July 8, 2025 • 19 mins
After something went awry at a kid’s birthday party ONE YEAR AGO something is STILL causing a rift… and we’re being asked to settle it with a brand new Awkward Tuesday Phone Call!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
He today is proof that we're not always about just
relationship dramama.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Yeah, brother sister drama. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Welcome to
the podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Of course, it's Brook and Jeffrey in the morning, and
you have found the Second Date podcast. But today it's Tuesday,
which means you we've got your awkward Tuesday phone call
coming up.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
It's brand new. We think you're gonna love it, but
we love to start. How's your voice, by the way,
today better?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Right?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Oh you sound sound pretty good. I say you sound
ninety five percent Alexis. Yeah, yeah, that's what I thought too, like.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
A seventy year old man to like a twenty year
old maybe.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeah, that's better. What do you got for comment?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I saw one from Isaac who said, why do I
feel like Jeffrey wears a suit?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Whenever he's talking? He does give that air, doesn't he?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I can see that, which is funny because he talks
like he wears a suit, but he dresses the opposite.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I think he has four shirts. I think that's all
he owns, and one hat. There's always a hole in
them too.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, very fancy that.
Speaker 6 (01:00):
Man.
Speaker 7 (01:01):
You're just lucky, you know that addresses that's true.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
All right, we're gonna get your brand new awkward Tuesday
phone call started right now.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
It's Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning, and we've dealt
with family drama on this show before. Has just last month,
I volunteered to give Alexis's younger brother the Birds and
the Bees talk.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I love that. And now high school now.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
We already know, well now he just calls me, Dad,
what you really got close after that conversation. We understand
awkward family dynamics clearly, and we're dealing with one today
after something didn't go so right at a children's birthday
party a year ago. It was so bad that it's
(01:44):
still causing a rift in the family that we're being
asked to settle today. I'm probably gonna have to get
ready to explain how certain things work. But you'll find
out what happened in your brand new awkward Tuesday phone
call right after this.
Speaker 7 (02:02):
It's awkward, It's Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
It's awkward Tuesday phone call. A few months ago, you
all might remember we did an awkward call for one
of our listeners who needed help, asking the best man
at her wedding to politely back out because they used
to date and her fiance wasn't aware of that past relationship.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
Yes, she.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Want to tell us, right.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
So we called the guy. Eventually they worked it out.
But now fast forward to today and guess who's emailed
the show asking for our assistance.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Does that mean we get an update on the wedding?
Did the wedding happen?
Speaker 4 (02:40):
No, we're not going back. He has a new problem
that he wants to deal with. The best Man Brad
has called in for help with a different situation in
an awkward call, Brad, welcome back to the show Man.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Hey, thank you. Yeah, you guys kind of surprised me
on that last ones. I figured, you know what, it
could probably be helpful on this situation.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah, you were kind of the victim of the last
Awkward Tuesday, and now you're more the protagonist here.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
I hope. So I don't really know what's going on.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
He's not sure what protagonist means, Brooks.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
So you got it.
Speaker 7 (03:13):
Yeah, you're the person who's calling needing help.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yeah, character energy, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
You're the main character of this Awkward Tuesday phone call.
So what's the situation that you're dealing.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
With So this is a little more tame than last time,
for sure. But I'm just having an issue with my
sister Jenna right now. Quick backstory, I guess I'm divorced.
I have two kids, two boys, four and six. I
love them. They're awesome, hang out with them all the time.
They're my buddies.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Awesome.
Speaker 7 (03:42):
Yeah you have to say that though pretty much, but.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Just in case the court's listening, I love them still,
I'm kidding.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
It also has to do with the situation. So, like
I found out my sister's having a birthday party for
her daughter at her house. Uh huh, Well, like my
mom's the one that told me about it. She's just
like mentioning it, like obviously, like I was going, but
I didn't get any invitation about it. I didn't hear
anything about it.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Are you sure, because my husband's always like, I didn't
see that birthday invite.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Yes, that's what I'm saying. So I figured she's my sister.
She sucks at communicating anyway, So like I texted her,
I didn't like outle like say it, but I was
hinting at it. I was dropping some huge hints and
she didn't say anything, which made it even more obvious.
Speaker 7 (04:29):
What you feel like you weren't invited to the party
on purpose.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
I feel like I know the reason, and that's what's
so upsetting about it.
Speaker 7 (04:38):
Really, there's a reason.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
So like she's probably upset because last time there was
like any like birthday event in our family, Like I
brought my kids and they were rowdy, I want to say,
a couple of boys. I mean, yeah, they were loud.
