Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update - Second Date Update: Scooby Dooby Eww A Honda Civic

Episode Date: July 29, 2024

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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 of 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. Occasionally on this segment, we get return callers who come back multiple times seeking our help and, dare I say, our wisdom. Yeah. Whoa. What do they say about people who are psycho and they try the same thing over and over again expecting a different result?

I don't know. That saying is too wise for me to know what it is. Funny thing is, today's return listener only knows about us because we called him for a second date update. What the heck? What do you mean? Did you go out with him, Jeff, and now he's not calling you back? Is that what's going on? No, I mean he was on a second date where we reached out to him oh he was on the receiving end of the call and not surprisingly he instantly fell in love with us yeah I just thought we were I thought we were desperate so yeah that's not true we're calling our old second date going hey have you got any new dates his name is Chase and I don't know if you'll remember him But he was the guy who kept postponing his dates

Because he said he was really really focused on self care And not overstressing Wait this is the bathtub guy right Bathtub yup He was having too good of a time in the bath And decided you know what I'm going to stay in here and skip my date And I will say I love a man who has discovered the magic of a bath

Chase we respect you and your self-care. Welcome back to the show, man. Thanks, guys. Good to be back. Are you in a bubble bath right now, bro? I'm not taking a bath right now. All right. Well, that's fine.

So you reached out to us this time because apparently you went out with a different girl than the last time? Or is this the same one? No, this is a different girl. This girl's or is this the same one no this is a different girl the girl's name is cassie okay okay and where'd you meet her met her met her online okay i thought i was gonna say in the bathtub where i was soaking she just popped up and i was like okay well i guess we're on a date now did you just come from up the storm all right. You met her online. What'd you guys do? Yeah, honestly, we talked at first, and then eventually we found the time. We were both free, and we went out to a restaurant.

Okay, sounds pretty typical so far. And did you actually make it to this restaurant, or was self-care getting in the way? No, we made it to the restaurant. Believe it or not, you can take care of yourself and still make time oh look at you learning lessons from your time on the show last time grown so much okay how did the rest how did the restaurant go with cassie i thought we had a good time we did that thing where you're looking at random strangers and you're like making up crazy backstories about them

oh yeah I love that yeah like we talked about her job she's a nurse which is really cool so when we were telling backstories we would come up with like crazy scenarios of ER injuries

oh right at the bar what if he was impaled by a spear gun? What would you do for her? This definitely sounds like a very romantic topic of conversation to be having over dinner. I hope you didn't spend all of your time on ER horror stories.

Of course, we talked about other things. One of my favorite questions to ask on a first or second date is, what was your favorite cartoon as a kid? Oh, that's a great question. That's a hard question. Dude.

If you say Looney Tunes, maybe you have a silly, fun attitude. Oh, you like use it to judge people's personality. Interesting. Or their answer. Like if you say SpongeBob, you're... What was your answer? Well, funny enough, he just said it. Mine was Spongeongebob.

Yeah! Clearly, I'm unhinged as a human being. All right. Okay. Team Spongebob. Brooks is animaniacs. Does that mean that she's sexually repressed and has a weird relationship with family members? No, it's that I know all the capitals of the United States.

Do not listen to Wacko's song. Clearly not. Come on! That's an epic song. Okay. Did she have a good answer for a cartoon show? Yeah. Her favorite was Scooby-Doo.

Oh, okay. I thought maybe she liked, you know, true crime shows and stuff like that. Oh, that's funny. Oh, that makes sense. That's funny that that, like, transfers into adulthood. Or they're soon to be serial killers, but that's probably not her, I'm sure. Or a stoner if you're shaggy. That's true.

Okay. Don't speak for yourself. Well, this, okay, now the conversation sounds like it's more fun. How did the night end? Well, you know, I thought we were having a really great time. I thought I was going to get a kiss maybe. It didn't end up happening. It didn't?

No. Is that because you didn't make the move or what? You know, I leaned in and she didn't reciprocate and I wasn't going to push it any far of it. That's smart. That's a gentleman way to do it. Yeah. So I just got in my Honda Civic

and drove home. That's the worst, bro. You slink away. You feel like crap. I've been there, bro. Every single girl I've ever met. I just hung up on the make and model of his car. Yeah. What did I miss? Honda Civic.

Oh, okay. Well, that's a nice brand. You have pride in your car. I like that. Yeah, sure. So what's happened since that date? Have you been able to stay in touch with Cassie? I've tried to make another date.

The problem is I'm busy a lot with my company. So it's been hard to find a time that worked. And now I just kind of feel like she's ignoring me. So you're super busy, but you will make time for her. Yeah, exactly. Okay. Well, let's hope we can tell her that somehow. I know, but it's always like kind of a turn off when people are like, I'm really super busy.

Yeah, it's like everyone's busy. You know, it's like, that feels like maybe she thinks you don't like her, honestly. Yeah. Because that always feels like an excuse. In times like these, I tend to ask myself, what would SpongeBob do? And what he would do is he would come back and he would call Cassie on the radio and try and get you a second date update. I feel like he'd go jellyfish hunting. Yeah.

