Speaker 1: The Flex and Rooms Daily podcast brought.
Speaker 2: I do not mean to use the word curse and
Speaker 2: dating in the same sentence, but it's about time that
Speaker 2: I share this information. It was told to me on
Speaker 2: an occasion where I bought an ex shoes.
Speaker 1: It was said, flippantly, what do you know about that?
Speaker 1: About buying an X shoes? Yeah? I don't What do
Speaker 1: you mean, why did you say first mistake? I don't
Speaker 1: know shoes are so specific.
Speaker 2: I was just frugal frooms coming out. Yeah, okay, okay,
Speaker 2: not afraid to drop a.
Speaker 1: Bag on the one I love. Okay, I'm sugar mummy. True, true,
Speaker 1: I don't mind.
Speaker 2: But it was said to me flippantly that it's quote
Speaker 2: unquote bad luck to buy your partner shoes. Now, this
Speaker 2: person you know, some friends you can tell they're a
Speaker 2: wealth of knowledge, was not that kind of person, an
Speaker 2: acquaintance one I didn't even know. Whet research from it
Speaker 2: came up again and recently three years later or whatever,
Speaker 2: so I do some research. There's not a lot out there,
Speaker 2: but Reddit always provides. Allegedly, in a few cultures cross Africa, Asia, Europe,
Speaker 2: it is considered bad luck or even a curse to
Speaker 2: buy your partner shoes because they would wear those same
Speaker 2: shoes and hawk out of your life. I'm thinking, what
Speaker 2: did Nike do to you? Okay, what did Doc Martins
Speaker 2: do to you? Apparently the whole thing comes from back
Speaker 2: back in the days where women predominantly would sit there
Speaker 2: and make these soft shoes for their partners. They could
Speaker 2: like walk and go on long journeys right across to
Speaker 2: other like towns and villagers do work and stuff. And
Speaker 2: the idea is that if you make the shoes too comfortable,
Speaker 2: they can walk further away from you, meet another nice woman,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean? You know what I mean,
Speaker 2: and never come back to you. Oh dear, do you
Speaker 2: believe in superstitions like that?
Speaker 1: Depends? What do you mean? Depends If I'm in a.
Speaker 3: Bad way, I believe in superstitions. If I'm chilling, I
Speaker 3: don't believe in superstitions.
Speaker 1: So where are you at now? Half half? Will you
Speaker 1: or will you not? Buy your partner shoes? I will
Speaker 1: buy them shoes? What kind of shoes?
Speaker 3: Nike Free, Nike Air Force ones?
Speaker 1: Nah? Are you buying my king boat shoes?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, I love a loafer. I've been known to
Speaker 2: buy a man a loafer it's hot. Yeah, it's like
Speaker 2: the first phase of transforming them.
Speaker 3: Your daddy's only and we have to stop changing people
Speaker 3: we do.
Speaker 1: We have to accept them as they are. What is
Speaker 1: a good boy shoe? A good shoe for a low
Speaker 1: dock Martin? Yeah, hot, yeah, SMaL, we crack the matrix.
Speaker 1: Just if you're a boy.
Speaker 3: You're listening, I personally don't look good in a low
Speaker 3: dock neither.
Speaker 1: Yes, No, I like that silhouette. Yeah.
Speaker 2: This made me think of other dating superstitions because I
Speaker 2: feel like people have them, but they wouldn't call them superstitions,
Speaker 2: Like you don't sleep with them on the first date
Speaker 2: if you want to be taken seriously.
Speaker 3: So, I've only just recently got into Sex in the City.
Speaker 3: I'm watching it from front to back.
Speaker 1: Do you think you're also Samantha?
Speaker 3: No, I was gonna say Charlotte. So Charlotte with their
Speaker 3: first husband. Have you watched the show? Charlotte is like
Speaker 3: a wholesome girl. She wants to settle down, she wants
Speaker 3: to tick all the boxes, very innocent vibes, and she
Speaker 3: meets this guy Tray, who's perfect on paper. She's like
Speaker 3: thirty four, like ready to settle down. And so she
Speaker 3: like doesn't have sex with him because she thinks, oh,
Speaker 3: if I don't have sex with him, he'll want me.
