Speaker 1: The Flex and Rooms Daily podcast brought.
Speaker 2: Cushion to everyone anyone before we start, Ready, is a
Speaker 2: recession gonna happen? Or are we in a recession?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: These are important and depressing questions. But today we're gonna
Speaker 2: try and make it a bit lighter and a bit
Speaker 2: funner and tell you about some things that you might
Speaker 2: notice that could indicate that a recession is either coming
Speaker 2: or we are within it. Yeah, Flex, you brought this one.
Speaker 2: It's very exciting, but we didn't really get to the
Speaker 2: very bottom of it. So I think we're gonna have
Speaker 2: to do another podcast at it.
Speaker 4: Don't do so many like as the news changes and
Speaker 4: we get more information, we'll have to do so many
Speaker 4: things change every week. The petrol was two dollars thirty three.
Speaker 4: Now it's going back to one, and it's going back up.
Speaker 4: It's got back up. Who did we pay to get
Speaker 4: at that price? I'm not sure?
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 4: Okay, scary, but it's good to remain educated.
Speaker 2: This is true. Let's get it.
Speaker 1: Fleck and Frooms.
Speaker 3: Hey, listen.
Speaker 4: So when I was doing some googling the other day,
Speaker 4: I don't know how I got there, But that's neither
Speaker 4: here nor that it's not integral to the story. I
Speaker 4: came across a bit of content that told me that
Speaker 4: Sprite had done a rebrand, and I think it's because
Speaker 4: on TikTok somebody was doing a graphic design review of
Speaker 4: the rebrand from like a branding lens, and I was
Speaker 4: like cool, And then my FBI agent in my phone
Speaker 4: was like, you're gonna love more of this content when
Speaker 4: you serve it to you anyway, talking about plastic bottles
Speaker 4: in landfill.
Speaker 3: Nice, all this, Yeah, plastic bottles in landfill.
Speaker 4: And the real reason behind the Sprite rebrand is not
Speaker 4: for marketing or consumer psychology or to look pretty. It's
Speaker 4: allegedly because in a sea of landfill, it's very easy
Speaker 4: to see which bottles are Sprite bottles because they were
Speaker 4: bright green. So once you know, the coke labels have
Speaker 4: been like, you know, decomposed off the bottle, and you know,
Speaker 4: once the lemonade bottles and the Mount Franklin bottles labels
Speaker 4: have decomposed, they're just plastic bottles. And once you've been
Speaker 4: crushed up, you're like, they're clear. You can't really see
Speaker 4: what brand it once was, but that's Sprite green something
Speaker 4: about it. No, Yeah, because the new Sprite bottles are
Speaker 4: clear plastic with a green label.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm holding a sprite right here. It's a can.
Speaker 4: However, Yes, but what else is green in a can?
Speaker 4: Guinness VB. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: The only other green thing that I can think of
Speaker 2: is Mountain Jew. But I don't think I can think
Speaker 2: of any other green bottles.
Speaker 3: I can't either.
Speaker 2: That's a shame because I like drinking sprites. It's a
Speaker 2: shame I no environment, because there's no other drink that
Speaker 2: comes in a green thing besides Mountain Jew. But I
Speaker 2: don't even consider that to be a drink. That's like
Speaker 2: stuff that you'd see on the Simpsons when they get
Speaker 2: those mega sugar slashes. But it's a shaming. I like
Speaker 2: the drinking experience of drinking a spie out of something
Speaker 2: that's green. If it's clear, I'm like, it just looks
Speaker 2: like water. It's like making me sick. It reminds me
Speaker 2: of like, you know, what are those things called electrolytes?
Speaker 2: Reminds you of a drink of electrolytes?
Speaker 3: Yeah, like little little sports.
Speaker 2: Drink any sprites?
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: I love learning about you because honestly, you were written
Speaker 4: by someone a group of a group of quirky girls,
Speaker 4: a group of supervising for the global conglomerate doing a rebrand.
Speaker 2: Year ten drama studts. Yes, this is not okay, flex
Speaker 2: And you do remember high school?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: From what I gather, Yeah, I kind of remember. My
Speaker 4: friends will mention names and experiences and I'm like clocked out.
Speaker 4: I have three core memories.
Speaker 2: That's it. Well, I'll ask you to divulge them later
Speaker 2: on the show. But now read this story in Sydney
Speaker 2: Morning Herald.
Speaker 3: Your favorite.
