Speaker 1: It's awkward. It's Tuesday. It's awkward Tuesday phone call as
Speaker 1: an adult going out with high schoolers. Bad idea. It's
Speaker 1: terrible idea. That's what I said. Bad idea. What about
Speaker 1: going out with people you knew from back when you
Speaker 1: were in high school? That's that Okay, is totally different. Well,
Speaker 1: one of our listeners, Carrie, says, absolutely not. What terrible,
Speaker 1: horrible idea to date year old high school classmating. Apparently
Speaker 1: that's why she needs our help today. Carrie, Welcome to
Speaker 1: the show. Hi. Thanks. It sounds like high school drama
Speaker 1: is still following you right into adulthood. Huh yeah, it's weird.
Speaker 1: And let me just let me just specify. I'm not
Speaker 1: opposed to other people dating people that they knew in
Speaker 1: high school, but not my friend Justin. Oh, just Justin.
Speaker 1: So it's not even other people from your high schoo
Speaker 1: it's just Justin. This is a special case. What's going
Speaker 1: on with Justin? Okay? So just and our friends, we've
Speaker 1: been friends, like you said, since high school. We're now
Speaker 1: in our late twenties. Okay, And the other day he
Speaker 1: told me, Hey, I'm going on a date. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: You can't even imagine who I'm going on date with,
Speaker 1: and it turned out to be this girl we knew
Speaker 1: in high school, Catalina. N what's with Catalina? Well, she
Speaker 1: was the awkward girl. She was like kind of like
Speaker 1: science geeky, a little still bullying, the awkward girl in
Speaker 1: high school. Oh no, no, no, like she knew she
Speaker 1: was awkward. She was like the awkward, smart science e girl. Listen,
Speaker 1: I was a little awkward. It's just I was able
Speaker 1: to play it off better than she was. Y Brookie
Speaker 1: must have had somebody at your school who was like
Speaker 1: bad at handling their meth and that was the awkward Yes,
Speaker 1: why are you better at chemistry? Chemistry class? Yeah, so
Speaker 1: that's bad news that your friend might be going out
Speaker 1: with your awkward kid from high school. Well, I'm going
Speaker 1: to give you a little more backstory before i tell
Speaker 1: you why that's bad. Ok. He got hooked up through
Speaker 1: another friend of ours from high school who was connected.
Speaker 1: She had a crush on him from high school. Blah
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. So they like got each other's phone numbers.
Speaker 1: We're talking. He still has no clue what she looks like.
Speaker 1: No one could find her on social media. I was curious,
Speaker 1: and I discovered that her parents got divorced and she
Speaker 1: took her mom's maiden name, so I found her on
Speaker 1: social media under her maiden name. Okay, so why are
Speaker 1: you doing all this work? He's just going out on
Speaker 1: a date because she's gorgeous. I mean, she's like Scarlet
Speaker 1: Johansson Burton met. Yeah. Generally that is great for her.
Speaker 1: I'm happy for her, though. But here's the thing, guys, Um,
Speaker 1: I don't want him to know, but I'm I kind
Speaker 1: of have a thing for Justin. It We've known each
Speaker 1: other for so long. It just a few years ago started,
Speaker 1: and I'm not ready for him to know. I need
Speaker 1: more time. But if he gets put in front of
Speaker 1: this girl, I have no chance. This is why it
Speaker 1: was good being nerdy or awkward in high school, because
Speaker 1: she actually has probably a cool personality. Oh, you're not helping, Jose.
Speaker 1: I mean you sounded petty, and I get why you're jealous.
Speaker 1: You admit it, that all makes sense. No, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: just I don't think I could compete. Okay, you don't
Speaker 1: want Justin going out with the now pretty girl? Or
Speaker 1: is Justin the type of guy that's into pretty women?
