Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update - Second Date Update: Snooze You Lose

Episode Date: February 17, 2023

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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. Second Date Update. Imagine you're a guy who finally gets a date with a really great girl who's maybe a little bit out of your league. Ooh, that's exciting.

But she tells you, yeah, sure, I'll slum it with you for just one night. Wait, that's her words? And then on date night, you blow it for the dumbest reason ever. Oh, no. That's what one of our listeners, Lou, says happened to him when he met a hottie online. So let's ask him about it. Lou, first of all, thanks for slumming it by calling a radio show. You're out of our league, so I really hope we don't blow it with you.

Oh, I don't think so. There's a lot of tears to keep track of here for me, but I think we're always at the bottom. We always are. So tell us, who is this lady that you met online? Her name is kelly okay okay kelly's a hot girl name yeah that's what i always think anyway and so she works out like all the time she's like really in shape and all that stuff okay is that something you talk to her about or you just assume because we we talked a little bit about that you know she never eats sugar

never eats bread um she's always strict about her diet. I get that. I mean, I'm not quite as good. To look amazing, those are the things that you have to sacrifice. That's why I've never been willing to do it. Take all the fun out of your life. So we hung out, went out to dinner, and I even got the cauliflower

appetizer. We had sushi. You were trying to lead into her lifestyle. That's a Les Barbs day. Yeah, I was all in on it. Then we went bowling over at Cosmic Bowls. They got the neon lights and the loud music. We were having a good time.

Those are fun. That's where you can order some mozzarella sticks for yourself on the side and eat them over in the bathroom where she can't see you. Tell them, hey, leave them over on stall two. I mean, Lou, not to insult you or anything, but you sound like a guy who likes to, you know, get down

on some good food, right? Well, yeah, I was definitely in a mozzarella stick neighborhood there thinking about that kind of thing. So good, bro. The thing is, the bowling, it ends like at 11 o'clock, and I was like, I thought the date went well,

and I was thinking we could just call it a night. We were having a good time. But out of nowhere, she was like, hey, what are we going to do now? Oh, heaven. She wants to keep going. I'm thinking, wait a minute, that's a fastball belt high, so I just's a fastball belt high. So I just said... Is she a little bit...

He said knock it out of the park, guys. Is she a baseball reference? I thought he said belt. That's like the perfect place to hit a ball. It's a layup. Are you a little bit older than Kelly? No. I think I have a couple years on her,

but not that much. Okay. Girls say like, what are we doing now after a date? You know, after we're having a good time.

Dinner and a date. Well, I just said, well, you know, you want to come over. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. But, you know,

she needed to get coffee first. Good. So we just went to one of those gas stations and got some coffee. Oh, gas station coffee. You couldn't go to Starbucks that's open 24 hours? She suffered from heartburn the rest of the evening.

You want a Nescafe? I'll grab us a couple cans. It's not easy to get a coffee, I guess, at 1130 at night. It is if you know the prices, yeah. Yeah, but not all like Starbucks or whatever. I mean, maybe that's not even a thing. Like, was she fine with that? It's not like we're in Miami in the 80s. You just gotta figure out a place to get

coffee. We are definitely older than Kelly. I'm not. I read this right. That's okay. We went out and played some pong. We're in Miami in the 80s. Drugs. So we went back to my place, and it was like a great night. We hung out and played some pong. What's with Miami and the 80s? Yeah. Drugs. So we went back to my place, and it was like a great night.

We hung out. She stayed the night. Did you use air quotes when you say hug out? Like, hug out? Yeah, this is good, clean fun, as they say. Okay. Good, clean fun. What was it like the next morning?

Even the morning was fun, and we decided we would hang out again that night. Oh, wow. Oh. Back to back. Yeah. That's a lot. She must really like you. I don't understand.

In your email, you said that you screwed up when you met her. Yeah, this sounds amazing. This sounds like the best date you've ever had. Well, hang on. You got to put in the game ain't over yet. So I told her, you know, just meet me back at my place here at six and we can go out. OK. I did some stuff during the day, but I was so beat.

I ended up like just sitting on a couch and boom, I fell asleep at like five thirty. Oh, no. Oh, my God. Yeah. Horrible. And I woke up at like nine thirty. Oh, no. It was like a bunch of mixed, mistext and calls. Oh, no. It was like a bunch of mixed, uh, missed text and calls.

Oh, no. You stood her up. By accident. I called her back and said, hey, you know, I fell asleep. I can't believe it. And I haven't heard anything since.