Speaker 3: Doesn't have sex till the night of the marriage. Hectic,
Speaker 3: and it turns out he doesn't like having sex and
Speaker 3: he can't root and he can't.
Speaker 1: Get his ed function.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then it like nearly panse panous maple fet in.
Speaker 1: Thanks so hetero am I? Yeah?
Speaker 3: What I was trying to say was her superosition worked
Speaker 3: out badly because then she didn't get to try before
Speaker 3: she bought.
Speaker 1: Okay, Andrew Tate, jeez, what do you mean trouble you
Speaker 1: buy a wedding ring?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, don't be throwing that tear you around me.
Speaker 3: I'm a fun bird cutie. Okay, no, no, no, what's
Speaker 3: the supersition that I believe in? I definitely have my
Speaker 3: like I don't like admitting it, but there's definitely that
Speaker 3: thing of like, I worry about age. What do you mean,
Speaker 3: like I worry that I'm not going to meet someone.
Speaker 3: I mean, statistically most people won't meet.
Speaker 1: Someone don't love. I can't I can't love. I can't
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 2: But then I'll get into a relationship you could have
Speaker 2: Oh my God, this is the same girl.
Speaker 1: I'm worried I won't meet anyone. What about the longest
Speaker 1: tune ever? This one's been sitting in your nut since
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty five. I put that video up. Did he
Speaker 1: message me?
Speaker 2: He did?
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, he messaged me a selfie video of him
Speaker 3: zooming on himself in the mirror.
Speaker 1: It was never gonna work. Yeah, now, oh I'm freaking out. No.
Speaker 3: There's definitely like superstitions that you have, particularly as a woman.
Speaker 3: If you want certain things, you're like, oh, if you
Speaker 3: really want something, you psychically make changes. And I think
Speaker 3: that's superstitious because you don't actually have to change, Like
Speaker 3: your age doesn't matter necessarily in certain bits, like it's like, oh,
Speaker 3: when I turn thirty, I gotta be x y Z
Speaker 3: like that. Superstitions, but they're just widely held superstitions.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I also think that if you are dealing with someone
Speaker 2: who actually likes you, there isn't much you can do wrong,
Speaker 2: considering that you're trying to be on your best behavior anywhere.
Speaker 2: I think about some of my past boyfriends and the
Speaker 2: energy that I was bringing to the space.
Speaker 1: Good so flippant, like you know, like so flippant, not.
Speaker 2: Noncommittal, just like hyperindependent and yet latched on.
Speaker 1: It's what you do. I would hate to date you,
Speaker 1: but I no I do.
Speaker 3: I would hate to date you, but I would love
Speaker 3: to be loved by you.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So, if you're someone the issue is bibe, you need
Speaker 3: to find someone toe cure.
Speaker 2: Literally, that is the issue. Hard to date, But it's
Speaker 2: nice to be loved by me. Do you know what's
Speaker 2: really bad when you get demoted by me? Because I'd
Speaker 2: be doing it.
Speaker 1: Oh, tell me more.
Speaker 2: You can tell when people are my favorite people versus
Speaker 2: when they get demoted. I like to be interdependent with
Speaker 2: my favorite people.
Speaker 1: Oh, you demote people within your friendship group.
Speaker 2: Not a lot, but sometimes, like I feel like sometimes
Speaker 2: you're in a wavelank with someone You're like, know what
Speaker 2: this is? This feels good, Like this is where all
Speaker 2: my energy is. And then some people I'm like, no,
Speaker 2: my energy is.
Speaker 1: Not good here. It's not like reciprocated. It's not fun.
Speaker 2: But because I'm very extreme, I can't half fast emotion.
Speaker 1: We're just not gonna be hanging out. You're gonna be
Speaker 1: throwing them down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like it's just like you're just not You're not
Speaker 2: you don't have the same access.
Speaker 1: It's like a subscription. It feels literally it feels.
Speaker 2: Like it's a gate. I don't even have the key
Speaker 2: to this gate anymore. Like you just don't have the
Speaker 2: key anymore. I don't know who has it, but I
Speaker 2: don't have it. It's gonna be waving you from the gate,
Speaker 2: like I don't know how to get in. But it's
Speaker 2: really good in here.
