Speaker 1: Flex and Frooms, Flex and Frooms.
Speaker 2: This is the Flex and Frooms catch up podcast.
Speaker 1: It's Flex and It's Rooms. And I'm here looking at
Speaker 1: my cleaner Strida world water. When will this not be
Speaker 1: a part of my personality?
Speaker 3: And We've got another fresh one at home, so I'm
Speaker 3: worried it's gonna keep continuing.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna wait till the half the diamond tees have
Speaker 1: fallen off.
Speaker 3: Have you watched it since the last time you kind
Speaker 3: of watched it?
Speaker 1: Flex, I don't ask me dumb questions.
Speaker 3: I'm not asking. I'm just the voice of speaking.
Speaker 1: You know, when I brought it out my Life Shows
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, it was the main crowd grown.
Speaker 2: Anyway, let's get to podcast. Bye, Flex and Frooms.
Speaker 3: How many times can we beat this conversation to death?
Speaker 3: We're talking friends and splitting bills. Initially you think you
Speaker 3: have this conversation because you're brokeie, but it's not just that. Okay,
Speaker 3: some of us are just money minded. Listen to this.
Speaker 3: I not me. We mind this from the internet. Recently
Speaker 3: went out to dinner with a friend at a high
Speaker 3: end restaurant.
Speaker 2: No boot.
Speaker 3: Perhaps Hubert is the barbe key aria uh esther and
Speaker 3: also quay that's key. When the bill came, I was
Speaker 3: shocked to see that my friend had ordered several expensive
Speaker 3: dishes and drinks, which ended up costing much more than
Speaker 3: i'd anticipated. I'd assume that we'd be splitting the bill evenly,
Speaker 3: but now I'm not so sure. I don't mind treating
Speaker 3: my friend to a nice meal every once in a while,
Speaker 3: but I feel that they took advantage of my generosity
Speaker 3: by ordering so much. I'm on a type budget and
Speaker 3: can't afford to spend that much money on one meal,
Speaker 3: so I suggested that I just paid my own food
Speaker 3: and he pays his. After that, he got upset and
Speaker 3: accused me of being a liar and throw a hissy fit.
Speaker 3: Once the situation got to the point where other tables
Speaker 3: were looking for us, I left the amount of money
Speaker 3: to cover my food and left the restaurant. Am I
Speaker 3: the asshole for wanting not to split the bill evenly?
Speaker 3: Or should I just suck it up and pay for
Speaker 3: my friend's expensive taste in food? What is the tea?
Speaker 3: Let me know, frooms, what do you think?
Speaker 2: Oh? Sickening?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 1: I will say, Why woudn't she bear that my friend Louis,
Speaker 1: he's gluten free.
Speaker 2: Why do I want to get the baguette?
Speaker 1: Yeah? So I'm eating a whole duck pete, at least
Speaker 1: two hundred grams of duck pete put it back, and
Speaker 1: a whole baguette.
Speaker 3: So you want him to pay half?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Like, what do you do?
Speaker 1: I want to get an expensive dish and he's gluten
Speaker 1: free and thinks the idea of a duck padae is
Speaker 1: the grossest thing on earth?
Speaker 2: What do you do for him?
Speaker 1: He took the whole bill, and I'm waiting for him
Speaker 1: to send me the text that says, hey, this is
Speaker 1: how much am I going to prompt him?
Speaker 2: Probably not not in this economy, love, But.
Speaker 1: Now I think, unless you're going to do the one
Speaker 1: you do dinner once, you do dinner once, Like you just.
Speaker 2: Have to split it. Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well so you go with a mutual understanding of
Speaker 1: how much you're gonna pay. I'm not going to go
Speaker 1: to Hubert and get a burgette for twenty dollars.
Speaker 3: You're not, Nah, but you did?
Speaker 2: I did what I did?
Speaker 1: Huh?
Speaker 2: What about neuflix?
Speaker 3: I just feel like people are really naive when it
Speaker 3: comes to dining out. I'm so sorry. Okay, it's not
Speaker 3: meant to be a fiscally responsible event. You go there
Speaker 3: to spend a bag and have a good time, and
Speaker 3: you know, they say, how you end any kind of
Speaker 3: event or social interaction is how you feel about the
Speaker 3: whole interaction. If we're having an amazing dinner and then
Speaker 3: we start doing riff raff over the bill, now I'm
Speaker 3: pisseduff just let it slide through. I never go to
Speaker 3: a dinner expecting it to be to pay a fair
Speaker 3: amount for what I had. Ever, it never feels worth it,
Speaker 3: even when it's a good, good deal, even when no
Speaker 3: one's splitting. So I just feel like, who's the asshole here?
Speaker 3: Both of you? You're the asshole not knowing, not knowing
Speaker 3: the steaks. If you're going out to eat at a
Speaker 3: place where there's expensive stuff on the menu and you're
Speaker 3: in a close enough relationship that just assume that you're splitting,
Speaker 3: you know what you're in for. Pick better friends, or
Speaker 3: don't dine with people who aren't good to you exactly.
