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Father Finds a Dozen Wife Prospects for Son Baron Brooks
Spokesman Review ^ | SUNDAY, JUNE 26, 2016 | Scott Maben

Posted on 06/30/2016 12:01:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Arthur Brooks showed up in Coeur d’Alene this weekend ready to find a suitable mate for his son, Salt Lake City businessman Baron Brooks, and left with around a dozen prospects.

The thoroughbred horse breeder from California made headlines around the world last week after he bought a full-page newspaper ad inviting women to interview for a chance to meet and possibly marry his son.

Baron Brooks, 48, said he had no idea what his 78-year-old father was up to and reacted with shock and embarrassment when he learned about the “Looking for a wife” ad seeking a conservative woman “ready, willing and able to have children as soon as possible.”

“It was so shocking that I wasn’t even sure what I was reading, even though I read it twice,” he said. “I thought it was a joke at first.”

He described his father as “nuts,” “neurotic” and knowing no boundaries. But he let the elder Brooks go ahead with his plan to contact and interview candidates at the Coeur d’Alene Resort this weekend.

Baron Brooks said Sunday that resort management asked his father not to conduct the interviews there after all, following a wave of news and social media coverage of the audacious plot. But Arthur Brooks still gathered the names of about 12 women who expressed interest in the ad, published June 18 in the Coeur d’Alene Press, and he plans to interview them in the next few weeks.

“I think maybe one of them was local, but almost all of them were from all over the United States, and even some international,” Baron Brooks said Sunday. “But he has a file and he’s contacting them.”

Brooks, who owns two health food stores, said he doesn’t need his father’s help finding dates. But he also doesn’t want to thwart his father’s efforts, noting that his dad has health problems and really wants a grandson to carry on the family name.

“I said if it’s truly legitimate and wasn’t some crackpot, and I got to see their photo first and I had an attraction, yeah, I would go through with it, just so feelings would not be hurt,” Baron Brooks said.

After fielding calls from potential daughters-in-law, Arthur Brooks flew Saturday to Salt Lake City and met with his son. The two appeared together Sunday morning on “Fox and Friends” to talk about the entire episode. The father said he’s been to Coeur d’Alene many times, and that he placed the $900 ad on a recent visit and included a photo of his smiling son.

“I was there with my lady friend a few weeks back and I thought that this would be a good idea,” Arthur Brooks said in the TV interview.

“Oh, naturally,” his son interjected.

Arthur Brooks continued, “I thought maybe I would get five or six ladies, hopefully, in Coeur d’Alene who would be interested.”

The matchmaking story was picked up by newspapers, magazines, TV stations and websites across the country. It even appeared in The Times of Israel and the New Zealand Herald.

Baron Brooks said the phones have been ringing nonstop at his stores in the week since the story broke.

“It was literally out of control,” he said. “I had to stop everything and take the week off because it was so out of hand.”

Everywhere he goes, people recognize him and want to talk about the ad, Brooks said.

He also said he forgave his father, who has returned home to Beverly Hills, California.

“He was very contrite,” Brooks said. “He never dreamed in a million years that this little thing that he thought was cute and funny would go worldwide viral.”


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1 posted on 06/30/2016 12:01:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

It’s good to see that some fathers DO care!


2 posted on 06/30/2016 12:04:41 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob
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To: nickcarraway
Money is the greatest aphrodisiac.
3 posted on 06/30/2016 12:09:29 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (Never be more than two steps away from your weapon.)
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To: nickcarraway

First,check their teeth!


4 posted on 06/30/2016 12:09:46 PM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: nickcarraway

Almost sounds like dear ole dad escaped from whatever facility was providing custodial care.


5 posted on 06/30/2016 12:12:35 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: Truth29

See what their moms look like.


6 posted on 06/30/2016 12:15:49 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: nickcarraway

Pretty funny - his father put a picture in the ad, but it wasn’t a recent picture.

Looks like Dad has been watching too much reality TV with his “lady friend.”


7 posted on 06/30/2016 12:16:36 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("Estos sufrimientos pasaran, y la esperanza una salida marcara." ~ Abp. Romero)
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To: nickcarraway

This would make a nice ‘feel good’ movie. Ryan Reynolds (Green-Lantern) could play the young store owner. Robert DeNiro could play the elder store owner. Jennifer Lawrence and Melissa McCarthy would have parts too.


8 posted on 06/30/2016 12:29:47 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: nickcarraway

I saw them on tv. The son was quite handsome and charming which leads me to believe he enjoys playing the field and not settling down.


9 posted on 06/30/2016 12:29:57 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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To: lee martell

You should be a producer.


10 posted on 06/30/2016 12:31:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Farmer Dean

I think you’re right, but you might draw a chick like the one in the Eagles’ LYIN’ EYES. One who wants double sugar.


11 posted on 06/30/2016 12:32:32 PM PDT by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

See what their bank accounts look like.


12 posted on 06/30/2016 12:33:34 PM PDT by henkster (Don't listen to what people say, watch what they do.)
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To: nickcarraway

“If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life Never make a pretty woman your wife “


13 posted on 06/30/2016 12:48:34 PM PDT by wrench
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I dated a guy whose father would enquire about the health histories of his son’s serious ladies and their families. I wasn’t a serious date, we were better off as friends. But I would have never answered those questions anyway. BTW, both father and son were doctors.


14 posted on 06/30/2016 12:52:01 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: wrench

Yo’ wife is UGH-LEEEEEEEEEEE

Yeah, man, but she sho’ can COOK


15 posted on 06/30/2016 12:53:30 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Legacy Kennedy . .give up YOUR job in the name of "Diversity")
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To: nickcarraway

I went to read the whole story....so I went to the People entry. It is very funny. The father (speaking as the son) says ‘I’m 5’5”, so if you are 5’8” we may have a problem’. He also says ‘if you voted for Obama and are planning on voting for Hillary, you are not for me’. It really is a pretty cute story......the father pretending to be the son looking for a wife. The son says ‘it isn’t easy finding a Jewish woman in Salt Lake City’. And then hugged his dad. A sweet story in the midst of all the disgusting major news stories of today.


16 posted on 06/30/2016 12:58:54 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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Having frequently traveled to Coeur d’Alene... That’s not the place you want to be looking. Just saying. There are not so slim slim pickins.


17 posted on 06/30/2016 1:15:26 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: wrench

For some reason, the crazy ones are really good in bed. Or so I’m told by the old guys at the pool hall.


18 posted on 06/30/2016 1:16:43 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I'm so open minded that you should only think like me.)
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To: originalbuckeye
The son says ‘it isn’t easy finding a Jewish woman in Salt Lake City’

LOL. Utah: Where Jews are gentiles.

19 posted on 06/30/2016 1:19:17 PM PDT by NorthMountain (A plague o' both your houses.)
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To: miss marmelstein
I saw them on tv. The son was quite handsome and charming which leads me to believe he enjoys playing the field and not settling down.

There may be other reasons why the son, 48, remains a "confirmed bachelor" (at least that's what they used to call it).

20 posted on 06/30/2016 1:44:55 PM PDT by Drew68
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