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Speaker 5: Yeah you do you?
Speaker 1: Okay, good luck your bad you. Tuesday starts right now.
Speaker 5: If you ever receive a bad gift, you can either
Speaker 5: pretend that you really like it, yeah, or well no,
Speaker 5: you pretty much have to pretend that you like it.
Speaker 5: You really have no other way. The thing is, that
Speaker 5: doesn't really work for one of our listeners, because he
Speaker 5: just found out what his girlfriend has secretly been planning
Speaker 5: to give him for his upcoming birthday, and the mere
Speaker 5: idea of it is sending him into a literal panic.
Speaker 5: Oh so much so he's determined he has to stop
Speaker 5: her from ever giving it to him. And you're gonna
Speaker 5: hear what that is and why he absolutely cannot let
Speaker 5: it happen in your brand new awkward Tuesday phone call.
Speaker 6: Next, It's awkward, It's Tuesday.
Speaker 3: It's awkward Tuesday phone call.
Speaker 5: You've heard people say the phrase information is power.
Speaker 3: Yes, Well that's not.
Speaker 5: The case for our listener, Franklin. Apparently, for him, information
Speaker 5: is fear because he learned something recently that got him
Speaker 5: so terrified, so scared, he emailed us asking if we
Speaker 5: could help him make an awkward Tuesday phone.
Speaker 2: Maybe ignorance is bliss is the better quote we should
Speaker 2: use here.
Speaker 5: Oh it's too late for that. Franklin now knows too much. Franklin,
Speaker 5: Welcome to the show Man.
Speaker 4: Hi.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, just even that high sounded frightened. I
Speaker 1: thought Jeffrey was exaggerating like he normally does.
Speaker 5: But you, I felt like I was exaggerating. But you
Speaker 5: sound like you're hiding underneath a blanket.
Speaker 4: Right now, get a little nervous talking. I'm on the radio.
Speaker 4: Nobody's listening.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, don't worry. It's only like five people that
Speaker 1: listen to this show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and one of them is my mom, and she
Speaker 2: thinks anything anyone does on our show is amazing.
Speaker 4: Okay, Okay, there you go.
Speaker 3: You're doing great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what my mom would say. Oh he's so adorable.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're in a safe space right now, Franklin, So
Speaker 5: feel free to say whatever you need to. We need
Speaker 5: to know. What is this information that you found out
Speaker 5: that has you so terrified?
Speaker 4: Oh okay, well it's like like you've heard I found
Speaker 4: out something I wasn't supposed to know.
Speaker 5: Okay, well, you could just you could take your time
Speaker 5: in telling us you sound like you're rushing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, first, like set the scene. Why are you not
Speaker 1: supposed to know this information?
Speaker 4: Well, I was hanging out with a buddy of mine
Speaker 4: and I said he, so, what are you doing this weekend?
Speaker 4: And he goes, oh, I'll be it your thing. That's
Speaker 4: basically going to take the whole day, you know what
Speaker 4: the set up and everything. And I was like, like,
Speaker 4: he's sort of like on my face, and then I
Speaker 4: saw his face, so he was like one of saying
Speaker 4: that he definitely wasn't supposed to say what he just.
Speaker 1: Said, saying is your birthday coming up?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: My birthday is Saturday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's always one person that ruins it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he came out with a little bit of information.
Speaker 5: What did he say?
Speaker 4: I mean, he didn't give it up right away, but
Speaker 4: I knew, you know, Lou was hiding something, So you
Speaker 4: got to tell me what it is. And he tells
Speaker 4: me that my girlfriend is together a surprise party for me.
Speaker 1: Oh that's so cute. Is that not something you would like?
Speaker 2: Because some people, I guess you know everybody in this
Speaker 2: room would love a surprise party.
Speaker 1: I think maybe not Jeff, But.
Speaker 3: You want to open the studio door. No one's here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the dream? What about you?
Speaker 1: What about you?
Speaker 4: What? Like?
Speaker 1: What's your take on it? Are you excited to hear
Speaker 1: this or not?
Speaker 4: No? No, I am not a party person. I'm not
Speaker 4: a big gathering person.
Speaker 3: You are nervous just talking to us.
