Speaker 1: The Flex and Rooms Daily.
Speaker 2: Podcast, brought to you by Cana.
Speaker 3: Oh my lord, how good does it feel to be
Speaker 3: a Friday Listen? If you're not excited for your weekend,
Speaker 3: maybe you don't have enough plans. I've been there when
Speaker 3: I lived in Melbourne, I lived with my parents bored as
Speaker 3: on the weekend because I.
Speaker 1: Don't have enough When they say, if you feel bored,
Speaker 1: you're boring.
Speaker 3: One hundred percent, and I'll you'll come back for sure,
Speaker 3: for sure, because I just like I didn't have enough
Speaker 3: emotional energy to be with people all the time. But
Speaker 3: also I was very bored at home. It's quite a
Speaker 3: bind to find yourself in. If you're worried about being
Speaker 3: a bit bored this weekend, do what I did last weekend.
Speaker 3: Stay in bed all weekend. Okay, get up in the morning,
Speaker 3: go to the cafe, do it with a tivity tappy
Speaker 3: on the laptop.
Speaker 4: I love that you're a local girl like that, because
Speaker 4: I really have aspirations to be a local girl. But
Speaker 4: I moved to a new suburb and I don't hang
Speaker 4: out in the suburb at all. I don't know any cafes,
Speaker 4: I don't know any spots. I moved to a suburb
Speaker 4: to drive right back out of it.
Speaker 3: This is the I mean, mine's an affliction and a bonus.
Speaker 3: The suburb in which I live, which I will not
Speaker 3: be disclosing, thank.
Speaker 1: You, is a bubble.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and so you know, yeah, you're stuck, but it's
Speaker 3: kind of sligh. So oh, I know it's not going
Speaker 3: to be forever. So I spoils, yeah, the spoils of
Speaker 3: my rent money. Anyway, we're going to talk about how
Speaker 3: Instagram is a new hinge.
Speaker 1: According to you. Honestly, I'm not wrong.
Speaker 4: Love that's a new hinge and not the new bumble
Speaker 4: or Tinder that feels deliberate.
Speaker 1: Say hinge all the time. Now, yeah, it used to
Speaker 1: be Tinder, but they just say hinge. Do they mean hinge?
Speaker 1: Though I personally want.
Speaker 4: A grinder to straights that's Tinder, No, because grind does
Speaker 4: the proximity thing.
Speaker 3: Also the category like all. I just think it's like
Speaker 3: real functional. I think it's a bit too dangerous with women. Yeah,
Speaker 3: do you agree with me?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 1: Do I like Snapchat mats maps? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah far out guys. I just want to say
Speaker 3: congratulations on getting through another week. Maybe you're working tomorrow
Speaker 3: but still at the end of the week.
Speaker 1: You know it's not. But that's okay. Thank you for sharing.
Speaker 1: Let's go. Fleck and Flecky.
Speaker 3: And I were just talking about the Veronicas fan I'm
Speaker 3: not a fan, but I would listen were you were
Speaker 3: a fan as a kid. I don't think I was
Speaker 3: a fan as a kid.
Speaker 1: No kind of thought it would hit your interest. They're
Speaker 1: a bit emo.
Speaker 4: Yeah they are emo, but I think I was just
Speaker 4: a fan of American stuff, broadly Veronicas.
Speaker 3: I thought, we're going to bridge the gap between America
Speaker 3: and Australia. I remember they did a competition with like
Speaker 3: some radio station and if you won, you could like
Speaker 3: meet them and get a five hundred dollars to prey voucher.
Speaker 4: Ooh it was the coolest. I was like, why is
Speaker 4: this still in your memory bank?
Speaker 1: Because I wanted it so bad.
Speaker 3: It's like where neighbors did a call out, you could
Speaker 3: send in your tape. God, literally, I would do. I'd
Speaker 3: pay a ransom for that take not to come out.
Speaker 3: That was the most hectic.
Speaker 4: Shit, But you're about it. That's that enthusiasm. You just
Speaker 4: can't fake it.
Speaker 3: She had no chance, that little one, but the fact
Speaker 3: that he felt so confident and empowered to do that.
Speaker 3: That's huge, mum taking a view of me in front
Speaker 3: of the Bogan villa in the backround. But anyas slag
Speaker 3: Waen maybe yeah, anyway, the dream's dead.