Speaker 2: Repairing my story last week Sydney High School has banned
Speaker 2: mobile phones and plot twist. It had dramatic results positive.
Speaker 2: Let me let me tell you.
Speaker 4: I didn't say it's a Doug act, but if it
Speaker 4: worked out, then I take it back.
Speaker 2: There's a school called Davidson High School and they recently
Speaker 2: banned kids year seven to ten from using the mobile
Speaker 2: phones at school. So essentially, when they come through the
Speaker 2: come through the door, they're giving these pouches so they
Speaker 2: have to put their phone in.
Speaker 4: Like comedy gigs, so they do that. Yeah, I'm sure
Speaker 4: they do it other gigs as well, but I've had it.
Speaker 4: I've experienced it at a comedy gig.
Speaker 2: I feel so the comedy gigs is the one where
Speaker 2: you should have your phone. I'm not sure comedians need
Speaker 2: pre press.
Speaker 4: I think it's the ones that turn into specials that
Speaker 4: they don't want anyone.
Speaker 2: To leak sax fack sax facts, so they give they
Speaker 2: give the shoulds, these little tiny pouches that look, oh,
Speaker 2: there's just.
Speaker 4: Like near pren scuba diving material pouch with a lock
Speaker 4: on it, so it's in there. It's like sealed tight
Speaker 4: and it's waterproof and water resistant and cushion it to
Speaker 4: your phone is safe, best environment.
Speaker 3: So you're starting to have some vake time.
Speaker 2: Oh little cocoon, Yeah, like a bebet. Apparently classrooms, the
Speaker 2: principle says classrooms have effectively become phone free and this
Speaker 2: is allowed staff to focus on educating students, which makes
Speaker 2: a lot of sense. Also, in the eight weeks of
Speaker 2: the policy, there's been a ninety percent reduction in behavioral
Speaker 2: issues related to phones in schools.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, because there are no phones.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, you're not.
Speaker 3: Then what's the ten percent?
Speaker 2: I think like an offshoot of having your phone means
Speaker 2: that apparently you talk less like play lunch and.
Speaker 3: Lunch you talk less at lunch if you.
Speaker 2: Have phones, if you're playing on your phone. Yeah, So therefore,
Speaker 2: like them not having phones, it means they have to
Speaker 2: interact more, which decreases the use of like the it
Speaker 2: reduces the instance.
Speaker 4: Of I would love to a do social behavior. What
Speaker 4: these behavioral issues are?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 3: Is it cyber bullying? Is it?
Speaker 2: I think it's cyberbullying and like contributing to conflict between
Speaker 2: the students, which sounds like it would be cyber bullying. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and it's just gotta be thinking. I remember in school,
Speaker 2: I swear we had iPhones and stuff, but I remember
Speaker 2: not being able to use them in class and it
Speaker 2: wasn't like we'd go on break lunch time and people
Speaker 2: would be like playing on their phones in a way
Speaker 2: that was antisocial. Do you remember that.
Speaker 4: I don't think I had an iPhone in school. I
Speaker 4: remember having a three flip phone in year ten. That
Speaker 4: feels like very Maybe an iPhone three.
Speaker 2: Yes, side iPhone three?
Speaker 3: Maybe that was like you you're twelve, but maybe you.
Speaker 2: Remember did we have like the Facebook app on them? No?
Speaker 2: Did we anybody remember?
Speaker 3: We want you?
Speaker 4: Maybe that Facebook app? But I don't think all your
Speaker 4: friends were at school. We need a Facebook app for
Speaker 4: we're taking photos and listening to music.
Speaker 3: That was a big one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, fat it was the iPod and the music and
Speaker 4: the headphones in they're like put your headphones away, like, oh,
Speaker 4: just one in.
Speaker 2: Then they're just emo kids often with they just funny
Speaker 2: and the leave my community out of it. So I
Speaker 2: wonder if this will be an uptake. I just can't
Speaker 2: imagine like having TikTok that's designed to make you obsessed
Speaker 2: with your phone. I don't know how I would have
Speaker 2: on in high school if I had TikTok.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I definitely think there would need to be a
Speaker 4: withdrawal period, you know, like I can see like short
Speaker 4: term positive impacts where it's like, Okay, we have nothing
Speaker 4: else to focus on butt class, so we'll apply ourselves.
Speaker 3: Then the withdrawal of being like.
