Speaker 1: Oh man, do we have a new episode for you today.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Brook and Joe Free Second Date Podcast.
Speaker 1: And it is Tuesday, which means your awkward conversation is
Speaker 1: coming up. And I just have a feeling we are
Speaker 1: going to have some listeners deep diving into TikTok after
Speaker 1: they hear this one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm saying, like investigating for you.
Speaker 1: Sure you're going to be scrolling just waiting. Yeah this person, Yes,
Speaker 1: for sure, for sure. But before we get to it,
Speaker 1: let's highlight some of these comments.
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Speaker 2: All right, let's get to your brand new episode right now.
Speaker 4: If you tune into this show for shocking moments, you
Speaker 4: definitely won't be disappointed. Today when we have a couple
Speaker 4: on We're trying to nonavigate a complicated relationship roadbump, and
Speaker 4: then out of nowhere, one of the biggest lies ever
Speaker 4: gets brought to the surface. I'm guessing you're going to
Speaker 4: be just as blindsided as we were. And you know,
Speaker 4: I'm always down for a good blind siding as long
Speaker 4: as I have something to bite down on a blind phone.
Speaker 4: It's happening if you're ready for it or not. In
Speaker 4: your brand new awkward Tuesday phone call.
Speaker 5: Next, it's awkward.
Speaker 2: It's Tuesday.
Speaker 5: It's awkward Tuesday phone call.
Speaker 4: Experts have ranked the most difficult professions to date. Oh
Speaker 4: and up near the top, you've got musicians, bartenders. Oh
Speaker 4: and of course the combo bartending musicians.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean draft to be fair, they're easy to date.
Speaker 2: They're just well not great. It's impressive ramification.
Speaker 4: Because they're so booked out for weddings. That's why I mean.
Speaker 4: But also say beware of dating doctors. And despite all
Speaker 4: the warnings, one of our listeners, Melanie, decided to do
Speaker 4: that anyway, locked her up a doctor and now she's
Speaker 4: asking for our help. Sounds like a code blue if
Speaker 4: I ever heard one.
Speaker 1: But Melanie, you definitely went to med school job, or
Speaker 1: it's such a passive aggressive brag, like, oh help me,
Speaker 1: I'm dating a doctor.
Speaker 4: You will see, Melanie. Everything that I know about doctors
Speaker 4: I've learned from watching dark web YouTube, so I feel
Speaker 4: pretty qualified to handle this.
Speaker 1: There are so many hospital shows that aren't on the
Speaker 1: dark Web.
Speaker 4: You can't learn anything from those. Welcome to the show, Melanie,
Speaker 4: I thank you for having me.
Speaker 2: Okay, how did you meet your doctor?
Speaker 6: He actually started following me on TikTok Oh. Yeah, I
Speaker 6: mean he was really cute and we were just kind
Speaker 6: of chatting for.
Speaker 7: A bit online and we realized we were in the
Speaker 7: same city.
Speaker 6: So we started talking about possibly.
Speaker 8: Meeting up right.
Speaker 4: So, what's the name of this handsome doctor that we're
Speaker 4: talking to?
Speaker 8: His name is Luke, Doctor Luke Okay.
Speaker 2: Kind of TikTok handle dude, Luke's are always hot.
Speaker 4: Did you guys end up going out?
Speaker 7: Yeah, we ended up grabbing drinks one night and it
Speaker 7: was like really good.
Speaker 6: But the disappointing thing was that.
Speaker 7: He had told me he had been looking.
Speaker 6: To transfer to a different hospital at a different city, So
Speaker 6: it was like such a bummer.
Speaker 2: I mean that makes sense.
Speaker 1: I know medical people often change move find a better opportunity.
Speaker 4: How do you feel about him moving cities? About like
Speaker 4: that possibility?
Speaker 7: So that's like the big question while I'm kind of
Speaker 7: talking to you guys, because it's like even from the jump,
Speaker 7: like why am I getting involved.
Speaker 6: With a guy who's trying to leave?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 6: But then it's not like I meet like a ton
Speaker 6: of handsome doctors all the time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like handsome doctors dot com would be
Speaker 4: a good place to stop just on that mark.
