Speaker 1: Second, d D, how do you guys feel about friends
Speaker 1: setting up friends on a date. Oh, I think it's fun, Brook,
Speaker 1: I said, setting up friends, not hooking up with your friends.
Speaker 1: We all know that you're pro that that was years ago, though,
Speaker 1: Now I hook them up with other people. I'll give you.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's great. Other times it's not love to be
Speaker 1: the batchmaker. I think it's so fine. That's why it's not.
Speaker 1: You don't hear about it as much anymore. And maybe
Speaker 1: that's because everybody's too busy hooking up with their friends now.
Speaker 1: But one of our listeners says he got set up
Speaker 1: and he never saw it coming. Oh. His name, at
Speaker 1: least according to his email, is Steamer. Okay, what's up, Steams?
Speaker 1: How are you doing? Wait? Is Steamer your actual name? No,
Speaker 1: it's a nickname. I used to work on cruise ships
Speaker 1: in the engine room. So yeah, it's called a speech impediment. Jose,
Speaker 1: don't point. I moved here back a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: I've been single ever since. Really I had a girl
Speaker 1: back in England, but you know, work took over and
Speaker 1: I've been away. So anyway, long story short. My mates
Speaker 1: here said, we've got this friend, you know, want you
Speaker 1: to meet up. And what were you thinking when they
Speaker 1: said that? I was a little bit nervous, I get
Speaker 1: or trepidacious. I don't know, Like that whole set up
Speaker 1: thing is a little bit weird. Yeah, so I know
Speaker 1: you're from London, so you're gonna have to dumb down
Speaker 1: the vocabulary for all of us here. I mean, we're
Speaker 1: all very confused. I don't know if that's a good
Speaker 1: thing or a bad thing. All right, all right, well
Speaker 1: look here we go, here we go. So this is
Speaker 1: one girl. Her name was Kristen, and is that Kristen
Speaker 1: with a queue question? It's like a fancy, fancy Kristen.
Speaker 1: Hold on, it's christ and the girl you're being set
Speaker 1: up with? Or is this your friend who's setting you up?
Speaker 1: Oh no, Matthew's the guy that set me up on.
Speaker 1: Christ is the girl that went on the date with. Okay,
Speaker 1: so your friends are trying to set you up with Kristen.
Speaker 1: Did you guys talk before the date? Here's the story.
Speaker 1: She was with someone she split up. Matthew texts me
Speaker 1: and he's like, Hey, we're going to arrange this big
Speaker 1: game night at my flat. My sorry, my apartment, Thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you, and you know he's like the one did
Speaker 1: you come along? And you know, you and Christen can
Speaker 1: spend some time together and see how you vibe. So
Speaker 1: and that's good though, because it's like a group event.
Speaker 1: There's not a lot of prussure, like twelve of us there.
Speaker 1: It was a good time. Yeah, So how did how
Speaker 1: did game night go? You start playing the party of games,
Speaker 1: you know, the Jengo and the charade, and then eventually
Speaker 1: it gets round to pictionary and we picked hold on minute.
Speaker 1: I just let me say I had no idea really
Speaker 1: that they were, you know, planning this to such an extent,
Speaker 1: like everyone was in on it. Oh, it wasn't casual.
Speaker 1: It was like everyone that was their goal of the
Speaker 1: night was to hook you two up? Right, Okay, So
Speaker 1: what happened? So she picks up this card and she
Speaker 1: turns it over and then she's got this big old
Speaker 1: cheesy smile on her face. Super cute by the way,
Speaker 1: And she shows me the card, or she pretends to
Speaker 1: show me the card, and she goes, do you want
Speaker 1: to go out with me? Stema wait, wait a moon.
Speaker 1: There is something written on the card. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: think that one of my you know, one of the
Speaker 1: friends said something up that says like, you know, Steama
Speaker 1: likes you. So she read it was like blushing, like
Speaker 1: and you didn't know that your friends had already written
Speaker 1: on the card before she went up, no idea. Oh well,
Speaker 1: smooth on their part, but that puts you in such
Speaker 1: an awkward position, like I was so embarrassed, Like, I mean,
Speaker 1: it looks like I was the twelve year old birthday
Speaker 1: party totally. So I was like, right away, straight away,
Speaker 1: I was like, guys, this is not cool, Like, Kristen,
Speaker 1: you have to know that I had nothing to do
Speaker 1: with this. Oh, I mean, I could see why you
Speaker 1: would want to do that. You want you'd want to
Speaker 1: tell the girls, by the way, like I didn't tell
Speaker 1: them to do this, like they'd put this on me.
