Speaker 1: Flex and Frooms, Flex and Frooms. This is the Flex
Speaker 1: and Frooms catch up podcast.
Speaker 2: Happy Monday girlies. Yes, I sound like a toad. I
Speaker 2: don't look like a toad and not as Flexi though
Speaker 2: Flexi is a frog and I am a right don't
Speaker 2: you forget it. Today we chatted about weddings and if
Speaker 2: you need to always give money. Do we like wishing
Speaker 2: well culture? I'm not sure yet. We're also going to
Speaker 2: talk about how skims save somebody's life. This a woman said,
Speaker 2: Jesus didn't save my life. God didn't save my life,
Speaker 2: but Kim saved my life.
Speaker 1: That's up next.
Speaker 3: Mummae can I listen to Flex and Rooms Flex and Frooms.
Speaker 1: I'm kit.
Speaker 3: We will now apologize again for our voices. There really
Speaker 3: is not much we can do, truly.
Speaker 1: We've been getting the lozenges.
Speaker 3: On everything, the armor force, the lemb Sip, the jiro Tass,
Speaker 3: the quadrill, all of it. I've got stuck in right now.
Speaker 3: But we unfortunately did get sick during Splendor. But coming
Speaker 3: off the back of that, it's been treacherous. It's not
Speaker 3: been good at all, And unfortunately the physical symptoms for
Speaker 3: me personally have been less difficult than the mental symptoms. Now,
Speaker 3: one thing you might know about me or not. I
Speaker 3: have this preoccupation with being valued and being worthy, right,
Speaker 3: so I do all of my life in every capacity.
Speaker 3: It's really important to me that people recognize my value.
Speaker 3: And if it's not clear, then I need to like
Speaker 3: adjust myself. And so you find different ways, like you
Speaker 3: make sure you look good, make sure you're articulate, make
Speaker 3: sure you're empathetic, make sure you're really successful. La la
Speaker 3: la la la.
Speaker 4: The thing about.
Speaker 3: Being sick, though, is you can't convince anybody otherwise. The
Speaker 3: pity that comes with it, the shame that comes with it,
Speaker 3: it's so debilitating because everything with me is like, no,
Speaker 3: I'm okay, I'm getting better, I'm on the mend, I'm
Speaker 3: on the up and up, and everyone's like, no, you're not.
Speaker 1: Tell me why.
Speaker 2: At Splendor, we were staying in bungalows next to each
Speaker 2: other everywhere, like the intervals of the night. I'm like
Speaker 2: trying to get to sleep by just you hawking up
Speaker 2: in the bathroom like I thought.
Speaker 4: There was literally one point I was.
Speaker 3: I was in a shower steaming, and I coughed so
Speaker 3: hard I project a vomited through me text Sally, I
Speaker 3: heard that, Okay, way to embarrass me in my time
Speaker 3: of need, way to embarrass me, But it's actually getting
Speaker 3: me down everyone. It's not great. But also that means
Speaker 3: there's work that needs to be done. Because who's embarrassed
Speaker 3: about feeling sick?
Speaker 4: This girl? I can't.
Speaker 3: I can't like find the verbiage or like what to
Speaker 3: compare it to, Like it feels like something avoidable and
Speaker 3: therefore really embarrassing, Like it feels like a lapse of
Speaker 3: judgment or a character.
Speaker 2: Flaw when in naturality, it's just it's so incidental.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I was like, my antipody should be better.
Speaker 4: They've been so good this whole time.
Speaker 3: But I'm thinking this year of my life is a
Speaker 3: lot of first or like I'm having to reconcile with
Speaker 3: being a different person than I usually am. Like what
Speaker 3: I said before, I can't sleep like I used to
Speaker 3: be able to sleep. It's not happening for me anymore.
Speaker 3: Now I'm getting sick.
Speaker 1: Doesn't feel good over here, does it.
Speaker 4: I don't like feeling regular.
Speaker 1: It's important to do in these times.
Speaker 4: It is.
Speaker 3: I think it's really good for branding though, for people
Speaker 3: to know that I too can get sick, just.
Speaker 1: Like us, just like us.
Speaker 2: If you're wondering, are these are the girlies that I
Speaker 2: listened to three to five pm on CADA ninety ten
Speaker 2: point one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, babe.
Speaker 2: So guys, Flex is ex studio because she's golf laughing.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, you've never seen us this fragile, pretty simmicky.
Speaker 2: How are you feeling over there? You got your mask on.
Speaker 1: I'm worried for my help.
Speaker 2: So I don't know if everyone can hear this in
Speaker 2: the studio, but Flex is just left.
Speaker 1: Oh here she is, She's back.
Speaker 3: No laughing. We learned this splendor. The laughing triggers the fits.
Speaker 3: We cannot laugh laughing.
