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Speaker 1: favorite store. Second data date. When you're picking a restaurant
Speaker 1: for a first date, what criteria do you tend to
Speaker 1: look for? Depends on the date? No fluorescent lighting? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, are you looking for a place with a
Speaker 1: nice atmosphere in romantic setting? Do you look for a
Speaker 1: spot that does live music and entertainment? Do you look
Speaker 1: for someplace that has a dollar menu and toys with
Speaker 1: the met depends on the person, right. I saw two
Speaker 1: seven year olds in big wheels pulling through the drive
Speaker 1: through the other day. Hope they go out again. But
Speaker 1: it's different for everybody. And one of our listeners, Matthew,
Speaker 1: sent us an email asking for help, and in it
Speaker 1: he said he has a very unique and genius way
Speaker 1: of choosing where to take his dates. So I'm excited
Speaker 1: to hear it. Maybe learn something useful. Matthew. Welcome to
Speaker 1: the show. My friend, Hey, guys, thanks for having me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll get to your date strategy in just a second,
Speaker 1: but first, tell us about who we're going to be
Speaker 1: calling today and where'd you meet her. We're calling Julia
Speaker 1: and we met on the dating app Hinge. Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: not familiar with that one. My favorite one? That's your favorite?
Speaker 1: You like it more than bumble? Okay. You can see
Speaker 1: the most personality in people, it's not just pictures. Okay.
Speaker 1: How do you put your personality onto a dating and
Speaker 1: you like personality? Well, I could see if they're boring. Okay, Matthew,
Speaker 1: what do you think? Why do you like Hinge? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Now I agree with her. That's the reason I like
Speaker 1: it is because it makes you answer questions about yourself,
Speaker 1: so you can kind of tell a lot more about
Speaker 1: a person, I think than some of the other apps. Okay,
Speaker 1: and what could you tell about Julia? Well, one fun
Speaker 1: thing is that they make you do three truths and
Speaker 1: a lie. And I knew her lie right away. It
Speaker 1: said her favorite animal was a peacock, which is nonsense.
Speaker 1: That's nobody's favorite animal. I didn't know. They're beautiful, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they are beautiful, But name one person you know that's
Speaker 1: their favorite animal. I don't think I questioned people enough
Speaker 1: on that one. I'm not skeptical when I asked somebody,
Speaker 1: what's your favorite animal and they say gorilla? Oh, you liar.
Speaker 1: You were right though Julia's Julia hates peacocks or something.
Speaker 1: It's not that she hates him, but that was her life.
Speaker 1: It was not her favorite animal. I mean, that's a
Speaker 1: good start to your relationship if you're already able to
Speaker 1: call her on her bs exactly. I mean, obviously you
Speaker 1: guys started off with a good connection. What did you
Speaker 1: guys end up doing for your date? We met at
Speaker 1: a restaurant, at Greek restaurant to have dinner, okay, and
Speaker 1: how did you choose that place? Because you said you
Speaker 1: have a unique way of choosing Yeah, yes, I do
Speaker 1: have a unique way of picking a restaurant, And sadly,
Speaker 1: I think maybe this was my downfall with her. One
Speaker 1: thing I do is I wait until the restaurant has
Speaker 1: experienced like a problem like a public fluid born illness
Speaker 1: or something. What No, just hear me out. Hear me out, Okay,
Speaker 1: I wait because then afterward, One, the lines are always
Speaker 1: shorter for a reason. Yeah, right, But two, the kitchen
Speaker 1: is going to be immaculate and on their best behavior
Speaker 1: because they just got in trouble because you hope. But
Speaker 1: that's why restaurants get shut down all the time. You
Speaker 1: get warning, they get war, and then they don't follow
Speaker 1: up on the warnings, and then they get shut down
Speaker 1: by the health department. Well, yeah, I don't go when
Speaker 1: they are shut down, though. I wait until they're cleared
Speaker 1: and reopened, and then I go, oh, yeah, you see it,
Speaker 1: but you said it maybe your downfall. Please tell me
Speaker 1: this didn't backfire for Juliet. Is there like a big
Speaker 1: f on the front door before you walked in from
Speaker 1: the health department. Now they had a passing grade, which
Speaker 1: I thought was good on a roll. Oh passing grade.
Speaker 1: This place isn't good enough. What happened? What went wrong? Well,
Speaker 1: they brought out our entrees and then it came up
Speaker 1: like how did I pick this place? Because we were
Speaker 1: having a nice time? So you told her? I did?
