Speaker 1: Peter Flex and Frooms, Flex and Frooms.
Speaker 2: This is the Flex and Frooms catch up podcast. Lexi
Speaker 2: and I went to a redacted music festival recently. We
Speaker 2: both got violently ill, which we found out was later
Speaker 2: a festival wirde situation. It was a flu type behavior
Speaker 2: that had us knocked about for a full week out
Speaker 2: of office and therefore out of money in some respects
Speaker 2: loss of income.
Speaker 1: Loss of income what's file for?
Speaker 2: Definitely there Anyway, I wanted to figure out how to
Speaker 2: be better in the moshpe because we saw some crazy
Speaker 2: behavior Monday last week on our potty we spoke about
Speaker 2: if you want to go back and listen, but we
Speaker 2: have a voice note from a listener called Harrison, please
Speaker 2: Mickey play the tape.
Speaker 3: Last Tuesday, I was in the mosh to see Wizzo
Speaker 3: when a full blown argument happens right before the opening performance.
Speaker 3: To our left to a four moms and the group
Speaker 3: of children, literal children so small I couldn't even see them.
Speaker 3: So there's a girl, let's call her Trish to make
Speaker 3: this easy to follow. She's trying to weave between people
Speaker 3: to get as close as she can, not aggressively. One
Speaker 3: mom taps Trisha on the shoulder and scolds her, saying
Speaker 3: something along the lines of I've seen you trying to
Speaker 3: push your way through for some time. Now, we have
Speaker 3: children who are only eleven. I understand the mosh can
Speaker 3: be rough, but stop. They are eleven and you need
Speaker 3: to consider them. Then Mom number two gets called over,
Speaker 3: who didn't even see what happened, gets mad, starts putting
Speaker 3: her finger right in Trisha's face, swears at her, and
Speaker 3: then threatens to hurt her if she comes close to
Speaker 3: her kid again. But that's not it. After the opening act,
Speaker 3: the mom from before taps on my friend's shoulder and
Speaker 3: tells us she's noticed that we've moved closer to the front,
Speaker 3: which isn't even near her kid's mind you and then
Speaker 3: police is how we are standing as if she works
Speaker 3: for Rod Labor himself. At the My Chemical Romance concert,
Speaker 3: my nipple piecing almost got ripped out and I had
Speaker 3: to throw out my white shirt from bloodstains. So Mickey
Speaker 3: flex and firms. My question is do you think there
Speaker 3: should be an age limit in the marsh?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: And do you think that you are allowed to police
Speaker 3: the marsh if you don't work there?
Speaker 1: Just like this, mother did this is maym storyteller, storyteller.
Speaker 2: I've been grinning eaty at this story. Your storytelling is honestly.
Speaker 1: What I will say is that in the mush pit,
Speaker 1: it's definitely one of those situations. If okay. What I
Speaker 1: will say is that mush pits are definitely akin to
Speaker 1: if you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen.
Speaker 1: It really is. You know what's going to go down
Speaker 1: in there. It's lawless behavior. It's meant to be enthusiastic,
Speaker 1: high energy, anything to get closer to this person that
Speaker 1: you adore by any means necessary. Unfortunately, that does involve
Speaker 1: touching strangers and people getting in front of you, and
Speaker 1: that six foot five guy that happens to be in
Speaker 1: front of you at all times, and that girl with
Speaker 1: the big hair who won't flicking it near your face
Speaker 1: all part of the game. What I will say, though,
Speaker 1: is that there should I don't think there needs to
Speaker 1: be a cap or an age limit in the mosh pit,
Speaker 1: but I will say, on the extreme ends on either
Speaker 1: side of age, get them out, because what happens when
Speaker 1: you're on the really young end of the spectrum, you're
Speaker 1: new here, you don't know how hectic and can get
Speaker 1: and people aren't going to assume responsibility over you just
Speaker 1: because you're young. And then if you're on the older
Speaker 1: end of the spectrum, I don't mean that you don't
Speaker 1: have the physical capacity to be there. I mean that
Speaker 1: you're far more prickly. I know that I the older
Speaker 1: I get, am far more prickly in the moshpit. I
Speaker 1: got to check myself a lot of the time. You know,
Speaker 1: Like at this festival that we were at, what would
Speaker 1: happen is that we would end up in a walkway,
Speaker 1: and I want it to be closer, like in the crowd, shielded.
Speaker 1: So I wasn't like having to deal with people excuse me,
Speaker 1: excuse me? Can I get through? Can I get through?
Speaker 1: Either way? Mosh Pit etiquette is anything for fun, anything
Speaker 1: for fun. That is the etiquette. We're here to enjoy.
Speaker 1: If you think or you find that someone else's enjoyment
Speaker 1: is infringing on your enjoyment, you have to go. You
Speaker 1: have to go. I've learned my lesson the hard way.
Speaker 1: Some of my favorite mush pit experiences have been soured
Speaker 1: by people getting annoyed at me for having too much fun.
Speaker 1: Shut up, it's not nice. Just be sorry to you,
Speaker 1: and I'll fight you, so don't try it.
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