Speaker 1: Cool, Flex and Rooms.
Speaker 2: Flex and Frooms.
Speaker 1: This is the Flex and Frooms catch up podcast. It's
Speaker 1: Flex and Frooms on CATA again. We're running over time.
Speaker 3: We just love talking to each other off air about
Speaker 3: slacious things. Here's the podcast.
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Speaker 3: Last week I went on a little bit of a
Speaker 3: rant some would say about subletting. I've considered subletting my
Speaker 3: room on little tiny going away moments, like when I
Speaker 3: go to Melbourne for a month at a time. I'm thinking, damn,
Speaker 3: I could be saving.
Speaker 1: A couple k here.
Speaker 3: However, I don't do it because I'm scared. I think
Speaker 3: it's gross. We posted a video on the internet about
Speaker 3: me going on this rant and as a result, we
Speaker 3: got this voice memo that Mikayla, our producer, is going
Speaker 3: to play Please hit It DJ.
Speaker 5: I used to live in London and I subleted my
Speaker 5: room to a girl while I went on a two
Speaker 5: month long holiday through Europe. My housemates says she literally
Speaker 5: didn't leave the room for the whole two months. She
Speaker 5: had a viral chest and infection. She let all of
Speaker 5: my plans die and she's to have full blown parties
Speaker 5: in my room. It was so bizarre. My room was
Speaker 5: literally the size of a shoe box. She haggled me
Speaker 5: down on the price of the rent while I was away,
Speaker 5: and it took her two months after I came home
Speaker 5: home for her to pay me. When I got home,
Speaker 5: I realized that the room hadn't been cleaned at all.
Speaker 5: The room was stale. I could smell the stench of
Speaker 5: parties to come and god knows whatever else. Also, my
Speaker 5: sheets were literally crusty. It was honestly traumatizing.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, and that is what threw me. Ona
Speaker 4: was warning you about who came to her neck.
Speaker 3: Seriously, guys, this is just one of the multiple horror
Speaker 3: stories that I've heard about the subletting community.
Speaker 1: Not the community. You just can't trust them.
Speaker 3: This is why we need when it comes to living
Speaker 3: spaces and arrangements contracts fan because people get a little
Speaker 3: too comfortable, especially when they don't have to do the
Speaker 3: cleaning up.
Speaker 4: If you'd limit your subletting too, friends or mutual friends,
Speaker 4: or people who in some way feel accountable to you,
Speaker 4: as opposed to just casting the net wide and letting
Speaker 4: anyone who you know shows you a morsel of interest
Speaker 4: live in your sanctuary.
Speaker 3: Definitely desperate times though the cost of livery crisis as
Speaker 3: we know.
Speaker 4: Thank you Frooms is out there, babes. This is what
Speaker 4: happens when you're outside. I don't know if you're across
Speaker 4: Flex on Instagram, it's Flex speaking, but sometimes third person helps,
Speaker 4: just for the message to go down Sweeter, I've definitely
Speaker 4: turned a page in my life at the moment.
Speaker 1: I've moved states.
Speaker 4: I've got a new lust for life, a joi de vivram. Outside.
Speaker 4: The outfits are better, I'm prettier, like I'm getting nearer.
Speaker 4: It's just everybody's noticed. It's not a personal thing. It's
Speaker 4: been said to me. Consequence of getting near it, being
Speaker 4: outside is now I'm exposed to social situations that I
Speaker 4: haven't been exposed to before, in a new space, and
Speaker 4: I'm a bit confused. What I mean by that is
Speaker 4: someone trying to fight me. How do you mean Have
Speaker 4: I ever been in a fight before. Let's get a
Speaker 4: show of hands. If you think I've been in a fight,
Speaker 4: like a physical fight for hands hands, it's both hands up,
Speaker 4: both hands up. Mikayla Jordan, I've never been in a
Speaker 4: fight before, and that's the benefit of being a speaker
Speaker 4: and having serious hectic energies. People don't want to mess
Speaker 4: with me. You don't want to do it. I would
Speaker 4: be scared to mess with me.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: You've never been physical, literally never.
Speaker 4: Obviously, I didn't rock with sisters, so that's what I'm saying,
Speaker 4: different energy with the youngest of two older brothers. There
Speaker 4: was nothing for me to fight. I have been protected
Speaker 4: my whole life, not by my two brothers, by my mum,
Speaker 4: and by.
Speaker 1: The Spirit of Jesus. Hello Jah, listen you we me.
Speaker 1: I like it fucking so.
Speaker 4: I had the best weekend. I was here, there, and everywhere.
Speaker 4: Is that a hard core show at night? The next day,
Speaker 4: I just had a hard course show in the day,
Speaker 4: went to lunch, and then with the same big group
Speaker 4: of people, we decided to go to a very popular
Speaker 4: bar or it's a dinner restaurant.
