Speaker 1: Hey, Today's Awkward Tuesday is brought to you by things
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Speaker 1: It's work of Jeffrey and this is your second Day
Speaker 1: podcast And every Tuesday we do the Awkward Tuesday phone call.
Speaker 1: That's where if you have an awkward conversation you need
Speaker 1: to have, then you call us for help. So if
Speaker 1: you're new to it, I hope you enjoy. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: what do you see in the comments Alexis?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Vose Casitos said, Hi, guys, I love your podcast.
Speaker 3: Greetings from Argentina. I don't have proof, but I'm absolutely.
Speaker 1: Sure that you are not the ones from the photo.
Speaker 1: Maybe Brooke, I don't know that.
Speaker 4: I always think I'm like huge, They're like what, You're
Speaker 4: actually a normal looking guy.
Speaker 1: That's all us. And I always apologize Alexis is not
Speaker 1: in that photo. It's true because we took them like
Speaker 1: when she was only with us for what two or
Speaker 1: three months, so the pictures are kind of old. They're like, hey, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was still working coffee and I had to leave
Speaker 1: early from the photo shoot to go work a coffee shift.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so try to update those. But also I
Speaker 1: like my younger self as well, so there's filters we
Speaker 1: can put on. Worry, that's not the compliment, Sorry it is. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's get this full episode started brand new right now.
Speaker 5: They say you shouldn't eavesdrop on other people's conversations, but
Speaker 5: sometimes it's hard not to.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, dude, I live for it.
Speaker 5: For example, I remember back in twenty nineteen when Brooke
Speaker 5: flew into a rage after she overheard a sales rep
Speaker 5: describe her as quote middle class. Yes, it's a dark
Speaker 5: day in the buildings.
Speaker 1: They don't work here anymore, so you never.
Speaker 5: Know what someone's gonna say when they think no one
Speaker 5: else is listening. But that's what happened when one of
Speaker 5: our listeners overheard his employee say something at a bar,
Speaker 5: and because of what was said, it's turned into your
Speaker 5: new awkward Tuesday phone call.
Speaker 3: You're gonna hear it coming up next.
Speaker 2: It's awkward.
Speaker 3: It's Tuesday.
Speaker 2: It's awkward Tuesday phone call.
Speaker 3: It happens all the time.
Speaker 5: You think you have a solid first impression of someone, yeah,
Speaker 5: and then come to find out later that person is
Speaker 5: not what they seemed.
Speaker 1: Oh it like a bad way. Oh, Yeah.
Speaker 5: Like when Alexis first interviewed for the show, I one
Speaker 5: hundred percent thought she was sober that day, no idea
Speaker 5: that she was nursing a bad hangover. And when she
Speaker 5: went to the restroom halfway through, I didn't know she
Speaker 5: was pulling a truly out of her purse and shot
Speaker 5: gunning it in the stall just to power through the
Speaker 5: rest of the morning.
Speaker 1: Did you think that was a smell of her perfume?
Speaker 3: I thought, mango body blast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Wow, don't worry. Everyone else knew.
Speaker 5: Well, now we all do know the truth about Alexis
Speaker 5: and her questionable lifestyle, and it's something we can laugh about.
Speaker 1: Kind of one of the reasons I liked her.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but one of our listeners doesn't think he can
Speaker 5: laugh after he discovered the truth about somebody who works
Speaker 5: for him.
Speaker 3: Oh, and he needs our help with it. His name
Speaker 3: is Will. Will. Did you hire Alexis under false pretenses too?
Speaker 2: I wish I had, maybe.
Speaker 1: Oh, man, well, is this like an employee or like
Speaker 1: you hired someone to do work on your house that
Speaker 1: type of thing.
Speaker 2: Well, it's actually a nanny that we hired in Okay, Yes,
Speaker 2: it feels a little more personal, right because she spends
Speaker 2: so much time with my kids.
Speaker 1: Dude, we had a nanny issue early on. Really, oh
Speaker 1: my god, there was a medicine cabinet that was rated
Speaker 1: and she was never invited back again.
Speaker 3: And that's your man's you liked.