Speaker 1: But it also sounds like you're rejecting her, right, that's right.
Speaker 1: So she says, okay, she's like and then she looks
Speaker 1: back at me. She said, so, does that mean you
Speaker 1: don't want to go out with miss? So I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: of course, but you know, let's plan something out when
Speaker 1: we're not together around you know, ten other people. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: But then of course the whole room stands up and
Speaker 1: gives us a rondom of play. That's pretty funny. The
Speaker 1: bottom line is you got a date out of it.
Speaker 1: So how did the actual date go? So? I takes
Speaker 1: her a couple of days later, and I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: great to spend time with you. That them I I
Speaker 1: think you're super cute and you know, I'd like to
Speaker 1: spend some more time with you. How about you meet
Speaker 1: me at the hipster grocery store at this time? Okay,
Speaker 1: there's like four in my head. Yeah, just all craft beer, yeah,
Speaker 1: and vegetables that I don't know what to do with.
Speaker 1: What is what do I do with the rout of big? So?
Speaker 1: I mean, what was your plan at the grocery store?
Speaker 1: That's a weird place to meet? The big plan was
Speaker 1: that I don't show up? Right, you don't show up
Speaker 1: to the date. No, I stay in my car and
Speaker 1: I watch her walk into the store. I have friends
Speaker 1: that work in the store, so I called them and
Speaker 1: I told her to head towards the sample area and
Speaker 1: called my friend that works in the sample area. And
Speaker 1: it was like doing me a favor. Take one of
Speaker 1: those little sampler cups, and right on the bottom of it.
Speaker 1: Steama likes you. He'll be here in a minute. Steamer,
Speaker 1: I like you. You're my kind of guy, A romance,
Speaker 1: love surprising people. She looks at the bottom of a
Speaker 1: cup like what if no, no, no, Like she finishes
Speaker 1: the sample, she puts it on the thing and then
Speaker 1: Stuart comes over and turns it over right in front
Speaker 1: of them. Yeah. And then that was supposed to be
Speaker 1: a tie back to the game night with the card
Speaker 1: that she got phrase nice and then you show up.
Speaker 1: I mean not exactly. You know, I had a couple
Speaker 1: of other things planned out that she was posted. It
Speaker 1: was like a treasure tount kind of deal, you know, Okay,
Speaker 1: and steamers the treasure. Long story short, she goes to
Speaker 1: Starbucks where I have another friend right a destination of
Speaker 1: another place and said and it says go there, And
Speaker 1: I think, honestly, I think she's just getting a little
Speaker 1: bit tired of it. So did you ever did you
Speaker 1: have a face to face up during this day at
Speaker 1: any point? Or was it just a bunch of messages
Speaker 1: written underneath cups. I was waiting at the final place.
Speaker 1: She never showed up. Can I ask you how much
Speaker 1: time elapse between sample at the grocery store to her
Speaker 1: not showing up hour and fifteen No, I mean fifteen
Speaker 1: minutes at most. I mean, in retrospect, I do see
Speaker 1: that I was probably a little bit too much, but
Speaker 1: I like her and I was trying to put a
Speaker 1: little bit of imagination into it, trying to make it,
Speaker 1: you know, a little bit different. That's cue. Romance is
Speaker 1: so much nicer face to face. Yeah, just get mad
Speaker 1: when we put in no effort, and then when you
Speaker 1: put in too much effort. This is what happened. And
Speaker 1: you come to the right placement. Because the guys on
Speaker 1: this show are experts at romance, and three minutes are
Speaker 1: under so we're gonna try and put our expertise to you.
Speaker 1: So right now, we're going to play a song. We'll
Speaker 1: come back, we'll call Kristen for you, and we'll try
Speaker 1: and get your second day up date. Okay, okay, then good,
Speaker 1: all right, man, hold on, all right, don't have a
Speaker 1: lot of time here. We gotta get right to it.
Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna hit the bullet points, okay. Guy
Speaker 1: named Steamer from London met a woman named Kristin at
Speaker 1: a game night, so he turned his whole first date
Speaker 1: into a giant scavenger hunt. Where she couldn't find him,
Speaker 1: so never actually met face to face, and now Steamer
Speaker 1: needs our help. So, Steamer, we're about to call Kristin
Speaker 1: for you. I just want to make sure we're not
Speaker 1: going to call some girl who gives us the number
Speaker 1: of another girl that we need to call, who tells
Speaker 1: us to call another girl and then another girl until
Speaker 1: we reach Kristen. Fair question. No, it's not gonna happen. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: all right? Do you know we never asked you, Steamer?
Speaker 1: Is you know after she just didn't show up at
Speaker 1: the very end, have you had any contacts with her? Nope? Nothing.
Speaker 1: Who Maybe she's still out in the city searching for
Speaker 1: that fourth or fifth clue. If he wants doing that,
Speaker 1: I'd be really impressed, But I don't think he is.
Speaker 1: No occasion. All right, So we're working from the ground up,
Speaker 1: all right, I know what our starting point is. Good,
Speaker 1: let's not waste any more time. I'm gonna dial Kristen's number.
Speaker 1: We'll see if she answers and what she has to say.
Speaker 1: You're ready? Yes? All right, here we go. Wea. Hi.
Speaker 1: Is this Kristen Um? Yes? Nasks calling? Please. My name's Jeff.
Speaker 1: I'm on morning radio show called Brooke and Jeffrey in
Speaker 1: the Morning, hoping that you have a second to talk
Speaker 1: with us. I do if I won something, almost maybe
Speaker 1: there is a chance may have won something. But I
Speaker 1: do have some questions I need to ask you first.
Speaker 1: All right, why not? Okatt, we're doing question number one.
Speaker 1: Do you remember going out on a date with someone
Speaker 1: named Steamer? Yes, I mean kind of I remember him,
Speaker 1: but I don't. We didn't actually go out on a date. Okay,
Speaker 1: of course this has to do a Steamer, of course. Yeah, Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: I'm just now this isn't part of his big scavenger
Speaker 1: hunt that he's set up for you for your date,
Speaker 1: thinking I've abandoned that like days ago. So okay, yeah
Speaker 1: we heard he's not still waiting at the final stop. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's really hungry if you could just finish. But this
Speaker 1: is something we do call the second date update, and
Speaker 1: so we're trying to help Steamer kind of figure out
Speaker 1: where your first date went wrong. I think he needs
Speaker 1: a lot of help. Okay, you may be the first
Speaker 1: woman we've ever talked to who is turning down a
Speaker 1: man with an accent who tried to do a romantic gesture.
Speaker 1: That's a point. I don't know how much you guys know, um,
Speaker 1: but he we have like a ton of mutual friends.
Speaker 1: But I had a boyfriend, but I in the back
Speaker 1: of my mind had like a little crush on him,
Speaker 1: and I'm single now. And then I what happened was
Speaker 1: they had we were having a game night, which we
Speaker 1: do all yeah, so Steamer told us all about how
Speaker 1: you guys met at the game night, and he told
Speaker 1: us all about the big treasure hunt that he's set
Speaker 1: up going to different places around the city, which was cute.
Speaker 1: That was cute, but kept going and it just kept going,
Speaker 1: and like I mean, it was over an hour in
Speaker 1: and I just stopped it, like I don't even know
Speaker 1: three or three to five places at that point, and
Speaker 1: I started to feel like, am I like an idiot?
Speaker 1: In mind? This is like a major setup? Is this
Speaker 1: guy making fun of me? Oh? I could see this
Speaker 1: being like a YouTube brank. Yeah, I felt like I
Speaker 1: was getting prank. So I was just like, you know what,
Speaker 1: let me just go home, fave some face, and just
Speaker 1: move on. You know, see you angry, you you're mad,
Speaker 1: I'm embarrassed. So at what point did you decide that
Speaker 1: you were done going on the scavenger hunt and you
Speaker 1: gave up. Oh jeez, I guess it had to be
Speaker 1: after I have a thing about corporate chains. After he
Speaker 1: sent me to Starbucks'. Like this guy's not showing up.
