Speaker 1: The Flex and Rooms Daily podcast.
Speaker 2: I have been racking my brain for interesting moral dilemmas.
Speaker 1: You know what, I need assistance.
Speaker 2: I need need people to send me themes and from
Speaker 2: there I.
Speaker 1: Can figure out dilemmas.
Speaker 2: I just feel like my head is a vast wasteland
Speaker 2: that is bountiful if I know what seed I'm sewing,
Speaker 2: so I can figure out how often to water it
Speaker 2: and how much sunshine it needs.
Speaker 3: You need the right metal detector.
Speaker 1: That's exactly it.
Speaker 3: I'm picturing Mars me too. We've been having some cosmic
Speaker 3: mor summer's happening. We've missed each other. Literally, do I
Speaker 3: dare agree that you miss me?
Speaker 1: I just said literally? Oh, I guess that was like
Speaker 1: a bit vague, right, yeah.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 1: It's like if.
Speaker 2: Someone was like, I'm gonna love you and you're like, literally,
Speaker 2: I missed you through me.
Speaker 3: Literally, thanks honey. Anyway, we're talking about a moral dad.
Speaker 3: But I heed Flex's advice on like sending our stuff.
Speaker 3: I like it when you send me relationship stuff. Also,
Speaker 3: like someone sent me the other day about how I'll
Speaker 3: just tell us really quickly. I'm like that person at
Speaker 3: the party who interrupts the conversation to tell the fucking
Speaker 3: shittert story. Oh my god this and she's like, we
Speaker 3: were talking about like really good songs for my Fremy
Speaker 3: Friday's playlist best playlist on Spotify, and she's like, when
Speaker 3: I was nine, I danced to this too in front
Speaker 3: of my friend's older brother who was fifteen, because he
Speaker 3: gave me shoes to go down to the park, and
Speaker 3: then I sucked his toothbrush in private afterwards. Ah, how
Speaker 3: good is that?
Speaker 2: Anywhoumy loves nostalgia and sentimentary I hate that. I don't
Speaker 2: want to be that person, though, Like, ah, your whole
Speaker 2: brand who it's nostalgia you live in the year two
Speaker 2: thousand and one eleven.
Speaker 3: I hate that. What do you mean?
Speaker 2: It's you want to be future forward babes. Nobody's looking
Speaker 2: and saying fust forward. Not one person's ever.
Speaker 3: I'm like the I don't want to be someone who's like, oh,
Speaker 3: in the eighties, you.
Speaker 1: Literally are archetypal back in the days.
Speaker 3: Whatever. Once I get this podcast out of my system,
Speaker 3: oldie worldie.
Speaker 2: Flex and frooms, you have been asking for moral dilemmas.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing.
Speaker 2: It takes so much brain capacity to think about complex
Speaker 2: things and moral dilemmas are complex. If they're not thought
Speaker 2: about correctly, they're too easy to answer. If they're too complex,
Speaker 2: I'm tired. This one came from my brain, so I
Speaker 2: feel like I feel like it's going to be a
Speaker 2: good one.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: Comprehension hats on, listening, ears open, all right. So imagine
Speaker 2: you've noticed that you've been getting paid a little bit
Speaker 2: more each pay slip.
Speaker 3: Right, gorgeous.
Speaker 2: This is like fifties, fifties and it's like one hundred.
Speaker 2: But then during Christmas you notice a huge lump sum
Speaker 2: of about five k. It's like four eight hundred and
Speaker 2: ninety two or something. So like at this point you're thinking, mm,
Speaker 2: the small ones could have been an error, but like,
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna call it out like thank you. But
Speaker 2: this big one you're thinking it could be a bonus
Speaker 2: because your bosses were like, you've done really good this year,
Speaker 2: like a little like sweet tree. So you don't want
Speaker 2: to say anything, right because it's not your business. You're
Speaker 2: just gonna assume it is what it is. And you
Speaker 2: did hear a korker also getting a bonus, right, So
Speaker 2: all is fair in love and war anyway. Come to
Speaker 2: find out, there's been a paperwork mix up and payroll
Speaker 2: is accidentally depositing money to you that's not meant.
