Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update - Second Date Update: Zoo Zaddy

Episode Date: June 21, 2023

One of our listeners felt INSTANT REGRET during his date and even tried to BAIL as soon as it started… But he stuck it out and now wants our help with a Second Date!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Second Date Update Jose, if you messaged a girl on a dating app, how long would you wait for them to respond back to you? Before you decide it's like time to move on. Two or three minutes? And then it's like, oh, she blew it. Gotta act fast if you want to hop on this ride. I assume as I'm sending it, I'm not going to get a response. Oh, you give up instantaneously. There's just no hope in here.

Yeah, exactly. If I get a buzz, I'm like, is there an error going on? That's interesting. It's different than one of our listeners who says he didn't hear back for three weeks after he sent his first message. But good things come to those who wait. That's why I've been keeping Grant on hold for the last

48 minutes in order to talk to us. No, Grant! Grant, it's finally time. Welcome to the show. Hey, guys. What's going on? It's Jeffrey's trick on how he gets people to respect him. Yes. Do you respect me now, Grant?

Hey, I'm very vulnerable, so be careful with me here. Just how I like him. He's sensitive right now. Now tell us about the woman that you met up with recently. What's her name? Her name is Shannon. She's super cool. She's very sweet. She's very funny.

Oh, okay. So sweet she left you waiting for three weeks before she responded to your message. Yeah, what'd she say after three weeks? She said that she had, like, forgotten her account was even active, so. Oh. Oh. Do you think that was truthful, or was that just something that women say to throw you off? Uh, I didn't really think about it that much.

Is it today's version of, I'd never do this? Right. You know what I mean? Like, oh, I'm on a dating app? What? When did this happen? Hey. Well, I mean, she was really cool.

So, like, once she was actually messaging me, I was like. Who cares? It was cool. Yeah, who cares? I don't care what happened. Typical dude. All right. So you guys connected.

That's awesome. What'd you end up doing? Well, she loves animals. And so I suggested we go to a zoo. That's pretty cute. Yeah, that's a great date. How did that go? Well, at first, I kind of like instantly regretted it because it was a little later in the day, and there were so many people there.

It was super crowded. There were kids screaming everywhere. It's like being in a Chuck E. Cheese at that point. There's no alcohol. Well, I was about to ask that. Did you guys pre-funk? Because I went to the zoo drunk once and it was awesome. Alone? Yeah.

Well, no. Wait, I think I... I don't remember now. It may have been a radio event. I just pictured Jose sitting in the otter exhibit just talking to him. Grant, was that you? Kind of. We didn't drink before, but once we got there and realized it was like a zoo, ha-ha, see, I'm funny too.

You get it? I like that. I was like, why don't we just go to a bar? And she was like, well, it just so happens that I have those little bottles of vodka. She has some in her purse. Yeah, she's got a bar in her purse I like her is that cool or is that a red flag to you oh I loved it

yeah so we like just got some sodas at the zoo and we made our own little like cocktails and the cans or the bottles that's genius that's gotta help you and all the other moms there yeah alright that help things out That's genius. That's got to help. You and all the other moms there. Yeah. I was like, this is my redo.

All right. That help things out? Yeah, I mean, it was super chill, and we were laughing, and it was just fun. That's awesome. What's the biggest highlight from the zoo? Oh, gosh. Well, she's kind of short, so she'd sit on my shoulders if the crowds were too big in the way, which was kind of cute. You put her on your shoulders?

She wanted to go up there? I mean, we were drunk, so. It was like a music festival. At what point did you get kicked out of the zoo? We didn't get kicked out. You didn't? Good. We weren't belligerent.

It's funny. You needed a boost. We never asked you if she was a minor. We usually don't have to, but maybe it's just safe. She's over 18. Let's go with over 21. She's drinking. Let's go with over 21.

She's 15 and she has alcohol. Just for legal purposes. She's like 30-something. She's 30-something. Oh, wow. Okay. That's interesting. And she liked being on the shoulders.

I mean, I hope so. She did it a few times, so. Okay. All right. She's the one that suggested it. How did you guys leave the zoo? How did it end?