Speaker 1: Or is there any guy that's not into pretty women. Yeah, sorry, no, please,
Speaker 1: I'd prefer an ugly, stupid woman. So wait, what do
Speaker 1: you want to do though? You just finally want to
Speaker 1: tell him how you feel before he goes out with her. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not ready that I need more time, but I
Speaker 1: just need to figure out how to convince him not
Speaker 1: to go out with her. Oh, you could just stay
Speaker 1: in this, like, but I have a crush. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is tricky, Like Alexis, what do you think about
Speaker 1: this situation, trying to stop your friend from going out
Speaker 1: with somebody hotter? I don't know if it's the nicest
Speaker 1: thing to do, but I would do it probably myself too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: why didn't you just tell the guy that ye like him? Yeah? Like,
Speaker 1: you're you're in your late twenties at this point, you
Speaker 1: gotta shoot your shot. How many decades have you been waiting?
Speaker 1: Maybe she's waiting till he gets married and then divorced,
Speaker 1: so that his confidence is so low he'll settle for anything.
Speaker 1: That could be a good strategy. Oh yeah, what if
Speaker 1: he likes you too, and you guys are both just
Speaker 1: living in this world of not telling each other. Well,
Speaker 1: I haven't I mean That's kind of why I feel
Speaker 1: like I need a little more time, Like I haven't
Speaker 1: really tried to look for the signals, and I'm like
Speaker 1: lighting the fire. Now you realize, oh, he's not going
Speaker 1: to be single for fully like him until he found
Speaker 1: somebody hotter and smarter. Yeah yeah, listen, let me say
Speaker 1: like he seated other girls and this is going to
Speaker 1: make me sound really superficial, but they didn't feel like
Speaker 1: competition to me, and so I don't think that I
Speaker 1: really realized it until like a woman came along that
Speaker 1: would totally blow me out of the water. Now I
Speaker 1: wouldn't have a chance. Okay, now the gloves are coming off.
Speaker 1: What do you want our help doing then? Like, are
Speaker 1: we calling Justin and telling him not to go out
Speaker 1: with her? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, this is convincing Justin not
Speaker 1: to go out with her without okay, telling them that
Speaker 1: you like him exactly. Okay, that's all our job to
Speaker 1: come up with a way to convince Justin to cancel
Speaker 1: his date with the now gorgeous looking Catalina without letting
Speaker 1: her know that she's gorgeous. Okay, listen, you don't have
Speaker 1: to keep rubbing in how gorgeous she is. I get that.
Speaker 1: I obviously know what I've seen her. Okay, I don't
Speaker 1: think you can be named Catalina without being absolutely pretty.
Speaker 1: She's not gorgeous. She's just stunning. And we're gonna conce
Speaker 1: justin to not go out with her. We'll give us
Speaker 1: a little bit of advice and let you make your
Speaker 1: awkward Tuesday phone call right after those it's awkward, it's Tuesday.
Speaker 1: It's awkward Tuesday phone call. If you're just joining us
Speaker 1: for this awkward Tuesday phone call, it's a story that
Speaker 1: really speaks to my soul, doesn't awkward? Kit in high school,
Speaker 1: who was maybe a little shy, school plays and chess club,
Speaker 1: and during field trips he would crawl underneath the seats
Speaker 1: on the bus and then pop up from below and
Speaker 1: say guess who. They were completely undateable back then high school.
Speaker 1: But a few years ago by and now they've matured
Speaker 1: mentally and physically. I feel like you still do that
Speaker 1: bust thing, and that ugly duckling has grown into an undeniable,
Speaker 1: bubbling cauldron of raw desire. Oh, it's undeniable. Our listener, Carrie,
Speaker 1: she's not that person. She's actually kind of threatened by
Speaker 1: that person. That's why she wants our help to stop
Speaker 1: her friend Justin from going out with the awkward girl
Speaker 1: from high school who's now blossomed into the female me.
Speaker 1: Why yeah, because I mean secretly she does have some
Speaker 1: feelings for Justin, but isn't ready to tell him that.
Speaker 1: Carry Your goal is to convince him to not go
Speaker 1: out with her, right, yeah, exactly, all right? But how
Speaker 1: are we going to do that? I think Jose has
Speaker 1: an idea for you. Yeah, So look, we kind of
Speaker 1: want him to just naturally not like her anymore and
Speaker 1: pass up on the date. We have to do the
Speaker 1: old fashioned high school trick and start a room or
Speaker 1: about her because you know what's that? I heard she
Speaker 1: made out with her brother and it wasn't even that
Speaker 1: long ago. That's what brother's review of the kiss was
Speaker 1: not good? Your word? Um? I mean, I think it
Speaker 1: would be effective, but that's a little mean, that's gross.
