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Speaker 1: There's something there. Oh God, I love to say it.
Speaker 1: I haven't had a Wheat Bix since I was a child,
Speaker 1: and I've been really craving milky things, like I want
Speaker 1: to get back into crunchy not and wheat bigs, but
Speaker 1: I just don't think it will agree with me. I
Speaker 1: can't have chok tops anymore. Why Because I mentioned to
Speaker 1: you earlier that I'm trying to improve my mind body
Speaker 1: mind muscle connection, which means listening to my body's feeling
Speaker 1: after everything. So, as you know, sally best friend, Sally
Speaker 1: lactose intolerant in denial, as we all kind of are
Speaker 1: with that kind of thing. But she started taking lack teas.
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't need that. Mild with it.
Speaker 1: Went to the cinema, had a chok top, guts bustard spawn.
Speaker 1: I could not believe it. I didn't even enjoy it
Speaker 1: that way. Did you go to the toilet? Yeah? It was.
Speaker 1: It was like dead foot and I was squirming in
Speaker 1: the sea. And from there I was like, Nah, it's
Speaker 1: not for me.
Speaker 2: I don't want to say this, but as you're speaking,
Speaker 2: my gut is making the most crazy noise curdling.
Speaker 1: I gotta go. Let's get to it. Not me just
Speaker 1: playing on my I'm really going to go flex and
Speaker 1: I don't have a food that I'm excited to eat
Speaker 1: at the moment. It's every day I'm getting really bored
Speaker 1: of the food options. And it's sad because when I'm
Speaker 1: not in Sydney, I'm so excited. There's so many options.
Speaker 1: Had this amazing taco when Hobart's still thinking about it,
Speaker 1: had this amazing Brocolini and Hobart still thinking about it
Speaker 1: the Brocolni episode. But you know, I will manifest like
Speaker 1: you said on you, I'm excited for you. Thank you.
Speaker 1: You read a lot of books, don't you? So many? Well?
Speaker 1: I read that.
Speaker 2: It is possible to properly lose yourself in a book.
Speaker 1: Have you heard about that? I am that what I
Speaker 1: think this is. I am so attached to some book
Speaker 1: characters I'm not even playing really.
Speaker 2: Do you know?
Speaker 1: That's why I have to stop talking about Twilight in
Speaker 1: a serious way, because I was getting upset, upset about
Speaker 1: what people were just roasting Edward and I was like, okay, well,
Speaker 1: if you read the books, you would understand where he
Speaker 1: was coming from and you saw you actually affected you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: or I would. So I read a lot of books now,
Speaker 1: but I try not to share what I think about
Speaker 1: them while i'm reading them, because if somebody has already
Speaker 1: finished it and it is really critical, it puts me off.
Speaker 1: Or if I really like a character and I don't
Speaker 1: know that they turn out to be a dickhead later on,
Speaker 1: and I was like, if I don't want to hear it,
Speaker 1: I just want to enjoy. I like that.
Speaker 2: Well, that is actually extremely related to what I'm about
Speaker 2: to say, and that is that what you're experiencing is
Speaker 2: called experience taking.
Speaker 1: So when you're reading a book and.
Speaker 2: They're in a scenario, you can often put yourself into
Speaker 2: their shoes and you feel like you are them, and
Speaker 2: it's really interesting. There's been studies done about it. For example,
Speaker 2: I think it was maybe I want to say the seventies,
Speaker 2: but it could have been twenty twelve.
Speaker 1: It's one of those things.
Speaker 2: It happened, and they wanted to test out gay characters.
Speaker 2: They recruited all these straight college students and one group
Speaker 2: had a character who was openly gay from the start,
Speaker 2: another one was a control group, and then the last
Speaker 2: one turned out to.
Speaker 1: Be gay at the very end of the night. That
Speaker 1: was the big twist.
