Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update - Second Date Update: Get That Sizzle

Episode Date: October 24, 2025

One of our listeners found his PERFECT MATCH and it wasn’t on one of the popular dating apps you’ve probably heard of. We’ll reveal which dating site you’re probably gonna want to sign up for in your Second Date Update podcast!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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And let's get weird together in a good way. Listen to what are we even doing on the iHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Oh, just a little Friday treat for you, a brand new second date right now. Welcome to the Birken Jeffrey's second date update podcast. Yeah. And just a heads up this weekend. We always do the classics to back-to-back on Saturday. And then Sunday we've been featuring a full show here that seems to be popular.

Yeah. So don't go away this weekend. Come check in on this podcast. Yes. And he's checking in on the text board and the comment section. Yeah. Anon Colp said, today I'm flying back home and I switched seats for a family to be together. And I got a middle seat with a pretty stinky guy here.

So listening to you guys is passing the time. P.S. hopefully I won't pass out from the stench. Oh, man. You do something good. And then you get bad karma? They say there's no good deed goes unpunished. Hey, some good's going to happen to you soon, I promise.

Although listening to us is smelling some be-o kind of sounds fitting. Yeah, you know, at the same time. You're in the studio with us. Yeah, it's the right stench. All right, here we go. Brand new second date starts right now. Second date update. We're all familiar with the big dating apps out there.

You've heard of the hinges, OKCupid's, the couple to throuples. What? But what happens when you've tried all the big ones? with not much success. You quit? You go to quadruples? Well, sometimes, yeah, kind of. Or you add more, yeah.

Sometimes you've got to move on to the lesser-known, more niche dating apps. And apparently, that's how our listener, Troy, was able to find himself a connection. So let's learn a little bit more about it. Troy, welcome to the show. Hey, thanks for having me on.

I'm excited to hang out with you guys on the radio. Look at that, Trice. Coming in pretty direct. I like that, Troy. We'll direct a little bit over-eager, if you ask me, but that's okay. It was a coffee. It was a coffee. I apologize.

Yeah, that's fine. We heard from your email that you met somebody on one of the niche dating apps. Yeah, Larissa. Larissa, what's that one about? That's the girl. It's not the app. Oh, her name. I thought Larissa was the new dating app that everybody was trying out.

It's kind of a cute app name. It's like Adam and Eve. Larissa. She's saucy. Sorry, that's so stupid. What's the app that you're on? It's called sizzle. Sizzle.

Sizzle. Have you ever heard of it? Is that just because of Sizzle reels? Brooks pretending like she hasn't been on it. She definitely has. Is this the bacon lovers one? Yeah, that would be funny? Yeah.

It's the bacon dating app. No, are you being you have talked about it before. Wait, Jose, you've heard of this? Yeah, I think we talked about it on the show before. Sizzle. I've heard it. I don't know it, but I swear I've heard it.

For bacon lovers, huh? For bacon lovers, yeah. And, like, I've tried all the regular ones, you know? Right. I was talking to one of my friends, and he was saying that there's, like, surprisingly cute girls on Sizzle. And at first I hadn't heard of this.

Yeah. Yeah. So I joined it, and there are cute girls on there. And you know instantly that if they order a salad only at dinner, then they're a catfish, right? Big trouble. Big trouble, yeah. Okay, so you said the girl that you met her.

name is Larissa, what brought you two together? Obviously, you start talking about bacon, right? I think that was like the way to break the ice. And that's a good talk, because you can say, hey, do you like floppy bacon? Do you like crispy bacon? And immediately you're having a combo. You just immediately send them a chart one through 10. What's your bacon? You're not really breaking the ice. You're breaking the grease, if anything on this side. That's true. Well, the thing is, I'm a crispy bacon fan. I don't like, like floppy. Yeah, floppy's no good. What? Floppy's great. I like it. I love good floppy one, followed by a black and crispy, ashy one. Okay.

This bacon topic is really dangerous. Sorry. So let's try and focus, though, on Larissa about what you liked about her and her personality. Well, she's bright, she's bubbly, she's cute. We hit it off talking, right? So I find a place that serves breakfast for dinner. Oh, that's cute. Yeah, I mean, it's called IHop.

Right? Well, here's the thing, like, we're baking aficionados. I want to pick a place that's like, has that So they had two different kinds of bacon. They had regular and peppered bacon. Oh, my gosh. Those places that'll say, like, we cut our own bacon and seasoning. I love those, like, diners. Okay.

