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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Text jun text you. You know, a lot of the
times on this show we try to help people improve
their dating lives. I love that. Well today is a
little bit different. Okay, Brook's wishes have finally come true.
What we're actually going to try and block love today
because that's what one of our listeners, Emily wants us
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to do. I love love. Yeah, why do you always
say that about me? You're always trying to stop people
from going out, but Emily walk into the show. Hi,
Hi Emily. I think Brook, like all of us, tries
to help, but we don't end up being very successful.
Sometimes that's okay. Speak for yourself, Emily, what do you need? Wow?
Doesn't that sounds so sweet? And help for yourself? What
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do you need? Emily? Thank you for emailing this show.
Tell us a little bit about your love situation and
how we can help destroy it for you. What's going on? Well?
I haven't really most friend her name is Kaylee. I've
known her for a long time. I love her like
a sister. That's so great to have those type of friendships. Yeah, yeah,
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it didn't sound like a yes. No. I love Kaylee.
She's my best friend and she's been in a relationship
with a guy for almost two years. Now. Okay, she
loves how it's going. I mean, she likes the guy.
He's very handsome, he treats her right. The only thing
is she's not in a place where she wants to
settle down with him yet. Okay, that's fine. Why is
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that an issue? Well, it wouldn't be. But like, the
problem is, I heard a rumor that her boyfriend was
going to be proposing to her tonight. O wait tonight, Wow,
this is the team about that? Yeah, well, if you're
dating for two years, you think it would have come up, right. Yeah.
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Who do you hear the rumor from. It's from a
mutual friend, and it's I'm in such an awkward situation
right now because I've asked Hayley before, like I've said,
you know, if Thomas proposed to you, what would you say?
And she's not about it. She's not into that. She
told me she's not ready, just not yet like someday maybe,
but just not right now. You're saying, my mom told
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my dad no, I think four times before she actually
they actually agreed to get married. So what's the problem.
You're worried that what she's gonna turn him down, like
he's going to make a fool of himself. So tonight
is friends all getting together or something? Is that how
you think it's going to go down? Well, I just
know that they're going to go out on a date tonight,
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and I wanted to warn her boyfriend, just like without
being very direct about the situation. Wait, you want to
tell Wait hold on, you want to tell him? Why
wouldn't you want to tell her? Give her a heads up?
I want to ruin it. Wait she doesn't want it. Yeah,
I know my friend, Like this is so much right now,
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I don't want to put this on her. I don't
want to burden her with this, Like I want to
get rid of the situation entirely. Well, behind the scenes,
you're doing work, so she has zero stress. That's get
rid of the situation. Yeah. So you want you want
to text Kaylee's boyfriend and stop him from proposing without
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alerting him that you know that he's going to propose.
Oh yeah, that's hard to do. That's why I turned
to you guys, Like this is so tough to navigate,
Like I need your help and I've already started a
text message with him. Oh you good? Wait, no, not
usual for I don't know if it's good. What do
you say, Well, it's good because we don't have to
do as much work. What do you say? Okay, I'm
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gonna try to read this. So I sent him, Hey, Thomas,
how's it going? Um? He goes, stop them doing great?
Thanks for asking? How about you put? Oh, you know,
just trying to save Kaylee from a lifetime of misery?
Wait what who? She put? Haha? It's okay, like you're
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coming out of random like this is why I needed
your health because I thought it was funny to kind
of do this. You know, it sounds like you're saying
that being with him would be a lifetime misery. And
I mean maybe he doesn't even know that. There's not
enough like context there even. I mean, marriage is a
lifetime of misery. What did he say? Yeah? Well, then
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I tried to play it off cool. I was like,
but seriously, how's your day going? Oh? And that's a
serious part of that. She knows that, you know. Now
what did he say? Yeah? He goes, my day's going
pretty well. Why do you ask? Yeah? I put, oh,
no reason, I was just wondering if you had any
big plans tonight so we're kind of like doing more
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like restoration fixing right now? How did he respond? He goes, Actually,
I do, but it's a big secret. Oh yeah, it's
shut him out. That's what he's telling you to do.
Keep your mouth shut. Or maybe he's kind of a
dummy and doesn't know that she's onto him yet. Yeah,
what have you written back to that? Did you say anything? No?
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I didn't because I'm really stuck and I don't know
what to say. So I just need help at this point. Okay, situation,
I think immediately for the third time, how is your day?
