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Speaker 1: You're listening to Flex and Frooms. What the frick?
Speaker 4: If you've ever been broken up with and you are hot? Objectively, yes,
Speaker 4: you may be entitled to financial compensation.
Speaker 1: Can again? Ah? Who oh nice?
Speaker 2: Who?
Speaker 1: I got her flavor? I know.
Speaker 4: I just wanted to see if we were doing like
Speaker 4: a call in response cult leader one oh one? If
Speaker 4: I say something, will you do it? We're working well?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 4: So at first I thought this was fake news because
Speaker 4: I did hear it from a podcast, and we do
Speaker 4: know from personal experience, fact checking a secondary to telling
Speaker 4: a good stories true.
Speaker 1: Can get ana? Who?
Speaker 4: Yeah, we have a little pattern Place says yeah, yeah, so,
Speaker 4: but I will say, after I saw this TikTok, I
Speaker 4: did go on BBC World and did confirm that if
Speaker 4: you are objectively hot and you are dating in China,
Speaker 4: you can be entitled to compensation if you get broken
Speaker 4: up with. Then you might be saying, under what circumstance
Speaker 4: would that make sense?
Speaker 1: I'll tell you so from what I gather.
Speaker 4: If you are someone who has access to dating someone
Speaker 4: who is in their prime, they're eligible, They've got a
Speaker 4: good thing.
Speaker 1: Going for them.
Speaker 4: They're the kind of person that if they were on
Speaker 4: the market, they would have options and suitors. And you
Speaker 4: decide to waste their time by dating them, loving them,
Speaker 4: and then leaving them. The amicable, respectable thing to do
Speaker 4: is to calculate the worth of that relationship, the worth
Speaker 4: of what they gave up to be with you, and
Speaker 4: then give them that money so you can leave that
Speaker 4: relationship with a clean slate, all in safe. Put up
Speaker 4: the flex paddle. Okay, this is crazy, this is crazy. Okay,
Speaker 4: so that was like a fifty to fifty. Let me
Speaker 4: get you some more information that might sweeten sweeten the
Speaker 4: experience for you. You might be wondering, also, how did
Speaker 4: this come to be? Who made this up? Well, there
Speaker 4: is nothing like a scorned X. And what people were
Speaker 4: finding is that once they had done the breaking up being,
Speaker 4: their reputation was soiled by word of mouth. Of course,
Speaker 4: you know the best advertising there is. So to avoid guilt,
Speaker 4: to avoid ruining your potential of finding a new elder person,
Speaker 4: to potentially waste their time, just chuck them something light,
Speaker 4: something light.
Speaker 1: What is that number? A simple calculation?
Speaker 4: How much are you willing to pay someone for them
Speaker 4: not to ruin your chance of finding love again?
Speaker 1: I don't think you can put a price on that,
Speaker 1: are you sure? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Okay, well it's for an example. Anyone feel free to
Speaker 4: yell it out. Let's say you're about to get broken
Speaker 4: up with, or reminisce or time where you were broken
Speaker 4: up with. What amount of money would have made it
Speaker 4: hurt much less? Ten ten grand before or after tax?
Speaker 3: This?
Speaker 1: Want to make sure.
Speaker 4: After tax? Okay, any other numbers, let's be honest. One
Speaker 4: hundred bulls. Oh, that's fair, that's fair, that's fair. And
Speaker 4: if it's not the money you're after, and you want
Speaker 4: some other kind of compensation for getting your heart broken,
Speaker 4: what would feel good to you?
Speaker 1: Just yell it out.
Speaker 4: Ah, my king, I'm kind of love, I'm kind of ass.
Speaker 3: Were true, perhaps a trip to the island upon which
Speaker 3: are now? Look, did you know that James Packer was
Speaker 3: sued by Mariah Carey. So I was talking about this
Speaker 3: with someone before because we're seeing these amazing boats on
Speaker 3: the harbor. Here, we're on the harbor and thinking one
Speaker 3: of these James Packer. Yeah, sure, and she sued him
Speaker 3: I think seven million dollars and one for literally wasting
Speaker 3: her time as she should.
