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Speaker 2: Very rarely do I admit there's parts of my personality
Speaker 2: that I don't like. With all that I don't like them,
Speaker 2: I just think that, like, my life would be so
Speaker 2: much easier if I changed some fundamental things.
Speaker 1: Room for improvement, room for improvement.
Speaker 2: And I don't want to be optimal, don't want to
Speaker 2: be the best person ever. I just think that, like,
Speaker 2: there are ways where I can get in my way less.
Speaker 2: So a couple of years ago, I decided to be
Speaker 2: less of a picky eater, change my life for the best.
Speaker 2: You know, I can try different things. I'm like, how'd
Speaker 2: you do that?
Speaker 1: I just stopped saying.
Speaker 2: No and started saying and not just saying no, but
Speaker 2: instead of being defensive about being a picky eater, I
Speaker 2: would just describe to my friends, like what flavors I
Speaker 2: liked or didn't like, and what textures I liked or
Speaker 2: didn't like, and then kind of made it like a
Speaker 2: fun group things like, oh, what can we try based
Speaker 2: on this, like friendly consultation that might like that I
Speaker 2: might like cute? Because your friends, if you're a pickie eater,
Speaker 2: the people who suffer the most.
Speaker 1: It's not you, it's your people.
Speaker 2: It's your friends, your loved ones, and they're more than
Speaker 2: enthusiastic to like to get you through it. So that's
Speaker 2: another one. And then nobody likes spending all their money
Speaker 2: on like uber eats and Uber it's just lame. Like
Speaker 2: having the gift of a disposal income and then realizing
Speaker 2: a big chunker that goes to some random corporation who's
Speaker 2: selling you back food that you could get amazingly from
Speaker 2: a local business. You go to the corporation and get
Speaker 2: some like lukewarm chips and a burger. It's just lame.
Speaker 2: So I've been trying to like cook more use my
Speaker 2: amazing kitchen, not cook kind of assemble food. I'm just
Speaker 2: trying to assemble food and build good habits around eating.
Speaker 2: I think most of us struggle struggle with building good
Speaker 2: habits around food. So I got back from Ghana and
Speaker 2: I was like, I just need to make breakfast. You
Speaker 2: shouldn't eat breakfast. That's like the internet, says an ADHD thing.
Speaker 2: I think it's just an habitual thing. I usually wake
Speaker 2: up when I eat.
Speaker 3: The Internet conspiring to make you have aby.
Speaker 2: Like get over at Google or whatever. So I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I should start making breakfast. And unfortunately, the moment I
Speaker 2: pulled out the eggs and the bacon and the McMuffin
Speaker 2: from the fridge, I felt really confident. But it was
Speaker 2: absolutely downhill from there. What I will say is that
Speaker 2: I did follow all the instructions. The pan wasn't too hot,
Speaker 2: and yet my whole apartment was smoking. The ventilator was on,
Speaker 2: the windows were open, the door was open. But then
Speaker 2: why is the whole building being evacuated because the alarm
Speaker 2: went off?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure. I poke my head out near the
Speaker 2: whole building is outside. They're looking around for the corprit.
Speaker 2: I'm looking around the culprit.
Speaker 1: It's not me, it's not me.
Speaker 2: And then I'm calling my best friend to be like,
Speaker 2: ha ha ha, come outside. She lives nearby. Also, I'm like,
Speaker 2: come outside. As she's walking towards me.
Speaker 1: Why two huge.
Speaker 2: Fire trucks coming towards me? And what I will say
Speaker 2: to that is like, sometimes we're trying new things, there.
Speaker 1: Will be obstacles. There will be obstacles. Do I want
Speaker 1: to cook again in my kitchen? Absolutely not?
Speaker 3: Oh no, I heard there's a huge.
Speaker 2: Fine, and I'm concerned they're going to pass that on.
Speaker 2: So here's what I know to be true, because when
Speaker 2: I say I can't cook, it's a lie. I definitely
Speaker 2: grew up in a traditional cultural household where I didn't
Speaker 2: I had to learn how to cook, you.
