Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update - Second Date Update: Surprise Party Shocker

Episode Date: December 5, 2023

One of our listeners wandered into an unlocked front door before his date started and what he saw on the other side threw his entire night for a loop!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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One of our listeners, Chris, says his first date got derailed before it even started. Just like most of the segments on this show. I was going to say, that's something we're used to. I feel for you, Chris. I have been there. In fact, I'm there right now. That's good. Stay in the present, Jeff.

Chris, do you feel this segment tanking as we speak? I think we can get it back on track. Okay, well, my co-host's faces say different. You're a lot more hopeful and optimistic than we are, Chris. But tell us about the girl that you were supposed to go out with. What's her name? Yeah, sure. Her name's Kayla. Okay.

We met at a dating app, and then we met online. How long did you guys chat before you actually met up? Like two or three weeks. So, you know, I guess a decent amount of time. We got to know each other at least a little bit. Is that the normal amount of time that you guys do? Two, three weeks before you meet up? Yeah, I try to meet up as soon as possible so I don't waste my time texting.

Oh, you're more two to three minutes. She's ours. Gotcha. For a solid connection, though, you want to make sure it's two, three weeks. If you're just hooking up like Alexis, yeah. Okay, fair. So you actually to make sure it's two, three weeks. If you're just hooking up like Alexis, yeah. Okay. Fair. So you actually like her, it sounds like.

Yeah, yeah. It was one of those apps where we were trying to date, not just get down to it. Gotcha. Okay. All right. Good, good. And so, I mean, the conversation leading up sounds like obviously it was good. Yeah, yeah.

It was good. She's super cute. Like, first, just saw her pictures. She had, like, freckles. She was wearing, like, all these cute, like, old band t-shirts that she sort of like cut up and anyway. Sweet. Whatever.

My type. Sounds odd. Okay. And you're not one of those guys that sees like a girl wearing like a Rolling Stone shirt or Ramones and is like, name three songs. I bet you're not a true fan. No. Okay.

I was like, you're not even in Nirvana. Tell us about the date and how it got derailed. Well, all right. So we scheduled that I was actually going to pick her up for our first date. Oh, man. She definitely trusts you then. So, yeah. So I got there like, I'm a pretty punctual person.

I got there, ended up being like 20 minutes early. Okay. Oh, wow. Okay. So I was like, I'll go up. I'll knock on the door, like see what's going on or whatever. Ooh, I don't know. 20 minutes early for a date is really early.

Yeah. Yeah. Like, I'm not going to be ready. No, exactly. Okay. And then it's like awkward because you have to answer the door if you're knocking on the door. It's like different if you send a text and you're like, yo, I'm here. I'll just wait for you until you're ready.

Let me know. Yeah. I thought about doing it and I was like, oh, I'm going to be a gentleman. I'll just walk up to the door instead of using a cell phone about it okay but it got it got way weirder though okay so I go up and the door was actually like cracked open so I sort of nudged it open just a little bit to give like a hey you know I'm here and as I nudged it open 20 ish people jumped out and screamed surprise. What? So, yeah, exactly. I'm really confused.

Were you at the wrong house? No. So it turns out her friends were throwing her a surprise party a week before her birthday. Wow. Oh. I guess that's smart. They were throwing her off a scent by doing it a week early. Well, what do you do?

Do you stay for the party or do you just leave? Well, she's obviously not even there yet. If they're all waiting for her, right? Yeah. Yeah, she wasn't. She was not there yet. That's so awkward. Yeah.

So I, you know, they didn't like ask me a lot of questions. They just sort of were like, get in, get in. You know, she's on her way here. Oh. Yeah. I didn't like fully have time to make the decision. Oh, okay. So then you're just like put in with the crowd of people and you're now waiting to surprise her for her party.

Exactly, with a group of people I've never met. Okay. That's so cool though. That's hysterical. What happened when she came into the door? So she comes in the door, everyone jumps out, yells surprise, you know. She's like looking around, obviously very very surprised and then sees me in the middle of it and he looks even more surprised probably not how you envisioned your first date

that's so funny though it is what was it a great party did you have a great did she have a great time yeah she seemed to have a really great time i mean i you know i talked to people a pretty decent amount like i hung out with her dog for a while. It was fun. I'm a big dog fan. That means the day went great. It's funny. Isn't it fun? Is that great? I have a weird feeling about it. Really? Why? I think it sounds great.

I mean, I'd rather do that than, like, an awkward dinner date with someone. Totally. Like, you're with friends, you guys are all drinky, and the mood is super high. But you're with their friends, and they're all hanging out with each other. And he's over on the couch just sitting with the dog. No, but here's the thing. If you can find a person who can hold their own in a party, it is so attractive.

