Speaker 1: You found it at the home of the Second Date Update.
Speaker 2: It's Brook and Jeffrey in the Morning and thanks for
Speaker 2: being here on the weekend with us in our home.
Speaker 1: And I know we have a.
Speaker 2: Lot of new listeners from all over the world since
Speaker 2: we've been in the you know, top ten charts of podcasts.
Speaker 1: Yes, also, which is awesome. And if you don't know,
Speaker 1: we actually are a full radio show.
Speaker 2: I know rio and we are talking on it and
Speaker 2: we do a brand new full hour episode every day
Speaker 2: on our main feed, Brook and Jeffrey in the Morning.
Speaker 2: And we just thought, you know, y'all seem to like
Speaker 2: relationship drama. We're kind of experts on it, and we
Speaker 2: do a lot of other segments, including this one awkward
Speaker 2: Tuesday phone call.
Speaker 1: Yes, love it.
Speaker 2: Yes, seriously, it's not necessarily always a romantic relationship with these.
Speaker 3: It always awkward, ye and tricky.
Speaker 1: So sit back and enjoy your awkward Tuesday phone call
Speaker 1: on Sunday. Totally. It starts right now.
Speaker 3: It's the number one most important piece of advice that
Speaker 3: you can give to a newly engaged couple. Well, what's
Speaker 3: that use it if you need to keep a secret
Speaker 3: from your spouse. Whatever you do don't hide the evidence
Speaker 3: here what jeff number one most important piece of.
Speaker 1: Advice see advice is don't keep secret.
Speaker 3: No, apparently somebody didn't get the memo and they chose
Speaker 3: the bad forbidden hiding spots in their home. And now
Speaker 3: there's significant others on the phone desperate for answers to
Speaker 3: what she discovered. Okay, honestly doesn't look great for him.
Speaker 3: You're gonna hear it in your brain. New awkward Tuesday
Speaker 3: phone call right after this. It's awkward.
Speaker 1: It's Tuesday.
Speaker 3: It's awkward Tuesday phone call. Welcome back to brook and
Speaker 3: Jeffrey in the morning. Let's take a quick look at
Speaker 3: the scoreboard. In the last three years, we've had twenty
Speaker 3: engaged couples come on our show, and Brooke has miraculously
Speaker 3: stopped seventeen of those from going through with it because
Speaker 3: of her advice. Wait, what, that's a new rerecord. We
Speaker 3: are very excited to have another bride to be with
Speaker 3: us on the phone today, will Brooks successfully implode her
Speaker 3: budding relationships?
Speaker 1: This my RBI or what.
Speaker 3: Let's find out? Donna, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 4: Hi, thanks for taking my call day, Donna.
Speaker 2: I swear I don't even know what the issue is yet,
Speaker 2: but I engaged.
Speaker 3: You still are hopefully yours are pre packed to move
Speaker 3: out as soon as this conversation is over. But first
Speaker 3: tell us about your awesome relationship. How can we ruin
Speaker 3: that for you?
Speaker 5: God?
Speaker 4: So I got engaged about a month ago.
Speaker 1: Okayngratulations?
Speaker 3: What's his names?
Speaker 4: His name is Neil? Okay, So I actually met him
Speaker 4: last year, so it was kind of a quick engagement.
Speaker 4: We're both like mid to late thirties. Like I've always
Speaker 4: wanted to get married, Like it's always been a goal.
Speaker 3: A lot of what you said there made Alexis grimace.
Speaker 3: Late thirties getting married.
Speaker 2: I started an engagement, so I mean it's finally happening
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 4: So that's great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the person that you love.
Speaker 4: Yeah. But okay, So after our engagement, I moved into
Speaker 4: his place. But I came across something just I don't know,
Speaker 4: weird the other day.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, what was it?
Speaker 4: So it was crammed in like a computer dusk for
Speaker 4: so obviously it's something he probably meant to hide, or
Speaker 4: it seems like it.
Speaker 1: Can I can I ask before you tell us what
Speaker 1: it is? Were you looking for something or you just.
