Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update - Second Date Update: Failed Treasure Hunt

Episode Date: October 13, 2021

In today's Second Date, we've got a guy with a foreign accent...Who planned a super romantic date... And he STILL isn't getting a call back. We promise you're going to be rooting for him by the end of this!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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How do you guys feel about friends setting up friends on a date? Oh, I think it's so good. I mean, it's fun, but also... Brooke, Brooke, I said setting up friends, not hooking up with your friends. We all know that you're pro that. Oh, that was years ago, though. Now I hook them up with your friends. We all know that you're pro that. Oh, that was years ago, though. Now I hook them up with other people. I'll give you, sometimes it's great, other times it's not.

Oh, but I love to be the matchmaker. I think it's so fun. And that's why it's not. You don't hear about it as much anymore. Maybe that's because everybody's too busy hooking up with their friends now. One of our listeners says he got set up and he never saw it coming. Oh, really?

And his name, at least according to his email, is Steamer. Okay. One way like clams? What's up, Steams? How you doing? Wait, is Steamer your actual name? No, it's a nickname. I used to work on cruise ships in the engine room, so yeah.

Oh. Steamer. Do I hear an accent according to Alexis's according to it's called the speech impediment jose don't point it out i moved here about a couple of years ago i've been single ever since really i had a girl back in england but you know work took over and i've been away so anyway long story short my mate here said we've got this friend you know i want you to meet her and what were you thinking when they said that i was a little bit nervous i get or trepidatious i don't know like that whole setup thing is a little bit weird yeah so i know you're from london so you're gonna have to dumb down the vocabulary for all of

us here trepidatious i mean we're all very confused i don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing all right all right well look, look, here we go. So this is one girl. Her name is Kristen. Is that Kristen with a Q? What? Don't question this beautiful ass ass. It's like a fancy, fancy Kristen.

Wait, hold on. Is Kristen the girl you're being set up with, or is this your friend who's setting you up? No, no. Matthew's the guy that set me up on the date. Kristen is the girl that i went on the date with okay so your friends are trying to set you up with kristen did you guys talk before the date well here's the story she was with someone she split up matthew texts me and he's like hey we're gonna arrange this big game night at my flat my sorry my apartment thank you thank you and uh you

know he's like so why don't you come along and you know you and kristen can spend some time together and see how you vibe so and that's good though because it's like a group event there's not a lot of pressure like 12 of us there it was a good time yeah you guys can talk and then kind of separate you don't have to be yeah so how did how did game night go you start playing the party games you know the jenga and the charades and then eventually it gets around to pictionary and we picked that hold on a minute i just let me say i had no idea really that they were you know planning this to such an extent like everyone was in on it it wasn't casual it was like everyone that was their goal of the night was to hook you two up. Right. Okay.

No. So what happened? So she picks up this card and she turns it over and then she's got this big old cheesy smile on her face. Super cute, by the way. And she shows me the card or she pretends to show me the card and she goes, do you want to go out with me, Steamer? Wait, what? What a move. There was something written on the card and she goes do you want to go out with me steamer wait what a move there was something written on the card yeah and i think like one of my you know one of the friends said something up that says like you know steamer likes you oh so she read it and was like blushing like and you

didn't know that your friends had already written on the card before she went up no idea well smooth on their part but that puts you in such an awkward position like i was so embarrassed like i mean it looks like i was at the 12 year old's birthday party totally so i was like right away straight away i was like guys this is not cool like kristen you have to know that i had nothing to do with this oh that's not a good reaction i mean i could see why you would want to do that you want you'd want to tell the girl by the way like i didn't tell them to do this like they'd put this on me but it also sounds like you're rejecting her right that's right so she says okay she's like and then she looks back at me she said so does that mean you don't want to go out with me so i was like yeah of

course but you know let's plan something out when we're not together around you know 10 other people oh okay okay but then of course the whole room stands up and gives us a round of applause bottom line is you got a date out of it so how did the actual date go That's terrible. That's pretty funny. You would clap. I would. It would be like, kiss! Bottom line is you got a date out of it. So how did the actual date go? So I texted her a couple of days later and I was like, okay, great to spend time with you, Lizzie and I. I think you're super cute and I'd like to spend some more time with you. How about you meet me at the hipster grocery store at this time?

Okay. There's like four in my head. Three. Maybe two are in my head. Yeah. Just all craft beer. Okay. There's like four in my head, three, maybe two in my head. Yeah, it's just all craft beer. Yeah. And vegetables that I don't know what to do with. Right.

But I'm like, what is this? What do I do with a rutabaga? So, I mean, what was your plan at the grocery store? That's a weird place to meet. The big plan was that I don't show up, right? What?

You don't show up to the date? No, I stay in my car and i watch her walk into the store i have friends that work in the store so i called them and i told her to head towards the sample area and called my friend that works in the sample area and was like do me a favor take one of those little sampler cups and right on the bottom of it steam Steamer likes you. He'll be here in a minute. Oh, I know where this is going. Okay. Steamer, I like you. You're my kind of guy.

