Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update - Second Date Update: Love Me A Lengthy Lady

Episode Date: February 9, 2024

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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.

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. 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 and the writer Edward Ongueso Jr. With guest appearances from Behind the Bastards Robert Evans, It Could Happen Here's Gare Davis, and a few surprise guests throughout the show. Listen to Better Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever else you get your podcasts from. Second Date Update. If you've been off the dating apps for a while and decide to get back into it, start meeting new people, it's all about the frequency. Of how much you get on? You've got to shake the rust off before you can find your groove again. So how many times are you going out to get yourself back into peak form oh i see i see okay once a week you're going on a date once an hour wow jeff i thought once a week was a lot jeez that's pressure my god one

of our listeners daniel recently jumped back into the dating game and daniel give us a timeline on this before this date when's the last time you went out with somebody? Oh, my God. Hey, guys. So, funny story. I thought it was just a few months, but after I went on the date, I realized it's been over a year. Wait, you haven't gone on a date in over a year, and you didn't even remember that? No, it's just been so long.

Life got in the way. Yeah. That's how it happens, brother. Every time I count two, I'm like, oh, my gosh, it really has been that long. Maybe the people that you dated just weren't that memorable. That's also true. I wish I was going on so many dates. But apparently this new one did stick out in your mind.

What's her name? Yeah, so her name's Megan. Okay. Then you're active on the dating site still, even though you haven't had a date in so long. Well, no, I just now started being active on the dating site still even though you haven't had a date in so long well no i just now started being active on the dating site and this was the first one that we were able to actually make a date out of it okay okay well good job congrats back in the saddle i see yeah so tell us more about megan and what you guys did yeah so anyway we thought it would be cute and funny, you know, with all the stuff online to Joe try Cheesecake Factory.

Oh, so good. It has been a while since you've been on a date, huh? No, I think that's fun. No, Cheesecake Factory is great. Everybody loves it. And it's like kind of a joke right now on TikTok and stuff. I don't know. No, seriously, like in the time that they were giving us all this bread in the beginning and we're reading this book and figuring out we were able to bond.

And that's where the problem is. Yeah. What's the problem? So here's the deal. So Megan is amazing. We really hit it off. We were able to bond about sports and football, even Taylor Swift, believe it or not. And the conversation went so well that at one point we had a moment and she

asked me, now Megan has dropped that beautiful, I mean she's gorgeous, but she's taller. She's taller? Taller than you? With her boots on, yes. Okay. She's wearing five inch boots. Okay, sorry, and I think we missed it. How tall is she? 5'11 without her boots. Okay.

Yeah. Without the boots. Okay, so with the boots on, over six feet. I have a couple girlfriends that are that height. 5'11, without her boots. Okay. Yeah. Without the boots. Okay, so with the boots on, over six feet. I have a couple girlfriends that are that height. 5'11", six foot, yeah. Yeah, and she just looked at me just innocently and said, does it bother you that I'm tall? And look, as I said, I've been out of the game for a while, and all I could do is I looked at her and I said,

I don't mind a lengthy lady. A what lady? Huh? A lengthy lady. A lengthy lady. A lengthy lady. Okay. A lengthy lady. I don't mind either. I don't know. Maybe that's a

romantic thing to say, Alexis, if a guy said that to you. It's not great, but it's not terrible. Like it's, but it's kind of, I don't know. Hold up, Statue of Liberty. My girlfriends that are tall, like they have heard everything under the moon about how long they are, how tall they are. Do you play basketball? What a waste if you don't, you know?

It's not something to joke about with girls. Maybe with guys it's funnier. Well, mixed reactions from the room on that response. But what was Megan's reaction when you said that? Well, she looked at me and she didn't understand. And I tried, you know, I've been out of the game for so long that I just said to her, I'm so sorry. And then I love me some lengthy lady. Oh, so you doubled down on the lengthy lady thing. But just changed the grammar to something a little more proper. cake factory we're only at like the salad at this point and the rest of the date i tried to recover

i tried to bring it back but by the time we were done i basically i we just hug no kiss and i know i did something wrong but there was such a chemistry there what i was just gonna ask do you know if she has a height requirement because maybe her asking if you have a problem was actually her telling you she has an issue some girls are like 5'0 and they need over 6 feet still. Well, without the boots, I would be taller than her, but she chose to wear 5-inch boots. How many men out there are 6'5"? So you could pick and choose when she's taller.

