Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update - Second Date Update: Mystery Treadmill Man

Episode Date: September 15, 2025

The woman in today’s Second Date Update agreed to meet up with a man before she even knew his name, and it’s all because of one grand romantic gesture!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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second day podcast. We got a new episode today that really is about not jumping to conclusions and some miscommunications is definitely, I feel like the theme today. It gets messy, real messy. But first, comments, what do you got, Alexis? Yeah, Greece said, nothing ever prepares me for some of this insanity since discovering the show I've been heavily entertained and I thought London dating was terrible but maybe it's not.

Oh, wow. I know we still can't afford at our station to do international calling so someday we'll get to that. I'd be attracted to every international listener that calls in. That'd be the problem. I love that because it's too much.

I'd be like, they're all great people. God, it's so funny. All right, let's start your brand new second date update right now. Second date update. I am very curious to hear from the listener who wrote to us today because in her email, she says she met a guy one time. It wasn't on an app, and they never went on an actual date.

Honestly, they don't really know anything about each other at all. What the heck? Is this like Craigslist's misconnection? But yet still, she called him, quote, maybe the most romantic man I've ever met in my entire life. What? How? How could he be romantic without knowing anything about each other? I'm wondering the same thing. How does she reach that conclusion? Let's find out. Her name is Tilly, and she's on the line right now. So Tilly, I just got to say, your email sounds full-blown crazy. Is that bad of me to say?

No, it is crazy. That's literally why I'm calling you because, like, I've never heard of a situation like this. I've never been in a situation like this. You didn't watch a guy propose in the most romantic way possible, and then you fell in love with him because you saw how romantic he was. I'm thinking it's a movie. Yeah. Oh, that could be it. I mean, it felt like a movie, like the meet, cute moment. Okay.

Wow. Slow down. If we're talking movie-level romance, you've got to set the whole scene for us. Yeah. Tell us the whole story. Okay, so here's the story. I'm at the gym, and I'm at, like, a pretty high-end gym. I got lucky I got up, you know, a membership through my work situation.

Okay. Boogey. It's like one of the fancy gyms. There's like attendance and there's like a juice cafe in the back. You know all that stuff. But I've been working out. I'm actually almost done. Like I'm on my treadmill.

I'm cooling down. Okay. And this good looking man comes up on the treadmill next to me. And we small talk. It's nothing crazy. Like we talk for like less than 30 seconds. Like it was quick. Yeah.

But the timing's good because you're just walking and he's just starting. So. Yeah. And I don't really think anything of it. Like going to the locker room. I change. Okay. Literally, as I'm walking to my car, I hear,

miss, miss, wait, wait. I turn around. It's one of the gym attendants. He has flowers and a card from this man that I just met. Whoa. Like, honestly, this is part of the mystery because how did this man secure flowers that fast? And a card. That's insane.

Okay. I am so jaded that my first thought is he's been watching you and was prepared for this moment. Is that possible? Have you seen him before in the gym? I guess it's possible, but I certainly didn't recognize him at all. Okay. It felt spontaneous.

That's crazy. It felt very spontaneous, which was part of the reason I'm like, how did you manage that? But there's a number on the card, so I obviously text the number, and I'm like, thank you so much for the flowers. I'm so flattered. But he is not the one that answered the text. It was somebody that was like, oh, this is his assistant. Oh. Oh.

Oh, if he has an assistant, then yeah, they can make it happen even quicker. It's kind of weird that he gave you his assistant's phone number and not his phone number. I was just about to say that. Unless he wanted her to know that he had an assistant. Like, he knew she'd text her. Yeah, that's possible. It's something Jose would for sure do. Absolutely.

By the way, I have two agents. I don't know if anybody realizes this. Okay. Okay. Let's get away from that. Hey, did you ever actually talk to him? Like, do we know his name? That's the thing. I don't know his name.

What? What? He didn't even send a good first text introducing himself. No, the assistant says there is actually a gift waiting for you at a jewelry store and gives me an address. Oh, no. Excuse me? No. Whoa.

I don't know if this is romantic anymore. Now I'm getting worried. Yeah. Well, nobody cares what you think, Jeff. It's only if Tilly thinks it's romantic. It feels like I don't have a good personality, so let me buy you things. Did you go to the jewelry store? I was curious.

Of course I went. I'm in for the plot. Yeah. You're doing this for the plot alone, Tilly, so we support you in this decision. What happened at the jewelry store? I go to the jewelry store and there is a bracelet waiting there for me. And I will say, like, I don't feel like I can be bought, but I can be impressed. And it's between flowers and a bracelet. I'm kind of impressed, even though I don't know anything about him, including his name.

So wait, wait. Yeah, oh, my God. This is wild. There's no setup of a date? Okay, so I get the bracelet and then I text the only number I have back to the existence. And I'm basically like, let's set this up. Like, how do we meet or whatever? So we set up a whole situation, a time and a place to meet.

