Speaker 1: Flex and Frooms, Flex and Frooms. This is the Flex
Speaker 1: and Frooms catch Up podcast. I have been thinking a
Speaker 1: lot about mirrors. I learned recently that the reason they
Speaker 1: put mirrors in lifts is so the time goes by quickly.
Speaker 1: Did you tell me that flex?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Like, wait a second, Hold on a second. I
Speaker 2: had read it, but they were saying there was this
Speaker 2: office building that had two lifts, and it would take
Speaker 2: a while for the lift to come, people to get
Speaker 2: in and get out, and people would express being quite
Speaker 2: like disgruntled with the whole experience. Then they put a
Speaker 2: bunch of mirrors in the lobby and found that when
Speaker 2: people are distracted by their own reflection, they're not as
Speaker 2: aware of how much time is or is not passing by.
Speaker 1: It's a bit to me, saw this, TikTok, that's a potential.
Speaker 1: You have a You have a source. Her name is
Speaker 1: Chloe's Secret Account with five teeths, and she says, I
Speaker 1: truly believe humans were never designed to have full access
Speaker 1: to mirrors and cameras to see their reflections in full light.
Speaker 1: It's not normal for a species to be so consumed
Speaker 1: by their self image that they prioritize it over having
Speaker 1: fun and living life years and years ago, they wouldn't
Speaker 1: have had the ability to see reflection without looking into
Speaker 1: clear water, et cetera. I wonder if that was a
Speaker 1: happier time, if that was the time where people felt
Speaker 1: confident in themselves without having to look for validation from others.
Speaker 2: So slippery slope to say that back in the days
Speaker 2: was when we did things correctly. I just don't know
Speaker 2: if modern inventions are doing what they're meant to do.
Speaker 1: It's not trial and airbabe, modern medicine. Throw it out.
Speaker 2: And I mean, honestly, we talked about Narcissus. I was
Speaker 2: thinking last time, this man fell in love with his
Speaker 2: own reflection. It's not the modern mirror. It's just being
Speaker 2: able to perceive yourself in a way that you can
Speaker 2: like adjust to make others feel differently about you. That is,
Speaker 2: that's the real juicy kicker.
Speaker 1: So what's this about Narcissus Greek mythology?
Speaker 2: This guy fell in love with his own reflection looking
Speaker 2: into a pool of water.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then did he fall in and drown or not?
Speaker 1: A spoilers, sorry, I swear, Okay, No, there was another one,
Speaker 1: and it was the picture of Dorian Gray. You heard
Speaker 1: of this? Did you see the play? Picture of Dorian Gray.
Speaker 1: It's a man. If I remember it was a long play.
Speaker 2: That's why I didn't go see it.
Speaker 1: Please continue. And Juliette was a banger. Basically, picture of
Speaker 1: Dorian Gray? Doan Gray? Is this hot guy? I could
Speaker 1: totally be butchering this this guy, and he's like to
Speaker 1: this painter. The painter's like, I'll paint a picture of
Speaker 1: you and it will age, so you don't have to age.
Speaker 2: Oh, gorge.
Speaker 1: So this man is constantly whatever age he is, whatever
Speaker 1: age is optimal, that's up to interpretation, of course.
Speaker 2: Oh we're over the hill away, yeah, log over.
Speaker 1: The heart mechanics, extreme decline from here. The picture kept
Speaker 1: getting older. Then they tried to hide the picture. They're
Speaker 1: very upset that the pre existed. So I think that
Speaker 1: humans were always we were always thinking about ourselves.
Speaker 2: We were programmed with Shane. If it wasn't the if
Speaker 2: it wasn't Mirass, it was gonna be something else.
Speaker 1: Damn. That's on that. You've been listening to The Flex
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