Chapter 1: Is it okay to meddle in a friend's love life?
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Chapter 2: What reasons does Carrie have for stopping her friend from dating?
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It happens in movies and reality TV shows all the time. What's that? People meddling in the dating lives of their other friends. Oh, yeah.
That happens in real life all the time.
Is it okay to do that? Because if it is, then Brooke, after this is over, Alexa says she has some thoughts on your current situationship with the guy that you live with.
Just if you're open to them. It's a marriage, Alexa. She's putting labels on it already.
But Brooke's life aside, we are about to do some love life meddling today because one of our listeners swears she has a really, really good reason she needs to stop her close friend from going out on a blind date. And she wants our help to block it. I don't know. I know you're skeptical, but you might be on her side when you hear why in a brand new Awkward Tuesday phone call.
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Chapter 3: What is the backstory of the friend Justin and the girl Catalina?
Next. It's awkward. It's Tuesday. It's awkward Tuesday phone call. As an adult, going out with high schoolers, bad idea. Terrible idea. Like, couldn't get worse. That's what I said. Bad idea. You said it so nonchalantly, though. What about going out with people you knew from back when you were in high school? Is that okay? Of course, Jeff. That is totally different.
Well, one of our listeners, Carrie, says absolutely not.
What?
Terrible, horrible idea to date your old high school classmate. And apparently that's why she needs our help today. Carrie, welcome to the show.
Hi, thanks.
Sounds like high school drama still following you right into adulthood, huh? Yeah, it's weird. And let me just let me just specify. I'm not opposed to other people dating people that they knew in high school, but not my friend Justin. Oh, just Justin.
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Chapter 4: How does Carrie feel about Justin's potential date with Catalina?
So it's not even other people from your high school. It's just Justin. This is a special case. What's going on with Justin? Okay, so Jess and I are friends. We've been friends, like you said, since high school. We're now in our late 20s. Okay. And the other day, he told me, hey, I'm going on a date. It's crazy. You can't even imagine who I'm going on a date with.
And it turns out to be this girl we knew in high school, Catalina Valdez.
Not Catalina.
Trauma.
Why is that bad?
We don't know anything about her. What's with Catalina? Well, she was the awkward girl. She was like kind of like science geeky. Are you still bullying the awkward girl in high school? Are we over that? No.
awkward she was like the awkward smart sciencey girl listen i was a little awkward it's just i was able to play it off better than she was i mean brooke you must have had somebody at your school who was like bad at handling their meth and that was the awkward yeah why aren't you better at chemistry i mean that was our chemistry class i mean yeah in the trailer so is that that's bad news that your friend might be going out with your awkward kid from high school
Well, I'm going to give you a little more backstory before I tell you why that's bad. Okay.
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Chapter 5: What strategies are discussed to prevent Justin from going on the date?
He got hooked up through another friend of ours from high school who was connected. She had a crush on him from high school, blah, blah, blah. So they like got each other's phone numbers. We're talking. He still has no clue what she looks like. No one could find her on social media. Well, I was curious. And I discovered that her parents got divorced and she took her mom's maiden name.
So I found her on social media under her maiden name. Okay. Oh, good snooping. So why are you doing all this work? He's just going out on a date. Because she's gorgeous. I mean, she's like Scarlett Johansson, Burton's net. Oh, good for her. That's great. That's amazing. Why is it bad? Yeah, generally that is great for her. I'm happy for her. Are you though? But here's the thing, guys.
I don't want him to know, but I kind of have a thing for Justin. We've known each other for so long.
Chapter 6: What rumors are suggested to deter Justin from dating Catalina?
It just a few years ago started, and I'm not ready for him to know. I need more time. But if he gets put in front of this girl, I have no chance. And this is why it was good being nerdy or awkward in high school because she actually has probably a cool personality too. Oh, you're not helping Jose. I mean, you sounded petty and I get why you're jealous. But you admit it. That all makes sense now.
Yeah, I just, I don't think I could compete. Okay, you don't want Justin going out with the now pretty girl. Is Justin the type of guy that's into pretty women? Is there any guy that's not into pretty women? Sorry, no. Please, I'd prefer an ugly, stupid woman. So wait, what do you want to do, though? Do you just finally want to tell him how you feel before he goes out with her?
No, I'm not ready for that. I need more time. But I just need to figure out how to convince him not to go out with her. So that you could just stay in this, like, nothing. Friend zone, but I have a crush on you. I mean, this is tricky. Like, Alexis, what do you think about this situation trying to stop your friend from going out with somebody hotter?
The nicest thing to do, but I would do it probably myself, too. Yeah.
Chapter 7: How do Carrie and Justin's feelings for each other evolve during the call?
But wouldn't you just tell the guy that you like him? Yeah. Like, you're in your late 20s at this point. You've got to shoot your shot. I mean, how many decades have you been waiting? Maybe she's waiting until he gets married and then divorced so that his confidence is so low he'll settle for anything. That could be a good strategy. Oh, yeah.
What if he likes you, too, and you guys are both just living in this world of not telling each other? Well, I haven't. I mean, that's kind of why I feel like I need a little more time. Like, I haven't really tried to look for the signals and stuff like that. This is like lighting the fire. Now you realize, uh-oh, he's not going to be single forever.
So you didn't fully like him until he found somebody hotter and smarter. Yeah, listen, let me say, like, he's dated other girls, and this is going to make me sound really superficial, but they didn't feel like competition to me, and so I don't think that I really realized it until, like, a woman came along that would totally blow me out of the water. Nice. Now I wouldn't have a chance. Okay.
Now the gloves are coming off now that this is happening. She's out of your league. What do you want our help doing then? Like, are we calling Justin and telling him not to go out with her?
yeah yeah this is convincing justin not to go out with her without you telling him that you like him exactly okay that's our job to come up with a way to convince justin to cancel his date with the now gorgeous looking catalina without letting her know that she's gorgeous uh Okay, listen, you don't have to keep rubbing in how gorgeous she is.
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Chapter 8: What conclusions do Carrie and Justin reach by the end of the episode?
I get that. I obviously know it. I've seen her.
Okay.
I don't think you can be named Catalina without being absolutely drop dead gorgeous.
It's really pretty.
She's not gorgeous. She's just stunning. And we're going to convince Justin to not go out with her.
Could be bad stunning.
We'll give you a little bit of advice and let you make your Awkward Tuesday phone call right after this. It's Awkward. It's Tuesday. It's Awkward Tuesday Friday. If you're just joining us for this awkward Tuesday phone call, it's a story that really speaks to my soul. Does it? The awkward kid in high school who was maybe a little shy, did school plays and chess club.
And during field trips, he would crawl underneath the seats on the bus and then pop up from below and say, guess who? They were completely undateable back then. But a few years go by and now they've matured mentally and physically. I feel like you still do that bus thing. Yeah, for real. And that ugly duckling has grown into an undeniable bubbling cauldron of raw desire. Oh, that's a hot dog.
It's undeniable. And our listener, Carrie, she's not that person. No. She's actually kind of threatened by that person. That's why she wants our help to stop her friend Justin from going out with the awkward girl from high school who's now blossomed into the female me. Now, why did you want to do that?
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