Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update - Second Date Update: The Boy Who Cried Tree

Episode Date: December 13, 2023

After we totally botched a Second Date for a guy a few months ago, he’s back and at this point we’re not sure if he’s trolling us or just likes the punishment. We can't let him down this time!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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What? No way. Okay. Is that allowed? I just don't think things are going very well for them, Ben. Well, he called in about five months ago. Okay. When he got side-eyed during sushi by another woman that he ghosted.

Oh, I remember this guy. I don't remember. We do so many of these. Well, I guess we couldn't get him another date there. But apparently, there's a new lady who's caught his attention. Uh-oh. And he wants our help again so we're welcoming back brian brian welcome back man you must really have faith in us for some reason i know we couldn't even help last time i believe in you guys i believe in you okay i feel like we cursed your love life and you're just stuck with

us now he's like i'm trying other morning shows but you're the only ones that like me actually i emailed all of them but you're the only ones that responded yeah we have very low standards here so welcome back and uh tell us about the girl that you met this time what's her name all right so her name is aubry. I saw a picture on my co-worker's Instagram. She was tagged in it. Oh. Oh, nice, dude. You know, I got into detective mode and clicked the tag and went on her page.

I love it when girls tag their friends, because some girls will have a really hot friend, but they won't tag them. And I'm like, how am I supposed to creep on your friend if you don't tag her? Okay, so remind me not to tag my friend. Okay. Any photos ever. So that's not okay from a woman's perspective perspective is it cool if a guy reaches out to you i mean it depends on how hot he is right yeah that's always the answer brian i know you're

super handsome so you're safe what did aubrey say when you reached out well i slid in a dm she didn't seem to be attached to anyone and uh i found out this is gonna be her first christmas alone because she's actually moved and she's gonna be away from her family oh that's too bad she should get used to being alone like me was she sad about that or was she happy about it she was a little distraught okay okay so you you're like this is my moment i'm gonna do something holiday for her is that what you're thinking of course i offered to take it'm going to do something holiday for her. Is that what you're thinking? Of course. I offered to take her to a Christmas tree farm to get her a tree. Aw.

So at least she had the season to be jolly filled with a tree in the house. That's cute, too. And I feel like you can be vouched for, right? Like, it's not just some rando coming into her DMs. Like, it's her co-worker's friend. Yeah. So how did the Christmas tree farm go? It was great.

It was great. So what we did, we wore our silly Christmas sweater. Oh, nice. And I wore my sweater. It said jingle and single. I love it. This is great. I want to do this now.

Her said Santa's favorite ho, ho, ho. Nice. I knew it was going to be an awesome time, so I bought a little bit of those, you know, those small bottles they have on the airplane of alcohol? Yeah. Shooters. Yeah.

Yeah, I bought a couple of those. I bought like four or five whiskey bottles, and it loosened both of us up. We had such a great time. Okay. Oh, good. I mean, that's a really cute date. It is. I mean, what was a really cute date. It is.

I mean, what was the highlight of it all for you? Well, she found a tree that she loved, loved, loved, so I offered to buy it for her. Dang. And then I saw the price tag and was like, whoa. Yeah. How much do trees cost? Oh, my God.

We just got one this weekend. It was $85. Whoa. It was like in three figures. It was pretty high. Ours was only like five foot tall. If you're thinking eight feet or something.

That's not a good look when you offer to pay for something and you're going back on it afterwards. That's like being all day for dinner, seeing the bill. He just saw a foot off the top. This was actually a three footer now. Well, it's funny because she saw the look on my face when I saw that price tag.

And she was like, all right, we're definitely splitting this. And I was like, yeah, we are. All right. But still, you paid for half of her tree, bro. That's actually really nice. Okay, but was that the end of the date? You bought her the Christmas tree and that was it? No, no. We tied that bad fella to the top of the car drove it to her place and set it up oh cute

wow you really went all out bro i mean now i don't know how to do that i would have been like okay good luck you can't just ditch her with the tree but it's like you're like fully invested this is hours of a day and and i also feel like it's like a personal thing to like set up a Christmas tree with somebody. It is. Like it's your tree. Totally. You guys put it up together. Well, we put it up together, but I wanted to stay in decorated, but she said she had

dinner plans and she ended the date like that. And I'm like, okay, cool. She may have had pre-existing plans, but I've been texting and calling and nothing. Oh, so you didn't decorate the tree yeah maybe she didn't want that commitment with you do you think that she was telling the truth do you think that she really had plans or you think that was a lie to get out of it i i don't know i felt like the girl at the sushi restaurant and i was hoping you guys could help me all right and there was no women like side-eyeing you at the Christmas tree farm

from like behind another tree. We're not going to do the same call again, are we? No, no side-eyes. No. Okay. Well, thank God.

Let's play a song. We'll come back. We'll call Aubrey for you. We'll try to get your second date update, okay? Hey, can you play All I Want for Christmas this year?