Speaker 1: Know what I mean? Yeah, absolutely, what would you cook
Speaker 1: pasta pizza?
Speaker 2: Cultural food? Like I was in the kitchen. I don't
Speaker 2: enjoy cooking. I just think it's too much effort for
Speaker 2: what you get back. That's why I'm such a snacker.
Speaker 2: Like I like assembling food and all these things, but
Speaker 2: I don't like the food expires. I don't like having
Speaker 2: things in the house that are expiring anyway.
Speaker 1: I'm just like a bachelorette. That's my vibe.
Speaker 2: So but when I was making these eggs, my concern
Speaker 2: with my apartment is that it's converted. So it used
Speaker 2: to be commercial. It's just been converted to residential. So
Speaker 2: like something about the way that it's set up. It's
Speaker 2: like open plan, but it's big and the windows are
Speaker 2: on the outskirts of it, right, So like the kitchen
Speaker 2: is like in the center of everything. So I'm always thinking, like,
Speaker 2: what's gonna like, is the extractor gonna like extract all
Speaker 2: of this in time? I don't know, but I do
Speaker 2: remember a couple of months ago the building manager being like,
Speaker 2: we need to get fire alarms put in so everything's
Speaker 2: up to code.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, chill.
Speaker 2: So when the alarm started going off, right, I caught
Speaker 2: the building manager because I know from my old apartments,
Speaker 2: if the alarm goes off, you just kind of like
Speaker 2: wave your towel in front of the detector or like
Speaker 2: turn it off right, none of that, Like this is
Speaker 2: some real, like high tech stuff. I caught the building manager.
Speaker 2: He's like, oh, yeah, that happens, like hmm with these
Speaker 2: like these commercial term residential. Yeah, look, just be mindful
Speaker 2: with it. I reckon and the fire trucks will come.
Speaker 2: But like, yeah, what can you do?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 2: So I hang up with him, and I see the
Speaker 2: site foreman because there's like some construction happening in the building.
Speaker 2: He's like, ah, yeah, fuck, yeah, this happens. I'm like,
Speaker 2: what do you mean this happens? Because I was happy
Speaker 2: to take the blame when I thought that it was me, right, Like, maybe.
Speaker 1: Would you pay the fun No? I didn't, Okay, maybe
Speaker 1: like the pan was too hot. It was smoking.
Speaker 2: But I'm like, if before I even put the pan
Speaker 2: to the stove, the windows are open, the doors open,
Speaker 2: the extractors on the fans are on, then I'm confused.
Speaker 2: And he was like, oh, because it's a conversion. They're not.
Speaker 2: The fire alarm is not only checking for smoke, but
Speaker 2: it's thermal as well, so when the temperature changes drastically,
Speaker 2: it's just gonna like trigger the fire alarm.
Speaker 1: Babes, it's just bacon, for one. What if I had
Speaker 1: a family to.
Speaker 2: Feed and this is You've had no idea because you
Speaker 2: I've never cooked. So we're pushing what like seven months. Jesus,
Speaker 2: they should be thanking me.
Speaker 1: Do you ever have cereal? Cereal? Not as an adult?
Speaker 2: So yeah, now I'm freaking out because I'm like, okay,
Speaker 2: so what's this then, because I have a lifestyle change
Speaker 2: to be made, right, I'm in the midst of being
Speaker 2: a better person and this feels like a barrier. So
Speaker 2: help me help you, sir, because I don't want to
Speaker 2: be a cat. He's like, yeah, look, nothing you do really,
Speaker 2: but miskid.
Speaker 1: What does that mean?
Speaker 2: Do you see what I'm talking about with communicating? Like,
Speaker 2: what are we gonna do from here? Are you gonna
Speaker 2: keep We're gonna keep exacuating the whole building?
Speaker 1: Is that what we're gonna keep doing? You just gotta
Speaker 1: keep doing it? Like I just it.
Speaker 2: Doesn't really add up to me because anyway he's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: look like he's like, to be fair, that's why they
Speaker 2: can't sell your your apartment.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what do you mean sell it? This is
Speaker 1: news to me. He's like, well, yeah, like because they.
