December 23, 2025 • 16 mins
In your Awkward Tuesday Phone Call, one of our listeners is convinced her brother is hiding a big secret from the family, and she wants to reveal it with our help!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
We've all lied to our parents before. Sometimes you have to. Yeah, like, no, Mom,
the chicken wasn't too dry. Yeah, I love the electric
nose hair tremmer for my birthday. I'm so glad you
gave me that instead of a car.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
I never even wanted to be cool anyway. But some
lies are bigger than others. And one of our listeners
today needs our help for that exact reason, because she's
worried that her brother has been hiding something from her
entire family for over two years. It's a big secret,
and I can promise you this, it might lead to
(00:40):
a huge family blowout if we don't step in right now.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Oh, I love family secrets. Let's step in.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
We're gonna do it. Your awkward Tuesday phone call. Next,
it's awkward.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
It's Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
It's awkward Tuesday phone call. I've told you guys countless
times about how awkward it is to hang out with
my family. Yeah, hearing about it's one thing. Living it
is a different experience because just this past weekend, my
father angrily did dishes for a half hour. Why because
(01:15):
nobody else was doing them at the time, so he
was getting his hands wet cursing while violently shoving plates
into the dishwasher, screaming about how he doesn't want to
get food poisoning again.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
All right, checks out.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
So there just a normal family gathering for the debos,
and one of our listeners, Lauren, is having your own
issues with an upcoming family get together, apparently regarding her brother, Lauren,
do you think maybe your brother wants to hang out
and do dishes with my dad because it might actually
solve both of our problems? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:48):
I would love that, Okay, I mean, Jeff says that,
but you know, he was in the other room being like,
I know he's mad, but I really don't want to
do him.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, he's like dad came down watching the music.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Don't judge me enough about my dad and his dishes. Anger.
What about your brother? What's going on with them?
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (02:09):
Okay, So it's rather bizarre because my brother has been
in a relationship with a girl for about two years now.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Okay, so they've been together for a while.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
Yeah they have, They have two years. Especially for my brother,
two years is a while because he's always been a
super career oriented focused guy.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
You know, I thought for sure that was not going
to be followed by a compliment, and it was, well, you.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Thought he's gonna use a big loser?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Yeah, exactly, he's my brother and who'd want to be
with him?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Okay, sister, Some people are like that though they don't
get into a lot of relationships. Yeah, like me.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Right, yeah.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
But the issue was that it's been two years and
we've never met her.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
What oh oh that sketch. That's a long time you've
never met her.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
Well, he's super secretive about her and like he won't
tell us or show us photos, like he's showing me
a couple of polaroids. Polaroid, I mean polaroids. I know
he's he's vintage. What I think you can put him
from your phone now?
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Right?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Do they live in another country or something?
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Is that? What?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Like, I just they can't be close to you then, right, we.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
Don't live super close. No, But whenever the opportunity for
us to meet her comes up, all of a sudden,
you either busy or sick, or something's come up, and
it's you know, it's just getting super weird.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
What do you think is happening in this situation? Do
you think he's just ashamed of you and your family?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Oh, I thought it was the girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
That's where I went. That's that's why I didn't introduce anybody.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Yeah, I think there's always this pressure from my parents.
So when are you going to settle down? You know,
when are you going to get married and have a family.
And part of me thinks he may have made her
up just to get them off his back.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Oh she's real.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Oh, there's a realty.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
I had one of those girlfriends for years and that
was kind of nice.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I'm just someone that you make up just to get
your parents off your back.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Girl for fifteen years and thousand and third grade.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
I told you, Sarah's just very shy.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Okay, okay, that would be one thing to make it
up for your parents because they're putting pressure on you.
But he would lie to you as well. You think
you're his own sister about a girlfriend.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
Yeah, I think that's.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Where you should be cool.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
He might be embarrassed, you know, and I just want
to let him know that if that's the case, he
doesn't have to make someone up like he can be honest.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
So we're just going to publicly call him out. I
like it.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yeah, I am confused. What is it that you want
to do with your call here. You want to call
your brother and.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
Say what, I don't know what to say. That's why
I'm calling you. Like, the big issue is that I
have to do it this way because my parents said
that they are going to confront him about it. Yes,
I want to get to him and get the answers
before they You.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Know, it's like a whole family discussion behind his back
that everyone thinks his girlfriend's fake.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
And I would say that.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Now after two years, You're like, okay.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yeah, single time every years.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
It does kind of geta Are you sure you don't
want that to happen, just for like the good video
that you could post.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
No, I'm trying to save him before things get really
ugly because there could be a huge fallout.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I didn't think about that. Maybe she is really ugly.
