Speaker 1: The flexen Frooms Daily Podcast.
Speaker 2: It is Flex and Frooms Podcast Edition, which is my favorite.
Speaker 2: Love a live show, but I love speaking at length
Speaker 2: about stuff. No gaps for breathing, no filler or killer.
Speaker 3: Let's get into it. Flex and Frooms.
Speaker 2: Today, like any other day, I have a moral dilemma
Speaker 2: for you. This one, in particular, is from our segment
Speaker 2: that we call am I the Asshole? Stolen from Reddit.
Speaker 2: I Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's give credit where it's due.
Speaker 2: This is an amazing concept, transcends decades, transcends generations. It's
Speaker 2: amazing stuff. If the dinosaurs were alive right now, they
Speaker 2: too would love it.
Speaker 3: I agree.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing, am I. The assholes are often
Speaker 2: people asking about like relationship dilemmas, and they're usually quite silly.
Speaker 2: But what I find is that there usually clearly is
Speaker 2: an asshole of the situation. This one, though, I'm not
Speaker 2: so sure there is. So put on your thinking caps,
Speaker 2: make sure they stay on and never take them off,
Speaker 2: and listen to this. Am I the asshole for walking
Speaker 2: out of a restaurant because my girlfriend ordered spaghetti off
Speaker 2: the dome. I'm gonna say, no.
Speaker 3: You're not an asshole? Yeah no, why.
Speaker 2: I'm just going with my gut.
Speaker 3: What would you say? Yes?
Speaker 2: Asshole?
Speaker 1: Grating asshole.
Speaker 2: I twenty five year old male, am dating a woman
Speaker 2: twenty four called Ali. We moved them together five months ago,
Speaker 2: and I really love her a lot. That confuses me. Hell,
Speaker 2: you've been dating for because I've got a five months?
Speaker 2: Is that we've been together five years?
Speaker 3: Who knows?
Speaker 2: Anyway? Alie just doesn't have great table manners. She eats
Speaker 2: noisily and sloppily.
Speaker 3: Sounds like you.
Speaker 2: I this is not me, This is not me. In
Speaker 2: a restaurant environment, usually this isn't too bad because natural
Speaker 2: ambient sound in a quiet room, it's much more noticeable.
Speaker 2: I don't exactly like it, but usually I can tolerate it. However,
Speaker 2: when Ali eats pasta, she slurps her noodles so loudly
Speaker 2: that people from other tables look. It's completely mortifying to
Speaker 2: hear people murmur about her loud slurping all the time.
Speaker 2: I know this might be normal into some other cultures,
Speaker 2: but from where I'm from in the US, it looks
Speaker 2: really uncultured and bothers some people who are more sensitive
Speaker 2: to sounds. I've tried to teach her how to use
Speaker 2: a spoon to spin the pasta into a ball. Nope,
Speaker 2: she doesn't want to. I've tried to ask her to
Speaker 2: take smaller bites. Nope, that's how she eats pasta, and
Speaker 2: that's how she'll always eat pasta. We've been to a
Speaker 2: local Italian restaurant half a dozen times, and each time
Speaker 2: but one, in a basically empty restaurant, she humiliated me
Speaker 2: with her loud, slurpy eating. I know I shouldn't care
Speaker 2: what other people think, but I agree with the patrons.
Speaker 2: It's disgusting people are trying to enjoy a meal. I
Speaker 2: finally get fresh traded one day and told her that
Speaker 2: I wouldn't eat noodles with her in public anymore. She
Speaker 2: can eat alone, or she can go with friends. I'll
Speaker 2: happily drive her to the restaurant, but I will not
Speaker 2: sit down with her. She kind of blew off my
Speaker 2: message with a oh, yeah, you're so perfect. So I
Speaker 2: get it, and I thought that was that. Last night, though,
Speaker 2: Ali really wanted to go to our local Italian place
Speaker 2: again and I asked her she'd be ordering spaghetti. She
Speaker 2: rolled her eyes and said she get the lasagna. I
Speaker 2: agreed that was fine, and we went out for the
Speaker 2: first time in a while. When the waitress came to
Speaker 2: take our order, Ali completely went back on her promise
Speaker 2: and ordered spaghetti.
