Speaker 1: I cannot wait to hear if our listeners would be
Speaker 1: as upset as this woman is. Right, Yeah, yeah, we
Speaker 1: got a brand new awkward Tuesday phone call today. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the Second Date podcast, and we love to hear
Speaker 1: in the comments how you would react if you were
Speaker 1: in her position. Yeah, I don't know that I would
Speaker 1: be as mad. I don't know though, but I have
Speaker 1: different priorities, so it's a little different than yeah, a
Speaker 1: little cheaper. You'll understand in just a second. But first comments,
Speaker 1: what do you see Alexis?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Coco said, I grew up with my parents listening
Speaker 2: to you in the car, and now here I am
Speaker 2: listening to you at work.
Speaker 1: This show practically raised me.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think the next step in your evolution is being
Speaker 4: on the show.
Speaker 1: I'm just so proud. Oh yeah, job, she has a job. Proud.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, all right here, your brand new awkward
Speaker 1: Tuesday phone call starts right now.
Speaker 4: What do you do if you get scammed?
Speaker 1: Oh goodness, like.
Speaker 2: Jose, did you demand your money back after buying all
Speaker 2: those dis counted online vegan pregnancy vitamins?
Speaker 4: Actually the girl from the studio, that's.
Speaker 2: Fair, Or Alexis, did you hire a lawyer to sue
Speaker 2: whoever did that to your hair.
Speaker 1: Is great. I would never sue her.
Speaker 4: Are you like the way your hair?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I use expensive shampoo.
Speaker 4: Hey, you know what's good for you.
Speaker 2: Luckily, the woman on the phone today is much braver
Speaker 2: than all of us, because she's ready to confront the
Speaker 2: person who's been scamming her for the past three years
Speaker 2: whoa the only problem it also happens to be her boyfriend.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you heard that right. It's your brand new awkward
Speaker 4: Tuesday phone call. Next, it's awkward.
Speaker 1: It's Tuesday.
Speaker 4: It's awkward Tuesday phone call.
Speaker 2: Do you trust your significant other one hundred percent? It's
Speaker 2: brooken Jeffrey in the morning. Like Brooke, I have a question. Okay,
Speaker 2: what would your husband Michael have to do to completely
Speaker 2: break your trust? I mean, obviously, like the worst thing
Speaker 2: would be cheating? Pretty bad may well for you, though,
Speaker 2: maybe if you found your secret candy stash and need
Speaker 2: one Reese's cup, that would be the worst.
Speaker 1: You don't know my husband. If you think he can
Speaker 1: only eat one Reese's Cup out of a stash, he
Speaker 1: will literally annihilate the entire thing.
Speaker 2: Okay, so that's definitely number one. Cheating is a close
Speaker 2: second to stealing candy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I trust him in the cheating stuff. Anything else
Speaker 1: is questionable.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I bring it. I bet you. I bet he would.
Speaker 2: I bring it up though, because one of our listeners, Pharah,
Speaker 2: says her boyfriend just shattered her trust. Oh, he wasn't unfaithful,
Speaker 2: but she did catch him in a lie, and lying
Speaker 2: might be the third most distrustful thing you can do
Speaker 2: after and candy stealing. Obviously, we need to hear the
Speaker 2: whole story first, though, So Parah, welcome to the show.
Speaker 5: Hey.
Speaker 2: I know I'm sorry to hear that your boyfriend lied,
Speaker 2: but maybe you could give us the full rundown so
Speaker 2: we can get up to speed know where you're at.
Speaker 5: Okay, Well, god, I guess I thought we had the
Speaker 5: perfect relationship and you know that he loves me and everything,
Speaker 5: but I don't know, apparently not what.
Speaker 1: You don't even think he loves you now after this?
Speaker 3: WHOA?
Speaker 5: Well, I don't know, I don't know. I did.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 1: What's his name?
Speaker 5: By the way, Ramone?
Speaker 4: Is that really important?
Speaker 1: It is?
Speaker 5: Okay, I guess it is.
Speaker 4: How long have you and Ramone been together?
Speaker 5: About? Three years?
Speaker 1: Are you living together?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, deep, So what happened? What was the lie
Speaker 2: that you caught him in?
