Speaker 1: Flex and Frooms Flex and Frooms. This is the Flex
Speaker 1: and Frooms catch up podcast. Happy Friday guys. Today we're
Speaker 1: talking about crop tops and Love is Blind.
Speaker 2: Crop Tops number one because why won't they leave? But
Speaker 2: Love is Blind because of the weak cups they have.
Speaker 2: And it's interesting because you know, when you look at
Speaker 2: TV and media, you're like, not everything has to mean something.
Speaker 2: Everything means something. Everything is so meticulously placed there and
Speaker 2: put there for a reason, subliminal or otherwise. And we
Speaker 2: are revealing all have a lovely weekend. Here is the podcast.
Speaker 1: You're listening to, Flex and Frooms on Kita Mikiyani Mickyani
Speaker 1: out beautiful loving producer has brought a story to my attention,
Speaker 1: and that is the fact that every girl has the
Speaker 1: middle name Louise. If you're listening to this and your
Speaker 1: middle name is Louise, please dam us at Flex and
Speaker 1: Frims on Instagram. I can't at present off your prize,
Speaker 1: but I can if you come tell us and provide
Speaker 1: some government identification, we might be able to pull some strings,
Speaker 1: maybe send you a lanyard or some such Anyway, Mickey
Speaker 1: found this article from Amber Mia, which is looking at
Speaker 1: why so many women's middle name is Louise. If you're
Speaker 1: a gen Z you might not relate to this. But
Speaker 1: carry on, do we.
Speaker 2: Have a headcount? Like how many? How many do you know? Personally?
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 1: Louise? I reckon? I know one? Which is big?
Speaker 2: How do we go from? Why every girl has the
Speaker 2: middle name Louise and you're gonna say you know one each?
Speaker 1: No, there's a list.
Speaker 3: There's a list of a few names that are around.
Speaker 1: Oh lot, Okay, let's go, let's go.
Speaker 3: You know I can, but any child born in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty three isn't going to have Louise. I could have
Speaker 3: the list.
Speaker 1: The list was like.
Speaker 3: Carper an Ava, you know, all those sorts of vibes.
Speaker 1: Remember there was a real Cooper phase in like two
Speaker 1: thousand and seven. Ooh Cooper. Maybe that's all nine. So
Speaker 1: this article says everyone from the nineteen nineties has the
Speaker 1: same middle name. Back in the nineteen eighties, Louise was
Speaker 1: the third most popular middle name for girls born in Australia,
Speaker 1: behind Anne and Jane. That's a good one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, classic.
Speaker 1: My mum's her name is Gene. I feel like that.
Speaker 1: So is that a classic middle name? Gene By the
Speaker 1: nineteen nineties it had crept up to second spot. It's
Speaker 1: not like Luise was ever really a popular first name
Speaker 1: in Australia, So what's going on, Well, it's all about
Speaker 1: the rhythm. Most popular eighties and nineties girls names had
Speaker 1: two to three syllables with the accent on the first
Speaker 1: syllable Jessica, Sarah, Amy, Emma, Catherine, Rachel, Hannah, Georgia, Caitlin
Speaker 1: to make a pretty sound. In combination, most parents would
Speaker 1: subconsciously choose a middle name with one syllable and Jane
Speaker 1: Lee Kate or two syllables with the accent in the
Speaker 1: second syllable Louise, Marie renee Nicole. That makes total sense.
Speaker 2: But the fact that it was intrinsic it's very interesting.
Speaker 1: I feel like naming a baby might be a little
Speaker 1: bit like a wedding in that you think yours will
Speaker 1: be different, but then you ends up being part of
Speaker 1: the trend. Wow, similar thing. Yeah, where does it come
Speaker 1: from to have your mum's last name is your middle name,
Speaker 1: which is what I have? Is it like a Celtic thing?
Speaker 1: Celtic other people I meet people who have the same thing.
Speaker 1: I'm like, who started this trend? Because it's kind of random.
Speaker 1: I guess it's kind of like the hyphenated name, but
Speaker 1: like they haven't gone the full hog.
