Speaker 1: Second, with dating, people always like to talk about passion
Speaker 1: and soulmates finding true love. That'd be great, but sometimes
Speaker 1: you don't date for love. You date for food. Oh seriously,
Speaker 1: is there anything more romantic in this world that can
Speaker 1: bond two people together than a good burrito bowl with
Speaker 1: a kale smoothie, especially when you're not paying You kind
Speaker 1: of lost me at kale smovie. I dare with something
Speaker 1: hotter than kale smoothies and burrito bowls, very fibrous. Apparently
Speaker 1: that's what happened with one of our listeners, Amanda the
Speaker 1: other day. Amanda claims that she bonded with a guy
Speaker 1: over some delivery food. So, Amanda, welcome to the show. Hi,
Speaker 1: thank you. It's actually just Amanda. Oh just oh the
Speaker 1: first a is silent. Oh my god. That must be
Speaker 1: really annoying your entire life. It's okay, it's always that
Speaker 1: conversation starter. Yeah, that's a good point, all right. I
Speaker 1: apologize a Manda for that just butchering of your name.
Speaker 1: But tell us about the guy that you went out with.
Speaker 1: What's his name? His name is Ritchie, not itchy. Yeah
Speaker 1: you pronounced that first art. Yeah, okay, she doesn't find
Speaker 1: it funny. Okay, that's fine. I'm sure you've heard it
Speaker 1: your whole life. I get it. I get what you
Speaker 1: guys are going. That's funny. Okay, Yeah, we like to
Speaker 1: have a little bit of fun before we get into
Speaker 1: the details of the date. But you met with Ritchie
Speaker 1: over delivery food. How did that happen? Yeah? So I
Speaker 1: live in a really big apartment complex, and when you
Speaker 1: order food on one of the food apps, you go
Speaker 1: pick it up downstairs, and then the area of usually
Speaker 1: is like a little bit of a hangout kind of
Speaker 1: becomes like a social gathering. Yeah. Yeah, I guess people
Speaker 1: are waiting for their food or or that's just how
Speaker 1: you get into the building. A lot of times I
Speaker 1: feel like it'd be a bunch of really hungry people
Speaker 1: down there waiting for food, all bitter, glaring at each other.
Speaker 1: It's okay, you met him there. Yeah, So when I
Speaker 1: was waiting for my food, he was there, and we
Speaker 1: just kind of started having some small talk, and he
Speaker 1: asked what I ordered, and then he was bragging that
Speaker 1: he got the best tacos, and then he ended up
Speaker 1: getting Taco Bell. So I thought that was really funny.
Speaker 1: It was Taco Bell, was it? A joke when he
Speaker 1: was saying it, or was he being legit? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: good sense of humor. I mean, taco bell is delicious.
Speaker 1: I don't see the joke, and it just doesn't ever
Speaker 1: make sense to people get taco bell delivery because you
Speaker 1: were literally paying three times what it would cost in
Speaker 1: the restaurant. Like the whole point of taco bell is
Speaker 1: also that it's cheap. Yeah. Usually the state I'm in
Speaker 1: eating it, I can't get to taco Okay, what was
Speaker 1: this guy sober? Um? Yeah? She was sober? I think. Yeah.
Speaker 1: What happened after that? After you met? Well, we ran
Speaker 1: into each other a couple of other times, you know,
Speaker 1: have to know each other a little bit. And eventually
Speaker 1: he was like, instead of just meeting in the lobby,
Speaker 1: we should go get food. That's cute. So he asked
Speaker 1: you out. He did ask me out. Did he take
Speaker 1: you to his favorite taco place? That would ye? No,
Speaker 1: we just went to um kind of like an American
Speaker 1: cuisine kind of spot that was pretty close. Yet and
Speaker 1: how did that go? It was great? We hung out.
Speaker 1: You know, I really liked him, We really got to
Speaker 1: know each other. It was lovely. I thought, Okay, what'd
Speaker 1: you guys talk about? Like work? Family? Um, he has
Speaker 1: a cat named Joe and the food was good. It
Speaker 1: sounds like it all sounds normal. Were there any any
Speaker 1: issues that came up during the date. No issues that
Speaker 1: I can really think of. I mean, we were talking
Speaker 1: a lot. So at one point a waiter and cleared
Speaker 1: our table like before we were done, which is a
Speaker 1: big pet peep of mind. But so you threw a
Speaker 1: fork at him? Yeah? No, I just kind of lightly
Speaker 1: asked him that he didn't need to take our main
Speaker 1: plate because we're still eating, you know. Okay, Okay, how
Speaker 1: did it end? The bill came? Um, he paid. I
Speaker 1: offered a venmo him. He turned it down. Oh good offer.