Speaker 1: It's wild though, because you're with them, you're right so
Speaker 1: intimately you know us.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, they're basically in our house. They're seeing all of
Speaker 2: our stuff, they're spending time with our kids. Like, we
Speaker 2: wanted to be able to trust this person. And uh,
Speaker 2: we hired her about six months ago because my wife
Speaker 2: was going back to work. And this is kind of silly,
Speaker 2: but we were very excited to hire her because she
Speaker 2: was British.
Speaker 1: So it felt like you were hiring Mary Poppins.
Speaker 3: This is that classic iconic role.
Speaker 5: Yeah, your children are going to grow up way smarter
Speaker 5: and more culture. You have a British maybe an accident, Yeah.
Speaker 2: And you know she did a great job, like the
Speaker 2: kids lover, she cooks and she cleaned.
Speaker 1: WHOA, that's crazy. Sorry, Usually nanny's won't even pick up.
Speaker 5: Let's let's slander all nannies broke just because you had
Speaker 5: one bad experience with one who stole your pills.
Speaker 1: A house cleaner and a nanny are usually two separate jobs,
Speaker 1: so to find someone who is also willing.
Speaker 5: To you struck gold at this one. Yeah, so where
Speaker 5: did the problem come up?
Speaker 2: Well, last week met the bar with some of my
Speaker 2: guy friends, just having a beer, and on the other
Speaker 2: us out of the bar, I see our nanny and
Speaker 2: she's taken down a pint with some girls that she knows,
Speaker 2: maybe her friends, I don't know. I hear her talking
Speaker 2: and she doesn't have a British accent at all.
Speaker 5: Well that's funny because when we get drunk, we talk
Speaker 5: in British accents.
Speaker 3: So there's a little bit of.
Speaker 1: A flip, That's what I'm saying, Jeff. Maybe she flips
Speaker 1: it to an American accent when she's drunk.
Speaker 5: Was it just one thing that you heard, or did
Speaker 5: you like stick around and hear her really have a
Speaker 5: full conversation.
Speaker 2: Actually yeah, At one point I got up and out
Speaker 2: of my seat and sat on the fist behind them
Speaker 2: so she couldn't see me, but I could like listen
Speaker 2: to them for a while, and she did not have
Speaker 2: a British accent.
Speaker 1: Wow, let's not share that part.
Speaker 4: Dad behind her and I asked, like the biggest question,
Speaker 4: like does it matter or is it going to change
Speaker 4: anything if you find out that she's not British.
Speaker 2: You know, at first I was like, oh, that's odd, weird,
Speaker 2: But then the more I think about it, she's lying
Speaker 2: about her accent, Like who knows what else she's lying
Speaker 2: to us about, Like maybe her entire resume is sake.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like obviously she did it to get a job. Yes,
Speaker 1: it works. When she makes your family beef Wellington? Does
Speaker 1: it taste.
Speaker 3: Likethentic British beef Wellington? You keep her?
Speaker 5: So at no point during the night did you ever
Speaker 5: like go up and confront her about it.
Speaker 2: I didn't confront her at the bar, but as I
Speaker 2: was leaving, we had to walk past her and her
Speaker 2: friend group, so I did make eye contact with her.
Speaker 1: She saw you, okay.
Speaker 2: I gave her a big, like exaggerated one of these
Speaker 2: like here.
Speaker 5: Oh you you were basically like I caught you.
Speaker 2: You know, I had a I had a couple and
Speaker 2: I was a little mad, you know.
Speaker 1: O wow, So wait, have you talked to your wife
Speaker 1: about this?
Speaker 2: No? I haven't even told her about this yet. I
Speaker 2: just think she would be like completely heartbroken and devastated.
Speaker 2: But you know, I just don't know what to do. Like,
Speaker 2: we're supposed to put one hundred percent trust in this woman.
Speaker 2: She's taken care of our kids, she's taking care of
Speaker 2: our house, and now the trust is broken.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so you're somebody who really cares about their kids
Speaker 5: and their welcome.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: Don't meet a lot of dads like you.
Speaker 5: But so, what what exactly are you looking to do
Speaker 5: with your awkward call here?
Speaker 2: Well, obviously I think I gave her the impression that
Speaker 2: I know she's lying, so I need to I think
Speaker 2: she needs to give my wife her resignation is what
Speaker 2: she needs to do. Wow, I'm not good, Like I've
Speaker 2: never had a fire anybody before. I'm not really good
Speaker 2: at like awkward job confrontations. So I don't really know
Speaker 2: how to approach this.
