Speaker 1: Text you will heal, then text you will needless to say.
Speaker 1: This morning show has many many skills using our fingers,
Speaker 1: pencil tricks, tummy tickles, me and Jose pinching our noses
Speaker 1: when we pass by Brooks lunch.
Speaker 2: We are very very good with our fingers.
Speaker 3: You can spell cauliflowers so much.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not pleasant, especially when you put it in
Speaker 1: the microwave.
Speaker 3: Brook Yes, do with spinach.
Speaker 1: But you know what, maybe our best finger skill is texting,
Speaker 1: and we like to help our listeners come up to
Speaker 1: our level with this segment called textual Healing, where we
Speaker 1: help somebody with their texting conversation when they don't quite
Speaker 1: know what to say. And today's honored guest who needs
Speaker 1: some tender textual healing is Dory. So let's welcome Dory
Speaker 1: to the show. How you doing?
Speaker 4: Hi?
Speaker 5: Everybody?
Speaker 3: Sorry, you're hungry? You want some lunch? I'll give you some?
Speaker 5: Yeah, say no, it sounds sadulous.
Speaker 1: Story you reaching out for us because you need help
Speaker 1: with some texting.
Speaker 2: Who are we going to be texting today?
Speaker 6: Yes, you guys, I met this guy and we've been
Speaker 6: going out three or four weeks.
Speaker 5: It's not exclusive.
Speaker 6: We haven't had the exclusive talk. But in real life,
Speaker 6: I really really like him.
Speaker 3: In virtual life, do you like him too?
Speaker 7: Not so much? No, in texting life, it's a problem.
Speaker 7: The thing is, when we're together, it's great, I have
Speaker 7: no issues.
Speaker 6: I really like him again, But when it.
Speaker 5: Comes to texting, we're off.
Speaker 8: Really really, I know exactly.
Speaker 9: What you Maybe he's just not I mean, I feel
Speaker 9: like there's a lot of people out there that don't
Speaker 9: know how to keep a conversation going on text.
Speaker 3: Is that what it is? Does it feel like you
Speaker 3: text him and then things just stop.
Speaker 5: I'm just not sure what it is. It's really not vibing.
Speaker 7: It's like it's so different from how we are when
Speaker 7: we're together.
Speaker 1: Like, do you have an example of like how you're
Speaker 1: texting isn't meshing with each other?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Actually I do.
Speaker 7: So.
Speaker 5: One time he texted me and.
Speaker 6: He said, when you come over later, the neighbor's kids
Speaker 6: have challenged us to a water fight.
Speaker 9: Okay, okay, that's cute.
Speaker 5: That is cute, right right.
Speaker 7: That was a cute text, And so I texted back,
Speaker 7: I said, oh, that sounds like fun.
Speaker 3: I'm in Yeah, that's a good response. Square gun emoji.
Speaker 6: And then he texted, should I wait for you to
Speaker 6: boil the water?
Speaker 9: Wait, he's gonna pour boiling water on the neighbor children
Speaker 9: and he's be funny, right.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean I was confused. I was like what,
Speaker 10: and then he was just like, oh, he.
Speaker 5: Was just joking.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 6: But that's an example I'm trying to say of why
Speaker 6: it's off in real life.
Speaker 5: I don't seem to have that confusion.
Speaker 7: In real life.
Speaker 1: You get jokes on you where you could see water
Speaker 1: boiling in real life.
Speaker 2: That way, there's no question this is a.
Speaker 8: Thing you have bad text chemistry.
Speaker 2: Usually if you talk.
Speaker 3: About this a lot, they'll say is that a bad thing?
Speaker 1: Though?
Speaker 3: Is it like bad for a relationship?
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 2: To text them?
Speaker 3: Like, are you worried about this? If you're daing, you're
Speaker 3: not gonna text all day anyway?
Speaker 6: That's true. I mean I am a little bit worried
Speaker 6: about it because it's such a dynamic off, like I
Speaker 6: don't know to go forward or what.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you you feel like every time that you
Speaker 1: guys do a text conversation, it's like subtracting from your
Speaker 1: relationship in real life.
Speaker 2: So where are you at right now in your convo
Speaker 2: with him via text.
Speaker 5: It's still confusing to me. Like, actually, today he texted
Speaker 5: me something. That's why I'm calling you, guys. I don't
Speaker 5: know how to respond. So I sent him a text.
Speaker 5: Let me read it to you. Okay, I said, Hey,
Speaker 5: that computer.
