Speaker 1: It's awkward. It's Tuesday. It's awkward Tuesday phone call, broke
Speaker 1: when you got engaged? I wonder how long did that happy,
Speaker 1: giddy feeling last? And I'll give you three options here? Okay, forever,
Speaker 1: we know that's a lie. Did it last a month? Also?
Speaker 1: Probably alive? Or was it until you realized Michael didn't
Speaker 1: take off his shoes when he went inside the house.
Speaker 1: It does bother me. We are a shoe free house. Okay.
Speaker 1: I'm still gonna go with forever, though, because I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure he's listening. Okay. I don't blame you for how
Speaker 1: you keep your healthy marriage, yes through. Unfortunately, one of
Speaker 1: ours is on the line today because her happiness post
Speaker 1: engagement lasted a mere forty eight hours till she received
Speaker 1: some disturbing news. Her name is Rebecca, and Rebecca I
Speaker 1: think I speak for Brooke when I prematurely shout happy engagement,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, you're gonna be the happiest forever. I
Speaker 1: would say that too, Yeah, Rebecca, Yeah, did that make
Speaker 1: you cry? Are you doing okay? No? I mean I'm okay.
Speaker 1: I just I'm in a tricky spot and I just
Speaker 1: really needed some advice on how to go about all this.
Speaker 1: So okay, I understand. I'm sorry for trying to make
Speaker 1: light of it, but just trying to joke around a little.
Speaker 1: Tell us about what's going on, Like what happened with
Speaker 1: your engagement? So I had been seeing this guy David
Speaker 1: for a year and a half, okay, and last week
Speaker 1: he proposed, Oh my god, wait what was it? Like?
Speaker 1: Was I mean he said that you were happy in
Speaker 1: this moment? What happened? Yeah, well it was a surprise.
Speaker 1: We were on this hike, it was overlooking the gorgeous lake.
Speaker 1: He got down on me, I'm really happy and said yes,
Speaker 1: like all of that was great, that's good. What happened?
Speaker 1: The pictures didn't come out good, didn't get a professional photographer.
Speaker 1: I hate him now, Well there is something to do
Speaker 1: with the so okay. So I did the thing where
Speaker 1: I posted a photo of us together with me flashing
Speaker 1: the wing right and like, we got lots of congratulations
Speaker 1: comments and things. But my best friends messaged me and said,
Speaker 1: so I think we should meet, and she wants me
Speaker 1: to come over to talk to her. So I start
Speaker 1: freaking out. Yeah, well maybe it's like a congratulations surprise
Speaker 1: engagement party. She wants to throw you off the scent
Speaker 1: boiler alert. It wasn't a surprise congratulation. I go over
Speaker 1: to her place and she's got this weird look on
Speaker 1: her face. Oh my god, it made some really bad news.
Speaker 1: It's your heart just beating through your chest. Absolutely yes.
Speaker 1: I'm like so upset because I just said yes to
Speaker 1: this guy for the rest of my life, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. So what happens. She opens up her laptop.
Speaker 1: She pulls up this photo and it's David with his
Speaker 1: ex fiance, and I'm like, why are you showing me
Speaker 1: this because I did know that he had previously been
Speaker 1: engaged just with years ago. Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait,
Speaker 1: this is a current picture of him, Like she's being
Speaker 1: a spy and they're like at a restaurant or something.
Speaker 1: It's an old picture of her and my friend points
Speaker 1: to the hand and the girl is wearing my exact
Speaker 1: same ring. So he wasn't cheated on you. He just
Speaker 1: used the same ring. Correct. She shows me a bunch
Speaker 1: of different photos. We are confirming it's a thousand percent
Speaker 1: the same ring. Okay wa wa wait is it like
Speaker 1: a grandmother's ring, Like maybe it's a mom's ring or
Speaker 1: a family heirloom, like that is acceptable in that situation
Speaker 1: unless the grandmother is still alive and he like took
Speaker 1: it off of her hand people, which I'd be pretty bad. Well,
Speaker 1: my best see and I talked about that, like and
Speaker 1: she said that is as an airline, but he never
Speaker 1: said anything like that. He acted like he had bought
Speaker 1: it right, And I just feel gross because every time
Speaker 1: I look at it, all I'm thinking, is you propose
Speaker 1: to another woman with this ring? Hurt? Yeah? I could
Speaker 1: see how you would feel that way, but I wonder
Speaker 1: if a lot of women would feel the same, Like Alexis,
Speaker 1: let's pretend that you actually tripped the guy into proposing too. Yes,
Speaker 1: would you be upset if you found out that it
Speaker 1: was a ring from a previous engagement? This was a
Speaker 1: pick out for the person I don't want some leftover? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but what if you fit the leftover mold? So I
Speaker 1: don't care buy anyone? Okay? And logically you could probably
Speaker 1: try to like work yourself out of being upset about it,
Speaker 1: but it would be hard to look at it and
Speaker 1: not think of the other luck on it. Yeah. Okay,
Speaker 1: So Rebecca, you're obviously upset about it. What do you
