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Speaker 2: Second date, up date. If I've learned anything from reading
Speaker 2: countless dating blogs, they all say the absolute worst thing
Speaker 2: you can do is be open to trying new things.
Speaker 4: No, they don't. That's the opposite of what they all say.
Speaker 2: New experiences should scare you and you need to avoid
Speaker 2: them at all costs.
Speaker 5: Instead of reading.
Speaker 4: The anti therapy blogs again.
Speaker 2: You know, you need to stick to the places that
Speaker 2: you've already been and people you already know, and nothing
Speaker 2: bad can ever.
Speaker 1: Happen people, Okay, Jeff, is how you end up in
Speaker 1: like my hometown dating your gage?
Speaker 5: Okay, supports it.
Speaker 1: Is.
Speaker 2: One of our listeners didn't take that advice, thank god,
Speaker 2: and he's some sort of modern renaissance man decided to
Speaker 2: try something new and look where it landed him right
Speaker 2: here on our show, which I'm guessing is another new
Speaker 2: experience for him that he's never done before.
Speaker 4: So yikes, we're the low point.
Speaker 2: We are, Alvin, welcome to your new life.
Speaker 3: Low awesome, glad to be here. This is my first
Speaker 3: time ever doing that.
Speaker 4: Now, are you feeling shame or excitement.
Speaker 3: No, definitely excitement. I don't I'm not feeling shame.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, we're going to change that by the end
Speaker 2: of the segment. But you said that you tried something
Speaker 2: new for your dating life.
Speaker 5: What was that?
Speaker 3: Have you ever heard of a red envelope party?
Speaker 2: What is that?
Speaker 4: What's a red envelope party?
Speaker 3: Well, it's like a like a dating event that people
Speaker 3: put on. And there was at this fancy house and
Speaker 3: you went by yourself.
Speaker 4: You didn't bring a friend.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, this was a friend hooked me up with this,
Speaker 3: but I went by myself. Yeah. And then you scan
Speaker 3: like a QR code and you fill out a questionnaire
Speaker 3: that's like about your interests and your values.
Speaker 4: You know what kind of person you are find on
Speaker 4: a dating profile, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, just a brief little thing like that, and
Speaker 3: then once you do the questionnay. I went side the
Speaker 3: house and it was had the vibe of like a
Speaker 3: slanky private members club. It was a fancy furniture and
Speaker 3: well stocked bar, chandeliers the whole you know.
Speaker 2: A chandelier that is rich. No, no broke people.
Speaker 1: You get a house full of single people and you're
Speaker 1: only allowed to talk to one person.
Speaker 4: So they give you a motive.
Speaker 6: Is that the rule?
Speaker 3: No, No, you're you're supposed to mingle and drink and
Speaker 3: have a good time. That's what I was doing. About
Speaker 3: like an hour into it, maybe a little more, a
Speaker 3: waiter came around with a silver tray and on the
Speaker 3: tray were red envelopes and you find the one that
Speaker 3: had your name on it, and that has inside the
Speaker 3: person that you are supposed to meet once. But we'd
Speaker 3: already hung out from that.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing the whole point is so that you go
Speaker 1: around the room and actually try to find the other person.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, it's more about talking to other pian person.
Speaker 4: I mean my guess anyway, And.
Speaker 2: The fact that it's on a silver tray makes me
Speaker 2: believe whatever is on it is like and so, who
Speaker 2: was the person whose name was in your envelope?
Speaker 3: My envelope had the name Natalie in it.
Speaker 4: Okay, had you already met? Why are you laughing?
Speaker 2: I thought he said he had his own name in
Speaker 2: his envelope?
Speaker 4: Did you had you already met Natalie or do you
Speaker 4: have to go find her?
Speaker 3: I had actually met her, and she was like obviously
Speaker 3: on there to date. So I'm looking around, you know,
Speaker 3: looking at all the ladies and she was like top
Speaker 3: of my list.
Speaker 4: Oh you're like, yes, like he read envelope.
Speaker 5: That's nice.
Speaker 3: There was a yes, just bump.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, So you went and tracked her down. How
Speaker 5: did that go?
Speaker 3: It was great. We were having a really good time
Speaker 3: and she was laughing a lot and I was laughing.
Speaker 1: Oh that's a good sign because she could have been
Speaker 1: disappointed when she saw your name.
Speaker 3: No, no, she seemed cool and she was kept encouraging
Speaker 3: us to go back to the bar. And so, yeah,
Speaker 3: we did drink a bit. I admit it. I definitely
Speaker 3: was feeling a buzz. Nice.