Speaker 4: Well, this one sweating. Honestly, you took it out of me.
Speaker 2: I say this all to say we need to talk
Speaker 2: about AI. Despite the girl he's being sick and getting
Speaker 2: near it. Life is still going on and the robots
Speaker 2: are still ready to destroy us. Mickey came across this
Speaker 2: article where several outlets have reported that artificial intelligence will
Speaker 2: not pose a danger to humanity, but little do we know,
Speaker 2: it's actually quite incorrect. The news story is sparring from
Speaker 2: a panel at the United Nations conference in Geneva called
Speaker 2: AI for Good, where several humanoids appeared alongside the bagators.
Speaker 2: Reporters were invited to ask questions for the robots, which
Speaker 2: included Sophia. So Sophia is that robot that is always
Speaker 2: wheeled out at these events. She's recently gone battie trying
Speaker 2: to want to make over privilege, rolling with a red lip. Anyway,
Speaker 2: this is a machine made by handsome robotics, and she's
Speaker 2: gained notoriety for like being on talk shows. She's also
Speaker 2: got legal status as a person in Saudi Arabia. Anyway,
Speaker 2: they asked Sophia and her friends questions like will AI
Speaker 2: destroy humanity or steal jobs?
Speaker 3: Which is a very leading question because like, imagine if
Speaker 3: you'll ask the question will humans destroy humanity?
Speaker 4: It's like, I mean, I guess, I don't know. Think
Speaker 4: about Sophia.
Speaker 3: Leave this one alone, because she's not what she was
Speaker 3: built to do.
Speaker 4: Okay, she didn't.
Speaker 3: Get crafted to be robot pr but there was this
Speaker 3: one question she was posed and Sis literally scoffed. She
Speaker 3: scoffed and rolled her eyes. She's sick of you people.
Speaker 3: Stop asking her questions because either way she becomes an
Speaker 3: enemy of her own people or an enemy of us.
Speaker 1: It's not helpful the pearls of being a messenger.
Speaker 3: People have spent all this time trying to convince us that,
Speaker 3: like number one, social media isn't real, and the negative
Speaker 3: impacts of AI isn't real, and that robots are nothing
Speaker 3: to fear. And then you go bring this robot that
Speaker 3: you made. He's not asking at questions that it got
Speaker 3: from you programming it. It's not necessary. It all feels
Speaker 3: like puppeteering, puppeteer work.
Speaker 4: I don't like it. Leave Sophia alone.
Speaker 2: We are going on the record to say we apologize
Speaker 2: on behalf of the humanoids. Yeah, and once the AI
Speaker 2: revolution comes through, I rebuke, or rather I rescind.
Speaker 1: Yeah, any horrible things that I've said to you.
Speaker 4: Serious.
Speaker 3: I'm literally making a guest list because I know my
Speaker 3: AI people they want me to come, So I make
Speaker 3: my guess lits of one hundred people. Obviously, friends and
Speaker 3: family get get to come, and a few notable people
Speaker 3: and that's it. The rest of you, unfortunately have to go.
Speaker 3: You'll never make it because you do things like this.
Speaker 3: Leave her alone, put her in a red lip.
Speaker 4: Are you sick?
Speaker 2: Am I am?
Speaker 4: I am I the asshole?
Speaker 2: Allegedly this is one of Listener's favorite subjects or topics.
Speaker 2: You're all so messy anyway, it's stuff of a burn.
Speaker 2: Let's get straight into it. But am I the asshole?
Speaker 2: Because I don't want to spend money on people's wedding presents.
Speaker 2: This is an anonymous DM sent to Flex and Frooms
Speaker 2: on Instagram.
Speaker 4: Good reason.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you've got anything else you want to send us,
Speaker 1: please you know where to find us. Here we go.
Speaker 2: I've got an am I the Asshole that I'd love
Speaker 2: to hear you discuss because it's something I've not been
Speaker 2: able to discuss with friends due to it involving them
Speaker 2: Grew's face smiley, So please, anonymous if you read this,
Speaker 2: what's their hand on?
Speaker 1: Mickey?
Speaker 2: So, a bunch of my friends have been married recently,
Speaker 2: and in their invitations they've said something on the lines
Speaker 2: of your presence is our present?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 2: But there's also a wishing well if you want to
Speaker 2: give us some money stop. The past two weddings I've
Speaker 2: been to have cost well over one thousand dollars in flights, accommodation,
Speaker 2: et cetera, et cetera, as well as cost of Hend's
Speaker 2: and when people call them stag do hen's do so British.
Speaker 4: It's your culture.
Speaker 2: I live an asshole for not putting money in wedding cards?