Speaker 1: You take them pool out of the ladder, ladder out
Speaker 1: of the pool. God damn. Anyway, it is what it is.
Speaker 1: Share your superstitions with us because I'd love to. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to know Coo here the better.
Speaker 3: Because what I've realized is if you think something's if
Speaker 3: you think something very deeply, but you think it's weird,
Speaker 3: it's not weird.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Did you hear that thing of this girl who was
Speaker 2: like she's writing a pros and cons list of like
Speaker 2: her partner and she put in the cons has a
Speaker 2: stable family, like they won't have time for he has
Speaker 2: a good relationship with their families.
Speaker 1: She's like, it's never gonna work.
Speaker 3: See, that's only good if their family is good. Otherwise
Speaker 3: it's a disaster.
Speaker 1: Literally, flex and flex and fremes cater never miss a beat.
Speaker 3: We are doing a very special live recording on the
Speaker 3: island in Sydney's Harbor. I've never been, but it's like
Speaker 3: a barge where there's drinks and fun. On February third,
Speaker 3: and we invited you, our dear listeners, to apply online
Speaker 3: to be granted access to the island and we are
Speaker 3: very excited. We've got a caller on the line right now.
Speaker 3: I'm going to tell her that she's one v IP.
Speaker 1: Let's go. Hello, Hello, this is an automated message from
Speaker 1: the Australian Government.
Speaker 4: Okay, Hi, hey taking it's flex and fruits.
Speaker 1: Are you going to Did you believe that even just
Speaker 1: for a second.
Speaker 2: Not a single part of it?
Speaker 1: Okay, we'll drag it next time.
Speaker 3: Look, we're calling you taking some very exciting news. You
Speaker 3: were glad to come onto.
Speaker 1: Our little island.
Speaker 3: I do, and I'm so excited to tell you you've
Speaker 3: you've actually won VIP tickets to come sis.
Speaker 1: No wait, yeah, okay, so.
Speaker 3: It means you and a friend can come. Amazing, You're
Speaker 3: granded access to the island and you can go with
Speaker 3: us and get sunset.
Speaker 1: Drinks all in the house. Oh my god, we're just
Speaker 1: getting near it. But on the company dime of course.
Speaker 4: Of course, thank you so much, Peter.
Speaker 1: I don't yeah anything anything you want to tell.
Speaker 4: Us that you like about us, you know what, Like
Speaker 4: if I started, I'd be going on for the rest
Speaker 4: of the afternoon.
Speaker 3: I'm just obsessed with you guys, and I'm so excited
Speaker 3: to meet you.
Speaker 2: The feeling is mutual. We have plenty of stories to share.
Speaker 2: But also I'd just like to exchange some gossip with
Speaker 2: you on the day, So if you can, I'm just
Speaker 2: ready to go with just like your deepest, darkest secrets
Speaker 2: or even better, not even your own, just mind them
Speaker 2: from your nearest and dearest and share their trauma with me.
Speaker 1: Please, Oh my god, I can definitely do that. Thank
Speaker 1: you all right, babe for me already. We'll see you soon,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, see you go so soon.
Speaker 3: Well bye, another gorgeous listener coming to us to our
Speaker 3: end of the world island gat Way to be a
Speaker 3: great place to be if the world ends.
Speaker 2: No, no, don't get me started on that. No, we
Speaker 2: don't want to be on water when the world is ending.
Speaker 1: Okay, we don't even have enough food, enough flex and frooms.
Speaker 1: They're the best you hellolo.
Speaker 3: I gotta stop saying that because I'm actually not from Britain.
Speaker 3: I'm thirty three percent Scottish.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm Scottish. Is my like star symbol star sign? Yeah,
Speaker 1: your sun sign? Then British is your moon moon? I
Speaker 1: think it's your rising. Actually, what does that mean? Is
Speaker 1: that the big one? I don't think we should get
Speaker 1: into it right now. Would you prefer to a Scottish greeting?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to be like Scottish presenting. Scottish people
Speaker 3: are funnier, or I think Irish are the funniest.
Speaker 1: So what's Scottish greeting? You can give us.
