Speaker 1: Flex and Frooms. Flex and Frooms.
Speaker 2: This is the Flex and Frooms catch up podcast.
Speaker 1: Oh sweety piece, it's Friday, and thank goodness for that.
Speaker 1: Today we talk about the best excuse not to go
Speaker 1: to work and the reason why you ruminate. I think
Speaker 1: it should provide you with some comfort. But also we
Speaker 1: don't tend to oversimplify everything for no reason. It's just
Speaker 1: because some things can afford to be simplified for the
Speaker 1: sake of the girl's brains.
Speaker 3: And yeah, anyway, happy weekend. Here's the potty Flex and Frooms.
Speaker 3: What time is it, guys, I'm not sure, but hopefully
Speaker 3: it is no longer work time. But if it is,
Speaker 3: I want to give you a list of excuses to
Speaker 3: get out of work. For some people this is easier
Speaker 3: than others. If you're working in a nine to five
Speaker 3: office type of job where to be honest like you
Speaker 3: could you could do your work at home, then maybe
Speaker 3: this is more appropriate. However, I have a friend, for example,
Speaker 3: who works as a teacher.
Speaker 1: I'll just be throwing round a city. You really can't.
Speaker 1: I wonder what the protocol is for being a teacher
Speaker 1: and needing a sick day?
Speaker 3: What about being a surgeon, whoa or a doctor and
Speaker 3: you've already banked up a million.
Speaker 1: People have been waiting for this surgery, waiting to see
Speaker 1: You're kind of like, Oh, I actually can't.
Speaker 3: You just would have to be taking a lot of
Speaker 3: armor force. Yeah, is that weird too?
Speaker 4: Like, who'd even thought of that? Well?
Speaker 1: I think a lot of jobs are built that way,
Speaker 1: where they don't have a contingency for if the one
Speaker 1: person can't do it. But if we can't, we couldn't
Speaker 1: do it. We worked for a whole week with no voice. Facts,
Speaker 1: who else is going to do flex and froo if
Speaker 1: we don't have an understudy?
Speaker 3: It's hitting a little too close to home. Yeah, so
Speaker 3: is this article by Refinary twenty nine?
Speaker 4: Is that right?
Speaker 3: This is article by Cosmo which is actually published March third,
Speaker 3: which my birthday. We're going back in the after I
Speaker 3: remember this one. Here are some excuses that this writer
Speaker 3: has found my brother's appendix ruptured, which I think is
Speaker 3: a fine one. I thought my appendix ruptured this morning.
Speaker 1: But your brother, who cares?
Speaker 3: Maybe you had to take them to the hospital. Oh okay,
Speaker 3: my WiFi went out. That's a brilliant one. That's that's
Speaker 3: underutilized I'd say.
Speaker 1: I don't know you have data. Everybody has data.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Maybe then you say your phone, you're on the sixty
Speaker 3: nine dollars Plana.
Speaker 1: You have data. I feel like people wouldn't be forgiving
Speaker 1: for that one.
Speaker 3: My dog's not feeling well. I think it's some circles
Speaker 3: that do well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but the circles were that would do well. You
Speaker 1: probably already have mental health days. You can take facts.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So for some reason, my hands are cramping, given I
Speaker 3: have Reinard's syndrome, which I've told you all about, when
Speaker 3: my fingers don't get circulation. This is something that I
Speaker 3: pulled out at Splendor one year. In the cold, I
Speaker 3: couldn't wear I had to wear gloves. But then I
Speaker 3: couldn't do the Instagram story with gloves on. Someone slashed
Speaker 3: my tires.
Speaker 1: That need to bend your fingers to post, Babes, No.
Speaker 3: I had to wear gloves. You can't do gloves on
Speaker 3: the screen.
Speaker 1: Oh got it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Someone's like, have a friend who could help babes.
Speaker 3: Someone slashed my tires. Now, as we know, I have
Speaker 3: used this. Yeah. When I got back from Bali twenty
Speaker 3: twenty two and someone had gone in and lit afire
Speaker 3: in my car. What happened?
Speaker 1: I still went to work? You really did?
Speaker 3: I got an uber yeah offlone paycheck didn't get reenbursed.
Speaker 1: She didn't. I have to go to court.
Speaker 3: That's a classic one. Show people you're a bit bad.
Speaker 3: Oh I qualified for the state track championship and my
Speaker 3: apartment is flooding.
Speaker 1: I wonder outside of some of the bad habits we've
Speaker 1: all made around working. You know people who are like, oh,
Speaker 1: I won't take a sick day because I don't let
Speaker 1: my team downlahlahlahlah. If we all just decided we would
Speaker 1: work as as it states in our contract, like take
Speaker 1: your one hour lunch break, rock up at nine, leave
Speaker 1: at five. If we all did that, take your sick
Speaker 1: day that you're allotted. Like what I would do is
Speaker 1: I would ask HR how many sick days hours I
Speaker 1: have allotted and then just use them.