Speaker 4: We've got nothing else to focus on butt class, so
Speaker 4: we're not going to do it at all. I also
Speaker 4: think that if we're living in an environment that's increasingly
Speaker 4: tech centered, then we should be learning how to integrate
Speaker 4: tech in a healthier way, not just taking it away
Speaker 4: and assuming that when you bring it back the behavior
Speaker 4: is going to change.
Speaker 2: That's a great point. Yeah, it's a really great point.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 4: Nothing else say on that. Are you pro or like,
Speaker 4: let's finish it off? You pro or against mobile phones
Speaker 4: in class? Just we No, we stand against tough crowd.
Speaker 2: There's plenty of other time to integrate technology with your life,
Speaker 2: but it gets you to the real world. Reboss ses
Speaker 2: you doodling on Facebook and reprimands you okay.
Speaker 1: Trauma, this is flex and frooms on Cada.
Speaker 4: We are potentially in a recession. The Internet can't really
Speaker 4: be sure, and I like to be prepared. And I
Speaker 4: think my all of my feeds Instagram, Facebook, whatever, know
Speaker 4: that because that is all my feed is. I thought
Speaker 4: a weird indication that we were going to be in
Speaker 4: a recession was when like the letters started getting really
Speaker 4: expensive and petrol started getting really expensive, and I was like,
Speaker 4: is this a thing that just happened. No, it's not.
Speaker 4: It could be leading us to a very very specific outcome.
Speaker 3: But we're not fear mongers. We like to observe and
Speaker 3: gather data. I like that.
Speaker 4: I like to perpetuate myths, well, research myths, though I
Speaker 4: always have the facts someway here. All right, listen to
Speaker 4: this though, Yeah.
Speaker 2: What's a weird recession? Indicator, the hemline index, so the
Speaker 2: idea that your skirts get shorter when the economy is
Speaker 2: doing well and longer when it's not. That's also weird
Speaker 2: recession indicator. There are men's underwear and decks that says
Speaker 2: that men will put offline underwear when things give the lipstick.
Speaker 2: So basically, historically women would treat themselves to the little
Speaker 2: trees like lipstay.
Speaker 3: During economic card times.
Speaker 2: Scarlett, Yeah, what's a weird recession indicator?
Speaker 3: I like the cardboard box.
Speaker 2: Indicator because it's a measurement of an electric.
Speaker 4: Shift items to ourselves Amazon for instance, but also a
Speaker 4: measurement of manufacturing activity. So if there's gonna be a
Speaker 4: drop off in demand like during a recesion, and then
Speaker 4: you're gonna see a drop off and we see cardboard
Speaker 4: boxes like this one.
Speaker 1: Kja, what's up?
Speaker 2: What's a weird recession indicator? Has anyone talked about diapers yet?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 5: This diaper change theory is the idea that during economic
Speaker 5: card times, parents change diapers less frequently.
Speaker 2: Sonny, what's a weird recession indicator? Since the eighties, that's
Speaker 2: been a pattern that champagne sales pop drop through cart wives.
Speaker 4: That first one how about there are so many like
Speaker 4: how can the dot like looking at daughter and retrospect
Speaker 4: tells you all of these things. And I feel like,
Speaker 4: without knowing there's a recession, if for some reason, people
Speaker 4: just started buying lips, if you're like, Okay, that's cool,
Speaker 4: like lipsticks a pop. The fact that they can tie
Speaker 4: it back to the recession, And when I say they,
Speaker 4: am like who are they? The economists of the world?
Speaker 4: I know, but that to me, I'm like whoa number one?
Speaker 4: The lipstick effect. The idea that you will treat yourself
Speaker 4: to little luxuries when times get tough, yes or no.
Speaker 2: For me, I personally wouldn't do it, but I know
Speaker 2: the research. I've heard that before.
Speaker 4: You're good with spending though, right yeah, you just said
Speaker 4: food is a big thing you've been spending your money on.
Speaker 4: But that's not recession related, right, No, that's like a
Speaker 4: lifestyle thing.
Speaker 2: It's a lifestyle choice. That's the one thing I'll that's
Speaker 2: a hell I'll die on, so to speak. In terms
Speaker 2: of what I buy good quality food, yes, but I
Speaker 2: definitely see. I feel like if you're in a situation
Speaker 2: like I don't have a family, so therefore, like I'm
Speaker 2: not in the hum.
Speaker 3: Shout out to Olivia and see.
