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Speaker 4: How you huffing in the air through your mouth and
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Speaker 4: Those out through your mouth, right really, you know, I've
Speaker 4: been struggling with my breathing late long COVID situation.
Speaker 2: I understand, so be it. Things aren't great no in
Speaker 2: flexy Land.
Speaker 3: But they're getting better. They're always getting better.
Speaker 2: Flex recently moved into an apartment. If you are a
Speaker 2: flex trutherer, you will know this from the stories. Great lighting,
Speaker 2: I shadow be popping, Yeah, all my stories. So it's
Speaker 2: probably worth the exorbitant price that you pay to live
Speaker 2: in set apartment. But it's been giving you some issues
Speaker 2: and I'm just gonna throw it over to you to
Speaker 2: This is a rant of the highest going.
Speaker 4: If you are in the rental community as a a
Speaker 4: what do you call them, a leasing agent? You know,
Speaker 4: a housing manager, this might offend you, but to be fair,
Speaker 4: I'm going through it.
Speaker 3: It's time to worry about me.
Speaker 2: Somebody stood up and said it, I can't wait. Unt oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: you're not going to rentate your Tasmania home.
Speaker 3: Are you going to be it? I could rent it.
Speaker 3: You'll get some karens. Yeah, but that's later on. Yeah,
Speaker 3: let's get to it. Phase two.
Speaker 5: This is flex and frooms.
Speaker 3: Are you still using Duolingo?
Speaker 4: I am, but I haven't been able to maintain a
Speaker 4: consistent streak for two weeks and I had a consistent
Speaker 4: streak for maybe close to three months. What But I
Speaker 4: found that what was happening is that I wasn't learning.
Speaker 3: I was memorizing, Like I was, I'm able.
Speaker 4: To say what certain words are, but I don't know
Speaker 4: how to use them in context of a sentence.
Speaker 3: And as soon as we got.
Speaker 4: To like vows not vow, sorry, plurals, I was like, okay,
Speaker 4: I'm confused plurals and verbs right, I was like, what's
Speaker 4: happening here?
Speaker 3: It's very confusing.
Speaker 4: And then I started doing a lot of research around
Speaker 4: duwe Lingo and how effective it is at actually teaching
Speaker 4: you how to learn a language and be at least
Speaker 4: literate and not great.
Speaker 3: Is that what you're going to tell me?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 2: Yeah, So a friend of a friend of mine or
Speaker 2: a friend of mine, his name's James Collie.
Speaker 3: He's all right, how do you go from a friend
Speaker 3: of a friends with a friend. I was like trying to
Speaker 3: keep it. I don't know what I was.
Speaker 2: Sorry, he's a friend of mine, he's a mentor. His
Speaker 2: name is James Collie. Just ignore everything that I'm saying.
Speaker 3: No fact checking, as we say, You're a fas frim show. Anyway.
Speaker 3: He wrote about.
Speaker 2: His experience on duwe Lingo and said that he was
Speaker 2: addicted so much so that, regardless of his job and
Speaker 2: his infant daughter, Duolingo came first.
Speaker 3: That's a paraphrase.
Speaker 2: Not surprised the way they set up that app. M
Speaker 2: This is what he says about the app. I downloaded
Speaker 2: the language learning app Duolingo. It was much more fun
Speaker 2: than a stodgy textbook and more convenient than taking an
Speaker 2: actual class. The app's icon starred a friendly little green
Speaker 2: owl who danced when you logged on my phone, gave
Speaker 2: a satisfyingly little ding when I answered the question correctly.
Speaker 3: It is a good ding and confirm and.
Speaker 2: Between lessons, I'd be told fun facts such as more
Speaker 2: people in the United States to learn a language on
Speaker 2: due Lingo than in schools, which I found both interesting
Speaker 2: and deeply depressing. He used it instead of scrolling social
Speaker 2: media and apparently became invested in the community element of
Speaker 2: the app.
Speaker 3: So supposedly you would know this.
Speaker 2: You were crew points, you complete monthly challenges, and you
Speaker 2: move up a language leaderboard. The cartoon Owl was telling
Speaker 2: me that I was like the sun. He never had
Speaker 2: I was the Titan of the Duolingo world.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: But yeah, when he tried to use the skills to
Speaker 2: read a book, it couldn't and it wasn't fun.
Speaker 4: I think, what's the worst bit about trying to use
Speaker 4: the skills in the context of a conversation or trying
Speaker 4: to challenge yourself by like I would type in like
Speaker 4: Dutch publications and see if I could figure out any words,
Speaker 4: And I was like, none of this makes sense in context,
Speaker 4: because the issue about JEWELINGO is that it's not teaching
Speaker 4: you how to use words in the context of how
Speaker 4: you would use them based on what I said I
Speaker 4: want to use it for, which is like just like
Speaker 4: social cultural learning, but they have specific phrases like, for example,
Speaker 4: when you would learn about animals instead of talking about
Speaker 4: animals in the context of a dog bus or when
Speaker 4: should we take the dog to the vet? It'd be
Speaker 4: like the dog wants to go to the supermarket. The
Speaker 4: cow wants to go to the supermarket. The cow and
Speaker 4: the dog and the bee wants to go to the supermarket.