Speaker 1: I told her, Yeah, I won't get a restaurant that
Speaker 1: had like mice run on the food line. We didn't
Speaker 1: even get shut down. How to get shut down? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Did you want to know the name of that restaurant?
Speaker 1: Just in case the second day. Yeah, you can get
Speaker 1: that to me off the air one Alexis write it
Speaker 1: down for you. That's a lot of information to give
Speaker 1: Julia on a first date. You know, not only is
Speaker 1: she now scared to eat the food? Had you already
Speaker 1: eaten at that point or had you not? We were
Speaker 1: in mid meal when it came up, and I should
Speaker 1: have thought twice about it. It It just kind of happened naturally. Yeah,
Speaker 1: did she stop eating? She did flow down pretty hard, yes, okay,
Speaker 1: oh man, And then I'd just be sitting there scared, like,
Speaker 1: am I gonna get food? Pois starting And it's not
Speaker 1: that you're cheap because it's like the same price. Well no, actually,
Speaker 1: I mean, to be fair, they had slashed the prices
Speaker 1: a little bit to get people in the door. Were
Speaker 1: you able to get the date back on track after
Speaker 1: revealing that to her? I mean, we changed the subject
Speaker 1: and I thought we had a good time, But at
Speaker 1: the end of the night she got into her uber
Speaker 1: and she kind of lept in a hurry. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: mean you could see where that'd be a red flag.
Speaker 1: I mean, you obviously know that maybe you shouldn't have
Speaker 1: brought that up on the first date. I mean, I
Speaker 1: get sold. But we did have immaculate and exceptional service.
Speaker 1: We had like three waiters at our table basically the
Speaker 1: whole time. There was nothing else for them to do.
Speaker 1: They had nothing to do. Yeah, no one else was there.
Speaker 1: There may be a reason. Yeah, I don't know. It
Speaker 1: could be something else. So that's why I was calling
Speaker 1: you guys. I was hoping we could find it out
Speaker 1: and maybe you guys could help me get an answer
Speaker 1: from her. I feel like this is more of a
Speaker 1: health and welfare check. Yeah, who knows. She made gotten
Speaker 1: something and that's why she left. How you guys gonna
Speaker 1: be shocked. And we call her and she's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I loved the chief discounted Greek food. That wasn't it
Speaker 1: at all. I'm gonna be shocked. We'll find out. Let's
Speaker 1: play a song, we'll come back. We'll call Julia for you,
Speaker 1: and we're trying to get you a second date up
Speaker 1: to date. All right, great, thank you so much. Good.
Speaker 1: If you go to a restaurant and you see a
Speaker 1: little sign up in the window giving it a D rating,
Speaker 1: remember that D stands for date worthy equals diploma too.
Speaker 1: That's right, you're going to pass at least it does
Speaker 1: for one of our listeners, Matthew. He recently went up
Speaker 1: with a woman named Julia and took her out for dinner,
Speaker 1: and in the middle of the meal, he told her
Speaker 1: about his unique method for choosing where to eat. He
Speaker 1: purposely seeks out places that have been shut down recently
Speaker 1: for health violations, because when they reopen, they have no
Speaker 1: weight time, the chefs in the kitchen are on their
Speaker 1: best behavior, and the food is sometimes even offered at
Speaker 1: a discount. Yeah. After sharing all that in formation with Julia,
Speaker 1: she kind of lost her appetite and ended up leaving
Speaker 1: shortly afterwards. So now he's reached out to us asking
Speaker 1: for help. And I'm wondering, Matthew, did you ask our
Speaker 1: morning show for help because we have a D safety
Speaker 1: rating and we just reopened. Well, you guys did say
Speaker 1: that D stands for diploma but also for delicious, Right, Okay,
Speaker 1: there we go. Don't but you know, I actually think
Speaker 1: that this could work out for you because we are
Speaker 1: her security blanket because we will give you, guys a
Speaker 1: date at a restaurant that has a good rating with
Speaker 1: the health department. At the end of this, she can't
Speaker 1: say no to that. Oh. I thought you guys were
Speaker 1: giving gift cards and I could use it at any
Speaker 1: place that I wanted to. No, man, definitely not for you.