A romantic. You love surprising people. I hope she looks at the bottom of a cup. Like, what if she... No, no, no. Like, she finishes the sample, she puts it on the thing and then Stewart comes over

and turns it over, right? In front of him. Oh, wingman. Yeah, and then that was supposed to be a tie back to the game night with the card that she got. Yeah. Good callback. Same phrase. she got and then you show up i mean not exactly you know i had a couple of other things planned out that she was supposed to it was like a treasure hunt kind of deal you know oh okay and steamer's the

treasure long story short she goes to starbucks where i have another friend right a destination of another place and said and it says go there and i think honestly i think she's just getting a little bit tired of it so yeah did you ever did you have a face-to-face meetup during this date at any point or was it just a bunch of messages written underneath cups i was waiting at the final place she never showed up oh no can i ask you how much time elapsed between sample at the grocery store to her not showing up hour and 15 no i mean 15 minutes at most i mean in retrospect i do see that i was probably a little bit too much but i like her and i was trying to put a little bit of imagination

into it trying to make it you know a little bit of imagination into it, trying to make it, you know, a little bit different. Aw, that's cute. Romance is so much nicer face-to-face. Girls get mad when we put in no effort and then when you put in too much effort, this is what happens. And you come to the right placement because the guys on this show are experts at romance in three minutes or under.

So we're going to try and put our expertise to use right now. We're going to play a put our expertise to use right now. We're going to play a song. We'll come back. We'll call Kristen for you, and we'll try and get you a second date update, okay? Okay, sounds good. All right, man.

Hold on. All right. Don't have a lot of time here. We got to get right to it. So I'm just going to hit the bullet points. Okay. Guy named Steamer from London met a woman named Kristen at a game night. So he turned his whole first date into a giant scavenger hunt where she couldn't find him.

So never actually met face to face and now Steamer needs our help. So Steamer, we're about to call Kristen for you. I just want to make sure. We're not going to call some girl who gives us the number of another girl that we need to call who tells us to call another girl

and then another girl until we reach Kristen? Fair. Fair question. No, it's not going to happen. Okay. Do you know what we never asked you, Seymour, is after she just didn't show up at the very end, have you had any contact with her? Nope.

Nothing? Whoa. Maybe she's still out in the city searching for that fourth or fifth clue. If she was doing that, I'd be really impressed, but I don't think she is, no. Okay. Wow.

All right, so we're working from the ground up here. I just wanted to know what our starting point is. It's not good. Let's not waste any more time. I'm going to dial Kristen's number. We'll see if she answers and what she has to say. You ready? Yes, sir.

All right, here we go hello hi is this kristen um yes mask is calling please my name is jeff i'm on morning radio show called brooke and jeffrey in the morning hoping that you have a second to talk with us hi i do if I won something. Well, there is a chance you may have won something, but I do have some questions I need to ask you first. All right. Why not? Okay. Interrogation contest we're doing. Question number one.

Do you remember going out on a date with someone named Steamer? Oh, my god. Yes. I mean, kind of. I remember him, but we didn't actually go on a date. Okay, this is good. Of course this has to do with steamer. Of course. Okay, well, I just want to let you know now,

this isn't part of his big scavenger hunt that he set up for you for your date. Oh, thank goodness, because I abandoned that like days ago. Okay. Yeah, we heard. He's still waiting at the final stop. Yeah, he's really hungry.

If he could just finish, that'd be great. But this is something we do called a second date update, and so we're trying to help Steamer kind of figure out where your first date went wrong. I think he needs a lot of help. Oh, really? Okay. You may be the first woman we've ever talked

to who is turning down a man with an accent who tried to do a romantic gesture that's a good point i don't know how much you guys know um but he we have like a ton of mutual friends but okay i had a boyfriend but i in the back of my mind had like a little crush on him um and i'm single now and then i what happened was they had we were having a game night which we do all the time so steamer told us all about how you guys met at the game night and he told us all about the big treasure hunt that he set up going to different places around the city which was cute that was cute but it kept going and it just kept going and like i mean it was over an hour in and i just stopped stopped at, like, I don't even know, three to five places at that point.

And I started to feel like, am I, like, an idiot? Is this, like, a major setup? Is this guy making fun of me? Oh. I could see this being, like, a YouTube prank. Yeah. Like, he's, like, filming, and he's, like, trolling her. I felt like I was getting pranked.

So I was just like, you know what? Let me just go home, save some face, and just move on. You know? Oh, so you were angry. That makes sense. You're mad. I'm embarrassed. So at what point did you decide that you were done going on the scavenger hunt and you gave up?

Oh, jeez. I guess it had to be. I have a thing about corporate chains. After he sent me to Starbucks, I'm like, this guy's not showing up. I'm getting hungry. Wait, do you still believe that that was the case? You know, I don't know. I don't really know what to believe anymore.