Speaker 2: Can't sell it because until it's transitioned into a full
Speaker 2: residential it's just like a bit of like a financial nightmare.
Speaker 1: True. Okays, I'm in limbo.
Speaker 2: So you're telling me, no wonder my realtor is never
Speaker 2: being like proactive with any of my requests, right because
Speaker 2: like they're not even needs to have it for very long,
Speaker 2: I said, noted, noted. So what I have been doing
Speaker 2: now is a process of elimination the things I can
Speaker 2: cook without triggering the fire alarm. Air fryer good, oh
Speaker 2: h good? You know you love your air fryer? Do
Speaker 2: you love the air fryer?
Speaker 1: Eggs? Fine? Boiling things, frying them fine? Good to go?
Speaker 1: How are you doing your I like a hard boiled egg? Cute.
Speaker 1: I say that for you just snacking on on the bus.
Speaker 3: I heard the story once that she was on a
Speaker 3: bus and the person in front of her took out
Speaker 3: a hard boiled egg and smashed on the window to.
Speaker 1: Like peel it. I'm obsessed. They're one of ours, one
Speaker 1: of my ours, for sure.
Speaker 2: But what I will say to that is, you know,
Speaker 2: people think that when you're trying to be better for yourself.
Speaker 2: That's another thing I will say, b where the people
Speaker 2: who are like dismissive of when you're trying to do
Speaker 2: better things. If I post that I go to the
Speaker 2: gym on the internet, suddenly everyone is like an ed expert,
Speaker 2: Oh I don't go to the gym anymore because it
Speaker 2: did this and so and so oh and like oh
Speaker 2: you know look like like, is the pressure of being
Speaker 2: an influencer forcing you to change babes?
Speaker 1: Do we not need to literally like do we not
Speaker 1: need to move our bodies?
Speaker 2: I'm confused, Like it's bizarre, who are these people randoms?
Speaker 1: Not like people who've like messaged you before.
Speaker 2: I don't even check these days, but it's so bizarre,
Speaker 2: Like I'm like this is anyway. So what I will
Speaker 2: say is that, like you think that you are going
Speaker 2: to be the hardest hurdle for when you want to
Speaker 2: do stuff.
Speaker 1: But I'm like, be careful of the little bloody devils
Speaker 1: people don't see you.
Speaker 2: I know it's gonna be too much. How should be
Speaker 2: pretty articulate and snatch babes. What I will tell you, though,
Speaker 2: is you can't take days off in the gym. I
Speaker 2: was here leg pressing one hundred killers. I'm down to eighty.
Speaker 2: I can't have a loss like that, not in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty three. We're working back at it. Anyway, good chat everyone,
Speaker 2: We'll see you soon.
Speaker 1: Flex and froomes. You're listening to Flex? What the frick?
Speaker 1: I want to tell you something.
Speaker 3: I want you to wherever you are. Don't close your eyes,
Speaker 3: but just tap into your body for a second. Take
Speaker 3: one breath in ready, oh you breathe in through the mouth,
Speaker 3: hold it and then out.
Speaker 1: I won't do it into the microphone, but two more
Speaker 1: times I did. I think one was really good for effect.
Speaker 3: I hope you're feeling relaxed, because this is how I've
Speaker 3: been feeling lately since I've recently become a surfer. My
Speaker 3: housemate is currently in Perth. What does that mean, I've
Speaker 3: got her surfboard all to myself. The other day, I
Speaker 3: decide I'm going to go out into the surf, into
Speaker 3: the waves at a very iconic Australian beach and I
Speaker 3: went out and I surfed. Did I get to stay
Speaker 3: on the board. No?
Speaker 1: Did I continually fall off? Yes?
Speaker 2: So just with no previous experience, you picked up the
Speaker 2: surfboard and you went to the iconic beach and you
Speaker 2: got in the water with the board.
Speaker 3: I was with a friend, okay, but yeah, pretty much,
Speaker 3: and I went to the really hectic end where all
Speaker 3: the professional servers are.