Speaker 2: That was the twist, and they wanted to see how
Speaker 2: much experience taking each group had, and it turned out
Speaker 2: that the ones who the character was gay at the
Speaker 2: very end, they only just found out they related to
Speaker 2: the most because they were like, Oh, he's more like me,
Speaker 2: and it's funny. They actually attributed more feminine traits to
Speaker 2: the men that they knew was gay from the start
Speaker 2: and all these pre preconceived ideas about him, whereas if
Speaker 2: the character turned out to be gay later on, they
Speaker 2: thought it was more masculine because they related to him.
Speaker 1: I feel that also side note, you know, my theory
Speaker 1: is about fiction. I think that because you know, when
Speaker 1: people want to be better people, they go to nonfiction
Speaker 1: self development or whatever. I think the easiest way to
Speaker 1: be a more well rounded person is to read fiction,
Speaker 1: because you have to step outside your reality so much
Speaker 1: even comprehend what's happening, let alone step further out to
Speaker 1: resonate with the characters, resonate with the storyline. Do you
Speaker 1: want to be a nicer person, read a book about
Speaker 1: witches or something I extremely agree, flex and frooms.
Speaker 2: Here on flecks and frooms, we ask the hard questions
Speaker 2: that no one else is ready to ask.
Speaker 1: Every single day, relentless, thankless, it never stops.
Speaker 2: And today's question is, of course, which are you? There's
Speaker 2: two types of people.
Speaker 1: In the world.
Speaker 2: What are some types like tomato tomato, sure, tomato sauce
Speaker 2: and the fridge, tomato sauce in the cupboards, tomato sauce
Speaker 2: and burgers, or no tomatoo.
Speaker 1: Or controversially, water at room temple, ice cold. We know
Speaker 1: what's better for digestion, but socially there's a preferred one. True.
Speaker 2: Well, today's is a simple one. It's one that all
Speaker 2: humans and aliens around the globe can relate to, and
Speaker 2: that is whether you are a fart or a burper.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna kick it off with what I am. Great,
Speaker 2: thank you for disclosing. I'm not even gonna make you guess. Okay, great,
Speaker 2: I'm not here to play games. I'm here to go
Speaker 2: all in for farting. I cannot believe when I say
Speaker 2: are you a burper or a farter that anyone would
Speaker 2: ever choose burping belching?
Speaker 1: Is this what would one prefer or what one does
Speaker 1: more often? Both?
Speaker 2: So I'm a natural born fart and I want to
Speaker 2: keep it that way. So I am both fart by
Speaker 2: nature and fart by nurture.
Speaker 1: Oh amazing. However, burping, I don't know you're a burper.
Speaker 1: What do you think you're a burper? Really? Yeah, up
Speaker 1: the gullet, up the gullet. Well, I'm happy to disclose
Speaker 1: that I'm in fact a farer. Now you have seen
Speaker 1: me on occasion try to get out of burp. But
Speaker 1: I don't have the reflexes. My guzzler isn't built for that.
Speaker 1: I really have to push stuff out if I was
Speaker 1: a burp, but I wouldn't be as flemy. True, this
Speaker 1: stuff is stays clogged. Nothing's coming in, nothing's going out.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm gona know because we have spent some time together.
Speaker 2: Now we have gone to the toilet at the same time.
Speaker 1: Was that you and the cubicle before? Yeah? You giggled,
Speaker 1: and I thought because you knew I was in there,
Speaker 1: so I giggled with I didn't know why were you
Speaker 1: giggling if you didn't know who was in there?
Speaker 2: I was giggling because I went in and there was
Speaker 2: no toilet paper, and you didn't say anything.
Speaker 1: So I did a little way, then got up and
Speaker 1: waddled to the next toilet. There was no toilet paper.
Speaker 1: What was I to do? And then came back to
Speaker 1: the original toilet. Nah? Nah? So when when did the
Speaker 1: flush occur? Oh?
Speaker 2: No flush it was it was a millimeter of we Anyway,
Speaker 2: I digress, as you would say, I'm all for farting.
Speaker 1: I want to circle back. How do you soil a
Speaker 1: public toilet and then not rush? As I say? This
Speaker 1: was like you wake up at three am? Or let
Speaker 1: me just quickly let one loose. Don't want to wake
Speaker 1: up the roomies, go back to bed, let me not.
