Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update - Second Date Update: Seafood Surprise

Episode Date: July 19, 2024

The guy on the phone today says his date night included a BLINDFOLD, a bit of deception and it turned out even BETTER than he ever planned. Hear what happened in your Second Date podcast!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. Second Date Update. A guy named Chris wrote us saying he's made a rule to never ask a woman out ever again. Really? Wow. Wait, is it after whatever happened that he's on the phone with us for or before? I'm just reading this from his email, but Chris explained he learned a new strategy from a video that he saw where if you're a

guy and you say, hey, would you like to go out to dinner with me on Saturday night? Yeah. You're already putting yourself at a disadvantage right there. Why? Because in the woman's mind, she's thinking, if I say yes, then I'm doing him a favor and he's going to end up having a great night because of me. Wait, she's not thinking, wow, I'm really excited he asked me. And get a free meal?

No. Yeah, she's thinking free meal. She's thinking. Sorry, I was being more nice to Alexis. We're going beyond the meal. She's thinking, if I say yes, then I'm giving him the gift of spending time with me. If I say no, then this loser has nothing going on in his life. He is going to spend the entire evening all alone in

his apartment watching Netflix and eating old pizza I don't think that's how women think even if that's not true that's what a lot of you think so instead he uses a different strategy that makes him look really really good when he asked people out I love when men say what women think. It's so cute. Okay, continue. Yeah. Well, let's talk to Chris about this and see what it's all about.

Chris, how you doing, man? Hey, good, man. How are you? Hey. I'm very curious to learn what this strategy is. Wait, is this strategy something you came up with, or is this also from the video that Jeff referenced? No, I learned this on an Instagram video, but I am telling you it works 90% of the time.

It's a fantastic little trick here. Okay, so you don't ask a woman, hey, do you want to go out to dinner with me? What do you do instead? See, what you got to do is you got to tell them that you're already doing something, and then you invite them to come along with you. Okay.

So, like, you're going to dinner by yourself i mean that's not funny bro that is not funny i think you have a lot of friends and i'm sure you have a very active social life chris what if you don't have plans already well yes you got to plan out your night a little bit, right? You got to put a little thought into this. Okay, that's a positive. Yeah, you tell her you got the night planned.

You've got, you're going out to dinner and you're going to go do X, Y, Z. Now she's got a little bit of FOMO. She's got a little bit of that fear of missing out

on some action. I see what you're saying. You're saying you're trying to put the idea into the girl's head that you have a life outside of her. Yeah.

That she's not the only thing that's happening and her answer isn't going to change you. But if she's lucky, you can squeeze her in. Right. So who did this work on that you went out with? Yeah. So this worked on Gina, a girl I met online. I met her on one of the apps. Very funny.

Her and I were talking. Both had a sense of humor. That's sweet. What was your proposal? What did you already have planned that she could join you for? So I invited her to this place that was opening that was serving some amazing seafood. Oh. Okay.

You're like, oh, I'm going to check out this new seafood place you want to come with? Yeah, but I said, listen, we have a half an hour. Like, you got to get ready now. You know, so I put a little bit of urgency. Oh, my God. I don't think I could pick out an outfit in that time. That's true. Maybe a girl.

One of your bros, though. I'd be like, yeah, dog, let's go get some food. I mean, I feel like I would say yes just because of the pressure. I'm like, oh, my God. No matter what you're wearing? I don't have time to decide. Okay, you created urgency there. That's a good thing. So she was up for it?

She was up for it. Huh? So I pick her up. She looked good. I's a good thing. So she was up for it? She was up for it. So I pick her up. She looked good. I looked good. And I told her, I said, listen, I'll drive. Get in the car. I'll drive us there. And when we were almost there, I said, listen, put on this blindfold because where we're going, it's going to be a surprise and I want to surprise you. Okay, super romantic if this has been your girlfriend for two years,

but a first date is for a nobody. You've never met her before? Hold on. Let's not judge until we hear where this goes. So she puts the blindfold on. Okay.