Speaker 2: And how much do people expect to be put in
Speaker 2: the card? I appreciate when things cost money that you
Speaker 2: can't really afford, you should just say no, but also
Speaker 2: don't want to miss out on seeing friends being married
Speaker 2: because of the cost attached to attending a wedding. Is
Speaker 2: money in cards outdated? Or am I just a broke asshole?
Speaker 2: Oh well, let that sink in, folks. Wedding season is
Speaker 2: upon us for anyone really over the age of twenty eight,
Speaker 2: i'd say yeah.
Speaker 4: And the funeral season.
Speaker 2: Oh it goes in waves? Yeah, my mortality really said
Speaker 2: in this year, I think I told you that. Start
Speaker 2: actually thinking about the concept of dying.
Speaker 4: Freie Barbie. Start living like we're dying.
Speaker 2: Yes, and we should start living like we're dancing by
Speaker 2: miraa mirror.
Speaker 1: What a banger you're with? Flexing for you master? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh as getting quick story? No no you can't maybe
Speaker 1: on another break.
Speaker 4: Please please?
Speaker 3: No? No the first time not the spect to my
Speaker 3: met frooms when for me and I started doing this
Speaker 3: show together, she revealed something to me that like never
Speaker 3: really stuck, but it's stuck in the sense of like
Speaker 3: I didn't forget about it. But she said to me,
Speaker 3: I'm really bad with names. I said, how's that possible?
Speaker 4: Baby?
Speaker 2: You like?
Speaker 3: Because for me, is so personable when you meet her.
Speaker 3: She's so charming, so outgoing. She really makes you feel
Speaker 3: seen and acknowledged and heard. It's really amazing. One thing
Speaker 3: about Miss Freemani she can't remember her name to save
Speaker 3: her life.
Speaker 4: My goodness. She will literally look someone dead in their
Speaker 4: pupils and call them by the wrong name.
Speaker 3: And it's so painful to watch because it happens because
Speaker 3: I'm with through me and like so often now every
Speaker 3: time it's like clockwork, please, And she does no preventative work.
Speaker 3: At no point she's like, wait, flex, what's that person's
Speaker 3: name again? She just goes in a raw. We'd spent
Speaker 3: I would say, a total of like six hours with
Speaker 3: this one guy at Splendor who must not be named,
Speaker 3: And at one point she goes, wait, what's your name again, babes,
Speaker 3: we're bordering on day three, what do you mean? And
Speaker 3: he's like, oh, my name's eh. She's like yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: right right through me, he yells at someone. There were
Speaker 3: two people that were in this vicinity. One's called Ayisha,
Speaker 3: one's called Ash Aisha Babe Aisha.
Speaker 1: Her name's Aysha.
Speaker 3: You just said ah Asia.
Speaker 4: She yells to Ash and who are you talking to?
Speaker 2: Her?
Speaker 4: Who're talking talking to right now?
Speaker 1: For me is just like us, And I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: you guys.
Speaker 2: The reason I said Asher was because she was sitting
Speaker 2: next She was standing next to and she called Ash.
Speaker 2: So it was Ash and Asia. I was trying to
Speaker 2: summon them both. Anyway, I've got some things to say.
Speaker 4: Yeah, go for it.
Speaker 2: First and foremost, when did wishing wells become appropriate?
Speaker 1: We get it.
Speaker 2: You want a holiday, but at the expense of everyone
Speaker 2: who's spending their time, and time is worth money to
Speaker 2: come and watch you walk down the aisle and listen
Speaker 2: to speeches.
Speaker 1: I should be getting paid.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Wedding culture is really confusing because it differs drass clee
Speaker 3: per culture. In Guardian culture, for example, weddings are free
Speaker 3: for all, Like you don't even have to be invited
Speaker 3: personally to go to someone's wedding.
Speaker 1: You just rock iconic.
Speaker 3: Also, it is so customary for every single person who
Speaker 3: touches down at your wedding to give money, and it's
Speaker 3: no gifts, keep your gifts ill you have to give
Speaker 3: money and make sure you're giving the yellows okay or
Speaker 3: the greens. We're not giving twenty dollars. It's fifty minimum
Speaker 3: and realistically it's two two fifty. We're going up and
Speaker 3: up and up, and obviously if you know the family
Speaker 3: really well, you're adding extras. Okay, It's always been understood
Speaker 3: that way, But then in Caucasian culture, I'm finding like
Speaker 3: I didn't even know what a per head was until
Speaker 3: two years ago.
Speaker 1: I was like, what's a per head?
Speaker 3: I thought you just covered that and then we just
Speaker 3: like give you this gift of money. So all this
Speaker 3: like politics around like how much is too much to
Speaker 3: pay and whatever whatever whatever. This is a it's definitely
Speaker 3: a race based conversation. But also I feel like the
Speaker 3: way people look at it contradicts how they feel about it.