Yes they were knocking everything over. Yes, they have to
trash their trus on everything and whatever they is they do.
(05:03):
Like I don't get it, he asks, Like the four
year old he's throwing tantrums because he didn't win a game.
He's like screaming how he wants to be the rotten egg,
Like it doesn't even make sense. And then my four
year old is just pouring candy on the floor and
then eating it off the floor.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Your kid is doing that.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Both of my kids are doing both of those.
Speaker 7 (05:23):
Off the floor.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
So you're saying you think your sister isn't inviting your
kids to the birthday party because they're so misbehaved.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Yeah, And I mean, like maybe I'm making it sound
like it's not like they were like lighting things on
fire or anything like God forbid. But no, obviously I
know they're misbehaving and like I know, I've had to
talk to them and stuff about that. It's hard to
crall to boys when they're running around by yourself, believe me.
But their kids and like their family, like, really, you're
gonna exclude them because like they were bad ones?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
What do you think she'd tell you that, like sibling
to sibling.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
But I think that's why, Like I don't have kids,
but when you see bad kids, you tend to blame that.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Yeah, but if it's your family, you just have to
accept no matter what the behavior is. So wait, because
this is their cousin's birthday, right that they're not getting
invited to.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
Saying I want them to see their cousin, like I
want them to be able to hang out. Like I
just need help convincing changing your mind.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
I think, okay, okay, you're not going to do the
thing where you just show up uninvited and crash the
party like a lot of family.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
Members would do.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Yeah, that's such a little brother.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
I want to they have a pool, like it'd be
really okay.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
You want to do the polite thing, And actually it
sounds like call your sister and ask permission to bring
your children.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Yes, I would like to squash the beef as we
would say.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Okay, that's I feel like that's a mature move, like
actually talk about it in a family instead of just
everybody talking behind each other's backs. Your mom, you got
like four other group chats, don't include.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Each other in it.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Okay, but you feel like you're going to get pushed
back from your sister, and that's what you're looking for
advice on.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Uh yeah, my sister can be terrifying a little bit. Yeah,
so wait, so what's the like mission, I get to
put it all out there so it's not awkward, and
then like I guess, like I would assume then it
would just be business as usual.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
It's a little touchy too, because you don't want to
start more drama from a phone call like this.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
There's already enough, it sounds like in your family.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Yeah, I don't want to be like I'm sorry and
then just assume I'm invited either.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Oh, you you actually want to apologize for your kids
behavior last time?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
I mean, if you guys think I need to do that,
like that's what I'll do, But like I'll take your advice,
but I've tried that route and she's pretty stuck in
her way.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Okay, I mean it sounds delightful.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
It is her party, her house, her rules, so her pool.
We're looking for her blessing to get them over and
if she says no, then we'll unleash your children on
her house to finish the job that they started.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
It's time of fire.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Yes, yeah, don't get out when you got to go
to the bathroom in that pool.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
What their kids are going to pee in the pool?
Speaker 7 (08:04):
Didn't get that, but I got it.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Anyway, We'll come with some advice for you and let
you make your awkward Tuesday phone call to your sister
to get your children invited to her daughter's party.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
And your awkward Tuesday phone call coming up right after this.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Thank you? All right?
Speaker 7 (08:17):
Man, hold on, it's awkward.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
It's it's awkward Tuesday phone call. Scientists once claimed it
was impossible, MythBusters refuse to even test it. Wow, the
question could candy infuse children spend three hours at a
birthday party and be somewhat well behaved?
Speaker 7 (08:43):
It's scary, you know.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Answer we do because it happened a year ago for
Brad when he brought his children, four and six years old,
over to their cousin's.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
Birthday party and the two.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Of them ended up causing chaos and mischief. Yeah, it's
all the stuff little boys tend to do, so little kids, right,
And I need to ask you, Brad, didn't your children.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
Break anything while they were over at their aunt's house.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
I mean, there was a broken lamp when we were leaving,
but I didn't see what happened to it.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
You're just like the boys watch responsibilities.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
And She's like, yeah, own and his children did leave
with a light bulb that day, but you can't connect
the two of them.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
Okay, Yeah, that's fine.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Now, maybe Brook has some advice for you before we
call your sister and try to convince her to let
your children attend this year's party, hopefully, Brook, What do
you think I mean?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I think when it comes to an older sister, what
you need to do is butter her up.
Speaker 7 (09:43):
And this is getting really greass.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I'm saying, make or feel good, make or feel wanted needed,
that's what all. Yeah, you need to take the angle
of You need parenting advice, okay from her the expert.
