Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update - Second Date Update: The Bartender and the Biker

Episode Date: May 10, 2024

One of our listeners says he got unsolicited life advice from a bartender and it actually might have helped him find the love of his life! We’ll hear his story in a new Second Date Update!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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This is going to be extremely helpful for our listeners because not only are we going to hear a new second date update, but this is a situation with a potential new job opportunity where our listeners can leave their sucky workplaces and start making triple their normal salary is this streaming too because i already discovered that are you making triple yet oh i'm making a lot of money it's not playing video games with kids online no our listener says he did this and ended up actually meeting someone that way his name is is Zach. And Zach, your email said your life has changed dramatically

in the last 12 months. Why? Big time. I met this girl due to my new job. I like how your voice gets deep when you say it. Sounds like you like it. Well, the old job sucked.

I was only making like 40k there. It was dead end. It wasn't going to get any better. I hated it. Jeez. So anyway, the company I worked for had an event for all the employees. Okay. And I went to it, and they had an open bar there.

Okay, and you're talking about the sucky company that wasn't paying you anything. Yeah, I know. It sounds good right now with an open bar, but yeah, it gets pretty bad. I'm like, wait a minute. now with an open bar but yeah it gets pretty bad wait a minute okay open bar equals out yeah this is like i'll take payment in white cloth i ended up tossing back a few and during that i bonded and became friends with the guy that was bartending all right and i was telling him about the job i was doing and my situation and how bad it was. And he tells me, he goes, man, you should just quit and start what I'm doing. And what he was doing, he was a mobile bartender. Oh, my God.

I have a buddy who just started a company like this. Wait, isn't that just like catering? Like, I don't know. What's the difference? It's kind of more like a food truck that serves drinks. Oh, you make it weddings where people have little stands that come? Yeah. So he tells me that I could triple my old income.

And so he starts filling me in. He goes, you only work a few hours a day. You can make your own schedule. Okay. It sounds too good to be true. Do you have experience bartending? I don't. Not really.

I do now. Oh, now you do. Okay. Right. And that's what you're doing now? Yeah, that's exactly what I'm doing now. I love it. Good for you, man.

How's it going? It's going really good. I mean, you get hired to do this stuff, and you go to a lot of different places. Okay. Are you just calling for a second date because you want to promote your company? No, no, no, no, no, no. Okay. So this is how you met the woman that we're going to call here?

Yeah, yeah. Her name is Bethany, and I got hired to do a backyard party that was a bachelor-slash-bachelorette party. I guess they just wanted to do it all together, so they did it all together. Brooke did the same thing because she's cheap like that, so they mixed them into one event. No, it's fun.

Like, all the wedding party gets to know each other. Like, the girls know the guys, and it makes it more, like, fun at the wedding, too. You can choose another guy you want to leave to go if you want to. I get it. So how did you meet Bethany there? So she ends up being a guest at that party. Okay. And the more she came up, which was only a few times,

but we started having good conversations, started talking. She was super fun. She was real bubbly and outgoing. That's cool. Don't you love that? Yeah. By her seventh margarita, I would expect her to be fun.

I mean, you probably meet so many different people now, but she really stood out to you. Yeah, she did. And she's in great shape. She tells me that she's a cycling instructor. Oh. Okay. Tight buns. Okay.

But while we were talking, she had asked me what I do. And I told her, well, you're looking at it. This is it. This is my business now. Cool. Was she impressed? I don't know. I don't know.

It seemed like she was okay with it. But she goes, oh, okay, yeah. Well, I will say there's a stigma that comes along with bartenders. Yeah, totally. Too much fun? Too much fun. I think it's more like too much fun without you is the problem. And when they are free is terrible times.

And now he's also the bartending business owner. It's a little extra. Hey, Monday at noon, do you want to go on a date? Because that's the only time I have available. Right. And I guess bartenders are normally struggling for money, so maybe she thought that I was a different tax break. I don't think that's actually not part of the stigma.

Yeah, no. It's more of what you do in your free time socially. There it is. Or work hours. Yeah. It sounds like you and Bethany had a stronger connection than that. Yeah, and she gave me her number.

And she came up a few more times. But I've been trying to get a hold of her, been trying to text her, and she's kind of ghosting me. I haven't heard anything back at all. So you guys haven't gone out on a date yet? We have not gone out on a date. Oh, dang. I mean, looking back on the event that you work, was there any awkward moments between you two? The only one i can think

of which isn't all that bad it's just you know naturally as she started coming up to the bar she was getting a little tipsy towards the end of the night and hopefully she wasn't embarrassed by me actually suggesting that she pulled her dress up a little bit because things were starting to fall out of the top. Oh, the top. I was like, brother, that is not good. We don't condone that. He's trying to help her out. We should tell her story different next time.

I wasn't telling her to lift her skirt or anything. I was like, let's hang up on this guy. Because Alexis has done that five different times and it's never worked out well. My skirt's above my neck. I don't get it. All right.

