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December 23, 2025 10 mins

It’s a holiday edition of First Date Follow Up on The Jubal Show, and Nicholas is completely blindsided after what he thought was a great first date turns into total radio silence. They met at a wine charity event, shared laughs over dinner, and even ended the night smiling—so why did she disappear?

When Lauren finally gets on the phone, the truth behind the ghosting isn’t as simple as one awkward moment. From nerves and expectations to very different dating styles, the conversation takes a turn no one expects. Was it the spilled pizza, the vibe, or something much deeper that made her walk away?

Listen to hear the full call, the honest explanation Nicholas wasn’t prepared for, and why this First Date Follow Up proves that chemistry means very different things to different people.


Ever been ghosted after what you thought was an amazing date? Do you REALLY want that Second Date? The Jubal Show has your back! On First Date Follow Up, we track down the person who disappeared to get the real reason why. Awkward, hilarious, and sometimes downright shocking—First Date Follow Up delivers the truth, whether you want to hear it or not. Will there be a second date or just secondhand embarrassment? Subscribe to The Jubal Show's First Date Follow Up and find out!
 
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Because it's Christmas time, we're counting down the twelve first
day follow ups of Christmas has voted on by you. Yeah,
we count down all the way to the number one
first day follow up that you voted on. Nicholas is
on the phone today for a first day follow up,
and he's getting ghosted by a woman named Lauren. So
we're gonna call her in a little bit and see
if she'll tell us why she's ghosting him and maybe
get him another day. But first, Nicholas, how long has

(00:28):
it been since you heard from Lauren?

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Hey, guys, probably like five days or so.

Speaker 4 (00:36):
But how often did you, guys communicate leading up to that?

Speaker 3 (00:40):
What do you mean like being like leading up to
being ghosted?

Speaker 4 (00:44):
I mean leading up to the day.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Was it like you matched somewhere and you decided to
go directly on a date or were you talking for
a little.

Speaker 4 (00:50):
While before that?

Speaker 5 (00:52):
So we met at a like a wine charity event.
We were both there for work, and you know, we
bumped into each other and we're looking at some of
the items that were going for like a silent auction
and there were just like some crazy stuff so that
were coming fouctions. So we just you know, went through
made fun of some of the items together and stuff
like that, weird items.

Speaker 6 (01:14):
So that's how you met. That sounds fun though.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
Yeah, Yeah, it was pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:18):
I mean we you know, we exchange numbers and just
decided to go to dinner our first real date together.
So I took it to like a fancy pizza place.
We've got something to eat. We lost, you know, we
talked about our jobs, pets, you know, where we want
to go, like our dream vacations, you know what we're
looking for. On the partner, it was it was really easy.

Speaker 4 (01:40):
Did your wants and stuff line up?

Speaker 5 (01:43):
Yeah, I mean it sounded like we were on the
same page. I mean, she she spent the entire time
last thing. You know, we had a really good date. So,
I mean I was a little bit nervous actually on
the on the dates, so I was a little bit
figity water on myself. When the first pizza came, I
knocked it on the floor. I was really, my god,

(02:06):
I was I was mortified.

Speaker 6 (02:08):
You didn't pick up the pizza and eat it? After
follow flo.

Speaker 5 (02:12):
But you know she she laughed, and you know, she
laughed and it was so it didn't seem.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
Like it was that big of a deal.

Speaker 5 (02:19):
You know, we got another bottle of wine and I
was like, none of it happened, So it seemed like
everything went well.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
A nice way to recover from. That's honestly, you've been there.
I definitely spilled all over myself more than once, so
it's okay.

Speaker 6 (02:33):
How did everything end?

Speaker 5 (02:36):
I think it went It ended well. I mean, you know,
when when she was leaving me, kissed each other in
the cheek and she was such had a great time,
and you know, I put her in the uber and
she had a big smile on her face.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
So I felt like it went really well.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
And did you guys talk out all after the date? No,
that's it not.

Speaker 5 (02:56):
All I've I've called her twice next to her nothing.

Speaker 6 (03:01):
Why do you think she's ghosting you?

Speaker 3 (03:02):
I have no clue.

Speaker 5 (03:04):
Maybe the pizza thing, maybe she thought was like a
nervous person.

Speaker 6 (03:09):
Okay, But other than that, you can't think of anything.

