Speaker 1: Okay, back by popular demand. It is a special Awkward
Speaker 1: Thursday phone call today.
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Speaker 3: If your boyfriend says he has a little romantic surprise
Speaker 3: for you, what are you hoping for? Okay, maybe a
Speaker 3: candlelight dinner, yeah, trip to Sandals, Jamaica, a salmon protein shake,
Speaker 3: one glass too strong? Hello, well, one of our listeners
Speaker 3: says she was not ready for the surprise her boyfriend
Speaker 3: had in store, and now she needs help figuring out
Speaker 3: how to get him to take it back and do
Speaker 3: it without hurting his feelings. You're gonna hear it in
Speaker 3: your special all New Awkward Thursday phone call right after
Speaker 3: this It's awkward, It's Thursday. It's awkward Thursday phone call.
Speaker 3: When you think of the most awkward parts of navigating
Speaker 3: any new relationship, it usually involves questions like when do
Speaker 3: I introduce them to my friends and my family? When
Speaker 3: do I go through their hair brush to send a
Speaker 3: strand to a lab and see if there's any signs
Speaker 3: of fetanyl use. You know, those are normal, everyday things
Speaker 3: that people always go through at the start of a relationship.
Speaker 3: But one of our listeners, Aaron, is navigating a different
Speaker 3: set of circumstances, one that I don't think I've ever
Speaker 3: heard before. So Aarin, thank you for trusting us with
Speaker 3: the health and wellness of your relationship. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 5: Thanks guys, Thank you. Yeah, I need some guidance in this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, Jeff, he's fine.
Speaker 2: People who call us are always desperate.
Speaker 3: It's okay, Yeah, are you collecting strands of his hair yet?
Speaker 5: You know it hasn't gotten that far yet. But based
Speaker 5: on the story, I don't know. If I did, you
Speaker 5: probably wouldn't blame me.
Speaker 2: Oh what are we solving? Is this a mystery? What's happening?
Speaker 3: Going one?
Speaker 5: Okay? So basically I have been dating this guy, Thanks Paul.
Speaker 5: We've been together for about six months or so, and
Speaker 5: it's been going great until just the other day. Uh oh,
Speaker 5: brings up this scenario.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it didn't need a sound effect in that
Speaker 1: another day, whoa, what happened?
Speaker 6: What happened?
Speaker 5: So anyway, we're having dinner at my apartment the other
Speaker 5: night and he's like.
Speaker 7: Oh, I've got a surprise for you, and so he
Speaker 7: hands me a piece of paper that he had printed
Speaker 7: out from like the courts county system or something, and
Speaker 7: it's a it's a name change.
Speaker 5: Form name change like legal to legally change your name.
Speaker 5: Who my first I was like, oh my gosh, is
Speaker 5: this like a proposal and.
Speaker 3: You're change your last name?
Speaker 5: That would be a red flag.
Speaker 4: Enough you come together for six months.
Speaker 3: And a terrible proposal document.
Speaker 8: Well will you notarize this legal document with me?
Speaker 3: It's romantic that he went the extra mile to do
Speaker 3: that for her.
Speaker 4: Wait what was it?
Speaker 9: Was?
Speaker 2: It filled out?
Speaker 5: So it was like half filled out. But once I
Speaker 5: took a look at it, I saw it was his
Speaker 5: name on the forum and I was like, oh, he
Speaker 5: wants to change his name okay.
Speaker 4: And he basically tells me that he likes my name
Speaker 4: so much my name is Aaron, that he wants to
Speaker 4: change his name to.
Speaker 5: Aaron too, like the male very double a.
Speaker 3: What what's what was your reaction to that?
Speaker 5: My first though I thought it was a joke, and yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm like, I start laughing and I was like, oh
Speaker 5: my god, wouldn't that be crazy?
Speaker 7: He's so serious about it.
Speaker 5: And I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 2: Are you he wants to go from Paul to Aaron.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he wants to legally change his name. And I
Speaker 5: didn't even know this, but his middle name is Aaron.
Speaker 1: Why does he need to legally change anything? Then just
Speaker 1: go by his middle name.
Speaker 5: It seems very dramatic, but that's what he wanted. He
Speaker 5: wanted to be Aaron and Aaron, to be.
Speaker 2: Aaron, Aaron dating and Aaron.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 8: So there's red flags here.
Speaker 2: I don't know what they are.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's one of those names when you say
Speaker 1: it a lot, it starts to not sound like a word.
Speaker 3: Okay, personally I like this idea, but I'm sensing in
Speaker 3: the room and from you yourself, Aaron, that you're not
Speaker 3: a fan. What what are your qualms about it?
