Speaker 1: Hey, welcome to the weekend edition of your Second Date Update.
Speaker 2: Yes, I don't know how I tell you this. We're
Speaker 2: going to try something new, I know, for you know,
Speaker 2: I know people don't like new.
Speaker 1: Things, but we're just curious because we know you love
Speaker 1: dysfunctional relationship drama and many of our new listeners on
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Speaker 1: We actually do a full hour of brand new content
Speaker 1: every day, a full show. That's not all Second Dates.
Speaker 1: We do another segment that is very relationship drama heavy.
Speaker 2: And very loved. Yes, yes, totally beloved.
Speaker 1: That's called Awkward Tuesday phone Calls, and that's whenever you
Speaker 1: have a relationship issue and you need our help making
Speaker 1: a phone call. So on Sundays, just for this month only,
Speaker 1: we're gonna try it out. See what you guys think.
Speaker 1: If you like it, if you don't like it, let
Speaker 1: us know in the comments.
Speaker 3: If you like the Second Date, you're gonna be obsessed
Speaker 3: with Awkward.
Speaker 2: To Yeah it is. Sometimes they're more dramatic anything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, truly truly, Brook Teller, I stole her wall and
Speaker 3: I want to come clean about it.
Speaker 2: Oh wait, did you by the way we should talk. Okay,
Speaker 2: all right, all right, here it is.
Speaker 1: Here's your awkward Tuesday football on a Sunday, just for you.
Speaker 2: We're trying it out. Listen up.
Speaker 4: We've all lied to our parents before.
Speaker 5: Sometimes you have to. Yeah, Like, no, Mom, the chicken
Speaker 5: wasn't too dry. Yeah, I love the electric nose hair
Speaker 5: trimmer for my birthday.
Speaker 4: I'm so glad you gave me that instead of a car.
Speaker 6: Ye.
Speaker 5: I never even wanted to be cool anyway. But some
Speaker 5: lies are bigger than others. And one of our listeners
Speaker 5: today needs our help for that exact reason, because she's
Speaker 5: worried that her brother has been hiding something from her
Speaker 5: entire family for over two years. It's a big secret,
Speaker 5: and I can promise you this, it might lead to
Speaker 5: a huge family blowout if we don't step in right now.
Speaker 2: Oh I love family secrets. Let's step in.
Speaker 5: We're going to do it in your brand new awkward
Speaker 5: Tuesday phone call.
Speaker 4: Next. It's awkward.
Speaker 1: It's Tuesday.
Speaker 5: It's awkward Tuesday phone call. I've told you guys countless
Speaker 5: times about how awkward it is to hang out with
Speaker 5: my family.
Speaker 4: Yeah, hearing about it's one thing.
Speaker 5: Living It is a different experience because just this past weekend,
Speaker 5: my father angrily did dishes for a half hour.
Speaker 4: Why because nobody else.
Speaker 5: Was doing them at the time, So he was getting
Speaker 5: his hands wet, cursing while violently shoving plates into the dishwasher,
Speaker 5: screaming about how he doesn't want to get food poisoning again.
Speaker 2: All right, checks out.
Speaker 5: So there you go, just an normal family gathering for
Speaker 5: the debos, and one of our listeners, Lauren, is having
Speaker 5: your own issues with an upcoming family get together, apparently
Speaker 5: regarding her brother, Lauren, do you think maybe your brother
Speaker 5: wants to hang out and do dishes with my ad
Speaker 5: because it might actually solve both of our problems?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I would love that.
Speaker 1: Okay, I mean, Jeff says that, but you know, he
Speaker 1: was in the other room being like, I know he's mad,
Speaker 1: but I really don't want to do him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's like dad came down and watching the musical.
Speaker 5: Don't judge me enough about my dad and his dishes anger.
Speaker 5: What about your brother? What's going on with him?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 7: Okay, So it's rather bizarre because my brother's been in
Speaker 7: a relationship with a girl for about two years now.