Oh, yeah. So she was just like standing outside of your place, wondering where the hell you were for who knows how long. But yes, and I'm wrong i admit it but now when you if you fumble like that and you and you at least a lot of sports analogies here yes continue lou but you gotta at least come clean and say oh my god i'm so sorry i fell asleep can we go out tonight tomorrow make it up to you but i just got completely you know nothing yeah

and so how long how long has it been since she responded to your texts or your calls? It's been, like, five days. Okay. I mean, like, I would be angry. After five days, I'd probably cool off by then. But she may also be feeling like, God, he was asleep. Like, can he not, like, keep up? You know?

Yeah, and if you say she's, some out-of-your-league, super great girl, she may have just moved on to another guy already. Yes, you could say she was out of my league, but she wasn't out of my league that night, I'll tell you that much. Oh. There you go. League on their own, you know what I'm saying? Well, we're going to do some work here.

We're going to try and give you another fastball belt high when we call her. Yeah, like the analogies, Jeff. I'm just going off of what he's saying. Oh, sorry. Take this into overtime and get the two-point conversion when we do your second date update. All right, peace off. Right after this. Peace off.

Second date update. If you missed it, we've been talking to a super youthful, fresh, and hip, bursting with energy male named Lou. Is that why we're playing the baby music? Who fell asleep at 5.30 right in the middle of people's court. Didn't even get to see Judge Wapner's verdict before Lou conked out and ended up missing his date with Kelly. And what do we know about Lou so far? We know he's maybe a little older, he says, by a few years. Lou is not short for Luke.

He didn't say decades, though. No. My spidey senses. We're jumping to some assumptions here. But he is dating a younger girl who he says is out of his league. So, like I said, he fell asleep right before she was supposed to come over and they were going to hang out and now hasn't talked to her in almost a week oh my gosh lou still awake my man i'm still here all right lou all right are you feeling optimistic about this well i am because technically

you could say i kind of blew the second day because we did hang out the night before right you had a great first date. No one's arguing that. No, listen. In my mind, I won game one. It's a seven-game series. You know what I mean? There you go.

Atta boy. Sports references. Yep. Okay. Did you do that many sports references when you were hanging out with her? It's not good when in game two the Yankees fall asleep and don't show up to the national stadium. You get slaughtered 20-0. Yeah, but if you throw a tough lefty game three, you're back in it.

Oh, you're back in it. You just need to game three, Jeffrey. All right, this is going to be our rumble in the jungle. Oh, boxing. Good. I have so many things I need to Google. I'm so confused. We're going to reach out to Kelly and try and get you another date here, okay?

Okay, that'd be great. I'm going to be your tough lefty today. Ooh, got a southpaw. All right. Screwball. Oh, he's got a screwball. I thought we were looking for a line drive fight. No. Fastball. You wanted a fastball? Is that what we wanted? I think we should be done with the sports references

for the rest of this segment. Actually, for the rest of the entire show, okay? Let's call Kelly and see what she has to say. Here we go. Hello? Hey, is this Kelly? Yes. Who's this, please? Hey, Kelly, you don't have to sound so skeptical. We're a very kind morning radio show.

We're nice people, most of us. Why are you looking at me? We're and jeffrey in the morning okay okay do you ever listen um not really like not to us or just not to radio in general because it's such an outdated form of technology we have a podcast it's really popular yeah i don't really listen to radio all that much yeah okay that's all right Not to keep giving you blasts from the past, but we heard about a date that you went on about a week ago with a guy named Lou. Oh, God. Oh, God, you said?

Wait, what? Yeah, yeah, okay. Oh, God, in a good way. Wait, are you mad at him? Because I'd be kind of mad. Well, I don't know what he told you about it, but, I mean, it was not – I mean, the date was cool, but then, like – Yeah, we heard a little bit from Lou about how your – at least your first date night went, and that sounded really great. Yeah, bowling, sushi.

Oh, he is so mad at himself that he screwed everything up. Yeah. I mean, honestly. It sounds like that second date is where everything kind of fell off the rails. Well, it was never on the rails. It was asleep. Sleep in the wheel. Sleep in the train.

Yeah, really. He's not really my normal type that I normally go out with. He's definitely a little older. And I thought that would be fun. And he was a good time. We had fun. Okay. and I thought that would be fun and he was a good time. We had fun. Okay.

I mean like the next night when you were supposed to meet him at his apartment or something and you're just standing outside? Mm-hmm. Oh my God. How long did you wait out there? Like about 25 minutes. Oh no.

That is awful. Yeah, and it took me like two hours to get ready. Two hours? I had a lot of time, and I was looking good, you know. And I'm not really, really mad. I just think it's 5.30 at night. Like, who falls asleep at 5.30? Well, it sounds like you wore him out the previous day.