Speaker 3: That's what I always assumed.
Speaker 1: That's what you think.
Speaker 3: That's what I assumed.
Speaker 1: Double barrel name.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was like, instead of we get double barrel,
Speaker 3: we want on a legacy, so we'll check it in
Speaker 3: the middle.
Speaker 1: We'll just give them a little pass.
Speaker 2: I think we might have come across our longest standing
Speaker 2: fashion trend. The people might be confused into thinking that
Speaker 2: it's a classic item and it is not. The item
Speaker 2: in question is a crop top. I don't get it,
Speaker 2: and I'm not anti croptop. I got a stomach tattoo,
Speaker 2: so when I showed my mid ri, if it had
Speaker 2: a bit more flavor and accessory, babe, I'm more pro
Speaker 2: crop top. But I don't understand. I would say most
Speaker 2: demographics in the women's clothing section don't want a croup
Speaker 2: tom and I could understand. For a couple of seasons
Speaker 2: there it was like popstar Q, your favorite pop stars
Speaker 2: wearing a cruptop. You'll want a croptop. L la la
Speaker 2: la la la. But it became so saturated that to
Speaker 2: find a full length top was so considered matronly or
Speaker 2: corporate esthetic or quite luxury or whatever it was, you
Speaker 2: couldn't just find a full length top that was also trendy.
Speaker 2: And I'm getting confused because when we look at essays
Speaker 2: now or opinion pieces, they always say the same thing,
Speaker 2: that trend cycles are moving so quickly that it's hard
Speaker 2: to keep up, and that it's resulting in overconsumption, or
Speaker 2: it's resulting in excess waste because we are not buying intentionally,
Speaker 2: and then we're getting rid of things even less intentionally beforehand.
Speaker 1: So why do.
Speaker 2: Crrup tops make the cuts every single trend cycle if
Speaker 2: it's so supposedly racing and moving so quickly. I don't
Speaker 2: get it. I thought about it a lot too. I
Speaker 2: don't see why there would be a need to have
Speaker 2: just a crop top. It would make sense have full
Speaker 2: length tops for everything. Tuck it in, get it it in.
Speaker 1: Was a real thing. For a while. I used to
Speaker 1: cut my tops crop tops. Mmm, that was a thing.
Speaker 2: Do you think that the reason why bodysuits had become
Speaker 2: a thing is because of crop tops? The idea that okay,
Speaker 2: let's say we like a crop top, huh, we like
Speaker 2: that it sticks to the body, it's felt, it's whatever.
Speaker 2: Oh don't want to tuck a shirt in that doesn't
Speaker 2: feel right, So let's get a bodysuit. We created a
Speaker 2: whole different category of items that connected a top with
Speaker 2: the undies. You still wear undies underneath.
Speaker 1: I've such just like it for a bodysuit.
Speaker 2: Your bodysuit.
Speaker 1: Girl, Bodysuits really started to popping off. I reckon twenty ten,
Speaker 1: like the one Teaspoon bodysuit situation. They were hot, they
Speaker 1: were hot property. Some glad skins is really popping. I
Speaker 1: was wearing one today.
Speaker 2: You were, and you took it off because it did
Speaker 2: what to you redacted? Yeah, it made her Tommy funny.
Speaker 1: Made my toe every time. We're that bloody skims bodysuit
Speaker 1: so sick in bed that night.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're so tight and I got I got one
Speaker 1: that was big for my size and still it's too tight.
Speaker 1: It's flex and froomes on catera. But it is just
Speaker 1: me and Mickey Arnie because it is that time of
Speaker 1: day again, all that time of year. We are here
Speaker 1: thanks to mcafe. We're having a little catch up and
Speaker 1: we wanted to spell a little bit of coffee.
Speaker 3: Yeah, iced coffee, because catching up is always done well,
Speaker 3: I would say over a coffee. Most cash ups involve
Speaker 3: coffees in my life.