I've obviously, like most women, been hurt in the past and tricked in the past. And I'm at a point in my life where I'm not looking for games. I'm a grown-up. I want a grown-up relationship. And I'm all for the fun. But I want to know where I stand. And I want to know what's going on. And I want someone I can a grown-up. I want a grown-up relationship, and I'm all for the fun, but I want to know where I stand, and I want to know what's going on, and I want someone I can count on. Okay. Well, you know

what? We don't want to play any games with you either, Kristen. That's why I just want to be direct and let you know that Steamer's been on the other line listening this entire time, and now he wants to talk to you. Oh, well, thank you so much, Mr. Springer. That is just one. That was good.

He's a successful man. Jeffrey. But, Steam, are you there? Yeah, I'm here. Yeah, yeah. Hello. So I'm just going to back away now and let you two talk for a bit. So go ahead, guys.

Kristen, lose my number or something? What? Lose your number or something? Dude, you didn't show up for our date. I was waiting. You were, like like two more stops away from the end i mean you know i'm sorry i felt like you were setting me up it just i wouldn't feel good after a while you know i i appreciate that i really didn't think about it that way and and i'm sorry you know i was like i might have taken it a little bit too far. And I might have flexed a little bit with all the people around town that were giving you the notes of where to go.

And it might have been a more sensible move just to meet you at the second place and been straight up. Honestly, the whole elaborate thing is the sort of thing you do for like a proposal, not a first date. You know? No, I get you. I dropped the ball. You know, I dropped the sort of thing you do for like a proposal, not a first date. You know? No, I get you. I dropped the ball. You know? I dropped the ball.

I'm sorry. Yeah. See, Steamer, you should feel bad for working too hard to make love work. I thought. I'm glad you said that. Oh my gosh, you guys. That is not a message. Too romantic. He didn't even do anything.

Effort is what ends relationships. Oh my goodness. It is true. This one hasn't started yet. Yes. It's totally on ends relationships. Oh, my goodness. It is true. This one hasn't started yet. It's totally on the air. Oh, this is Kristen Eleanor. Listen to me. Oh, my goodness.

I'm sorry. How do you know my middle name? That's romantic. I did like eight clues, Kristen. I did some research. Wow. Dima likes you Kristen you know they couldn't even want you to go out on a second date with him very sweet well

I mean sort of but Chris is also a bit weird if anyone that refers to themselves in the third person. Okay. Well, Jeffrey would like to ask a question at this point. Jeffrey would like to know if Kristen would like to go out with Steamer one more time, and Jeffrey and company will pay for it. That sounds kind of complicated. Oh, jeez.

Kristen's got to make a decision here, huh? Yeah. I mean, think of it this way. You know now that he wasn't doing something to make fun decision here, huh? Yeah. I mean, think of it this way. You know now that he wasn't doing something to make fun of you, right? Like that he was legitimately putting in work because he was that interested in you. And there was an end in sight somewhere.

Like, I don't know, Steamer, where were you? Like, where were you actually gonna meet up with her? Yeah, that's a good point. I'm afraid to say now because she said she had an aversion to corporate. Oh, no. Uh-oh. I was at P.F because she said she had an aversion to corporate. Oh, no. Uh-oh. I was at P.F. Chang's and there was a little fortune cookie.

Oh, fortune cookie. Dude, their lettuce wraps are bomb. They're so good. Oh, well, geez, Kristen. I mean, at this point, you definitely don't deserve a second date with him. He sounds like trash. Yeah. I don't know why you said yes.

A fortune cookie, lettuce wraps, ick. So much effort. Oh, my God. I love lettuce wraps. Oh, okay. I don't know why you said yes. A fortune cookie, lettuce wraps, ick. So much effort. Oh, my God. I love lettuce wraps. Oh, okay. I'm turning around. Maybe this is a good thing. What do you say?

One more shot with Steamer and we'll pay for it. You know what? Yes. I'm up for some fun. Let's try something different. Yay! All right, Steamer. And finally, a guy with an accent wins.

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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. Joel, the holidays are a blast, but the financial hangover, that can be a huge bummer. If you are out there and you're dreading the new statement email

that reveals the massive balance that you may have racked up, well, you could use our help. That's right. I'm Joel. And I am Matt. And we're from the How To Money podcast. Our show is all about helping you make sense of your personal finances so you can ditch your pesky credit card debt once and for all,

make real progress on other crucial financial goals that you've got, and just feel more in control of your money in general. You know it. debt once and for all, make real progress on other crucial financial goals that you've got, and just feel more in control of your money in general. You know it. For money advice without the judgment and jargon, listen to How to Money on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Ed Zitron, host of the Better Offline podcast. And this January, we're going to go on the road to beautiful Las Vegas, Nevada, to cover the Consumer Electronics Show, tech's biggest conference. Better Offline CES coverage won't be the usual rundown of the hottest gadgets or biggest trends, but an unvarnished look at what the tech industry plans to sell or do to you in 2025. I'll be joined by David Roth of Defector

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