I think one common theme that we go to with
these is using humor to try and get people to
open up a little bit more true, because even though
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our goal is a little bit serious trying to get
him to stop proposing, we need to get him to
lighten up a little bit in order to make it there. Yeah,
I mean we didn't start well with that whole like
saving her from a lifetime of misery thing. So so he,
I mean he's already admitted like, there is something I've planned,
but it's a big secret. What if we throw out
some horribly wrong guesses to make him laugh? Oh, like
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like oh, let me guess is it a big casino
heist Tonight's funny photographing Spider Man around the city? Like
just obviously wrong. I like casino heist. Go with that one. Yeah,
what do you laugh? What do you think? Emily? I
think that's good, Like I just want to like not
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come off to too crazy, like I'm prying into his life.
But you know, yeah, I like casino heist. And then
you follow it up with because Kaylee's really not ready
for that type of commitment. Yeah, I think so, Why
why don't you start typing that out? Like, ooh, let
me guess we're doing a casino heist tonight with the
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money bag emoji? Yeah that's good. Are you typing? Emily? Yeah, okay,
I'm putting, Oh, is there going to be a casino
heist tonight? I guess don't get caught or something? No?
Am I close? Am? I close question mark? We just
want him to open up and start talking with us.
And if you end it with a set, you have
to end it with a question. He'll never respond to you. Okay,
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and my close question mark? Yeah, okay, I got it?
And are you sure your your best friend isn't like
telling you one thing about her commitment level and telling
her boyfriend something else. No. I swear to god she
does not want to get married right now. Okay, that's great.
Is that what you were doing with your husband? Brook?
You were telling everybody else? Are you kidding me? I
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was begging him to propose? What are you doing? Well?
Get it? And remember that because every weekend you'd go away.
We're like, this is the weekend and then you fake
drop down on a knee and I'm like, so, Emily,
you sent that right? Yeah? I did. Okay, Well, we're
running out of time for this first part. We're gonna
play a song, come back, and we'll see if Kaylee's
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boyfriend has responded, and then we'll try and stop him
from proposing when we continue textual healing next. How do
you stop a guy from proposing to your best friend?
Oh my god, it's usually the opposite. How do you
get a guy to do it? I know there must
be a Cosmo magazine article about them. We must have
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thrown that issue away. So we're kind of on our
own here helping out one of our listeners, Emily, because
she knows her friend is about to get proposed to
buy her boyfriend tonight. I mean he had a huge surprise.
The thing is, Emily's friend isn't ready to get married.
Even told her if he proposes, I'd probably say no.
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Oh man. So to prevent all that drama, Emily wants
to get ahead of it and tell the boyfriend please
don't do it without letting him know that she knows. Yeah,
that's tricky. There's been a whole conversation in the lead up,
and our suggestion was let's throw out some wrong guesses
and about what the secret is. But what the secret is?
And we guests big casino heist? Am I close? And
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has he responded to that? Emily? Yes, he has? Okay,
what do you say? So he put OMG, no casino hips. Ah.
What I've planned is kind of bigger than that. There
will be cameras and maybe some roses. Oh no, this
guy is the worst at secrets ever. By the way,
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more clues. I'm probably got a camera person though. Honestly, yeah,
all right, well now he's really confirming that something romantic
it's about to go down. I think we need to
like deterret right now. I don't think we need to
do anymore back in for us like I don't know, Like,
is there any way like your friend Caylee's like going
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through like other life changes and maybe we could be Like,
you know, Cayley's going through so much. She just really
needs a steady, non changing relationship with not a bad idea,
Like is she going through like a changing careers? Did
you get a new pet? Like something really stressful? She
got a hamster. She just really space to propose. The
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hamster was pregnant and so now she's got twenty hamsters.
Ever since she got buttons, it's been rough for her.
