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Speaker 2: Ben is on the phone today for your first Date
Speaker 2: follow up and he's getting ghosted by a woman named Riley.
Speaker 2: So in a second we're going to call her and
Speaker 2: see if she'll tell us why she's ghosting him and
Speaker 2: maybe gi him another date. But first, Ben, how long
Speaker 2: has it been since you talked to Riley?
Speaker 3: It's like a a week and a half now.
Speaker 4: We've been trying to reach out to her.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm sure not to be crazy, but you know,
Speaker 3: two messages.
Speaker 4: Okay, I mean, you know, you just want to know
Speaker 4: how blatantly ghosted you are.
Speaker 3: Oh, I feel very ghost It's so long.
Speaker 4: I know that sucks. I'm sorry. Okay, let's talk about
Speaker 4: your date. How did you meet her?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 4: How did you leave it?
Speaker 3: Personally? I think the date, you know, there was a
Speaker 3: little bit of awkwardness, but it was like a good date.
Speaker 3: We're in the same field, so we've known each other forever,
Speaker 3: like or not forever, but are professional lives. We've known
Speaker 3: each other, okay, okay, we've been talking just like like
Speaker 3: friends or co work or co whatever. And then one day,
Speaker 3: like there was just like a thing where we I
Speaker 3: noticed then I just was like, what's trying to do
Speaker 3: with date? And so this was the first one of those.
Speaker 4: Okay, well that's kind of an ideal situation.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't be calling it. I thought this was like
Speaker 3: a bad date. I thought the date was great.
Speaker 4: What did y'all do?
Speaker 3: She met up at my place, but then we walked
Speaker 3: in the there's a really great restaurant near my near
Speaker 3: at me and then so we walked there at dinner.
Speaker 3: Dinner was great, came back movie.
Speaker 4: Was there any part of this that started to get
Speaker 4: a little awkward or off?
Speaker 3: The one thing that was awkward was on the TV
Speaker 3: with some dirty video content.
Speaker 4: When TV, that's the last thing you were watching.
Speaker 3: In my difference, it was the night before. It wasn't
Speaker 3: like that's what I was doing right before the date
Speaker 3: got I brushed my teeth, I took a shower, I
Speaker 3: went it was.
Speaker 4: Were you away? Okay?
Speaker 2: You turned on the TV and she saw what you
Speaker 2: had been watching that you probably don't want people saying
Speaker 2: what you were watching.
Speaker 3: It definitely not off first day. The thing is, though,
Speaker 3: we laughed off, so.
Speaker 4: She noticed, are you sure? She noticed. Oh yeah, I
Speaker 4: didn't know how it was.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you can't see what you saw.
Speaker 4: She laughed it off. But did it seem like it
Speaker 4: bothered her?
Speaker 3: No, that's not That's what I was saying. It was
Speaker 3: like a hiccup, but I didn't feel like a hiccup. Okay,
Speaker 3: like it didn't like she was that's how cool she is,
Speaker 3: Like she didn't make it a thig.
Speaker 5: Well she's maybe being polite because also it kind of
Speaker 5: feels like are you trying to drop her hands? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Like is this what it looks? Fun?
Speaker 5: Huh?
Speaker 3: I just know that it's weird that we haven't talked
Speaker 3: in so many days.
Speaker 4: Well, how did you leave it?
Speaker 3: That is the the second hang up that ice feel.
Speaker 3: I just didn't feel that week like the let's go
Speaker 3: in for the kiss moment, and so I just we
Speaker 3: didn't do that, and so it just was like, let's
Speaker 3: leave it, but like not leave it as a not
Speaker 3: a date.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 2: So yeah, but and she has been ignoring all of
Speaker 2: your phone calls and text and stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, two messages, but you know, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Okay, we'll try to figure out we'll plays on comeback
Speaker 2: and then call her and see if this else why
Speaker 2: she's ghosting you, and maybe get to another day to right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: all right, we'll plas on comeback, get your first day
Speaker 2: follow up next.
Speaker 4: Right in the middle of.
Speaker 2: Today's first day follow up if you're just joining us,
Speaker 2: Ben is on the phone and he's getting ghosted by Riley.
Speaker 2: So we're about to call her and see if she'll
Speaker 2: tell us why she's ghosting him and maybe get him
Speaker 2: another date. But first, Ben, why don't you recap your
Speaker 2: situation for us.
Speaker 3: We've been friends for a long time. We finally made
Speaker 3: a decision to go on a date. We went on
Speaker 3: a pretty good date. There. There were a couple hiccups,
Speaker 3: no kiss at the end. There was some studeo playing
Speaker 3: when when we when she got back to my place.
Speaker 3: Yeah accidentally, Uh it was it was something playing the
Speaker 3: night before, but it could have been the thing. I
Speaker 3: don't think it is.
Speaker 2: All right, well, we'll give her a call and see
Speaker 2: if we can figure it out for were you ready?
Speaker 3: Yep? Yep?