Speaker 1: I feel like you should always offer, Yeah, even if
Speaker 1: you don't mean it. I do fake offer, but I'm
Speaker 1: never gonna okay, like, oh my apps. So he covered
Speaker 1: the whole bill. Yeah, he covered the whole bill. Okay.
Speaker 1: I thought things were going really well and I thought
Speaker 1: he was going to kiss me, but then he just
Speaker 1: hugged me. Oh, I mean maybe he got scared. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so like tough and scary. And did you feel like
Speaker 1: you guys had chemistry? Yeah? I mean I really liked him.
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe he just didn't like me as
Speaker 1: much as I liked him. Oh, it is a rational
Speaker 1: thing to say, my friend, kay, responsible and mature. Thought
Speaker 1: it was hard to admit that sometimes. Yeah, but so
Speaker 1: it's kind of weird though, because you live in the
Speaker 1: same building. You haven't seen him again since that happened.
Speaker 1: Or have you run into him down at the delivery
Speaker 1: food hangout? No, I haven't. Huh. It's a pretty big building,
Speaker 1: so it's not necessarily going to run into someone all
Speaker 1: the time. But yeah, I had seen him there please
Speaker 1: frequently before we had hung out, and now I haven't
Speaker 1: seen him at all. And he didn't mention like going
Speaker 1: out a town or anything. No, or the day was
Speaker 1: so bad he moved. Yeah, it's like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm breaking the leaves. I'm out of here. But we're
Speaker 1: going to play a song and then we're gonna do
Speaker 1: the very practical thing and ask rich for you if
Speaker 1: there's a legitimate reason why he's not calling you back. Okay,
Speaker 1: sounds good, but also, his name is Richie not Oh god,
Speaker 1: did I releast grew up both names in one segment? Yeah,
Speaker 1: part for the course for me he se, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: quote Manda, not Amanda, but Manda without that first day,
Speaker 1: because she's our second data. Today she said, quote, I
Speaker 1: really liked him, but like maybe he didn't like me
Speaker 1: as much as I liked him. Yeah. Yeah, And even
Speaker 1: though she said like four times in a single sentence,
Speaker 1: Professor brook Fox still gave her a gold star for
Speaker 1: being practical and having a well thought out explanation for
Speaker 1: her ghost stud some emotional intelligence right there that she
Speaker 1: displayed Brook any other clinical pragmatic commentary you'd like to
Speaker 1: have us document on the podcast for posterity reasons, but
Speaker 1: I am taking notes for later, so next to me
Speaker 1: and we can review at a later time. Sounds fun
Speaker 1: for everybody? A right? Yes, why do you even give
Speaker 1: it opportunity regret it? Yeah? So, Amanda, how are you
Speaker 1: feeling before we call Richie for you? Here? You're doing okay? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm a little nervous, but I'm interested to hear what
Speaker 1: he has to say. Yeah, and have you been like
Speaker 1: nervous to run into him because you know, like when
Speaker 1: so much time has passed and it gets awkward and
Speaker 1: then yeah, of course, you know, I've kind of guess
Speaker 1: been rehearsing what to say if I run into him.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we all do that in our minds, right, yeah.
Speaker 1: And she totally hasn't been camping out down at the
Speaker 1: bottom of the elevators, just like accidentally waiting to put
Speaker 1: like a key into the mailbox hole, just like, oops,
Speaker 1: what are you doing here? That's funny. I haven't done
Speaker 1: anything like that. Good, Okay, that's very practical of you.
Speaker 1: Let's just call Ritchie though and see what he has
Speaker 1: to say. Here we go, Oh, you got the name right.
Speaker 1: Oh hey, look at you, jeff You remembered something. Oh way,
Speaker 1: you wrote it down? Well, yeah, I practiced it seven
Speaker 1: times before. Here we go. See what Richie has to say? Hello, Hello,
Speaker 1: is this Richie? Uh? This is Ez? Who was this?
Speaker 1: This is Jeffrey with a why at the end. You
Speaker 1: would start with a J. I mean you would always
Speaker 1: spell it with a why. Some people spell it with
Speaker 1: a G. I don't know. Some people get confused on
Speaker 1: these things. Words, words and names we found are very
Speaker 1: difficult today. So there's also two ease. There's also two
Speaker 1: F Hi Richie, Hello Richie. Hi. Right, So you're you're
Speaker 1: Jeffrey from a morning radio show called Brook and Jeffrey. Oh, say, so,
Speaker 1: why are you guys telling me? Very astute question there, Richie.
Speaker 1: We're calling because we're trying to dig a little bit
Speaker 1: into your dating life. What what are you talking about?