Speaker 4: Came No, I was just kind of like cleaning out
Speaker 4: some drawers, like I was trying to organize a little bit. Okay,
Speaker 4: So I found a piece of paper, and.
Speaker 3: Which is already sus because who still uses paper nowadays?
Speaker 2: Already that another from alexis yeah, like.
Speaker 4: The whole desk and laughter of the situation.
Speaker 3: That I'm assuming there was something something else about the
Speaker 3: paper that got you worried.
Speaker 4: Okay. Yeah. On the piece of paper there is a
Speaker 4: list of girls names on it, okay, And next to
Speaker 4: each name there's check marks, and there's dollar amounts maybe
Speaker 4: dollar amounts.
Speaker 1: Is it like five dollars? Like five hundred? Like does
Speaker 1: it have a mounts on it? Is a lot of money?
Speaker 3: Tell us more?
Speaker 4: Yes, like not five hundred, but in the hundreds.
Speaker 1: Okay, not a lemonade stand. That's what I was kind
Speaker 1: of hoping. Why is it just some work thing?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 1: Why is everyone assuming it's something weird and odd?
Speaker 3: Well? Do what I owe you money?
Speaker 5: Brooke?
Speaker 3: If I pay you back for lunch, I don't write
Speaker 3: it down somewhere like I just give you back to fifty.
Speaker 1: You're not an organized person, that's true.
Speaker 3: Well, I need to know have you brought this up
Speaker 3: to your fiance yet or is this going to be
Speaker 3: the first time.
Speaker 4: Yes, So I did some digging, and we share a
Speaker 4: bank account right now. So recently on the paper he
Speaker 4: had added two hundred and fifty dollars to this girl
Speaker 4: named Melissa, who I know, like, I know her pretty well,
Speaker 4: like I know the girls on the list, know the.
Speaker 1: People on the list?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know if you like. Some of them are single,
Speaker 4: some of them are married.
Speaker 2: Oh no, does that feel even more in Yeah, it
Speaker 2: makes me feel kind of gross though.
Speaker 3: Why paying married people to do stuff? They're usually desperate
Speaker 3: enough to give it away for free. You don't know
Speaker 3: what's going on.
Speaker 1: I think my husband does take the payments.
Speaker 3: There's always one money sack you want group.
Speaker 1: I'm kidding, We're kidding, We're kidding, We're kidding.
Speaker 2: I mean he's giving, he's it's some sort of accounting
Speaker 2: sheet with people and friends of his.
Speaker 1: So what else did you find? Did you find anything
Speaker 1: sketchy about it?
Speaker 3: Well, I asked, did you bring it up to him
Speaker 3: or is this totally what?
Speaker 4: Yeah? So when I saw that he had taken to
Speaker 4: interviewed from the bank account and send it to the
Speaker 4: scirl Melissa, I said to him, Hey, just curious, why
Speaker 4: are you paying Melissa to fifty last week?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Instantly, to me, he looked super nervous. He kind of
Speaker 4: looked like he got caught.
Speaker 2: But he's paying out of a joint account, Like is
Speaker 2: he that bad at like prime?
Speaker 3: I mean, he didn't.
Speaker 4: Realize it's a new account, so I don't even know
Speaker 4: that he was like seeking about that, but he does
Speaker 4: seemed super super nervous. And then he was like, I
Speaker 4: got to leave the room for a second room.
Speaker 3: What did I say when he eventually I mean, you
Speaker 3: must have seen him since he left the room.
Speaker 2: Why did he have to leave the room?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: And then when he came back, he was like, oh,
Speaker 4: it's a fantasy football thing with her. So I just
Speaker 4: didn't even bring up the other women or the other
Speaker 4: dollar amounts because I was just like, all right, some
Speaker 4: things is not adding up, like and getting married to him.
Speaker 4: There can't be any secrets, especially like financial.
Speaker 3: Weirdly, Okay, so you brought up the amount of money
Speaker 3: paid to one of your friends, but you didn't tell
Speaker 3: him about the list that you found.
Speaker 4: Yes, I just confronted him about the amount that I
Speaker 4: saw takeout of the bank account recently.