You could be right about that. Is that what she's saying.
I thought I heard her say she could be really ugly.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
No, things could get really ugly and there could be
a fallout.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Oh okay, but it still is a decent theory, right, Okay,
that could be it. We'll find out, We're going to
play a song, we'll come back, and we'll give you one.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Sorry.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Yeah, we're gonna play a song. We'll come back and
we'll give you some advice and let you make your
awkward Tuesday phone call to your brother to find out
if his girlfriend is real or made up. We're gonna
do it right after this.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
All right, thank you?
Speaker 5 (06:06):
All right?
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Hold on, it's awkward.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
It's Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
It's awkward Tuesday phone call. Today. We're on a mission,
a mission to track down the invisible girlfriend. Is she real?
We don't know. This is what we have. We have
no social media posts of the two of them together,
no family meetups, and two blurry polaroid photos that have
(06:33):
been seen at a brother sister get together, along with
a million excuses for why she can't ever meet the fan.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Oh my god, maybe she's bigfoot photos.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
But here's my question. If she's invisible, how do we
know she's not on the phone with us right now? Dana,
are you here? Blink twice? If you're here, I'm not
here hearing the blinks.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
I prefer that.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
But no, this is a real situation. We're not joking around.
It's been two years and one of our listeners, Lauren,
says she has still not met her brother's girlfriend and
it's becoming a little bit of an issue in their family,
so she's looking to get ahead of this before her
parents get involved. What's your advice for Lauren before we
call her brother.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Listen, the quickest way to bond with your sibling is
to have a common enemy, and we all know that
enemy is always your parents.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I'm right, okay.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
So listen, you need to go to him and be like,
oh my god, you are not going to believe what
mom and dad are saying behind your back, and I
don't even know how to respond. Under the bus, Yeah, no, yes,
throw parents under the bus and.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Then hopefully he'll come clean and be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Lauren, you liking that.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
I do like that strategy. I do divide and conquered,
divide parents.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
So throw the parents under the bus. That's option one. Jose,
what do you think?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I really like what you said towards the end of
our last phone call, which was you are trying to
save him, so so he knows like, Hey, I'm not
just being a boss the older sister here. I'm truly
trying to help, and I think that he'll matter.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Really, you don't care if he doesn't have a girlfriend, right, regardless.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Right, you're the hero here. In fact, call yourself a
hero when you talk to me. You're gonna save his
relationship with mom and dad. Are you ready to do this?
Speaker 6 (08:23):
That's all I want for Christmas.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Okay, that's sweet. Here we go, family war, family division.
All right, I'm gonna dial your brother's phone number. We're
going to back away and let you talk to him,
but we'll jump in when we feel like you need
a little help.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
Okay, okay, sounds good.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
All right, here we go.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Hello, Hello, Jake, Lauren.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Yes, how are you?
Speaker 5 (09:00):
I'm good. I didn't know what you call in. Your
name didn't pop up.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
Oh, I'm sorry about that. You know, sometimes gotta make
it a surprise, right, got switch things up?
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Yeah? What do you mean?
Speaker 6 (09:16):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Listen, listen.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
So the holidays are right around the.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
Corner, right, yeah, yeah, Mom and dad are really excited
to get together as always, and they keep after me
if we're gonna get to me Kana.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
Uh, Well, I don't know. I mean, she's got a
lot on our plate right now. So I'm I'm not
sure if you'll have time.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
I mean, maybe you're joking, right, What do you mean
he's not gonna have time. It's yeah, it's been over
two years now, Jake, we haven't met her.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Well yeah, I mean, I'm sorry, but timing's been off.
Just hasn't been the right time.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
I mean, Jake, timing's always been off. It's just is
there something else going on?
Speaker 5 (10:17):
I don't know what to tell you. I mean, she's
just not ready, is it?
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Dad?
Speaker 6 (10:21):
Cream cheese and rantam because trust to me, I get it.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
No, there's nothing to do with that. Okay.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
Well, I'm your big sister, and mom and dad have
been talking about this to me and I hate that.
It's not good.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Well, so what I mean, it's not their business. I
mean they can talk about it, it's not to me.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
They think you're hiding something, Jake. And to be honest
at this point, I kind of do too. Oh come on, Jake,
just be honest. Okay, that she exists?
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Is she real?
