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Speaker 5: I haven't had a Wheat Bix since I was a child,
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Speaker 5: to get back into crunchy not and wheat bigs, but
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Speaker 3: I can't have chok tops anymore.
Speaker 5: Why Because I mentioned to you earlier that I'm trying
Speaker 5: to improve my mind body mind muscle connection, which means
Speaker 5: listening to my body's feeling after everything. So, as you know,
Speaker 5: sally best friend, Sally lactose intolerant in denial, as we
Speaker 5: all kind of are with that kind of thing. But
Speaker 5: she started taking lack teas. I was like, I don't
Speaker 5: know that, mild with it. Went to the cinema, had
Speaker 5: a chok Top, guts bustard spawn.
Speaker 3: I could not believe it. I didn't even enjoy it
Speaker 3: that way.
Speaker 4: Did you go to the toilet?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 3: It was like dead fall and.
Speaker 5: I was squirming in the seat and from there I
Speaker 5: was like, nah, it's not for me.
Speaker 4: I don't want to say this, but as you're speaking,
Speaker 4: my gut, he's making the most crazy noise curdling. I
Speaker 4: gotta go, so let's get this show on the road.
Speaker 2: Let's go.
Speaker 5: We haven't even done our podcast intros through anyway. Coming up,
Speaker 5: we're talking to our alleged residence psychic astrologer Aunte has
Speaker 5: just started with is it the commercial.
Speaker 4: Team the Caya Family.
Speaker 3: Rooms?
Speaker 5: Our resident cult leader shout out some people were a family,
Speaker 5: which is very sickening to do. But Auntie apparently has
Speaker 5: this uncanny ability to guess someone's star sign off the dome,
Speaker 5: so he's gonna guess ours.
Speaker 3: Fremy does have.
Speaker 5: Some suspicions about whether he just googled this information, which
Speaker 5: is completely likely impossible, and even if he did, I
Speaker 5: love shared delusion because what is shared delusion but just
Speaker 5: a truth?
Speaker 4: Yes, I agree with all of the above. Let's get
Speaker 4: to it. Not me just playing on my line. They're
Speaker 4: really going to go flex and frooms. So I have
Speaker 4: a love line for you. It's basically where someone sends
Speaker 4: in their relationship dilemma, we answer it by not answering it.
Speaker 4: So here's one. The title is is it a deal
Speaker 4: breakout that I've had sex with all of my present
Speaker 4: close female friends. Initial thoughts, live your lacking, go off
Speaker 4: my virile prints. Here's what he said. I currently have
Speaker 4: four close female friends whom I have slept with at
Speaker 4: least at at least one point in the past. What's
Speaker 4: the past. We're going to go through them.
Speaker 3: Great.
Speaker 4: The first one was a classmate whom I've known for
Speaker 4: more than a decade. She didn't marry until recently, so
Speaker 4: when she was single, we used to go on staycations
Speaker 4: when we were feeling a little bit stressed and have sex.
Speaker 4: Families actually pretty close. Second, she didn't marry. Phrasing on
Speaker 4: this one. Second one is a friend who everyone thinks
Speaker 4: is a lesbian, but when she singles, she wants sex
Speaker 4: with the guy. We did it maybe just twice. Third
Speaker 4: phrase it like that, so unnecessary, but you know it twice.
Speaker 4: And third is a neighbor whom I have known for
Speaker 4: maybe four years. Ever since the first one got married,
Speaker 4: this friend has been my go to travel buddy. We
Speaker 4: go on trips maybe twice a year. And the fourth
Speaker 4: is a coworker. We tried to date briefly but it
Speaker 4: didn't work, so we just stay as friends. Anyway, even
Speaker 4: if they're in a relationship, or if I'm in one,
Speaker 4: we still talk often, maybe once a week. We would
Speaker 4: meet up maybe every other month for lunch or coffee somewhere.
Speaker 4: So they're besties, right him, These four girlfriends nothing sexual
Speaker 4: whenever any of us are in a relationship. I brought
Speaker 4: this up with my girlfriend because I always get conflicting opinions.
Speaker 4: Some say I should bring this up with my future
Speaker 4: dates because it would be unfair for her to be
Speaker 4: all chummy with them, not knowing that I slept with them.
Speaker 4: On the other hand, some say it shouldn't be spoken
Speaker 4: about it because it's in the past, and because the
Speaker 4: other the rest of them, like most of them, are
Speaker 4: in longtime relationships anyway, so it doesn't matter. I don't
Speaker 4: know if this also matters, but they're all decent looking,
Speaker 4: educated and pretty well.