I agree. That you don't have to babysit them the whole time. Yeah. I mean, it was cool. But like every now and again, they'd be like, wait, so how do you know her? I'm a little confused. And I was like, I don't know. Do I bring up the dating app? I was like, I don't know. Do I bring up the dating app?

I was like, I would usually find a way to sort of like do the conversation. You don't want to tell them, oh, yeah, I'm from one night stand dot com. You also don't want to be like, I'm her cousin. You'll see a kiss later. Yeah, that's true. Oh, my God. But if it was one of my friends, I'd be stoked. I'd be like, this is so hysterical and awkward.

I'm talking about the date. The party sounded fun, but were you able to ever get any alone, one-on-one time to actually connect with her? Yeah, so we got on the beer pong table together once, so that was fun. Oh, okay. But actually, yeah, I ended up staying until the end. So we got almost a half an hour to sort of like chat but it was like post party like you know she's pretty tired i was pretty tired it was a lot like it was a lot oh yeah yeah but we decided next week we're gonna go out on like a real date okay so how did it end did you just leave yeah i

just you know she gave me a hug goodbye but i mean you know when i was leaving like she seemed happy about the party but she also seemed like genuinely happy that i actually made the decision to stay and like you know okay so what's happened since well yeah that's the thing nothing now i texted her you know that week to make plans i didn't hear back and now it's been two weeks and so i'm like you know i'm just racking my brain like what i you know in my head i like, now I'm thinking about who is at the party. I'm like, was there like an ex-boyfriend or something that maybe she rekindled with? That's interesting. That's a good thought, actually.

Or did someone say something bad about you? Yeah. Do you think it's going to be weird when we call her in a couple minutes and all shout surprise? Let's do it. Because that's my plan. We're going to play a song. Sweet. We'll come back.

We'll call Kayla for you and try and get your second date update. Okay. Yeah, I appreciate it. All right. Hold on. Second date update. If you're just joining us. Surprise.

It's a second date update. We were supposed to wait until she was on the phone. We can do it again. Well, it's a second date update minus the date part. Yeah. But there was a lot of party. Yeah. Because one of our listeners, Chris, unknowingly scheduled a meetup on the exact night Kayla's friends planned a surprise birthday party for her.

Yeah. So he showed up, got rushed in, and told to hide behind a couch along with 40 other people that he didn't know. And he surprised Kayla. Ended up hanging out for about three hours, mostly with Kayla's dog, but also with some of her friends and even her at one point. And Chris, how did you say it ended that night between you guys? I felt good. It was weird, obviously, but she was happy I was there and that we were definitely hanging out the next weekend. And you didn't give any of her friends any reason for them to be like, stay away from him? Like he's like red flags, you know?

I didn't do anything embarrassing. I, you know, I watched my limits on drinking, you know, I was very careful. All right. Maybe it's just a scheduling thing. I mean, she did say it was her birthday the week after because they were doing the party a week before. Maybe she's just been too busy. Yeah, I mean, it's definitely possible. I get that, but like she's not responding even to texts.

Yeah, Brooke, what a dumb suggestion possible. I get that, but she's not responding even to text. Yeah, Brooke, what a dumb suggestion that was. Trying to be positive. I hope you feel embarrassed by that. I don't, but, you know, that's because I'm numb to embarrassment at this point in my life. It just doesn't happen anymore. Well, now that you just made it sad, okay. Let's just call Kayla and hopefully put some positivity into this call.

All right, you ready to do this, Chris? I hope so, yeah. Okay, here we go. Hello? Hey, is this Kayla? This is Sheen, is it? Surprise! Surprise! Yay!

You're on the radio right now with Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning. Yay! I'm sorry, what? Happy late birthday! Happy belated birthday! Yeah, we heard it's your birthday. I'm sorry, but is this a joke or something? I just don't know.

No, it's not a joke. It's actually something that we're doing called a second date update. Yes. We're all wondering about a hangout that you had recently with one of our listeners named Chris. Oh. He reached out to us and told us you guys are supposed to go out on a date, but then it kind of got derailed because your friends threw you a surprise birthday party. And he said he got swept up into the party somehow, which I thought sounded like a really cute night.

And you must have been so excited your friends threw you a surprise party. That's so cool. This is really weird. Well, don't worry. Sorry, we didn't mean to blindside you and surprise you with all that stuff. We're just really trying to help our listener, Chris, understand what happened at the party because he felt like you guys

were getting along and you were supposed to hang out the next weekend and that never happened. So he's just a little bit confused. Yeah, I guess that's in the air these days. And I don't mean to be mean to you guys at all. No, you're not being mean. I'm just trying to digest and process it.

