Speaker 1: It's Marcus in the morning. Y'all know what time it is? Is?
Speaker 1: Second date up? Daytime. Let's bring Ryan on. Ryan are
Speaker 1: you there?
Speaker 2: Hey? Hi guys? So are you hey? Man? Big fan
Speaker 2: of so thanks?
Speaker 1: Bro here to help you out. I understand you've been
Speaker 1: on a date. Her name was Brooke and you guys
Speaker 1: met online? Was was the message that you sent me?
Speaker 1: So did she? Was this a full ghost?
Speaker 2: Uh? Yeah, I you know, I'm just confused, you know, sure,
Speaker 2: yeah it was a full ghost. That's a good way
Speaker 2: of putting it.
Speaker 1: What did you guys do on your date?
Speaker 2: While we were in Walnut Creek and had some drinks,
Speaker 2: you know, and you know, she was funny, great, good time.
Speaker 1: We talked you know about work and.
Speaker 2: Life and dating, burnout and lapped about everyone pretends they're
Speaker 2: fine with it really not, you know, and I thought
Speaker 2: things were going really well, thinking, you know, that was
Speaker 2: a good hang, let's do it again, and then.
Speaker 1: Here we are.
Speaker 2: I don't know, Yeah, she just disappeared.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well let's see if we can get her on
Speaker 1: the phone. I'm gonna call her and then yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: call her and then and then I'll ask her, like
Speaker 1: straight up, how the date went for her and then
Speaker 1: we will a I'd love to get you a second date,
Speaker 1: but be I would love to actually just get you
Speaker 1: some answers, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: I would really appreciate it because everything seemed to be
Speaker 2: going really smooth, and I would go out with her
Speaker 2: again in a heartbeat.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's see what we can work out. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and play a song and we'll regroup and then
Speaker 1: we'll call Brooke. It's Marcus in the morning. We're doing
Speaker 1: second date update. We were talking with Ryan and you
Speaker 1: guys just very simple, just ended up for drinks and
Speaker 1: wanting to creak correct you. He's muted Ryan, He's still there. Okay, yeah, sorry,
Speaker 1: he's all ready to go. Let's call her because I
Speaker 1: want to figure out why she goes to go ahead
Speaker 1: and go back on you, bude, Thank you. Here we go.
Speaker 3: Hello.
Speaker 1: How is this Brook? It is Hi Brook. This is
Speaker 1: Marcus calling from Star one on one three. Good morning, Hi, Hi.
Speaker 1: I don't suppose you listened to my show, do you?
Speaker 2: Sorry?
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to wake you up so early. So I
Speaker 1: do a radio show on Star one one three for iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1: We do a segment called second date update, and I
Speaker 1: got floated to your phone number by a guy who
Speaker 1: took you on a date. His name is Ryan, and
Speaker 1: it's okay. He's feeling like maybe you ghosted, and so
Speaker 1: we're just trying to figure out. I mean, I'll be
Speaker 1: blunt with like, what did my guy do? What did
Speaker 1: he do wrong? It's very assumptive of me, but I'm
Speaker 1: just assuming something went sideway. Did you ghost?
Speaker 2: I guess? Okay, there were just.
Speaker 3: Two things that kind of stuck with me. I just
Speaker 3: couldn't shake them. Okay, okay, Well, first, he casually admitted
Speaker 3: that he doesn't use a top sheet. He just uses
Speaker 3: like a fitted sheet and a comforter, and he was
Speaker 3: he just said, like, oh, top sheets are pointless fabric,
Speaker 3: and you know, they're always in a bunch at the
Speaker 3: bottom of the bed and create unnecessary laundry. And he
Speaker 3: said this very confidently, like this was a lifestyle choice
Speaker 3: of his.
Speaker 1: I mean, don't most hotels do that?
Speaker 3: No, there is always a top.
Speaker 1: Sheet, I guess. I mean, I guess the theory would
Speaker 1: be that, like they wash them every time we get
Speaker 1: new guests, which I'm certain Ryan probably does not because
Speaker 1: he's a dude. So all right, was there? So there's
Speaker 1: something else.
Speaker 3: Yes, Later in the night he mentioned he sets it
Speaker 3: like multiple alarms every morning and then he ignores all
Speaker 3: of them. And he said, I like easing into consciousness.
Speaker 3: And then he said that every you know, eventually his
Speaker 3: body just wakes up when it's ready and listen. I
Speaker 3: know both of these things when you just take them
Speaker 3: as one thing, like look at each thing, it's not
Speaker 3: either thing is technically wrong, but like together they just
Speaker 3: kind of create a picture. I can't unsee. It just
Speaker 3: felt like chaos adjacent.
Speaker 1: That is the most descriptive way I've ever heard somebody
Speaker 1: explain somebody chaos adjacent. Well, so part of this is
Speaker 1: that Ryan is listening right now. We're trying to I
Speaker 1: don't know. I always say we try to use it
Speaker 1: as a teachable moment. I'm sorry, but Ryan, are you there?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I guys, I'm here.
Speaker 1: So you don't use the top sheet? Is that confirmed?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I don't understand entirely why this is a big deal.
Speaker 2: I sweep hot, you know, like it it's just like
Speaker 2: the top sheet really like traps heat, and like this
Speaker 2: is just about like getting up and going and going
Speaker 2: to work and going to bed. Like I don't need
Speaker 2: to make it complicated to make the bed with the
Speaker 2: top sheet every day and all the pillows. What if
Speaker 2: I needed to do that, right? You know, like that's
Speaker 2: just extra.
Speaker 1: Speaking of extra, this alarm thing sounds ridiculous. My wife
Speaker 1: would punch me if I didn't get up when the
Speaker 1: alarm goes off. If I realize you're a solo guy.