Speaker 1: People say I'm mean. I just say I'm observant. Do
Speaker 1: you know how I felt waddling with my skirt. I
Speaker 1: don't mean to beerate you in your time of need. However,
Speaker 1: you walked into a bathroom with one cubicle in use,
Speaker 1: presumably that cubicle had toilet paper. You went into yours
Speaker 1: the far right, it's there's three. Did a little little
Speaker 1: tinkle apparently it's not twinkled tinkle. Did a little tinkle
Speaker 1: maybe while we're talking twenty mills, thirty mini. It was
Speaker 1: a drop thirty mills. Then used your pelvic floor to
Speaker 1: hold in the rest, zip it up, went to another cubicle.
Speaker 1: And at no point did you think just to ask
Speaker 1: the person in the cubicle for toilet paper.
Speaker 2: Look earlier in the week, you shamed me, You pissed
Speaker 2: shamed me. I did because I wee like a horse
Speaker 2: and I'd do it again, And so I didn't want
Speaker 2: to be outing myself as a person who's next to
Speaker 2: you in a cubicle saying can I have.
Speaker 1: Some toilet paper? It's a bit of urination shame. It
Speaker 1: was urination day. This is flex and frooms on Cada.
Speaker 2: What I did on Saturday last week was go out
Speaker 2: for a midday drink, which is such a pleasure. I
Speaker 2: thought I was just gonna go out for lunch with
Speaker 2: a friend, end up having an espresso martini.
Speaker 1: How is that? It was delicious? Until it wasn't.
Speaker 2: Oh, we're sitting at like quite a fancy restaurant.
Speaker 1: Not name dropping. It rhymes with sart booner.
Speaker 2: Doesn't ring a bell, but continue anyway, We're sitting like
Speaker 2: on this bench seat that overlooks patrons sitting in front
Speaker 2: of us El Fresco.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, we're sitting. I'm with my friend.
Speaker 2: Pauline, an extremely expressive human being. She was feeling flustered
Speaker 2: that day, so she's using her hands. I'm halfway through
Speaker 2: my espresso martini.
Speaker 1: She goes, what app and it falls? She wax it
Speaker 1: out of your hand accidentally as she's gesticulating.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it falls. There's two people sitting in front of us,
Speaker 2: two tables. Both people.
Speaker 1: No, that's really bad.
Speaker 2: So I freak out immediately, like, oh my god, what
Speaker 2: have we done? I look down. They are barely hit.
Speaker 2: The man can't even see a stain, maybe like a
Speaker 2: few stains on the pant, but colored pants, Chinos, So
Speaker 2: we deserved it.
Speaker 1: I like a China I'm sorry, I have to jump in.
Speaker 1: I love that navy Chino boat shoe.
Speaker 2: Look so sorry if that is the last thing I
Speaker 2: would have expected.
Speaker 1: Anyway.
Speaker 2: The woman in front of us, I'm going to say
Speaker 2: she was sixty five seventy. She's wearing a like crisp
Speaker 2: white linen shirt. I actually clocked her when she walked in,
Speaker 2: so I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 1: That's a fancy lady.
Speaker 2: She turns around, It goes, I'm from out of town.
Speaker 2: This is the only shirt that i have, like, not
Speaker 2: even talking to us, but she's a person in front
Speaker 2: of her, and it just made me think, Hun, it's
Speaker 2: bad for me. I've lost my drink is barely hits you,
Speaker 2: and you're complaining to me as if we did it
Speaker 2: on purpose. For the rest of the afternoon, I just
Speaker 2: wanted to hit something else across the table.
Speaker 1: Do you know what's the worst thing about that? The
Speaker 1: fact that you did it by accident pose? Because when
Speaker 1: you are a victim of something that someone's done by accident,
Speaker 1: who are we to blame? I hate not having someone
Speaker 1: to blame. This is what that was. And so all
Speaker 1: that animosity, intension just doesn't you don't get to like process,
Speaker 1: It just get stuck with you.