Totally. This is you being mean? We've heard a lot worse than that you're fine chris is just confused you know and i i feel like you could understand that like he said that you he left you on such a happy positive note you guys had a great hug and then it's just silence since uh yeah i mean it was such a weird thing that had happened because basically i was not only surprised that there was a surprise party but then i was like it was a double layer of surprise because chris being there and so it was like just a clown car full of emotions i suppose and and it was super nice that he stayed but it was weird because i guess he left and then he came back he left and

came back you mean to the party i mean i didn't see him but i just assumed he did that what do you mean you assumed well because here was a gift from chris that was on the present table and i mean he didn't know that there was going to be a surprise party at least he said he didn't and my friend said he didn't that's so sweet though so you think he like rushed out in the middle of the party to go get you a present it's actually really nice I think that's so kind yeah but it wasn't because when I opened up his present it was Skim's shapewear oh that is hard to get your hands on though. It's the Kim Kardashian

line of shapewear. Isn't it supposed to slim you down? Yeah. Was it lingerie though? Just by Skims? They do all sorts of different... It was shapewear and I was so horrifically offended. He obviously

looked at me and then he was like i'm just gonna go run out and get shapewear for her why would he do that that is that's really odd especially for a first date possible gift but is it one of those things where he just saw like it's a kim kardashian line and he figured like if i was gonna buy a girl makeup and i saw kim k on it or something oh like maybe he didn't look at it maybe he didn't know it was shapewear maybe he thought it was just like a trend look kayla i want you to know he never told us that he bought you a gift or anything about the skims and he went on and on about how cute and hot you were when we talked to him i mean i was really mortified and really embarrassed and i'm i just don't want to have to think about it about him anymore so

you know well I'm sorry sorry to do this to you Kayla but we do have one more surprise this is the end Chris is on the other line listening and he wants to talk to you

hey wait wait what yeah I'm sorry i'm like this is blowing me away i i never left the party i i promise you like 100 so wait you already had a gift with you and you showed up to a party that you didn't know was gonna happen yeah dude no wait hold on you guys this is kit this is chris did you set this up to get me on the radio like this? Like I, I just,

I wanted to talk to you and I couldn't get figure out any other way to like, try to figure out like what I possibly did to make you not like even respond to texts, like let alone knock a lot with me again. Because you got me, you bought me, you must've left and got me some present that is demonstrative of how you look at my body. It was just so weird.

And inappropriate. And inappropriate. Dude, what were you thinking, man? I wouldn't even know where to buy shapewear. I don't know. I guess I'm sort of figuring out based on what everyone's saying what shapewear is. But look, all right. This is kind of embarrassing.

I liked you a lot, like upon meeting you. And like, there was this whole table of presents, like from all your awesome friends. And I was like, I don't have anything for her. It's her birthday. And like, this is my first impression on her. And I don't know, like, I didn't think I drank too much, but maybe I just put something in my head. I was just, I crossed off one of the names on the gifts and I put my know like I didn't think I drank too much but maybe I just put something in my head I

was just I crossed off one of the names on the gifts and I put my name on it oh I know it was not a cool I know it's not a cool move but I promise you it was like done with like the best intention like I just I didn't open I didn't open it first of Of course, because it's wrapped. You just put your name on someone else's gift to her? That's a gamble for sure. That makes sense though. But who the hell is giving you shapewear on your birthday?

Probably one of her close friends. I don't even remember what the name was on it. I just popped my name on there and I was very specific with it. I put our first date, like winky face. Kayla, we want to hear from you what what do you think about that my jaw is just on the ground so you're saying that present wasn't from you but i wanted to take credit for a present that somebody else was giving me but it backfired on you is that better or worse than what you originally thought? Good point. I mean, I'm just like swimming in confusion right now.

Oh my god. I will say it means that he is not some weirdo who's giving you shapewear on purpose. That's a good point. That is a big thing. I would have never looked at you and been like, oh man, she needs to alter anything about her appearance or about yourself as a person at all all after like no he just needs to alter the name

on this happy birthday card i mean kayla it sounds like he made a drunken dumb mistake that he thought was going to impress you and it backfired in the absolute worst way it could have pretty funny right but overall he seems like a pretty cool guy and we'd like to send you guys out on another date if you're up for it, Kayla. We'd pay for it. No presents. Yeah.

That's actually a good thing this time. Yeah. That typically isn't. What do you think? I will go out on a date with Chris if he helps me figure out who gave me shapewear for my birthday. Seriously.

Get him. All right. Seriously, get them. All right. Chris, you up for a little detective work? I'm in, yeah. That's the least of what I can do. That's awesome. Congratulations, you guys. Well, I'll say this.

You've now made a new listener. Oh, yay! That makes two listeners total. Yay! We did it. We're both on the phone. Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning. We're so done with New Year, New You.

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