Speaker 4: I have been known to say that the world is
Speaker 4: not ready for innovation on a scale that will actually
Speaker 4: change our lives. You saw what happened with Google glasses
Speaker 4: that came out. People weren't ready for it done. You
Speaker 4: also saw what happened I would say when we were
Speaker 4: in high school. Let's not do the math, but between
Speaker 4: I don't know ten and twenty years ago.
Speaker 1: Five years ago, but anyway, fuck, you're right.
Speaker 4: Anyway when you'd see like traditional corporate businessmen with bluetooth earphones,
Speaker 4: and even that felt far too advance for what we
Speaker 4: had expected where we expected the world to go right.
Speaker 4: And so this idea of recognizing a relationship for what
Speaker 4: it is for most people transactional. I need something from you,
Speaker 4: you need something from me. We come together to both
Speaker 4: commit to fulfilling those needs for each other.
Speaker 1: You take away the poetry. It's a trend action.
Speaker 4: Much like when you go somewhere, you have an expectation,
Speaker 4: you give something in exchange for that thing, and it's done.
Speaker 1: My issue is I wouldn't say it's an issue.
Speaker 4: My my my plea qual plea is that you would
Speaker 4: consider that. I feel like what makes breakups difficult is
Speaker 4: that often the person gets broken up with feels like
Speaker 4: number one, it's a spanner in the works. I did
Speaker 4: not prepare for this, and it's actually changed the course
Speaker 4: of my life without my permission correct.
Speaker 1: And I feel like a lot of us, you know,
Speaker 1: we've grown.
Speaker 4: Up in an environment where we feel like we have
Speaker 4: a lot of agency to choose what we do, when
Speaker 4: we do it, how we do it in the pace
Speaker 4: that we want to. And someone external to you is
Speaker 4: now getting to decide the pace of your life. So
Speaker 4: maybe I mean, like, how was it take to get
Speaker 4: over someone you dated properly? Like out of mind? I
Speaker 4: don't want anything to do with them. Can we get
Speaker 4: a consensus if it's a year year more or less
Speaker 4: than a year.
Speaker 1: That's in sensitive folcus down the body.
Speaker 4: No, I'm not saying like you do not want to
Speaker 4: date them anyone because they discus. I'm talking like to
Speaker 4: have such neutral feelings. You barely remember their name, you
Speaker 4: don't think about them. That's a long time. Yeah, Like
Speaker 4: I don't remember the boyfriends I've had from like eight years.
Speaker 3: Ago, but the one from two somewhere see in the
Speaker 3: crania opposite.
Speaker 1: I have distinct.
Speaker 3: Memories of my first boyfriend, but all the rest is
Speaker 3: just to blur, oh, shout out, you know who you are.
Speaker 1: Fair. I'm just kidding, just kidding. She's like, Brookie, can
Speaker 1: we take that one out please? I'm sure he doesn't
Speaker 1: listen to the show.
Speaker 4: So I feel like, in a practical sense, it would
Speaker 4: be respectful for someone to say, I acknowledge that this
Speaker 4: isn't fair. I acknowledge it isn't just, and I respect
Speaker 4: that because I'm doing this, it's now going to impact
Speaker 4: you for longer than you intend to. Here's a gift,
Speaker 4: a token of my affection.
Speaker 3: It's got to be monetary so I can get rid
Speaker 3: of it. I don't like having mementos from past relationships.
Speaker 1: It makes me sad. Yeah, I think that's fair, except
Speaker 1: for my time in Parlor records. Please elaborate.
Speaker 3: Nah, Okay, I love Tamy Parlor.
Speaker 1: Put your paddle up if you love Tamy Pala Okay,
Speaker 1: Loston Yesterday, fam.