Yeah. Yeah, he was exhausted from the night before. From all the good times. Yeah, and he was up so late. That could be true. That could be true. But, you know, I was just thinking, well, maybe going out with an older guy wasn't going to be best for me because I'm a very active person, go out a lot, do a lot of stuff. I need somebody who can keep up with me.

Oh, no. go out a lot do a lot of stuff i need somebody who can keep up with me oh no so in your life you thought maybe trying out an older guy would be a thing for you or was that just like a one-off situation well i mean i felt like i was trying you know there and kind of got burned a little bit with that whole falling asleep thing i mean that that whole senior citizen lifestyle got you i I mean, you got to understand though, like he, you know, he was busy all day.

I don't know. I've fallen asleep even, you know, when I was younger in my twenties, like I'd be 22 and I, that's from like day drinking. Yeah. Yeah.

I get that. But I guess, you know, like if you're starting out like with a new relationship and the possibilities, it's just, I think that that requires like a little extra effort. And if it's not interesting enough to be able to stay awake then i don't really have if you want some extra effort then i think lou might be your guy because he went through the

effort of reaching out to a radio show to get in touch with you super super early in the morning which might not be the style of a young person but it's his style and he's on the other line right now and wants to talk to you oh no he's not is he really lou oh my god hey hey what's happening kelly how are you hi hi lou i thought we were having a good time i you know listen i i i just simply dozed off on the couch. Uh, I had a great night, the night before, you know, and yeah, I know. Like you texted me all that and I appreciate that. Like you kind of owning it. That's cool. But I don't know.

I'm just kind of rethinking. Maybe it's not the best fit. Oh, well, you can't, you can't go by just, uh, uh, dozing off. You know what? I heard the song You Are So Beautiful by Joe Cocker. You know that one? Joe Cocker. What?

I don't know that. That's an ancient reference there, Lou. Didn't Alfalfa and the Little Rascals sing that? In the original one from the 60s. Not even the remake. It's a beautiful song, and it just basically says that you're so beautiful and you mean everything to me. And I just feel horrible that you had to wait.

And I was listening in. Listen, it took you two hours to get ready, so you must have been excited to go out again. So just by one little fumble here, I wish you could give me another shot. You are so beautiful to me can't you see me you're everything I need. How long are you going to go for? Is this helping?

You are so beautiful to me. Wow. I'll tell you they're not playing that at the clubs now. Lou, do you have any Cardi B in your repertoire or something? Or Kelly, doesn't Dua Lipa have a song about lowering your standards for an older man? How did that feel to you, that song? Did it help or did it hurt? I think I remember hearing my grandpa singing that song.

I'm going to go with hurt then. Well, I guess it's worth asking, what was your relationship with your grandpa like? Were you close with your grandpa? It was fine. I'm just wondering okay okay he's trying to be i think romantic and make up for his mistake look if you can take the age out of it he is sweet he is vulnerable he is honest unfortunately you can't just you're take age out of it that's just part of life but yeah there are positives to dating an older man if you think about it there are i mean that's the whole reason that you went out with him in the first place right

yes that is true okay i don't know a situation okay i'm gonna throw this out there but some younger girls like older guys because they tend to have more money or they've been in a career stability we'll go that's the worddom. Wisdom in the bank. And they like to do things first class because things like bad seats in an airplane hurt their backs. So that's nice. Yeah, plus they want real oatmeal, not the burnt oatmeal. And older men tend to like younger women because they can recognize the signs of a stroke and jump to action. Much more strength for CPR, too.

We would like you to be that lady for Lou, and we would pay for another date if you would agree to it. What, is she a caretaker? I'll tell you what. Why don't we go out for karaoke and drinks? I even bought a new coffee machine just for you. New coffee machine. Or it's for you, Lucy.

You can stay up later. I assure you, I won't fall asleep again. Okay. Hey, that's a good deal. All of that to consider and we'll give you a date on us. Kelly, what do you think?

All right. All right, I give it another try. Yay! And that age is nothing but a number yeah shots of wheatgrass for everybody you gotta do his insure milkshake brooke and jeffrey in the morning looks like everybody on the text board agrees this is probably not gonna end up being a long-term thing. Yeah. I don't think so. But good for old people, right? They need a victory every once in a while.

Is it a victory, though? Even for a day. You know, a pity victory. Yeah. It's like volunteering at an old folks home. You did something nice for them for one day. I see. I see.

That's nice. Put a smile on their face. Exactly. So whatever they end up doing for their next date, whether that's shuffleboard or plinko or... A plinko! Chess in the park. It'll be over by 7pm.

We wish them the best. We hope that they keep us updated. If you ever want to listen to any of our second date updates, remember, we have the podcast up. They're available online at Brooke and Jeffrey, wherever you get your podcasts. 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 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 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. 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 Labs how-to season starts January 1st. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.