Speaker 2: Okay, so they've been together for a while.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they have, they have two years. Especially for my brother,
Speaker 7: two years is a while because he's always been a
Speaker 7: super career oriented focused guy.
Speaker 1: You know, I thought for sure that was not going
Speaker 1: to be followed by a compliment and it was, well, you.
Speaker 4: Thought he's gonna use a big loser. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: You know, this is my brother, and who'd want to
Speaker 2: be with him?
Speaker 5: Okay, some people are like that though they don't get
Speaker 5: into a lot of relationships.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like me.
Speaker 7: Right, But the issue is that it's been two years
Speaker 7: and we've never met her.
Speaker 4: What sketch, it's a long time.
Speaker 2: You've never met her?
Speaker 7: Well, he's super secretive about her and and like he
Speaker 7: won't tell us much or show us photos, like he's
Speaker 7: showing me a couple of polaroids. Polaroid, I mean polaroids.
Speaker 7: I know he's he's vintage.
Speaker 2: What you can put him from your phone?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 2: Do they live in another country or something?
Speaker 6: Is that? What?
Speaker 2: Like, I just they can't be close to you then?
Speaker 7: Right, we don't live super close. No, But whenever the
Speaker 7: opportunity for us to meet her comes up, all of
Speaker 7: a sudden, you're either busy or sick, or something's come
Speaker 7: up and you know, it's just getting super weird.
Speaker 5: What do you think is happening in this situation? Do
Speaker 5: you think he's just ashamed of you and your family?
Speaker 5: I thought, girlfriend, that's where I went. That's why I
Speaker 5: didn't introduce anybody.
Speaker 7: I think there's always this pressure from my parents. So
Speaker 7: when are you going to settle down? You know, when
Speaker 7: are you going to get married and have a family.
Speaker 7: And part of me thinks he may have made her
Speaker 7: up just to get them off his back.
Speaker 4: Oh, she's real.
Speaker 2: Oh, there's a realty.
Speaker 6: Oh.
Speaker 5: I had one of those girlfriends for a few years
Speaker 5: and that was kind of nice. Yeah, I'm just someone
Speaker 5: that you make up just to get your parents off
Speaker 5: your back.
Speaker 4: Girl for fifteen years and thousand and third grade. I
Speaker 4: told you, Sarah is just very shy.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, that would be one thing.
Speaker 1: To make it up for your parents because they're putting
Speaker 1: pressure on you. But he would lie to you as well.
Speaker 1: You think you're his own sister about a girlfriend.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's where you should be cool.
Speaker 7: He might be embarrassed, you know, and I just want
Speaker 7: to let him know that if that's the case, he
Speaker 7: doesn't have to make someone up like he can be honest.
Speaker 2: So we're just going to publicly call him out. I
Speaker 2: like it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I am confused.
Speaker 5: What is it that you want to do with your
Speaker 5: call here? You want to call your brother and say what?
Speaker 7: I don't know what to say. That's why I'm calling. Like,
Speaker 7: the big issue is that I have to do it
Speaker 7: this way because my parents said that they are going
Speaker 7: to confront him about it. Yes, I want to get
Speaker 7: to him and get the answers before they you know.
Speaker 1: It's like a whole family discussion behind his back that
Speaker 1: everyone thinks his girlfriend's fake, and I would by that.
Speaker 3: Now after two years, You're like, okay, every single time.
Speaker 1: Every year makes sense.
Speaker 5: It does kind of get Are you sure you don't
Speaker 5: want that to happen just for like the good video
Speaker 5: that you could post.
Speaker 7: I'm trying to save him before things get really ugly
Speaker 7: because there could be a huge fallout.
Speaker 5: I didn't think about that. Maybe she is really ugly.
Speaker 5: You could be right about that. Is that what she's saying.
Speaker 5: I thought I heard her say she could be really ugly.
Speaker 1: No, things could get really ugly and there could be
Speaker 1: a fallout.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, but it still is a decent theory, right, Okay,
Speaker 5: that could be it. We'll find out. We're gonna play
Speaker 5: a song. We'll come back and we'll.
