In a new relationship there's all sorts of little things that can give you the ick Like if they part their hair the same way your dog does If after every kiss they giggle and in a baby voice say No coming back from those Friend Listeners needs our help today because she's been dating this great guy and the one thing that might be giving him the ick is The awkward text exchanges that they've been having Like just this morning she got a message. She has no idea how to respond to so we're gonna try and step in and help her out With a textual healing I Textual healing Textual Needless to say this morning show has many many skills using our fingers pencil tricks tummy tickles Me and Jose pinching our noses when we pass by Brooks lunch Oh, you have we are very very good with our fingers. I didn't know you could smell cauliflower so much. Yeah, I'm sorry It's not pleasant Especially when you put it in the microwave With spinach But you know what maybe our best finger skill is texting We like to help our listeners come up to our level with this segment called textual healing where we help somebody with their texting Conversation when they don't quite know what to say and today's honored guests who need some tender textual healing is Dory So let's welcome Dory to the show. How you doing? Hi everybody You're hungry you want some of my lunch? I'll give you some Dory you reached out for us because you need help with some texting who we're gonna be texting today Yes, you guys I met this guy and we've been going out three or four weeks It's not exclusive we haven't had the exclusive talk, but in real life. I really really like him In virtual life do you like him too? Not so much No and texting life, it's a problem the thing is we're together it's great. I have no issues I really like him again, but when it comes to texting we're off I know exactly what you mean Maybe he's just not I mean I feel like there's a lot of people out there They don't know how to keep a conversation going on text. Is that what it is? Is it feel like you text him and then things just stop? I'm just not sure what it is It's really not vibing. It's like it's so different from how we are when we're together Do you have an example of like how your texting isn't meshing with each other? Yeah, actually I do so One time he texted me and he said When you come over later the neighbors kids have challenged us to a water fight Okay, that's cute right right those cute text and so I texted back. I said oh that sounds like fun I'm in Good response squirt gun emoji and then he texted Should I wait for you to boil the water? Wait he's gonna pour boiling water on the neighbor children he's being funny, right? Yeah, I mean I was confused I was like what and then he was just like oh he was just joking Yeah, yeah, but that's an example. I'm trying to say of why it's off in real life I don't seem to have that confusion In real life you get jokes Well, you could see the water boiling in real life that way there's no question This is a thing you have bad text chemistry usually you talk about this a lot though Jose Is that a bad thing though is that like bad for a relationship? You know you want to be excited to text like are you worried about this? If you're doing you're not gonna text all day anyway, that's true I mean I am a little bit worried about it because it sets a dynamic off like I don't know To go forward or what okay, so you you feel like every time that you guys do a text conversation It's like subtracting from your relationship in real life So where are you at right now in your convo with him via text? It's still confusing to me like okay actually today He texted me something. That's why I'm calling you guys. I don't know how to respond. Okay, so I sent him a text Let me read it to you. Okay, I said hey That computer that you let me borrow. Do you know how much RAM it has? Okay, it sounds like a bad pickup line. Did you let you borrow a computer? Yeah, well he let me a computer. Okay, it was a really serious question I needed to know for downloading or whatever. Okay, I was serious about it and he responded you guys. He said Sorry, I don't know It was a friend of mine and he's dead now How do you read that very dark I don't know what you think I mean I didn't respond or text back because I don't know whether to make a joke if he was joking You know if it's really true then I might say something that's insensitive to a dead man Emojis more yeah So we're responding back to this text with you right now about his friend Possibly dying. Yeah, okay. Can you just write back? Are you serious? Kind of cold and heartless. I think that no matter what happens, especially early on in a relationship You want to keep things as light and as playful as possible? He mentioned a dead friend so But he was joking about the water balloons and boiling water on top of children A little bit different Is this computer cursed? No, no, no if he's dark you got to go darker be like how did you kill him? What what if you said how about we get out the Ouija board and ask him see that's funny. That's dark Dory What do you think I have lots of options to choose from there? Yeah, are being normal at this point though. You have to get back with a dark Well, she didn't come to us for a normal response to be like oh, sorry We need a fun playful response You want to say aunts to talk to the friend to figure out the Acknowledging what he said it's joking back in a not mean way. Yeah, what do you think Dory? I do like where you're coming from so I feel like I could say something like well Can we have a say on so we can find out? Okay, I like that. Oh, and then you could use that crystal ball emoji. Oh The message will come through either way why don't you why don't you type that out and send it to your your new guy friend here? I'm gonna do it right now you guys Okay I Didn't ask for his name I'm gonna send it And send okay, there's no way he's like actually my friend does haunt me Yeah I have one plan this Friday, so that We've laid the groundwork for a nice playful conversation for the rest of the way We're gonna come back and