Speaker 2: Interesting, I didn't know that was one. Is that next?
Speaker 4: And muscular doctors don't give away all of my secrets
Speaker 4: taking away all my prospects.
Speaker 6: So after those drinks, like we haven't seen each other
Speaker 6: for a few months.
Speaker 4: Okay, so you continue.
Speaker 6: We did, and I don't want to be selfish and
Speaker 6: then like ask him to stay for me, But I
Speaker 6: think I just want to know is it worth fighting.
Speaker 7: For because we have a strong connection, Like is.
Speaker 1: There a window where he could possibly have that on
Speaker 1: his mind as well?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean he's looking at a job in Philadelphia, so.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm kidding. You feel like he's like leaning towards
Speaker 4: one way or the other.
Speaker 6: Well, I'm not sure, Like I do feel like we
Speaker 6: have a really strong connection and it's grown a lot
Speaker 6: since we.
Speaker 7: Met, But I can't. I'm not going to ask him
Speaker 7: to give up his life for me necessarily just early
Speaker 7: and like vice versa. So it's a weird situation.
Speaker 2: What are you wanting to ask him? What do you
Speaker 2: want him to talk about?
Speaker 7: Well, I want him to know that I'm willing to
Speaker 7: fight for this, So I want to put it out there.
Speaker 1: Okay, you want to put it out there that you
Speaker 1: think this relationship is worth a.
Speaker 4: Shot and that he shouldn't leave, or.
Speaker 2: That you do long distance.
Speaker 3: That's what I was gonna ask I got an option
Speaker 3: or is that?
Speaker 7: Yeah? I mean long distance sucks, but I'm open to
Speaker 7: trying to make it work until we can figure out
Speaker 7: a different solution.
Speaker 4: So if we're going to give you advice, how like
Speaker 4: serious is your relationship right now?
Speaker 5: Right now?
Speaker 2: Are you official or exclusive?
Speaker 5: Yeah? There it is, that's the question in my mind.
Speaker 6: We are, Like I feel like I'm doing a lot.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 7: He has crazy hours, like sometimes like sixteen hours straight.
Speaker 6: So I meet him outside the hospital after a shift, or.
Speaker 7: I would offer to take him out to dinner and
Speaker 7: he'd be falling asleep at the table, you know, and
Speaker 7: I'd offer to bring him back to my place and
Speaker 7: just let him nap. Wow, so I unders damn Now
Speaker 7: why it's so hard to date someone that works in
Speaker 7: the healthcare industry and they're asked to do so.
Speaker 2: Much, especially when they're at a hospital. Oh yeah, Oh
Speaker 2: my god.
Speaker 1: My best friend was an your nurse and she would
Speaker 1: literally should do the eight shifts in a row and
Speaker 1: then she'd just sleep for three days.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it's brutal out there, and good for you
Speaker 4: for wanting to attach yourself to someone who's living that lifestyle, Melanie.
Speaker 4: But no, that's let's call him.
Speaker 5: And wake him up attention.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll see if it even works. We'll find out
Speaker 4: what he has to say. We'll come back, give you
Speaker 4: our advice, and let you make your awkward Tuesday phone
Speaker 4: call to convince your handsome doctor boyfriend not to move
Speaker 4: to Philadelphia.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know if they're using that title yet.
Speaker 4: Okay, you're handsome doctor situationship then yeah, I mean.
Speaker 6: He's my boyfriend as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 4: Okay, whatever it is, we're going to let you make
Speaker 4: your awkward call to him right after this hold on
Speaker 4: It's awkward.
Speaker 5: It's Tuesday. It's awkward Tuesday phone call.
Speaker 4: We're on the phone with our listener, Melanie, who Brooke
Speaker 4: told me during the break she's super jealous of real
Speaker 4: and I mean, it's understandable.
Speaker 2: Why did I say that?
