Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update - Second Date Update: Yawn and She's Gone

Episode Date: June 14, 2023

We’ve reached a pretty insane milestone with today’s Second Date and it happened with one of the nicest guys we’ve ever had on the show. Hear the call in the podcast!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.

Hi, I'm Ed Zitron, host of the Better Offline podcast. And this January, we're going to go on the road to beautiful Las Vegas, Nevada, to cover the Consumer Electronics Show, tech's biggest conference. Better Offline CES coverage won't be the usual rundown of the hottest gadgets or biggest trends, but an unvarnished look at what the tech industry plans to sell or do to you in 2025.

I'll be joined by David Roth of Defector and the writer Edward Ongueso Jr. With guest appearances from Behind the Bastards Robert Evans, It Could Happen Here's Gare Davis, and a few surprise guests throughout the show. Listen to Better Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever else you get your podcasts from. Second Date Update. Not to put any pressure on this Second Date Update, but assuming this actually goes to air, this will be our 1,000th Second Date phone call. No way. What? Are you joking?

We've only had 490 people say no. You suck. No, I'm sorry. 940 said no. You suck. You hear that, Chris? That means you have a chance. I like those odds.

I like those odds. Welcome. Congratulations on being the 1,000th second dater. Thanks. Wow, Chris. I was expecting more fireworks, more congratulations. Wouldn't you guys think that after

1,000 of these, we would have a better percentage of people saying yes? No, not at all. I feel like it's getting worse as the years go by. We're caring less and less about this. I still care. I just keep getting it wrong. Because it's our 1000th, we promise to care extra hard for you

today, Chris. Tell us about the woman that you want us to call. What's her name? Her name is Amanda. I'm hoping that this results in a big 1000th for you guys. I'm hoping she's more excited about being part of the 1000s than you were. You want to try again? You're excited. I'm kidding. Okay. Um, yeah. All right. I feel good going into this. Tell us about how you met Amanda.

Well, we met online, and all the normal stuff, good. Like, she was really pretty. We chatted a lot. I was super excited to go out on a date with her and everything, but that's where we ran into the first little roadblock. Oh, no. Her schedule was really, really tight. Oh, yeah. I work as a a nurse and the only day she was

available would have been right at the end of a 35 hour shift. Oh my gosh. Why is that not illegal? Yeah. I mean, yeah, no, like should be illegal. Probably should pay a lot more. Right. But we'll get into that on a separate call. Yeah. Did you go on the date after your long shift? I did. Wow. I needed, well, if it wasn't for this chance, there wasn't going to be another chance. And how did it go? I didn't fall asleep. Most people, when they say I didn't fall asleep on a date, that wouldn't be a huge victory, but for Chris, that's a big win. We're proud of you. She was impressed, too. I mean, I imagine you're so tired that you're not

even nervous. What did you guys do? Go to drinks? Yeah. We went for drinks, and the thing is I didn't tell her that it was going to be at the end of a 35-hour shift. I didn't want her to worry about that. Yeah, I was going to honestly think about it from her angle.

If someone said I'm at the end of the third, I would be like, do not go out with me. You need to sleep. There's no way I'm going to go. I can see why he got snuck in. Thanks for making time. Do it. Okay, Alexis. How did it go? It started out great.

Ordered a couple of martinis, talked about our lives, talked about our dogs. We both have dogs. We were vibing on a bunch of stuff. I mean, everything was going awesome. And then she was like, hey, I need to go to the restroom real quick. I waited a while and she just

never came back. She ditched you? This is why I never let women go to the restroom. I'm just like, you have to wait. Well, you go after we're done. Pee on you, no. She ditched you? This is why I never let women go to the restroom. I'm just like, you have to wait. Yeah, that's cute. Well, you can go after we're done. Yeah. Pee on you, Jeff.

No, that's okay. So she never came back? No. Well, she sort of came back. After a while, I asked the bartender, I'm like, hey, have you seen this girl I was with? And he's like, yeah, yeah, no, I totally saw her. She left at 20 on the bar and left. Oh, no. That's confirmation. Dude, yeah, no, I totally saw her. She left at 20 on the bar and left. Oh, no.