Speaker 2: No, like I don't have a family that I have
Speaker 2: to support. I think if I had a family that
Speaker 2: I had to support, and I can't see any way
Speaker 2: out in the foreseeable future, and I don't know how
Speaker 2: long the recession is going to go, I'm probably gonna
Speaker 2: buy a lipstick as a little luxury because I working
Speaker 2: night and day to keep my family supported. In any way,
Speaker 2: how long was the last recession two thousand and eight,
Speaker 2: two thousand and seven to two thousand and eight, it
Speaker 2: was like a year?
Speaker 3: Is that a long time for recession?
Speaker 2: Well, then you got like the Great Depression, But I
Speaker 2: don't know if that was a depression or a recession.
Speaker 2: That's a difference. And that was in the twenties, Yeah,
Speaker 2: and there was one in the eighties it was like
Speaker 2: a quick crash, but or nineties. Yeah, but the big
Speaker 2: ones are two thousand and eight for US. Yeah, a
Speaker 2: lot of people got divorced.
Speaker 3: Yeah, worldwide or in Australia.
Speaker 2: Worldwide, well wherever it was impact in the markets.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So you know how they were talking about the
Speaker 4: lipstick effect, right, I feel like that makes a lot
Speaker 4: of sense. Pre internet shopping because buying little luxuries would
Speaker 4: have been way more intentional when you had to physically
Speaker 4: leave your house, go to a department store commit to
Speaker 4: a purchase. But now I'll buy things like muscle memory. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'll see it, think it, buy it, And I don't.
Speaker 4: It doesn't feel like an expense or doesn't feel like
Speaker 4: an intentional purchase. Therefore, I don't think that that like
Speaker 4: sales have spike so much for us to recognize that
Speaker 4: in today's shopping economy, Yeah, people are buying things all
Speaker 4: the time.
Speaker 2: I really want to buy this sparkly water bottle. Oh,
Speaker 2: it's got gems all over it. It's incredible. It's like
Speaker 2: a Swarewski crystal line. Yeah, yeah from where? It's one
Speaker 2: hundred dollars?
Speaker 3: Where's it from?
Speaker 2: I'll have to get the brand? Can I see visual? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Why do you want to buy it?
Speaker 2: Because it's absolutely stunning. But I don't know if I
Speaker 2: can facilitate spend one hundred dollars in water bottle feels
Speaker 2: very antithetic to what I like spend money on.
Speaker 3: But I'll find I support you, I'll find it.
Speaker 4: For you, because who, when, when could you ever justify
Speaker 4: buying a sparkly water bottle.
Speaker 3: That's one hundred dollars.
Speaker 4: So now now it's the perfect time, right, yeah, I guess.
Speaker 4: So is it gonna make more sense next week? Probably not.
Speaker 2: I think it'd make more sense when I hit some
Speaker 2: other financial goals, like as a trait, I struggle to
Speaker 2: buy things that aren't like something that I can wear
Speaker 2: every day like that, and as well, the water walls
Speaker 2: is a treating mine because I'm ProAb lose it.
Speaker 3: No way, actually no, I take it right.
Speaker 2: You probably will let your experience or Okay, here's a
Speaker 2: solution though.
Speaker 3: Chuck an air tag on your water bottle. It's good
Speaker 3: to go.
Speaker 2: How do you get an AirTag?
Speaker 3: That's what it's called, right, an AirTag? Apple send.
Speaker 4: Apple sells these little key chains with trackers in them,
Speaker 4: and you can get them and put it in your bag,
Speaker 4: in your car, in your suitcase so you can always
Speaker 4: track the item.
Speaker 2: Wow, you haven't heard of that. No, I'm going to
Speaker 2: get that before I go to Europe.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you definitely need that before you go to Europe, babe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, damn.
Speaker 3: Okay, and it's actually so good.
Speaker 4: I have one in my suitcase and when I leave
Speaker 4: it like I walk away from my suitcase I leave
Speaker 4: the house, it'll tell me, like, you left your suitcase
Speaker 4: back at the property constant alerts.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's amazing.
Speaker 3: It's pretty good.
Speaker 4: But also air tags are sus though, because they've been
Speaker 4: used a lot in trafficking, but trafficking people, Yeah, babe, damn.
Speaker 3: Everything's connected. Okay.
Speaker 4: The other one that I like a lot is the
Speaker 4: cardboard box theory. The idea that you know that people
Speaker 4: are spending less because people are purchasing less cardboard boxes
Speaker 4: or boxes generally to package the stuff that they're buying.
