First Date Follow Up - The Jubal Show - Jess & Eric - The Doll Wall Disaster

Episode Date: October 9, 2025

Jess thought her first date with Eric was perfect — great drinks, dancing, and undeniable chemistry. But after one small detail in her apartment sent him running, she’s left wondering what went wrong. Was it really the reason he ghosted her… or is there something deeper behind his freak-out? 👀 Hear the hilariously awkward truth unfold in this First Date Follow-Up on The Jubal Show, where every mystery in modern dating gets exposed — one ghost at a time! 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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First date of follow up. Powered by the advocates injury attorneys. Online at Advocateslaw.com. Jess is on the phone today for a first date follow up. And she's getting ghosted by a guy named Eric. So in a few minutes, we're going to call him and see if he'll tell us why he's ghosting her. and maybe get her a second date. But first, Jess, how long has it been since you heard from Eric?

It's been since the date. So I haven't heard from him since the night we went out. Okay. How did you guys leave it at the end of the date? I thought we left it really great, you know? I thought we definitely had chemistry. So, yeah, we met up at this bar. it's at this like speak easy it was a pop-up bar behind a record store so it was like a really cool

setting you know um and conversation went well he's a graphic designer he's got a really great smile he's got kind eyes he was really funny it felt very flirty he was a little dry and sarcastic but but i don't know it still felt really flirty um when he would i don't know make a joke um and i really liked his style his his vintage jacket well it smelled like tom ford tobacco and vanilla i don't know it's so wow very specific well he was close enough to me that i could smell his jacket is when i'm trying to stay yeah yeah um so we were at this pop-up bar like i said uh there's a DJ there so we get some playing 90s hip-hop and then um we had some meds tal concoctions.

There was like a mystery mixology challenge. And if you guess the secret ingredient, you got a free round. So that was fun. And we did indeed get a free round. So that was cool. So you know, we had some drinks. We had some laugh. And the night

went really well. So everything at the restaurant, like I've replayed it in my mind a million times, you know. Nothing seemed weird there. And then after the bar closed, we went to apartment for a nightcap and you know we had a nightcap and some fun and then um the next morning you know we woke up for whatever and then i noticed that this is so this is what i think

happened but i'm not sure but i noticed that my ex's electric razor was on the bathroom shelf and i i kept i've kept my ex's electric razor because it works really well and i like to show my legs with it and i like it better than anything i've used i'm afraid that he might have have seen it and think that I have like a revolving door of guys you know but I mean I but that's really the only thing I can think of because we had chemistry we had a really fun time like we really seemed to be viving the date went well and yeah he came back to your place I mean that's definitely I know he was definitely feeling it so then when he left in the morning did you hit him up later did you guys like say we'll do this again or

Was he just kind of like peace? Yeah, like in person, in person, like it alluded like, hey, I'll talk to you soon, you know? But I didn't follow up with a text just because I'm trying to let the guy make the next move, you know? It just, it felt like the ball was in his court, you know? But now we're taking the ball back. Whoa. Figuring it out. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay. Well, it just doesn't make sense to me. It just does not make sense because, like, we had a really good time. Well, it could be. I mean, if you guys weren't, if you weren't able to explain it, I mean, maybe this would be an opportunity to do it. Yeah. And he didn't seem like a guy who was just like looking to like hook up and then, you know, see ya. It didn't seem like that at all.

Yeah. Okay. Well, we'll see if we can figure it out for you. We'll play a song, come back and call him and see if they'll tell us why he's ghosting you and maybe get you a second date, okay? Okay. Thanks so much. All right. All right.

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podcasts. If you're just joining us for today's first date follow-up, Jess is on the phone, and she's getting ghosted by a dude named Eric, so we're about to call him and see if he'll tell us why he's ghosting her and maybe get her a second date if she still wants one. But before we do that, Jess, why don't you catch us up on your date again real quick? Okay, so we met at this really cool speakeasy bar. We had a really fun time.

We danced. We made some drinks, and then he went back to my place. We had some fun. He stayed the night. And then I noticed the next morning that my ex's razor was on the shelf. And I kept it because I like it better than any razor I've used. But I'm afraid that he saw it and thinks that like I have a revolving door of guys. I think that might have carried him away.

Okay. But I haven't heard from him since that night. But it really felt, everything else felt great. So I'm afraid the razor scared him away. All right. Well, are you ready for us to call him? Yeah. Yeah.

Here we go. Hello. Hi, man, speak to Eric, please. This is Eric. Hey, Eric. How are you? This is a radio show. It's called The Jubal Show.

Hi, I'm Nina. Hi, I'm Victoria. And my name's Jubal. What's up? Oh, hi. Good. Wow. Yeah, I wasn't ready for that.

Okay. So you've listened to the. Have you listened to the show before? Yeah, I listen all the time. Okay, great. Have you heard a first day follow-up before? Yeah, I just didn't realize there would be a victim one. Yeah.

