Speaker 1: Flex and Frooms Flex and Frooms. This is the Flex
Speaker 1: and Frooms catch.
Speaker 2: Up podcast, Flex and Firms Podcast Edition. I wish I
Speaker 2: could give you a play by play on what it's
Speaker 2: been like living in Melbourne. A series of synchronous events.
Speaker 2: I walk into a place and somebody recognizes me and
Speaker 2: knows me, but it feels really lovely. For example, I
Speaker 2: went into a cafe called Florian. How did I get
Speaker 2: there because a friend of mine was like, let's go
Speaker 2: to Florian fantastic today. Google it. No, I don't need
Speaker 2: to google it. I'm a local pop in. I get
Speaker 2: served by this amazing woman, the vibe is up, and
Speaker 2: then maybe halfway through the meal, she's like, I just
Speaker 2: need to jump in and say Hi, I actually know Frooms.
Speaker 2: I said, this is amazing. A friend of Frooms is
Speaker 2: a friend of mine.
Speaker 1: Would you say about me?
Speaker 2: I should you amazing that you went to UNI together
Speaker 2: or something, and that the vibe is up and we
Speaker 2: should come on a Friday for wine and drinks when
Speaker 2: they're doing vinyl and stuff. And I said, I would
Speaker 2: ask you. She said this Frim's going to be here
Speaker 2: this week and I said, yeah, but I'm not sure
Speaker 2: IF's gonna be on a Friday or Saturday. I said
Speaker 2: to her that I would text you and let you
Speaker 2: know that I had met her, And while you're a
Speaker 2: spot were coming in, I was showing them to her fresh.
Speaker 1: Did you tell her that she's the most stylish person
Speaker 1: I know?
Speaker 2: She was on the phone.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so so this wooll didn't disclose.
Speaker 1: Her name is Rose. I will dock her. Her name
Speaker 1: is Rose. She and her friend Dom started the cafe
Speaker 1: Floring in Melbourne. You would have heard about it, no doubt.
Speaker 1: It's very, very cool and stylish. So her and I
Speaker 1: went to RMAT together. We studied advertising and she I've
Speaker 1: topped the story before, but she walked in. Michayale's like, shut.
Speaker 2: It's an intro, So can we intro? I don't really really, Okay,
Speaker 2: she worked in.
Speaker 1: She walked in and I'm like, holy, chic has a
Speaker 1: Cullus clothes. Ever, we didn't talk right for the first year.
Speaker 1: Then I left, got a job at Pedestrian, come back
Speaker 1: part time to finish my degree. We sit next to
Speaker 1: each other, we become mates. Then we worked out that
Speaker 1: both of our dads know each other from the Caryard Zone,
Speaker 1: which is just the weirdest thing because you would never
Speaker 1: guess it, Like I would never have guessed that our
Speaker 1: parents were even slightly linked and they ended up like
Speaker 1: going to a wedding all together, crazy obsessed. Then Also,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's an Also listen, I'm just gonna say, Rose,
Speaker 1: you're an amazing talented woman. Their cafes like popping off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all the dms. Oh my god, you're a local.
Speaker 2: This place is amazing, like.
Speaker 1: Cool people like it, but also like genuine people that
Speaker 1: understand restaurants. Wow, let's get at that, guys, flex and
Speaker 1: frioms on kedus.
Speaker 2: Question for the audience, do real estates hate their real
Speaker 2: estate agents as well? Yes? Or no? Yeah they must. No, No,
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, no offense, no shade, but it
Speaker 2: is what it is. It is what it is. Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: I was having a reflective moment, not going to time
Speaker 2: it to any move to Melbourne I made or didn't make.
Speaker 2: But I was thinking about how generally speaking, in my
Speaker 2: personal experience, real estates have this lars a fair attitude.
Speaker 2: Real Estates real estate agents both right the conglomerate and
Speaker 2: the individuals have this las a fair to shark pipeline
Speaker 2: attitude within the duration of your leasing period in the
Speaker 2: initial stages. Oh great, you signed on. Hey there's a
Speaker 2: huge week. Oh you'll be right. You'll be right. Now
Speaker 2: you move out, They're coming for you like a hawk.
