We Flew to London for a Surprise Engagement Weekend

Seeing Other People

Ilana Dunn

Relationships, Society & Culture, Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Social Sciences, Science

4.5 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

We’re recapping an unforgettable weekend in London celebrating Jake’s brother Jeff and his now-fiancée Sydney’s engagement. We talk about the behind-the-scenes chaos of keeping the surprise secret, tracking them on Find My Friends, dodging FaceTime calls, and the moment everyone ran out to surprise them. We also catch up on our 20-week challenge struggles, Ilana’s mortifying podcast scheduling mishap, Barkley’s health scare, and of course… Jake’s deep dive Tell Me Lies finale theories (and his ongoing inability to say Pippa’s name).

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0:00.0	Take it away, Jake.
0:02.0	Welcome back to another episode of co-hosts for Life, part of seeing other people, your
0:07.5	Monday episode.
0:08.7	Maybe not on a Monday this week, though, TBD.
0:12.0	Yeah, we've had a long weekend and we're recording very late.
0:16.6	We actually wanted to record Wednesday of last week and now we're recording the Monday
0:20.7	after the week.
0:22.3	We've never had a late episode, but we went to London this weekend, and the weekend kind of got away from us.
0:30.3	So there wasn't a ton of time to record.
0:31.9	And we thought it would be more fun to be able to do a post weekend kind of summary podcast. So we're excited for you guys to be here and listen. And yeah, Alana, do you want to tell them what happened this weekend? I will. Yeah, I want to say thank you guys for letting us be late. We posted on Instagram asking if you'd be okay with it. And an overwhelming majority of you said yes and we appreciate that yeah I mean I think it was
0:56.0	I think you were fishing for a yes there if I'm being honest I was however at while I wanted people to
1:02.3	say yes I was flattered by the people who said no put the episode out today yeah how many people
1:07.5	ultimately said no it was like 20% of people said basically suck it up and put it out. Wow, good. Yeah. And 80% of people said. We should have done it. We were Jake. Jake. Let's get it out tonight. Okay. Get back to work. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. President's Day for everyone but Alana. Yeah. It's fine. and Jake, I'm here. No, but thank you guys for letting us be a little flexible and a little tardy with this.
1:33.9	We had a really incredible weekend in London and we were just exhausted last night.
1:38.6	Yeah, it's also an episode we want to do and want it to be out and all those things too.
1:42.3	Yeah, yeah.
1:43.2	And we wanted to get it out sooner.
1:44.3	We just also didn't want to like half half ass it because it's a really special episode because.
1:51.0	Yeah. My little brother got engaged this weekend. Yay. To a girl who were obsessed with. Yay.
1:58.6	Actually, I texted Sid last night. We were like, we were talking and I was like, I wish you could like hear how I talk to you about my friends. Like I'm actually obsessed with. Yay. Actually, I texted Sid last night. We were like, we were talking and I was like,
2:01.7	I wish you could like hear how I talk to you about my friends. Like, I'm actually obsessed with you.
2:05.9	It's true. Yeah, it is. So we have been dying to talk about this on the podcast, but for the last
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