Speaker 3: Sheok geez.
Speaker 2: I told the waitress I wouldn't be needing anything, stood
Speaker 2: up and walked to our car. I relaxed in the car,
Speaker 2: listening to a podcast until Ali came out a while later.
Speaker 2: She staty it all over her face and started giving
Speaker 2: me the silent treatment. When we got home, she yelled
Speaker 2: at me about embarrassing her, would not let me say
Speaker 2: a single word without shrieking over me, and said that
Speaker 2: she's only interested in an apology. I refused, and she
Speaker 2: went to another room to loudly talk shit about me
Speaker 2: to herself, intentionally so I could hear her. I don't
Speaker 2: know if I went too far. There's somebody living in
Speaker 2: the walls. That's who she was talking to. Did Alan
Speaker 2: take it too far? Who's in the wrong for me?
Speaker 2: Please lay down the law.
Speaker 1: You know what, In an average situation, I would be
Speaker 1: on Alie's side. You should not be lectured by this
Speaker 1: man on spaghetti eating etiquette.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeap. However, she lied to his face.
Speaker 1: She said, I'm getting lasagna, and then to backtrack and
Speaker 1: throw that back in his face with a spaghetti order
Speaker 1: in front of a waitress or waiter no less is
Speaker 1: the absolute height of assholeness. Yeah, I think she is
Speaker 1: the asshole, and I think she does not deserve that spaghetti,
Speaker 1: and I think they should break up.
Speaker 3: What do you think.
Speaker 2: Always break up? Here's the thing. I have been the
Speaker 2: Allen in a relationship before. What did you do in
Speaker 2: the sense.
Speaker 1: Where I need specifics? Great or we can do specifics.
Speaker 2: My issue is I think people should be comfortable, but
Speaker 2: then when your comfort starts to infringe on somebody else's comfort,
Speaker 2: we both got to make adjustments. And so I've dated
Speaker 2: a really sloppy eater. I think, and I'm going to overgeneralize,
Speaker 2: I think men are historically sloppy eaters. But that's neither
Speaker 2: here nor there. I grew up with brothers. I've seen it.
Speaker 2: I've seen the worst of it. I've been in the trenches.
Speaker 2: But in this instance, it was sloppy eating at home.
Speaker 2: I can understand sloppy eating in public, not in public
Speaker 2: in your office with your people. In a restaurant, you're
Speaker 2: making a scene. You've got food on your face, food
Speaker 2: on the table. It's gross.
Speaker 3: Giving me bum tingles.
Speaker 2: And it's very immature. I can understand as somebody who's
Speaker 2: really aware of the off dis If somebody is enjoying themselves,
Speaker 2: let them enjoy themselves. Ali's not hurting anyone but being
Speaker 2: a messy eater. But she is now hurting her boyfriend,
Speaker 2: and she's being very dismissive of how he feels about
Speaker 2: her eating. You can't expect to give a grown person
Speaker 2: directions on how they should eat. It's gonna go down. Well,
Speaker 2: what do you think is happening here, babe? So for
Speaker 2: the first time in am I the asshole flex and
Speaker 2: Rooms history, I think I'm gonna crown it. Everybody there sucks.
Speaker 2: They both suck. As someone who's been the Allen, I
Speaker 2: recognize it's shitty behavior. It's mean. It's mean, it's mean.
Speaker 2: Let people breathe. They're eating. People already have weird relationships
Speaker 2: with eating and food. They I need the extra layer
Speaker 2: of insecurity with you being like it's greats.
Speaker 1: You're sloppy, flex and Rooms.