Speaker 3: Stand up and once an ex gave me two Tami
Speaker 3: and Parlor records and the hoodie and a Marramco T
Speaker 3: shirt only one birthday.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine that's Batman was dropping stacks.
Speaker 4: Okay, you're giving too much credit.
Speaker 3: And now you know like it was an amical breakup.
Speaker 3: So I listened to the records. I wear the hoodie.
Speaker 3: If you ever see me wearing an orange Tamy Parla hoodie,
Speaker 3: that was my king.
Speaker 1: This is a lot of detail for me. Oh it's okay.
Speaker 4: Can I ask the question? Paddles up? Amicable breakups are
Speaker 4: real thing. Okay, I'm gonna leave it there. That's a
Speaker 4: hard note for the girly flecks. And now we do
Speaker 4: have an amazing person in the audience called Ariel.
Speaker 1: He's got a question for us. We love taking questions
Speaker 1: and I a DJ giving them. Hello. Firstly, my burning
Speaker 1: question is what were your first impressions of each other
Speaker 1: when you first met all right. Let's start off. I
Speaker 1: sitting the scene. We've got Ariel in the front row.
Speaker 1: She's wearing.
Speaker 3: Is that a knitted top with some linen pants and
Speaker 3: some converse in her hand?
Speaker 1: Is a Froom's World brochure? And employee have a look
Speaker 1: at that? An employee with the fruzel pen give her
Speaker 1: a clap. Yes, thank you. They just go like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, thank you so much.
Speaker 3: I noted to bring the mug, but it just the
Speaker 3: mark I used that this morning.
Speaker 1: Me too, Me too, Yeah, it was my god, that's
Speaker 1: a employee.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: Those packs didn't really sell quite like I thought they would,
Speaker 1: so you want a few? I was waiting for them
Speaker 1: to be released. I was on my computer. I would
Speaker 1: have bought more. Please do.
Speaker 3: That's amazing for the pack from World Employee packs. I
Speaker 3: haven't really gone into the like CEO shick in a while,
Speaker 3: and kind of more like comments.
Speaker 4: We had an argument with the question the term common
Speaker 4: folk derogatory yes or no and three to two one.
Speaker 4: If you agree, say yes three two one.
Speaker 1: I didn't see any paddles, so I'm allowed to say
Speaker 1: because I am a common folk. Okay, this is sensitive
Speaker 1: topic for me.
Speaker 3: Anyway, what was our first impressions? I'll start with you. Yeah,
Speaker 3: thanks for asking this question. It's really fun. We love
Speaker 3: talking about ourselves as if we don't do that ten
Speaker 3: hours a day, ten hours a week. I think that
Speaker 3: I first met you when you were working with Sports Girl.
Speaker 3: I was working a pedestrian TV rip and I was
Speaker 3: interviewing you and you were talking about being like a
Speaker 3: fierce woman in the media. It was very much that genre,
Speaker 3: that era. That's kind of the only thing we would
Speaker 3: talk about when we interviewed women.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was very quintessential. If you happen to be
Speaker 4: a chick who does stuff, that would be like the
Speaker 4: cornerstone of your identity, the chick doing stuff she does,
Speaker 4: so don't worry about having skills. It's like, what is
Speaker 4: it being a woman with those skills?
Speaker 3: Well, actually, so he's doing one of those tes I
Speaker 3: think I was skirting around the questions because I'm cognizant
Speaker 3: of you know, people would say that to me. People
Speaker 3: say to comedians a lot if you are not a man,
Speaker 3: you know, they say, what is it like being a
Speaker 3: female comedian?
Speaker 1: I've never gone what is it like being a female
Speaker 1: media or whatever? Consider me a comedian's be gentle.
Speaker 3: As I tell people, they're like, okay, so when do
Speaker 3: you do stand up?
Speaker 1: And I say, on the internet love.
Speaker 3: But my impression of you was girl buss, intelligent, intimidating,
Speaker 3: because I think that is a core tenant of your personality.