Speaker 7: That you let me borrow?
Speaker 5: Do you know how much ram it has?
Speaker 2: It sounds like a bad pickup line. Do you let
Speaker 2: you borrow a computer?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Well he let me a computer. It was a really
Speaker 5: serious question I needed to know for downloading or whatever.
Speaker 6: Okay, So I was serious about it, and he responded,
Speaker 6: you guys, he said, sorry, I don't know. It was
Speaker 6: a friend of mine and he's dead.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: Wow, okay, how do you read that? Very dark?
Speaker 5: I don't know what to think.
Speaker 4: I mean, I I didn't respond or text back because
Speaker 4: I don't know whether to make a joke.
Speaker 5: If he was joking, you know, if.
Speaker 7: It's really true, then I might say something that's insensitive
Speaker 7: to a dead man.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Help.
Speaker 1: So we're responding back to this text with you right
Speaker 1: now about his friend we're possibly dying.
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, can you just write back? Are you serious?
Speaker 3: Question markers?
Speaker 2: That sounds kind of cold and heartless.
Speaker 1: I think that no matter what happens, especially early on
Speaker 1: in a relationship, you want to keep things as light
Speaker 1: and as playful as possible.
Speaker 3: You mentioned a dead friend, so maybe, but he.
Speaker 1: Was joking about the water balloons and boiling water on
Speaker 1: top of children.
Speaker 2: His sense of humor is a little bit different.
Speaker 9: So what if you write back and you say, uh,
Speaker 9: oh is this computer cursed? O?
Speaker 2: No, no, no. If he's dark, you gotta go darker,
Speaker 2: be like, how did you kill him?
Speaker 7: How did your.
Speaker 3: Friend that curse was dark enough?
Speaker 1: What if you said, how about we get out the
Speaker 1: Ouiji board and ask him?
Speaker 2: See that's funny, that's dark dory. What do you think?
Speaker 2: I have lots of options to choose from there, none
Speaker 2: of them.
Speaker 8: Are being normal at this point, though, you have to
Speaker 8: give back with a dark song.
Speaker 1: Well, she didn't come to us for a normal response,
Speaker 1: to be like, oh sorry, we need a fun, playful response.
Speaker 9: You want a saance to talk to the friend to
Speaker 9: figure out the realm.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, that's acknowledging what he said. It's joking
Speaker 1: back in a not mean way. What do you think, Torri?
Speaker 6: I do like where you're coming from, So I feel
Speaker 6: like I could say something like, well, can we have
Speaker 6: a sayance so we can find.
Speaker 2: Out Okay, I like that.
Speaker 3: You could use that crystal ball emoji.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, whatever, but whatever.
Speaker 2: The message through either way.
Speaker 1: Why don't you why don't you type that out and
Speaker 1: send it to your your new guy friend.
Speaker 5: Here, I'm gonna do it right now, you got Okay,
Speaker 5: you have.
Speaker 2: To do it right now.
Speaker 3: That's the.
Speaker 2: Begin his name. We didn't ask for his name.
Speaker 3: Okay, you need it.
Speaker 5: Okay's right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't want to distract her and ruin the
Speaker 2: text laughing.
Speaker 3: While okay, she makes she's so funny.
Speaker 5: It is funny. All right, I'm gonna send it.
Speaker 2: All right, let's do it.
Speaker 3: And okay, all right.
Speaker 8: There's no way he's like, actually, my friend does haunt me.
Speaker 2: It could come back to me.
Speaker 3: I have one plan this Friday, so that's out perfectly.
Speaker 2: But this is fun enough. It's right in the minute.
Speaker 1: We've laid the groundwork for a nice, playful conversation for
Speaker 1: the rest of the way. We're going to come back
Speaker 1: and see if he responds to that.
Speaker 2: But the other.
Speaker 3: Friend, what's his name? Who are we texting?
Speaker 5: Andre?
Speaker 1: And we'll see if Andre responds, and we continue textual healing.
Speaker 1: Right after this, we're in the middle of textual healing
Speaker 1: with our listener Dory.
Speaker 2: And normally we get a lot of relationship.
Speaker 1: Stuff on this segment, about how to text your crush
Speaker 1: or the ups guy, how to text Brooks husband to
Speaker 1: get him out of the house so Roy the traveling
Speaker 1: salesman can come over.
Speaker 3: But for that, Yeah, text with Roy is fine though. Yeah,
Speaker 3: mstry kidding any if you're listening, there's no Roy.
