Speaker 1: Second date of to day life has shown me that
Speaker 1: people can change a lot in a short period of time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I remember back when I first started working here.
Speaker 1: I used to be an upbeat, bubbly person with big
Speaker 1: hopes and even bigger biceps. Yeah you got a point.
Speaker 1: But fast forward to today, I'm a hollow shell of
Speaker 1: a man with a damaged heart and arms the size
Speaker 1: of raisinets. Why am I telling you all this because
Speaker 1: a lot can happen in just five years. And one
Speaker 1: of our listeners says he went on a date with
Speaker 1: someone that long ago and is now finally reaching out
Speaker 1: to us for help. Ye to get You know, Mike,
Speaker 1: you could have contacted us earlier. Yeah, looking back on that,
Speaker 1: I probably shouldn't, but I was a little tied up.
Speaker 1: I see it says here in your email you currently
Speaker 1: work in insurance, But back when you met this young lady,
Speaker 1: you were a budding actor. Is that right? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: was doing acting for a while, and then life happened
Speaker 1: and I kind of had to get the nine to
Speaker 1: five going down that road. But life, you mean, bills
Speaker 1: happened and you actually have to pay them yet? Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: exactly right? Who is this woman. Well, her name is
Speaker 1: April and I haven't talked to her in five years. Wow. Okay,
Speaker 1: and how did you meet her? Well, so she wasn't
Speaker 1: an actor as well, and we were in a shakespeareance
Speaker 1: played together. Well that's that's romantic. Yeah. And it's either
Speaker 1: like you made out on stage or you killed each
Speaker 1: other on stage? Which one was it? Well, fortunately we
Speaker 1: got to kiss a little bit, right, I didn't have
Speaker 1: to kill it. Okay, This is like a I mean,
Speaker 1: this is the tale as old as time with the
Speaker 1: actors that work together on a movie or on a
Speaker 1: play and before you know it, they're in love. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the on stream chemistry goes Yes, that's right. Is that
Speaker 1: what happened? Um? Yeah, Well, you know, like there's a
Speaker 1: lot of romance going on in those plays, you get
Speaker 1: really into it, but when you're acting in especially in
Speaker 1: a experience play, and so like we just really connected,
Speaker 1: I thought on stage, but then it based on cliche,
Speaker 1: like I said, but it was off stage as well.
Speaker 1: So did you guys actually go on a date or
Speaker 1: was that your time with her was doing the play.
Speaker 1: That was a time with her doing the play, and
Speaker 1: I had things going on outside of the place. I
Speaker 1: was pretty busy outside of that, but after the final show,
Speaker 1: you know, it just we're real excited and things like that,
Speaker 1: and it turned into a long date that night. Oh okay,
Speaker 1: cast party and a show. What do they call that
Speaker 1: when you wrap up a production? I think it's called
Speaker 1: a rap party? Rap party, that's it. Yep ye yeah,
Speaker 1: those actors large vocabulary. All right, So what happened with
Speaker 1: when you hung out with you said her name was April. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what happened with you in April? That night? We walked
Speaker 1: around the city a bit. We popped into a and
Speaker 1: that starts to put love in the air a bit
Speaker 1: more a very cultured of you. Yeah, Shakespearean artsy. He
Speaker 1: listens to our show, So that's cool. How was the
Speaker 1: Art Museum? It was great? You know, I like in
Speaker 1: a location like that, you get a lot of time
Speaker 1: to talk and chat. And we sneak around the corners
Speaker 1: kits a little bit. You know, we were still in
Speaker 1: the in the zone. So what happened after the museum
Speaker 1: make out? Well, we both live in a place where
Speaker 1: we have to take the subway, so we were gonna
Speaker 1: hop on the subway and so we got down to
Speaker 1: the platform and it came, we popped in and then
Speaker 1: this is where it works tough. It's uh. I looked
Speaker 1: at her and I just said, I'm really sorry, I
Speaker 1: can't do this. What and I stepped out? You just
Speaker 1: left her inside the subway car for yourself? Yeah, well
Speaker 1: at night after date. I mean, I know the lighting
Speaker 1: is terrible at those things, but she could were you
Speaker 1: acting now? Like it's almost like a scene from a movie.