Speaker 3: I don't know anyone like that. My people know.
Speaker 2: Sparkling with still still.
Speaker 1: Flex See I was on TikTok as Per and I
Speaker 1: came across this TikTok which is about celebrity energy. I
Speaker 1: have heard about certain people having magnetism a certain genet sequa,
Speaker 1: but I haven't seen it spoken about on TikTok until now.
Speaker 2: Please play the tape, mikayla.
Speaker 4: Okay, So I have this theory about celebrities that if
Speaker 4: you want to be a celebrity, you have to become
Speaker 4: a celebrity before anyone else knows your femist does that
Speaker 4: means like theme is actually just.
Speaker 1: A byproduct or like the result of showing.
Speaker 4: Up like a celebrity, which is what I call celebrity energy.
Speaker 1: I was trying to think, obviously, you can be famous
Speaker 1: and not have celebrity energy, or you can have celebrity
Speaker 1: energy and not be famous.
Speaker 2: Eg.
Speaker 1: Everyone knows that in their area. When you're in high school,
Speaker 1: there's a couple famous faces. Okay, there's a few notable
Speaker 1: names that transcend not just the school yard, but also
Speaker 1: are the schools.
Speaker 2: Have you heard of this before? I still remember their names.
Speaker 1: I won't name them, but like our new chicks from
Speaker 1: like thirteen kilometers this way, I know they're saying and
Speaker 1: their boyfriend history.
Speaker 2: Why do I know that?
Speaker 1: Do you think you have celebrity energy?
Speaker 3: Absolutely?
Speaker 2: Wow? How do you think you called fatter?
Speaker 3: That's true? Do you know what it was? I don't
Speaker 3: know if it's celebrity energy per se, but there are
Speaker 3: certain characteristics and qualities and visual aesthetics that people you
Speaker 3: talk about have. I was that girl going to Tafe
Speaker 3: and private college in heels and a blazer. As if
Speaker 3: I didn't have celebrity energy. If I look back on
Speaker 3: my photos from being a teenager, I always had it
Speaker 3: because when you dusties were wearing what do you call it?
Speaker 3: In my head, I'm saying jay Z, but that's not
Speaker 3: the one JJS. Correct. I was wearing American power disco
Speaker 3: pants saved.
Speaker 2: Okay, jump of it.
Speaker 3: We're both here.
Speaker 1: I was doing a wholts of the halt nech okay.
Speaker 3: Here's how we can determine if you have celebrity energy.
Speaker 3: Do people remember your name? Because a lot of you
Speaker 3: are ruled out, crawled out. Number one. If they don't
Speaker 3: remember your name, does your reputation precede you? Do they
Speaker 3: know something about you before you've told them. That can
Speaker 3: be with anyone the locally coffee shop. I know a
Speaker 3: bunch of people. Like at one of my old gyms,
Speaker 3: there was this guy six foot five Adonis type, look
Speaker 3: like Poseidon's first son. Didn't speak beast, just strut around
Speaker 3: the gym in these short, tiny and they were like
Speaker 3: the cart. They came up at the site we were
Speaker 3: gagging for it. Didn't talk to anyone, didn't engage with anyone.
Speaker 3: But she's to strut and work out celebrity energy.
Speaker 2: Try it.
Speaker 3: That's I think you have it. If you have to
Speaker 3: ask or inquire, you don't have it. You have to ask,
Speaker 3: you can.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Flex and Rooms on Kita. Listen, there's
Speaker 1: a cost of living crisis. You've heard it again and
Speaker 1: again and you're probably bored. And I will say I
Speaker 1: live with another woman. We share a house, a sharehouse
Speaker 1: in Sydney Deacn subway.
Speaker 3: You can say you have a house mate we had.
Speaker 2: And live with another one living anyway.
Speaker 1: She has just got a job in London, very very
Speaker 1: very exciting news for her. And this is a quick
Speaker 1: turn around. She's going to be moving out in three weeks.
Speaker 1: So I had a choice, do I move out and
Speaker 1: get a house, get a room in another house, or
Speaker 1: do I stay put and either fill her room or
Speaker 1: make her room a study.
Speaker 2: Wow. This is some big dog.
Speaker 1: Behavior, literally, And what if I chosen flex, We're gonna
Speaker 1: make it a study fan. Yeah, we're taking over a
Speaker 1: whole lease on a house a gay guy. Huge. We
Speaker 1: are going to be spending hundreds and hundreds and hundreds
Speaker 1: of dollars a week. Yeah, but I thought, you know what,
Speaker 1: I was looking at one bedroom properties in the eastern suburbs.
Speaker 2: What are we looking at seven hundred dollars a week? Wow?
Speaker 1: So my place is actually a bargain. But I want
Speaker 1: to ask you, Flexi, you are someone who's lived alone
Speaker 1: for how many years?
Speaker 3: Ten? No?