Speaker 1: Stop going to ye. I'm sure we can find a
Speaker 1: spot that was recently shut down and get you. Dude,
Speaker 1: if you really want to, will to help our listen,
Speaker 1: it's just a mild case of giardia. It's fine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, so you're ready to do this. Matthew about
Speaker 1: to Julia's phone number. Sounds great, let's go. Okay, let's
Speaker 1: do it. Hello. Hi, I'm looking for Julia. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is she. All right? All right, good Las, nice and healthy.
Speaker 1: My name's Jeffrey. I'm calling from the radio show Broken
Speaker 1: Jeffrey in the Morning. How are you doing today? Oh? Um, well,
Speaker 1: you know I'm good. But you said your radio station show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well we are the station. Let's be honest. I like
Speaker 1: that confidence, Jeffreystening. Yeah. But we do a segment on
Speaker 1: our show called the Second Date Update. Have you ever
Speaker 1: heard of that before? You know? I now that I
Speaker 1: think of it, I have a friend I think who
Speaker 1: likes those segments. Um. So somebody emailed us after they
Speaker 1: went out with you. His name's Matthew Uh, yeah, I
Speaker 1: know who he is. Okay, what was that? Well that
Speaker 1: Matthew told us a little bit about your date together
Speaker 1: and he admits that he may have made a couple mistakes,
Speaker 1: just about the possible salmonella that you may have gotten
Speaker 1: from the restaurant. I mean, what Brooks talking about is
Speaker 1: that he shared with us his strategy for choosing a
Speaker 1: restaurant and he said he told you about it during
Speaker 1: the date too, where he's trying to pick out places
Speaker 1: that have recently been shut down for health violations. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he told me about that. And you know, the thing
Speaker 1: about it was the timing he picked to tell me.
Speaker 1: It was like when our entrees came out and we
Speaker 1: were in the middle of eating want food if later?
Speaker 1: I think I think he just felt connected to you, though,
Speaker 1: and he wanted to share and be one hundred percent
Speaker 1: honest with you. And you have a nice moment, Jeff.
Speaker 1: Not everything needs shared. I mean, he knows that it
Speaker 1: was a mistake, That's the thing, Julie. He knows he
Speaker 1: shouldn't have told you. He feels like that he does
Speaker 1: this often and it's a very safe practice according to him.
Speaker 1: I mean, do you really think it was mistake, because
Speaker 1: I got a feeling that this was not going to
Speaker 1: be the last time he did that. It might be
Speaker 1: the last time he does it if you end up together.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I don't think so. I mean, well, you
Speaker 1: can appreciate a man. You can appreciate a man who's
Speaker 1: good with money. He thinks these things through. He has
Speaker 1: a plan, Like it may not be the best plan,
Speaker 1: but at least he has a plan. Yeah, remember too,
Speaker 1: I mean he's alive, he's healthy. No, but he doesn't
Speaker 1: drink at these places. When he said that, in the
Speaker 1: middle of the meal, when our entrees came out, it
Speaker 1: all made sense, like it all clicked because before when
Speaker 1: we sat down, he brought out his own silverware, and
Speaker 1: he brought out his own little juice box and a
Speaker 1: travel cup. And I was like yes, And I was like,
Speaker 1: what is all of this? And every time I asked
Speaker 1: about this weird stuff that he was bringing that he
Speaker 1: didn't bring any for me, he was like, Oh, it's
Speaker 1: just the thing I do. Don't worry about it. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's why he brought his own set of silverware and
Speaker 1: didn't have anything for you. No, And then the entrees
Speaker 1: came out and he was like Oh, the food is
Speaker 1: really good, don't you think? And I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess it's okay, it's fine. And that's what he
Speaker 1: told me how he picked the restaurant. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: that's weird man. So was there anything redeeming about him
Speaker 1: or was that just too much? No? It got worse.
Speaker 1: At the end of the meal when we were wrapping
Speaker 1: things up, he says, you know, I really like this place.
Speaker 1: I want to keep the cross down. And he holds
Speaker 1: out this fake plastic cockroach from his jack hip pocket
Speaker 1: and he says, will you go into the kitchen and
Speaker 1: slip it into some of the food without the cook
Speaker 1: noticing and take a picture? Oh gosh, it's got to
Speaker 1: be something. They're just trying to have a little bit
Speaker 1: of fun. Then what are you gonna do, Just walk
Speaker 1: into the back of a kitchen at a restaurant look
Speaker 1: the other way, please, I gotta slip this in and
Speaker 1: get a picture of it for the year behind you.
