Chapter 1: What embarrassing moment happened during a listener's date?
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Chapter 2: How did karaoke play a role in the listener's first meetup?
There was this great interaction that we had when I met her. And this night just went totally off the rails. She was crying about everything. Charlie, I know it's probably hard, but if you had to guess, like, is there any thought in your mind about what maybe caused her to be so emotional that night?
If I had to guess, maybe she's just going through something really personal, and she didn't want to open up about it to me. Yeah, so let's call her on the radio and ask her about it. Tell us. Or, you know, it was just a full moon that night, and people act weird on that night. I'd like to say some people cry over good things. I cry watching Soldiers From Home videos, and I cry on cute stuff.
So maybe she was, like, thinking about a really good thing. The end of Coco, the movie? Yeah, see? See? Or just a full moon werewolf situation. Crying at the moon. So we'll come back and hopefully get some answers from her when we do your second date update super emotional edition right after this. Okay, thank you.
Second date update.
It's Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning. And if you're just joining us, our listener, Charlie, hung out with a woman named Janine on two separate occasions. Yeah. And I tend to want to focus more on the first hangout.
Yeah, but I think the second.
Because singing and complimenting and high-fiving each other at karaoke. Yeah, sharing drinks together. That sounds fun. Yeah. Yeah. The second hangout where he's sitting across a table from her while she balls her eyes out for an hour and a half. I mean, fun. Yeah. No, not as fun as the first time. It wasn't fun for her either, Jeff. Nobody had a good time at that dinner.
The thing is, we don't know exactly what was going on, not even Charlie. He doesn't know why the crying was happening. She seemed to be talking about a lot of different subjects, and the night ended with him suggesting that they go grab dessert together, and that resulted in immediate wailing. So I really don't know what we're going to get here if she answers the phone.
I just know that we probably need to be the opposite of how we normally do these calls and actually be super respectful. Oh. What do you think about that strategy, Brooke? I think that we shouldn't bring up the crying.
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Chapter 3: What unexpected emotions surfaced during the second date?
He's not manipulating her back with his tears? Yeah, listen, Janine, do you feel so bad for him? No, why would I? I mean, it was a date. It's not like either of us had anything, like, serious going, and he was willing to buy it, so why wouldn't I? I mean, at any point, were you actually interested in him? Because it sounds like you're just using him to get stuff. Yeah.
I'm not just using him. I'm using all the guys.
Oh, got it. Okay. You figured out the key to manipulating men is to shed a few tears and then they'll do whatever you ask them for. Yeah, like I don't even have to be on a date with them. You know, they could be sitting next to me at a bar or something and I just cry a little bit. Everybody's going to think you're a basket case and you're a crazy lunatic.
Or people can just think I'm controlling my emotions in a smart way. I mean, I got 500 bucks off a car the other day. Oh, wow. Hey.
Chapter 4: Why did the listener's date cry multiple times during dinner?
That's a good deal. Actually, I need to steal that. I just feel like, Janine, I hear that you're angry at men and you just want to use them. Like, maybe you could channel that energy in a different way. Go bigger? I don't know. Yeah, have them buy you a house. Like, just be a good person. A nice boat would be nice. Yeah. Honestly, I have an idea. Why don't y'all just shut the f*** up?
I think that was directed towards you, Brooke.
Yeah. I felt it.
Okay. No, it's all of y'all. Every single one of you. Oh. Oh, wait. She just hung up. That's a click. Good riddance. I thought for sure we were going to get a date.
Yeah.
Oh, my God. I really liked her. We could have, but we offered to buy drinks. I can't believe I fell for that. I really thought she was going through something. I mean, you guys did too, right? I mean, yeah. I know the whole room kind of fell for it, but I didn't. I knew the entire time that she was full of it. Oh, really? Oh, let's be respectful in this call. Remember that?
That sounds like a perfect impersonation of me, bro. You could be me. You know, here's the question that we didn't ask. Has anybody in this room fake cried before? I feel like someone here has definitely tried to cry to get out of a speeding ticket at least once. And if that's true, then we are no better than that woman on the phone. Girls, you've faked it before, right?
No, I've really cried when I've gotten pulled over. They really hit. But I still got the freaking ticket. It wasn't convincing enough. I would still cry. I mean, no, it was real, though. The officer was like, come on, man. This is not going to work on me. You're the 12th woman to try to manipulate me with the crying. I'm actually really sad. I see tears, but I still don't believe it.
I do like the idea, though. Crying isn't a sign of weakness. It's a tool of manipulation. Let's reframe crying into something positive. We can be manipulated into helping our listeners if you send us an email with a bunch of crying emojis on it, and I will feel obligated to take action. That action might be to drag your email right into the trash, or it could be to help you.
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Chapter 5: What was the listener's reaction to the emotional outbursts?
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