Speaker 1: The flex and Rooms Daily podcast, and we're back. We
Speaker 1: never left, never left, but today's episodes can be really,
Speaker 1: really fun. What you're going to hear is ten minutes
Speaker 1: of me yip yapping because Humy refuses to tell us
Speaker 1: her dating story that she promised she would, which is okay.
Speaker 1: You know, because I'm always here, you never.
Speaker 2: Know it might come up in the last minute, so
Speaker 2: people have to listen the whole time.
Speaker 1: No, it's still worth it to listen despite your negligence.
Speaker 2: Well, I go through Flexi's dating profile and trust me,
Speaker 2: you're gonna want to listen to this. You're going to
Speaker 2: get some inspiration. Also, I assume if anybody finds you
Speaker 2: on Hinge, they might come and do some googling, find
Speaker 2: this podcast, listen to it, and then they can be
Speaker 2: I guess like vindicated, saying, oh, I understand why that
Speaker 2: woman had all those prompts.
Speaker 1: I didn't understand that, but I stand by you. I
Speaker 1: gonna have that where we're all gonna have that doctor
Speaker 1: message in again, like flex ever understands you, but I
Speaker 1: do you have some anaesthesia. What I will say is
Speaker 1: I believe that my profile is a testament to the
Speaker 1: fact that I don't have traumatic dating experiences like so
Speaker 1: many of my peers do. You don't have any, not
Speaker 1: from no, not traumatic, Like you know when people talk
Speaker 1: about like terrible casual dating experiences. I don't have that,
Speaker 1: And I think it's because the kind of profile I'm
Speaker 1: building is attracting a person that, at the very least,
Speaker 1: even if we don't work out, not embarrassed by the
Speaker 1: prospect of having spoken to your talking to you. I'll
Speaker 1: speak to some of my friends or acquaintances where I'm like,
Speaker 1: you let anybody participate, Like your profile is made for everyone.
Speaker 1: There are no barriers to entry. You're just so happy
Speaker 1: to be perceived and ogled at, and you're confused why.
Speaker 1: Like you've attracted all these weirdos, there's nothing keeping them away,
Speaker 1: Like you look like the most approachable, beautiful person ever.
Speaker 1: Of course every sicko is like I want a piece.
Speaker 2: Well, okay, I will tell you a story quickly before
Speaker 2: we go okay in the intro go on, and also
Speaker 2: if this person listens, I actually don't care. Oh so,
Speaker 2: before we came in to record this, someone else at
Speaker 2: the station approached me and said, oh listen, frooms rooms,
Speaker 2: lusty rooms, did you to I'm going to change the
Speaker 2: guy's name. Did you used to date a guy called Jake?
Speaker 2: And Jake is the name of my ex boyfriend, like
Speaker 2: my actual boyfriend from years ago. And I was like, ah,
Speaker 2: do you want to say yes? Because it was like
Speaker 2: I don't want to incriminate myself. But I was like ah,
Speaker 2: She's like yeah, like Jack Taylor again, made up name
Speaker 2: you with me, I'm with you, And I was like oh,
Speaker 2: And she was talking about a man that I went
Speaker 2: on one date with, one date, not the one day
Speaker 2: claim one date day froom's doll.
Speaker 1: We didn't date a live one date.
Speaker 2: I had one drink with you, and they decided you
Speaker 2: were sexist and racist, and so I walked away and
Speaker 2: you followed me home, and then I went through uga
Speaker 2: shopping and you follow me into the supermarket. And then
Speaker 2: I never wanted to speak to you again. And yet
Speaker 2: that was a successful date, so much so that you
Speaker 2: YouTube dated. So I did some sort of voodoo magic
Speaker 2: to make him obsessed with me, because there's been too
Speaker 2: many of these. So if you listen to this enough,
Speaker 2: I've had enough. You know that I've had enough.
Speaker 1: Finally, message him, no, okay, you're going to regret this. No,
Speaker 1: I won't message.
Speaker 2: I just want to see if I can just see
Speaker 2: I'm a bad person all of you.
Speaker 1: If you believe that, then I believe you.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I must have deleted his messages. We dated? What?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 2: We also need to do an episode about people that
Speaker 2: say dated if you've gone on three dates, you didn't date.
Speaker 1: But also what we need to talk about people saying
Speaker 1: that people they've like casually dated, like gone a couple
Speaker 1: of dates with other exes. I was like, Oh, no,
Speaker 1: want's come up with my ex What are you talking about?
Speaker 1: If we do not have aspirations of long term commitment,
Speaker 1: we're not exes. That is so crazy for you to
Speaker 1: say that. Anyway, Oh, let's go to what we're here
Speaker 1: to do, flex and froods FLEXI.
Speaker 2: Last week I told you all about how I am
Speaker 2: Karen by nature Karen by nurture.
Speaker 1: Which is a great statement that you should trademark immediately
Speaker 1: if you can.
Speaker 2: True, because I feel like there's going to be a
Speaker 2: turnaround where we start appreciating Karen's I.
Speaker 1: Think we're there with you leading leading the way.
Speaker 2: One sentence persuasion, I am at Karen, my Karen, my
Speaker 2: inner Karen was challenged on the weekend. What happened Saturday night?
Speaker 2: I get home, been at a girlfriend's house having dinner.
Speaker 2: She may be knocky, asked with spinach and add dream
Speaker 2: chocolate with cookies in it and some wine. Then I'm
Speaker 2: walking home and i walk past, like this place opposite
Speaker 2: my house. I'm like, oh damn, I'm having a party.
Speaker 2: That's really cool. I never see that house having a party.
Speaker 2: I didn't even know it was a house.
Speaker 1: Okay, the said neighborhood watch trying you today, you got
Speaker 1: the one to schedule.
Speaker 2: I get home, I'm like, oh damn, I can hear
Speaker 2: the music all through the house.
Speaker 1: Whatever time is this, roughly eleven thirty pm.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Then I get into bed, take my makeup off,
Speaker 2: get myself all comfortable. Then I'm lying down and I
Speaker 2: can hear the music, and I'm like, that's cool. I
Speaker 2: want to read my book anyway, finished reading the book
Speaker 2: after aut half an hour. As I'm reading the book,
Speaker 2: I'm thinking, yeah, I'm cool with this. I'm fine with this.
Speaker 2: I'm fine with this because it's going to end in
Speaker 2: half an hour.
Speaker 1: On a Saturday, hard stop surturday eleven hard midnight stop.
Speaker 1: Can't know what it is.
Speaker 2: So it gets to about eleven fifty five and I'm like,
Speaker 2: I need to go to bed in five I need
Speaker 2: to be asleep in five minutes.
Speaker 1: This is what's the pressure fabs the weekend. Do you
Speaker 1: have something on Sunday?
Speaker 2: Okay? Just it's the principal And that's where the Karen
Speaker 2: comes in.
Speaker 3: Got it?
Speaker 2: The principle that you think it's okay to have a
Speaker 2: party and the music that loud. I'm telling you when
Speaker 2: I said it was in my bedroom boom boom boom boom,
Speaker 2: thumping music wasn't bad, to be honest, but it was
Speaker 2: right into my ears and my house. I can either
Speaker 2: go to bed put air plugs in, or I could
Speaker 2: call the police.
Speaker 1: WHOA, those are the two options. You can't sleep with
Speaker 1: a bit of noise. This was really loud. FLEXI had
Speaker 1: you tried to unwind or you were just already riled
Speaker 1: up by the inconvenience that you like, Actually, this needs
Speaker 1: to stop in order for me to sleep.
Speaker 2: Probably riled up? Yeah, okay? As I said, the Karen
Speaker 2: was dormant, and then over the course of half an
Speaker 2: hour she was growing. I was all about it until
Speaker 2: I wasn't about.
Speaker 1: It, but a forty five minute window.
Speaker 2: Seriously, call the police.
Speaker 1: Whoa, whoa, whoa? What are you talking about?
Speaker 2: I called the police?
Speaker 1: What number to you even call?
Speaker 2: You call your local stations.
Speaker 1: I could do something because remember last week Freedom was
Speaker 1: when I gave you that scenario of you know what
Speaker 1: we should do if you were driving down the highway
Speaker 1: and you saw somebody in the car next she with
Speaker 1: a sign that said hell, and then you said, don't
Speaker 1: call the emergency line, call your local And I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't know you could do that because you do this,
Speaker 1: she's so scary.
Speaker 2: Call your local police is all I'm going to say.
Speaker 2: They're available all the time.
Speaker 1: Are they twenty four hours? Yeah? Wow.
Speaker 2: My advice is if anything's ever no, no, no, So
Speaker 2: you call the number and then the police people pick up.
Speaker 1: And what did they say?
Speaker 2: I said, Hey, my neighbors are having a party, So
Speaker 2: what's your address? I said, X y Z. They're like,
Speaker 2: we've already got police there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you've been corroporating with the community. The Karen
Speaker 1: network Karen mental network. The mind frame is like say
Speaker 1: no more. The moment it irked you, the other Karen
Speaker 1: was on it. It's why I have.
Speaker 2: Hair that's like that to the back of the brain
Speaker 2: is free.
Speaker 1: And so they said there was already somebody on it.
Speaker 2: And then you said and I said, thank you so much, lady,
Speaker 2: and then that was it. You hung up, and then
Speaker 2: I hung up, and then still took an hour until
Speaker 2: it was shut down. Inefficient. Got a bone to pick
Speaker 2: with the police station.
Speaker 1: How many times do you think, over the course of
Speaker 1: your life have you called the police in a non
Speaker 1: emergency what one would describe as a mild inconvenience.
Speaker 2: Honestly, like a lot.
Speaker 1: Because it's only only a Karen would truly think that
Speaker 1: the police care enough to help me like that is
Speaker 1: I'm entitled, for sure, but I would never think that
Speaker 1: the police. I would never think to call the police
Speaker 1: number one, but to help me about what's a personal preference.
Speaker 1: It's Saturday at eleven. They can play some music anyway.
Speaker 1: There's no remorse here. I have never seen you look
Speaker 1: more gleeful in your whole life. So what is the
Speaker 1: moral of the story.
Speaker 2: The moral of the story is call your local police
Speaker 2: when is necessary, and you can deem what is necessary
Speaker 2: because you pay your taxes and you're a part of
Speaker 2: the citizenship.
Speaker 1: My moral of the story is identify your local Karen
Speaker 1: because they're in and among you and you don't even
Speaker 1: know it. Flex and frooms And there's many things that
Speaker 1: I won't do, and fact checking is one of them.
Speaker 1: Every now and then, when it's completely necessary, when a
Speaker 1: headline is sob sir that it needs further investigating, yeah, sure.
Speaker 1: But most of the time, if someone's taking the time
Speaker 1: to recap an article for me, I'm going to assume
Speaker 1: they're telling the truth. And So there's this trend on
Speaker 1: TikTok at the moment, and it's it goes something like,
Speaker 1: what's a scam that has been so normalized that people
Speaker 1: don't realize it's a scam anymore? And so people share
Speaker 1: things like paying for housing or taxes or buying bottled water,
Speaker 1: et cetera. But I came across this one in particular
Speaker 1: that talks about how Hinge's Most Compatible is the biggest
Speaker 1: scam of them all. Listen to this.
Speaker 3: With a scam, this becomes so normalized that we don't
Speaker 3: even realize it's a scam anymore. Hinge's Most Compatible feature
Speaker 3: isn't designed to find the best person for you. Ever
Speaker 3: received a most Compatible profile on Hinge and thought, how
Speaker 3: are they the most compatible person for me? Hinge makes
Speaker 3: a big deal about how it uses the Nobel Prize
Speaker 3: winning Gale shape Lay algorithm to find you your most
Speaker 3: compatible match. That's not what the algorithm is designed to do.
Speaker 3: The Gale Shapely algorithm was created to solve something called
Speaker 3: the stable marriage problem. This is when you have two
Speaker 3: equally sized groups and you need to find a way
Speaker 3: to ensure that everybody.
Speaker 1: Ends up with the match.
Speaker 3: So it's designed to find the most matches, but not necessarily.
Speaker 2: The best matches.
Speaker 3: That means, even if you're better suited to someone else,
Speaker 3: if matching you together would leave someone else in the
Speaker 3: group without a match, then it will decide to pay
Speaker 3: you off with the worst match instead, so that no
Speaker 3: one is left on their own.
Speaker 2: Not the menacing music.
Speaker 1: I was reading the comments and people are talking about this.
Speaker 1: One girl in particular was like, I've been matched with
Speaker 1: my ex five times as my most compatible Can you imagine?
Speaker 2: Shouldn't they know? Isn't there something else? But like they
Speaker 2: know if you have their number on your phone.
Speaker 1: TikTok knows when I think about something, and Hinges can't
Speaker 1: put me match you with a cute little six foot
Speaker 1: five vampire. You can't do that. What a waste of time.
Speaker 1: And they're charging your money to be there. Wait, well
Speaker 1: they charge for it, not the app generally to free app,
Speaker 1: but to get any of the benefits, you've got to
Speaker 1: pay for it, which you know, pay to play consumerism.
Speaker 1: Who have you been matched with anyone? Rogue? I'm surprised
Speaker 1: when it's someone. I'm like, you know what I would?
Speaker 1: I would go there.
Speaker 2: You like, oh my god, on a hinge, I don't
Speaker 2: have the apps.
Speaker 1: Oh you're off the apps.
Speaker 2: No, I'm off the apps.
Speaker 1: I reckon.
Speaker 2: I've been off the apps for about a year. Just
Speaker 2: had a few speaky experiences, you know.
Speaker 1: So spooky good, spooky, quirky, spooky, eccentric, spooky trauma, spooky trauma, okay,
Speaker 1: the best kind. So we talk about them, Yeah, some
Speaker 1: little something like tell us the story them. I I
Speaker 1: do see. I also got off the apps just to
Speaker 1: get back on them, because I was like, I got
Speaker 1: off the apps to stay inside. I don't go out
Speaker 1: in winter, so it's coping season. I'm gonna need to
Speaker 1: get back on the apps as soon as it's September one.
Speaker 1: I'm off them.
Speaker 2: Do people recognize you on them, yeah.
Speaker 1: Which I used to feel funny about and I didn't
Speaker 1: know why because if somebody, if I liked someone, they
Speaker 1: liked me and their first message was flex or I
Speaker 1: love the podcast. I used to be like, oh, no,
Speaker 1: I don't want to be perceived. But then I'm no,
Speaker 1: this is so good because then there's so much context
Speaker 1: that I don't need to fill in the blanks for
Speaker 1: you already know what I sound like, what my interests are,
Speaker 1: what I look like. It's so like this is a shortcut,
Speaker 1: and now I'm very open to it. I'm like, I
Speaker 1: would prefer you know of me and.
Speaker 2: You don't mind that it's like quite unequal because you
Speaker 2: don't know anything about them.
Speaker 1: Well, it's just the nature of anyway. It will always
Speaker 1: be unequal. I mean, if we were two strangers on
Speaker 1: an app, we would still not know anything about each other.
Speaker 1: And what we don't know means we can't We don't
Speaker 1: have context for how unequal it is, right, we just
Speaker 1: assume we're on the same playing field. So I'm not
Speaker 1: really worried about the equality of it all. But i am.
Speaker 1: I just don't think apps are the right medium for anything.
Speaker 1: I mean, not that they're not the right medium. I
Speaker 1: just feel like like we don't use them in the
Speaker 1: way that they're intended, and then therefore we don't get
Speaker 1: the outcomes that we want.
Speaker 2: How should we use them more strategically.
Speaker 1: I think people go on the app and they do
Speaker 1: miss and mister ambiguous. Oh, I'm just here, just say
Speaker 1: what you want.
Speaker 2: I can you look at your profile?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, okay, hinge, We've got one notification, but I
Speaker 2: won't go into the messages. I love of shits. Okay,
Speaker 2: your name is lil. I thought maybe it would be Flex,
Speaker 2: So that's cool.
Speaker 1: That's crazy flex mummy. Can you imagine for a little
Speaker 1: while in Bumble because I had the first time i'd
Speaker 1: logged into Bumble, it was with it for a Bumble job.
Speaker 1: So they had my name is Flex and I couldn't
Speaker 1: change it, and so that was a bit confusing because
Speaker 1: people are kind of like, are you here for work?
Speaker 2: And I was like, I think, so, yeah, I think
Speaker 2: it's about time I got another dating sponsorship to give
Speaker 2: me an excuse to get back in there. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: first picture is so cute.
Speaker 1: It's her, it's me at, it's me, it's me at
Speaker 1: China Heights. Yes, and I just bought a Kildee Crystal
Speaker 1: Mary sculpture. Uh. It's very hot, very expensive, and I
Speaker 1: love it so much. And that's the photo that they
Speaker 1: took of me when they show me the art that
Speaker 1: I brought, and I look so happy and so stoked, gorgeous.
Speaker 2: Okay, the prompt the secret to getting to know me
Speaker 2: is yeah, I need to take this as gospel. By
Speaker 2: asking me to theorize a completely hypothetical scenario, I will
Speaker 2: take it seriously.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll be fun.
Speaker 2: It will if this was on anyone else's profile in cell.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I'm cute.
Speaker 2: True.
Speaker 1: And also can we just pause there, because when I
Speaker 1: had that on my profile as well, Sally was like,
Speaker 1: this is so serious. I'm like, I'm a serious person.
Speaker 1: You think I have time to faff around and entertain people?
Speaker 1: I already know I'm entertaining and charming and etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
Speaker 1: And I also think that I was talking to Sally.
Speaker 1: I'm like, too many people make their profile up for consumption,
Speaker 1: like what's going to be a better viewing experience for
Speaker 1: the imaginary audience, as opposed to saying like who am
Speaker 1: I trying to present myself as and who am I
Speaker 1: trying to attract the person that I want to attract.
Speaker 1: It is going to say and be like fuck yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to do that too. And it happens to
Speaker 1: be a for Dora wearing insult. Maybe that's my king.
Speaker 2: A young Fedora King. Okay, she's twenty eight, she lives somewhere,
Speaker 2: she's vaccinated, she's spiritual.
Speaker 1: Yeah, very important, because I don't want to give people
Speaker 1: the wrong impression. Like we come in here every week
Speaker 1: and we talk about aliens and conspiracies and whatever. That's
Speaker 1: a big chunk of my life. And outside of that,
Speaker 1: I'm doing taro, I'm doing astrology. I've got literally the
Speaker 1: like two Bibles on my bedstand. Do you know what
Speaker 1: I mean?
Speaker 2: Brand?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 2: Brand by Christianity? Yeah? Is it?
Speaker 1: What do you mean there's different religion Bibles? Yeah, you
Speaker 1: mean like the King James version? Like what do you
Speaker 1: want to tell you? Like, I'm tune in. I'm like,
Speaker 1: just in case I don't want to die and not
Speaker 1: go to heaven. But the thing is, I don't want
Speaker 1: to be in the same way that I wouldn't want
Speaker 1: to meet someone and be like, oh whoa you're like
Speaker 1: a capital a atheist. I had no idea. I don't
Speaker 1: want someone to meet me and be like whoa, You're
Speaker 1: like super like spiritual, quirky, gotta know it.
Speaker 2: Okay, Second picture you on an orange inflatable wearing orange,
Speaker 2: eating orange Toritos with orange glasses on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's that say? Material girl? Remember one time this
Speaker 1: guy tried to ask me on a date and he's like,
Speaker 1: but just wear something casual. I was like, don't worry
Speaker 1: about it, let's not go because I can be casual.
Speaker 1: Like I'm casual right now, wouldn't you say, wouldn't we agree?
Speaker 1: This is a casual fear. But if you have to
Speaker 1: preface it, then like we're just not correct.
Speaker 2: He's telling you what to do, what he wants.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm like, you've got it that already tells
Speaker 1: me enough, don't worry about it, let's just go. He said,
Speaker 1: let's just go casual. That's the biggest BURNU. You got
Speaker 1: to go through this profile quickly because you owe us
Speaker 1: a story.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, okay, okay, you standing boss moves in your
Speaker 2: pia set please say please say set.
Speaker 1: Well, so this.
Speaker 2: Mirror looks like an asshole?
Speaker 1: Yeah, the prolapse. Yeah, pro the foam mirror trend that
Speaker 1: I started and ruined the environment with accidentally, Lich did
Speaker 1: you start that?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: The Guardian the wrote article, Yeah, I was the first
Speaker 1: one to do it, and then some random American influencer
Speaker 1: went viral with it and people were like, where did
Speaker 1: this idea? She's like, actually it's some random Australian girl. Hectic.
Speaker 1: I'm glad I didn't come back to me a little
Speaker 1: bit though, because.
Speaker 2: You know, bad bad juju as you drink out of
Speaker 2: a plastic bottle. I take pride in seeking ease, pleasure
Speaker 2: and leisure. Cool. There's a picture of you with black
Speaker 2: puffy sleep, beautiful pearl necklace are they popularsen and Sunnysi?
Speaker 2: And a beautiful long pennytail outside what looks like where
Speaker 2: is that? It's in King's Cross. It's like this beautiful
Speaker 2: Greek restaurant Apollo. Yeah, gorgeous. Still haven't been Okay, answer this.
Speaker 2: We'll get along if if you don't use.
Speaker 1: This is so important, this is read it. We will
Speaker 1: get along.
Speaker 2: If this is gonna rock me, Yeah, I feel a
Speaker 2: bit seen. We'll get along if you don't use self
Speaker 2: deprecation as the cornerstone of your personality.
Speaker 1: And it's so true because as soon as people are
Speaker 1: self deprecating around me, you either get me in hyper
Speaker 1: passive aggressive mode where I'm like, if you're going to
Speaker 1: do it, I need to call it out every time
Speaker 1: so you hear how silly it sounds. Or I just
Speaker 1: cannot sustain any kind of intimacy with you long term.
Speaker 1: It's so draining and suffocating, like we all hate ourselves fundamentally.
Speaker 1: Keep it to yourself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like you also don't play into it,
Speaker 2: like you're not like, oh that's not true, babe. You
Speaker 2: let you sit there and stew in it. Then we
Speaker 2: got you in active where beautiful no comment is the
Speaker 2: caption exactly, but pause.
Speaker 1: You look at that profile on your own time. You
Speaker 1: owe us a story. You just crop me out of
Speaker 1: the cater pic. You would never in that one. Also,
Speaker 1: I like that you.
Speaker 2: Have no friends in yours. That's really cool.
Speaker 1: Why is that a bad thing?
Speaker 2: No? I think it's a good thing.
Speaker 1: No, I do deciding friends in the profile, So I
Speaker 1: mentioned that as well. She's like, good you have no
Speaker 1: friends in there.
Speaker 2: Because it's like, I don't consent to me being in
Speaker 2: people's pictures. Oh really yeah, not necessarily.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: My dating story is I don't have any and we
Speaker 2: need to finish the podcast and I tell you next.
Speaker 1: Time dog move. Josh called it. That's very Karen of you.
Speaker 2: Well, there's more of that.
Speaker 1: This is flex and frooms on CADA. Last week, we
Speaker 1: discussed the million dollar Egg challenge, where we needed to
Speaker 1: decide if we were comfortable being an egg for a year,
Speaker 1: we'd have to identify who would guard our egg if
Speaker 1: at any time in year they dropped us. The person
Speaker 1: who was in charge of guarding us would win a
Speaker 1: million dollars they kept us safe. We would get the
Speaker 1: million dollars. You said you wouldn't do it for a million,
Speaker 1: but you would do it for five I said I'd
Speaker 1: do it point blank period. But based on that, I
Speaker 1: guess my algorithm. My Google agents just not to find
Speaker 1: me because I came across this challenge called the egg
Speaker 1: Baby Project, and it's like given to high schoolers in
Speaker 1: class to teach them, you know, about the realities of parenting,
Speaker 1: to practice compassion, to understand how to nurture something, discipline, diligence,
Speaker 1: all of that good stuff, and to also consider just
Speaker 1: the fragility of life and being a person, because I
Speaker 1: think when you're in high school you kind of don't
Speaker 1: understand what it is to be a person yet, let
Speaker 1: alone that there would be trials and tribulations, and that
Speaker 1: it does take time. It's an effort to keep yourself
Speaker 1: safe and alive.
Speaker 2: Not interested.
Speaker 1: After some research, I found out that there are some
Speaker 1: variations on this project, and that you're told to look
Speaker 1: after an egg anywhere from two days to two weeks,
Speaker 1: and there are different like requirements, like the egg needs
Speaker 1: to sleep for a certain amount of time. It's going
Speaker 1: to go out and do this. It's got to get food,
Speaker 1: it's got to go out to play, it's got to
Speaker 1: meet its basic needs, like it's Maslow's hierarchy. So I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, cool, Like let me do some research.
Speaker 1: Let me see, you know what, let me see what
Speaker 1: information would be required for maybe us to do our
Speaker 1: own egg baby project in the future. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but listen to this, right I'm looking at like a
Speaker 1: teacher's PDF. Right now, I'm in the curriculum. I'm in
Speaker 1: the curriculum basically says your egg baby will be born
Speaker 1: on a Monday, so you'll need to come to class
Speaker 1: prepared with a safe and comfortable box for it. Since
Speaker 1: your egg baby needs to breathe all times, the container
Speaker 1: must not have a lid. Isn't this incredible? Do you
Speaker 1: love this.
Speaker 2: Time?
Speaker 1: I think this is incredible. You need to bring your
Speaker 1: egg baby everywhere you go except pee, because your egg
Speaker 1: baby can't be left unattended for any more than a
Speaker 1: few minutes at any time. You'll have to find an
Speaker 1: exitter for whatever. You are unable to bring your egg somewhere.
Speaker 1: Please respect your teacher's class rules. If any teachers feel
Speaker 1: like your egg babies are too distracting, they may just
Speaker 1: allow you to bring them to class and you will
Speaker 1: have to find an exitter for that period as well.
Speaker 1: Now you might say this is super silly and nonsensical.
Speaker 1: Why are you telling me this? What I'm saying is
Speaker 1: bring this back, because if we're already getting into Handmaid's
Speaker 1: Tail Gilead, we need we need a quick remind of
Speaker 1: what it is to care for people. Because I had
Speaker 1: no idea you can't put a lid on an egg
Speaker 1: baby anyway. This is a four page pdf completely with
Speaker 1: journaling aspects to check in on your baby as well
Speaker 1: being and all. I'm saying is that we should do
Speaker 1: this or at least challenge someone to look after an
Speaker 1: egg baby for two weeks, take it everywhere, document it
Speaker 1: for a price. Well, did you know your only contribution
Speaker 1: has been giggles.
Speaker 2: Asturising it. When I was in primary school, yeah, I
Speaker 2: befriended this girl. We were like family friends. And one
Speaker 2: day I was meant to go over to her house
Speaker 2: for a playdate, but I couldn't, so I felt really bad,
Speaker 2: so I like drew her this picture and got her this,
Speaker 2: Like I got an egg from the supermarket and like
Speaker 2: did all these paintings on it to give to her.
Speaker 2: So I went over to her house and like gave
Speaker 2: her the egg and the card and anyway, she was
Speaker 2: like cool, and then that's really sweet.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Then about a month later, our family friends, like we
Speaker 2: go over to the house and they're like, there's been
Speaker 2: this smell in this house, as if there's a rat dead.
Speaker 2: We've got people to come and look. They can't find
Speaker 2: anything under the house. We don't know what it is,
Speaker 2: And it turns out it.
Speaker 1: Was the egg. Ca'd they find out it was the egg.
Speaker 2: Because like the chick must have just put it in
Speaker 2: her cupboard and forgotten about it, but it was my
Speaker 2: egg because I didn't drain the egg when I painted it.
Speaker 1: Why would you? How are you meant to know you
Speaker 1: meant to drain the egg. That's sweet. You were one
Speaker 1: of those real quirky, eccentric kids. I can just tell. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I want an adult to do this egg challenge. I
Speaker 1: want a parent to do it and see if it's
Speaker 1: actually possible, because to tell a high schooler you got
Speaker 1: to look after this egg like a kid, unheard of, unfathomable,
Speaker 1: not interested. You're listening to flex and frooms on. Can
Speaker 1: I tell you about something that I discovered recently? Do
Speaker 1: you know what's become really strange about my life? When
Speaker 1: I see something cool? I used to just put it
Speaker 1: in my memory bank and then followed away and hope
Speaker 1: that it would come up in conversation. But now I
Speaker 1: put them on a little cater notes and I said,
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell through me about this me too,
Speaker 1: all this information that you don't need to hear. But
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, who else am I going to tell?
Speaker 1: But have you heard of this phenomena called one Sentence Persuasion?
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: It's also a published book by Blair Warren but the
Speaker 1: general gist of one sentence persuasion is that people will
Speaker 1: do anything for those who encourage their dreams, justify their failures,
Speaker 1: allay their fears, can firm their suspicions, and help them
Speaker 1: throw rocks at their enemies. What that tells me and
Speaker 1: I notice it in a lot of people who have
Speaker 1: amassed a lot of fame by being controversial. Think of
Speaker 1: do you know Andrew tate elon mask this idea that
Speaker 1: they are validating what you believe and putting it on
Speaker 1: a platform to make you feel better about you being
Speaker 1: on almost like the outsides of the conversation or on
Speaker 1: the periphery of the norm. So someone getting on the
Speaker 1: internet and being like, look, look I don't even shower,
Speaker 1: either like I shower once a day or like once
Speaker 1: a week, or you know, I think it's okay to
Speaker 1: ghost people, or like what I said I want to
Speaker 1: have on one of our first episodes, or people like
Speaker 1: the thank you flex, I want to ghost people now,
Speaker 1: or if I said that you know, I don't aspire
Speaker 1: to do anything with my life, or I hate whoever
Speaker 1: people like yes, I will stand by that person and
Speaker 1: ride with them because they're validating what I believe. It's
Speaker 1: why Jordan Peterson so so much. One sentence persuasion pathologizing
Speaker 1: very human stuff but taking the brunt of the potential
Speaker 1: backlash that will come from it.
Speaker 2: Right, So, one sentence persuasion means just saying one thing
Speaker 2: like I do not shower, yeah, and then that.
Speaker 1: Doubling down and making everyone feel not everyone, but making
Speaker 1: people who who align with that feel really validated by
Speaker 1: you aligning with that for them. Cool, Okay, hectic, So
Speaker 1: maybe we'll try it. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't want to be that personal.
Speaker 1: Well, depends what you're saying. Like, you might say that
Speaker 1: I believe that we should let all girls have free rent. Yes,
Speaker 1: free rent for women, and that is my plight, and
Speaker 1: who knows, people who agree with that will also be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm with you for me, I.
Speaker 2: Believe that too, and then they become.
Speaker 1: You're not only like your fans, but we'll protect right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I say that with particular people that are really popular.
Speaker 1: It's giving very What's that I'm thinking? How to win
Speaker 1: friends and not manipulate people? What's that book? How to
Speaker 1: how to win friends and influence people? That Robert Green
Speaker 1: forty eight Laws of Power type vibe like this is
Speaker 1: the way to get into people's heads and get what
Speaker 1: you want. Not very practical for day to.
Speaker 2: Day, no interesting. I'm a bit dumbfounded by that one,
Speaker 2: to be honest.
Speaker 1: That's okay. Let it simmer. There's no rush to do
Speaker 1: anything with it. In the meantime.
Speaker 2: This is an information think of my one sentence persuasion.
Speaker 1: We'll come back to it. We'll give it a week.
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