Speaker 5: So every Christmas he gets me like a designer handbags,
Speaker 5: a little Louis Baton, a little Chanel, you know all
Speaker 5: that stuff, right. Yeah, I felt like so spoiled and
Speaker 5: everything and it was great.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, whatever you did wrong, I feel like you
Speaker 2: should forgive them for it, just based on that.
Speaker 1: So is that honeymoon face over? Is that what you said?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I'm getting there.
Speaker 4: What happened? What you said there was a lie?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Okay. So one of my bags, one of the Lestons,
Speaker 5: the strap broke, and you know, I didn't really think
Speaker 5: anything of it. So I just took it to like
Speaker 5: one of the stores and they were like, we can't
Speaker 5: fix this. I'm like, what do you mean you can't
Speaker 5: fix it? And they're like, uh, this is fake.
Speaker 4: Wait, it's fake.
Speaker 2: I didn't see that coming to buy a new one,
Speaker 2: like he has to buy her another five.
Speaker 1: It's a good face, That's what I was going to say.
Speaker 1: You didn't know if it tricked you?
Speaker 5: Yes, I'm I'm like, I couldn't even believe it. I'm like, no,
Speaker 5: what do you mean? It's fake? It's obviously it's not fake,
Speaker 5: it's real.
Speaker 4: Like that's embarrassing.
Speaker 5: And then I finally did believe it because they told
Speaker 5: me like the signs, like the serial number.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 5: I felt like just humiliated and it was embarrassing you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, here's my question. When he gives it to you,
Speaker 1: is there a big discussion about how much it costs
Speaker 1: and where he got it from.
Speaker 5: He made it very clear that it was authentic. Oh,
Speaker 5: and he just took the credit for it. He's like, yeah, well,
Speaker 5: anything for my girl. I'm like, really anything.
Speaker 1: I mean, I can see where that would be hard.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So have you like actually talked to your boyfriend about this,
Speaker 2: tell him that you know that he lied?
Speaker 3: Not?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I had to tell somebody. So I
Speaker 5: told like one of my besties and she was like
Speaker 5: maybe even more horrified than me, and then she got
Speaker 5: me riled up. And then he's like, if he really
Speaker 5: left me, he wouldn't trick me. And I'm like, you
Speaker 5: know what, Actually, you're right, there's no way he didn't know.
Speaker 5: I just like, I'm so freaking pissed off right now,
Speaker 5: and I gotta talk to him about it. But I
Speaker 5: don't know how it's okay.
Speaker 1: If he if he would have given you the bag
Speaker 1: and told you that it was a faux designer, would
Speaker 1: you been okay with that?
Speaker 5: I mean, I guess, okay, that's a.
Speaker 2: That's totally possible. Maybe somebody told him that they were real.
Speaker 2: And yeah, we seem to know if it's fake or not.
Speaker 2: Either way, when.
Speaker 1: You buy out of a trunk of a car, how
Speaker 1: could you guess that it's not marketplace and those were fakes?
Speaker 5: Tough times.
Speaker 2: It was done the merced so I have to trust that.
Speaker 2: But okay, so you want our help. It sounds like
Speaker 2: confronting your boyfriend for the first time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I need help confronting him and I
Speaker 5: need help, just like what am I going to do
Speaker 5: with this?
Speaker 1: Are you open to hearing his explanation?
Speaker 5: He'd better have a good one.
Speaker 2: And after we make the awkward Tuesday phone call, are
Speaker 2: you open to selling those handbags to Alexis at a
Speaker 2: discounted rate.
Speaker 1: I think I'm going to need more than a discount.
Speaker 1: I might need free.
Speaker 5: We'll see.
Speaker 2: That's fine, Well, we're gonna get us a real one.
Speaker 2: We'll think of some good advice to give you before
Speaker 2: we let you call your boyfriend to confront him to
Speaker 2: ask why he tried to lie to you and give
Speaker 2: you fake designer handbags.
Speaker 4: I already feel bad for this guy. He's about to
Speaker 4: get a phone.
Speaker 2: Call, or maybe he doesn't even realize they were fakes. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we'll try and figure it out with your awkward Tuesday
Speaker 2: phone call right after this.
