Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update - Second Date Update PODCAST: Weirdest Guy Ever

Episode Date: April 4, 2017

Today's Second Date Update could end in one of TWO ways: a beautiful love story...or a federal RESTRAINING order. The guy on the phone creeped out not just his date, but everyone in the studio. Find out why by tuning into the podcast!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Moving 92.5. Ruck and Jubels, second date update. People often talk about the one that got away. Yeah. Well, you know, people wouldn't use that expression if they'd be smart about it. And when that one gets away, you hunt them down and catch them. So they'll never leave you again and they will be yours forever. I feel like that involves duct tape and it shouldn't.

And that's why Craig is on the phone for a second date update today. His email says that he went out with a girl about a year ago and then she slipped out of his grasp. Run, girl! And so now he wants to hunt her down and make sure that she never leaves his side again. What's up, Craig? Hey, guys. How you guys doing? Good. Are you ready to hunt down the one that got away? Oh, my God.

Oh, yes. I have to get her. You know, it's just destiny. We were destined to be together. What are you talking about? I was joking around about the creepy part, but you talking about? She's not, what? I was joking around about the creepy part. She's not a deer. You sound just straight up creepy, Craig.

Yeah, dude. I'm just saying, you know, when you have just the connection that we had, it was so perfect. Are you screwing with us right now, Craig? Yeah. No, honestly, we hung out like a year ago and then I called her and she never called me back

and her phone was disconnected and I just couldn't get in touch with her. And then I randomly see her at a bar I just saw hanging out with her friends I had to go over there I had to talk to her. Okay Craig I know that I'm very sarcastic with people and I mess with people a lot but I feel like now you're screwing with me. Oh no it was it was wonderful you had to be there. I was at an antique shop. You were at an antique shop? Yes an antique shop. Okay so you're saying that's where you met her? No, I was just collecting some things, and I was at an antique shop.

Okay, help me with this. So you said you went out with her a year ago, and then why are you talking about an antique shop right now? Because I loved antiques, and she loved antiques. That's where I met her. And then I saw her just picking out some things. And I was like, let me help you out. And it was perfect. What?

I am so confused. Did you actually go on a date with this girl a year ago? Or did you just talk to her in some random antique shop? I asked her afterwards if she wanted to get coffee. And she said yes. Okay. We're just destined for each other, you guys. Oh, my gosh.

You are really creeping me out. Really bad right now. How am I creepy? I'm just, I'm talking to you. That's how I talk. You're talking about destiny and love over a girl you met a year ago that you had a 15-minute coffee date with? Yeah, you weren't there. It was amazing.

It was beautiful. And by the way, we've had second date updates like this before where someone said, I saw a person walking by. We shared a glance and I'm in love. And Brooke, you've been like, oh my God, this is going to be amazing. But you didn't talk about chasing them down for a whole year and hunting them down in another spot. I talked about the hunting down.

I don't know. I don't know who's talking about what, but I don't like it. Craig never said he hunted anybody down. Craig, you didn't hunt her down, right? I Googled her. No. I wasn't hunting her. Everybody Googles people or Facebook stalks them.

You didn't legitimately stalk this person, right? No. Like I was saying, I Googled her. I went on her Facebook. I looked for her friends, and I just followed her. I mean, it wasn't creepy, though. You followed her online or in person. Now I'm starting to decide with Brooke and say that we can't do the second date update because you're stalking somebody. I am going with my gut on this one. I was just walking around and I happened to see the bar that she usually goes to and I just stopped by. And that's where I ran into her.

Oh, yeah. Because you normally know where a person hangs out all the time when you just go to coffee with them. Yes, we had a conversation. We talked. I'm not creepy. You're making it sound like I'm creepy. We talked for a while and we'd go get coffee. She told me her favorite bar and I thought, hey, maybe she might be there.

Okay. So you didn't fully stalk her. You knew her favorite places to go and you just went hoping that she would show up. Yeah, isn't that what we all do? Okay, so here's going to be the key in this whole puzzle. What was her reaction to seeing you? Because of the feelings mutual, I'll give you a pass. She was very surprised.