Speaker 1: I'm getting hungry, Like, wait, do you still believe that
Speaker 1: that was the case? You know, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't really know what to believe anymore. I've obviously, like
Speaker 1: most of them, been hurt in the past and picked
Speaker 1: in the past, and I'm you know, I'm gonna point
Speaker 1: in my life. I'm not looking for games. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: grown up. I want to grown up relationship, and I'm
Speaker 1: all for the fun, but I want to know where
Speaker 1: I stand and I want to know what's going on,
Speaker 1: and I want someone I can count on. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: you know what, we don't want to play any games
Speaker 1: with you either, Kristen. That's why I just want to
Speaker 1: be direct and let you know that Steamer's been on
Speaker 1: the other line listening this entire time, and now he
Speaker 1: wants to talk to you. Oh well, thank you so much,
Speaker 1: mister Springer. That is just I was good. He's a
Speaker 1: successful man. Yeah, yeah, I'm here. Yeah yeah, So I'm
Speaker 1: just going to back away now and let you two
Speaker 1: talk for a bit. So go ahead, guys, Chris, then's
Speaker 1: my number. Lose your number something. Dude, you didn't show
Speaker 1: up for her date. I was way in. You were
Speaker 1: like two more stops away from the end. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean I feel like you were setting
Speaker 1: me up. It just I wouldn't feel good after a while.
Speaker 1: You know, I appreciate that. I really didn't think about
Speaker 1: it that way, and I'm sorry. You know, I was like,
Speaker 1: I might have taken it a little bit too far,
Speaker 1: and I might have flexed a little bit with all
Speaker 1: the people around town that were giving you the notes
Speaker 1: of where to go, and it might have been a
Speaker 1: more sensible move just to just to meet you at
Speaker 1: the second place and been straight up, I'm sorry, full
Speaker 1: elaborate thing is the sort of thing you do for
Speaker 1: like a proposal, not a first date. You know, So
Speaker 1: I get you. I dropped the ball, you know, I
Speaker 1: dropped the ball. I'm sorry. Yeah, see, Steamer, you should
Speaker 1: feel bad for working too hard to make effort is
Speaker 1: what ends relationships. Oh my goodness, this one hasn't started yet.
Speaker 1: To the Christen eleanor listen to me. Oh my goodness,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. How do you How do you know my
Speaker 1: middle name? Romantic? I did like eight clues, Kristen, I
Speaker 1: did some research. Wow, Ema likes you, Christen. You know
Speaker 1: Ema wants you to go out on the second date
Speaker 1: with him. Oh wow, well that's very sweet. Well, sweetness,
Speaker 1: she may not see you again. So I feel a
Speaker 1: little bro must blushing right now, Kristin, I mean, uh,
Speaker 1: sort of. Christens also a bit aware of anyone that
Speaker 1: refers to themselves in the third person. Well, Jeffrey would
Speaker 1: like to ask a question at this point. Jeffrey would
Speaker 1: like to know if Kristen would like to go out
Speaker 1: with Steamer one more time and Jeffrey and company will
Speaker 1: pay for it. Sounds kind of Kristen's gonna make a
Speaker 1: decision here, huh yeah, I mean think of it this way.
Speaker 1: You know now that he wasn't doing something to make
Speaker 1: fun of you, right like that he was legitimately putting
Speaker 1: in work because he was that interested in you. And
Speaker 1: there wasn't end in sight somewhere like I don't know,
Speaker 1: a Steamer, where were you, like, where were you actually
Speaker 1: going to meet up with her? I'm afraid to say
Speaker 1: now because she said she had an aversion to corporate.
Speaker 1: I was at PF Changs and there was a little
Speaker 1: fortune cookie there, so good. Oh well, geez, christ And
Speaker 1: I mean, at this point you definitely don't deserve a
Speaker 1: second day with him. He sounds like trash. Yeah, a
Speaker 1: fortune cookie. Let us wraps effort. Oh my god, I
Speaker 1: love Maybe this is a good thing. What do you say,
Speaker 1: one more shot with Steamer and we'll pay for it.
Speaker 1: You know what, Yeah, I'm up for some fun. Let's
Speaker 1: try something different. Congratulations. A guy with an accent wins.
Speaker 1: Thank you to everybody that you work with, all the
Speaker 1: crew that is put in all their effort. And listen,
Speaker 1: Steamer really likes you guys too. Broke and Jeffrey in
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