Speaker 2: That makes total sense. I thought you're gonna say, it's
Speaker 2: like like people aren't using cardboard boxes to like move house.
Speaker 3: Oh do you know what I did that twice?
Speaker 4: I used a reusable plastic tub moving company to move houses.
Speaker 4: And while you think it's a really efficient process, it's
Speaker 4: just not like structurally that shape that.
Speaker 3: What do you call this?
Speaker 4: It's like a rope, like a trapeze kind of a tub.
Speaker 4: You get it to a tub shape, it's not it's
Speaker 4: not the best thing to put stuff in because it's
Speaker 4: not shallow, it's not deep enough, and it's not malleable.
Speaker 3: You can kind of squeeze a.
Speaker 4: Cardboard box into it, and it's expensive, so I get
Speaker 4: it works for the environment. But then I'm like, someone's
Speaker 4: manufacturing plastic boxes so I can keep using them.
Speaker 3: Is that really good for the environment. It's just like
Speaker 3: not as bad?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Is that making sense?
Speaker 3: I don't know, have you. We've got the bottle.
Speaker 2: I'm getting up right now. I'm nearly there, nearly nearly there,
Speaker 2: nearly there end clothing is where I found it.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, okay, okay, oh my god, I'm going to
Speaker 4: do a quiz for you, so you know whether or
Speaker 4: not you should get this bottle. Okay, Okay, this is good,
Speaker 4: This is good. This is how you know you should
Speaker 4: buy something.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's this. I want that one?
Speaker 4: You want the Star one? Okay, I've seen the Star bottle.
Speaker 4: It's exactly as for me described one hundred and eight dollars,
Speaker 4: probably more because I think that's a US dollar site.
Speaker 2: Oh shit, yeah, it is true.
Speaker 3: That's a shame. Okay.
Speaker 4: First question to see whether or not you should buy
Speaker 4: the bottle. This is a recession proofing your life. Okay, hypothetically,
Speaker 4: with what's sitting in your account now, could you afford
Speaker 4: to buy the bottle?
Speaker 3: Twice?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: If yes, then you should get the bottle number two.
Speaker 4: Do you imagine because for example, let's say I wanted
Speaker 4: to buy myself a new I can't afford to buy the.
Speaker 3: Car twice, So don't worry about it.
Speaker 4: I'm you're gonna be too negatively impacted by the burden
Speaker 4: of that car, because if you can't afford to buy
Speaker 4: it twice, then buying it once you probably haven't considered
Speaker 4: what about the maintenance, the petrol, the car washing, and
Speaker 4: all the other considerations the tolls with buying the car.
Speaker 4: So if you can afford to buy it twice, that
Speaker 4: means you have a buffer of all the other expenses
Speaker 4: that could crop up with owning the new item.
Speaker 2: Got that from You got to spend money to get money.
Speaker 4: Sometimes, but you know this is a frivolous purchase. You're
Speaker 4: not starting a business with the bottle. So it's just like,
Speaker 4: with that in mind, you can buy two of them.
Speaker 4: Buy the bottle the second thing. Could you use the
Speaker 4: bottle enough times that the cost per wear is so
Speaker 4: low daily that it wouldn't impact your lifestyle. For example,
Speaker 4: let's say the bottles one hundred Australian dollars. Let's say
Speaker 4: you use the bottle one hundred times, that would cost
Speaker 4: you a dollar every time you use the bottle?
Speaker 3: Can you afford that?
Speaker 2: That seems crazy to me?
Speaker 3: Then could you use the bottle two hundred times? Pay
Speaker 3: fifty cents every time?
Speaker 2: Putting that dollar? Because I just like I'll buy a
Speaker 2: like night. I don't know if it's like an accessory.
Speaker 4: Yes, but let's say with an accessory you've bought. Likely,
Speaker 4: say you buy a new ring, right, how many times
Speaker 4: would you wear that ring for that cost per word
Speaker 4: to be of value to you?
Speaker 2: True?
Speaker 4: If you couldn't afford to use the bottle for five
Speaker 4: dollars every time you used it, then you probably don't
Speaker 4: want it that much.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think if you're unsure, then well, can we
Speaker 2: do more of these on our next podcast?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: We can think there's more.
Speaker 3: I think recession is very appropriate. It's apocalypse prepping. Did
Speaker 3: you really think about it?
Speaker 1: I really think about it.
Speaker 4: Everything comes back to the apocalypse and I don't want
Speaker 4: to hear it, but I want to say it.