Speaker 4: Oh, the dream is not dead. Honestly, If EMO didn't
Speaker 4: die off so quickly, and I don't know what killed it,
Speaker 4: I think it was just the moving from platforms my
Speaker 4: Space stay, then EMO would have stayed. Then we all
Speaker 4: would be very different people right now. Alas Drake knows
Speaker 4: why you're single.
Speaker 1: Why.
Speaker 4: I know you didn't want to hear it. I didn't
Speaker 4: want to say it. Don't shoot the messenger. Listen to
Speaker 4: the horse.
Speaker 3: Himself from the horse's mouth. Yes, I guess he's the horse.
Speaker 3: He looks like an Oakmore horse.
Speaker 1: Ah. Fascinating that you would say.
Speaker 2: That it's common by Drake essentially summarizes why so many
Speaker 2: people are single right now. I get into this habit
Speaker 2: of dating like four or five women to make one woman.
Speaker 2: If these are like these like two things like like
Speaker 2: what this girl does for a living, they're not like
Speaker 2: so it's it's just really honestly, I don't know if I'm.
Speaker 1: He just didn't get his point out. You know, I
Speaker 1: just and you know, and it's like you know when
Speaker 1: and then.
Speaker 4: Seriously, I get what he's saying. I don't think I relate.
Speaker 3: But he's like, he'll date four or five women and
Speaker 3: the combination of them all is the perfect girl. I
Speaker 3: could say literally the way he was telling that with
Speaker 3: the backwards cup, little jing Jan, I'm like, you're not
Speaker 3: You're not dating anyone, like, with all due respect, Drake,
Speaker 3: I'm not seeing the vision. This is like people who
Speaker 3: talk a big game and then get none. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: speak from personal experience, storytellers.
Speaker 1: No closing skills. Closing skills. Honestly, I have heard of
Speaker 1: this technique. I've got a friend who uses it.
Speaker 3: She tries not to date one guy, like just one
Speaker 3: guy at a time. It's a protection mechanism so she
Speaker 3: doesn't fall for any of them. Does it work because.
Speaker 1: You always got a favorite? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I can't do the dating multiple people because I just
Speaker 4: feel like I want to over fantasize, close the door,
Speaker 4: move on, over fantasize, close the door, move on.
Speaker 1: You do you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: I do not.
Speaker 1: I wish I didn't know what you were saying, but
Speaker 1: I do. Yeah, you get it.
Speaker 3: Flex and Frooms a few weeks ago on the podcast,
Speaker 3: it was a Friday.
Speaker 1: I believe what was the date. Maybe it was like
Speaker 1: the eleventh, Maybe Friday, the eleventh of Does it matter?
Speaker 1: You know what it does actually because people can go
Speaker 1: back and listen to them.
Speaker 4: Okay, let me pull up a calendar for you. Okay, Friday,
Speaker 4: the eleventh of November.
Speaker 1: Thank you? Correct eleven eleven. Yeah.
Speaker 3: On the podcast, I said, I think I made some
Speaker 3: joke about people who actually listen to the podcast being crazy.
Speaker 3: I said, if you've listened to every single episode of
Speaker 3: this podcast, message me. The first person to message me
Speaker 3: referencing this I will give a prize to. And the
Speaker 3: first person to message me was a person called Brosif
Speaker 3: on Instagram. Brosaf is a longtime listener. He's even sent
Speaker 3: us an am I the asshole. At one point, I processed,
Speaker 3: and so I said to him, I'm going to send
Speaker 3: you something. Got his address very presumptuous whoa. And I
Speaker 3: originally thought I was gonna like send him a little poem,
Speaker 3: and male, I love sending mail. The poem is really
Speaker 3: sweet and thoughtful. It is thank you. But then I thought,
Speaker 3: let's stick to the same medium.
Speaker 1: He found us on the podcast.
Speaker 3: Let's keep him on the podcast, and so I have
Speaker 3: written him an acrostic poem for brosif oh and I
Speaker 3: want to I want you to do.
Speaker 1: The next letter, so B, I don't know what acrostic
Speaker 1: poem is are A.
Speaker 3: Like his his initials of his name across the sissy serious.
Speaker 4: Babe stating at my master's of journalism on Twitter. Should
Speaker 4: I use an acrostic poem generator?
Speaker 3: No, Sis, We're doing this for real, all right, brosof
Speaker 3: starting with the b. B is best listener on the
Speaker 3: Flex and Fruits podcast. Okay, you do one with r
Speaker 3: R is really hot? Oh is, Oh my god, thank
Speaker 3: you for your long standing support.