Speaker 1: I think it's a good thing. Intrusively, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was brought to us. Yeah, I mean just that,
Speaker 1: I mean a little bit intrusively, but in a nice
Speaker 1: way because one of our listeners named Manda went out
Speaker 1: with you recently and would like to go out with
Speaker 1: you again. How she'd like to go out with me again?
Speaker 1: M Yeah, we'd give you that idea. She told us,
Speaker 1: literally emailed the show saying I would like to see
Speaker 1: Richie again. It was very direct. We read between the
Speaker 1: lines on that one a little bit, but we figured
Speaker 1: out she wants another date. I'm just like totally confused
Speaker 1: right now. I mean, I thought that we had a
Speaker 1: really good time, but I don't understand, Like I didn't
Speaker 1: hear anything from her, So I'm like just thought she
Speaker 1: didn't like me, so I kind of moved going. Wait, wait,
Speaker 1: she said she tried to get a hold of you.
Speaker 1: I thought, did she tell us that or did she
Speaker 1: not tell us that? I don't know if I asked
Speaker 1: that question. I was too busy trying to figure out
Speaker 1: her name. Yeah, no, I don't know how she had
Speaker 1: to contact me, Like, I don't know we got a
Speaker 1: call from her or text or anything after the day. Wait, wow,
Speaker 1: did you text or call her though, Richie? I mean
Speaker 1: maybe she's one of those girls that was just doesn't
Speaker 1: want to be too forward. No, I mean I'm usually
Speaker 1: a girl at least I mean, even though we live
Speaker 1: in the same dud shell at lea say hey, I
Speaker 1: got home safe. It was nice to night, you know something,
Speaker 1: just thought you know, she got into do it nothing
Speaker 1: or even like a thank you for dinner and paying
Speaker 1: for everything, and ask if she got home safe? Do
Speaker 1: you Guys they live a little harder stuck in the
Speaker 1: elevator for a week. It happens, So it does not happen.
Speaker 1: So wait, so you liked her, she liked you, and
Speaker 1: neither of you have texted or called each other. Guess
Speaker 1: not weird? Okay, well, that seems this seems easy. It
Speaker 1: does seem easy because you're in luck. Ritchie. Manda is
Speaker 1: actually on the other line right now wanting to tell
Speaker 1: you how much she likes you and wants to see
Speaker 1: you again Manda, Hey, Ritchie, Hey, Oh this is so
Speaker 1: strange to me. Right now, I'm totally gonna work. Oh well,
Speaker 1: it's kind of interesting to hear your perspective on this
Speaker 1: because I thought that you didn't like me. I mean,
Speaker 1: absolute relief and kind of funny. But oh, we wasted
Speaker 1: a lot of time. I guess, yeah, I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I guess I was expecting you to be
Speaker 1: a like as bit of a communicator as you talked
Speaker 1: about and like how that was important, and then I
Speaker 1: was kind of confused after. I mean, it's just funny,
Speaker 1: like you guys seem like you're both interested in each other,
Speaker 1: so it's kind and you just didn't realize that it
Speaker 1: was going on. You were both too shy to say it,
Speaker 1: were stubborn whoever it was from what she just said
Speaker 1: that she thinks I'm a pretty bad communicator. Seems like
Speaker 1: you both are. Yeah, like we both liked each other
Speaker 1: and neither one of you reached out. That's not what
Speaker 1: you're saying, right, Manda. I'm mean kind of well, you
Speaker 1: didn't keep you didn't communicate with him, Well, I mean
Speaker 1: I did. I was pretty clear that I was waiting
Speaker 1: to hear from him first that I kind of liked
Speaker 1: the guy taking the initiative first. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: guess I shouldn't expect so much from okay person, What
Speaker 1: where that come from? So now I'm a liar and
Speaker 1: a bad person because they're like cats, right. Oh no,
Speaker 1: it's just our rhymes. I don't think you can take
Speaker 1: that one back. Yeah, I thought when you were talking
Speaker 1: to us earlier, we said you had he had a
Speaker 1: cute cat named Joe. Yeah. Sure, but I'm just you know,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I didn't think that, rittie. I didn't think
Speaker 1: you're going to be so sensitive, So I'm sorry to
Speaker 1: bring that up. Now he's sensitive. I guess being sensitive
Speaker 1: is better than being a total jerk to the waiter.
