Second Date Update: Three Meals One Date

Summary

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Second Date Update: "Three Meals One Date"

Podcast: Brooke and Jeffrey: Second Date Update
Episode Title: Three Meals One Date
Air Date: October 13, 2025
Hosts: Brooke & Jeffrey
Featured Guests: Christine (the dater), Luke (her date)

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Episode Overview

This episode of Brooke and Jeffrey’s “Second Date Update” explores a truly unexpected twist in the world of online dating: a first date that unexpectedly turns into a family dinner… for five. Christine, a listener, seeks the show’s help after her promising date with Luke doesn’t lead to a callback. But when hosts Brooke and Jeffrey get involved to investigate, the real reason behind Luke’s silence leaves both the hosts and listeners stunned.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Setting the Stage (02:28–04:18)

• Christine’s Dating App Experience:
  Christine shares how she decided to use Plenty of Fish after having little luck elsewhere. She explains, “I just thought, I'll give it a shot.” (04:38)
• Introducing Luke:
  Described as rugged and “like a I'll build a log cabin with my bare hands kind of guy,” Christine is clearly drawn to his masculinity (05:13–05:23).
• First Date Details:
  The date was at Outback Steakhouse—Christine loved the restaurant and felt strong chemistry. She highlights Luke's gentlemanly behavior, saying, “He held the door open for me…I thought we had good chemistry.” (06:11)

2. The "Food Mystery" (07:15–08:13)

• Ordering Two Entrees:
  Christine confesses she ordered two entrees and a dessert, but senses Luke may have found that odd. “I ordered two entrees, and I don’t know that he liked that.” (07:15)
• Date Wrap-Up:
  Christine invited Luke to follow her home for a movie after dinner, but somehow he disappeared during the drive. She later messaged him, expressing interest in another meet-up, but now he's ghosting her (07:57–09:38).

3. The Second Date Update Call (12:12–13:27)

• Calling Luke On-Air:
  The hosts reach out to Luke to find out why he’s not calling Christine back.
• Luke Drops a Bombshell:
  Luke reveals, “When you bring your three kids on the date and you don't tell the person that you're going on the date with that you're bringing your three kids…” (13:45)
  Christine had not mentioned her three kids—ages 5, 7, and 10—accompanied her (14:03).

4. Reactions & Revelations (13:45–16:05)

• Surprise All Around:
  Brooke exclaims, “Are you joking? Christine did that?” (13:56)
• Christine Defends Herself:
  Christine replies, “I didn’t tell you guys that I brought my kids because you didn’t ask.” (15:51) The hosts find this explanation outlandish, noting it's not standard practice to bring children on a first date.

5. Christine's Logic (16:26–16:53)

• Christine feels that, “if he's gonna date me, he needs to know all the people that I have in my life and that are very close to me. Who closer to me than my children?” (16:35)
• She admits to wanting a larger family: “I want at least six kids. And as we said, I only have boys, so be nice to get some girls in there to balance it out.” (16:56)

6. Luke’s Perspective and Christine’s Proposal (17:08–19:51)

• Luke is bewildered by the experience, including being tasked to take one child to the bathroom: “I mean, there was some positives about it, but I wasn't expecting to pay for all the extra meals.” (14:22)
• Christine proposes another date—but promises, “I could just bring, like, one kid or something.” (18:46)
  Luke remains unconvinced: “I'm gonna have to pass, guys. Sorry about that.” (19:51)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Christine’s dating approach:
  “I'm not interested in someone who thinks I'm too eager. I want someone who's gonna take me as I am.”
  — Christine, (11:15)
• Luke’s shock:
  “When you bring your three kids on the date and you don't tell the person that you're going on the date with…”
  — Luke, (13:45)
• On the hosts' oversight:
  “She said, I ordered multiple meals, multiple dinners, and no one in the room was like, oh, were there other people at the table with you? No, we all just assumed she ate it herself because that's exactly what we would do.”
  — Jeffrey, reflecting post-call, (23:09)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Christine describes her date with Luke: 05:08–06:20
• Reveals she ordered extra food: 07:15–07:39
• Christine’s post-date confusion: 07:57–09:38
• Hosts and Christine prepping to call Luke: 11:32–12:12
• Luke answers—reveals kids on the date: 13:27–13:58
• Christine’s on-air explanation: 15:51–16:35
• Luke turns down another date: 19:51