Speaker 1: Established you.
Speaker 4: This is not a club. I need you to know.
Speaker 4: It is a bar that serves food sometimes. So me
Speaker 4: and my people we roll in maybe like six or
Speaker 4: seven eight deep, and we go and stand to wait
Speaker 4: in the bar line. Because we're so far back from
Speaker 4: the front of the line. We're not diligently and militantly
Speaker 4: standing you know, right behind the person because there's a
Speaker 4: little while to go. So we're kind of nosing about
Speaker 4: and chit chatting, and I feel someone nudge past me
Speaker 4: on the side closest to the bar, and so I'm
Speaker 4: assuming they're just kind of walking past, so I move
Speaker 4: out to let them sidle over, you know, more efficiently,
Speaker 4: and they kind of stop there, and so I'm like, oh, sorry, babe,
Speaker 4: like I'm waiting in line as well. And this person says,
Speaker 4: can I just walk through? And I was like, oh, so, oh,
Speaker 4: my bad, So sorry I thought you were. I thought
Speaker 4: you didn't realize I was also.
Speaker 1: Waiting in line.
Speaker 4: That's all good, you can walk through, she says, okay, great.
Speaker 4: I said, okay, cool. So I turned back around to
Speaker 4: continue the conversation and realize she's still there because she's
Speaker 4: with her boyfriend who's quite tall. So I turned back
Speaker 4: around and I say, hey, like, I don't think you understood.
Speaker 4: I'm also waiting in line, but we're in one big group,
Speaker 4: so you can like stand next to us, but we're
Speaker 4: also waiting in line.
Speaker 1: She turns around.
Speaker 4: With like the most serious scout on her face and
Speaker 4: says I'm good, thank you. Oh, I said, what is
Speaker 4: going on? And I'm in a great mood. Mind you,
Speaker 4: I'm vibes a art. We're chit chatting and to me,
Speaker 4: it's not that deep. So in front of her to
Speaker 4: her left, and in front of her to her right,
Speaker 4: there are two separate pairs of women. The pair on
Speaker 4: the left turns around and says to her that girl
Speaker 4: me was waiting here. The pusher in and says, was
Speaker 4: I asking you? Was I talking to you? The energy's
Speaker 4: feral woo. Now, at the exact same time, I get
Speaker 4: a tap on my shoulder to the right of a
Speaker 4: young woman who says, I'm such a big fan of you.
Speaker 4: I'm a huge fan. I'm so sorry about my friend.
Speaker 4: She's an angry drunk oh okay, and says it loud
Speaker 4: enough that her friend can hear, which is now it's
Speaker 4: muddled the situation up, for better or or worse. Anyone
Speaker 4: can imagine if your friend takes the side of a
Speaker 4: random stranger over you and then puts you on blust
Speaker 4: it's never gonna feel good. So while this friend has
Speaker 4: been like, I'm such a fan, I'm a big fan,
Speaker 4: or whatever, this second group of girls in front who
Speaker 4: noticed that I was there to turn around and say, hey,
Speaker 4: she was standing she being me was standing there waiting
Speaker 4: in line, you should move. And then the girl says
Speaker 4: if this, I don't need this anyway and kind of
Speaker 4: sidles over but doesn't really move out of the line,
Speaker 4: so she's now cut in front of someone else. So
Speaker 4: her friend is still talking to me, and she was like,
Speaker 4: you know, I'm really really sorry, and the two girls
Speaker 4: that were in front of the two pairs turn around.
Speaker 1: And say, no, hey, baby, are you okay?
Speaker 4: Like that was really hectic, and I'm just like on
Speaker 4: cloud died. I'm like, oh, I don't it's whatever, Like
Speaker 4: I'm fine, I think it's good. I think I don't
Speaker 4: think they had anything to do with me.
Speaker 1: Really.
Speaker 4: The girl that was king not cranked her head around
Speaker 4: her friend and she's like, don't pretend you don't know
Speaker 4: what's happening.
Speaker 2: Yeah you, I'm talking to you. Yeah, you to you
Speaker 2: to me.
Speaker 4: She says, you're the one who said I was cutting
Speaker 4: in and I wasn't, so yeah, I'm talking to you.
Speaker 4: Oh oh, baby's first altercation. I mean, I've been waiting
Speaker 4: for this one. I said, Babe, you've caught me on
Speaker 4: a good day. I'm not even mad, I said, yeah,
Speaker 4: it was me. Now she's pissed because why am I smiling?
Speaker 4: I said, I'm not even in a bad mood. Baby,
Speaker 4: you need to relax. She's asked, Oh, anyway, get my drink.
Speaker 4: Move out of the line. I'm standing in a thoroughfare
Speaker 4: in the doorway. She walks, passing the way out. You're
Speaker 4: such an ef and bitch. Are we still doing this?
Speaker 1: Flex?
Speaker 2: I said, what is happening? We go outside?
Speaker 1: They don't. I haven't stopped. We go outside to sit down.
Speaker 1: It's busy. All the tables are packed.
Speaker 4: Somebody sees me notices and they're like, we're about to
Speaker 4: get up, do you want to come sit down?
Speaker 1: Amazing.
Speaker 4: About half an hour later, the end of our picnic
Speaker 4: table kind of clears out, and so then the girl
Speaker 4: that was aarking up comes with her friends, and her
Speaker 4: friend that was a fan sits right next to me.
Speaker 1: No, I don't realize because.
Speaker 4: My back is I'm like on the outskirts of our
Speaker 4: friend configuration. I'm on the very end, so my back
Speaker 4: is inwards towards my friend. Then I noticed that the
Speaker 4: girl who was a fan is talking to my friend
Speaker 4: who's sitting opposite me.
Speaker 1: So I turn around. I'm like, what is oh?
Speaker 4: I not feeling thinking much of it. After about ten minutes,
Speaker 4: I noticed the girl was aarking up is opposite me.
Speaker 4: She's like looking just staring me down anyway. She outstretches
Speaker 4: her hand over the table.
Speaker 1: What's gonna go on?
Speaker 4: Taps me tap tap tap. She says, babe, can we
Speaker 4: squash the beef?
Speaker 1: Osh ah?
Speaker 4: I'm like, seriously, babe, it's all good. Beckons me to
Speaker 4: give her my hand, so now we're holding hands. She says, Honestly,
Speaker 4: let's just squash the beef. Like you know, I didn't
Speaker 4: mean for it to go that far. I'm like, it's chill.
Speaker 4: You wanted to drink. I wanted to drink. It's not
Speaker 4: a big deal. She's like, no, Honestly, you handled that
Speaker 4: so well. She says to me, you're such a good girl.
Speaker 4: You handled that so well. I was like, it's all good.
Speaker 4: She said, are you fine? Can we squash it? I said,
Speaker 4: it's honestly, it's fine. Weirdest experience ever. I don't know,
Speaker 4: so weird. Speculated about what was happening in so many ways,
Speaker 4: but I don't think it's worthwhile. As tense as it was,
Speaker 4: it was bewildering. Before I realized things was an issue,
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, oh, we're in something. I didn't
Speaker 4: even know the doorway situation. I was like, oh, damn,
Speaker 4: I really got to you. I didn't even know.
Speaker 2: And that was worse because she's mid beefing with me,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, aha, I love Melvine, I love you.
Speaker 4: Thankfully She's okay, she hit you up in the damns
Speaker 4: or anything? No, but I think she embarrassed her friend.
Speaker 4: And I think her friend might have hit her with
Speaker 4: a check the CV, and I think that humbled her
Speaker 4: a little bit.
Speaker 1: That's what I was gathering from it, which I hate
Speaker 1: even more. Yeah, you know, it is what it is.
Speaker 3: Reap. Glad you survived. H Oh you didn't resort to violence.
Speaker 3: Never couldn't say the same on myself.
Speaker 1: No, I'm a words girl.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Flex and Rooms on Kaita Taylor Swold
Speaker 4: anounced a new collaboration with Ice Spice, brand new rapper
Speaker 4: pumping hits out for Days. It's of her song Calma
Speaker 4: Not sure if you're familiar.
Speaker 1: No, Mamma, is your boyfriend? Okay? Apparently that was now
Speaker 1: in the coffin for a lot of people. You see.
Speaker 4: What's happened is Taylor Swift has recently broken up with
Speaker 4: her partner of six years, and that was a very
Speaker 4: low key relationship.
Speaker 2: It wasn't really publicized at all.
Speaker 4: They weren't really seen out together that much from what
Speaker 4: I understand, his name was Joe. As soon as the
Speaker 4: breakup was announced, she was then rumored to be dating
Speaker 4: Maddi heally.
Speaker 1: Is that overlap? Not quite sure. Let the girl live.
Speaker 4: We don't know her intimate details, but the issue is
Speaker 4: Matti Heely is a controversial character. He is a bit
Speaker 4: of a contrarian, an antagonist, a bit of an instigator,
Speaker 4: sometimes crosses the line, says things that are racist, sexist,
Speaker 4: and he recently made some comments about Ice Spice that
Speaker 4: were like imitated a Chinese accent, like speculated about where
Speaker 4: she was from, made jokes about her appearance. All of
Speaker 4: these things just not great. Coincidentally, not long after, Taylor
Speaker 4: Swift announces a collaboration with Ice Spice, after her fans
Speaker 4: had asked her, or at least questioned her, implored her
Speaker 4: to come forward and say and confirm if she's dating
Speaker 4: this controversial man. People speculate that she's using Ice Spice
Speaker 4: woman of color, to almost be the shield that protects
Speaker 4: her from the backlash of dating this problematic character. If
Speaker 4: Ice Spice still wants to work with me, then is
Speaker 4: it really that big of a deal. I think it
Speaker 4: also puts Ice Spice in this weird position to now
Speaker 4: have to say something and defend her bag chasery, or
Speaker 4: to align with someone who has inadvertently and also up
Speaker 4: front disrespected her.
Speaker 1: It's all just too much. Here's the thing.
Speaker 4: Taylor's rebranded herself as a person who speaks up.
Speaker 1: After the docum documentary.
Speaker 4: There's the whole thing about speaking up, making sure you're
Speaker 4: on the right side of history. And now when push
Speaker 4: comes to shove, sis is unspeakably quiet. There is a
Speaker 4: ton of reasons why I imagine taylors which won't speak
Speaker 4: up about this, but I think for the most part,
Speaker 4: there's not much you can say. When internet vitriol starts.
Speaker 4: These things spin out of control, regardless of way, whether
Speaker 4: you jump in with an apology at the start or
Speaker 4: the end. I also think it is a wake up
Speaker 4: call for some of Taylor's parasocial fans to realize that
Speaker 4: outside of being your favor, she's just a regular person.
Speaker 1: Yes, she is. Fortunately and unfortunately.
Speaker 3: He and Mattie Healy actually dating.
Speaker 4: Well, how do we even know? You know, they've been
Speaker 4: seeing holding hands together. He's taking Louis Duffel bags to
Speaker 4: her house at eleven pm. We could say they're getting
Speaker 4: near it. But let's not speculate, or shall we? Sure?
Speaker 4: I mean, the speculation has begun, begun, It's begun, whether
Speaker 4: she is or she isn't. It is, as what often
Speaker 4: happens when men and women are involved in dual controversy.
Speaker 1: It seems like it's her crust to bear. That's what
Speaker 1: I was going to say. How do you want to
Speaker 1: say it?
Speaker 3: Also, I believe that she the Ice Spice colab came
Speaker 3: out before this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they mean they take a while, so they take ages.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is just it's happened at the same time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, coincidentally, who knows as.
Speaker 3: An honorary member of gen Z, some would say oscillating
Speaker 3: between Boomer and gen Z with ease and Grace beendulums Swingingha.
Speaker 1: What's this COMPLEXI.
Speaker 3: I'm more of the my here we are, Damn Daniel.
Speaker 3: I was on the internet the other day and I
Speaker 3: haven't upon a clip by some sort of police body
Speaker 3: and they were saying this, please play the tape, Mickey B.
Speaker 3: The younger generation need three times a week praise from
Speaker 3: their supervisors. The next generation only needs three times a year,
Speaker 3: and my generation only need once a year.
Speaker 1: Is that banter or this?
Speaker 3: This is a this is a press conference, but is it?
Speaker 1: Is it banter?
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's banter or not, but this
Speaker 3: is a superintendent style kind of person is coming out
Speaker 3: on the record to say that gen Z needs three
Speaker 3: times more reassurance than quote unquote our generation millennials, Like
Speaker 3: is it better to be the youngest millennial or the
Speaker 3: oldest millennial? Because for so long we were very cool
Speaker 3: having older friends. All of a sudden, why do I
Speaker 3: want twenty four year old friends?
Speaker 1: Mikayla, why do you want twenty four year old friends?
Speaker 5: She's over the.
Speaker 1: Hill, Nah, I will say, I really, do you.
Speaker 4: Think having younger friends is having the adverse effect? Like
Speaker 4: you might think it's making you seem younger, but it's
Speaker 4: actually oh not, Jordan's like, m it's actually having adverse
Speaker 4: effect and making it glaringly obvious that you're old and drieder.
Speaker 1: Do you really feel since Wow, I haven't.
Speaker 2: Even made my point yet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's hydrate.
Speaker 3: Anyway, Guys, believe it or not, Apparently jen Z need more,
Speaker 3: do you uragement? I agree from my own personal experience.
Speaker 3: I was raised in a lot of praise, words of
Speaker 3: afformation my love language, and you know what, there's I
Speaker 3: have heard.
Speaker 1: About this anecdotally.
Speaker 3: I was having a conversation the other day with someone
Speaker 3: saying that they need a lot of praise in order
Speaker 3: to want to show up and do the work the
Speaker 3: actual way they.
Speaker 1: Get paid for. Don't get a twisted Yeah, I think that.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Perhaps maybe gen Z need praise as permission to begin,
Speaker 4: and then millennials need praise as permission to keep giving
Speaker 4: above what is required as a baseline.
Speaker 1: I don't know them.
Speaker 3: They're like, oh, that is too much. Nah, I'm sick
Speaker 3: of talking on behalf of boomers.
Speaker 1: Let them live, you know.
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