Speaker 3: Shrek adjacent anyway I say this, or to say I
Speaker 3: have a hack a wiki?
Speaker 1: How if you will? About one online app It rhymes
Speaker 1: with click clock. I remember at the start of our
Speaker 1: show we used to not call it TikTok. You'd call
Speaker 1: it the clock app click clock.
Speaker 3: If we had some sort of commercial limitations. So we
Speaker 3: call it TikTok. If you are familiar, and I often
Speaker 3: like to harvest tiktoks to them post on Instagram.
Speaker 1: I know millennial rising. Yeah, it's giving. Harvest is a
Speaker 1: great word, though, what is what I do?
Speaker 3: I go and it's like I hoe the fields or
Speaker 3: whatever you're mining, throw ten on the story for the normy.
Speaker 1: Someone Gina Rhinhant, get on with it, twiggy, and then
Speaker 1: you say you miss that Twiggy.
Speaker 3: Anyway, I love to harvest tiktoks, and sometimes I find
Speaker 3: you can't save them. How like some creators make it
Speaker 3: so you can't save. So he's to screen record, but
Speaker 3: you can see all the ugly buttons on the side,
Speaker 3: like how many people commented?
Speaker 4: And then a.
Speaker 1: TikToker toare me a trick.
Speaker 3: There's a mode, so you press the little three buttons
Speaker 3: on the right and you say clear mod, Clear mode.
Speaker 3: What happens, All those buttons go away, so all you
Speaker 3: can see is the video. So if you want to
Speaker 3: record a video, rip it, just pull.
Speaker 1: If you want to illegally.
Speaker 2: Steal someone's content to repurpose without any reference to their
Speaker 2: original username, is how you do it.
Speaker 1: Clear mode must be done. Anyway. I just thought it
Speaker 1: was really interesting and I personally will use it, so
Speaker 1: I liked it a lot. Flex and Fromes you're listening
Speaker 1: to Flex and firms.
Speaker 2: What the frick as you know, I've touched down from Ghana.
Speaker 2: It is the wild, wild West, the land of cocoa oil.
Speaker 1: Gold oil. Yeah, it's some oil there, but mostly gold
Speaker 1: and cocoa. Oh, I think of like olive oil, but
Speaker 1: actual like petrol. Yeah, and cocoa. Coco cabri there, cocoa capital, babe.
Speaker 2: All the other European countries are mining cocoa from Ghana.
Speaker 1: Just Ghana, Central America. Cops. Yeah, but Ganna got the
Speaker 1: better coat, babes. Sorry, history, listen, no question, just listen.
Speaker 2: I was experiencing some bower issues now. I want to
Speaker 2: be honest.
Speaker 1: With the Coco capital. That's good if having a brown enough.
Speaker 2: I'm not one of those capital i ibs gurlies or
Speaker 2: Capital L lactose girlies. I'm quite mild in those things.
Speaker 2: But what I can guarantee is a once a day
Speaker 2: bow release. Really yeah, that's just what it's gonna happen
Speaker 2: for me, true, okay. And what was not happening was
Speaker 2: a one to day bow release in Ghana. It got
Speaker 2: to about day seven and I was like, okay, so
Speaker 2: something's backed up. What I will say though, I was
Speaker 2: just eating soup because I was six, and maybe I
Speaker 2: was just coming out the front not the back.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I can't do it, but I did.
Speaker 1: Hit didn't when you talk about this stuff.
Speaker 2: So when I do it, it's an issue. Yeah, when
Speaker 2: they do it anyway. So I did do some research.
Speaker 2: I felt like a scientist when mining this data for you.
Speaker 2: But it's a surprisingly simple answer as to why hotties,
Speaker 2: in particular, I can't poop on vacation, and allegedly scientifically,
Speaker 2: anytime you leave your general habitat, you're gonna disrupt the
Speaker 2: way your body functions. So if you're in a different
Speaker 2: time zone, obviously things are out of whack. You're eating
Speaker 2: at a different time, you're sleeping at a different time,
Speaker 2: you're hydrating at a different time at a different intensity.
Speaker 2: And while that may seem like very chill for you, consciously,
Speaker 2: your body is probably registering that as like stress related
Speaker 2: changes in activity. So it's freaking out on behalf of you.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. If we're stressed but don't
Speaker 2: have time to.
