Jeff (2:33)

Hey, Jeff is commenting. I'm glad.

Brooke (2:35)

So listen, you're stuck with your awkward Tuesdays on Sunday. Yeah. And if you want to hear a full hour of our show, we do a brand new show every day, Monday through Friday. Just go to the Brook and Jeffrey main feed. But for now, let's make things a little weird and get awkward.

Jose (2:49)

They say no good deed goes unpunished. Well, one of our listeners tried a good deed to help out his old high school crush, and now he thinks he may have ruined it forever.

Brooke (3:01)

Oh, no.

Jose (3:03)

That's why it's Brooke and Jeffrey to the rescue. Can we swoop in and save him from the bonehead mistake he made while driving a bakery store delivery truck?

Dave (3:15)

Oh, wow.

Brooke (3:16)

What?

Jose (3:16)

Once you hear it, you'll understand why his old crush is so angry at him in your brand new awkward Tuesday phone call right now. It's awkward.

Erica and Mila (3:27)

It's Tuesday.

Jose (3:28)

It's awkward Tuesday phone call. What I love about classic Hallmark movies is how realistic and relatable they are.

Brooke (3:37)

Oh, totally, J.

Jose (3:38)

Because who hasn't taken a trip to a small town and fallen in love with the hunky widower who runs the local reindeer farm?

Brooke (3:45)

I mean, not to mention all the in game keepers. I know.

Jeff (3:49)

So many inkeepers, and all the business is going out of business.

Brooke (3:52)

They need help, Jeff.

Jose (3:54)

But they're all ripped, too. I mean, they're in touch with nature, but in between dumbbell curls, they will take a pause to connect with you.

Brooke (4:02)

I got to tell you, as someone from an actual small town, so many hotties.

Jose (4:08)

Just so realistic and so relatable. Tractors. We've all been there, at least in our minds. But one of our listeners has literally been there because he describes his life as a failed Hallmark film.

Brooke (4:19)

What?

Jose (4:20)

And needs our help on finally getting his happy ending. So let's talk to Dave. Dave, welcome to the show.

Dave (4:26)

Hey. Hey, how's it going?

Brooke (4:27)

Dave, if you don't have a six pack or at least a four pack, hang up. Yeah, we should make that roll all the time.

Dave (4:33)

Oh, I got eight. I got eight.

Jose (4:35)

He's got an eight pack.

Brooke (4:36)

Okay, okay.

Jose (4:37)

All right. We will accept you into our arms and try and help you out. But you mentioned that your life isn't going quite the way that you thought it was going to be going. Tell us about it.

Dave (4:46)

Yeah, I mean, at least this aspect of it. Like, so there's this girl that I used to have a crush on in high school.

Jose (4:54)

What's her name?

Dave (4:56)

Her name's Chloe, which I think is such a. Such a pretty name.

Brooke (5:00)

Oh, you still have a crush.

Dave (5:04)

This was back when I was, like, really dorky. So I, like, didn't really do anything about it in high school.

Brooke (5:10)

Okay.

Dave (5:12)

But then years later, like, more recently, I randomly run into her on a ski trip.

Brooke (5:19)

Ooh.

Dave (5:20)

And we hit it off. We're, like, racing each other down the slope.

Brooke (5:24)

Wait, did you recognize her? Immediately.

Dave (5:27)

Right away. And it, you know, it took her a second to recognize me because I look a lot different. She was like, wait, Dave from high school?

Jeff (5:34)

Oh, she remembered your name, too. That's good. I don't remember anybody's names ever, so.

Brooke (5:39)

Oh, wow.

Jose (5:40)

Ski slopes.

Brooke (5:41)

That is very hallmarky. Yeah.

Dave (5:43)

I mean.

Jose (5:44)

Yeah.

Dave (5:45)

So we got to talking, and it turns out she's still in our hometown, and she, like, owns a bakery there, which is extremely charming.

Jeff (5:54)

Oh, my gosh.

Jose (5:56)

Hallmark cliche.

Brooke (5:57)

Oh, my God. Is she going to get frosting on her face and you're going to have to wipe it off and then kiss her?

Dave (6:01)

Oh, my gosh.

Brooke (6:02)

That is actually adorable.

Dave (6:04)

Yeah, it's like, the perfect meet cute. You know, it's like, all happening organically.

Jose (6:09)

Were you able to, like, finagle another meetup?

Dave (6:12)

Yeah. So I told her that I'm actually going back home to our hometown for the holidays to see my folks.

Brooke (6:19)

Okay.

Dave (6:20)

So it's a couple weeks later, I go to the bakery. She's there. It's. The energy is just like before. But I asked her out for dinner. She said yes. And so we go out, and I can tell she's, like, really stressed out.

Brooke (6:34)

Is she nervous at dinner? She's stressed, yeah.