Speaker 2: And I could feel that from her, I could feel
Speaker 2: her looking at us.
Speaker 1: It's an ugly feeling, isn't it. It's gross And I
Speaker 1: get it. We all make mistakes.
Speaker 2: Would you rather be the person that's spilt it or
Speaker 2: the person that was spilt upon spilt?
Speaker 1: Of course? Take no, I'd do it on purpose. I
Speaker 1: remember one time though. No incriminate myself, no, come on,
Speaker 1: go on, I was thinking about a situation like this,
Speaker 1: in particular, when you're at a gig and you choose
Speaker 1: to be in standing five rows from the front, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be touchy feely, You're gonna be rubbing up against people.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a lot, and there are a few
Speaker 1: things you need to do to ensure that etiquette wise,
Speaker 1: you're taking to consideration those around you. There was a
Speaker 1: girl in front of me shut her hair out. It
Speaker 1: was like forty five inches of like luscious curly hair,
Speaker 1: but it was big, and she was very, you know, expressive,
Speaker 1: and she was moving around, but she was expressive in
Speaker 1: the way that she was pretending she was the only
Speaker 1: person in that space hitting people with her arms, with
Speaker 1: her hair whatever. So I was behind her and she
Speaker 1: was like jumping and dancing back and forth, and like
Speaker 1: I got it, but I was like, with the hair,
Speaker 1: I couldn't do it anyway. So I was complaining about
Speaker 1: her to my friend next to me, and as I
Speaker 1: was complaining, my chewing gum dropped out of my mouth
Speaker 1: into her hair. I said, wow, wow, wow, wow wow wow.
Speaker 1: Some state did it on purpose? Did I? I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's so long ago when I retell the story. My
Speaker 1: friend's like you did it on purpose. I could have,
Speaker 1: but I feel like it was an accident. Either way,
Speaker 1: I'm glad it was me that did it to her
Speaker 1: instead of her doing it to me. I want to
Speaker 1: find her and apologize on you. This is flex and frooms.
Speaker 1: Am I the asshole? Short answer? Absolutely? Yeah, often more
Speaker 1: often than not. But lucky for me, it's not about
Speaker 1: me or you. It's about this person who's texted us
Speaker 1: with this very complicated situation. If I had to summarize it,
Speaker 1: I won't, but I will read out the text we
Speaker 1: got from them, and then we'll go into who is
Speaker 1: the asshole and who should be groveling with apologies? Listen
Speaker 1: to this. Am I the asshole for making a joke
Speaker 1: about my brother's affair at his wedding?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Dear off the top? Probably not? Not an asshole? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Probably not. I know you've been contrary this. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: When I was in elementary school, I was a type
Speaker 1: of kid who got disrupts class often on their report card,
Speaker 1: so I never focused much on school. You two, Yeah, yeah, sir.
Speaker 1: My district had this system where they would pair high
Speaker 1: schoolers with younger kids to help them with their schoolwork.
Speaker 1: My mom made me do that after I kept getting
Speaker 1: in trouble. So my tutor was a freshman Abby. She
Speaker 1: would come to our house after school to help me
Speaker 1: with my homework or something I barely remember. My brother
Speaker 1: John was the same age as Abbie, so they would
Speaker 1: talk to each other and ended up dating. She stopped
Speaker 1: tutoring me officially after like a month, but since she
Speaker 1: was at our house lot, I also talked to Abby
Speaker 1: a lot. We were close as well. Makes sense. Fast
Speaker 1: forward ten years. Abby and John got married and had
Speaker 1: a kid together. Five years later, John tells me that
Speaker 1: he's getting a divorce because he's met someone new. It
Speaker 1: sucked because I liked John and abbe together a lot,
Speaker 1: but whatever. Then he tells me he had an affair
Speaker 1: with his new girlfriend. Also sucks, and I told him
Speaker 1: he shouldn't have hurt Abby like that, but also whatever, aloof.