Speaker 4: You're like, well, I would never say that, So like
Speaker 4: I was looking for that phrase in other books, being
Speaker 4: like that, we would never say that. And the other
Speaker 4: thing that got me about duwel Ingo is as someone
Speaker 4: who's on their phone all the time and resents being
Speaker 4: on their phone all the time, it became really frustrating
Speaker 4: to contradict a habit I was trying to break. So
Speaker 4: on my phone currently, I try not to have notifications
Speaker 4: for anything but my emails and more recently mobile phone games. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I've been trying not to have a dependence on my
Speaker 4: phone for anything. So been trying to figure out how
Speaker 4: to wake up without my phone, how to get to
Speaker 4: places without using GPS, just like logging off a tinty
Speaker 4: tinty bit and due Lingo is so antithetical to that
Speaker 4: because you constantly have to be on there to keep
Speaker 4: up your streak and to participate in the challenges, and
Speaker 4: you get notifications when your friends are doing well as well,
Speaker 4: and you know the it it becomes too much and
Speaker 4: then you realize that you're not actually using the app
Speaker 4: to learn the language, but to maintain a streak. I
Speaker 4: felt like a teenager using snapchat mean like adding it
Speaker 4: my Snap.
Speaker 3: Square up Snap Squirrel.
Speaker 4: It's a great system, but it's fundamentally flawed because they
Speaker 4: say that, like James mentioned in the article, you're not
Speaker 4: actually being taught skills on how to learn the language.
Speaker 4: You're being taught on how to recognize a word. And
Speaker 4: as we know, words are not the sum of language.
Speaker 3: They aren't.
Speaker 4: So not only do I now have beef with duweling Go,
Speaker 4: and this is a light beef, to be honest, because
Speaker 4: I'm not even that mad. I was on a family
Speaker 4: plan that I wasn't paying for. Shout out to Cheyenne
Speaker 4: hook that up for me. Put me on a.
Speaker 3: Family plan on my birthday as well. So it's a
Speaker 3: nice little thing.
Speaker 5: This is flex and frooms.
Speaker 4: This Amy the Asshole is a very special one that
Speaker 4: I hold close to my heart because it's my own
Speaker 4: experience trauma. And I don't like to speak about my
Speaker 4: own personal crises, especially when they're not resolved, because I
Speaker 4: find that what's the point if it's not resolved.
Speaker 3: I don't want to bad juju, not.
Speaker 4: About bad juju, but I want to be more mindful
Speaker 4: of how much emotional energy and mental energy I invest
Speaker 4: into things when I don't have to. I think most
Speaker 4: things I can afford to feel very neutral about just
Speaker 4: to get.
Speaker 3: On with it.
Speaker 4: But this in particular has been so layered because it
Speaker 4: didn't have to escalate in the way that it has.
Speaker 3: So I recently moved into a new apartment.
Speaker 4: Address, and I can preface this with saying, this apartment
Speaker 4: is very expensive, like very expensive.
Speaker 3: A month, oh five K, yeah, heavy, yeah.
Speaker 4: And like, granted I've got to work from home allowance,
Speaker 4: so it covers some of it, but within a month
Speaker 4: it's like more than five K.
Speaker 3: It's an expensive apartment.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have to ask you off air how you
Speaker 2: get a work from home allowance?
Speaker 3: Do you have an employer? No, you, babes.
Speaker 4: I've talked about going to a company structure. We've discussed
Speaker 4: this before.
Speaker 3: See.
Speaker 4: The point is it's a very expensive apartment. And I
Speaker 4: emphasized that because when I moved from my old apartment
Speaker 4: to this one, I made the considered effort to take
Speaker 4: that little leap and go a little bit higher than
Speaker 4: I would because it was going to function as not
Speaker 4: only like a home office, but I also film a
Speaker 4: lot in my house. I can it's a tax deductible
Speaker 4: expense if I have a room in there, and I
Speaker 4: wanted to live in a more convenient location.
Speaker 3: For me.
Speaker 4: It was my gift to myself, like, you work really hard,
Speaker 4: you can live in a nicer apartment. And so when
Speaker 4: I moved into this apartment, the first thing that concerned
Speaker 4: me was that in two of the rooms there was
Speaker 4: this huge like stains in the carpet. There's gray carpet
Speaker 4: with these brown stains. And I was like, what is
Speaker 4: that And they're like, oh, it's water damage. But we're
Speaker 4: going to get the carpet to ripped up for you
Speaker 4: before you move in. And I was like, fantastic. I
Speaker 4: have two weeks before I can move in. Will it
Speaker 4: be done in the two weeks time? Like, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 4: My mum always says building managers and real estate agents
Speaker 4: always lie about repairs.
Speaker 3: They can't constantly do it.
Speaker 4: But I was like, look either way, I got to
Speaker 4: move in a sap because my lease is ended. We're
Speaker 4: in the middle of a rental crisis. There were too many,
Speaker 4: like too many factors that were making this difficult. So
Speaker 4: it's a week before I meant to move and the
Speaker 4: real estate agent's like, oh, the carpets aren't fixed yet,
Speaker 4: but I'll do it. I'll organize it next week. It's
Speaker 4: all approved on our end. We just can't get ahold
Speaker 4: of the of the repair guys. I was like, okay, cool.
Speaker 4: The week I got to move in, he's okay, just
Speaker 4: move in and we we'll get it fixed this week.
Speaker 4: This week happens the carpets are not fixed. And at
Speaker 4: this point I'm hitting them like, hey, you know, how
Speaker 4: are you going? Can I get an update on this?