Speaker 1: To be yours.
Speaker 2: You don't know the specifics because they're not going to
Speaker 2: tell you that over email.
Speaker 1: They don't want to incriminate anyone, but that's what's happened.
Speaker 2: So then the HR person sends you a message and says, hey,
Speaker 2: I'd like to have a chat with you.
Speaker 1: Are you available?
Speaker 2: So they come down, they meet with you, but they say,
Speaker 2: this isn't off the record conversation. They basically express first
Speaker 2: red fleg Yeah, they basically express that they've made this
Speaker 2: huge mistake.
Speaker 1: They start crying.
Speaker 2: They're talking about how there's been a discrepancy in the
Speaker 2: numbers adding up and it's been clear that a lot
Speaker 2: of money has gone missing, and it looks at something
Speaker 2: illegals going down, like someone's like scraping from the top. Now,
Speaker 2: this HR person knows that they've been sending the money
Speaker 2: to you, but they don't want to incriminate you, because
Speaker 2: incriminate to them. So they're asking you to send the
Speaker 2: money back. You've spent it. What do you do that?
Speaker 2: It's not about what we would do because you and
Speaker 2: I we've got a podcast talk about this on. As
Speaker 2: for everyone else, I want you to really think about it,
Speaker 2: really dig deep into your loints because at this point, Babes,
Speaker 2: you're on your own.
Speaker 3: I think so. I feel like he brought this story
Speaker 3: because you know this has happened to me, has it? Yes?
Speaker 3: On my first job when I was selling tint pardon me?
Speaker 1: I love when you talk about tint days.
Speaker 3: Pardon me. Anybody who is an avid follow us, so
Speaker 3: I has already heard this story. But my first job.
Speaker 1: When you were peddling t and that nobody needed.
Speaker 3: One inflation rate or my first paycheck, like it was
Speaker 3: a commission job. I was probably getting like fifty k
Speaker 3: like base, or maybe even thirty k base, and then
Speaker 3: we'd make it on top. You can make a killing
Speaker 3: selling tin like people are on like one twenty k.
Speaker 3: It's like no education.
Speaker 2: You've got to be a good salesperson. That's very exhausting. Yeah,
Speaker 2: any sales job is exhausting.
Speaker 3: But like you don't only need another product. You don't
Speaker 3: have to go for a test drive. You just bring
Speaker 3: someone into your office, lure them in dogdy piglety and
Speaker 3: they buy it.
Speaker 1: Okay, don't give it all the way, all the trades.
Speaker 1: It goots away.
Speaker 3: But you know what I mean, because you.
Speaker 2: Know I bought the tiny give a ceramic coding. What
Speaker 2: is that got wrecked?
Speaker 3: This is what they don't. Yeah. Anyway, I got paid
Speaker 3: my first paycheck, my first commission paycheck, and it was
Speaker 3: three and a half thousand dollars. Okay, and I thought,
Speaker 3: big spense, that's pretty good. I mean, I only sold
Speaker 3: one this month, but the numbers do add up.
Speaker 1: Fortunately.
Speaker 3: Anyway, I leave and go straight to Chadstone, the fashion
Speaker 3: capital in Victoria, ride into Prata pr Ada. There is
Speaker 3: no way I dropped two thousand dollars on a calf
Speaker 3: skin bag. It was pinchay smy black piping, of course,
Speaker 3: drop the money. Parade into work the next day, Hop
Speaker 3: out of my car, ding dong ming dong in my
Speaker 3: little clickti clackety heels. Sit down at reception. I also
Speaker 3: was a receptionist.
Speaker 1: Again two jobs. That bonus was yours, yeah, facts, and.
Speaker 3: I made coffee. I sit down and the boss is like, oh,
Speaker 3: can you come into my office. I just got to
Speaker 3: talk to you about something. He's like, we overpaid you
Speaker 3: last night, three three five hundred bucks. And I go
Speaker 3: hmm about that the prior bag sitting on my front deck.