Speaker 1: Okay, but you're you know, you're doing it together and
Speaker 1: it's a party scene, like it seems appropriate.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it was appropriate amount and I was not alone,
Speaker 3: you know, it was everybody was having a good time
Speaker 3: and she was having a good time. You know, like
Speaker 3: I said, we were laughing a lot.
Speaker 5: These are all positive reviews.
Speaker 2: Is there anything in your mind that like was like
Speaker 2: a low moment of the night or something that could
Speaker 2: have gone wrong?
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, there was.
Speaker 4: Oh he's laughing now.
Speaker 3: I mean it's not the worst, but like we had
Speaker 3: been sitting for a while and we stood up and
Speaker 3: we walked outside and it was pretty warm, and I
Speaker 3: definitely had like a head rush and I kind of
Speaker 3: fell into a bush.
Speaker 2: Oh and this was in front of Natalie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, I was walking with her.
Speaker 4: You may have but she may have looked a little sloppy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, yeah, I looked sloppy. I didn't like
Speaker 3: fall over, Like I was just so hammered that I
Speaker 3: was just like passing out. But you know, I definitely
Speaker 3: leaned into it hard, let's put it that way.
Speaker 2: A confident lean into a bush.
Speaker 3: But she helped me out of it. But like I'm
Speaker 3: a pretty big guy, so she couldn't really do it.
Speaker 3: So this guy like kind of stepped over and kind
Speaker 3: of helped me too.
Speaker 2: Gave you a hand. Not your proudest moment, but it's
Speaker 2: probably not like a total deal break for you. So
Speaker 2: how did it end that night?
Speaker 5: But with you and Natalie?
Speaker 3: Well, at the end of the party, I asked her
Speaker 3: if she wanted to go up to have some food,
Speaker 3: you know, soak up the alcohol, right, and she said
Speaker 3: she wanted to hang back and find this friend that
Speaker 3: she came with. And I don't know, that's it. Then
Speaker 3: I haven't heard back from her. I mean I got
Speaker 3: her her her number, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Exactly, have you called her or nothing?
Speaker 3: I texted her once. I don't want to be the
Speaker 3: dude who's stending multiple texts, but definitely, like damn, I
Speaker 3: went to all that trouble and thought it was a
Speaker 3: good connection and then just seem weird that nothing has
Speaker 3: come since then.
Speaker 2: Maybe she confidently leaned on the same bush and is
Speaker 2: trapped inside of it right now waiting for somebody to
Speaker 2: come pick.
Speaker 4: Her out, as we see.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna call, we'll see if she answers, and
Speaker 2: try and get you your second date update Fancy edition
Speaker 2: coming up right.
Speaker 3: After this.
Speaker 5: Second date update.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna need to set the scene here for any
Speaker 2: listeners just joining us. We picture well dressed men and
Speaker 2: women sitting on ornate couches, sipping on gimlets, mingling together.
Speaker 2: Red envelope party people. It's fancy.
Speaker 4: It does feel like something that happened in Jeff's neighborhood. Girls, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: a lot.
Speaker 2: Of ask on uh huh, gimlets and mint julips and
Speaker 2: what's a red envelope party? I'm still not one hundred
Speaker 2: percent sure I get the idea, but one of our listeners, Alvin,
Speaker 2: attended one the other night where he went to a
Speaker 2: house in an upscale neighborhood. They have you fill out
Speaker 2: a dating survey and then later, based on the answers
Speaker 2: to your questionnaire, they bring you a red envelope on
Speaker 2: a silver platter with the name of the person that
Speaker 2: you matched with and are host to meet that night. Yes,
Speaker 2: and the name of Alvin's person was Natalie, So they
Speaker 2: met up, had a great time there until he fell
Speaker 2: into a bush outside.
Speaker 4: I didn't ruin the night, It was just a memory.
Speaker 1: The thing is he remembers it, so he wasn't too
Speaker 1: dry exactly.
Speaker 2: The problem is now Natalie is ghosting. So Brooke, take
Speaker 2: a break from putting your reservation and at the red
Speaker 2: envelope house and tell us, how do you.
Speaker 5: Feel about it?
Speaker 4: My hometown was more like bush Light and you'd wrestle
Speaker 4: a pig, you know.
Speaker 2: And they started.
Speaker 1: The problem is is it's a singles party, so she
Speaker 1: could have easily just met somebody.
Speaker 4: Else that night. Oh yeah, like that's the whole point
Speaker 4: in the red envelope is so you go around and.