Speaker 5: Off hotties that I would like to continue to occasionally.
Speaker 5: But he wants to know if he should be disclosing
Speaker 5: this information to people that he starts to see in future.
Speaker 3: What do you think for a MENI don't ask, stump.
Speaker 4: I reckon if the chance of the new girlfriend finding
Speaker 4: out from someone else is quite high, then I would
Speaker 4: mention it, like, for example, if he doesn't tell her,
Speaker 4: but she's likely going to find out, like at a
Speaker 4: party a few months into them dating, and it's going
Speaker 4: to shock her. I'd rather if I was in her position,
Speaker 4: I'd rather him tell me straight up, rather him say,
Speaker 4: you know what, all of my for best friends were rooted.
Speaker 5: I don't think it's can I don't think it's necessary
Speaker 5: to know until it's necessary to know. Otherwise it sounds
Speaker 5: like a subtle flex just so you know they're hot,
Speaker 5: and I could if I wouldn't have.
Speaker 3: I think that's a bit odd.
Speaker 5: But I also feel like telling a date, so what
Speaker 5: is it I think that's unnecessary to do. The degrees
Speaker 5: of separation between people have rooted before. That's weird.
Speaker 4: Well, but what if they're all hanging out?
Speaker 3: Still don't think it's necessary until it's necessary.
Speaker 4: See I thought that, But I've been in this situation
Speaker 4: where hanging out with a partner's friends and they're acting
Speaker 4: a bit sus.
Speaker 3: Well, that's when it's necessary to know.
Speaker 5: Didn't know exactly, but I feel like if you had
Speaker 5: to preface every interpersonal relationship with the context of we
Speaker 5: slept together, what if.
Speaker 3: It's not relevant they're just adding.
Speaker 5: And also we have to remember this is a guy
Speaker 5: speaking from his perspective of the relationships he's had with
Speaker 5: these women. Who knows if these women would ever go
Speaker 5: there again? Like maybe it was a pity route, you.
Speaker 3: Know, maybe I don't know, like I went there and
Speaker 3: now I'm not into it. It would never happen again.
Speaker 5: I just feel like he's complicating his relationship with these
Speaker 5: other friends because maybe it's not just friendly, you know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying. Maybe he knows that he would rather
Speaker 5: be with any of those four and they're unavailable, so
Speaker 5: he's had to look elsewhere.
Speaker 4: I reckon, That's how it sounds. He seems a little
Speaker 4: bit too invested.
Speaker 5: Yeah, now there's a dark over his head where he's like,
Speaker 5: I've got to hang out with these rodents because the
Speaker 5: people I want aren't available.
Speaker 4: Oh, we've all been there. Let's send him on his
Speaker 4: way with a song. This is one of my personal
Speaker 4: favorites by the by Skills that's called.
Speaker 1: Tell Me. That's a really really well hold on, hold on.
Speaker 3: If you want to be.
Speaker 4: My lover, you gotta get with my four well.
Speaker 5: Educated, well educated, hot and eligible friends that I would
Speaker 5: probably but I won't.
Speaker 3: I like him. Shout out to that mystery caller. It
Speaker 3: can stay flex and firms.
Speaker 4: We have a very special segment. We are not alone
Speaker 4: in the studio. We do have a poltergeist in our mits,
Speaker 4: but we also have a real human man his Aunte.
Speaker 1: Hello.
Speaker 4: Hello, So Auntie is a member of the cad family.
Speaker 4: It is a family.
Speaker 3: No, don't do it.
Speaker 5: No one of those small business underpaid over resource.
Speaker 3: We're a family. Don't ask, don't take that annually.
Speaker 4: No, Ante is part of the Kita.
Speaker 3: Auntie's an employee.
Speaker 2: I mean what it is.
Speaker 4: And you're new, aren't you?
Speaker 2: I am Yes. I started last week on Monday, So
Speaker 2: first week done in the camp stunning.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 4: I knew that you were coming because I used to
Speaker 4: work with one of my besties, Eliza. She had lots
Speaker 4: of good things to say about you. Well, that's good,
Speaker 4: like he's just really cool. He's really nice, so really
Speaker 4: like gets the brands. He's really cool. It was a
Speaker 4: glowing reference. It was very excited to meet you. And
Speaker 4: on the weekend she was over at my house and
Speaker 4: she told me that you have a very special skill.