Speaker 1: I get it. Like the last thing I saw was
Speaker 1: her like going away on the training just looking a
Speaker 1: bit shocked. Yeah, I would have been like, what just happened?
Speaker 1: I will wait? Why? Well? And so here's the thing.
Speaker 1: I was engaged at the time, and she didn't realize
Speaker 1: that she did know. No, just we got caught up
Speaker 1: in the acting thing and I kind of felt myself
Speaker 1: drawn to her, and so I didn't really you know,
Speaker 1: you don't bringing everything up about yourself. Oh, let us
Speaker 1: didn't work out with the fiance, shocking, Well, it did,
Speaker 1: and then it didn't. So I end up getting married.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, we're married for four and a half years.
Speaker 1: And so here's where we're at is I'm now divorced
Speaker 1: and I'm hope being that maybe I can get in
Speaker 1: touch or you can help me get in touch with
Speaker 1: April again, because it's been killing me. Like I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna say it ended my marriage, but like I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna say it wasn't something that was on my mind
Speaker 1: a lot. I mean, cheating on your fiance before you
Speaker 1: get married. I mean, like it's hard right now to
Speaker 1: be on your side. Yeah, it's like because it's romantic
Speaker 1: like it is, you can't fight love and you still
Speaker 1: never forgot about and sometimes you can't help like who
Speaker 1: you're falling for, and it's not like they were married
Speaker 1: and they just don't help mak it out with other
Speaker 1: people while you're engaged, you can't. Part of it was acting,
Speaker 1: part of them marking out was just on stage and
Speaker 1: then it slipped out onto the real world. April has
Speaker 1: to know that you got married and that you were
Speaker 1: cheating on your fiance with her. I mean there's social media.
Speaker 1: There's no way she didn't see it. That's very possible
Speaker 1: that she saw it. But we have not communicated and
Speaker 1: she never reached out and I never reached out, And like, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying them in the right I'm like to
Speaker 1: anti girl in the story, like I have a flause. Hey,
Speaker 1: I admit to be wrong. Good, okay, but it happened.
Speaker 1: Yeah girl, Okay, well, let's see if we can have
Speaker 1: a happy ending to the second date update. We're gonna
Speaker 1: play us No, no, no, not just a normal Shakespearean
Speaker 1: happy ending. That's that's all I'm trying to say. No,
Speaker 1: just you know, a second dated Okay, we're gonna play
Speaker 1: a song. We're gonna come back. We'll call April for
Speaker 1: you and we'll try and get you your second date update.
Speaker 1: All right, okay, thank you? All right, hold on, man,
Speaker 1: but soft what light through yonder window breaks? It is
Speaker 1: the D train northbound. April is the confused lady I
Speaker 1: left on it if you're just tuning in. One of
Speaker 1: our listeners, Mike met a girl named April five years
Speaker 1: ago while they were acting in a Shakespearean play together,
Speaker 1: and soon they're onstage chemistry turned into offstage chemistry on
Speaker 1: one romantic evening, but that night ended with him vaguely
Speaker 1: saying I'm sorry, I can't do this before leaving her
Speaker 1: standing on a subway train as it pulled away. And
Speaker 1: the reason why he did that is because turns out
Speaker 1: he was engaged at the time and he felt guilty,
Speaker 1: so he called it off, and now five years later,
Speaker 1: Mike is hoping to finally reconnect with April and see
Speaker 1: if there's any possibility of rekindling what they had all
Speaker 1: those years ago. Now, Mike, I've been thinking about this
Speaker 1: during the break and if we can get April on
Speaker 1: the phone, we can definitely talk to her about that night.
Speaker 1: But I really think you should be the one who
Speaker 1: explains to her what happened and why you left if
Speaker 1: she hasn't figured it out already, what do you think? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I need to face it. I did it. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I would maybe speak more eloquently than that,
Speaker 1: but I mean, you talk to us from the heart,
Speaker 1: and I think that that's all you have to do.
Speaker 1: And it could be that we get April on the
Speaker 1: phone and she's married happily and doesn't want to talk
Speaker 1: to you at all. So yeah, it's a possibility. Real
Speaker 1: actor's cheat all the time. So you're good? Yeah, all right, man,
Speaker 1: you're ready to do this? No, Like you guys mentioned
Speaker 1: she might be married and stuff. Now, I'm like really nervous.
