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Speaker 4: I'm a documentarian. That's it is. Simply, it is what
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Speaker 2: One would think, because I am an influencer, it's me
Speaker 2: that I want to document always. No, I want to
Speaker 2: document my surroundings at all time because I know the
Speaker 2: feeling of watching someone's story from an environment or space
Speaker 2: you were in and being like you really captured it
Speaker 2: all and for a fact, for me leaves cater and
Speaker 2: looks back on my stories as wow, that.
Speaker 4: Was such a fun day.
Speaker 3: I do a bit of that too, as much as you.
Speaker 3: But you do have a great eye.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much.
Speaker 3: And I really love spending time with you.
Speaker 4: You're obsessed.
Speaker 2: I love spending time with you too, doll. I responded,
Speaker 2: like you would respond, isn't it true? We roll averse?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Nice do Yeah? Love it? Love it.
Speaker 3: Listen. We're going to talk about whether or not you'd
Speaker 3: want to be intimidate ted or intimidate ting. I think
Speaker 3: I would say that from the outset of Sorry, from
Speaker 3: the outside you're an intimidate tour. Yeah, And I'm not intimidating,
Speaker 3: But I'm not intimidated either. Perhaps I've been intimidated by
Speaker 3: you in the past.
Speaker 2: Some would say, yeah, I'm an intimidate tour, but you're
Speaker 2: an intimidate tour aggressor you're an animal into it. Yes,
Speaker 2: these are true things. But look, I feel like one
Speaker 2: thing we all need to work on is the stories
Speaker 2: we tell ourselves about stuff. I hang out with a
Speaker 2: lot of people who see the world very differently to me,
Speaker 2: and it can be quite illuminating how you can be
Speaker 2: in the same environment and be having a very different experience,
Speaker 2: and nobody is willing to not meet in the middle
Speaker 2: but really validate the other person's experience. So like I
Speaker 2: called mental illness literally, So like I will go on
Speaker 2: to say, I'm having a conversation with someone who was
Speaker 2: just adamant that everybody in the room was intimidating because
Speaker 2: of certain characteristics that they were also just playing. I said, baby,
Speaker 2: the call is coming from where it always is.
Speaker 4: It's big pot call and kettle black energy. Let's get into.
Speaker 1: Sweat, flex and frooms.
Speaker 3: We're back here on our BS. If anyone doesn't know
Speaker 3: what that is, use your imagination. If I said BS,
Speaker 3: what would you think beasting big sack? Thank you big
Speaker 3: sexy vibes.
Speaker 4: Okay, enough enough.
Speaker 3: I'm in the mood today where I can't decide if
Speaker 3: I'm annoying myself or loving myself. You sent me a
Speaker 3: message the other day which was a DM that you
Speaker 3: got sent. I don't recall this, but about me all right?
Speaker 3: It was like a week hereo. It's from a woman
Speaker 3: called Keeley. She goes hallo flex. Can I please please
Speaker 3: ask a massive favor from you? People are really getting
Speaker 3: around the politess these days.
Speaker 4: Yea, and I love it.
Speaker 3: It's fantastic. Can you please share with rooms that I
Speaker 3: had an extremely similar experience the first I got lit?
Speaker 2: Oh, yep, yep. I do recall scanning this one before
Speaker 2: I passed it on.
Speaker 4: So my apology.
Speaker 3: Reference to a time when I was really young and
Speaker 3: I was at a party and I got a little
Speaker 3: bit too close near it and ended up having a
Speaker 3: little tiny mentee bee ran away from the party, sat
Speaker 3: in the forest, calling my parents, crying, feeling like I
Speaker 3: wanted to watch the Simpsons, or like the Simpsons was
Speaker 3: running around my head.
Speaker 2: Yes, you had two thoughts. One was I'm in grave
Speaker 2: danger and I love the Simpsons.
Speaker 3: All right, can you please pass this on with Thrones.
Speaker 3: It was twenty thirteen and I was on my gap
Speaker 3: year in Ibitha at Navichi show very You, That's big
Speaker 3: and that show. People cryed those shows. I can be
Speaker 3: the one to make you feel that way. These two
Speaker 3: men were having trouble untying their shoelaces from one another
Speaker 3: and said they'd buy me a drink if I could
Speaker 3: help untie it.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 3: I did, and I had another drink and I freaked out.
Speaker 3: I went nonverbal and only responded laughed. When my friends
Speaker 3: would say Simpsons clothes, I've got to say, I think
Speaker 3: it's got something to do with a familiarity. I don't
Speaker 3: really know what's going on up there. Thank you in advance.
Speaker 3: So the hypothesis here, okay, is that when you lose
Speaker 3: your marbles and you're looking for some familiarity in your life,
Speaker 3: the Simpsons is a natural state of order.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for Simpsons people, but for everybody else who isn't
Speaker 2: a Simpsons person, what is the equivalent? You wouldn't know
Speaker 2: because you're a Simpsons person. This is my point exactly.
Speaker 2: Simpsons people only know two things, outdated references and old shows.
Speaker 4: That's it.
Speaker 3: The Simpsons is still running. I haven't watched it in
Speaker 3: about twenty years.
Speaker 2: To be fair, did you tell everyone that you're a
Speaker 2: fake Shrek fan or was that just inter me and confidence?
Speaker 3: Yes, everyone knows.
Speaker 4: Should I say it again?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, So I feel like what should be a closer,
Speaker 2: a closer core of your identity is in fact that
Speaker 2: you're a Simpsons person, not a Shrek person, because the
Speaker 2: Shrek thing is just a cute little reference. You've barely
Speaker 2: watched the whole Shrek movie before, but everyone's like, is
Speaker 2: the Shrek girl, she's the Simpsons girl. People update your references.
Speaker 3: People are Simpsons people is too common. I will powers person,
Speaker 3: but I like Shrek has some mystique around him. Still
Speaker 3: MI like Myers, but a real level of mistake and
Speaker 3: a fantastic voice.
Speaker 4: Yeah. But if when something is like a mainstream meme,
Speaker 4: can it have any mystique?
Speaker 3: It still does for some reason, It's been going around
Speaker 3: probably for ten years, Shrek memes.
Speaker 2: I want to understand because now people think I'm a
Speaker 2: Shrek person. I'm like, babes, that's not even me. I've
Speaker 2: not even seen it before. That's an issue with proximity yeah,
Speaker 2: that's number one. But the proximity to you. Now people
Speaker 2: are trying to emerge the brands they love Shrek. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: that was not what said.
Speaker 3: Anyway.
Speaker 2: Let's stop with that though. So Simpsons people, you don't
Speaker 2: need to identify yourselves. I already know. I'm talking about
Speaker 2: non Simpsons people. Not to be confused with friends people.
Speaker 2: I'm not calling for you. Sign for people. I'm not
Speaker 2: calling for.
Speaker 3: You, oh sign feels it.
Speaker 2: No, the Futurama people, the South Park people, I'm not
Speaker 2: calling for you.
Speaker 3: You were a future Ama girl, No way, really you
Speaker 3: give big future alma vibe? Do I really?
Speaker 2: Actually, the thing is, I'm trying to find the people
Speaker 2: who weren't influenced by children's show Where are You? It's
Speaker 2: because you came off of Spaceship. Literally, I was a
Speaker 2: stalk and then a preteen. Stop flirting with me.
Speaker 1: Flex and frooms.
Speaker 2: A couple of weeks ago, I made an Instagram story
Speaker 2: selfie mode video to camera. Now I don't usually do
Speaker 2: that these days because I'm out of my ear of
Speaker 2: oversharing on the internet, and now when I have thoughts,
Speaker 2: I just put them in the group chat, you know, Ah,
Speaker 2: I share them with you, but I was like, this
Speaker 2: one is getting on my last nerves because now that
Speaker 2: I'm out and about, you know, I'm making sure my
Speaker 2: name's on the guest list. These days, I'm popping and
Speaker 2: getting the photo leaving. I keep having a variation of
Speaker 2: the same conversation.
Speaker 4: Hey do you remember me?
Speaker 2: You might not remember me, but we've met, which I
Speaker 2: can't think of anything more humiliating than putting yourself in
Speaker 2: a position to be the forgotten person, because you're not
Speaker 2: gonna believe me if I say I do remember you, right,
Speaker 2: because you're like, oh no, like she's probably lying or whatever,
Speaker 2: or I now have to overcompensate or overvalue the effect
Speaker 2: you had on my life, being like no, of course
Speaker 2: I remember you. Now you feel all important for no reason,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. So that's been grinding my gears.
Speaker 2: Let's park that, you know, because I've already expressed that.
Speaker 2: The second thing is I keep seeing this floating around
Speaker 2: the bloody internet, right justifying why you know, like this
Speaker 2: phrase like you're so intimidating and that's why you don't
Speaker 2: get the things you want, or that's why this person
Speaker 2: didn't do this, or so you're just so intimidating and
Speaker 2: like la la la la lad. And my thing is
Speaker 2: it's not a compliment to be called intimidating. However, if
Speaker 2: someone were to ask you, would you rather be called
Speaker 2: intimidating or be the intimidated person?
Speaker 4: Which would you prefer?
Speaker 3: Which would you prefer?
Speaker 4: Intimidating? All day?
Speaker 2: I don't want to be the intimidated person. Ill people
Speaker 2: are so lame, like we're all equal parts of disgusting,
Speaker 2: rabid creatures.
Speaker 4: Why would I be intimidated?
Speaker 3: I guess. So there's just I think being intimidating is ugly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but then being intimidated is like where is your backbone?
Speaker 3: True? True?
Speaker 2: Like stop pedestalizing people. It's really like naive and childish.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're both negative, I guess, but you got to
Speaker 3: choose one. Choose by listen.
Speaker 2: I think you made your choice. I think you made
Speaker 2: your choice. Just say the words down the barrels.
Speaker 3: One of my most biggest social pet peeves are people
Speaker 3: who choose to be intimidating. I'll tell you a story.
Speaker 3: When I was in year seven, came to a new school.
Speaker 3: I reckon, I've told you know. I'm at the point
Speaker 3: in my career where I've told the same story at
Speaker 3: least twice.
Speaker 4: Oh no, you're aging.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, but this is why we're getting near it
Speaker 3: to get more stories.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, this is what I'm saying. We need to
Speaker 4: update the back catalog.
Speaker 3: So I'm draining it out.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, more room Okay, cool coo cool, more room.
Speaker 3: For jelly beans in the lolliger. Now, when I was
Speaker 3: in yey seven, I moved to a new school and
Speaker 3: I was intimidating. Fancy school. You were intimidating, No, I
Speaker 3: was intimidated part of me. It was a premium school
Speaker 3: experience that I was not used to go in. Everyone
Speaker 3: seems really smart. We started with an entrance exam to
Speaker 3: get into the school. Now, it wasn't to get into
Speaker 3: the school. It was to determine whether or not you
Speaker 3: would get a scholarship to the show to the school.
Speaker 3: It was kind of like a Napland style situation. Of course,
Speaker 3: I didn't get a scholarship. I'm not that good at
Speaker 3: maths and that's a core tenant of getting into this school. Anyway,
Speaker 3: finished the test, I was feeling a bit shit, like
Speaker 3: had really bad anxiety. And then I was walking back
Speaker 3: to meet my mum in the car. And when I
Speaker 3: was that age, I was very smiley, probably a little
Speaker 3: bit too much, like I'd run around people say why
Speaker 3: walk with the little spring in my step?
Speaker 4: That's sweet?
Speaker 3: Like this such a freak. And there was this girl
Speaker 3: that was really pretty and she was wearing red glasses
Speaker 3: and she was with her best friend. I'd like already
Speaker 3: sparred them out. They're in their car going home, and
Speaker 3: I looked at them, I smiled and I waved, and
Speaker 3: they both gave me greases. And it hit different, of course,
Speaker 3: given I am a people pleaser and an upwardly mobile
Speaker 3: social type of person cloud chaser. Well, it is what
Speaker 3: it is, a friend of them in your night via
Speaker 3: getting my hair dyed blonde, getting finally in the popular group,
Speaker 3: and who became good and I probably became I was
Speaker 3: part of the more intimidating group, probably.
Speaker 2: And you made that transition consciously. I want what I want.
Speaker 2: I get what I want by changing.
Speaker 3: Every fiber of my being and then having crisis later
Speaker 3: down in life. No, so what I will say, I've
Speaker 3: been on the receiving end of people who are purposely intimidating.
Speaker 3: But the older I get and I guess when I'm
Speaker 3: like living in symphony with my values.
Speaker 4: I love that phrasing.
Speaker 3: I think those people are lame. Yeah, and I don't
Speaker 3: get it. I get intimidated by them in the moment,
Speaker 3: But then at the end of the day, I think,
Speaker 3: I'm so glad I'm not like you. I'm so glad
Speaker 3: I'm friends with people that are so welcoming, like my
Speaker 3: two best friends Madison and Eliza are like, you'll meet
Speaker 3: them and they just include you and are so interested
Speaker 3: in you, and they remember everything. So I would still
Speaker 3: choose to be intimidated because I would never consciously want
Speaker 3: to make someone feel uncomfortable. That is at the core tender.
Speaker 2: This is what I'm getting to the people who say
Speaker 2: they're intimidated. You're creating an air of discomfort totally.
Speaker 3: And I think you make a good point about the pedestalness. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but I'm thinking with my values, yes, I would prefer
Speaker 3: to pedal stool someone and make everyone feel comfortable then
Speaker 3: in invernal. But yeah, sometimes you must invernently make people
Speaker 3: feel intimidated.
Speaker 2: Either way, which feels like you know when someone tells you,
Speaker 2: or like I've been having this thought about honesty a
Speaker 2: lot because I used to be an honesty is the
Speaker 2: best policy type bitch, until I realize that everyone is
Speaker 2: really emotionally fragile and they can't handle it. And I
Speaker 2: don't want to be that person who's just like traumatizing
Speaker 2: people because I was told that honestly is the best policy.
Speaker 2: Turns out you bitch as are liars. So now I
Speaker 2: just keep my mouth shut, not trying to say too much.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to do too much, not trying to be
Speaker 2: necessarily open to make other people feel feel really comfortable.
Speaker 2: I don't want to do any of that stuff. But
Speaker 2: what I'm fine is I have so much time to
Speaker 2: observe the way people interact with each other, right, and
Speaker 2: so everybody. I was at a party recently and I
Speaker 2: was talking to this girl who was like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: thank you so.
Speaker 4: Much for talking to me.
Speaker 2: Like everyone here is like so intimidating, And I was like,
Speaker 2: what is it about when they're finding intimidating?
Speaker 4: And she was like, oh, you know.
Speaker 2: Like I've walked in and like nobody's really said anything
Speaker 2: to me. And I was like, have you said anything
Speaker 2: to them? Like what kind of self concept do you
Speaker 2: have that you assume when you walk into a room
Speaker 2: people need to now make themselves available to you. I'm like,
Speaker 2: don't you see in my head I'm having this conversation
Speaker 2: because I was just nodding and smiling because who is
Speaker 2: this person?
Speaker 4: But I was like, think about your self concept.
Speaker 2: When you walk into a space, your instinct is if
Speaker 2: people don't acknowledge me that they must be the issue
Speaker 2: you Are you gonna?
Speaker 4: Are you gonna say hello?
Speaker 2: She was just kinda like yeah, I just think it's
Speaker 2: really strange, like why have this party and have all
Speaker 2: these people who don't know each other and not put
Speaker 2: emphasis on like introducing each other or making them feel
Speaker 2: everyone feel comfortable. And I was like, well, I said
Speaker 2: hello to you, so you go pay it forward, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean? And she was like yeah, but
Speaker 2: it's different because like you were smiling, and I'm like, these.
Speaker 4: Are exactly no no, no, hold.
Speaker 2: On and again, but these are just stories you're telling yourself, right,
Speaker 2: It's like you're not smiling.
Speaker 4: She wasn't like if anything, I'm like, you fit right
Speaker 4: in babes. You're giving stone cold bitch like the rest
Speaker 4: of these people.
Speaker 2: And you're like the same energy that you're observing is
Speaker 2: the same energy you're bringing into the space.
Speaker 4: It's exact same.
Speaker 2: And to that point, I don't have social anxiety, but
Speaker 2: the people that I know who do, I'm like, you
Speaker 2: be the bitches looking people in a space at all times,
Speaker 2: all my socially anxious friends, I'm like, it's you with
Speaker 2: They're not smiling, they're looking stiff, they're not getting involved.
Speaker 4: And I'm like, of course, of course.
Speaker 2: You look that way, but just imagine the person that
Speaker 2: you're observing to be intimidating or like rude or whatever,
Speaker 2: is just you reflected Because I know when I walk
Speaker 2: into a space, everyone's like, like bubbly because I'm being bubbly.
Speaker 2: Everyone's smiling because I'm smiling. Everyone's being open because I'm
Speaker 2: being open.
Speaker 3: But you also got clout.
Speaker 4: So yeah, but how do you think I got How
Speaker 4: do you think I got the cloud? Babe?
Speaker 2: True?
Speaker 3: I have seen you in social situations and you have
Speaker 3: a very good way of connecting with people and making
Speaker 3: people feel seen. I will say agree with the woman
Speaker 3: wasn't there, but I totally catch her energy. You just
Speaker 3: know when you walk in a room, it's a good
Speaker 3: vibe or it's a hostile vibe. So Sis, whatever your
Speaker 3: name is, I'm with you. I feel you as a
Speaker 3: smiley person. I have no resting bitch face, and I
Speaker 3: get it. You never see me, don't. Yeah, yeah, it's
Speaker 3: really beautiful.
Speaker 1: This is Flex and Frooms on Kada.
Speaker 4: So I was watching this video that was talking about
Speaker 4: in and Out. You've been before?
Speaker 3: Sure have?
Speaker 4: Do you like it?
Speaker 3: Didn't write it really not at all.
Speaker 2: I think the hype is something to do with that,
Speaker 2: because I will say that the chips are quite stale,
Speaker 2: and I think they're made from real potato and that's
Speaker 2: the issue.
Speaker 4: But the burger was fantastic.
Speaker 2: And whenever I'm in LA, I'm always run around and around,
Speaker 2: run out and trying to get it.
Speaker 3: God. I really like La me too. I'd leave there
Speaker 3: over Europe. Yeah, maybe we should move.
Speaker 4: Maybe we should.
Speaker 3: I've been trying to convince Flex to move to Melbourne,
Speaker 3: but maybe La is the more logical step.
Speaker 4: Either way, we gotta go. I'm thinking like somewhere Rogue,
Speaker 4: like Portugal.
Speaker 2: So I was watching this video and they were talking
Speaker 2: about how it's super odd that In and Out isn't
Speaker 2: expanding heaps rapidly because everybody's so obsessed with it, and
Speaker 2: they only open five new restaurants a year, and I
Speaker 2: was like, that sounds like a lot of new restaurants
Speaker 2: to open.
Speaker 4: What is that compared to? Like the video was reading
Speaker 4: my mind.
Speaker 2: They went to say, unlike McDonald's, who opened a new
Speaker 2: restaurant how frequently?
Speaker 3: For me?
Speaker 2: You should know this every week, think about it. Every
Speaker 2: fourteen and a half hours.
Speaker 4: They showed a map.
Speaker 2: Of all the McDonald's in the US. It's just McDonald's.
Speaker 2: I feel like there's more. There's more McDonald's than roads.
Speaker 2: Every how often fourteen and a half hours.
Speaker 4: Every time you go.
Speaker 2: To sleep and wake up, there's a new McDonald's allegedly allegedly.
Speaker 4: How is that possible?
Speaker 3: Does that make sense?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean I remember hearing this stat a couple of
Speaker 2: years ago and it was one one a day, So
Speaker 2: it's the same thing.
Speaker 3: Well, I guess the population's gone up to eight billion billion.
Speaker 4: We made it, kiddies, We made it kittlets. Now the
Speaker 4: world is even more uninhabitable.
Speaker 3: We did that.
Speaker 4: We did that, queens.
Speaker 3: Oh well that's exciting. Yeah it is, you know, I
Speaker 3: used to You know, it's a franchise e situation. Is
Speaker 3: a data guys parents own a McDonald's. You want to
Speaker 3: say that, yeah, okay, it's a Flex. It was so cool.
Speaker 3: Really felt felt that was like a serendipitous moment, you know,
Speaker 3: because I love macas so much. Manifested it.
Speaker 2: I never seen heard you speak this way about anything.
Speaker 2: Why are you still smitten? Let it go dead?
Speaker 3: Sorry? Look up. Next, I want to talk about Simpsons again.
Speaker 3: As we know, Flex is not a Simpsons person. However,
Speaker 3: I am some core tenants of my personality McDonald's Simpsons. Yep,
Speaker 3: getting near it?
Speaker 2: No, no, myself to it?
Speaker 4: Are you still doing getting near it? Poohoo? Whooo?
Speaker 2: Homie?
Speaker 3: Have you graduated on the brain? Doll chilli?
Speaker 4: We are you done?
Speaker 3: Listen? I'm done with the Pooh humor? Right, turning twenty seven? Sorry,
Speaker 3: pardon me, I'm turning twenty five, so I gotta grow
Speaker 3: out of it. Up Next, I want to tell you
Speaker 3: about a message that you sent me that someone sent you. Again,
Speaker 3: as we often talk about on the show, people send
Speaker 3: me messages that they want to give you, yeah and
Speaker 3: vice versa.
Speaker 2: Honestly happens way more often than makes sense for how
Speaker 2: often we're on our phones.
Speaker 3: You've got to send me everyone, please.
Speaker 1: This is Flex and Frooms on Kita.
Speaker 3: As you know, because we say it every episode. We
Speaker 3: are getting near it. It's getting near It's spring summer season,
Speaker 3: we say.
Speaker 2: Every episode because it's a very new era that I'm
Speaker 2: ushering threw me into. Because I was ushered by a friend. No, no, no,
Speaker 2: you ushered by You don't know. I was ushered in
Speaker 2: by Juan, who is perfectly getting near it. It changed
Speaker 2: my outlook on life completely. I brought the energy into
Speaker 2: the space, did I not?
Speaker 4: I did?
Speaker 2: And I'm ushering you into it, and it's worked, and
Speaker 2: it's worked.
Speaker 3: I must admit I'm on cloud nine.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying now.
Speaker 3: I will say that in my getting near It tactics
Speaker 3: and in my experience thus far in getting near it
Speaker 3: Spring summer season, I've been learning some tricks of the
Speaker 3: trade when it comes to going out, when you're meeting people.
Speaker 3: I went somewhere with a friend of mine the other day.
Speaker 3: Her name is I won't tell you the name.
Speaker 2: I just.
Speaker 4: To give too much detail.
Speaker 3: It just happens. I think it's like when your brain's
Speaker 3: working too slow, but you have to say something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, it was cad uberty appity.
Speaker 3: Anyway, she brings out her well, her purse and she's
Speaker 3: got this whole bunch of pills, okay, and I think,
Speaker 3: what's going on? Yeah, it's not it's not a time
Speaker 3: when we're doing any dirgs. And yet she's got these
Speaker 3: blister packs full of dirgs or some kind. And I say,
Speaker 3: what are those and she says, oh, they're d gas
Speaker 3: and heartburn pills. What are those two things? Yeah, what's
Speaker 3: how she explained it. Okay, you're going on a date, right, yep.
Speaker 3: And of course farts built up over the day of
Speaker 3: the week. Okay, do you part?
Speaker 2: Yeah. But I associate fighting with comfort, so like when
Speaker 2: I'm in bed late at night, I don't think I'm
Speaker 2: a day like an errand day to day fighter, really
Speaker 2: not fighting us.
Speaker 4: At the home actually pop one out. Oh yeah, I'm
Speaker 4: in the bathroom.
Speaker 3: Sure, But I never forget. When I was in U nine,
Speaker 3: we went to Canberra.
Speaker 4: We're not doing the tanjet right now.
Speaker 3: I'm going to tell you we went to Parliament House
Speaker 3: and I thought it'd be so funny if I farted
Speaker 3: in the lift, because we were like in Parliament House
Speaker 3: farting in the lift. You're sick, thinking Julie Gilard's gonna
Speaker 3: walk in this respect to Julia Gillard. I love her,
Speaker 3: but I just had the mental image, or maybe it
Speaker 3: was it was Kevin a lot of the time. Yeah, sorry,
Speaker 3: that's more fair enough. Kevin rud walks in Kevin O
Speaker 3: seven freaking out with a smell of shite. So I
Speaker 3: did that, and then actually it was all my classmates
Speaker 3: opened the door, came in.
Speaker 4: And ill, what's that?
Speaker 1: Ill?
Speaker 4: That would be me.
Speaker 3: I just said, anyway, Degas, how does it work? This
Speaker 3: is how she explained it. She said, when you need
Speaker 3: a fart, you get all these bubbles in your stomach.
Speaker 3: And what Degas does is it makes one big bubble.
Speaker 3: And I thought, that doesn't sound fun.
Speaker 4: That sounds like an atomic bomb. Babe, that doesn't sound
Speaker 4: all right.
Speaker 3: But then we ended up going out with each other
Speaker 3: the next night getting near it spring summer season. Yeah boy,
Speaker 3: And she said, oh, I actually googled it, and what
Speaker 3: Degas stars is it makes a thousand little tiny bubbles
Speaker 3: in your stomach, so they all prick and leave.
Speaker 4: Oh so it's not the one big bubble.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know how I feel about that, because the
Speaker 2: way Degas works, right, is it just like doing what
Speaker 2: your body would do naturally. Or it's like adding in
Speaker 2: some artificial stuff because you don't want to run away
Speaker 2: to the bathroom quickly fight and come back. There's like
Speaker 2: a lot of preps for like the potential. I don't understand.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's well DEAs is technically for is
Speaker 3: it for people?
Speaker 2: Who?
Speaker 3: Is it for even ibsah? I think it's the IBS community.
Speaker 3: And yet we've taken it, and you're.
Speaker 2: Taking it recreationally because you don't want to risk potentially
Speaker 2: needing to fight over the duration of a day, just
Speaker 2: in case you happen to meet someone you don't want
Speaker 2: to fight around.
Speaker 3: You've never clearly never experienced.
Speaker 4: Why are you're pointing at me the situation.
Speaker 3: Of getting home with someone it's all going, well, yeah,
Speaker 3: we've all done it. The next morning you're pissing and
Speaker 3: you know it's coming, and the acoustics always crazy, it's
Speaker 3: always it's always on sweet bathroom.
Speaker 4: All right, Yeah, look be hungover as well. Okay, okay,
Speaker 4: So the degas did work. You got near it, and
Speaker 4: it was necessary.
Speaker 3: Didn't do a single fart for the whole day and
Speaker 3: night and morning, but.
Speaker 4: It was necessary to take it. You stand by it.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know if it was like what's it
Speaker 3: called when it when something doesn't work placebo?
Speaker 2: Okay, but yeah, you look so proud of yourself, you
Speaker 2: look so stoked.
Speaker 3: I just want to say it worked. I'm not here
Speaker 3: for Big de Gas, Big d Gas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because you know Big de Gas is clipping this
Speaker 2: away and they're like, let's reach out to the girls.
Speaker 4: They're gonna love us.
Speaker 3: Scream capping.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Flex and Frooms on.
Speaker 2: Flex has spent quite a few times on planes. I
Speaker 2: used to love it, and then, like all things, that
Speaker 2: quickly changes because we know pain and pleasure exist on
Speaker 2: the same spectrum, and it's just teetering, teetering, teetering.
Speaker 4: Sometimes it teeters too.
Speaker 3: Far in my pleasure. Ere if you're wondering same.
Speaker 2: What I will say is that I am a creature
Speaker 2: of habit and a creature of comfort, which is, you know,
Speaker 2: unusual in some ways, but it makes sense in others.
Speaker 2: So when I get into a plane, this is the routine.
Speaker 2: I get in my car, I find parking, or I
Speaker 2: get an uber obviously go to the lounge. Naturally, before
Speaker 2: I get to the lounge, I obviously go to check
Speaker 2: in my bags, I flirt with anyone I can just
Speaker 2: to yeah, just to like give put a pep in
Speaker 2: my step. It's nice to start the day with a
Speaker 2: bit of floating. Get to the lounge, have a bit
Speaker 2: of a snack. Could be a little avocado toast, little
Speaker 2: pancake shampers.
Speaker 4: No, behave, that's not me.
Speaker 3: You know that I'm going to do that when we
Speaker 3: go down to Melbourne soon.
Speaker 4: Gorge, I support you.
Speaker 2: And then naturally I've got priority onto the plane, so
Speaker 2: I take my time, I sit on and then when
Speaker 2: they call us, I saunter onto the plane. I take
Speaker 2: my window seat and then I relax. Today though, or
Speaker 2: the day I took the plane, I was on an
Speaker 2: aisle seat, not my favorite because I want to nap
Speaker 2: straight away. The moment I sit down, my eyes are closed.
Speaker 2: I'm like a coma toast mummy pun intended.
Speaker 4: So we get onto this.
Speaker 2: Plane and it's delayed. So everyone's restless and really annoyed.
Speaker 2: And the couple next to me, I love their energy.
Speaker 2: They let the quirky couple maybe like sixty they want
Speaker 2: a chit chat. Oh they go we were going to Hobart,
Speaker 2: you know, like, oh there is like that's a great outfit. Oh,
Speaker 2: that's a great phone case. Chetcha, chetcha chet But I
Speaker 2: was like, headphones on, Mummy's going to sleep. I noticed
Speaker 2: that someone behind us has been coughing quite a bit
Speaker 2: since we got onto the plane and have been sitting
Speaker 2: on the timac for twenty five minutes. Now, I try
Speaker 2: not to be funny about that stuff because if I'm annoyed,
Speaker 2: it's gotta be worse for the person that's happening to.
Speaker 2: And I just hope it's not me, you know, So
Speaker 2: I just kind of drowned it out. Babies crying, drown
Speaker 2: it out, lad people, drown it out. Not my problem,
Speaker 2: not their problem. But the couple next to me, they're
Speaker 2: not having it. They're not they're not feel good about it.
Speaker 2: And I was thinking, they're a nice couple. What are
Speaker 2: they gonna do? Talk about it?
Speaker 4: They did that.
Speaker 2: What ended up happening was from the time I noticed
Speaker 2: at the time we took off was another half an hour.
Speaker 2: Every time this person coughed, the couple next to me
Speaker 2: would look back through the gap in the chair to
Speaker 2: eye them every single time. And it was so uncomfortable
Speaker 2: because it wasn't like a shady little like you know,
Speaker 2: roll your eye. They would both turn their whole bodies
Speaker 2: and look in the crease of the chair, peer through
Speaker 2: to the person behind, clocked that they were making them uncomfortable.
Speaker 2: Now I was getting uncomfortable because I'm like, Okay, the coffer,
Speaker 2: it's bad, it's not great, but you can't help a
Speaker 2: coughing fit.
Speaker 4: But the glarers, I'm like, babes, what can this person do?
Speaker 2: So anyway, I do a poll on my Instagram story, naturally,
Speaker 2: because the plan was to sleep.
Speaker 4: I'm um, i'm um, I say, in this situation, who
Speaker 4: do you think is the worst person?
Speaker 3: Is it?
Speaker 2: The person having a coughing fit? Coughing everywhere but their elbow.
Speaker 3: They weren't covering.
Speaker 2: No, this person was like everywhere spluttering, fluttering, flattering, splattering
Speaker 2: like it was. It was like a symphony of various
Speaker 2: mucusy cough.
Speaker 3: How did you say that if you're in problem?
Speaker 2: Because I heard it, Like, so if I'm on the
Speaker 2: if I'm in the aisle, they're in the middle seat,
Speaker 2: so sometimes they're coughing in my in the gap between
Speaker 2: my chair, the coughing and the gap between the other chair.
Speaker 2: They would get up to like I think at one
Speaker 2: point they were gonna go to the bathroom, but they're like,
Speaker 2: everyone sit down, So they got up and I kind of.
Speaker 4: Like caught the cough for my peripherals. Then I do
Speaker 4: my pole.
Speaker 2: I'm like, who's worse in the situation? The person coughing everywhere,
Speaker 2: everywhere everywhere, not being COVID save like, you know, just
Speaker 2: making a scene, all the people who won't stop glaring.
Speaker 2: Initially I was like, one or two glares, let them know, Okay,
Speaker 2: let them know every glare. After it would have been
Speaker 2: one glare per minute at that point, maybe one glare
Speaker 2: per two minutes.
Speaker 4: It was hectic.
Speaker 2: So I did the poll and in the first time
Speaker 2: in my Instagram polling career, fifty to fifty. Well ended
Speaker 2: up happening is after one too many coughs. The couple
Speaker 2: next to me ended up turning around and giving the
Speaker 2: coffer a mask. Now this couple wasn't wearing a mask,
Speaker 2: but they handed over a mask. We had the whole
Speaker 2: plane flight. We woke up and there was a confrontation
Speaker 2: that I only just caught as I was coming to
Speaker 2: and the couple next to me were kind of saying,
Speaker 2: you know what it is, what it is, you know,
Speaker 2: like nobody wants to have a coughing fit. But realistically,
Speaker 2: these are the signs of the times it's inappropriate. You
Speaker 2: should have taken more steps to you know, shield us
Speaker 2: from it. You don't know who's immuno compromise. You don't know,
Speaker 2: like we know your situation. You got a coughing fit.
Speaker 2: You don't know everyone else's situation. You don't know what's happening.
Speaker 2: You should have taken more care, especially because you kept coughing.
Speaker 2: If it was a one undone it would have been fine,
Speaker 2: but you kept doing it with no care for the
Speaker 2: rest of us.
Speaker 4: It's not a big deal. Don't take it.
Speaker 2: Personally, you know, because they're like, they're like sixtiesh and
Speaker 2: ain't good shit. They're like a ram. But I was like, damn,
Speaker 2: Like they got a point. You can't help a coughing fit,
Speaker 2: but you can create micro solutions around being a discussing.
Speaker 3: How did the person react?
Speaker 4: I didn't.
Speaker 2: I heard them kind of because the person who was
Speaker 2: coughing was the one that tapped them and was like, hey,
Speaker 2: like FYI so and so and so and so. The
Speaker 2: person of the coffer was the one who had tapped
Speaker 2: the couple and confronted them. Oh, that's when I was
Speaker 2: coming to I didn't catch it, and then as the
Speaker 2: couple was responding, they were cutting the coffer off from speaking.
Speaker 3: Oh that's no good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was tense.
Speaker 3: Did he end up wearing the mask?
Speaker 4: Well, I'm assuming so yeah, leave.
Speaker 3: It at that. Oh I hate this situation. It's not good, right,
Speaker 3: I mean as a Karen. Yeah, I must say I
Speaker 3: was probably the couple don't want to be. But if
Speaker 3: you want to get to that age, the Karen will
Speaker 3: be in full swing. Oh, let's be honest. But oh.
Speaker 2: It reminds me of conversations we have about social responsibility
Speaker 2: as well, Like in this instance, nobody feels like it's
Speaker 2: their place to say anything because you assume the person
Speaker 2: having the issue is the person who's going to find
Speaker 2: that's right. So I know, if I have a coughing
Speaker 2: fit in public, I'm freaking out. I'm running elsewhere, I'm
Speaker 2: switching out rooms, I'm going to the bathroom, I'm getting
Speaker 2: out of there. Not because I fundamentally care, but because
Speaker 2: I'm like, I don't want to be someone's problem. I
Speaker 2: don't want the confrontation. It's so much easier to just bounce. Granted, though,
Speaker 2: being on a plane as a layer of complexity, because yes,
Speaker 2: you don't want to be running up and down the aisles,
Speaker 2: but you could have just hid in the bathroom. It's
Speaker 2: not looking good, brothers.
Speaker 3: Any last words, I've been the coffer as well in
Speaker 3: this situation. And when you got a cough, you got
Speaker 3: a cough. I wore a mask when I was coughing,
Speaker 3: I was also blowing my nose, which meant I had
Speaker 3: to mass down. That's so cool. But when you're going
Speaker 3: from Europe to Sydney.
Speaker 4: Got the subtle flex.
Speaker 2: When you're an international traveler, it does, it does happen,
Speaker 2: it does choice.
Speaker 3: Alas, it could be a good technique to try and
Speaker 3: get into business class because you can hield you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, look either way, it's it's not great.
Speaker 2: But I also say on a plane is where we
Speaker 2: should be on our best behavior and nobody their best
Speaker 2: behavior that day.
Speaker 3: Naughty, naughty.
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