Speaker 1: I also asked Abby how she was doing, and she
Speaker 1: told me she wasn't doing well, but she didn't want
Speaker 1: her to be the reason I have a bad relationship
Speaker 1: with my brother, a philanthropist. However, two months before the wedding,
Speaker 1: Abby calls me and tells me that my brother's girlfriend
Speaker 1: has been harassing her non stop. She showed me the text,
Speaker 1: and his girlfriend was saying some pretty disturbing things, but
Speaker 1: how she's so much better than Abby, taunting Abby for
Speaker 1: having to share custody of her kid now, etc. Just
Speaker 1: making fun of her and bullying her. This is graphic.
Speaker 1: I told my brother about this and he said he
Speaker 1: would ask his girlfriend about it. A month later, I
Speaker 1: asked him if he ever brought it up, and he
Speaker 1: said he did but saw nothing wrong with the text,
Speaker 1: which pissed me off because I confirmed that he saw
Speaker 1: the same text I saw, and they were red hot.
Speaker 1: Abby apologized for involving me in the whole thing in
Speaker 1: the first place and encouraged me to still go to
Speaker 1: the wedding, where my brother asked me to make a speech.
Speaker 1: The speech went well until I made a joke. The
Speaker 1: gist of the joke was me turning to his new
Speaker 1: wife and telling her that if she's learned anything from this,
Speaker 1: she should know that my brother will never let his
Speaker 1: wife stop him from finding the love of his life.
Speaker 1: Ha ha ha. This got my brother and his wife
Speaker 1: really mad, and they kicked me out shortly after, and
Speaker 1: my brother has been calling texting me none stop yelling
Speaker 1: at me too long, didn't read I made a joke
Speaker 1: about my brother's affair. Am I the asshole?
Speaker 2: I think the man that made the joke is not
Speaker 2: an asshole whatsoever. I think he is a comic genius,
Speaker 2: a clown who graduated clown school.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a cloud for sure.
Speaker 2: He's got a red nose on. I think it's brilliant.
Speaker 2: It sounds like he's got wonderful comic timing. It sounds
Speaker 2: like they deserved it, And I think everyone of the
Speaker 2: wedding would have known that the bride and the groom
Speaker 2: were doing something untoward, and so I believe that everybody
Speaker 2: would get in another joke. It kind of like breaks
Speaker 2: the ice, and.
Speaker 1: If you did it, you should be able to joke
Speaker 1: about it. Also, is that other kind of jokes that
Speaker 1: siblings make it weddings, so they don't they have to
Speaker 1: kind of be a bit red hot in a way.
Speaker 2: I think red hot about like say, oh, the groom
Speaker 2: like Poody's pants in Guatemala, not like, oh, you fudged
Speaker 2: someone else.
Speaker 1: That's all set. It's a very funny way to address
Speaker 1: a situation that probably is the elephant in the room.
Speaker 1: I think there is something to say about decorum. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a time and a place for a joke like that,
Speaker 1: perhaps not on the mic, perhaps, But if that's the case,
Speaker 1: we would take our own advice. Yeah, we don't. I
Speaker 1: think that the brother is not the asshole. I think
Speaker 1: that the John and Abby definitely aren't the assholes. But
Speaker 1: his timing and he needs to understand why his brother
Speaker 1: is upset. It makes everybody look really messy and there's
Speaker 1: no recovering. Oh, I reckon couple shots, there's some fun dance. No,
Speaker 1: I think it gets worse from there, because what if
Speaker 1: there are some people at the wedding who don't understand
Speaker 1: the context are kind of like, oh I thought there
Speaker 1: was a gap, and true, I thought it was you.
Speaker 1: It was fine, all that stuff, No, never asking questions.
Speaker 1: Now there are murmurs.
Speaker 2: So no one is an asshole in this one. No,
Speaker 2: just unfortunate circumstances.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think. I think bad house training. I think
Speaker 1: poor manners. Is it asshole behavior? If they weren't siblings,
Speaker 1: I'd say yes. If it was like a best friend situation,
Speaker 1: I'd be like, mmmmm, you should be on better behavior. Siblings,
Speaker 1: especially a younger sibling to an older sibling. I get it. Jokesters, jokeses, clowns.