SpongeBob could do many things at once. We're going to attempt a few of them second date update. I feel like he'd go jellyfish hunting. Yeah. SpongeBob can do many things at once. We're going to attempt a few of them when we come back. I could be Patrick if you want. I don't think he's a wingman. I don't know about that. We're going to do a second date update right after this. Second date update. It's kind of interesting the question our listener Chase asks women on every first date.

He likes to ask, what's your favorite childhood cartoon? I love that question. I think everybody loves that question. I actually want to know yours, Jeff. Yeah, what's yours? You're never going to know that from me. We don't know each other that well. Oh, come on.

How dare you ask something so deep and personal to me. You know what? It's going to be DuckTales. It's got to be about a rich uncle. There's no way it's not. Scrooge McDuck. Okay, it's Arthur, if you have to know. You like Arthur the Ar to know. The introverted

aardvark. You do constantly have the fist going. With the really sassy sister. Now, Chase says he can tell a lot about a person based on their cartoon answer. In his date, Cassie said Scooby-Doo, which is a sign that she could be into true crime.

It's so funny. He's a Spongebob fan who's more silly and wacky and wears square-shaped clothes. Yeah. But opposites do attract sometimes, and Chase wants to see if we can make that happen for him today. Brooke, what's your take? I really think that she thinks that you don't like her. Really?

Because, like, he says, I mean, didn't you say, Chase? Like, you kept telling her, God, I'm so busy, but I'll fit you in. Yeah. I get that. It's just, it's not what I meant it, and I hope he doesn't you say, Chase, like you kept telling her, God, I'm so busy, but I'll fit you in. Yeah. I get that. It's just, it's not what I meant to. And I hope she doesn't see it that way. I'm not saying it's a bad thing. I just think that's what's happening.

And I think you can totally come back from it. Yeah. And if it turns out that we can't get you a second date at the end of this, is it okay if we blame it on those meddling kids and their dog, too? If need be, I suppose I'd be okay. Okay, all right. How many masks are you wearing to take off, Jeff, for this? We're going to call that plan B, but for now, let's just dial Cassie, see if she picks up and try to get this second date done.

Here we go. Hello? Hey, we're looking to talk with cassie uh this is she hey cassie um my name is jeff from the radio show brooke and jeffrey in the morning hey cassie the whole show's here yeah thank you but i'm not interested though sorry oh we're not we're not trying to tell you anything we're we were asked to call you by one of our listeners that went on a date with you recently what what is this i don't i don't get it yeah no this is a segment we do call the second date update and we're trying to help him figure out if something went wrong on

your first meetup and hopefully get you two together for another one yeah because it sounded like a pretty normal date yeah i mean it mean, it wasn't that normal, Brooke. They were making up backstories about spear guns and what you would do as a nurse in the ER. Oh, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You're talking about Chase. Yeah. Yeah.

So the reason that we're doing this call is because Chase told us this whole story, said he had a great time with you. Now he's a little bit confused about why there hasn't been a second meetup. Because if we're being honest, he says he feels like you're ignoring him. Um, no. I mean, I just kind of felt like I was kind of duped by this guy. Duped? Yeah.

Oh, my gosh. That's interesting because we've had chase on the show before and he just seems like such a humble like chill nice dude yeah well yeah i mean he is um humble and nice but like when we like connected and i called him he said he was golfing at this golf course and i looked it up and it's like a really nice private course you have to be a member oh I can't believe you looked it up yeah that is smart normally yeah yeah well I mean it's nice to have someone that's financially established yeah for sure I mean don't guys go golfing if they're not financially secure this course was a private course okay this particular one really

impressed you yeah Yeah. Yeah. And then another time we were texting to meet up and he said he was at this auction. And I'm like, auction? Buying stuff? Like, poor people don't go to auctions. No. Oh. If he's buying art, like, come on.

Yeah. I don't know. Have you been to farm auctions? I haven't. I haven't. Okay. Well, yeah. So I figure, okay, this guy's established.

And so we figured out a night to meet. And he takes me to like a regular chain restaurant. Okay. And I was like, okay, that's not what I expected. And, you know, the actual date went well. But then he, at the end of the night, he drives off in a Honda Civic. And I'm like, ew. He did tell me he had a Honda Civic. Wait, did, he drives off in a Honda Civic, and I'm like, ew. He did tell me he had a Honda Civic.

Wait, did you just say ew to a Honda Civic? Yeah, I mean, I got the impression that he had money and he was, you know, well off. Oh, my God. You didn't get—that is not fair. You did not get the impression. You made the assumption. Yeah. He got invited to a friend of the golf course.

