Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update - Second Date Update: MattMan and the Sushi Signals

Episode Date: January 1, 2024

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Oh, my gosh. It's none other than the caped crusader of romance. Oh, Matt. And when I say caped, I mean he's got his extra long jammies on this morning. Matt Mann is back. All right, Matt Mann. Welcome back, Matt. Hey, thanks for having me, you guys.

It's like we're starting to be the superheroes of your life. We're helping so much, you know? We're not super, maybe mediocre heroes. Whatever. Clearly we're not very good at it. But real quick, for those of you who have not heard of Matt Mann before, he's a friend of the show, and we call him Matt Mann because on one of the very first dates we ever heard from him.

He went out to a movie premiere dressed as the Dark Knight. And ever since then, his legend has lived on along with his ever-active dating profile. Matt, last time that we heard from you, I thought you had a girlfriend before. Is that right? Yeah, that one didn't really work out too well but just because one heads doesn't mean it wasn't a success sure you know i'm sure you learned from it grew from it so now we're doing another second date update so you must have met someone new right i did yeah i met uh i met a girl jackie on the app okay what'd you like about jackie

i mean right off the bat she was great i mean she looked just like her pictures was that a bat pun or no what oh right off the bat gotcha i was thinking he was gonna call her jacker like joker yeah mine was better okay well she looked like she said she was gonna look i like your standards are still very high. She didn't lie off the get-go. All right. What'd you end up doing with Jackie? Well, Jackie, she wanted me to pick her up, so I decided to hop in my Matt-mobile. Oh.

Nice. All right. What is it? What's the actual car? It's a Hyundai. Okay. I can see a Hyundai. Just like the real Batman.

Classy. Very economical. Look at the gas mileage on that thing. I mean, seriously. All right. And how are you feeling heading into the date? I was maybe a little nervous at the beginning, so I just thought. That's normal.

Yeah. So I thought I'd balance it out with some of my patented, world-famous, Batman humor. Okay. What'd you go with? A knock knock joke. I started with one of the, the classics,

the old parallel park trick. What's that? I don't know if I'm familiar with that one. So I thought it would be funny if I pretended like I couldn't parallel park. Oh. So I asked Jackie if she could go outside and maybe spot me and, like, tell me if I was getting close or if I was going to hit the curb. Right.

And, like, around, like, the third or fourth time, I decided I'm just going to pretend to drive away. So, like, I drove away. What? You left her on the curb? You gassed it. Matt, I don't know. There's no way she was laughing. I was only gone for like 10 seconds.

The look of horror on her face was... I could see that. I could see how that could be a funny moment. It's more funny for you. Exactly what I was going to say. And it's funny like six months into a relationship. It's not funny the first, like literally you haven't even had dinner with this person yet. And it's not even laughing funny.

It's just like, oh. What did she say? She said something like, don't ever do that again. Too funny. She doesn't want to laugh too hard next time. But I will say, if she says don't do that again, her mindset is that there could be a next time you hang out. I like that. Even in her anger, there's some hope there.

This is good so far, I think. Where did you end up taking Jackie? So, you know, I mean, I'm starting to get a little bit of dating experience. Yeah, you are. Incompetence. Getting better and better every time man i think so so i thought i'd step up my game and um i don't know you guys might think i'm a noob but i took her to sushi yeah it's great that's a great first date great great date

how'd that go it was good i mean there's so many good flavors. So I thought. Sushi flavors. I've never thought of them as flavors before. Strawberry, banana. These also taste like fish. Okay. So I ordered 13 rolls. What did you just say? Came with an appetite.

Rolls? Well, yeah, because I've never done sushi. So I just thought like the rolls were like the. Oh, my God. You thought the individual pieces was a roll, but one roll has, like, six to eight slices. Yeah, exactly. Oh, my God. They had to put, the waiter had to bring, like, a whole nother table just to attach it so we could have all this food. It was, like, cascading off the side, but, like.

I would be dying of embarrassment. Oh, really? Like, just as you're sitting there as more and more plates keep being delivered. It would be so crazy. But also, I like a guy that eats. I wouldn't want a guy that eats less than me. At least that solves that problem.

And it's kind of baller to be like, anything you want, my lady, we'll get every roll in the restaurant. No, he just spent $900. How did sushi night end? It was kind of a mess. We laughed about it and it was fun.

Later, I asked to take a picture with her out front. Okay. Come in with the first date? Yeah. Is that a bad thing? Why would you do that

on a first date with someone? Yeah, Alexis doesn't like that. You're having a good time, maybe. It's a nice thing to take a picture with someone. Like, hey, let's remember this. No, I don't think I had a first date.

