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Speaker 2: If you ever need an incentive to move to Coffs Harbor,
Speaker 2: we have too many questions, too many questions. I think
Speaker 2: it's somewhere. It's somewhere in New South Wales. Yes, but
Speaker 2: according to an article I read, it is the luckiest
Speaker 2: place in New South Wales. Vives are up. Now your
Speaker 2: interest peaks before you're being shady. Now you want to
Speaker 2: know no Coffs Harbor shade well. According to an analysis
Speaker 2: of the lotto winnows over the last twelve months, Coffs
Speaker 2: Harbor has accumulated sixty four million dollars of lotto winnings.
Speaker 2: That's uncanny. That's for context West Ride, which is west
Speaker 2: of some Please I wanted to geography. What did you
Speaker 2: get in geography at school? I don't even doing geography.
Speaker 1: The chows.
Speaker 2: Enough with this. The West Ride ten point seven million
Speaker 2: dollars and cabramat of forty million. So what this is
Speaker 2: telling me is that the vibes are up in Coughs Harbor.
Speaker 2: There's something in the water something in the air. Actually,
Speaker 2: I'm not promoting gambling.
Speaker 3: Okay, you know there's just been a commission into gambling
Speaker 3: in Australia where actually it was a few months ago.
Speaker 3: You have to betting places have to send you an
Speaker 3: invoice with how much you've won and lost per month.
Speaker 2: So see, yeah, I like that me too.
Speaker 1: This is flex and frooms.
Speaker 2: Have you ever considered how powerful your passport is.
Speaker 3: I've definitely considered world like country rankings, so therefore I
Speaker 3: think by association. Yeah, how many passports you have?
Speaker 2: Is one? Which one Australian? It's good to check. What
Speaker 2: about you got one Australian passport? That is it. I
Speaker 2: wanted a Guardian passport so I didn't have to sort
Speaker 2: out a visa before I went. But like, I'm not
Speaker 2: a citizen. I'm just like a rogue stranger who's like,
Speaker 2: I want a visa. I mean, I want a passport.
Speaker 2: Why would they give me one? So you can't get
Speaker 2: a passport if your parents are born somewhere not in Ghana.
Speaker 2: I am as foreign there as anybody else. Can do
Speaker 2: a dodgy maybe everything can be paid for. I found
Speaker 2: this TikTok that referenced a news article that shared the
Speaker 2: list of the least powerful passports, and I didn't recognize
Speaker 2: that passports could be powerful alone, but I guess based
Speaker 2: on what passport you have, it dictates what countries you
Speaker 2: can go do without a visa, which is very important because,
Speaker 2: as we may or may not know, the reason why
Speaker 2: I got stranded in Milan for five days a couple
Speaker 2: of years ago is because I booked a ticket to Ghana,
Speaker 2: assuming that like, huh, they can tell them from there,
Speaker 2: And then I got to the Milan airport and they
Speaker 2: were like, you need a visa and I was like, hmm,
Speaker 2: I've never done that before. It turns out when Mum
Speaker 2: books the fly it gets covered anyway, they'll let you
Speaker 2: can't go into the country. And I was like, I
Speaker 2: totally understand. Thank you for sharing. You know, Mom knew
Speaker 2: something you new someone hooked it up. Thank you. Anyway,
Speaker 2: listen to this TikTok.
Speaker 4: So there is a list that's out that takes into
Speaker 4: account all of the travel information and all the government
Speaker 4: regulations that ranks all of the world's passports from most
Speaker 4: powerful to least powerful. And they define powerful as this
Speaker 4: passport gets you into the most number of countries with
Speaker 4: either no visa at all required or visa on demand,
Speaker 4: like you can get it at the airport. Let's dive
Speaker 4: into this list. Okay, so we got a lot of
Speaker 4: ties here, but you can see Japan is number one,
Speaker 4: the world's most powerful passport and it's not even tied
Speaker 4: with any other country. With a Japanese passport, you can
Speaker 4: get into one hundred and ninety three countries with either
Speaker 4: no visa or a visa on demand. I thought the US.
Speaker 4: Maybe this is my own American centric perspective. I thought
Speaker 4: the US would have been high. But you can see
Speaker 4: the US is number seven, tied with Belgium, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland,
Speaker 4: one hundred and eighty six countries you can access with
Speaker 4: those passports. We got the UK number six and number ten.