All right. Wow. So, I mean, you show up, and what is that like? We were definitely having fun. It felt like we were having, like, brunch at 6 p.m. Yeah. Because that was literally what was happening. It's pretty much it.

Yeah. We were talking about, like, other things other than bacon, too. You know, like, we talked about favorite TV shows, like hers is. American Idol, which interesting. That's the kind of thing I didn't really understand too well, because like I was talking about a Game of Thrones. Like, that's my favorite TV show. Yeah, yeah. Okay, yeah.

Now that you two aren't connecting, maybe your TV show interests were too different. Like, you're a little bit more serious. She's a little bit more, like, loose on the reality side. Maybe that's where she's coming from. You think that's a reason why she wouldn't call him back? If you

don't have similar interests. I don't know. Most people don't like reality. I mean, are you that passionate about television that it would be a deal breaker? Absolutely not. I don't think it was that big of a deal. Okay. Because, like, we had a good first date. We ended up splitting an Oreo shake after.

Cute. The Sharon part was cool, but I paid for dinner and dessert. I don't want to make sure she didn't have to pay that. Okay. That's a good, literally. And I'm sorry to bring it back to the dinner part, but do you know, did you take the very last piece of bacon on the plate? Like you? I don't know.

Shared place. And didn't offer to let her have it first? So I remember leaving it purposely. Oh, my goodness. Wow. Yeah, because we both like food. So, like, I was like, okay, I will practice restraint. Okay.

So it sounds like that wasn't the problem. Let's go to the very end of the night. How did you two leave it? Okay, so, like, we finished up the date. We had dessert. It was wonderful. Before we left to go back to our cars, we had a really nice hug. There was no kissing, but it was like a really nice hug.

and I was feeling like I wanted to connect again and go on a second date. So, like, I asked her, I was, would you want to go on an end of date? And she goes, sure. Oh, she didn't match her enthusiasm. Sure is that good. Was your tone the way that she said it?

Was it like, sure? Or was it more like, sure? Like, did she go up or down? Or was it said, sure? It felt more like closer to sure. Oh, she went down. And you kept that long you. Yeah.

It's like when Brooke, offers us to, like, get a bite of her lunch, and we're like, sure. I don't even say sure. Who says that? I feel like you all say no. Yeah. They're not as polite as I. I actually, I brought in a really good stir fry, but the meat is a little chewy.

If you want a bite later. Sure. Also, she doesn't know what the meat is. Yeah, that makes sense. You're right, because if it's not bacon, we don't care. Okay. Because that's what this second date is all about today. We need to help Troy get.

get his sizzle back. Yeah. All right. So let's get Larissa on the phone and rizzle this sizzler right after this. Second date update. Out of the thousands of second date calls we've ever done over the years, this I'm pretty sure is the first time we've ever had two people actually meet on the dating app, Sizzle for bacon lovers.

So already this call is historic because that's where our listener Troy matched with his lovely baconista named Larissa. That's the queen of the bacon. Yes, man. They went on a late brunch date. It sounded pretty awesome. Some would even call it a grand slam? Troy, would you say grand slam, Troy? I thought it was.

Okay. You get the joke, right? I get it, but I don't feel the emotion in your voice. You should be laughing. Okay, well, that felt forced. Did that feel forced, nice of them to add in? But he felt like the end of the day when she said, sure, to, A second meeter also sounded for, so we don't know why she would be brushing Troy off.

We have to get some answers. I know. Is there like that many options on the baking dating app? That's the point. I wonder how many people. You'd be surprised. There's like a lot of hoddies out there that like bacon. I feel like there should be commercials, like hot models eating bacon.

But bacon doesn't need commercials because everyone buys it so much. Yeah, I think Burger King did that with Paris Hilton, basically. Oh, yeah. Was that Carl's Jr.? or something? Somebody. They never recovered. after that, did they? Okay. Okay, Jeff.

Well, let's just call, Larissa. I'm hoping she answers and can give us some excuse for why she's not calling you back. Maybe an answer, not an excuse, like a real... Actually, I mean, like a reason? Yeah, I'd like the real reason. Hopefully you can give us a good excuse. Thanks for keeping them honest. We'll see.

Yeah. Okay, here we go. Hello? Hey, we're looking to speak with Larissa. Yeah, that's me. Hey, Larissa. Sorry to interrupt your day, but you are currently on a radio show. We're called Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning.