Speaker 3: Okay, he doesn't know.
Speaker 2: That you have that shared because like I was totally like, oh,
Speaker 2: it's innocent, you're assuming things until his reaction.
Speaker 1: Like his reaction, and like why would he have to
Speaker 1: leave the room to gather himself to tell you about
Speaker 1: a fantasy Melissa, the.
Speaker 3: Secret fantasy football league that nobody's allowed to know about.
Speaker 1: You were the sketchiest one here.
Speaker 3: Okay, So we're running out of time on this segment here,
Speaker 3: So you want to call your I'm assuming your fiance
Speaker 3: coming up here, and what advice are you looking for
Speaker 3: from us?
Speaker 4: I just need to know how to approach this situation
Speaker 4: or like what to expect.
Speaker 2: I'm just nervous or even to see if he's lying
Speaker 2: or not.
Speaker 4: I mean I think he was lying about the fantasy
Speaker 4: football thing. Like I mean, I'm just kind of freaking out.
Speaker 4: I was just to marry this guy, Like, I don't
Speaker 4: think he's playing the truth.
Speaker 3: Yes, we're going to come back and we're going to
Speaker 3: have some advice for you. Let you make this call
Speaker 3: to your fiance and find out if he committed the
Speaker 3: most atrocious of acts lying about fantasy football.
Speaker 1: Meantime, go take two fifty out of his account for yourself.
Speaker 5: It's also her.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, she's taken from herself anyway, I'll want some
Speaker 3: advice when we do your offer Tuesday phone call right
Speaker 3: after this hold on. It's awkward. It's it's awkward Tuesday
Speaker 3: phone call. If you're just joining us. We've got some
Speaker 3: miss story fiance drama going on this morning with one
Speaker 3: of our listeners, Donna, who just moved in with her
Speaker 3: new fiance Neil after they got engaged. She was recently
Speaker 3: cleaning out a computer desk drawer at his place when
Speaker 3: she found a folded up piece of paper filled with
Speaker 3: women's names and next to their names different payments, which
Speaker 3: I know is all very normal and that stuff happens
Speaker 3: all the time for newly engaged guys. But Donna decided
Speaker 3: to confront him about one of the payments, and he
Speaker 3: immediately acted nervous, kind of weird, left the room and
Speaker 3: came back blaming it all on a fantasy football misunderstanding,
Speaker 3: and Alexis.
Speaker 2: Is like, he obviously left the room detects the woman
Speaker 2: he probably gave football.
Speaker 1: Excuse you guys, believe everything I say. I thought that
Speaker 1: was really sorry.
Speaker 3: Donna is not buying any of that she hasn't even
Speaker 3: told them about the big list of names that she found,
Speaker 3: but she might have to coming up here depending on
Speaker 3: the advice that we have. Donna, are you ready to
Speaker 3: hear what jose and Brook give you?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm ready.
Speaker 3: First, I gotta charge you a hundred bucks.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Something. She's shuffling around through more drawers right now, Donna,
Speaker 3: you're looking to find more pieces of paper.
Speaker 4: Okay, she finds like three scrolls.
Speaker 3: Okay, Brooke, what advice do you have for Donnie?
Speaker 2: I just think this sucks right now. I mean, he
Speaker 2: was obviously shady the first time you confronted him.
Speaker 1: He probably will be again in the end.
Speaker 2: I think you just need to say, listen, I'm trying
Speaker 2: to build a life with you, and that foundation starts
Speaker 2: with trust, and if you're not going to be in that,
Speaker 2: I don't know, Like.
Speaker 1: How do you have a marriage? Little threat? I mean,
Speaker 1: how do you start a marriage without trust? Without honesty?
Speaker 1: You can't.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's just like Brooke breaks you up again. But
Speaker 3: this one is a little bit sadder. Donn Are you
Speaker 3: willing to go that far?
Speaker 4: I pretty much agree, Like I can't start a relationship
Speaker 4: with lies or feeling like something is not truthful.
Speaker 3: Plus, men love being told that they can't be trusted
Speaker 3: and you don't feel like you're being honest with them.
