Speaker 1: You found the official Second Date Update podcast.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a lot of posers out there.
Speaker 3: You know. It's Frick and Jeffrey in the morning. Thank
Speaker 3: you so much for being here. And on Tuesdays, if
Speaker 3: you're new to the Second eight podcast, we always do
Speaker 3: a little something called the Awkward Tuesday phone Call, and
Speaker 3: that's where if you're having a hard conversation you don't
Speaker 3: know how to approach it with any type of relationship.
Speaker 3: It could be romantic, it could be a friendship, a coworker,
Speaker 3: you call us for help and we give you very
Speaker 3: shaky advice.
Speaker 1: But that's why it's free.
Speaker 3: It's free, exactly exactly, and we always start these by
Speaker 3: reading a couple of comments.
Speaker 1: What do you see, Alexis.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, speaking of this being our real Second Date feed,
Speaker 2: someone asked what our socials are like the Brook and
Speaker 2: Jeffrey social to know that it's really us and it's
Speaker 2: always going to be at Brook and Jeffrey.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's at Brook and Jeffrey and will always be
Speaker 3: check marked.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, I don't want to confuse this, but we
Speaker 4: don't say official.
Speaker 5: I've seen the fake ones that are like official Brook.
Speaker 5: We do not. It's not us.
Speaker 1: That's a confusing Yeah, that is a little confusing.
Speaker 3: Yes, we are artificial Yahbrook and Jeffrey with the check mark,
Speaker 3: and that's true on YouTube too.
Speaker 1: We just passed one hundred thousand, Yeah, which is amazing.
Speaker 3: So we really appreciate you being there.
Speaker 1: And make it sure it's us all right, let's get
Speaker 1: this going.
Speaker 4: You can never underestimate the importance of being polite to
Speaker 4: people in your life. Yeah, and it's not always easy,
Speaker 4: but it shows that you're a good person who cares
Speaker 4: are Politeness always helps. So how do you politely stab
Speaker 4: your friend in the back and take what's theirs? You can't.
Speaker 4: Can't do that and care Jeffrey, you can't do that.
Speaker 4: I think that you can because that's what one of
Speaker 4: our listeners needs help doing today, and she has a
Speaker 4: good reason for doing it. I just know there has
Speaker 4: to be a polite way to go about it.
Speaker 1: Back staffers always think they got a good reason.
Speaker 4: You're gonna hear what she wants to take away politely
Speaker 4: from her friend. Oh my god, your brand new awkward
Speaker 4: Tuesday phone call. Next, it's awkward.
Speaker 1: It's Tuesday.
Speaker 5: It's awkward Tuesday phone call.
Speaker 4: You know the story of the unlikely hero, right Brook,
Speaker 4: which one? I mean, that's just a general, but you
Speaker 4: said the.
Speaker 5: Specific.
Speaker 4: Let's take this show for example. It was rudderless, flailing,
Speaker 4: no direction, sinking down into the mud when a young
Speaker 4: Jewish boy genius who was as charming as he was handsome,
Speaker 4: hung too, was thrown into the first mike position and
Speaker 4: the rest is radio history.
Speaker 3: We're wildly successful, and then we're like a little bit
Speaker 3: less successful now, but things are still afloat.
Speaker 4: We all have stories of unlikely heroes. Thankfully all of
Speaker 4: you and studio are able to benefit from it.
Speaker 5: So grateful.
Speaker 3: I mean, I just think it's your humility that sets
Speaker 3: you apart.
Speaker 4: Well, it's not me. I'm not talking about myself. Where
Speaker 4: it takes my place after me? Okay, that's going to
Speaker 4: be the real star. They have to be Jewish and
Speaker 4: they need to Apparently a similar situation happened to one
Speaker 4: of our listeners and they need our help today desperately.
Speaker 4: So please welcome to the show. Lexi.
Speaker 6: Hey guys, oh god, sorry Lexi is his ex's name?
Speaker 1: Isah? Are you the unsung hero? My friend?
Speaker 7: I don't think I'm a hero, but I do have
Speaker 7: a problem.