Speaker 1: This is a little bit different though, because Dorry needs
Speaker 1: our help texting the guy that she's just started dating.
Speaker 1: All their in person chemistry is off the charts, it's
Speaker 1: just when they're on the phone texting it can get
Speaker 1: a little bit rocky and they can't tell when the
Speaker 1: other person is joking or not.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, you know I still don't fully know either.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why she emailed us today, because she was
Speaker 1: asking him over text about a computer that she borrowed
Speaker 1: and how much ram it has. He responded with, I
Speaker 1: don't know. That computer belonged to my dead friend. So
Speaker 1: that put us at an interesting fork in the road.
Speaker 1: Do we take that seriously or assume that it.
Speaker 2: Was a joke?
Speaker 3: I mean, like Alexis said, this is why emoji's were invented.
Speaker 2: Them he joked before with a previous text.
Speaker 1: So we went down that road again and wrote back, well,
Speaker 1: maybe we should do a seance to find out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: trying to be playful, and I'm thinking, like, after we
Speaker 1: did it, I'm worried, like.
Speaker 2: Did we really do that? That's a little bit it
Speaker 2: is a little bit dangerous.
Speaker 3: We can apologize.
Speaker 1: I'm interested to see if andre has replied to it, dorry,
Speaker 1: Have you gotten any word back?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 2: Okay, what did he say?
Speaker 5: Okay? He said, oh snap, do you believe in that too?
Speaker 7: We should one hundred percent emoji do a seance for
Speaker 7: our next date.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, he continues.
Speaker 5: If he responds, you're gonna love him. He's a great guy.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's what I'm worried.
Speaker 2: How do you how do you read that door? Do
Speaker 2: you think he's joking back or is he being serious? Now?
Speaker 5: I think he believes in ghosts?
Speaker 3: Where do you stand on that belief?
Speaker 2: Are you down?
Speaker 4: Having a seance with your new boyfriend's gonna have a
Speaker 4: real does mean that it actually is the friend's laptop
Speaker 4: and the friends did.
Speaker 8: See I'm one hundred percent on the joking side. People
Speaker 8: want to joke around NonStop, like me, never stop.
Speaker 2: That's what it says, non stop, Brook, he.
Speaker 6: Just took it too far exactly.
Speaker 8: He's not gonna stop.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he is, because if he'd sent
Speaker 1: the text without mentioning the friends specifically, then I would
Speaker 1: think it's a joke. But the fact that he's bringing
Speaker 1: up his friend might mean that that's serious.
Speaker 2: And then you're going to meet him.
Speaker 3: I think he thinks you're going to meet him. It
Speaker 3: should be cool. That's a step in a relationship.
Speaker 2: Friends.
Speaker 1: Is it a little bit too soon to be meeting
Speaker 1: the dead? Friends?
Speaker 10: That?
Speaker 9: Okay?
Speaker 8: Okay, met grandma, Let's find.
Speaker 10: Her relatives, you guys, I'm so worried now, I mean, what.
Speaker 8: Do I say?
Speaker 7: Okay?
Speaker 9: Okay, Now we gotta legitimately find out if this is
Speaker 9: a joke or not?
Speaker 2: Right? Do we need to do that?
Speaker 10: Brooke?
Speaker 3: Well? What else do we do?
Speaker 9: We just keep on the road and we don't know
Speaker 9: whether we should show up on Friday night for the
Speaker 9: trains in motion.
Speaker 2: Don't jump in front and try to stop it. Now,
Speaker 2: keep joking.
Speaker 3: Why do you say this? What do you say this?
Speaker 3: Truth is it'd be my first seance? What should I
Speaker 3: bring to that type of date?
Speaker 2: What do I wear? I just doesn't like it?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 2: Is polite? She always says, totally.
Speaker 5: Want to know what.
Speaker 3: You need to know? Do you bring a bottle of wine?
Speaker 3: Do you need to wear a black dress?
Speaker 9: Like?
Speaker 10: Where are we at?
Speaker 2: Are you actually open to a seance here?
Speaker 7: Dorri?
Speaker 2: For real?
Speaker 10: Not really?
Speaker 2: But maybe there's a way we can joke in back home.
Speaker 5: I really, I really like you guys response. That's truth.
Speaker 5: It'll be my first seance. What should I bring? I
Speaker 5: like that?
Speaker 2: Now you do? Okay? Then just send Let's just send it, okay.
Speaker 5: You guys.
Speaker 4: I've texted.
Speaker 5: I texted it, and now.