Cassie, did he tell you that he's well off with a lot of money or did you just assume that based on your conversations? I mean, I guess I assumed it. I don't know if it was

based on the conversations. It sounds like based on her research. Yeah. Look, I know many, many different personal assistants

who attend art auctions on behalf of my family and my parents and they are not well off i cannot tell if you're joking or not did your family really do that why am i being grilled cassie is the one that is jumping to assumptions here rich guys just can't get so cassie do you feel like maybe you are the one at fault here jumping to assumptions about who he really is well i'm just i'm not interested in dating a low value guy especially if he's trying to trick me dude don't agree with that that is

such a crappy thing to say we should get him on the phone and ask him that question because i need to let you know that he is listening to this call on the other line right now probably in a free phone line what what yeah he could call and it'd be cool okay you know burner okay chase are you there and are you a low value man yes or no uh i mean apparently i am according to her no you're a good value man chase that's what you say well why don't you have a discussion with cassie about this because clearly she feels like you were giving her the impression that you were at a certain level financially and you didn't meet that in person no i mean sadly my plan worked plan what plan though what are you talking about you're playing games bro i actually am a member

of that golf club and i did attend the art auction auctions for myself. Oh, it was art? Oh, dang. Wait, so wait, you're rich-rich then? I'm comfortable. Oh, that means you're wealthy. I don't know how you got off my parents' payroll. Okay, so what's going on with the civic and the non- bougie-ness? Like, what's happening?

Yeah. Yeah, she said. I own a tech company, and sometimes when girls hear that they just end up wanting to date me for my money so i purposely took you to a chain restaurant to see how you would react oh and you liked her still that's so sad and then she no no no i didn't hate it look i didn't hate it. Look, I didn't hate it. I never said I hated it. Get out of here with that. You failed the test. Personally, I think that's very, very smart.

I think you should try to do that to avoid gold digger women. I mean, seriously. Cassie, now you're super interested in him and you think that he is awesome. So is the text board, weirdly. I mean, I don't know what you guys are referring, but I mean, seriously, I've always been interested. Oh, really? You know we record these phone calls. We can play them back.

Well, I mean, you might have missed that first part because I said, if this is him testing me, then, you know, he's really smart. And I respect that. I really do. I can't remember that. But I have a lot of memory. I think she tried to say that right after he said, oh, it's just a test. She's like, oh, that's really smart. No, no.

Are you buying it, Chase? Look, I can buy anything because I do have the money. That's funny. It's not what I meant. But do you believe her? I always want to thank the best of people. So, okay. If she wants to send me a few pics. Wait, wait, wait. What did you say okay if she wants to send me a few picks wait wait wait what'd you say if she wants to send you what if she wants to send me a few picks

to show she's sorry then that's so gross i mean i wasn't gonna stereotype you as a chase who owns a tech company, but now I am. Yeah, he's still a rich dude. Oh, come on. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. You're so funny. Oh, you like that? Oh, really? Okay. I'll show you on our date.

Hey! Oh, wow. You're better than pigs. Okay. This has been a rollercoaster. Man, I can't wait to be rich someday. How quickly he dropped his morals, too. Oh, yeah.

Well, now they just both want to hang out. You know what I'm saying? I have to see if both parties are actually still interested in another date here. I say so. Cassie, I mean, clearly it's 100% yes from you. She said yes. It's a big change from what you said five minutes ago, but apparently we misunderstood. We heard you wrong.

Yes, well, you did. You did misunderstand me. I told you guys I was shocked. I was a little surprised, but I didn't hate the restaurant. Yeah. I'm sure. She actually did say the restaurant was okay. Okay. I back you guys I was shocked. I was a little surprised, but I didn't hate the restaurant. She actually did say the restaurant was okay. Okay. So, Chase, are you guys going to go out again? Because if you do, you're probably

going to have to drop the Ick-mobile. Oh, the Honda Civic. It's not approved. You know, I mean, new stuff has been presented on this date, so I'm definitely a yes. You're definitely a yes. You got a whole garage full of cars, don't you?

Okay. I hate both of you somehow. I think we're jealous of both of you. Yeah. He's going to take her with a Ferrari next game. Yeah, okay. Dang. Well, congratulations.

We did it. Why do we feel bad? I don't know. It feels wrong. It feels like there's some law that we just broke. Whatever. You two have fun, all right? Send some money if you're bored, bro.

Will do. Oh, God. Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning. I think with dates nowadays, if you have a certain expectation, like you want a guy who's well off and established like Cassie did, you just need to put the survey in front of them at the table. Do you make this amount, this amount, or this amount? Circle it and we can be done with it.

And it starts at six figures. It's like that song on TikTok, right? I want a guy in finance. Exactly. Let's just figure out who you really are. That way we can avoid simple misunderstandings like this one. No, Jeff, that's the wrong message. No, it was a misunderstanding.

Don't let people know you're rich. Just be you and test them. I don't know. I think what is funny is that they both ended up kind of meant for each other. Yeah. I mean, both of them are a little sleazy at the end. Yeah, they were like, well, you know, fine, I'll forgive you. If you forgive me, let's just hang out.

But we need to own our part of the misunderstanding because we totally misheard her. Oh, so it's me. It's our bad. I don't think we did. When she said, ew, about the Honda Civic, she didn't mean the car is gross. She meant cute. Uh-uh.

It's a cute car. I heard Civ-ick. Yeah. She also said ick. Yeah. Well, I'm sure we misunderstood that one, too. We don't make enough money

to understand her. I feel bad for ever doubting her. And if you want to hear any of our second dates, you can go to wherever you get your podcasts. They're up right now at Brooke and Jeffrey.

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 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 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's 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 of 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.