Speaker 4: Okay, Okay, okay is very vague. Maybe you have to
Speaker 4: explain this for us from one hung person to another.
Speaker 4: Tell us what you're dealing.
Speaker 1: With in your life means he wants to know.
Speaker 4: Tell us what's going on? Why did you email the show?
Speaker 7: So the other week, a friend of mine, a good
Speaker 7: friend of mine, texted me for a last minute favor. Okay,
Speaker 7: and his name's Michael.
Speaker 4: Not Brooks.
Speaker 3: Michael, though we don't have to associate everyone with a name.
Speaker 4: We're just making sure it's not Brook's husband, right, No,
Speaker 4: it is not. So your friend Michael wanted a last
Speaker 4: second favor.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So he's got this recreational kickball team. You know, it's
Speaker 7: like one of those like fun leagues. Yeah, exactly, so.
Speaker 1: You need like a fill in.
Speaker 3: It's always hard to get people to show up literally exactly.
Speaker 7: So he's going out of town for a week, and
Speaker 7: he didn't want to let the team down. And apparently,
Speaker 7: like if you don't have the players or something, they
Speaker 7: have to forfeit or like, you know, so's the whole thing.
Speaker 7: And he asked me if I could step in for him.
Speaker 3: That's nice, all right, It's awesome that he found his
Speaker 3: own substitute.
Speaker 1: It's usually like whoever put the team together?
Speaker 5: I got into one of those because.
Speaker 4: They just dragged her off the sidewalks a lot of
Speaker 4: free times. What did you say, did you do it?
Speaker 7: Yeah? I mean I didn't. I don't know anything about this, right, Like,
Speaker 7: so I was like okay, sure, and I was you know,
Speaker 7: maybe it'll be fun.
Speaker 1: Okay, how could this possibly cause a issue?
Speaker 7: Well, okay, so I go yeah, and it turns out
Speaker 7: I might be like a kickball prodigy.
Speaker 1: Oh you can kick that red rubber ball.
Speaker 4: She's got a golden toe.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I guess I remembered from like third grade.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Like, it's not a huge I mean
Speaker 1: it's a.
Speaker 5: I think it's a very cool and hard skill.
Speaker 4: This is your unlikely hero moment.
Speaker 7: Well, right, so the game I played, we ended up winning, right,
Speaker 7: so it's like a big deal because apparently this team
Speaker 7: like just doesn't ever win. Yeah, so they really So
Speaker 7: this is where they were like, oh my god, you're
Speaker 7: so awesome, Like it was really fun, and they invited
Speaker 7: me to go out to the bar afterwards to celebrate.
Speaker 7: And that's why it got uncomfortable because they're like you,
Speaker 7: we should keep you, and like Michael should not come
Speaker 7: back like they were. They were saying, like I should.
Speaker 4: Oh no, they want to kick Michael off the team
Speaker 4: for you.
Speaker 3: They're gonna meet him in like a week when they're
Speaker 3: down players, both of you.
Speaker 7: Listen. I thought they were joking, like again, I don't
Speaker 7: know the holes, like how many people are on a team.
Speaker 7: But then the team captain he like pulled me aside
Speaker 7: and he was dead serious. He's like, oh, we we
Speaker 7: really like to replace Michael.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Oh did.
Speaker 3: I was on a kickball team and one of the
Speaker 3: guys on our team was just like what your captain says,
Speaker 3: like where he wanted to hold practice and take it
Speaker 3: like really seriously.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, man, that's not.
Speaker 5: What we're doing for the cocktails.
Speaker 4: I mean, you can't do that. You can't replace your
Speaker 4: friend on his own team.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: The problem is because, like I said, I have a
Speaker 7: little time and I've sort of been looking for a
Speaker 7: new hobby myself, and everybody was so nice and it
Speaker 7: was just like such a good feeling and like I
Speaker 7: don't want to like take his spot, but I kind
Speaker 7: of want to.
Speaker 5: It kind of it kind of fits.
Speaker 4: It's one of those things that's like wait a second,
Speaker 4: did you say yes, I will replace him.