Speaker 4: If we look down, we got Slovakia, Poland Lithuania. You
Speaker 4: can get into one hundred and eighty two countries with
Speaker 4: either no visa or vison demand. Just to provide some
Speaker 4: of the middle countries and in the middle of the rankings,
Speaker 4: not the most powerful, but not the least powerful. This
Speaker 4: is just so interesting. Like Moldova's forty eight, you can
Speaker 4: get into one hundred and twenty one countries with a
Speaker 4: Moldovan passport with no visa or vison demand. Tunisia's number
Speaker 4: seventy seven, Cape Verd, Philippines, Uganda's eighty so cool and interesting.
Speaker 2: West Australia. It's not looking good, Broth because it's definitely
Speaker 2: not in the top eighty. My bad. I misread Australia
Speaker 2: as Austria. We make the mistake every time. So Australia
Speaker 2: was tied eighth with Canada, Czech Republic, Greece and Malta.
Speaker 2: And the Australian passport can get you into one hundred
Speaker 2: eighty five destinations without a visa or visa on demand.
Speaker 2: Not bad nice. I like being with Canada. They feel
Speaker 2: quite neutral.
Speaker 3: Canada maple Smople, Syrup, Wayne's Worlds all neutral things, Mike
Speaker 3: Meyer's Great place to Be. Hi don't love data?
Speaker 2: Who would thought? Who would have thought? To like? Get
Speaker 2: this information? Put it in a place and let us
Speaker 2: have access to it. But this is the Henley Passport
Speaker 2: Index for July of twenty twenty two. This changes frequently,
Speaker 2: so check back in, especially during COVID. I imagine what
Speaker 2: I don't like about this data is what can I
Speaker 2: do with it. I can't just go and get a
Speaker 2: Japanese passport. I can't just go and get a Lithuanian passport.
Speaker 2: They make it their gatekeeping stop gatekeeping passports. Babe a
Speaker 2: girl band. She's like, you can't get in, Willy nilly,
Speaker 2: let me in. I add value.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Flex and Frooms on kDa, so FLEXI.
Speaker 3: I was having a conversation with a girlfriend the other
Speaker 3: day and we were having a bit of a debate.
Speaker 3: She thinks that all around Australia it's illegal to sell
Speaker 3: a property to someone without disclosing that there's been a
Speaker 3: death within the house.
Speaker 2: Illegal or frowned upon illegal.
Speaker 3: She said, you can't sell a house to somebody without
Speaker 3: telling them that someone died within it. I said, but
Speaker 3: only check out.
Speaker 2: I feel like if you ask, they probably have to
Speaker 2: tell you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But then what happens if it happened thirty years
Speaker 3: ago or hundreds?
Speaker 2: What about if you're living on a place where a
Speaker 2: cemetery used to be.
Speaker 3: As are all of our friends living in Newtown in
Speaker 3: Sydney where the Camperdown cemetery used to be thirteen hectares wide.
Speaker 2: So what does the answer do you? Some googles.
Speaker 3: I did some googles and a particular story came up
Speaker 3: which really illustrated this point.
Speaker 2: Australian story. Australian story. Nice.
Speaker 3: So back in two thousand and one, there was a
Speaker 3: guy called Cef Gonzales.
Speaker 2: Do you know this story.
Speaker 3: He was a young man from the Philippines, but his
Speaker 3: family lived in Australia. They bought a house in North Ryde.
Speaker 3: They built a beautiful big house in the year two thousand.
Speaker 3: In two thousand and one, Seph had a bit of
Speaker 3: a breakdown where he proceeded to murder his mother, father's
Speaker 3: sister Auntie one by one as they came home. It
Speaker 3: was really grim, made heaps of headlines anyway, end of story.
Speaker 3: The news cycle continued. Then in two thousand and four,
Speaker 3: the house were up for sale, right and the people
Speaker 3: that bought the house were from Singapore, and naturally they
Speaker 3: didn't know what happened.
Speaker 2: Yeah, naturally, of course, so they purchased this house later
Speaker 2: on because realistically, when there was news coverage about this
Speaker 2: murder in the house, did they give you the address
Speaker 2: in the news coverage? I feel they wouldn't do that. No,
Speaker 2: I don't think so. But it was all over because
Speaker 2: it was like this happened in a family home, so
Speaker 2: that they should have been able to recognize the home
Speaker 2: from the news coverage.
Speaker 3: Well, this is where it got tricky. Okay, they bought
Speaker 3: the house. They were from Taiwan, pardon me, not Singapore.
Speaker 2: They're from Taiwan.
Speaker 3: And the minute they bought the house, it made news
Speaker 3: that this house where the family had been murdered it
Speaker 3: had been bought. So the family get to the house
Speaker 3: and they realized, oh, this is the house. So then
Speaker 3: they got their deposit back and they didn't have to
Speaker 3: take the house.
