Speaker 1: Normally at this time we'll do second date updates, closure calls,
Speaker 1: textual healings, but today we're doing none of those. Instead,
Speaker 1: there's a big surprise waiting for someone in this room.
Speaker 1: They have no idea it's coming show, and you know
Speaker 1: it's big because we're actually putting it right in the
Speaker 1: middle of our show, slotting it in at the end
Speaker 1: after one of Brook's potato endorsements. You're gonna find out
Speaker 1: who gets the big surprise. No spoilers, it's coming up
Speaker 1: right after this. Welcome back to Brook Breaks You Up.
Speaker 1: It's Brook and Jeffrey in the morning Joe.
Speaker 2: Somebody wanted this back.
Speaker 1: Everybody wants are you kid? It's one of the highest
Speaker 1: rated segments we've done all year on How are we
Speaker 1: not going to do a sequel for it?
Speaker 3: I've been dumped and dumped people so many times in
Speaker 3: my life.
Speaker 1: Do I have to keep doing That's what makes you
Speaker 1: an expert.
Speaker 2: That's what I got married so I didn't have to
Speaker 2: do it anymore.
Speaker 1: This time we're switching it up because it's Brooke Breaks
Speaker 1: You Up. Holiday Edition For our listeners who may not
Speaker 1: be familiar with the segment breaking up with Someone's not
Speaker 1: an easy thing to do, especially during Christmas. It's awkward,
Speaker 1: it's messy, but sometimes it is absolutely necessary. So why
Speaker 1: do it yourself when you can have Brooke do it?
Speaker 1: For years of casual promiscuity have made her an expert
Speaker 1: on telling people, yeah, it's not really working out. You
Speaker 1: got what you wanted and now you should probably move
Speaker 1: on and get yourself tested.
Speaker 3: It's an important conversation, So I don't waste your time.
Speaker 3: Don't waste your pretty Brook.
Speaker 1: This is a little bit of a surprise to you,
Speaker 1: but we did get an email from a listener. I
Speaker 1: printed it out and I want you to be the
Speaker 1: one who reads it.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, got it it to me.
Speaker 1: This is a listener of ours who needs your help.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll read the letter, jeff that's.
Speaker 3: The spirit, Brook says, Hi Brick and Jeffrey.
Speaker 2: My name is Risha. I heard a segment you did.
Speaker 3: Called Brooke breaks you up, and I really need your
Speaker 3: help to ditch.
Speaker 2: My boyfriend Shane before Christmas. I mean, you don't want
Speaker 2: to waste your money on a gift.
Speaker 3: Okay, background my family officially does not like him.
Speaker 2: Oh well, this is going to be easier. That's easy.
Speaker 2: That helps.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he came over last year and had way too
Speaker 3: much eggnog, insulted.
Speaker 2: My parents Christmas tree. Oh called it dollar store.
Speaker 3: She ended up wolcing with it and then fell on
Speaker 3: top of it.
Speaker 1: It sounds like one of your exes, Brooke.
Speaker 3: This is not the first time he's done dumb stuff.
Speaker 3: Dumb stuff is capitalized this letter. Okay, he's a good guy,
Speaker 3: but it's time for him to finally grow up and
Speaker 3: for me to move on to somebody else. I tend
Speaker 3: to shy away from tough conversations. That's why I really
Speaker 3: need you to do the dirty work and break up
Speaker 3: with him for me.
Speaker 1: Oh so, the reason is he's dumb and does dumb stuff.
Speaker 2: That's not I mean, your entire family get it that
Speaker 2: you're gonna say, Brooke. The letter ends you're the best Brooke.
Speaker 1: Brooke, there is a woman in need during the holidays.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna be a scrooge and throw her out
Speaker 1: into the snow, are you.
Speaker 3: Ah.
Speaker 2: The problem with dumb boys is they don't get it.
Speaker 2: That is the issue. It's better than a nice, innocent guy.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 1: Well, we don't have a lot of time. We do
Speaker 1: have her boyfriend, Shane already on the line right now.
Speaker 1: He is jeff He's not heard any of this, So
Speaker 1: we gotta get right to the call. Let's punch up, Shane,
Speaker 1: and we have to do it, Brook and we're gonna
Speaker 1: let you do your things. We told him that it
Speaker 1: was a radio station contest thing.
Speaker 3: We had to get in all time for him to
Speaker 3: dance one.