Speaker 1: Babes, and don't make me tell everyone twice macus has
Speaker 1: McCafe rather has almond milk from Milk Club.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And as a soy drinker, I do enjoy the
Speaker 3: soy options.
Speaker 1: True. What I wanted to talk about today is talk
Speaker 1: about what we wanted to be when we were kids,
Speaker 1: because I think this has a lot about someone. They
Speaker 1: say that your personality was built by the time you
Speaker 1: were seven. I cannot confirm nor deny this, as I
Speaker 1: have not researched it. I just like the way that
Speaker 1: it sounds. Micky, you want me to tell you what
Speaker 1: I was, Yeah, I want to know drop it. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you mine first because I don't think it will
Speaker 1: surprise you. Yeah. So when I was a kid, I
Speaker 1: initially wanted to be a waitress. I remember being at
Speaker 1: a Chinese restaurant in Barnsdale with my cousins. They lived
Speaker 1: in the country and we go there like once every
Speaker 1: two months and hang out. It was the best sum
Speaker 1: of my life. That was the time when the merciless
Speaker 1: cow animal the cow like chase me through a paddic
Speaker 1: and I thought I was going to die. And then
Speaker 1: I run all the way home through Boundsdale down the
Speaker 1: dirt track and lose yourself by Eminem. My cousin had
Speaker 1: just like bought the CD, so that was playing in
Speaker 1: my head, and that was when I knew life was
Speaker 1: never the same again anyway. So I wanted to be
Speaker 1: a waitress. And then I shifted priorities and I decided
Speaker 1: I wanted to be a red carpet reporter, and so
Speaker 1: I have this. We had this assignment in school where
Speaker 1: you had to get a picture of a magazine and
Speaker 1: draw the other side, like cut it in half and
Speaker 1: draw the other side, and I obviously did one of
Speaker 1: a woman on the red carpet. I also wanted a
Speaker 1: radio show, and wow, I also had a newsletter, so
Speaker 1: you could say that dreams have been kicked off. That's crazy.
Speaker 1: What did you want to be, doll?
Speaker 3: Well, obviously, like the early days, want to be a
Speaker 3: trible threat dance, I singer, actors like you know. But
Speaker 3: then I think I started to realize I was better
Speaker 3: at dancing than I was acting, and I was better
Speaker 3: at dancing than I was singing, and then I just
Speaker 3: realized people were better at dancing than I was. And
Speaker 3: then I think in year six and look, I think
Speaker 3: this is like a theme for the my life as
Speaker 3: an adult. I don't like committing things or putting things
Speaker 3: out there in fear of not getting them. So in
Speaker 3: year six we had to write a business card and
Speaker 3: with what we wanted to be on it, and I'm
Speaker 3: I don't know. I think the old person in me
Speaker 3: just said, I just want.
Speaker 1: To be happy.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: My teacher got so mad at me. He was like,
Speaker 3: you have to pick a career. Oh, And I was like, no,
Speaker 3: I just want to be happy, sir, Like that's all
Speaker 3: I want, Like whatever I choose to do, I just
Speaker 3: want to be happy. And he was not happy with that.
Speaker 1: Thinking you need he needs to read some philosophy me
Speaker 1: as a ten year old reading soccer team Blue Turn. Anyways,
Speaker 1: thank youm cafe, expertly crafted Bruce Maid, your choice of
Speaker 1: cool ice coffee just the way you like it. However
Speaker 1: you take yours to drive through for your favorite at McCafe.
Speaker 1: You know you're listening to Flex and Rooms on Kita.
Speaker 2: We have to discuss the cups on Love is Blind,
Speaker 2: I don't really watch a lot of reality TV. I
Speaker 2: only make exceptions for Love Island. I think it's the
Speaker 2: most interesting one, only because it closely reflects real dating.
Speaker 2: The other terms and conditions around I don't know, maths,
Speaker 2: The Bachelor, whatever, just seems so contrived that I don't
Speaker 2: know how love is meant to blossom when you're one
Speaker 2: girl dating twenty four guys, or one guy dating twenty
Speaker 2: four girls or whatever it might be, or like in
Speaker 2: a pod and you can't see the other person. As
Speaker 2: soon as you exit, you have to marry them. Is
Speaker 2: it necessary? I don't know, But if you watch Love
Speaker 2: is Blind, then you're definitely aware of the drinking vessels
Speaker 2: that they use. They drink out of these gold, opaque chalices.
