Speaker 1: Now we all love a freebie in our lives, right,
Speaker 1: Like everyone gets a bad day turned around if you
Speaker 1: get something for free, like a free coffee or free.
Speaker 2: Juice or a hundred possessions when you win something. Laura,
Speaker 2: it used to be like the radio price pig. So
Speaker 2: she's always cool up radio and get free stuff.
Speaker 3: It was how my love of radio started. Yeah, it
Speaker 3: was surprised.
Speaker 1: And you're a kleptomaniac now, so it all ties in.
Speaker 1: It ties in now. The reason I bring this up
Speaker 1: is because I'm a bit conflicted. I love to scroll
Speaker 1: TikTok at the end of the day. Every night I
Speaker 1: lie in bed, nice scroll TikTok. And there's this account
Speaker 1: that I always see. It's this beautiful young woman living
Speaker 1: in Europe and she goes around, finds different men in
Speaker 1: social situations. She's got one of her friends secretly filming her.
Speaker 1: She approaches the man, she bats her eyelids. She's wearing
Speaker 1: a gorgeous outfit, she's got a face full of makeup.
Speaker 1: She looks really beautiful, and she starts with a simple conversation, Hey,
Speaker 1: how are you how's your day going. Then she hits
Speaker 1: them with a question, can you buy me something. It
Speaker 1: can be a lunch snack, it can be a sandwich.
Speaker 1: It can even be items as big as a d
Speaker 1: or or a Mark Jacob's handbag. Have listened to it
Speaker 1: to this video.
Speaker 4: I'm Leila, Yes, I'm not so I have to confess
Speaker 4: I did come over here with a little question.
Speaker 1: Actually, I've been having like a really tough day.
Speaker 2: There's like a Mark Jacob's pop up like over that
Speaker 2: I'm wondering if maybe, like you'll be able to come
Speaker 2: there with me and like get me.
Speaker 1: A big or something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's so sick.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So she's she's using i mean pretty privileged to
Speaker 1: get free stuff and posting it online.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 4: My question here, though, is like who is it fault?
Speaker 4: Is it the guy for being silly enough to buy something,
Speaker 4: or is it her for being so manipulative that she's
Speaker 4: doing it in the first place.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, don't as don't get so like she's
Speaker 2: she doesn't she's shooting her shot. The person doesn't have
Speaker 2: to say yes, And I would think if someone is
Speaker 2: saying yes to buying somebody an expensive designer bag, that
Speaker 2: person has a ridiculous amount of money because the average
Speaker 2: person isn't going to yeah, a couple of grand well,
Speaker 2: I don't know how much they are, but like people
Speaker 2: aren't just throwing that money around totally.
Speaker 4: But I think that this relates to other things like
Speaker 4: girls at bars and stuff who are like, oh, you know,
Speaker 4: just like buy me a drink, and then they're using
Speaker 4: that they have no interest in the guy whatsoever.
Speaker 3: I think it's different if you're using.
Speaker 4: Flirtation and you're kind of trying to trick someone, You're
Speaker 4: feigning as though you're interested in them and manipulating them
Speaker 4: almost to spend their money on you. I think that
Speaker 4: that's really mean. Yeah, so uncomfortable, but.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't compare the two. I don't compare
Speaker 2: a design a handbag to a totally dollar like rum
Speaker 2: and coke from the local.
Speaker 1: You haven't been out in a while.
Speaker 3: Inflation really hit. I don't know why that drink. It's
Speaker 3: not like happy hour, the.
Speaker 2: Old rum and coke from the ri.
Speaker 1: You're such a country girl, and I can I can
Speaker 1: I say something that I've noticed. I've recently lost forty
Speaker 1: kilos and I do look physically different, and you know,
Speaker 1: it's a little bit of a glow up. I feel
Speaker 1: amazing in myself but I have genuinely noticed a difference
Speaker 1: in the way people treat me and talk to me
Speaker 1: in everyday life.
Speaker 3: It's because because we look you in the eye.
Speaker 1: Now, yeah, you guys actually remember my name. I was
Speaker 1: Michael for about six months.
Speaker 3: In what way, Mitch, what do you mean?
Speaker 1: Well, I mean AI am single, yes, But the attention
Speaker 1: from men. I never had attention from guys, from gay men, ever, ever, ever,
Speaker 1: no one ever showed any interest in me. I was
Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty kilos. I was a big boy.
Speaker 1: I did not have any and I had many friends.
Speaker 1: But like that sexual chemistry that you know when you're
Speaker 1: being flirted with, you know, I never had that. Now
Speaker 1: that I'm forty kilos down and you know, a jawline
Speaker 1: has appeared out of nowhere, men are more flirty with me,
Speaker 1: even conversations in the street, in the workplace.
Speaker 2: Mitch, I think genuinely, and I totally appreciate what you're saying.
Speaker 2: I think genuinely. The biggest thing I have noticed, and
Speaker 2: I think it all relates, is yes, you are smaller
Speaker 2: physically forty kilos, but the difference in who you are
Speaker 2: and the energy you put out is huge. I feel
Speaker 2: like you're more open to these conversations now, Like you
Speaker 2: probably don't even realize, but you put out a brand
Speaker 2: new fire confidence that makes people want to come and
Speaker 2: approach you, whereas before you probably didn't put that energy
Speaker 2: out for people to approach you, and you weren't single,
Speaker 2: so you again weren't putting that energy out. Brett.
Speaker 4: I completely agree with this and the other part as well,
Speaker 4: and something that I don't think you were that conscious of.
Speaker 4: But when you were bigger, you used to always punch
Speaker 4: down on yourself. You would always make jokes about your weight.
Speaker 4: You have always, yeah, but it was self deprecating to
Speaker 4: the point where it was constantly put down. And I
Speaker 4: think when you do that about yourself, you also then
Speaker 4: make it okay for other people to do it. When
Speaker 4: you're constantly making yourself the butt of a joke, people think, oh, okay,
Speaker 4: you're cool with that, like we're cool with making jokes
Speaker 4: about your weight or your size, and so people would
Speaker 4: do it without realizing how much it hurt your feelings
Speaker 4: because you were already doing it.
Speaker 3: And now I think I agree with you, Britt.
Speaker 4: There is this like ridiculous confidence that come, you know,
Speaker 4: along with the weight loss, has been this new Mitch that's.
Speaker 3: Kind of come out as well.
Speaker 1: I agree. I do think there is though a bias
Speaker 1: in the way that society looks and treats.
Speaker 3: I agree, I agree, But.
Speaker 2: It's just funny who you are now, Like, now you
Speaker 2: walk in and you're like, I'm so tired. I stayed
Speaker 2: up all night because so many people are my depre overflowing.
Speaker 1: Also, can I just address the elephant in the room.
Speaker 1: Were you guys just flirting with you?
Speaker 3: Then kick that up?
Speaker 1: You know what?
Speaker 3: Rum and cokes on me? They're so cheap. Alright, let's go.
Speaker 3: Thanks for listening.
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