Speaker 2: They got eighty thousand dollars back.
Speaker 3: And the company that sold the house, which was I won't,
Speaker 3: I won't disclose, you won't, they were fined twenty one
Speaker 3: thousand dollars by the New South Wales Office of Fair
Speaker 3: Trading for failing to disclose information that could have a
Speaker 3: substantial impact on the value of the property. And then
Speaker 3: the next year it was sold for eighty thousand.
Speaker 2: Dollars less than the previous year.
Speaker 3: That's it, and it got me thinking, flex, would you
Speaker 3: live in a house where a quadruple murder had occurred?
Speaker 2: Would Flex me live in a house where there had
Speaker 2: been a quadruple murder, presuming I have choices. No, But
Speaker 2: I was thinking about recently when I was trying to
Speaker 2: find this place to live, and I went into it
Speaker 2: with preferences of course, wooden floors, you know, grey lighting,
Speaker 2: nice bathroom, and then you start, you know, doing the search,
Speaker 2: and then you realize you can't have what you need.
Speaker 2: Like I really didn't want carpet, and I didn't want
Speaker 2: gray carpet. Now I got gray carpet and four out
Speaker 2: of like how many routes to me. But you know,
Speaker 2: beggars can't be choosing in this instance, though, I feel
Speaker 2: like there is a lot of things, a lot of places,
Speaker 2: environments I'd rather live in than that pubaly because I'm
Speaker 2: a speaky girl. Yes you're speaking. So this is the thing.
Speaker 3: Do you believe there would be some sort of bad
Speaker 3: juju in the home where that kind of thing occurred.
Speaker 2: I don't think bad juju in the sense of like
Speaker 2: these spirits would torment you. But I do think that
Speaker 2: the energy of an environment where something harrowing had occurred,
Speaker 2: you'd would feel that, or if you knew, you would
Speaker 2: convince yourself that you were feeling that, you know, sleepless
Speaker 2: night would be like or maybe and did I see that?
Speaker 2: And I don't want to, you know, like I said
Speaker 2: before we discover that statistically said that only fifteen percent
Speaker 2: of what you worry about actually happens. But it's the
Speaker 2: eighty fives and the plagues you. I don't want to
Speaker 2: worry about living in an environment like that. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: the devil you don't know or something, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 2: Would you Oh no.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't live in that house because that was particularly
Speaker 3: I think it would be super disturbing if you knew
Speaker 3: the people that had passed away, like if you had
Speaker 3: visual evidence, if there was news stories about it. But
Speaker 3: the style of houses that I like and that I
Speaker 3: would like to live in are oldie worldy. They're from
Speaker 3: one hundred years ago. So it's part of the purchase.
Speaker 3: I need to understand that someone has presumably passed away
Speaker 3: in the premises I definitely like. For example, my auntie
Speaker 3: and uncle live in my grandparents' house. They passed away
Speaker 3: like twelve years ago, and they died in the bedroom
Speaker 3: where my auntie young cool sleep. Sorry, yeah, my auntie
Speaker 3: and I have a sleep in that room where my
Speaker 3: grandma passed away. And whenever I go to that house,
Speaker 3: all I have is the vision of my nanna in
Speaker 3: that room, yeah, when she passed away. So I like
Speaker 3: I would find it hard get a creepy vibe when
Speaker 3: I go there. Yeah, And I think it makes such
Speaker 3: a good point. It's not necessarily that the spirits are there.
Speaker 3: It's just that in your mind you have the knowledge
Speaker 3: and the memory that that happened there.
Speaker 2: And the mind always likes to fill in the gaps
Speaker 2: of what it doesn't know. So like, you might not
Speaker 2: know the details, it might not be as gruesome as
Speaker 2: you imagine it to be. But lo and behold, sit
Speaker 2: with that news for a couple of weeks. You can
Speaker 2: make up someone to fill in the gaps.
Speaker 1: MM.
Speaker 2: I don't want to do that. I don't want to
Speaker 2: do that, but it's interesting to know that it is
Speaker 2: illegal to do so. And I guess in the same vein,
Speaker 2: let's say you were going to buy a house that
Speaker 2: had flooded recently, or that I don't know, had like
Speaker 2: a ceiling cave in. You would need to know that information.
Speaker 2: It's vital, right, So I guess why would we draw
Speaker 2: the liner and murder?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I wonder what deaths they consider the ones
Speaker 3: that need to be told about, like if someone just
Speaker 3: passed away from old age in the house.