Speaker 8: We'll only I think be able to tell from this
Speaker 8: text because and he says we're something nice and be
Speaker 8: respectful for the dead, then you'll know he's serious.
Speaker 2: And he's like, bring a bunny costume. Then you know
Speaker 2: he's go.
Speaker 1: To a pet cemetery and dig up a dead animal.
Speaker 1: We meet the bones from it.
Speaker 4: You guys, you guys, he texted it back.
Speaker 1: Okay, that was really quick for a geez. He's really
Speaker 1: excited about this.
Speaker 5: He said, Oh, are you serious? That could be a
Speaker 5: deal breaker. For me.
Speaker 9: Doing it or not doing it, no asking what to wear,
Speaker 9: no admitting that it's her first time.
Speaker 7: That or he or me being into it is a
Speaker 7: deal breaker.
Speaker 5: I don't know why.
Speaker 9: Yeah, just say I was joking and just leave it
Speaker 9: at that.
Speaker 3: And then and then he can decide what the joke was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, can we joke back and say, like, oh, thank god,
Speaker 1: because I was worried I was going to fall in
Speaker 1: love with your dead friend, or you were.
Speaker 3: Worried his friend was going to hit on you.
Speaker 1: I mean, because remember, like our mission here is just
Speaker 1: to try and connect with Andre this guy that she's.
Speaker 3: Texting, and it is off still, it is.
Speaker 1: Well, we're talking too much about Andrea's possibly dead friends.
Speaker 3: I like your joke. I think your joke's funny.
Speaker 2: Okay, like I do. I liked your version of it,
Speaker 2: though a little bit better than mine.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, I was worried that he was going to
Speaker 3: hit on me anyway.
Speaker 2: Yeah, ghasts have a thing for me, So I was
Speaker 2: worried he was going to fall in love with me anyway.
Speaker 1: What you're showing by doing that is that you're like
Speaker 1: a light, playful person. You don't take things too seriously.
Speaker 1: You're just trying to like have a good time with him, right.
Speaker 4: I'm not being judgmental or yeah.
Speaker 2: Let's just send that.
Speaker 1: Maybe you can put a laugh emoji on the endost.
Speaker 2: Because it's a little ghosts.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the last smile. Remind him he can use those too.
Speaker 2: Alexis lead by example.
Speaker 7: Okay, all right, so.
Speaker 5: Let's see I'm getting it. Okay, I think you do.
Speaker 1: You always have this big of like like a build
Speaker 1: up every time you send a text to anybody.
Speaker 2: You have to hype yourself up for it.
Speaker 7: Maybe Andre, No, it's just because you know it's so
Speaker 7: new one.
Speaker 5: I really like him, and I don't want to.
Speaker 6: Okay, So all right, so okay I've written it.
Speaker 2: Buttons, there we go.
Speaker 3: Okay, you feel like you're texting with your mom right now?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: I mean I just feel like we're not like crossing
Speaker 1: the line here. We're not being offensive. We're just being
Speaker 1: playful and joky and fun.
Speaker 2: Stay in the middle, which is good.
Speaker 6: Dude.
Speaker 3: If he writes back and is like, no, sances.
Speaker 10: On he wrote that guy, he wrote, Oh god, god,
Speaker 10: he's really fast.
Speaker 2: What did he say?
Speaker 5: He said to laugh emoji?
Speaker 10: Yes, okay, he said I was just messing with you.
Speaker 10: I don't have a dead friend, thank god.
Speaker 5: But we should text more. You're funny.
Speaker 10: No more.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know if we can be there for
Speaker 1: every single text conversation that you have, but you know
Speaker 1: what we'll do. We'll give you Brooks new landline so
Speaker 1: you can call. She's the only one in the entire
Speaker 1: city who has one.
Speaker 3: Now you know she's gonna answer, or the kids will answer.
Speaker 2: That whole family's funny. You feel like we've helped you
Speaker 2: out there, Dori. Can we leave you to it now?
Speaker 4: I think you guys an amazing job. I think going forward,
Speaker 4: our texts will dive better together now.
Speaker 9: I think, yeah, you need to read every text from
Speaker 9: this man as a joke.
Speaker 2: On texts. Do those voice texts from now on?
Speaker 10: Yeah, just so that you.
Speaker 3: Don't frustrate people with your slow texting.
Speaker 1: Okay, anyway, that's textually it's Brook and Jeffrey in the
Speaker 1: morning
Speaker 10: Brook and Jeffrey in the morning.