Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update - Second Date Update: Relationship Recipe Fail (#2)

Episode Date: December 27, 2024

One of our listeners paid to fly a woman out to meet him… and the date went so bad she bought her own flight home a day early!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Guys, you always rag on my... I am a good cook. I am inviting you all over for dinner this year. That's my 2025 resolution. Yes, to punish everybody with a sautéed moret blue cheese fondue. She's good at cooking. It's the tasting that goes bad. Yeah, and just the visual appeal

needs some work. But listen to it in our number two second date update. It's called Relationship Recipe Fail. Enjoy. Second date update. Nowadays, most people who are on Facebook use it to either stalk their exes to find out who they're dating now. Okay. Purchase discount Chinese-made products off the marketplace,

or angrily scream their political beliefs in all caps while vowing to unfriend anyone who disagrees with them. Everything that's happening in the world. This all checks out. This all checks out, Jeffrey.

Apparently, there are some people who still use Facebook to find love. I'm also in that category. Are they not in the senior center? It could be because that's what happened to one of our listeners, Eric. Eric, which extremist chat group did you meet your lady in? We met on the comment sections of a Facebook group called Gross Food. Gross Food. Gross Food. Oh, okay.

I think that is the only thing left that's fun on Facebook are the funny groups you can be part of. That and the Brooke and Jeffrey Facebook page. It's a lot of fun. That's a lot of fun. Yeah, you should go follow if you haven't already. But tell us, Eric, about the girl that you met. What's her name? Samantha. Okay. Samantha, okay. already but uh tell us eric about the girl that you met what's her name samantha okay samantha

what's funny is that i wanted to ask first about the gross food that you both commented on yeah actually i was thinking that okay what was it yeah it was this uh chili burger and it just it looked awful oh yeah someone's chili is like a weird brownish not a real for liquid photograph friendly food that is definitely for sure actually eric sent us a picture of the oh he did of the chili so here it is i printed it out it looks absolutely it's runny chili it looks like somebody took two buns and then reached into a porta potty basically i mean it lives up that. I will say. It lives up to the gross food filter that you needed to post. Yeah.

Pretty disgusting. How did you guys start talking about it? She was like, is it bad that I want to put that in my face? And I was like, 20 bucks. Can I watch? Hey.

Oh. You guys were meant for each other. I love it. Because after I saw that, oh, wow, that's a visual. I mean,

I still eat it. It just looks gross. So did you actually, like, you actually parlayed that into a date? Well, yeah, sort of. I mean, we started DMing for a while, and I really did want to hang out. But she told me that she doubted I could actually watch her eat it because we live, like, 300 miles apart. Oh, right. I was going to say, like, what are the chances you're in the same city?

That's what video chat dates are for. Yeah. That's true. Video chat eating this? Is that what you guys did? No, so we stayed friends on Facebook for a few weeks and mostly just talked about food and getting to know each other and stuff.

And I was finally like, hey, what if I fly you out over my way and we try to cook a chili burger together? Nice. Oh, you're going to cook that thing together? You're going to fly her out? my way and we try to cook a chili burger together. Nice. You're going to cook that thing together? That's what you're thinking? I'm thinking she's going to spend a whole weekend with a stranger that she met on Facebook. She can get a hotel or he can get her a hotel.

They also talked for a few weeks he said before he made that offer. Still a lot of time with one person. She was kind of surprised but she eventually said okay and we chose the weekend to do it wow so you guys spent a whole weekend together yeah kind of what was it like when you picked her up at the airport well i offered but she didn't want me to oh you know she has some like see if she's just trying to get or she's just trying to

get a free weekend vacation. It could be. She's like, I'm Ubering into the hotel. I'll be fine. Yeah. A lot of times we don't look our best as soon as we get off of an airplane. So maybe she needed some time to collect herself before the actual date started. That's a good point. Yeah.

So, I mean, when did you guys finally meet up? She came over to my place and we had the same chemistry that we had online. Nice. Good. That's really important dude yeah but uh then the disappointment started oh why who was disappointed both of you or both of us yeah the recipe was just awful so the one that we found said that you should bake the burger like the raw meat and the chili and the cheese and everything together all wrapped inside

a tin foil oh that sounds so mushy and disgusting. No wonder it looks so awful in the picture. I mean, you're following recipes based on gross food pictures. Like, what are you expecting to get? That was the hilarious point, right? Like, let's recreate it. But why would you be disappointed? I mean, how did that turn out?

