Speaker 1: Flex and Frooms, Flex and Frooms.
Speaker 2: This is the Flex and Frooms catch up podcast.
Speaker 3: Guess what, guys, Oh, it's my birthday.
Speaker 2: No it isn't.
Speaker 1: And if you listen to this, it's too late to
Speaker 1: say happy birthday.
Speaker 4: Oh I think give them Give them one week buffer
Speaker 4: to be fair, one week buffer, Give them one week buffer.
Speaker 3: I'm not a fan of the this is my birthday post?
Speaker 3: I can I have done one in twenty twenty?
Speaker 4: Why can I can? I? Do you prefer the spotlight
Speaker 4: you've earned? I let you ask for.
Speaker 3: Never something druer, truer, rather being uttered in podcast form.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 3: And yet this is the this is the daily grapple
Speaker 3: that I have with Cater because I'm just out here talking.
Speaker 1: And talking and talking.
Speaker 2: And I'm talking and what do you want in exchange?
Speaker 1: I want?
Speaker 3: I want to make something that changes the world finally,
Speaker 3: and yet here I am not trying hard enough. So
Speaker 3: twenty twenty three, let's see what happens to folks.
Speaker 2: Big task. You want to change the world.
Speaker 3: I actually don't care about that, but you know, I
Speaker 3: want to like push myself. Like you say, you find
Speaker 3: it quite easy to talk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, so you want to do something outside your
Speaker 2: comfort zone.
Speaker 4: It's like when people say, like, I'm looking for that feeling,
Speaker 4: like you know, when you're like a little bit scared,
Speaker 4: that's something.
Speaker 2: I'm like, No, that's not what I'm looking for.
Speaker 4: I'm looking for the things that I do every day
Speaker 4: to be at a bare minimum easy, simple, enjoyable, create.
Speaker 4: You know, all these things are like just natural extensions.
Speaker 4: When I feel like that one like like rigidity or
Speaker 4: like friction. Before, I was like, yeah, this is sick,
Speaker 4: like we're pushing against the current. Now I'm going with
Speaker 4: the current. The current's taking me to bed at seven pm.
Speaker 4: That's where I'm going.
Speaker 1: Yeah, half half yeah.
Speaker 2: But happy birthday, babe, thank you.
Speaker 3: It's Fremy's day.
Speaker 2: It's actually Freemy's month.
Speaker 4: Yes, you're both at the start of the month, like
Speaker 4: it's your whole month, babe, and we should celebrate every day.
Speaker 1: And it's just in the cusp of leaving summer. It's
Speaker 1: a nice off.
Speaker 3: It's just close enough to the start of the year
Speaker 3: for it to not be roped in with Christmas and
Speaker 3: New Years. So I just really love it. What do
Speaker 3: you want this year of your life to be? I
Speaker 3: want this year of my life to be the same
Speaker 3: as last year, which is happy, fun, lots of socializing.
Speaker 3: I think I want to be a bit more routine. Hi. Yeah,
Speaker 3: twenty twenty two was a fucking free for all. Let's
Speaker 3: be honest, and it worked out.
Speaker 1: It did it did? Let's go he again? Yeah, happy
Speaker 1: birthday to me again?
Speaker 3: Yeah, cat Flex and froomes. You're listening to Flex and Frooms.
Speaker 2: What the frick sitting in front of me?
Speaker 4: Is a precious gem, a quirky redacted, a sensational young woman.
Speaker 4: It is Lucinda Froom's price government name, and it is
Speaker 4: objectively the best day of the month, her birthday.
Speaker 1: Fan fair.
Speaker 3: Let's art Okay, let's cut into claps and now let's
Speaker 3: cut in. Tomorrow is going to be the fourth of March. Booze,
Speaker 3: am I hot? Would you say that this year I'm
Speaker 3: going to find the love of my life?
Speaker 2: It's a what?
Speaker 3: And finally, am I a beautiful birthday girl?
Speaker 2: Do that from hot? Am I going to find the
Speaker 2: love of my life?
Speaker 3: To?
Speaker 4: Am I a beautiful birthday girl? Is there anything else
Speaker 4: is on your mind?