Speaker 2: I want you to imagine that you've walked into your
Speaker 2: home after a long day at work. Gosh, the shoes
Speaker 2: have come off, the bag goes down.
Speaker 3: I've listened to flex al day. Yes, yes, actly.
Speaker 2: Ear.
Speaker 1: Now you go to your fridge to pull out a
Speaker 1: cool beverage, but you accidentally open up your freezer and
Speaker 1: what do you see? A penguin? What do you do?
Speaker 3: WHOA, yeah, I'm jumping for joy? Really yeah, they're so cute.
Speaker 2: A penguin in your seat? Like, think about it, right,
Speaker 2: you open up your freezer and expect everything there to
Speaker 2: be Number one lifeless, number two probably of like the
Speaker 2: sweet variety. You see a penguin, think realistically, what are
Speaker 2: your next steps?
Speaker 3: Is it dead or alive? That's what I mean? What
Speaker 3: would you prefer? I prefer it to be alive.
Speaker 1: Great, so it's a live What are you doing there chillin'?
Speaker 1: It's pingu I love pingo.
Speaker 2: Okay, here's my thing.
Speaker 3: I love that we don't even need to go into that.
Speaker 3: Not interested in my take?
Speaker 2: No, I know, I get you, I get you. But
Speaker 2: here's my thing. I have this sneaking suspicion that the
Speaker 2: best way to get to know someone is to see
Speaker 2: how they answer really bizarre and often mundane questions.
Speaker 3: How does that work?
Speaker 2: Well, you just see how their brain works. I think
Speaker 2: that if you ask somebody a question, that they've been
Speaker 2: trained on, Like, you know, what's your biggest weakness?
Speaker 3: A care too much? Shut I'm too much?
Speaker 2: If you won the lotto, what would you do? Definitely
Speaker 2: split it evenly with my family.
Speaker 3: Shut up.
Speaker 2: But people who coach themselves, they've media trained themselves to
Speaker 2: answer those things in a certain way that'll give you
Speaker 2: the impression that they're a good person. Ask them something nonsensical.
Speaker 2: You just get to know them.
Speaker 3: What's your What would you do if there's a peguan
Speaker 3: in your fridge?
Speaker 2: Call Grace immediately?
Speaker 3: You're bestie?
Speaker 2: Yeah, or Sally? I would call a friend. The first
Speaker 2: thing I do is call a friend. I'm not dealing
Speaker 2: with this alone. You think I want to deal with
Speaker 2: this alone. No, everybody suffers because I don't know what
Speaker 2: to do. Do you call the RSPCA, the CSIRO Taronga Zoo?
Speaker 3: It's actually Taronga Sanctuary? Is it?
Speaker 2: Is that for optics though, because they don't want to
Speaker 2: be there, that want to be there. You can't want
Speaker 2: a sanctuary to make yourself feel better. We know what's
Speaker 2: happening there. They're trapped, are they not?
Speaker 3: It's kind of how I feel in this room.
Speaker 1: They're trapped.
Speaker 2: Tell me how you feel about Look that says so
Speaker 2: much about you. I will reserve my judgment.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: The next time you find yourself on a random date
Speaker 2: meeting a new person for the very first time, resist
Speaker 2: the urge to ask them how they are or what
Speaker 2: they do for work. Instead, ask them what they would
Speaker 2: do if they walked home or in to home after
Speaker 2: a long day of work and found a penguin in
Speaker 2: their freezer.
Speaker 3: All right, it's on the list. It's on the bloody list.
Speaker 1: This is flex and frooms.
Speaker 2: I don't want to give people a really clear picture
Speaker 2: of what the apocalypse. I think it's up to creative interpretation.
Speaker 2: But I will say a very common part of everybody's
Speaker 2: apocalypse is shortages when you are unable to access stuff.
Speaker 2: It's an apocalypse this year alone in Australia, predominantly how
Speaker 2: many syllables are predominantly too many. There's been a chicken shortage,
Speaker 2: a fuel shortage, a lettuce shortage.
Speaker 3: A cabbage shortage, a.
Speaker 2: Cabbage shortage, a used car shortage. But the one that's
Speaker 2: really affected me on a personal level is the PS
Speaker 2: five shortage.
Speaker 1: Heavy PlayStation five shortage.
Speaker 3: When did the PlayStation five first come out?
Speaker 2: Twenty nineteen November twenty nineteen. That was a long time ago.
Speaker 2: And when it was launched, it was in a shortage.
Speaker 2: And here's the thing. You might be thinking, Oh, it's
Speaker 2: just popular, like everybody wants a PS five and so like, No,
Speaker 2: that's not what's happening here. Literally because of the C
Speaker 2: word COVID. I don't know, because of COVID or COVID
Speaker 2: literally is the reason why I can't get a PS five.
Speaker 2: Let me draw the link for you. So because of COVID, right,
Speaker 2: there was this sudden increase in people wanting to access
Speaker 2: technological goods. And if we want to clarify it or
Speaker 2: be more particular, it's not necessarily a PS five shortage.
Speaker 2: But there's a particular chip in the PS five that
Speaker 2: is used in a lot of cars, laptops, and other
Speaker 2: various cabbage electronic equipment, exactly electro cabbages. So what has
Speaker 2: happened is when COVID hit, production had to halt because
Speaker 2: you know, those resources had to be moved. Things got expensive.
Speaker 2: There are no people in the power plants to make
Speaker 2: the stuff that makes the chip that.
Speaker 3: Makes the homie was out.
Speaker 2: Apparently a bunch of techno retailers I think that's something.
Speaker 2: Were told that there would be a chip shortage, and
Speaker 2: so people at Toyota they stocked up. They had four
Speaker 2: months worth of chip because remember we thought COVID was
Speaker 2: two weeks remember that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was fun.
Speaker 2: That's foreboding. So here's the thing. Because there's a chip shortage,
Speaker 2: it means it's a PS five shortage. And then because
Speaker 2: of how scarce the PS fives are, they're scalpers who
Speaker 2: are buying all the PS fives and then reselling them
Speaker 2: at a higher price. What's the retail the RP RRP
Speaker 2: R the recommended retail price. It's already like one, one two,
Speaker 2: like twelve hundred bucks.
Speaker 3: It's not a cheapy cheap.
Speaker 2: And you can get a digital only PS five that's
Speaker 2: like six seven hundred dollars or whatever. But to pay
Speaker 2: resale maybe like two k crazy.
Speaker 3: Just use the what's that one? You use Nintendo site switch?
Speaker 3: Just get on us.
Speaker 2: It's not comparable. But thank you for that suggestion. It
Speaker 2: was entirely unhelpful. What I want to say, and I
Speaker 2: want everyone to listen closely, the true sign of an
Speaker 2: apocalypse is when you can't easily buy mass produced items.
Speaker 2: It shouldn't be like this in one year alone. I
Speaker 2: can't eat the food I want to eat. I can't
Speaker 2: go to places I want to go, I can't play
Speaker 2: the games I want to play. And the worst thing
Speaker 2: of it all is there's no end in sight.
Speaker 3: Oh, I don't think that's true.
Speaker 1: You know what, We've got a lolly joone in front
Speaker 1: of us. Yeah, that's the best thing that could ever happen.
Speaker 3: And I'm happy.
Speaker 2: This is flex and frooms as a giggly girl and
Speaker 2: a smiley talker. Do you know what a smiley talker is?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're doing it right now.
Speaker 2: We're doing it right now. People don't think that I'm
Speaker 2: angry when I am. It's all a performance. To me,
Speaker 2: it's a facade. How do you react when you're angry?
Speaker 2: I want to know, be honest with me. If I
Speaker 2: pissed you off, how would you react?
Speaker 3: So my natural born state is agro.
Speaker 2: I don't believe that.
Speaker 1: No, I swear I used to have the worst road rage.
Speaker 1: Really literally get out of the car and knock on windows.
Speaker 3: Is this a bit?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Twenty thirteen era? Just got my lasses? What I know
Speaker 1: I used to have. I genuinely have anger issues that
Speaker 1: I've had to quell.
Speaker 2: You do such a good job of it, because I'm
Speaker 2: sure people think I have anger issues. I'm a chill driver.
Speaker 2: I'm like, it's fine, Like we're going the same place.
Speaker 2: Somebody beeps. I'm like, wait, babe, relax.
Speaker 3: I see it was a really bad driver.
Speaker 2: No, I'm a really good driver.
Speaker 3: Really yeah.
Speaker 2: I got my license late, so I'm an adult who
Speaker 2: learned how to drive. The reason why I couldn't get
Speaker 2: my license when I was little, I was like too
Speaker 2: scatter brained, really looking all over the place, like what's that?
Speaker 3: What's that? What's up?
Speaker 1: What's that?
Speaker 2: Anyway, I'm a stone waller when I'm angry. After I
Speaker 2: do the healthy communication thing. If I've tried to be
Speaker 2: a sensible person, it's not hitting stone walling. I'm an ice.
Speaker 2: You out, you don't exist to me ever. Ignored dead
Speaker 2: dead dead. And I found out that ignoring someone on
Speaker 2: a physiological level hurts the same as being physically injured. Whoa.
Speaker 2: And it's really odd because as a Grade A premium ignorer,
Speaker 2: I'm rarely ignored, and so I don't actually know what
Speaker 2: that feels. But on a small scale, when someone's.
Speaker 3: Ignoring me, and it hits.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm like, oh, I get it.
Speaker 3: And this is the thing.
Speaker 1: I feel like, if you are someone that ignores people,
Speaker 1: You're right, people don't ignore you. It's like the whole
Speaker 1: thing where if you're someone who speaks shortly, you don't
Speaker 1: use many words. People listen, Yeah, gives you Artisian vibes.
Speaker 1: What's artesian or artisanal?
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm so glad I didn't let that one go Artsian.
Speaker 3: Artisanal. It's not artisanal, it's artesian. I'm being serious.
Speaker 2: I see I can't tell if it's a bit anymore.
Speaker 3: I can't tell.
Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing. The next time you want to
Speaker 2: ignore someone, just hit them.
Speaker 3: Which I'm not condone violent.
Speaker 2: I was practicing my own comedy. No, but just keep
Speaker 2: in mind that if you think ignoring someone is like
Speaker 2: the healthy way out or the more mature way out,
Speaker 2: it really isn't. For the person who's on the receiving end.
Speaker 2: Just to wrap it up in a healthy way.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, learning you're listening to Flex and Frooms on CADA.
Speaker 1: Clowns are cool, but there was a time when clowns
Speaker 1: overran the world. Really cast your mind back twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: What were you doing at that time.
Speaker 2: Twenty sixteen was two four six years ago. If I'm
Speaker 2: telling the truth, six years ago, I was twenty two.
Speaker 2: If I'm lying, I was eighteen, which meant that I
Speaker 2: was somewhere in between dropping out of UNI true.
Speaker 3: How this.
Speaker 2: Huh? No free press?
Speaker 3: You know this? I said, clown college. No free press too.
Speaker 1: God's well. Twenty sixteen was a very interesting time because
Speaker 1: it was a time when the world had clown mania.
Speaker 1: A guy in the US, I want to say, Massachusetts, Massachusetts.
Speaker 3: How else do you say it?
Speaker 2: How you said it? It's fine? Now?
Speaker 3: Can you actually tell me Massachusetts? Yeah, that's what I said.
Speaker 1: It's got an extra tea Massachusetts anyway, Massachusetts. A man
Speaker 1: in Massachusetts was like, I'm going to put on a
Speaker 1: clown costume and start terrorizing the neighborhood, running through the
Speaker 1: woods and quite like a little virus that we've been
Speaker 1: dealing with for the last two years.
Speaker 3: It took off.
Speaker 2: Wait when you say terrorized in this petty crime like
Speaker 2: yelling at bus stops. Ah, you know, loitering.
Speaker 1: Look, I don't remember the specifics, but basically all around
Speaker 1: Australia we started having these clown sightings at a s mcnonal's.
Speaker 3: Yes, fast food restaurant.
Speaker 1: Yes, this guy in a clown costume came up and
Speaker 1: knocked on the window of two young fifteen year old girls.
Speaker 3: With an axe.
Speaker 1: Yep, really as you know, pretending to be a clown.
Speaker 1: And this went on and on at the time. Actually,
Speaker 1: I was a radio show presenter and somebody called up
Speaker 1: and said, I'm on Frankston Pierre, I'm a clown and
Speaker 1: I'm going around terrorizing people. And we had to just
Speaker 1: listen to that call. I couldn't call the authorities.
Speaker 2: Zobatim. That's what they said, I'm here terrorizing people. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's not paraphrased. That's what they called in to tell you.
Speaker 2: The scary bit is not that they were just clowns
Speaker 2: dressed up as clowns in public spaces. They were intending
Speaker 2: to harm while wearing the clown costume.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they were being the clown archetype villain.
Speaker 2: And the Australian clowns got their blueprint from the American clown.
Speaker 3: It wasn't just in America, it was around the world.
Speaker 2: It was like a viral, a worldwide thing. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: I just missed it. I don't know what you were doing.
Speaker 2: This is very up your alley. This is a question
Speaker 2: we must post to the world. Where were you when
Speaker 2: the clowns were terrorized people? Because I blacked out.
Speaker 1: That's because you.
Speaker 2: It's either you were being terrorized or you were the clown.
Speaker 2: Two types of people. Pick one. I don't recall any
Speaker 2: of this happening. And either way, whether it's me pretending
Speaker 2: that I was either eighteen when it happened or twenty two,
Speaker 2: I was on the Internet. I was on Twitter, I
Speaker 2: was on Facebook, BBO, Reddit, Instagram.
Speaker 3: You don't need to explain it to me. It's okay
Speaker 3: that you were a clown.
Speaker 1: I say it for you like you have all of
Speaker 1: the like necessary things that you need to do.
Speaker 2: If it's clown or be clowned, I'm clowning for sure.
Speaker 2: I also know that if the purge happened, I'm participating.
Speaker 3: It always comes back to that.
Speaker 1: But in the current moment, clowns are having resurgence, high
Speaker 1: fashion clowns, though not the clowns that are terrorizing the
Speaker 1: young children of Muei, but rather Jewel Leaper.
Speaker 2: Jewel Leaper, I think this was Adua Leaper.
Speaker 1: Yeah, did a song recently and the film clip don't
Speaker 1: ask me what song was? Was her like a clown
Speaker 1: cowboy going around on a horse, putting a finger between
Speaker 1: her lips, being quite salacious if I do say so myself.
Speaker 1: But yeah, clown's like a cool sexy thing. You see
Speaker 1: all the clown filters on Instagram and like the whole
Speaker 1: rhetoric around, Oh I'm a clown, the clown emoji.
Speaker 3: They're having a moment.
Speaker 2: This sounds like when fifty year olds ask their kids
Speaker 2: what's cool. The kids be facetious back, and then the
Speaker 2: parents take it at face value. They go into their parents'
Speaker 2: meetings and talk about what the kids like clowns. They say,
Speaker 2: that's me. I'm happy to be doodly do. I don't
Speaker 2: be a devil's advocate, but I think the cultural significance
Speaker 2: of clowns, damn well, I'm more for it.
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