First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show - Bella & Darren - The Bizarre Reason This Date Went from Perfect to Ghosted

Episode Date: October 1, 2025

Bella thought she had amazing chemistry after a romantic night out — so why did Darren suddenly vanish without a word? On this First Date Follow Up, we uncover the unexpected reason behind the ghosting, and trust us… it’s one of the strangest excuses you’ll ever hear. Listen now to The Jubal Show’s wildest dating drama yet! Ever been ghosted after what you thought was an amazing date? Do you REALLY want that Second Date? The Jubal Show has your back! On First Date Follow Up, we track down the person who disappeared to get the real reason why. Awkward, hilarious, and sometimes downright shocking—First Date Follow Up delivers the truth, whether you want to hear it or not. Will there be a second date or just secondhand embarrassment? Subscribe to The Jubal Show's First Date Follow Up and find out! ➡︎ Get on The Jubal Show with your story - https://thejubalshow.com This is just a tiny piece of The Jubal Show. You can find every podcast we have, including the full show every weekday right here…➡︎ https://thejubalshow.com/podcasts The Jubal Show is everywhere, and also these places: Website ➡︎ https://thejubalshow.com  Instagram ➡︎ https://instagram.com/thejubalshow  X/Twitter ➡︎ https://twitter.com/thejubalshow  Tiktok ➡︎ https://www.tiktok.com/@the.jubal.show Facebook ➡︎ https://facebook.com/thejubalshow  YouTube ➡︎ https://www.youtube.com/@JubalFresh Support the show: https://the-jubal-show.beehiiv.com/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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But first, Bella, how long has it been since your date with Darren? it's been two weeks I'm a little confused yeah well two weeks to be stuck in your head sucks just wondering what happened that's a long time

I said it just because I feel you Bella I understand the frustration of why you wanting to call us was the last time you talked to him on the date or did you guys have any exchange afterwards he like texted me like thanks for coming and it was nice and stuff

and then I said thank you and then he never I like said like the morning a couple days later and he didn't say anything I mean he booked us a reservation at this place and he had been really really excited to go it's like a French place and like white table cloths and chandeliers and like oh there was like a jazz trio and it was it was really nice yeah and he seemed excited to go and yeah so I we met and and like he was really cute and we got a lot like we shared an obsession over like old heist movies and stuff so I mean it was going really well

from what I thought but yeah thanks for coming a little weird that is weird did you guys do anything after the restaurant or was that the entirety of the date no we went to the restaurant and then we went

um to his place we had like a little nightcap and we actually made out okay and yeah and he like lit candles it was really nice i don't know he um he would like play a song that he liked and then i would show him a song that i liked and we were like really viving and i feel like it was like electric and so I don't know um I don't know what happened I like left the day I was like floating I like knew there was going to be a second day because we got along so well it's been like two weeks and I'm kind of spiraling yeah understand what do you at one point oh sorry go ahead I'm just going to say what do you think could have gone wrong I'm sure you thought about a lot of scenarios over the last two weeks yeah I mean I don't know

I just, I, at one point, I told him that I, like, didn't shave my legs. And he, like, laughed and, like, pretended to cut his hand on my legs double and stuff. And I don't know. We laughed about it, but maybe he, like, gross out about that. Or did I talk about my cat too much? I, like, went to the restroom at one point. And then when I came back, he was like, oh, I'm so tired. Mm-hmm.

Um, yeah, I don't know. All right, well, we'll see if we can figure it out for you. We'll play a song. Come back and then call him and see if he'll tell us why he's ghosting you and maybe get you another day, okay? Totally, thank you. All right. Get your first day follow up next.

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and maybe get her another date. But first, Bella, why don't you break down your date for us again real quick? We went to a French restaurant. It was really nice. We had like similar interests, like old movies and music. And then we like went back to his place and made out. And it seemed great. It seemed like it was going great.

But he didn't call me back. I wasn't worried it was like that I didn't shave my leg. Like I talked about my cat too much, but I'm really confused. I like went to the bathroom and when I came back, he was like, I'm tired. And yeah, I haven't heard from instance. Well, are you ready for us to call them and see if I'll tell us? Okay. All right, here we go.

Hello. Hi, may I speak to Darren, please? Uh, yeah, yeah, what's up? Hey, Darren, how are you? This is a radio show. It's called The Jubal Show. Hi, Darren, I'm Nina. Hi, I'm Victoria.

And my name's Jubal. Okay, hi. Hi, have you heard of the show before? Um, yeah, I think so. Okay, that's good. Cool. Well, guess what? You're on the show right now because we do a segment that's called the first date follow-up.

That's where if you go out on a date with somebody and you end up ghosting them, they can get us on the phone to call. you and ask why you're ghosting and we got an email about you okay any idea who would email us uh yeah maybe but i don't want to yeah maybe okay well who do you think it is well i'm not you don't want to go first you want me to tell you it is yeah bella yep is that who you were thinking yes that is who i think okay well Bella emailed us and she said she really liked going out with you, but she's confused.

Do you mind telling us why you're ghosting her? Yes, okay. She stole my dental floss and got all proud of it. What? Stole your dental floss? Yes, it was so weird. Like, okay, so when we got back to my place, we got back to my place, whatever after the end of the day.