Speaker 1: I don't care about what's your love?
Speaker 3: Listen the girlies? Ok. I will confirm it was a girly,
Speaker 3: wasn't it It was you brook Yet again the manual labor
Speaker 3: falling on Brookie out producer with no thanks.
Speaker 2: International Women's they all over again.
Speaker 3: Say it'll say you guys, got me a cake? I
Speaker 3: specified I want a cake from bread top. I have
Speaker 3: been known to on my birthdays ask my mum for
Speaker 3: a cake from Dairy Bell. Stand up my Melbourne brethren
Speaker 3: and they would have these barbie cakes, one for myself,
Speaker 3: one for the rest of the family. Naturally, Oh goodey chocolate.
Speaker 2: It seems like.
Speaker 3: Well, obviously budgets were tired. Okay, let's have a look
Speaker 3: at my cake. I haven't seen it yet.
Speaker 4: Got that is so cute, doggy. Oh that's perfect. Good job, Rookie,
Speaker 4: that's so cute.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, we're flavory chocolate.
Speaker 2: Gorge chocolate.
Speaker 4: Is this a good time to talk about the elephant
Speaker 4: in the room?
Speaker 2: How old is thy? Turning?
Speaker 3: Okay? Well, after months of speculation and various articles.
Speaker 4: A few submissions on famous birthdays, have they gone through?
Speaker 2: Not sure, but we'll molle checking in.
Speaker 3: Net Worth waiting age or contenter topics. I am not,
Speaker 3: in fact turning twenty five. It's hard to boot track
Speaker 3: ageism is real, and it's time that I finally came
Speaker 3: forth and said came out. Low blow. It's another episode.
Speaker 3: I'm twenty eight. Okay for all the people on YouTube
Speaker 3: and TikTok, but don't know me that say I can't
Speaker 3: look out if she's twenty or sixty. This is the
Speaker 3: definitive ends not wrong for that.
Speaker 2: They're not wrong for that.
Speaker 3: I'm turning twenty eight and there's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 1: I'm in my prime.
Speaker 3: The eggs are egging, the baps are bapping up, and
Speaker 3: it's just a great time to be alive with you, Flex,
Speaker 3: Thank you for making the last year interesting.
Speaker 1: We've had some up togethers.
Speaker 3: What it takes me the best year of my life. But
Speaker 3: it's been interesting.
Speaker 2: Why do just feel like we're doing vows? It's just
Speaker 2: your birthday ing.
Speaker 3: Vows from a couple that can't I hate each other.
Speaker 2: It's been interesting. We've been through ups and downs. My
Speaker 2: silly little month's day, right, Can I kill you sometime?
Speaker 3: This is flex and frooms on FLEXI.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about love.
Speaker 3: Thank goodness, it's my birthday and I believe that love
Speaker 3: should be unbound. Yes and bound too, Yeah, get on
Speaker 3: get me on a motorbike, let me get my long
Speaker 3: hair flapping in the wind. Well, Honey, Kanye is Honey's
Speaker 3: talking about how Kanya.
Speaker 2: I don't know if we should do a tangent right now,
Speaker 2: but yeah.
Speaker 3: Is married to a Melbourne now so zipper, So I'll
Speaker 3: say we have mutuals. I actually don't know for you do, okay,
Speaker 3: But she has the same hair as me? Shut up,
Speaker 3: all right? This is a story that I found. I
Speaker 3: can't get meeting my mother in law out of my head.
Speaker 3: Me and my boyfriend have been together for six months
Speaker 3: and I got to meet my partner's parents over dinner.
Speaker 3: Things going well until I started noticing that I had
Speaker 3: a lot of similarities with my mother in law aka
Speaker 3: my boyfriend's mum.
Speaker 2: Premature. But that's okay, it's been six months, so we
Speaker 2: get ahead of ourselves. Mother didn't even know you like that?
Speaker 2: Get off the plane.
Speaker 3: Where's the ring?
Speaker 2: Love?
Speaker 3: I'm talking, same color hair, same eyes. We even had
Speaker 3: the same pair of sandals, same size.
Speaker 1: Babes. Babes is rocking the what are they.