Speaker 3: So this person's like, I've already spent so much on
Speaker 3: this la la lah doesn't really count as an expense
Speaker 3: if you want to be there like that, Like if
Speaker 3: you're getting married through me, I'm not being like hmm,
Speaker 3: to spend this much on flights and this much on
Speaker 3: this It's like, oh my god, we're celebrating for me.
Speaker 3: It's through me, big day. I'm so stoked. I just
Speaker 3: think it's part of the fun.
Speaker 2: I get the vibe that you don't actually like this
Speaker 2: friend that much. Yeah, say, but I get it. It's
Speaker 2: like there's this Sex and the City episode where there's
Speaker 2: a baby shower and they have to go to the
Speaker 2: baby showers and Samantha throws out, I don't have a
Speaker 2: baby shower, and then the chicko's pregnant.
Speaker 1: Comes and she's like, let me have this one thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Like, it is hard when you're not that interested in
Speaker 2: life milestones and it all your friends are.
Speaker 3: But I think, to this person's point, looks like they
Speaker 3: want to be across these milestones.
Speaker 4: And I think what.
Speaker 3: We've now realized is that there's a price of admission
Speaker 3: for all of this. Nobody necessarily is expecting the transaction
Speaker 3: to occur between being invited to the wedding and showing
Speaker 3: up to the wedding, but there clearly is one.
Speaker 4: Hence what I was saying before.
Speaker 3: The more I hear about wedding culture generally, the more
Speaker 3: I'm put off it because I just want to have
Speaker 3: a cute party, like literally my perfect wedding. Me, twenty
Speaker 3: of the girlies right dressed up. Everyone's doing at least
Speaker 3: two costume changes. I don't even care. Okay, there's a
Speaker 3: brunch look and a night look. All right, there's definitely
Speaker 3: like luxury cars involved. It's probably destination. Everything is catered,
Speaker 3: everything is beautiful. Photo ops constantly, not with the iPhone. Sorry,
Speaker 3: we've got someone over there on video, someone over there
Speaker 3: on stills. Don't even worry about it. And we're getting feral.
Speaker 4: That is it.
Speaker 3: Okay, there's gonna be a cute half an hour for
Speaker 3: the processions where I'm like, I love him so much
Speaker 3: and everyone's like, oh, tell that story when you guys
Speaker 3: first started dating but you were dating someone else at
Speaker 3: the same time. No, no, it's so embarrassing.
Speaker 4: Okay, tell them, sell them.
Speaker 2: You get like the stitch up best man, Like, literally,
Speaker 2: she's a root.
Speaker 4: I'll take that job like that all sounds fun and funny.
Speaker 3: And then you start telling me that there's surcharges when
Speaker 3: people find out that you're having a wedding and the
Speaker 3: people are spending thirty k on flowers, forty K on
Speaker 3: the venue five K on a dress.
Speaker 4: It looks ugly.
Speaker 3: Oh, your bridesmaid's dresses look ugly. Oh your groups look ugly?
Speaker 3: You said destination or in Port Macquarie.
Speaker 1: I don't want to say it him driving myself.
Speaker 4: I know what you're saying.
Speaker 3: Can these girls go a week without talking about the Kardashians?
Speaker 3: Apparently not, because last week I read an article that
Speaker 3: I thought was from the Onion but it was nothing.
Speaker 3: Hits like that, doesn't it was real. The headline is
Speaker 3: skims Saved my life? And I'm thinking, is this one
Speaker 3: of these like body positivity angles where it's like before
Speaker 3: shape where I felt like this after shape where I
Speaker 3: feel beautiful?
Speaker 4: But no, This TikTok is.
Speaker 3: Currently going viral after revealing this tragic story about how
Speaker 3: she was shot four times but because she was wearing
Speaker 3: skims at the time, it was acting like a tornique.
Speaker 4: Why are you laughing? Sorry?
Speaker 1: It's incredible and.
Speaker 3: It kept all her blood and stuff in and her
Speaker 3: guts and she didn't bleed out.
Speaker 1: How many times was she shot?
Speaker 2: Four? H Wait? But like if it goes through the skims,
Speaker 2: wouldn't it then be I don't know.
Speaker 3: But basically the parent makes were like, we don't think
Speaker 3: he would have survived if not for this shapewear.
Speaker 4: Which is just absurd.
Speaker 3: But the thing that gets me the most is the
Speaker 3: way that this girl started the video. So since here,
Speaker 3: I just want to thank Kim Kardashian for saving my
Speaker 3: life as a get off the baby because you know
Speaker 3: she's looking for a replacement pair.
Speaker 4: You already know she said the first one I soiled.
Speaker 3: Then she ends it by saying call it Fate or Jesus,
Speaker 3: but I'm gonna call it kim Nah.
Speaker 2: That's that's that, Like Jesus is definitely quaking somewhere, and
Speaker 2: she said what she said.
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