Speaker 2: You haven't. Yeah, can you tell me?
Speaker 1: I have a few questions. Number one, will I get lonely?
Speaker 3: You are a very social person, and I'm not social
Speaker 3: in the way that you are, so probably.
Speaker 2: Okay, great.
Speaker 3: But also you, I'm sure you don't get the bulk
Speaker 3: of your social media filled just by your house mate.
Speaker 3: You proactively leave your house.
Speaker 2: Quite a bit, Yes, I do, always on.
Speaker 3: I think you'll appreciate having a home that's a sanctuary
Speaker 3: that's made as you intend it. The mess that is
Speaker 3: there is because you put it there, and you'll pick
Speaker 3: it up when you're done. You style it in the
Speaker 3: way that you want to. You'll build new habits. I
Speaker 3: think it's a really great thing.
Speaker 1: Do you think you're more productive living alone?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Wow?
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 3: I always say if I live in my best friend,
Speaker 3: I'd be a b for real. Get up, giggle, eat together,
Speaker 3: sit down, giggle, eat together, go out to a movie, giggle,
Speaker 3: eat together. I would not do anything the small time
Speaker 3: I lived with a close friend, it was just it
Speaker 3: was good because we're both DJs, so on the same
Speaker 3: kind of nocturnal schedule. But I was not good at
Speaker 3: getting stuff done in the way that she was, and
Speaker 3: because we were both DJ bums, it just was not
Speaker 3: good for any kind of routine. It just it's like osmosis.
Speaker 3: You develop these habits that you can't break away from
Speaker 3: without physically being separate, which is hard to do when
Speaker 3: you live in a small apartment. Do it, You'll love it.
Speaker 3: It's so hard.
Speaker 2: I'm so excited. I'm going to really deck it out.
Speaker 1: As you know, I bought that really expensive chair about
Speaker 1: twelve months ago. I splash out on my most expensive purchase.
Speaker 1: It's been sitting in my parents' house in bubble wrap
Speaker 1: so the cat does not.
Speaker 2: Piss on it.
Speaker 1: That will be ferried up to Sydney and we're gonna
Speaker 1: make it design file style rental property. My goal is
Speaker 1: to be featured on some sort of website where that's
Speaker 1: gonna happen.
Speaker 2: It's yet to be.
Speaker 1: But what this space, guys, Clean girl era is activated.
Speaker 2: Story.
Speaker 3: A video on TikTok it hit a spot I didn't
Speaker 3: want it to hit, and I thought, let me share
Speaker 3: this trauma around there some for all the girls listened
Speaker 3: to this. I've come to the realization that I can
Speaker 3: make myself clear, but I cannot make myself understood. I
Speaker 3: can make sure that I'm communicating accurately and clearly, but
Speaker 3: I cannot control the lens with which someone will receive
Speaker 3: the information I've given them. And honestly, that realization has
Speaker 3: been very free. You don't agree?
Speaker 2: Is that all?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Did that not hear?
Speaker 1: This is?
Speaker 3: This is how I know I told you I'm an
Speaker 3: Instagram quotes Girley transition into like a TikTok motivational girlie
Speaker 3: because that clicks for me my whole life. Right when
Speaker 3: I was sixteen, I remember I was telling my friends
Speaker 3: about a book I was reading maybe it was Twilight
Speaker 3: or some other like smutty type fantasy book, but I
Speaker 3: could like physically see them zone out because I couldn't
Speaker 3: articulate myself. I couldn't get to the point. I didn't
Speaker 3: know what I was saying, I didn't know how to
Speaker 3: to say it. And from that bloody moment, I became
Speaker 3: a stickler for words. I was like, people need to understand,
Speaker 3: and they need to pay attention. The frustrating thing is
Speaker 3: the more you emphasize the need for articulation, the less
Speaker 3: you realize the communication. Baby two way Street, I can't
Speaker 3: make you understand if you fundamentally don't understand, and that
Speaker 3: to me makes speaking futile. I don't want to do
Speaker 3: it because if I can't guarantee that you're gonna understand
Speaker 3: me as intended, then what am I even doing. I'm
Speaker 3: getting frustrated just thinking about it. Then I think of
Speaker 3: all the people I'm going to interact with in my lifetime,
Speaker 3: who I really want to connect with, who I just
Speaker 3: can't because I don't know why they don't get me.
Speaker 1: Well, there's a whole lens that you're looking at through
Speaker 1: things that are not words. Body language, tone, okay, and
Speaker 1: don't they.
Speaker 3: Say, like, words are only twenty percent of communication.
Speaker 1: Seven percent At this point for the research, it's dropped, so.
Speaker 2: Chat, GPT, it's out the window.
Speaker 3: Fan.
Speaker 1: All we have is language, ye mind language, I should say,
Speaker 1: we didn't get back into morse code at this point.
Speaker 3: It's the only thing that's going to help us.
Speaker 2: Peepeepeep? What am I saying? Pepepeep beep beep? Flex is
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