And then I go there and he doesn't show up. And now nobody's answering this number. This seems like he does this. Like, he set the trap. He gives you jewelry. He doesn't show up. Now you're like, what is going on? And now you have to get a hold of it.

Yes, I want to be in that game. It sounds like a horror game. It doesn't sound fun. And it sounds like he's going to play a lot of games with her. I mean, why would he stand you up? Like, that's what I don't get. My friends think maybe he's married or maybe that it was some sort of scam. But if it was a scam, then, like, where's the request to let's get my money or whatever?

I don't know, but you better make sure that bracelet doesn't have a tracker in it. Yeah. Dude, this is wild. This is a wild story. Yeah. I mean, I was kind of skeptical at the start of this when you said he was the most romantic guy of all time. But after hearing the story, I think Brooke is 100 percent. In fact, she's probably ready to leave her husband, depending on how this call goes when we come back.

You're this nameless man. I already don't trust this guy at all. You're only saying that because you're jealous, Brooke. We're going to call this mystery guy in just a second. Or recall his assistant, you mean. Whoever it is. I'm excited to talk to anybody that picks up this phone number and try and get you your second date update right after this. Second date update.

Our listener Tilly told us in part one that she, She met the most romantic guy ever. And wow, she was not kidding. Met a guy on the treadmill at the gym. They talked for 30 seconds. But as she's leaving, just a few minutes later, she's being chased down, handed a giant bouquet of flowers. Not by him.

From like the gym assistant guy is told it's from treadmill, dude. He already has a handwritten note for her and a phone number for his assistant. Later, she's told there's a necklace and a bracelet waist. for her at a jewelry store, which turns out to be true. Well, I think it was just a bracelet. I mean, don't oversell it. It wasn't a necklace jam. No, God.

Never mind. This guy sucks. Forget it. I thought he was romantic. You guys are right. He's a loser. It had gems on it. No, okay.

It was pretty cool until the weird part was she was stood up by him waiting at a coffee shop where she thought they were going to meet. Tilly, are you nervous? Are you, like, what are you feeling right now? At this point, it's so crazy that I'm assuming it's not going to work out. But I cannot move on until I know what the story is. Yes, yes. Well, we love it.

The bottom line is we need to figure out who this guy is or figure out some answer so Tilly can get some piece of mind. All we have is is assistance number, right? So that's who we're calling? Yes, so that's all we have to go off of. We're just going to call it and see what happens. I don't know, but be polite. Like, this guy sounds professional. We need to keep it buttoned up to get information out.

I would take that advice and turn it right around at yourself. That'd be really good. Aren't you guys worried? If he has an assistant, he's always busy. Like, we call and she's going to be like he's not available. And we'll see. Let's find out. Only one way to know.

I'm going to dial this number. We'll see who picks up and what happens. But here we go. Hello? Hi. Hi, my name is Jeff. Professional, Jeff. I don't even know who this is.

So, hello? Yeah, hi. Sorry. So I work for a radio show called Broken Jeffrey in the morning. And this is going to sound kind of odd because I don't really know who I'm calling for here. But we have a woman who is a friend of the show. Her name is Tilly. And I believe your boss sent her flowers and gave her a bracelet. Do you have the wrong person?

Yeah. I don't want to talk about this. Well, just hold on. Do you know a lot about this? Maybe you don't want to talk about this. What the heck? What? Was that a click?

Are you kidding me? Did he hang up? Oh, no. Oh, he is not going to stand us up. You better call him back. It's rude. It's probably because you were scaring him, Brooke. I did not scare him.

We're calling back. Yes. Okay. I'm going to dial it again. Here we go. Hold on. I don't want to talk about this. Okay. Okay. Coming in a little hot, sir.

Nice of you to answer, though. Listen, we're not trying to get into anybody's business here, especially anybody with a lot of money, because our lawyers aren't good enough to handle anything like that. Yeah, I know. It seems like we don't. The thing is, we're just reaching out because we need to get a general answer about what happened with Tilly and this guy that we're trying to get a hold of.

Yeah, because it started out romantic, and now it's feeling not so great. That's the thing you don't know is our friend Tilly was completely blown away by this gesture. I'm assuming from your boss, I still don't know if that's true yet. We still don't have closure here. But we're talking way too much, so I should just let you say something if you're still there. Oh, shit. Okay. What's going on?

What is the most unprofessional thing an assistant could say. Come on. Don't berate him. We're going to lose him again. All he can do his boss. Okay. Do you know what I'm talking about? With Tilly?

I do. Okay. Well, what's going on? Can you fill us in? Because we're very confused. Okay. So here's a deal. This got messed up.

It's way different than I thought it was going to go. Messed up. Wait. What got messed up? I'm not the guy that was on the treadmill. So you're the assistant. You're the assistant? Okay.