Speaker 2: Hey there's a minus scratch in a high traffic area
Speaker 2: and we need to rip up every single floorboard. It's
Speaker 2: okay with you.
Speaker 1: That's on new Kreen.
Speaker 2: We can take it from your bond if you like.
Speaker 2: It doesn't make any sense, And I was thinking it
Speaker 2: is naive to think that every real estate agent that
Speaker 2: ever existed is in a position to own property. So
Speaker 2: I would imagine a vast majority, especially those who are
Speaker 2: just starting out climbing up the corporate ladder, are in
Speaker 2: a position where they're also renting. What is going on?
Speaker 2: I need the whole community to rally and let me know.
Speaker 2: Is it like a self hate thing?
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, real estate masochism, internalized real estate ology. Yeah,
Speaker 1: internalized homo ology. Okay, I've said what I said and
Speaker 1: I will stand by it. I'm gonna say they do.
Speaker 1: It's like car dealers, right, they cut from the same cloth. Yeah, O,
Speaker 1: the car dealers think car dealers are dodgy. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: same law.
Speaker 2: This might feel like one of those if you can't
Speaker 2: beat them, joining them thing like, yes, you can go
Speaker 2: and be the most altruistic real estate agent ever. But
Speaker 2: then you've got the owner on your back who's saying, Mmm,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna need you to be a shark, because I
Speaker 2: don't want this to be my remit. It needs to
Speaker 2: be your remit. And maybe you start to recognize all
Speaker 2: the best in the business have a certain approach. If
Speaker 2: I want to be the best and get that commission,
Speaker 2: I must act as if. If you are a real
Speaker 2: estate agent who rents, please reach out. Please not to commiserate,
Speaker 2: because you are the enemy, but I would like to
Speaker 2: mind you for some data.
Speaker 1: The only real estate agents I approve of what are
Speaker 1: their names? Dickie Cox him, but two others Gas, Gavin Rubinstein.
Speaker 2: What's my boyfriend's name? Gavin Rubin, Qeen Simon Simon, Simon,
Speaker 2: Colin gab Our Kinks potential partners. I like DeLine as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Dline's one of us.
Speaker 2: Okay, you said it really like women supporting women have
Speaker 2: had enough.
Speaker 1: We get people messaging in their dilemmas. They're often very
Speaker 1: scary and they make me very very happy that I
Speaker 1: have minimal conflict in my life. One housemate who isn't
Speaker 1: around a lot. It's all I'll say. We have an
Speaker 1: emy of the asshole was sent in by a woman
Speaker 1: called Brook from the Flex and Frooms DMS. If you
Speaker 1: ever have anything that you want us to discuss, go
Speaker 1: to Flex and Frooms on Instagram and we will read
Speaker 1: it there by way, I mean, I'll produce. Mikayla, thank you, Mikayla,
Speaker 1: thank you. All right, let's be in Hey, I've got
Speaker 1: a cooked roommate story for the potty for Frooms. Okay o.
Speaker 1: My friend twenty one currently rents and then shares a
Speaker 1: house with an older roommate fifty. All right, we're doing that.
Speaker 1: My friend is quite busy with UNI and so she
Speaker 1: can have quite an unpredictable schedule. Because of this, she
Speaker 1: will cook all of her meals for the week, freeze
Speaker 1: and refrigerate them, and heat them up when needed. This
Speaker 1: is where her roommate has taken severe issue. A few
Speaker 1: weeks ago, my friend cooked a curry. She emits. The
Speaker 1: smell was quite strong, and the roommate complained and said
Speaker 1: that she found it highly offensive. Wow. My friend obviously
Speaker 1: apologized and tried to air out the house. Some people
Speaker 1: don't know how to use those induction fans, but they.
Speaker 2: Don't work as well as they could, and plus cents
Speaker 2: get trapped into fabrics and you know oil splatters that
Speaker 2: you don't see that are on the wall. Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: a lot.
