Speaker 1: First Date follow Up powered by the Advocates Injury Attorneys
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Speaker 2: Ben is on the phone today for your First Date
Speaker 2: follow Up and he's getting ghosted by a woman named Riley.
Speaker 2: So in a second we're going to call her and
Speaker 2: see if she'll tell us why she's ghosting him and
Speaker 2: maybe give him another date. But first, Ben, how long
Speaker 2: has it been since you talked to Riley?
Speaker 3: It's like him a week and a half now.
Speaker 1: We've been trying to reach out to her.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm sure not to be crazy, but you know,
Speaker 3: two messages, Okay, I.
Speaker 1: Mean, you know, you just want to know how blatantly
Speaker 1: ghosted you are.
Speaker 3: Oh, I feel very ghost It's so long.
Speaker 1: I know that sucks. I'm sorry. Okay, let's talk about
Speaker 1: your date. How did you meet her?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 1: How did you leave it?
Speaker 3: Personally?
Speaker 5: I think the date, you know, there was a little
Speaker 5: bit of awkwardness, but it was like a good date.
Speaker 5: We're in the same field, so we've known each other forever,
Speaker 5: like or not forever, but are professional lives.
Speaker 3: We've known each other, okay.
Speaker 5: We've been talking just like like friends or cowork or
Speaker 5: co whatever, and then one day, like there was this
Speaker 5: like a thing where we I noticed the night just
Speaker 5: was like, what's trying to do with date?
Speaker 3: And so this was the first one of those Okay.
Speaker 1: Well that's kind of an ideal situation.
Speaker 3: The date I.
Speaker 5: Wouldn't be calling it. I thought this was like a
Speaker 5: bad date. I thought the date was great.
Speaker 1: What'd y'all do?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 5: She met up at my place, but then we walked
Speaker 5: through the there's a really great restaurant near my near
Speaker 5: at me and then so we walked there at dinner.
Speaker 5: Dinner was great, came back movie.
Speaker 1: Was there any part of this that started to get
Speaker 1: a little awkward or off?
Speaker 5: The one thing that was awkward was on the TV
Speaker 5: with some dirty video content.
Speaker 1: When you turn on your TV, that's the last thing
Speaker 1: you were watching.
Speaker 3: Yeah, In my difference was the night before. It wasn't
Speaker 3: like that's what I was doing right before the day
Speaker 3: I go, oh, I brushed my teeth, that took the shower.
Speaker 3: I went, it was.
Speaker 1: Were you the way?
Speaker 2: Okay, you turn on the TV and she saw what
Speaker 2: you had been watching that you probably don't want people
Speaker 2: saying what you were watching.
Speaker 3: It definitely not off first day. The thing is, though
Speaker 3: we laughed off so she noticed.
Speaker 1: Are you sure she noticed? Oh yeah, I just don't
Speaker 1: know how it was.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you can't see what you saw.
Speaker 1: She laughed it off. But did it seem like it
Speaker 1: bothered her?
Speaker 5: No, that's not That's what I was thinking, was like
Speaker 5: a hiccup. But it didn't feel like a hiccup. Okay,
Speaker 5: like it didn't.
Speaker 3: Like he was that's how cool she is, Like she
Speaker 3: didn't make.
Speaker 5: It a thing.
Speaker 1: Well, she's maybe being polite because also it kind of
Speaker 1: feels like are you trying to drop a hand? Yeah,
Speaker 1: like is this what it looks? Fun? Huh?
Speaker 5: I just know that it's weird that we haven't talked
Speaker 5: in so many days.
Speaker 1: Well, how did you leave it?
Speaker 3: That is?
Speaker 5: But the second hang up the ice pelf, I just
Speaker 5: didn't see you that week, like the let's go in
Speaker 5: for the kiss moment, and so I just.
Speaker 3: We didn't do that, and so just was like, let's
Speaker 3: leave it, but like not leave it as a date.
Speaker 1: Okay. So yeah, but and she has been ignoring all
Speaker 1: of your phone calls and text and stuff.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, two messages, but you know, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, we'll try to figure it out.
Speaker 2: We'll playus on comeback and then call her and see
Speaker 2: if she'll tell us why she's ghosting you and maybe
Speaker 2: get you another day to right, Yeah, I think all right.
Speaker 1: We'll pla us on comeback, get your first a follow
Speaker 1: up next. Right in the middle of.
Speaker 2: Today's first day follow up, if you're just joining us,
Speaker 2: Ben is on the phone and he's getting ghosted by Riley.
Speaker 2: So we're about to call her and see if she'll
Speaker 2: tell us why she's ghosting him and maybe get him
Speaker 2: another day. But first, Ben, why don't you recap your
Speaker 2: situation for us.
Speaker 5: We've been friends for a long time. We finally made
Speaker 5: a decision to go on a date. We went on
Speaker 5: a pretty good date there. There was a couple.
Speaker 3: Hiccups, no kiss at the end. There was some.
Speaker 5: Studio playing when when we when she got back to
Speaker 5: my place. Yeah, accidentally it was it was something playing
Speaker 5: the night before, but it could have been the thing.