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Highlights and Takeaways

• Total Honesty Isn't Always the Policy:
  Christine’s belief in full family transparency on the first date led to a major clash with dating norms.
• Communication Is Key:
  The lack of advance notice about the kids dramatically changed the tone and expectations of the date.
• The Show’s Unique Humor:
  The hosts joke about the calorie count, “one girl, one boy, three entrees, 40,000 calories, and somehow zero follow-up about a second date…” (10:12)
• There Are No "Normal" Questions:
  The segment closes with self-deprecating humor as the hosts admit they may need to add, “Did you bring your children?” to their interview checklist.

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Overall Tone:
The episode features Brooke and Jeffrey’s signature playful banter, a mix of disbelief and empathy—balanced with their genuine attempts to help but often leaning into the comedic absurdity of the situation.

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Recommended For:
Anyone who loves jaw-dropping dating stories, can appreciate the unpredictable chaos of dating as a single parent, and enjoys lighthearted, candid podcast banter.

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Transcript

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[Christine]

Yeah.

[Brooke]

Okay. I didn't know if I was missing the joke or if it's serious.

[Jeffrey]

That's how long the lines are. This guy got married. He had a whole relationship by the time he got to the front.

[Brooke]

I see. I didn't know you could return things at the dmv. I don't think he is. Yeah, maybe that's where he got confused. What a romantic, my friend. Really?

[Jeffrey]

You're stuck. Yeah.

[Brooke]

Sweet. All right, let's get to your brand new second date right now.

[Jeffrey]

Second date update. Ladies will tell you that men on the dating apps come in all different forms. Yeah, you've got the shy boys, the alpha bros, the doggy dads, the tough and ruthless, and the rough and toothless. And most of them all live on a site called Plenty of Fish, where coincidentally, that's exactly where our listener Christine met her date recently.

[Brooke]

Oh, did you like the toothless ones, too?

[Jeffrey]

I wonder which category of man he's gonna fall into. But, Christine, welcome to the show.

[Luke]

Hello.

[Brooke]

Hi, Kane. It's interesting. Plenty of Fish is ridiculed a lot, right?

[Jeffrey]

Not just by people on our show, but just in the world in general.

[Brooke]

What made you turn to that site?

[Christine]

Well, I just. I didn't really have great luck on, I guess, like, the other ones.

[Brooke]

Okay.

[Christine]

So I just thought, I'll give it a shot.

[Jeffrey]

I've actually never tried plenty of fish because everyone's talked bad about it, I guess. Go towards it, huh?

[Brooke]

Yeah.

[Jeffrey]

Desperation can bring you to do a lot of different things. So that's really exciting.

[Brooke]

Well, you gotta date's, like, so good. The people on it, like, talk badly to keep it out.

[Jeffrey]

All right, well, tell us. You obviously met a guy. What's his name?

[Brooke]

Luke.

[Jeffrey]

Okay, and what type of guy is he on the dating apps categorized.

[Christine]

He is like, a rugged guy. Like a. I'll build a log cabin with my bare hands.

[Brooke]

Log cabin. Rugged guys don't go to private school with family yachts.

[Jeffrey]

He bought a log cabin.

[Brooke]

That doesn't count. Not a Jeffrey, because Jeffrey has a beard.

[Jeffrey]

You're sounding very jealous that she actually met a really tough and rough tumble.

[Brooke]

Guy because, like, you've never had a callus on your hands, so it's. That's not what a callus is in his palm, bro.

[Jeffrey]

I don't know why I was doing that.

[Brooke]

I was manly. Okay, tell us about Luke. Sorry.

[Jeffrey]

Now he's wiping his hands.

[Luke]

Yeah.

[Christine]

So he, you know, he's very manly. He's very handsome. I mean, I thought we had a good connection on our date.

[Brooke]

What'd you guys do? Wait, hold on. Where'd you go? What'd you do? Yeah.

[Christine]

Oh, we went to Outback Steakhouse, which I love.

[Jeffrey]

Was there, like, a big highlight moment of the date for you? That really stands out as the best part of the night.

