Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update - Second Date Update: Him At The Gym

Episode Date: September 27, 2024

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I don't know. I don't believe it. Oh, you've got to be aggressive. Yes, got to be aggressive and get kind of lucky with it. Or you could be like Brooke and park in the rear, blocking the fire lane next to the road dumpsters and just call it a day. But I didn't block the handicap parking spot, so. Good. She has morals.

How thoughtful. Point is, finding good men, not easy. And that's why our listener, Laura, says she had to find a strategy to help her find a decent dude. Okay. And apparently she came up with one. So, Laura, welcome to the show. Hi.

Is it bad that I'm hoping that your strategy also helps me in the Costco parking lot? No, not at all. Okay. Tell us about this guy that you met and the strategy that you used to find him. So, first let me start by saying and i'm sure everyone can relate to this that i have met so many people that were duds both on both both on the apps and in person yeah the problem is is we think we're catches and all of us are awful yeah that's not true oh it's true it's not awful just a a dud. Yes. A dud. Okay. Okay, so a while back I was listening to this podcast,

and this girl was giving some really fabulous dating advice. Oh, my God. Was it Alexis on our Brooke and Jeffrey in the Morning podcast? She said fabulous advice. I don't know. Why? What did she say? Well, she said that women are, in general,

having a hard time finding a guy that's well put together. Like, you can meet a guy, and he'll be great at first. And then everything just goes south really, really quickly. Which is different than women who are perfect right away. No, no, no, no. It's a two way street. I'll admit it's a two way street. Okay.

Okay. So what was the solution? Okay. So you're going to love this girl to go to to the gym at 9 a.m. on a Saturday. Uh-huh. Okay. And the reason being because most guys who are, let's just be polite and say not put together, would never be at the gym at 9 a.m. on a Saturday because they were probably out partying the night before.

Yeah. Not just on a Saturday early like ever. I'm not going to the gym anymore. Yeah, I'm done. No, but that's actually a decent strategy. Brooke, you don't agree? No, I mean, I get it. Yeah, sure.

I get it, but I think you ought to go even earlier than that. Yeah. The gym is so busy at 9. I do have a buddy who literally works out to get rid of his hangover. He sweats it out. Oh, okay. Well, maybe he's a character. I go for a run when I'm hungover.

I get the idea, though. You want to go at a time when all the party guys are supposedly, it's too early for them. Yeah, business has really started their day. Or if they are people who party, they can manage it. You know, they still work out the next day. That's perseverance right there. What's the talent like at the gym at 9 a.m. on a Saturday? Shockingly, a lot of really cute, well-put-together men.

Okay, jackpot. Okay yeah so did you have your pick or what i had my pick i got like all decked out i put on my favorite lulu lemons and i got like all up in there okay so who did you meet i met a guy named franklin Franklin. Oh, even his name is quality. Yeah, and I'm not going to lie. I legit set myself as bait. How? What did you do? Well, like I said, I got all decked out. And, you know, I kind of like alluded to the fact that I didn't know what I was doing.

Oh, you broke that trick. Yeah, I'm ashamed to say it, but I did. And he came over and kind of helped me figure out how to use the machine that I was working on. Yeah, it worked out. We had a nice little conversation and eventually he asked me out. Oh, there you go. It worked. Yeah, it worked.

Yeah. I'm still picturing you guys at the machine. Like, did he come up behind you and like help you push the levers slowly? This is not Pornhub. Take it easy over there. Oh, well, I wasn't going that far. It's a picture more like ghosts, like with the pottery.

But yeah, go ahead. Yeah, no, I just kind of was like, I can't lift these giant plates. Can you help me? Gotcha. Oh, I need a big, strong man to help me, rescue me. So was the gym your date, or did you guys, like, go out for real?