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Is they not a real person? Because it's okay if
she's not, like I guess the pressure I was there
too before. I'm at Cooper.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Listen, she's real. I've already told you that. And honestly,
that's crazy that you think I'm lying about it. It's
kind of why what am.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
I supposed to think? What am I supposed to think?
There's no social media posts. I come over to your
house and there's a few blurry polaroids.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
You know.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
It's it's just it's it's weird.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Look, I mean, I get it, but I can't do
anything about it. She's not ready. We're not ready. It's
just not the time.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
What do you mean, We're not ready? Not ready for what?
It's been two years?
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Fine, we're not ready because Dana is her real name?
Speaker 6 (11:40):
What are you talking about.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
The real name is Claire and you know her.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
What are you talking about right now? I don't I
don't understand.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
It's it's our stepsister. Okay? What that?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Oh my god?
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Jake?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Hey what hey man? You're need a second over here?
Speaker 6 (12:15):
My name is jeffreaking out.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Oh my god, Jake.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
You're on a radio show right now. What don't worry.
Not a lot of people listen to us, just a
few million. But it is interesting to hear this. We
we know a lot about some of your story from
your sister.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
Are you serious? It's Claire?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Okay? Please tell me.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
It's like an adult stepsister, like you didn't grow up together?
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Did you grow up together?
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Yeah, we were like thirteen.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Okay, you're basically adults teenagers. Yeah, well, in the Jewish tradition,
thirteen is adults. And I don't know what your religion is,
but since you celebrate Christmas, it's probably not your stepsister, Lauren.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
Lauren, I knew you'd react like this. This is why
I don't tell you guys stuff. I mean, everyone is dutchmental.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
This really does make a lot of sense.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
That's not normal, Jake, that's not normal.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
Why not? It's not like we're blood related. It's fine.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
Happened?
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Did this happen at at like another family holiday event?
Speaker 5 (13:23):
Like?
Speaker 7 (13:23):
Do you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Brook wants to take notes so she can make it
happen for the organize it.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
It happened way after our teenage years. I never thought
this would happen. I just I don't know. We ended
up hanging out and the notes and started falling for
each other. I like her. I don't know. I don't
care that point.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
So wait, when we're.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Talking about your mom and dad, is it your mom
and stepdad that we're talking like? Oh my, there's like
a lot of family dynamics here.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Yeah, we can have at least acknowledge there's no blood relation.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
Yeah, with her in high school. I lived with her
in high school. You can't hate her.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Well, it's great, so that way, you've already met That
was what the whole problem was. He said that you
never met her so you know her.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Well, yeah, you should be happy because you have already
met her and she's great.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Isn't she already at your family holiday stuff? You guys
just aren't acting like a couple.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
During it, Like, what is exactly? I mean, that's why
I haven't made a big announce that she's already there.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
So what do you do?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
You have to wait until you guys get engaged to
tell us break up?
Speaker 1 (14:30):
What exactly was the plan here, Jake? Like when were
you going to come forward and say what your relationship was?
Speaker 5 (14:39):
I mean, this is the issue. I mean I get it,
Like I know that it's maybe not the most normal thing,
you know, to be attracted to your stepsister, but I
just know I can't. I can't ignore my feelings with me,
can she?
Speaker 6 (14:53):
I Mean?
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Look, we are a show that's all about love, right Brooke.
