May 4, 2025 • 15 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Text you will heal, then text you will do You
have an important text to send, but aren't sure what
to write.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
This is a good infomercial for this segment.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Yeah, you could do the safe thing and ask a
trusted friend or even chat GPT for advice. Sure, or
hear me out. You could take a giant risk and
seek help from a group of radio people with a
combined iQue of seven and see how that goes for you.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Chapter seven, Who Reached.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
We got a woman named Susan on the line who's
looking for some tender textual healing from us. Susan is
my mom's name, so I'm really hoping it's not her,
asking how do I get my son to respond? Talk
to Susan here, find out who this is.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Mom?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Is that you?
Speaker 5 (00:52):
No, I'm not your mom.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Sorry, I mean if it was your mom, she would
have interrupted about three minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Susan, happy to have you on the phone and happy
to try and help you with your situation textual, So
tell us what's going on.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
So I like went out on a few dates with
this new guy, and I thought it was going really
well okay, but after like the fourth date, I just
got to text from him it said something like, sorry,
this isn't gonna work out, and I know one of
your exes.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Oh oh, and that didn't come up in any of
the other dates.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Yeah, no, I mean I texted him right back. I
was like, well, who are you talking about? And he
didn't respond.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
So then did you text all your exes in your
phone and say.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
That doesn't come across crazy at all?
Speaker 5 (01:38):
No, I just texted that guy again. I was like, hey,
let's talk about it. You know, maybe he's lying about something,
like I don't know who you're even referring to.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
It's interesting that you automatically think your exes said something bad. Well,
you just never know.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
So have you said anything else? Have you figured out
who he's talking about?
Speaker 5 (02:03):
I still haven't gotten a response from him. Oh nothing, Yeah,
you know, I want an answer. I don't want to
just drop this whole thing, Like, is there something I
have to defend myself for, Like I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Did you do a deep dive into social media to
see like where he's been, like if you could have
crossed paths it have to follow each other and told.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Yeah, I'm just so in my head about it, Like
that totally makes sense. Not that you're saying that, but
I didn't even get that far. Been like ruminating.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
He came right to us for help, which is the
smart decision.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
So that makes great relationship choices.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Now you want us to text this guy who's suddenly
ghosting you and get him to respond, right, all right?
So what did we say?
Speaker 6 (02:44):
All right?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I already got this as.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
Ease got I mean, make up some wild story and
apologize for it. Must have heard that I did this, this, this,
and this, and I cheated on one hundred guys.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
That's not true.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
It was only fit that way. You break the eyes.
He laughs, It goes, what are you talking about? And
then you're like kidding. I just wanted to get you
to respond.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Okay, I don't know about that.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
You don't know about that. You can always threaten him
with legal action. I learned that one from Brook.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I've never dated anybody that I could get money out of.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Well just gets them to respond.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
But I think you definitely have to take a humor
angle in order to get a response.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I disagree. I think the method I prefer is the
international hostage negotiation method, which works ninety nine of the time.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Are you going to take dog?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
You just yeah, you just say I've got this thing
hostage and I will give it back to you for
said information.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
You know what, It's always good to leave that in
a text thread. Hostage situations blackmail, Definitely, I want to
talk to you more.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Yeah, I mean, I don't know how long this has been.
It just sounds like he's not responding to her. How
long has this been going on?
Speaker 5 (04:00):
At least a week and a half A long time.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I think you come back and you say, like, Okay,
which one is it? Is it lactose Todd or big
voat Billy? I mean, like come up with like some
stupid nicknames for some exes like that intrigues.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I don't think that's a terrible idea, Brook, but I
do think at a week and a half we're kind
of past the humor stage.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
To be more serious, Like you need a text like, Hey,
I actually really need to know who this is so
that they don't ruin more future relationships for me.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Yeah, sounds kind of boring.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
You didn't want funny.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I mean, hear me out with the hostage thing. Okay, Susan,
your hostage can be literally anything that you have that
remotely belongs to the guy. If you have like a
hoodie or an embarrassing photo of him that you were
threatening to put online.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Okay, watch it with a photo threat.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
It doesn't have to be that serious. But Susan, do
you have any hostage quality bait that we could throw
out there and see if he responds to it.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
I'm trying to think, because, like said, we only went
on a few dates. But you wait, oh h no,
I actually I have his snowboard. Whoa trunk?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Yeah, an entire snowboard in your trunk?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
I mean like we were meeting up somewhere, we changed cars,
and I think he do.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Okay, this is good.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
All you have to write is like, oh my god,
I have your snowboard, tell me which X you're talking to,
and I'll drop it off my ex's house.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
But you don't because then.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
That would devastate a snowboard impensive.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
No, I mean the thing is, then you find out
the guy's name, and it makes sense that you would
know to drop it off at the ex's house. Yeah,
it makes it more fun. It doesn't make you crazy.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
I mean, I'll give it a shot.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Wow, you have just tricked a whole room into making
a ransom call.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
That's well we can make it, you know, not sound
very threatening. You just say like, hey, I was cleaning
out my car and I found your snowboard.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Yeah, I'm just trying to fit in my garbage can.