Speaker 3: Please don't tell me we're calling Michael to tell him
Speaker 3: he's kicked off the kickball team.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: So he was like he's back in a day or two.
Speaker 7: And I don't want him to hear it from anybody else.
Speaker 7: I want to be the one to tell him. I
Speaker 7: want to talk to him first, because like that would
Speaker 7: be even worse.
Speaker 4: I have a question, how how serious is this kickball
Speaker 4: team for Michael.
Speaker 7: Honestly, he's played for a long time, so I guess
Speaker 7: he's pretty serious.
Speaker 3: It's like being kicked out of your friend group. It's
Speaker 3: not necessarily about the kickball team. It's like being disinvited
Speaker 3: to happy hours, got kicked.
Speaker 5: Out because she wasn't reading the books.
Speaker 4: Ever, this is the time when having a young Jewish boy,
Speaker 4: charming genius on the show would really be useful.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, man, where are we going to hire him?
Speaker 4: Since we don't have that, We're just gonna have Brooke
Speaker 4: and jose give you some advice when we come.
Speaker 5: Back on Catholic.
Speaker 4: Oh no, you're really in trouble when we do your
Speaker 4: awkward Tuesday phone call next, it's awkward.
Speaker 1: It's Tuesday.
Speaker 5: It's awkward.
Speaker 4: Tuesday phone call. The Majestic Sports of Kickball goes all
Speaker 4: the way back to nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 1: I think it's probably older than that.
Speaker 4: Nineteen ninety one day. Okay, you'd think people wouldn't take
Speaker 4: it as seriously as they do, because it's really just
Speaker 4: a bunch of buzzed adults drinking beers and kicking a
Speaker 4: red ball around on a playground.
Speaker 3: But may gets serious if you've played on an adultly.
Speaker 4: I mean, it is a big deal for people, especially
Speaker 4: the ones who've let the rest of their dreams and
Speaker 4: life dial the problem. And this is why this awkward
Speaker 4: Tuesday is going to be a specially awkward because Lexi,
Speaker 4: one of our listeners, ended up filling in for her
Speaker 4: good friend while he was away on vacation and ended
Speaker 4: up doing so well the team has asked her to
Speaker 4: replace him permanently, and after a few beers at the bar,
Speaker 4: Lexi was like, heck, yeah, screw Michael, I'll do it.
Speaker 4: And Michael's coming back from vacation tomorrow, so she needs
Speaker 4: to break the news to him first before he hears
Speaker 4: it from someone else. What advice do you have to
Speaker 4: give for that?
Speaker 3: I mean, it's just hard man Lexi, I think that
Speaker 3: the thing you do to preserve your friendship is you
Speaker 3: let him know, which is true, that it was their decision.
Speaker 3: You had nothing to do with.
Speaker 1: It, right, yeah, like it was their choice.
Speaker 2: And on the good side, like first time you get
Speaker 2: a little sick, you know he's your backup, right right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: so you know.
Speaker 1: He has something, yeah, to look forward to, possibly.
Speaker 4: View from the bleacher. Jose, what do you.
Speaker 5: Think you need to tell his friends to take him
Speaker 5: off of the email list and then just tell him
Speaker 5: the season's canceled?
Speaker 1: What she hasn't be like secretive about it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but at least he'll never know his feelings won't
Speaker 5: be hurt at all.
Speaker 4: That's a lot of avoid Does that sound Lexi?
Speaker 7: No, I don't think. Yeah, reasonable.
Speaker 5: I usually give such sound advice.
Speaker 4: I don't know what's going on. And here's something that
Speaker 4: we didn't talk about in the first part. I was
Speaker 4: going back over your email and we talked about you
Speaker 4: filling in for him for kickball. But it also says
Speaker 4: you guys work together and while he was gone, you
Speaker 4: had to do some of his job too. What you
Speaker 4: didn't take his job away? Did you?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 6: My gosh, no, no, no, oh, my god, No, you're.
Speaker 5: Not going to take his wife and family.
Speaker 1: She's actually wearing his clothes.