Speaker 3: We love hearing that from the girl.
Speaker 2: But you think that guy to be honest about fantasy football,
Speaker 2: about the list of women that he's playing.
Speaker 3: With, Brooke, I don't know the answers to everything, but
Speaker 3: one person who does is Hose. So's your advice. We
Speaker 3: can they just give him the benefit of the doubt
Speaker 3: real quick. Okay, don't go into it hot like this.
Speaker 4: Look it looks bad.
Speaker 3: He's paying multiple women to do stuff to him, get it.
Speaker 1: Don't say that.
Speaker 3: But no matter how bad it looks, you gotta keep
Speaker 3: an open mind. He could be embarrassed to tell you
Speaker 3: for another reason, like you don't know.
Speaker 1: Just let him say it.
Speaker 4: That's fair. You're right, Like I do need to keep
Speaker 4: an open mind, Like I don't want to just attack
Speaker 4: him or like make him think that I'm just constantly
Speaker 4: snooping on him and whatever looking for something bad.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, but if he turns it around and says,
Speaker 2: why were you even looking and tries to blame.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, we have some good advice for you. You
Speaker 3: can take a little bit of what you want. But
Speaker 3: we're gonna dial your fiance Neil here and let you
Speaker 3: make your awkward Tuesday phone call. You ready, Yeah?
Speaker 4: I think so?
Speaker 1: All right, you got this. You got this.
Speaker 3: Every guy deserves to twenty mistakes before he dials number,
Speaker 3: right now, Yeah, hold on stright again.
Speaker 4: Hello, Hey, it's me.
Speaker 5: Oh Hey, what's up babe?
Speaker 4: Not much?
Speaker 5: Everything all right?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean everything's okay.
Speaker 5: Is that didn't recognize the number? Just making sure you're
Speaker 5: you're safe?
Speaker 4: And yeah, sorry, I just yeah, my phone died, so
Speaker 4: I was just calling from somewhere else. I have a question.
Speaker 4: Are you doing drugs? Just tell me?
Speaker 5: Mm hmm what am I? What are you talking about?
Speaker 5: Am I? Am I doing drugs? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Are you doing drugs?
Speaker 5: I mean none that you are already a weara no.
Speaker 4: God, okay? Are you paying for adult experiences? No?
Speaker 5: Come on, what are you talking about?
Speaker 4: Don't laugh. I'm being This is serious. Please don't laugh
Speaker 4: at me. This is serious.
Speaker 5: Like I'm I have no, I'm not, I'm not. I mean,
Speaker 5: I thought you were joking. I don't know what you're
Speaker 5: talking about, honey.
Speaker 4: Okay, listen, I know there's something going on. I know
Speaker 4: you're paying money. There's something you're not telling me.
Speaker 5: Does this have to do with the other day with
Speaker 5: the two hundred and fifty dollars to Melissa?
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I know about the others.
Speaker 5: What are you talking about?
Speaker 4: What are you found? I found a folded up piece
Speaker 4: of paper in your desk and it had women's names,
Speaker 4: it had dollar amounts next to them, and you're acting
Speaker 4: weird about it, Like, do not say fantasy football again,
Speaker 4: because I know that's a straight up lie.
Speaker 5: Okay, God, I really didn't want to talk to you
Speaker 5: about this.
Speaker 4: Uh okay, Well we have to. We're getting married. You know,
Speaker 4: I'm going to build this marriage on trust. I cannot
Speaker 4: be in a relationship built on like a lie.
Speaker 5: Couldn't we just talk about it after we get married?
Speaker 4: Oh my god, there's not going to be a marriage
Speaker 4: if you don't tell me what the hell is going on?
Speaker 4: No secret, Like, you're not making yourself look good right now.
Speaker 5: I can tell you, but it sounds worse than it is.
Speaker 4: Oh Oh my god, please, I'm can you just tell me.
Speaker 4: I'm ready to please he just.
Speaker 5: Like, Okay, So you know where we're not super young.
