Waiting by the Phone: Mama's Boy!

Teddy is confused why his date Lisa won't call him back after a great first date... Find out why he got ghosted!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
New Harry Styles music. It's American Girls. The Fred Show
is on? Jason, do you want the honors? Can I really?
Do you want the honors? The last keyword? Keyword number
ten of ten? What is it, Jason Tellum? Is a play? Play?
Play yeah, play? That's the last show. That's it there,
It is all right, So marinate on that for a second,

(00:22):
make sure you have them all, collect your thoughts, write
them all down and scramble and in about ten minutes,
I'm and a half. You call me calling number twenty
five to win the trip to Sydney to see Harry
Styles on the Fred Show. Ever been left waiting by
the phone? It's the Fred Show. Hey Teddy, good morning,
welcome to the program. How are you.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
I'm doing all right?

Speaker 1 (00:44):
How are you doing doing? Okay? Man? What's going on
with this woman? Lisa? It's waiting by the phone. We're
trying to figure out if you've been ghosted. It sounds
like maybe you have, but we need the backstory. How
did you meet Lisa? Tell us about any dates you've
been on and then where things are now?

Speaker 2 (00:58):
So we met on Hinge and I asked her out
to dinner and we went out. She was even hotter,
funnier hit in person than she was when we were texting.
We had a great time, I thought, and we were
planning date number two, but then she just sort of disappeared.
Oh I don't know why.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Okay, And you look back on this date. I ask everybody,
but you look back on this date and everything went well.
I mean, you left the date feeling pretty good about
where things stood. Hey, I'm we're going to go out again.
Like I'm going to reach out and she's going to
be interested. The chemistry was there, the conversation was there,
and everything.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yeah, I mean, like I said, she was funny. I
was actually really laughing a lot, and I was having
a great time and she seemed like she.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Was too, okay because the mood's light, you know. So
then what could possibly have gone wrong? I've said that
many times too, and then and then I find out.
But okay, well, Teddy, let's play a song. We'll come
back and we'll call Liza. You'll be on the phone.
We'll ask these questions on your behalf, and you know,
the hope is that we can figure out what's going on.
It's possible that she has something on her end and
we can straighten things out and set you guys up

(02:03):
on another day that we pay for. Sound good, Yeah,
sound good? All right? So the final word was play
play or no you do what you do about That
was a really good execution of the key within James.
All right, So collect all the words, get them all together,
and in a couple of minutes, I'll have you be
calling over twenty five Harry Styles, Sydney, Australia, Part two
of Waiting Metaphone after Justin Bieber Fretz Show. Hey, Teddy, Yeah,

(02:26):
all right, let's call Lisa. You guys met, you went
on a date. You thought the date went great, tales
so oldest time, but you have not heard from Lisa
since the date and you're puzzled. You're disappointed. You want
to know why.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yeah, exactly. I mean I've reached out to her, but
she hasn't responded.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Okay, Well, let's call Lisa and see if we can
get her on the phone and figured this out. Good luck, Teddy. Hi,
this is Lisa. Yeah, Lisa, Hi, good morning. It's Fred.
My name is Fred on from the Fred Show at
the morning radio show. I have to tell you that
we are on the radio right now and I would

(03:04):
need your permission to continue with the call. Can reach
out for just a second. Okay, all right, well thank you?
That's that was Yes, I like it. We're calling on
behalf of a guy named Teddy, and he reached out
to us, said that I guess you guys matched on
an app or something and and recently went on a
date that he felt went really well. But he says

(03:24):
he's reached out to you since the date and you
haven't responded. He's puzzled. Why is why are you not
responding to uh to Teddy?

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (03:34):
Yeah, okay, this is awkward. I mean, Teddy is okay.
I'm I'm just not I'm just not interested. All right,
I'm just ah.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
But there's more to this story, though, there's more to
this story. Well, why are you not interested? Like, here's
the thing. Maybe I don't know if you've ever been ghosted,
maybe you never been ghosted before. But he feels like
he's being ghosted. It's bugging him. He kind of wants
to closure if you're not going to go out with
him again, So can you tell us what happened or
why why you've changed your mind about him? Okay?

Speaker 3 (04:06):
So Teddy basically asks his mom for permission to do
absolutely everything.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Okay, well what does that mean? Like give me an example? Okay?