That's confirmation. Dude, did you text her? I'd be so, I mean, you probably were so tired that you couldn't even muster anger, but. Or maybe you were so tired, like the date actually went through and ended and you just don't realize it. You don't remember the end of it?

She's like, we kissed and everything. What do you mean? What's the last thing that you do remember about the end of the day? How did it end? Her leaving, me just standing there and being like, hey, this really just happened at the end of a 35-hour shift. And then I went home and slept for 12 hours. Oh, my God.

Did you, like, call her and read her the riot act? Like, where were you emotionally? I mean, I'm just generally not that angry of a guy. Because all I've been running through my head is like maybe I came across a little more out of it than I thought. Maybe like something weird slipped out of my mouth but I can't imagine. Like a piece of broccoli came out of your mouth or

like a word. That makes sense bro because again if you're on a date and someone's like yawning and they're exhausted you make me feel like you're boring. Ditch them though. You have to do something bad. Yeah. Why do you want to call her again?

Why would you want to see her? Well, I wanted the date in the first place, right? So all that stuff is still kind of there. And this is what she did that's pretty harsh. But listen, it's your guy's 1,000th. I don't want this to be another, like, L in the column. Hey, we're used to being in the loser bracket. It's fine.

Don't worry. Even if she doesn't want to go out again, like nothing like this has ever happened to me before. I need to know why. Yeah. Okay. You're looking mainly for the reason, even if it doesn't work out. Yeah.

But we do want to send you on another day and we're going to like really press the fact that you're an amazing healthcare worker. Yeah. You're a hard worker. And she's going to feel so guilty when she finds fact that you're an amazing health care worker. And she's going to feel so guilty when she finds out that you would just finish a 35 hour shift and she ditched you. Or do you still not want her to know that? I mean, it's not that I don't want her to know, but I also don't want her to just say yes to another date out of pity. Well, I do.

I want her to pity you. I want to guilt trip her until she says yes. Maybe that's just the Jewishness in me. But I swear it works. At least get her out again and then you can ditch her. Losses are a thousand. Yeah, remember our record. We have 940 losses. We need one in the win column by whatever means necessary.

You think you're desperate. All right, pity date coming up on our 1,000th second date update right after this. Thanks, guys. Second date update. Out of all the human emotions, excitement, fear, joy, none are stronger and more powerful than pity. Oh, my God. I did not see that coming.

I didn't see it coming either. Why do you think I work with Brooke? Oh, Brooke. Because I pity her. No, because I'm the only dummy that would work with you. Sure, there's a lot of love and respect between us, but deep down at the nougaty center of this work relationship is a heaping delicious nugget of pity.

Of pity. On you, you've only worked here your whole life. It's very sad. Is this your first job? Geez. See? Look at the bonds that are happening here. The joy that's coming out of this moment.

It was your first job, wasn't it? I'm starting to feel bad for you too, Jeff. Good. Let's harness the pity in the room. Okay. And add in a little guilt to help our listener, Chris, get a second date with Amanda. Okay. I am with you. We've got the king of pity ready to little guilt to help our listener Chris get a second date with Amanda.

I am with you. We've got the king of pity ready to take it on for you, Chris. That's right, Chris, because if you're just tuning in, he met her after working a 35-hour shift at the hospital where he's a nurse. God, I love how we complain that we're tired after like six hours. I know. Brooke, that is me. This guy is a saint.

Chris, you're still awake right yeah okay let's get off of a long shift did you uh no no today is an off day okay this is the off day you yeah all right can you imagine when he's on i know all right he saves it for his patience okay well we're gonna save all of your energy until we call you into the conversation. And I'll try my best to be nice because right now I am not happy with her. Uh-oh. I appreciate this because I just need to know why. Let's get there. We'll find your why.

I don't know. I feel very... Okay. Let's go. I like that attitude. Let's make the 1,000th second date phone call. Hopefully ended on a good note. Here we go.

Hello? Right off the bat, the judgment. I didn't say anything. Hi, Amanda. Hey, Amanda. Is this Amanda? Hi, Amanda. Hey, Amanda. Is this Amanda? This is she. Hey.