Speaker 1: It sounds like drunk you was real ready to do it. Yeah, so.
Speaker 2: I shouldn't be making any decisions with a few pints
Speaker 2: of men.
Speaker 5: Well, you may have come to the right place, because
Speaker 5: it sounds like Brooke has fired most of the people
Speaker 5: who've taken care of her children.
Speaker 1: I had one bad experience when my kid was like
Speaker 1: one years old. But you enjoyed firing personally, I was
Speaker 1: actually really upset about it. Yeah, it was really tricky.
Speaker 5: Okay, well, let's bring Brook to tears a second time
Speaker 5: by firing somebody else.
Speaker 3: But be quiet when you cry in the background. Okay, Brook,
Speaker 3: and we're.
Speaker 5: Gonna come back give you our advice to help you
Speaker 5: make your awkward Tuesday phone call to your fake British
Speaker 5: nanny and tell her she needs to resign.
Speaker 1: Hey, maybe fake, We don't know for sure. For sure,
Speaker 1: could have been.
Speaker 3: Taking an American accent.
Speaker 1: Yes, maybe she wanted to fit in with her friend
Speaker 1: group Joe.
Speaker 5: Okay, here, and maybe those pills in your cabinet ate themselves.
Speaker 3: We'll give you our advice right after this. Hold on,
Speaker 3: it's awkward. It's Tuesday.
Speaker 2: It's awkward Tuesday phone call.
Speaker 5: How do you tell your posh British nanny that you
Speaker 5: know she isn't really posh or British in any way? You,
Speaker 5: of course, turn to us, the least posh morning show.
Speaker 3: In all of the America.
Speaker 5: Does Our listener Will ran into his nanny out at
Speaker 5: the bar recently and saw her talking with some of
Speaker 5: her friends, got a little closer and realized that's not
Speaker 5: a British accent.
Speaker 3: She's using.
Speaker 5: Yeah, she sounds fully American, And it didn't stop. It
Speaker 5: kept on going until he realized she must have been
Speaker 5: lying about it the entire time.
Speaker 3: She's been working for his family.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like, what else is she lying about?
Speaker 3: If that's the case, A lot of concern.
Speaker 5: So he hasn't told his wife about it because she'd
Speaker 5: be completely crushed. Instead, he's hoping to avoid that heartache
Speaker 5: and just call his nanny directly right now on the
Speaker 5: show and encourage her to resign.
Speaker 1: Well maybe maybe. I mean the thing is, is I
Speaker 1: still think that there's a one percent chance that there's
Speaker 1: some sort of accent misunderstanding well excuse yeah, sure, sure.
Speaker 1: And the thing is, Jeff, you're gonna know immediately because
Speaker 1: we're gonna call for an unknown number, right, and she's
Speaker 1: either going to answer in a British Hello or an
Speaker 1: American Hello.
Speaker 4: Okay, if it's another accent that we don't even expect
Speaker 4: coming suddenly she's German, okay, it's impressed at that point.
Speaker 1: If she answers in a British Hello, then maybe there's
Speaker 1: a reason, right, and you just need to have an
Speaker 1: honest conversation about what you saw.
Speaker 3: She answers in the British hello, though it does throw
Speaker 3: the whole thing off. So Broke, what's your advice.
Speaker 1: We'll do exactly what I just said. Listen for that
Speaker 1: first hello.
Speaker 5: Okay, Will you're able to distinguish between an American and
Speaker 5: a British Hello.
Speaker 3: Yes, that'd be so funny.
Speaker 2: I think I can manage.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a big problem with that.
Speaker 3: But I know you were from Texas.
Speaker 2: I knew it.
Speaker 3: Will.
Speaker 5: I don't think we got your nanny's name in part one?
Speaker 5: What what's her name?
Speaker 2: Her name is Elsie?
Speaker 1: Elsie British?
Speaker 3: Okay, so here we go. That's our advice for you.
Speaker 2: Will.
Speaker 5: You can take what you want from it. But I'm
Speaker 5: gonna dial your nanny else you right now and hopefully
Speaker 5: she picks up the phone.