Speaker 7 (09:59):
Yeah right, you like to know that they're smarter too.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
Have you been doing things to help correct your boys behavior?
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Yeah, I mean I've been trying to do like some
stuff here and there, like really trying to like get
them to hone in and stuff.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
But okay, that might be worth bringing up to your
sister if we can get her on the phone. But Jose,
what do you think? Do you have advice?
Speaker 7 (10:16):
Well, kind of the same.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Anytime I want something from my sister, I buy her present. Oh,
during the call, just tell her you have a bunch
of chocolate covered strawberries for anytime she wants, and immediately
she'll be like, oh yeah.
Speaker 7 (10:31):
Come on over chocolate covered strawberries to your sisters. Yeah,
every Mother's Day.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
I sent her her birthday.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
It's kind of a sexy gift too. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Chocolate.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Okay, so maybe, yes, bribe your sister with some sexy chocolates.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
What do you think?
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Yeah, I don't think I want to leave the sexy
chocolates out of it.
Speaker 7 (10:51):
Okay, normal, normal chocolates and normal for us.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
I'm gonna take a combo platter from each of y'all's like,
she's smarter than me. She loves to rub that in
my face. So let's just put that angle.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Okay, we're getting an invite at the end of this.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
The boy Brook wants to see if her kids can
be invited too, so we'll work on that afterwards.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
It sounds like though his sister has some good goodie bags.
I'm not gonna lie. She sounds very type A.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Okay, well, we'll get your invite after we do this
call with Brad.
Speaker 7 (11:18):
So I'm gonna dial your sister's number.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
You can use whatever advice you want to, but we'll
back away and let.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
You do this.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
You ready, ma'am?
Speaker 5 (11:24):
All right, fingers crossed.
Speaker 7 (11:25):
Okay, good luck, Here we go.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Hello, Hey, Jen, what's up?
Speaker 6 (11:41):
Hi?
Speaker 7 (11:42):
Brad?
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Yeah, it's Brad.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
What memory are you calling from?
Speaker 8 (11:46):
Did you get a new phone or something?
Speaker 5 (11:49):
No, no, that's not important right now. Look, I you
have a stack real quick. I threek if I could
just talk to you real quick?
Speaker 6 (11:58):
Yeah, sure, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Okay, cool, Yeah, she only take a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Like, so.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
I heard from mom you're having a party. Oh she
told you? Yeah she did, because like I was just
talking to her about that and then like it kind
of just came up and she was asking what time
I was going to get there?
Speaker 6 (12:26):
Well, yeah, yeah, we are having a party.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Okay, So like long pause again, I uh, did my
invite get like lost or something?
Speaker 6 (12:40):
Well no, no, non, exactly. Come on, Brad, you remember
what happened last year when when the kids were over.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Dude, I know, but like listen, that's not gonna happen again.
Speaker 8 (12:51):
Come on, Oh can I trust that.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
The kids are older now? They're a whole year older.
They're four and six. Now. A lies changed in the
past year. Come on, Brad, dude, I know it wasn't good.
I'm telling you that.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
They literally attacked our room bow with the tennis rackets, but.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Like that was actually funny. Come on, how was that funny?
Because they hit it a bunch and it was making
weird noises and stuff. I thought you were laughing. What
are you talking about, Brad?
Speaker 8 (13:23):
No, that's not okay, Like, look, that's not the point.
The point is we are family, Like we should have
talked about this a long time ago and not let
it fester like this. I want our kids to hang
out like they're.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Literally cousins, Like what are we doing here being petty?
Speaker 6 (13:37):
I mean I want that too, but it's just your voice,
Brad of offense. But they're like walking little nightmares.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
I want to say you're wrong, but they are. And like, Okay,
I've done some stuff about it, and they've made a
lot of progress. Like I was looking on YouTube a lot,
and I found these awesome, like dog training videos that
they actually love. So I've just been using that. It works.
Speaker 8 (14:03):
Brad. You cannot train your kids like dogs.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
They act like dogs sometimes, So why wouldn't I just
watch these videos? Honestly, I can't imagine them licking themselves
in a corner.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
You're talking about your own children.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
Doos, Brad?
Speaker 8 (14:21):
What is going on?
Speaker 5 (14:21):
Who are these people?
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Respond to?
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Jenna?
Speaker 4 (14:32):
I need to actually tell You're on the radio right now.
We're a show called Brook and Jeffrey.
Speaker 7 (14:36):
In the Morning.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Oh yeah, Brad, Brad, he reached out to us for
this segment we do.