Speaker 1: So here we go, let's do it. Let's punch him
Speaker 1: up it Shaney there, Hello, Hey, Shane, you're on Brook
Speaker 1: and Jeffry in the morning.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, Oh my god, am I actually on air?
Speaker 1: This is crazy? And one member of the show has
Speaker 1: been dying to talk to you.
Speaker 3: Oh no, yeah, yeah, Shane, it's Brook. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: I listened to your podcast all the time. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 4: I'm so sorry that it's so embarrassing, but you are
Speaker 4: my favorite person on the show.
Speaker 2: God, that's interesting, Shane.
Speaker 4: I got listen.
Speaker 1: I got all my friends listening to you, guys. I
Speaker 1: got my girlfriend listening to you guys.
Speaker 2: You know, Shane, that's why we're calling.
Speaker 3: I don't mean to interrupt you, but we're calling because
Speaker 3: your girlfriend contacted us.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, is this trivia?
Speaker 3: Am I?
Speaker 1: I bet I could beat you at trivia. B set
Speaker 1: you up. We're not doing the trip be a game
Speaker 1: with book right now. This is something else.
Speaker 2: Ah, this is a little word serious. You could turn
Speaker 2: it into trivia.
Speaker 1: Okay, gotta just get.
Speaker 3: Do it real quick, Shane, I don't know how to
Speaker 3: tell you this buddy. You see him like such a
Speaker 3: nice guy, You see him like you have great energy,
Speaker 3: and I love to hear that you have such a
Speaker 3: good friend group.
Speaker 2: That is going to be crucial right now.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, what's happening.
Speaker 3: Okay, here's the thing Shane Reicha wrote us, and we
Speaker 3: do this terrible segment. It's called Brooke breaks you up.
Speaker 3: And I'm Brooke and that's what I'm calling to do
Speaker 3: because wait, wrote in and she said she didn't know
Speaker 3: how to tell you because she didn't want to hurt you.
Speaker 2: Obviously this is going to hurt you. There's no way
Speaker 2: around that. But it's just your guys' relationship has run
Speaker 2: its course.
Speaker 1: Wait a second, is a phone tap? I didn't say.
Speaker 1: I mean, he knows the show. You can't blame him
Speaker 1: for that.
Speaker 3: Listen, Shane, she told us all about the Christmas tree
Speaker 3: and you getting too drunk at Christmas last year, and
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm gonna be honest, like her family not
Speaker 3: a huge fan.
Speaker 1: Wait, this isn't a joke.
Speaker 2: No, it's not a joke, Buddy, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: So you're really doing this, Brook, You're breaking up with
Speaker 4: me for her.
Speaker 3: I think that she just thought it would be easier
Speaker 3: for you if it came from somebody you trusted and loved.
Speaker 1: You don't love me.
Speaker 2: I don't mean that like I love love you. I
Speaker 2: mean like like you're a fan of the show.
Speaker 1: This isn't going well, Shane.
Speaker 2: Breakups never go well, Jeff. It always ends bad.
Speaker 3: It sucks for one person, and unfortunately that person is Shane.
Speaker 3: And listen, Shane, you live it up through the holidays,
Speaker 3: You drink as much eggnog.
Speaker 2: As you want, and you go ahead.
Speaker 3: And talk about their stupid family, dollar store, cheic tree
Speaker 3: that they have.
Speaker 2: You don't want to be part of that family anyway.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well that great idea, Brooke.
Speaker 1: You know what I'll do.
Speaker 4: I'll do a drinking game where I take a shot
Speaker 4: of time you call me, buddy, I.
Speaker 5: Didn't know you because alienated.
Speaker 1: Not one but two of our listeners will doing one
Speaker 1: a favor. Wow, Shane, why too, you just crept on
Speaker 1: Risha and her whole family.
Speaker 3: I just say, Risha understands, like, if you're gonna get
Speaker 3: over a breakup, yeah, there's anger.
Speaker 1: Let's stop trying to justify our past behavior. Shane. I
Speaker 1: am sorry that Brooke did this to you during the
Speaker 1: holiday season. And I know this is probably weird to ask,
Speaker 1: but hopefully Brook's still your favorite on the show.
Speaker 2: That don't ask that answer that shamee.
Speaker 1: If she was, it was only because the other two
Speaker 1: are solo on the totem.