Speaker 1: It's all fun and games. And I have a theory
Speaker 1: that the guy who's posting has a crush on his
Speaker 1: brother's ex wife. It's per he was like, she tutored
Speaker 1: me so and then they became friends, and then they
Speaker 1: got married, and then we can't be friends because they
Speaker 1: got divorced. Disitter. That's how I felt. You're listening to
Speaker 1: flex and Frooms on Kada. I like fairy tales quite
Speaker 1: a bit, but not in the Hansen and Gretel. Is
Speaker 1: that the brand or the thing? I don't know, not
Speaker 1: in like a Pinocchio kind of way, in like an
Speaker 1: old wives tale superstition. I like hearing things from different
Speaker 1: cultures me like, oh woll, like I would have never
Speaker 1: thought of that, for example, not stepping on a crack,
Speaker 1: breaking mum's back, et cetera, et cetera. So I was
Speaker 1: on the clock app a couple of weeks ago, and
Speaker 1: initially when I saw this video, I thought it was
Speaker 1: a bit like a Reddit hoax, thing like is this real?
Speaker 1: Is this not? But essentially, what do you call those
Speaker 1: people who work at wildlife rainforests, caretakers. What do you
Speaker 1: call those people? Rangers? Rangers? What are they called park rangers?
Speaker 1: More words? Search and rescue? Oh okay, very different anyway,
Speaker 1: So I came across this video. Initially I thought it
Speaker 1: was like a Reddit hoax. Apparently it's very real. There
Speaker 1: is a old wives tale that if you walk into
Speaker 1: a forest or a heavily treed area and you see
Speaker 1: a set of stairs that lead to presumably nowhere, you
Speaker 1: should run in the other direction. I was, okay, this
Speaker 1: feels very niche. I feel like it's what people tell
Speaker 1: young kids that don't go running very far. But there
Speaker 1: is such a high density of random stairs that lead
Speaker 1: to nowhere in so many wildlife parks bushlands across the world.
Speaker 1: So much so that search and rescue teams are often
Speaker 1: told that when they are looking for someone who's gone missing,
Speaker 1: whether it be a kid or someone who's like straight
Speaker 1: off the beaten track, that if you get to a
Speaker 1: destination and it requires you to take a set of stairs,
Speaker 1: leave them. It's done. One guy recalled a story where
Speaker 1: he was in fire fighting training and his supervisor had said,
Speaker 1: if you ever go up a set of stairs again,
Speaker 1: you will be fired. Do not do it. It's in
Speaker 1: their handbooks. It's whatever. And so yes, I'm seeing your
Speaker 1: face bewildered. What is the issue with the stairs. Well,
Speaker 1: number one, people think that it's like stairway to a
Speaker 1: scary place. It doesn't exist. It's an optical illusion, it's
Speaker 1: another dimension whatever. Two. People do not know how those
Speaker 1: stairs got there. Are they like concrete stairs, concrete stairs,
Speaker 1: wire steps just in the middle of nowhere, And it's
Speaker 1: just like a like that, like a y. They just
Speaker 1: like some are like sixty meters high, like ten meters.
Speaker 1: They don't go anywhere, they're not functional. They're just in
Speaker 1: the woods. So it's like the pyramids. Yes, and there's
Speaker 1: a high density of people who have said that they
Speaker 1: would see stairs in a location and the next day
Speaker 1: they'd be gone. So I don't know what this means,
Speaker 1: but I do think we have to go to the
Speaker 1: national park, find a set of stairs, sit in front
Speaker 1: of them and see if anything spooky happens.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because when you said the training for the fire yes,
Speaker 2: the search and rescue the firefighters are they do they
Speaker 2: mean any stairs?
Speaker 1: They upstairs seem to lead to nowhere. Stairs that don't
Speaker 1: have any purpose or function. It's spooky. But this is
Speaker 1: not like spooky. Binches were like, oh my god, this
Speaker 1: is like a weird thing. Regular people who shouldn't be
Speaker 1: superstitious making rules and guidelines for people to not go
Speaker 1: up random stairs in a forest. What does it mean?