Really? Okay. Maybe that was a mistake of yours, No, I don't think I have a first date. Really? Okay. Maybe that was a mistake of yours, Matt. I don't know. She let me touch her waist. No. Matt, man. She posted the picture.

Oh, that's good. She posted the picture? No way. You two? Yeah, but she cropped me out of the photo. Oh. Oh. I don't think you should be insulted by that.

It would be weird. I think it's weird. She couldn't really just take a selfie? Like what? She likes her outfit. I mean, I'd never heard from her. Like, I thought it was a great date. Okay, well there has to be some sort of

logical explanation for this, and we're just going to ask her directly. All right. We'll come back and do your second date update next. Second date update. We're in the middle of another second date update with friend of the show, Matt Mann. Yeah.

Just a quick recap if you missed the first part. Matt did a sushi date with a woman named Jackie. Gave her a little parallel parking humor before that. And then at dinner, ordered 13 different sushi rolls. He didn't know. He thought a roll meant the individual pieces of sushi. He really needed to have done sushi

trade. Then he could have just picked one plate at a time. Oh yeah! I still want to try that. He tried to go fancy and go to a nice restaurant. I can't imagine the bill. Things were looking up at the end of the night, though, when they took a photo together in front of the restaurant. And Matt, you said you touched her waist. Did she touch your grappling hook in return? Or was there a kiss or any sort of sign of intimacy?

Well, a true hero keeps his belt on at all times. But I did get to touch her waist and it was pretty awesome. Nice, dude! You've done a lot of these, Matt. What do you think went wrong? Why is she not calling you back? I don't know. I think maybe because I didn't know about the

rolls and the individual pieces. Maybe that threw her off. Maybe she thought I was trying to show off. Oh. You didn't explain it was your first time at a sushi restaurant. No, I was just trying to be Mr. Cool. Oh. Okay.

So she's like, this guy ordered four times the amount of rolls we need. I can see that. Weird flex, but okay. Yeah, literally. Let's just call Jackie and see if that really was the case, if she was intimidated by how many rolls you can afford in one dinner. I mean, I still have some, so if she wants sushi, she can. That's a great offer.

I'll throw that in at the end. We want to send you guys out on a date, but first we got to call her. Let's do it. Hello? Hi, I'm looking for Jackie. Yep, this is she. Hey, Jackie, my name is Jeff from a radio show called Brooke and Jeffrey in the Morning. Hi, Jackie.

How are you doing? Oh, there's lots of people. Hi, everyone. Hi. Whole show wanted to talk to you. Oh, we love people that are happy right off the bat. That's awesome. It's a breath of fresh air for us because we're doing something called a second date update.

Oh. It sounds scarier than it is. We're calling because you went out on a date with one of our listeners. I would call him a good friend of the show. Yeah, I mean, he's honestly a VIP member of our listening audience. His name is Matt. Oh, yeah.

Okay. Matt. I like hearing you laugh about it because we heard you guys had a great sushi date the other night. It was an experience. Wow. That's good. I mean, if I saw it was an experience, I'd give that a five stars. That's a good thing.

Like IMAX calls themselves an experience. It's better than a movie. Bigger, better. Right? For the most part, yeah. Some of it was a little quirky, but yeah, it was all pretty fun. Oh, why are you calling him back? He's been trying to get a hold of you.

He wants to see you again. Well, at the end of the night. Okay, so he took a picture of us, which was a little different for a first date, but whatever. Told you. The same. Alexis is right. If we know anything about Matt, it's that he's a bold man. Exactly.

And he goes for what he likes, and he just really wanted to commemorate the night with you. Right, right. And it was a really cute picture. And so when I got home, I showed my roommate the picture and she was like horrified. Why? What? I guess like so he had one of his like hands was like, you know, like around my waist. Yeah. Right. And he said that he was making like a gang sign like with his hand and wait what i don't know like like what like throwing west side up was that okay i don't know i had no idea what it was and i kind of thought she was kidding at first but she like had us look it up and i'm not gonna say like what was, but, yeah, it was like a gang sign.

No way. What? Yeah. Like a street gang? Is that what you're saying? Yeah, it was like an actual street gang, like a famous street gang. It wasn't like bunny ears. I mean, bunny ears feels more Matt's speed. Yo, rabbit gang, what's up?