[Christine]

I guess I'll say this. He was an absolute gentleman. Like, he held the door open for me, and I thought it was, like, flirtatious. I thought we had good chemistry.

[Brooke]

Yeah.

[Jeffrey]

Okay, well, I mean, the vibe that you're describing right now is very positive. You obviously liked his physicalness. You say the conversation went really well.

[Brooke]

Hot hands.

[Jeffrey]

Hot, rugged, calloused hands. But what signals were you getting from Luke towards you, or were you getting any signals at all? What was your read?

[Christine]

I guess he wasn't, like, overly, like. He wasn't. You know, some people really lay it on thick. I thought he was just kind of polite, but, I mean, he was answering my questions. He had good eye contact with me.

[Jeffrey]

Kind of like a job interview type of vibe.

[Christine]

I didn't think it was that, Daryl.

[Brooke]

Yeah, that's spicy.

[Jeffrey]

Job interview. He shuffles the menus real quick. All right, next question. Yep.

[Christine]

There was a point where maybe he thought something I did was a little weird. I'm not entirely sure I'm intrigued.

[Jeffrey]

Got to tell us.

[Brooke]

Yeah, what you do?

[Christine]

I. I ordered two entrees, and I don't. I don't know that he liked that.

[Jeffrey]

Can I help you? I went to a super nice restaurant with my bros recently, and one of my friends ordered two entrees just because he's like, I'm never going to come to this nice restaurant for a long time.

[Brooke]

She was at Outback Steakhouse.

[Christine]

I do not be nice Italian, where.

[Brooke]

They give you too small of an amount.

[Christine]

And I also ordered a dessert.

[Brooke]

Whoa. Maybe it's rude if he's paying and you order this much.

[Christine]

I kind of subtly offered to pay, but then he just. He just did.

[Brooke]

How did the night end? Like, did he say, I can't wait to see you again? Or make any indication that he was thinking about a second date at that point?

[Christine]

So, okay, so, like, at the end of the date, I. I told him, like, hey, if you're interested, you can. Because we both drove separately. So, like, if you want, you can just follow me home. We can watch a movie or something and keep hanging out because I was having a really good time.

[Brooke]

Okay. Wow.

[Jeffrey]

That's quite the invite. What did he say?

[Christine]

He kind of just said, like, okay. And he, like, gave me a hug. So I'm not sure if it's because I drove too fast and he just couldn't follow me. I'm.

[Jeffrey]

I'm not really. So he said yes to going back and following you to your place, but you sped home?

[Christine]

I guess it was, like, halfway into the drive home, I just looked up and I realized he wasn't there anymore.

[Jeffrey]

Anytime you tell someone to follow, you realize how slow your friends drive. I've done this too. You gotta call him. You're like, where are you? It's like, I'm still two lights down.

[Brooke]

Yeah. Why didn't you just text him your address or something?

[Christine]

So I ended up messaging him the next day because I wasn't sure, like, if he purposefully ditched me or.

[Brooke]

Or the okay was never an actual, like, I'm following you.

[Christine]

Yeah, I wasn't sure. And if he did ditch me, I didn't want to be like, oh, where are you right now?

[Jeffrey]

Yeah.

[Christine]

So I waited until the next day, and I messaged him, and I basically just was kind of like, oh, I had such a nice time. I'd love to see you again. But I do want to, like. I don't know. I just want to, like, talk to him on the phone. I just want to, like, know what happened because I was really. I was really into him.

[Brooke]

So wait, how are we gonna.

[Jeffrey]

It sounds like you're really into him. You just want to hear his voice one more time and bring you happiness.

[Brooke]

How are we gonna call him if you guys were only messaging through the App.

[Christine]

Well, so at that point, I didn't have his phone number, but I have it now.

[Jeffrey]

Okay, you had the police look it up.

[Brooke]

Wait, no, wait. How did you get his phone number on the app?

[Christine]

Later, After I was like, do you mind if we just text? Is that okay? So I have text texted him after, but now he's just kind of not responding.

[Brooke]

Okay. Oh, okay.

[Jeffrey]

Well, that's good. Yeah, that means he doesn't despise you.

[Brooke]

Enough to give you unmatch and not talk. And I thought you were going to be one of our listeners who loves to do things like really hire private detectives or something to find out. I'm actually really relieved.