Speaker 4: So that's week one. Carpets aren't fixed. It's been three weeks.
Speaker 4: The next week, I go to one of the rooms
Speaker 4: in the houses. It's really big, like rumpus room basically.
Speaker 4: I go in and I'm like, what is that gushing sounder?
Speaker 3: Here?
Speaker 5: Gosh?
Speaker 3: What does that sound? I opened the bar?
Speaker 4: Why is there a flood bar the spar of the spa? No,
Speaker 4: like there's a bar connected to anyway. Just so there's
Speaker 4: like a bar connected to a room.
Speaker 3: Like a like a drink spar, like a yeah, a
Speaker 3: drink spar okay with like a tap and stuff where
Speaker 3: you can prepare drinks and stuff.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's been flooding, and so I call the real
Speaker 4: estate I was like, what is this, babe. It's a
Speaker 4: newly renovated place. Mind you first to live in it.
Speaker 4: I'm like, Hey, this has happened. Blah blah blah, some
Speaker 4: stuff has been damaged. She's like, oh, no, we'll get
Speaker 4: someone out there to fix it asap. They get someone
Speaker 4: out there to fix it asap, it's all good. I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 4: this is really odd, but I don't think much of it.
Speaker 4: The next week, I'm like, hey, what's up with the carpet? Yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, we're still working on it. And I'm like, okay, well,
Speaker 4: while you're there, the dimmers on all the lights don't
Speaker 4: actually dim, they go to like ten percent down and
Speaker 4: start flashing like it's giving strobe at splendor.
Speaker 3: What is going on? He's like, yeah, I'll get someone
Speaker 3: to fix it.
Speaker 4: Every week for the last seven weeks, I've been like, hey,
Speaker 4: what's been going on? What's been going on? It gets worse.
Speaker 4: Not only can I not get them to do the repairs,
Speaker 4: but on two separate occasions, random building managers have walked
Speaker 4: into my house unannounced. Random men I literally have a
Speaker 4: video of me recording myself being like to this guy, Hey,
Speaker 4: you're actually at my house?
Speaker 3: Who are you?
Speaker 4: Not only is this building manager on his phone with
Speaker 4: his back to me, he's not wearing shoes.
Speaker 3: Are discussing. It's not wearing shoes.
Speaker 4: Let me not get fired, let me bring it. It's
Speaker 4: just point blank irritating experience I'm having with the real estate.
Speaker 4: But I can imagine anyone who's renting, who has ever
Speaker 4: rented a place ever, has had an unsavory experience with
Speaker 4: a real estate agent. And as a homeowner myself, I
Speaker 4: want to keep the house in good condition. I want
Speaker 4: to work with you to make sure that nothing's unsavory
Speaker 4: is happening.
Speaker 3: But I feel like I'm not being met halfway.
Speaker 4: And so what I discussed before is that this house
Speaker 4: I moved into is expensive, and it's expensive because I
Speaker 4: was expecting a certain level of service to come with
Speaker 4: the price. You know what I'm saying. Turns out no,
Speaker 4: it's the same old nonsense I was explaining that. How
Speaker 4: for about six or seven weeks now, I've been waiting
Speaker 4: on carpets and electricals to get fixed that were promised
Speaker 4: to be fixed before I moved in, and more recently,
Speaker 4: men have been walking into my house unannounced, trying to
Speaker 4: unlock the door.
Speaker 3: Do they have keys? So this is the thing, the.
Speaker 4: First occasion where some random man walked into my house.
Speaker 4: I had just moved in in a bit a couple
Speaker 4: of days, and there's major works happening in the building anyway,
Speaker 4: So I guess there's like a strata manager and a
Speaker 4: building manager and a construction man.
Speaker 3: Just people all across the property.
Speaker 4: And so there'd been a leak in my house, but
Speaker 4: I couldn't tell if it's because of the rain or
Speaker 4: because of the works upstairs. When you're building, I get
Speaker 4: things like that happen, and so I message my real
Speaker 4: estate agent and I say, Hey, this is what's happening.
Speaker 4: There are leaks in these areas. Could you arrange someone
Speaker 4: to come by asap and check on it, because realistically,
Speaker 4: I'm not going to create solutions around a problem that
Speaker 4: could be fixed, So come fix the leaks. I don't
Speaker 4: have to be here with towels every other day doing
Speaker 4: extra laundry. So I'm sitting in my house and then
Speaker 4: I'm recording myself for work and I hear.
Speaker 3: That's my door open.
Speaker 4: Sound effect. And there's a door from my garage because
Speaker 4: I was bringing stuff in and out of my house,
Speaker 4: but the.
Speaker 3: Door was closed, right.
Speaker 4: I hadn't locked it because I was physically moving in
Speaker 4: and out recording myself doing so.
Speaker 3: So I'm I say to.
Speaker 4: The camera, I think someone in my house. I felt like,
Speaker 4: this is like when a stranger calls. I was like, again,
Speaker 4: the call is coming out inside the house. Who's going
Speaker 4: to protect me? So anyway, I crane my head to
Speaker 4: the side and I see some man in high vis
Speaker 4: sweatpants on the phone back to me, no socks, speaking
Speaker 4: to someone.
Speaker 3: I'm like, is this Who is this?
Speaker 4: So I walk up to him and I'm recording myself
Speaker 4: and I'm like.