Speaker 5: I mean, one, it would be confusing for of all,
Speaker 5: I mean, who are we referring to?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 5: And also it's weird.
Speaker 4: He's met a lot of my friends.
Speaker 5: He just recently met my mom, and now I got
Speaker 5: to go back and say, like, oh, yes, I know
Speaker 5: he was Paul, but now just because he wanted us
Speaker 5: to be Maggie Matchie. Now his name is Aaron, so
Speaker 5: everyone now call him Aaron.
Speaker 3: Let me go through with it.
Speaker 8: My dad's name is also Jose.
Speaker 3: We go by Big Jose, little Jose. You could go
Speaker 3: by big aeront Aaron, and I thought was better.
Speaker 2: Yes, I still don't understand his reasoning.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't. He just kept saying that he just
Speaker 5: really really likes the name, and he calls me by
Speaker 5: that name all the time, obviously, and he just was
Speaker 5: saying that he he wanted to also feel that.
Speaker 7: Good about it when people would.
Speaker 5: Call him by that name. I don't know. It wasn't making.
Speaker 6: The name.
Speaker 8: You should be flattered in a sense, like he's truly.
Speaker 1: Can you continue dating a guy who changed his name
Speaker 1: to your name?
Speaker 3: Do you have the same last name as your husband
Speaker 3: before you guys got married, so you don't.
Speaker 2: Last name?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 3: Seriously, Obviously you've reached out to us today because this
Speaker 3: decision on his part is making you feel uncomfortable. But
Speaker 3: what are you hoping to do with your awkward Thursday
Speaker 3: phone call?
Speaker 5: Well? So he I mean he hasn't changed it officially yet,
Speaker 5: but he is starting the process, and I just I
Speaker 5: need advice to stop him from doing that without hurting
Speaker 5: his feelings.
Speaker 2: Okay, you don't want to break up with phone or anything.
Speaker 3: You still like him?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it's been going really well up until
Speaker 5: this moment.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 3: I mean some say Michael even better if you're both Aaron,
Speaker 3: But you know it's up to you. It's fine. We
Speaker 3: can try and help you out when we come back.
Speaker 3: Yeah some some people some do say that, but we
Speaker 3: will come up with some advice to give you on
Speaker 3: how to tell your boyfriend not to change his name
Speaker 3: to match yours when we come back for your awkward
Speaker 3: Thursday phone call right after.
Speaker 5: This thank you?
Speaker 3: Yeah, hold on, it's awkward. It's Thursday.
Speaker 5: It's awkward.
Speaker 3: Thursday phone call.
Speaker 10: Tina Fay, Brad Pitt, Rihanna. All people who decided to
Speaker 10: publicly go by their middle names and look where they
Speaker 10: are now? Washed up has beens who will do anything
Speaker 10: spertly trying to stay in the spotlight.
Speaker 2: Ran is like a billionaire.
Speaker 3: Yeah, self made only a billionaire. Sad story. And I
Speaker 3: think we learned from all those examples that going with
Speaker 3: the middle is a terrible idea. And our listener, Aaron
Speaker 3: wants to make sure her boyfriend doesn't end up as
Speaker 3: the next Brad Pitt doesn't want it because his name's Paul,
Speaker 3: but he wants to start going by his middle name
Speaker 3: erin which yes, is the exact same as his girlfriend,
Speaker 3: just slightly different spelling. And our listener, Aaron doesn't want
Speaker 3: that to happen.
Speaker 2: It's strange.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and luckily he hasn't done it officially yet. But
Speaker 3: I do want to just get a little clarification, Aaron,
Speaker 3: is he legally wanting to change his name to Aaron
Speaker 3: Aaron or what?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: Okay? No?
Speaker 7: So he basically he just wants to.
Speaker 5: Swap his first and middle name legally.
Speaker 7: Okay, he wants.
Speaker 2: To be Aaron like the guy from Baking Bad, Right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, his career has not gone well since the end
Speaker 3: of breaking his Heisenberg. He missed the window exactly. So again,
Speaker 3: Aaron needs advice on how to stop her boyfriend from
Speaker 3: changing his name. Jose, what do you have for her?
Speaker 8: A person's name is a big thing, right, It's not
Speaker 8: their identity, but it can be your personality.
Speaker 2: Oh for sure, I feel Brook, yes, in my soul.
Speaker 8: So just tell him, like things are going so good
Speaker 8: right now. If you change major things like this, you're
Speaker 8: worried it's gonna hurt the relationship.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's good. Threaten him with a bad future.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well I'm all about, you know me, compromise in
Speaker 1: a relationship.
Speaker 3: Brook to a t.
Speaker 1: So, Aaron, how would you feel about just calling him
Speaker 1: Aaron in private?