Speaker 1: You think he was being serious? Yeah, I think he
Speaker 1: was serious because he went on to say, you know,
Speaker 1: I'll distruct the chef and tell him it was an
Speaker 1: amazing meal while you do it. That I just can't
Speaker 1: get over the fact if someone would have the audacity
Speaker 1: to just walk into a restaurant kitchen, just maybe all
Speaker 1: those restaurants that have been shut down over the years
Speaker 1: was because of Matthew. Seriously just leaving these plants around.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, man, I need to know whether or
Speaker 1: not he was being serious. And Julia, we have a
Speaker 1: way to find out, because I need to let you know.
Speaker 1: Matthew's on the other line listening. He wants to talk
Speaker 1: to you. Oh my god, No, cockroach boy, you there,
Speaker 1: I'm here. What's going on? Well, if you want to
Speaker 1: keep the lines down and the prices down, it couldn't
Speaker 1: hurt the snaff a quick photo hurt. Okay, I'm just joking, like,
Speaker 1: I'm not serious. I'm joke with her. I'm joking with you, funny.
Speaker 1: Your timing needs some work because I'm not able to
Speaker 1: get a read on you. What are you doing just
Speaker 1: walking around with a fake cockroach in your coat? Ready
Speaker 1: for the joke at all times? No, it's in my jacket,
Speaker 1: all right. And I don't understand why you bring silverware
Speaker 1: for yourself but you don't bring it for her. Well,
Speaker 1: I told her I was quirky. I particularly like that silverware.
Speaker 1: It's more contoured to fit my hand. I will say,
Speaker 1: a good fork in the hand feels so nice. I mean, Julia, Julia,
Speaker 1: Wait wait, I'm not joking, Juliet. Things taste better when
Speaker 1: they're off of certain material. Do you agree with that?
Speaker 1: I'm not you seriously don't think it was because the
Speaker 1: place got shut down and that's why he wanted to
Speaker 1: bring his own cheat. You're don't gonna get sick from
Speaker 1: the utensils. You're gonna get sick from the food. I mean,
Speaker 1: everybody knows that. Don't trust Brooks. She brings in like
Speaker 1: old cabbage and crawfish salad. I'm saying I get what
Speaker 1: he's saying, and I don't think that's a reason to
Speaker 1: hate on him, Julia. You know what, even if it
Speaker 1: was a joke, like I don't want that to be
Speaker 1: a first date, I felt like I was being punked
Speaker 1: if he wasn't being serious. Yeah, I agree, Matthew, I
Speaker 1: think you've really put yourself in a hole here. You
Speaker 1: need to talk to Julia and try and dig yourself out.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to
Speaker 1: like ruin our first date. I thought, other than the
Speaker 1: cockroach bit we had a pretty nice time, is that true?
Speaker 1: I mean it was a weird date, and I mean
Speaker 1: he's like, okay, conversationalist, he's got a funny sense of humor.
Speaker 1: But it was just too weird. Yeah. Yeah, but weird
Speaker 1: isn't always bad. I'm just saying weird can be good. Like,
Speaker 1: if you give weird another chance, maybe weird grows on you.
Speaker 1: I mean, as long as you go out on a
Speaker 1: date with somebody and they're not sniffing their fingers, that's
Speaker 1: a good thing. That I agree with Jeffrey on that one.
Speaker 1: That's right. That is wrong with you? What do you
Speaker 1: guys need for me? At this point? I need to
Speaker 1: ask you something, Julia, and that's would you be willing
Speaker 1: to go out on one more date with Matthew. We
Speaker 1: will pay for it, and we'll make sure that it's
Speaker 1: out of place that has at least a B rating
Speaker 1: or higher, and will make sure they have nice silverwear
Speaker 1: for you. Honestly, I think because of everything he did,
Speaker 1: you guys should just give me the gift card so
Speaker 1: I don't have to watch him bring his own silverware everything.
Speaker 1: You just you just haven't had the right spoon. Once
Speaker 1: you have the right, spoon, you'll understand what Matthew's talking about.
Speaker 1: Old tell you I have the sweetest knife in my hands.
Speaker 1: So Matthew Man, I'm sorry. It sounds like she's not
Speaker 1: interested in seeing you again. I could bring you silverware. No,
Speaker 1: I don't broken Jeffrey in the bawling