Speaker 1: Clea Flex and Frooms Flex and Frooms. This is the
Speaker 1: Flex and Frooms catch up podcast.
Speaker 2: It is Flexing Rooms on Kita. I just it sucks
Speaker 2: to come with the bad news, but you do need
Speaker 2: to clean your dishwasher. It doesn't clean itself no matter
Speaker 2: what the settings tell you. And also your washing machine.
Speaker 2: And to be fair, there's a celebrity brand that you
Speaker 2: won't hate that's just launched and it's not who you
Speaker 2: think it's gonna be. It's not a Kardashian, it's not
Speaker 2: a musician, it's an actor.
Speaker 1: Anyway, enjoyed the shapeless girl. You're listening to Flex and
Speaker 1: Frooms on Kita.
Speaker 2: If you didn't grow up in a dishwasher household, I
Speaker 2: recoon there's some shame there. I definitely grew up being
Speaker 2: like way you guys had these. You guys had these,
Speaker 2: and so in my late twenties now I have graduated
Speaker 2: to a dishwasher household. There are a few things that
Speaker 2: I did not understand about the process and the journey,
Speaker 2: Like number one, you gotta clean your dishwasher.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't know that. Did you know that, Mickey? No?
Speaker 2: And we you didn't have a dish wash growing up,
Speaker 2: so I'm not surprised one of mine. It was a
Speaker 2: hand washed type of thing. And it's interesting though, because
Speaker 2: it makes sense in theory that the thing that cleans
Speaker 2: needs to be clean. Yes, but why aren't we cleaning them?
Speaker 1: Because you can't be bothered?
Speaker 2: No? Is that what it is like? For example, do
Speaker 2: you know washing machines have to be cleaned? Yes?
Speaker 1: And I clean mine because I bought it in new
Speaker 1: and it's mine. How do you clean yours? Are you
Speaker 1: put a rint through? Like there's a rinse that you
Speaker 1: buy and then you put it on the rint setting.
Speaker 2: But how are you draining it?
Speaker 1: It all does it itself? It's got like a cleaning function.
Speaker 2: What there is a separate filter. I'm not talking the
Speaker 2: dry filter. I'm not talking the rint thing. There's a
Speaker 2: little little plug at the bottom you gotta and there's
Speaker 2: a different catch.
Speaker 1: It's so scary. The man who sold it to me,
Speaker 1: it didn't tell me.
Speaker 2: What's it gonna tell you? Hey, with this thing that
Speaker 2: you're about to buy, this extra maintenance, it's about to
Speaker 2: be ature, not a convenience. And then I was thinking, so.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no no no so so no no no
Speaker 1: no no no no no, no, no paid. Oh the thousand
Speaker 1: dollars for that one?
Speaker 2: Is it a Samsung? You've had a thousand dollars? You
Speaker 2: got a discount the second hand? First up, I feel
Speaker 2: like you lied. That felt like a lie you said
Speaker 2: for the first up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I bought a new I was very proud of
Speaker 1: myself you.
Speaker 3: Hello, lovely.
Speaker 1: Another day, another time to dissect dating culture, because it
Speaker 1: is all around us. We were discussing it today. How
Speaker 1: there you can buy premium Tinder for five hundred dollars
Speaker 1: a month. That is allegedly going to work. But we'll
Speaker 1: see about that. Today we have a cent in message
Speaker 1: question from a dear listener, and I'm just gonna get
Speaker 1: straight to it. Hey, gremlins, I'm coming to you from
Speaker 1: unfortunate circumstances for which I require your feedback. Hunting. I
Speaker 1: have been on a lot of dates this year and
Speaker 1: have stuck in what I would say, three or four situationships.
Speaker 1: With every situationship comes that little heartbreak you experience, you know,
Speaker 1: the glimpse of fope that this person might be different,
Speaker 1: and then the situation proves to end like all the others.
Speaker 1: Babes that I really like you, but I'm not ready,
Speaker 1: la la la la la, or it's not you, it's me,
Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera. Hitting some home truths there, my friend.