Speaker 2: It's strange. It's not even aesthetically aligned with the show
Speaker 2: in any capacity. I understand, you know, using opaque cups
Speaker 2: for a bit of color, a bit of flavor, like
Speaker 2: a branding moment. Maybe you don't want to show that
Speaker 2: you're drinking champagne or beer because there are miners watching
Speaker 2: the show. I don't know.
Speaker 1: But turns out as.
Speaker 2: Soon as you google something, the FBI agent in your
Speaker 2: phone will make sure that a TikTok pops up and
Speaker 2: explains to you exactly why it's happening. So it's not
Speaker 2: about whether or not the contestants are drinking alcohol. It's
Speaker 2: not about making sure that it's not about making sure
Speaker 2: that there are no logos on the drinking vessels. It's
Speaker 2: not even about aesthetics. It's so when editors are splicing
Speaker 2: up a bunch of content from the same occasion, you
Speaker 2: can't tell whether it's two drinks in, ten drinks in,
Speaker 2: when someone who's really drunk, or if they're sober, if
Speaker 2: the interaction happened at one pm or six pm at
Speaker 2: the same event. Truly is so the editors can frankenstein
Speaker 2: us a great show that maybe might not be entirely true,
Speaker 2: and I stand by it. Reality TV show editing is
Speaker 2: an art form and they should be validated as such.
Speaker 1: It's my favorite time of the week. It's Mickey's Music Quiz,
Speaker 1: where Mickey brings a selection of songs for Flexing Night
Speaker 1: to battle out until the death. One day, I'm sure
Speaker 1: that we will be tipped over there je at each
Speaker 1: other to try and guess what the song is. What's
Speaker 1: the price this week? Mickey?
Speaker 3: No price, but the topic is two thousand club songs. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so I'm thinking the quiz was getting like a bit easy.
Speaker 3: So I've pitch shifted all the songs to chipmunks and
Speaker 3: I'm playing it for longer hour.
Speaker 1: So this is why you didn't want to for overtime.
Speaker 1: Damn overtime.
Speaker 3: I was like, they're getting too good at this. Like
Speaker 3: I was like, let's let's trip them up.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: Number one.
Speaker 4: Me me Rihanna, No really, Rowland Glen Love takes over.
Speaker 1: Yeah, point to Flex. That's way.
Speaker 2: That's my favorite songs.
Speaker 1: Rihanna, Miss Serious, miss Girl. Okay. Number two maybe sexy
Speaker 1: Back justin Timber like play the rest of the song,
Speaker 1: please look you Okay?
Speaker 3: Number three me.
Speaker 1: Lady Gaga, justin.
Speaker 2: Lady Gaga, poker face?
Speaker 1: Am I getting like points redacted by?
Speaker 3: We can start that if you want.
Speaker 2: Number four, Kylie Minogue, can't get you out of my head. Oh,
Speaker 2: at least think a little bit.
Speaker 3: What do you think Flex has beaten you for the
Speaker 3: third week in a row.
Speaker 1: Hey, there's still more to go.
Speaker 3: Okay, well it's out of five.
Speaker 1: She's only got three, so well, she obviously has an advantage.
Speaker 1: She's a DJ. I'm just your typical Spotify ninety nine twelve.
Speaker 3: Week you Not Not You with your playlist with thousands
Speaker 3: of likes.
Speaker 1: Okay, the last song man, gentlemen, Missy Elliott past the Dutch.
Speaker 3: Noyeah on a man and what's the name of the song? Nic?
Speaker 2: No, it does matter. I've already won.
Speaker 1: One two step Okay, thank you for thank you. I
Speaker 1: swear it sounds like it sounded like a Missy Elliott
Speaker 1: song She's Oh Okay.
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