Speaker 3: Hi, you're in my house. Who are you? And he's
Speaker 3: on the phone.
Speaker 4: He's like, ah ah sorry, He's like one secret, one
Speaker 4: second mate, one second mate.
Speaker 6: Ah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, someone told me about a leak. I didn't know
Speaker 4: anyone be here. And I was like, how did you
Speaker 4: know about the leak If someone didn't tell you that
Speaker 4: there was a leak in here? He was like, yeah,
Speaker 4: I didn't know anyone was living here.
Speaker 3: And I was like, I live here. Who sent you?
Speaker 4: He's like, oh, I'm a building manager. I'm like, for
Speaker 4: who though I don't know who you are, and he
Speaker 4: was like, yeah, I just got a message from someone
Speaker 4: to check.
Speaker 3: On a leak.
Speaker 4: I'm like, the leak isn't even coming from their number one.
Speaker 4: Why didn't you knock?
Speaker 3: He said the door was unlocked.
Speaker 4: No, so we don't knock anyway. I sent a scathing
Speaker 4: email as you did. Got it off my chest. You know,
Speaker 4: hit it with all the lines. As a woman, it's
Speaker 4: very unsafe, la la la, hit all the touch points.
Speaker 3: Today, yet another incident with a random man coming.
Speaker 4: Into my house, but this one is worse. This morning
Speaker 4: I've had Oh I've never seen you so pressed because
Speaker 4: I'm taking so many steps for things to get done right,
Speaker 4: because I don't want to feel any way about anything.
Speaker 4: I don't want to stress. I don't want to have
Speaker 4: an attitude. I want to be empty head, good vibes,
Speaker 4: talking about conspiracies, getting paid.
Speaker 5: That's it.
Speaker 4: So when I'm taking steps and doing what you're meant
Speaker 4: to do and things going, I'm pissed off. So I
Speaker 4: have a Telstra Internet thing like they're my internet provider.
Speaker 4: I have it for my house in Sydney and my
Speaker 4: house in Hobart. So I set up the new connection
Speaker 4: in Hobart and I moved to a new apartment at
Speaker 4: the same time. And so every time I try to
Speaker 4: get the NBN set up in my Sydney house, they
Speaker 4: keep ding to thy Light House.
Speaker 3: Right, even time it's been months.
Speaker 4: I'm like, just why do you we have to to
Speaker 4: separate the accounts if it's going to be an issue
Speaker 4: for you. And every single time I'm doing a little
Speaker 4: Teltra chat and every time they say, oh, we have
Speaker 4: the new person we move you to can see the
Speaker 4: chat history so you don't have to repeat yourself. And
Speaker 4: every time I got to repeat myself because they asked
Speaker 4: the same questions. I said, it's in the chat history,
Speaker 4: like yeah, but anyway, So this morning, over the weekend,
Speaker 4: I've been speaking to a TELTU representative of the whole time.
Speaker 4: They like, okay, letna get someone to your new Sydney
Speaker 4: place first thing Monday.
Speaker 3: So I asked.
Speaker 4: Sully best friend Sally, if she can work from my
Speaker 4: house in the morning to let the person in or
Speaker 4: good tell me why. At eight am, I got a
Speaker 4: confirmation that they're going to be at the property, but
Speaker 4: the Hopeite property says, I even got to put on
Speaker 4: a scar today. Could I got the text as I
Speaker 4: was doing my makeup. Okay, So I'm like, okay, this
Speaker 4: is really frustrating. I'm on the chat being like, hey,
Speaker 4: this is what's happened. He at the right people. They're like, oh,
Speaker 4: someone's coming. I'm like, you're not coming to the right place.
Speaker 4: They're like, we don't have the new address on the system.
Speaker 4: I'm like, I already did move. Request like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: you have to move. I can't even speak anyway. So
Speaker 4: that's all happening. And I remember when I got the
Speaker 4: message at like eight thirty. I was like, Sally, don't
Speaker 4: don't worry about coming. So like, I'm already here. Let
Speaker 4: myself he and I was like, okay, great, so you're.
Speaker 3: Not the early one. You're already here.
Speaker 4: You can like, you can work from mine. It's all good.
Speaker 4: So Sally's working from mine. And then at about midday,
Speaker 4: I get a call from her and she's like, are
Speaker 4: you getting someone in to clean the bathroom?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 4: I was like, huh. She's like, there's a man here.
Speaker 4: He said, he's here to clean the bathroom. I'm like,
Speaker 4: you mean, like the leak in the hallway. She's like no,
Speaker 4: And I'm like, is it a cleaner And she's like no,
Speaker 4: just some guy in high viz talking about how he's
Speaker 4: with the construction company. I say, so, I'm like, Sally,
Speaker 4: tell him to tell his people. Does an email to
Speaker 4: my people so we can do it, so we can
Speaker 4: like figure this out. And I can hear in the
Speaker 4: background being like, no, I'm here. I'm here to clean
Speaker 4: the bathroom. Now the entrance to get to my house.
Speaker 4: This is not street access, Like you've got to be
Speaker 4: in the property. So the very least we know he's
Speaker 4: meant to be there in some capacity.
Speaker 3: But Sully knew that.
Speaker 4: I was at work obviously, so she was like, I'm like,
Speaker 4: can you just draft an email to me to tell
Speaker 4: me what happened to you? So I can tell the
Speaker 4: real estate agent what happened, you know, because I want
Speaker 4: to get a paper trail.