How far does this thing ben?
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Oh my gosh, Okay, let me type that up really quick.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Okay, not the ben part about dropping it off at
your ex's house.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Okay, don't tell. Don't let anybody tell you what you
can and can't text to somebody.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
What if she's vague and says something like, hey, I'm
pretty sure you left your snowboard in the back of
my car.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
It looks pretty expensive.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Something like that. I don't know, Susan Warre have have
you texted yet?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (06:27):
I did, just send the text real quick.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Oh okay, it's okay. What does it say.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
It was kind of like you were saying before, like
I'm cleaning out my car, I noticed your snowboard is
still here.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
And uh, yeah, I can drop it off at my exes.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Oh my god, much, that was the whole thing we
were doing.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yes, we're totally well, hold on, we're just seeing if
he responds to the snowboard bait.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
First, yeah, and then I like I mentioned like I
might just get rid of it. If you don't come
get it there there you.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Go create some urgency.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Then you're not going to find the Okay okay, I
thought we were trying to get a name.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Ye.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
All we need to know is do.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
The ex Oh wait, okay, hold on. So he just responded, Okay,
he's like, WHOA, don't throw it away? Can I sling
by and pick it up?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Okay? So what I see now, now that we've gone
him on the line, all you have to write is,
I'll leave it for you only if you tell me
which of my exes you know, and what they said
and what.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
They said you think they He'll give it to you
right away if you do that, just so threat. I mean,
even if he doesn't, if you hear the name, you
probably can assume what that X would say about you
right now.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Okay, So have you written anything, Susan, Yes, I put I'll.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Leave the snowboard on my porch for you, but only
if you tell me which of my exes you know.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Okay, that's a good start.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Trade.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Should you put the imog like where it's like looking,
you know with the one model spectacle.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
It's not necessary depends if he's over six if you
would get that reference. But we got to go to
break really quick, and hopefully when we come back, we'll
get some answers on which of your ex boyfriends is
blocking you in your dating life with more textual healing
right after this, you're just joining us. We're in the
middle of textual healing with Susan, who is trying to
(08:18):
get some answers from a guy that basically said he
can't date her anymore because he knows one of her exes.
Is a little cryptic because he didn't say what X
it was or why does he have like just a
stance against dating somebody.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Is there a story or is it like I don't
date anyone that knows my.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Friend I've ever met in my life.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
We've been trying to help her figure that out with
the tried and true hostage method.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
We've tried this before, Jeff.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
In my private life. I've tried it and it is true.
It works. Right now, she is holding this guy's snowboard
hostage because he left it in her car and she's
agreed to leave it out for him to collect in
exchange for the information that she wants.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
It really feels like we're handing him a brown envelope.
It's like a ransom exchange.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Yeah right, we typed out like cutout magazine letters on it.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Yeah it feels good.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Yeah. Right now all we've asked for is the ex's name,
because we don't even know that.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Right, We're going to start there, Susan has He responded,
He wrote back, why are you hesitant?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Why an't you happy to know?
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Well? No, I mean it makes sense now, so like
I got the answer I needed and we're good. Good
for your help.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
We want to know what he said, yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Socause like you're aboarding the mission.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Now now we're invested in this, like we want to know.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Who was it?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
So you did some stuff I can.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Tell Wait, you don't want to tell us.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Did you do something bad? Or is it embarrassing?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
That's a good question.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Bo, we've all been there.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
In this room. It's fine.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
How bad could it be?
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Basically, a few years ago, I may have been a
little bit upset with one of my ex boyfriends, as
we don't know. Well, I heard he was getting married,
right and.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
That what did you do? Now I'm actually worried.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
I may have pretended to be his fiance on the
phone and called the caterer for their wedding and canceled
it the day before.