Speaker 5: Noaling his identity.
Speaker 7: I mean our supervisor did say I was more productive,
Speaker 7: but like I don't want to.
Speaker 5: Oh that hurts. That's like when they give Alexis my
Speaker 5: task at work and she does it ten times faster.
Speaker 4: I mean it could be anybody we give your job to.
Speaker 5: That is true.
Speaker 7: Maybe he shouldn't have got on vacation. I don't.
Speaker 3: Like that.
Speaker 4: Accusatory attitude into this phone call. I'm diving his number
Speaker 4: right now.
Speaker 6: Good luck, okay, Hello, Hey Michael Flexi.
Speaker 8: Oh hey, how you doing? That was a weird number.
Speaker 8: I don't recognize. How are you?
Speaker 7: Oh, I'm good.
Speaker 4: How are you?
Speaker 7: How was your trip?
Speaker 8: I'm good. I've just been great. Learn a scuba dive. Yeah,
Speaker 8: it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 7: Well that's awesome.
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 6: I'm good. I'm good.
Speaker 7: I just wanted to say thank you so much for
Speaker 7: inviting me to like fill it for you on the
Speaker 7: kickball team. It was like, it was so fun. I
Speaker 7: don't think I've had that much. They're so great. They're awesome.
Speaker 8: Yeah, they're like the best. That's awesome. I'm so glad
Speaker 8: you got to do it. I'm glad you enjoyed it,
Speaker 8: because I gotta tell you, sometimes they get like really
Speaker 8: crazy and some of the girls don't like other girls,
Speaker 8: you know how it gets.
Speaker 7: But oh no, nothing like no, no, no, no. It
Speaker 7: was everybody was like over the top nice.
Speaker 8: So that's great. That's so cool.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Like, do you really like playing on the team,
Speaker 7: like real to still talk?
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's the greatest. It's like my favorite. I'm so
Speaker 8: glad I met those people.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 8: It was like really you know, kind of like going
Speaker 8: through something in life that I met. Like, it's like
Speaker 8: just a great group of friends.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I will say I was a tiny bit hesitant when
Speaker 7: I went because you talk about like sort of how
Speaker 7: frustrated you get sometimes with the kickball team.
Speaker 8: And I was like, oh, you know, I didn't know. Well,
Speaker 8: we we do. Yeah, we lose every time, but it's
Speaker 8: not really what it's about. I don't think. I think
Speaker 8: it's just you know, the camaraderie and having a good
Speaker 8: time together and everything.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Well you know what's cool is we did win.
Speaker 7: We won, but like.
Speaker 8: The first one in the war, I guess you won.
Speaker 7: Yeah, could you believe in.
Speaker 8: No you did. You didn't win, No, Like I I'm
Speaker 8: not kidding.
Speaker 7: We actually won, We like solidly won.
Speaker 8: How I mean, how did you win? I mean we're
Speaker 8: really not We're not good.
Speaker 7: I mean I had a really good night. I think
Speaker 7: I scored like literally all the goals except for like.
Speaker 8: Two, So it's goals, it's it's points. You scored points.
Speaker 7: Well, I mean whatever I did, I scored them.
Speaker 8: Wow. They must be loving me that I found you.
Speaker 7: Huh yeah about that. So some of these other people
Speaker 7: on the team sort of like approached me and they
Speaker 7: thought it might be like just an idea if I
Speaker 7: just like took your place for a couple games, like
Speaker 7: just for a few games.
Speaker 8: Who said that?
Speaker 7: Uh? Like like all of them? All of them?
Speaker 8: Really all of them?
Speaker 7: I mean yeah, like the whole like the whole team,
Speaker 7: all of them. Yep.
Speaker 8: No, what about my sister? What is going on?
Speaker 4: Michael? What's up?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 1: We have a lot of heart for you right now?
Speaker 1: My friend?
Speaker 8: Yeah, what is going on here?
Speaker 1: Lexi?