You didn't say that, right? No. You wear 5-inch boots to Cheesecake Factory? Yeah. I mean, she basically walked in with some stilts for dinner. Oh, my God. Stop it. Tall women are absolutely gorgeous in tall heels.

I didn't say they weren't gorgeous. Okay, okay. Well, stilts does not come to a beautiful image. It's a big presence walking in for that big date night. Okay, again, don't compliment a tall woman that way, Jeffrey. What's the right way to say? Don't talk about any women ever. That's what you're supposed to say.

You're beautiful up there. You say you're a lengthy lady. Maybe you had it right all along, dude, this entire time. This is why tall women want tall men. Yeah. Okay. They know what to say. So, you know, some of the word fumbling aside,

did you feel like the connection was going pretty well between you two? Yeah, the connection was amazing. Oh, it was. Again, I've matched up with multiple women, but I kind of really like Megan, and I want to know if there's a possibility for another date. I mean, did I ruin it? Probably.

But it doesn't mean we can't recover for you. If it's something small, if it's just the height thing, that'll'll be fine the fact that she's not answering because i don't know you've been texting her is that right yeah yeah texting some social media and just no answer okay quite a few things well you know that's that's a bad sign yeah how did you guys leave things at the end of the date we just hugged and said we'll contact each other. Oh, I'm sure. That's always the... Did you climb up on a chair to hug her, or did you just do the normal thing? She is not that tall.

With the boots on. God. No, the situation, my head was in the right place when I hugged her, so... Okay. Okay. All right. He was nuzzled right into her bosom.

I think I know what you're talking about. We're going to come back. We'll give Megan a call. We're going to try and get you a second date update right after this, all right? Thank you. Hold on. We're going to come back. We'll give Megan a call. We're going to try and get you a second date update right after this, all right? Thank you. Second date update. I was thinking more about it and

taking someone on a first date to the Cheesecake Factory. Yeah. You got kind of a lukewarm reaction in here, at least when we first heard about it. I don't know. We were all pretty excited about that. I think it was you that was kind of judgy about it. You brought the Luke into the room. Yeah, yeah. You're Mr. Luke right now. Yeah, young Lukey.

Well, fine. But look, I thought about it, and there's definitely some positives about it. Okay, come over to our side. The menus are like a book, so you're already proving that you can read. There's number one. Number two. How is that a good point, though? Your date automatically is going to last longer because of all the indecision choosing a food item as you flip to volume 16.

Oh, my God. That's good. Number three, cheesecake. Yeah. So much of it. Who doesn't love a bunch of cheesecake? I mean, honestly, though, by the time you get to the end of that meal, it's like, I don't think I can eat any. By the way, shout out to the Adam's peanut butter cup cheesecake.

Oh, am I right? You're lucky to make it home after that. No, seriously. The main issue that Daniel thinks was during the conversation, his date Megan asked, are you okay being with a taller woman? And his response was, I love me a lengthy lady. Which technically is a compliment. It's gotten funnier throughout. We don't know if she took it that way because she's not calling back.

So maybe it's not looking very good. Maybe next time just say, oh, my God, you are absolutely stunning. Of course. Yeah. The best thing you can do is just be as vague as possible when you're complimenting a woman on her looks. I love women. Yeah. Right, Daniel?

We've learned a lot. We definitely have. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So no matter what happens, Daniel? We've learned a lot. Yeah, we definitely have. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So no matter what happens, at least we've learned something already. The whole point was that he's trying to shake off the rust. It's been a while since he's been in the dating game.

So now he wants to get fully back into it with Megan. Yeah. We're going to see if she's up for that. I will say, like, glass half full, even if it doesn't work out with Megan in this phone call, this is a good learning experience to get you back in the game. Yeah, I need it. I really need it. It's been a while. I love the optimism here.