Well, she told me that her favorite animal was the penguins. Aww. She was in the bathroom and I, like, snuck into the, like, the gift shop

and I bought her a stuffed penguin. That's cute. Cute, bro. That's a great move. Yeah, she was super happy. She gave me a kiss. Like, it was a whole moment.

Aww. Okay. So you guys had a penguin moment together. I like it. I mean, I felt great about the whole thing. And then later that night, she posted pictures of us on Instagram, like, on her story. Okay, just the story's not as dramatic as the square. Those disappear.

I don't know. It sounds like she may be trying to make somebody jealous. Yeah. Oh, that's a good point. I don't know. It sounds like she may be trying to make somebody jealous. Yeah. That's a good point. I don't know. And you were okay with the Instagram stuff? Yeah, but she deleted them the next day. Well, if it's Insta stories, they auto-delete.

Yeah, they go way after. She deleted them before the 24-hour. Like the next morning. How many times did you check her account, Grant? You don't have to answer that if it's going to sound incriminating. It sounds like the person she wanted to see it saw it. Okay, how long has it been since the zoo date happened? It's been like a week.

Okay, and nothing? She's not hitting you up? Yeah, she's not responding to anything, so. Did you reply to her stories when you saw the pictures of you and her up there? I did the emoji response or whatever. Oh, no. That's safe. Which emoji?

Like the heart eyes. Oh, no. That's cute. These are good things. That's easy. But I can see how you go from extreme high, like, wow, this girl kissed me, she pulsed me on the story,

to then immediately she's deleting you. That hurts. It's a quick relationship. Yeah, exactly. It's like a little breakup. But penguins mate for life. Oh, that's true. Oh, you need to get her a rock.

Yeah. That's what penguins do, right? No, that's only when they can't have, that's only when they can't lay a leg. Oh, okay. Oh, okay. So don't tell her that. We need to trust the penguin expert there. That's the wrong message.

We're going to come back and we're going to try to have you and Shannon mate for life when we do your second date update. Yeah, he even thinks that's a little too intense. Oh, okay. Let's just go with a second date. One second date, we'll start with it. Then forever in eternity when we do your second date update. Next.

Now, Brooke, hop up on my shoulders. Let's do this. I would break you. Second date update. Brooke? Yes? When was the last time you were on a man's shoulders? Was it a Salt-N-Pepa reunion tour? Or when you were trying to scale the Capitol building?

Sorry, I forgot. The radio station doesn't want us mentioning that because it paints everybody in a bad light. Get out of here. That's what they were saying to you, but you wouldn't. No, he was definitely Shoop, okay? Sorry, Ashley, take that last part out in the end. But that paints us in a bad light. A good light, though, was shining on Grant during his zoo date.

Because him and Shannon enjoyed the animals together, a couple drinks, and she even got on his shoulders more than once throughout the day. I think that's so crazy. You know that she liked it, too, because she posted the photos on her Insta stories later that night before deleting it before the 24-hour period was up. Yeah, that's always a bad sign.

That's why I need to ask Grant, do you think that maybe one of her friends saw a picture of you on the Insta stories and could have been like, oh, no. What? Like talk crap about him or something? Yeah, like delete that. That's not good.

Oh, cringe. Is that possible? No, I thought maybe like she posted it when she was tipsy and then the next day was like, oh, maybe that was like a little too much. Yeah, but you replied with hard eyes. So she shouldn't have felt that way. Well, maybe that's why she felt that way. She's like, oh, God, he's already hard-eyeing it? I'm already, wait a minute, I was drunk.

Okay, so everybody's way too in their head about this InstaStories thing is what we're hearing. Yeah, I am. Okay. All right. All right. All right. Well, we're going to get all the theories out of the way and just get right to the truth when we call her here in a minute. Okay, you ready to do this?

I'm ready. Okay, hard-eye emoji. Simple ready to do this? I'm ready. Okay, heart eye emoji. Simple smile. So maybe it was his fault. Let's find out. Here we go. Hello? Hey, is this Shannon? Yes.