Good girl. I can't tell if she's dumb or just trusting. Maybe both. We get there. I take the blindfold off and she sees a fillet of fish from McDonald's right in front of her. What?

What? No, bro, wait. You said fresh food. Why? I thought you were taking her to seafood. Hey, it was seafood, right? It was technically fish. This whole thing was a prank that you were playing on her, telling her she's going to have this nice meal,

and you really took her to a fast food place and gave her a fish sandwich. You made her rush, feel like she's getting kidnapped. What did she say when she saw that fillet of fish? So she takes the blindfold off and she's looking at this fillet of fish and I just see this look of confusion over her face. She went

through every emotion. She was like pissed off for a second, but at the end of it, she just started to laugh. Good. Wow. I mean, she took it the right way. Either that or she's laughing like, oh, my God, of course, this is my dating life. You know what I mean?

Like you're on the verge of tears laughing. Yeah. After the joke is over, were you able to establish a romantic bond with her? Yeah. No, don't forget, I'm dressed up, too. So it was funny. You know, the whole thing was funny. It's not just at her expense.

Wow. I'm just still processing it all. I like how the guys are like, that's cute, good effort, and the girls are like, yikes. So how did the date end? It was good, right? So we had a great time. I dropped her off at her place,

and she even admitted that that was funny. Good. Okay. So what's happened since then? So four or five days ago, she invites me over to come to her place and hang out. Oh. During the nighttime or the daytime? I don't think she's going to say, come over at 9 a.m., Jeffrey.

What? Unless she's got, like, I don't know, a sink to unclog or something. Quick, 8 McMuffins, get over here. I thought it was a valid question. The timing's important. Breakfast stops at 10. That's a good sign that she wants you over at any time of the day, I guess. I mean, she obviously likes you.

She's inviting you over. Yeah. So that's what I thought. So I go to her house, I knock on her door, and she doesn't answer. Oh. What? Maybe it's another prank. You guys are just the prank couple.

That would feel good to get him back. Actually, it would. Probably. You could hear her laughing on the other end. If it was really late at night, maybe she fell asleep before he arrived. Oh, that's happened. Or if it was early in the morning, maybe she wasn't up yet. This is why the time question was so important. I guess we're never going to know what time of day it was.

What'd you do? Did you hit snooze, buddy? We're never going to know what time of day it was. What'd you do? Did you hit snooze, buddy? We're never going to know. We're out of time for the first part because now we gotta go and we're going to come back and try and get you a second date update and maybe get some clarity on what time it was right after this. Hold on.

Second date update. Pranking your date on your very first meetup is either the move of a very confident man or a very foolish one sometimes those are the same thing we're just trying to figure out which one of those categories our listener chris falls into because he convinced his date gina to dress up really really nice to go out and eat some seafood. Yeah, and she only had a half an hour to get ready. Yeah. Technically, he wasn't lying because he did treat her to seafood,

a Filet-O-Fish sandwich at a McDonald's. Which I will say it's my best friend's favorite. If a man took her to get a Filet-O-Fish, honest to God. She'd be like, marry me. Yes. She'd be like, I'm divorcing my husband to marry you. That's Brooke's friend's love language. Who knows if it's Gina's?

But they were able to laugh about it afterwards, after the prank was over. And they've been in contact since then. She even invited him over. So a lot of good signs. The only problem is it's not resulting in a date yet. But that's going to be our job to step in. God, that's crazy that she didn't answer the door. You're just standing there.

I know. That sounds rude, actually. Maybe he got the wrong door. We don't know. Maybe it was a big apartment complex and she just texted the apartment building, not the specific room. No, it definitely wasn't

the wrong door because it was the same door that I picked her up in. Oh, yeah. I forgot about that part. All right. Well, I'm a dummy. So let's just end this part and get to the part where we call her and figure out what's going on. Yeah, you know, I'm just a little lost here because I'm knocking at the door. She didn't answer, and, you know, I don't know what's going on here. You are being really understanding, which is nice. I mean, she invited you over for sure.

