Speaker 1: This morning, we're talking with Florence, who recently went out
Speaker 1: on a date with Jacob.
Speaker 2: Florence, Hi, good morning, Hi.
Speaker 3: Thank you for taking my call. Sure, I'm hoping you
Speaker 3: can help me. I went on a date with this guy, Jacob,
Speaker 3: and I really felt like I had met my intellectual
Speaker 3: match and he just disappeared on.
Speaker 4: Me an intellectual match. Okay, so tell us how did
Speaker 4: you guys meet?
Speaker 3: Well, we met at a book club. Actually, yeah, my
Speaker 3: friend invited me. We really hit it off talking about
Speaker 3: these historical biographies, and you know, we decided that we
Speaker 3: should get together for a proper date.
Speaker 5: Okay, I love a book club romance, Like, I'm already
Speaker 5: one hundred percent. And where did you guys go for
Speaker 5: the date?
Speaker 3: We went to a quiet little wine bar post in
Speaker 3: the Hype.
Speaker 2: Oh the little bread things are so good. I love
Speaker 2: that place.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was perfect and the conversation was absolutely brilliant,
Speaker 3: and we talked for hours about history and art and
Speaker 3: our passions.
Speaker 1: Okay, what is it that y'all are passionate about? Did
Speaker 1: those match up?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm an author and I actually spent the last
Speaker 3: five years writing a historical fiction novel that was set
Speaker 3: in Tudor, England.
Speaker 2: Oh oh, are we best friends?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 2: No, I'm like, are we the same person?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's exciting. I was published last spring, and so
Speaker 3: we spent a good portion of the time, you know,
Speaker 3: talking about the book. He had a lot of questions
Speaker 3: and he seemed fascinated and he was completely engaged.
Speaker 4: All right, so it sounds like a good connection. How
Speaker 4: did the date end. What happened at the end of
Speaker 4: the night.
Speaker 3: Well, it ended with a lovely side hug, and he
Speaker 3: said he couldn't wait to read my book, and he
Speaker 3: made me write down the title for him so he
Speaker 3: could go looking for it. But the next day I
Speaker 3: heard nothing. It's been three days now. I don't get it.
Speaker 3: Was he intimidated by my success? Did? I mean? Why
Speaker 3: did he talk about my book so much? I thought
Speaker 3: he was genuinely interested. I don't understand.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's I mean, it's hard to say. And if
Speaker 5: he you guys, met at a book club, so you
Speaker 5: would think that, you know, he'd be interested in it.
Speaker 5: So we're gonna get to the bottom of it and
Speaker 5: we'll call Jacob when we come back.
Speaker 4: Okay, yes, please doo.
Speaker 3: I felt something real.
Speaker 4: There, all right? Well, did that coming up next with Riggs,
Speaker 4: Caitlyn and Erica and Second Date Update. So we talked
Speaker 4: to Florence this morning. She met Jacob at a book club.
Speaker 4: Caitlyn and Erica are over the moon because she is
Speaker 4: a history buff. Yes, she's an author, and they were
Speaker 4: talking about the historical novel that she wrote. But Jacob
Speaker 4: has completely ghosted her. We're gonna get him on the
Speaker 4: phone and find out what's happening this morning for ninety
Speaker 4: three Q Second Date Update.
Speaker 6: Hello, Hi, may.
Speaker 2: Please speak with Jacob. Yeah, Jacob, Hi Jacob, good morning.
Speaker 2: This is Riggs, Caitlyn and Erica on ninety three Q.
Speaker 4: What's up, dude, Hola, Hi, him just coming in hot
Speaker 4: this morning.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: We were actually calling you about a friend of ours, Florence,
Speaker 1: who you recently went on a date with, and she's
Speaker 1: concerned that maybe her success kind of scared you all.
Speaker 4: And what happened?
Speaker 6: Is that what she said?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Okay, gosh, okay, Yeah, I guess I could talk about it.
Speaker 6: I mean, the date was fine. She's really intelligent. I'll
Speaker 6: definitely give her that. I thought it was cool that
Speaker 6: she was an author, But she talked about her book
Speaker 6: the entire night on stop. It was Honestly, it was
Speaker 6: a bit much, but I was still impressed. I mean,
Speaker 6: writing a novel is a huge accomplishment.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so you were interested in her work?
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I was so much. So when I got
Speaker 6: home from the date, the first thing I did was
Speaker 6: go on Amazon to buy her book. She had even
Speaker 6: written the title down for me. I think it was
Speaker 6: the Last Bolin And she told me all about the plot.
Speaker 4: Okay, so you're supportive like that. Did you you know,
Speaker 4: did you find the book? Did you order it?
Speaker 6: Oh? Yeah, I found it. It was exactly she described it.
Speaker 6: The title, the cover art was the same. She talked
Speaker 6: about the plot points, about anim Blynn, the little known cousin.
Speaker 6: It was all there. And then the biggest problem I
Speaker 6: would say is that the author wasn't Florence. This book
Speaker 6: was written by a woman named Karen Arthur. What.
Speaker 2: Yeah, is it possible? Wait, hold on, is it possible
Speaker 2: it's not the right book?
Speaker 6: Oh no, I mean everything she said about this book
Speaker 6: was exact. Mean, I know there are a lot of
Speaker 6: books out there about the Bullin's, believe me, but everything
Speaker 6: she said was exactly in this book. I don't think
Speaker 6: she wrote a single word of it. I think she
Speaker 6: took credit for someone else's novel, and it was probably
Speaker 6: the most bizarre and elaborate lie I've ever encountered. So
Speaker 6: I didn't know what else to do. I just read
Speaker 6: flags all over the place, so I just walked her number.
Speaker 2: Wow, Okay, Lawrence, you there, can you explain?
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm here. You know, he obviously found the wrong book.
Speaker 3: I mean it's it's a very common title for a book,
Speaker 3: and you know my book is also called the Last
Speaker 3: bullon it and it also features a cousin. I mean,
Speaker 3: but it's completely different. I mean, he didn't look hard
Speaker 3: en us.
Speaker 6: Are you being serious right now, Florence. It had the
Speaker 6: exact same plot you described for two hours. You even
Speaker 6: told me the main character's name was Isabelle and that
Speaker 6: she escapes to France. It's the same story.
Speaker 3: It's a similar story, but it's not the same story.
Speaker 3: You probably misspelled my last name in the search bar.
Speaker 3: Did you actually use the hardcover search filter? I mean,
Speaker 3: my book has a blue cover, not the green one.
Speaker 3: You're totally slandering me right now.
Speaker 6: This is this insane. You are literally digging yourself into
Speaker 6: a deeper hole. Just tell me, admit it. Say it. Hey,
Speaker 6: you lied.
Speaker 3: I am a published author. I will not be spoken
Speaker 3: to like this, Jacob. You're just a lazy researcher and
Speaker 3: clearly not the intellectual I thought you were. So whatever, goodbye.
Speaker 2: She hung up.
Speaker 6: That was fast.
Speaker 4: That sounded like she knew that she was lying.
Speaker 1: Also, I'm looking up the book over here. She mentioned
Speaker 1: something about a green cover. I don't even see the
Speaker 1: book that you're talking about having a green cover.
Speaker 4: That sucks, though, because you would think meeting someone at
Speaker 4: a brook club would be good. Damn it.
Speaker 6: No. Second day yeah, I mean it would be too.
Speaker 6: I don't want to meet the person who actually wrote
Speaker 6: the book.
Speaker 4: Right, you know everything about it now? Well, thank you
Speaker 4: for your time this morning, Jacob.
Speaker 2: We appreciate you.
Speaker 6: Thank you, guys,