Speaker 3: One thing about me, I love payptrail.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna send an email for any minor inconvenience, so
Speaker 4: when it comes to the end of it, you'll know
Speaker 4: exactly what happened. Subject line. This is a four paragraph email.
Speaker 4: Thank goodness for Sally because she knows how I like
Speaker 4: detailed the subject line incident with builders at address Gorge.
Speaker 4: She's done this before, she says, Hope been well today
Speaker 4: at the apartment, I heard a very quiet knock at
Speaker 4: the back door, and I was not expecting anyone to
Speaker 4: be knocking via the back door. Disregarded it, and only
Speaker 4: when I heard another knock I approached the door with
Speaker 4: caution to then't have a builder from upstairs open the.
Speaker 3: Door and peep in.
Speaker 4: He explained to me he was sent by his boss
Speaker 4: to clean the bathrooms. Hmm, And I explained I was
Speaker 4: not informed by Lil to be expecting Well, that's me everyone.
Speaker 4: I'm also flexible. You know government name, we use it sometimes.
Speaker 4: I was not informed by Lil to be expecting anyone
Speaker 4: for her bathroom today. I was frantically trying to confirm
Speaker 4: with her to see if this is something she had organized,
Speaker 4: and after confirming with her over the phone that she
Speaker 4: did not organize this, I explained that to the builder
Speaker 4: to then ask his boss to confirm with the building
Speaker 4: manager if this was something that he had organized. He
Speaker 4: then said that he was just there to clean the
Speaker 4: bathroom and didn't think that there'd be an issue in
Speaker 4: having to ask a bunch of people, and she said,
Speaker 4: please send an email to me explaining what's going on.
Speaker 4: The builder agreed he would do this eventually, but still
Speaker 4: insisted and ask PEO could come in at that moment
Speaker 4: have a look at the bathrooms. And then, of course
Speaker 4: Sully declined and explain that the person who's he isn't
Speaker 4: comfortable with that and has not given her permission to
Speaker 4: do so and that, and so he walked away.
Speaker 3: Yeah, go Sally, that's hard to do.
Speaker 4: Literally, And I was like, good on you, because she
Speaker 4: could have easily been like but she fully called me.
Speaker 4: She confirmed all that. I was like, thank goodness for
Speaker 4: trusting your gut bobe. Anyway, the entire time, he looked
Speaker 4: just as confused as I was as to why a
Speaker 4: tradesman was sent to clean a bathroom.
Speaker 3: And why who's cleaning just the bathroom? Let me get
Speaker 3: the whole potage.
Speaker 4: You know, I'm saying, are you doing the bathroom affiliate
Speaker 4: link something? Anyway, she says, if you could please contact
Speaker 4: the building manager and confirm if that was needed and
Speaker 4: for what purpose, and having pleased, email Lillene explaining that
Speaker 4: would be great.
Speaker 3: Also, when I.
Speaker 4: Moved in, I was like, because they had converted my
Speaker 4: apartment and it'd been newly renovated to an existing apartment,
Speaker 4: and I was like, hey, why is my doorbell not work?
Speaker 4: And they're like, oh, it's not connected. And I was like,
Speaker 4: can you connect it? And they're like it'll be a fee.
Speaker 4: Doesn't the doorbell come with the property. I'm not doing
Speaker 4: any add ons. This is not a hot tub anyway.
Speaker 4: So I've just gotten a response.
Speaker 3: Here we go good or bad. I haven't read it.
Speaker 4: We're reading it together. Okay, thank you for your email,
Speaker 4: and hope you're also keeping well. Smiley face what kind
Speaker 4: of smiley one of those j ones? You know, the
Speaker 4: ones that like the windows outlook does yeah? Yeah, yeah, yep.
Speaker 4: I appreciate you letting me know. We've spoken to the
Speaker 4: site manager and he has advised that the laborer was
Speaker 4: meant to go to unit dirt dot Dort instead of yours.
Speaker 4: No tradesman has a key to the apartment, and we
Speaker 4: would recommend having the door locked at all times.
Speaker 3: This is my thing.
Speaker 4: That door is through a garage private entrance only I
Speaker 4: have access to it, So somebody has to go through
Speaker 4: all the other houses to get to mine. Why would
Speaker 4: you just let yourself in and this is the second time.
Speaker 4: So at this point, I'm like, what kind of system
Speaker 4: do you have where the real estate agent and the
Speaker 4: building manager are in codes to keep letting men come
Speaker 4: to my house for no and the for not the
Speaker 4: reasons that I asked for.
Speaker 3: I'm waiting for a carpet, I'm waiting for electricals.
Speaker 5: Why are you.
Speaker 3: Coming to clean my b He's like, don't do all
Speaker 3: a chicky ad on for her.
Speaker 4: She's she's not happy with us, Go clean her back,
Speaker 4: She'll feel better.
Speaker 3: What is going on?
Speaker 4: And the thing that gets me about these real estate
Speaker 4: agents is it reminds me of how how I was
Speaker 4: taught to deal with.
Speaker 3: Incidents in retail.