Speaker 3: Let's do it right, here goes nothing. Good luck, man,
Speaker 3: We're on your side no matter what.
Speaker 2: Hello, Elsie, it's Will Oh Hello Williams. Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: Top of the morning to you and to you as well.
Speaker 6: My apologies, I'm I was just in the lou having
Speaker 6: a a bo.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, you don't. You don't have to do this anymore.
Speaker 6: Sorry, Whatever are you talking about?
Speaker 2: The accent? I heard you just say hello, like clear
Speaker 2: as day American accent. You can drop the British things.
Speaker 6: Bullops, what effort do you mean?
Speaker 2: Look, Elsie, you know I was at the bar the
Speaker 2: other night, right, Oh oh yes.
Speaker 6: I recall we crossed pass at the pub.
Speaker 2: Yeah, at the pub. Well, I want to talk to you.
Speaker 2: You didn't see me, and I was listening to you
Speaker 2: talk for a long time in a normal American accent
Speaker 2: with your girlfriends or whoever they were, so I know
Speaker 2: what you're doing.
Speaker 6: Oh that that's been a trifle of a game. We
Speaker 6: were playing hook like a yank.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, listen, it sounded like a game inside of
Speaker 2: like normal girl time. I don't have time for this.
Speaker 2: You've obviously pulled one over on myself and my family
Speaker 2: for a half a year now, and I'm just like,
Speaker 2: I'm just shocked and I'm disappointed, and I'm trying to
Speaker 2: figure out, like why you would do this to us.
Speaker 6: You don't understand.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give you one more chance. Just just tell
Speaker 2: me the truth. Otherwise I'm hanging up the phone and
Speaker 2: I'm telling my wife what's going on.
Speaker 6: Okay, Well, I'm not really British.
Speaker 2: I'm from Ohio, there it is there, finally the truth.
Speaker 6: Look, I'm I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: What, like, what the hell were you thinking?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: Did you not think that I wouldn't find out, that
Speaker 2: we wouldn't find out that anybody wouldn't tick up on
Speaker 2: this at any point? You think you could just do
Speaker 2: it forever?
Speaker 6: I don't know, thinking about it and things kind of
Speaker 6: spun out of control.
Speaker 2: What were you slipping back into it again? What are
Speaker 2: you doing?
Speaker 6: Well, it's just this has been you don't know this,
Speaker 6: but it's it's been really difficult for me. I mean
Speaker 6: I've been doing this for six months and it hasn't
Speaker 6: been easy. You know, every time before work I I
Speaker 6: google British slang and oh my, figure out how to
Speaker 6: make crumpets I don't even like tea, microwaving it for
Speaker 6: show and then dumping it in the sink when you leave.
Speaker 2: Elsie what you don't even have to do? Why were
Speaker 2: you even doing any of that first place?
Speaker 6: Actually, well, my name is Kelsey, but I thought Elsie
Speaker 6: sounded more British.
Speaker 2: Right, Okay, this is this is worse than I thought.
Speaker 6: Well, and if I'm being honest, I've never even seen
Speaker 6: Harry Potter. I just given the Wikipedia plot summaries.
Speaker 2: Why why, why why would you do this?
Speaker 6: I don't know why. Just the job market hasn't been
Speaker 6: great and I found out you get paid well as
Speaker 6: a nanny, and very well if you're a British nanny.
Speaker 6: So just kind of went with it.
Speaker 2: Elsie. I mean, Chelsea, you mustn't have known this wasn't
Speaker 2: going to end. Well, you know, we can't continue to
Speaker 2: employ you.
Speaker 6: No, tell the children Mary Popkin got supported. How dreadful?
Speaker 4: God?
Speaker 2: Who's this?
Speaker 5: Okay, we've been listening to this phone call.
Speaker 3: You're on a radio show called Broken Jeffrey in the Morning.
Speaker 6: Well, who are these people?
Speaker 2: What is this? The radio? The radio station? They're helping
Speaker 2: me out because I didn't know how to bring this
Speaker 2: up with you because the situation is so insane.
Speaker 6: Really at least, look, I'm good with the kids in
Speaker 6: their homework. You know, I'm a good nanny. It's gonna
Speaker 6: be hard to find someone who replaced me. I'm pretty
Speaker 6: good at my job. The kids really like me.