Dave (6:38)

Well, I was wondering if she was nervous or whatever, but then she tells me that her delivery driver quit, so she has all these orders to fulfill, and she can't physically do it.

Brooke (6:49)

There's the plot.

Jeff (6:50)

Oh, my God. There's the plot. Oh, my God.

Brooke (6:52)

You jumped in and saved the day. You better have.

Dave (6:55)

So I told her. I was like, I can drive the truck for you. I've got nothing else to do. I'm just, like, hanging out with my family, so.

Brooke (7:02)

So did she take you up on it?

Dave (7:04)

Yes, she lets me help, and she's really grateful for the offer. And we did kiss that night.

Brooke (7:13)

And then you got to spend days with each other because now you're helping her out at the bakery.

Jose (7:17)

Although you're not supposed to kiss the people that you work for. Yeah.

Jeff (7:20)

Also, how much is she paying to get the benefits here?

Brooke (7:23)

That's not necessarily true, Jeff. I've kissed a lot of people I worked with.

Jose (7:26)

I know. Look how your career has turned out.

Dave (7:29)

No, I mean, that's generally the rule, but, yeah, it's like, kind of a different situation. Right. So, like, I show up in the morning really early, I get the truck, and I'm doing deliveries for her, and it's, like, actually fun. I'm driving around just, like, dropping off baked goods to people. People are really happy.

Brooke (7:47)

That's amazing.

Jeff (7:48)

So you're spreading joy. You're making her happy. Everything sounds whimsical.

Jose (7:51)

I know nothing sounds awkward to this point.

Jeff (7:54)

It sounds beautiful.

Dave (7:56)

Well, there's this big hill in our hometown, and it's this, like, notorious kind of hill, and I should have known better, but I parked on the hill, and I don't think I put the parking brake on or the parking brake was faulty, but it doesn't matter. Like, it rolled down and it crashed.

Brooke (8:15)

You crashed her van?

Dave (8:17)

Yeah, I wasn't even in it, you know, it just rolled down.

Jose (8:20)

Oh, dude.

Jeff (8:22)

No.

Dave (8:23)

It just hit this big cement wall.

Brooke (8:25)

Oh, my God.

Jeff (8:27)

Is the wall wall.

Brooke (8:29)

Okay, you guys, small businesses can't take on expensive expenses like that.

Jose (8:34)

How did Chloe react when you told her?

Dave (8:38)

She couldn't believe it. It was such a, like, massive. I mean, like, disappointment for her because I'm like. I offered to help out, and then I messed it up. I feel, like, terrible. And, you know, I offered to, like, pay for damages to the truck and everything, but you don't want to do that.

Brooke (8:54)

That's a lot of money.

Dave (8:55)

It's been a few weeks, and, yeah, she's not talking to me, so I know this is an awkward conversation to have, but, you know, I'm trying to convince her to forgive my mistake, give me a second chance, and just seeing each other again, like, at least, like, one more time.

Brooke (9:14)

Yeah, I mean, what was the last thing she said to you?

Dave (9:16)

Well, honestly, I'm not sure if I can say it on the radio because there were a lot of words that probably wouldn't be okay for the radio.

Jose (9:24)

Oh, yeah, let's try one of them. Let's see how it goes. Just say one.

Erica and Mila (9:29)

She's passed.

Jose (9:29)

Okay.

Jeff (9:31)

Thing is, you haven't talked to her since, so hopefully she's had some time to calm down and process.

Brooke (9:35)

Yeah, I just say, get the dump button ready, Jeff.

Jose (9:38)

Swearing fireworks might happen when we come back and try and call the girl you used to have a crush on in high school and tell her, hey, sorry for crashing your bakery delivery truck into a cement wall.

Jeff (9:49)

You want to hang out Sometime.

Jose (9:51)

But you're calm now, right? We're going to do it with your awkward Tuesday phone call right after this. It's awkward.

Erica and Mila (9:58)

It's Tuesday.

Jose (10:00)

It's awkward Tuesday phone call. Today we're dealing with the case of Hallmark movie gone wrong, featuring our listener Dave, with his chiseled eight pack, who ran into his old high school crush while on a ski trip recently. They reconnected, and he found out she worked at a bakery back in their.

Jeff (10:20)

Hometown, which we laughed because that's, like, literally a Hallmark cliche.

Jose (10:26)

And she didn't have a delivery driver to fill all of her orders.

Brooke (10:30)

Oh, no.

Jeff (10:30)

He quit days before Christmas.

Jose (10:32)

So Dave boldly volunteered to step in and accidentally crashed her delivery truck into a cement wall, ruining not just the orders, but their chance at a true Hallmark love, in his defense.

Jeff (10:45)

And wasn't inside when it crashed.

Brooke (10:48)

Her business, Jeff.

Jeff (10:49)

That's the whole business.

Jose (10:50)

Yeah, I mentioned he ruined the orders.

