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Brooke and Jeffrey

Second Date Update: First Time Tinderer

Brooke and Jeffrey

iHeartPodcasts

Comedy, Society & Culture, Relationships

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

The woman in today’s Second Date Update is trying online dating for the first time after leaving a long term relationship. Her first try went so well she’s reaching out to us for help!

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0:00.0

Adventure should never come with a pause button.

0:02.6

Remember Movie Pass?

0:04.0

All the movies you wanted for just nine bucks?

0:06.7

I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet.

0:09.5

And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told.

0:12.9

Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of Movie Pass, who got pushed out of the company he built.

0:18.1

Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it. And then boom, it's everywhere. And that was that moment. Listen to there are no girls on the internet on the IHurt Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Second Date update. You know, we've talked about people getting back into the dating game after being out of it for a while. But we don't normally speak to people on this segment who are using dating apps for the very first time. Like ever? Ever. Oh, yeah. It's like a time warp. Yeah. Like, if you haven't dated since 2010 and you met somebody at a grocery store, nowadays, you're getting an eggplant, all right. But it's a digital one.

0:56.2

And I don't know if you even wanted it in the first place. But that's what happened with Rachel

1:00.8

recently. She emailed us saying this is her very first time being on a dating app. And she actually

1:06.0

met a great guy who's somehow not calling her back. So Rachel, welcome. Hey, thanks for having me.

1:12.1

I'm just curious because I've never been on dating apps, right?

1:14.8

Because I met my husband, like, before they were huge.

1:17.8

Oh, yeah.

1:18.2

Like, what is it like for your first time?

1:21.3

It made me feel kind of old, too, though.

1:23.9

I mean, I had been in a relationship since college, so like 2007, you know what I mean?

1:31.1

So like I just completely knew for me. And when I got flooded with all these guys, it was exciting.

1:39.1

It kind of boosted my ego. But it took me about like two and a half weeks to find someone that actually fit all

1:47.6

of my criteria. And that was Jack. Oh, nice. Yeah. So you message to him? So he reached out to me.

1:59.3

So I thought that was vulnerable.

2:01.6

You know what I mean?

2:02.6

Like that's pretty hardcore and...

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