Speaker 6 (10:44):
Nod diabolic.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Deposit I saved.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Oh my god, did he did he call you? Did
he show up at your house? I mean, like I
would be so livid.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
I mean, and you know, like I paid the cancelation
fee and everything, like, but I mean, they didn't really
want to deal with me. They weren't very happy. I
was just in a bad place in my life, and
you know.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
That's not a bad place.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Like after hearing that, it surprised me you weren't more
on board for the hostage thing immediately.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Yeah, so you ruin one guy's wedding and suddenly you're
not dating material.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Yeah, you know, I just I think I'm good, Like
I can just move on. So like thanks again, and
yeah bye, give that man his board back?
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Please?
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Well wait, don't say bye. We still have more segment
to do. Wait, Susan hello.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
When she hung up, Oh yeah, wow, oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I would not see her someone do something like this. Yeah,
I can't believe she didn't think of this before we
texted the guy.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Wait a second, we have all we have another caller.
Oh wait, okay, uh, well, I guess we have another
person on hold who wants textual heat back up just
in case. Okay, we have a backup caller for textual healing.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
That's good, all right.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Uh well, we're kind of short on timeless, so we
have to get through it really quick if we're going
to use him.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
You don't have a lot of time for them though.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Now, yeah, we can do a quick one. Hey, his
name is Mitch, So Mitch, welcome to the show. Hey,
hey guys, Hey, so here's the deal. We're very short
on time, so we have to kind of do a
rapid fire textual healing with you, so really quickly tell
us your problem.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
All right.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Well, basically, I'm pretty sure that a plumber stole money
from you when he was at my house.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Okay, Oh, for the local news wanted the person to
be her exeleophone.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Wouldn't that be convenient? Brook? Obviously not. This is much
more important, Mitch. You want us to text a plumbing
company we were not.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Getting your money back.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Well, as my dad always taught me, never trust plumbers.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Oh oh wow, No, it's not a company. It's he's
my uncle. But he does like as.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Because plumbing as a side hustle. Okay, why did he see?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
How much did he steal?
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Well?
Speaker 4 (13:06):
After he came over to fix my toilet and I
noticed that forty bucks was missing from my kitchen counter.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Oh no, okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Can you just chalk it up and just never invite
uncle plumber over again? Because I don't think you want
to destroy your family over forty dollars?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
That might be or is it possible? Here's a question.
Did you pay him for the work that he did
on your toilet?
Speaker 5 (13:27):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
No, okay, okay, Well do you think maybe he was
under the impression the money on the counter was for
him for fixing your toilet?
Speaker 2 (13:36):
That is the cheapest plumber that you'd ever have, the
family discount, I understand.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Oh maybe I don't know. He never He never charged
me for fixing stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
This is why we.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Shouldn't take.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Ransom. Would be good in this situation.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Let's ask him a question really quickly. Have you texted
your uncle and asked him that?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
But I can't know you have them a phone phone?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
How does he get work if you don't have a
phone's for God's sake, I feel like he's not giving
you his number, And how are.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
We supposed to text him now?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
For textual healing is only like al and messenger.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Well, I do like sometimes my aunt relays the messages
to him. I was like hoping we could like text her.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Like no.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Work.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
This was supposed to be rapid fire textual healing. This
sounds like it's gonna take forever.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
I'm a fast typer. I got speedy thumbs.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Okay that I don't want to leave you hanging. The
quickest thing to do in this situation is just say, hey,
did uncle whatever get the forty dollars I left him
on the counter. Just pretend like you did it on
purpose so you're not accusing him, And see what she says.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Oh, and then if he confirms and you know it
was all right, all right, let me let me type
that in yeah, I mean his his aunt would confirm it,
but yeah, but she would know.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Maybe she would know. I don't know he took it.
Let's just try and fix it.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Just chalk it up to like, thank you. I was
just a thank you for the forty dollars, plumber John.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
He doesn't have a phone, Brook, tell.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Uncle plumber, thank.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
You, uncle plumber.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
We're just trying to help and Mitch, did you get anything,
did you?
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Okay, oh yeah, I just came in. It says probably
he just bought a new video game. So he got
the money from somewhere hotel.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
All right, we're called that case closed. He took the
money as payments.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Yeah, he does deserve a new video game.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
That was another riveting edition of Textual Healing too.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
We never knew that we would end with plumbers.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
It's Brook and Jeffrey in the morning.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Brook and Jeffrey in the morning.