Speaker 3: Like a dirty secret?
Speaker 1: Like listen, honey, you just keep Paul and then I'll
Speaker 1: call you Aaron and that can be our thing.
Speaker 9: Family.
Speaker 2: That's the weird part.
Speaker 5: By the way he's been talking about it, I honestly
Speaker 5: doubt that it'll go for that. I think he wants
Speaker 5: it to be like universal, but I'll definitely pitch it.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, okay, I mean I would just be careful
Speaker 3: because if you don't start calling him Aaron in private,
Speaker 3: one of his coworkers might, and you're into a whole
Speaker 3: new area of weirdness. But we have the advice out
Speaker 3: there for you. You can use it if you like to,
Speaker 3: but really up to you. I'm gonna dial Paul, at
Speaker 3: least for now, your boyfriend, and then we'll see if
Speaker 3: he picks up.
Speaker 9: Here we go, Hello, Hi, Paul. Yeah, I'm sorry, I
Speaker 9: think you got the wrong number.
Speaker 6: This is Aaron.
Speaker 5: Yeah, It's it's me Aron. Hey.
Speaker 6: Oh oh hey babe. How's it going?
Speaker 7: Hey?
Speaker 5: So you know how I was going to come over
Speaker 5: after work tonight. I don't. I don't think I should
Speaker 5: come by anymore.
Speaker 6: Actually, oh why not, sugar bear.
Speaker 5: To be honest, I feel like things have really been
Speaker 5: going well in our relationships recently, but lately I've just
Speaker 5: been kind of frustrated and I don't know how to
Speaker 5: talk to you about it exactly.
Speaker 6: Oh, I mean I think it's going well too. Look,
Speaker 6: whatever is on your mind, you can tell me, because
Speaker 6: I'm your sugar bear. All right, I'll listen to you.
Speaker 6: Aaron to Aaron, I'm here, I'm here for you. I'm okay.
Speaker 5: Well, okay, that right there, that is what is not
Speaker 5: sitting well with me.
Speaker 6: Wait, what's nuts it me being here for you?
Speaker 5: No? No, just you using my name as your name.
Speaker 6: Okay. Well, first of all, it's not the same name,
Speaker 6: because you're Aaron with any and I'm Aaron with an
Speaker 6: A with two a's, And technically i'm older impact though
Speaker 6: I actually had the name person. If anyone should be
Speaker 6: changed the names, probably you. Wait what I was older
Speaker 6: that my mom gave me that name before your.
Speaker 5: Mother gave you this. Well, even you told me that
Speaker 5: the only reason that you wanted to go by that
Speaker 5: name was because once we started dating, really like the
Speaker 5: way that it sounds like it was, the inspiration was
Speaker 5: from my first name, and.
Speaker 6: It was and I thank you for that. I went wow,
Speaker 6: this person. But I also went wow, I think I'm
Speaker 6: also that person. I think I think that's me.
Speaker 5: The point is, we've been seeing each other for six
Speaker 5: months now, and my friends think that it's weird. I
Speaker 5: think that's come on.
Speaker 6: They're probably just saying that out of jealousy, because we
Speaker 6: have a good thing going there and they think it's
Speaker 6: super cute.
Speaker 5: Nobody, unfortunately, thinks it's super cute other than you and mom.
Speaker 5: Your mom even keeps making this dumb joke about us
Speaker 5: being Aaron squared and.
Speaker 6: I don't want that, but you know what, she loves
Speaker 6: it so much she might start using it.
Speaker 5: Oh now, your mom wants to go by Aaron too.
Speaker 4: That's a joke.
Speaker 6: What just happened? Are you okay? Oh? Man?
Speaker 1: I don't know if she's okay.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're feeling okay though, because we're telling you that
Speaker 3: you're on the radio right now, Paul.
Speaker 6: Okay, First of all, Aaron is my name. Second of all,
Speaker 6: who are you people?
Speaker 3: We're a radio show. We're called Brook and Jeffrey in
Speaker 3: the Morning, and your girlfriend, Aaron is a listener. She
Speaker 3: asked us to reach out to you for this segment
Speaker 3: called the Awkward Thursday phone Call.
Speaker 2: It's a good thing. She wants to make this relationship work.
Speaker 2: That's why she was asking for help exactly.
Speaker 6: That's really sweet. This is super embarrassing. I wish you
Speaker 6: would talk to me, Aaron before you called the radio.
Speaker 6: But let's figure this out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what we're here to help figure it out.
Speaker 2: Yes, are you being serious? Your mom wants to change
Speaker 2: her name to Erin. I'm sorry, we got to go
Speaker 2: back to that.