No, we went out. He took me to dinner at Nobu. What? Fancy. I know, and i had never been there so i was really excited he suggested it and i was like wow you know that's a little expensive but did you say that like yeah i was like whoa nobu okay first date that's like setting your bar really high yeah totally so how was it? It was amazing. We had a really good time. We really connected. We tried some new sushi together, which is always an interesting conversation piece at least. Oh, like fish you've never had before? Yeah. Did you play the damsel in distress again and be like,

oh, I don't know how to use these chopsticks. I wish a big strong man could come over here and show me. I actually had a friend that was Japanese who told me that they don't use chopsticks, that they actually use their fingers. So when I eat sushi, I use my hands. Oh, traditionally. That's a look. I don't know if that's true or not, but I think it'd be really funny if your friend was trolling you. Just to make you look like an idiot.

You're just double fisting sushi on the table. All right. So you had some hand sushi. That's nice. Hand sushi, yeah. I mean, they call them hand rolls, right? Yeah. What about the connection with Franklin?

No, we really did connect and we were talking like future, which was kind of like I would kind of put it like we were talking about like traveling together and like going skydiving. Listen, you're on the phone with us. There has to be something bad

that happened in the night. This already sounds bad, though. Someone that's this put together, that's a red flag. You're right, it's getting weird now. It's like serial killer vibes. Nobody's this charming. I know, I know.

I was really... And we're going to Skydive and go to Nobu in the same week? Wow. All right. So how did you end it? We ended the night with a hug and I assumed that we'd go out again, of course, because we had such a great time. But I haven't heard from him in like two weeks.

He just disappeared. Have you reached out to him? Or have you gone to the gym? Okay, so I reached out to him just one time. I didn't want to seem needy. And no, I never went back to the gym on a Saturday morning. So I'm actually thinking it could be that because maybe he thinks that I just went to the gym like I set

my own trap, you know what I mean? I don't think that guys put that much thought into where they meet people. I don't know if they care. I'm not even going to put very much thought into leaving this break, so let's come back and call this guy and do your second date update right after this. All right, what's happening next?

Second date update right after this. But the stage is on shuffle. Player wins. All right. What's happening next? Second date update. Who knew 9 a.m. on Saturday was prime time for available hotties at the gym? Everybody knows now. It's going to be slammed. Our listener, Laura, knew because she heard about it on a podcast. So she went to check it out. And that's where she met hunky and responsible franklin he showed her how to lift a five pound dumbbell she showed him how to eat sushi with

your hands at no boo it's the traditional way jeff apparently seemed like a match made in heaven but franklin has now gone two weeks without setting up another date so either that finger sushi hit real wrong or something else is going on it's so gross do not call it finger sushi how does finger sushi hit good i don't know i just need a tip of a thumb or something sitting on a bed what do you think is going on i don. I mean, dating is just so hard and people have so many options and life is so busy. It's just it could not be you at all. Could be literally anything. Yes.

I mean, everything you described sounded perfect. OK, besides the hand sushi. Did you explain why you were eating with your hands? Oh, you know, you just do it. Yeah, of course. All right. Alexis thinks that the issue is the hand sushi thing. Well, that is kind of gross if you just do it. Yeah, of course. Alexis thinks that the issue is the hand sushi thing. Well, that is kind of gross if someone just starts grabbing food.

Alexis doesn't know how to eat sushi. That's a good point. I also can't use chopsticks. Yeah, so she wouldn't be the hand person. You weren't feeding each other sushi with your hands, right? It was your own hands? No, that's different. I think that sounds fun.

That's how you get banned from Nobu forever. But let's call franklin here let's call franklin and see if he has some answers for us hopefully he picks up i'm dialing it right now thank you all right hold on hello hey is this franklin uh yeah who's speaking oh man i knew he'd answer and be put together right now he does sound put together my name is jeff and you're actually on a radio show right now called brooke and jeffrey in the morning hey what's up good morning why am I on a radio show right now? What's going on? Well, one of our listeners asked us to reach out to you because she had a great time getting sushi the other day. Her name is Laura.