Speaker 2 (04:17):
All right.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
So when we first matched, he he and I started talking.
It felt cool, and then I remember right when we
started talking, he was just like, oh, I don't know
what I want to eat. And he'd like, you know what,
I need to call my mom and ask her.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
I need to call on that no, And I.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
Was just I was like, all right, in trusting, but okay,
kind of cute, like he.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Wants to call his mom.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
I just was like all right. Then when we were
trying to figure out when and where to meet for
the date, he made another comment and he was like, oh,
I wanted I want to check. I want to check
to see if my mom, you know, if we're committing
before we're committing to anything. And I'm like, okay, I mean,
I'll just give you the benefit of the doubt. You know,

(05:05):
maybe you had plans, like maybe he just kind of
had plans with his mom or something, and you know,
that was that. So I didn't really see anything. And
then my final straw was when we were on the date,
and towards the end of the date, I was like,
we're like finishing up dinner, and I was like, hey,
actually I have an extra ticket to this concert the

(05:25):
following week, and I don't know if you wanted to
come with me. And he's like, oh, yeah, sounds fun.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
You know what, I just need to run.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
By my mom really first. So this dude, he actually
it was a good date, Like you you were going
to overlook that and go out with him again. So
he didn't actually fumble necessarily. But it turns out that
the dude can't even like put his pants on without
asking his mom if that's okay, which is very unattractive.
I mean, it's one thing to have a great relationship
with your mom. I think that's usually a good sign.

(05:52):
But I also, you know, I don't need to ask
my mom like where to take you on a date
and if I can go to a concert next week.
I mean, I'm a broadcast.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
Man, exactly.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
I was. I was like, this is you know.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
What now, Dude like, absolutely, if you need to go
to the bathroom to check with your mom, Like no, no,
this is a lot, this.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
Is a lot. I forgot to mention Lisa that Teddy
is here, and Teddy's been very quiet throughout this, Teddy,
what's the why do we Why are we asking mom,
you know, for permission to go out? Like we're grown ups.
We don't have to do that anymore.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
Okay, So just to be clear, I don't need my
mom's permission, Like I'm not asking for her permission. I
just I like to get her opinion. What do you talk?

Speaker 3 (06:32):
You ask her for anything, all her opinions before you
do anything?

Speaker 1 (06:38):
Do you not?

Speaker 2 (06:39):
So what that's not weird?

Speaker 1 (06:40):
Yeah? No, it is weird. It is weird, like at
some point you have to make decisions for yourself because
you were a grown up. I mean I don't I
can't remember the last time I called mom to ask her,
you know, if I can go to a concert next week.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
So you don't consult your mom on anything.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
I'm not on No, not as it pertains to you know,
life issues and decisions that I need to for myself. No,
Like my schedule is my schedule. You know what I
do with my daisy my call, right, it's you know
you don't at your mound with the calendar invite. Well,
I mean yes, but that doesn't mean that doesn't mean
if she gets a vote, I mean she has a
right to know where I am at all times. But
other than that, you know, a couple facetimes throughout the date.

(07:19):
But other than that, No, that's crazy, Teddy man, you're
grown up.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
I mean, honestly, she I checked in with her before
I even did this. She thought it was a good
idea to find.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
Out your mom told you to come on the radio.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
Yeah, well, in that case, you know, Mama's always around.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
We love Mama, get out of here on radio. I mean,
there is a difference between having a close relationship and
being a full on mama's boy. And I think this
might be beyond that, This might be another level above
and beyond just mama's boy. I mean, because this is like,
this is like you need permission, This is like she
still runs your life.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
And I think, yeah, again, I don't I'm not asking
for permission. And sometimes she says that something's a good idea,
and I'm like, I don't know. I just like to
get her in.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
But why can't on her own anything like it's that's
not an attractive quality? And why are you telling Maybe
this is something you do in you know, in your
private life, but I don't know that I would tell
everybody that because again, I think women want a confident,
decisive guy who has a good relationship with family, but
doesn't need to ask for permission to do basic things.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
I mean, I guess I'm realizing that now. I mean again,
I'm not asking for permission. It's just an opinion. You're
you're asking all the time. This is weird checking in,
it's just checking in.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
It. It's a lot of whatever.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
It is. Yeah, all right, Well, next time you're going
to ask if we should have sex?

Speaker 1 (08:45):
Is that? Like? What would mom say about that? Do
you think you think mom would be in favor?

Speaker 2 (08:49):
I mean my mom, she's very encouraging of using protection.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
So uh, I'm glad that mom says it's okay with protection.
Very strange. All right, look, Lisa, I'll ask the question.
I know the answer. It's rhetorical. Would you like to
go out with Teddy again? And we'll pay for it.
We'll ask mom first and clear it all with her.

(09:16):
This is way too excessive for me.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Absolutely not weird.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
Yeah, not going to work out. Hey, Teddy, Look again,
I'm glad that you have a good relationship with your mom.
That's a nice thing. I might not tell everybody that
I have to ask for her permission to use the bathroom,
and and that I run every decision by her. I
might not share that I might maybe consider not doing that.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
I mean, I hear you. I think I'm just gonna
not I'll just say I need to think.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
About it, right, and then do it anyway, Okay, all right, well,
hey whatever, float your boat. I guess Teddy, right right,
right right, we've really we've really gotten nowhere here with Lisa.
Thanks for your time, Teddy. Good luck to you as well.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah, thank you.