Speaker 1: We will never know? I'm sorry to bring the vibe down.
Speaker 1: I know they get really scary Fleck and Fos. I
Speaker 1: have a theory that the reason why I and most
Speaker 1: people struggle to remember other people's names is because they
Speaker 1: don't match their names. I think very few people match
Speaker 1: their names. Can I interrupt? Of course, you're not a Lilian.
Speaker 1: I'm not a Lilian. Maybe when I'm sixty. I've grayed
Speaker 1: a little bit. I've got four chihuahuas. I wear caftans
Speaker 1: and turbans and big sunglasses, a lot of like clanky
Speaker 1: clanky jewelry, dinosaur design, dinosaur designs. I'm walking to the
Speaker 1: local cafe. I know everyone by name. I'm cutting the line,
Speaker 1: I'm laughing, I'm making jokes. She's Lilian, loopy Lilian right
Speaker 1: right now, I'm lil just just it's not really hitting,
Speaker 1: it's not really That's why we have flex it suits
Speaker 1: me similarly, Lucinda for you would never have picked it. Really,
Speaker 1: who's Lucinda? I look like a Lacinda. You absolutely do
Speaker 1: not giving English Rose, you look like a Frayer. Oh
Speaker 1: a Greta, Greta, I'll take it like a what's the
Speaker 1: one that starts with H like a Heather? No, something
Speaker 1: Swedish German of that thing'll Helga? You look like a Helga.
Speaker 1: You don't like that? Very offensive? I love that. Can
Speaker 1: I guess what you look like?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Philippa or TAYLOROK, Taylor like an androgynous name.
Speaker 1: A little about Harry what I'm just spitballing. My first
Speaker 1: thought was, don't name kids until they've got a defined
Speaker 1: face and personality. That could be five, five, six up
Speaker 1: until then, and like a number, a letter x R,
Speaker 1: just all the number of the day they were born.
Speaker 1: I'd be five, you'd be three three. Great. That works well.
Speaker 1: Or you could do what Ghana does, which is the
Speaker 1: country I'm from, which is naming everyone by the day
Speaker 1: of the week they were born. All the Mondays get
Speaker 1: the same name or a variation of the same name.
Speaker 1: All the Tuesdays they had a variation of the same name.
Speaker 1: And there's like a masculine and feminine version. For example,
Speaker 1: Monday could be Martin Martina, Marty Maria, Tuesday could be
Speaker 1: Terry Teresa Ted. So every day is like Wednesdays. Like Wednesday,
Speaker 1: borns have a name, Thursday, borns have a name, Friday
Speaker 1: born to have a name. I was actually born on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: But my dad didn't like that for me. He said,
Speaker 1: you don't have the personality of a Tuesday. I want
Speaker 1: you to be special. I want you to be a
Speaker 1: Saturday born. So we named me after Saturday, which is Ama,
Speaker 1: and it suits me. So I definitely don't have Tuesday energy.
Speaker 1: Alma ama uma ama, alma alma. I see you as
Speaker 1: an armor.
Speaker 2: It suits like rebrands, no, because it's too difficult.
Speaker 1: I like feeling unique, and think about how many armors
Speaker 1: there are in the world. I guess there would be
Speaker 1: a lot, too many, too many. There's only one Lilyan
Speaker 1: a Hankin in the whole world, in the whole world,
Speaker 1: because a Hankn is a very rare surname, even in Ghana. Lilyan,
Speaker 1: Where'd that one come from? Mum claims she named me
Speaker 1: after the nurse that delivered me. Oh that's sweet, Hue.
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 2: She was sixty the woman. You know what, I'd be
Speaker 2: really interested anybody who's listening. Can you please dm us
Speaker 2: if you think you have a name that nobody else
Speaker 2: in the world has and we can investigate you.
Speaker 1: Want them to want of me? Yep I hands down.
Speaker 1: If you type in Lilli N. Hankan, there's no more
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