Speaker 1: This is flex and frooms.
Speaker 2: On the other day, I was at a gig for
Speaker 2: confidence men and one three hundred and a woman called
Speaker 2: Big Weight. Now that is a lineup at Australia that
Speaker 2: is a loyalty of disco dance rave kind of vibes
Speaker 2: not rave. It'll actually yeah disco dwance rave.
Speaker 3: I wasn't say anything.
Speaker 2: There is like boom boomleg house.
Speaker 4: How's that there's boom boom?
Speaker 3: Get me out of here.
Speaker 2: So the opener actor is a woman called big Wet.
Speaker 2: She's a new artist out of Melbourne. Her music is
Speaker 2: like electronic house. We had a chat backstage. I don't
Speaker 2: know how we got here, but she was turning thirty
Speaker 2: one the day after the concert and I said to her,
Speaker 2: what do you mean you're thirty one? She's like, I know,
Speaker 2: I look like I'm twenty one and full powder. I'm
Speaker 2: going to play you a little voice note that I
Speaker 2: got from her explaining why she looks twenty one when
Speaker 2: she's in fact a decade older. What's her experience with
Speaker 2: gasher and just generally looking young.
Speaker 6: Well, I don't use a gusher, but I just use
Speaker 6: my fingers. And if you use like a like a
Speaker 6: hemp oil, and you go from out to in intowards
Speaker 6: the bridge of your nose and then you just like
Speaker 6: push it up and out.
Speaker 3: I do that.
Speaker 6: Maybe like fifteen times a day when you're like watching TV.
Speaker 2: Wow. No, but it feels really good, and she goes
Speaker 2: on to do it to somebody in the vicinity of
Speaker 2: our conversation. Now, I really can't stress enough how young
Speaker 2: this person looks. And it's all from doing bootleg face
Speaker 2: massages fifteen times a day.
Speaker 4: So you're saying that upon doing research of gwasher, which
Speaker 4: is using a almost like marble sculpted tool to do
Speaker 4: a facial massage. It works with lymphatic drainage. You didn't
Speaker 4: believe a seven hundred year old ancient Chinese practice, but
Speaker 4: you met a girl backstate at a gig who convinced
Speaker 4: you that it was real, and now you believe it's real.
Speaker 2: No, I don't believe it's realized. Just I was just
Speaker 2: getting some canvassing. I'm canvassing the enemies. No, I just
Speaker 2: think it's incredible. I don't know if it was Jean's
Speaker 2: or the actual facial massaging, but seeing someone in the
Speaker 2: flesh that I personally believe looks way younger than the
Speaker 2: actual age was very shooking. But also she's got a
Speaker 2: very young personality, which I think if you want a
Speaker 2: natural like youth looking face. You need to act young,
Speaker 2: m fun and like fiby, don't you reckon?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I guess so yeah, because you assume yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: When you would ask big Wet how she keeps looking
Speaker 4: so young and she said, oh, I do this facial massage,
Speaker 4: you would sooner believe it's the facial massage and not
Speaker 4: just genetics. When we talked about Guasher last time, you
Speaker 4: were like, this is quack science. There is no way
Speaker 4: to which I said. It's a seven hundre year old practice.
Speaker 4: Even if it doesn't work as we think it does,
Speaker 4: there's enough data here to say that, you know, a
Speaker 4: practice this old and ancient mustn't be false.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's not true.
Speaker 4: Maybe our understanding of it must be a bit confused,
Speaker 4: because like what you assumed it did might not be
Speaker 4: what you thought it did.
Speaker 2: Well. I didn't say I believe what she said. I
Speaker 2: just said it's cool to meet someone who believes in
Speaker 2: the technique so much that she would attribute her young
Speaker 2: skin to that. I thought it was an interesting believe Again,
Speaker 2: I'm against Gwasher, Yes, I'm against Okay, we put it
Speaker 2: this way. I'm against the western co op of Gwasha
Speaker 2: Okay as something that changes your face. That is the
Speaker 2: Western interpretation of Guasha. What that is like, I don't
Speaker 2: know if that really with her, but also slave she
Speaker 2: believes it worked because she does look really young. But
Speaker 2: when you talk more about Gwasha, we're gonna get someone
Speaker 2: in a little bit m who is an expert in
Speaker 2: dermatology gem dotor.
Speaker 3: Look, a thing that's come.