Speaker 2: Oh, you're talking about before the envelopes were handed out. Yes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and like the friend that she had to find
Speaker 1: at the end of the party air quotes was probably
Speaker 1: the person she was talking to before him.
Speaker 2: Alvin, did you notice Natalie speaking with any other guy?
Speaker 5: Is?
Speaker 3: I mean I did notice her speaking with other guys,
Speaker 3: but not.
Speaker 1: Like you know, I'm sure that's what the point is.
Speaker 3: That's like ask you.
Speaker 1: It's not like they signed a contract that you could
Speaker 1: only go out with this person in the red envelope.
Speaker 3: They don't know who was.
Speaker 2: In the red envelope for the first hour jet it's
Speaker 2: a red envelope with a red flag attached to.
Speaker 5: I'm worried, but let's call Natalie here and see what
Speaker 5: she has to say. Here we go, Hello, Hey, is
Speaker 5: this Natalie?
Speaker 6: Yes, this is Natalie. Who is this?
Speaker 2: My name is jeff and I'm part of a radio
Speaker 2: show called Brooke and Jeffrey in the Morning, and we're
Speaker 2: all here eager to talk to you.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: We actually were given your phone number by one of
Speaker 2: our listeners that went out. It was kind of on
Speaker 2: a sort of a date.
Speaker 4: Met you at a date party, singles single.
Speaker 2: And this segment is called second Date Update because we're
Speaker 2: trying to get you two back together and figure out
Speaker 2: if there's maybe chemistry or if if you feel the
Speaker 2: same way. Thank you, Brooke. But this guy's name is Alvin.
Speaker 6: Oh okay, oh my god?
Speaker 2: Remember him from the Red On?
Speaker 3: Remember him?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 1: I do?
Speaker 6: I do remember him. I'm just surprised.
Speaker 4: Oh my god. Describe like what that party was like
Speaker 4: for you. Also, if it's one of those parties, you
Speaker 4: don't have.
Speaker 5: To describe too much.
Speaker 6: So I just I had never been to one, so
Speaker 6: I don't know what to tell you about it because
Speaker 6: I didn't stay.
Speaker 1: You didn't say, well, I don't think he stayed very
Speaker 1: long either. Did you meet somebody else? Is that what
Speaker 1: it come down? Which is totally fine, that's the whole
Speaker 1: point of the party, right, success for you?
Speaker 6: Well, I've had friends who have done these parties, Like
Speaker 6: I was really just trying to experience it and leave
Speaker 6: because my friends who've done the parties, they say that
Speaker 6: you should leave by midnight if you don't want to.
Speaker 6: You know that it can get pretty crazy, let's put
Speaker 6: it that way. And I was just trying to get
Speaker 6: out of there.
Speaker 4: Is it really actually one of those.
Speaker 2: Can you elaborate? What do you know?
Speaker 5: What happens at midnight?
Speaker 6: I heard that they open up these like other rooms
Speaker 6: for activities after midnight, and I just that's not really
Speaker 6: my damn, like each one apparently has a theme.
Speaker 1: I don't know, are you not calling Alvin back because
Speaker 1: you think he stayed, or are you not calling him
Speaker 1: like I don't understand why you or.
Speaker 5: The fact that he was at that party.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I think I made the assumption that
Speaker 6: he's been to more than one, maybe a bunch of these.
Speaker 2: And that's not.
Speaker 6: Really my thing. I will not to that after.
Speaker 2: Midnight if you think that you're making an assumption there.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's fair to jump to a
Speaker 2: full conclusion until we actually talked to Alvin himself.
Speaker 4: Because he seems like such an innocent guy.
Speaker 2: And you don't even have to wait because Alvin is
Speaker 2: on the other line right now, listening to this conversation
Speaker 2: from a secret room in our studio.
Speaker 3: Don't say that, yes, I'm here.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, what.
Speaker 3: Is happening, Natalie?
Speaker 4: Did I die? Did you stay after midnight? Alvin?
Speaker 2: Do you know what she's talking about with the extra
Speaker 2: rooms that open up?
Speaker 3: Yes? I do?
Speaker 5: You do you.
Speaker 2: And you're laughing?
Speaker 3: Okay, bro? Well, yeah, I mean she laughs, and like
Speaker 3: I said, I was kind of feeling it, you know,
Speaker 3: and I was like, oh, I'm here.
Speaker 2: I'm afraid to go into any more details of what
Speaker 2: actually happens. Did you partake or are you just enjoying
Speaker 2: the view?
Speaker 3: Brother, I was just enjoying the view.
Speaker 1: Why in the world would you contact a radio show if.