Text you will heal, then text you will do You
have an important text to send, but aren't sure what
to write.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
This is a good infomercial for this segment.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Yeah, you could do the safe thing and ask a
trusted friend or even chat GPT for advice. Sure, or
hear me out. You could take a giant risk and
seek help from a group of radio people with a
combined iQue of seven and see how that goes for you.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Chapter seven, Who Reached.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
We got a woman named Susan on the line who's
looking for some tender textual healing from us. Susan is
my mom's name, so I'm really hoping it's not her,
asking how do I get my son to respond? Talk
to Susan here, find out who this is.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Mom?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Is that you?
Speaker 5 (00:52):
No, I'm not your mom.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Sorry, I mean if it was your mom, she would
have interrupted about three minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Susan, happy to have you on the phone and happy
to try and help you with your situation textual, So
tell us what's going on.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
So I like went out on a few dates with
this new guy, and I thought it was going really
well okay, but after like the fourth date, I just
got to text from him it said something like, sorry,
this isn't gonna work out, and I know one of
your exes.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Oh oh, and that didn't come up in any of
the other dates.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Yeah, no, I mean I texted him right back. I
was like, well, who are you talking about? And he
didn't respond.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
So then did you text all your exes in your
phone and say.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
That doesn't come across crazy at all?
Speaker 5 (01:38):
No, I just texted that guy again. I was like, hey,
let's talk about it. You know, maybe he's lying about something,
like I don't know who you're even referring to.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
It's interesting that you automatically think your exes said something bad. Well,
you just never know.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
So have you said anything else? Have you figured out
who he's talking about?
Speaker 5 (02:03):
I still haven't gotten a response from him. Oh nothing, Yeah,
you know, I want an answer. I don't want to
just drop this whole thing, Like, is there something I
have to defend myself for, Like I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Did you do a deep dive into social media to
see like where he's been, like if you could have
crossed paths it have to follow each other and told.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Yeah, I'm just so in my head about it, Like
that totally makes sense. Not that you're saying that, but
I didn't even get that far. Been like ruminating.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
He came right to us for help, which is the
smart decision.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
So that makes great relationship choices.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Now you want us to text this guy who's suddenly
ghosting you and get him to respond, right, all right?
So what did we say?
Speaker 6 (02:44):
All right?
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I already got this as.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
Ease got I mean, make up some wild story and
apologize for it. Must have heard that I did this, this, this,
and this, and I cheated on one hundred guys.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
That's not true.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
It was only fit that way. You break the eyes.
He laughs, It goes, what are you talking about? And
then you're like kidding. I just wanted to get you
to respond.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Okay, I don't know about that.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
You don't know about that. You can always threaten him
with legal action. I learned that one from Brook.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I've never dated anybody that I could get money out of.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Well just gets them to respond.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
But I think you definitely have to take a humor
angle in order to get a response.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I disagree. I think the method I prefer is the
international hostage negotiation method, which works ninety nine of the time.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Are you going to take dog?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
You just yeah, you just say I've got this thing
hostage and I will give it back to you for
said information.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
You know what, It's always good to leave that in
a text thread. Hostage situations blackmail, Definitely, I want to
talk to you more.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Yeah, I mean, I don't know how long this has been.
It just sounds like he's not responding to her. How
long has this been going on?
Speaker 5 (04:00):
At least a week and a half A long time.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I think you come back and you say, like, Okay,
which one is it? Is it lactose Todd or big
voat Billy? I mean, like come up with like some
stupid nicknames for some exes like that intrigues.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I don't think that's a terrible idea, Brook, but I
do think at a week and a half we're kind
of past the humor stage.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
To be more serious, Like you need a text like, Hey,
I actually really need to know who this is so
that they don't ruin more future relationships for me.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Yeah, sounds kind of boring.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
You didn't want funny.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
I mean, hear me out with the hostage thing. Okay, Susan,
your hostage can be literally anything that you have that
remotely belongs to the guy. If you have like a
hoodie or an embarrassing photo of him that you were
threatening to put online.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Okay, watch it with a photo threat.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
It doesn't have to be that serious. But Susan, do
you have any hostage quality bait that we could throw
out there and see if he responds to it.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
I'm trying to think, because, like said, we only went
on a few dates. But you wait, oh h no,
I actually I have his snowboard. Whoa trunk?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Yeah, an entire snowboard in your trunk?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
I mean like we were meeting up somewhere, we changed cars,
and I think he do.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Okay, this is good.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
All you have to write is like, oh my god,
I have your snowboard, tell me which X you're talking to,
and I'll drop it off my ex's house.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
But you don't because then.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
That would devastate a snowboard impensive.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
No, I mean the thing is, then you find out
the guy's name, and it makes sense that you would
know to drop it off at the ex's house. Yeah,
it makes it more fun. It doesn't make you crazy.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
I mean, I'll give it a shot.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Wow, you have just tricked a whole room into making
a ransom call.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
That's well we can make it, you know, not sound
very threatening. You just say like, hey, I was cleaning
out my car and I found your snowboard.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Yeah, I'm just trying to fit in my garbage can.