Speaker 1: A week later, the roommate complains that she can still
Speaker 1: smell curry and that it is disturbing her.
Speaker 2: Sleep, disturbing the peace, babe.
Speaker 1: She tells my friend that she can no longer cook
Speaker 1: curries during the week or pass midday due to the
Speaker 1: issue with the smell. This is fine until last week.
Speaker 1: My friend cooked garlic pasta while the roommate was out.
Speaker 1: The roommate returned at nine pm and went straight to
Speaker 1: her room. The following day, my friend received an email
Speaker 1: while at union from this roommate essentially asking for a
Speaker 1: check in and implying that they need to talk about
Speaker 1: things that aren't working for either of us. Roommate proceeded
Speaker 1: to lecture my friend on how the garlic smell was disturbing,
Speaker 1: disrupted her sleep, and permeated the soft furnishings. As I said, yes,
Speaker 1: she said, my friend needs to find more recipes at work.
Speaker 1: Then she accused my friend of being lazy not meal
Speaker 1: prepping this week, and she said she should strive to
Speaker 1: be more like the roommate. What my friend has three
Speaker 1: weeks left on her lease.
Speaker 2: She wants to leave.
Speaker 1: She wants to leave, and at this point is willing
Speaker 1: to lose her security deposit. That's when he know it's bad.
Speaker 1: My friend's mum said, to are tough at out. What
Speaker 1: do you guys think she should do to me? She
Speaker 1: strikes me as someone who reads a recipe. It says
Speaker 1: two bits of garlic. She's put six in.
Speaker 2: Okay, I like that.
Speaker 1: One of my girls. Do we think that this woman
Speaker 1: is asshole for cooking smelling food? I'll begin with my opinion. Okay,
Speaker 1: I know it's unusual for this shop. Yeah, I'm turning
Speaker 1: a leaf. I believe that you do need to be
Speaker 1: wary of what you're cooking in a house baiting biom
Speaker 1: and a quay. The one that I hate the most
Speaker 1: is cooking salmon on a pan, strong smell, taking the oven.
Speaker 1: It's like connected to one place, but on the stove
Speaker 1: it stinks and there's something about the fishy oiliness of
Speaker 1: it that does permeate the house and I will say
Speaker 1: I think most people don't know how to use the
Speaker 1: induction fan. They often forget they're not opening windows. I
Speaker 1: also think that you don't know how bad you smell.
Speaker 2: Pointed.
Speaker 1: Sorry, guys, I said, And so I would say, keep
Speaker 1: on the lease, Okay, it's not worth losing, stay the course,
Speaker 1: stay with the parents if that's an option, yeah, or
Speaker 1: perhaps just start ordering uberates.
Speaker 2: I don't want to be ageists, but I will I
Speaker 2: do think there's something very self interested about coexisting with
Speaker 2: other people at any given point, but generally when you're younger,
Speaker 2: the small windo of time I spent living with somebody else,
Speaker 2: I was made aware of habits that I didn't know
Speaker 2: were disruptive, in the same way I made them aware
Speaker 2: of habits that they didn't know that were disrupt Do
Speaker 2: the smells anything that has to do with the five senses? Really,
Speaker 2: you should be acutely attuned to my thing with cooking,
Speaker 2: And like you said, you don't know what you smell like,
Speaker 2: or what your house smells like, all your things smell like,
Speaker 2: what your hair smells like. And what we do know
Speaker 2: for a fact is that since stay in places, one
Speaker 2: of my pet peeves is the lingering smell of food
Speaker 2: once it's already been consumed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got a headen upatha here and there.
Speaker 2: Yes, and you do terrorize me. I don't say anything
Speaker 2: because I've also turned a new leaf. You see, we're
Speaker 2: all growing on this show. So what I find is like,
Speaker 2: it's gross to smell food that you did not cook,
Speaker 2: you did not eat. It's on the walls, it's on
Speaker 2: the couch, it's on the floor, it's kind of like
Speaker 2: in the topp ofwere it's in the cutlery. It's yucky.