Speaker 2: Oh, they have to tell you, like where where's the line? Honestly,
Speaker 2: I mean to be fair, I'm surprised that you don't
Speaker 2: have to disclose if houses and suffering flood zones. It's
Speaker 2: up to you to do your own research. So I'm
Speaker 2: thinking like old age, like you know, you'll, what's there
Speaker 2: to say about that murder? I wonder if they tell
Speaker 2: you if your house is in an area that's frequently
Speaker 2: robbed Ooh, because again the suburbs in Sydney in particular
Speaker 2: where I didn't know this having even been born and
Speaker 2: raised here. But there are certain suburbs where like robbery
Speaker 2: happens quite frequently and it's an expectation of living there,
Speaker 2: Surry Hills and it shann't be named speaking.
Speaker 3: From my house being robbed in Surry Hills, you got wrecked.
Speaker 3: Yeah what two years ago? All my jewelry gone, my
Speaker 3: laptop gone, my housemate's Lenovo laptop remained, all the macs
Speaker 3: in the house.
Speaker 2: Deals you get it? Exactly fair? How savage? Is is it? Ill?
Speaker 3: Literally?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was pretty heavy. They wouldn't stoop that low.
Speaker 2: So it was laptops were taken, jewelry was checking what else?
Speaker 3: All of my perfume bottles, all the cats had been
Speaker 3: taken off, and they'd been smelled.
Speaker 2: Of course.
Speaker 3: All the drawers open and they waigh, they found the
Speaker 3: person who robbed our house was through the fingerprints on
Speaker 3: my perfume bottles.
Speaker 2: They found them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they found them, and repeat offender recouped most of
Speaker 3: the jewry. Yes, she was a repeat offender.
Speaker 2: So and you got the jewelry back. What a great story.
Speaker 2: It was a good story. Did you feel really violated? Yeah?
Speaker 3: The laptop being being gone was a bit scary because
Speaker 3: I don't know what I have on their incriminating artifacts,
Speaker 3: no doubt, but yeah, it was an interesting experience.
Speaker 2: You really can't prepare yourself that happened to you. That
Speaker 2: sounds terrible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can't prepare yourself for the violation that you
Speaker 3: actually you feel walking to a house.
Speaker 2: Just something like to end on Yeah, flicks and frooms, Flicksie.
Speaker 3: I came across this TikTok and I want to know
Speaker 3: what you think of it.
Speaker 2: It is about a thing called performative work. I'll let
Speaker 2: you know for a fee.
Speaker 5: Let's talk about performative work and why it is the
Speaker 5: cringiest part of corporate life. Performative work is the act
Speaker 5: of publicly demonstrating your commitment to your job or the
Speaker 5: boss in a way that's not productive at all. Let's
Speaker 5: have George Costanza explain what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: What do you do all day? Not that much?
Speaker 1: I thought that new promotion was supposed to be a
Speaker 1: lot more work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when the season starts right now?
Speaker 1: I shit around pretending that I'm busy. How do you
Speaker 1: pull that off? I always look annoyed.
Speaker 2: When you look annoyed all the time, people think that
Speaker 2: you're busy.
Speaker 1: Think about it.
Speaker 5: In the office, it can look like peace around acting exasperated,
Speaker 5: but in a virtual workplace it's a little more theatrical.
Speaker 5: Oh how am I? I am? Just back to back
Speaker 5: with meetings today. It's just NonStop. Sorry guys for the
Speaker 5: seven am call. This was the only slot I had
Speaker 5: available today.
Speaker 2: That is a great point.
Speaker 5: The problem with performative work is it takes away time
Speaker 5: and energy from you actually being productive. It's also contagious,
Speaker 5: especially if the boss reinforces this behavior. The best thing
Speaker 5: you can do to avoid performative work is just not
Speaker 5: participate in it.
Speaker 2: I think what confuses me about that video is it
Speaker 2: feels that the person's framing performative work is something you
Speaker 2: do to appease your bosses, not something you do to
Speaker 2: overcompensate for the fact that you're not working.
Speaker 4: Ooh.
Speaker 2: I think it's both because like if I thought that
Speaker 2: the point, they're like, oh, I'm just back to back
Speaker 2: in meetings. That's my poor time management because I knew
Speaker 2: I didn't want to do meetings and days I was
Speaker 2: having fun, so I would do a meeting day, put
Speaker 2: them all on one day. Then I can bludge interesting
Speaker 2: like this whole like talking out loudier emails, like if
Speaker 2: you were really in the zone, there's no time to
Speaker 2: be like and I'm just gonna click send and I'm
Speaker 2: gonna be enter. Like it feels like a performance to
Speaker 2: mask the fact that you're not actually doing, not a
Speaker 2: performance for the benefit of your employees or of your
Speaker 2: employer because they're not in the room most of the time. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think people think that they hoodwinking even when it's
Speaker 3: obvious and they're not. You know, you think that your
Speaker 3: boss hasn't been in your position, Yeah, but for them
Speaker 3: to become a boss have had to be like you. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think it works in some instances, Like I think
Speaker 3: if someone acts busy and exacerbated all the time as
Speaker 3: a junior person, you're less likely to go to them
Speaker 3: and bother them.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: When so it's like really great for middle management and
Speaker 3: I wite believe are the biggest bludges in the world.