Hi, good morning. Oh, good morning. Hey. Hi, Larissa. Welcome to the show. This might be kind of exciting. What's the call about? Exactly. It's about this thing we do called a second date update.

and we're trying to help out one of our listeners who you went out with recently, a guy named Troy. Oh, yeah, I don't think I really want to see him again. Well, okay. Wow, that was quick. Yeah. If you feel that way, that's totally fine. But the reason that we're doing this is because Troy feels a little bit confused. He said he had a great date with you.

well so most of the date weren't well and I did have a good time and he's a fun guy I liked him but something that I don't like is an inconsiderate person what oh that doesn't sound like him you wouldn't believe the amount of compliments he gave you when we talked to him like he seemed so considerate yes well he did give me a lot of compliments and he was nice in that way but he did something else that rubbed me the wrong way really bad would you care to share what that is

because it would really help him yeah so he could never do it again and he doesn't know so we were talking about what our favorite TV shows were oh yeah oh right okay and yours was American Idol and his was Game of Thrones

yes exactly so he obviously remembers some of this conversation but when he told me Game of Thrones, the first thing I said was that I had never seen it before, but I wanted to watch it. Yeah. Same. We're rare.

People are always like, you haven't seen it? I haven't seen it either. Oh, okay, so Brooke gets it. It's a big investment a lot of times. Yeah, eight seasons or whatever. Yeah. And it was on my list of things to watch. And then I told him that. And then even though I said that to him, he told me the end of the entire

series. No way. What? He spoiled all of Game of Thrones for you? The whole thing, multiple things from different seasons. He told me all these key plot points. No. And I remember that was a dramatic. People would come into work like, oh, my God, last day.

It's kind of impressive because that's a really dense story, and if he's able to cover a lot of it in a short span of time. It's not like the Dragon Dies kind of thing. Like, there's a lot more to it with you. There's a lot of stuff, and it is his favorite show, though, so he probably didn't realize he was gushing so much about it. I started watching recently. My friends were shocked, and I didn't know any spoilers, because it's been out for so long and it's like i mean maybe he wasn't telling you all the stuff like how do you know

well don't say the ending i looked up a lot of stuff and it was all spoilers oh no like the best part guess you can take that one off your watch list yeah yeah so for you you don't trust him anymore because he ruined game of thrones and for no he's not considerate because he ruined it yeah i mean i don't know i it seemed like he was trying to explain it to me because he likes it so much but just the look on my face as he was talking, I just could not believe how much he kept telling me. Oh, yeah. And it's not like you told them that Carrie Underwood won American Idol.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, okay, this is, this puts us in a tough spot because I know you don't like spoilers. Oh, no. Unfortunately, there is a little bit of a spoiler I need to ruin for you and let you know that Troy's been secretly listening on the other line wanting to talk to you.

What? He's on the phone? Yeah. That's how this. segment works. Troy, are you there? Yeah, yeah. I'm sorry.

Like, I feel really bad. That's a good thing to start with. You can hear it in his voice. Did you do that on purpose? Did you tell her the end and ruin it for her? Well, I got excited. Oh. I got excited and I just started talking about it and, like,

wanting to share it with Larissa. That's kind of, yeah. It's also one of the most disappointing endings at all time, right? Don't say what happens. That's the whole world launched it, Alexis. I was famous for last. You should talk directly to Larissa because she's pretty upset with you, it sounds like. Larissa, I apologize.

Like, I didn't mean to ruin that for you. I don't know what you're planning to do to watch it, I guess. But, like, I know that it sounds like it was important to you. And I didn't mean to do that. Oh, that was so humble. Oh, I mean, it was definitely on my watch list. I said it before you started telling me the whole war for, like, 30. minutes, but I know. It was just one of those things where I got kind of into it, and you didn't

tell me to stop. Yeah, I mean, I definitely could have interrupted you and, like, cut you off. Yeah, especially he went on for 30 whole minutes. That gives you a lot of chances to jump in. But I thought he'd stop eventually after season two or three, but he just kept doing. See, like, that's where it gets good, though. Oh, yeah. Okay. It really does. I mean, the thing is, is that spoilers don't necessarily ruin it for you. Like, I had never seen Star Wars before. I knew about Darth Vader and Luke and everything, and it was still fun to watch. I just feel like it diminishes it a little bit.