Brooke (10:52)

Yeah, probably a little bit more than that.

Jose (10:54)

Okay, if you want to find, like, the sad part about it, we can really focus in on that. But the thing is, now he wants our help to make things right with Chloe. Just needs a little bit of advice on how to get back into her good graces. So, Brooke and Jose, what do you guys think?

Brooke (11:08)

Wait, have you talked to her since she was, you know, cussing and super in the moment?

Dave (11:13)

I've only been texting, but we haven't actually gotten on the phone to talk.

Brooke (11:17)

Okay, so this is your first opportunity for a real apology, like a calm one. After the emotions have died down, you need to just tell her how sorry you are.

Jeff (11:29)

Yeah. Grovel and the sword.

Brooke (11:33)

And if, you know, you already offered to pay for a van, what you need to do is if she doesn't take you up on that again, then you say, all right, I've got to make this right. Please let me take you skiing.

Jose (11:43)

Yeah.

Brooke (11:43)

Bam. Suddenly, you're on a date together on the ski hill.

Jose (11:46)

Yes.

Jeff (11:46)

And then offer to pay for, like, six more vans.

Jose (11:48)

All right, so Brook's advice, like it always is, is have the man apologize.

Brooke (11:52)

But crash the band.

Jose (11:55)

It's always the guy's fault. So what do you think, Dave? Is that. Is that helpful?

Dave (12:00)

Yeah. Yeah, no, that's helpful. I mean, now that the emotions have died down a little bit, if I say sorry now, you know, maybe it'll resonate with her a little bit more.

Brooke (12:09)

Yeah.

Jose (12:10)

Okay. But you can't just say it. You have to sound it.

Jeff (12:12)

Yeah, well, you are sorry, so it will be.

Jose (12:15)

Oh, then what was the advice that's the advice.

Brooke (12:18)

Just be sincere, apologize. Therapy brought him to this advice right here. Try to make it up to her.

Jeff (12:24)

There's no trick to this one. It's like, okay, just gotta go.

Dave (12:27)

You're right. All right.

Chloe (12:28)

And ask her to go skiing.

Jeff (12:29)

Yeah, yeah, end it with that. That's going to be a nice touch.

Jose (12:32)

All right, and then Brooke will offer to pay for the truck if it goes well. So here we go. I'm going to dial Chloe's number and let you make your awkward Tuesday phone call.

Dave (12:39)

All right.

Jose (12:40)

All right, we'll jump in if you feel like you need a little bit of help. But here we go.

Chloe (12:47)

Hello?

Dave (12:49)

Chloe, hey, it's Dave.

Chloe (12:52)

Oh, my God. What do you want?

Dave (12:55)

Hey, it's really good to hear your voice. You know, I know I've apologized before, but I just wanted to say again how sorry I am for everything that happened. And I just wanted to check in with you and see how you're doing.

Chloe (13:10)

You mean since you've crashed my delivery truck and threw a giant wrench in my business? I'm doing great, Dave. I'm doing so great.

Dave (13:18)

You're great. Okay, well, that's actually really, really good to hear.

Chloe (13:22)

I was being sarcastic. Why are you calling me?

Dave (13:27)

Look, I just need to know how I can make it up to you. Like, you know, I offered to pay for the truck even though the accident. Accident wasn't 100% my fault? I think not. You know, I'm sorry.

Chloe (13:39)

It wasn't your fault. You crashed my truck.

Dave (13:42)

Well, yeah, but that could have happened to anybody. I mean, the truck seemed like it needed.

Chloe (13:47)

No, because after it happened, you then ate all of the cupcakes from one of the orders.

Dave (13:54)

Okay, well, they weren't gonna get there in time. And I'm, like, not gonna wait forever for the cops to show up. I was hungry. That was the only thing around.

Chloe (14:04)

The heat ate the product. Dave. Do you realize I had to rebake the entire order?

Dave (14:11)

Look, I'm just letting you know, like, regardless of who ate what, you were.

Chloe (14:17)

The one who ate everything. So it's not a question of who. It is you that ate everything.

Dave (14:21)

Look, this has affected me just as much as you. I mean, I've been going to therapy to, like, cope with my feelings about.

Erica and Mila (14:29)

You Told me you went out to.

Chloe (14:30)

The desert and did ayahuasca for two days.

Dave (14:33)

It was just soul searching, you know, it's the kind of therapy.

Chloe (14:37)

It's not therapy. It's doing drugs, Dave.

Dave (14:41)

Okay, this isn't going like I thought.

Chloe (14:46)

It would yeah, you think? I don't really know what your purpose is of calling me.

Dave (14:52)

Well, I've been doing a lot of work on myself, obviously, and I think I'm doing better. And I'm just wondering if there's any chance you'll get over it and we can. We can go out again. I'll take the ski.