Speaker 1: S is stay sexy. E is for everything, everwhere, all
Speaker 1: at once. That's what I think of you. Oh cute.
Speaker 1: P is for keep your.
Speaker 3: pH levels balanced, if you want to get a root,
Speaker 3: and H is for hey, I appreciate you, brosif you're
Speaker 3: really good, let's give it a clap. Go on, Brookie,
Speaker 3: put the hand, get the hands together. Everyone of the
Speaker 3: booth is cupping. That's where you're brosimiking. This is Flex
Speaker 3: and Frooms on so Flexiani Mamana. I was on Instagram.
Speaker 3: The other day I go to open up my messages.
Speaker 3: It's always a fruitful place the dms, I agree, not
Speaker 3: necessarily for sexual purposes, but more romantic, but more funny stuff.
Speaker 3: It's hilarious, funny junk. Yes, And there's such a good
Speaker 3: feeling about someone sending you a meme. You just think
Speaker 3: you were thinking of me, this random person on the Earth.
Speaker 1: I went to open it eye messages. What do I see?
Speaker 1: What do you see? Bubbles?
Speaker 3: Yeah, above the messages, with little thinking bubbles above the avatars.
Speaker 4: And the odd thing about this new update just appearing
Speaker 4: is because usually what happens when there's an Instagram update
Speaker 4: is that we get told on the stories. You go
Speaker 4: to post a story and the like, hey did you
Speaker 4: know that there's a new reals feature? And then you
Speaker 4: go and you ignore it and you don't use it.
Speaker 4: In this instance, though, it was just there, no fan context, nothing,
Speaker 4: but there was fan there because I that was, in
Speaker 4: my opinion, the quickest uptick of someone using a new
Speaker 4: feature I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: Really or immediately everyone's like, what is this? What is this?
Speaker 1: What is this? How do you use this? What is
Speaker 1: this for?
Speaker 4: When usually, let's say there's a new like when Instagram
Speaker 4: updated with captions. I feel like influencers and content creators
Speaker 4: use that like we're excited by that.
Speaker 1: But the avatise was like, okay, cool.
Speaker 3: Great, Well, okay, so you open it up. I'm sure
Speaker 3: you've seen it already everyone. But I have a thought.
Speaker 3: This is the first thought I had when I posted
Speaker 3: my one, and that is that it's the perfect way
Speaker 3: to slide into someone's dms, or have someone slide into yours.
Speaker 3: This feature was designed to create conversations.
Speaker 1: What do you mean? So you put a little thing
Speaker 1: up so it's called a note, it's called notes.
Speaker 3: So you've got all these little people along here. You
Speaker 3: can press into their notes, and it gives you an
Speaker 3: option to reply straight away.
Speaker 1: I see.
Speaker 3: So it's just another tool to end up in someone's DM.
Speaker 3: The incidental How did I get here? But I guess
Speaker 3: now I'm here, let's chat. Literally, I ask a question.
Speaker 3: Restaurants on the Moon are great food, but no atmosphere
Speaker 3: just had an everything shower. You aren't ready, like, can't
Speaker 3: stop thinking about Julia, it's just bs. Yeah, but you
Speaker 3: say that Instagrams would be the new dating app. My
Speaker 3: concern is, how is Instagram How.
Speaker 4: Is this going to be beneficial if the people you
Speaker 4: want to date aren't already in your network? How's this
Speaker 4: going to push me and propel me out to the
Speaker 4: six foot eight eight kings?
Speaker 1: I hate Sigar.
Speaker 3: I was thinking I had to add a couple, a couple,
Speaker 3: of course.
Speaker 1: Well this is the thing.
Speaker 3: It's like so for mine and for most people's, they say,
Speaker 3: is nothing queen for me? And I think for you.
Speaker 3: The only people that can see the notes are people
Speaker 3: that you follow back. So people that are following you
Speaker 3: you follow back there don't see it.
Speaker 1: Personally.
Speaker 3: I'm falling back how many people I'm falling back on thousand,
Speaker 3: five hundred and fifty one people? That means it's one thousand,
Speaker 3: five hundred and fifty one potential leads.
Speaker 1: Honestly, I'm following almost four thousand. So now you're saying that, okay,
Speaker 1: So what I'm thinking of doing?