I mean, like, there's six seasons of it. That's like three weeks of my life where I could have binge watched it and enjoyed and had no idea what was going on. But now I'm like, oh, so-and-so's going to die, this and that's going to happen. Like, I know it's coming. And her defense, that's magic. When you're in the middle of a show, you know, you've got two seasons, behind it, you're two seasons in, you're like, this is the best parts.

I'm wondering how in depth did he get about, like, the red wedding, though? Oh, no, you're going to ruin it for me now. I don't know. It's like, if you've seen it. I've heard about it. I hope he didn't explain it. I mean, you at least got into like the family on family stuff, right? What? What show? Have you not heard anything about?

Oh, yeah, that's all in there, brook. If anything, that should be a selling point for you. You guys, like, please, don't ruin it even more for her. Come on. It's just so good. Pop culture things everyone knows. I know. I've never seen an episode.

Maybe you guys just need to find a favorite TV show together that you both haven't watched. Yeah. Combine the two. American throne. That's just the Kardashians. Oh, okay. I feel like I'm kind of realizing that Troy did not do that to be malicious. He didn't do it to be a jerk and ruin it for me.

He was just passionate. And to be fair, it did end in 2019. So there's some time. You didn't have a little bit of time to see it. I mean, we had a whole pandemic to watch it. Yeah, a lot of years. But listen, now I'm starting to feel a little bit of sizzling all over again. Is the pan back turned on?

We might be. I'm feeling a little bit of heat happening. And now might be the right time to ask, Larissa, if you'd be willing to give Troy one more chance at another date. And if you say yes, we would pay for it. I think I may have overreacted. So I'm going to say yes. Yay. Oh, right.

Boy, congratulations, man. This actually worked out for you. Thanks. Or is it now that you don't want to go out with her because she knows too much? You know what? I think I'm just going to focus on bacon for this date. Go back to the thing that bonded you.

There you go. Little crisp. I like it floppy. Oh, no. Okay, that might be too far. This may be the deal, right? Hope you're still talking about bacon. Not that much.

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podcasts I didn't think I would say this but those two were actually kind of cute they were totally cute like she came back and said she overreacted he apologized for it like it was so

emotionally mature yeah it was so healthy really touched me and if it continues to go well is there dare I say a bacon wedding in their future what does that look like Dude, already, I'm thinking BLTs, okay, as the apps that are being passed out, little mini ones.

Bacon grease fountain. Yes. Anything you have, you can just dip in a little bacon grease. First dance soundtrack to the movie grease, or possibly I would take footloose by Kevin Bacon. Okay. I thought Kevin Bacon had to make an appearance. Oh, for sure. You know.

Flower Girl just spreads bacon bits down the aisle instead. I can smell it now. Would the ring bearer just be a pig in a tuxedo? That's kind of morbid. Oh, don't make him witness that. And then they eat him at the reception? They put him up on a chair and lift him like it's a bar mitzvah. Oh, no.

All right. Jeff, we don't like that part. You know what? It's not our wedding to plan. It's theirs if it happens. Hopefully they stay together because I'll tell you we've got ideas. Too many. You just got uninvited.

That's fine. But hopefully you invite us into your love life. If you need a little help with it, we can call that person who's not calling you back and go check out all of our second dates. They're up online. Wherever you get your podcast at Brooklyn. and Jeffrey. Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning. In the heat of battle, your squad relies on you.

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Win the tech search. Power up at Lenovo.com. Hello, America's sweetheart Johnny Knoxville here. I want to tell you about my new true crime podcast, Crimeless, Hillbilly Heist, from smartless media, campside media, and big money players. It's a wild tale about a gang of high-functioning nitwits who somehow pulled off a America's third largest cash heist. Kind of like Robin Hood, except for the part where he steals from rich and gives to the poor. I'm not that generous.

It's a damn near inspiring true story for anyone out there who's ever shot for the moon, then just totally muffed up the landing. They stole $17 million and had not bought a ticket to help him escape. So we're saying, like, oh God, what do we do? What do we do? That was dumb. People do not follow my example. Listen to Crimless, Hillbilly Heist on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Two rich young Americans move to the Costa Rican jungle to start over, but one of them will end up dead and the other tried for murder three times.

It starts with a dream, a nature reserve, and a spectacular new home. But little by little, they lose it. They actually lose it. They sort of went nuts. Until one night, everything spins out of control. Listen to hell in heaven on the I-Heart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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