Like, there wasn't't like, you know, there was no miscommunication in text. How do you miscommunicate that? I don't know. You know, you want to kick it sometime and he's like, on my way. Yeah, no, this was very clear. He invited me over point blank.

Okay, well, let's just point blank. Ask her why she's not going out with you. I'm dialing her number right now. Here we go. Hello. I'm dialing her number right now. Here we go. Hello? Hey, is this Gina? Yeah, this is she. Are you sure you're Gina?

She took a second. She knows she's Gina. She doesn't know who you are. Oh, okay. Yeah. You're the weird one in this situation. I'm Jeff from a radio show called Brooke and Jeffrey in theffrey in the morning hey gina the whole show is here hello yeah i know yeah it's a little weird what's this about um this is about a segment that we do

called a second date update and we're trying to help one of our listeners meet up with you again after you already went out with him one time. His name is Chris. Yeah, I know Chris, but did I sign up for this? No, this isn't something you sign up for. Chris emailed us because he told us about your guys' first date together. He's a spontaneous guy, that Chris, right? Pretty funny, too. Yeah, he's quite the charmer.

Yeah, he is. We we love him is that good you told us about the little practical joke that he played i would love to know what was going through your head when he put a blindfold on you you put it on yourself i guess but well i mean at that point i didn't have a choice i was in his car well you had a choice to put the blindfold on. You could have said no. I mean... You were fully committed. I was committed. I mean, I like him. I mean, it was low-key funny at the end of the day.

Yeah, I mean, we got the sense that you must have liked him because we heard that you even invited him over one time. It was one night, except it, Jeff. It was nighttime. I don't know specifically. Why are you so hung up on that? you invited him over at some point and he says that he went there and that you didn't answer the door oh so he he told you that part too yeah i mean it was a pretty important part of everything right because that's when that's when you stopped responding to him. Well, the weird thing is that normally when we do this segment,

people will ghost each other over text or they'll just, like, break off communication. They won't actually set up a time to meet that person at their own place and then just not show up and answer the door. Yeah, that's peculiar. You know? I kind of like the old school physically doing things. It creates a lot more mystery. She's just watching into the keyhole.

We're just trying to help Chris get some understanding of what's going on between you two. You know, given his well thought out plan, I wanted to get him back and my plan didn't work. Wait, you were setting up a whole elaborate prank to prank him back. Of course. Oh, my God. What didn't work. Wait. Didn't work? You were setting up a whole elaborate prank to prank him back. Of course. Oh, my God. Wait. What didn't work? What part of the plan?

So I texted him that night, and I said, hey, do you want to hook up? Hey, all right. Oh, it was a hookup text. Right. And so I was like, I need you to come over in a half hour. That should have been the red flag for him is the half hour. Cause he gave her a half hour. You're just mirroring his prank in your own way.

I would not have gotten it. I would have been like, Oh my gosh, we're hooking up. Oh my gosh. And so what's the joke? So, I mean,

it was late and he did come over. And the thing is that I have a friend who's a tow truck driver. Okay. Okay. So I live on the third floor and I have a clear view to the street view and he would have seen the tow truck driver hook up his car.

Oh, with the actual hook to the front of his car. So wait, you weren't going to answer the door and you were going to get his car towed and that was the joke? Yeah, I mean, not fully towed, but, you know, hooked up at least to the tow truck. Wow. So that was the joke you invited him to be hooking up.

And what you meant was hooking up his car to a tow truck. What else would you have done? He did the whole seafood, the way of fish thing. That's a stretch. It's a little far. So I don't think he got the joke. It's more sophisticated. Wait, did the tow truck thing happen?

Because he didn't tell us about it. No, see, that's the thing. My friend had another call where he actually was going to make some money, and he had to leave. Oh, that's why your plan failed. Oh, no. Good thing you didn't call a real tow truck. So why haven't you called him back?

Well, because I'm trying to set this up again. It was a great idea. Oh, my God. You're not letting the joke go? You guys may be meant for each other. Honestly. It's ruined. It wouldn't have been ruined if we didn't call her out on it.