Speaker 7 (14:44):
It's called an awkward Tuesday phone call.
Speaker 8 (14:47):
Okay, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
He just didn't know how to handle this situation going
on where his kids weren't invited to your daughter's birthday party.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Well, if you saw what his kids did last year,
you would understand. People literally left the party early because
his kids were causing such a wreckage because of them.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Wait a minute, yes, listen and you are the aunt
in this situation.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
I think it takes a village.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
You have to take some responsibility, right, it's also your
family exact in that way.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
I only have so much control over these kids. I'm
trying to run a party. I can't be babysitting.
Speaker 8 (15:22):
That's his job.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
But not asking you like co parent or anything. But like,
if you have any like helpful hyinnts, that would be
super helpful.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I tell them the lead with that part.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
But well, let's start by not using YouTube dog training videos.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Yeah, good club, there might.
Speaker 7 (15:40):
Be some merit in that you tell your kid to
sit and stay.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
No, Jeff, No, no, no.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Okay, okay, fine, But Jenna, can you help out your
brother here because he's kind of heartbroken over the fact
that your guys' kids aren't going to be able to
hang out for a birthday party.
Speaker 7 (15:57):
It's important. They're family, and yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
They're yours nephews. Don't you want to help guide them
in the right way?
Speaker 6 (16:03):
I mean, I would love to, but I also don't
want to lose precious, valuable furniture like the lamp Auntie
gave us before she passed.
Speaker 8 (16:11):
Oh no, you can't prove that.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
No one of us heard it break, So how did
it break? I didn't do it. He didn't do it.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
The apple doesn't fall far from.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Bra.
Speaker 8 (16:24):
Yeah, I see where they get it from.
Speaker 7 (16:25):
Really, Bra, you talk to your sister.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
You really want to have them be those the strange
cousins that don't even know each other like these.
Speaker 8 (16:33):
No, I want to be the cousins that we meet
at the park where.
Speaker 7 (16:36):
They can't break.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Not your house, right.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Maybe maybe maybe like get a bounce house or something
and they can just kind of like run alock in
that bounce house.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
Curiously, That's all I need. Then the tip over that
bounce house with everybody else's kids.
Speaker 8 (16:51):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Okay, yeah, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Is there any time before the party where the four
of you could get together.
Speaker 7 (16:58):
And like party.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
I'll even bring talk with covered strawberries if you want,
like anything.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
Oh you know how much I love topic cover strawberry.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
Oh my god.
Speaker 8 (17:10):
Okay, looks Brad.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
You can bring the kids, but they cannot go in
the house, and that's your responsibility to make sure they.
Speaker 8 (17:17):
Do not go in my house.
Speaker 7 (17:20):
No, they can sing happy Birthday through the windows.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
She has a pool, all right, Well that's.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
That's a nice compromise that she's offering for you, Brad,
you're at least allowed on the premises bathroom outside.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
I mean, we'll take it for now, and we'll just
figure out a way to get inside or something.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
I don't kids know. They're going to do the opposite.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Yeah, you mean those dog training videos don't work, all right.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
The important thing is we're reaching a compromise here, and
it sounds like, Brad, your kids are going to be
allowed to attend their cousin's party.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
Perfect. And that was before I bought them a leash.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
Yeah, hey, bring the leashes.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
They might need to tie them up.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
I was gonna say, Jenna, you better be careful. It
sounds like these kids are gonna try to mark their territory.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
I'm already knowing freaking Jeffrey in the morning.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Getting a lot of text into seventy eighty five nine
two saying that compromises even worse than where we started.
Having your kids stay outside the party and peek in
through the windows.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Come on, most of the party will be outside. They
have a pool.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
I still worry about the bathroom now, especially with the pool,
where are the kids gonna go?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I worry about who's giving these kids boundaries because I
don't think it's a dad, and it's definitely not the
ant y.
Speaker 7 (18:35):
Where's the mother. I'm invited to this clearly, but I
have a feeling.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Once they do get over to the ant's house, they're
gonna be okay. She'll either soften up and let them inside,
or she'll just be terrified that they're lifting up their
leg and peeing on the bushes from all those doctrin
and videos.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
They learned it from their dad.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
No, honestly, if they have a bad day and they're
not good kids, are they ever gonna be invited back
to their ant's house. There's a lot of pressure on.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
We do need updates.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Yeah, yeah, Well, we'll stay in touch and we do
wish Brad the best of luck raising his kids. Good
luck for sure at those parties. You can find all
of our Awkward Tuesday videos by the way up on
our YouTube page if you want to go check them out.