Speaker 6: Well, she's the one who gave me the name in
Speaker 6: the first place, so she's always liked it. It might
Speaker 6: just be because she never got the chance to have that
Speaker 6: name when.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, wow, she has a fondness for it.
Speaker 8: I mean, you should have an opportunity to be an Aeron.
Speaker 3: It's sure ridiculous.
Speaker 1: I mean, the thing about being in a healthy relationship
Speaker 1: is being two individual, independent identities of people exactly.
Speaker 5: Like you need to be you and have your own
Speaker 5: identity and something that means that for you. If you
Speaker 5: don't like the name Paul, that's totally fine. We can
Speaker 5: go with something else, just anything but my name.
Speaker 10: I mean, what about Baron?
Speaker 2: It rhymes with Aaron. There's so many.
Speaker 3: Options, Karen, that's a really popular name.
Speaker 5: Right now, we'll come up with something for sure.
Speaker 3: How about we use initials, where guy Aaron you could
Speaker 3: be AP and girl Aaron you could be EP.
Speaker 2: Okay, Guy Eric can just stay Paul, Jeff. That's what
Speaker 2: we're working for.
Speaker 5: This is getting so confusing, but I think Brooke gave
Speaker 5: some good advice. She said, why don't I just call
Speaker 5: you Aaron in private and I can just be like
Speaker 5: our saying, like, you know, my little pet name for you,
Speaker 5: but then still in life you.
Speaker 8: Go buy Paul legal name.
Speaker 3: What do you think about that, Paul?
Speaker 6: What about this? What about I go by Aaron in
Speaker 6: public and then if it bothers you so much, then
Speaker 6: in private you can still call me Paul.
Speaker 3: The opposite.
Speaker 5: No, and then that's like circumventing all of the issues,
Speaker 5: which is that you've already been introduced to my family
Speaker 5: and my friends and everyone in your life as Paul.
Speaker 5: It would be it would be crazy.
Speaker 7: To change it now.
Speaker 6: I know, I just changed my email signature already, so
Speaker 6: it's going to be awkward to go back.
Speaker 5: That's a lot easier than legally changing your name.
Speaker 3: How about let's just meet in the middle and all
Speaker 3: agree on Sugar Aaron and call it a dad.
Speaker 5: I don't know if I can get on board with that.
Speaker 3: I still liked them.
Speaker 8: As square and as a couple.
Speaker 2: All of this, what are you going to do?
Speaker 5: I think we're going to have to sit down and
Speaker 5: have a conversation about that somewhere, maybe not.
Speaker 3: On the air, Okay, that's a good idea. And the
Speaker 3: best news is we accomplished what we were trying to
Speaker 3: with this call, and that's put the idea out there.
Speaker 3: Just put the problem out in the open, so everybody
Speaker 3: knows there's an issue.
Speaker 1: Pretty sure, we established at the beginning we were trying
Speaker 1: to stop him from.
Speaker 3: Changing at all, and now we have fifteen different solutions
Speaker 3: that they can choose from for how they want to
Speaker 3: resolve itself. You too, go off the air and figure
Speaker 3: out how you want to call each other and report
Speaker 3: back to us. Give us an update on how you decided.
Speaker 5: Okay, we definitely have some good leads.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but don't just sign an erin because we won't
Speaker 2: know who wrote us.
Speaker 3: Yes, Sugar, arran Brook and Jeffrey in the morning, Well,
Speaker 3: did we accomplish what we set out to do at
Speaker 3: the start of this phone call? No, not exactly, not
Speaker 3: at all. Did we at least get the conversation started
Speaker 3: between the two of them, Yes, yes, that's true. I'm
Speaker 3: going to take that as a victory for us, And
Speaker 3: I think an entire family full of errands could actually
Speaker 3: be kind of a cute thing, really, Yeah, like the
Speaker 3: Kardashian family with their whole k situation. This just takes
Speaker 3: it to the extreme literal.
Speaker 2: Did George Foreman name all his kids George?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they're like.
Speaker 2: There's like eighteen George's in his family.
Speaker 3: There is a road to happiness with these two.
Speaker 8: Pronounce a different an, the famous actually all the monogrammed
Speaker 8: Aaron stuff around them.
Speaker 3: The more we talk about it, the more I like it.
Speaker 3: So I hope that they give us an update on
Speaker 3: what they decide to do with their first names. Maybe
Speaker 3: they'll have the same last names too. How cute will
Speaker 3: that be? That's that will not be cute if they
Speaker 3: get married.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, it'd be easier for Texas and last name.
Speaker 3: I'm loving it more and more, and we can help
Speaker 3: out you and your personal life, just like we did
Speaker 3: with the Aaron family. Reach out to the show and
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