Speaker 4: This is the type of event that you want to
Speaker 4: Why did.
Speaker 2: You You didn't mention any of this to us?
Speaker 3: True, you guys asked me to talk about the date part.
Speaker 3: That's the part that I was interested in. Talking with
Speaker 3: you guys about the rest of the party in the
Speaker 3: event and stuff is like another story.
Speaker 2: Okay, well sure, but it's a pretty important detail. I
Speaker 2: think to bring up.
Speaker 3: The story ends when Natalie left, like afterwards, that was
Speaker 3: just on this, you know.
Speaker 4: Okay, we don't need to I mean making you feel
Speaker 4: better or worse, Natalie.
Speaker 6: I mean, I don't like the idea of him watching
Speaker 6: other people. Yeah, I don't like, why does he want
Speaker 6: to contact me.
Speaker 3: Because you were the first and not interested in Like
Speaker 3: I was thinking about you the whole rest of the night,
Speaker 3: Like that's all I want.
Speaker 6: Other people thinking of me.
Speaker 4: That's so well, why do you go to the party.
Speaker 1: If you're not into that type of people, like Natalie,
Speaker 1: when what are you doing? That's actually but sometimes you
Speaker 1: don't know until you try it.
Speaker 6: Right now, Yeah, I was trying to just do something
Speaker 6: outside of the box because I'm not super adventurous, but
Speaker 6: I definitely have boundaries as far as not wanting to
Speaker 6: participate in the late night activities.
Speaker 3: Okay, you guys are making to sound like I'm some
Speaker 3: kind of total freakers into like wild This is the
Speaker 3: first time, just like Natalie, the first time I ever
Speaker 3: went to one of these things.
Speaker 2: We're not judging.
Speaker 5: Some of us are jealous.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like a podcast about these it's crazy.
Speaker 2: How long were you there?
Speaker 3: So like like three, a little after three, like three
Speaker 3: thirty something.
Speaker 2: You watched for three hours.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'll only really actually watched like this one
Speaker 3: room called the Ascot Room. That's the only one that
Speaker 3: I even got.
Speaker 5: The Ascot Room.
Speaker 3: You don't askot are like those ties like scarfs.
Speaker 5: Oh it's actually a smart idea.
Speaker 3: Paper, pretty creative.
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, that's so gross. I don't what say
Speaker 6: to that.
Speaker 2: Well, look, he didn't use one of the ascots. He
Speaker 2: just watched people with the ascots.
Speaker 6: Oh no, but I like, oh no, I don't. I don't.
Speaker 6: I don't know why I shouldn't have pulled you out
Speaker 6: of that bush. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Different meanings before I ask officially, Alvin, is there anything
Speaker 2: else that you want to say to Natalie, like a
Speaker 2: like a final plea.
Speaker 3: Maybe I just want to say, like, I thought we
Speaker 3: had a good turn before, and it's not like like
Speaker 3: I said, I'm not like into that scene. That's not
Speaker 3: like my place and my people or something. And you
Speaker 3: got to admit we were having a good time at
Speaker 3: least I think we were.
Speaker 1: It's a good yeah, I mean, and he obviously his
Speaker 1: intentions was to meet one person.
Speaker 6: Okay, Well, I just need to know are you going
Speaker 6: to go to the next one?
Speaker 3: I mean, if you wanted to go with me to
Speaker 3: one of those, that would be cool. But I'm not
Speaker 3: going to be going by myself.
Speaker 1: Well I was a little soon to say that, yeah,
Speaker 1: my friend, but it's not too soon to ask if
Speaker 1: we can facilitate another meet up between the.
Speaker 5: Two of you.
Speaker 2: We have a red envelope party over at Chili.
Speaker 4: I'm going to see you in the baby bedroom.
Speaker 6: That's what I was going to say. As long as
Speaker 6: there aren't extra rooms being opened up.
Speaker 2: After Okay, you're open to it, you know.
Speaker 6: What I am, because, like I said, I'm trying to
Speaker 6: the adventurous. And it sounds like he went and he
Speaker 6: committed to the experience, but it doesn't sound like it's
Speaker 6: something that he does all the time.
Speaker 5: Oh my.
Speaker 2: Janitor's classes, gradus, you got yourself another day?
Speaker 3: Yes, but I really am.
Speaker 4: Is it gonna be so sweet when you guys tell
Speaker 4: this story when you met?
Speaker 2: Yeah, everybody has red ascots in the weather party.
Speaker 3: No, just on honeymoon night as ascots.
Speaker 5: No, the Billboy can watch
Speaker 4: Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning.