Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update - Second Date Update: Quirky Lady

Episode Date: August 20, 2021

The woman in today’s Second Date is someone we’ll be talking about for years, all because of her one bizarre dating ritual!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Ready to laugh and stay informed? Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Moving 92.5. Second date update. If there's one word that describes our morning show, it's probably quirky. Yeah, I can see it. Either quirky or twerky.

I like the second word better. That's way more fun. Yeah, I mean, you never know what you're going to find one of us doing at any moment when you walk around a corner in the office. But I do think quirky describes us pretty well. And also one of our listeners, Jamie, describes herself as being quirky. In fact, it's right there in her online dating profile. So theoretically, we should get along great. Okay, yeah, well, sometimes.

Sometimes if we have too much in common, you don't get along at all. Yeah, you don't want too much quirk. Yeah. Let's meet her, though. What's up, Jamie? Hey, guys, what's going on? Oh, she's already quirky. Hey, Jamie.

I kind of like her. Me too. Well, tell us about the guy you want us to call, Jamie. What's his deal? Okay, so let me tell you a little bit about me, because then maybe you'll understand like my conundrum oh okay how quirky if you did not answer my question you want to talk about yourself that's okay no no no i don't mean that no it's okay this is all about

you this is your moment jamie you take it where you need to go yeah tell us about tell us about your past okay so here's the thing like i am super upfront about how on my profile or the second you lay eyes on me, it's obvious that I'm quirky. But the thing is, I don't think that guys, they don't really believe that until they actually meet me. Can I ask what would we see if we can't see you? So what are you talking about? The moment you lay eyes on you, you're quirky.

How would you be able to tell that? Okay. Okay. So like I have this thing, I'm really obsessed with numerology and the number seven. Okay. And so things like, you know, my parents are like old hippies. So like I'm barefoot and stuff all the time. And I have to walk into a building barefoot in seven steps or some interval of seven.

Okay. Well, I guess some would call that quirky. Some would call that unsanitary. There's a lot of different ways to look at it. We've established you definitely are quirky and you have rules of sevens. Now can we learn about the guy that you want us to call? What's his name? It's Clay.

Okay. He is a really nice guy, and we met on Tinder, and we had agreed that we were going to go to a restaurant. Okay, before we even get to the restaurant, does he know about your no-shoe walkthrough? I didn't think of that. Do you have to tell people that? I didn't, no.

Oh. Here we go. But it says in her profile that she's quirky, so he should just assume that weird stuff is going to happen. No, quirky is like Zooey Deschanel. That's more bubbly. Okay. So how did it go?

So anyway, I told you we agreed to meet at a restaurant, and I knew I was going to get there in time, but I texted him telling him that I would be late because like I also have this other ritual that I like to do and I do it anytime I have something really big happening like a date or like a job interview what is it I'm nervous yeah what do you do so I have to drive around the block seven times I know it sounds so OCD right oh my god what why is that I mean do you have a reason for it it's good luck it It's lucky seven. I'll give a weird defense to you right now because I don't think anyone in the room understands. I, every day, when I leave my car, no matter where I park, I have to put my volume on 12. I don't know why.

It started a long time ago. Look at that. Quirky. Part of that quirk that we're talking about on this show. I thought it was weird, but maybe not quirky. But I understand her in a way. Quirky. Part of that quirk that we're talking about on this show. I thought it was weird, but maybe not quirky. No. But I understand her in a way. The only thing that would be better if it was an interval of seven.

So if it was like 14 or 17. Oh, 14 would be good for you. Now you're weird. Oh, wow. Okay. Okay, so driving around the block. You drove around the block seven times before pulling into park at the restaurant. I did. And I have one last ritual that I do in the park.

Oh, there's another one that's okay what do you got jamie wow so i love the song i've got a feeling i gotta feel it yeah okay so i'm like i have to listen to it beginning to end and then i just walk in with my bare feet and i'm like grooving i'm like you are such a free spirit. I mean, I don't know how long we've been talking and all we've gotten to is you've entered through the front door of the restaurant.

It's been 70 minutes. She's going to take an hour and a half of preparation just to get to the dinner. So let's, let's go fast forward. You're sitting down with Clay at the restaurant. After you circled the table seven times, what's the next ritual? How did that go?

Okay. So I got there. And like I said, he's like this super nice guy. And I said, I'm sorry I'm late. And then I filled him in on everything I just told you. In the first minute of meeting him, you give him all of it. What? I was quirky.

Come on. I'm sure he learned that very fast. It's just a lot of information to take in. It's true, but Brooke has always said honesty is the best policy. It's true. I'm not saying that she should lie, but at what point did you start learning about him?

And how did he react, I guess, is a better question. What did he say? He didn't seem like he was put off by it. We kept talking and then we ordered some food and i just like went total junk food i was like yes let's get the mozzarella sticks but i was like i know it says eight on the menu but could you just like throw one away no you didn't because you wanted an odd number she wanted seven sorry brooke's brain is overloaded with quirkiness right now she's not used to this normally I would ask in this situation can you think of anything weird or unusual that you may have

done on the date that may have come off a little bit strange but I think we covered that yeah um maybe too much chicken oh you guys you guys guys I did not tell you about the whole tip thing. Oh, my God. What was the tip thing? What tip thing? Tip 7%. So, you know, because he was so nice and he paid for dinner, I said, oh, my God, could I please leave the tip? Good move.

That's nice. I love it when people offer that. So I was sitting there, like, trying to pull out the cash in my wallet, and I just was kind of leafing through it. And he's like, are you okay? And I was like, no, no like no no I'm totally fine I just can't decide whether I want to leave 35 or 28 dollars 35 or 20 okay multiples of seven yeah sorry Alexis sorry I'm back on track now yeah those third grade multiplication tables. Okay. Why was that weird?

You know, I was just taking a little too long, you know, and he was like, oh, just give her $35. And then he handed me some other cash and we, you know, walked out and it was great. Oh, good. That sounds natural. I mean, that sounds easy, actually. How did you end the night? Well, he walked me to my car very gentlemanly. And I was worried that I had come across not just like of my normal course but

a little high maintenance you know what i mean like i mean you do have a lot of demands and specifications and that's fine i mean if you're high maintenance you're high maintenance and i think that if you can embrace that and know that that is you then other people are able to do the same thing not high maintenance brooke she's maintenance, Brooke. She's quirky. Gosh. Thank you. I mean, yeah, we support it. And so here's what we're going to do. We're going to play a song seven times.

And then when we come back. Everyone take your shoes off. We'll come back. And your car, too. We're going to play one song. We'll come back. And we'll call Clay for you to try and get your second date update. Okay?

Okay. Thank you guys so much. All right, hold on. Moving 92.5. Second date update. It may be the quirkiest second date update in our show's history. And if you missed the first part, one of our listeners, Jamie, told us she's quirky and she has a few good luck rituals that she does on all her dates, all revolving around her lucky number seven.

She drives around the block seven times. She has to take seven steps into the building while being barefoot. She paid her tip $35, which Alexis just learned is a multiple of seven. But now Jamie's worried that maybe she over-quirked herself on the date. Oh, no. It was too quirk-tastic. Okay. We need to move past this quirky work.

It's hard to move past it. I think we can. I think we can do it, Jeff. Yeah. But now Jamie's wanting us to reach out to Clayton and see if the quirks were too much. How you feeling, Jamie? I gotta feel it.

She's got the Fergie thing too. I forgot to mention that's also one of her quirks that she has to listen to that song before a big date. You know, although Jamie, it feels like a lot, you know, for a first date, but you also are incredibly positive. You sound super fun and you do own it all, you know, and you're not forcing anybody else to participate in your seven ritual. Exactly. I think we can get you a second date. Thank you. I'm so excited. Well, let's give it a shot. We're going to call Clayton right now. I'm only going to call him once. You don't have any

dialing rituals, right? Oh, seven tone numbers. There are seven numbers in the phone number. So maybe that's enough. Yeah, there you go. That's it. There's seven digits and I've already done my seven jumping jacks, so all is good. No. Alright, I'm going to've already done my seven jumping jacks. So all is good. Okay. All right. I'm going to dial it right now. Here we go.

Hello? Hey, I'm looking to speak with Clay. Who's this? My name is Jeffrey from the radio show Broken Jeffrey in the morning. So I hope we're not waking you up. No, you're not waking me up. Oh, this is your normal voice. Yeah, no, no.

I'm answering a number I don't know. Yeah, sorry. We appreciate the risk you just took there. Yes. We do. We understand what it's like picking up an unknown number. You're very brave. I'm just going to let you know

we're the radio show Broken Jeffrey in the Morning, and we're doing a segment called The Second Date Update that we would like you to be a part of. I've got to be honest, I have no idea what you're talking about. Okay, well, it's all right. Let me just fill you in on how this works. Basically, if you go out on a date with somebody, and afterwards, if that person isn't calling you back, you can email our show, and we'll reach out to them for you to try and figure out the reason why. So somebody emailed us trying to get a hold of you.

Her name is Jamie. Okay. All right. And Jamie told us all about the date that you guys had and how things went from her perspective. And she said she had a really nice time with you. She told you all about it? What did she tell you? She told us a lot.

A lot. She admits herself that she's a little bit quirky and she has some good luck rituals that she likes to do during a date and it sounds like in the first like minute she dumped all these facts on you yeah um admittedly it was a lot but i mean like i get it i gotta say that i applaud her honesty and bravery which was nice you know you don't often see that a lot okay so you liked her then yeah i mean honestly like there were some weird things like she does she's got some odd things what's the one thing that really stuck out to you is as the most quirky unusual well the only thing that she

really said that really kind of caught me off guard was, like, at the end of the date, we were saying our goodbyes, we're out by our car. We've already agreed that we're going to see each other again. Oh. And then she told me that one of her quirks, as we say, is that she doesn't like to get, shall we say, romantic until date number 21. Whoa! What? Yeah, here's the thing. I totally understand that.