Speaker 4: Right worked at a shoe storees how Seal and I
Speaker 4: actually met ten years ago. We worked at Zoos Shoes
Speaker 4: in Bondi, and we were told that if there was
Speaker 4: an incident at the store, like somebody had fallen over
Speaker 4: or slipped or cut themselves, that we should assist them,
Speaker 4: but we should not say sorry, because sorry means that
Speaker 4: we're excepting fault. And that's what I feel like these
Speaker 4: real estate agents do. They gloss around the point because
Speaker 4: in order to say like we like we agree. It
Speaker 4: means it's now their responsibility and it's on them. And
Speaker 4: so I will say moral of the story is, after
Speaker 4: seven weeks of waiting for the carpet and the electricals
Speaker 4: to be done, I would the way that I would
Speaker 4: ask for a check up on updates.
Speaker 3: I would say, could you.
Speaker 4: Please let me know how that's going? Could you please
Speaker 4: let me know where we're at with that? And he'd say, oh,
Speaker 4: you know when, blah blah blah, ins excuse. The last
Speaker 4: email I sent was let me know what time you've
Speaker 4: arranged for them to be coming this week? It stunning
Speaker 4: and what happened two emails, one from the carpets, one
Speaker 4: from electrician.
Speaker 3: There we go, okay, specifics.
Speaker 4: You need to tell them this is what we're doing,
Speaker 4: not ask them when it's happening.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 4: And I hate to.
Speaker 3: Be Wall Street on them.
Speaker 4: Karen hanken Wolf of Wall Street what's his name? Joe Jordan,
Speaker 4: Jordan belfour.
Speaker 5: Little Bellefort.
Speaker 3: I hate to do it, you know, but it's going
Speaker 3: to get to that point.
Speaker 4: What I will never do is be one of those
Speaker 4: influencers who calls out the brand on the story.
Speaker 3: Oh God, far out it's what if people, I could
Speaker 3: do a whole segment on that. We should. It's tempting.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's so tempting, but I should.
Speaker 3: Thank you for indulging me. It was nice to get
Speaker 3: off my chest. Yeah, I'm so sorry about that, darling.
Speaker 4: I don't want to be going through that. It's just
Speaker 4: when I come over. Yeah, I want to look at everything,
Speaker 4: not to hang out. I want to get my dining
Speaker 4: table in.
Speaker 1: Okay, you're listening to flex and Frooms on Cada FLEXI.
Speaker 2: Something that we are always thinking about is dating, and
Speaker 2: probably something that I think we are both interested in
Speaker 2: is how to end a relationship.
Speaker 4: Well, this is very proven, but please always thinking about
Speaker 4: how to get it and get out.
Speaker 3: Long term?
Speaker 2: No, I just think a lot of people call in
Speaker 2: or message in and say how do.
Speaker 3: I end things?
Speaker 4: Well, mostly like how do I justify my partner's terrible
Speaker 4: behavior and do anything but not date them?
Speaker 3: Please give us solutions?
Speaker 2: No, well, I keep saying, especially on Reddit, people being like,
Speaker 2: oh this guy. I was like seeing this guy and
Speaker 2: then he said, oh, I'm too busy.
Speaker 3: Work is too busy. I've got too much going on.
Speaker 2: And it made me think, has anyone actually been honest
Speaker 2: about that, Like, has anytime someone said that been properly honest?
Speaker 4: Oh, so you're saying when you get hit with the oh,
Speaker 4: I've got a lot on I've been too busy.
Speaker 3: Things are weird, I don't have time.
Speaker 5: Weird.
Speaker 3: Yeah, really, because you seem fine day.
Speaker 4: Like my head scrambled, I'm wigging out. Have they ever
Speaker 4: been telling the truth? No? No, I just don't think
Speaker 4: that people's default is honesty. Like if I was truly scrambled,
Speaker 4: like if I was having like a bit of a
Speaker 4: menty bee, a ment mental health battle, I don't think
Speaker 4: that I would outright tell the person I'm casually speaking
Speaker 4: to that, hey, I'm having a few thoughts intrusive maybe happening.
Speaker 4: So I don't think that when someone's saying like, it's
Speaker 4: just been a really busy week, I believe that someone's
Speaker 4: actually busy if they're leading with it to preface the
Speaker 4: behavior that is to come, not as an explanation for
Speaker 4: the behavior that has been. So if I'm getting ahead
Speaker 4: of myself and saying, hey, it's going to be a
Speaker 4: heap technical week, not gonna be on my phone march,
Speaker 4: you'd be like, Okay, I am believe that but if
Speaker 4: I've been like, hey, like you've been like pretty often
Speaker 4: off with the communication, like what's going on?
Speaker 3: She's been wigging out?
Speaker 2: But what about if at the start they say, oh,
Speaker 2: I'm really busy. What if that's just a ruse.
Speaker 4: From the beginning, give it to him. That's a long
Speaker 4: con and I support them. That's intentional dating.
Speaker 3: Strategic. Why what do you reckon?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 2: I think it's really interesting because people say that they
Speaker 2: want honesty.
Speaker 3: But would you prefer people, yeah, to say.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm too busy, or would you prefer someone to
Speaker 2: say I just don't see it with you.
Speaker 4: I mean, people want an honesty. Every second person you
Speaker 4: date be like, look, you're just not a priority. Like that.
Speaker 2: I like, I like saying that I'm not a priority
Speaker 2: over like over saying I'm busy.
Speaker 3: Watch to this.