I mean, after an hour, it was a total mess. It was horrible, and it just wasn't done. So we put it back in the mean, after an hour, it was a total mess. It was horrible. And it just wasn't on. So we put it back in the oven. And we tried cooking it some more and thought we'd eat it again later. But she said it was getting late. And she should go back to her hotel. Okay.

Wow. But I was like, you know, you can stay over. It's all right if you want. That sounds romantic. What a sweet talker. I mean, was there any chemistry between you two? Like, you're watching a show, nothing happened, there was no... Yeah, there was good chemistry at the beginning of it, but, like, as the anticipation for this nightmare burger

that we've been waiting for and talking about for weeks just rose, I just got nervous. Wow. So the horrible food that you planned to make Was so horrible That it actually ruined the date Yeah Gross emotionally as well

How did you end things that night? Well I got real nervous And I was like you want to play a board game So I started pulling some out and stuff But she wasn't into it I don't want to fly to a new city to play board games inside. I feel like you should have taken her out at that point, like shown her

around. Totally. Let's go to a real restaurant and let's get some good food. I don't know. Playing Candyland with a stranger in his apartment could be kind of fun. That sounds like Facebook, honestly. That's what I expect. It's full circle. Yeah, he's like, you want to play Fargo? I don't know so did you guys

meet up the next day nah she took her early flight home and that was it oh wow dude brutal

something she even paid the change fee to make it happen I know you're desperate to get out when that happens so

this is uh looking kind of bleak at the moment but we we've started off with worse. Do you like her still? Yeah, of course. I mean, that's why I reached out.

I mean, I wanted another chance at something that isn't going to go terrible. Well, and you had chemistry the very beginning. Before you cooked, you said you felt the same chemistry. So there's something there, but you've got to find it, bro. We're going to help you find it. We're going to play a song. We'll come back, call Samantha for you, and get your second date update right after this, all right? Awesome.

Thanks. All right. Hold on. Second date update. How do two people hundreds of miles apart have a common bond? I'll tell you how. Sounds deep, Jeffrey. It's through gross-looking food.

Yeah. Because that's where they met, on a Facebook group dedicated to ugly meals. We're talking about Eric and Samantha. They both commented on the same chili burger, and sparks flew from there. It's romantic. Isn't life amazing that people can connect that way now? Yeah, I actually do love that. Any type of food connection is great. I will continue to stay off Facebook.

This didn't do it for you. No, you don't belong there. Flash forward to their wedding and it's like, I married this woman because we both commented on a burger that looks like it was found in an outhouse at Coachella. I love this woman. There's chili burgers all over. Everyone's eating chili burgers. You guys are getting way ahead of yourselves. We couldn't even get through one successful night.

After he paid for a plane ticket, for God's sake. You can focus on all the negative stuff, but I think life is pretty great. That's good, Jeff. I'm imagining their six-tier chili cake. It might not be that great, because they did try to recreate the recipe that they saw online, which took so long that Samantha left and went back to her hotel and then rebooked her flight home for the next morning.

What's your take on this type of messy love? Maybe she just wasn't as dedicated to gross food as you thought. You know, she just dropped it. She was an imposter in the group. Yeah, I mean, I'm just saying. Eric, you hear that? You're too good for her. Maybe she actually likes attractive food.

Yeah, I mean, we had a great conversation for like multiple weeks about it. So I think we're on the same page. Yeah, that's true. You guys. Just a long way for that still to be a thing, though. Like the joke that should have ended. Yeah.

Did you connect over other things? Yeah, I mean, we talked about a bunch of stuff over the phone and via text and stuff. Yeah, Brooke, a bunch of stuff. A stuff. Okay. They connected over stuff. Another group they're in. Yeah, a bunch of stuff.

A bunch of stuff. That's gross. A lot of hoarders in that group. All right. Now we're going to ask her a bunch of stuff when we call Samantha and try and get the second date update for you. All right, Eric, here we go. Yeah, definitely, please. And like, I know you guys normally do like gift cards or something, but if you could get her just a flight out, that'd be great.