And then she got up to go to the bathroom, and I, like, saw that she had one of those big, person, like the big Mary Poppins purses. It was just like full of forks and knives from the restaurant we were just at. It was so weird. Like she

jacked the fork? She stole the forks in the night? Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Because I asked her about it and she was like, well, you know, like I always take a little something from every place I visit. And then she like showed me the floss that she just took from my bathroom. Whoa. Okay. So she's a collector.

Yeah, or a collecto. She was like, She's like, this is my souvenir from the first night at your place. Yeah. Like, was it a single floss or, like, was it the actual, like, floss? The little box, you know, like the little plastic. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ploss container, yeah. Okay.

And you didn't find that flattering? Would you doble? I, maybe, it depends how it was presented, I think. Okay, fair, fair. I probably, I probably would, to be honest, but yeah, it's okay. What? Okay. You want to remember it this night?

That's special. So it just, like, creeped you out, I guess? Yeah, I just don't want that, like, I just don't want that kind of energy around. And honestly, I didn't really know what to do because I was, like, I don't want her to, like, steal more important stuff or whatever. So I just kind of, you know what I mean? So I just kind of called it. Okay. Well, Darren, thank you for telling us why you're ghosting her.

Now I'll let you know that Bella is actually on the phone and wants to talk to you. Wait, what? She's. gonna call in no she's here why would you hi hello

wow uh okay um I just feel like that's like ridiculous like you ghosted me over that I don't know

I feel like I was being cute like I stole your floss like as like a thing that we could bond over kind of like it's cute that we met and

you had like a whole pack you had like a whole pack like hallway. It's not the floss itself like I can get new floss it was the fact that it was so like you were so flip about it like it was just like oh this is just like a little

something I do I'm like it's just like that's not cute to me like there was dessert spoons like sticking out of your purse like that image is stuck in my head What do you do with those, Bella? I'm just, like, sentimental, and, I mean, with the silverware, I use it, but, like, I like to take a souvenir. We went to a really cute place, and I just don't think it's that serious.

People steal from cutlery from restaurants all the time. No, no, they don't. They don't do that. Maybe people get, like, extra chop sticks from, like, the takeout place, like, wooden ones or whatever. you're taking like full on silverware and a date floss like zoom out that's weird well I have a friend that used to take those cups like those glasses that you get from like breweries and stuff she'd pocket those yeah I feel like that's a little picture from a bar before see for a bar I also drunk when I did it I wiped out with a full picture under my jacket so that was different

different things I'm sorry I'm trying to help Bella yeah I mean it's a fancy restaurant they can afford more silverware and like you know it was an expensive date so i i don't see the problem honestly and like yeah i have a bunch of fancy silverware now and it's they're like cute and mismatch but like fancy and they all tell a story yeah that's called spewing okay i don't know it's called making memories to me that's minor larceny all right whatever I guess we just don't agree Yeah Like property's just property

But love is love You know like I'm saying that like It doesn't matter And if you can If you connect with someone It doesn't matter Yeah if I can take you with somebody

I wouldn't steal from them You took my floss too This is a weird thing to take It's in my mouth It's creepy I feel like it's fine Floss is not that expensive and I was being cute and I feel like you're overreacting.

But I also told you about it. So I wasn't really stealing, you know, because I was telling you what I was doing. You don't get points. You don't get points for telling me about it. I can't steal a car and then go down to the police station. Like, hey, by the way, I took this car. They're not just going to go, oh, you know, you're off the hook.

Thanks for telling us we are. I wasn't trying to get points. I was trying to create like a long-lasting best. You know, we could tell our kids about it or something. Jesus. Hey, Darren, would you like another date with Bella? We'll pay for it. She really likes you?

No, I'm good. All right. Like, if you want to send me your address again so that I can send you back your floss and your comb that I took. He's comb. I knew. Oh, my God. That's what I'm going to. Jubal's first date follow up.

Hi there, this is Josh Clark from the Stuff You Should Know podcast. If you've been thinking, man alive, I could go for some good true crime podcast episodes, then have we got good news for you. Stuff You Should Know just released a playlist of 12 of our best true crime episodes of all time. There's a shootout in broad daylight, people using axes in really terrible ways, disappearances, legendary heists, the whole nine yards. So check out the Stuff You Should Know true crime playlist on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

I'm Jay Shetty, and I'm the host of the On Purpose podcast. Recently, I had a conversation with the one and only, Madonna. When I was broke and I had no friends, nowhere to live, I was held up at gunpoint, I was robbed. All these horrendous things happened to me. I had such an unhappy childhood that whatever happened to me in New York is better than what my life was, so I'm not going back. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. In the 1980s, modeling wasn't just a dream. It was a battlefield.

It's a freaking war zone. These people are animals. The Model Wars podcast peels back the glossy cover and reveals a high-stakes game where survival meant more than beauty. Hosted by me, Vanessa Grigoriatis, this is the untold story of an industry built on ruthless ambition.

Listen to Model Wars on the I-Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Introducing IVF Disrupted, The Kind Body Story, a podcast about a company that promised to revolutionize fertility care. It grew like a tech startup. While KindBody did help women start families, it also left behind a stream of disillusioned and angry patients. You think you're finally like in the right hand. You're just not. Listen to IVF Disrupted, the Kind Body Story, on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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