Speaker 1: What has really been getting me through, though, is that
Speaker 1: all the guys seem to get in relationships quickly after
Speaker 1: anything's with me, whether it's getting back with an X
Speaker 1: or a whole new girl. I am sadly the in
Speaker 1: between girl right now, and it's left me feeling like
Speaker 1: shite tbh. My self confidence is my self confidence is
Speaker 1: through the floor right now. Please help, sincerely, the in
Speaker 1: between girl. Aya ya ya yaii. Listen. I'm unsure we're
Speaker 1: to start with this, but I'm sure we will get
Speaker 1: to the bottom of it for you because I feel
Speaker 1: for you, and I think there is a way to
Speaker 1: circumvent this problem and this feeling. I will start by saying,
Speaker 1: if you start dating somebody and they say I really
Speaker 1: like you butt or I'm not ready, you have to
Speaker 1: take that as truth. I feel like it's so easy
Speaker 1: to be like, oh, but you know they might change,
Speaker 1: or if I stick around long enough, and I have
Speaker 1: to say I speak on behalf of everybody. Ever, I
Speaker 1: think everyone's done that, because when you really like someone,
Speaker 1: you're like, well, I really like them, we really get along,
Speaker 1: so why are they of course they're going to change.
Speaker 1: I can convince them, and that just serves to really
Speaker 1: hurt you in the end. So what I would do
Speaker 1: if I were in your position, young Gremlin, is the
Speaker 1: minute that I hear someone say, oh, I'm not ready
Speaker 1: for something. If I'm ready for something, you have to
Speaker 1: just attach, like you literally have to cut that off immediately,
Speaker 1: because it's so easy to it's so easy for them.
Speaker 1: What they've essentially done is given themselves an out so
Speaker 1: they can still enjoy spending time with you, hanging out
Speaker 1: with you, and yeah, like they might develop feelings, but
Speaker 1: if they don't, and they keep hanging out with you,
Speaker 1: getting all the good things about you, they can easily
Speaker 1: just say, oh, you know, I told you that I
Speaker 1: wasn't interested anyway. So I think they've got too much
Speaker 1: power over you right now, And even for your own sake,
Speaker 1: I think it could be interesting and sometimes it's a
Speaker 1: bit of an ego boost where you just let them
Speaker 1: go and then see what they do. Like, think of
Speaker 1: it as a fun game. If they're gonna play games
Speaker 1: with you, play a game back, and meanwhile, try and
Speaker 1: find a new a new friend to hang out with
Speaker 1: that but I feel you, this is really hard. But yeah.
Speaker 1: My biggest advice is when someone tells you how they feel,
Speaker 1: understand that it would have been hard for them to
Speaker 1: even send that message, so they mean it. Okay, you're
Speaker 1: listening to Flex and Rooms on Kaita.
Speaker 2: People are getting increasingly sick of celebrity brands, but is
Speaker 2: this one different? Listen to this video from lux Collective.
Speaker 3: Angelina Julie is opening her own create your own Clothes
Speaker 3: store in New York.
Speaker 1: Well does that even mean? So?
Speaker 3: The concept originated us twenty years of covering humanitarian stories.
Speaker 3: She had uncovered some of the horror and effects of
Speaker 3: the fashion industry and the environment, and also in the
Speaker 3: lack of recognition to the people who actually make the clothes.
Speaker 3: And so Angelina Jolie is open in this workshop so
Speaker 3: that the tailors and artisans receive the credit they deserve.
Speaker 3: So you can take in your clothes to get them
Speaker 3: refit or reimagined and not cycled into something new, and
Speaker 3: they'll only be using leftover quality, vintage materials or dead
Speaker 3: stock to reduce the waste and be more sustainable.
Speaker 1: That is so impressive. I can't point together.
