Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update - Second Date Update UPDATE: Middle School Melee

Episode Date: March 16, 2023

A little while back we had a guy on the show whose mother was meddling in his love life. It led to an awkward but hilarious date night with a special lady and now we have an UPDATE on what’s happened since. 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. or wherever you get your podcasts. We've helped people rekindle old flames on the show before. Yeah. And when I say we, I mean Jose, Alexis, and I. What are you talking about? The other person usually barges into the conversation all pouty and sad and snuffs the flame right out. Jeffrey, I love love.

I think love is fantastic. I think it's what we should think. You don't have to scream it into my ear. Someone's overcompensating. I'm just asking out of the bottom of my heart, Brooke, today, please, let's not give up on these people so quickly. I feel like the only times you ever say that is when the people really have screwed something up. I can feel you giving up

already. I'm just saying, whatever happened, whoever said whatever to whoever, let's give them some grace. Let's give them some leeway. People can make mistakes. Let's be the healers that our listening audience deserves to hear.

Is that so hard? What did they do wrong? Applause for that. You're applauding your own speech? That's the type of energy that we're looking for here. Hey listeners, guess who the only person not applauding is? Can we ask that of you today?

I feel like you're setting me up for something, but sure. A half-hearted sure is the best we're going to do today, Thomas. So we're in a mildly safe place. She says she'll behave. Welcome to the show, man. Thank you. Thank you for having me. You're welcome, Thomas.

We're ready to hear about the date that you went on. Tell us about who it was with. So it was with Marie. Okay. And she is somebody that I knew in middle school. Oh, that's cute. Did you guys slow dance at a middle school dance before? No, we were never close.

Oh, okay. She actually beat me up when I was a kid. What? Beat you up? She's like giving you a swirly. You're like, you're so beautiful. Is she still scary? No, she's not as scary.

She's a swimmer. A little bit intimidating to me. Did she remember that you're the guy that she beat up? Yeah, so maybe I'm jumping ahead too much, but when I went out on a date with her, I actually wore a boxing helmet,

like a boxing headgear. That's so funny. That's amazing. Rematch. Let's do this. We're adults now. Let's go. Round two.

What did she say when you showed up wearing that? She laughed. She thought it was great. She knew exactly what it was. Oh, my God. That's actually pretty funny. How did you guys reconnect? Yeah, so I'm, like, recently divorced.

I got on the dating app, and she was on there. And I didn't recognize her. Like, I sort of recognized her, but not completely. You're like, can I get a picture of your fists coming towards my face? Then I might recognize you. But it is kind of crazy how many people stay in town. After middle school and high school, you're all in the same community still.

That's great. Yeah, it was great. So what did you guys end up doing for the day? We just went to a sports bar and had some food. Oh, that made your headgear not stand out as much since you were in the sports bar. Did you guys go to the boxing match? Big fan. Big fan.

What was the chemistry like? I thought we had, like, great chemistry at first. I thought we had great chemistry. I thought everything was, like, good, you know, conversation, like, energy, the whole thing.

Like, I just felt like we had a really good dynamic at first. At first? Why do you keep saying that? Yeah. So, like, I guess this was a dumb move on me, but I told my mom, you you know it's a small community

so we all kind of knew each other's parents and all that stuff yeah and my mom actually ended up showing up on the date oh yeah i don't blame you i feel like my parents do the same if i was like you remember the blankety blanks from church did she like oh we want to say brooke brooke don't give up on love yet i can see it in your eyes. You're ready to quit on this. It's feeling bad. How long, how long was the interaction

with your mom? Please tell me. It was like, no, don't put the judgment. How long did she stay on your date? She didn't stay that long.

I mean, she showed up, said hi, gave her a hug, but like, I didn't tell her to come meet up with this. So I hope that she didn't think it was like set up or something by me oh yeah i don't know honestly it could just be that like suddenly there's the adult sexy version of you and then

when you introduce the mom all she could see was the dorky junior high version of you that she beat up harsh yeah i know some people in this room actually use their moms as their wingman to this day isn't that right alexis i do think a guy would like me more of this but like it sounds like it didn't work out quite that well for you no you say that the chemistry changed totally after the mom so that's you're thinking that's where everything went wrong yeah i think so i mean the date didn't last much longer after that. Like, we pretty much just, like, we paid, we hugged, and that was it, yeah. Not even, like, a chest bump.

Yeah. Sports bar, I think. Yeah. Some physical contact. Some sort of bro activity, but okay. Have you reached out to her since that happened? Yeah, and it's nothing. Nothing.