Speaker 7 (19:13):
They're at Brook and Jeffery
He today is proof that we're not always about just
relationship dramama.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Yeah, brother sister drama. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Welcome to
the podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Of course, it's Brook and Jeffrey in the morning, and
you have found the Second Date podcast. But today it's Tuesday,
which means you we've got your awkward Tuesday phone call
coming up.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
It's brand new. We think you're gonna love it, but
we love to start. How's your voice, by the way,
today better?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Right?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Oh you sound sound pretty good. I say you sound
ninety five percent Alexis. Yeah, yeah, that's what I thought too, like.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
A seventy year old man to like a twenty year
old maybe.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeah, that's better. What do you got for comment?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
I saw one from Isaac who said, why do I
feel like Jeffrey wears a suit?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Whenever he's talking? He does give that air, doesn't he?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I can see that, which is funny because he talks
like he wears a suit, but he dresses the opposite.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I think he has four shirts. I think that's all
he owns, and one hat. There's always a hole in
them too.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, very fancy that.
Speaker 6 (01:00):
Man.
Speaker 7 (01:01):
You're just lucky, you know that addresses that's true.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
All right, we're gonna get your brand new awkward Tuesday
phone call started right now.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
It's Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning, and we've dealt
with family drama on this show before. Has just last month,
I volunteered to give Alexis's younger brother the Birds and
the Bees talk.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I love that. And now high school now.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
We already know, well now he just calls me, Dad,
what you really got close after that conversation. We understand
awkward family dynamics clearly, and we're dealing with one today
after something didn't go so right at a children's birthday
party a year ago. It was so bad that it's
(01:44):
still causing a rift in the family that we're being
asked to settle today. I'm probably gonna have to get
ready to explain how certain things work. But you'll find
out what happened in your brand new awkward Tuesday phone
call right after this.
Speaker 7 (02:02):
It's awkward, It's Tuesday.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
It's awkward Tuesday phone call. A few months ago, you
all might remember we did an awkward call for one
of our listeners who needed help, asking the best man
at her wedding to politely back out because they used
to date and her fiance wasn't aware of that past relationship.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
Yes, she.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Want to tell us, right.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
So we called the guy. Eventually they worked it out.
But now fast forward to today and guess who's emailed
the show asking for our assistance.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Does that mean we get an update on the wedding?
Did the wedding happen?
Speaker 4 (02:40):
No, we're not going back. He has a new problem
that he wants to deal with. The best Man Brad
has called in for help with a different situation in
an awkward call, Brad, welcome back to the show Man.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
Hey, thank you. Yeah, you guys kind of surprised me
on that last ones. I figured, you know what, it
could probably be helpful on this situation.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah, you were kind of the victim of the last
Awkward Tuesday, and now you're more the protagonist here.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
I hope. So I don't really know what's going on.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
He's not sure what protagonist means, Brooks.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
So you got it.
Speaker 7 (03:13):
Yeah, you're the person who's calling needing help.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yeah, character energy, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
You're the main character of this Awkward Tuesday phone call.
So what's the situation that you're dealing.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
With So this is a little more tame than last time,
for sure. But I'm just having an issue with my
sister Jenna right now. Quick backstory, I guess I'm divorced.
I have two kids, two boys, four and six. I
love them. They're awesome, hang out with them all the time.
They're my buddies.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Awesome.
Speaker 7 (03:42):
Yeah you have to say that though pretty much, but.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Just in case the court's listening, I love them still,
I'm kidding.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
It also has to do with the situation. So, like
I found out my sister's having a birthday party for
her daughter at her house. Uh huh, Well, like my
mom's the one that told me about it. She's just
like mentioning it, like obviously, like I was going, but
I didn't get any invitation about it. I didn't hear
anything about it.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Are you sure, because my husband's always like, I didn't
see that birthday invite.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Yes, that's what I'm saying. So I figured she's my sister.
She sucks at communicating anyway, So like I texted her,
I didn't like outle like say it, but I was
hinting at it. I was dropping some huge hints and
she didn't say anything, which made it even more obvious.
Speaker 7 (04:29):
What you feel like you weren't invited to the party
on purpose.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
I feel like I know the reason, and that's what's
so upsetting about it.
Speaker 7 (04:38):
Really, there's a reason.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
So like she's probably upset because last time there was
like any like birthday event in our family, Like I
brought my kids and they were rowdy, I want to say,
a couple of boys. I mean, yeah, they were loud.
Yes they were knocking everything over. Yes, they have to
trash their trus on everything and whatever they is they do.