Hey, Shannon. Sorry to interrupt whatever you're doing today, but hope you have time to be on the radio with Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning. She could be doing nothing. What's up, Shannon? What? Hi, Shannon. We're a radio show.

What? We're a radio show! I don't think she asked like she couldn't hear. It's just shocking information. Shannon, yeah, sounds like you're not on the radio much, but we do this all the time where we reach out to people trying to hook them up to go out on another date with our listeners after they've been out once before.

Did you follow him, Shannon? Yeah. Yeah, this is called a second date update, and we heard from one of our listeners, Grant, that you two met up at a zoo. Oh, God. Yeah. Oh, you sound, like, regretful. Yeah, wasn't it fun?

I mean, like, his description sounded like you guys had a great time. Yeah. Yeah, we did. We really did. And so why is he calling you? Well, Grant agrees that you guys had an amazing time and is wondering why you're not responding to him because he says it's been a week since you've last talked. Right. Okay. He's super cool.

And we had a great date. I can't lie. We had a really, really great date. That's good. That's good news. So are you planning on getting back in touch with him? You just haven't had time? No.

No, I mean, probably not. Uh-oh. Aw. Is it a whole it's not him, it's me thing? Yeah, it's just I would rather not talk about it, you know. Okay, but we rather would. And Grant, I think Grant deserves to hear at least some sort of reason why you're saying yourself he's amazing he's a great time i mean look all i can say is that there is another person

that i go out with sometimes okay like sometimes as in like all the time? No, no, no. But we have our own situation. Like he's a little bit of an older man and he looks out for me. And I made a mistake of posting a picture of Grant and I on my Instagram story. Did you call it a mistake or does this other person call it a mistake? Well, I mean, he saw it and he was a little bit threatened by it, I guess. And and normally, I mean, it's not a problem for me to date other people. But for some reason, there was something about Grant that. So you upset your sugar daddy.

Well, I mean, I wasn't going to be that blunt. I'm sorry. I just I was going to say, blunt. I'm sorry. I just. I was going to say, like, is this older person, are you physically in a relationship with them? Or is it more of like a financial relationship? Yeah, I mean, that's my own situation. I'll just say it's a good situation for me. It doesn't sound like it, though, because it sounds like you can't date who you want to date.

You can't. Everybody but him. Is that true? Is that true? He controls who you date? No, he's not controlling whatsoever. I want to do this for myself and what's right for me. Based off of the

reaction that I got from this other guy, I don't want that. I don't want him feeling that way. So I'm making this decision. And you said that you've been seeing, you've seen other guys before. He doesn't have a problem with it. It's just something about Grant. Yeah.

And I have no idea what it is. Do you know what it is? It's probably that he can tell that you really like Grant. Or maybe he's just jealous that Grant can carry you on his shoulders and he's too old to do it. You can't do that anymore. I got a walker you can sit on. It's not as fun.

Listen, I've thought about this already. I've already done my processing of it. And like I said, even though I'd like to see Grant again, I'm just not in the position right now to mess up something else that is great in my life. Well, I know maybe you've had a lot of time to process this,

but someone who hasn't is Grant, who literally just heard about this the moment you said it a second ago. He's on the other line right now wanting to talk to me. Oh my gosh. I wanted to avoid this. I didn't want to hurt his feelings. Well, we don't know if his feelings are hurt. Grant? want to hurt his feelings. Well, we don't know if his feelings are hurt.

Grant? They are hurt. Oh. Okay. Shannap. Good guess, Shannon. Well done, Shannon. Your read on that was right.

Ours was wrong. All right. Shannon, I'm just, I'm so confused. Like, I didn't expect something like this. You're just so, like, cool and pretty. Like, I never imagined something like this for you. I almost don't even believe you. Oh,

don't believe her. She didn't know you were on the phone, bro. I mean, I'm sure she could have guessed. She's not dumb. Hey, wait a minute.

I was offended by that. That was a compliment. Oh, okay. Yeah, to her. I'm a little dumb. It's nice of you to say, I just don't think it's the right time for us.