Is anything going on like that? Well, her wax person
quit lady recently and she's been looking for a new one,
Like the person is that taking a big toll on
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her mentally? Exactly? He loves before. She'd been going to
her for years and she just doesn't need more stress. Okay,
she's really sad about wax lady. Well, let's go with that,
I think. Okay, are you to say I hope Kayley
is not involved in the surprise. She's not in the
right headspace since her wax woman left. Yeah, she can't
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handle more stress on her plate. Okay, So Kaylee can't
handle more stress on her plate. Yeah, just say, I
hope she's not involved in the surprise. That's right, because
Kaylee is not in the right headspace, right because we're
still trying to play dumb like we don't know the
proposals about to happen. Yeah, okay, so I put I
hope Kayley is not involved in this. She doesn't need
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more stressed. She's already stressed out about finding a new
wax person. I mean, but to make you want to
get a wax before you're proposed to so stressful? Come
on and look, that's not stressful to us, but for
her friend, clearly it's causing some mental anguish and that
should be enough. And no wonder Kaylee's not ready for
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a proposal or an engagement if she's that fragile. Yeah, okay,
so we we've sent that text, right, Emily, Okay, now
he's do you think he's freaking out? Like unwaxed body?
If you got that text saying the person you're about
to propose to is like super freaked out, would you
be like, oh my god, I should do it another night.
As a guy. To be honest, I would be like,
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wax lady, that's nothing compared to what I'm about to
you know, well, I don't know if it's gonna stop. Yeah,
but that makes it about you tonight. The proposals all
about her, that's true. That's true. So you want her
to be on the best headspace that she possibly can
be to guarantee you. Yes, well, especially because it sounds
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like they haven't even talked about it. If he's proposing
tonight and Kaylee is so not on board the communication
in this relationships. True, he's probably super nervous flying blind
on this anything Emily. Yeah, something just came in. Okay.
It says, if you think I'm proposing tonight, that's not true.
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Oh right wait? Oh, so he finally clicked in his head.
I thought you confirmed with the rumor. Yeah. Wait, and
what's all the roses and cameras about? There's more? Yeah,
he's study something else. He's typing. Wait what is going?
Oh my god, he's breaking up with her? Right. It
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would make a pretty devastating TikTok video that would go viral.
Hel being a friend propose instead of him proposing itself. Okay,
I have another message. It says, wait, do you know already? Oh?
Oh my god? No, wait, is this good or bad proposing?
So what is he what is going on? Do you
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know what? You have to text it back? Do I
know what? Just maybe fake? Like you do know? I
totally know that he'll ease up and go, oh you
know fine, I'll spill the bean. Yeah, like, no, say this,
tell him I know something? Tell me what you know first? Okay,
you know, first game. Maybe it's like you play it
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kind of cool, Like, I mean, I have a pretty
good idea of what's going on tonight, but he just
said that he's not proposing. Do we have a good
idea anymore? Well, we have no idea, but we're just
trying to get him to tell us. Yeah, like let
me know how I can help give me the details.
That's a Jeff. What do you think, Emily? Yeah, because
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I'm very confused right now. I'm just thinking just playing
along kind of telling him texted okay, text it, send
it okay. I am like dying what ye wait? So
does he mean that he's not Like was he being
sarcastic when he was saying not proposing or was he
being serious? Yeah? What does he think? You know? This
is what I wrote? I put um, I do have
a good idea of what's happening? Um, if there's any
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way that I can help, and that's great, just give
me the details. Yeah, okay, so I'm putting please give
me the details and I put a heart emoji. And
now you're being a supportive friend. But that's not what
she wants to be. But we got no time. We
got to send this send okay, I sent it all right?
Oh boy, Now I'm really curious. What do you think
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it is. Maybe he's going to give her like an
extra kidney or something that would bond him. I think
that her biggest life issue right now is not having
a proper waxer, So I don't know that kidney donation
is on there. Kidney swap is pretty romantic, though romantic?
Wait wait wait what I just cut her response? Yeah, okay,
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it says you want to help with your own proposal.
What no way? Because I don't think Shane would be
cool with that. L O L just acts a prize
when he asked God to what no way? No? Wait,
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this is about me. I thought you should. I thought
you said that your friend has plans tonight, not you.
They probably don't throw her off. Oh my god, are
you so excited? I'm freaking wait. Hold on, are you
are you like your friend? Are you ready for that?
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I'm gonna say, do we need to text your boyfriend?
I don't know. I didn't want to know this, God
and back. She just kind of said it, thought that
she knew, reacted like now they shouldn't have. Whose idea
was that? Well, at least you're gonna look for the
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video because you know there's gonna be a photographer there.
Get your nails done now, hopefully you got a good
waxer too, and maybe quick practice your shocked reaction for
when he when he asks it. Um, okay, okay, let's see.
Oh that's awesome. Congratulation. Get married guys, Oh my god,
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how it goes? I'm really good luck. That was a
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