Speaker 1: That's where the money went. Oops.
Speaker 3: And this is where then air po baby comes in.
Speaker 1: Because your dad also worked there. So let's not prey.
Speaker 3: No, my dad didn't work there, but my dad gave
Speaker 3: the boss of that job his first job when he
Speaker 3: was my age, and so it was the circle of life.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And also when I say my dad gave him his job,
Speaker 3: he just like threw him into another car yard. My
Speaker 3: dad doesn't have employees, but he just knows everyone in
Speaker 3: the car business.
Speaker 2: Just say your napper baby. And so my high school
Speaker 2: had a DJ and the cafe. Even my mom was
Speaker 2: laughing about this. Me and Lizzie were laughing about this
Speaker 2: and Garda just now.
Speaker 3: The DJ cafe.
Speaker 1: It'll never get old.
Speaker 3: My god, what happen? You got to keep the bag
Speaker 3: and the mind get the bag and he's like, oh,
Speaker 3: you'll pay it back. Click when you make commission? Did
Speaker 3: I make that much commission in nine months I was
Speaker 3: working there? Absolutely not. Do I still have the bag yet?
Speaker 3: And does it still slay? It's a beautiful bag. Amazing
Speaker 3: to keep it to generations?
Speaker 1: All in all? What's that thing? Checked? Twice? Cut once.
Speaker 1: Is that the same?
Speaker 3: I never heard it.
Speaker 1: If you work in payroll, don't make it out. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: money it comes in.
Speaker 2: There's nothing I can do on my end. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2: That's another thing that we've got to start implementing. Saying
Speaker 2: there's nothing I can do.
Speaker 1: On my end.
Speaker 3: That's so annoying.
Speaker 1: My hands are unfortunately tired. There's nothing I can do
Speaker 1: on my end.
Speaker 3: Practice no, okay, but really quickly back to it. I
Speaker 3: agree it's on HR. They're trying to do some dodgy shit.
Speaker 3: If h everyone to talk to you when not have
Speaker 3: it over email, eat my ass respectfully. I'm going to
Speaker 3: be recording the conversation even though that's illegal okay in
Speaker 3: New South Wales, I think so Toeleland, Victoria, Flex and frooms.
Speaker 1: You know that I currently use two phones? Yes, correct?
Speaker 1: What do you think those two phones are for?
Speaker 3: Where it can play?
Speaker 2: That's what I tell people, But the reality is I've
Speaker 2: run out of storage on one phone. And because there's
Speaker 2: no storage and I can't back it up to the iCloud.
Speaker 2: And in order to back it up to the iCloud,
Speaker 2: it means a free up space and I don't want
Speaker 2: to free up space because every thing in the phone
Speaker 2: is important to me. That includes one hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: thousand images, I message receipts because you know, screenshots, They're
Speaker 2: all there and they need to be there. And I
Speaker 2: don't want current me to decide what information is too
Speaker 2: important to keep or to.
Speaker 1: Get rid of.
Speaker 2: Right, I thought that was quite common, and maybe that's
Speaker 2: exacerbated because of the industry I work in. We work
Speaker 2: in and hoarding information. But I came across this article
Speaker 2: that was talking about this phenomena that people are seeing
Speaker 2: in young people called digital hoarding. Now we all know
Speaker 2: of physical hoarding, people who have these really debilitating lifestyles
Speaker 2: because of how much stuff they've amassed. You know, they
Speaker 2: can't find their toilet or cook in their kitchens because
Speaker 2: they's just stuff everywhere. Imagine that, But inside your digital equipment,
Speaker 2: your phone, your laptops and whatever. Because I can't decide
Speaker 2: what to free up on the first phone.
Speaker 1: I just got a second.