Speaker 5 (03:12):
No, I mean to me, everything went well. The only
thing to think of is like, like I said, like
I was really nervous and I came off a little
bit fidgety and stuff, but I don't think anything else.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
All right, if you're just joining us for today's first
date follow up, Nicholas is on the phone and he's
getting ghosted by a woman named Lauren. We're about to
call her and see if she's tell us why she's
ghosting him, and maybe get him another date. But before
we do that, Nicholas, why don't you remind everybody about your.

Speaker 6 (03:37):
Date with Lauren.

Speaker 5 (03:38):
I went about how we met. We at a wine
charity event. But you know, after that, we went on
our first real date, went to this really fancy pizza place.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
Everything went well.

Speaker 5 (03:46):
I mean I was a little bit nervous. I spilled
the first pizza, but everything ended really well. Put her
on an uber and you know, you gave each other
a kissing my cheek and she had a really big
smile on her face, so I assu him everything went well.

Speaker 6 (04:00):
Smile it sounds like, yeah, it does all right? Well,
are you ready for us to call her?

Speaker 3 (04:06):
Yeah? Please?

Speaker 6 (04:07):
Okay, here we go. Hello, Hi, may I speak to Lauren? Please?
Hello Lauren. My name is Jubel and I host a

(04:27):
rat a show. It's called The Jebel Show.

Speaker 4 (04:28):
Hi, Lauren Whole Shows.

Speaker 5 (04:30):
Here.

Speaker 4 (04:30):
My name is Nina. Hi, I'm Victoria.

Speaker 6 (04:32):
How are you?

Speaker 5 (04:33):
Hi?

Speaker 7 (04:33):
Good? God? How are you guys?

Speaker 6 (04:35):
Good? Do you listen to the show?

Speaker 7 (04:37):
Of course?

Speaker 6 (04:40):
Yeah? Thanks? Well have you ever heard a first day
follow up before?

Speaker 5 (04:43):
Then?

Speaker 7 (04:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (04:45):
Here?

Speaker 6 (04:46):
What if I told you were about to be the
star of one?

Speaker 7 (04:48):
Okay?

Speaker 6 (04:50):
Yeah, we got an email about you from someone that
you're ghosting.

Speaker 7 (04:55):
But I'm ghosting anyone?

Speaker 6 (04:57):
Is there anybody that you went out on a date
with that year not call him back? We're not talking
to you?

Speaker 7 (05:02):
Well, I mean I'm dating. I mean I'm on the
absence stuff like that. So I have gone on a
couple of dates recently.

Speaker 6 (05:08):
Yes, have you gone on a date with the dude
named Nicholas?

Speaker 7 (05:12):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, Well.

Speaker 6 (05:13):
Nicholas emailed us because he says you're ghosting him.

Speaker 7 (05:16):
Well, I'm not poasting him. I mean it was one date.
So it's not like it's not like serious commitment or
anything like that. It was it was literally one date.

Speaker 6 (05:25):
Okay, but you so, but you are not talking to
him on purpose?

Speaker 7 (05:30):
Yeah kind of. But it's not like it's not quite
like that because there just wasn't really anything that would
warrant us for a second date.

Speaker 4 (05:39):
You know, that's not what he thinks.

Speaker 7 (05:42):
Well, I mean he's he's a really sweet guy, don't
get me wrong. I mean we went to an event.
We had a good time, but that's like, that's not
really First of all, that was not a date. That
was something that we both just happened to be at.
So let's gretch that as being a date. He did
go to a pizza place, and yes, that was a date,
but honestly, I mean it was one date. It was fun,

(06:07):
it was fine, but I wasn't like, oh my gosh,
I can't wait to go on another date with Nicholas,
like I have to have them in my lifetype of thing.

Speaker 4 (06:15):
Okay, okay, anything happened, Well no, I mean.

Speaker 7 (06:19):
Like I said, he was really sweet. He definitely was
super nervous, and it was cute. It was definitely cute.
But he and I don't even care. Like he did
spill some stuff, like he spilled his drink, he spilled
the pizza. I was like, Okay, it's like kind of
cute and funny, but it wasn't somebody that was like
knocking it out of the park for me or anything.

(06:39):
Like that, and we had wine, so that's all you know,
that makes it super fun too. But other than that,
I mean, yeah, we had some good conversations, but there
are conversations do you have in a first date with everyone, right, Like, Okay,
where do you want to go on vacation? I want
to go to Ireland?