Speaker 3: The stocks with the two little straps.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a bit on my mum and Nat.
Speaker 3: It was uncanny. I put it down to coincidences, until
Speaker 3: her siblings also rocked up and started making jokes about
Speaker 3: the fact that I could literally be her daughter. Wow,
Speaker 3: we've all been there. I can't stop thinking about it,
Speaker 3: to the point where I need to end it with
Speaker 3: him overreacting. I'll just start my saying, have you ever
Speaker 3: dated someone whose mum looked exactly like? No, you're saying
Speaker 3: you don't have red hair, and.
Speaker 2: What should she do?
Speaker 4: This is such a shame, but honestly it should happen
Speaker 4: more often than not, considering what we know about the
Speaker 4: Oedipus complex. Shout out to Freud.
Speaker 1: Cheers King, Look, just means a man has taste.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just means the man likes what he likes, and
Speaker 4: he's been consistent about that. Kaneta, Hurrah. It's actually the
Speaker 4: creepiest thing I've ever heard. But also like you're kind
Speaker 4: of into deep because you sound deranged, you break up
Speaker 4: with it.
Speaker 2: Because of it. It's just a concidence.
Speaker 3: It's I will say. People always say that you go
Speaker 3: for your dad, which like, that's just as sick. Yeah, tall, dark,
Speaker 3: handsome on the fence about that.
Speaker 4: I just don't know if there's much you can do
Speaker 4: in a serious way. I think the only thing you
Speaker 4: can do is start bookmarking. And if you've been in
Speaker 4: a relationship, you know what bookmarking is. It gets to
Speaker 4: the point where you realize not everything can be a
Speaker 4: conversation because you'll be yip yapping, you'll be the town
Speaker 4: nagger and it's not a good place to be. So
Speaker 4: just bookmark these things so you can build a case
Speaker 4: for yourself.
Speaker 1: Record everything, guys, record.
Speaker 4: Everything eventually when it gets to be too odd, because
Speaker 4: right now it's a little bit weird, but it's it's
Speaker 4: a coincidental thing allegedly. I personally don't believe in coincidences,
Speaker 4: but we don't share the same spiritual beliefs.
Speaker 2: If it gets to the point where people.
Speaker 4: Outside of your family are starting to notice, you should
Speaker 4: be concerned. And also I would recommend spending no time
Speaker 4: with the mother in law so you don't converge further.
Speaker 3: Get those sandals and burn them and cut.
Speaker 2: Her out of your life, because it's only gonna get
Speaker 2: worse from here.
Speaker 3: You're gonna fling the sandals off like this. Don't do it, okay,
Speaker 3: Flex and Firms Flex and fromes.
Speaker 4: Cater never miss a beat topic conversation beauty standards. I feel, personally,
Speaker 4: don't get offended. The conversation has been wholly unproductive since
Speaker 4: we started doing discourse on the internet, so twenty ten,
Speaker 4: it very quickly went from acknowledging that beauty standards are
Speaker 4: a concept that exists and affect us negatively and positively
Speaker 4: in so many different ways. Then as we begin to
Speaker 4: mature in our understanding of beauty and aesthetics and optics
Speaker 4: and class and all of these things, the conversation has
Speaker 4: gotten so derivative that people think the solution to the
Speaker 4: negative impacts of beauty standards is to pretend that beauty
Speaker 4: doesn't exist, and it's like you're a layer, or on
Speaker 4: the adverse, to pretend that ugly things don't exist, you're play.
Speaker 2: So I'm on a mission, right.
Speaker 4: I think it's really important that we as a society,
Speaker 4: we as a people, can start to just acknowledge when
Speaker 4: things are beautiful, when things are hot, when things are pretty,
Speaker 4: because everybody knows, like the theory of just the world
Speaker 4: is duality, very black. There's a white for every left,
Speaker 4: there is a right, very up, there is a down.
Speaker 4: Very good, There is a bad for every beautiful, there
Speaker 4: is an ugly point blank period, no amount of posturing.
Speaker 2: It's gonna delete that.
Speaker 4: And so, rather than pretend that beauty standards don't exist,
Speaker 4: let's get more specific about what we personally find to
Speaker 4: be beautiful.
Speaker 3: And therefore pund interject.
Speaker 1: I think I'm going down the right route.
Speaker 2: We're always in the right root. We might get there
Speaker 2: at different times, definitely.
Speaker 3: Always different modes are transfer.
Speaker 4: I'm definitely on a yeah, and then you go for
Speaker 4: get on a segway.
Speaker 3: Fall over and get back on, and then take the
Speaker 3: onto a barge. It's going across a river.
Speaker 1: Okay, one step too far.
Speaker 3: No, I will say that I like the I do
Speaker 3: that there's duality. I don't really think about that much
Speaker 3: in my own life. But then, yeah, I think if
Speaker 3: we tell me if I'm going down the same path,
Speaker 3: if we both in our own minds get very clear
Speaker 3: on what we find beautiful, both in people, in flowers,
Speaker 3: in world generally, and then we think of that complete opposite,
Speaker 3: maybe that offsets this idea that there is one standard
Speaker 3: that we must adhere to.
Speaker 4: Yes, exactly, because I think now people are really challenged
Speaker 4: with this idea of perceiving themselves or the things they
Speaker 4: like is beautiful because all they center is the standard,
Speaker 4: which is arbitrary. There are plenty of standards. That's my point.
Speaker 4: Decide for yourself, what is your standard? Why While understanding
Speaker 4: there is a broader standard, you in your individual, unique
Speaker 4: body get to live such an individual circumstance that it
Speaker 4: makes no sense that you would measure yourself solely on
Speaker 4: this like generic standard. We don't do that with most things.
Speaker 4: Like anyone can acknowledge it, like you're not the smartest
Speaker 4: person generally, but you have interests that will you be
Speaker 4: really smart at right simple you can acknowledge you're not
Speaker 4: the most beautiful person generally, or you don't have the
Speaker 4: most you know, well seasoned approach to aesthetics and can
Speaker 4: still acknowledge that things are beautiful to you.
Speaker 3: Let's just start small.
Speaker 4: Please start small, tanking. Okay, none of this like you know,
Speaker 4: as someone who doesn't fit within the beauty center, shut up,
Speaker 4: shut up. Step number one is a little task for everyone.
Speaker 4: If you feel like you don't fit within the beauty standard,
Speaker 4: go look at any culture besides the one that you
Speaker 4: currently reside in. Get out of the inner West of
Speaker 4: Melbourne or whatever, get out of the North of Brisbane,
Speaker 4: do a Google and figure out where your attributes, the
Speaker 4: one that you are so sure like ostracize you from
Speaker 4: the beauty standard and figure out a culture where that
Speaker 4: shit is hot.
Speaker 2: Start there and then we'll reconvene.
Speaker 3: Go to South Korea. My long nosed brethren, huge. I
Speaker 3: loved it, loved the long nose.
Speaker 1: They were going, Oh.
Speaker 2: Big fans the long night.
Speaker 3: Literally on the train, some girl was like.
Speaker 2: Thinking, she said huge.
Speaker 3: Now she's got huge huge.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, this is flex and frooms.
Speaker 3: You always flex and friends and FLEXI I found myself
Speaker 3: at an airport. Won't name the brand, but it was
Speaker 3: a terminal specifically for this airline, Quantus, and I think
Speaker 3: pretty regular lately. What I was say, I had a
Speaker 3: coffee from Krispy Kreme.
Speaker 2: Gotta say so. You won't say Quantus, but you'll say
Speaker 2: krispy Kreme.
Speaker 1: We've got favorites.
Speaker 3: And I had my coffee in Krispy Kreme, low and behold.
Speaker 3: Had to go to the toilet. I don't want this
Speaker 3: to be graphic, but when I go, I gore and
Speaker 3: I no pooh, no pooh Humor twenty twenty three.
Speaker 4: I'm not talking about dating. I'm not talking about pooh.
Speaker 4: I want to be known as more than the Pooh girl.
Speaker 1: This is important. This is with you anthropological.
Speaker 3: If you will go to the toilet no comment.
Speaker 1: Okay, you know what it does.
Speaker 3: It wasn't nice, and I was playing on my phone
Speaker 3: and then obviously go to wipe.
Speaker 1: Put the phone down.
Speaker 2: On the sanitary.
Speaker 3: Say no more, i'vefore been there anyway, put the phone down, wipe,
Speaker 3: do whatever, rush out because this is a hot zone
Speaker 3: and I need to evacuate. There's a line of people
Speaker 3: obviously to toilet. So I just got out, walked out,
Speaker 3: tried to just pretend nothing happened, wash my hands obviously,
Speaker 3: and left. Why one minute later do I feel a
Speaker 3: tap on my shoulder? Why do I feel a little tapped?
Speaker 3: A woman says, hey, hey, I turn around. I go
Speaker 3: because you left your phone. You know you had to
Speaker 3: rate your poop.
Speaker 2: Excuse me, hi, what you did in there? Really stressful?
Speaker 2: Really stressful.
Speaker 4: I want to say, increase your fiber INTAKEE definitely do that,
Speaker 4: but it's giving seven.
Speaker 2: Why are you on edge?
Speaker 3: I just knew, and I just had to think the woman,
Speaker 3: the strength of this woman to wound that.
Speaker 1: I had to stay in there long enough to.
Speaker 3: See there was an upside down phone, and.
Speaker 4: You know it was your phone too, because you know
Speaker 4: she had clocked you. Her eyes were in your eyes
Speaker 4: when you walked out of that cubicle. She had already
Speaker 4: smelled what was happening before you left that cubicle. She
Speaker 4: was putting smell to faith at that point.
Speaker 3: It was one of the worst experiences and it just
Speaker 3: got me thinking, when you go to the toilet, it's
Speaker 3: a human thing to go to the toilet, So no
Speaker 3: jokes and something happens in more humans justice for humans
Speaker 3: who pooh. And you walk out of the cubicle and
Speaker 3: you've done what you've done, do you apologize? Do you
Speaker 3: not look like do you say, oh, stinks in there
Speaker 3: in a massive shit before I went in there, Like
Speaker 3: I've definitely done this before where I've been like, oh
Speaker 3: it's bad in there, guys, Seriously, the person before.
Speaker 4: Me, don't get in there. It's me and you are
Speaker 4: again to them. Have you got to pick alliances when.
Speaker 2: It comes to that.
Speaker 4: I will say the way that I avoid this and
Speaker 4: I have this like distinct memory of being at I'll
Speaker 4: say an Italian restaurant.
Speaker 2: I'll say that.
Speaker 4: But for some reason, when you go on a Friday,
Speaker 4: people go there as like a pre game for their
Speaker 4: next night, and I usually go there on like a
Speaker 4: week day or whatever. So I'm in the bathroom and
Speaker 4: there's three cubicles. One toilet is broken, does not work,
Speaker 4: one is empty, and then one is the one that
Speaker 4: I am in. Things weren't going well for my bow,
Speaker 4: so you know, different textures coming out. You know you're
Speaker 4: coming out. Is it spicy for Capasta?
Speaker 2: It can be. I do ad chili flakes. I do.
Speaker 4: But what I will say is that the diarrhea was
Speaker 4: so bad that it was just like ongoing and onslaught
Speaker 4: and I didn't want to get up and have to
Speaker 4: come back in because there was going to be a line,
Speaker 4: and so I just stayed there for like forty minutes,
Speaker 4: and I told the personal was that I was like,
Speaker 4: I'm not getting out because there's a line of people
Speaker 4: and I have a recognizable face, as you know.
Speaker 2: I'm like, they can't know what I'm going through.
Speaker 4: So I sat there and people be like, is this
Speaker 4: knock knock knock?
Speaker 1: Is this too broken?
Speaker 4: There's two broken toilets as staff from comes in. No,
Speaker 4: this one was like working. I'm pretty cat open.
Speaker 2: I'm looking They're like, it is it still?
Speaker 4: What is it?
Speaker 2: To stay the course?
Speaker 4: Stay the course until a new batch of people go
Speaker 4: in and out of the restaurant, and then you're safe
Speaker 4: to leave.
Speaker 2: You should have missed your Flat's what you should have done.
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