I had no idea Matt was in a gang. I don't think he is. I don't think he is are you sure it couldn't have been something he did on accident that happened to be similar that's what i was trying to like say to her but she was like no like she was so sure and she got to freak me out so i i was like i'll just play it safe just in case so i was just like no thanks what if he's like an og gang member we have no idea that's what i'm saying i i just want to ask him right now because i gotta let you know jackie matt is on the other line right now oh no

gang now i'm in trouble no i i think you're probably good gangs don't call radio stations. Matt, are you there? Yeah. Oh, my God. Like, gang signs? Do you really think I'm a gangbanger? It was my roommate. She freaked me out. Seriously, do I look like a gangbanger? Do I sound like a gangbanger? Let's not stereotype, Matt.

Okay, let's not stereotype. Matt, do you know what she's talking about? What hand signal she's talking about? Yes, yes, I do it all the time. Yeah. So you did it on purpose. Why would you do it all the time if you know it's a gang symbol, Matt? It's not a gang symbol. It's the bat symbol, Jackie. Like Batman? Is that what you're saying? Yeah. Jackie, you might, I didn't tell you this, mostly for your safety, but. Oh, he is in a gang. Wow. Right. That's what that sounds like.

No, the gang that he's talking about is like a superhero league, that type of gang. What, like D&D? No, Justice League. I'm a huge Batman fan. I'm part of the Bat family.'s not a gang yeah he loves batman yeah he's a he's a big batman fan did you not know that like comic books i mean i knew that but i know a lot of people who are like into that stuff and they don't have like weird hand symbols and like i do think a gang member is hotter. Yes. Personally.

It's like a sign I'm trying to make popular with my posse. Like I guess. You know. So you made it up? Well, you know, I'm trying to get it started. You know, because my hand is like the wig.

And then if I move my thumb, it's kind of like the head. Yeah, I kind of like that. That way you can be out on the street and secretly know who else is a Batman fan rather than having to go up and ask them. Oh, dude, you're going to get shot if you do this. Yeah, I mean, you can flash it when you're walking down the street. And then I made up this dance with my feet and just shuffle side to side. I'm with Jose on this one. You got to made up this dance with my feet and you shuffle side to side and you assemble at the same time. I'm with Jose on this one.

You gotta drop it. It's gonna get you in trouble. It may, bro. It's already getting you in trouble, Matt. If someone sees that in the wrong neighborhood, not even a joke, you never wanna have to actually defend your woman just because you're being a silly...

Or you become the coolest guy in that neighborhood. Just street cred. Instantly. I like it, but I mean, I don't want to get beat up. Yeah, of course. I doubt anybody could beat up Matt Mann. You're just being nice. Who's Matt Mann?

Is that you? Oh, Jeffrey. So I didn't mean to ouch you there. We call him Matt Mann. Oh, yeah, that's my secret identity. Well, now. Not just us. All of our listeners call him Matt, man.

He's popular. Yeah. He makes us laugh a lot, Jackie. And he's a sweet guy. No, Matt, you absolutely were making me laugh the whole time. I swear that's all it was. Well, that's great. I mean, if you take out the hand signal,

it sounded like you guys had a really good night together. I mean, yeah, minus him not really being able to parallel park. I forgot about that. Well, actually, there's a funny story to that. He told me it was a joke, but I don't know. After like the fourth or fifth time, I was like, I don't know. Maybe you drive to the next date, Jackie.

I think that might be best. And we'll pay for that date if you agree to go on it. Yeah, that's fine. All of these secrets are not gang-related, and it sounds great. All right. Congratulations, Matt man.

One request, though. If we get sushi again, please don't order so many rolls. I don't think that was necessary. I just thought the rolls were, I mean, it's like a bread roll. Isn't it like. Just say yes, Matt. Yes, Matt. All right. You know what? We're just going to call it a win. Good job. Just say yes, Matt. Yes, Matt. No, okay.

All right, you know what? We're just going to call it a win. Good job. Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning. Man, I'm really happy that we were able to get another date from that man. I liked her a lot, too. I think they could be a really cute couple. Yeah, she was actually pretty chill.

Honestly, that was maybe one of the easiest second date updates we've ever had to do for him before. All it takes is calling into our show four times for us to get good at helping you out. Yeah. You know? The bat sign, gang sign mix up. That one's actually pretty easily explainable. Yeah, just stop doing that. Yeah.

Really hope he drops it. Honestly, I think if we would have stayed on the phone with her longer, the more likely she would have ultimately said no. The more that she learned about him dressing up like a superhero, going to the movies, hanging upside down from pipes in dark alleyways. That's where it could have gotten weird. But luckily, we didn't bring any of that up, didn't have time to, so I'm proud of us. We'll let Matt bring the weird himself.

He's good at that. He just did. Again, I'm hoping she's not listening. No matter what, best of luck. Matt's a good guy. If you want to be like Matt and email the show over and over and over for help, we're always here.

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