Speaker 4: You've messaged the guy because he's like, hey, he's mentioned
Speaker 4: that you should go on a date. He said, like,
Speaker 4: let's do it this weekend. This weekend's come, no plans
Speaker 4: have been made, So you follow up and you say, hey, like,
Speaker 4: what's the deal When he said he's just not a
Speaker 4: p already right now? You prefer you prefer you're not
Speaker 4: a priority over, I've just been really busy.
Speaker 2: Yes, because I hate the idea that you think that
Speaker 2: I can't handle that.
Speaker 3: I can handle that.
Speaker 2: I don't want you to think that I'm too weak
Speaker 2: or like too sensitive and you need to be like, oh,
Speaker 2: I'm busy. Well, meanwhile, you're thinking, oh my god, I
Speaker 2: don't want to see this person prefer just like a oh,
Speaker 2: I don't have to say point blank you're not my
Speaker 2: preferends Now we're getting to the meat of it. Just say, look,
Speaker 2: I had a really fun time with you, but dating
Speaker 2: is not something that I want to do right now.
Speaker 4: But it's not even that deep sometimes, like I think
Speaker 4: in one week, I could forget to respond to my
Speaker 4: closest friends. I'm like, sorry, I was having like anxiety
Speaker 4: and watching TikTok. Yeah, that's fine.
Speaker 3: It's been busy, you know.
Speaker 4: But what I'm saying is you're not a priority, not
Speaker 4: that I don't want to see you anymore.
Speaker 2: Oh well, then I'm okay with that because then I
Speaker 2: can make you my priority.
Speaker 3: I can change him. I can't fix him.
Speaker 4: It's me.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So no, I think if you are someone who wants
Speaker 2: to not see someone, don't hit them with the busy instead.
Speaker 2: What if they are busy, well, then say I'm busy,
Speaker 2: but I can see you.
Speaker 3: Then like, don't don't, don't, don't hit me with the busy.
Speaker 3: What if you don't know when you can see the next.
Speaker 2: And say I'm busy, I really want to see you again.
Speaker 2: I'm going to say in two weeks I'll message you again, okay,
Speaker 2: which could also be another way, you know, give.
Speaker 3: Him on the back burner. But he said he really
Speaker 3: likes me. But she says she must have seen me again.
Speaker 3: And have you been affected by the floods?
Speaker 4: By the way, I should have checked in because we
Speaker 4: had a couple of floods one two one two, and
Speaker 4: I just seemed everyone's fine if they didn't post about it.
Speaker 3: But did you? Were you fine?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: I was fine? Are you okay? Yeah, I'm fine.
Speaker 4: Actually, I mean definitely I didn't experience flood flooding. But
Speaker 4: there have been some mystery leaks in my apartment that
Speaker 4: I'm struggling to get addressed. But in the grand scheme
Speaker 4: of things, it's very livable. I live lasher Live Premium
Speaker 4: can't complain. But the residents in Dubbo mmmmmmmm. Listen to
Speaker 4: this for a bit of news you might have missed
Speaker 4: this week. Last Thursday, Dubbo got a boil water alert
Speaker 4: that was.
Speaker 3: Issued by the Dubbo Council.
Speaker 4: Basically, they're saying that the boil water alert is effective
Speaker 4: immediately and to be expected to be in place for
Speaker 4: about a week. And due to the floods, it's been
Speaker 4: like heaps of contaminated water, like coming from the taps,
Speaker 4: the toilets, all of it not safe to drink at all,
Speaker 4: and so if they want to drink water, they have
Speaker 4: to boil it or go and buy it. And so
Speaker 4: I saw some tiktoks of people on the ground going
Speaker 4: to their local grocery source to pick up some water.
Speaker 4: Obviously it's all gone, because even on an average week
Speaker 4: when there's not contaminated water, it is out of stock.
Speaker 4: But also I was thinking about how dystopian it is
Speaker 4: to be living in you know, a quote unng quote
Speaker 4: developed country and to have to be dealing with crises
Speaker 4: that are mismanaged every time, and to also I could
Speaker 4: not imagine what it would be like to live in
Speaker 4: a flood affected area and to be the hot new
Speaker 4: cycle of the day for maybe twelve minutes. And then
Speaker 4: while everybody's moved on to Kim Kardashian losing weight for
Speaker 4: the met Gala or Chris Rock getting slapped.
Speaker 3: People like, Okay, well, I'm.
Speaker 4: Still like trying to empty out the contents of my
Speaker 4: home and fight with insurance companies to see if I
Speaker 4: can get a payout. It's just odd. It's very DYSTOPI
Speaker 4: and it's very strange. But also we got a message
Speaker 4: in from a listener, Brandon, who's actually on the ground
Speaker 4: in Dubbo, to speak about his experience and what that's
Speaker 4: been like.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's been pretty unreal hereily due to the recent
Speaker 6: amount of water and the floodings and whatnot. So yeah,
Speaker 6: at the moment has been it's been pretty strange. I
Speaker 6: guess it's not something that you expect to happen. Wasn't
Speaker 6: something that we'd sort of planned for. We're at a
Speaker 6: water family anyway. Currently You've got a boil water to
Speaker 6: prepare food, brush your teeth, you know, drinking obviously things
Speaker 6: like that. But I mean, the water doesn't look any different.
Speaker 6: I can't say I've been brave enough to taste it.