Speaker 1: Thank you, And.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it wasn't until we kind of didn't have much
Speaker 3: of a relationship until probably two or three years ago.
Speaker 4: Yeah, my first impression of through Me was that you
Speaker 4: reminded me of Alexa Chung very specifically. Do we know
Speaker 4: who that is doing this a very specific time on
Speaker 4: the internet, But Alexa Chung was an English TV presenter
Speaker 4: and she's like, very fashionable and very like quintessentially. I
Speaker 4: don't want to say it the Q word quirky, quirky woman,
Speaker 4: but I just never met anybody like that, and I
Speaker 4: think that being not a woman in media, but at
Speaker 4: the time, it's very isolating, not a lot of chicks
Speaker 4: hanging around doing stuff, and so when we converged to
Speaker 4: a chill, I will say, though, my first impression was
Speaker 4: clouded because, like through Me says, we didn't end up
Speaker 4: being friends until years after meeting each other, but everybody
Speaker 4: thought that we were friends. Especially so I was constantly
Speaker 4: having to be like, oh, no, I don't I don't
Speaker 4: really know her.
Speaker 1: I don't really know her that well. On like, we're
Speaker 1: just acquaintances.
Speaker 4: We're just acquaintances, which is a very odd thing to
Speaker 4: now have someone like in your in your orbit. But
Speaker 4: then you're like, I'm not any closer to you. I
Speaker 4: just keep telling you. I'm like, no, like I'm also
Speaker 4: a fan. I'm also a fan. I just comment on
Speaker 4: her stuff, like, no, I don't know her that well.
Speaker 3: It's like when you're on LinkedIn and there's like associated
Speaker 3: people on the side.
Speaker 1: That's kind of what it was.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we were associates. Pet put us off if you
Speaker 3: think we're friends. Now we're just colleague.
Speaker 1: No comment, flex and fruits.
Speaker 3: I was driving through Randick the other day again I'm
Speaker 3: going to use a random suburb because I love details,
Speaker 3: and I was coming around roundabout and I was doing
Speaker 3: that thing where you enter the roundabout and you want
Speaker 3: to do a full UI. Alright, so one eighty isn't
Speaker 3: one name three sixty?
Speaker 1: This is right? Yeah great.
Speaker 3: I laughed for recorded the audience because my mic goes,
Speaker 3: is that right, FLI, this is nope.
Speaker 1: And then no, I said, I said, so is it
Speaker 1: one eighty question?
Speaker 3: Mark?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 3: Great in notation, so's one eighty isn't a.
Speaker 1: Question anyway, I'm going into this roundabout.
Speaker 3: The blinker is on and I'm going around, and this
Speaker 3: car comes out as if I'm going to just turn right,
Speaker 3: but I'm actually doing you turn this close okay, nearly
Speaker 3: hits into my brand new hey un day. And if
Speaker 3: you've been listening to the show since we started, you'll
Speaker 3: know that my car was ransacked or you were a
Speaker 3: victim of an arson attack and arson came in and
Speaker 3: burnt my whole seat. Did you know this paddles up?
Speaker 4: If you knew, thank you guys, because I felt like
Speaker 4: when we were talking about that, people thought we were
Speaker 4: being facetious and quite like chill with it. It's a
Speaker 4: very unchill thing to happen to come back from a holiday,
Speaker 4: open your vehicle and feel that it's.
Speaker 1: Been burnt to a Chris.
Speaker 3: That stinch, that stench was absolutely foul. But I say
Speaker 3: this sor to say.
Speaker 1: If you are in a road.
Speaker 3: Accident, these are the things you need to do. Has
Speaker 3: anyone here been in a road accident? Put your padle up,
Speaker 3: maybe please bring a microphone to this gentleman.
Speaker 1: Oh, a targeted attack.
Speaker 3: It's just a few questions, sir, just a few questions.