Speaker 3: The first The first note that I had was I
Speaker 3: wish someone had broken up with me so I could
Speaker 3: put a sad song here, something to that effect. It
Speaker 3: was worded better, Oh as a joke.
Speaker 1: Now I think I might kick it up. We've got okay, okay,
Speaker 1: hold on, let's kick it up on this. Let me
Speaker 1: sit up.
Speaker 4: Okay, I understand what you're saying, because for those of
Speaker 4: you who've been who are frequently blessed with a DM slide,
Speaker 4: you know the best way to activate one is to
Speaker 4: give someone opportunity to get in.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: Yes, you could upload some music, you could look pretty
Speaker 4: on a night out, you could updated news article, but
Speaker 4: it has to be varying. It can't all be intimately
Speaker 4: tied to you. Get some memes in there, some personal stuff.
Speaker 4: I understand. However, my issue with this note's function is
Speaker 4: you've got like fifty characters, Max, There's not a lot
Speaker 4: you can say. And also what you say has to
Speaker 4: not only be in the first three to four people
Speaker 4: posting a note, but it has to entice the people
Speaker 4: you want to entice perfectly. And if you're like us
Speaker 4: and the dms remain full. Because my issue is I'm
Speaker 4: missing dms. There's some leads that I've seen from a
Speaker 4: couple of weeks ago, I can't follow up now. I
Speaker 4: left them for too long. I didn't see them.
Speaker 3: So if I'm trying to signal out that this girl
Speaker 3: is down, what am I writing my note? I'm gonna
Speaker 3: do it now. You know what I'm thinking of writing today.
Speaker 1: Alright, I'll bite who's single? Said a bit much? That's good?
Speaker 1: All right? Then wait then you get all your friends
Speaker 1: in like me me, no, bitch, get out of the light,
Speaker 1: get out of the way. Should I do it? I
Speaker 1: start thinking? Fuck? I follow like work leads? You know? Okay, okay?
Speaker 1: But also I put so much shit on the internet.
Speaker 1: Doesn't matter, It doesn't matter. But also think about it.
Speaker 4: If someone you thought was hot had posted that, would
Speaker 4: you be like, yeah, this is my turn, you're a liar?
Speaker 3: Well I did put the other like, this is a
Speaker 3: bit you know, I want to share it. The other
Speaker 3: day I said, all right, any house parties tonight? Did
Speaker 3: I get a single lead?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: I got one person coming in to say, yeah, frooms
Speaker 3: walks into a party with an A four laminated he's
Speaker 3: had to recycle with a condom on her head.
Speaker 1: Just absurdity. I didn't want to know that. That one hurts.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna know with her party. See, but people don't
Speaker 1: have these leads.
Speaker 3: I said, all right, I'll bite who's single? I swear
Speaker 3: by the time we finished this chat.
Speaker 1: No, I've got one better. Who's taking me on a date?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Damn no, you don't.
Speaker 3: Delete delete note? Can you post that right now? Then? Okay,
Speaker 3: hold on, Okay, anyway, if you saw my note and
Speaker 3: you're listening, what's the percentage of people that have listened
Speaker 3: that I'd be interested in.
Speaker 1: It's gona be at least one person could be one
Speaker 1: in there. Yeah, but like we'll get yeah, we'll talk
Speaker 1: statistics later. Okay, we'll see how that goes. I mean
Speaker 1: my desperation era.
Speaker 3: Okay, what if you're written, what if you're written, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna make an Instagram.
Speaker 1: I think people like this some dead air. Okay, is
Speaker 1: this on me or you? No, it's on me.
Speaker 4: So form it said that she thinks that Instagram is
Speaker 4: going to be the new hinge because of the notes function, right,
Speaker 4: she says, you put up something up the top, it
Speaker 4: sends out a signal people bite back. However, she tried
Speaker 4: the other day, she said, all right, where the house
Speaker 4: party is.
Speaker 1: Only one person responded and it was a rose.
Speaker 4: Today she's uploaded this, Okay, I'll bite who's single. I'm
Speaker 4: saying that's not going to get the desired response. It's
Speaker 4: like you're gonna get your friends up in there. So
Speaker 4: I'm saying The better thing to say is, all right,
Speaker 4: who's taking me on a date?
Speaker 1: Well, we got a ab test, Well how do we bet?
Speaker 1: Let me show you? Okay, okay.
Speaker 4: So it seems we're doing a bit of an on
Speaker 4: the go experiment. I don't know if it's going to
Speaker 4: yield any results, but please stay tuned. Is Instagram notes,
Speaker 4: in particular, the new dating app My Heart says no,
Speaker 4: My Yearning for Love says, perhaps.
Speaker 1: This is flex and froomsa FLEXI.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna say it again, but you will, but
Speaker 3: you will. I have been called a Karen.
Speaker 1: You self identify it as a Karen, and honestly it
Speaker 1: feels person Yeah, and it is.
Speaker 3: And the reason that Karen chat came about was when
Speaker 3: we first started recording back in April and I mentioned
Speaker 3: how on the flight to Balio took up both armrests.
Speaker 3: You did not because it was comfortable, but because I
Speaker 3: thought they were mine as a middle seater. Now I
Speaker 3: get so much plain news on my feet. You wouldn't
Speaker 3: believe it. I'm getting so plain news. Here's one. A
Speaker 3: woman left a child in tears on a flight by
Speaker 3: refusing to move out of the window seat.
Speaker 1: The picture.
Speaker 3: Is this kid in the aisle seat with his with
Speaker 3: his hand over his face, obviously having a tantrum. Let's
Speaker 3: read the story. Boy six left in tears after Ryan
Speaker 3: Air flight mixes up seat window gets double booked. Who
Speaker 3: is writing these stories?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't understand, but this is why we need
Speaker 1: blue ticks.
Speaker 3: So a woman has left a child in tears after
Speaker 3: refusing to move the seat that he was booked in.
Speaker 3: The airline said it was an IT glitch that caused
Speaker 3: the double book in the ledge of the six year
Speaker 3: old boy unable to sit in the seat he picked.
Speaker 1: They've got his name here.
Speaker 3: I won't say because I don't want to enter that
Speaker 3: into the universe. He bought it the flight from Budapest
Speaker 3: with his parents and was expecting to sit by the window,
Speaker 3: which helps keeping him calm during the flight. However, his
Speaker 3: seat on the flight operated by ryan S subsidiary airline Buzz,
Speaker 3: was double booked again. Here he is in tears sitting
Speaker 3: in this fat was a woman who showed Ryan's parents
Speaker 3: a seat booking with the same seat number in it.
Speaker 3: She wouldn't budge despite being asked to. Essentially, she said, no,
Speaker 3: do we who's the usehole?
Speaker 1: What would you do? Look depends how I'm feeling. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: the inner Karen says.
Speaker 3: The kid needs to learn some resilience being a boy
Speaker 3: in me says, move it. I made a pledge to
Speaker 3: myself when I was a young child, and I said
Speaker 3: to myself, I will never be mean to kids. I
Speaker 3: will never be mean to kids because you know some parents,
Speaker 3: like you'd go over to some kid's house and the
Speaker 3: parents to be rude, you like my parents wouldn't I
Speaker 3: yell at another kid. So it's like, I'm never going
Speaker 3: to be a mean parent or mean older person, and
Speaker 3: so I kind of need to Like, you've arrived and
Speaker 3: it's not looking good. Brother, Yeah, yeah, it's not great.
Speaker 3: It's nothing good. But yeah, i'd probably I mean far out.
Speaker 3: How long is the flight? I don't want to sit
Speaker 3: in the aisle if I'm a woman like I sorry,
Speaker 3: I mean it's if I'm an adult. What if I'm
Speaker 3: an adult, I don't want to sit on the aisle.
Speaker 3: I want to be able to rest.
Speaker 1: The kid can the kid? This is the thing when.
Speaker 3: You're a single person on the plane and you sit
Speaker 3: next to people who are in a couple, either a
Speaker 3: parent and a kid or a couple, they.
Speaker 1: Can lean on each other.
Speaker 3: I'm alone if I'm an as you know, to lean
Speaker 3: on a partner. Okay, So all I'm gonna say is
Speaker 3: I don't know who's in the right. Can you tell
Speaker 3: me who you think?
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 4: I definitely don't want to make it a habit of
Speaker 4: being a plane martyr, because you know, there's always these
Speaker 4: people that being.
Speaker 1: Like, do you want to sit in the isle of
Speaker 1: a week and swap no? Do you want to know? No?
Speaker 4: But some instances I really don't care. In this instance,
Speaker 4: there's a kid who is obviously going to be annoying regardless.
Speaker 4: And I quite like kids, but kids on planes they
Speaker 4: don't know how to act. So whether or not he
Speaker 4: sits in the aisle of the window, he's going to
Speaker 4: be a nuisance if he's already had his heart set
Speaker 4: on this and he's having.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, the plants in our studio have just
Speaker 3: fallen over. We keep saying this a polter geist and
Speaker 3: the polter geist.
Speaker 4: Okay, So maybe I need to check my attitude. I understand, understand,
Speaker 4: need to come through, gentle.
Speaker 1: I get it. Either way, the kid is going.
Speaker 3: To be upset, upset and annoying, potentially annoying. So for
Speaker 3: that reason, do yourself a favor and just sit in
Speaker 3: the aisle. You'll be less comfortable, but you won't have
Speaker 3: a kid crying, having a tantrum, his parents death glaring you,
Speaker 3: the flight attendant's death glaring you, everybody else on the
Speaker 3: plane death glaring you.
Speaker 4: You don't want that energy, You're right, Well, there's always
Speaker 4: next time. But if it's like, just like a couple
Speaker 4: of friends, you're like, do you mind if we swap
Speaker 4: I will do that because I'm like, I don't want
Speaker 4: to be in between your Yeah, the idiot, but I
Speaker 4: will never, ever, ever, ever ever swap it in the middle, never, never,
Speaker 4: or the back.
Speaker 1: I'm not sitting in the back of the plane.
Speaker 3: So fair you're listening to flex and Frooms on KEDA
Speaker 3: question of.
Speaker 1: The day, what is a blue tick worth?
Speaker 4: If you can buy one for eight dollars a month
Speaker 4: on Twitter, it's not worth a thing.
Speaker 1: Isn't that interesting?
Speaker 4: Because initially when I saw this news article go live,
Speaker 4: I thought, oh.
Speaker 1: What a fun little tree.
Speaker 4: You know, people who feel like they should be entitled
Speaker 4: to a blue tick because la la la la can get.
Speaker 1: One or good. But then I'm thinking eight dollars a month.
Speaker 4: That's not a lot of money. And then it dawned
Speaker 4: on me it's the only fans approach. The entry cost
Speaker 4: is so low because they're banking on you being a
Speaker 4: lifelong subscriber. Think about how many years you've used any
Speaker 4: social media platform for let's say Instagram ten.
Speaker 1: Years maybe, yeah, six years.
Speaker 4: Imagine eight dollars a month, eight times twelve. What's that
Speaker 4: sixty four times eight. Let's just round it up and
Speaker 4: say seventy times eight.
Speaker 3: Someone bucks five hundred bucks.
Speaker 1: That was a got a lot of money for verification.
Speaker 3: I gotta say I feel all type of way about
Speaker 3: this news. It's the stupidest, most arrogant, idiotic idea that
Speaker 3: a social media buyer such as e Musk.
Speaker 1: Yeah, elon, I'm talking to you, bitch. It's gotta make
Speaker 1: his money somehow. It is the stupidest thing.
Speaker 3: Does anybody know why the bluetick was invented? It was
Speaker 3: invented to verify people who are veritable sources. Twitter has
Speaker 3: become the number one place for so many people, journalists,
Speaker 3: journalists to create and find and report on news. Next minute,
Speaker 3: anyone can get a willing only blue tick. Yeah, he's
Speaker 3: missing the point entirely. This is just so arrogant of
Speaker 3: Elon Musk too f with journalism, like, let's be honest journalism.
Speaker 3: Journalism's home is Twitter, and so many journalists have worked
Speaker 3: so hard to get the blue tick.
Speaker 4: Imagine getting your master's for someone to say, journalists, it.
Speaker 1: Is so, I swear, I promise it is. It is
Speaker 1: because you get very people with you. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I just think it's like a little boy getting like
Speaker 3: a train set and like playing with it and make
Speaker 3: it stupid.
Speaker 4: This reminds you of when we spoke about a couple
Speaker 4: of months ago, how I feel like it's BMW who
Speaker 4: created a subscription around the different functions of the car.
Speaker 4: So for you know, a fee a month, you could
Speaker 4: subscribe to turn on your heated steering steeringal heaters, or
Speaker 4: to turn on additional security, or to unlock voice activation
Speaker 4: or these different functions. And people were like, why would
Speaker 4: I pay again and again something I'm already paying four.
Speaker 4: I should own the car and all its functions. And
Speaker 4: they're saying some people don't want the extra functions, right,
Speaker 4: so why would I pay an extra one two three
Speaker 4: thousand for seat warmers? And this and that when I
Speaker 4: don't need it, and so if you want it, why
Speaker 4: not pay extra?
Speaker 1: I never thought about that approach.
Speaker 4: Yes, and people like no, no, no, you're paying for the
Speaker 4: flat model of what they want the basic function to be.
Speaker 4: Then you're adding specs is specking it up? I feel like,
Speaker 4: you know what's that line they say? The whole thing
Speaker 4: about capitalism is like you'll own nothing and you'll be happy.
Speaker 4: This is showing us like we own nothing about these
Speaker 4: environments we think that we own, right, So I feel
Speaker 4: like what's gonna happen is, first it starts with the
Speaker 4: blue tick loses all meaning because you can now buy it,
Speaker 4: and Twitter's gonna start doing it tick, I's gonna do it,
Speaker 4: Instagram's gonna do it.
Speaker 1: I want.
Speaker 4: But then I feel like what's gonna come in is
Speaker 4: what Twitch has, which is badgers and these different ways
Speaker 4: to identify what kind of user you are. So maybe
Speaker 4: it's not the blue tick, but maybe you can pay
Speaker 4: to be a different type of verified user, A paying
Speaker 4: like to say I'm famous or I'm credible in some capacity.
Speaker 4: Because for someone who makes money off Instagram, if you
Speaker 4: said it's gonna cost you an extra grand a year
Speaker 4: to maintain some kind of status symbol with an additional perk.
Speaker 3: I think a lot of people would do it. Now
Speaker 3: you're saying not now, I promise you. I sometimes I
Speaker 3: want to rever the blue tick because it's just it's
Speaker 3: so much pressure. Okay, so you read blue tick. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I want to sell my blue cheek on what's it worth?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: Though this is.
Speaker 3: True, look for some reason, as you say, I don't
Speaker 3: get often fired up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I like to see it. He has done
Speaker 1: me a number on me elon maybe tweet at him.
Speaker 1: You know what, it's because he's come in and he's
Speaker 1: played with it. This is the thing.
Speaker 3: He loves Twitter. That's where he met Grimes. They did
Speaker 3: some public flirting, ended up having the baby. Yes, you
Speaker 3: know what, she tweeted him. I don't know if this
Speaker 3: was not real, And I wouldn't know anymore because she
Speaker 3: ended up tweeting back, yeah, like can you pay for
Speaker 3: child support?
Speaker 1: When he's like pay eight dollars? He's not paying child support?
Speaker 3: I mean, who knows that? Again, I don't know what's
Speaker 3: real anymore. It's just I just think it's just like
Speaker 3: classic arrogant billionaire vibes.
Speaker 1: And I'll die on that hill so silly, it's so stupid,
Speaker 1: makes you really got me?
Speaker 3: But yeah, anyway, so I think he's essentially made Twitter.
Speaker 1: Redundant for now.
Speaker 3: He could like it could have been a yellow tick
Speaker 3: or something, because it's embarrassing.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to. I want people know that I'm
Speaker 1: paying for a blue tick. Yuck.
Speaker 4: Do you know what's worse that you can't tell who's
Speaker 4: paid for it and who earned it?
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. It's a true circle joke.
Speaker 3: Anyway, Sorry, Elon, if you want to give me a
Speaker 3: donation of money.
Speaker 1: That's still cool. Flick and fods.
Speaker 4: We have a friendship dilemma. I feel like I want
Speaker 4: to hear more friendship dilemmas because as for me, I
Speaker 4: feel like I'm quick to let a friendship issue go
Speaker 4: because it never feels worth ruining the friendship over a
Speaker 4: vibe that will likely dissipate in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 4: I feel like, if I think about any of my
Speaker 4: friendships that have ended, it was a confrontation followed by
Speaker 4: a slow ghost. Yeah, and I feel like if it
Speaker 4: had not been a confrontation, we would have both recognized
Speaker 4: mutual responsibility and figured it out. Anyway, here's a dilemma.
Speaker 4: This person says, or the headline is. My friend says
Speaker 4: she's too busy to hang out, but I've seen pictures
Speaker 4: of her on Instagram with someone else. To preface this,
Speaker 4: I don't have an Instagram anymore, but I search on
Speaker 4: my sister's account for my friend and I came across
Speaker 4: another person who's been in pictures with her. So I
Speaker 4: go to her friend's profile and I see multiple pictures
Speaker 4: of her with this new friend. And every time I
Speaker 4: call her, she says she doesn't have time to hat
Speaker 4: with me. Do I confront her about it? Even though
Speaker 4: I'm essentially stalking her online on Instagram? And he says,
Speaker 4: I'm a guy, by the way, which is adding a
Speaker 4: layer of nothing, But maybe it should add something. I'm
Speaker 4: not sure. And that's all the information we have off
Speaker 4: the dome. How is this sitting with you?
Speaker 3: Look, I'm gonna be honest, I did just associate for this. Actually,
Speaker 3: if you were, like your life depends on the site.
Speaker 3: Give us, give us the top three things that are
Speaker 3: coming to mind. What did I say it was a boy? Yeah,
Speaker 3: it was friends and it was a girl.
Speaker 1: Wow, this is only a skill that I've lent in
Speaker 1: the last year. I fully because it's just says a skill,
Speaker 1: it's an affliction. You're a victim. So okay, I'll just
Speaker 1: let you talk. No, I can read it again. Are
Speaker 1: you sure you can?
Speaker 3: Aka?
Speaker 4: You gotta put your listening ears on. Comprehension hats on.
Speaker 4: To preface this, I don't have an Instagram anymore, but
Speaker 4: I search on my sister's account for my friend and
Speaker 4: I came across another person who's been in her pictures.
Speaker 4: Do you comprehend? Yep, So she goes to her friend's profiles.
Speaker 4: She sees multiple pickies of her friend with another person,
Speaker 4: a new friend. But her friend's been saying she's too
Speaker 4: busy to hang out. Generally, it's come back to you.
Speaker 3: I was thinking of the Banuffi song Tis Tennis Fan,
Speaker 3: and it's all about how she wants to hang out
Speaker 3: with her friend, but her friend is not inbining her.
Speaker 3: It's a great song that sucks. So this person wants
Speaker 3: to know does she confront does does this person.
Speaker 4: Confront their friend about this thing this situation, even though
Speaker 4: this person's essentially stalking friend and this person is a guy.
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts?
Speaker 3: Rooms rove a let it go and b they might
Speaker 3: be in a relationship.
Speaker 1: So settle down. You gotta let it go.
Speaker 3: You gotta let it go with give it one more chance.
Speaker 3: I've got a friend who have recently reunited with. We're
Speaker 3: besties and we fell out. We hung out of the day.
Speaker 3: It was like nothing changed, amazing, but we needed six
Speaker 3: months separation, no chatting, some animosity on both sides. Then
Speaker 3: drop it as soon as you together. You need space.
Speaker 1: Do you know what?
Speaker 4: I thought you were gonna lose me, But I'm actually
Speaker 4: with you on this one. I feel like we have
Speaker 4: conflated open communication with talking too much.
Speaker 1: Shout up as seeing by this show. Okay, honestly I'm struggling.
Speaker 4: Not everything has to be an open conversation because I
Speaker 4: feel like a lot of the times we assume that
Speaker 4: the way we see a situation is the way that
Speaker 4: it is, and often it's not.
Speaker 1: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: In this instance, what you're seeing is what is happening.
Speaker 4: Your friend is saying she's too easy to hang out
Speaker 4: with you, yet they're making time hand with someone else.
Speaker 1: Should they want to up with you? It's not a
Speaker 1: good love.
Speaker 4: And you don't want to sit there and have them
Speaker 4: convince you otherwise, because you know you reality, know your truth.
Speaker 1: I think you need to sit with it.
Speaker 4: Give this person time to shop for you in the
Speaker 4: way that you need based on what they would naturally
Speaker 4: do if you're not.
Speaker 1: Front of mine.
Speaker 4: Unfortunately, that's not your role at the moment, and it's
Speaker 4: about how can you handle that, because there's something really
Speaker 4: frustrating about telling someone how to treat you again and
Speaker 4: again and again and again. They already know you want
Speaker 4: to hang out, they already know you want to see
Speaker 4: each other.
Speaker 1: They're being like, too busy, too busy, too busy, too busy.
Speaker 4: You're not a priority, and it's not hot and it's
Speaker 4: not sexy, and I wish you some better connections. But
Speaker 4: in this instance, save your self the potential heartbreak of
Speaker 4: trying to seek answers that they're going to cause you pain.
Speaker 1: My feeling's hurt for you, but you will recover.
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