Wow. Has your mom tried reaching out? She better not have. Like, I didn't ask her to. Oh, my God. Well, we'll find out for sure when we play a song, come back, call Marie for you, your old middle school bully. I just want to, like, let you guys know that she did beat me up,

but I did get a few licks in, too, so it wasn't like a sweet loss. While you're on the ground. We mean upwards. Okay. Well, we're going to do it right after this with your second date update. Hold on. Second date update. You're in the middle of a second date update update,

and we're going to find out how the couple is doing right after you hear part two. You know, they say in middle school, if a boy is ever mean to you, it's because secretly, he actually likes you. And he just doesn't know how to show it. That's true. Sometimes it's true in adulthood. But I didn't realize when a girl in middle school roughs you up, it means

she wants to go on a date with you 20 years later. Yeah, it's a long play. And see if you've manned up at all in that time. Oh, that's why I never got beat up by any girl. That's how Thomas reconnected with a woman named Marie from back in his middle school days. They went out to dinner together. And the weird part of it was when Thomas's mom showed up unannounced halfway through just to say hi to Marie again.

Oh, my gosh. So that obviously threw a wrench into the romance part of the day and hasn't seen her or spoken to her since. Brooke, is there any final things that you want to say to Thomas before you ruin it once we get Marie on the phone? I mean, your mom ruined it, it sounds like, and that was a bad move on your mom's part, and you definitely need to have a conversation with your mommy about boundaries. Yeah, and I promise if you guys get me a second date,

I promise I will not tell her about anything. I won't tell her where we're going. Nothing. That's a good rule to live by. Very secretive. All right, so I'm going to dial Marie's number. We're going to see what she has to say.

You ready, Thomas? Yep. Okay, here we go. Hello? Hey, is this Marie? Yeah, who's this? My name's Jeff from the radio show Brooke and Jeffrey in the Morning. Um, okay.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it's weird. This is going to be such a weird phone call to get. Sorry. Cue me in here. What's going on? This is something we do called a second date update. And one of our listeners, Thomas, reached out to us because he says he went out on a date with you.

Oh, dots are being connected. Okay. Yes. Okay, yeah. So he's been having trouble reaching you after the date, and he's not 100% sure why. He does have a little bit of an idea of maybe what caused it, though. Well, not that it's any of your business, but I was on a business trip right after that date. I had to actually leave early to catch an early flight in the morning.

Oh, were you planning on getting back with Thomas then and having another date? Well, okay. So maybe we were reading it right. What's going on? Yeah, it was kind of cool. I don't know if he said anything to you, but we knew each other in middle school. Yeah, we heard the story about how you actually beat him up once. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. That sounds like a fond memory for you. You just said, yeah. And he told us that he wore headgear when he showed up to the date. Was that fun for you? It kind of was funny.

And, you know, like we took care of the elephant in the room. Yeah. I beat the snot out of him in sixth grade. It sounds good. Yeah. I mean, what else did you think about the date? elephant in the room yeah yeah i beat the snot out of him in sixth grade so you sound like it sounds good yeah i mean what else did you think about the date his mom yeah showed up yeah we were hoping you wouldn't bring that up we also know about that and he says he did not bring that

up i know his mother i mean are we back in sixth grade oh my head oh my head he had no idea that she was gonna just randomly showed up he didn't invite her there he felt the same way what you just said was like oh my gosh my mom did it bring you right back to junior high is that way oh yeah no just like do I need a hall pass for a second date

I mean it was just it was weird I mean can't you forgive him for that it clearly wasn't his decision. Well, okay, so maybe that's out of his control, but I was actually thinking about getting back in town and maybe giving him a call and going out again because it was, you know, it was a great date up until that point. Then his mother called me.

Did you say called you? His mother called me. How you say called you? His mother called me. How did she get your phone number? I mean, it's a small town. We all grew up here. We all know each other. So, I mean, it wasn't that. She probably called my mother and got my cell phone.

I don't know. Why? What did she say? I get this call and she says, why are you not calling my Tommy back? He had a wonderful time with you. No. He has no idea that his mom called you. Do you know that?

I don't know. I don't know. No, I'm telling you, he doesn't know. Yeah. I don't think he knows. We should ask him if he has any idea because Tommy, because I almost called him Tommy. Yeah, don't do that. Thomas.

Tommy. Our Thomas is on the other line listening. He's been there the whole time. He wants to talk to you, Marie. Yeah. Big boy voice when you talk to her now. Yes, yes. I had no idea. Oh my God.

And I apologize. I don't know what compelled her to do that. I really apologize. I promise you there will be barriers. I will like set up barriers for this in the future. It will never happen again. Physical barriers, it sounds like, need to happen. So your mom told me on the phone, in addition to reaming me out for not calling me back,

she also said that she's spoken to your ex-wife over the years and just between us girls, he's hot in the sack. No! Hey, that's a wrong endorsement for you, Thomas. Is that like the quote too? Hot in the sack? Hot in the sack.