I'm an assistant. I'm an assistant at the gym. What? I'm still not following. Wait, you're a gym employee? You work at the gym? I'm the one that brought her the flowers. Oh, you're the one that rushed out and brought the flowers from the treadmill guy to her. With the note, yes. Okay.

Wait, why would she have your number? I thought she had the assistance number. Yeah. This whole thing got messed up. That's what I'm saying. The whole thing got messed up. What the whole thing? You're going to have to explain a little bit because we were under the impression. we were calling the assistant of the rich guy on the treadmill? I don't know if he has an assistant. I don't know. Do you have a name?

What's your name? Mitchell. Okay, Mitchell. Okay. So tell us what you do know. I know I've had a crush on her for two months. Oh, no. You've had a crush on Tilly?

Yeah. What's the heck? Wait, wait, wait. Were the flowers not from the guy? Were the flowers from you? Yes. Oh, my. Oh, God. Hold on. What's a treadmill guy? Where is he?

Okay, now I'm totally throwing off. I'm like mad now. What the heck? You're saying... The flowers were from him is what he's saying. Right. But I'd been planning to approach her for a couple of months. I did not know how to do it. Oh. Okay, because you see her in the gym because you work there. And I had flowers waiting for her that day. Oh. Okay.

So why didn't you take credit for the flowers? Because I'm not rich. When I walked out to give her the flowers, it was like she was seeing just an employee. She didn't even say she liked rich guys, though. People go to that gym to meet rich guys. Isn't she a rich girl? Mitchell, she goes to that gym because her work gives her a free membership there. That's why she goes to the gym.

And also to meet rich guys. No, to his credit, it can be both. So wait, why? I don't understand. still. I don't understand either. What is going on? Let's just break the facade and tell you because Mitchell,

Tilly has actually been listening to this call on the other line waiting to talk to, I mean, not necessarily you, but I guess, yeah, you. Well, she was waiting to talk to whoever gave her the flowers and the bracelet, which we haven't even gotten a close answer to.

Wait a minute, the bracelet. Okay, yeah. This is so crazy. Hold on. Let's clear this up. So you've had a crush on me, you were planning a big romantic gesture, and then while you were in the midst of doing it, you somehow decided that I was just a gold digger and that the best course of action would be to lie to me.

I mean, a gold, maybe bracelet digger. I wasn't just assuming you were a gold digger. Isn't that what you said? You said you came out and I looked at you like you were just an employee at the gym, even though you are an employee at the gym and I was just leaving the gym. Let's be honest, in the real world, you're not going out with a gym assistant. What? And as I was about to give you the flowers, I saw that look on your face, and that's when I knew that.

Oh, bro. Wow. That is so ridiculous. The look on my face would have been, why is the gym assistant running at me with flowers? Yeah. I mean, for you to put all this on me, you built this entire fantasy up in your head. over the course of two months only to just decide that that's what I want, but how dare I? Like, what are you even saying?

This doesn't make any sense. And that's why I didn't go to the coffee shop. I figured it would end something like this, and that's what happened. Okay. No, you didn't figure it would end something like this because you figured it would never start because you figured I was going to judge you based on your job or how much money you had. I really like you to focus just a little more, just a little more on the flowers and bracelet.

Mitchell, that was nice. You got to hear her. I'm going to tell you what. I'm going to return the bracelet because I don't care what anybody's job is, but if that's what you think of me, then there's nothing here. Oh. Mitchell, you dug your own grave, man. So are you saying I can't like just say hello to you anymore when you come to the

show? I can't imagine why you would want to at this point. Yeah. Yeah, bro. Yeah, dude. Well, it's his job if he's at the front. He might have to. He gets in trouble for me.

At least needs to, like, scan your card when you come in in a bare minimum. But, uh, okay. You need to have more confidence. She could have really fallen for you had you played this totally differently. I just, I think you're wrong there. I don't think it was going to happen. Michael, I'm going to tell you what you should do. Continue to judge people before you know them at all and see how well that works out for you.

Because clearly it's going great. That was sarcasm, Mitchell, if you didn't catch it. Yeah. Well, it's at this point that I would like to jump in and offer another date. I love when the most romantic stories end this way. Yeah. See, now, normally we would ask the person that we're calling, but in this situation, since so much has happened and things have changed, Tilly, we'll ask you first. Are you out of your mind? I only said that because Brooke was making me ask the question, so it's really her fault.

Yeah, that's always. How dare you, Brooke? Yeah, Brooke. That was really awesome. awful. So this called and go the way that we wanted it to go. But Mitchell, do you have any last words for us or for Tilly? Look, I'm so sorry this whole thing went this way. It was a misunderstanding from get-go. But Tilly, if you could just, next time you're at the gym, wipe down the equipment after you use it. Oh, he has been watching her the entire time.

