? Hey, buddy, why don't you take like 16 petals off of that bat and buy 15 bucks worth? So she even offered to like give me the other five bucks. Oh, no. That takes away. You can't help me.

Wait, you openly said, okay, never mind. No, she offered, first of all. Second of all, I said no. Oh, okay. That's good. But, it's like, I will give you one red rose for 15 bucks, which feels like an even worse idea on a first date. Red roses are like love, and I'm not trying to be weird about it.

I just thought it was nice. I don't know. So you did it? You spent the $15 on one red rose? 20 minutes later into haggling for some flowers. It's pretty amazing. Yellow means friendship. Can't do that one. I think we need to go back to the definition of grand romantic gesture.

It doesn't fall under it. What did you end up doing? So clearly this is going really, really well so far. So the deal we ended up doing was $10 for this wilted bouquet. And the flowers did not look great, I will say. Discount flowers. Did she laugh? I mean, did you guys make it a joke?

How did she react? That could be so cute. I felt like she at least appreciated it. Like I said, the pizza was really the biggest thing. So we still go in, have the best pizza that she says she's ever had. Oh, that's a good sign. I asked her to go back to mine because things were going so well. And?

Oh. I may have said goodbye the next morning. Oh, that's cute. Hey, those flowers got a lot more wilted because the room was so hot. What? Steamy, a little wilting. Nobody wants a humid, sticky room, Jose. Wow.

Yeah, but it's been three days now. It's not that long. But long enough where I'm like, what happened? Yeah, long enough. That's a good way to put it. And she hasn't texted you back at all. So I'm here. Okay. Well, if the flowers gesture

didn't seal the deal, then maybe the gesture of getting a phone call from a radio station, maybe that'll help push her over the edge. That's pretty grand. Crossing my fingers, guys. It's grand. I don't know if it's romantic, but it's grand. We'll find out. We're going to do your second date update right after this. Second date update.

Great pizza? $20. Stimulating conversation, $0. And? A bushel of badly wilted flowers. Should be priceless, but they cost $10. And Patrick, our listener, paid it. And it actually worked out for him because Ashley stayed the night over at his place. But after three days, now she's not calling back.

We're calling so soon. I'm just so worried that we're too eager. There's no such thing as being too eager in love. Yeah, there is. Well, yeah, don't quote me on that, actually. But we're going to try and find out if there's a solid reason for why Ashley has broke off communication. Patrick, how are you feeling? I'm a little bit bummed out.

I'm not going to lie. I'm confused. That's understandable, though. I mean, it may not be a loss yet. Like we talked about, it's only three days. Maybe she's just busy. Yeah, but zero, nothing, not a hi, I'm kind of busy, sorry. That's a bad sign.

And after $10 of wilted flowers she owes you at least something an explanation at least an emoji let's try and get something out of her here are you ready? yeah I am ready I see that she's gotten my text message

they've been delivered she hasn't blocked me so like you're saying it's not completely that was a thought that crossed your mind that she might block you maybe blocked me so like you're saying it's not completely that was a thought that crossed your mind that you might block you can see or if it's like maybe okay all right all right patrick it feels like that happened to you in the past now yeah somewhat concerned like i know when i've been blocked dating apps are weird man oh that's what's weird we can all agree on that let's see what she has to say, though. Here we go.

Hello? Hey, is this Ashley? Yes, it is. Who's this? Hi. Sorry. I hope we're not interrupting anything. You sound busy.

But we're... No, I'm... Who is this? We're a radio show called Brooke and Jeffrey in the Morning. Wait. Hola. A radio show? Yeah, an English one. Don Jeffrey in the Morning. Wait. Hola. A radio show? Yeah, an English one. Don't worry.

Yeah. With Jose there. We're called Brooke and Jeffrey, and we're doing something called the Second Date Update. Okay. It's a segment that we do where we try and help some of our listeners get in touch with someone after they've gone on a date. Okay. That's kind of fun. Yeah.

We got a guy who's, like, super eager to see you. But not too eager. Yeah, he's, like, right in the middle. Just the medium perfect kind of fun. We got a guy who's like super eager to see you. But not too eager. Yeah, he's like right in the middle. Just the medium perfect amount of eager. I thought you said there wasn't such thing as being too eager. Okay, Jeffrey, why are you concerned about it now? I think we agreed that there was no certain amount of eagerness that is right. I'm sorry, I'm just a little freaked out.

Okay. Yeah, it's okay. I'm sorry. We're calling about a guy named patrick that you went to pizza with the other night sorry i'm confused right now we heard he fed you the best pizza of your life so that's gotta get points yeah we went to this really cute little like kind of i guess mom and pop like pizza shop it really was very good i mean he told us all about your date and so we we got an idea that it was a pretty good time because you ended up staying the night over at his place.

Oh, my God. Wow. He didn't tell us any details beyond that. That's okay. I mean, you sound giggly and excited. I don't know. I'm just a little freaked out right now. I've just never been on a radio station before.

Did you plan on getting back to him to set up, you know, something else? You know, I just haven't like kind of figured it out yet. There was just something that was like a little bit kind of off. So I just haven't had the time to like address it yet. Do you mind if we ask what was off? Because Patrick is really confused. He's not sure what happened. Yeah. off because patrick is really confused he's not sure what happened yeah so i did spend the night over his house um and then like i woke up the next morning and i just felt like disgusting

like we all feel that though no no no not like that it was more so like physically like i had really oily skin and like really greasy, greasy, greasy hair. And like, was he like not changes sheets in a long time? I don't know, but it was so weird because that first, that never has happened to me ever. Even if I haven't washed my hair in like three days, like I don't have greasy hair at all. My skin is actually quite clear. They take really good care of it. But like I came home just so freaked out.