Speaker 1: want to do about it, Well, I want to talk
Speaker 1: to him about it. But the idea of this conversation
Speaker 1: is just freaking me out because to me, it feels
Speaker 1: like he's like lying or trying to like pull one
Speaker 1: over on me, and that makes me think what else
Speaker 1: is he hiding? It could just be that he doesn't
Speaker 1: think it would be a big deal. Yeah, sometimes those
Speaker 1: guys were just like, I have rings problem solved and
Speaker 1: he doesn't think of the emotion. Mind. If that's the case,
Speaker 1: wouldn't he have just said that though I'm trying to
Speaker 1: be positive for her, Jeffrey trying to look on the
Speaker 1: bright side. He's been hiding something from me, and I
Speaker 1: know I just need to talk to him about it,
Speaker 1: but I just need some help with like how to
Speaker 1: do it. So this is like premarital counseling. We're doing. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna give you some advice because you're going to
Speaker 1: be calling your fiance here. I'm guessing not the X no,
Speaker 1: but correct. I'd like to speak David. So we're gonna
Speaker 1: play a song, We're gonna come back and give you
Speaker 1: a little bit of advice on what to say to
Speaker 1: your fiance about why he proposed to you using his
Speaker 1: ex fiance's engagement ring. Yeah, I think it's going to
Speaker 1: go really great, kind of good to me. Let's play
Speaker 1: a song. We'll do yours. Awkward Tuesday phone call. Next,
Speaker 1: it's awkward. It's Tuesday. It's awkward Tuesday phone call. One
Speaker 1: of our listeners. Rebecca got engaged a week ago. Yea,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah. Forty eight hours later, she found out it's
Speaker 1: the same ring her fiance used to propose to his
Speaker 1: last girlfriend. Boom. I'd hate to even have to recap
Speaker 1: this for her now. She still does love him, yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: but she's not sure how to bring this information up
Speaker 1: to him and get the truth. And that's why she
Speaker 1: turned to us Boom awkward Tuesday phone call, yay, yay
Speaker 1: for a little bit of advice. Brooke, what do you
Speaker 1: have for her? You know this, this is just your
Speaker 1: first big bump in the relationship. It'll be fine. I
Speaker 1: think what you say to him is you say, I'm
Speaker 1: so happy to be engaged to you. But I do
Speaker 1: have to tell you I don't really love the ring.
Speaker 1: It's not my style. Can we exchange it? Do you see?
Speaker 1: Because then it puts the onus on him either he's
Speaker 1: going to fess up or he's going to scramble and
Speaker 1: have to find you a new ring, because that's what
Speaker 1: you need in the end, right, Well, but what I
Speaker 1: need is for him to tell me the truth. Well
Speaker 1: I'm right, like, and doesn't that give him the option
Speaker 1: to just be like, okay, we'll just find another one.
Speaker 1: Does he have a lot of money, because all right,
Speaker 1: Oh for one on advice here, Jose, what do you have?
Speaker 1: I think you need to get him to tell you
Speaker 1: about the background of the ring in a nice way, like,
Speaker 1: be super nice to him about what I mean, like
Speaker 1: where did you get it? That will? When did you
Speaker 1: get it? About the ring? Then maybe he'll feel comfortable
Speaker 1: opening up about it and being like, oh, yeah, trick,
Speaker 1: you love it that much. I actually got it. My
Speaker 1: ex picked it out. But at least you'll find the truth. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe I could use a little of that. I
Speaker 1: thought I was going to get you the truth and
Speaker 1: a new ring. Okay, all right, Well we've given you
Speaker 1: all that we have to offer, Rebecca, So will you
Speaker 1: make this call with us? Rebecca? Oh yes, of course.
Speaker 1: You just made us the happiest morning show in the world.
Speaker 1: But we're going to be here for you, ready to
Speaker 1: jump in on the coffee. Feel like you need a
Speaker 1: little bit of help, and I'm going to dial the
Speaker 1: number right now. Let you call David and find out
Speaker 1: what's the deal with your engagement ring. Okay, oh okay,
Speaker 1: let's do it all right, you got that? Good luck? Coo.
Speaker 1: Hey babe, it's me. Oh hey, yeah, wow. I didn't
Speaker 1: recognize when number coming through. That was weird. How you doing?
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know that's true. Um, I'm good,
Speaker 1: just got back from locking the dog. Um, but I
Speaker 1: kind of wanted to to chat for a minute. You
Speaker 1: have just a second. Um, yeah, babe, anything for you? Okay?
Speaker 1: So before we get married? Um, I never asked you
Speaker 1: is there anything that I should know that like, you
Speaker 1: haven't told me? Uh no, not not really. I mean, um,
Speaker 1: obviously I love you, right, but what do you mean
Speaker 1: not really? Does that mean there is something that you
Speaker 1: want to tell me? No? No, no, no, that's that
Speaker 1: was just a weird question to ask. I guess it's weird,
Speaker 1: Like it's weird for me to ask if there's anything
Speaker 1: I should know before we get married? Why is that weird?