[Christine]

No, I have a good friend like that, but I'm not.

[Luke]

I'm.

[Brooke]

Okay.

[Jeffrey]

All right, all right. Well, you have your friend be our backup plan in case we really need to track this rugged guy down. But we're gonna come back and call Luke in your plenty of fish. Outback Steakhouse, second date update. Oh, I love the limited edition ones. Medium rare. Coming up right after this second date update. One girl, one boy, three entrees, 40,000 calories, and somehow Z0. Follow up about a second date after a good meal like that. It's pretty much what happened when our listener, Christine met up with the rugged walking mountain of testosterone named Luke over at the Outback Steakhouse.

[Brooke]

God, I just want to grunt right now. Even talking about.

[Jeffrey]

She even gave him the rare offer of, you know, you can follow me home tonight if you want, and I won't be mad. Christine was obviously very into Luke. But I'm curious, Christine, what do you have to say to anyone who might think you came off as a little bit too eager?

[Christine]

Well, I'm not interested in someone who thinks I'm too eager. I want someone who's gonna take me as I am.

[Brooke]

Yeah, I like that. That's a good one. And, God, why is being excited about something bad these days? You know what? Be excited. Don't act like you've been there before. You know, live in the moment.

[Jeffrey]

Yeah, I've never even seen a woman before in real life. Oh, my goodness.

[Brooke]

Hey, you know what? And order the damn two entrees. Jeff. O. Okay. Life short. All right.

[Jeffrey]

Brook says on a three, Andre.

[Brooke]

That's right, do it. Bankrupt your pants.

[Jeffrey]

Okay, no, not that part. See, remember when I talked about a little bit too eager, how it comes across? That's exactly what I'm saying.

[Brooke]

Hey, I'm ready to call this guy for you, Christine.

[Jeffrey]

All right. That's the perfect amount of You. All right, let's just do it. I'm going to dial his number right now. We'll see if he picks up. And Christine, remember, don't jump in until we call you out and tell them that you're on the phone, okay? Oh, yeah.

[Christine]

Okay. Okay.

[Luke]

All right.

[Jeffrey]

I know you're eager. Just try. Try to hold it in. Here we go.

[Luke]

Hello. There's Luke. Oh, whoa.

[Jeffrey]

I know. I wasn't expecting that. Hey, are you the brawny man?

[Brooke]

His hands just answered the phone.

[Jeffrey]

Hey, Luke, this is a radio show. We're called Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning.

[Luke]

What's going on, guys?

[Jeffrey]

Sorry, man. We know this is weird. Let Jeff explain. This is a radio show. We're called Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning and we're doing a segment called a second date update. Second date update. There you go, Jeff. Sorry about that.

[Luke]

Okay, yeah.

[Jeffrey]

So basically it's a segment where we try to help out listeners in their dating lives. If they've gone out with someone and they're not getting a call back for a second meetup, we can try and reach out on their behalf to figure out why.

[Brooke]

Ooh.

[Luke]

Okay. I've heard of it.

[Christine]

Yeah.

[Jeffrey]

Yeah.

[Brooke]

Okay. And we've heard some good things about you. Was that too eager?

[Jeffrey]

No. What's the truth? Latone was a little bit sensual, but, yeah, we heard it from a woman named Christine who you took to the Outback Steakhouse recently and now you're not calling her back.

[Luke]

Oh, yeah. She knows why.

[Brooke]

Actually, she doesn't. Yeah, she has no idea why.

[Jeffrey]

Otherwise she wouldn't be reaching out to our show to get a hold of you.

[Luke]

Really?

[Jeffrey]

Well, you're not here.

[Brooke]

That's interesting. Obviously, it sounds like it should be pretty apparent.

[Luke]

Well, when you bring your three kids on the date and you don't tell the person that you're going on the date with that you're bringing your third kid.

[Brooke]

Are you joking?

[Jeffrey]

Christine did that.

[Brooke]

Wait, she did not mention she brought children or had children or invited you home to her house with children?

[Luke]

Yeah, yeah. She has three kids that she brought on the date. They're like 5, 7, and 10.

[Brooke]

What?

[Christine]

So awkward.