Speaker 2: And as you said, if people aren't doing their due
Speaker 2: diligence and making sure windows are open and bedroom doors
Speaker 2: are shut, and you know we're getting airflow, it's frustrating
Speaker 2: and it's gross that being said, did it we're in
Speaker 2: an email? I'm not sure, but I don't really know
Speaker 2: if there's a nice way to tell someone your food
Speaker 2: smells and therefore you should not eat.
Speaker 1: So who were siding with?
Speaker 2: I'm siding with the fifty year old. I don't think
Speaker 2: the approach was really good, but I think with three
Speaker 2: weeks to go, everyone needs to let it go. Are
Speaker 2: we sending emails berating people with three weeks to go
Speaker 2: on a lease, let it go.
Speaker 1: We're bygones, be bygones.
Speaker 2: Period flex and rooms on, Kater, I.
Speaker 1: Have a bit of a bone to pick, a bit
Speaker 1: of a gripe to wipe out of my god rain,
Speaker 1: is that off the dome? Yeah, it just came out.
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm in a good role today, definitely.
Speaker 1: I just had a whole bunch of pasta Alanorma pasta
Speaker 1: that I made off recipe two needs. The real ones
Speaker 1: will know what I'm talking. Thank you. Nagi and her
Speaker 1: dog goes up. So the other day I was watching Fleabag,
Speaker 1: which is a British show by a woman called Phoebe
Speaker 1: all a Bridge. It was released in twenty sixteen. To
Speaker 1: Rave reviews, this is like a cultural reset when it
Speaker 1: I haven't watched it, and I feel like I really
Speaker 1: like it. You would love it, just you have to
Speaker 1: watch it well. And in it, she runs this cafe.
Speaker 1: It's like a ferret cafe, and no one really comes in,
Speaker 1: but this one guy does come in. He sits down.
Speaker 1: He's sort of lap an iPad, kindle and a.
Speaker 2: Phone one of mine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he sits down and she watches him plug in
Speaker 1: the laptop, plug in the phone, plug in the thing.
Speaker 1: Go oh wait, there's not enough plugs. Bring out an adapter.
Speaker 1: And it got me thinking, I've seen this in real life.
Speaker 1: We see people go to cafes and use it as
Speaker 1: a workspace, and I'm off it.
Speaker 2: The value add isn't equal. You've come here, maybe you've
Speaker 2: got a single coffee. Now you're using up sixty bucks
Speaker 2: worth electricity and you're taking up real estate. And you're
Speaker 2: setting a precedent that this is a place where you
Speaker 2: can do that because nobody will come to you and
Speaker 2: say you have to leave. Yeah, and because of that reason,
Speaker 2: you think it's fine to stay. And you're so right
Speaker 2: if you need to plug in, it's not go all.
Speaker 2: Do we not have libraries?
Speaker 1: Libraries are underutilized. Stray Sydney libraries. The best one, I
Speaker 1: say is Soorry Hills. It's also the only one I've
Speaker 1: been to that's okay, but fantastic. They've got bamboo out
Speaker 1: the front, they would and pull space. They've got PC
Speaker 1: computers for a bit of a throwback fire.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what is everybody's issue with the library? Go there?
Speaker 2: I understand people think they're doing this community initiative thing
Speaker 2: by going in supporting a small business. You're doing the opposite, babe.
Speaker 2: Unlet's getting some piggies when you're in there. Okay, repost
Speaker 2: tag location tag, little hashtag. Here's what I say. If
Speaker 2: at any point you feel as though you've spent so
Speaker 2: much time there that this feels like you're home, you've
Speaker 2: done too Muchoo. If you feel like you've got you've
Speaker 2: gone to your local one too many times and you
Speaker 2: would take off your shoes with ease because they know
Speaker 2: you there. You've done too much. It's time to go.
Speaker 1: The crocs are halfway off and they stink.