It's just not the right time. So how many years does this guy have left? What's the expiration date? It has nothing to do with that. I'm trying to do what's best for me, too. Are you okay, Grant? Yeah, no, I mean, I hear what she's saying, but I just feel like, I don't know. We have a really great connection.

I don't even want to give this, like, one more chance. Like, does this old dude get you a stuffed penguins, or? No. Oh, no, he'd probably buy her a real penguin. I mean, yeah, he's got me, like, three. Oh. Are you serious? That's a lie.

That is a lie. She's got her meat, dude. Oh, my God. He forgot that he got her the first two, so he keeps buying her more. I mean, what can I say? It's my favorite animal. Like, that's why he does it. I don't know.

Okay, look, Shannon. You yourself said the connection between you and Grant was very strong. So if this has anything to do with money, I'm sure Grant is open to doubling it right now. What? No, we're not doing a transaction. Grant, open the wallet. Prove that you're the better man. What is this, an auction now?

Hey, who's that? No, we're going to talk to Shannon about how she's an independent woman and doesn't need to rely on us. Shannon already told us that. You don't have to put the words in her mouth. She said it's her choice. I'd like to hear what Grant has to say. Oh, here we go.

Grant, the door's been cracked open. You got to slam it open. Go ahead. You guys are ruining it. Well, we're only on the first date, so let's not get ahead of ourselves. I'm not paying for her yet, but if she wants to go on a second date to get to know me better without dangling a money carrot in front of her. I like that, bro. I like that. it's like insinuating he does have money yeah there might be a versace bag waiting for you at the very end if you go out with him one more time these are false promises

that's what she wants that's not from us that's all out of grant's checking account we're just going to give you a little tiny gift card to get the date going. Yeah. You guys like Olive Garden? So what do you think, Shannon? I don't know. I don't want to screw up something else. This guy's really rich, dude. Her heart is saying yes. You can hear her heart say yes, but her mind is saying no.

That's a good way to put it, Jeff. And you can always go back to school, Shannon, you know, and get your own job. Who said she didn't go to school? She's really putting her down somehow. It's just so depressing to me. Listen, you dumb hottie. I haven't heard from you yet, Grant. So are you giving up here?

Yeah, I'm not ready for a triangle at this point in my life. Good for you, bro. What if you could get on the paycheck too, though? I would have to know what that would entail. You want to be a butler? Oh, I'm sure they just say companionship. That's what they always say, right? Shannon, does this other guy have openings for more people like you?

No. Oh, I was going to put in my application. Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning. You know what's sad to me? Not that the world's changed so much. It's that Brooke can't get on board. Oh, no. Because I'm over here trying

to broker a financial transaction between two soulmates and make everyone happy. And there's Natasha Naysayer in the background. Like, what are we doing? Is that a woman listening to a man? No. It's an unhealthy relationship,

Jeffrey. It is. It's the relationship she wants. Yeah, but she's telling herself that, oh, he lets me do anything. Except, whenever there's an unhealthy relationship, Jeffrey. It is. It's the relationship she wants. Yeah, but she's telling herself that, oh, he lets me do anything. Except, whenever there's an except, then you don't get to apply anything to it anymore. Uh-huh. Sure. You see what I'm saying? I'll have you know. No one's on board with you.

I'm not listening. Right after we take that second date update, Brooke actually sent me an Excel spreadsheet on what she thinks Grant could have paid. So technically, Brooke is totally on board. Oh, you're caught, Brooke. She's playing it up for the audience that she's the voice of reason. But none of it qualifies as tax deductions, Jeffrey.

So it's not smart for him either. Wow, way to make it fun. You know, Brooke, Alexis is on eBay right now. Not trying to buy anything. She's offering herself to the highest bidder. Yeah, she's a buy it now option for like $100,000. I'd buy it for her, but I also think that that's wrong. What?

Come on. So you're going to let me sell it to someone else? No. You're going to keep working here and earn an honest wage. Oh, I got an offer. See you, Alexis. Bye, Brooke. It's like $30.

In the meantime, if you ever want some help with your dating life, you can email the show. We'll call that person who isn't calling you back. It's Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning. 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. 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.

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