So you said you've been in contact with her, but nothing has come of it. Nothing. And do you promise us that you didn't ask for anyone else's number at that party? Oh, because you could have seen it? Well, they're all friends. Not only did i not ask for anyone else's number that day i've been doing this for over a year and have never asked anybody we've met the one upstanding bartender in the entire world because he's doesn't done it for a

year he's a rookie yeah given another year you'll be a different man. But in the meantime. Don't be selling drugs out of the truck. Let's call Bethany for you. We're going to come back and try and get you your second date update right after this. Second date update. T-Pain once said, I love the bartender. Yeah. You'd be looking for me. But our bartender is not getting any love.

Oh, man. See, that's what he does for a living. but our bartender is not getting any love. Oh, man. That's what he does for a living. He left his old job a year ago and started a mobile business serving drinks at different events where he ended up meeting a lady named Bethany at a backyard joint bachelor bachelorette party. Oh, my God. And it's the only woman in an entire year that he's ever asked for her number.

That's the type of impact that she had on him. They opened up to each other there, shared about their lives and their interests. Even after she gave him her number, though, she is not responding to him. And they haven't done an official first date. She's the opposite of T-Pain. She's not in love with the bartender. Yeah, but we want her to get there. So, I mean, honestly, Zach, you're lucky that you're on the phone right now

because if you were in studio, Brooke would be filling up your tip jar with so much cash. That's right. And other things. I like a big pour. She can't just buy her own drink. That's not a euphemism or anything. I just like a lot of alcohol in my cup. It does.

It is a euphemism. You know it's a lot of alcohol in my cup yeah it is a euphemism yeah you know it's true brooke is a problem at every event that she goes to in a good way but uh she's actually going to be on your side today i am i am and you know you said that the only like maybe kind of embarrassing moment was at the end when you told her to pull her top up because she was kind of losing things right i don't know I mean as a drunk woman that the tops are always falling off Did you say topper dress you know there's different? Maybe she was pulling it down for you Excuse me sir the left ones out for a reason Classic Brooke. Could she be like, hello, I showed up with cleavage. You want me to put it away?

Excuse me, sir. The left one's out for a reason. I was winking at you, sir. Anyway. I mean, we can speculate all we want. We actually have to call Bethany here and figure out what's going on. Let's do it. I'm going to call her.

Sorry, I'm just imagining just having one boob out. I know. It's funny to me. Here we go. Call Bethany. Hello? Hey, we're looking to talk to Bethany. Yeah, I'm Bethany. Hi, Bethany.

Hey, Bethany. Sorry to interrupt your day, but we're a radio show called Brooke and Jeffrey in the Morning. Okay. Hi. Welcome to the show. Hi. We want you to be a part of this segment we're doing

called a Second Date Update because we're trying to help out one of our listeners get in touch with you. Yeah, you guys never really went on a date. Yeah. But you made a connection um okay yeah that's okay you don't have to be nervous we don't bite you sound like you just got cornered

a lot of voices yeah we just we just want to ask you about a guy that you met recently at like a bachelor bachelorette event? He was the bartender there named Zach? Yeah, yeah. What'd you think of Zach? You know, I thought he was really nice at first. At first. At first. But then he was really sexy secondly.

Yeah, too sexy, I think. Okay. No. Something changed? Yeah, he kept going like like, on and on and on about how he, like, quit his job. And now he has this business and been doing so well. And there's so much more money. Yeah, we spoke to him a little bit before.

And we heard that he's very proud of his new business because he started it all himself and that's great that's great to be proud right but he also didn't seem to want to know anything about what i was doing oh no that's not good yeah that's too bad he was very uncomfortable and then and then at one point like things got busy you know like a lot of people were drinking and he had like ran out of Diet Coke. And so I helped him and I went and grabbed some of the Diet Coke for him. So I was like, oh, I could do that. That's not a problem. Okay.

Oh, that's really nice of you. So you were maybe still a little flirty with him at that point. It was just, yeah, he was alone. And I've worked different service industry jobs. And so I know how it gets. And so I was like, yeah, let me just help you out. Like, it's a nice thing to do. Okay. cool yeah that's that's awesome i thought so too but he'd already had my number at that point he must have really appreciated me grabbing those diet

cokes because he venmoed me twenty dollars what oh wait what what do you mean he venmoed you 20 bucks he paid you for what what did he put in the comments of the Venmo? That's a good question. He put, here's a tip for the bartender. Weird. And I'm like, I was just being nice. It just felt really weird and kind of like, you know, like when like creepy old men and you like do something nice and then they like flip you like a, you know, some cash.

Alexis, she's talking to you here. Creepy old men. I get me uncomfortable sometimes. You're saying creepy old men started as creepy young men. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm just like, is this the modern version of like an old man slipping you some cash? Yeah.