Oh, God. Laura G. Oh, no. It sounded like such a fun game. So you liked her, it sounds like. I like it. I like it. Let's room, Jen. Oh, I like it. I like it. Let's take that interpretation.

He's like, oh, God, yeah. Laura. Is that how you meant it, Franklin? No, no, no, no, not at all. I normally don't misread people, okay. That is so crazy. Like, what a disconnect between how she described you and your reaction. She loved the date.

All right. Yes. Is that all you needed to ask me about? Well, no. No, there's more to this. We're doing a segment called the Second Date Update because Laura really wants to hang out again with you. And she's a little bit confused about why that hasn't happened in the two weeks since you went to Nobu together. Yeah.

Yeah, I don't know, man. I'm not sure if I'm really capable of dating her. Why? Oh, man. Oh, okay. What does that mean? What do you mean? Yeah, I don't know.

I don't know if I can keep up with her lifestyle because she seems high maintenance. Why? You know what I mean? How so? Bro, no offense. I thought you were kind of the high maintenance. What? How so? Bro, no offense. I thought you were kind of the high maintenance one. Taking her to Nobu. Yeah, I know. We were trying to get on your roster even.

Yeah, Alexis is still waiting. Hold on. Slow down, guys. That was her idea, not mine. What? Nobu was? She told us it was your idea, and she was like, no, let's not do that.

It's too expensive. No, no, no. We were kind of tossing ideas, and she was like, no, let's not do that. It's too expensive. No, no, no. We were kind of tossing ideas back and forth about where to go, and I think she's the one that actually suggested Nobu, not me. Oh. But, hey, but you agreed to it. I mean. Yeah, you could name a different place.

Yeah, I didn't want to seem too difficult, so I just kind of went with it, and I honestly didn't realize what I was getting into. Oh, no. Oh, God. You didn't want to seem too difficult, so I just kind of went with it, and I honestly didn't realize what I was getting it to. Oh, no. Oh, God. You didn't know? You didn't know Nobu's like this high-end, super expensive restaurant? Overpriced. No, no, no.

I'm a Chick-fil-A kind of guy. Oh, no, brother. Well, I mean, they're, what, one tier below Chick-fil-A? That is pretty close. The only time I've been is with my agent like that so did you pay the bill like how much can we ask how much it was yeah yeah instead of a nice little chick-fil-a $40 day it ended up being like $400 oh no i feel bad for you. And I was probably still hungry when you left because sushi's not very good.

Dude, I bet if she knew. Okay, but honestly, like she thought that you were up for it. Like she thought she played it as your choice. Yeah. She was impressed by you, brother. Like you were in it together. Yeah, not quite. It was definitely her suggestion, and that gives me that whole idea that she's expecting this pretty frequently. And then she started talking about expensive things like skydiving and

hang gliding and had my head spinning. There's no way I can afford this girl. I feel like people talk about fun things that are expensive anyway. I feel like this has been a little bit of a miscommunication, a misunderstanding because we didn't get that impression from her, and you can actually ask her yourself, Franklin, because Laura has been waiting on the other line wanting to talk to you.

Oh, gosh. You got set up. Thank God. It's an international phone call. She's charging you for this. The good news is, usually really wealthy people don't call our show. Yeah, very true. Laura, talk to Franklin. Hey, Franklin.

Laura, what are you doing putting me on this radio show? Like, what's going on? You're putting me on blast. What are you doing being a typical jerk and disappearing and not texting me back and letting me know what's going on? Oh, what the heck? Yikes. Where did that come from? Oh, she's mad.

Well. Two weeks, dude. Two weeks. I thought we had a really good time. And by the way, guys, Nobu was not my suggestion. It was his. Oh. Okay, but he says it was yours.

Yeah, he said you guys were throwing it. Yeah. He didn't even know what it was. How could he suggest it? Yeah. Like, yeah, maybe I brought it up, but he agreed to it. Oh. So it wasn't his suggestion.