[Jeffrey]

They were at the table with you or they were out waiting in the car? Let's hope not, Jeff.

[Brooke]

Yes, of course.

[Jeffrey]

This is a good gauge.

[Luke]

Yeah, look, I. I've been on some dates, and, I mean, there's. There was some positives about it, but I wasn't expecting to pay for all the extra meals.

[Brooke]

That's why she ordered the second entree.

[Luke]

Yeah, I mean, it Got a little bit weird. I had to take the younger one to the bathroom.

[Jeffrey]

Oh, dad duty. She had a stranger take her son to the bathroom. What are you gonna do?

[Luke]

Yeah, the older kid was being really weird and wouldn't do it, so.

[Jeffrey]

Good for you, man, for being weird.

[Brooke]

I have so many questions. Like, how did she even introduce you to the children? Like as mom's friend or what?

[Luke]

She just, you know, said, these are my kids. Kids. These are Luke and you know, let's have fun. And it was. It was different for sure.

[Brooke]

Say good things about mommy. Yeah, I mean, were they good kids? Are they well behaved kids?

[Luke]

Yeah, yeah, no, they were well behaved. I mean, except for when they came to the bathroom. The one was being a little bit of a brat, but yeah.

[Brooke]

Okay, why would she not take. Tell us that? Like, that is so bizarre.

[Jeffrey]

Does she think that's normal? It's actually a great question, Brooke, and we should just ask it directly to Christine, because, Luke, you don't know this, but she's on the other line right now waiting to jump in and talk to you.

[Luke]

Wait, what? Are you serious?

[Brooke]

I think the kids are at school, so it's just us, though.

[Luke]

Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

[Jeffrey]

Wait. Christine? Hello? Are you there?

[Christine]

Hello? Yes, I'm here.

[Brooke]

Wow. Yeah, you.

[Jeffrey]

You've got some explaining to do, Christine.

[Christine]

Well, look, I. I didn't tell you guys that I brought my kids because you didn't ask.

[Brooke]

No, no, no. No one ever asked that.

[Jeffrey]

That is not a normal question.

[Brooke]

That's fair.

[Jeffrey]

We probably should be more thorough.

[Brooke]

Add that to our list.

[Jeffrey]

Write that down. Always ask if you have kids on the date.

[Brooke]

Parents don't bring kids on dates. They don't bring kids. If you're married and on a date, they don't bring kids. If you're not married and single and on a date, it's not considered a date.

[Jeffrey]

So you've read the rule book on dating with children.

[Brooke]

Sexy. About being out on a date and having children there. Especially if they're your children and you have to take care of them.

[Jeffrey]

Okay, you sure are judging her a lot. And we haven't even heard the reason why. Like, maybe there's a totally logical explanation behind this, right? Christine?

[Christine]

I just figured if he's gonna date me, he needs to know all the people that I have in my life and that are very close to me. Who closer to me than my children. So I just thought it'd be a good way to just meet us all up front. And honestly, I mean, Luke, you handled my three kids really? Well, I think I could see us having more.

[Brooke]

Whoa, more than three?

[Christine]

Oh, yeah. I want at least six kids. And as we said, I only have boys, so be nice to get some girls in there to balance it out.

[Jeffrey]

Wow, Luke, she just put it on the table for you. What do you think?

[Luke]

I did not know she was trying to be octomom. Like, I gotta be honest, you know, when she invited me back, at first I was like, okay, but it felt a little weird. And then on the way there, I was like, what are we gonna do when we get there? You wanted to watch a movie. Are we gonna watch, like, Moana or something?

[Jeffrey]

Hey, Moana's great. He's familiar with the Disney movies. That's a good sign.

[Luke]

Yeah, but, I mean, I certainly have.

[Christine]

A lot of movies to choose from. I just thought it would be kind.

[Brooke]

Of nice to do a family movie.

[Luke]

I just think that something you mention on a first date, that you have kids, you don't necessari on the first date.

[Brooke]

It can't be good for your kids to be part of your dating life. Hey, they got a nice meal out of it. Brooke. Alexis, do you like being involved with your mother's dating life? Okay, well, no, but she's older now.

[Jeffrey]

As a five or seven year old, it would have been really fun, I'm sure.