Let's slow it down, Eric. Have you looked at a radio station's budget lately? Yeah, here's 300 Delta gift cards. We'll work on it. Okay. Let's just dial her number and see what she has to say. Here we go. Hello?

Hey, is this Samantha? Yeah. Hey, Samantha, what's up? This is Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning. Oh, yeah. She may not listen. I don't know if we're on in your city. Yeah.

We're on in a lot of cities, Samantha. Yeah, we're a radio show. Hi. A radio show? Yeah. And we do a segment here called A Second Date Update, and we're trying to help one of our listeners get in touch with you after you went out really far for him.

You flew 300 miles to hang out with him. Eric called you? Yes. Yes. He thinks you're fantastic that's so weird i don't know like it sounds like he went a long ways to make sure that you could come visit him he played for well technically she went a long ways to visit him but you guys had a big connection like why would you say yes to an entire weekend with somebody if you didn't? Oh, my God.

This is, like, really awkward to talk about this generally, but, like, I don't even know if you guys are real people. You got us. We are robots. That was so dorky. I loved it. I loved it. That joke is so bad. Only a human could have possibly come up with that.

Yeah. We're real. We're real, and we're seriously trying to help out one of our listeners because he's really confused after your hangout. He does not know why you ran back to your hotel and then booked a flight home the next morning. Yeah, I know, but, like, did Eric tell you the story? I don't know.

I mean, we heard about you guys are going to make a chili burger at his apartment and it was taking way longer than expected. It started to get late. He tried pulling out some board games and you had to go. That's all we really know. I had to go because he kept asking me to stay the night and that was

the first time we met. He said he mentioned that he told you he could stay but he kept asking me and i was like eric i don't know you like this has been a nice date and he was like pouting he was like doing the guy thing of like oh but like you came out here like i really like hanging out with you all of that yeah he was making you feel guilty about it? Yeah, and I'm like, I don't even know you. Almost like you invited me here under false pretenses.

Yeah. Yeah, that's understandable. We did not know that he made you feel that way, and honestly, I don't know if Eric realizes he made you feel that way either, but we can ask him right now because he's on the other line listening and wants to talk to you. Yeah, hey, I didn't mean to make you feel uncomfortable. I was just trying to be hospitable.

And it's not like I was saying we had to do anything. Well, Eric, the fact that I wasn't, like, answering your text after should say something. Oh. Ooh. All right. Cool. All right.

Good phone call, everybody. I mean, it's hard. Eric, you're not a man of many words. Maybe you should have, like, talked to her more. I mean, maybe that's why she felt uncomfortable, because the only thing that was coming out of your mouth was that question over and over again. Were you drinking that night?

Maybe you forgot that you asked that question. Yeah. I guess. I mean, I don't know. I don't think it's that rude to offer someone to not have to go drive their car,

rental car, around a city they don't know. Yeah, but I said that I didn't want to stay. So I'm actually really glad I got a hotel because what kind of position would that put me in, you know?

Yeah. Oh, you paid for your own hotel? Yeah. Okay. But, I mean, I had a spare bedroom for you. I guess I didn't really go into the details about everything, but I probably should have. Yeah, no.

I mean, I wouldn't even have done that. I don't know you. I'm, like, single, going into a new city that I don't know, and then, like, it would have been different if we were, like, boyfriend-girlfriend, like, officially dating, but we weren weren't and this was just like a first time thing okay well well you want to be my girlfriend i don't think that was what she meant although it is it is a good question do you have an answer for him samantha no stop it not like that i'm not gonna do that over the radio sorry the radio move wasn't good maybe you should text her the question i don't think that he was

purposely trying to make you feel uncomfortable but eric i do think if you're gonna invite a woman into your city you have to go the extra mile to make sure she feels safe and that she feels comfortable coming from someone who has offered and flown girls out to cities okay you always The extra mile to make sure she feels safe and that she feels comfortable. Coming from someone who has offered and flown girls out to cities, okay, you always make sure they know they have a hotel. No expectations. Absolutely not. You do your thing, and it's all about communication. Show them that gesture.