You had no idea what it was. Well, Franklin, you did mess up there, so you got to admit that. Laura, I didn't want to be difficult or anything, all right? I just kind of went with the idea, and I thought, sure. And I'd never been to Nobu, so I had no idea what was going on.

He didn't know he was signing up for that. I mean, don't you feel like some empathy towards him? No. Oh. No. He probably Googled a coupon for Nobu before we went out

now that I'm hearing all this. Whoa. Listen, I looked for a coupon, but it doesn't mean I... Oh, you did? See? Of course you did. That's okay.

Yeah. Well, there's nothing wrong with going to Nobu on a first date. Sorry. I don't agree. No, but you hear what he's saying, right?

Like, he thinks that you are, like, probably wanting too much money out of him. I'm not looking to take his money. I make money, too. It's not about that. There's nothing wrong with living extravagantly. Totally. I think Jeffrey explained it wrong. He just thinks that maybe your lifestyle and his lifestyle don't meet up in the budget world.

Yeah. You know? I mean, I didn't realize he was this cheap. I mean, what? Bring your own popcorn to the dollar theater? Wait, what'd you say? I said I didn't realize he was this cheap. He probably brings his own popcorn to the

dollar theater. Oh, wow. Wait, there's a dollar theater? Okay. So nice. Alright, well now we're getting... I didn't know you were this rude. Does Siri turn off every time you start talking? Oh. Oh. That was a rough slam.

I don't even get it. It's not about rude. We were just talking about the future, and I thought you were on board. It seemed like you were agreeing with everything with me. So, obviously, you're not being your authentic self on dates. Oh, no. Wow. You probably asked charities if they have a happy hour special or something.

Not sure. Did you write these down before? How do you come up with all these? God, no wonder you were single. What? Franklin? He's gone. He's gone.

He ghosted you too? All right. Well, Franklin decided he didn't want to be a part of this anymore. Didn't pay his phone bill. They cut it all the way. Oh, is that what it was? Oh, poor guy. Literally.

Oh, man. Just for the record, it's not bad to bring your own popcorn into a movie theater. I've definitely been there. We've all been everywhere. I think we all agree with that. But the fact that it's a dollar theater, I mean, how expensive could the popcorn be? Honestly, it's not that it's expensive. It's usually just stale,

but that's besides the point. Okay. Should I, like, movie theater popcorn? Okay, well. I guess no more Jim at 9 a.m., huh? Yeah, no. All right. We didn't even get a chance to ask for another date,

but yeah, you scared him off pretty quickly. Sounds like you should find a more exclusive Jim, maybe a richer Jim to go to. Maybe I can go on a date with one of you. Hey, I'm always down. Wait, I thought you wanted somebody who was rich. Yeah. Oh yeah, never mind. There's a lot of text

coming in at 78592 from our listeners asking, what is Nobu? Oh yeah. Misspelled multiple ways. Oh wow, does that hurt your little privileged heart? Yeah. Those are our listeners, but that's why we love them. By the way, if you don't know, Google Nobu, N-O-B-U.

Sushi restaurant, very, very high end. It's actually a chain, though, which is always funny to me, but it is, like, so expensive. It's sushi for people that want to pay triple. Yeah. I've never been there, but I know Brooke sends pictures of herself dining there to her sponsored children in third world countries. Saying, hi, Andari. I'm at Nobu again, third time this week. Sorry to hear your dad lost his fishing job and has to go back to the cannery.

I'll text you next week. People are starting to believe that this stuff is actually real, Jeff. Yeah. Maybe you should have some class a little bit, Brooke. You're awful. We've employed the most evil woman in the world. So, an unsuccessful second date. We are going to try again tomorrow, though, with a new couple.

Make sure you email the show if you want some help with your love life. We'll call that person who's not calling you back. And go check out all of our second dates wherever you get your podcasts at Brooke and Jeffrey. Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning. 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.

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