No. No. No. We deleted that out of our box. You'll hear what you hear and you're going to like it. Come to the ghetto, Snoop Dogg.

I like it, but no. You can wrap that to yourself while you're on hold. And then we'll come back with your second date update, all right? Shannon Close. Let's do it next. Second date update. Has the Hallmark Channel already done the 12 DMs of Christmas? No, but I like it.

I mean, they should. Yeah, they should. Because one of our listeners, Brian, met a woman on Instagram recently, took her to a Christmas tree farm because this is going to be her first holiday spent away from her family. Oh, it's so sweet. It's like thoughtful. It's fun. Absolutely.

But there was an embarrassing moment where he offered to pay for the tree for her and then saw the price tag. So I had to dial it back and instead just went Dutch. Anyway, ever since that happened, he's had a hard time getting a hold of her. Now he's asking us for a little bit of help. Yes. Do you think it's that? Do you think it's that you didn't pay for the full tree? Yeah.

I hope I didn't come off looking like a cheapskate, but I don't think so. Bought a fake tree off Amazon and sold it. I mean, cheapskate is something we can fix, though. Yeah, that's true. Well, we're paying for the meal at the end of this. Well, yeah, if you're paying,

we're going to go to a nice spot. We got you covered, Brian, but let's see what Aubrey has to say. We're going to dial her number right now let's do it all right here we go hello hello is this aubrey yes it is aubrey did you buy a christmas tree recently uh i'm calling from the tree farm we found out that there's a problem with your tree we need It is. Aubrey, did you buy a Christmas tree recently? I'm calling from the tree farm. We found out that there's a problem with your tree. We need it back, please.

We need it back? What? It's like a family of woodpeckers living in it? Endangered woodpeckers. Yeah, that's why. No, I'm sorry. I'm just kidding, Aubrey. My name is Jeff from the radio show Brooke and Jeffrey in the Morning. Okay. The tree farm was more believable. I know. Somehow I'm just kidding, Aubrey. My name is Jeff from the radio show Brooke and Jeffrey in the Morning. Okay.

That was more believable. I know. Somehow I just made it worse. No, we're doing something on our show called A Second Date. Have you ever heard of that before? No, I have not. Okay. Well, recently you went out with one of our listeners,

and he's been trying to get a hold of you. He's having a little bit of trouble doing it. His name is Brian. Oh. Does that whole Christmas tree thing at the beginning make sense now? Yeah. Sure.

Okay. Well, what we're doing here is we're trying to help Brian figure out why you're kind of ghosting him after your date. Well, yeah, that would be because I'm not interested in talking to him again oh wow oh it's that strong really because like he sounded so thoughtful i mean he said that he took you to the tree farm because you were kind of sad about not having the you know family for the holidays and stuff is it because he's poor i'm not really sure what all he told you about the date okay

well he told us that you went to a christmas tree farm together he got you a tree offered to buy it in full but then saw the price tag and you ended up having to go dutch instead well she offered you offered to go dutch he said yeah i did yeah okay you did do that and then afterwards he drove the tree back to your place and put it up for you but you had to go to dinner and couldn't stay longer and decorate it with him um is all that right uh well technically yeah but i think he left something out of the story oh no what did he do what did leave out? So after we loaded the tree onto the car, we were getting ready to go. And I put my hands in my pockets to make sure I had my gloves.

And I only had one. So I just said, I'm going to go back and look for my gloves, you know, where we were. So he stayed at the car. I walked back over to where we were looking at trees. And I see this little boy standing there maybe six years old crying and he has my glove in his hands and I'm like oh my gosh what is wrong like are you okay what happened and so he looks at me and points at me and he says that lady and her boyfriend took my tree and i was like oh no what what like like he just liked that one out in the lot and then he saw you guys cutting it down

instead of him or something well so his dad said well my son told me that he was standing by a christmas tree it was the one that we had picked out and i was going to get the people to get the tree and you guys came and took it even though he was standing there and i was like oh my god did you not notice a little boy crying next to the tree chopping it down i think it was your day i didn't see any little boy oh so you're calling the little boy a liar. No, no, but I wasn't the one cutting the tree down. Like once we decided on it, I left and went to look at like wreaths and stuff that were for sale. And he was the one sawing the tree down. Oh, no.

So you're saying you think that this little boy isn't mistaken. You're believing the six-year-old that your date went and cut down the little boy's tree after you left. I'm not saying that he did it on purpose, but I am telling Brian this, and I'm like, there's this little boy, and he's crying, and he says this was his Christmas tree. And Brian was like, I didn't see any little boy. Like, too bad. New as you lose. I mean, it's just a freaking tree i didn't care if

it was that was the one we got or not he was like i'm not doing that i'm not taking this thing off the car we spent 20 minutes getting this thing oh my god it's like you guys are in a real relationship yeah don't you like they're fighting at the end of the christmas tree are you dating a six-year-old are you dating me? Okay. And so the fact that he wouldn't give the tree back to the little boy and his family, that's why you're turned off by Brian? Yes. I could see that.