Speaker 4: Ane apparently can tell people's star signs. Tell us a
Speaker 4: bit more about your skill.
Speaker 2: It's a bit of a weird one. I kind of
Speaker 2: like picked it up over a couple of years of
Speaker 2: just feeling out people's auras, like when you meet them,
Speaker 2: you know, you get like a certain energy or a feel.
Speaker 3: It's my kind of guy. Yes, my kind of guy.
Speaker 2: Okay vibes, And I just kind of like had a
Speaker 2: little bit of background like researching me like, oh what
Speaker 2: star sign is? Like what? And then all of a
Speaker 2: sudden I was just like sometimes I could just pick
Speaker 2: it straight away and then it would work out to
Speaker 2: be correct.
Speaker 5: So do you do like the star sign, the moon sign,
Speaker 5: the rising or just doing like.
Speaker 2: A star sign like general star sign right now? I
Speaker 2: mean I would like to get into the moon. That'd
Speaker 2: be could you imagine for expansion? There you go, that's
Speaker 2: the next level. I see colors, Oh you literally.
Speaker 4: See the person?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, do you see any of else? Yeah? This is
Speaker 3: like a red.
Speaker 2: Orange because there's an orange light in the studio. This
Speaker 2: is like a legit thing, and it would be like
Speaker 2: blue like aquamarine. Maybe.
Speaker 4: Wow, that could be related to my star sign as well.
Speaker 3: Do you want to give it a red hot go?
Speaker 2: What I kind of start with is like filling out
Speaker 2: people's energy. So obviously color was yours like a bit
Speaker 2: more orange, you red, So I'm thinking like ferocity, but
Speaker 2: also very very stable, just kind of like the way
Speaker 2: you're sitting, very like strong posture. You've been doing anything
Speaker 2: lately to kind of work on your posture?
Speaker 3: Weights and pilarates.
Speaker 2: Pilarates okay cool? Yeah, pilates all right.
Speaker 4: I feel that there's my history.
Speaker 2: I feel like you would be into like arcane topics,
Speaker 2: like things like maybe like conspiracy vibes my.
Speaker 5: Thing at all, No, exactly exactly, the skill works.
Speaker 3: The skill works, So maybe my aunt has just been
Speaker 3: in the logs like Wright as a character profile.
Speaker 2: Were we were not in communication on the spot, I
Speaker 2: would say Aries definitely, okay cool.
Speaker 5: If you said anything else, I would be very surprised, really,
Speaker 5: because I think you would need to know me to
Speaker 5: understand there's anything under the surface of just being an Aries.
Speaker 4: Sweet you are aries es? Yeah? And anti yeah April
Speaker 4: Aries though?
Speaker 3: Are you sure?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so because my sister was April Aries
Speaker 2: and she's April ninth.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I feel like you've got a little bit of that there.
Speaker 3: What would what about me doesn't feel like a March.
Speaker 2: Aries March two borderline Pisces. So it's a little bit
Speaker 2: more watery, but you're fighting, right, Okay, yes.
Speaker 5: All right, so Anti's I am and April Aries, you
Speaker 5: read it all. There was not one thing you said
Speaker 5: that was off.
Speaker 4: That's amazing. Are you not more amazed?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: But as soon as Ante said spiritually vibes, I'm like, okay,
Speaker 3: I trust him.
Speaker 2: Okay. So the aquamarine blue feeling like you're very in
Speaker 2: tuned emotionally, like your eyes give off like how can
Speaker 2: I connect to someone emotionally first? So kind of in
Speaker 2: the right park Yep.
Speaker 3: That's crazy And I never noticed until.
Speaker 5: That video and I was like, you know, I can't
Speaker 5: see it.
Speaker 4: I see it.
Speaker 3: Crazy beautiful. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2: So I'm thinking, like a lot of water around you.
Speaker 2: So who's tough. I'm going to go out Pisces.
Speaker 4: Yes am?
Speaker 3: I right? So you are? That's right. I would have
Speaker 3: thought was an Aquarius.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought that, But I think it's because you
Speaker 2: remind me a little bit of me. So I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 2: a little bit like Pisces. And I just had like
Speaker 2: a guess. I was like, I'm just going to go
Speaker 2: for it. Thank you, very colorful.
Speaker 4: What month? Uh?
Speaker 2: Oh, that's a good one. You remind me and my
Speaker 2: dad so much.
Speaker 4: I don't trust.