Speaker 4: Pole that she still somehow maintains a lead.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Alexis Yeah, I feel that energy. I'm sorry, man,
Speaker 1: try and have a good holidays. We do feel really bad.
Speaker 1: We got to hang up though, Okay, I'm just.
Speaker 2: Gonna hang up, Like, just tell him something nice.
Speaker 1: Okay, you can move in with Brook and her family
Speaker 1: for the holidays, Shane.
Speaker 2: You're gonna be fine. Okay, you don't need Risha can
Speaker 2: give you a key chain, maybe.
Speaker 1: Radio station swag. We will send them your way. But
Speaker 1: what you guys, Okay, I was mostly directed towards Brook.
Speaker 1: I feel like that was definitely a tough one.
Speaker 2: Well deserved. But are they ever gonna be good.
Speaker 1: That's kind of your job to make it good.
Speaker 2: It's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1: To break up with them too, thank you.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, yeah, thousand.
Speaker 1: There is tough, but it is the holiday season. So
Speaker 1: Brooke breaks you up for the holidays, and Brook also
Speaker 1: gets you back together. That's why I have a surprise
Speaker 1: for her coming up next. Two people are on the line.
Speaker 1: One wants to get back together with the other.
Speaker 2: No, Brook is going that's a good idea either.
Speaker 1: What's happening, Brook is gonna get you back together for
Speaker 1: the holidays. Coming up right after this, it's Brook and
Speaker 1: Jeffrey in the morning. And if you were just listening
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes ago, you heard Brooke breaks you
Speaker 1: up before Chris Smiths and you're not gonna believe this Brook.
Speaker 1: But people on the text board weren't one hundred percent thrilled.
Speaker 2: Oh shocking. Guess what, people who aren't happy.
Speaker 3: I'm not either.
Speaker 1: Oh it's not very nice to yell back at the
Speaker 1: people who aren't happy. They're just giving us feedback. On
Speaker 1: the show. One person even said, I need to tell
Speaker 1: my therapist about what Brooke just did because that traumatized
Speaker 1: me forever. And that's from your son Adler. But it's
Speaker 1: good that he already has a therapist.
Speaker 2: So well we started me on.
Speaker 1: The thing is, we may have a chance for redemption
Speaker 1: for you, Brook because now you have the opportunity to
Speaker 1: bring two x's back together for the haliday. You do
Speaker 1: not want to go over to today.
Speaker 3: And that's not because the thing is is if I
Speaker 3: failed this, then I'm an even bigger jerky. Wait, we
Speaker 3: have two axes that already want to get back together,
Speaker 3: or we have one ax who wants to get back together.
Speaker 1: One guy wants you to help her get back together.
Speaker 1: Jay is hoping that you can work some magic today.
Speaker 1: He emailed the show looking for Brooks help. Let's punch
Speaker 1: him up. Hey, Jay, welcome to Brooke gets you back
Speaker 1: together for the holidays?
Speaker 4: Hey, how are you doing?
Speaker 2: We don't have a lot of time here.
Speaker 3: I need a quick I mean honestly, I need a
Speaker 3: quick rundown of give me three highlights of the relationship
Speaker 3: and why it ended.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 1: Wait, wait, wait, let's start with her name so Brooke
Speaker 1: can write it down and not forget it like she
Speaker 1: did with the one.
Speaker 2: The important back. I would really blow it if I called.
Speaker 1: Her what's your ex's name?
Speaker 4: Jenna?
Speaker 2: Jenna?
Speaker 1: Okay, write it down, Brook, Okay. How long were you
Speaker 1: and Jenna together?
Speaker 4: Three years?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 3: In those three years, what did you love about Jenna
Speaker 3: and your relationship?
Speaker 4: I love that she was a book reader, so she
Speaker 4: was very knowledgeable.
Speaker 1: Okay, she could read.
Speaker 2: So what did you love about your relationship together?
Speaker 1: She had a lot to talk about interest, chatty, Kathy,
Speaker 1: go ahead, and.
Speaker 4: Then she was supportive, honestly did everything for him.
Speaker 3: Sweet.
Speaker 2: This is also sweet. Actually, I want you guys to
Speaker 2: be back together. Why did it end? This is what
Speaker 2: I want to know.
Speaker 4: Listen, I got really into watching European soccer, and since
Speaker 4: they play in Europe, I'd be going to bars like
Speaker 4: at like five in the morning to watch a match
Speaker 4: to drink, and it just wasn't healthy.