Speaker 1: Testing one too. Hello, what's your name? Brock Brock yet
Speaker 1: tell us exactly hot? What was the car accident? Trauma?
Speaker 2: Part of traumatizing. I literally got my piece in like
Speaker 2: March last year.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's stop, let's stop. There, got my piece.
Speaker 2: It gets to like June and I was driving my
Speaker 2: friend home. I go.
Speaker 1: He didn't want to do it?
Speaker 3: Do it?
Speaker 1: Are you the friend? Different break but not my fault.
Speaker 2: I didn't want to drive the phone, but I just
Speaker 2: did because I felt bad.
Speaker 1: Anyway, and no details.
Speaker 2: We get to this intersection and it was like a
Speaker 2: stop sign and then stop sign on the other side.
Speaker 2: But then there was like a main road here, so
Speaker 2: two stop signs, and I was like, there's a car there.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I was supposed to let them go.
Speaker 2: I was like maybe maybe not. Anyway, get there and
Speaker 2: I'm waiting to go, but then I kind of just
Speaker 2: looked to the left to the right, and then there
Speaker 2: was no cars and I drive out and a car
Speaker 2: comes flying and just pulls the front of my car,
Speaker 2: and I was like, okay, whose fat. Well, I would advocate,
Speaker 2: it's not my fault.
Speaker 1: Of course, did you stop for five seconds at the
Speaker 1: stop sign? Three? Okay, so it was your fault.
Speaker 2: The break was okay, I stopped, but they were just
Speaker 2: they were speeding.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, look that was feeding.
Speaker 3: So st I will say, I do need to actually
Speaker 3: tell you the tips which was for this segment.
Speaker 1: If that happens to you, make sure.
Speaker 3: You figure out where they speeding and see if they
Speaker 3: were breaking any car.
Speaker 2: You know that though they said they were in a
Speaker 2: rush to at the train station.
Speaker 1: So I write that down incriminating.
Speaker 3: Great soon as you to get out of the car,
Speaker 3: put the voice member on.
Speaker 1: Okay, just in case they say, yes, it was my fault.
Speaker 1: That's what you want them to say. And finally make
Speaker 1: sure there's witnesses and that's on.
Speaker 4: That flex and frims flex and fromes Kater never miss
Speaker 4: a beat.
Speaker 3: If you're a listener of the show, you know that
Speaker 3: I recently discovered that I'm thirty three percent Scottish, which
Speaker 3: is making sense. Let's be real, Flexi, I'm a big
Speaker 3: fan of the beach. This is a recent development in
Speaker 3: my personality. Now I am I am a surf.
Speaker 1: I've been serving.
Speaker 3: Twice and that's actually really impressive. It's like quite hard
Speaker 3: to bring the board down to the beach and then
Speaker 3: like get on the wave. Anyway, I think it's really
Speaker 3: important to.
Speaker 1: Have beach safety. What's with you in safety these days?
Speaker 1: Kud out.
Speaker 4: We're in twenty twenty three. The world does not end
Speaker 4: in our lifetime.
Speaker 1: Let's hope not.
Speaker 4: Even if it's before, then let's shake things up. I
Speaker 4: want people to be reckless, hot, reckless educated. No, that's
Speaker 4: the trifecta. No, babes, it's funny.
Speaker 3: I didn't think I was going to do two educational
Speaker 3: content pieces in the one show. I'm very, very passionate
Speaker 3: about the beach and beach safety. I swim often at
Speaker 3: Bondi Beach, not to docks myself every morning that I am.
Speaker 1: Through Me. You know that's a joke.
Speaker 4: I literally I feel like I care more about frume
Speaker 4: safety than through Me does because I'm like, there have
Speaker 4: been so many uncanny, borderline, extremely unchilled things that have
Speaker 4: happened that are location based to through Me, and I
Speaker 4: fear that they would not have happened if she wasn't
Speaker 4: telling hundreds of thousands of millions of people every day
Speaker 4: where she goes frequently.