Speaker 5: We're our thirties or late thirties and a couple of
Speaker 5: years ago, I made it a life priority to find
Speaker 5: somebody that I could spend the rest of my life with.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, so.
Speaker 5: I read this thing that if you put up bounty
Speaker 5: out with your friends and co workers, they'd be more
Speaker 5: motivated to find a match for you.
Speaker 4: What what are you talking about?
Speaker 5: What works? More than once? Over the last few years,
Speaker 5: I've been set up on successful dates and I paid
Speaker 5: the person who finds them for me.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, that's desperate.
Speaker 5: It's not desperate, it's not it's normal normal ish.
Speaker 4: That's not normal, Like what the hell?
Speaker 5: Like? Wait, but I'm not cheating on you or anything
Speaker 5: like in this good news. I mean, this is how
Speaker 5: I found you paid the most money to Melissa, who
Speaker 5: set us up. Okay, what's going on?
Speaker 4: Money?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Heyabe, Okay, who are all these people? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Sorry to interrupt your riveting conversation with your fiance. You're
Speaker 3: on the radio right now.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: I think it's sweet what you did. My friends said
Speaker 1: each other for free. I'd love to get paid, and
Speaker 1: it shows that you were serious.
Speaker 3: We're here because Donna needed a little bit of help
Speaker 3: after she found that piece of paper with all the
Speaker 3: women's names on it and all the different dollar amounts.
Speaker 3: She thought something really shady was going on.
Speaker 2: Honestly, you could tell by her first question that she
Speaker 2: jumped to worst case scenario.
Speaker 3: You're claiming that it's a way to have friends set
Speaker 3: you up with women, Donna, How are you feeling and
Speaker 3: hearing all that?
Speaker 4: I almost don't know how to feel. It's so not
Speaker 4: anything I was expecting.
Speaker 1: Do you believe them?
Speaker 4: Right? I mean, it's it's so specific that like I
Speaker 4: feel like I do, but it's also just kind of strange.
Speaker 3: I heard you use the word desperate, I think when
Speaker 3: you were talking to you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but it's worth it. I paid her one and
Speaker 5: fifty dollars to find you, and it worked. I thought
Speaker 5: this would be a funny story I could tell you.
Speaker 3: Look later, I had to pay somebody else to get you.
Speaker 2: People pay for matchmaking services all the time, and nobody
Speaker 2: judges them.
Speaker 1: His friends will accept the money though, Yeah, I mean maybe.
Speaker 2: It was like, you know, it'll take the money right
Speaker 2: unless you meet the one.
Speaker 3: It's a successful match? Is that how it works?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 3: Once you say I do?
Speaker 5: I mean, look, there's different tiers if it's not a
Speaker 5: great day, and I like cookies.
Speaker 4: Oh, I thought.
Speaker 1: I don't understand, Donna. Aren't you like I would be flattered?
Speaker 4: I mean, okay, on money hand, I'm kind of flattered.
Speaker 4: But on the other hand, I'm like, too fifty. That's
Speaker 4: all I'm worst to you.
Speaker 3: Hey, it'll be when you're a grandma one day you're
Speaker 3: telling your grand kids, like you, Grandpa bought me for
Speaker 3: two You think they paid more.
Speaker 5: I mean, you weren't supposed to know about the price.
Speaker 5: The price is beside the point. It's just thank you.
Speaker 2: It's kind of fantasy football dating though I played fantasy
Speaker 2: so I actually don't know.
Speaker 3: All right, So it sounds like there isn't really a
Speaker 3: whole lot as shady as we thought going on with
Speaker 3: this list of women. It's just a matchmaking service.
Speaker 1: It's not cheating.
Speaker 2: Yeah, with his good friends because they know you best right,
Speaker 2: and it works.
Speaker 1: That's the amazing thing. You two are getting married.
Speaker 3: Are you still, Donna? This doesn't change anything in your mind,
Speaker 3: does it?
Speaker 4: I mean no, not at the moment. Now. I don't know.
Speaker 3: Brook soiled again, couldn't ruin this.
Speaker 1: Brook and Jeffrey in the morning