You know, it's a segment where if you go out on a date with somebody and you end up ghosting them, they can email us to call you and find out why you're ghosting them. And we got an email about you, Eric. Okay. Any idea who would email us? Um, what was it, uh, what was your name? Uh, Jeff, Jessica, Jeff? Yes, that's it.

Jess, she told us about your date. Said that you were awesome and really liked you, but can't figure out why you're a ghosting her. Do you mind telling us? Um, yeah. I mean, so, yeah, the night of the date, she, we went to her place, she gave me a tour. And then she, okay, she pulled a curtain in our bedroom and, and boom, there's a wall of dolls staring at me like a, like a creepy jerk. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, honestly, I don't know how to recover from that.

Shoot. So was it like a collection? Like, you know, maybe it's just. Oh, yeah. At least 30. I'm not even kidding. Like 30 dolls just all facing out making eye contact with me. Sometimes those dolls are worth a lot of money.

Yeah, I don't care what they are. It was totally freaky. They were hiding behind the curtain too, huh? Yeah, exactly. It was how they were replaced. Like, it just like revealed and boom. they were they i just yeah i still have nightmares about it okay yeah it felt like i was in the set of a of a horror movie or something you know they're all different kids like each one

looked like a different character you know there's like a blonde redhead it it was frightening and they looked very well cared for that was one of the most frightened parts of it it looked like they they all have different hair styles uh you know one had like braids it's like this you know just looked like you're spending time on these which i i don't know if I could go out with the girls, like, spend more time on her dolls than she's on. Okay. I picture her, like, in the middle of her room,

just, like, laughing, just combing their hair. You know, having, like, full-blown conversations with them. I, yeah. You see a lot of movies. It was a little too creepy for you. Well, thank you for telling us. Yeah.

I'll also let you know that Jess is on the phone and wants to talk to you. Whoa, wait, she's here? Yep. She heard all that. Oh, hey, Jess. Okay, so that's ridiculous. You ghosted me over that.

Well, yeah, the moment it stuck with me and not in a good way. Oh, my God, they're a collection of dolls and they're vintage, and some of them were my mother's dolls, and I closed the curtain because I know sometimes they can be perceived as creepy, but they're worth a lot of money.

I can't believe you would ghost me or something like this. There were 30 Orseland faces staring right at me And they followed me Like what I would walk around They would just put their eyes Would just follow me

You know better than a household Action figures You probably hide from your mom Oh what are you talking about I do not have Act two figures Just Not everyone has dolls

I swear one of them even smirked at me Oh are you sure it was a smirk And not an eye roll At your cocktail skills Oh yeah Well I think one Yeah, one did that, too. I just, they're like little, these little like mafia bosses plotting on how to get rid of me.

They're inanimate. You know what? You literally can't handle a little quirky fun in someone's apartment. Okay, look, okay, look, if you're having quirky fun in your apartment, that's great. Just not my jam. It's just a little too weird for me. I mean, you put up a curtain for them so they can get some rest. I don't know, man, that's just really out there.

That's too out there for me. okay you you made that i didn't put up a curtain for them to to get some rest i put up a curtain just so i felt like they wouldn't look at me i'm keeping them because maybe one day i want to sell them and they're vintage and antique i thought you were cultured jeez louise like i don't know have you never heard of collectors of course i've heard of collectors but these these dolls i mean and you're going to collect something like why collect these lifeless beings that just stare out at you like, you know, like they're about to, like they're plotting murder. I don't trust them. All right. Sounds like you have some hangups and you have

some phobias and, you know, that's not a me. Um, what? I don't. I mean, phobias. It's just, it just, it just freaks me out. You know what? Tess is right about you. Wait. Yeah. Tess. That's one of your dolls. Yeah. Yeah. No, she warned me about you. She said that you weren't good news. I should have listened to her. Oh. Okay. Well, hey, Eric, would you like to go out what Jessica and we'll pay for it? Yeah, that's a hard path. Yeah, that's a no for me, too. You know, I make my own dolls, too, as well as collecting them. I might be making one of you two. What? Please don't. Yeah. One of these days if you get a random pay on your side,

that's me. Oh, that's took a turn. Jeeble's first date follow-up. Hey, I'm Jay Chetty, host of the On Purpose podcast. I had the incredible opportunity to sit down with the one, the only, Cardi B. My marriage, I felt the love dying. I was crying every day. I felt in the deepest depression that I had ever had.

This shit was not given to me. I worked my ass off for me. Listen to On Purpose with Jay Chetty on the I-Heart 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 Kind Body 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 hands. You're just not. Listen to IvyF Disrupted, the Kind Body Story, 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 a ruthless ambition. Listen to Model Wars on the IHeart Radio, App, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Samihante, it's Anna Ortiz.

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