Speaker 5: Thanks guys, it's awkward.
Speaker 1: It's Tuesday.
Speaker 4: It's awkward Tuesday phone call. It's Brooke and Jeffrey in
Speaker 4: the morning.
Speaker 2: We're talking to our listener fair Uh, who says one
Speaker 2: of her favorite things in the world is getting a
Speaker 2: designer handbag from her boyfriend Ramone every year for the holidays.
Speaker 1: Just hits different when you hear this music with it too.
Speaker 2: But one of her least favorite things is finding out
Speaker 2: three Christmases in that at least one of those designer
Speaker 2: bags was a fake, and possibly all.
Speaker 4: The other ones too.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, Ramone, he's been taking credit and accepting praise for
Speaker 2: being such a great boyfriend for all these years, for
Speaker 2: all of his generosity, and that realization has made Farah
Speaker 2: question the entire relationship.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like, what else is he faking?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Has her boyfriend really trustworthy or has he just been
Speaker 2: trying to deceive her this entire time. She has not
Speaker 2: spoken to him about it yet, and that's why she
Speaker 2: wants our help.
Speaker 5: Farah.
Speaker 2: Does all that sound correct? Are we missing anything from
Speaker 2: the story?
Speaker 5: I think that's about right, Okay.
Speaker 1: I like as she started sad and then just got
Speaker 1: more angry. Yeah, she told it.
Speaker 2: Well, maybe you'll feel a little bit better after we
Speaker 2: get you some advice here, Brook, What do you think?
Speaker 4: What's your advice?
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's true, right, But I think
Speaker 1: that there's a way to know whether he accidentally got
Speaker 1: scammed or not, really, and that's by saying, oh my god,
Speaker 1: my best he has been dying to find the same
Speaker 1: bag that I have. She can't find it anywhere. Where
Speaker 1: did you get this? And if he says, like eBay
Speaker 1: t move yeah, back of a bowling alley, then you'll
Speaker 1: know that he got scammed.
Speaker 2: Right, It's got to be something somebody selling her mez
Speaker 2: bags legitimately behind a bowling alley.
Speaker 1: But he says, the Birken Store, I don't even even
Speaker 1: know if those exist. You can't walk on in there.
Speaker 1: He's got to get invited. Yeah, Well, if he says that,
Speaker 1: then you know he's lying.
Speaker 4: I do like the idea of laying a trap for
Speaker 4: him that he'll just walk into the trap.
Speaker 6: Brook.
Speaker 5: I knew there was a reason I trusted you.
Speaker 2: Guys, Sarah, in the radio business, we are number one
Speaker 2: in laying traps.
Speaker 1: How do we get our listeners to stay?
Speaker 4: That's right? So, okay, you got all the ammunition that
Speaker 4: you need.
Speaker 2: We're going to step away, dial your boyfriend's number and
Speaker 2: let you make your awkward Tuesday phone call.
Speaker 5: You ready, Yeah, I'm ready. I guess you got this.
Speaker 7: Hello, Hi, you're from It's like another number here.
Speaker 5: Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 7: I didn't recognize was how hardly was going to pick
Speaker 7: it up.
Speaker 3: I didn't know it was you, but I'd love to
Speaker 3: hear you.
Speaker 5: It's me. I just I had a quick question about uh,
Speaker 5: you know, so Georgia, she like loves my new bag
Speaker 5: and she wants to get the same one for her sister,
Speaker 5: and she wants to know where did you get my bag?
Speaker 7: Well, you you means she wants to buy the same bag.
Speaker 5: Yeah, She's like, this is the perfect bag.
Speaker 7: I mean, well, of course it is, is the same
Speaker 7: one I got for you.
Speaker 5: So yeah, okay, Well where where'd you get it? Oh?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I got a downtown babe. That's why I usually
Speaker 7: get my stuff downtown.
Speaker 5: Okay, like their downtown store, like the official one.
Speaker 7: Yeah, like downtown you know.
Speaker 5: Like yeah, okay, you keep saying downtown. You've said it
Speaker 5: like four times. Now, can you be more specific?