see if he responds to that What's his name who are we texting Andre Andre We'll see if Andre responds and we continue textual healing right after this We're in the middle of textual healing with our listener Dory and normally we get a lot of relationship stuff on this segment About how to text your crush and the UPS guy How to text Brooks husband to get him out of the house so Roy the traveling salesman can come over Text with Roy is fine though. Yeah I'm kidding honey if you're listening there's no boy This is a little bit different though because Dory needs our help texting the guy that she's just started dating all their in-person Chemistry is off the charts. It's just when they're on the phone texting It can get a little bit rocky and they can't tell when the other person is joking or not Oh my god, you know, I still don't fully know either. Yeah Why she emailed us today because she was asking him over text about a computer that she borrowed and how much ram it has He responded with I don't know that computer belonged to my dead friend That put us at an interesting fork in the road Do we take that seriously or assume that it was a joke? I mean like Alexa said this is why emojis were invented He joked before with a previous text so we went down that road again and wrote back well, maybe we should do a seance to find out Trying to be playful and I'm thinking like after we did it. I'm worried like did we really do that? That's a little bit. It is a little bit dangerous. We can apologize To see if Andre has replied to it Dory. Have you gotten any word back? Yes Okay, he said oh snap do you believe in that too? We should 100% emoji do a seance for our next date He continues if he responds you're gonna love him. He's a great guy. Oh How do you read that door do you think he's joking back or is he being serious now? I I think he believes in ghosts Where do you stand on that belief are you down having a seance with your new boyfriend? Actually is the friend's laptop and the friends did see I'm a hundred percent on the joking side But you know he's joke joke around non-stop like me never stop. That's why it says non-stop Brooke I just took it too far exactly. Yeah, he's not gonna stop I don't know if he is cuz if he'd sent the text without mentioning the friend specifically then I would think it's a joke The fact that he's bringing up his friend might mean that that's serious and that you're gonna meet him I think he thinks you're gonna meet him. Which would be cool. That's a step in a relationship Is it a little bit too soon to be meeting the dead friends You guys I'm so worried now Okay, okay now we got a legitimately find out if this is a joke or not, right? Yeah, we need to do that Brooke Well, what else do we do we just keep on the road and we don't know whether we should show up on Friday night The trains in motion don't jump in front and try to stop it now You could keep joking. What why don't you say this? Why don't you say this truth is it'd be my first seance What should I bring to that type of date? What do I wear? Oh Doesn't like it She always A bottle of wine you need to wear a black dress like where we are you actually open to a seance here Dory for real? There's a way we can joke in back off I really like you guys response of truth. It'll be my first say on what should I bring? Now you do okay, then just send it. Let's just send it. Okay guys. I've texted it Because if he says wear something nice and be respectful for the dead then you'll know he's serious if he's like Bring a bunny costume. Then you know he's still go to a pet cemetery and dig up a dead animal We need the bones from it You guys you guys he texted back Okay, that was really quick for a geez. He's really excited about this say on He said oh, are you serious? That could be a deal breaker for me. What? Oh doing it or not doing it wait. No No admitting that it's her first time. No, that or he's not or me being into it as a deal breaker I don't know Yeah, just say I was joking and just leave it at that He can decide what the joke was Can we joke back and say like oh thank God cuz I was worried I was gonna fall in love with your dead friend Or you were worried his friend was gonna hit on you I mean Yeah Cuz remember our like our mission here is just to try and connect with Andre this guy that she's texting and it is off What we're talking too much about Andre's possibly dead friends, I like I like your joke I think your jokes funny. Okay, like I do I liked your version of it though a little bit better than mine Oh, okay. I was worried that he was gonna hit on me anyway. Yeah ghost have a thing for me So I was worried he was gonna fall in love with me anyway What? What you're showing by doing that is that you're like a light playful person you don't take things too seriously You're just trying to like have a good time with it Yeah, let's just send that maybe you could put a laugh emoji on the Remind him he can use those too Honestly Alexis lead by example Do you always have this big of like a buildup every time you send a text to anybody Like hype yourself up for this man. I think maybe just with you with Andre No, it's just because you know, it's so new and I really like him and I don't want to okay Okay All right, I mean I just feel like we're not like crossing the line here. We're not being offensive We're just being playful and jokey and fun Dude if he writes back and is like no say on Oh He's really fast what did he say he said the laugh emoji He said I was just messing with you I I I don't have a dead friend Thank God, but we should text more you're funny I Don't know if we can be there for every But you know what we'll do we'll give you Brooks new landline She's the only one in the entire city who has one now, you know, she's gonna answer Families funny you feel like we've helped you out there Dory can we leave you to it now? I think you guys didn't I Think going forward our Texas will jive better together now. I think yeah, you need to read every text from this man as a joke Do those voice texts from now on yeah That's textual it's broken Jeffrey in the morning