Jose (15:07)

Awkward. You'll get old Chance.

Jeff (15:09)

He offered to pay for skiing.

Brooke (15:11)

Wow.

Chloe (15:14)

That was painful. What's going on?

Jose (15:17)

Hey.

Jeff (15:18)

What's going on with you?

Brooke (15:19)

We just witnessed the worst apology we may have ever heard.

Jose (15:22)

There was some apologies in there, but, Chloe, you're on the radio right now with a show called Brooke and Jeffrey in the Morning.

Chloe (15:28)

Are you serious?

Jose (15:29)

Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is a segment that we do. It's called the Awkward Tuesday Phone Call, which it's like.

Chloe (15:36)

It can't get worse, to be honest.

Jose (15:37)

Yeah.

Brooke (15:38)

I mean, it could be, like, free promotion for your bakery business. So that's good.

Dave (15:43)

I mean, I'm not good at these things. I really needed help. I don't know.

Jose (15:48)

We could tell. So, look, Chloe, we're trying to help Dave make his apology sound more sincere, because he really does feel bad.

Brooke (15:57)

And it's so crazy, Chloe, because when he talked to us before we called you, he was so sincere and so just regretful of what had happened, and he felt like an idiot and he wished he could take it back.

Chloe (16:10)

He also didn't mention the cupcakes.

Jose (16:12)

Yeah, yeah, that part was new to us. We didn't hear about that.

Jeff (16:15)

You ate the product, bro.

Dave (16:17)

Listen, the cupcakes were, like, not an important part of it. You know, the van, obviously, was the main thing. And the main, main thing is that I feel really, really bad about everything that happened.

Jose (16:28)

Yeah, you feel bad because you're coming down off of your ayahuasca trip. Look, we didn't realize that this was the scenario, Chloe, but, yeah, there's more.

Jeff (16:36)

Layers than we knew.

Jose (16:37)

Clearly, we missed some parts. He absolutely did screw up. He is very sorry.

Jeff (16:43)

He admits that.

Jose (16:44)

Is there any chance that maybe you're being just, like, a little bit harsh with the judgment? Because I'm just saying, maybe I want to hear from Chloe.

Chloe (16:56)

I'm not. I'm assuming that he probably failed to mention that he was two hours late to start the delivery. And also, he smelled like rum.

Brooke (17:05)

Oh, man, rum goes great with cake and.

Jeff (17:08)

Hia.

Dave (17:09)

No, that was just my cologne. That was just my cologne.

Brooke (17:12)

Oh, I see. Captain Morgan's. That's the one that you got.

Dave (17:15)

I was on vacation, and I, like, offered to show up. And honestly, she's lucky I, like, agreed to deliver for her at all.

Brooke (17:22)

See? Okay, listen, listen. I think this is where you both went wrong. You shouldn't have mixed love and business. If you would have never volunteered, none of this bad stuff would have happened.

Jose (17:32)

That's actually a really good point, Brooke. Never ask anybody you know personally to help you during the holiday season.

Chloe (17:38)

I didn't ask him to help me. I offered to pay him, and he made me pay him up front.

Jeff (17:44)

Wait, was you boss here paid?

Dave (17:47)

Okay, but she didn't tip me.

Brooke (17:48)

Dave, Dave, Dave. You crashed the car and ate the cupcake.

Jose (17:53)

And you made it sound like this whole thing was out of, like, generosity and the kindness of your heart. You didn't say that you were getting paid to do this.

Brooke (17:59)

You got a side job while you're.

Dave (18:00)

Home for the year.

Brooke (18:01)

It's like the cupcake swindler came back to town.

Dave (18:04)

I mean, it was minimum wage. I didn't ask for anything more than that. And I thought it would be weird if she didn't pay me.

Brooke (18:09)

You didn't even deserve that much money.

Jose (18:11)

Dave, you probably need to honestly give this a little bit more time before you start asking for forgiveness.

Brooke (18:18)

No, no, I think that he just needs to be done. There, done.

Jose (18:21)

I say give it a few years. Check in with her. Chloe, when would you like him to check back in with you to see if he'll forgive him?

Chloe (18:27)

He can lose my number completely. I'm not interested in seeing Dave ever again.

Brooke (18:31)

There we go. I think he just got banned from a cupcake shop.

Chloe (18:35)

Banned from the bakery title.

Jeff (18:36)

Yeah, probably the only bakery in that whole town, too. He's like, no more baked goods for him.

Dave (18:40)

Yeah, well, there was one thing that. That I haven't said yet, which I was hoping would be like, an exciting piece of news, but I. I lost my job in the city just so. I'm moving back home, actually.

Jose (18:57)

Chloe, he needs a place to live. Can he live with you?

Chloe (19:00)

I'm hanging up.

Jose (19:01)

Okay, well, happy holidays. Yeah.

Brooke (19:07)

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