Speaker 1: Que Flex and Frooms, Flex and Frooms. This is the
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Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for Flexi's Big Question.
Speaker 1: Of the Week.
Speaker 3: We have our segment Flexi's Big Question. I like to
Speaker 3: ask questions, and I like when people answer them. Unfortunately,
Speaker 3: or fortunately, Frumi is the only person who's subject to
Speaker 3: my questions, and I think, with all due informed consents,
Speaker 3: she shouldn't have to ask answer everything I ask.
Speaker 1: That's how much fair? However, she does every time every time.
Speaker 3: We've now outsourced further and gone to our Instagram dms.
Speaker 1: It's Flex and Frooms.
Speaker 3: You want to get involved to ask our fans, followers
Speaker 3: and friends what they think. Today's question of the week
Speaker 3: is why do your friends like you? And you might
Speaker 3: wonder why would you ask such a thing? Why would
Speaker 3: you ask such a thing? The older I get, the
Speaker 3: more I realize how people's own euroticisms and insecurities really
Speaker 3: filter the way they see entire world. Of course before
Speaker 3: they've even recognized it, right and so. And it's like
Speaker 3: not to say it's good or bad, it's just the
Speaker 3: reality of it. The way that you see the world
Speaker 3: informs you the world enforces you. People informs how you
Speaker 3: measure their motives. But I don't think we take enough
Speaker 3: time to like critically analyze anything positive. We just kind
Speaker 3: of assume it's incidental and then let it be. But
Speaker 3: I wanted to see if I challenged people to think
Speaker 3: about themselves from another person's perspective in a positive light.
Speaker 1: Could they do it? And they did, and they did
Speaker 1: it well.
Speaker 3: So I'll give you a sneak peek of three of
Speaker 3: I would say about twenty responses, and you can catch
Speaker 3: a vibe. Why do you think your friends like you?
Speaker 3: Because I'm fairly chilled and calm, I let people talk,
Speaker 3: and I'm funny. Okay, I like that because I'm caring, funny, considerate,
Speaker 3: and I slay this one. I'm a yes girl, always
Speaker 3: reliable and down for plans. This is interesting because so
Speaker 3: far people assume that what is liked about them is
Speaker 3: what they offer to other people. So like, why do
Speaker 3: people like you because I'm smart? Right, That's like neither
Speaker 3: here nor there. Because I'm a yes girl because I'm reliable.
Speaker 3: It's like, oh, it's your servitude that you think people
Speaker 3: like about you. Fascinating and maybe you're right? Why is
Speaker 3: that fascinating well, because I hear a lot of critiques
Speaker 3: when people I don't know if you've seen those kind
Speaker 3: of like TikTok on the street videos where a person
Speaker 3: goes to an unassuming couple and says, oh, you a couple,
Speaker 3: and if you are, can I ask you about your relationship?
Speaker 3: And then they say yes? And a question that always
Speaker 3: comes up is why do you love your partner? And
Speaker 3: what happens overwhelmingly is that they say, oh, I don't know,
Speaker 3: and then they go into a diatribe about what the
Speaker 3: person does for us. Yes, Oh, she's always so helpful,
Speaker 3: and she like always reminds me when I need to
Speaker 3: do stuff. She's always there when I need her. She
Speaker 3: cooks really well, la la lah. And then the comments
Speaker 3: will be like, well, so you just like her because
Speaker 3: of what she does for you. What if she didn't
Speaker 3: do anything for you? What about her that exists on
Speaker 3: her own, isolated from her servitude?
Speaker 1: Do you actually like? Which I think is a tricky question.
Speaker 2: Because literally thinking about this last night in bed, tossing
Speaker 2: and turning because the upstairs neighbors won't shut the front door.
Speaker 1: What number name amount call me? We'll talk about later.
Speaker 2: I'm honestly mad But I was thinking about how you
Speaker 2: pose this question to me, because okay, I was talking
Speaker 2: about Madison, my best friend, yes, and you were like,
Speaker 2: what do you like about her? So I don't know
Speaker 2: if this was like a precursor to this, and I
Speaker 2: was like, what did I say? I'm pretty sure I
Speaker 2: said that she listens to me. She like you validate
Speaker 2: your smart Okay, that's different, but essentially I remember all
Speaker 2: the things I said were pretty much like that, you
Speaker 2: know that she does for me? And then I was thinking, damn,
Speaker 2: you really got me there, and that's okay, yeah, because it's.
Speaker 1: The truth, guinea pig. Why do your friends like you?
Speaker 1: I don't hide how I feel.
Speaker 3: It's also why they're scared to tell me things, because
Speaker 3: I'm supportive of whatever makes them happy and I'm always
Speaker 3: down to go out. Okay, at the start, I was
Speaker 3: funny and nice. Then I got tired of being funny,
Speaker 3: and now we don't hang.
Speaker 2: Sorry, that's amazing, amazing to say.
Speaker 1: I have a calming energy and make people feel safe.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: I didn't mean to laugh at them.
Speaker 2: I just meant like, it's funny, how like straight you
Speaker 2: are with that?
Speaker 1: Don't bring me? I laughed in a response.
Speaker 2: To It's funny that person was with that answer, they said,
Speaker 2: this is my villain story.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you only got a few characters in the Instagram
Speaker 3: question box. I'm a chill person who is reliable and
Speaker 3: will go with the flow, but also follow up and
Speaker 3: make plans if required. I'm open to listening to anything
Speaker 3: on their minds. I'm loyal, I'm reliable. I'm a good listener.
Speaker 3: I'm non threatening because I'm not a slag. I'm honest, trustworthy, loving,
Speaker 3: because I'm the best at doing impressions of other people.
Speaker 1: I'm a storyteller.
Speaker 3: I'm funny, I'm upbeat, I'm down for chaos, and I
Speaker 3: always have a good attitude.
Speaker 1: Very interesting, very.
Speaker 2: Very I'm seeing themes here.
Speaker 1: Things talk to me.
Speaker 2: Okay, obviously this is indicative of our audience, I would say,
Speaker 2: which we need to keep in mind. I really like
Speaker 2: the bits where everyone's talking about being reliable, because, as
Speaker 2: we know in this modern day and age, reliable friends
Speaker 2: often come and go, and they go and they don't come.
Speaker 2: So I think that says a lot about the wherewithal
Speaker 2: of our audience. I also think I like the person
Speaker 2: who said that they do good impressions because I believe
Speaker 2: that bits, as we say if we're seen on the internet,
Speaker 2: we need more bits in life. We need more funny things.
Speaker 1: Let's create some more in subjects.
Speaker 2: I think that in order to be a good friend,
Speaker 2: you have to be the person that like some of
Speaker 2: the most like unique friends that I really like, like
Speaker 2: make plans, but also like throw parties and stuff and like.
Speaker 3: Really okay, so you've ruled out a big part of
Speaker 3: the population in order to be a good friend, like
Speaker 3: a lot of the friends I like person throw parties.
Speaker 1: I've hand two parties in my whole life. I don't
Speaker 1: think I would throw a party.
Speaker 2: Actually, no, yeah, you definitely wouldn't. I have like a
Speaker 2: small intimate gathering.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do a gathering. I don't think I'm reliable.
Speaker 3: It says consistently good in quality or performance, and I'm not, Like,
Speaker 3: I don't want to be reliable. The way that I
Speaker 3: view friendship is if I'm going to give you energy
Speaker 3: and attention, I'm giving it to you like I'm seeing
Speaker 3: it through.
Speaker 1: But if I can't, I'm not going to.
Speaker 3: And something about reliability feels like it is not based
Speaker 3: on what you're actually needing at the time, like you
Speaker 3: open yourself up to being a receptacle for other people's stuff,
Speaker 3: Like they need me, so I come, doesn't matter what
Speaker 3: I'm feeling. You know, they're venting, so like they need
Speaker 3: someone to speak to. I'll be Then it's like, well
Speaker 3: what about you, Bob, you need to fill your cup first. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I guess in a weird way. The friends that I
Speaker 3: would deem to be reliable, I think they're conceptually reliable
Speaker 3: in the sense if I needed something, they would be there.
Speaker 3: But I don't think I test them challenge at reliability
Speaker 3: on a daily basis. For example, hypothetically, if I needed
Speaker 3: to borrow a friend's car, I'm sure my friends would
Speaker 3: let me borrow their car, but would I ask no.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think I'm not reliable. I mean, I
Speaker 2: take it back, Oh, I don't really believe in sharing cars.
Speaker 2: Given my fifty years experience in the car industry.
Speaker 1: Going through going through.
Speaker 2: Every time, I'm like, you are going to bloody crash
Speaker 2: that car and I'm going to have to deal with it,
Speaker 2: and that's going to create a rift anyway, miss you
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