How far does this thing ben?
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Oh my gosh, Okay, let me type that up really quick.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Okay, not the ben part about dropping it off at
your ex's house.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Okay, don't tell. Don't let anybody tell you what you
can and can't text to somebody.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
What if she's vague and says something like, hey, I'm
pretty sure you left your snowboard in the back of
my car.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
It looks pretty expensive.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Something like that. I don't know, Susan Warre have have
you texted yet?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (06:27):
I did, just send the text real quick.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Oh okay, it's okay. What does it say.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
It was kind of like you were saying before, like
I'm cleaning out my car, I noticed your snowboard is
still here.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
And uh, yeah, I can drop it off at my exes.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Oh my god, much, that was the whole thing we
were doing.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yes, we're totally well, hold on, we're just seeing if
he responds to the snowboard bait.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
First, yeah, and then I like I mentioned like I
might just get rid of it. If you don't come
get it there there you.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Go create some urgency.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Then you're not going to find the Okay okay, I
thought we were trying to get a name.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Ye.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
All we need to know is do.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
The ex Oh wait, okay, hold on. So he just responded, Okay,
he's like, WHOA, don't throw it away? Can I sling
by and pick it up?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Okay? So what I see now, now that we've gone
him on the line, all you have to write is,
I'll leave it for you only if you tell me
which of my exes you know, and what they said
and what.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
They said you think they He'll give it to you
right away if you do that, just so threat. I mean,
even if he doesn't, if you hear the name, you
probably can assume what that X would say about you
right now.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Okay, So have you written anything, Susan, Yes, I put I'll.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Leave the snowboard on my porch for you, but only
if you tell me which of my exes you know.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Okay, that's a good start.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Trade.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Should you put the imog like where it's like looking,
you know with the one model spectacle.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
It's not necessary depends if he's over six if you
would get that reference. But we got to go to
break really quick, and hopefully when we come back, we'll
get some answers on which of your ex boyfriends is
blocking you in your dating life with more textual healing
right after this, you're just joining us. We're in the
middle of textual healing with Susan, who is trying to
(08:18):
get some answers from a guy that basically said he
can't date her anymore because he knows one of her exes.
Is a little cryptic because he didn't say what X
it was or why does he have like just a
stance against dating somebody.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Is there a story or is it like I don't
date anyone that knows my.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Friend I've ever met in my life.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
We've been trying to help her figure that out with
the tried and true hostage method.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
We've tried this before, Jeff.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
In my private life. I've tried it and it is true.
It works. Right now, she is holding this guy's snowboard
hostage because he left it in her car and she's
agreed to leave it out for him to collect in
exchange for the information that she wants.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
It really feels like we're handing him a brown envelope.
It's like a ransom exchange.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Yeah right, we typed out like cutout magazine letters on it.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Yeah it feels good.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Yeah. Right now all we've asked for is the ex's name,
because we don't even know that.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Right, We're going to start there, Susan has He responded,
He wrote back, why are you hesitant?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Why an't you happy to know?
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Well? No, I mean it makes sense now, so like
I got the answer I needed and we're good. Good
for your help.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
We want to know what he said, yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Socause like you're aboarding the mission.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Now now we're invested in this, like we want to know.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Who was it?
Speaker 3 (09:47):
So you did some stuff I can.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Tell Wait, you don't want to tell us.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Did you do something bad? Or is it embarrassing?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
That's a good question.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Bo, we've all been there.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
In this room. It's fine.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
How bad could it be?
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Basically, a few years ago, I may have been a
little bit upset with one of my ex boyfriends, as
we don't know. Well, I heard he was getting married,
right and.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
That what did you do? Now I'm actually worried.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
I may have pretended to be his fiance on the
phone and called the caterer for their wedding and canceled
it the day before.