I just am not certain that I'm capable of waiting that long because between our schedules, it might be a year and a half. Yeah, but okay, slow down. I mean, does she mean all of the romantic or are you even talking about, like, kissing and other things? She kind of generalized it, but it seemed like pretty much anything physical, 21 dates. Oh.

But why? I mean, I don't see it as terrible. It's not like she's saying that she's never going to go. How many people do you even make it on 21 dates? You guys, no, I'm trying to be open minded here. Yes, of course. I'm the person in the room that obviously would not do this. This is not something I would choose.

But everybody has their boundaries and ways they feel like they can connect with people and feel safe. And so did she give you a reason? That's just part of her thing. And again, nothing against it. I'm not certain that I can wait that long. And it's not fair to her to, you know, string her along or what. You haven't even gone on a second date yet. And don't you think that you decide that?

Don't you think that you should tell her that you're not OK with her 21 date rule if that's how you feel? Dude, if I say something like that, I sound like a total jerk. You know, I'm like, oh, yeah, I'd love to date you again, but I don't want to wait a year and a half. Like, come on, man. I sound like an a**hole if I say that. I don't know if that's true. The only way to know that is if we ask Jamie. Jamie, do you think that he sounded like a total jerk when he said that?

What are you talking about, man? She's not with me right now. Well, no, actually, she kind of is because I need to let you know that Jamie's been on the other line listening, and she wants to talk to you. No, s***. Are you serious right now? Yeah. I'm serious. Jamie? Hi. Hi, everybody. Hi, Clay.

You don't sound mad, Jamie. You're upset about him not liking the 21-day rule. I'm just surprised that he brought it up at all because it's so personal, so intimate. That's why I didn't tell you about it earlier. But of course I'm not mad. I hadn't even thought about the calendar problem of it all. That's totally true because in my head, and I know I totally did not tell you this,

but if we did three things, like we went to a botanic garden, and then we went to lunch, and then we went for a walk. That's like three days. Oh. What? Did you hear that, Clay? So you're saying we can check off these things. If we have multiple destinations in the same day, we could narrow it down to where it's not like a year and a half is what you're saying?

I mean, be careful how you answer this jamie because he's trying to find a shortcut to get to 21 activities as quickly as possible you go to dinner you have coffee to start that's one date you have dinner that's second dessert i would go i would take her to a carnival i'd be like we did the balloon booth and we did the ring toss jamie your date math to get you in trouble. Does this count as a date, Jamie, in your mind? You know what? It's probably my most unconventional date to date. So, yeah, definitely.

All right. So, look at that. It's quirky. We have two dates out of the way already. Yeah. Bang, bang. I feel like the way you told it to me originally, like, I don't want to make you do something you don't want to do.

Yeah, Clay's got to play. Oh, my God. No. That's not what he's saying. No, he was actually saying something like it's almost impossible to get any guy to say, which is he actually cares about what I like and what I need. That's so kind and gentlemanly of you. That's the first half of what he said. The second half was, but I'm not willing to wait that long. Okay, but listen, listen, Jamie, I mean, I think the thing is, is that sticking to a certain number of anything is going to make life very rigid.

And it's not going to make things feel natural between you two of how chemistry evolves and how you two change your attitudes towards each other. And I could totally respect that opinion. But I'm me and I'm honest and I'm upfront and I'm quirky. And it's totally fine if that does not like work or vibe or jive with whatever is going on for clay or like anybody else right yeah i mean you do you baby okay i mean clay do you like her more right now than you thought you even did before because she is really positive i mean you're starting to understand the things that

i adored about her the first time like i said she's got quirks but she's an amazing person like she's she's totally likable and we've already talked long enough we're already at like date number three at least i was wondering what date number they were on so changing the topic of conversation counts as a new thing. You know, Jeff, there's a lot of ways you can follow rules, okay? A lot of loopholes here. That's a good thing. More than one way to skin a cat. Okay. Well, let's change

up the conversation topic one more time and offer to send you guys out on another date. We don't know what number it is. I don't know where we're at now, but we're going to offer to pay for it. Clay, what do you say? Like I said, you know, I'm fine with the normal waiting for 3, 5, 7, etc. That's not normal.

The other people have quirks too. They just don't have to be in the intervals of 7s at minors. I'm done with the number 7. I heard Clay say yes. That's the important part. That's what I heard. Focus on that, Jeffrey. Jamie, are we still on? Oh yeah, I'm done with the number seven. I heard Clay say yes. That's the important part. That's what I heard. Okay, focus on that, Jeffrey.

Jamie, are we still on? Oh, yeah, I'm definitely going out with him. Are you kidding? All right. Successful second date update. Say it seven times to make it real. I'm going out with him. I'm going out with him.

I'm going out with him. No. Okay. Yay. Why do I love her? 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'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. Jon Stewart is back at The Daily Show and he's bringing his signature wit and insight straight to your ears with The Daily Show Ears Edition podcast. Dive into John's unique take on the biggest topics in politics, entertainment, sports, and more. Joined by the sharp voices of the show's correspondents and contributors.

And with extended interviews and exclusive weekly headline roundups, this podcast gives you content you won't find anywhere else. Ready to laugh and stay informed? Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.