Speaker 1: Do this, that's fine.
Speaker 2: Also, I was reading that movement generally, and it's walking, skipping, copping, running,
Speaker 2: getting up and down simulates the gut. So when you're
Speaker 2: sitting on a plane for ages, sitting in a car
Speaker 2: for ages, sleeping for longer than you usually would, or
Speaker 2: whatever that's not moving the stuff around that needs to
Speaker 2: move so it.
Speaker 1: Comes out of you.
Speaker 2: So do your big intestines a favor. Start moving on holiday.
Speaker 2: If you want to pooh, if you're not interested, don't.
Speaker 1: Worry about it.
Speaker 3: I'd rather not move and not pooh then the other way.
Speaker 3: I also actually would recommend eating junk food. My bowel
Speaker 3: movement's got a lot more regular when I started eating
Speaker 3: more junk food.
Speaker 2: So also it might be all that sodium packed airplane food.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you, because didn't we talk last time.
Speaker 2: I think last year we spoke about the fact that
Speaker 2: airplane food is made to kind of like clog you
Speaker 2: up because we can't have eighty thousand people trying to
Speaker 2: use the bathroom.
Speaker 3: Oh that's genius, it makes sense, all right.
Speaker 1: Flex and Firms, Flex and Frimes Cater never miss a beat.
Speaker 2: Last year we learned about the phenomena called quiet quitting.
Speaker 2: It's when you just do your job and you don't
Speaker 2: break your back for the for the what do you
Speaker 2: call him, the big man, uh, the the mister big Yeah,
Speaker 2: for corporations.
Speaker 1: Anyway, you just clocky and you do your job. You
Speaker 1: go home.
Speaker 2: You don't work later than you need to. You don't
Speaker 2: put your heart and soul in it. You just like
Speaker 2: do the job and leave. The issue is too many
Speaker 2: of you took it too seriously and you started bludging
Speaker 2: at work, and a few of you got fired. I
Speaker 2: did see a few he got fired. A fair few
Speaker 2: of you though, thought you could outsmart the man.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately the man is the man for a reason. Yeah,
Speaker 1: who do we work for? Whose side? Anyway?
Speaker 2: I heard about a story of this, this woman in
Speaker 2: Canada who actually got fined for bludging at work. Basically,
Speaker 2: she was let go and she tried to sue her
Speaker 2: employer for like unfair dismissal. She won a five k
Speaker 2: because she was like, hey, you didn't community notice. I
Speaker 2: need some money. So her work was like, okay, we're
Speaker 2: going to contest this and go and see if you
Speaker 2: were actually doing all the work you said you were
Speaker 2: doing in the thirty eight hours per week you were
Speaker 2: meant to be putting in thirty hours of work. What
Speaker 2: were you doing? So they went back using this app
Speaker 2: to check all her activity, all the browsers she was
Speaker 2: on and how long she was on them, and her keystrokes,
Speaker 2: and found that given the time that she spent bludging
Speaker 2: on TikTok, you know, looking at other emails, she actually
Speaker 2: owes them money, owes them seventy five hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: So the thing is, we all like to get too
Speaker 1: big flatboots, you know what I'm saying. But sometimes you
Speaker 1: just quite quit and keep it to yourself.
Speaker 2: I don't know what kind of corporations you guys work for,
Speaker 2: but I'm just saying, beware, they're looking at your keystrokes,
Speaker 2: looking at your history. I don't want to get all
Speaker 2: conspiracy theorists, but.
Speaker 3: I don't want to go into apps that bosses I
Speaker 3: think are permitted to use.
Speaker 1: Oh there's a privacy law. Keystrokes, as we know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, websites and looking at all, looking Netflix on your computer,
Speaker 3: they're probably gonna say that's out of work use Yeah.
Speaker 2: Don't even unless you work in media. True true, true,
Speaker 2: se quit your jobs, work in media. Save a life.
Speaker 1: You've been listening to the Flex and Frooms Daily podcast.
Speaker 3: For more, tune in Decater on DAB or stream it
Speaker 3: on iHeartRadio.