Speaker 1: So wait, what happened with the waiter? Yeah, what are
Speaker 1: you trying to say? Okay, so, but he tried to
Speaker 1: take your plate the other night? You said, in like
Speaker 1: a harsh tone, you know, I'm not done? Right, Like,
Speaker 1: that's as anarchy as you can get back. I feel
Speaker 1: like I was citty polite. I wasn't done, so I
Speaker 1: just left a wait or no, but it was yeah,
Speaker 1: are we are? We forgetting that? You guys both really
Speaker 1: liked each other like two minutes ago. I'm like her
Speaker 1: at all, but I'm just big on like manners and
Speaker 1: just etiquette and there's a polite way to do things,
Speaker 1: and she just did not observe that. Are you sure
Speaker 1: you're not just being defensive right now because she called
Speaker 1: you a pathetic, overly sensitive cat person. Pathetic? Okay, well,
Speaker 1: I'm just reading between the lines. We don't know what
Speaker 1: she meant. You're adding words. The words were there, they
Speaker 1: were just unspoken. So you're saying that I'm not polite
Speaker 1: because I offered to pay for half of the meal.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's emasculating. You gotta know that rights emasculated.
Speaker 1: That's emasculating, Like, I'm a dude on the first date.
Speaker 1: What kind of dude doesn't pay for the first date? What? Well?
Speaker 1: It true? I'm sorry, in a Manda's defense, you did
Speaker 1: or her taco bell. So maybe she just didn't think
Speaker 1: you had the budget for Amanda's defense, it's a polite
Speaker 1: thing to do, yeah, says money bags brook Over. There
Speaker 1: nice to offer, you know, even if you don't do it,
Speaker 1: at least you know that you have someone who is
Speaker 1: more of a partner and not someone who just wants
Speaker 1: free stuff or is it rude like assuming that he
Speaker 1: can't afford it on his own. That's not what she
Speaker 1: was assuming at all. This is going to come as
Speaker 1: a news Flashbrook, but not everybody in the world agrees
Speaker 1: with you on everything. Oh why are you meaning rude
Speaker 1: all of a sudden now fighting with each other? Because
Speaker 1: I like you before the call started? That guy? Is
Speaker 1: that what you and I don't even know it? Just
Speaker 1: how do you disrespect cats? Yeah, there's nothing wrong with
Speaker 1: having cats, Brook, Well, here's where the show now, you
Speaker 1: know what work. I'm going to offer to pay for
Speaker 1: half of it. How do you like that? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you stop? Stop? Maybe if you got the meal order
Speaker 1: right one time instead of getting me a burrito a bowl.
Speaker 1: I don't like tortillas around my barrios. Listen to me.
Speaker 1: You didn't need the car Ritchie and man, are you
Speaker 1: still on the far Come on, Richie, Manda, we doing
Speaker 1: this or not? We send you on a second date.
Speaker 1: We're gonna pay for it, and Brook's gonna offer to
Speaker 1: pay for half. Yeah, whether you like it or not.
Speaker 1: Green look yeah, okay, Well that and like I thought
Speaker 1: it was, you go out of your way. To try
Speaker 1: and help your listeners one time, and this is how
Speaker 1: you get treated growing off when you offer to pay
Speaker 1: for their dates and kind of yelled at them. I
Speaker 1: think it's a maculating Yeah, used to it? All right? Well,
Speaker 1: sorry Manda and Ritchie. Yeah, that kind of got out
Speaker 1: of hand there, you know, Okay, that's offensive to people
Speaker 1: that don't have hands Broke and Jeffrey in the morning.
Speaker 1: All right, we've calmed down a little bit. And sometimes
Speaker 1: I'll be honest, I wonder why our listeners keep asking
Speaker 1: for our help. Honestly, they keep on asking us to
Speaker 1: help them. You know what's going to happen. Even therapists
Speaker 1: have their own issues, right, they have to work through,
Speaker 1: usually not in front of the clients. But you get
Speaker 1: paid as a therapist. We don't. Some of us on
Speaker 1: the show get paid more than others, and it's a
Speaker 1: little bit unfair. But the whole thing. Admit it got
Speaker 1: out of hand. But I do want everybody to know.
Speaker 1: Once we got off the air, I graciously offered to
Speaker 1: give both of them restaurant gift cards, even if they
Speaker 1: didn't want to go out with each other, just for
Speaker 1: the trouble. Brooke, what did you offer them you guys
Speaker 1: like scared them away. I offered them that first. Oh
Speaker 1: did you anyway? I don't know why you'd want to,
Speaker 1: but if you ever want us to help you with
Speaker 1: your love life, you can always email the show and
Speaker 1: maybe to fight each other. No, maybe end up helping
Speaker 1: us out in the end. Yeah, there you go. Actually,
Speaker 1: maybe we should call another show to help with our issues.
Speaker 1: That's a good idea. Anyway. You can always find the
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