Speaker 3: How do you got a whole family? So stress?
Speaker 4: Are you serious?
Speaker 1: Once again?
Speaker 3: Hm? Hm? So serious?
Speaker 4: What did it say? Repeat?
Speaker 3: So the polter geist is in here?
Speaker 2: So it was like, I'm sorry, please repeat.
Speaker 3: That, repeat it please, gentle she's chilly?
Speaker 4: So your dad is also a Pisces in March.
Speaker 2: Yes, he's a March too?
Speaker 3: What am I? Can you mind?
Speaker 5: I reckon?
Speaker 2: It's like fifth maybe no fourth.
Speaker 3: Th yep, let him have it?
Speaker 4: Okay, wow, okay, now we're gonna guess you ant's Pisces?
Speaker 2: But which month?
Speaker 4: M severy February twenty seven?
Speaker 3: Whoa?
Speaker 4: Who have you been talking to you like you're one
Speaker 4: day off? That's very good, guess says.
Speaker 3: Wow, he's just a vibe in the room. He fe
Speaker 3: witchy today. Auntie has a very textbook pisces man vibes?
Speaker 4: Really, what's that?
Speaker 3: You got to know it to know it? If have
Speaker 3: you not met a Piscy's man who was just like you?
Speaker 2: Uh no, not really.
Speaker 3: No, you gotta I feel like here's textbook pisces man
Speaker 3: number one, very calm, inviting, disposition and aura.
Speaker 5: Always feel listened to by pisces man, but emphasis on
Speaker 5: feel listen to.
Speaker 4: My king, Thank you, humble king, thank you.
Speaker 3: Two favorite pieces in one's face.
Speaker 4: This is flex and frooms.
Speaker 3: Have you ever worked in an office? Miss forms multiple times?
Speaker 3: What'd you do?
Speaker 4: I worked a pedestrian?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, my, does that count?
Speaker 5: But I'm asking because I'm sure that you, and like
Speaker 5: most people, despite whether you work in a office or
Speaker 5: a different workplace, have dealt with being micromanaged. And I've
Speaker 5: experienced it on both ends as someone who has experienced micromanaging,
Speaker 5: and then my first foreward into being a manager and
Speaker 5: not understanding how to manage effectively because I was micromanaged.
Speaker 5: So I remember I worked in PR and like that
Speaker 5: was the worst, because I remember our boss used to
Speaker 5: make us do like some lord of the flies, like
Speaker 5: would invite us into have one on ones, but wouldn't
Speaker 5: ask us about ourselves, would make would ask us about
Speaker 5: other employees. So for example, I would have one one
Speaker 5: with her and she likes her house rooms going.
Speaker 3: You know how shay that is.
Speaker 5: And so because everybody does those meetings and knows what happened,
Speaker 5: you developed this sense of mistrust between everybody in the office.
Speaker 3: It was cooked. Very smart of her to do, but
Speaker 3: super cooked.
Speaker 5: Anyway, I came across this article about this woman who
Speaker 5: won a lawsuit after being micromanager, and I said, I.
Speaker 3: Wish I knew legal literacy back in the days, because
Speaker 3: that could have been us.
Speaker 4: How did she do it?
Speaker 3: Listen to this say no more.
Speaker 1: An Australian woman has been awarded two point eight million
Speaker 1: dollars after it was deemed that she'd been micromanaged and
Speaker 1: bullied by her boss. A racing club in New South
Speaker 1: Wales was ordered to make the major payout after a
Speaker 1: long time manager was subjected to an overbearing micromanagement style.
Speaker 1: The federal court found the workplace was negligent in preventing
Speaker 1: the woman from experiencing psychiatric harm, and that the CEO
Speaker 1: had breached the company's contract by withholding her benefits and
Speaker 1: denying her bonus. The court also found that the CEO
Speaker 1: had bullied the manager by singling her out, micromanaging her tasks,
Speaker 1: distracting her from work with relentless emails, and denying her
Speaker 1: benefits that were offered to other employees. The woman, who'd
Speaker 1: been working for the club since nineteen ninety one started
Speaker 1: having the issues when the new CEO came on board
Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen. It was at this point the new
Speaker 1: CEO felt the manager was being paid too much and
Speaker 1: the harassment began. Manager was denied annual leave, long service leave,
Speaker 1: and commission payments, but after numerous complaints, the manager left
Speaker 1: the business in twenty nineteen, and the court awarded the
Speaker 1: manager of the payout in December twenty twenty one.