Speaker 2: That's true best position to be in. Yeah, I agree,
Speaker 2: actually because I'm thinking, like, what if you saw an
Speaker 2: intern doing performative likes, I'm sure they are actually stress
Speaker 2: it's a stressful place to be but or like, get
Speaker 2: off it. Come on, this is a one day a
Speaker 2: week kind of thing.
Speaker 1: Literally, flex and frooms.
Speaker 2: Guess what I just found out? What Tea Pain is
Speaker 2: giving Gwyneth Paltrow a run for her money into industry beef.
Speaker 2: We love to create beef that does not exist and
Speaker 2: over exaggeration. So I might say a lie, But what
Speaker 2: is the truth if not presumptions? Listen to this though.
Speaker 2: Tea Pain just released his own candle collaboration with the
Speaker 2: brand Market formerly known as Chinatown Market. They changed it
Speaker 2: a couple years ago for the reason because nobody who
Speaker 2: built that company is Chinese. It's like that. It's very
Speaker 2: confusing anyway. So the candle is called tea paint and
Speaker 2: it's in the shape of a paint can. Very creative
Speaker 2: in my tea paint.
Speaker 3: I think very much like two thousand and eight Jean
Speaker 3: Paul Glartier like bottle that was in a tin.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just what happens when you get some big
Speaker 2: thinkers in a room. What do you reckon? We do
Speaker 2: a play on words, a pun and anyway, so it's
Speaker 2: a sweat and tequila scented candle. Ooh, that is bad.
Speaker 2: This is marketing. I don't want a regular candle from
Speaker 2: Tea Pain. I don't want any candle from te pain really,
Speaker 2: but I want this one really badly and I can
Speaker 2: have it for a cheeky You want to guess how
Speaker 2: much it costs? One hundred whoa is that right? Why
Speaker 2: did you get so high? I don't know. It's ninety
Speaker 2: six dollars. Okay, damn you ruined it. Yeah, but ninety
Speaker 2: six dollars. And there's not much to say about it,
Speaker 2: like the the can itself says it's hand poured bougie parfumi.
Speaker 2: Oh it's so ugly. It looks like you find in
Speaker 2: your cupboard. It's very literal, it's very paint can says
Speaker 2: tea paint sweat and to heal a candle and what
Speaker 2: could be any Sarah Font Not sure, but I like
Speaker 2: the marketing. I'm always ready to give pats on the
Speaker 2: back for genius marketing because, like I said, I could
Speaker 2: imagine it'd be really difficult for someone like Tea Pain
Speaker 2: to stay relevant, not because he hears who he is,
Speaker 2: but when you are so famous and your likeness is
Speaker 2: really indicative of a time in pop culture, Like he
Speaker 2: was pop culture for a good five six years and
Speaker 2: then I don't know if you heard, but he got
Speaker 2: screwed over by his manager and was basically bankrupt, no money. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: His manager made him sign, made him commit to a
Speaker 2: bunch of bung deals in real estate and stuff he
Speaker 2: thought he had investments he really didn't, really terrible stuff,
Speaker 2: And I spent the last few years building his name
Speaker 2: back up. He does these live streams on Twitch where
Speaker 2: he plays music up and coming artists and gives them
Speaker 2: a platform and he co signs them. Did you do
Speaker 2: that with Mason Dane? Yeah? So it's super cufical and
Speaker 2: This is just another way he's innovating. I love that.
Speaker 3: I love to see a rags to riches, Riches to rags.
Speaker 2: It's riches riches to rags, cont life cycle, a loop.
Speaker 2: Who also knows Candles? Who Drake? But nobody really knows
Speaker 2: because they're not that good unfortunately, Sorry Drey, But I
Speaker 2: do love Drake and I want them to be amazing.
Speaker 2: Over Oaks should be a lifestyle brand. I'm willing to
Speaker 2: buy in. Is it available yet? The candle, the tea
Speaker 2: paint candle? Are the Drake candle? Yeah, it's been available
Speaker 2: for years. I don't know if it's sold out, you'd hope,
Speaker 2: So maybe an experthday gift.
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