Speaker 7: They like downtown the store you know, you know the store.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, you just said it again. Let me
Speaker 5: make it like really clear for you, really clear and simple,
Speaker 5: because obviously you need that. I think I know why
Speaker 5: you don't remember.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we.
Speaker 5: Basically because it's sake, babe.
Speaker 7: Come on, you're talking craziness. Come on, what are you
Speaker 7: talking about?
Speaker 5: Oh I'm talking crazy now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, come on.
Speaker 5: I went there the other day my strap broke, Like
Speaker 5: I went there to go get it fixed.
Speaker 7: Well, why will you do that? Why you told me
Speaker 7: I would have taken care of the babe.
Speaker 5: Well, because I didn't think it was that big a
Speaker 5: deal and I was already near downtown.
Speaker 3: Maybe it was a new employee, babe. Come on, I
Speaker 3: mean give me the bag.
Speaker 7: Look, I'll go up at.
Speaker 5: The bag and I'll show me the serial number. And
Speaker 5: it was like fake it like didn't show up in
Speaker 5: the system as ridiculous. And there were so many other
Speaker 5: things too, but I can't even get to explain. And
Speaker 5: I don't even have to explain because it's this one's sake.
Speaker 5: Maybe the other ones are too, geez, I don't know.
Speaker 6: All right, all right, mammy, no listen, all right, let's
Speaker 6: put it this way. Okay, I'm crazy about you, no matter.
Speaker 3: Where I got it, how I got it, where I
Speaker 3: go out it, who made it, who didn't make it,
Speaker 3: It was all given to you with a lot of
Speaker 3: love for me. For me, you know, I'm madly in
Speaker 3: love with you, Mammy.
Speaker 7: That's a little sobbing, you know.
Speaker 5: But you I don't think you get it. You lie
Speaker 5: to me, and you lied for like a long time.
Speaker 5: Do you even understand how embarrassing this is for me?
Speaker 3: But Mamita, our love is real.
Speaker 7: I mean, now we're going with material stuff. I mean,
Speaker 7: oh my godness, are we gonna let like material stuff?
Speaker 5: Like right now?
Speaker 7: The all the magic that we have.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm only on more, you know, you know,
Speaker 3: one o the wind this conversation, I'm going to say it.
Speaker 7: I'm going to say it. Will you marry me?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 7: Okay? I mean, if you're going to get into this conversation.
Speaker 7: That's how much I love you?
Speaker 3: Will you marry me?
Speaker 6: Mammy?
Speaker 3: Happen?
Speaker 4: This is not the moment. This is awful.
Speaker 6: You're not face remote who's told these people? Right?
Speaker 2: I think Ramone is noticing that there's a whole bunch
Speaker 2: of other voices on this phone call, because Ramone, you
Speaker 2: actually are on the radio right now on a show
Speaker 2: called Brook and Jeffrey in the morning.
Speaker 7: Yike, yoh man? What why am I on the phone?
Speaker 7: Why am I?
Speaker 1: She wouldn't help, she needed help?
Speaker 5: Okay. I called them so that they could help me
Speaker 5: with this because I had a feeling you were gonna
Speaker 5: just like tell me a bunch of.
Speaker 3: Bull Oh mommy, but we were talking about both.
Speaker 7: I mean I got you a bag.
Speaker 3: I mean you could phasically touch it and you really
Speaker 3: have a bag.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but you have to like it was real. The
Speaker 5: whole time you took all the credit. I was like,
Speaker 5: grow this reel.
Speaker 6: I mean, don't you put things in it.
Speaker 7: It's a bag.
Speaker 4: Like the designer designed it real. You know what.
Speaker 5: Listen, we're getting that conversation.
Speaker 6: The time.
Speaker 1: We need to slow down.
Speaker 2: Let's put the bag aside. What about the marriage proposal?
Speaker 2: Was that real.
Speaker 7: Of course it's real. I already got the for us
Speaker 7: and everything too.
Speaker 4: Wow you did?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I'm old. I got the rig for us.
Speaker 5: In downtown.
Speaker 4: Probably did.
Speaker 3: To be honest, I mean where where when do you
Speaker 3: go and ask, oh, where did you get the rig?