Hi. You may or may not know us, but we are a morning radio show. We're called Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning, and we would love to talk to you a little bit about your personal life. Just one specific thing. Yeah. Not all of it. I would love to talk to you about your entire life, but if you want, we could just focus on the dating aspect because we're doing a segment called

The Second Date Update. We're trying to help out one of our listeners that you met up with the other night named Chris. Oh. This is an interesting conversation. Okay. We'd like to gauge how you feel about Chris and the chances of you guys meeting up for a second date.

Is that really? Well, I'm assuming that, you know, you have a story that he emailed you or something. I don't know how it works. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I was just trying to read your vibe first before I told you what we know about it. Because here's the information

that we have we know that you two met online that you both have very busy schedules and this was the only night that you guys could get together and so you went to a bar had drinks and talked about a lot of stuff like your your lives and your dogs and he really felt like you guys were like having a good time like really connecting in conversation did you feel that i did i agree it was it was nice the thing is he didn't tell us the exact amount of time that the two of you were there but it from the sound of it it was around 15 to 20 minutes maybe and then you excused yourself to go to the bathroom and never came back to the table. Well... Before you tell us your excuse about why you did it... And why you don't sound guilty right now,

I would also like to know. I think you do need to know something about Chris, that he is a dedicated healthcare worker who had just come off a 35-hour shift to meet up with you. And I know that you didn't know that. He didn't want to tell you. He didn't tell you. But I do think it's pretty brutal to ditch somebody like that. And I know that you didn't know that. He didn't want to tell you. He didn't tell you.

But I do think it's pretty brutal to ditch somebody like that. We all think that. I bet you think that. How would you feel if someone left you in the middle of a date? How would you feel if somebody fell asleep on yours? Oh, he did. He fell asleep. It wasn't that bad.

Wait, he fell asleep. Listen, I excused myself to the restroom. When I got back, maybe five minutes later, he was asleep. Okay, but it's not like he fell asleep while talking to you. He fell asleep while you weren't there. Yeah. I was gone for less than five minutes, and I didn't know that he was up for 35 hours yeah he should have told you that saving lives for 35 hours so wait you you went why didn't you wake him up i would have just

woken the person up oh i tried i he was out on the shoulder i was like chris, Chris. Were you worried that he was dead? No, I saw him breathing, but I figured he'd been drinking all day. I didn't know if he was drunk. I could see that. So I did the decent thing. I paid the tab. Yeah. He said that he asked the bartender.

And that you left a $20 bill for them. But the bartender didn't tell him he was asleep. Did the bartender not see? Maybe not. Honestly, I have no idea. We weren't very close to him, so I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't notice. Oh, my God. Well, you're actually closer to him than you realize. You're one phone line away from each other.

And when I push this button, you're going to be on the same line. So here we go. I'm pushing it right now. For the thousandth time, hit the button. button, you're going to be on the same line. So here we go. I'm pushing it right now. For the thousandth time, hit the button. Chris, you there? Yeah. Hey. I thought you fell asleep for a second. Chris, this all makes sense. I bet you feel

so relieved. Chris, are you there? You fall asleep now? No, no. I'm here. Hey, Amanda. Hi, Greg. I think we just had that moment. Yeah.

Come on. That didn't actually happen, right? What? Yes, it did. And I don't, it did. Like, I promised you I sat with you for 15 minutes while you had your head on the table and your hands in your lap and you were snoring. You stayed with him while he slept?

Yes, because I thought he would wake up. And I was enjoying our time. He must have been so tired. Chris. How's that make you feel? I find that pretty hard to believe. What? Really?

You just got off a 35-hour shift. How is that hard to believe? Because it You just got off a 35-hour shift. How is that hard to believe? Because it wasn't my first ever 35-hour shift. I don't just pass out in bars like that. What, you go to the bars often after a 35-hour shift? If anyone deserves a margarita. I think a lot of healthcare workers actually do.

It makes sense, though. I know. But you have like a couple sips of a martini. Those are going to put you out in a second. I remembered if I passed out because, I mean, I didn't lose any time. I was there. She left. I waited.