Speaker 4: Good on her, incredible.
Speaker 5: I can't think of any other outcome that is more
Speaker 5: deserving than that. One ask for three millions, yes, take it.
Speaker 5: But also what I think is really interesting is that
Speaker 5: how many people read that article and relate to the
Speaker 5: treatment that they also receive in their workplaces and was
Speaker 5: inconfident let's that sewing.
Speaker 4: I don't know anyone who works in like a media
Speaker 4: job that has a boss that isn't micromanaged.
Speaker 3: I think it's two sides.
Speaker 5: In extreme spectrum, you're either getting micromanaged or not managed
Speaker 5: at all, like not trained, no resources, can't get a
Speaker 5: hold of them, no meetings when you need it, no
Speaker 5: feedback when you need it.
Speaker 4: True, but I guess don't know what I'd prefer. Probably
Speaker 4: the latter me do my side hustle.
Speaker 5: I think it depends on how much you get paid.
Speaker 5: You're paying me seven hundred K. I'll be on my back.
Speaker 3: Jump on, I'll strap you when I'll swallowing you.
Speaker 4: Let's go.
Speaker 5: Go dear.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Flex and Frooms on kDa.
Speaker 5: Can I tell you about this little something something I
Speaker 5: read on the internet? It's always something because where else
Speaker 5: am I reading things?
Speaker 3: Anyway?
Speaker 5: I haven't read a book that I've been obsessed with
Speaker 5: in close to a year, and I was averaging maybe
Speaker 5: two books a week.
Speaker 3: What something happened.
Speaker 4: Between two books a week?
Speaker 3: Babes?
Speaker 5: When am I sleeping reading? Rhyme would be like eleven
Speaker 5: to three am. I'm in the train if I want
Speaker 5: to read something I'm reading. I don't know why I
Speaker 5: am surprised by that. I was every day I.
Speaker 3: Being like I just finished the book.
Speaker 2: Don't care?
Speaker 4: Wait you at the time and don't get the time?
Speaker 1: Do you?
Speaker 4: How how many hours of a week do you? How
Speaker 4: many hours a day do sleep?
Speaker 3: Depends?
Speaker 5: Like on a weekday, I might do like a four hour.
Speaker 5: On a weekend, I'll do a twelve hour. Listen to
Speaker 5: this Have you heard of fixed law? No?
Speaker 3: I see judgment on you.
Speaker 4: I don't understand how you sleep before hours. That's like
Speaker 4: very manic scenes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I just I really like sleeping. But realistically
Speaker 5: I'm I am prioritizing my enjoyment. I hate finishing a
Speaker 5: day feeling like all I did was work or stress.
Speaker 5: I need to unwind properly. That means I'm cutting into sleep.
Speaker 5: We're cutting into sleep not afraid to do it. I'm
Speaker 5: not to live your truth at all.
Speaker 3: Literally, Okay, listen to this.
Speaker 5: Hix law is a simple idea that says, the more
Speaker 5: choices you present your users with, the longer it will
Speaker 5: take them to make a decision. It's common sense, but
Speaker 5: neglected in the rush to cramp too much functionality into
Speaker 5: a site or an application. Now that's obviously about UX
Speaker 5: and UI and building computers, but I was thinking about
Speaker 5: that in the context of just being people, and that
Speaker 5: like every day we fatigue ourselves with all these micro
Speaker 5: decisions we think we need to make to just live, right,
Speaker 5: Like do I wear this red shirt or this black shirt?
Speaker 3: Do I wear these crocs or these Nike shoes? Who cares?
Speaker 5: Because like, either way, even considering having to make a
Speaker 5: decision is taking too long and is adding is like
Speaker 5: leaving less time to live and more time to ruminate
Speaker 5: over things that we don't need to think about anyway,
Speaker 5: mile of the story. Just do stuff, think less. Okay,
Speaker 5: do stuff you're thinking, I stop it.
Speaker 4: If I could do less, I would just sit here
Speaker 4: and listen to you and just chill in my chair.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 5: But even the action of like doing this show, for example,
Speaker 5: it's like it should be and feel easy because the
Speaker 5: more we complicate it, more complicated it will be. The
Speaker 5: more time you take to make a decision, the more
Speaker 5: time it will take.
Speaker 3: Cut back, get it.
Speaker 4: So, just like choose what you can wear, don't think
Speaker 4: about it? Maybe cool?
Speaker 3: Okay, do a Steve Jobs did see how it feels?
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