Speaker 7: Yeah you're on the radio.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, surprise, LEXI needed our help to break this
Speaker 4: news to you because we're doing something called an awkward
Speaker 4: Tuesday phone call to let you know that you're not
Speaker 4: on a on a losing team anymore, not on any team.
Speaker 3: Oh oh, is that your little sister or your big
Speaker 3: sister that's on the team.
Speaker 7: My little sister, your little.
Speaker 4: So let his little sister was on board too.
Speaker 7: I don't know she was the first one to think,
Speaker 7: but she's definitely on board. I don't know what to
Speaker 7: say other than like, I don't.
Speaker 8: Want to help start this team. I've been on this
Speaker 8: team for like eight years.
Speaker 4: Oh for eight years.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's about the friendship and the fun.
Speaker 2: To him, yeah, maybe you know your friends, it's not
Speaker 2: about friendship.
Speaker 3: It's just about they just finally got that taste of
Speaker 3: victory when you were there, and they they want.
Speaker 5: More of it.
Speaker 8: Yeah. I get it. Like she's really good and I'm
Speaker 8: glad they won and that's awesome and everything, But I
Speaker 8: don't think that. I don't think I need to be
Speaker 8: off the team.
Speaker 1: I would agree.
Speaker 7: I don't think so either. I mean, like I would
Speaker 7: be happy to like swap or what if you're like
Speaker 7: an altered I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't think Michael's sister would like that idea very much.
Speaker 1: Is there maybe a team manager?
Speaker 7: Cheerleader?
Speaker 1: Team manager?
Speaker 4: I like that you wanted to be the water boy,
Speaker 4: you can.
Speaker 1: Be the guy who sends out all the emails.
Speaker 5: Nobody like that. In charge of the ball.
Speaker 4: We're taking the ball. We're taking away Michael's manhood. One comment, Mike,
Speaker 4: are you Are you okay?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 8: Not really? I got to talk to the guys who
Speaker 8: run this because this is not cool.
Speaker 5: Have you been there for eight years and you don't
Speaker 5: run it?
Speaker 3: Maybe since he's a free agent now, another winning team
Speaker 3: will pick you up.
Speaker 4: Everybody likes that revenge story. Yeah, of coming back and
Speaker 4: playing your old team and taking them down.
Speaker 1: Especially if your sister's on the team.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's actually not a bad idea.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 8: I could probably kick forth for them in their backup
Speaker 8: st Oh wow, yeah.
Speaker 4: There you go, Lexi. It sounds like you have a
Speaker 4: new league rival.
Speaker 7: I didn't mean to create my worst enemy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I want to tell him about the job thing.
Speaker 8: Yeah, job, what about what about my job?
Speaker 5: You're fired?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 7: That was a job.
Speaker 1: Freaking Jeffrey in the morning. I think being replaced is
Speaker 1: worse than even being the last kid.
Speaker 3: Yeah on the gym, dude, they tried you, and yeah,
Speaker 3: I hope the competition actually takes him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, gosh, like he actually makes it on another day.
Speaker 3: But honestly, is anyone surprised that their sibling would vote
Speaker 3: them out?
Speaker 5: No? I mean yeah competitive?
Speaker 1: No, yeah, the sisters he annoys me, get them off. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I made Alexis. You'd be the first one to kick
Speaker 1: your brothers off any team.
Speaker 5: You do the same to you?
Speaker 3: Yeahs oh man, that was awesome. Hey, thank you so
Speaker 3: much for being here and being part of our podcast.
Speaker 3: I got a lot of growth for the last year,
Speaker 3: which has been really amazing.
Speaker 5: And we do have a weird growth.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you for that's a different kind a different time. No,
Speaker 1: you guys always, I think you love the awkward Tuesdays.
Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: Do we get any comments on this one?
Speaker 4: I did see one that said, thank you guys so much.
Speaker 1: This was by far the funniest one.
Speaker 5: Oh no, we can't do any more.
Speaker 3: All right, we'll be back tomorrow with another second update.
Speaker 3: Thanks so much for being here. Please subscribe, Sharon like
Speaker 3: and let's keep that growth going.
Speaker 5: Jo go to the doctor.
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't want more descriptions.