You're that type of girl, Tilly? And now we're just spreading lies. I always wipe down my equipment. Okay. Okay. Well, at least Mitchell got a shot in on the way out. So there you go, Mitchell. Win for you. Brook and Jeffrey in the morning. This is a tape recorder statement.

The person being interviewed is Krista, Gail, and Pike. This is in regards to the death of a Colleen slimmer. She started going off on me, and I hit her. I just hit her and hit her and hit her and hit her. On a cold January day in 1995, 18-year-old Krista Pike killed 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in the woods of Knoxville, Tennessee. Since her conviction, Krista has been sitting on death row. The state has asked for an execution date for Krista. We let people languish in prison for decades, raising questions about who we consider fundamentally unrestorable.

How does someone prove that they deserve to live? We are starting the recording now. Please state your first and last name. Krista Pike. Listen to Unrestorable Season 2, Proof of Life. On the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. When news broke earlier this year that baby KJ, a newborn in Philadelphia, had successfully received the world's first personalized gene editing treatment, it represented a milestone for both researchers and patients. But there's a gripping tale of discovery behind this accomplishment and its creators.

I'm Evan Ratliff, and together with biographer Walter Isaacson, we're delving into the story of Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Dowdna, the woman who's helped change the trajectory of humanity. Listen to Aunt CRISPR, the story of Jennifer Dowdna with Walter Isaacson on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Well, that definitely blew up in the guy's face. It was a good lesson, though, to not assume things about people. Yeah, but if I am reading the same,

text board right, a lot of people are saying Tilly needed to give Mitchell a break. Really? She didn't go kind of hard. I felt bad for him. She waited 30 minutes for a coffee shop for him to not show up. Yeah, he ditched her. He never showed up. And then he accused her of being a gold digger without even knowing her.

Yeah, well, I understand that idea. But listen to this text at 7-8-5-9-2. Someone said, clearly Mitchell is a guy who does not value himself. He has low self-image, low self-esteem, but we should still see him for what he is. A regular guy who had a big crush on a girl for two months. Yes, he had a bad plan, but he has a good

heart. Yeah, but to me, that means you need to work on yourself and get yourself image up before you're, you got to love yourself, man, before you can love somebody else. That's just how it goes. Doesn't excuse leaving someone on a date. That is true. I mean, all that is really well said. I do hope Mitchell knows that he's not the worst person in the world before he buys a gift for his next gym crush and stocks her for two months. Don't buy them gifts immediately. He's like, I'm broke. What are you guys thinking? He's got a whole bracelet to re-gift.

He's good, man. And a whole gym full of hot women. There you go. And I also hope Mitchell subscribes to our YouTube page. And he listens to all of our second date updates while he's wiping sweat off of all the gym equipment. Yeah. Because you know those high-end clients don't do it themselves. No, they don't.

But go check that out. If you haven't, subscribe to our podcast, they're up available wherever you get yours at Broke and Jeffrey. On a cold January day in 1995, 18-year-old Christopi. 18-year-old Krista Pike killed 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in the woods of Knoxville, Tennessee. Since her conviction, Krista has been sitting on death row. How does someone prove that they deserve to live? We are starting the recording now. Please state your first and last name.

Krista Pike. Listen to Unrestorable Season 2, Proof of Life, on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I just normally do straight stand-up, but this is a bit different. What do you get when a true crime producer walks into a comedy club? Answer, a new podcast called Wisecrack, where a comedian finds himself at the center of a chilling true crime story. Does anyone know what show they've come to see? It's a story. It's about the scariest night of my life.

This is Wisecrack, available now. Listen to Wisecrack on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. When news broke earlier this year that Baby KJ, a newborn in Philadelphia, had successfully received the world's first personalized gene editing treatment, it represented a milestone for both researchers and patients. But there's a gripping tale of discovery behind this accomplishment and its creators. I'm Evan Ratliff, and together with biographer Walter Isaacson, we're delving into the story of Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Dowdna, the woman who's helped change the trajectory of human. Humanity. Listen to Aunt CRISPR, the story of Jennifer Dowdna with Walter Isaacson on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Hi, my name is Enya Humanzor. And I'm Drew Phillips. And we run a podcast called Emergency Intercom. If you're a crime junkie and you love crimes, we're not the podcast for you. But if you have unmedicated ADHD... Oh my God, perfect. And want to hear people with mental illness, psychobabble. Yes, yes.

Then Emergency Intercom is the podcast for you. Open your free IHeartRadio app. Search Emergency Intercom and listen now. What would you do if one bad decision forced you to choose between a maximum security prison or the most brutal boot camp designed to be hell on earth? Unfortunately from Mark Lombardo, this was the choice he faced. He said, you are a number, a New York State number, and we own you.

Listen to shock incarceration on the IHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.