I mean, like, how heartless can you be? I mean, a six-year-old is crying in the middle of a Christmas tree lot. I can imagine. He's like, shut up. I'm trying to cut this tree down. Well, maybe it's just a misunderstanding and there's some miscommunication here. And the perfect way to sort this out is just by putting you on the phone with Brian, who is actually already on the phone. I've been listening the entire time. Yeah.

Oh, my gosh. What a huge miscommunication. Oh, really? Okay. Do you hear that? Well, how did I cut? One, I didn't cut down the little boy's tree because he didn't pay for it. Oh, whoa.

Wait a minute. That's not how I thought you were going to come into that. A little cold. Wait, so because you didn't own it, it's not theirs yet? Well, hold on. Technically, you cannot

cut down the tree until you purchase it. I had the receipt in hand when I cut down the tree. The boy it i had the receipt in hand okay when i cut down the tree the boy was looking at the tree but it was not his tree okay so you did see the little boy though crying next to it while you were sawing it down there were kids standing next to every tree so does that mean that's their tree too there's crying kids all over this tree farm how am i supposed to know i mean that kind of sad of checks out. This is the saddest tree farm in the world.

Yeah. But you can see where she's coming from, right? Like, she just was confronted by a crying little boy and the father, and then... Well, hold on. The father wasn't all that confrontational. The father was kind of relieved that I saved him from buying such an expensive tree. Aubrey, is that the read that you're getting, Aubrey?

I think we're missing the point here. There is a six-year-old little boy crying at Christmastime. Like, I don't freaking care if you didn't see him. Or, like, this little boy is crying. No, I was more concerned his father couldn't do something to stop him from crying. Oh. So, wait, now you're saying he's a bad parent. He's raised an entitled child who believes that he

deserves the tree i mean i'm kind of with him on that point like my kids wanted a bigger more expensive tree at the tree lot and we're like no that's not happening your kids are used to crying i think that's what happened i think his father probably told him no to that tree because of the price tag on it. He was playing that kid, making us look like the bad guy, so he didn't look like the bad guy. The point here is that we had an opportunity to do something really kind for a child at Christmastime. And you chose not to do it. Wait, hold on, wait, hold on. We were on a date. kind for a child at Christmas time. And you chose not to do it. And you chose to take the time to make the effort. We were on a date.

This is not make a wish. Oh, stop it. Ryan. You're not making it any better by the way. And now every time Aubrey goes into her house, she looks at her tainted Christmas tree. You know what, Aubrey? Aubrey, here's a chance for you to take your own advice here.

There is a sad boy on the other line who cannot get another date with a woman that he really likes. And all he wants for Christmas is one more date, and we will pay for it. Are you going to be a good person here, Aubrey, or are you going to be a Grinch? He may cry. Oh, my gosh. Are you going to be a good person here, Aubrey, or are you going to be a Grinch? He may cry. Oh my gosh. Are you serious? I know. When you frame it like that, it's hard to say no. I mean, I will say Brian really does like you. He was trying to do

something kind. Maybe he's got a little more sterner approach to children than you do. He was more focused on you than his environment. That boy probably isn't a very good kid anyway. He's probably a little spoiled brat. He could have stolen your glove for all we know.

Oh, no. He was holding onto your glove. You guys. I don't agree with that kid. You should really rub it in that kid's face by going out with Brian again one more time on our bill. It's going to be a hard pass. Oh. Really? No Christmas miracle.

How does she look like the Grinch now? Now there's a whole studio full of sad radio hosts who are just upset because we couldn't get our listener another date. Again. Good job, Aubrey. I think there's a pattern here. It's not me. It's Brian. Oh, come on, Brian. last christmas i gave you my heart but the very next day you gave it away okay brian's been drinking all morning

i need a drink now brooke and jeffrey in the morning ever since we did that call, Brooke has still been saying that she doesn't care that the kid was crying. She kind of thinks that he deserves it. I don't think, I mean, kids cry all the time, Jeffrey. Does it count? Well, I mean, Alexis, if we did everything based on what would upset a child, no one would do anything in this world. Yeah, the world would be a better place like this. Just don't do anything at all. Say, like, he can get a different tree. Yeah, the world would be a better place like that. Just don't do anything at all. Say, like, he can get a different tree.

Yeah. It's already on top of the car. I wouldn't take it down either. Let him take your car home then at least. That would have been in the true spirit of Christmas. You're so generous, Jeff. You know, but of course, with people like Brooke on the show, we're unable to get a second date update for our friend Brian.

I tried for Brian. I did. Yeah, so we're now 0 for 2 with Brian. Yeah. I wonder if he'll call back for a third time. Who knows? Remember at the beginning of all this, he was the one ghosting women. Yeah.

Go have the tables have turned. That's called Christmas karma. There it is. But you know what? If you're like Brian, you need help reaching out to someone after a date, email us. We'll call the person who isn't calling you back. We're obviously very good at it.

Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning. 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'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

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