We're in a good place. Let's bring it down by giving her a call. Hello? Hey, we're looking for megan this is megan may i ask who's calling yes you may this is a radio show called brooke and jeffrey in the morning hey megan hey we're all here um hi hey hey welcome to the show yeah um okay sorry it's confusing i kind of just like hearing people squirm on the other end of the line we're doing something here it's called the second date update and we're trying to help reconnect you with one of our listeners that you went out with the other night a guy named daniel um what if i don't want to be reconnected with daniel yeah well i think he knows that as well yeah he told us a little bit about your guys's date and from his perspective things went pretty well he'll admit not perfect but

that was a good foff okay back back there. What happened, Megan? What are we missing? You're agreeing with him it didn't go perfect? Honestly, I have no idea what he told you, so I don't really know even – I don't even know how to respond at all. Well, I mean, I could hit some of the highlights that he gave us. Cheesecake Factory, good conversation. Brooke, help me out. He said that you asked him a pretty direct question about your height

and whether that was cool with him or not. I did. I'm a tall girl. I did ask him if it bothered him that I was tall. That's true. Did it bother you that he was shorter than you when you were in heels? That's not what bothered me. We're trying to zero in on what did bother you because he has no idea.

We're just trying to give him a little clarity. He knows he could hear something that isn't cool, you know? Okay, well, let's just say I kind of feel like maybe the writing was on the wall. From the beginning? Yep. Because I'm surprised he didn't mention, or it sounds like he didn't mention anyway, that we actually also had an extremely tall, but very cute waitress.

I think he was more focused on you. Yeah. I would beg to differ. I actually think that he paid more attention to our very tall, beautiful waitress. Oh, really? What makes you think that he was into her oh i mean like every time she came by it was well what would you recommend and what's your favorite meal and every time that he

would walk by even if it was to go serve another table that was like totally across in the other section he would like watch her walk by and i was just like hello my eyes are here like oh man that's hard was he like waiting to like flag her down maybe for sure i have a hard time asking him for help so it takes me like 30 minutes i'm like no no you know when you know someone is cutting someone out and like here's the thing at the end of the day like i had made this comment about me being like tall and does that bother him? Yeah. And he did give me kind of a weird response back.

He was like, oh, I don't mind a lengthy lady. Yeah. And I was like, what? So then that kind of got my brain kind of tick-tocking and thinking. I'm like, maybe he has a thing for, like, tall women. Okay, okay. You're saying he liked your lengthinessiness but he saw someone even lengthier than you maybe he's a lengthy lover i don't know lengthy lover oh my god i'm pushing 5 11

and a half and i don't even think i was tall enough for him oh tall enough but that can't be true because he called us to go out with you again like i feel like maybe you're reading into this and don't just trust us on that. Trust Daniel, who's on the other line right now, listening in on this conversation. He'll tell you. Hi, really? You guys get me dirty.

Hi, Megan. I'm sorry, Megan. This is how the segment works. Yeah, Megan, listen. I can't believe you're thinking this. I mean, I used to be a waiter, and I was just trying to be nice. But why were you looking at her? Well, what was I supposed to do, not look at her?

I mean, I didn't want to make too much eye contact with you, and I wanted to be cool, and I wanted to show you that, hey, you know, I can talk to other women and be okay. No, you're not allowed to talk to other women or make eye contact with anybody else on a first date. Okay, listen. You paid no attention to the girl who came and brought us the bread or the water. And she was like this little 5'2", little cutie patootie.

You know, you didn't even look at her. You didn't even look. You didn't even acknowledge her. Megan, that's because I was a waiter, not a busboy or a worker. Oh, got it. He does have a good answer. Also, tall people do stand out. I would stare at tall people more than that.

That's true. So, Megan, it would make you feel better if he had checked out all of the women in the bar? Oh, that's not what she's saying. If he had eyed all of them, then you wouldn't have felt... No, she's saying that he's kind of full of it. That is exactly, and I kind of want to ask, do you have your settings on your dating app

set to women 5'11 and over? Be honest here. I mean, I do have it set for 5'11 and over, but that's because I'm tall. What? You do? That was kind of a joke, and I didn't expect you to say yes. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold on. Why is that bad? Women have their dating preferences set all the time for certain heights. Why would it be bad for men, too?