Speaker 2: Phone because you buy it out right, Uh yeah, oh,
Speaker 2: let's got a second business expense though business expense. But
Speaker 2: the issue with that is I'm going to have the
Speaker 2: problem again and again and again in my lifetime, and
Speaker 2: I feel like we're not really aware of what we're
Speaker 2: hoarding because everything on our phone feels like it's just
Speaker 2: living in this like cloud space, and the cloud is
Speaker 2: like this is no. The cloud is a real place everyone,
Speaker 2: It's a real place with hard drives, so're storing your information,
Speaker 2: and these places need electricity to function, and then we
Speaker 2: need powerpoints, powerpoints, power plants to function, the electricity to function.
Speaker 2: The la la la la. Basically, it's bad for the environment, babes.
Speaker 2: It's like killing the planet with all this. We need
Speaker 2: extra space to store this extra physical data that we
Speaker 2: don't need. Right, So what is a solution to digital holding.
Speaker 2: We have to become so aware of what we're holding
Speaker 2: onto and taking stock. That means deleting texts, deleting photos,
Speaker 2: deleting videos, deleting screenshots.
Speaker 3: I kind of deleting apps. Let it go, Let it go.
Speaker 2: But also like, let's learn how to physically archive with intention,
Speaker 2: bring back albums, photo books.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. A floppy disc sloppy.
Speaker 3: You had me and you lost me at floppy disk
Speaker 3: doll That's what I do best. This is flex and frooms.
Speaker 3: Now we have a very exciting announcement. We are actually
Speaker 3: going to be calling a winner of a combatation.
Speaker 5: The week we're actually is by lag there, we are
Speaker 5: going to be calling a woman called Laura.
Speaker 3: She's one. VIP tickets do something very exciting. That's happening.
Speaker 3: I think next week on February third, correct, we have
Speaker 3: a Specsavers funded event on the island in Sydney. It's
Speaker 3: always and we are inviting people down to the island.
Speaker 3: We're going to be doing a live recording. There's going
Speaker 3: to be drinks. It's so factough. Just letting you know
Speaker 3: before we call Laura to tell her she's one. You've
Speaker 3: got up until tonight to enter this competition, to come
Speaker 3: and hang out, to.
Speaker 2: Be stranded on an island, a boogie island, mind you,
Speaker 2: fully stuck with flex and frooms and a hundred of
Speaker 2: our biggest fans, so we can simulate what life would
Speaker 2: be lackful stranded on a desert island with catering.
Speaker 3: However, no one needs to be eated. Let's let's go
Speaker 3: to it. Let's call Laura.
Speaker 4: Oh this is love speaking Laura.
Speaker 2: Thank god you answered the phone like someone who has
Speaker 2: phone manners. Oh shame, but we have called to eighteen
Speaker 2: year old tate and they picked up with a hat.
Speaker 1: And one thing about growing up.
Speaker 2: Is that you have to answer with Hello, this is
Speaker 2: insert name speaking, thank you so much for your service, Laura.
Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, No, no, no, this is too much good.
Speaker 3: It is a oh my god, Laura, You've got such
Speaker 3: a beautiful tone to your voice.
Speaker 1: It's so hot.
Speaker 4: Thank you. I am very raspear, but thank you very much.
Speaker 4: Working with them teacher. So it's just it's just a
Speaker 4: lot of voice screaming over the kids all day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, are you? Kids carry so many germs.
Speaker 4: I feel like I've kind of got over the hump
Speaker 4: now because I've been working with kids, Like before working here,
Speaker 4: I worked in like childcare for a year, and then
Speaker 4: I was nannying for over like three years. So I
Speaker 4: feel like I've kind of built an immune system to
Speaker 4: get past it. But it's just it comes at lots
Speaker 4: of voice.
Speaker 3: Personal question Laura, do you want kids? It? Do you
Speaker 3: want kids?
Speaker 4: I do? I do want kids?
Speaker 2: I do?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so she a little bit. Now, I'm twenty two,
Speaker 4: but the goal would be maybe like twenty six.
Speaker 2: We all said that, We definitely also that twenty two,
Speaker 2: and then yeah, we said, you know.
Speaker 1: What, that's.