Speaker 6: I don't really want to spend the next week or
Speaker 6: two on the on the bathroom. It's sort of affected
Speaker 6: everyone a little bit differently. Some people, you know, are
Speaker 6: pretty pretty upset about it. Some are sort of just
Speaker 6: taking in their stride. I mean, there's not much you
Speaker 6: can do. We've we've been to the shop and as
Speaker 6: I said, we're a bottle of water family, so we've
Speaker 6: we've grabbed a few cases of water from Woolies. But yeah,
Speaker 6: what I will say is the first day come out,
Speaker 6: I happened to drop the kids at school and I
Speaker 6: ducked into the local Woolies. And yes, it's probably probably
Speaker 6: only opened a couple of hours and already the there
Speaker 6: was there was not a not a stack of water inside.
Speaker 6: Even the single bottles had all been brought up. So yeah,
Speaker 6: as unfortunate is for us, as as locals, the shops
Speaker 6: are probably loving life at the moment.
Speaker 4: A bit of a business up for the local shop. Yeah,
Speaker 4: nothing like a local flood to get sales up. I
Speaker 4: to a bottle water family, girl, a family. Let me
Speaker 4: tell you, I've had my own trials and tribulations with
Speaker 4: the water at my last property.
Speaker 3: Won't give out. What do you call it? I was
Speaker 3: gonna call it the IP address? What do latitude long.
Speaker 4: Atude coordinates come on now. But it was in the
Speaker 4: north north of Sydney. The pipes were really terrible and
Speaker 4: the water was bad, and I thought it was just me.
Speaker 4: But when I would have friends, they were all like,
Speaker 4: what is up with your water? It tastes terrible. And
Speaker 4: when I would talk to my realtor, they're like, I
Speaker 4: don't know, like it's maybe a strata issue. There's no
Speaker 4: strata manager here. So I became a bottle water family girl. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's how i'd be a bottle.
Speaker 3: Water family as well if I was in your position. Terrible.
Speaker 4: Well, I hope that Brandon's doing okay. I can imagine that.
Speaker 4: You know he's been prepping' he's managing well, it.
Speaker 3: Sounds like very well all things considered.
Speaker 4: Yeah, mind have a matter, So shout out to Brandon.
Speaker 4: Love your work, It'll be fine. Hope the kids are good,
Speaker 4: et cetera. But still, I am so stoked to keep
Speaker 4: talking about news we keep missing because as an avid
Speaker 4: news reader, there's so much that I want to discuss
Speaker 4: with people.
Speaker 3: They're like, I didn't know that happened. I did't not happen.
Speaker 3: I'm like, but why not? Why not?
Speaker 4: What's going on? So I'm making it my temporary duty
Speaker 4: to let you know or listen till I get bored.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean. It's starting. I think of
Speaker 3: some as well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is flex and frooms on Kada.
Speaker 4: I was having this conversation with someone a couple of
Speaker 4: days ago and they were like, oh, do you know
Speaker 4: they want to ban pawn into Woomba.
Speaker 3: And I was like, I don't really feel like that's a.
Speaker 4: Thing, but I googled it. I did fact check this one,
Speaker 4: and the most recent article I could find was from
Speaker 4: about twenty seventeen. So I don't know if this legislation
Speaker 4: has passed officious chit chat, but yeah, basically the mayor
Speaker 4: at the time. I don't know if it's still the mayor,
Speaker 4: but Paul Antonio was leading a movement to keep the
Speaker 4: township pawn free, and that more than two hundred men
Speaker 4: gathered in the town center to share this like anti
Speaker 4: porn rhetoric, and they restarted a pledge and the pledge read,
Speaker 4: I acknowledge that viewing pornography promotes exploitation of women and
Speaker 4: violence against women, and it damages family. I commit that
Speaker 4: I won't viewporn and I'll help create a city free
Speaker 4: from porn. But then ironically, there was a study done
Speaker 4: by this online retailer called Fenplay and they said they
Speaker 4: did like some surveys and they deduced that to Woomba
Speaker 4: had the most purchases of sex toys in Australia according
Speaker 4: to their data.
Speaker 3: So maybe there is a crisis that needs to be addressed.
Speaker 3: I don't know, you know what I reckon? What do
Speaker 3: you reckon? I reckon that all.
Speaker 2: Let's say it's at a heterosexuals a lot of married couples.
Speaker 2: I reckon all of the wives were getting their little
Speaker 2: orders in clickity clack, getting their little devices. They come
Speaker 2: and then the men are like, enough is enough. You
Speaker 2: need to throw these out, and we're like will you
Speaker 2: watch pouns? And we're like we'll stop watching. And then
Speaker 2: it became a movement. This is a soap opera.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you?
Speaker 1: Do you reckon?
Speaker 3: That makes sense? Yeah?
Speaker 2: But again, like I just like something had to be
Speaker 2: the catalyst for them to be like, all right, enough
Speaker 2: is enough.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I'm processing as I'm thinking, and I feel like it
Speaker 4: could be a ton of things, but I'm happy to
Speaker 4: go with that. Maybe you should tweet the met ask
Speaker 4: him send him a DM, excuse me, does rain food?
Speaker 3: Responded to our DM. Let's to check that first. Probably how, I'm.
Speaker 4: Sure we would have seen it if we had dog behavior,
Speaker 4: we got beef with red food.
Speaker 3: Pick us, P excuse us, love us. We're right here.
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