In a good way or a bad way? I believe it was a good way. I mean, she saw me, I bought her a drink, and we talked for an hour. Okay, so she hung out with you for an hour. All right. To me, that would say that she likes you. Yes. At least a little bit. Thank you. Or you were following around the bar and she couldn't get away.

Bro, drop it! How was the conversation? We caught up. I asked what she's been doing for a year, what happened to her phone, how is her friends doing on Facebook. Well, you asked her all that stuff? What? Hold on. You checked in on her friends on Facebook.

Wait, so you grilled her about where her phone was and her friends on Facebook and everything. Look, it's not weird. You're making it sound weird. I didn't know how to reach out to her. So that was the best way I could do it because, you know, I had to find out where she was. So I had to talk to her friends on Facebook. But I was very caring and her phone was disconnected. How else was I supposed to reach her?

Okay. Oh, my gosh. Well, let me ask you this. It's a long story, I know. But how did everything end with her the last time you saw her or talked to her? Well, the last time I saw her, it ended normally. She said she was going to call me and and then I didn't hear a call, so I decided to call her, and her phone was disconnected again.

Her phone is disconnected again? Yes. Okay, you guys realize that she's disconnecting her phone because she doesn't want to hear from this weirdo? No, maybe. That's not true. You never know. It could be just a wacky coincidence. No! No! I am protecting her. I'm thankful that we can't get a...

We're not going to be able to get a hold of her. She has a disconnected phone. Oh, I didn't think of that. Actually, I reached out to one of her friends, and she's giving me a different number. What? Frank did that? She gave you a different number for... Okay.

Yes. Dang. All right, Craig. Well, hold on the phone, okay? We're going to play a song. Come back. Oh, we should not do this. And get your second date update, all right?

I'm so surprised you're doing this, but thank you. Thank you so much. I feel like doing this is just a public service. All right, hang on the phone. Moving 92.5. Brooke and Jubal in the morning. Second date update. I have never heard such a beautiful love story.

Oh, my gosh. Like the one for today's second date update. Craig is on the phone with us, and today he wants to call a girl named Jennifer. Craig went out with her about a year ago, and after they went out, somehow her number got changed or disconnected, and he couldn't get a hold of her for a whole year. And then cut to a year later, Craig is at one of the bars that she frequents a lot and he runs into her. Oh, what a coincidence. And then she has drinks with Craig. Yeah.

And then after that, her number's disconnected again. What a strange coincidence. It's a mystery. But Craig didn't let that stop him. Yeah. He persevered. Yeah. He ended up hitting up one of her friends to get her new number, and now we're about to call her and find out why she's not calling Craig back.

Craig, does it maybe dawn on you that she wants nothing to do with you? She's never said those exact words to me, okay? And I refuse to believe that until she says it. Okay. Yeah, people change their number all the time. All the time. It's crazy. So if we make this phone call and she says, never talk to me again, you will, honest to

God, honor that request. Of course. I'm not a creepy stalker. Okay. Okay. All right, man. Well, I'm going to dial her phone number and get her on the phone and find out why she's not calling you back.

God bless you. There we go. Oh, my gosh. Hello? Hi, is Jennifer there? This is her. Hey Jennifer, this is Jubal from Brooke and Jubal in the Morning. How are you? I'm good. What's going on today? How's your day going everything cool everything's good wonderful just calling to check in is this some kind of joke that you're playing no it's not a joke at all you went out on a date with a guy recently and he liked you so much that he emailed us to see if we could get you on the phone and find out why you're not calling him back.

Okay. I haven't really been on a date recently, though. Actually, this, you know what, this is actually two dates you've been out on with this dude. Who, who emailed you? Who is this? Well, I'll start out by saying you went out with him over a year ago. A year ago? Yeah, and you guys just reconnected. His name craig oh my gosh i'm so sorry are you kidding me oh my god i'm so freaking out for you right now

oh my god how the did he get this number i have a different number i changed my number yeah he told us that actually he got your number now because apparently he hit up one of your friends on Facebook and they gave him your new number. I'm sorry, what? Yeah. I don't know which friend it is. We need to find that out. We need to block them.