Speaker 2: Up a lot in the last few records, is better
Speaker 2: not I actually fact check things. And you know what,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna prove you all wrong. When we get dorm doctrine.
Speaker 2: They're going to completely agree with me and y'all are
Speaker 2: gonna eat your words.
Speaker 4: Well, in that case, we'll wait till the germ doctor comes.
Speaker 4: But again, I feel as though I'm less likely to
Speaker 4: believe one person saying one thing than the history of
Speaker 4: an ancient culture. I just feel like I just want
Speaker 4: to one person is not going to convince me that
Speaker 4: this thing that I don't even use is not real.
Speaker 3: I just need more evidence that it's just not working.
Speaker 4: I don't believe it does work, but I think to
Speaker 4: say it does not work, I'm ane some evidence.
Speaker 2: We're gonna get that with the with the germ doctor.
Speaker 1: You're listening to flex and frooms on Kada.
Speaker 4: What lengths would you go to to just prove something
Speaker 4: that you do not believe? I know, through me doesn't
Speaker 4: believe in aliens, and to disprove that theory, what did
Speaker 4: you do?
Speaker 2: Brought a random story of an alien?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Random? First head account for it.
Speaker 2: Den Stoner, subsequently roasted by the alien believing community, really
Speaker 2: got out their bonnet when I just thought it was
Speaker 2: a little bit fun.
Speaker 3: It was a bit of fun.
Speaker 2: I don't know much skin in the game.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: I'm not an alien myself. I don't know anyone who's
Speaker 2: an alien, so I don't feel the need to stand
Speaker 2: up for them.
Speaker 4: That's what an alien would say, what an alien would say.
Speaker 4: I don't know your community very well. So this guy
Speaker 4: on the internet who doesn't believe that witches are real,
Speaker 4: which is a pretty you know, common belief, but he's
Speaker 4: gone so far as to request for a witch to
Speaker 4: hex him so he can prove once and for all
Speaker 4: that you know he's right and the rest of the
Speaker 4: world is wrong. Well, bold, listen to this.
Speaker 5: I caught out all the witches on tik tigers Frogs
Speaker 5: in a previous video, and one of them responded to
Speaker 5: me and challenged me, saying, you could hext me, and
Speaker 5: this witch claims that I have to do is sender
Speaker 5: a photo of me, some of my hair, some of
Speaker 5: my nails, and a shirt of mine.
Speaker 1: And last they want the FedEx Sunday the stuff.
Speaker 5: Which should She challenge me, saying that she did like me,
Speaker 5: So I don't believe her, so I'm setting her on
Speaker 5: my stuff.
Speaker 1: Oh I get wait, I can't wait. I want all
Speaker 1: the smoke. It works. Well, we're gonna find out.
Speaker 5: She'll receive the package on Wednesday, and according to her,
Speaker 5: I should get very sick and ill the next few weeks,
Speaker 5: so lake can follow to see if I survive.
Speaker 2: What's happened?
Speaker 3: Since not the like can follow to see if I survive?
Speaker 4: He still came out his engagement he could die. So
Speaker 4: this was only uploaded a couple of days ago. I
Speaker 4: wanted to share it now so I could follow and
Speaker 4: track him. This better not be some kind of like
Speaker 4: spike for followers, because he's got me.
Speaker 3: I want to know.
Speaker 4: I think what will happen is it doesn't matter if
Speaker 4: it's real or not real. If he gets sick, he
Speaker 4: could easily say, well, you know things are going around
Speaker 4: blah blah blah. I think he could justify this anyway,
Speaker 4: but I want to see what happens once the witch
Speaker 4: gets his goods. Will she document the cursing?
Speaker 3: You know, we'll.
Speaker 2: I love this. I love that he's perpetuating half truths
Speaker 2: or uncovering things that aren't true.
Speaker 4: I like the length that he's going to do it.
Speaker 4: But for his sake, I wish he could just do
Speaker 4: some googles or just not. There are other things too, because.
Speaker 3: What if he's wrong and they are real? Yeah? What
Speaker 3: if he's wrong.
Speaker 4: He hasn't prepared himself for that reality, and I'm gonna
Speaker 4: be cursed and you know, have his world chatted.
Speaker 3: Just enjoy yourself, King, don't.
Speaker 2: Worry about it, Samuel Lane.
Speaker 3: Let's say that's exactly right.
Speaker 4: So if for some reason you want to follow in
Speaker 4: this guy's footsteps, I personally do not recommend, but if
Speaker 4: you are going to do it, please document and send
Speaker 4: us a voice memo.