Speaker 4: Is because Melanie obviously is involved with a very handsome,
Speaker 4: successful doctor and the relationship is still pretty new. Ish
Speaker 4: only been dating a couple months, and she kind of
Speaker 4: caught him at a weird time in his life when
Speaker 4: he's considering moving hospitals and heading to a whole new city,
Speaker 4: same city where Fresh Prints got beat up on the
Speaker 4: playground while shooting hoops. But Melanie wants to fight for him,
Speaker 4: and so she's trying to figure out how do I
Speaker 4: tell him that I really want this relationship to work
Speaker 4: when they're only two months in.
Speaker 2: I'm still curious why I'm jealous. I don't really that's
Speaker 2: a question.
Speaker 4: You need to look in the mirror and ask yourself, Brooke,
Speaker 4: But what advice do you have for Melanie? And try
Speaker 4: not to let your raging jealousy get in the way.
Speaker 4: Go ahead.
Speaker 2: She's actually really excited for Melanie.
Speaker 1: Okay, listen, I think the easiest way to lock down
Speaker 1: a guy because that's ultimately what you want to do, right,
Speaker 1: and the best way to do that is take.
Speaker 2: Him on an incredible vacation.
Speaker 9: Oh.
Speaker 1: I mean it doesn't even have to be expensive, Melanie.
Speaker 1: It just needs to be romantic. You need to be
Speaker 1: in a bikini.
Speaker 8: Way to do it.
Speaker 2: Dude, it's so good. You'll come away, He'll come away,
Speaker 2: and you'd be like, we have to do this, this
Speaker 2: is magic, Jose.
Speaker 4: What do you think you have to just work in?
Speaker 5: Naturally? How bad you feel for him?
Speaker 4: Because moving sucks, you know, like you got to change
Speaker 4: your ID, You're gonna have.
Speaker 8: To hire all these movies, You're gonna leave all your
Speaker 8: friends and family behind.
Speaker 5: It's just so much easier to stay right.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, what do you think? What do you think
Speaker 4: about saying how bad you feel for him?
Speaker 5: Melanie?
Speaker 7: I mean I do feel for him and having to move,
Speaker 7: you know, start over.
Speaker 2: Point out that he won't have anyone in the new.
Speaker 1: City to breathe in food at the end of his
Speaker 1: shift or take naps with.
Speaker 4: There you go, no.
Speaker 2: Challenge him to find someone new.
Speaker 4: Okay, So there you go. Those are your two options.
Speaker 4: Build rapport in a bikini.
Speaker 2: That's a winner.
Speaker 4: I'm telling you, or say how sorry you feel for him. Yeah,
Speaker 4: whatever bits of our advice you want to use or
Speaker 4: not use, that's up to you, Melanie. But I'm gonna
Speaker 4: dial Luke, your boyfriend and let you make your awkward
Speaker 4: Tuesday phone call. You ready, Yeah?
Speaker 6: I think so. I'm a little nervous.
Speaker 4: It's only the rest of your life that's on the line.
Speaker 4: Here we go?
Speaker 2: Or is it just a flash in the pan? Who knows?
Speaker 4: You know? Yea, So here we go.
Speaker 8: Hello.
Speaker 6: Hey, it's me.
Speaker 5: Hey, how you doing.
Speaker 7: I'm doing okay?
Speaker 8: How are you doing? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I'm fine. You know,
Speaker 8: I'm just tired, a little busy. Hey, have you seen
Speaker 8: my sandwich punch card? It's not my wallet. If I
Speaker 8: get one more, i'm gonna re meet ball sub so.
Speaker 5: Let me know.
Speaker 6: No, I haven't which shop is it.
Speaker 8: It's just for some random subshop. I thought I left
Speaker 8: it at your place. Never mind.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, if I see it, I'll definitely let you know.
Speaker 6: But the reason that I'm calling today is that I've
Speaker 6: just been kind of thinking about, you know, your whole situation,
Speaker 6: and I.
Speaker 7: Just kind of feel really bad that like you're going
Speaker 7: to have to start over and it's going to be
Speaker 7: hard to move.
Speaker 6: And you have to get a new ID, like you know,
Speaker 6: oh the moves.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I haven't decided yet.
Speaker 6: Oh okay, I mean that's that's great because I was
Speaker 6: I was going to say that the past two months
Speaker 6: have been so much fun and I hope they have
Speaker 6: been for you too.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, they've they've been great.