Speaker 3: I don't think it is.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, we'll give her a call and see
Speaker 2: if we can figure it out for Are you ready?
Speaker 3: Yep? Yep?
Speaker 6: Okay, Hello, Hi, mass weeak to Riley please?
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is she, Hey Riley, how are you?
Speaker 1: My name is Jewbel. I'm calling from a radio show.
Speaker 1: It's called The Jebel Show. Yeah, the show's You're Riley,
Speaker 1: I'm Nina Hi, and I'm Victoria. How are you?
Speaker 2: Hi?
Speaker 3: Hi?
Speaker 4: I'm the little Kirkfuse why are you guys calling me?
Speaker 1: Have you ever listened to the show before?
Speaker 7: I mean s been a while, but I don't know
Speaker 7: why you guys are calling me?
Speaker 2: Well, we do a segment on the show called the
Speaker 2: First Day follow Up. That's where if you go on
Speaker 2: a date with somebody and then end up ghosting them,
Speaker 2: we call you and ask why. And we got an
Speaker 2: email about you from somebody.
Speaker 4: Oh really, are.
Speaker 1: You ghasting somebody?
Speaker 3: M m.
Speaker 4: Just a little bit?
Speaker 1: Is his name Ben?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: A little bit?
Speaker 2: Yeah, been emailed us and told us a little bit
Speaker 2: about your date. He also said he likes you a
Speaker 2: lot and he's confused why he's getting ghosted.
Speaker 1: Would you mind telling us? I don't know I should Well,
Speaker 1: it's okay, you can tell us.
Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, Well I I were pretty sure he was
Speaker 7: high lowing that up.
Speaker 1: Why do you think so?
Speaker 7: So we stopped by at his apartment and it really
Speaker 7: stink of it really did okay, And he just looked
Speaker 7: so just coacted. It was just like he was out and.
Speaker 4: Out of space and like couldn't talk to him, like
Speaker 4: the whole entire date. It was just like couldn't get
Speaker 4: like lil sentences from him. And you know, since we've
Speaker 4: known you to them for a long time, it's wholly
Speaker 4: opposite of who I really know.
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe he was kind of nervous. You know,
Speaker 1: some people like to take a shot before they go
Speaker 1: on a date and then maybe like that's not his jam.
Speaker 1: But like you just you know, like smoked a little
Speaker 1: bowl real quick.
Speaker 4: But I just know Gen was a looser.
Speaker 1: Oh you don't like that if he was stoned.
Speaker 4: Yeah, when it comes to Don like he just he's
Speaker 4: just not the same person.
Speaker 7: You know, he has like the long sage on our gate.
Speaker 7: It was just like yeah, yeah, it's all right.
Speaker 1: You felt like you were talking to a wall.
Speaker 4: Yes, a big stone wall.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, well thank you for telling us. Appreciate it.
Speaker 2: And now I'll let you know that Ben is actually
Speaker 2: on the phone listening and wants to talk to you.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, you have a weed? You don't you have
Speaker 3: a problem with weed?
Speaker 1: How is your takeaway?
Speaker 4: I I do?
Speaker 5: Oh the creative Yeah, I'm I'm uh yeah, I'm baffled, but.
Speaker 3: Like what, we're a dope. It's like people snot weed.
Speaker 4: So you were high?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm hiring out after work. Yeah like what Yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm an adult. This is just what I do see
Speaker 5: to day. It's not everyone new I'm high. It's not
Speaker 5: a problem. But I am high most of the time.
Speaker 4: A you a totally different from work and on our day.
Speaker 5: So yeah, that's because there's work weed and then there's
Speaker 5: after work weed, and I.
Speaker 3: It's so weird. I don't even think I didn't even
Speaker 3: do much anymore. Like no one, like no one ever.
Speaker 5: This is the first person I ever checked me on like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 5: you're high.
Speaker 1: Oh I don't know. I mean, I'm trying to follow
Speaker 1: you right now.
Speaker 5: Ben, I'm I only have a little bit fluster. This
Speaker 5: is not I cannot believe this is the problem. I
Speaker 5: thought this was like Noah's just what we were in it.
Speaker 3: We understood each other.
Speaker 4: You're just at the person I saw she wore. Well,
Speaker 4: we'll talk into the wall on our date.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, okay, that's that's okay, that's that's chilling me.
Speaker 5: I guess you know, I don't want this to be weird.
Speaker 5: Can we like still be friends is like a are
Speaker 5: you like done?
Speaker 2: Well, let me ask Riley, would you like to go
Speaker 2: on another date with Ben? We'll pay for it.
Speaker 7: I mean, I definitely don't want to go on a
Speaker 7: second date with Ben, but I'm cool with us being friends.
Speaker 3: Okay, We're gonna be friends.
Speaker 5: Like you want to come over and smoke lead and
Speaker 5: play some video games.
Speaker 3: This is what I do with all my other friends.
Speaker 4: No, I owned you that, but we can still be friends.
Speaker 1: All right? Well, Ben, I'm sorry. No second date and
Speaker 1: no video games. Yeah?
Speaker 3: All right, Well this isle embarrassing. I'm gonna have to
Speaker 3: go smoke some displayment lead.
Speaker 1: Okay.
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