And then I like got right up and went and talked to the bartender. There was no like loss of time. So you don't remember waking up. But listen, how could she lie? She told us that story before she even knew that you were on that long shift. And why would she make that up? I mean, maybe she's trying to cover up because she's on the radio now that she's trying to look better

for ditching me. I'm not lying and I don't know how to prove it to you. Maybe some security camera footage from inside the restaurant. Oh great, now we need the CCTV. I mean, that's ridiculous. I mean, she didn't even know that you did the 35-hour shift because she told us that before Jeff told her.

No, actually, I think I told her first, and then I asked for her excuse. Yeah, it was the other way around. Oh. I just don't know what else to say. It happened, and I'm sorry that it did, and that sucks. And I would have been more understanding, and I probably would have responded to the text messages that you sent me if I had known the circumstances.

Okay. Well, I think overall, like before all the sleeping confusion, he liked Amanda. Amanda liked Chris. Let's just go back to that moment and offer to send you guys out again. I need to ask Amanda, would you like to go out with Chris one more time, give it another shot for him to be awake the entire dinner and we would pay for it? Well, I should be totally transparent with him on the line. I am seeing other people because I'm dating.

I'm not exclusive with anybody. So if that's something that he's okay with going on a casual date, I would, I would like to try again. I really liked our time together. Chris, she's honest. She's forthright. What do you think about being one of many? I mean, I don't believe her. And now she's saying she might go out with me amongst a bunch of other guys, which is also, I guess she didn't have any room's saying she might go out with me amongst a bunch of other guys, which is also, I guess, why she didn't have any room in her schedule to go out except that one night. Oh, that makes sense.

Well, maybe you shouldn't believe that she will go out with other guys, too. Don't believe her on that fact, either. You're not going to say no, are you, Chris? No. Oh! Wait, no to Brooke or no to her? No to Brooke or no to her. Oh, yeah, or no to her. Or no to the date.

No to the date. I don't believe her. The thousandth date we've done this. All right. Mark it up on the board. 941 no's for Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning. Well, Chris, make sure you get some rest, okay? We'll see you in a week.

He's asleep. I'll try. Oh, there he is. Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning. Okay, we'll see you in a week Does anybody here fallen asleep during a date in the middle of it? Oh, no one time I fell asleep while the girl was on the way to my place I thought I would three hours later to her a bunch of calls and angry attacks. I was like I'm sorry No, I never saw her again. I was wasted. I fell asleep once, so I'm not going to tell you why or where. Wait a minute.

Hold on. She was really tired and the guy was really boring. Oh, ouch. Her and her husband's third anniversary. That's pretty brutal. She just calls him the guy.

I know one time I faked being asleep in the middle of a date in order to get out of it. Really? Which does make me sound like a horrible person, I know, but in my defense, she was the daughter of a date in order to get out of it. Really? Which does make me sound like a horrible person, I know. But in my defense, she was the daughter of a moil.

What's that? Please don't make me explain what a moil is. That sounds like a bad medical problem. No, it's a Jewish term. My mom knew all the moils. Okay, if you're Jewish, text Instagram. Is it a last name? No, it's not a name.

It's like a rabbi? I never should have told this story in the first place. Is it mean? Is it a mean thing? We're not going into it. That's a funny question. Couldn't you just take a phone call? You had to fall asleep?

We didn't do a very good job getting a second date update there for Chris on our thousandth second date call. Darn it. But we learned something about each other in the last minute. We did. So that was good. Yeah. A lot of things happening. And we want to learn about you and your dating life.

That's right. So email the show and we'll help you call that person who isn't calling you back. Check out all of our podcasts. All 1,000 second date updates. Yay! Listen all of them. Wherever you get yours 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. Hi, I'm Ed Zittron, host of the Better Offline podcast. And this January, we're going to go on the road to beautiful Las Vegas, Nevada to cover the Consumer Electronics Show, tech's biggest conference. Better Offline CES coverage won't be the usual rundown of the hottest

gadgets or biggest trends, but an unvarnished look at what the tech industry plans to sell or do to you in 2025. I'll be joined by David Roth of Defector and the writer Edward Ongueso Jr. With guest appearances from Behind the Bastards Robert Evans, It Could Happen Here's Gare Davis, and a few surprise guests throughout the show. Listen to Better Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever else you get your podcasts from.