Speaker 6 (10:44):
Nod diabolic.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Deposit I saved.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Oh my god, did he did he call you? Did
he show up at your house? I mean, like I
would be so livid.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
I mean, and you know, like I paid the cancelation
fee and everything, like, but I mean, they didn't really
want to deal with me. They weren't very happy. I
was just in a bad place in my life, and
you know.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
That's not a bad place.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Like after hearing that, it surprised me you weren't more
on board for the hostage thing immediately.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Yeah, so you ruin one guy's wedding and suddenly you're
not dating material.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Yeah, you know, I just I think I'm good, Like
I can just move on. So like thanks again, and
yeah bye, give that man his board back?
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Please?
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Well wait, don't say bye. We still have more segment
to do. Wait, Susan hello.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
When she hung up, Oh yeah, wow, oh yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
I would not see her someone do something like this. Yeah,
I can't believe she didn't think of this before we
texted the guy.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Wait a second, we have all we have another caller.
Oh wait, okay, uh, well, I guess we have another
person on hold who wants textual heat back up just
in case. Okay, we have a backup caller for textual healing.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
That's good, all right.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Uh well, we're kind of short on timeless, so we
have to get through it really quick if we're going
to use him.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
You don't have a lot of time for them though.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Now, yeah, we can do a quick one. Hey, his
name is Mitch, So Mitch, welcome to the show. Hey,
hey guys, Hey, so here's the deal. We're very short
on time, so we have to kind of do a
rapid fire textual healing with you, so really quickly tell
us your problem.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
All right.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Well, basically, I'm pretty sure that a plumber stole money
from you when he was at my house.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Okay, Oh, for the local news wanted the person to
be her exeleophone.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Wouldn't that be convenient? Brook? Obviously not. This is much
more important, Mitch. You want us to text a plumbing
company we were not.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Getting your money back.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Well, as my dad always taught me, never trust plumbers.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Oh oh wow, No, it's not a company. It's he's
my uncle. But he does like as.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Because plumbing as a side hustle. Okay, why did he see?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
How much did he steal?
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Well?
Speaker 4 (13:06):
After he came over to fix my toilet and I
noticed that forty bucks was missing from my kitchen counter.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Oh no, okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Can you just chalk it up and just never invite
uncle plumber over again? Because I don't think you want
to destroy your family over forty dollars?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
That might be or is it possible? Here's a question.
Did you pay him for the work that he did
on your toilet?
Speaker 5 (13:27):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (13:28):
No, okay, okay, Well do you think maybe he was
under the impression the money on the counter was for
him for fixing your toilet?
Speaker 2 (13:36):
That is the cheapest plumber that you'd ever have, the
family discount, I understand.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Oh maybe I don't know. He never He never charged
me for fixing stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
This is why we.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Shouldn't take.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Ransom. Would be good in this situation.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Let's ask him a question really quickly. Have you texted
your uncle and asked him that?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
But I can't know you have them a phone phone?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
How does he get work if you don't have a
phone's for God's sake, I feel like he's not giving
you his number, And how are.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
We supposed to text him now?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
For textual healing is only like al and messenger.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Well, I do like sometimes my aunt relays the messages
to him. I was like hoping we could like text her.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Like no.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Work.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
This was supposed to be rapid fire textual healing. This
sounds like it's gonna take forever.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
I'm a fast typer. I got speedy thumbs.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Okay that I don't want to leave you hanging. The
quickest thing to do in this situation is just say, hey,
did uncle whatever get the forty dollars I left him
on the counter. Just pretend like you did it on
purpose so you're not accusing him, And see what she says.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Oh, and then if he confirms and you know it
was all right, all right, let me let me type
that in yeah, I mean his his aunt would confirm it,
but yeah, but she would know.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Maybe she would know. I don't know he took it.
Let's just try and fix it.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Just chalk it up to like, thank you. I was
just a thank you for the forty dollars, plumber John.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
He doesn't have a phone, Brook, tell.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Uncle plumber, thank.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
You, uncle plumber.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
We're just trying to help and Mitch, did you get anything,
did you?
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Okay, oh yeah, I just came in. It says probably
he just bought a new video game. So he got
the money from somewhere hotel.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
All right, we're called that case closed. He took the
money as payments.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Yeah, he does deserve a new video game.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
That was another riveting edition of Textual Healing too.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
We never knew that we would end with plumbers.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
It's Brook and Jeffrey in the morning.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Brook and Jeffrey in the morning.
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Brooke Fox
Jeffrey "Young Jeffrey" Dubow
Alexis Fuller
Jose Bolanos
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