Speaker 4: Give you.
Speaker 6: One.
Speaker 4: Sorry, Yeah, we're gonna play a song.
Speaker 5: We'll come back and we'll give you some advice and
Speaker 5: let you make your awkward Tuesday phone call to your
Speaker 5: brother to find out if his girlfriend.
Speaker 4: Is real or made up. We're gonna do it right
Speaker 4: after this.
Speaker 7: All right, thank you?
Speaker 4: All right, hold on, it's awkward.
Speaker 2: It's Tuesday.
Speaker 6: It's awkward Tuesday phone call.
Speaker 4: Today.
Speaker 5: We're on a mission, a mission to track down the
Speaker 5: invisible girlfriend.
Speaker 4: Is she real? We don't know, but this is what
Speaker 4: we have.
Speaker 5: We have no social media posts of the two of
Speaker 5: them together, no family meetups, and two blurry polaroid photos
Speaker 5: that have been seen at a brother sister get together,
Speaker 5: along with a million excuses for why she can't ever
Speaker 5: meet the fan oly on.
Speaker 2: Maybe she's bigfoot.
Speaker 4: But here's my question.
Speaker 5: If she's invisible, okay, how do we know she's not
Speaker 5: on the phone with us right now? Oh, Dana, are
Speaker 5: you here? Blink twice? If you're here, I'm not hearing
Speaker 5: the blinks.
Speaker 6: Heard that, But.
Speaker 5: No, this is a real situation. We're not joking around
Speaker 5: It's been two years and one of our listeners, Lauren,
Speaker 5: says she has still not met her brother's girlfriend and
Speaker 5: it's becoming a little bit of an issue in their family.
Speaker 5: So she's looking to get ahead of this before her
Speaker 5: parents get involved. What's your advice for Lauren before we
Speaker 5: call her brother?
Speaker 1: Listen, the quickest way to bond with your sibling is
Speaker 1: to have a common enemy, and we all know that
Speaker 1: enemy is always your parents. I'm right, okay, So listen,
Speaker 1: you need to go to him and be like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, you are not going to believe what mom
Speaker 1: and dad are saying behind your back.
Speaker 2: And I don't even know how to respond.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, yes, parents under the bus, and then he'll.
Speaker 2: Come clean and be honest with you.
Speaker 4: Lauren, you liking that.
Speaker 7: I do like that strategy. I do divide and conquer, divide.
Speaker 5: The parents, So throw the parents under the bus. That's
Speaker 5: option one. Jose, what do you think?
Speaker 3: I really like what you said towards the end of
Speaker 3: our last phone call, which was you are trying to
Speaker 3: save him, so so he knows like, Hey, I'm not
Speaker 3: just being a boss the older sister here. I'm truly
Speaker 3: trying to help And I think that he'll.
Speaker 1: Matterally, you don't care if he doesn't have a girlfriend,
Speaker 1: right regardless.
Speaker 4: Right, you're the hero here, in fact, call yourself a hero.
Speaker 4: When you talk to him.
Speaker 5: You're gonna save his relationship with mom and dad. Are
Speaker 5: you ready to do this?
Speaker 7: That's all I want for Christmas?
Speaker 4: Okay, that's sweet.
Speaker 6: Here we go.
Speaker 4: Family war, family division.
Speaker 5: All right, I'm gonna dial your brother's phone number. We're
Speaker 5: going to back away and let you talk to him,
Speaker 5: but we'll jump in when we feel like you need
Speaker 5: a little help.
Speaker 6: Okay, okay, sounds good.
Speaker 4: All right, here we go.
Speaker 6: Hello, Hello, Jake, Lauren.
Speaker 7: Yes, how are you?
Speaker 6: I'm good. I didn't know what you call in your
Speaker 6: uh named it and pop up?
Speaker 7: Oh I'm sorry about that. You know, sometimes gotta make
Speaker 7: it a surprise, right, gotta switch things up.