[Christine]

Well, I mean, it could have turned out a lot worse. You know, my two baby daddies, they were asking what I was up to. I was thinking about even inviting them.

[Brooke]

Wait, no.

[Jeffrey]

You said baby daddy's plural. Yeah, there's multiple.

[Brooke]

Yeah, fine. Yeah. Why would you bring them on a date?

[Christine]

They asked, and they have every right to see their kids. So, I mean, if they want to come by.

[Luke]

Wow, three kids is some baggage. But three kids and two baby daddies, that's a whole lot of baggage.

[Brooke]

But they do feel. It does sound like they all get along.

[Jeffrey]

Yeah, we do.

[Christine]

I get along with the two of them. I don't get along with the other one, though.

[Jeffrey]

That makes sense.

[Luke]

Are you trying to have six kids by six different guys? Like, what's going on?

[Christine]

This family's really important to me. And. Look, Luke, I think you're great. I think you're this, like, wonderful, traditional, manly guy. I love your big hand. And I just thought maybe if you're up for it, we could do a date with less people and I could just bring, like, one kid or something.

[Jeffrey]

Oh, yeah, that's a pretty good deal for you, Luke.

[Brooke]

I mean, I get how expensive babysitting is, so there is that piece of it.

[Jeffrey]

Yeah. And it sounds, Luke, like you weren't turned off by the fact that she had kids. It's just that she surprised you with him and you weren't ready for it. Yeah. So, Luke, hopefully you can forgive her for her one little mistake of not warning you about her. There are three little mistakes not warning you. And then we would love to offer to send you on one more date with her. A date that we would pay for.

[Christine]

I'm only going to bring one kid. Next time I won't bring all three. It'll be a much cheaper date. I think it'll go a lot better.

[Jeffrey]

Which one are you bringing? The bathroom one of the troubled one. Probably shouldn't bring the bathroom one neither.

[Christine]

The middle one.

[Jeffrey]

The middle one.

[Luke]

Okay.

[Jeffrey]

Seems like the good one. Yeah. What do you say, Luke? One more chance?

[Luke]

I am gonna have to pass, guys. Sorry about that. Oh, wow.

[Brooke]

All right.

[Luke]

Christine, you're a really sweet girl and I hope everything works out for you.

[Jeffrey]

That's good. You're just saying that because his voice is really sexy.

[Christine]

It is a very sexy voice.

[Brooke]

She still backs it.

[Jeffrey]

Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning.

[Brooke]

All I know is what I've been told. And that to half truth is a whole lie.

[Maggie Freeling]

For almost a decade, the murder of an 18 year old girl from a small town in Graves County, Kentucky went unsolved until a local homemaker, a journalist and a handful of girls came forward with a story.

[Luke]

I'm telling you, we know Quincy killed her.

[Maggie Freeling]

We know a story that law enforcement used to convict six people and that got the citizen investigator on national tv.

[Jeffrey]

Through sheer persistence and nerve, this Kentucky housewife helped give justice to Jessica Curran.

[Maggie Freeling]

My name is Maggie Freeling. I'm a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist producer and I wouldn't be here if the truth were that easy to find.

[Jeffrey]

I did not know her and I did not kill her or rape or burn or any of that other stuff that y' all said.

[Brooke]

They literally made me say that I took a match and struck and threw it on her. They made me say that I poured gas on her.

[Maggie Freeling]

From Lava. For good. This is Graves County, a show about just how far our legal system will go in order to find someone to blame.

[Jeffrey]

America, y' all better wake the hell up. Bad things happens to good people in small towns.

[Maggie Freeling]

Listen to Graves county in the Bone Valley feed on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. And to binge the entire season ad free, subscribe to Lava for Good plus on Apple Podcasts.

[Brooke]

In early 1988 federal agents raced to track down the gang they suspect of importing millions of dollars worth of heroin into New York from Asia.

[Jeffrey]

We had 30 agents ready to go with shotguns and rifles, and you name it.

[Brooke]

But what they find is not what they expected.

[Jeffrey]

Basically, your stay at home moms were picking up these large amounts of heroin. They go, is this your daughter? I said, yes.

[Brooke]

They go, oh, you may not see.

[Jeffrey]

Her for, like, 25 years.