Hey, sweetheart. Well, I mean, yeah. Maybe slipping money could be a little bit creepy. This is going to be worse. There's nothing creepy about somebody quietly listening in on a phone conversation wanting to join, right? Sorry about that. This is our company. Because Zach is on the other line wanting to talk to you.

Hello there. Are you serious? Yeah, that's Zach. Hey, I apologize. I didn't mean to offend you with the tip there. I just didn't know what to do there. And just I thought, well, you know, let me help me out. Let me.

You're a normal person. You know what's up that way. Okay. Okay. Listen to her. Remember, that was part of the problem. Go ahead, Bethany. Tell them how you were feeling.

You know, like, it just, it felt like, like you were. Yeah, I know how you felt. I heard the conversation. I get it. Well, it might be worth hearing her out. Yeah. I just appreciate the fact that you're here. I'm sorry it went weird.

Yeah. It's kind of funny. This is going really well. Zach, I know that you're a bartender, and a good lesson for bartenders is to listen to the customers because they'll actually stick around longer and pay more. I think a good lesson to just people, right? Like, did you ask her one question that you can remember?

No, I guess not. Oh, bro, you're not even going to try? Hey, at least he has a good memory. He knows he didn't ask. He remembers he didn't ask. I mean, would you like to ask her anything about herself? Yeah. I know what you normally drink.

Is there a second favorite that you have? Well, that's something. Is it something, Jeff? At least it's a question about her. No. I didn't think sending her $20 would be that big a deal. I figured she told me she was a cycling instructor. I didn't think she was getting rich on that.

Oh, no. Don't say that. Oh, no. Wow. Charity case. It's probably true, though, let's be honest. It depends on the studio. You can actually make pretty good money. Just like any business. Zach, maybe you should leave your bartending job and get into cycling if there's that much money in it.

It's your competition. I saw a thing recently where they put a blender on the front of a bike and you could do both where you have to make your own margarita by pedaling really fast. Oh, and when you're done, you can drink it. That's so smart. That could be your niche. I actually don't know how to ride a bike. Oh.

Wait, what? It was stationary. It's not a two-wheeler. He still falls off. Zach, man. I bet that was a lot to hear. That was a lot to hear. Yeah.

It sounds like he means well, but it's not coming out. No. Maybe Zach has learned some lessons in the last few minutes. Zach, what have you learned from this call? I learned that she never answered her question about her second favorite drink. Okay. Okay. And that's you.

You're not going to fix this guy. He wants to know. We always offer this because we kind of have to. But, Bethany, we would love to send you out on another... on a first date, actually,

with Zach. Does he have to be there? Yeah, Zach does have to be there. And the good news is nobody has to pay through Venmo or anything. We're gonna cover the bill. Yeah!

I'm up for anything, really, as long as we don't ride bikes anywhere. Okay. You're serious about that. Wouldn't that be ironic, a cycling instructor dating a guy who couldn't ride a bike? Bethany, you want to give him a shot? You know, I think I should just stick to my gut from our first interaction. Okay.

But I appreciate the offer. Oh, man. All right. Well, you got your answer, Zach. Yeah, but if you tip us $40, we'll ask her again. That's okay. I mean, I can see what's going on. I can read between the lines and see what's happening here.

I feel like I was very straightforward. I think all the lines had all the writing on them. I thought you'd be impressed, Bethany, just by the fact he could read. Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning. You know what? I'm not even feeling sad for Zach. Because Zach wouldn't hear you anyway. That's true.

Even though he kind of embarrassed himself on the radio. He's meeting so many hotties at these bartending events now. He is going to be just fine in the dating world. I don't know if he can stop talking about himself. Yeah. I mean, honestly, like, it sounds, like, so simple, and it's so hard for some people. There's a line. If you're

excited about your new success, you can only tell your old friends that knew you when you were broke. If you tell new people, hey, I'm rich, and I have a company, isn't that cool? They're going to be like, no, you jerk. But next week, we'm rich and I have a company, isn't that cool? They're going to be like, no, you jerk. But next week, we're probably going to get an email from him saying he just met another woman, but this one's his soulmate because she can't ride a bike either. Oh, yeah.

I mean, it would be cute to see him on training wheels. I'm not joking. I would love that. Dual bicycle with training wheels? Yeah. Fandom? Zach, we're all rooting for you out there. Oh, man.

Yeah, buddy. But make sure you we're all rooting for you out there. Oh, man. Yeah, buddy. But make sure you listen to Brooke and Jeffrey in the Morning wherever you find your podcasts. You can hear more second dates just like that one. 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 john stewart is back in the host chair at The Daily Show, which means he's also back in our ears on The Daily Show Ears Edition podcast. Join late-night legend Jon Stewart and the best news team for today's biggest headlines, exclusive extended interviews, and more.

Now this is a second term we can all get behind. Listen to The Daily Show Ears Edition 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 into my new podcast, Throttle Therapy, with Catherine 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.