(05:03):
Like I don't get it, he asks, Like the four
year old he's throwing tantrums because he didn't win a game.
He's like screaming how he wants to be the rotten egg,
Like it doesn't even make sense. And then my four
year old is just pouring candy on the floor and
then eating it off the floor.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Your kid is doing that.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Both of my kids are doing both of those.
Speaker 7 (05:23):
Off the floor.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
So you're saying you think your sister isn't inviting your
kids to the birthday party because they're so misbehaved.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Yeah, And I mean, like maybe I'm making it sound
like it's not like they were like lighting things on
fire or anything like God forbid. But no, obviously I
know they're misbehaving and like I know, I've had to
talk to them and stuff about that. It's hard to
crall to boys when they're running around by yourself, believe me.
But their kids and like their family, like, really, you're
gonna exclude them because like they were bad ones?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
What do you think she'd tell you that, like sibling
to sibling.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
But I think that's why, Like I don't have kids,
but when you see bad kids, you tend to blame that.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Yeah, but if it's your family, you just have to
accept no matter what the behavior is. So wait, because
this is their cousin's birthday, right that they're not getting
invited to.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
Saying I want them to see their cousin, like I
want them to be able to hang out. Like I
just need help convincing changing your mind.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
I think, okay, okay, you're not going to do the
thing where you just show up uninvited and crash the
party like a lot of family.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
Members would do.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Yeah, that's such a little brother.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
I want to they have a pool, like it'd be
really okay.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
You want to do the polite thing, And actually it
sounds like call your sister and ask permission to bring
your children.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Yes, I would like to squash the beef as we
would say.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Okay, that's I feel like that's a mature move, like
actually talk about it in a family instead of just
everybody talking behind each other's backs. Your mom, you got
like four other group chats, don't include.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Each other in it.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Okay, but you feel like you're going to get pushed
back from your sister, and that's what you're looking for
advice on.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Uh yeah, my sister can be terrifying a little bit. Yeah,
so wait, so what's the like mission, I get to
put it all out there so it's not awkward, and
then like I guess, like I would assume then it
would just be business as usual.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
It's a little touchy too, because you don't want to
start more drama from a phone call like this.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
There's already enough, it sounds like in your family.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Yeah, I don't want to be like I'm sorry and
then just assume I'm invited either.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Oh, you you actually want to apologize for your kids
behavior last time?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
I mean, if you guys think I need to do that,
like that's what I'll do, But like I'll take your advice,
but I've tried that route and she's pretty stuck in
her way.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Okay, I mean it sounds delightful.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
It is her party, her house, her rules, so her pool.
We're looking for her blessing to get them over and
if she says no, then we'll unleash your children on
her house to finish the job that they started.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
It's time of fire.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Yes, yeah, don't get out when you got to go
to the bathroom in that pool.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
What their kids are going to pee in the pool?
Speaker 7 (08:04):
Didn't get that, but I got it.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Anyway, We'll come with some advice for you and let
you make your awkward Tuesday phone call to your sister
to get your children invited to her daughter's party.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
And your awkward Tuesday phone call coming up right after this.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Thank you? All right?
Speaker 7 (08:17):
Man, hold on, it's awkward.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
It's it's awkward Tuesday phone call. Scientists once claimed it
was impossible, MythBusters refuse to even test it. Wow, the
question could candy infuse children spend three hours at a
birthday party and be somewhat well behaved?
Speaker 7 (08:43):
It's scary, you know.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Answer we do because it happened a year ago for
Brad when he brought his children, four and six years old,
over to their cousin's.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
Birthday party and the two.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Of them ended up causing chaos and mischief. Yeah, it's
all the stuff little boys tend to do, so little kids, right,
And I need to ask you, Brad, didn't your children.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
Break anything while they were over at their aunt's house.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
I mean, there was a broken lamp when we were leaving,
but I didn't see what happened to it.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
You're just like the boys watch responsibilities.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
And She's like, yeah, own and his children did leave
with a light bulb that day, but you can't connect
the two of them.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
Okay, Yeah, that's fine.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Now, maybe Brook has some advice for you before we
call your sister and try to convince her to let
your children attend this year's party, hopefully, Brook, What do
you think I mean?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I think when it comes to an older sister, what
you need to do is butter her up.
Speaker 7 (09:43):
And this is getting really greass.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I'm saying, make or feel good, make or feel wanted needed,
that's what all. Yeah, you need to take the angle
of You need parenting advice, okay from her the expert.
Speaker 7 (09:59):
Yeah right, you like to know that they're smarter too.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
Have you been doing things to help correct your boys behavior?