Speaker 1: This comes mere months after you almost drowned. I've not forgotten.
Speaker 3: I know, I know, and I didn't realize. But people
Speaker 3: who don't surf who are listening, you need a wax
Speaker 3: your board. If you don't put wax on the board,
Speaker 3: you slip off. Hear it my slipping deserved thinking oh
Speaker 3: my god, I have no balance, have no course strength.
Speaker 1: So I didn't have any wax on the board anyway.
Speaker 3: Something that is a gift from the Flex and Froom
Speaker 3: Show is that we interviewed she called Lottie DL a
Speaker 3: few months ago. She is the young australianity for New
Speaker 3: South Wales. She's a recycling queen. She runs a thing
Speaker 3: called Banish and I put on my Instagram I'm looking
Speaker 3: for a surfing buddy, non sexual.
Speaker 1: What does she do?
Speaker 3: She messages me saying I'll be your surfing buddy.
Speaker 1: Have you arranged a time and place?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: We went on Sunday. How was it? It was amazing?
Speaker 1: Are you like standing up on the board.
Speaker 3: I got onto my knees okay, which is pretty good.
Speaker 3: I don't have much core strength to t behave, but
Speaker 3: you will.
Speaker 1: Yeah. But how good is that? It's so nice to
Speaker 1: learn new things.
Speaker 3: I'm starting a hobby and look I get caught in
Speaker 3: a rip. This time all good, but we survived. And
Speaker 3: the beach that I go to there's patrol and I'm
Speaker 3: going to just sing out, like because something that I
Speaker 3: learned when I almost run in BALI.
Speaker 1: The minute you feel a rip, put your hand up.
Speaker 3: There's nothing loser is about getting saved.
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Speaker 1: I won't share their name.
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Speaker 3: What I.
Speaker 4: Like speaking Hello?
Speaker 1: Is that Alex?
Speaker 3: Yes, my name's beach Face. I'm your long lost grandmother.
Speaker 4: Hello. Hello.
Speaker 2: Wasn't her best work? Everybody in the studio is scared.
Speaker 2: We're a little bit afraid. But it's okay because for me,
Speaker 2: did say twenty twenty three was the year of seeing
Speaker 2: the bit the whole way through?
Speaker 1: So we must humor her. Alex, Hello, are you sweetheart?
Speaker 1: Did you enjoy s?
Speaker 4: I was like nervous. I was weirdly nervous.
Speaker 1: It was verbal uncanny valley. Did you know that it
Speaker 1: was me?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: Not, that was no co idea And I was in
Speaker 4: my work bathroom, ca am I? So I just answered
Speaker 4: like as seems I got ours and yeah, it made
Speaker 4: me really nervous.
Speaker 1: Were you preparing to hang out? Thank you?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: I wanted to see where it was going. I thought
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Speaker 1: Some good ones out recently nailing it. Yeah, look, Alex,
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Speaker 4: Yeah. I was just going to say, like I was
Speaker 4: nervous because I said, Hi, it's Alex too much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, rookie move though. It happens to the best
Speaker 1: of us. Alex.
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Speaker 4: Oh my god, amazing.
Speaker 3: That's like a perfectly excited response.
Speaker 1: I think it is going to be an exciting time.
Speaker 1: Are you going to jump off your seat? Maybe, but
Speaker 1: it's going to be greater. I heard that you recently
Speaker 1: went to Bali Is that true?
Speaker 4: Actually? Yes, thoughts, it was cool. It was very relaxing.
Speaker 4: I just went for a relaxing holiday and then I
Speaker 4: got Bari Belly, which wasn't that great.
Speaker 1: Hockey move, babe.
Speaker 2: I feel like when I heard about Bari Belly in
Speaker 2: you know, the year two thousand, I was like, Okay,
Speaker 2: this is I feel for people. We're getting to the
Speaker 2: year twenty twenty two, twenty three, We've got to do better, babe,
Speaker 2: Well did you eat?
Speaker 1: Was it the ice? It was the ice, wasn't it?