Speaker 1: That never crossed your mind before. I do not understand men,
Speaker 1: I'm going a dollar phone number right now here we go. Okay, Hello, Hi,
Speaker 1: I'm looking for April. This is she. Hi April. My
Speaker 1: name's Jeffrey from the radio show Broken Jeffrey in the Morning.
Speaker 1: How you doing? What is this same regards to? How
Speaker 1: do I even explain this? It's a lot, Yeah, going
Speaker 1: to be a lot. I hope you're not too busy
Speaker 1: right now, because we have something that we would like
Speaker 1: to do with you called a second date update. Have
Speaker 1: you ever heard of that before? Um? No, this is
Speaker 1: really interesting. Okay. I wasn't expecting this at all. Okay, okay.
Speaker 1: So the reason why we're calling is because we recently
Speaker 1: got an email into our show from a guy who
Speaker 1: says he went out on a date with you about
Speaker 1: five years ago. His name's Mike. You may know him
Speaker 1: as Romeo. Well, I'm not sure you guys, I think
Speaker 1: that she needs to sit down. Yeah. So Mike says
Speaker 1: that he met you a long time ago when you
Speaker 1: were both acting in a play together. Yeah, I know
Speaker 1: exactly here talking about Okay, are you okay? Yeah, I'm okay.
Speaker 1: It's just so random. But it's been it's been a
Speaker 1: long time, okay, Yeah, and he understands that Mike told
Speaker 1: us a little bit about your relationship together, about kind
Speaker 1: of connecting when you were working together in the play,
Speaker 1: and how it kind of went offstage one night, and
Speaker 1: you guys had a romantic evening together. Do you remember that?
Speaker 1: I remember that? So what did he tell you about
Speaker 1: it exactly? Oh? Oh yeah, okay, I mean, well, he
Speaker 1: had very nice things to say about you, and said,
Speaker 1: you guys had a great time together, checking out an
Speaker 1: art museum, you made out a few times, even, and chemistry,
Speaker 1: you watch your acting together, you watch around the city. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: And then he does admit the night ended a little
Speaker 1: bit awkwardly down in the bowels of the subway station.
Speaker 1: I don't know why that word came to my mind.
Speaker 1: Yeah it did, Actually it did. So I'm really interested
Speaker 1: to hear what he had to say about that. Oh
Speaker 1: like a goodbye? No, Like, why in the heck would
Speaker 1: he do that? You mean leave you? Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: any of it. It was the strangest thing. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: in that moment, like, what were you thinking? I don't
Speaker 1: even know what to think. Honestly, I was so excited.
Speaker 1: I liked him, and he just like bounce it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I never hear from him again. So I was hurt.
Speaker 1: I was like really hurt. And I think part of
Speaker 1: the reason that he reached out to us to get
Speaker 1: a hold of you is because he feels guilty about
Speaker 1: how it played out. Yeah, I'm sure he feels guilty.
Speaker 1: And so here's the deal, April. I would love to
Speaker 1: tell you why Mike did what he did in the
Speaker 1: whole backstory behind it, but I think it would sound
Speaker 1: a lot better if it actually came from him. Okay,
Speaker 1: And the thing is, I can make that happen right now,
Speaker 1: because I need to let you know. Mike is on
Speaker 1: the other line listening and he wants to talk to
Speaker 1: you right now. Oh my god, my heart is beating
Speaker 1: for you. Yeah. Laughs, I'm here. Hi everybody, Hi April. Hey,
Speaker 1: So what's up? Well a lot um? Yeah, we're gonna
Speaker 1: even start with this, Like, I hope you've been well.
Speaker 1: I know this is weird talking or all this time
Speaker 1: and kind of how everything went down and everything. I
Speaker 1: just it's been eating at me for a while because
Speaker 1: I was having a great time, Like I heard you
Speaker 1: just say that, like you liked me, and I liked you,
Speaker 1: and then the problem is that I had someone else
Speaker 1: in my life, and I made a commitment to them.