Speaker 1: Okay, Hello, Hi.
Speaker 2: Maschek to Riley please, Yeah, this is she? Hey, right,
Speaker 2: how are you? My name is Jebel. I'm calling from
Speaker 2: a radio show. It's called the Jewbel Show. Yeah, the
Speaker 2: show's here, Riley, I'm Mina.
Speaker 4: Hi, I'm Victoria. How are you?
Speaker 2: Hi?
Speaker 6: Hi, I'm a little Kurfuse why are you guys calling me?
Speaker 4: Have you ever listened to the show before?
Speaker 6: I mean it's been a while, but I don't know
Speaker 6: why you guys are calling me.
Speaker 2: Well, we do a segment on the show called the
Speaker 2: First Date follow Up. That's where if you go on
Speaker 2: a date with somebody and then end up ghosting them,
Speaker 2: we call you and ask why. And we got an
Speaker 2: email about you from somebody.
Speaker 3: Oh really, are.
Speaker 5: You gusting somebody just a little bit?
Speaker 4: Is his name Ben?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: A little bit?
Speaker 2: Yeah, been emailed us and told us a little bit
Speaker 2: about your date. He also said he likes you a
Speaker 2: lot and he's confused why he's getting ghosted.
Speaker 4: Would you mind telling us?
Speaker 6: I don't know, very should It's okay, you can tell Yeah, okay,
Speaker 6: Well I am pretty sure.
Speaker 3: He was high lowing that up?
Speaker 4: Why do you think so?
Speaker 6: So we stopped by at his apartment and it really
Speaker 6: stink of weed, It really did.
Speaker 3: Okay, and he just looked so just couldn't connected.
Speaker 6: It was just like he was out and outer space
Speaker 6: and like couldn't talk to him. Like the whole entire date.
Speaker 6: It was just like couldn't get like full sentences from him.
Speaker 6: And you know, since we've known you to it for
Speaker 6: a long time, it's wholly opposite of who I really know.
Speaker 4: I mean, maybe he was kind of nervous.
Speaker 5: You know, some people like to take a shot before
Speaker 5: they go on a date and then maybe like that's
Speaker 5: not his jam, but like you just you know, like
Speaker 5: smoked a little bowl real quick.
Speaker 6: I really, but I just don't know Ben was a loser.
Speaker 2: Oh so you don't like that if he was stoned.
Speaker 6: Yeah, when it comes to Ben, like he just he's
Speaker 6: just not the same person. You know, he usually has
Speaker 6: like belongs and sage on our gate. It was just
Speaker 6: like yeah, yeah, uh, it's all right.
Speaker 4: You felt like you were talking to a wall, Yes,
Speaker 4: a big stone wall.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, well, thank you for telling us. Appreciate it.
Speaker 2: And now I'll let you know that Ben is actually
Speaker 2: on the phone listening and wants to talk to you.
Speaker 3: Oh you have a weed? You don't you have a
Speaker 3: problem with weed?
Speaker 4: How was your takeaway?
Speaker 3: I I do Oh yeah, I'm uh yeah, I'm baffled.
Speaker 3: But like what we're dope, It's like people.
Speaker 6: Don't weed, so you're high.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm high right now, I'm high afterward. Yeah, Like what, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm an adult. This is just what I do through
Speaker 3: to day. It's not everyone new I'm higher. It's not
Speaker 3: a problem, but I am high most of the time.
Speaker 6: You totally different from work and on our day.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's because there's work weed and then there's
Speaker 3: after work weed, and I it's so weird. I don't
Speaker 3: even think I didn't even do much anymore. Like no one,
Speaker 3: like no one ever. This is the first person I
Speaker 3: ever checked me on like, oh, yeah, you're high.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I don't know. I'm trying to follow you
Speaker 4: right now.
Speaker 3: Ben, I'm I only have a little bit flustered. This
Speaker 3: is not I cannot believe this is the problem. I
Speaker 3: thought this was like not just when we were in
Speaker 3: it to each other.
Speaker 6: You're just at the person I thought she walled. Well,
Speaker 6: we'll talk into a wall on our date.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, okay, that's that's okay, that's that's chilling me.
Speaker 3: I guess you know. I don't want this to be weird.
Speaker 3: Can we like still be friends? Like a are you
Speaker 3: like done? Well?
Speaker 2: Let me ask Riley, would you like to go on
Speaker 2: another date with Ben. We'll pay for it.
Speaker 6: I mean, I definitely don't want to go on a
Speaker 6: second date with Ben, but I'm cool with us being friends.
Speaker 3: Okay, We're gonna be friends. Like you want to come
Speaker 3: over and smoke lead and play some video games. This
Speaker 3: is what I do with all my other friends. No,
Speaker 3: I owned you that, but we can still be friends.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 4: Well, Ben, I'm sorry. No second date and no video games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, Well this embarrassing. I'm gonna have to
Speaker 3: go smoke some disapployment weed.
Speaker 4: Okay. Jubile's first date follow up