Women are allowed to be judgmental. Men can't be. We have to love you no matter what. Most women set it, like I do, for guys my height or taller. Just so I don't end up with a guy, you know. Yeah, but I think if you're setting yours, he's allowed to set his. I mean, I just think that that's how it is. Brooke is right. I told you you i love me some lengthy lady

oh my god so you don't want a man who loves tall women not if he's not gonna have the manners to make me feel like i'm the only lengthy lady you want him to like them but not be obsessed about them i could like, you don't want your date ogling the waitress. Like, that's true for no matter what your height is. Well, maybe that's something Daniel can agree to do. Is it possible you can go the rest of your life, Daniel, and not look at any other tall women? Gary measuring tape with you. No, you guys.

It's just you shouldn't be giving eyes at anybody else. But that's not what she was worried about. She would have been happy if he gave eyes to the cute little water girl. No, she didn't. She was saying that he was. No, no, you guys. Honestly, I think the guys are right here. I think it just really bothers me if he's checking out these other women that are super

tall. Height is her thing. You can't take that away from her. Because they're your direct competition? Yes. I don't even know anymore. All right. Just answer.

Are you going to go out with her? Because Megan, we would love to send you out on one more date with Daniel. Megan, listen, they're going to pay for another date if you say yes. Here's what I think. We should go to an all-male restaurant. Are there things such as all-male

restaurants? I don't know. Alexis wants reservations to that place. I want it on that date. That is weird. That's the offer. Let's just go see, like, Thunder Down Under together. I mean, period.

I suggest we can go to a male strip club. Let's go. Thanks to Brooke, we've been banned from most of those. So we don't have gift cards for that. We can just do a normal date, though. I don't understand why they don't want me to come up and dance with them. Seriously, though, Megan, we will offer for one more date. So we don't have gift cards for that. We can just do a normal date. I don't understand why they don't want me to come up and dance with them. Seriously, though, Megan,

we will offer for one more date. We need an answer. Come on. I will give him one more chance. All right, Daniel. We cool? Yeah, we're totally cool, but only if she wears those heels

because, you know, I don't like short women. Oh. You guys, I'm telling you. You got plenty of length to go around. Just always wear heels. Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning. Man, I keep Googling all-male restaurants, even with corn surrounded. Very frustrating.

Not a lot of results are coming up here. I think legally, I don't even think that's allowed. You could try looking up Gentleman's Club, but I don't think that's what you want either. Different search engine. Someone's got to get on this. A lot of women work at the Gentleman's Club, but I don't think that's what you want either. Different search engine. Someone's got to get on this. A lot of women work at the Gentleman's Club. Honestly, I'm glad that they agreed to go out with each other. I just don't know how it's going to work now between them.

Any time they're around tall people? It's kind of awkward. He's going to be so worried about making eye contact with any tall woman outside anywhere. He's going to have his head down, like looking at the floor all the time, shades on. No, see, Jeff, I think you're wrong. I think as long as they don't go to a WNBA game, it's all going to be cool. That's true. You know?

But see, Brooke, you can see where this woman is coming from. That she doesn't want the guy ogling the waitress at a dinner? Yeah, I can see that. No, she's just worried about him seeing other tall women and like being into that. Oh, okay. You know? Like if you saw your husband staring

at a woman with giant windshield wipers on her face and wearing a 1980s shoulder pad jacket, you'd start to get a little bit concerned too, Brooke. Yeah, like is that

an upgrade from what he's got currently? Is that what you're saying? It's just his type. She's got way more stains on her shirt than mine. Oh, he likes her. Michael, get back inside.

He's got questionable types. That's true. A lot of people do have questionable types and we're happy to help you with it. Email the show at Brooke and Jeffrey. We'll help.

We'll call that person. I should not see where you're going with that. Call that person. He's not calling you back. 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. 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. 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's 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 and the writer Edward Ongueso Jr. with guest appearances from Behind the Bastards Robert Evans, It Could Happen Here's Gare Davis, and a few surprise guests throughout the show. Listen to Better Offline on the iHeartRadio app,

Apple Podcasts, or wherever else you get your podcasts from.