WEBVTT - If You Could Make Anything In Life Easier, What Would It Be? 🤔

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<v Speaker 1>Flex and Frooms, Flex and Frooms. This is the Flex

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<v Speaker 1>and Frooms catch up podcast.

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<v Speaker 2>Can you imagine a time where, like cars and houses and.

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<v Speaker 1>Babies, dogs a nuclear family?

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<v Speaker 2>Can you imagine a future where, like houses and cars,

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<v Speaker 2>we share smartphones. You might be thinking we did that

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<v Speaker 2>with payphones, have we not? While we go back, as

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<v Speaker 2>we've been talking about building utopias or existing in a utopia,

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<v Speaker 2>or like living in an apocalypse, I was thinking about how,

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<v Speaker 2>at one point in time, privately owning everything was the

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<v Speaker 2>vibe for some, not many, but also it was a

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<v Speaker 2>way to indicate social status, right like I in order

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<v Speaker 2>to be in this lavish house, I bought it. In

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<v Speaker 2>order to enter that car, I must have owned it

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<v Speaker 2>or my parents owned it.

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<v Speaker 1>In order to do the blue messages, I must have

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<v Speaker 1>an iPhone.

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<v Speaker 2>Exactly, and then a lot of those experiences. In order

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<v Speaker 2>to enjoy indulge in that beautiful lavish house, I'll just

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<v Speaker 2>rent it out on a short stay accommodation site. In

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<v Speaker 2>order to eat at that beautiful restaurant, I'll just order

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<v Speaker 2>it on said delivery food app. It's all available to

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<v Speaker 2>me because I can choose to lease it for a

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<v Speaker 2>short amount of time. What about smartphones. I ask because

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<v Speaker 2>if for some god forsaken reason my phone did not work,

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<v Speaker 2>there would be no other phone for me to access

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<v Speaker 2>to do any phone like activity, not to call you,

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<v Speaker 2>nothing that's bad.

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<v Speaker 1>Why don't we scared? Well, you got your phone stolen

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<v Speaker 1>a coach ell are, Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>I did, But thank the Lord, we come sorry about me.

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<v Speaker 1>Steve Jobs from the grade.

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<v Speaker 2>Literally you realized Steve Job's re encountered. Don't worry. I

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<v Speaker 2>think that, like everything sounds really far fetched until it's

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<v Speaker 2>not right. You know, this idea of getting into a

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<v Speaker 2>stranger just car and paying a premium to go from

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<v Speaker 2>A to B feels like something from way in the future,

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<v Speaker 2>not present day. And ride sharing and all these other

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<v Speaker 2>things were done to sell us the idea of convenience. Right,

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<v Speaker 2>you should be able to access the thing you need conveniently.

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<v Speaker 2>Why aren't we doing that with phones? Bring back the

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<v Speaker 2>payphone or just a communal phone of some sort. Why

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<v Speaker 2>don't we have an office phone that everyone can access?

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<v Speaker 2>Why is the receptions gatekeeping?

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<v Speaker 1>Isn't there one?

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<v Speaker 2>Huh?

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<v Speaker 1>Isn't there a phone everyone can use? No, this phone's

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<v Speaker 1>right here flix in this place, we can't use it.

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<v Speaker 2>You don't even know how to use it. Mikayla and

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<v Speaker 2>I were having a yarn earlier, and we're talking about

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<v Speaker 2>the myth of convenience. I've won, have been, i would say,

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<v Speaker 2>indoctrinated into this myth of convenience, this idea that it's

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<v Speaker 2>easier to get a food delivery service than it is

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<v Speaker 2>to walk down the street and pick it up. Right.

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<v Speaker 2>But no, it's not easier. It's actually harder because I'm

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<v Speaker 2>paying more money for it, the food's arriving cold, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>doing negotiations with the driver to figure out where they are.

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<v Speaker 1>Where I am.

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<v Speaker 2>It's not how I remember. Might it be easier for

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<v Speaker 2>me to get up and walk to the store and

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<v Speaker 2>pick it up and know that I have it? Probably,

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<v Speaker 2>But in my head it would take a significant amount

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<v Speaker 2>of mental gymnastics to get there, which is worrying. Right,

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<v Speaker 2>Let's say in my head, I've convinced myself it is

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<v Speaker 2>easier to live in a metropolitan space. Right, I'm close

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<v Speaker 2>to everything, it's right in my backyard. Is it actually

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<v Speaker 2>easier easier for what you end up orbiting where you live? Anyway?