Love is love and you have to.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Support this it But like the shock and if you
were going to pull the band aid off. It would
have helped, like two years ago. Now you have created
all of this for two years.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
They're going to be upset that he didn't say anything before.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
And they're both they're both in the same room while
people are asking him about girlfriends.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Okay, be honest, you guys.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Ever sneak away though, And I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
I imagine it's like, oh, I know all those family
vacations against are.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Oh, so now you guys get it right, Like why
I have not totally?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Yeah, Oh, I can kind of understand why that would
be difficult to tell mom and dad text I would
have deleted it.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
Yeah, I never thought I would say this, But maybe
it's better not to tell mom and dad. And I'm
going to cross my fingers and hope you break up
by that.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
I feel like she'll tell them for you.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
It's not going to be horrible. Then if you don't
tell him, then we can maybe even do closure call
coming up or a second date update in the future
like parents, No with Jake and his stepsister. Oh, it's
the content that keeps on giving. That's what the segment
is all about.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Why don't we just do a phone tap on the
parents and see how they react and at.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
The end we can go. It's a new recurring segment
that we need.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
I like it. Yeah, Brooke and Jeffrey in the Morning
We've all lied to our parents before. Sometimes you have to. Yeah, like, no, Mom,
the chicken wasn't too dry. Yeah, I love the electric
nose hair tremmer for my birthday. I'm so glad you
gave me that instead of a car.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
I never even wanted to be cool anyway. But some
lies are bigger than others. And one of our listeners
today needs our help for that exact reason, because she's
worried that her brother has been hiding something from her
entire family for over two years. It's a big secret,
and I can promise you this, it might lead to
(00:40):
a huge family blowout if we don't step in right now.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Oh, I love family secrets. Let's step in.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
We're gonna do it. Your awkward Tuesday phone call. Next,
it's awkward.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
It's Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
It's awkward Tuesday phone call. I've told you guys countless
times about how awkward it is to hang out with
my family. Yeah, hearing about it's one thing. Living it
is a different experience because just this past weekend, my
father angrily did dishes for a half hour. Why because
(01:15):
nobody else was doing them at the time, so he
was getting his hands wet cursing while violently shoving plates
into the dishwasher, screaming about how he doesn't want to
get food poisoning again.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
All right, checks out.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
So there just a normal family gathering for the debos,
and one of our listeners, Lauren, is having your own
issues with an upcoming family get together, apparently regarding her brother, Lauren,
do you think maybe your brother wants to hang out
and do dishes with my dad because it might actually
solve both of our problems? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:48):
I would love that, Okay, I mean, Jeff says that,
but you know, he was in the other room being like,
I know he's mad, but I really don't want to
do him.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, he's like dad came down watching the music.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Don't judge me enough about my dad and his dishes. Anger.
What about your brother? What's going on with them?
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (02:09):
Okay, So it's rather bizarre because my brother has been
in a relationship with a girl for about two years now.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Okay, so they've been together for a while.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
Yeah they have, They have two years. Especially for my brother,
two years is a while because he's always been a
super career oriented focused guy.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
You know, I thought for sure that was not going
to be followed by a compliment, and it was, well, you.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Thought he's gonna use a big loser?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Yeah, exactly, he's my brother and who'd want to be
with him?
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Okay, sister, Some people are like that though they don't
get into a lot of relationships. Yeah, like me.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Right, yeah.
Speaker 6 (02:46):
But the issue was that it's been two years and
we've never met her.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
What oh oh that sketch. That's a long time you've
never met her.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
Well, he's super secretive about her and like he won't
tell us or show us photos, like he's showing me
a couple of polaroids. Polaroid, I mean polaroids. I know
he's he's vintage. What I think you can put him
from your phone now?
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (03:12):
Right?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Do they live in another country or something?
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Is that? What?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Like, I just they can't be close to you then, right, we.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
Don't live super close. No, But whenever the opportunity for
us to meet her comes up, all of a sudden,
you either busy or sick, or something's come up, and
it's you know, it's just getting super weird.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
What do you think is happening in this situation? Do
you think he's just ashamed of you and your family?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Oh, I thought it was the girlfriend.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
That's where I went. That's that's why I didn't introduce anybody.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Yeah, I think there's always this pressure from my parents.
So when are you going to settle down? You know,
when are you going to get married and have a family.
And part of me thinks he may have made her
up just to get them off his back.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Oh she's real.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Oh, there's a realty.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
I had one of those girlfriends for years and that
was kind of nice.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I'm just someone that you make up just to get
your parents off your back.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Girl for fifteen years and thousand and third grade.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
I told you, Sarah's just very shy.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Okay, okay, that would be one thing to make it
up for your parents because they're putting pressure on you.
But he would lie to you as well. You think
you're his own sister about a girlfriend.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
Yeah, I think that's.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Where you should be cool.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
He might be embarrassed, you know, and I just want
to let him know that if that's the case, he
doesn't have to make someone up like he can be honest.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
So we're just going to publicly call him out. I
like it.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yeah, I am confused. What is it that you want
to do with your call here. You want to call
your brother and.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
Say what, I don't know what to say. That's why
I'm calling you. Like, the big issue is that I
have to do it this way because my parents said
that they are going to confront him about it. Yes,
I want to get to him and get the answers
before they You.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Know, it's like a whole family discussion behind his back
that everyone thinks his girlfriend's fake.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
And I would say that.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Now after two years, You're like, okay.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yeah, single time every years.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
It does kind of geta Are you sure you don't
want that to happen, just for like the good video
that you could post.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
No, I'm trying to save him before things get really
ugly because there could be a huge fallout.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I didn't think about that. Maybe she is really ugly.