Speaker 1: So I was going to this bar.
Speaker 3: It's like three point five k is made from my
Speaker 3: house in the northwestern direction. No, and I'm really passionate
Speaker 3: about being saved at the beach because I've seen too
Speaker 3: many horrible things happened.
Speaker 1: I've actually something that's and this is not a laughing matter.
Speaker 3: Something that happened that I saw about this time last
Speaker 3: year was I actually saw someone drown at Bondi Beach,
Speaker 3: which you would think that can't happen. It's the most
Speaker 3: patrolled beach in Australia. There's a whole show bond and
Speaker 3: I Rescue about it. But I saw this man drown
Speaker 3: and ever since I saw that, I only ever swim
Speaker 3: between the flags. And I just want to say, if
Speaker 3: you happen to try and swim between somewhere that is
Speaker 3: in between the flags, I think it's really important to.
Speaker 1: Learn what a rip is. You paddle if you know
Speaker 1: what a rip is. Just learnt on TikTok the other day.
Speaker 3: I did. I am a Melbourne hottie, so I didn't
Speaker 3: really grow up around the beach, but since moving to
Speaker 3: insert suburb near the beach in eastern suburbs, It's like.
Speaker 1: Is it not? Serian?
Speaker 3: I learned that I had to discover what a rip
Speaker 3: looks like just really quickly. If you see water breaking
Speaker 3: on the shore with the whitewash, it's most likely not
Speaker 3: a rib.
Speaker 1: The way that a rip works.
Speaker 3: Is like you see two white bits, but then something's
Speaker 3: not breaking in the middle. That means that it's a
Speaker 3: water channel going out.
Speaker 1: Surfers often use them.
Speaker 3: My brethren, to get to your community. They're getting broken
Speaker 3: on the waves. But all I'll say is just if
Speaker 3: there's flags. Wait, give the fun fact though from the
Speaker 3: TikTok Oh. Yeah, there was this TikTok that flexi tagmin,
Speaker 3: which is like this surfer guy really drunk in fee.
Speaker 1: Like a frame like that is actually really really good
Speaker 1: trying to get it. Okay, hold on, everyone, no, you
Speaker 1: explain it. You had it.
Speaker 3: I'm pulling my fingers up into the air and then
Speaker 3: pushing them down through the middle, and that's how the
Speaker 3: rip works, is the water goes out and down into
Speaker 3: the middle.
Speaker 4: And so I think he was kind of explaining, I'm
Speaker 4: not in in the beach like that, but it's good
Speaker 4: to have this information. He was kind of explaining that
Speaker 4: on instinct, if you get stuck in a rip, you're
Speaker 4: you want to like challenge it by swimming the other
Speaker 4: way or just at least fighting to not get carried away,
Speaker 4: because he wants to be in the middle of the
Speaker 4: ocean when you're not on.
Speaker 1: A luxury barge.
Speaker 4: Right, So he was essentially saying, just let the rip
Speaker 4: carry you through because it's gonna take you around and
Speaker 4: back through and take you around and back through, and
Speaker 4: I think eventually you get saved.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure.
Speaker 3: Just float, which don't panic in exactly, float on your
Speaker 3: back and float on your back and.
Speaker 1: Then take you out and then just capfully take waves
Speaker 1: back here. You ever been caught in a rip? No,
Speaker 1: I am a lifesa.
Speaker 3: Oh here, I am showboating all the mi We have
Speaker 3: actually a lifesaver up on.
Speaker 5: My first training session, I actually got douts like I
Speaker 5: got stuck out Black six book waves like pub Risky
Speaker 5: on my first training session.
Speaker 1: But it's like you just have you learned learn like Black.
Speaker 1: That's unchill, but I like yourselll We've given you like
Speaker 1: just the wrong time.
Speaker 3: We're wrapping up, But thank you Hayter Flex and Frooms,
Speaker 3: Flex and Frooms, You've been.
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