Speaker 1: We're trying to get somewhere here, right, Like we're trying
Speaker 1: to have a lady in our life.
Speaker 2: Right. Look, I can. I can work on the alarms.
Speaker 2: I understand that situation. You know. It's just I know
Speaker 2: it sounds bad, but I still get to work on time.
Speaker 2: I just don't leap out of bed, like you know,
Speaker 2: just instantly, like I'm in a movie or something. I
Speaker 2: just it's something that like I've had forever, I have
Speaker 2: been single a little while. I'm not gonna lie. So yeah,
Speaker 2: all right, I get that it's not the coolest. Look,
Speaker 2: but these are things that I could work on, having
Speaker 2: a woman around consistently and being alone. Look, I can
Speaker 2: see how that looks bad.
Speaker 3: Sure to be real, I understand, Like you're relaxed by
Speaker 3: this just makes you seem like unmanaged.
Speaker 1: Ryan, if we look at this from Brooks perspective, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to help you along here. If we're trying to
Speaker 1: get her to spend the night, how about we make
Speaker 1: a few adjustments.
Speaker 2: Sure, I'll buy you the best top she's on the planet.
Speaker 2: I could find the highest thread count, whatever it takes. Like,
Speaker 2: I'm a good guy. Look Brook, I'm teachable. I'm just rusty, right,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm not trying to scare you off.
Speaker 1: So Brook, I feel like we're making some progress. Can
Speaker 1: we get to a second date with this? Can we
Speaker 1: get a do over?
Speaker 3: I mean I don't need perfection. I just need efforts, okay,
Speaker 3: and clean sheets, But I don't give it another date.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's happening. Oh my god, I wasn't ready.
Speaker 2: Hold on, Yes, done, fresh sheets, no arms and.
Speaker 1: The cowbell and destiny is wrong. We have a second date.
Speaker 1: Oh all right, everybody, hang on strong work. Thank you, amazing,
Speaker 1: we did it. Thank God. It's Marcus in the morning.
Speaker 1: It's Thursday. Good morning, Producer Taylor is here. Hello, we
Speaker 1: got a DM from a member of our listening family
Speaker 1: who needs your help. Is it ever okay to break
Speaker 1: up right before Valentine's Day? I already know my answer,
Speaker 1: but this is from Gerald and Heywarding right, Marcus, listen
Speaker 1: to you every morning, been listening for years. Appreciate you, bro.
Speaker 1: I need some help. My relationship with my girlfriend is
Speaker 1: basically over. We both know it's headed that way. We
Speaker 1: haven't said the words yet. Valentine's Day is now coming up.
Speaker 1: My friends say I would be a jerk if I
Speaker 1: broke up with her now instead of waiting for a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. I can see how it might be
Speaker 1: weird to do it right before a holiday. That's all
Speaker 1: about couples. But I also think it would be dishonest
Speaker 1: to keep pretending that my heart's still in it when
Speaker 1: I'm already out of it. I don't want to fake
Speaker 1: romance or exchange gifts under false pretenses just to avoid
Speaker 1: being the bad guy. Is it kinder to wait? Or
Speaker 1: am I just dragging things out for my own comfort? Well,
Speaker 1: what I've learned over the years, there's never a good time,
Speaker 1: No never what I wanted to I was in my
Speaker 1: first serious relationship. I wanted to break up. This is
Speaker 1: how it went. Well, it's October, it's my birthday. I
Speaker 1: don't want to do it near my birth well, it's Thanksgiving. Oh,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go see your folks. Oh god, it's Christmas.
Speaker 1: And then the new year rolls around, and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, oh well, her birthdays in March. I
Speaker 1: don't know. There's never a good time. Now, there's a
Speaker 1: tactful way to do it, like, don't you don't like
Speaker 1: bring the hammer down. That's my other problem is I
Speaker 1: just will bring the hammer down. Famously tell the story
Speaker 1: of breaking up with a girl just as I dropped
Speaker 1: her off at UNI. Oh my gosh, I wait right
Speaker 1: there at one of the main stations on van Ness.
Speaker 1: I waited till one leg was out of the car,
Speaker 1: and then I said, I don't think this is gonna work.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, marquess. I think I was partially hoping
Speaker 1: that she didn't hear me. Just close the door as
Speaker 1: the bus is going by. Whim. Speaking of which, have
Speaker 1: you ever noticed how guys never want to be the
Speaker 1: bad guy?
Speaker 4: I know, even though you are always default the bad guy.
Speaker 1: I literally had my therapist call me a wuss and
Speaker 1: told me to break up, just do it, just man
Speaker 1: up and do it and stop being a wimp. And
Speaker 1: then he literally, that'll be five hundred dollars. Literally, that
Speaker 1: was the session. I love that. What are your thoughts
Speaker 1: on this? Does Gerald break up with his lady now?
Speaker 1: Or do we wait till after Valentine's Day?
Speaker 4: You gotta do it now?
Speaker 1: I think that.
Speaker 4: Do you think that you are trying to do something
Speaker 4: for her by waiting, but really you're being selfish.
Speaker 1: Break up with her now.
Speaker 4: She can get with her galpals for Valentine's Day and
Speaker 4: you know heal in her own way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I would not drag it out.
Speaker 4: Because I promise Gerald, I'm sure you're a great guy,
Speaker 4: but she's gonna be just fine without you.
Speaker 1: Okay, you guys should see the hoodie that producer Taylor has,
Speaker 1: and it's all about breakups. What does it say?
Speaker 4: On the front, it says what are you gonna do
Speaker 4: without him? And then on the back on the back
Speaker 4: it says whatever I want. I'm sure she'll be just fine.
Speaker 1: I know you're the man, but she's gonna be just fine.
Speaker 2: Dude.
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