I cannot believe someone would give my number out without even asking me. So I'm going to take a shot in the dark here and just guess that you don't like craig very much that's a good guess yes is there a reason why uh i don't know what you know already but i met him at an antique store and he was there because he i guess also likes antiques but the entire conversation i wish that i could remember word for word what exactly he said. But it was so, so strange. He would ask me about, like, previous relationships were like. And I'd be like, well, this is kind of what has happened in my life.

And he'd be like, well, when I'm your boyfriend, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Not like if I was your boyfriend, but when I'm your boyfriend. And I was like, okay, that's a little too intense for me, especially in the first half hour of meeting someone. Jennifer, that's the power of positive thinking. No! You say you're already doing it, and you'll do it. It'll happen.

Why didn't you run just then? I mean, just even those words alone are enough to be a trigger point for me. It was a trigger for me. And he reached out to me over 70 times through text and Facebook and then I disconnected my number so that he couldn't get to me through my phone number anymore.

Over 70 times? How long of a time span are we talking about? Just like a couple days? This was over the entire year. It doesn't matter. 70 messages over the course of a year all ignored. That you never replied to. Nope, not a single reply. What did you do when you saw him in the bar?

I would have pissed myself. I heard his voice first, and I instantly knew who it was. He was behind me, and he said, hey, Jennifer. And I was like, literally, the pit of my stomach dropped out because I knew it was him. And I turned around, and I didn't know what to do. I'm sure my face was pure shock. Oh my god, and terror! Because I didn't know what to do, so I just said hi, and then he

sat down next to me, and he sat there for almost an hour talking to me. And then luckily I was meeting someone, and they showed up and we left and went to a different place. Yeah, because it's not like you can just leave the bar. He's going to follow you, and then that's even creepier because you're in a back alley a different place. Yeah, because it's not like you can just leave the bar. He's going to follow you, and then that's even creepier because you're in a back alley somewhere with him.

Hey, where are you going? Exactly. Here's my question, though, Jennifer. Why did you give him your number again? That's a good one. Oh, yeah. Jennifer? Well, I didn't know what to do because I felt like those sorts of situations,

I'm very uncomfortable because I hate to say no to people. So I was like, I'm going to see him again. Is it going to be more awkward if I don't give him my number and like, I turn him down at this bar in front of everyone? Or should I just like give him my number and then avoid him like I did last time and just ignore the situation, which is probably not the healthiest approach, but I wasn't sure what to do. Hey, I don't blame you. Whatever you needed to do to get out of it, I am fully supportive of you. So basically, he's a weirdo who loves himself some Jennifer, and Jennifer does not love herself some Craig. No, I do not love myself some Craig.

Jennifer, I need to let you know, he is on the other line listening to this conversation. Sorry. What? And he wants to talk to you, but... Oh, my God. I will not put him on the phone unless you want to talk to him because at this point i feel like he could be a weird stalker dude you make the call on that i

can just hang up on him or if you like want to just tell him off one last time you can it's up to you i i mean i guess at this point i guess he heard everything which is what i was kind of avoiding so maybe this i maybe I should just tell him. This is at least not face-to-face. I'm not afraid of him. I'm not afraid of him on the phone with you guys. Yeah, don't hang up on the crazy stalker. I mean, you don't want to make him angry.

Craig? Craig, are you there? Hey, guys. Hey, Craig. Craig! Craig, did you hear what Jennifer was saying? I heard. Maybe I did something wrong.

Maybe. Jennifer, hi. How you doing? Hi, Craig. It's great to hear your voice again. I'm so glad I got in touch with you. Oh, my God. Okay, listen. I honestly don't know what to say to you. When I saw you at the bar, I was a little overwhelmed and shocked because I have been avoiding you.