Speaker 4: I mean, there were no complaints about your performance, right,
Speaker 4: it was just the accent.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's the principle of the matter that you've been
Speaker 2: lying to us and to my kids.
Speaker 5: I think it's a matter of trust at this point, Chelsea,
Speaker 5: where you've broken this family's trust, And how are they
Speaker 5: supposed to allow their kids around you if you're never
Speaker 5: telling the truth.
Speaker 6: Well, a really important lesson to teach children is forgiveness.
Speaker 2: So I think that.
Speaker 6: This could work.
Speaker 3: You are You're really good at spinning things.
Speaker 1: You are false identities.
Speaker 5: Look, Chelsea, the whole reason that Will wanted to do
Speaker 5: it this way was because he didn't want to create
Speaker 5: a scene in front of his wife. He didn't think
Speaker 5: that was fair to his family and his kids. He
Speaker 5: thinks the right way to go about it is for
Speaker 5: you to hand in your resignation.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean that would be the least friction.
Speaker 1: And that poor mother is so stressed out already. She's
Speaker 1: back to work, she's got kids at home. Like she
Speaker 1: needs less stress, not more, and make it as smooth
Speaker 1: as possible.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just I'm gonna have to let you go.
Speaker 2: Oh no, Elsie, drop it. I'm trying to talk to you.
Speaker 3: Bring back Chelsea.
Speaker 6: Chelsea needs to hear this, Chelsea, Gee, please just give
Speaker 6: me one more chance. I mean, we could do something
Speaker 6: like maybe I'm taking American accent classes. Maybe we like
Speaker 6: slowly phase out my accent.
Speaker 1: The children on top of all the.
Speaker 3: Lives already such a common thing that all British people
Speaker 3: want to do well.
Speaker 6: It just feels ridiculous that you're willing to fire me
Speaker 6: over an accent when everything else is so great.
Speaker 3: I think it's the long term implications of it. But
Speaker 3: will it's really up to you at this point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I won't even bring up the accent thing.
Speaker 2: We'll just say that you were there was an accident,
Speaker 2: like you were driving on the wrong side of the
Speaker 2: road or something, and you can't.
Speaker 6: Come to work.
Speaker 1: Don't kill the nanny.
Speaker 6: Well, you've heard of people who's getting an accent and
Speaker 6: then they speak in a different dialect when they wake
Speaker 6: up from their coma. It's brilliant.
Speaker 3: She really likes working for this family.
Speaker 2: We're not living in a We're not living in a
Speaker 2: movie here. Okay, that's not happening. All right, Well we'll
Speaker 2: figure this out.
Speaker 5: Okay, you're you're at work with this family, Chelsea. But
Speaker 5: I'm sure there's another family who would be happy to
Speaker 5: have Elsie and learn all of her British family.
Speaker 1: Jeffrey in the morning.
Speaker 5: I know the group was a little shocked, maybe critical
Speaker 5: of how William wanted to let his wife know the
Speaker 5: British nanny wouldn't be coming over anymore. But you got
Speaker 5: admit it was a little clever that she's from England
Speaker 5: and she's driving on the wrong side of the road
Speaker 5: over here.
Speaker 3: That was well thought out on his part.
Speaker 1: He was joking, I hope.
Speaker 3: I mean, if he was, then great funny.
Speaker 1: He's got to tell his wife the whole story. Marriages exist.
Speaker 5: I think, just wash your hands of it, no hurt feelings,
Speaker 5: stretch the truth one last time and then you're done.
Speaker 3: She died anyway, what's for dinner? Yeah, no issues?
Speaker 5: I mean, come on, he doesn't want to break his
Speaker 5: family's hearts and the idea of the super nanny.
Speaker 1: It's more heartbreaking for someone to die than to be
Speaker 1: like so she goes to the same bar as them.
Speaker 1: How you're standing up for that idea?
Speaker 3: I am very different definitions of heartbreaking.
Speaker 1: But you know what strange man, If you're listening right.
Speaker 5: Now and you have a British nanny that you suspect
Speaker 5: is a fraud, reach out to us because now we
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Speaker 1: That's the next new TLC show.
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