Speaker 6: Yeah, what do you mean?
Speaker 7: Well, I don't know.
Speaker 6: Listen, listen.
Speaker 7: So the holidays are right around the corner, right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 7: Mom and Dad are really excited to get together as always,
Speaker 7: and they keep after me if we're gonna get to
Speaker 7: me Dana.
Speaker 6: Uh, Well, I don't know. I mean, she's got a
Speaker 6: lot on our plate right now, so I'm I'm not
Speaker 6: sure if you'll have time.
Speaker 7: I mean maybe you're joking, right, What do you mean
Speaker 7: he's not gonna have time?
Speaker 6: It's yeah, I mean it's.
Speaker 7: Been over two years now, Jake, we haven't met her.
Speaker 6: Well yeah, I mean I'm sorry, but timing's been off.
Speaker 6: Just hasn't been the right time.
Speaker 7: I mean, Jake, timing's always been off. It's just is
Speaker 7: there something else going on?
Speaker 6: I don't know what to tell you. I mean, she's
Speaker 6: just not ready.
Speaker 7: Is it?
Speaker 6: Dad?
Speaker 3: Cream?
Speaker 7: She's in rantam because trust to me, I get it.
Speaker 6: No, there's nothing to do with that.
Speaker 7: Okay. Well, I'm your big sister, and mom and dad
Speaker 7: have been talking about this to me, and I hate that.
Speaker 7: It's not good.
Speaker 6: So what I mean, it's not o their business. I
Speaker 6: mean they can talk about it as long as it's
Speaker 6: not to me.
Speaker 7: They think you're high something, Jake. And to be honest
Speaker 7: at this point, I kind.
Speaker 6: Of do too. Oh, come on, Jake, just be honest. Okay,
Speaker 6: this she exists?
Speaker 4: Is she real?
Speaker 7: Isana? Is Dana a real person? Because it's okay if
Speaker 7: she's not like I guess the pressure I was there
Speaker 7: too before. I'm at Cooper.
Speaker 6: Listen, she's real. I've already told you that, And honestly,
Speaker 6: that's crazy that you think I'm lying about it. It's
Speaker 6: kind of what.
Speaker 7: Am I supposed to think? What am I supposed to think?
Speaker 7: There's no social media posts. I come over to your
Speaker 7: house and there's a few blurry polaroids. You know. It's
Speaker 7: it's just it's it's weird.
Speaker 6: Look, I mean, I get it, but I can't do
Speaker 6: anything about it. She's not ready. We're not ready. It's
Speaker 6: just not the time.
Speaker 7: What do you mean, We're not ready? Not ready for what?
Speaker 7: It's been two years?
Speaker 6: Fine, we're not ready because Dana is her real name.
Speaker 7: What are you talking about.
Speaker 6: The real name? It's Claire and you know her.
Speaker 7: What are you talking about right now? I don't. I
Speaker 7: don't understand.
Speaker 6: It's it's our stepsister. Okay, what that?
Speaker 4: Oh my god? Jake, Hey, hey man, you need a
Speaker 4: second over here.
Speaker 2: My name is Jeff I freaking out.
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, Jake, you're on a radio show right now.
Speaker 4: What don't worry.
Speaker 5: Not a lot of people listen to us, just a million.
Speaker 5: But it is interesting to hear this. We we know
Speaker 5: a lot about some of your story from your sister.
Speaker 7: Are you serious? It's Claire.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's like an adult stepsister. You didn't grow up together.
Speaker 2: Did you grow up together?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 6: We were like thirteen.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, you're basically adults teenagers. Yeah, well, in the
Speaker 5: Jewish tradition, thirteen is adults. And I don't know what
Speaker 5: your religion is, but since you celebrate Christmas, it's probably
Speaker 5: not your stepsister, Lauren.
Speaker 6: Lauren, I knew you'd react like this. This is why
Speaker 6: I don't tell you guys stuff. I mean, everyone is dutchmental.