Speaker 4: Yeah, here's the thing. My friend made me swear that
Speaker 4: I wouldn't give him up. Oh yeah, you slipped up.
Speaker 4: It's not it's it was an honest mistake. So I
Speaker 4: can't just I don't want to throw him under the bus.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's good.
Speaker 4: I gotta I gotta do something here because I don't
Speaker 4: want a party.
Speaker 1: You don't, no, not at all, want at all.
Speaker 4: It's kind of my fault because I had mentioned a
Speaker 4: couple of months ago that I'd never really had a
Speaker 4: big birthday party or anything. But I don't think she
Speaker 4: understood that. That's because I didn't want one.
Speaker 3: You accidentally manifested this.
Speaker 2: I don't like celebrating, but I'm like, no, we have to,
Speaker 2: like you suck it up and celebrate.
Speaker 5: So you know, you don't like the attention being on yourself,
Speaker 5: or you don't like the big crowds, or like, what
Speaker 5: is it about it that scares you? The most.
Speaker 4: I don't like either, but both of them together are frightening. Okay,
Speaker 4: And it's kind of it's also kind of personal, like.
Speaker 2: There's a third reason that this can't happen, is what
Speaker 2: you're saying.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's exactly it.
Speaker 5: Okay, Well, what is it?
Speaker 1: It's kind of personal?
Speaker 3: What is it?
Speaker 5: Yeah, just tell us.
Speaker 4: That's not something that i'd be sar.
Speaker 1: Okay if.
Speaker 5: React, Yeah, you can wear us a secrets.
Speaker 2: Okay, you know, it's fine if you don't tell us.
Speaker 2: But can I ask does your girlfriend know this personal thing?
Speaker 2: Or is this also a secret from her?
Speaker 4: It's also a secret to her?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: Okay, So I mean if she knew that, maybe she
Speaker 2: would have never planned this to begin.
Speaker 1: Whatever it is that you're dealing with.
Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure that would be the case.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 4: And I just want some advice on how to get
Speaker 4: out of this without letting her know that, I know, how.
Speaker 6: You get out of a surprise party that you're not
Speaker 6: supposed to know about.
Speaker 2: Are you sure you can't have a medical emergency right now?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: That would be a good time.
Speaker 2: You need some more sketchy, get some food poisoning, find
Speaker 2: all the one start.
Speaker 5: YEA we have gift cards to restaurants that are very
Speaker 5: very lowly waiting we could send you.
Speaker 4: The problem is we work together, so I might have
Speaker 4: to commit to a a performance for a couple of
Speaker 4: days ago.
Speaker 2: To ensure she doesn't eat the leftovers route.
Speaker 5: Okay, so you want the advice on how to call
Speaker 5: your girlfriend and sneakily get out of the surprise party
Speaker 5: that she threw for you that she doesn't know you
Speaker 5: know about due.
Speaker 2: She's got everything planned right now, Like, how elaborate is
Speaker 2: this party?
Speaker 1: Do you know?
Speaker 4: I don't know all the details, but I know it's stake.
Speaker 4: She doesn't do anything small.
Speaker 3: She rented someplace out already, that's a.
Speaker 5: Big how many people wanting to see you? Well, we
Speaker 5: got our work cut out for us. We're going to
Speaker 5: think of some advice to give you on how to
Speaker 5: accidentally cancel your own surprise party when we reach out
Speaker 5: to your girlfriend and get you your awkward Tuesday phone
Speaker 5: call right after this.
Speaker 4: You can't do it now?
Speaker 5: No, no, what?
Speaker 4: Okay? I'm just hoping we could just do it then
Speaker 4: get it done.
Speaker 5: We'll get to it, but we need to take a
Speaker 5: break first, Like we need a minute to think of
Speaker 5: what our advice should be, and then we'll come back
Speaker 5: and give it to you and let you make your call.
Speaker 4: Okay, take a deep breath, keep breathing.
Speaker 3: Y'll hold it.
Speaker 4: I'm breathing.
Speaker 5: Keep doing that all the way till we get back.
Speaker 5: We'll do it right after this.
Speaker 4: Hold on.
Speaker 3: It's awkward. It's Tuesday. It's awkward Tuesday phone call.