Speaker 1: I was engaged, and so when this all just happened
Speaker 1: so fast, it was like in that I had that
Speaker 1: moment of clarity and I just I reacted, and I
Speaker 1: know it wasn't the best way to do it. I know, like,
Speaker 1: why didn't Why didn't you just tell me that you're
Speaker 1: engaged right? Well, because I was. I think I was
Speaker 1: falling for you a bit, and it just all kind
Speaker 1: of hit me like a ton of bricks and I
Speaker 1: just had to step out of it. Yeah, and Mike's
Speaker 1: defense when you're making out with a girl usually doesn't
Speaker 1: go well when you say, oh, by the way, I'm engaged, dude,
Speaker 1: they did a whole play together. He had plenty of
Speaker 1: opportunity to bring it up. I mean, April, how are
Speaker 1: you feeling right now? But yeah, my heart is pounding
Speaker 1: because I have thought about him since it's happened. And
Speaker 1: it took me a half a year until I did
Speaker 1: get back on that train, and this like really affected me.
Speaker 1: But you could I mean not to keep defending Mike here,
Speaker 1: but you could understand when you're in the situation where
Speaker 1: you have these conflicting emotions going on, and he really
Speaker 1: likes you, but he also has this fiance. He just
Speaker 1: didn't know what to do or what to say. He
Speaker 1: didn't know how to say it to you. Could you
Speaker 1: understand being in a situation like that, Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I can understand, but like, um, I was dating somebody
Speaker 1: at that time. Oh wait, you were also in a
Speaker 1: relationship when that what's going on? Yeah? I was in
Speaker 1: a relationship, but I wasn't engaged or anything like that. Like,
Speaker 1: I was just in a relationship. Wait, what kind of relationship.
Speaker 1: I had a boy friends and we were together for
Speaker 1: like three years term, like a living boyfriend. Yeah. Yes,
Speaker 1: it was a living boyfriend, but it was Um, you
Speaker 1: had a boyfriend you lived with? Yeah, I did, but
Speaker 1: I wasn't engaged to him. Well yeah, but like you
Speaker 1: live with it. I'm just now I'm a little shocked.
Speaker 1: I'm really confused. Why did it take you six months
Speaker 1: to get over this when you were I mean, were
Speaker 1: you actually kind of grateful that he just left because
Speaker 1: then you don't have the guilt and the drama yourself. No,
Speaker 1: I totally get what you're saying, But like, I really
Speaker 1: liked Mike, and I would have thought about leaving my
Speaker 1: boyfriend for him at that time. Kind of like double diving.
Speaker 1: So one of you were single at that moment and
Speaker 1: both felt for each other. You won't have a healthy relationship,
Speaker 1: but it'll be good. But I said something. I stepped out.
Speaker 1: You know, you don't get to take a moral high
Speaker 1: ground here, Mike, in a weird way. He did. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: but he literally was like, Loug, I went too far.
Speaker 1: I got it back. I'm awful. She just would have
Speaker 1: kept cheating on her boyfriend until he made the first
Speaker 1: movie he Cheater. They're both terrible. Yeah, both terrible. Are awful,
Speaker 1: Like you don't explain it to her and then you
Speaker 1: leave and you assume she's I mean, like, here's my question.
Speaker 1: Are you both single right now? Because I feel like
Speaker 1: we really need to double check on this. That's a
Speaker 1: good point, Brook, Mike. Are you single? Yeah? I'm single? Now?
Speaker 1: You got it? April? How about you? You single? Um,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty much single. What does that mean? That means
Speaker 1: there's some guy author single, April. It's complicated, Like, I
Speaker 1: don't know what you want me to say. I can
Speaker 1: still date other people, Yeah, sure, up until the wedding
Speaker 1: next week? Is messy, guys, Well, I mean are you.
Speaker 1: Are you both so interested in this? It sounds like
Speaker 1: they are. And that's why I think this is the
Speaker 1: right time to ask April hey, like, I'll save you
Speaker 1: guys the time, Like I have this romanticized thing in
Speaker 1: my head. And then to find out she's been cheating
Speaker 1: at the time, I'm a little offended by that. Actually
Speaker 1: you were cheating, Mike, you both were cheating. I may
Speaker 1: be a bad person and I may have does bad things,
Speaker 1: but what she did is worse than what I did. OK.
Speaker 1: But no, that was a Shakespeare quote. That was Shakespeare.
Speaker 1: That is one percent. I'm not true and you're stupid
Speaker 1: because I would have gone out with you. Again, I
Speaker 1: think that's Shakespeare too. Broke and Jeffrey in the morning.