Speaker 4: I have no idea, Parna. We were eating the same
Speaker 4: thing and he was completely fine, and I was like,
Speaker 4: how the hell did this get me? So I think
Speaker 4: it could have been like water or something in the
Speaker 4: shower by accident.
Speaker 1: No, that's the spirit of Chappelle. And you're out for
Speaker 1: how many days?
Speaker 4: Just one day? And then I got a drip and
Speaker 4: it was amazing. It was messing.
Speaker 3: I've everdence drip in BALI.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, a bit rogue, but no, I said, so, yeah,
Speaker 4: and then it fixed me right up.
Speaker 1: So that's really hot. Thank you so much for sharing.
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Speaker 1: All right, we'll see you soon.
Speaker 4: Awesome, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: You're welcome. Wait, oh wait, this whole line.
Speaker 3: Hold on, Alex, thank you.
Speaker 1: So annoying, okay, so much. I'm just not hitting today,
Speaker 1: am I You're not eating perfectly? Thanks Alex for humoring us.
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Speaker 2: You have been requesting moral dilemmas, and to that, I say,
Speaker 2: it takes too much brain space to get them to you,
Speaker 2: but I will do some thinking. Over the weekend, I
Speaker 2: was watching Alison Borderland.
Speaker 1: Have you heard of it? Through me? Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: it is so good. It's on Netflix. It's about go on,
Speaker 1: hold on, hold on, hold on. Let me not paraphrase.
Speaker 1: Let me just let the internet. She said, go on.
Speaker 1: I wanted to call Alison.
Speaker 2: Borderland is about this obsessed gamer who finds himself in
Speaker 2: a strange, emptied out version of Tokyo, in which he
Speaker 2: and his friends must complete in dangerous games.
Speaker 1: In order to survive life or death games. Why would
Speaker 1: you roll your eyes? That sounds so good. What are
Speaker 1: you talking about? Giving game?
Speaker 3: And I'm not going anyway.
Speaker 1: It's giving squid games.
Speaker 2: So that's where my brain was at at the time.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh my goodness, we need to do
Speaker 2: some life or death moral dilemmas. So I was thinking
Speaker 2: about one that would incriminate all of us.
Speaker 1: So you ready for me? Yes, life or death situation.
Speaker 2: Would you rather sleep with all of your best friends
Speaker 2: partners and have them know like I'm talking today or
Speaker 2: you're in a circle out of circle all of them right?
Speaker 1: Or not do it at all? You know, exercise your agency,
Speaker 1: but have them all think you did anyway?
Speaker 3: In both scenarios, does everybody think I did? Yes, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna resist the temptation.
Speaker 1: Why are you thinking so hard about it? You sick o? Hi, boyfriends, nut,
Speaker 1: I'm a nut.
Speaker 3: If everyone gonna think I'm gonna nut, I'm gonna have
Speaker 3: to nut. Okay, what would you want to say be
Speaker 3: your best friend's boyfriends? No, I wouldn't do it, but
Speaker 3: you would be happy with everyone assuming that you did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you don't know.
Speaker 2: Think about it right, Think about all the narratives of
Speaker 2: through me that exist in somebody else's group chat, all
Speaker 2: these assumptions, assumptions they're their babe.
Speaker 1: You know you know this is like what have you
Speaker 1: seen that?
Speaker 3: Like? It's a tickokrids of concepts that like you are
Speaker 3: someone's personal joke.
Speaker 1: Because like, for example, in my group chat. There's like
Speaker 1: really really.
Speaker 3: Random people that whenever they do something we like, post
Speaker 3: in the group chat.
Speaker 1: And that's not necessarily mean. It's mean. No, it's mean. No, no,
Speaker 1: no it's not. But it's like everyone has that like
Speaker 1: in good humor. It's in good humor. Everyone does it.
Speaker 3: You do it?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Do you agree? There's just people that would come to comment.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be a villain yourself.
Speaker 2: See how I didn't answer, Oh I did, but I
Speaker 2: had to. I had to sort of sandwich it around
Speaker 2: some morality.
Speaker 1: I'm a good girl.
Speaker 3: Are you?
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