Speaker 2: We've got to see no complaints about this one. We've
Speaker 2: got to see this one viral sold out, lines out
Speaker 2: the door. It is everything that people are claiming to want,
Speaker 2: and so this is it. In practice. We talk about
Speaker 2: over consumption, we talk about sustainability, and we also talk
Speaker 2: about celebrities having a responsibility to do better by themselves,
Speaker 2: by their audiences and buy the world give them the
Speaker 2: amount of power that they do have. They mentioned that
Speaker 2: Angelina Jolie has spent a lot of time utilizing her
Speaker 2: likeness and her brand too. I wouldn't say, but to
Speaker 2: raise awareness about humanitarian crisis crises either way. So I
Speaker 2: imagine this will go really well. It does worry me though,
Speaker 2: because this brand has been out for about two or
Speaker 2: three months now, and have you heard it about it?
Speaker 2: For me? No, just come on your timeline. Are called
Speaker 2: it's called Itelier Jolie. It sounds luck it sounds really beautiful.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen I tried to google actual people who
Speaker 2: have used the service, not just talking about what the
Speaker 2: service is. You haven't seen that come through yet. I
Speaker 2: was reading some of the comments on this video and
Speaker 2: they were talking about there were a few people who
Speaker 2: said that when they were studying business that they had
Speaker 2: pitched a similar idea and their lecture had been like
Speaker 2: that would never work. That's a bad business model. There's
Speaker 2: no growth in it. And perhaps it is. You know,
Speaker 2: maybe this isn't something that is going to be her
Speaker 2: next cash cow. But I think this in itself could
Speaker 2: start a trend. I mean, we've seen a ton of
Speaker 2: other brands like coach Hose, coach Topia, where they're taking
Speaker 2: their recycled they're taking older bags and dead stock bags,
Speaker 2: ripping them apart, and you can make your own one
Speaker 2: of a kind bad cool. So it's happening slowly, but surely.
Speaker 2: I just think that there's a bit of a marketing
Speaker 2: problem with these things. They feel quite underground in the know.
Speaker 2: You have to know to know, or be really interested
Speaker 2: in just the news cycle to be across it. It's
Speaker 2: not really going viral like I would have assumed it would,
Speaker 2: but I'll keep you posted on how it goes, and
Speaker 2: hopefully this time next week I can find someone who's
Speaker 2: actually been before.
Speaker 1: Yes please, type of FLEXI is a big question.
Speaker 2: Where I pose the question. It helps you unpack what
Speaker 2: you think, why you think it, and who is influencing
Speaker 2: the way that you think. I rip these questions from
Speaker 2: my conversation card game reflex because why think about them
Speaker 2: from scratch when I already thought about them once before.
Speaker 2: This is a really good one. It's a bit of positivity.
Speaker 2: I don't want to do that because positivity gets boring sometimes.
Speaker 2: But question of the week, what keeps you hopeful when
Speaker 2: everything around you is falling apart? I feel as though
Speaker 2: when we look at people who we perceive to be optimistic,
Speaker 2: they're mostly into in a way that just serves to
Speaker 2: hurt them in future. Like people who are so in
Speaker 2: denial about everything around them. You're like, Okay, your time
Speaker 2: is coming. But when you're actively aware of the world, life, society,
Speaker 2: what keeps you hopeful and in a good mood. Kind
Speaker 2: of reminds me of that conversation we have with Clementine Ford,
Speaker 2: and she was talking about how cis hat women feel
Speaker 2: hopeful about marriage and it working out for them because
Speaker 2: even though the stats say otherwise, they see a depiction
Speaker 2: of romance or a depiction of union, and they think, oh,
Speaker 2: that could be memm hmm, Clementine. The gift that keeps
Speaker 2: on giving anyway, if you want to answer this question.
Speaker 2: Go to our Instagram story it's Flex and Frooms. There'll
Speaker 2: be a question box. Put your answer in there, and
Speaker 2: then on Thursday, I'll read out a few anonymously and
Speaker 2: we shall discuss anxiety with Flex and Firms on CADA.
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