Speaker 2: You're jumping in when people are ordering. Oh yeah, I
Speaker 2: wouldn't get that.
Speaker 1: You can do better.
Speaker 2: They know me. Here, Gwyneth Paltrow has a message for
Speaker 2: you via us flex and rooms on cater I know
Speaker 2: what you're thinking. I don't want to hear anything about Gwyneth.
Speaker 2: I don't believe in what she pedals, and that's neither
Speaker 2: here nor there. But she is a marketing genius to
Speaker 2: make Evolver can and you do it too. It for check,
Speaker 2: you do it too. She made a bag how much
Speaker 2: a lot of money? And if not from the actual sales,
Speaker 2: the marketing was it.
Speaker 1: This candle smells like my vagina.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, do you remember it? Yeah, it's in there.
Speaker 2: She was on the Call Her Daddy podcast. If you know,
Speaker 2: you know, If you don't, you don't. But she was
Speaker 2: asked about her relationship with Brad hit. I didn't know
Speaker 2: that we together. Should i've known that?
Speaker 1: I didn't know?
Speaker 2: Other interesting, Not that I care about her feelings towards
Speaker 2: Brad Pitt, but she made this really great temperature analogy.
Speaker 2: And I love an analogy because sometimes I feel like
Speaker 2: explaining something in an abstract way gives you an opportunity
Speaker 2: to think creatively about how you feel about the situation.
Speaker 3: Right, I didn't even really understand how to listen to
Speaker 3: my instincts and act from that place, like for what
Speaker 3: was right for me, I was always trying to adjudicate
Speaker 3: like what's right for everybody else. Being the sort of
Speaker 3: thermostat and the room like, oh, you know, it's getting
Speaker 3: a little uncomfortable, like let me cool it down, like
Speaker 3: it's getting cold, let me warm things up.
Speaker 2: And what I really liked about that analogy is because,
Speaker 2: in a lot of ways, I think it's a really
Speaker 2: beautiful skill to be able to sus survive in a
Speaker 2: room and adjust yourself accordingly for the benefit of you,
Speaker 2: but also the people in the room, and assuming the
Speaker 2: role because somebody has to maybe nobody has to. Maybe
Speaker 2: that's the flaw of being the temperature adjuster. Maybe nobody
Speaker 2: has to adjust the vibe. You just do what you want,
Speaker 2: but for her to be able to clock that and
Speaker 2: then say to herself, well, if I maintain almost like
Speaker 2: the adjudicator for everybody in the room, who is making
Speaker 2: sure that when my temperature is off that I'm being adjusted,
Speaker 2: that I'm like the beneficiary of somebody else stepping outside
Speaker 2: of their comfort zone to make sure I'm okay. And
Speaker 2: so I was thinking about environmental scenarios where we could
Speaker 2: do less temperature adjusting, but I don't know how I
Speaker 2: would do it without taking it to a selfish point
Speaker 2: and over correcting me like, well, I'm not gonna step
Speaker 2: in at all, Like when do you pick and choose
Speaker 2: when it's time to be the person who manipulates a
Speaker 2: situation for the better.
Speaker 1: I think that the temperature adjuster, if you really feel
Speaker 1: like you're the one always does it, I think you
Speaker 1: should voice it. And then it gives people the opportunity.
Speaker 1: People might say, yeah, you are and then when you
Speaker 1: stop doing it, people can say, oh, you're not doing
Speaker 1: that thing, and then you can say, yeah, I'm not
Speaker 1: doing it because xyz to me. I really don't like
Speaker 1: the idea that people put themselves out and don't tell
Speaker 1: me and then resent me. It's not fair, Like leave
Speaker 1: your martyrdom to your dan self. Okay. It's like if
Speaker 1: someone does something for you, you're not going to bother
Speaker 1: trying to get the temperature stat up to where it
Speaker 1: should be.
Speaker 2: That's so true. Give people a chance to mess up
Speaker 2: and course correct on their own. I like that anyway.
Speaker 2: Shout out to Gwyneth. You did that. You've been listening
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