Speaker 5: This weekend. Someone's getting a surprise party for his birthday
Speaker 5: thrown in his honor. And just one problem is he
Speaker 5: hates surprises, he hates parties, and he hates honor. And
Speaker 5: that would describe our listener Franklin, who just found out
Speaker 5: through a buddy that his girlfriend is going to be
Speaker 5: throwing a big gathering with a bunch of people at
Speaker 5: a restaurant to celebrate his birthday.
Speaker 3: It sounds good to everybody.
Speaker 1: It's his worst night marriage.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so he wants to figure out how to politely
Speaker 5: convince his girlfriend to cancel it, even though he's not
Speaker 5: supposed to know about it in the first place.
Speaker 3: That's an extra layer that's kind of tough.
Speaker 5: To definitely a challenge. So, Brooke, what's your advice for Franklin?
Speaker 1: Okay, so I think you lean into the positives.
Speaker 2: Right, you say, oh my god, honey, I am so
Speaker 2: excited to just spend my night with just you. Okay,
Speaker 2: and I assume like she has made a ruse, right,
Speaker 2: like you guys are just going to a dinner or something.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So lean into that and be like, this is
Speaker 2: just my perfect birthday and crazy. I just read like
Speaker 2: eight percent of people get engaged on their birthdays.
Speaker 1: It isn't that weird.
Speaker 4: Whoa.
Speaker 5: I'm just saying, you want to trick her into thinking
Speaker 5: he might propose, or are.
Speaker 3: You forcing her to propose to him?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 1: I'm just forcing her to cancel and be happy about it.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, you know, like, oh.
Speaker 3: My god, I have to cancel the party. He said this,
Speaker 3: he might propose.
Speaker 4: You're well, the only thing that scares me more than
Speaker 4: supprise birthday parties is proposing.
Speaker 5: Okay, Franklin, just lock that in the back of your
Speaker 5: mind in case you want to use it. Jose, what's
Speaker 5: your advice, Well.
Speaker 6: The trickiest part of this is that you need to
Speaker 6: get her to admit that there is a part before
Speaker 6: she finds out that you already know about it.
Speaker 1: Oh, You're trying to get her to confess to him.
Speaker 6: So then, so the only way that I can think
Speaker 6: of doing this is to tell her that you had
Speaker 6: a surprise party as a child and it completely scarred you.
Speaker 5: What do you think about that, Franklin?
Speaker 4: That is really good. Try to sell that easier than
Speaker 4: the proposals. I really want to stay away, far away
Speaker 4: from Okay, we.
Speaker 1: Won't do the proposal. Okay, I'm sorry that I even
Speaker 1: brought it up.
Speaker 2: Just emphasize you're excited to spend time with just her.
Speaker 4: I think I can find them. I can probably combine
Speaker 4: them both to like, Hey, I want to spend time
Speaker 4: with you in here's here's why.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, no matter what, you need to come.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that we hold this off. The more nervous he's getting,
Speaker 5: So we just have to dial her number and do this.
Speaker 4: You ready, Franklin, I'm as ready as I'm gonna be.
Speaker 5: So yeah, all right, just take a deep breath, and
Speaker 5: while you do that, I'm going to dial her number.
Speaker 1: He hasn't breathed in five minutes.
Speaker 5: You need it. Here we got.
Speaker 4: Hello, Hey, hey babe, it's me. How's it going, Franklin? Yeah?
Speaker 7: What what number are you calling from? I don't I
Speaker 7: don't have the fun sab.
Speaker 4: I'm I'm at the I'm I'm at the office office
Speaker 4: of the other office. I'm at the other office. I'm sorry,
Speaker 4: I'm just calling listen.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: I was looking at the weather for Saturday, and I
Speaker 4: know the thing it's going to be really, really funny,
Speaker 4: but there's like a thirty five percent chance that there's
Speaker 4: going to be like a huge storm, and I'm just thinking,
Speaker 4: if everything, we should probably just go away Saturday evening,
Speaker 4: you know, just just get you know, get out of
Speaker 4: the area before the rain. It'll be it'll be like spontaneous,
Speaker 4: but we planned it, Babe.