And I'm like, oh no. Thomas, is your mother right about that? I mean... I actually just want to jump out of my second story window right now. I feel like Jeffrey, of all people, has empathy for you. He's got a mom. You have a mom like this. She signed you up for a dating app without you even knowing about it.

But then you just get used to having her in the room when you're kissing the girls. She chews you on. She actually does have a lot of knowledge about this i can see your mom like let me just take some pictures yeah that's so bad oh i feel bad do you feel bad for him you gotta feel a little bad for thomas oh no i do i feel really bad for him but do i need to jump into that kind of mojo i know yeah thomas i do think that you need to take a little bit of responsibility here

because apparently you told your mom that Marie wasn't calling you back. Yeah, 100%. I mean, but I just didn't know that that was going to turn into her calling and trying to like get to the bottom of it.

And I hope the conversation was, hey, mom, don't show up to my dates because now my date isn't calling me back. Yeah, I definitely should have probably brought that up. I mean, seriously, you don't talk to your mother that way. Marie, I just want to say like, I'm so sorry that she reached out to you. I did not know that was going to happen. And then on top of all of that, we're on the radio right now. And like, we're

putting all this stuff out there. So I just want to say i'm like very mortified that that happened and um i'd really like to go back out with you i just you know i'm sorry about everything that sounds pretty sincere to me to my ears marie how do you feel about that well could you pinky promise me that your mom's not gonna have anything to do with it like i said i'm gonna definitely have a talk with her about like everything that's happened i'm maybe not or yeah just stop talking to your mom well i mean i can't stop talking to her i mean she is my mom and good boy good boy yes yes so let us step in here for a second and ask marie marie would you like to go out on another date with our little tommy we'll pay for that date now that you know the whole story, you know everything. The truth.

Yeah, I think I would. Yay! I want to pinch his little cheeks right now. That's actually cute. I do feel like we need to call his mom in an awkward Tuesday and set some ground rules for you guys. Did she just say yes because he's such a sexual dynamo? That's what it is, isn't it, Marie? The mom's actually wingmanning it.

No comment. Oh, nice. This guy's got it. I guess you want to thank your mom now. Tommy Jr. is going to be coming on the way. Can we talk about something else? Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning. Back from all the mama drama,

Thomas and Marie are on the phone once again to give us an update what's going on you two are you together you married are you in the middle of a bitter divorce where are we at that was quick i don't know surprise surprise we are still together and it's going really good oh my god look at that at that. Is the mom in the background somewhere? I just figured she'd be on the phone with us. Right. That's the thing. We kind of had to set some ground rules,

but we did and things are working out really good. Really? A mom following the rules? I'm shocked. Your mom just listened to you, Thomas? No, not at first. That sounds more accurate of a mom. What happened? So yeah, after the call, That sounds more accurate of a mom. What happened?

So yeah, after the call, it was like kind of awkward. We kind of asked her to just kind of back off, not be so involved. But, you know, she's like old and bored. Yeah. Yeah. But we like kind of found out she's, like, been a little lonely, and, like, she just kind of, like, needed a distraction. Oh, okay.

So we set her up on a dating profile. No way! That's a great idea. She's like, we'll give you your own dating drama, mom. That's actually really smart. It was kind of weird, but it was fun. And, you know, like, we took pictures of her and helped her put her profile together and everything. It's actually kind of fun for us because what we do is we go to the coffee shops where she has her dates.

And we kind of just make sure she's, you know, from a distance. Oh. Make sure that everything is fine. Wait, you tag along on her dates? Now you're kind of being annoying. You're doing exactly what the mom did. Yeah. What she wishes she could do.

Just to make sure she's okay, because she's kind of ignorant about the real world today. Yeah. She's getting catfish quick. A man in Australia is in love with me and wants me to send him money. Look at his six pack. Modern dating has changed so much. Thomas, how do you feel about that, watching your mom date people? Ew, Alexis says.

It is a little weird for me. Yeah. But the good news is now she's, like, focusing her energy on her own love life. And like you said, just not ours. So it's just nice to have a little bit more space now. Hopefully she's not like a normal mom in overshadowing. Well, I slept with another man last night. He was an Italian stallion.

Let me tell you. Oh, no. I was going to say they should go on a double date, but they may not want to. Yeah. We're definitely happy for you guys. Keep us updated on your relationship. And remember, if you ever want to hear any of our second date updates, you can find the podcast up online at Brooke and Jeffrey.

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. 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 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.