[Brooke]

Caught between a federal investigation and the violent gang who recruited them, the women.

[Maggie Freeling]

Must decide who they're willing to protect.

[Brooke]

And who they dare to betray. Once I saw the gun, I tried to take his hand and I saw.

[Jeffrey]

The flash of light.

[Brooke]

Listen to the Chinatown sting on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or anywhere you get your podcasts.

[Jeffrey]

A lot of weirdness in that call, for sure, but at the end of the day, it was on us.

[Brooke]

What's. Because we didn't ask if you brought her three children on a first date.

[Jeffrey]

She said, I ordered multiple meals, multiple dinners, and no one in the room was like, oh, were there other people at the table with you? No, we all just assumed she ate it herself because that's exactly what we would do.

[Brooke]

Excited.

[Jeffrey]

She's like, get it, girl.

[Brooke]

Yeah, I'm a hungry girl. Yeah, I got her on that three kids she lost me on.

[Jeffrey]

We should have been more forward and more asking, better with our journalistic abilities. Brooke, you went to college for this.

[Brooke]

Come on now. Oh, God. The last thing I want to think about when I'm on a date is kids have two of them. Yes, and you don't want to think about them when you're having a romantic date.

[Jeffrey]

Okay, but again, I think the point is we can be better and not have surprises like that slam us in the face the next time we do a call like this.

[Brooke]

All right, for us, it was.

[Jeffrey]

That was really tragic. But we do have some good work in our history. You can go find some of it online. And all of our podcasts, they're available up wherever you get them at. Brooke and Jeffrey.

[Maggie Freeling]

The murder of an 18 year old girl in Graves County, Kentucky, went unsolved for years until a local housewife, a journalist, and a handful of girls came forward with a story.

[Jeffrey]

America, y' all better wake the hell up. Bad things happens to good people in small towns.

[Maggie Freeling]

Listen to Graves county on the iHeartRadio Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. And to binge the entire season ad free, subscribe to Lava for Good plus on Apple Podcasts.

[Brooke]

It's Anna Ortiz.

[Jeffrey]

And I'm Mark and Delicato.

[Brooke]

You might know us as Hilda and.

[Jeffrey]

Justin from Ugly Betty.

[Brooke]

Welcome to our new podcast, Viva Betty. We're re watching the series from start, start to finish and getting into all the fashions, the drama and the behind the scenes moments that you've never heard before.

[Jeffrey]

But you were still bartending. I didn't know that.

[Brooke]

The bar back is like, is that you and I turn around and it's a commercial for Betty. And I was like, I gotta go. I quit.

[Jeffrey]

Listen to Viva Betty on the iHeartRadio.

[Brooke]

App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Do we really need another podcast with a condescending finance bro trying to tell us how to spend our own money? No, thank you. Instead, check out Brown amb. Each week I your host, Mandy Money gives you real talk, real advice with a heavy dose of I feel useless. Like on Fridays when I take your questions for the Baqa, whether you're trying to invest for your future, navigate a toxic workplace. I got you. Listen to Brown ambition on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. In early 1988, federal agents raced to track down the gang they suspect of importing millions of dollars worth of heroin into New York from Asia. Had 30 agents ready to go with.

[Jeffrey]

Shotguns and rifles and you name it. Five, six white people pushed me in the car.

[Christine]

I'm going, what the hell?

[Jeffrey]

Basically your stay at home moms were picking up these large amounts of heroin.

[Brooke]

All you gotta do is receive the package. Don't have to open it, just accept it.

[Jeffrey]

She was very upset, crying.

[Brooke]

Once I saw the gun, I tried to take his hand and I saw the flash of light. Listen to the Chinatown sting on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or anywhere you get your podcasts.

[Jeffrey]

What's up everybody? It's Nax from the Trap Nerds. And all October long, we're bringing you the horror. Boogity, boogity, boogity. We kicking off this month with some of my best horror games to keep you terrified. Then we'll be talking about our favorite horror and Halloween movies and figuring out why black people always die first. And it's the return of Tony's horror show side Quest, written and narrated by yours truly. We'll also be doing a full episode reading with commentary and we'll cap it off with a horror movie battle royale. Open your free AHA Radio app and search Trap Nerds podcast and listen now.