Chapter 1: What is the Awkward Tuesday Phone call about?
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Chapter 2: Who is the listener looking to spark a romantic connection with?
It's important to keep promises. Oh, okay. It's kind of preachy. She's like in teacher babysitter mode again. Yeah. How long ago was this? It was just only a few nights ago, so. Okay, so what do you want our advice with? Because that's like the awkward thing is, right? We give advice. Yeah, I just need advice.
on how to just to say that I'm grown and that I feel like you need to see me as someone that can be with you. I'm not a kid anymore. And go on a serious date with him. I think stomp your feet and say, this is not fair. Brooke, no, really. I know.
I get it. I get it.
Let's try and figure this out. We're going to come back. We're going to give you some solid advice on how to help you ask out your babysitter so that she sees you as a man.
Yeah. Ex-baby sitter. That's a fair point.
You're not still paying her, right? No, no, I'm not paying her. Alright, we're going to do it with your Awkward Tuesday phone call. Next. It's awkward. It's Tuesday. It's Awkward Tuesday phone call. Imagine going out with a girl you haven't seen in years. You're at the dinner table together. She looks over at you seductively, leans in and says, eat your veggies so you can grow up to be a big boy.
You know what's weird is I think that there's some people that are into that.
Maybe talk to me more.
Thankfully, our listener isn't. It did actually happen, though, to one of our listeners named Marky. Well, I'm calling him Marky because the person across the table was his ex-babysitter from when he was younger. He was nine years old. She was 14 at the time. But now they're both grown adults. And Mark wants to play doctor the real way. But does she see him that way?
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Chapter 3: What happened when Mark ran into his childhood babysitter?
And we're here for you, brother. We all believe in you, buddy. We're going to call Kendra for you, your ex-babysitter, and let you try and make this thing official with her. Get a real date. Okay. Sorry, not official was the wrong word. Should we call her Ken? Is that more of like an adult? No, I think just go respectful, manly. We're here for you. Okay, I'm down the number right now.
Here we go.
Hello? Kendra, it's me. Who is this? It's Mark.
Oh.
Oh, my God, Marky. Hi. I must not have saved your number right in my phone. I didn't pop up with this number. How are you? I'm great. How are you? I'm good. I'm good. I'm just kind of hanging out. I just ordered some food, waiting for it to show up. Cool. I love food. Food's great. I know. I remember that you do. I know you, yeah. I kind of... need to admit something to you. Okay.
Uh, so when I was nine, I kind of had a crush on you. Oh, my God. Tell me something I don't know. Oh. Wait, you knew that? Well, I kind of had a feeling. I mean, when my boyfriend stopped by that one time, you called 911 and told them there was an intruder at the door, so... Oh, my God. I totally forgot about that.
But it was kind of cute.
Anyway. Oh, you said that was cute? Yeah, it was so cute. Anyway, did you have a good time the other night when we hung out? Yeah, I did. It was really nice, but it was like a little late. What do you mean? I mean, well, you know, you told me you had a big meeting the next day and I felt like I was keeping you up past your bedtime. Well, I'm older now, so I don't really have a bedtime.
Well, I know that, but like everybody needs their sleep, even like big boys like you. Yeah, I mean, I guess that's true, but I should probably listen to you more. I mean, you should. How was the meeting? It was good. I mean, I think I made a good impression. Did you brush your teeth before? Yeah. Look, here's the conflict that I have, and I'm just going to be honest.
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Chapter 4: How did the dinner date between Mark and Kendra go?
Okay, so you're giving up. You're letting it go. Maybe you guys can be friends or you can stay nanny zoned. Or he's trying to find a time machine to go back and cancel her as the babysitter. I'm working on it and I'm starting tonight. Kendra, are you okay just staying friends with Mark? Yeah, I think that's fine for me. Okay.
You should still probably try to not do the babysitting terms around him a lot. Just be like normal adult friends. Did you not hear him? He likes it.
Yeah.
He sounds like he needs it too. I'm trying to help. Stay in friends. Stay in touch and see what happens and maybe something will naturally develop from there. Okay. What's your favorite bedtime story, Mark? Oh, my God. Thumbelina. Thumbelina. Interesting. You are a man.
Yeah.
Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning. This is a couple I wish we could get an update from. Yes, I need to know if things got more romantic.
I don't know.
I think they got less. I think that it's gone to where he's probably just paying her hourly at this point to come over and cut up his steak for him.
Like he got a little revisit of it from when he's little.
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