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna have to play a little bit
Speaker 1: dirty to get what you want. What do you think? Okay, listen,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's about putting the hot girl down.
Speaker 1: I think it's about building him up. He doesn't even
Speaker 1: know this girl's hot. All you need to say is listen,
Speaker 1: you are so hot, You're so beyond blind dates, like
Speaker 1: you're so above that. Then you tell him I have
Speaker 1: the most gorgeous friend ever that I have to set
Speaker 1: you up with. She's funny, she's everything you've ever been
Speaker 1: looking for. Like that, I can't tell you who it is.
Speaker 1: It's brook You want guy? Oh god, more competition, and
Speaker 1: then you drop it on him later when you're ready
Speaker 1: that the mysterious perfect woman is you? Oh? Like, what
Speaker 1: if I like meet him at a restaurant, I'm the
Speaker 1: one that walks in, and then I have to deal
Speaker 1: with to the potential rejection of him being like, what
Speaker 1: are you doing here? All guy friends want to sleep
Speaker 1: with their girlfriends. There's Brooks advice. Just sleep around. Let's
Speaker 1: just give him a call and we're gonna let you
Speaker 1: make your awkward Tuesday phone call and try and convince
Speaker 1: him not to go out on his date. We're here,
Speaker 1: We're here for you, all right, We're down the number
Speaker 1: right now? Okay, good luck? Hello? Hey, how's it going? Hey, Carabart?
Speaker 1: What's going on? Not much? How are you doing? I'm
Speaker 1: just calling some time before I have to go to work.
Speaker 1: What's up? Oh? You know just on the chat say, hey, um, oh,
Speaker 1: did Billy get a hold of you? Yeah? Um, I
Speaker 1: assume you're talking about the blind date that I mentioned
Speaker 1: the other day. No, no, no, I just meant about
Speaker 1: hanging out next weekend. Oh yeah, we can play it
Speaker 1: now that you mention it, are you Are you still
Speaker 1: doing that? You're still gonna hang out? Like? So, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm very I'm very curious. I mean, he mentioned that
Speaker 1: Catalina's um doing all kinds of new things right now,
Speaker 1: and I don't know, I just figured, what the hell? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's cool. Um, you know this is kind of weird,
Speaker 1: but it kind of heard something really random recently about her,
Speaker 1: like a rumor, a rumor. What are you doing about? Um? Okay,
Speaker 1: so I heard that she was at a party like
Speaker 1: a month ago and I made out with her brother.
Speaker 1: What where did you hear this? Yeah? I don't know,
Speaker 1: just randomly randomly what? Yeah, I don't I don't know.
Speaker 1: But like, blinds are really weird, aren't they. Like are
Speaker 1: you sure you really want to a blind date? I mean,
Speaker 1: you're so cool and like you're good looking, and do
Speaker 1: you really want to like go through the awkwardness of
Speaker 1: a blind date? And all that. Well, I mean it's
Speaker 1: just a blind date. I'm not going to marry the girl.
Speaker 1: Just figured meet up for a cup of coffee then
Speaker 1: just talk, you know. You know what, how about this? Like,
Speaker 1: I have a friend, she's awesome, she's great, she's super hot.
Speaker 1: What have I set you up with her? And set
Speaker 1: you want to set me up on a blind date? No,
Speaker 1: it's not a blind date because I've seen her and
Speaker 1: I know her well. But like Kelly, even no one
Speaker 1: has seen her. None of us have like talked to
Speaker 1: her in a long time. I mean, I guess you
Speaker 1: guys have been texting. That's something. But like, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. This might be better. Um, well, tell
Speaker 1: me about this friend of yours. Um, I mean she's great,
Speaker 1: you know, like you would. I think you'd really like her.