Take the front door off of the hinge just so that they know you can get out whenever you want. It is wide open. I mean, Sam sam maybe it just didn't cross his mind you know like guys don't have to think about that when they go into new cities to meet people yeah yeah well i mean i feel like i've just totally screwed the pooch on this one and there's no real recovery but i mean i'd still like to have a second chance was that a sorry i heard in there i heard something about pooch screwing, but let's call it sorry. I'm sorry.

No, this is just too weird. I feel like it doesn't make sense to have strangers I've never met speaking for him. Yeah. I mean, it is one of those things. You got to go with your gut on this, and that's what your gut's telling you. Well, I just don't want this potential relationship to go down in flames because so few people in this world actually bond over gross food. There's a whole page for it, Jeffrey. It seems like there's like hundreds of thousands of people.

Yeah, but how many of them actually fall in love? Yeah, that's true. None, apparently. They didn't either. We wanted it to be one. Okay. Yeah, I mean, I really wanted to try a meatball shake that I saw with her. Ew. Ew. No, no, no, no wanted to try a meatball shake that I saw with her. Ew.

Ew. No, no, no, Eric. I think we're done here. Well, hold on, Samantha, because we would offer to pay for that meatball shake on your second date. I think I can afford to make a meatball shake on my own. Yeah. Oh, didn't know we were talking to moneybag Samantha. That's a girl who makes her own meatballs, Jeffrey.

All right? Excuse me. Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning. Well, that may have been the most cringeworthy moment of the entire year. It would have been different if we were like boyfriend, girlfriend, like officially dating. But we weren't. And this was just like a first time thing. Okay. Well, do you want to be my girlfriend?

Oh, no. No, Aaron. Why did want to be my girlfriend? Oh, no. Why did you have to play it? What if he's listening right now? He already had to live through it once. He's the one who said it. Honestly, thank God she said no to that. Because if that worked, I would have thrown my headphones down and been like, I'm done with this job.

Is it really that easy? What happened to you all rooting for love? Jeffrey, you just don't want for love? I don't know. I'm over it at this point. You just don't want easy love. You want hard love. Honestly, he didn't even sound like he was into her for most of the call. Yeah. It doesn't sound like he's a guy who's super passionate maybe about anything.

He may not be a romantic guy. I mean, I feel like he learned a lot from this. I hope so. For example? Not pressuring people to stay at his house when they don't want to. Make people feel comfortable. I don't know if he actually learned that lesson. Yeah, his lesson's like, next time, ask her to be my girlfriend before I fly her out.

But we can help you learn some important life lessons in your dating life. Or make fun of you afterwards. Sure. We'll do it all. Just email the show. We'll call the person who isn't calling you back. Or make fun of you afterwards. Sure. We'll do it all. Just email the show. We'll call the person who isn't 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 Gemini is 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. Catch Jon Stewart back in action on The Daily Show and in your ears with The Daily Show Ears Edition podcast.

From his hilarious satirical takes on today's politics and entertainment to the unique voices of correspondents and contributors, it's your perfect companion to stay on top of what's happening now. Plus, you'll get special content just for podcast listeners, like in-depth interviews and a roundup of the week's top headlines. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, you guys. I'm Katherine Legg. I'm a racing driver who's literally driven everything with four wheels across the planet.

And I've got a new podcast. It's called Throttle Therapy. This season, I'm competing in some of the world's most notorious racing events. Tune in to my new podcast, Throttle Therapy. This season, I'm competing in some of the world's most notorious racing events. Tune into my new podcast, Throttle Therapy, with Katherine Legg, an iHeart women's sports production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. You can find us on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Elf Beauty, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. I'm Dr. Laurie Santos, and to welcome the new year, my podcast, The Happiness Lab, is releasing a series of happiness how-to guides to help you

in 2025. I'll distill the wisdom of world-class experts into easy-to-digest, actionable tips. Struggling with tough emotions? We have a how-to guide. Worried that you're not enough? We got you. Self-obsessed and want to get over yourself? There's a guide for that, too. The Happiness Lab's How-To Season starts January 1st. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The more you listen to your kids, the closer you'll be. So we asked kids, what do you want your parents to hear? I feel sometimes that I'm not listened to.

I would just want you to listen to me more often and evaluate situations with me and lead me towards success. Listening is a form of love. Find resources to help you support your kids and their emotional well-being at SoundItOutTogether.org. That's SoundItOutTogether.org. Brought to you by the Ad Council and Pivotal.