And I'm sorry if that hurts your feelings, but you're very intense. And maybe someone will appreciate that intensity. I do not, however. I find it to be very odd. And it's a little overwhelming. But we got coffee. We had a good time. I'm not saying that we didn't.

It was nice chatting with you. It was fine. But I'm not interested in you. And I will was nice chatting with you. It was fine. But I'm not interested in you. And I will never, ever, ever want to date you. Ever. Not going to happen. That's really clear, Craig. You cannot mishear that.

I just don't understand. I mean, we had a great time. You were there. I was there. We got a drink. You're too intense. I changed my number twice so that you could not get a hold of me i thought i thought something just happened to your phone and you

had to change in line i nope nope that was me on purpose so you don't want to date me no i do not at all you. You know what, Jennifer? You're being very clear, and obviously you don't want to date or get more coffee. So I'll leave you alone. I'm sorry. Hey! Are you serious about that, Craig? Yeah.

I mean, if she don't want me to bother her, she's just told me. She didn't have to change her number twice. What? So you're what, like a reasonable crazy person yeah i'm not a crazy person you never said nothing to me she didn't respond over 70 times i thought you were busy if she would have said she didn't want to see me i would have stopped oh my gosh i wish i would have known that That's a lot easier than what I was doing. See?

Oh, my gosh. Craig, I just need to ask again. I wouldn't feel right if I didn't get clarification again. You're over it then? You're not going to try to hit her up anymore? Yeah, she has nothing to worry about. She wants Craig out of her life. Craig's out of her life.

Okay. Wow. I almost believe him. I guess I'm glad. I'm sorry, but I think this was for the best. Jennifer, for future reference, if you don't want to deal with men, just tell them. You know what they'll do? They'll leave you alone.

Okay. Good advice. I'd still be changing your number one more time, Jennifer. I might, actually Craig, I'm sorry you didn't get a second date out of the deal But at least now you're free to move on Yeah, I guess I mean, I spent my whole year looking for her I feel so stupid

Oh my god I think we all kind of do, Craig I think we all kind of do Broken Jubal in the morning Text in at 78592 that says, This is why communication is important, people. Tell people how you feel. Don't avoid the truth.

And you won't have crazy stalkers or unresolved feelings. It's Brooke and Jubal in the morning talking about today's second date update. Craig is kind of a weird dude. Let's be honest about that. But Craig wanted to call a girl named Jennifer. They met about a year ago, and he has been in love with her ever since. And he finally reconnected with her, probably because he stalked her online and found out where she was. And by probably, you mean exactly why, after she changed her number twice and tried to get away from him.

And he kept bugging her to meet up up and go out and she wasn't responding to anything. So we got the two on the phone. He was very he's creepy. Okay, I get that. But she said, look, I'm not interested in you. And then he goes, oh, you should have just said so.

So her mistake changing the number and everything else should have been a clue that she wasn't interested. But she never outright said to him, I don't want to go out with you. She just avoided him, changed her number, and he didn't get it for whatever reason. So she said that to him at the end and he was like, oh, yeah, cool. That's all you needed to say. You should have just been honest because I thought maybe it was an accident that you changed your number and didn't let me know.

I love how people are texting in, oh, it's totally Jennifer's fault for having a crazy stalker. Yeah, because she wasn't clear with the way she felt. No, they had coffee for 15 minutes, people. This guy is creepy and she still needs to do some sort of like, I don't know, go into hiding. He sounded perfectly rational at the end. No, I think he'd be a good guy to date because if you ever go missing, he will keep looking for you. He will find you.

He knows and has closure, right? He will find you. All he needed was a little bit of closure. Yeah. And he's like, all right, fine. I'm done. Screw you for not being honest. I wasted two years investing in this relationship.

Remember, if you want to do a second date update, all you have to do is email the show, and we will call the person who didn't call you back. And I hope we all learned a lesson about honesty today. That is not the lesson. Just be honest. Moving 92.5. 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 at 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.