Speaker 1: She's you would totally get along. I know you guys
Speaker 1: have a lot in common. And I know one hundred
Speaker 1: percent that she does not make out with her brother
Speaker 1: at party. I friendly hope not. Um, I think we're
Speaker 1: laughing too hard. Hey, justin, Hey, justin, what are you
Speaker 1: at a party or something? What's all that? I think
Speaker 1: we're kind of a party. We're we're a morning radio show.
Speaker 1: Justin called Brooke and Jeffrey in the Morning. Why did
Speaker 1: you go with those's advice? I thought that was solid,
Speaker 1: though kind of I am so lost right now. What
Speaker 1: the hell you're on the radio right now? Man? Okay,
Speaker 1: we're doing a segment called an Awkward Tuesday phone call.
Speaker 1: Carrie reached out wanting a little bit of help to
Speaker 1: talk to you about your upcoming blind date with this girl.
Speaker 1: We're not so sure it's a good idea for you
Speaker 1: to go out with her. Just looking out for you
Speaker 1: because of the brothers thing. I mean, that's just one
Speaker 1: of many, many reasons. Because confirmed Carrie does have someone
Speaker 1: really cool that she wants to set you up with. Harry,
Speaker 1: what exactly is going on here? This is it is
Speaker 1: a little weird. Oh okay, listen, Justin, I I haven't
Speaker 1: been super honest with you. I have not been the
Speaker 1: best friend in the sense that, um, I discovered Catalina's
Speaker 1: social media and you found her social media. What does
Speaker 1: she look like? That sound is probably all you need
Speaker 1: to know. He looks like Oscar the ground whatever. Who
Speaker 1: cares what she looks like. You're not the type of
Speaker 1: guy that bases a relationship on looks are you? Just
Speaker 1: like I said, at the very least, we would just
Speaker 1: get a cup of coffee and catch up a little bit.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean we're go on a second date or anything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it starts with coffee drinking. Next thing, you know, brothers
Speaker 1: are kissing. Okay, I don't feel like any of this
Speaker 1: is helping you. Guys. Did you need to do the thing?
Speaker 1: I mean? Okay, Okay, I think this has become too
Speaker 1: much of an awkward quagmire for me not to say
Speaker 1: the thing that I have been trying to not say,
Speaker 1: saying what thing? What? I still don't know what the
Speaker 1: hell is going on here? We have such a good connection,
Speaker 1: and I just kind of wondering if, like maybe there's
Speaker 1: a mutual attraction beyond friendship between us. What do you think?
Speaker 1: So you drag me through a whole radio show to
Speaker 1: finally spill the beams here Cara Beer, Maybe she was nervous.
Speaker 1: Obviously I realized now this is not the right way
Speaker 1: to do it. I just I just saw it like
Speaker 1: maybe we needed some more organic time to let it evolve.
Speaker 1: But then I suck Hatalina and I would have no
Speaker 1: chance if you met her. That is not true, Justin,
Speaker 1: don't you think that Carrie is amazing? Could you see
Speaker 1: something more between you two? Have you ever picked I
Speaker 1: wouldn't have been friends with her for the last decade
Speaker 1: if I didn't think she was amazing. You we've talked
Speaker 1: about this. You always you know, undersell yourself. See and
Speaker 1: to be perfectly honest, yeah, I think you kind of
Speaker 1: went about this the wrong way. Is so finally getting
Speaker 1: this out in the open. But hey, might make a
Speaker 1: great story for our first date. So justin, you're into
Speaker 1: the idea of maybe going out with Carrie here, not
Speaker 1: a friend date, like a romantic date. I wouldn't mind
Speaker 1: one bit. Yeah, it sounds Justin like you have liked
Speaker 1: her for a long time to we probably be honest.
Speaker 1: I have. Yeah, Oh my god, I was a friend
Speaker 1: that I was in the friend zone. But you know,
Speaker 1: I just kind of I just you know, like you said,
Speaker 1: we've been friends for a long time. I didn't know
Speaker 1: how you felt, so I didn't want to ruin a
Speaker 1: good thing. But we've both kind of been idiots in
Speaker 1: all of our years here. I never thought brooks advice
Speaker 1: of just sleep with all of your friends. What's the
Speaker 1: worst that's been? Would actually work good job. How you
Speaker 1: out broken Jeffrey in the morning,