Speaker 6: Okay, I don't know how to read that, but I
Speaker 6: wanted you to know how I feel. I can tell
Speaker 6: that you know, you've been trying to protect me and
Speaker 6: like some of the times we've hung out, like when
Speaker 6: I've invited you over to my parents, you know, like
Speaker 6: you obviously didn't want to complicate things and like meet them,
Speaker 6: and I totally get that.
Speaker 8: Well, I don't know if it's like that.
Speaker 6: But I look, I understand, Like I just okay, I
Speaker 6: do have to ask you.
Speaker 7: My dad's got this hip problem and it's just just different.
Speaker 6: But I'm hoping you can maybe look at it real quick,
Speaker 6: because like you deal with that type of thing.
Speaker 8: I don't think i'd be the best person for that.
Speaker 6: What are you talking about. I'm literally just asking you
Speaker 6: to help me with my family for just like a second.
Speaker 6: It's something you're trained in Melanie, listen, No, you listen
Speaker 6: to me.
Speaker 7: I've been basically taking care of.
Speaker 6: You the past couple of months, meeting you after your ships.
Speaker 6: I've been making dinner, letting crash in my place.
Speaker 7: Like I've been there for you, and you can't just
Speaker 7: do this one thing for me.
Speaker 8: Well, this is difficult.
Speaker 6: What's difficult?
Speaker 8: Uh? This is getting a little intense. I don't really
Speaker 8: like this. I don't think we should see each other anymore.
Speaker 7: What you can't just like throw that out there in
Speaker 7: the middle of a conversation. Is this like because of
Speaker 7: the move? And what is this about?
Speaker 6: You?
Speaker 8: Just tell me it's it's not you. I just this
Speaker 8: is a lot and you deserve better.
Speaker 7: Yeah, better than what a good looking doctor?
Speaker 8: No, you deserve a real doctor, because I'm not one.
Speaker 8: What you just said? What is this doctor?
Speaker 6: What are you talking about?
Speaker 2: I think he probably wants to know what you're talking about.
Speaker 4: First. Here, Melody, so Luke, I don't know if you
Speaker 4: can hear us, but we're a radio show called Brook
Speaker 4: and Jeffrey in the Morning.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 8: I don't know what this is, but I don't want
Speaker 8: to be on some radio gotcha show.
Speaker 2: Trying to help her get him.
Speaker 4: It's called the awkward Tuesday phone call. Melanie is a listener,
Speaker 4: and she told us about this kind of complicated situation
Speaker 4: that you're in with your job and your relationship. She
Speaker 4: was trying to hopefully convince you that there is more
Speaker 4: to pursue.
Speaker 2: You know, what do you mean?
Speaker 5: Not real doctor, Melanie?
Speaker 8: You you set me up without telling me. You lied
Speaker 8: to me just to get me on some on some show.
Speaker 7: I like, you just told me that you're not a
Speaker 7: real doctors?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 7: Who are?
Speaker 8: Which is this? Calm just calm down, all right, just.
Speaker 7: To calm down. How many times did we FaceTime when
Speaker 7: you were leaving the hospital at nights in your scrubs?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right?
Speaker 8: Yeah? I h I do that? You do?
Speaker 2: What? What do you do?
Speaker 8: Luke? I? I use that as a lie. Use Look,
Speaker 8: I'm sorry that you had to find out like this,
Speaker 8: but it was just to keep up appearances.
Speaker 7: No way, wait hospital, are you being serious right now?
Speaker 8: I'm not proud of it. Okay, I'm not, but I
Speaker 8: say I'm a doctor to meet women.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, it's like stolen valor regular people.
Speaker 1: Are you like at least a nurses assistant or something,
Speaker 1: like going for sixteen hour shifts.
Speaker 4: You're on a.
Speaker 2: Janitor even at the hospital.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what do you do?
Speaker 8: I work in door dash Okay, door dash doordas driver? Yes,
Speaker 8: door dash driver.
Speaker 7: Your entire TikTok where you message me is a.
Speaker 6: Ton of information of you as a doctor.