I couldn't wait to go home and just get in the shower. Isn't that, like, the TikTok thing right now that people are talking about? Like, the boyfriend air? Exactly. My roommate said that it's boyfriend air, and I never heard. It's, like, it's not him. It's, like, something in the apartment. I don't know how to explain it.

Like, you're living in, like, a leftover pizza box, essentially. That sounds kind of nice. I would love to live inside of a pizza box. Yeah. I've never heard of boyfriend air. You haven't heard of that? Boyfriend air? I feel like it's all of my, like, college.

But then now it's, like, okay if they're cleaner, you know? Right. So it's just being around him you think made your skin oily? You know, you walk into an apartment and it's like there's maybe a poster tacked up on the wall and like a black leather couch. Usually no soap in the bathroom. Yeah, exactly. Sounds like Brooke

was with Patrick too. I mean like, they're an upgrade if they're not sleeping on a futon. Like that type of dude. Is that what was going on? I mean, you weren't that far off but the futon wasn't on the floor like he had a bet but you were kind of spot on with all the other things so were you just grossed out by him yeah i was gross not by him but like the way that i felt

when i left it wasn't him it was his atmosphere let me ask you this how does the air feel to you right now clean really well she's at work but there is patrick who's on the line don't you think the boyfriend air would have snuck in if it was something to do with him and we're on the air through the phone yeah oh my god i don't know how boyfriend air permeates yeah i just heard of it so yeah but patrick is there boyfriend air sounds like just the most ridiculous thing that I've ever heard. I can't believe that that's the reason that you're not talking to me. How about a ho?

That doesn't make any sense. Not that I'm not talking to you. I'm just, like, taking a second to, like, process it because it was so weird and I didn't know how to address it. A second or three days. I don't know. You pull out your phone every time you, like, look anything up. If you go on maps, if you're navigating. I know that you've looked past our messages a couple of times. I'm just confused. Well, that's a little harsh.

I just needed a minute to like figure out how I was going to say, because this is a really weird conversation to have. I've never been in this situation before. So I'm just surprised by your hostility because you were so sweet. No, I'm just confused. I don't because you were so sweet. I'm just confused. I don't know. It sounds like this is the second time it's happened. Maybe this is you. Maybe this is a you thing, not me. You think that she has bad girlfriend air

and she's spilling her air into your apartment. It sounds like it at this point. It sounds like, Patrick, your place is just like a stereotypical bachelor pad. That's rude. I mean, would you agree with that statement? I've never been there. I don't know. Why would you just throw out that assumption?

Because that's what she described it as. She described it as boyfriend air. She didn't say his apartment was a dump. They go together. Yeah, it's the same. Is your apartment a dump, bro? Like, what's in your fridge right now? It's a very good judge of how someone lives. It's a radio bit from 30 years ago.

No, I'm telling you. It's what it is. Okay. I don't just have condiments. And as far as, like, in terms of my apartment, it's the nicest of all of my friends. That's good. Okay. I mean, I think we're getting too much into the nitty gritty of this.

The bottom line was the problem. Okay. Well, I'm just saying, Ashley, you said that you felt like you had a really nice time, that he had a nice personality and you vibe together. Isn't that the most important part? Sure. But like the logistics, like, I don't want to feel like a grease ball every time I hang out with him.

Every time I go to his apartment. That's what I've been considering. How do you say to someone, hey, your apartment had a greasy feel about it and I feel gross. Can you do something? What is he going to do? Move? There's nothing. Well, there's an idea.

That's what you do with Glyde. Moving isn't a bad option, maybe. I didn't think about that. Patrick? I'm certainly not going to move after a first date. I mean, I thought things were great, Ashley, but how about this? What if we try your place and see if you still have the greasy feeling? Because if that's the case, then it's me, not you.

That's true. Grease up your apartment. Her place has her own toothbrush and some face wash. Maybe that's all she actually needed. Did you just ask her for a free hookup over at her place this time just to test the air? Listen, I know you're jealous, and that's okay. You're welcome to steal that if you want to. Ashley wasn't against it.

It's a smooth move. I like how we're testing the grease levels right here. Ashley, what do you think? Test out the grease and report back to us for a free date? It's just like the only person that this is going to prove anything to is him. Like, I live in my apartment, so I obviously know it's clean and not greasy. But I will say that, like, nobody has ever done anything like this with me before ever, and it's totally worthy of a second date.

Aww. You have a good sense of humor, actually. I like her. I could barely understand what you were saying through the laughter. She said second date. You got a second date, bottom line. But I guess the rule is this time you can't hook up because the intimacy could lead to extra greasiness. Oh.

I read that on Brooke's bumper sticker once. It was a long one. Yeah. 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 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 at The Daily Show and he's bringing his signature wit and insight straight to your ears with The Daily Show Ears Edition podcast. Dive into Jon's unique take on the biggest topics in politics, entertainment, sports, and more. Joined by the sharp voices of the show's correspondents and contributors. And with extended interviews and exclusive weekly headline roundups, this podcast gives you content you won't find anywhere else.

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