Speaker 4: This really does make a lot of sense.
Speaker 7: That's not normal, Jake, that's not normal.
Speaker 6: Why not? It's not like we're blood related. It's fine.
Speaker 1: Did this happen at like another family holiday event?
Speaker 6: Like?
Speaker 4: Do what I'm saying? Brook wants to take notes so
Speaker 4: she can make it happen for organize this.
Speaker 6: It happened way after our teenage years. I never thought
Speaker 6: this would happen. I just I don't know. We ended
Speaker 6: up hanging out as the Nolts and started falling for
Speaker 6: each other. I like her, I don't know. I don't
Speaker 6: care that.
Speaker 4: So wait, when we're.
Speaker 1: Talking about your mom and dad, is it your mom
Speaker 1: and stepdad that we're talking like? Oh my there's like
Speaker 1: a lot of family dynamics here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we can have at least acknowledge there's no blood relation.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I lived with her in high school. I lived
Speaker 7: with her in high school. Oh, you can't get her.
Speaker 5: Well, it's great, so that way you've already met That
Speaker 5: was what the whole problem was.
Speaker 4: He said that you never met her, so you know
Speaker 4: her know her?
Speaker 6: Well? Funny, Yeah, you should be happy because you have
Speaker 6: already met her and she's great.
Speaker 2: Isn't she already at your family holiday stuff? You guys
Speaker 2: just aren't acting like a couple during it.
Speaker 6: Like, what is exactly? I mean, that's why I haven't
Speaker 6: made a big announce that she dreaty there?
Speaker 2: Oh so what do you do?
Speaker 3: You have to wait until you guys get engaged to
Speaker 3: tell us break up?
Speaker 5: What exactly was the plan here, Jake? Like, when were
Speaker 5: you going to come forward and say what your relationship was?
Speaker 6: Cra I mean, this is the issue. I mean, I
Speaker 6: get it, Like I know that it's maybe not the
Speaker 6: most normal thing, you know, to be attracted to your stepsister,
Speaker 6: but I just know I cannot I can't ignom my feelings,
Speaker 6: but neither can she.
Speaker 3: I mean, look, we are a show that's all about love, right, Brooke,
Speaker 3: Love is love and you have to support this.
Speaker 7: I get it.
Speaker 1: But like the shock and if you were going to
Speaker 1: pull the band aid off, it would have helped. Like
Speaker 1: two years ago, Now you have created all of this
Speaker 1: for two years.
Speaker 3: They're going to be upset that he didn't say anything before.
Speaker 1: And they're both like they're both in the same room
Speaker 1: while people are asking him about girlfriends.
Speaker 4: Okay, be honest, you guys.
Speaker 3: Ever sneak away though, And I don't know.
Speaker 5: I would imagine it's like, oh, I know all those
Speaker 5: family vacations, you guys.
Speaker 6: Oh so now you guys get it right, Like why
Speaker 6: I have not totally?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Oh, I can kind of understand why that would
Speaker 5: be difficult to tell Mom that text.
Speaker 3: I would have deleted it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I never thought I would say this, But maybe
Speaker 7: it's better not to tell Mom and Dad O water
Speaker 7: another year and I'm going to cross my fingers and
Speaker 7: hope you break up by that.
Speaker 4: I feel like she'll.
Speaker 2: Tell them for you.
Speaker 4: It's not going to be horrible.
Speaker 5: Then if you don't tell him, then we can maybe
Speaker 5: even do a closure call coming up or a second
Speaker 5: date update in the future, like parents, No with Jake
Speaker 5: and his stepsister. Oh, it's the content that keeps on giving.
Speaker 5: That's what the segment is all about.
Speaker 4: Why don't we just.
Speaker 3: Do a phone tap on the parents and see how
Speaker 3: they react and at.
Speaker 4: The end we can go.
Speaker 5: It's a new recurring segment that we need.
Speaker 1: I like it, brooking Jeffrey in the morning,