Speaker 3: If you don't use sick days to get money, if
Speaker 3: we need to start scheduling them in Truly, that's a
Speaker 3: life pack, because some of you girlies don't even know
Speaker 3: it's gotta be an HR pack when you first come
Speaker 3: to a job.
Speaker 1: Let's get that.
Speaker 3: Let's get that through legislation. Call up mister Albanisi, I
Speaker 3: got to hook up with total just do a few
Speaker 3: barks and get him to eat the current legislation or change.
Speaker 1: Sick days to mental health days, and then under the
Speaker 1: umbrella we can have cramps go under there, bad brain days.
Speaker 1: All of that kind of stuff were and realistically because
Speaker 1: this as someone who doesn't look sick when I am sick,
Speaker 1: I don't want to have to come through with the
Speaker 1: evidence of visually being sick to be seen as sick.
Speaker 1: I don't need to be listing through the symptoms of
Speaker 1: my mystery illness to be justified the sick day that
Speaker 1: I'm entitled to because I worked for it. M like
Speaker 1: I'm sick should be enough. Or get in you know
Speaker 1: at six and be like, hey, heads up, not feeling well.
Speaker 1: Won't be coming in today. I've sent through my tasks
Speaker 1: that need to be handed off to someone. Or good
Speaker 1: take you six days, please please. You're not a better
Speaker 1: person for not taking six days. I promise you. Also
Speaker 1: take it annual leave. People don't like you more because
Speaker 1: you don't take your leave. Thank you. It is flex
Speaker 1: and frooms on kita. If you are an overthinker, a ruminador,
Speaker 1: a back and forth in the brain. I need to
Speaker 1: consult my friends for every decision. Type of person. This
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Speaker 3: A big reason why we ruminate is because it gives
Speaker 3: us a false sense of control over a situation that
Speaker 3: we did not feel control over.
Speaker 1: When we go.
Speaker 3: Back and dissect and try to give new meaning to
Speaker 3: past experiences, and it's coming from this place of lack,
Speaker 3: and it's coming from this place of desperation. It's an
Speaker 3: illusion of control.
Speaker 1: Wasn't that beautiful, eloquent, concise, clicked immediately? No need to
Speaker 1: die of deep any further. It is all there. I
Speaker 1: only figured out I was a control freaking therapy. Isn't
Speaker 1: that wild?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: That's crazy?
Speaker 1: Like, why wasn't that clear? I don't know what I
Speaker 1: thought I was doing or what I thought the action was.
Speaker 1: If not trying to control things, maybe I thought I
Speaker 1: was just being proactive or being involved, being practical, But no,
Speaker 1: it's definitely control freak coded.
Speaker 3: I feel like rumination doesn't get like self diagnosed enough,
Speaker 3: Like I never really I'm a big fat ruminator. As
Speaker 3: a unike use that right of course.
Speaker 1: Because we don't go down alone together in this building.
Speaker 3: But like I even today when I'm ruminating, I don't
Speaker 3: realize that it's part of that. I don't realize i'm
Speaker 3: doing it. I honestly think that I'm troubleshooting. You've seen
Speaker 3: a firsthand, I come to you with text.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is a form of trouble shooting, but I
Speaker 1: guess troubleshooting. Troubleshooting is more systems, like a clear structure
Speaker 1: to get to the end goal, whereas ruminating is bouncing
Speaker 1: between often extreme opposing thoughts for what solution really to
Speaker 1: feel better, I guess.
Speaker 3: To feel better. And it's hard when there's no solution.
Speaker 1: It's so hard when there isn't a best way forward
Speaker 1: because you don't know what the outcome is going to be.
Speaker 3: Regardless, So what do you do? Do you reckon?
Speaker 1: You know me? Impulse? Just make a choice, any choice.
Speaker 3: But what if it isn't a choice to make.
Speaker 1: There's always a choice to make. In action is a choice.
Speaker 3: So the choice is to stop ruminating.
Speaker 1: Well, I think ruminating is a symptom of a bigger issue.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I don't think it is the issue, Like
Speaker 1: it's how you are ruminating is how you respond to
Speaker 1: things happening around you, So what is happening around you?
Speaker 3: I guess sometimes o rumination is just like actually totally
Speaker 3: maladaptive to the point where you're like ruminating over something
Speaker 3: that isn't is like nonsensical. Yeah you know, that's like yeah.
Speaker 1: But it's we're oversimplifying it. It's this idea that we
Speaker 1: all technically have choices, but do we want to make them.
Speaker 1: It's choosing between a thing that will make me uncomfortable
Speaker 1: or I think they will make me sad. Go, nobody
Speaker 1: wants to do that. But I definitely feel like there
Speaker 1: is something to say about simplifying generally, you know, getting
Speaker 1: to a solution, not the best one, not the perfect one,
Speaker 1: but one that gets you further along the journey of
Speaker 1: understanding why you're ruminating, because I what I would want
Speaker 1: to avoid is feeling like any rumination is futile or
Speaker 1: doesn't have a purpose. Where you put your energy is
Speaker 1: what matters to you period.
Speaker 3: I will say, though some rumination is purely maladaptive in
Speaker 3: the case of obsessive compulsive swatter.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, but then that's like a very specific situation.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm thinking about that.
Speaker 1: What I'm thinking about rumination?
Speaker 3: Okay, babe, okay, anyway, do you hear me? Tell me
Speaker 3: why the Karen era is yet again activated against.
Speaker 1: My against my will.
Speaker 3: It's been a couple of weeks, so it's been a
Speaker 3: couple of weeks. Tell me why I'm trying to go
Speaker 3: to sleep the upstairs neighbors bashing around using power tools?
Speaker 3: What the hell? Next minute? It's six am. Next day.
Speaker 3: I usually hear the birds chrap in a tree lined
Speaker 3: type of area, and I'm saying, I'm hearing construction at
Speaker 3: six am in New South Wales, and I'm at that
Speaker 3: stage where you're half asleep, half awake. The vibe is
Speaker 3: already ruined, like I'm not going to be going back
Speaker 3: to so sorry, and I need my sleep. I'm hearing
Speaker 3: this and I'm thinking, I know it's I know it's
Speaker 3: too early, but.
Speaker 1: What do I do and what can you do? Well?
Speaker 3: It turns out there's a law against this. According to
Speaker 3: New Southell's law, noise from power tools and equipment, including
Speaker 3: electrical and battery operated tools, that can be heard in
Speaker 3: any habitable rooms of his neighboring residents must seize during
Speaker 3: the hours of eight pm to eight am on Sundays
Speaker 3: and eight pm to seven am on weekdays and Saturdays.
Speaker 3: So I'm hearing a little power to six thirty am,
Speaker 3: even six fifty five am. It's completely illegal.
Speaker 1: So how do you escalate it?
Speaker 2: Though?
Speaker 3: You go to the New South Wales government, But in.
Speaker 1: Real time, I'd be taking a little video.
Speaker 3: No, I wouldn't.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't. Yeah, what can you really if it's happening
Speaker 1: I think if it's.
Speaker 3: Happening consistently, then you go straight to the sauce and.
Speaker 1: I say, hey, trades downstairs, Yeah, they just work there.
Speaker 3: Okay, you know what you do.
Speaker 2: Guys.
Speaker 3: Let's you're shoes. Don't don't try and harass our tradees.
Speaker 3: Go look on the building. There should be a little
Speaker 3: like eat like there should be a number for the
Speaker 3: site manager. You go to the site manager. You don't
Speaker 3: go straight to the people doing the job.
Speaker 1: I feel like the construction noise is just one layer
Speaker 1: of irritation and then you add four more layers trying
Speaker 1: to fix it on your own.
Speaker 3: Got to go to Scottie cam.
Speaker 1: I stayed in a hotel in the city the other
Speaker 1: day and the there was construction outside and I was like,
Speaker 1: is this not illegal? So so vibe welcome. But then
Speaker 1: I guess because the city is is it commercially coded?
Speaker 3: Nah, they're still give it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know because this was construction literally from six
Speaker 1: pm to three am night.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I live next to a train line and the train
Speaker 5: line does construction at like five.
Speaker 1: Am, babe. But it was like, when else are they
Speaker 1: going to do it?
Speaker 5: But it's like the train line is the government?
Speaker 3: Yeah, inside job, job, this is the thing.
Speaker 1: Guys.
Speaker 3: Also neighbors keeping massive lights on. That's what we did
Speaker 3: at Splendor. We were staying next to each other and you,
Speaker 3: how do you outside lights on shining into my bedroom?
Speaker 1: I didn't have them on. We just checked in for
Speaker 1: the day and it was on. And I get a
Speaker 1: text from through me at eleven pm. Can you turn
Speaker 1: off your light? I'm thinking which light is it?
Speaker 3: And you did it in ease?
Speaker 1: Oh, immediately, immediately. I can take direction.
Speaker 3: Often we're coming to the table with a would you
Speaker 3: rather steeped in moral issues in concern and things that
Speaker 3: really have my brain freaking out guys, so I thought,
Speaker 3: let's yeah, how good is that flex' Just seeing a
Speaker 3: meme that put on my straight So I thought I
Speaker 3: come to the table with something a bit more based
Speaker 3: in the fantasy, because as much as we like to
Speaker 3: talk about serious issues, it's also important to bring some fun.
Speaker 3: Because what if, like I prefer the fake world if
Speaker 3: not a massive fantasy. Okay, so what fantasy thing would
Speaker 3: you like to be real? FLEXI? I'm gonna give you
Speaker 3: some options?
Speaker 1: Oh great, there's.
Speaker 3: One, two, three, four, five options. Everybody playing along at home,
Speaker 3: put your thinking cap on. H if you could choose
Speaker 3: one of these fantasy things to be real and justify it,
Speaker 3: which would you be? Which would you rather? Number one?
Speaker 3: Ghosts to see monsters aka locknest moment? Yeah, big dogs, demons,
Speaker 3: aliens and they mean like the actual ones that are cute,
Speaker 3: like the green ones, not like a microbe, bigfoot or
Speaker 3: wear wolves. Can I guess what you're say.
Speaker 1: Ghosts? No, I might say demons.
Speaker 3: Really yeah, this is very unlike you. In my mind,
Speaker 3: I just want.
Speaker 1: To see how different they are from us. Imagine if when,
Speaker 1: like you know, you introduce the demons into the world's
Speaker 1: escape and everyone's like, I couldn't even tell, And it's.
Speaker 3: That time of the month. I know you're thinking, is
Speaker 3: it the red moment?
Speaker 1: It's way better.
Speaker 3: This is our Mickey's music quiz. Drum roll please.
Speaker 1: Mickey, what is it?
Speaker 3: The give the tea?
Speaker 5: So each week we've been playing one second of familiar
Speaker 5: songs that you might know, and I give you guys
Speaker 5: a theme. This week's theme is it's the mid two
Speaker 5: thousands and you're crying in your childhood bedroom.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's on for you FLIXI.
Speaker 3: Ready play the tape. Oh yeah, Jojo get out?
Speaker 1: Okay with in style.
Speaker 3: M This one has really to the left by Beyonce.
Speaker 1: Incorrect incorrect flex irreplaceable by Beyonce. No, just stealing that one.
Speaker 1: I don't know what. Play a different section. Hold up
Speaker 1: m oh me Chasing Pavements by Adele so sad because
Speaker 1: she it's like just being stuck between a rock and
Speaker 1: her harbor.
Speaker 3: But did she ever make for a mind?
Speaker 1: That's a real question.
Speaker 3: She did.
Speaker 1: Look at where she's now, but she unblocked. She wouldn't
Speaker 1: have give us the receipts. Actually, she's she's down to earth.
Speaker 1: She would have unblocked him.
Speaker 5: Okay, next one, draw.
Speaker 1: My turn flex killing me softly artist Lauren Hill.
Speaker 5: Two points for me.
Speaker 3: No, Lauren Hill, was that in the mid two thousands. Yes,
Speaker 3: it's actually incorrect.
Speaker 5: Should we take it.
Speaker 1: To okay, okay, time, but I said remastered edit.
Speaker 5: You would sit in your room and not listen to
Speaker 5: any other song.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was on Backstreet Boys Tip Incomplete. But anyway,
Speaker 3: play the table.
Speaker 1: Something that I last. That's a long one. Don't do
Speaker 1: it again, please, Okay, we're stressed enough. Just a fart
Speaker 1: noise text me Beyonce irreplaceable.
Speaker 2: Great, I've got one more for you, one more for you,
Speaker 2: and look at through me because I just want to
Speaker 2: let them over flexes, wipe the floor today.
Speaker 1: Where's a lot of.
Speaker 3: Black fact correct babes. When I first finding NEMO occurred?
Speaker 3: Oh shit, climate change is a thing the COMU two
Speaker 3: thousand and five. Pretty sure someone got killed in a war.
Speaker 1: Where is the love?
Speaker 3: Me on the balcony at my parents, as where is
Speaker 3: the love? The fire is burning, and the kids it's
Speaker 3: our It's on our generation. And I said, listen, can't
Speaker 3: go past a little order online. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: The children out here doing hales, So the children didn't
Speaker 1: die funk enough? Who want to sing it again? I've
Speaker 1: got steep on. This is for our childhood. So I
Speaker 1: just recall this being the intro at all.
Speaker 4: They came in a down tea ready, yes, yes, quod
Speaker 4: yes the world?
Speaker 1: Can you give me the word's addicted to the drum man.
Speaker 4: What you demonstrate, that's exactly how angle works and operates.
Speaker 1: You would know, You would know taking hold of your
Speaker 1: mind and meditate, let your soul gramat, don't care.
Speaker 4: Yes, can you practice you tadle structures? Send it from where?
Speaker 2: Question?
Speaker 3: What is that?
Speaker 1: Where is the love? Where is that? Where is where
Speaker 1: is that? Where is where is that?
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