You could be right about that. Is that what she's saying.
I thought I heard her say she could be really ugly.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
No, things could get really ugly and there could be
a fallout.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Oh okay, but it still is a decent theory, right, Okay,
that could be it. We'll find out, We're going to
play a song, we'll come back, and we'll give you one.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Sorry.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Yeah, we're gonna play a song. We'll come back and
we'll give you some advice and let you make your
awkward Tuesday phone call to your brother to find out
if his girlfriend is real or made up. We're gonna
do it right after this.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
All right, thank you?
Speaker 5 (06:06):
All right?
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Hold on, it's awkward.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
It's Tuesday.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
It's awkward Tuesday phone call. Today. We're on a mission,
a mission to track down the invisible girlfriend. Is she real?
We don't know. This is what we have. We have
no social media posts of the two of them together,
no family meetups, and two blurry polaroid photos that have
(06:33):
been seen at a brother sister get together, along with
a million excuses for why she can't ever meet the fan.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Oh my god, maybe she's bigfoot photos.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
But here's my question. If she's invisible, how do we
know she's not on the phone with us right now? Dana,
are you here? Blink twice? If you're here, I'm not
here hearing the blinks.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
I prefer that.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
But no, this is a real situation. We're not joking around.
It's been two years and one of our listeners, Lauren,
says she has still not met her brother's girlfriend and
it's becoming a little bit of an issue in their family,
so she's looking to get ahead of this before her
parents get involved. What's your advice for Lauren before we
call her brother.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Listen, the quickest way to bond with your sibling is
to have a common enemy, and we all know that
enemy is always your parents.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I'm right, okay.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
So listen, you need to go to him and be like,
oh my god, you are not going to believe what
mom and dad are saying behind your back, and I
don't even know how to respond. Under the bus, Yeah, no, yes,
throw parents under the bus and.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Then hopefully he'll come clean and be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Lauren, you liking that.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
I do like that strategy. I do divide and conquered,
divide parents.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
So throw the parents under the bus. That's option one. Jose,
what do you think?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I really like what you said towards the end of
our last phone call, which was you are trying to
save him, so so he knows like, Hey, I'm not
just being a boss the older sister here. I'm truly
trying to help, and I think that he'll matter.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Really, you don't care if he doesn't have a girlfriend, right, regardless.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Right, you're the hero here. In fact, call yourself a
hero when you talk to me. You're gonna save his
relationship with mom and dad. Are you ready to do this?
Speaker 6 (08:23):
That's all I want for Christmas.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Okay, that's sweet. Here we go, family war, family division.
All right, I'm gonna dial your brother's phone number. We're
going to back away and let you talk to him,
but we'll jump in when we feel like you need
a little help.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
Okay, okay, sounds good.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
All right, here we go.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Hello, Hello, Jake, Lauren.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Yes, how are you?
Speaker 5 (09:00):
I'm good. I didn't know what you call in. Your
name didn't pop up.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
Oh, I'm sorry about that. You know, sometimes gotta make
it a surprise, right, got switch things up?
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Yeah? What do you mean?
Speaker 6 (09:16):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Listen, listen.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
So the holidays are right around the.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
Corner, right, yeah, yeah, Mom and dad are really excited
to get together as always, and they keep after me
if we're gonna get to me Kana.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
Uh, Well, I don't know. I mean, she's got a
lot on our plate right now. So I'm I'm not
sure if you'll have time.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
I mean, maybe you're joking, right, What do you mean
he's not gonna have time. It's yeah, it's been over
two years now, Jake, we haven't met her.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Well yeah, I mean, I'm sorry, but timing's been off.
Just hasn't been the right time.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
I mean, Jake, timing's always been off. It's just is
there something else going on?
Speaker 5 (10:17):
I don't know what to tell you. I mean, she's
just not ready, is it?
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Dad?
Speaker 6 (10:21):
Cream cheese and rantam because trust to me, I get it.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
No, there's nothing to do with that. Okay.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
Well, I'm your big sister, and mom and dad have
been talking about this to me and I hate that.
It's not good.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Well, so what I mean, it's not their business. I
mean they can talk about it, it's not to me.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
They think you're hiding something, Jake. And to be honest
at this point, I kind of do too. Oh come on, Jake,
just be honest. Okay, that she exists?
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Is she real?
