First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show - First Date Follow-Up – Andy & Serena: Ghosted Before Hello

Episode Date: October 26, 2026

After weeks of Bumble chats and FaceTime calls, Andy was ready to meet Serena—until a last-minute emergency canceled their first date. Two weeks of silence later, he turns to The Jubal Show for answers. Was it something he texted, or is there more to the story? This First Date Follow-Up delivers an awkward confrontation, unexpected dating dealbreakers, and a first impression worth arguing about. 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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as they pose the question. What if? Listen to Black Lit on the Black Effect Podcast Network on IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Andy is on the phone today for a first day follow-up, and he's getting ghosted by a girl named Serena. So in a few minutes, we're going to call her and see if she'll tell us why she's ghosting her and maybe get him another date. But first, Andy, how long has it been since you heard from Serena? It's been two weeks. Have you been counting?

Yeah, yeah. Okay. That's so frustrating. Have you reached out to her? Yeah, I've reached out. I've sent her some texts and stuff, but yeah, I'm not, I'm not, I haven't heard anything back. Why don't you go back and tell us about the date? How did you meet her?

Um, so we met on Bumble and, uh, we spent a few weeks talking and facetiming before we actually met up the first time. Um, so it's like we, I felt like we got to know each other a little bit. We eventually planned to meet at a cafe that we both are into and, uh, we were going to do a bike ride and drinks later and stuff. I was really excited to meet her in person, but yeah, she never ended up being able to show up. Oh, so did not actually have the date? No, actually, because about 20 minutes before, I was, you know, I'd been sitting way to get the coffee shop and she sent me a text that her dog was sick or eating something, got sick. So she needed to take him to the vet and never ended up happening. And I, and I was really excited.

Like I ended up wearing a T-shirt, these plaid shorts and sneakers that you. You know, she's kind of like telling me to wear beforehand so that she could find me. But, you know, I was happy. You were happy. So she told you what to wear. You guys planned this whole date. And then so her dog got sick. Did she ever give you an update on her dog?

Like what happened with that? After that, yeah, I haven't. I honestly haven't really heard. So that's where, yeah, I'm trying to figure it out. So how did you respond to that text? Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. No, when she sent me that, that's okay.

So I responded like, I just kind of said bummer and I said, hope your dog is okay because I was, I was really sad at the time. But I don't know. I've looked back and I've read that text a million times and I feel like maybe I, maybe I wasn't a little cold. Would she have expected you to say more? Maybe, maybe I should offer to go with her. So has anything happened then between that text message and maybe all those face times? You know, like if you're talking for the past couple weeks, you kind of start to, build what is it about her that makes you want to see her again like if this girl just disappears

like don't you kind of feel like screw you then yeah i mean i i think she's first of all beautiful and i i felt like our personalities kind of balanced each other out and you know she seems like she does once and i'm happy to give that to her so okay okay and so she just ghosted you basically for the date like she didn't show up and then hasn't responded to you since saying that she couldn't make it because her dog was sick. Right. And yeah, again, like, I don't know if I just responded wrong at the time. It wasn't, you know, nice enough.

But hopefully, hopefully we can get it worked out. I mean, what if, like, something really bad happened to her dog? That's also a concern of mine, too. Yeah. Would I be mad at a bummer? Like, if somebody responds bummer, if you're dog sick, I mean, maybe I would have been like, okay. Maybe, yeah, you know what? Maybe that's it.

She's like, bummer. It's more than a bummer. Yeah. Maybe. Andy is on the phone and he's getting ghosted by Serena, so in a second, we're going to call her and see if she'll tell us why she's ghosting and maybe get him another date. But first, Andy, why don't you catch everybody up on your situation? Yeah, so I met Serena on Bumble.

We spent a few weeks talking, FaceTiming before we finally met our plan to meet up in person. And then during that time, you know, I wore a t-shirt, plaid shorts, white shoes that she told me to pick out. I was waiting for her and I got a text that said her dog was sick and that she needed to take him to the vet. So the date never happened and I haven't heard from her sense. And it might be because he responded, bummer. All right. Andy, are you ready to call her? Yeah.

Okay, here we go. Hello? Hi, man. I speak to Serena, please. Yeah. Hi, Serena. My name is Jubal. I host the radio show.

It's called The Jubal Show. Hi, Serena. I'm Nina. The whole show's here. Hi, and I'm Victoria. How are you? Hi. I'm good.