Speaker 1: Where's where's this coming from? Like what's going on, babe.
Speaker 1: Let's let's get back to the question. I asked you
Speaker 1: if there's anything else I need to know? No, and
Speaker 1: I said no, He said not really, which is different. Look,
Speaker 1: if this is about that hazing thing back in the fraternity,
Speaker 1: I already told you I wasn't the one who bought
Speaker 1: the peanut butter. It was Moose. It was like, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: hold on, David, I know that this isn't about Moose
Speaker 1: or your peanut butter fiascout like this. This is about
Speaker 1: specifically our engagement. Oh what about it? Well? Yeah, what
Speaker 1: about it? Is there anything you'd like to say? Clearly
Speaker 1: there's something you want me to say, So why don't
Speaker 1: you tell me what you want me to say? So?
Speaker 1: When when I went over at Maya's house the other day,
Speaker 1: she showed me a picture online of you and your
Speaker 1: ex fiance and she was wearing the exact same ring,
Speaker 1: is the one that you gave me? What David? Now
Speaker 1: you're not talking? Oh what what do you want me
Speaker 1: to say? I want to know why you gave me
Speaker 1: your ex fiance freaking leg Well, okay, it's freaking twelve
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. I had a custom made so what you
Speaker 1: had a custom made for her. Look, I couldn't just
Speaker 1: have her walk off with it. That's twelve thousand dollars
Speaker 1: down the drain. That's why I broke into her house
Speaker 1: last month to take it so I could propose to
Speaker 1: you with a really nice ring. You're welcome it. Who's
Speaker 1: Who's else there? Who is this? David Shot? What's up? Man?
Speaker 1: Oh my god? How did that just get worse? You're
Speaker 1: on the radio right now with Brooke and Jeffrey in
Speaker 1: the morning. Are you kidding? You just admit that you
Speaker 1: broke into your ex's house and steel a ring like
Speaker 1: it's his ring? Right? Yeah, it's my ring and I
Speaker 1: spent my money on that thing. It's mine and she
Speaker 1: never gave it back, So I mean I put back
Speaker 1: with mine. She you gave it to her? David, Well,
Speaker 1: I asked her back and she wouldn't give it to me.
Speaker 1: You were stupid enough to steal it? Oh, oh my god.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna put me in jail for stealing my
Speaker 1: own ring. I thought it probably seeing the pictures that
Speaker 1: I posted online of that ring, and they're going to
Speaker 1: tell your X what happened. That's good thinking, Rebecca. You
Speaker 1: should take the pictures down. I like where you're at, David. Look, babe,
Speaker 1: I'm willing to go to jail for you, because apparently
Speaker 1: these guys thinks I'm going to jail. I'm willing to
Speaker 1: go to jail for you. That's not as romantic as
Speaker 1: you think it sounds. I guess. So what you're saying
Speaker 1: is you couldn't afford another ring if I wasn't wearing
Speaker 1: this ring, so like the one you would have gotten
Speaker 1: me would have been less money. Oh times are a
Speaker 1: little tighter now. Yeah, it'd probably be just like five
Speaker 1: grand or something maybe I don't know, not even half
Speaker 1: a carrot. Oh Man shuddered. When I mean we could
Speaker 1: we could maybe do the pawn shop row and see
Speaker 1: how much we can get for it. But I don't
Speaker 1: love the idea of having like a really cheap ring either.
Speaker 1: So yeah, wait, you sound more okay with getting married
Speaker 1: to him than I expected. House that doesn't bother me. Honestly,
Speaker 1: was cheering waiting for the like the break up cry
Speaker 1: that but like, I just didn't know that these were
Speaker 1: my options, right, it was either a cheap ring or
Speaker 1: a stolen ring, Like if those are my options? Put
Speaker 1: it like that, I think we're on the same page
Speaker 1: at this point. And if anything, think about how sad
Speaker 1: the ex fiance is too. That's just a little bonus
Speaker 1: cherry on top you guys. She is going to come
Speaker 1: after both of you. Do not understand that, Rebecca, if
Speaker 1: you stay with this, like you're like an accomplice or something.
Speaker 1: At stop. Everybody's looking for their quote unquote partner in crime.
Speaker 1: Now you're a literal one. God, I've always hated that phrase.
Speaker 1: It's David sent he has a receipt for the ring. Like,
Speaker 1: maybe it does prove that it's h David. You have
Speaker 1: that receipt. Yeah, yeah, I've got it. I uh. Look,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, Rebecca, you're the one
Speaker 1: who called in for help. Are you okay with the situation?
Speaker 1: How is turning out? I mean, I'm happy that this happens,
Speaker 1: right so that I could just find out what the
Speaker 1: truth was and figure out what would have happened if
Speaker 1: I didn't keep the ring. So, I mean, I thank
Speaker 1: you for helping me. You're well, okay, You're welcome, and babe,
Speaker 1: you know, if we want to take this a little further,
Speaker 1: we can definitely try to go exchange this on the
Speaker 1: black market. I know a guy I'm in a handy
Speaker 1: one day, looking Jeffrey in the morning.