Speaker 7: I need you to calm down. You are freaking out
Speaker 7: and it's already booked. We're gonna have dinner downtown. Like,
Speaker 7: don't worry about it.
Speaker 4: Well, okay, I hate to bring it up. But the
Speaker 4: thing about that is like I had a birthday downtown
Speaker 4: when I was a kid, and it just didn't go well.
Speaker 4: I don't like going downtown for my birthday. It's a
Speaker 4: whole thing. It was a whole thing. Then I just
Speaker 4: I'd rather just use had a birthday downtown anyway. Kid. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: it was a whole thing. Like a lot of people
Speaker 4: were there and I wasn't really prepared for it. I
Speaker 4: was a kid. It just really freaked me out. So
Speaker 4: I just between that and the weather, I'd rather just
Speaker 4: go anywhere else.
Speaker 7: Do you know something that maybe you shouldn't know?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 4: No, no, I don't know what anything.
Speaker 7: Well, you're being super weird. You call me from this
Speaker 7: like unknown number, and now you're like talking about the
Speaker 7: weather and going out of town when I says it's
Speaker 7: just going to be sunny, and now there's some like
Speaker 7: downtown birthday trauma. I guess when you were like, I'm
Speaker 7: so confused. If you know something, you have to tell me.
Speaker 4: I don't know. Maybe what you know something I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't know what do you know that I should know?
Speaker 4: Do you know something?
Speaker 7: Do you ranclon? Okay? Who told you?
Speaker 4: I don't want to tell you. Who told me? If
Speaker 4: anybody told me anything. I just I don't want to
Speaker 4: do if we were going to do anything other than this,
Speaker 4: I don't want to do the thing that we might
Speaker 4: be doing, you know what I mean? I just don't
Speaker 4: want to do it.
Speaker 7: Okay, it sounds like you know about your birthday, and
Speaker 7: all I want you to know is that we can't
Speaker 7: cancel it. It's too late at this point, and just
Speaker 7: don't worry about it. I've got it all booked. Everything's
Speaker 7: going to be fine. You're gonna have a blast. I've
Speaker 7: got all your friends are coming, your family, your sister.
Speaker 4: No, it's going to be awesome. Okay. But I know
Speaker 4: we've been I know we've been six months now. I
Speaker 4: love you. It's just we can't we can't do this.
Speaker 7: What what is the problem. Uh, you've been to like
Speaker 7: big parties before. You don't understand why this is the problem.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, first of all, those weren't my party, so
Speaker 4: it wasn't you know. No, no big deal. The pressure
Speaker 4: and something you didn't know and I didn't know how
Speaker 4: to tell you. I'm soil now? Is that I'm not
Speaker 4: thirty one and forty one? Who?
Speaker 2: Who?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh?
Speaker 4: What wait? Oh are you serious? Oh?
Speaker 3: You've been lying about your Why would you lie about
Speaker 3: your age? Your girlfriend?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 7: Why is it going on?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Hello, Hi Sierra? Hey, Uh, sorry to tell you like this,
Speaker 5: but shocking. I think we're all recovering too. So you're
Speaker 5: you're on a radio show right now. This is called
Speaker 5: Brook and Jeffrey in the Morning. No, no, wow, he
Speaker 5: told us.
Speaker 2: That he didn't want to have a surprise party because
Speaker 2: oh I don't like crowds.
Speaker 1: I hate surprises. It's because you didn't want to get
Speaker 1: out it on the big lie you I've been telling.
Speaker 5: Okay, no judgment, Brook, Remember we're on his side for
Speaker 5: six months.
Speaker 7: Okay, Yeah, I need someone to tell me what's happening
Speaker 7: right now.
Speaker 5: Franklin, that's probably the best person.
Speaker 4: Here's what happened. I got really nervous about the birthday
Speaker 4: party because of my age, and I was trying to
Speaker 4: get out of it without letting anybody know what the
Speaker 4: real problem was.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, they know how old you are obviously.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Oh my friends think I'm dating a thirty one year old.
Speaker 1: How about you think you're damn.
Speaker 5: Who cares?
Speaker 1: What are your friends?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: How old are you? Sierra?
Speaker 7: Twenty nine?
Speaker 4: I mean, age is just a number. I've got the
Speaker 4: heart and body of a thirty one year old.