We're calling you today because we got an email about you from somebody who listens to the show and they wanted us to call you. Okay. So we do a segment on the show. It's called the first date follow-up. What that is is if you go out on a date with somebody and then you end up ghosting them, they can ask us to get you on the phone and ask why you're ghosting them. So a dude named Andy emailed us.

He told us about your date, well, the date that didn't happen and then asked if we could call you and ask why you ghosted him. Wow. That's really cute. You know, he was that far to like see. what happens. So you think it's cute. Is your dog okay?

No. No. I didn't, he's just not what I thought he would be. The dog? Is your dog okay? No, Andy. Annie. Do you have a dog even?

Oh, no. Well, I mean, we chatted for a while on Bumble. It was nice getting to know him and anything, but. Yeah, and he also, like, I actually don't have a dog. dog. Okay, I figured that's where it was going. Thank you for your honesty. Yeah, so when I walked up to go to the date, I wouldn't go on,

you saw him sitting there like a puppy dog. He had like a rose and some dirty white sneakers and I'm just like, I'm not busy, but how a man keeps up the sneakers just kind of says a lot about him, you know? So it's the dirty shoes? Yeah. I just like, I don't know. He didn't look like he didn't look like he did any pictures. Wait, but he had a rose there for you, Serena?

Yeah, but he just like was just sitting there like a, like a pad puppy dog. Like, I just went, I don't know. It just wasn't, no. You felt like you could bulldoze him. I mean, sometimes sometimes that's, sometimes that's a thing. I mean, it sounds a little shallow, but sometimes you know if you're going to like be too much for somebody. Yeah. Yeah.

And if I did have a dog and he replied, bummers or your dog's, like, Come on. Okay. So it was because he was sitting like a puppy dog and he had dirty sneakers. Uh-huh. So what did dirty sneakers say about a man to you? I mean, come on. It's the first date.

If you can't clean your shoes or like wear some, like, come on. Was it a nice, like fancy restaurant that you were going to? I mean, it wasn't a fancy restaurant. It was just like a cafe. But so, come on, like, come on. Just at least wash your shoes or buy any pair on a first seat. I get presenting yourself nicely. I mean, you don't have to go as far as buying new shoes, but I mean, keeping them, you know.

I don't. Do you think about that? I do. I try not to wear dirty shoes if I go places, but I also, yeah, but I'm one of those people that always wants, you know, tries to clean my shoes and stuff too. Right. Some people don't care, though. I mean, well, I care.

And he was just sitting there with like A rose, like not even like a bouquet. Just like A rose. Come on now. It's like really wimpy, you know? Well, okay. Okay, well, thank you for telling us. And now, Serena, I'll let you know that Andy is actually on the phone listening and wants to talk to you. What?

Seriously. I'm a wimp because I had dirty shoes and a rose. You lied about having a sick dog. Well, I mean. I was wearing what you told me to wear. I didn't tell you to wear dirty shoes. And, you know, come on, first impressions are kind of big. I went out and bought a new shirt in plaid shorts because I didn't have any.

I wasn't thinking about my shoes. I'm sorry. Oh, that's a bummer. So you saw me sitting there and instead of coming up to me and saying anything, like an adult, you just walked away and hid, lied about having a dog that was sick? And you're saying that I'm a woman. Yeah, I mean, a little bit. And you don't even look like your pictures.

You know what? You didn't look like your pictures. You didn't look evil. Well, I think now is the appropriate time to ask. Serena, would you like to go on another date with Andy? We'll pay for it. No, thank you. No.

Good luck, though. I wish you the best. Andy, somebody's going to appreciate your rose. Thank you. I think I'm dodging a bullet. You know what? Well, I'll pay attention to if you ever do end up getting a dog. And I'm going to call ASPCA on you because, yeah, you shouldn't be owning an animal.

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Listen to the Curse of Miss America on the IHart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you. you get your podcast. I'm Hamza. And I'm Martin. And we're the hosts of Out of Character. The funniest podcast in the entire world. Rara, the thing.

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Nisi Shaw. What kind of world would it be if these people had not perished? And Octavia Butler. In science fiction and fantasy, I can do absolutely anything. As they pose the question, what if? Listen to Black Lit on the Black Effect podcast network. on IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. You broke me.

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