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Yeah, I mean I've been trying to do like some
stuff here and there, like really trying to like get
them to hone in and stuff.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
But okay, that might be worth bringing up to your
sister if we can get her on the phone. But Jose,
what do you think? Do you have advice?
Speaker 7 (10:16):
Well, kind of the same.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Anytime I want something from my sister, I buy her present. Oh,
during the call, just tell her you have a bunch
of chocolate covered strawberries for anytime she wants, and immediately
she'll be like, oh yeah.
Speaker 7 (10:31):
Come on over chocolate covered strawberries to your sisters. Yeah,
every Mother's Day.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
I sent her her birthday.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
It's kind of a sexy gift too. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Chocolate.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Okay, so maybe, yes, bribe your sister with some sexy chocolates.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
What do you think?
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Yeah, I don't think I want to leave the sexy
chocolates out of it.
Speaker 7 (10:51):
Okay, normal, normal chocolates and normal for us.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
I'm gonna take a combo platter from each of y'all's like,
she's smarter than me. She loves to rub that in
my face. So let's just put that angle.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Okay, we're getting an invite at the end of this.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
The boy Brook wants to see if her kids can
be invited too, so we'll work on that afterwards.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
It sounds like though his sister has some good goodie bags.
I'm not gonna lie. She sounds very type A.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Okay, well, we'll get your invite after we do this
call with Brad.
Speaker 7 (11:18):
So I'm gonna dial your sister's number.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
You can use whatever advice you want to, but we'll
back away and let.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
You do this.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
You ready, ma'am?
Speaker 5 (11:24):
All right, fingers crossed.
Speaker 7 (11:25):
Okay, good luck, Here we go.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Hello, Hey, Jen, what's up?
Speaker 6 (11:41):
Hi?
Speaker 7 (11:42):
Brad?
Speaker 5 (11:43):
Yeah, it's Brad.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
What memory are you calling from?
Speaker 8 (11:46):
Did you get a new phone or something?
Speaker 5 (11:49):
No, no, that's not important right now. Look, I you
have a stack real quick. I threek if I could
just talk to you real quick?
Speaker 6 (11:58):
Yeah, sure, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Okay, cool, Yeah, she only take a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Like, so.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
I heard from mom you're having a party. Oh she
told you? Yeah she did, because like I was just
talking to her about that and then like it kind
of just came up and she was asking what time
I was going to get there?
Speaker 6 (12:26):
Well, yeah, yeah, we are having a party.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Okay, So like long pause again, I uh, did my
invite get like lost or something?
Speaker 6 (12:40):
Well no, no, non, exactly. Come on, Brad, you remember
what happened last year when when the kids were over.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Dude, I know, but like listen, that's not gonna happen again.
Speaker 8 (12:51):
Come on, Oh can I trust that.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
The kids are older now? They're a whole year older.
They're four and six. Now. A lies changed in the
past year. Come on, Brad, dude, I know it wasn't good.
I'm telling you that.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
They literally attacked our room bow with the tennis rackets, but.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Like that was actually funny. Come on, how was that funny?
Because they hit it a bunch and it was making
weird noises and stuff. I thought you were laughing. What
are you talking about, Brad?
Speaker 8 (13:23):
No, that's not okay, Like, look, that's not the point.
The point is we are family, Like we should have
talked about this a long time ago and not let
it fester like this. I want our kids to hang
out like they're.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Literally cousins, Like what are we doing here being petty?
Speaker 6 (13:37):
I mean I want that too, but it's just your voice,
Brad of offense. But they're like walking little nightmares.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
I want to say you're wrong, but they are. And like, Okay,
I've done some stuff about it, and they've made a
lot of progress. Like I was looking on YouTube a lot,
and I found these awesome, like dog training videos that
they actually love. So I've just been using that. It works.
Speaker 8 (14:03):
Brad. You cannot train your kids like dogs.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
They act like dogs sometimes, So why wouldn't I just
watch these videos? Honestly, I can't imagine them licking themselves
in a corner.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
You're talking about your own children.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
Doos, Brad?
Speaker 8 (14:21):
What is going on?
Speaker 5 (14:21):
Who are these people?
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Respond to?
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Jenna?
Speaker 4 (14:32):
I need to actually tell You're on the radio right now.
We're a show called Brook and Jeffrey.
Speaker 7 (14:36):
In the Morning.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Oh yeah, Brad, Brad, he reached out to us for
this segment we do.
Speaker 7 (14:44):
It's called an awkward Tuesday phone call.