I know. I'm sorry. We totally screwed this up for you, your whole plan, because actually Chris has been on the other line listening to this conversation the entire time. Are you guys kidding me? No. We hooked you up.

Oh, that was good, Jose. I'm trying to be honest. Yeah, that was good. Yeah. I'm sorry. It was an elaborate prank. You guys, you've ruined everything. That's our bad.

Chris, are you there? Yeah, wow. This is not cool, Gina. Not cool. What? Why aren't you laughing, Chris? I thought this would be exactly your type of humor. Yeah, but my car? I mean, it's an expensive car. You got to be careful. I mean, if she's going to have my car towed, you could damage the car.

What did I do? I brought her to McDonald's. Didn't know we had the fun police on the phone right now. Geez, Chris. I mean, he is right. I have had buddies have damaged their car while they're getting towed. You took it to McDonald's. Didn't know we had the fun police on the phone right now. Geez, Chris. I mean, he is right. I have had buddies have damaged their car while they're getting towed. He took her to Fish Fillet. But the plan, I don't think the plan was to totally, like, tow your car away to some, like, car lot and make you pay to get it out. Or hurt it.

I think it was just, like, to hook it up as a joke. Right, Gina? Right. I mean, it would have worked had my friend not had to leave for a real call. I mean. I'm glad the plan didn't work. It's not that's not even a prank. I mean, my pranks are good. Oh, God.

Dude, I thought you were going to be so excited. You just found out this woman that you like was planning on seeing you again. Listen, this doesn't work in a relationship. There's only room for like one funny person, not two. Oh, God. I agree with that. It's the same thing with the morning show. Only one of us can be funny in here.

Yeah, that's Jeff. No, I don't know who it is. The Filet-O-Fish wasn't that funny, honestly. Oh, don't tell him that. Well, this is going south a little bit now. I can't believe you found a woman who was okay with being pranked into a McDonald's dinner, and you're negative about it. Blindfolded.

Blindfolded. Yeah, I forgot that. I mean, look, Chris, she's able to brush off your prank. Why can't you just brush off hers and laugh with her? Well, her prank is borderline dangerous. Oh, God. You know she's going to try to prank me again somehow, and who knows? She might set the house on fire.

I don't know. Like, this isn't fun. Well, he's not wrong. I have about four or five ideas. Oh, so there is a prank coming. I think they're coming whether they go out again or not. Yeah. The war has started.

Well, I mean, there's unfinished business between you guys, whether it's romance or pranking each other. So I'm going to offer to send you guys out again on another date that we would pay for. Plus, we'll toss in a couple of Brooke and Jeffrey whoopee cushions for my prize. I'm probably going to stop you right there and just say that I'm not interested and I'm probably going to pass on this.

It was one bad joke. Give her another chance. I'm not sure if I apologize to Gina here or if I apologize to Chris or maybe I should just apologize to the listeners. I'm sorry that you had to sit through all of that Why doesn't anybody just blurt out I love you anymore on the first date Everybody's like I saw an Instagram video and

now I'm going to trick the person and prank them and then they're going to prank me back and now everything's confusing and unclear, but that's just how dating is. Because it's the internet trend right now. I think even before the internet, nobody's blurting out I love you on the first date, Jeff. That was weird in like 1850. Don't remember the good old days. I am

begging anybody, listen, if you recently went on a first date and you confessed your undying love for them in the first ten minutes and you're wondering why they're not calling you back, shoot us an email. I would love to do an easy, simple, straightforward call like that. Just one time. Why? You're just telling them because they don't love you back? No.

What do you want? They were too perfect. Yes. Where are those calls? I don't know what world you and Jose are living in right now, but They were too perfect. Yes. Where are those calls? I don't know what world you and Jose are living in right now, but I don't think it exists. I'm having a good time in it. Yeah.

I guess we'll just stick with the total confusion and game playing and pranking. All right. It makes for great radio, Jeff. Isn't that what we're here for? That is true. The text board is lit up. Yeah. I just know my head hurts right now. Yeah.

I love it crazy. Come on. You can always email the show. We'll call that 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 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. 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.