Speaker 7: Did you get to hear you got it there?
Speaker 3: I mean, what is all these all these questions? It
Speaker 3: doesn't matter what you got it, how you got it
Speaker 3: is the intention.
Speaker 7: Of giving it.
Speaker 4: Wa man, you're smooth, dude.
Speaker 1: Are you feeling like a lot of pressure maybe to
Speaker 1: like spend more than you have?
Speaker 3: H The truth is I don't make a lot of money, okay,
Speaker 3: my job, I don't make a lot of money okay,
Speaker 3: And I want to deliver, you know, and then sometimes
Speaker 3: I want I want to go ahead and deliver all
Speaker 3: the way and sometimes got to do some things here
Speaker 3: and there to make it happen.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you didn't think too Maybe I don't know
Speaker 5: say that, but he.
Speaker 1: Did just say that. It just took a minute.
Speaker 5: It can't be interrogated and being exposed for his.
Speaker 2: Life still, I mean, I think he does feel a
Speaker 2: little bit exposed right now.
Speaker 4: Ramon.
Speaker 2: I think that that was a very very sweet thing.
Speaker 2: For you to say, and it makes me want to know,
Speaker 2: will you marry me? Because I also have a ring?
Speaker 7: Guys, I mean, I really, really really love this girl.
Speaker 1: Please, I means to me. You, guys, this could be
Speaker 1: a really relationship foundation moment for you too, you know,
Speaker 1: like maybe you're finally going to open up and be
Speaker 1: vulnerable with each other.
Speaker 3: Yeah, who's this girl who's talking right now?
Speaker 5: Brook?
Speaker 7: You're the best guys. Listen to Brook, Go listen to
Speaker 7: these guys. These guys are trouble makers.
Speaker 2: Got you, Ramon, You've said what you have to say.
Speaker 2: We need to hear from Parah though, because she's been
Speaker 2: staying pretty quiet.
Speaker 4: Pharah, where's your head at right now?
Speaker 5: I Am going to keep it real simple. I know
Speaker 5: you love me, I do, but if we're going to
Speaker 5: have a future together, you need to stop pulling this.
Speaker 7: Okay. I mean I was just that's it.
Speaker 5: That's just period.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 5: And just so you know, if you ever proposed to
Speaker 5: me with a FA I'm not putting that on my finger.
Speaker 1: And you know she checking it, so be careful.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Well that's okay. And I don't know what you mean
Speaker 7: by fake.
Speaker 3: We'll talk about that later, okay.
Speaker 1: Flab grown is still considered real just say here we go.
Speaker 8: Anyway, pair does not agree with you there, but Jeffrey
Speaker 8: in the morning, Well, after all that, I think they're
Speaker 8: in a better place than when we started the call.
Speaker 4: Mean, I mean everything's out in the open now.
Speaker 1: Okay. Honestly, though, it sounds like they really love each other,
Speaker 1: it's just maybe their communication was not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she definitely seems like she is done with his
Speaker 2: generous gifts.
Speaker 4: Though. It makes me feel like it's one.
Speaker 2: Of those couples that have no idea what the others
Speaker 2: do or how much she's like, yeah, this.
Speaker 1: For three years, like you know that. You know she's
Speaker 1: not going to tell her girlfriends it. It's all fake though, right, No, No,
Speaker 1: she's regretting the charty told one ye he just lost
Speaker 1: Louis certificate.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh man, the whole relationship suffered. But it is
Speaker 2: probably a good lesson to anybody with a boyfriend. If
Speaker 2: they get you any gift, ever, don't trust it, Jack,
Speaker 2: even if they're buying you a Starbucks coffee, I'd go
Speaker 2: in skeptical. No, who knows where that latte really came from?
Speaker 4: Downtown?
Speaker 1: Probably same Starbucks cup you keep using over and over again.
Speaker 2: Skepticism is the key to a healthy relationship. All right,
Speaker 2: all right, let's leave everybody with that message. That's your
Speaker 2: awkward Tuesday phone call. By the way, if you're listening Mixture,
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Speaker 4: That's the one thing you shouldn't be skeptical of.