Speaker 1: She wasn't coming with you to the bars at five
Speaker 1: am to.
Speaker 2: Support you and your those games. I'm having a hard
Speaker 2: time believing.
Speaker 3: That she dumped you because you liked European soccer too much.
Speaker 4: I didn't. I guess I didn't pay enough attention to her,
Speaker 4: and so she broke up with me eight months ago.
Speaker 2: Listen to that maturity, though, in the realization.
Speaker 1: What's changed in the last eight months from then until now?
Speaker 4: Well, you know, I got back into the gym. I'm
Speaker 4: even doing a book club because I know she loves books.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, is so cute? Does this have to do
Speaker 2: with the soccer season ending.
Speaker 1: Or because we don't.
Speaker 4: Honestly, I'm not a huge reader. But it's me showing
Speaker 4: her that I want to talk to her more about
Speaker 4: stuff and I want to do things that she likes.
Speaker 2: Okay, and better yourself. I love this.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I even changed my name. It used to be Kenny,
Speaker 4: but yeah.
Speaker 2: The name are you? Are you named Kenneth? Now?
Speaker 1: His name is Jay. Remember I wrote his name is
Speaker 1: j you know.
Speaker 4: But but I changes to Ja like Gatsby. You're that's
Speaker 4: one of her favorite books, The Great Gatsby, And he
Speaker 4: changed his name to Jay in the book as well,
Speaker 4: to create a new, like a better identity for himself.
Speaker 4: And that's what I want to do, you know, for love.
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, did she She doesn't know that I changed
Speaker 3: my name.
Speaker 2: Yet, So Kenny is important here, Brooks. You're going to
Speaker 2: be the one to tell her for the first Okay, his.
Speaker 3: Name for her? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Please a lot? Yeah? Wow?
Speaker 4: If you can't be convinced to give me another chance,
Speaker 4: especially for the holidays, because it's been three years since
Speaker 4: I spent one single and not having her.
Speaker 3: Oh, because you broke up eight months ago. So this
Speaker 3: is your first holiday by yourself.
Speaker 1: Okay, got it. So we're running out of time. We
Speaker 1: do already have Jenna on the phone right now.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: She's been waiting again to talk to us. She just
Speaker 1: doesn't know why she's on the phone yet. She has
Speaker 1: not been hearing any of this. So we're gonna punch
Speaker 1: her up and let you talk to her. Ready, all right, Jay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna patch you down and we're gonna punch up Jenna.
Speaker 1: Here we go, Brooke, go ahead, talk to her.
Speaker 2: Hi, Jenna, it's Brooke from Brook and Jeffrey in the morning. Hi,
Speaker 2: how are you so good? Welcome to the show. I
Speaker 2: think we have fantastic news for you.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, great, that's a big promise.
Speaker 3: Okay, do you think that because like, okay, so we've
Speaker 3: heard your single.
Speaker 2: Is that true? Yes?
Speaker 1: That is true?
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: And the person we heard that from is someone who
Speaker 3: definitely does not want you to be single, someone who
Speaker 3: is very interested in you. Okay, and I know you
Speaker 3: have never met before, but they said that you're super smart,
Speaker 3: you're really interesting, you have so much to talk about
Speaker 3: and add to a relationship.
Speaker 2: They just can't stop thinking of you.
Speaker 1: Not in a creepy way, no, in.
Speaker 3: A positive way, in like the cutest way ever, because
Speaker 3: you actually know this person.
Speaker 1: Is this one of my coworkers?
Speaker 3: Because oh my gosh, I'm thinking about it's a really
Speaker 3: cute one. Oh no, no, better better than your coworker,
Speaker 3: because it's someone that you have.
Speaker 2: Loved in your life. Oh wow.
Speaker 3: And they realize that maybe in your relationship that you
Speaker 3: had with them before, they didn't pay enough attention to you,
Speaker 3: and they're really regretful of that.
Speaker 1: Wait, is this Kenny, Well.
Speaker 2: Technically it used to be Kenny.
Speaker 1: Keny dead.
Speaker 2: Listen listen, Kenny has a chance his personality.
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm literally saying that, because he is doing everything
Speaker 3: in his power to show you and himself that he
Speaker 3: is a new, improved person. Even he's gone so far
Speaker 3: as to change his name. So Kenny Kenny is now
Speaker 3: J and J is awesome. I am so confused. Why
Speaker 3: would he do that.