Speaker 8 (14:47):
Okay, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
He just didn't know how to handle this situation going
on where his kids weren't invited to your daughter's birthday party.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Well, if you saw what his kids did last year,
you would understand. People literally left the party early because
his kids were causing such a wreckage because of them.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Wait a minute, yes, listen and you are the aunt
in this situation.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
I think it takes a village.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
You have to take some responsibility, right, it's also your
family exact in that way.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
I only have so much control over these kids. I'm
trying to run a party. I can't be babysitting.
Speaker 8 (15:22):
That's his job.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
But not asking you like co parent or anything. But like,
if you have any like helpful hyinnts, that would be
super helpful.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I tell them the lead with that part.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
But well, let's start by not using YouTube dog training videos.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Yeah, good club, there might.
Speaker 7 (15:40):
Be some merit in that you tell your kid to
sit and stay.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
No, Jeff, No, no, no.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Okay, okay, fine, But Jenna, can you help out your
brother here because he's kind of heartbroken over the fact
that your guys' kids aren't going to be able to
hang out for a birthday party.
Speaker 7 (15:57):
It's important. They're family, and yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
They're yours nephews. Don't you want to help guide them
in the right way?
Speaker 6 (16:03):
I mean, I would love to, but I also don't
want to lose precious, valuable furniture like the lamp Auntie
gave us before she passed.
Speaker 8 (16:11):
Oh no, you can't prove that.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
No one of us heard it break, So how did
it break? I didn't do it. He didn't do it.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
The apple doesn't fall far from.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Bra.
Speaker 8 (16:24):
Yeah, I see where they get it from.
Speaker 7 (16:25):
Really, Bra, you talk to your sister.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
You really want to have them be those the strange
cousins that don't even know each other like these.
Speaker 8 (16:33):
No, I want to be the cousins that we meet
at the park where.
Speaker 7 (16:36):
They can't break.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Not your house, right.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Maybe maybe maybe like get a bounce house or something
and they can just kind of like run alock in
that bounce house.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
Curiously, That's all I need. Then the tip over that
bounce house with everybody else's kids.
Speaker 8 (16:51):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Okay, yeah, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Is there any time before the party where the four
of you could get together.
Speaker 7 (16:58):
And like party.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
I'll even bring talk with covered strawberries if you want,
like anything.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
Oh you know how much I love topic cover strawberry.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
Oh my god.
Speaker 8 (17:10):
Okay, looks Brad.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
You can bring the kids, but they cannot go in
the house, and that's your responsibility to make sure they.
Speaker 8 (17:17):
Do not go in my house.
Speaker 7 (17:20):
No, they can sing happy Birthday through the windows.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
She has a pool, all right, Well that's.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
That's a nice compromise that she's offering for you, Brad,
you're at least allowed on the premises bathroom outside.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
I mean, we'll take it for now, and we'll just
figure out a way to get inside or something.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
I don't kids know. They're going to do the opposite.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Yeah, you mean those dog training videos don't work, all right.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
The important thing is we're reaching a compromise here, and
it sounds like, Brad, your kids are going to be
allowed to attend their cousin's party.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
Perfect. And that was before I bought them a leash.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
Yeah, hey, bring the leashes.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
They might need to tie them up.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
I was gonna say, Jenna, you better be careful. It
sounds like these kids are gonna try to mark their territory.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
I'm already knowing freaking Jeffrey in the morning.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Getting a lot of text into seventy eighty five nine
two saying that compromises even worse than where we started.
Having your kids stay outside the party and peek in
through the windows.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Come on, most of the party will be outside. They
have a pool.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
I still worry about the bathroom now, especially with the pool,
where are the kids gonna go?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I worry about who's giving these kids boundaries because I
don't think it's a dad, and it's definitely not the
ant y.
Speaker 7 (18:35):
Where's the mother. I'm invited to this clearly, but I
have a feeling.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Once they do get over to the ant's house, they're
gonna be okay. She'll either soften up and let them inside,
or she'll just be terrified that they're lifting up their
leg and peeing on the bushes from all those doctrin
and videos.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
They learned it from their dad.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
No, honestly, if they have a bad day and they're
not good kids, are they ever gonna be invited back
to their ant's house. There's a lot of pressure on.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
We do need updates.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Yeah, yeah, Well, we'll stay in touch and we do
wish Brad the best of luck raising his kids. Good
luck for sure at those parties. You can find all
of our Awkward Tuesday videos by the way up on
our YouTube page if you want to go check them out.
Speaker 7 (19:13):
They're at Brook and Jeffery
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