Speaker 5: But why would you say that you're thirty one when
Speaker 5: you're really forty one?
Speaker 4: Because we wouldn't have matched otherwise.
Speaker 3: Oh wait, were you like lying on a dating app?
Speaker 3: But also the age range and so he'd be out
Speaker 3: of her Rene because she doesn't want to date a
Speaker 3: forty one year old.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, baby, I really did not know how to
Speaker 4: tell you. I was going to tell you. I didn't
Speaker 4: know how or when, and I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: Well, I don't know.
Speaker 7: Six months in on the radio show is probably not
Speaker 7: the best idea.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean, we love each other, that's the thing
Speaker 4: that's really important.
Speaker 7: But you've been lying to me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Okay, it's a lie, and it's a big lie.
Speaker 4: I don't it shouldn't be a relationship ending lie. I
Speaker 4: don't think, because I think, you know, we we got
Speaker 4: some really good.
Speaker 7: I mean, that's something we're gonna have to talk about.
Speaker 7: I don't know. This is all like a lot right now.
Speaker 7: I don't know what to do about the birthday because
Speaker 7: all the decorations say thirty one, and your parents are
Speaker 7: going to be like.
Speaker 4: Laughing at me. No, no one's gonna let me. I'll
Speaker 4: let my family know that it's a joke and it'll
Speaker 4: be fine.
Speaker 1: It's a joke, so you're gonna lie to them.
Speaker 7: No, no, no, like half the people think it's a
Speaker 7: joke and half will think it's real.
Speaker 4: They no, I let them know they're in on the joke.
Speaker 4: It's a joke and they'll be in on it, and
Speaker 4: you'll be can we.
Speaker 6: Reverse the balloons so it says thirteen, Then it looks
Speaker 6: like even more.
Speaker 5: Oh that's funny.
Speaker 3: I'm finally immature, and you.
Speaker 1: Know what they say, like forty one going on thirteen.
Speaker 5: That could be really funny. Now we got an idea,
Speaker 5: you know, just lie after lie after lie until it's
Speaker 5: all who knows where we are?
Speaker 7: Like, I just I'm gonna have to think about this.
Speaker 7: I mean, I can't cancel the party now. There's just
Speaker 7: too much that's got into it.
Speaker 5: Okay, that's fair, he is, I put a deposit down. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 5: It sounds like this is the making of an awkward
Speaker 5: Tuesday update.
Speaker 1: Oh I do need you all to check in after
Speaker 1: this party goes.
Speaker 3: I think everybody does.
Speaker 4: I'm again, babe, I'm sorry. It's just something that I
Speaker 4: was really on my mind and I didn't know how
Speaker 4: to deal with it.
Speaker 1: You like, now I know why you knew so much
Speaker 1: Nineties trivia ten years was like to fill them in
Speaker 1: on now, So.
Speaker 7: Brook and Jeffrey in the Morning.
Speaker 5: Man, when he told us that he had a personal
Speaker 5: reason for not wanting to have this party dude.
Speaker 1: I thought it was something that like, I didn't want
Speaker 1: to pry. Yeah, I felt bad.
Speaker 5: I know no idea that he personally isn't the age
Speaker 5: that his girlfriend thinks.
Speaker 1: He is wildly different. Yeah, like ten years is a
Speaker 1: big difference.
Speaker 3: Great to be able to be believed.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, totally.
Speaker 1: That is a big beard. You can't tell, tell you
Speaker 1: those beards had a lot.
Speaker 5: Of age, big beard, youthful personality. His girlfriend had no idea.
Speaker 5: We had no idea.
Speaker 1: I bet she has at least a couple of girlfriends.
Speaker 1: They are like I thought, he looked really old.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, matter what happens, rough way to start off
Speaker 5: your birthday weekend.
Speaker 1: Do you think they stay together a happy forty one.
Speaker 5: It is probably even more rough than what happened to
Speaker 5: him downtown as a child. Poor guy. But anyway, if
Speaker 5: you ever need help with your personal life, make sure
Speaker 5: to reach out to the show. Email us. We can
Speaker 5: give you some advice and let you make that all
Speaker 5: important awkward call. It's Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning.