Speaker 1: Sweetie haid my grandma. Everybody. People would pay their fines
Speaker 1: because I mean, you don't have to. But like, I mean,
Speaker 1: you don't have to do anything. I think people who
Speaker 1: choose to be Laura Biding are very virtuous. But yeah,
Speaker 1: shout out to all of you today. Oh hold on,
Speaker 1: I'm still talking about people anyway. Today through me tells
Speaker 1: us about Alf the Sun. The amount of people who
Speaker 1: recommended that movie to me, I think you're all reading
Speaker 1: me wrong.
Speaker 2: You would like it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't want to cry period, Like I want
Speaker 1: a happy cry. I don't want a sad cry. I
Speaker 1: don't want to I don't want have synthetic, synthesized emotions
Speaker 1: planted into me by a story that most viewers who
Speaker 1: watch don't know what happened. Mood anyway, enjoy the episode.
Speaker 2: Bye. This is Flex and Frooms on cater. At times
Speaker 2: here on the show, we do step into our cultured
Speaker 2: realm where we take in some not too much. We
Speaker 2: take in some movies, some books, and we love to
Speaker 2: give the audience a recommend nation or two. I recently
Speaker 2: watched a movie. It's a first movie I've watched in ages. Yes,
Speaker 2: I was in bed all day and so I needed
Speaker 2: a little bit of picked me up. I was with
Speaker 2: my mum in Melbourne. We spent the day in bed chillin.
Speaker 2: Love to do that anyway. Clicking through Binge, I found
Speaker 2: the movie After Sun. Now, this is a song that
Speaker 2: won a lot of film festival kind of things.
Speaker 1: I think it was like a sun Dance type of movie.
Speaker 2: Exactly twenty twenty two. I'm pretty sure it came out
Speaker 2: came out, So I was surprised and delighted when I
Speaker 2: saw it on Binge. Given Binge is a streaming platform
Speaker 2: that now has ads, and I've got a thing or
Speaker 2: two to say about that.
Speaker 1: Does Binge have captions yet?
Speaker 2: Oh? I haven't even tried.
Speaker 1: That's why I dropped off using Binge. They don't do subtitles. What. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a big thing. Is this my Binge?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Like, Binge's actually quite glitchy and la la la, And
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, let's let's do a bit of
Speaker 1: let's not do a hard launch. That's really a soft launch.
Speaker 2: Binge is ages old now though. Yeah it's a subsidiary
Speaker 2: of Fox tells that right. Anyway, I'm a binge gely.
Speaker 2: It's my favorite. They got sex in the city. I
Speaker 2: come across After Son and what after Sun is is
Speaker 2: it's a movie based in the nineteen nineties and also
Speaker 2: now where it's a man and his daughter. I think
Speaker 2: this break might have a bit of spoilers, so just
Speaker 2: turn it down for the next two or three minutes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll be a big dog.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it's still the beauty of the film. It's
Speaker 2: not one of those films that has like a specific
Speaker 2: linear kind of like plot, like I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 2: After the movie finished, I was doing a bit of googling.
Speaker 1: I think that's the meme with this movie. I don't
Speaker 1: know much about it, but those who have watched it
Speaker 1: struggle to say what it's about and struggle to recall
Speaker 1: what happened.
Speaker 2: I think it's a movie you have to watch twice.
Speaker 2: But essentially it is about a man and his daughter.
Speaker 2: It's Paul mescal what's that normal people? And he like
Speaker 2: he's meant to be thirty one and she's meant to
Speaker 2: be ten, which I'm glad they said, because he looks
Speaker 2: our age.
Speaker 1: Which pushing thirty.
Speaker 2: We could have a ten year old, do you realize that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: We could be crazy?
Speaker 2: Imagine it anyway. I thought the film was a really
Speaker 2: beautiful illustration of what I imagine would be like when
Speaker 2: you lose someone when you're really young.
Speaker 1: What do you mean lose someone?
Speaker 2: Like someone dies right, that's like a father figure, or
Speaker 2: like someone that's older, and you're that you're this age
Speaker 2: where you can't really comprehend what happened. And so what
Speaker 2: she does is we kind of realize that she's this
Speaker 2: older woman who's just had a baby, and she's combing
Speaker 2: through this old footage from the nineteen nineties that she
Speaker 2: took of her dad. Like you know when you're a
Speaker 2: kid and you have a cam callder and you're like
Speaker 2: doing like.
Speaker 1: Diaries, Yeah, bits and pieces.
Speaker 2: My mom was like, this is literally you. And when
Speaker 2: I have old movies, like at Christmas, I'd go around
Speaker 2: and like do everyone such an annoying little shit? But Yeah,
Speaker 2: I thought it was a really beautiful like if I
Speaker 2: guess if you wanted to empathize with why of that
Speaker 2: feeling of wanting to know more about someone who died
Speaker 2: when you're too young to understand it, and did he
Speaker 2: die it's inferred, it's infared. It's also inferred that he's here,
Speaker 2: he's struggling from some mental health foibles. So the idea
Speaker 2: is that, yeah, he passed away from depression, but there
Speaker 2: was a lot of beautiful Yeah. I just thought it
Speaker 2: was a beautiful, really intricate look at when you're an
Speaker 2: adult and you're reflecting on your past as a child
Speaker 2: and trying to put the pieces together because now she's
Speaker 2: the age that he was when he passed away. I
Speaker 2: just thought it was beautifully done, and it really also
Speaker 2: captured the nostalgia of the late nineties, like being a
Speaker 2: ninety I'm really trying about it. I'm trying to push it.
Speaker 2: I don't know why.
Speaker 1: No, it's it's early two thousands and the nineties for you,
Speaker 1: whereas for me, it's a blur. Like as soon as
Speaker 1: I say the Naughties, the only thing I think of
Speaker 1: is is Destiny's Child Soldier music video clip where they've
Speaker 1: got that wax paint on their face like just and
Speaker 1: they're wearing camo. That's all I see when you say Naughties.
Speaker 1: And then if I hold onto the image, I see
Speaker 1: the Lady Marmalade video clip facts and that is it.
Speaker 1: Not one movie. I don't know what the streets looked like.
Speaker 1: I don't know what my thoughts were there's just nothing
Speaker 1: there for me. I came into sentience, I would say
Speaker 1: twenty three Wow, yeah.
Speaker 2: Okay, we couldn't be That's when I started.
Speaker 1: Early onset sunset.
Speaker 2: I've seen enough so yeah, it's called after Sun. Check
Speaker 2: it out. It's on binge. I think watch it with
Speaker 2: someone so you can debrief. Otherwise it might be a
Speaker 2: bit of an isolating experience, but it is what it is.
Speaker 1: If you were single or soon to be single for
Speaker 1: various reasons, this could be an interesting thing for you
Speaker 1: to have or no, would you wear a ring to
Speaker 1: let everyone know you're single? Now we have known of
Speaker 1: those what are they called those profess ing clatter rings?
Speaker 1: Is that how you pronounce it? Cla double dagh? Never
Speaker 1: Scottish Irish. There's like a little heart in two hands.
Speaker 1: You've seen those rings, you know the ones. So I
Speaker 1: used to wear those when I was younger, And I
Speaker 1: remember being eighteen and going to one of those cheap,
Speaker 1: like three dollar drink kind of bars and meeting enough
Speaker 1: Irish and Scottish people would be like, oh, you know,
Speaker 1: you're wearing it the wrong way. That means you're single
Speaker 1: or taken or whatever. I had no idea, so I
Speaker 1: just stopped wearing it, But recently I came across this Well,
Speaker 1: they refer to themselves as a social experiment, right, and
Speaker 1: they're on a mission to make meeting the love of
Speaker 1: your life in real life that much easier than apps.
Speaker 1: And it doesn't involve speed dating. It basically involves you
Speaker 1: deciding to wear a plastic mint green ring from the
Speaker 1: company called Pear. Now, when I first came across this brand,
Speaker 1: I would say about nine months ago. It was my
Speaker 1: TikTok video and it was zooming in on all these
Speaker 1: people who are walking down New York City street wearing
Speaker 1: this green pair ring. Obviously a stunt. People weren't actually
Speaker 1: wearing it at this time, but their whole idea is
Speaker 1: that part of the limitations of meeting the love of
Speaker 1: your life you just can't tell who's single anymore. So
Speaker 1: if everybody's wearing this ring to single that they're to
Speaker 1: signal that they're single, that'll be like removing the barrier
Speaker 1: to entry, and then we don't have to rely on
Speaker 1: apps anymore. I have my critiques. I won't get into
Speaker 1: them now, but what I will say is that when
Speaker 1: I went on the website they're saying, now, the ring
Speaker 1: is thirty nine dollars for a piece of plastic. It's
Speaker 1: super ugly, by the bye. When me be honest, it's
Speaker 1: an ugly plastic silicon ring that looks like it belongs
Speaker 1: in like a bottle top or something. It's just not cute.
Speaker 1: It's not fashionable. I don't know anybody who'd really want
Speaker 1: to wear that and would feel comfortable wearing an ugly
Speaker 1: ring signal that they're single. It's thirty nine dollars s
Speaker 1: USD usd USD. And at this point they're saying that
Speaker 1: they're not selling the ring, but they believe that if
Speaker 1: you join this social experiment, you are essentially feeding into
Speaker 1: what will be the single most important thing to happen
Speaker 1: in modern dating history. They say they if one point
Speaker 1: two billion singles around the world wore this little green
Speaker 1: ring on their finger, that we wouldn't need dating apps.
Speaker 1: And they believe that millions of single people will be
Speaker 1: wearing this in the future. Would you wear this ring?
Speaker 2: Absolutely not, babes. That's why God gave me a voice.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, we can say, excuse me, sir, are you single?
Speaker 1: Have you done that? Before?
Speaker 2: You know what I was thinking the other day, I
Speaker 2: went to I went to a restaurant.
Speaker 1: You'ret this.
Speaker 2: I went to a restaurant. This guy said us, and
Speaker 2: he was really nice, like a really good vibe, and
Speaker 2: I consider it like I learned his name and I
Speaker 2: was like, hey, x, I zed like bye, thanks so
Speaker 2: much nice? You know, making money, you were giving him
Speaker 2: hospitality service back. But I was just thinking as you
Speaker 2: were saying story like damn, I probably should have like
Speaker 2: asked him, what is he single?
Speaker 1: How would you phrase it? I think it's important to
Speaker 1: prepare so the next time it happens, you're not practicing.
Speaker 2: Okay. I would have said, hey, so, like how long
Speaker 2: have you worked here? Oh? Cool?
Speaker 1: Oh no, you sound like every uber driver who asks
Speaker 1: me too many questions? Is that where you live? Where
Speaker 1: are you going? And you work away in the city.
Speaker 1: Why are you asking me this? King? Try again for
Speaker 1: me please? Oh yeah?
Speaker 2: Cool? So like are you from Sydney? Question? Okay, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: So what's going to happen And what I imagine to
Speaker 1: be happening is that you're at a table with how
Speaker 1: many people?
Speaker 2: One other girl?
Speaker 1: Okay? Cool? So what you say the next time it
Speaker 1: comes over? We need a third party to help us
Speaker 1: figure out this dating situation. Wait, you're single? Right? Oh
Speaker 1: my god, there you go. This is so good. This
Speaker 1: is what you do. Let's say me and you are
Speaker 1: sitting at a dinner table and we're like, uh, something
Speaker 1: silly like mentally paying for dates. That's the debate we're having.
Speaker 1: Bring this third party, okay, Tim, Tim, can you help
Speaker 1: us figure out who's right in the situation before we
Speaker 1: give you the question? You're single?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: No, I have a girlfriend? Okay, great, So this is
Speaker 1: what we were saying, sinking, you know, and then you've
Speaker 1: you coaxed it out of him, but it's not about him.
Speaker 2: That's fantastic.
Speaker 1: Let's go out.
Speaker 2: I'll bring you back to the restaurant. I think, are
Speaker 2: you across the fact that Channing Tatum and Zorry Cravit's
Speaker 2: a dating Yes?
Speaker 1: I saw them in that paparazzi shot of him riding
Speaker 1: like a low profile bike and her somewhere in the shop.
Speaker 2: If you find that not to be the most random couple.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like to me, I think most Hollywood couples are
Speaker 1: quite random. Where are you guys hanging out? Where'd you meet?
Speaker 1: I understand that, No, I don't because I think in
Speaker 1: Hollywood everybody would be so over familiar that it would
Speaker 1: just feel like you were meeting colleagues constantly, constantly, constantly.
Speaker 1: How are you escalating?
Speaker 2: That? One piques the interest and said how long have
Speaker 2: you lived in Sydney?
Speaker 1: You hit him with us what high school did you
Speaker 1: go to?
Speaker 2: Just check and just say, oh cool, mine went there too,
Speaker 2: and they probably would go to the same high school
Speaker 2: if we know anything about anything. Anyway, I saw a
Speaker 2: story a couple of weeks ago of Channing Tatum and
Speaker 2: Zoe Kravitz supporting a local lemonade stand, allegedly their friend's
Speaker 2: kids Lemonades kid. It got me feeling nostalgic as per
Speaker 2: I am wanted to do here on the show, And
Speaker 2: I thought, first of all, did you ever do a
Speaker 2: lemonade stand as a kid?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Why do you grimace?
Speaker 1: I thought that was just like American TV fodder, babes.
Speaker 2: I was so like American eyed, like you don't you
Speaker 2: truly were?
Speaker 1: I mean, I definitely sold chocolates. Oh yeah, we all
Speaker 1: did that.
Speaker 2: But that's Australiana.
Speaker 1: That's Australiana. But lemonade stand is American TV show movie content.
Speaker 1: It's not real.
Speaker 2: Tell me, why I get that chocolate box with the
Speaker 2: caramelica while as malfreda frogs bring it straight in the house.
Speaker 2: So Dad give me fifty dollars boom, and I eat
Speaker 2: them all because it would take one day. I'm like,
Speaker 2: I have anxiety thinking that I have to go around
Speaker 2: asking people for money.
Speaker 1: Baby Frims. I have too much going on. I have
Speaker 1: a lot going on, Dad, I really can't get into
Speaker 1: this right now. Literally me, I'm doing the rounds at church,
Speaker 1: doing the rounds after school, getting in touch with my
Speaker 1: local community.
Speaker 2: Why did they make us do that?
Speaker 1: Terrible?
Speaker 2: For what?
Speaker 1: Who? Who was the charity? We're gonna probably eat those words.
Speaker 2: But on the topic of Americanized Australians, I did the
Speaker 2: lemonade stand.
Speaker 1: Wow, what did you charge?
Speaker 2: Oh hard to say. I'm gonna say fifty cents to
Speaker 2: one probably a dollar donation.
Speaker 1: Adjusted for inflation. Yeah, and I got coin donation.
Speaker 2: And we live on the most random like road where
Speaker 2: nobody would stop, so it was not giving, you know,
Speaker 2: a viable business. We also did go billy carts.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that is.
Speaker 2: Billy carts is like a do you know what that is? Caitlin? Yeah,
Speaker 2: like it's like a little it's like a race car
Speaker 2: will barrow. No, like it's a little kid sits on
Speaker 2: it and like you steer it.
Speaker 1: Next.
Speaker 2: Also did trick or treating in two thousand and two
Speaker 2: that really hit him different. Went down to the local
Speaker 2: housing development and like walked around.
Speaker 1: And obviously dangerous.
Speaker 2: It was where the expensive houses were.
Speaker 1: Oh got it?
Speaker 2: Anyway, say to sort of say.
Speaker 1: Did you go alone with other kids with parents? How
Speaker 1: did that work?
Speaker 2: Just my older sister I know obviously did the trick
Speaker 2: in them treating. She's hanging back waiting for the chocolates.
Speaker 1: I mean, I definitely lived on in I've lived in
Speaker 1: a child friendly could a sack before, not a colder sack,
Speaker 1: but a child friendly environment where it wasn't unusual to
Speaker 1: do trick or treat.
Speaker 2: But we're too old for like when that wasn't a
Speaker 2: thing like now trick or treating is big in Australia,
Speaker 2: is it really?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Babe, where I live, you've had door knocks? Oh no,
Speaker 2: because I live in an apartment. But like walking around
Speaker 2: BONDI yeah, I'm seeing all these little tiny tricks and tricksters. Anyway,
Speaker 2: really quickly, this is where the lemonade stand originally.
Speaker 1: Oh, we haven't even got that, honestly, at this point,
Speaker 1: let it go. At this point, let it go. You
Speaker 1: don't need to know.
Speaker 2: All say is have a little reflection on your childhood.
Speaker 2: How Americanized were you? Because I think it makes sense
Speaker 2: why I'm going to New York in a few days,
Speaker 2: because it's to me, it's the mecha of the world.
Speaker 1: Of course.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, we love TikTok and I've probably go on
Speaker 2: TikTok once a week for two hours.
Speaker 1: Which I think is so fascinating.
Speaker 2: Do you know why, though, It's because I wouldn't have
Speaker 2: social media if it wasn't my job. I got Instagram
Speaker 2: in twenty sixteen, babes.
Speaker 1: But I've said similar, like the only I only started
Speaker 1: Instagram posting diligently when I knew there was money to
Speaker 1: be made on it.
Speaker 2: Well, that's on you. I did it for the love
Speaker 2: of the job, so certainly taking turns here in there.
Speaker 2: But I realized I don't really go on it because
Speaker 2: there's no one to see if anyone's commented, because I
Speaker 2: don't really post on it anyway. Blah blah blah. My
Speaker 2: favorite TikToker is a chick called better names for you
Speaker 2: for as in the number. And what she does is
Speaker 2: she finds a regular name Sam John not regular name. Well,
Speaker 2: I say what I said by it.
Speaker 1: And Mohammed okay, he takes.
Speaker 2: A name like Mohammed and makes a million different nicknames
Speaker 2: from it. Oh cute years ago nicknames for Jeremy, You're
Speaker 2: such Jeremy jeremeter like a meter, like a millimeter, hemispheream Harris, Harris,
Speaker 2: Pheamy is in the globe.
Speaker 1: Jeremy Cecy, Jenny Mom, Jeremy Cecy, Jenny Mom, Jeremy Cecy
Speaker 1: Jenny Mom, four friends and one of my mom Jared's.
Speaker 2: And I'll give you one more.
Speaker 1: Jeremy bear me. Okay, this is what frooms humor. The
Speaker 1: way that you are hacking it and the rest of
Speaker 1: us are like blink blink, blink, blink blink.
Speaker 2: Anyway, the ones I gotta get it. I swear you'll
Speaker 2: go and you'll find your name on it. But I
Speaker 2: thought I would make my own nicknames for you. Flex mummy,
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Speaker 1: We're getting really far away.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's a bad one. I'll bring it back.
Speaker 2: Lexi ah fax and science.
Speaker 1: We already did facts and science. But that's twice.
Speaker 2: Flexible, L Boy Jones.
Speaker 1: Boy flexible, I don't mind L boy.
Speaker 2: Okay, fraxing as in like the tax thing, fracking, fracking.
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Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Fisherman real Australian Anna, mummy Milkers Yeah yeah, flex mother
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Speaker 1: Guys, that is actually quite creative of you.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I really think sometimes if your brain it's
Speaker 2: three pm, you're feeling a little bit wishy washy, sit
Speaker 2: down opposite your colleague and say, hey, Mohammad, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: have a little gir at your name, make a few
Speaker 2: nick names. Yeah, of course if they are consenting, it's
Speaker 2: could I.
Speaker 1: Didn't consent to this. And yeah, here we are you
Speaker 1: talking about best practice? Have we confirmed if Melbourne has
Speaker 1: a staring problem? It does, but unfortunately for all of
Speaker 1: us involved, Melbourne also has a walking problem. Gotta listen
Speaker 1: to DM here that says, oh this is sweet, hey,
Speaker 1: flex and through me love your podcast. Radio show Flagship.
Speaker 1: Your ability to be both entertaining and insightful is just
Speaker 1: La Chef's kiss. Oh sweet. Anyway, I was listening to
Speaker 1: an episode from Monday and you're discussing harm and you
Speaker 1: were discussing hammer bent. Okay, okay, okay, wait. I was
Speaker 1: listening to an episode from Monday and you were discussing
Speaker 1: hormon Bernians have a staring problem. I have an opinion
Speaker 1: on that subject. However, I do believe that Melbournians have
Speaker 1: a walking problem. It doesn't matter where I am or
Speaker 1: what time it is, they'll be, without a doubt, someone
Speaker 1: who will speed walk from behind me to then just
Speaker 1: stick out the same pace I was at. Also, not
Speaker 1: only do they not know the correct etiquette i e.
Speaker 1: Walking on the left side left correct, they also often
Speaker 1: stop abruptly still in I've done that occasion. It happens
Speaker 1: still in the middle of the footpath to check their phones.
Speaker 1: As a little side note, the concept of personal space
Speaker 1: seems to be ignored or unheard of by Melbournians. Again,
Speaker 1: I could be outside at a park and someone would
Speaker 1: choose to stand right at my shoulder. So it has
Speaker 1: really made me understand and agree with the reasoning behind
Speaker 1: Dan Andrews locking your down for so long brutal.
Speaker 2: She said, Dan ate with that.
Speaker 1: The walking problem. I think it can be thinly veiled
Speaker 1: in a lack of cultural context, because I have a
Speaker 1: distinct memory of going to London for the first time
Speaker 1: and getting torn a new one walking standing on an
Speaker 1: escalator coming out of what do I call it? The tube?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was.
Speaker 1: Standing on the wrong side the way. This lady came
Speaker 1: at me. Are you dumb?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: What's the accent?
Speaker 2: Are you dumb? Are you dumb? Move?
Speaker 1: Get out of the way. We are all trying to
Speaker 1: get to where we need to go. Move. I don't
Speaker 1: move so well, Thank you, thank you. And I was
Speaker 1: just like you could imagine. I feel like you don't
Speaker 1: see my airhead tendencies now, oh god, because I've had to.
Speaker 1: It's a correction. I've made an intention.
Speaker 2: I was, yes you, oh bade my ask for the
Speaker 2: fallen out. It's like going on Swanston Straight in Melbourne.
Speaker 2: I have distinct memories. Yeah, I'm the girl who's wo
Speaker 2: real fast. Okay, I've got my crumpler back back on.
Speaker 2: I got my new balance, very very steazy twenty sixteen
Speaker 2: kind of vibes. Little mum barber k it was serving
Speaker 2: thirty five and a twenty year old's body. But that's
Speaker 2: neither here nor there. Walking down Sunday Street, tell me
Speaker 2: what you're walking for.
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