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<v Speaker 2>I could live anywhere and decide that my local IJ

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<v Speaker 2>is easy to get to because it's near or my

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<v Speaker 2>local pharmacy is easy to get to because it's near me.

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<v Speaker 2>But then I wonder, Okay, let's say things aren't actually easier,

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<v Speaker 2>We've just convinced ourselves that they are. Well, then what

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<v Speaker 2>do we think should remain difficult? Because I feel like

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<v Speaker 2>part of what I'm struggling with in life is I

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<v Speaker 2>don't know what daily rituals are meant to be difficult

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<v Speaker 2>to the point of this is just how life is

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<v Speaker 2>versus this has gone out of control and it's really

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<v Speaker 2>inconveniencing me. For example, I used to have a fortnightly

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<v Speaker 2>cleaner come and clean my house, right but I'm already

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<v Speaker 2>cleaning constantly, and I'm tidying before the cleaner gets there.

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<v Speaker 2>And I'm thinking, mm, okay, well, before the cleaner gets there,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna do some tidy. I'm gonna clean the bathrooms.

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<v Speaker 2>I know how I like it, and I'm just gonna

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<v Speaker 2>get them to the do it once over. Who FORO

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<v Speaker 2>is it really easy to pay hundreds of dollars for

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<v Speaker 2>someone to come and clean your house after you've already

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<v Speaker 2>cleaned it. I don't think so.

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<v Speaker 1>Not a deep clean though in some ways.

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<v Speaker 2>Maybe, But if I gave myself that money and said

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<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna pay you this money to clean your own

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<v Speaker 2>bathroom or to clean your own house, maybe it would

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<v Speaker 2>actually be fine.

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<v Speaker 1>That's cool. Use it for a message, Yeah, whatever it

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<v Speaker 1>might be. You're just gonna make sure you got all

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<v Speaker 1>the right equipment.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, it's worth having. It's a good skill to learn.

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<v Speaker 2>I believe convenience does exist, but not in the way

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<v Speaker 2>that we do it in modern day times. It reminded

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<v Speaker 2>me of this snippet of conversation I saw Bo Burnham having.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not really across I didn't really watch his YouTube

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<v Speaker 2>or anything, but I get it enough. But he was saying,

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<v Speaker 2>the fundamental issue with social media is that we optimize

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<v Speaker 2>a part of our life that didn't need optimization. We

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<v Speaker 2>didn't need to know how to do relationships easier or

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<v Speaker 2>more efficient. We actually needed to learn how to do

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<v Speaker 2>them more intentionally. And now we've overoptimized it. We don't

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<v Speaker 2>know how to We don't accept when any part of

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<v Speaker 2>relationships are difficult. We don't know how to just deal

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<v Speaker 2>with a friend who interrupts us when we speak, or

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<v Speaker 2>who is late to things. We're like, oh no, we

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<v Speaker 2>have to cut them off, it's too much. Right, What

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<v Speaker 2>things in our life should be difficult? Because I was

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<v Speaker 2>saying earlier, I think building skills should actually be difficult

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<v Speaker 2>learning how to be proficient at something, whether it's learning

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<v Speaker 2>how to play tennis or learn a language. Part of

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<v Speaker 2>the skills you learn is the skill of learning a skill,

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<v Speaker 2>not just the outcome of being Like, now I can

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<v Speaker 2>speak Dutch. It's oh, I'm learning repetition and discipline and

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<v Speaker 2>connecting my ideas and apst thoughts and using my brain.

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<v Speaker 2>That's all necessary. I can use that everywhere else. What

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<v Speaker 2>else should be difficult in life?

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<v Speaker 1>I know it should be easy. What cooking nutritious meals?

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<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, cleaning your house? Yeah, all the things that

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<v Speaker 1>I think are thankless and should necessary to live. Thankless

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<v Speaker 1>and necessary to live. I don't want to be slave

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<v Speaker 1>and over. I don't even own a bloody iron. Oh

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<v Speaker 1>slave over that bad boy.

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<v Speaker 2>This time, I'm turning into my mum because if I'm

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<v Speaker 2>leaving the house, I'm.

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<v Speaker 1>Like, yeah, good iron, Yeah, I really do. I can't

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<v Speaker 1>go out there and bassing the family like this. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean god, it is.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

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