Speaker 9: Oh my what dude, that's why you can't follow these
Speaker 9: TikTok doctors. Alexis okay reading TikTok for you could be
Speaker 9: anything you want to be on TikTok.
Speaker 8: So look, I don't want to talk about this, Okay,
Speaker 8: you have to We have been.
Speaker 6: Dating for two months.
Speaker 1: Oh oh man, that is so low, Luke, why would
Speaker 1: you like better Philly?
Speaker 3: Why do you have to move to.
Speaker 1: My guess is he's just trying to get out of
Speaker 1: the relationship before she finds out that he's a doctor.
Speaker 2: You guys are moving.
Speaker 5: Then, or it was just a lie.
Speaker 8: If it gets too serious after a month or two,
Speaker 8: I tell them I need to leave the city and
Speaker 8: take a different job.
Speaker 7: So wasted my time.
Speaker 2: Dude.
Speaker 1: You're going to deliver to one of these women at
Speaker 1: some point, and it's going to be an awkward delivery.
Speaker 4: Okay. It's times like this, Melanie that I try to
Speaker 4: look on the bright side. At least he didn't try
Speaker 4: to diagnose your dad's hip issue.
Speaker 2: I was going to say, the only side is he's
Speaker 2: a hot delivery driver.
Speaker 6: I don't even know what to say.
Speaker 7: I'm so shocked and disappointed in you, Luke. You have
Speaker 7: completely wasted my time.
Speaker 8: Listen, Listen. All I'm going to say is I don't
Speaker 8: want to be on the radio.
Speaker 6: But oh yeah, too bad.
Speaker 8: You deserve better than me.
Speaker 7: Yeah, no, I definitely deserve better than you. I'm like,
Speaker 7: I am shocked you, guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't blame you.
Speaker 5: Wait are you not?
Speaker 6: Of course not.
Speaker 1: You just lied to for two months about what it
Speaker 1: does as a profession.
Speaker 2: How Gary ever come back from that like there is
Speaker 2: zero respect there.
Speaker 6: I don't trust this guy at all.
Speaker 4: Maybe if he gets that free meatball sub then we
Speaker 4: can talk after.
Speaker 1: I mean, the thing is, Luke, like you could have
Speaker 1: just been yourself and maybe you would have had a
Speaker 1: chance with her.
Speaker 8: Listen. I don't have to explain anything to you, guys. Okay,
Speaker 8: I've pulled plenty of women as a doctor, and I'm
Speaker 8: telling you it just works. Okay, And I FaceTime myself
Speaker 8: outside of a hospital. It's pretty easy to pull off.
Speaker 4: It works much short to say that.
Speaker 5: The nice guys finished last.
Speaker 8: Yeah, well I'm not single. For your information, I'm dating
Speaker 8: like fifteen women.
Speaker 2: My god, I hope they hear this. Yeah, exhausted Conn.
Speaker 4: In the morning, Brook's still waiting for you to apologize
Speaker 4: and admit you were wrong there. So about what you
Speaker 4: scoffed at me when I talked about internet doctors from
Speaker 4: the dark Web making videos and having no actual proof.
Speaker 4: Turns out he was one of them all along.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 1: I scoffed to you because I didn't want to know
Speaker 1: about your Internet habits, Jeff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and if only you would not scoffed, we could
Speaker 4: have gotten to the bottom of this before she got
Speaker 4: hurt off off.
Speaker 1: Her algorithm is not the same as yours. I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna let you know. This is not a doctor who's
Speaker 1: slid into yours before.
Speaker 4: That is fair. It's a little bit different, but it
Speaker 4: is the classic I'm not a doctor, but I play
Speaker 4: one on TikTok situation. Yeah, and you know what, we're
Speaker 4: definitely not doctors, but we will try to diagnose your
Speaker 4: personal problems if you have them, and give you our
Speaker 4: advice on all the awkward Tuesday phone calls, which you
Speaker 4: can find. They're up on the Dark web platform, whichever
Speaker 4: one you go to. To get your podcasts, YE just
Speaker 4: look up Brook and Jeffrey in the Morning.