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Is they not a real person? Because it's okay if
she's not, like I guess the pressure I was there
too before. I'm at Cooper.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Listen, she's real. I've already told you that. And honestly,
that's crazy that you think I'm lying about it. It's
kind of why what am.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
I supposed to think? What am I supposed to think?
There's no social media posts. I come over to your
house and there's a few blurry polaroids.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
You know.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
It's it's just it's it's weird.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
Look, I mean, I get it, but I can't do
anything about it. She's not ready. We're not ready. It's
just not the time.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
What do you mean, We're not ready? Not ready for what?
It's been two years?
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Fine, we're not ready because Dana is her real name?
Speaker 6 (11:40):
What are you talking about.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
The real name is Claire and you know her.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
What are you talking about right now? I don't I
don't understand.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
It's it's our stepsister. Okay? What that?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Oh my god?
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Jake?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Hey what hey man? You're need a second over here?
Speaker 6 (12:15):
My name is jeffreaking out.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Oh my god, Jake.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
You're on a radio show right now. What don't worry.
Not a lot of people listen to us, just a
few million. But it is interesting to hear this. We
we know a lot about some of your story from
your sister.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
Are you serious? It's Claire?
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Okay? Please tell me.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
It's like an adult stepsister, like you didn't grow up together?
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Did you grow up together?
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Yeah, we were like thirteen.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Okay, you're basically adults teenagers. Yeah, well, in the Jewish tradition,
thirteen is adults. And I don't know what your religion is,
but since you celebrate Christmas, it's probably not your stepsister, Lauren.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
Lauren, I knew you'd react like this. This is why
I don't tell you guys stuff. I mean, everyone is dutchmental.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
This really does make a lot of sense.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
That's not normal, Jake, that's not normal.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
Why not? It's not like we're blood related. It's fine.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
Happened?
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Did this happen at at like another family holiday event?
Speaker 5 (13:23):
Like?
Speaker 7 (13:23):
Do you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Brook wants to take notes so she can make it
happen for the organize it.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
It happened way after our teenage years. I never thought
this would happen. I just I don't know. We ended
up hanging out and the notes and started falling for
each other. I like her. I don't know. I don't
care that point.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
So wait, when we're.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Talking about your mom and dad, is it your mom
and stepdad that we're talking like? Oh my, there's like
a lot of family dynamics here.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Yeah, we can have at least acknowledge there's no blood relation.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
Yeah, with her in high school. I lived with her
in high school. You can't hate her.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Well, it's great, so that way, you've already met That
was what the whole problem was. He said that you
never met her so you know her.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Well, yeah, you should be happy because you have already
met her and she's great.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Isn't she already at your family holiday stuff? You guys
just aren't acting like a couple.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
During it, Like, what is exactly? I mean, that's why
I haven't made a big announce that she's already there.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
So what do you do?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
You have to wait until you guys get engaged to
tell us break up?
Speaker 1 (14:30):
What exactly was the plan here, Jake? Like when were
you going to come forward and say what your relationship was?
Speaker 5 (14:39):
I mean, this is the issue. I mean I get it,
Like I know that it's maybe not the most normal thing,
you know, to be attracted to your stepsister, but I
just know I can't. I can't ignore my feelings with me,
can she?
Speaker 6 (14:53):
I Mean?
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Look, we are a show that's all about love, right Brooke.
Love is love and you have to.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Support this it But like the shock and if you
were going to pull the band aid off. It would
have helped, like two years ago. Now you have created
all of this for two years.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
They're going to be upset that he didn't say anything before.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
And they're both they're both in the same room while
people are asking him about girlfriends.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Okay, be honest, you guys.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Ever sneak away though, And I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
I imagine it's like, oh, I know all those family
vacations against are.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Oh, so now you guys get it right, Like why
I have not totally?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Yeah, Oh, I can kind of understand why that would
be difficult to tell mom and dad text I would
have deleted it.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
Yeah, I never thought I would say this, But maybe
it's better not to tell mom and dad. And I'm
going to cross my fingers and hope you break up
by that.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
I feel like she'll tell them for you.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
It's not going to be horrible. Then if you don't
tell him, then we can maybe even do closure call
coming up or a second date update in the future
like parents, No with Jake and his stepsister. Oh, it's
the content that keeps on giving. That's what the segment
is all about.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Why don't we just do a phone tap on the
parents and see how they react and at.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
The end we can go. It's a new recurring segment
that we need.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
I like it. Yeah, Brooke and Jeffrey in the Morning
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Brooke Fox
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