Speaker 4: Next few days, you know. I mean like they're like whenever, No,
Speaker 4: there's no time.
Speaker 3: I like that. I like that a lot, Laura. Now
Speaker 3: I heard that you didn't really listen to podcasts until
Speaker 3: you started listening to Flex and Firms. Is that true?
Speaker 4: No, it is true. Yeah, you guys. Like the first
Speaker 4: ever podcast I listened to was one that my boyfriend
Speaker 4: forced me to listen to because I was like, we
Speaker 4: just had run out of music, and I was like,
Speaker 4: not a fan. And then I fumbled across yours because
Speaker 4: I had seen both of you guys on TikTok and
Speaker 4: I was like, you know what, I'll give it a go.
Speaker 4: I'm Something that I said to yesterday that I really
Speaker 4: liked about it was that you guys have that kind
Speaker 4: of their shorter episodes, so I feel like I'm not
Speaker 4: committing to sitting there for hours. That being said, though,
Speaker 4: I will sit there and listen to episode after episodes
Speaker 4: and being there for a while anyway.
Speaker 3: But yeah, well, Laura, I am so overjoyed to be
Speaker 3: meeting you on the feb third. Yeah, I'm overjoyed all right,
Speaker 3: and we're gonna let you go, but we will see
Speaker 3: you then.
Speaker 4: I can't wait.
Speaker 2: Bye byelae, I thank you bye.
Speaker 3: What is with these callers being the nicest? Yeah, I'm
Speaker 3: upset a list awesomest people ever. Wow, what is that like.
Speaker 1: Your vibe attracts your tribe?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, let's go with that.
Speaker 1: Let's go with that.
Speaker 3: So if you're a banch, you're listening with no vibes,
Speaker 3: please look off, Please change channels. This is flex and
Speaker 3: frooms on Kita. Something that I also like is learning
Speaker 3: about sleep cycles. It's really important to sleep properly and
Speaker 3: continuous sleep hygiene in your day to day life.
Speaker 1: Sleep hygiene is a great phrase.
Speaker 3: That's kind of like the first that's the first thing
Speaker 3: that's not to do with personal hygiene that I've heard.
Speaker 3: Hygiene attached to sleep hygiene yeap, yeap. Online hygiene, there's
Speaker 3: all of it, But this one comes courtesy of an
Speaker 3: Instagram tw that I saw. Apparently, how long and how
Speaker 3: will you sleep at night when you fall asleep and
Speaker 3: how energetic you feel upon waking are all those three
Speaker 3: things are mainly controlled by how early and how much
Speaker 3: sunlight you view before ten am in the preceeding two
Speaker 3: to three days.
Speaker 1: This is very human core.
Speaker 3: It is human core. So what that means is how
Speaker 3: will you sleep is determined on the past three days beforehand,
Speaker 3: and in those past three days, it depends on how
Speaker 3: much sunlight you got in the morning.
Speaker 1: So we need more sunlight in the morning to sleep
Speaker 1: better at night.
Speaker 3: Exactly.
Speaker 1: So your former sign if it's overcast, oh huh.
Speaker 3: Get up before the sunlight. That's before ten am. Apparently
Speaker 3: that's the good shit you see.
Speaker 2: My thing is, every time I hear these facts, I
Speaker 2: love it. Information is fantastic, But it occurs to me
Speaker 2: that in order to benefit from this information, I'd have
Speaker 2: to change my lifestyle, which now shows me that I
Speaker 2: just don't want to be an optimal person because the
Speaker 2: thought of my nighttime sleep today being impacted by how
Speaker 2: much sun I saw this morning, the day before, yesterday
Speaker 2: and yesterday.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: It's a bit demoralizing, isn't it?
Speaker 1: Hugely hugely? But it's good information to have. I just
Speaker 1: don't know if it's achievable.
Speaker 3: We'll say I try it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I was on a plane in the last
Speaker 1: two days, so I didn't get.
Speaker 3: Much international I've had enough.
Speaker 1: I've had enough.
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