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (06:54):
Do you have any pets?

Speaker 3 (06:54):
Yes?

Speaker 7 (06:55):
My dog is named Junior.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
Oh.

Speaker 7 (06:58):
I wouldn't say bored, but he wasn't up to my level.
I guess that makes me sound really snotty.

Speaker 4 (07:09):
But if you want to say not on your level,
that's your choice.

Speaker 7 (07:13):
Well no, he's just like he. I don't think that
him and I would have like a fun time together
all the time.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
Okay, just no chemistry.

Speaker 7 (07:22):
Do you guys see what I'm saying? Yes, okay, well
it sounds way better, by the way.

Speaker 6 (07:26):
Thanks for telling us. Appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah, absolutely, And Nicholas is on the phone and has
been listening and wants to talk to you.

Speaker 6 (07:33):
I should show you that.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
Hey, Lauren, that's fine.

Speaker 7 (07:37):
Hi, how are you?

Speaker 5 (07:39):
I'm good? I was just I know, to me, it
just seemed like you had a really good time on
the data. I mean, you were smiling the whole time,
and everything seemed like it was going really well.

Speaker 7 (07:48):
Well yeah, I mean I was smiling firston. I'm a
smiley person anyway. And the other thing is like we're
drinking wine. I had a couple of gummies, So I
was just I was being made you know, I was
just I was living my bed life.

Speaker 4 (08:01):
That always helps a little bit, I would imagine.

Speaker 5 (08:05):
So why did you say that we should do it again? Then?

Speaker 7 (08:08):
Well, that's just what people say. It's like the plate thing. Like,
it's like the same thing when I run into an acquaintance, acquaintance,
Oh we should hang out sometimes. Yeah, I'm probably not
going to hang out with them. We're just acquaintances. It's
just something you say, Oh yeah we should go out again. Yeah, okay, sure, whatever.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
I get it.

Speaker 7 (08:24):
You guys feel like you're begging me. Well, like when
you go to date, you know how, Like when I
go to date, I like to have a little bit
of something to make the day fun and kind of
get me through it, because you know, when you're on
these apps and you're going on so many dates, you
just need to like, you know, chill. So that's why

(08:45):
I might have seemed a little extra flirty or a
little extra Miley, because I just had a little courage,
you know, a little little gummy courage, you know, and
I wanted to be myself as much as possible and
not be super nervous, which he obviously was. Honestly, you
should probably take a gummy or two before going on date.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
Okay, Am, I right? Am?

Speaker 7 (09:04):
I right?

Speaker 3 (09:06):
I get it.

Speaker 5 (09:06):
I mean, doesn't really feel like you're being yourself if
you got to take something, you know, to switch you
out of the mental state that you're in. So it
doesn't sound like you're being yourself if you're taking a gummy.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
But it's cool. I get it. You know, you do
whatever you want. But I'm not into drugs.

Speaker 7 (09:19):
So it's not drugs. It's a gummy. It's like chill pill.

Speaker 6 (09:25):
Have you eat someone that right now?

Speaker 7 (09:32):
I worsh Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
I probably would be a lot cooler at work by day, Lauren,
would you like go with with Nicholas on another day?

Speaker 6 (09:40):
We'll pay for it.

Speaker 7 (09:42):
No, not really, Okay, sorry, Nicholas like he's super sweet,
but he's just different. His world is different than my world.

Speaker 4 (09:52):
It's probably a good thing for you than Nicholas to
know that your worlds are different, so you can find
somebody in your world.

Speaker 5 (09:57):
Sure, that's fine. I don't want to go with a
drug addict anyway.

Speaker 7 (10:01):
I'm not a freaking drug addict. I Oh, okay, so
I like to have some gummies whenever I'm you know,
going to on dates. Like that's not that big of
a deal.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
All right, cool. I mean that's your thing, whatever, it.

Speaker 7 (10:17):
Is my thing. Do you know what I'm saying? You
guys like he's just kind of boring.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
It's cool to just sound like you guys are different. Yeah,
it's all right, it's very different.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
But thank you for thank you for taking the time
to explain that to us and Nicolas, thank you for
doing the first thing.

Speaker 4 (10:31):
Follow up on your next day.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
Appreciate it, guys.

Speaker 6 (10:37):
You Wiles first day follow up
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