Speaker 2: We don't really I personally don't blame the dark arts.
Speaker 2: My family are big fans of seances.
Speaker 3: You've got to tell us about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I will, I will in a few days. In
Speaker 2: a few days from it, Okay, emotional process.
Speaker 3: You you joined, you know, I just.
Speaker 2: Heard stories about it. Okay, sounds very crazy, fleck And
Speaker 2: I was tiddling tildeling on the Guardian this morning. Guardian
Speaker 2: app as.
Speaker 3: You do app? Yeah, wow, you're going.
Speaker 2: To get around the news site apps. It's such a
Speaker 2: better user experience.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I gotta do that. I would never use it
Speaker 3: or not, I would never, but I have never used
Speaker 3: a new side app.
Speaker 2: Well, they're great because then you can put notifications on,
Speaker 2: so I get little notifications whenever anything happens dropping news
Speaker 2: and then I can therefore like make memes about It's
Speaker 2: really great. Found the story in the Guardian. It was
Speaker 2: published last week and the title is mystery Man dubbed
Speaker 2: the Gentleman found in north Sea may have spent most
Speaker 2: of his life in Australia, so essentially a while ago,
Speaker 2: decades ago. Actually this man washed up in the North Sea,
Speaker 2: which is in the north of the world, and they couldn't.
Speaker 4: Work out like north up above Australia further up, like
Speaker 4: we're talking Greenland.
Speaker 2: Further we're talking German. Okay, Germany area. This random man
Speaker 2: washes up, Nobody knows who he is, nobody knows where
Speaker 2: he's from But recently there's been a breakthrough using this technology.
Speaker 2: What they've done is with the body.
Speaker 3: Wait, why were they looking for him? Don't buddies just
Speaker 3: wash up?
Speaker 2: I think because it was like they had no idea
Speaker 2: who he was, and he washed up with cast iron
Speaker 2: cobbler's feet, you know when they put like your feet
Speaker 2: in concrete.
Speaker 1: Whoa.
Speaker 2: So it was a hit. So it was like an
Speaker 2: unresolved murder.
Speaker 3: Oh and he start with that. Why am I rasing
Speaker 3: for this information?
Speaker 2: I'm keeping on a cliffhanger. My stories don't always work
Speaker 2: out chronologically. But essentially, this guy was dubbed the Gentleman
Speaker 2: by investigators in nineteen ninety four after his body was
Speaker 2: found by police, and they called him the Gentleman because
Speaker 2: of his smart clothing. He had a wool tie, British
Speaker 2: made shoes, French Maide trousers and long sleeve dress shirt.
Speaker 2: So they've run some new tests very recently and they've
Speaker 2: found out that he must have spent most of his
Speaker 2: life in Australia. He's forty to forty five years old.
Speaker 2: And they figured it out because now there is a
Speaker 2: new isotope ratio analysis. I don't know what that is. It.
Speaker 2: It's some sort of scientific test that shows you differences
Speaker 2: in climate, soil and human activity across the globe which
Speaker 2: are reflective of food, water, and dust that would have
Speaker 2: shown up in his human tissue.
Speaker 3: WHOA.
Speaker 2: Which is incredible technology because now you can actually trace
Speaker 2: people back from where they've been. They still don't know
Speaker 2: who he is, but they've also been able to get
Speaker 2: use a DNA profile on the man, and now they're
Speaker 2: going to cross their check them from the missing person's
Speaker 2: data that they have because currently or two weeks ago,
Speaker 2: it was missing person's week.
Speaker 4: So you're telling me that they still don't know why
Speaker 4: we dream but this random man who washed that is
Speaker 4: taking up all the resources. I don't I don't understand
Speaker 4: why they're still looking at him. Let him rest.
Speaker 2: I don't know, man, it must be some sort of mystery.
Speaker 2: Obviously the police or scientists have some sort of vested interest.
Speaker 2: Maybe he was an acos fi.
Speaker 3: I see, I think.
Speaker 2: So as as Io Asio Azio Asio, an Azio agent.
Speaker 2: So if you know, the gentleman hit us up. Poor
Speaker 2: man's led to rest in nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 4: Yeah, give us the goss. I need to understand what
Speaker 4: I'm not understanding because I feel like there's some juicy
Speaker 4: here and it's going over my head and I want
Speaker 4: to be through it. I don't want to be under it.
Speaker 4: You understand me.
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