Speaker 2: He's a thoughtful guy.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's gone so far as to not only
Speaker 3: did he start a book club. But he remembered that
Speaker 3: your favorite book, or one of your favorite books, was
Speaker 3: The Great Gatsby. So that's why he chose the name Jay,
Speaker 3: because that is a character who transforms in that book.
Speaker 2: What is happening?
Speaker 3: Are you serious? Yes, he likes you. He just wants
Speaker 3: to try it one more time.
Speaker 1: Can you say that higher, pitch Brook?
Speaker 2: No, Kenny can though, j J tell.
Speaker 4: Her, Yeah, I want you back a little.
Speaker 2: More romantic than that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, honey, honey, this this is you know, I can't
Speaker 4: do another Christmas about you. I just you know, anas
Speaker 4: of my life and you know I've made all these
Speaker 4: changes and I'll do anything for you.
Speaker 1: He totally didn't read that out of a book, by
Speaker 1: the way, that was from.
Speaker 3: Romantic.
Speaker 4: I don't even know what to say right now.
Speaker 1: Listen. I know this is probably really overwhelming, Jenna. We
Speaker 1: kind of blindsided you with this with your ex boyfriend.
Speaker 2: But no, I wantn't answer, Jess.
Speaker 1: Well, that's what I'm getting to is. The name of
Speaker 1: this segment is Brooke gets you back together for Christmas.
Speaker 1: So we're hoping that you are going to be open
Speaker 1: to getting back with your new and improved ex Jay.
Speaker 1: What do you think, Jenna, are you willing to give
Speaker 1: your ex another shot?
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, he sounds like he's making really good
Speaker 4: choices and that was the reason we broke up was
Speaker 4: that he wasn't.
Speaker 3: So the love never died.
Speaker 1: Something they say a lot of it is timing, So
Speaker 1: maybe this is the time.
Speaker 3: Dude, He's ready, He's ready Christmas? Is I think I am?
Speaker 2: I'm willing to try.
Speaker 1: Well, congratulations, it sounds like you two is so cute.
Speaker 1: You're gonna at least meet and see how it feels,
Speaker 1: and if it works out, then one hundred percent of
Speaker 1: the credit goes to Brook.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Jeffrey.
Speaker 1: Yeah, JEFFI refuse and never call you back, so we
Speaker 1: never know. Oh my god, how does that sound? It
Speaker 1: sounds great?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, you too are so cute that I
Speaker 3: guarantee there's thousands of listeners texting their X right now,
Speaker 3: which is not always a good idea.
Speaker 4: Hey, would you mind call me by my new name?
Speaker 4: Like I just I would love to hear it? Jay, Okay,
Speaker 4: I love that.
Speaker 1: Okay, we better hang up with.
Speaker 3: On the phone before we have more vowels and Jeffrey
Speaker 3: in the morning, Well, another one in the bag.
Speaker 2: That was Brook breaks you up.
Speaker 3: And I have a lot of mixed feelings about this segment.
Speaker 3: I don't love doing it often.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I also think that, like, if you're not
Speaker 2: meant to be with someone, you should break it off.
Speaker 2: Like I hate when I've watched friends.
Speaker 3: Stay in relationships that aren't going anywhere, and I'm like,
Speaker 3: you're wasting your time, You're wasting your pretty move on.
Speaker 1: She's gonna stop cheating on me after the fourth time?
Speaker 3: Yeah, promise, So you know, as sad as it can be,
Speaker 3: I also think that it's usually for the best.
Speaker 2: What do you prefer doing. Brook breaks you up or
Speaker 2: Brook gets you back together?
Speaker 1: I don't know. In the middle of the intimate.
Speaker 3: Comes with your intimate life, flakes up with you in
Speaker 3: the morning, just me in the middle.
Speaker 2: I like that. Do we get any comment? Yes, we did, and.
Speaker 5: Said, whoever came up with this segment, genius.
Speaker 2: Let's slow it down a little bit.
Speaker 5: Someone said, please get Alexus to break someone up. Let
Speaker 5: me tell you would end up married or I.
Speaker 2: Feel like you just probably moved cities. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: I could change it. I'll change your name, your identity,
Speaker 2: sneak out in the middle of the night, I like it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: well there it is.
Speaker 3: Definitely leave your comments and hit that subscribe button. Thanks
Speaker 3: for being here. It's Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning.