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Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: Today we're talking about that age humbling and also have
Speaker 3: a hotel in the workplace. It is a very fun show.
Speaker 3: I'm going to get to it now.
Speaker 1: Mummy, can I listen to Flex and Rooms Flex and
Speaker 1: Frooms on Kata. We're not done talking about the Women's
Speaker 1: World Cup. I'm emphasizing the Women's World Cup because I've
Speaker 1: seen some I've heard some men about how you know
Speaker 1: to preface it with women is to segregate it from
Speaker 1: it being generally a World Cup. I want a platform
Speaker 1: and highlight that it's the women's World Cup. You know,
Speaker 1: let's not just like squeeze it together and make it
Speaker 1: seem like this the fanfare is due to it just
Speaker 1: being a World Cup. This is different people. Number one,
Speaker 1: they love chicks and number two they love chicks and sports.
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, this is a long time coming.
Speaker 1: The chicks are the ones who broke these records. Babe. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's all of a sudden now it's not take out.
Speaker 1: The women's were all one, no separated. I want to
Speaker 1: hear the women before the World Cup. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Now we have talked about before. Someone say we were haters.
Speaker 1: I was apathetic. Well here's the thing. There haven't been
Speaker 1: very few occasions where the world, and when I say
Speaker 1: the world, i'm in Australia has popped off in solidarity
Speaker 1: with any kind of movement. For a brief moment, it
Speaker 1: was COVID. We really came together on that one as
Speaker 1: a community, wouldn't you say, but better for worse.
Speaker 2: March fifth onwards. Yeah, the solidarity was popping on.
Speaker 1: We were one, we were suffering together, we were healing together,
Speaker 1: we were growing together. We were snitching.
Speaker 2: Together, yes, thank you, gladys.
Speaker 1: Then that dried out, as all things do. Then there
Speaker 1: was Fred again out off nowhere. Everyone suddenly, babe.
Speaker 3: We were at Lane Way and I saw like hords
Speaker 3: of people running running to the stage.
Speaker 1: It was running, olyptic. We've never seen anything like it,
Speaker 1: running to see this man. I just couldn't sade them.
Speaker 1: Why do Why has everyone decided overnight? They're obsessed with
Speaker 1: this guy, obsessed with his music. They all know the history,
Speaker 1: they all know the law. Until it was our turn, well,
Speaker 1: the Women's World Cup hosted by Australia. And suddenly what
Speaker 1: flex and rooms are watching televised sports? Are they? Flex
Speaker 1: and frooms know a little something about football, do they?
Speaker 1: And they do? And we're going to eat it up.
Speaker 1: And I was trying to draw comparisons between why we
Speaker 1: weren't hit before with the contagion, like we're being hit now.
Speaker 1: And so I did my little research on how contagion works,
Speaker 1: please thank you. And I'm not talking viral contagion. I'm
Speaker 1: talking social contagent. And the only thing that I can
Speaker 1: gather is it's spread by close contact. And that's the
Speaker 1: one thing that we didn't really have when it came
Speaker 1: to fred again. We didn't have close contact. Yes, we
Speaker 1: might have had a few friends here and there loving it,
Speaker 1: but we didn't have the emotional contact with it. We
Speaker 1: didn't have the social contact we got on after the
Speaker 1: peak of the pandemic, the fread again pandemic, not COVID.
Speaker 1: But with the World Cup, we were right on time,
Speaker 1: ready to be infected a worthy host. Some might say
Speaker 1: vitil ground for pandemonium. And so what I will say
Speaker 1: is that if you didn't and if you weren't able
Speaker 1: to participate in the World Cup, hype, talk to your
Speaker 1: immune system.
Speaker 2: Your friends in your immune system.
Speaker 3: The last time that I remember us being this hype
Speaker 3: about sport, more specifically women's sport, Kathy Freeman two thousand. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so that was like that was the Olympics in Australia
Speaker 3: in Sydney. Sydney's never recovered, it's never gotten to that peak.
Speaker 3: But I recommend now that the World Cup is over,
Speaker 3: go on TikTok, right, Kathy Freeman.
Speaker 1: Olympics and let you algorithm do the rest you will.
Speaker 3: Your heart will race, you will definitely well up because
Speaker 3: that was just wow. Today, I'm coming with you FLEXI
Speaker 3: with a bit of a consideration, something to consider amazing
Speaker 3: in this day and age. I was having a conversation
Speaker 3: with a friend the other day and wondering, does what
Speaker 3: you consume have a greater impact on you than you.
Speaker 2: Give credit for. Absolutely, I have been watching a lot
Speaker 2: of Sex in the City.
Speaker 3: I recently became a Sex and the City devote as
Speaker 3: of January this year, I click my fingers, it's currently August.
Speaker 3: The only thing that I've been watching regularly is Sex
Speaker 3: and the City.
Speaker 1: Really so much so that I and again and again.
Speaker 2: Well, I watched all six seasons.
Speaker 3: I've gone back. I'm now on season two, episode ten,
Speaker 3: so we're very much in deep. And I was having
Speaker 3: a conversation with my friend who's doing Sex and City
Speaker 3: and she's also on the dating apps, and she's like,
Speaker 3: I need a break from online dating, and I also
Speaker 3: need to stop watching Sex and the City. And instantly
Speaker 3: it made sense. I'm like this, she said to me.
Speaker 3: She's like, I feel like I'm going on heaps of
Speaker 3: dates because I'm watching the show and they obviously go on.
Speaker 2: Dates every episode.
Speaker 1: Oh they do, Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 3: They're always dating someone new, someone always has something new,
Speaker 3: which is why I love it. But she's like, it's
Speaker 3: actually like influencing how I feel about dating, give me
Speaker 3: like a negative outlook. And I thought, yeah, damn, I
Speaker 3: need to stop watching Sex and the City and just
Speaker 3: try something new, try something that like opens my mind
Speaker 3: or read a fiction book and like be immersed in
Speaker 3: another world. And it just got me thinking, like are
Speaker 3: you very conscious of what you watch? Or sometimes do
Speaker 3: you have like a guilty pleasure?
Speaker 1: When I used to visit a psychotherapist and I only
Speaker 1: went because I had my first panic attack and I
Speaker 1: was like, I can't live like you people.
Speaker 2: Okay, what is it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not great, so give me some tools. And
Speaker 1: he was like, it's very normal that I'm not a
Speaker 1: normal girl. So he asked me. He's like what kind
Speaker 1: of media do you consume? He's like, are you discerning
Speaker 1: about that? And I was like, what do you mean?
Speaker 1: He's like, are you one of those people? This is
Speaker 1: after I told him I have nightmares consistently and he
Speaker 1: was like, well, do you watch a bunch of thrillers
Speaker 1: and horrors and do you listen to quite melancholy music?
Speaker 1: And I was like of course and he was like, well,
Speaker 1: as I've said before, if your brain can't tell the
Speaker 1: difference between reality and fantasy. What work do you think
Speaker 1: that your brain is doing to comprehend these things that
Speaker 1: you're consuming with your literal eyes. Wow? And so from
Speaker 1: there I had to be really mindful the TV show
Speaker 1: in the movie when I can do quite well, like
Speaker 1: I don't watch a lot of horror and thriller these days,
Speaker 1: and I'm trying to just do my little action movies,
Speaker 1: you know. But the music I find to be really
Speaker 1: difficult because the subject matter of a lot of popular
Speaker 1: music is quite negatively geared, because it's still emulate stronger emotions.
Speaker 1: It's heartache, it's spite, it's like drugs, party vibe, which
Speaker 1: is cool, but I find it very difficult to swap
Speaker 1: out music. And I've made playlists that are just optimistic,
Speaker 1: but it's got one hundred songs and I can't really
Speaker 1: do much with that. So, yes, I am mindful. And
Speaker 1: when I find that I can't be more discerning about
Speaker 1: the music that I listen to, then I just pick
Speaker 1: different hobbies. Like I do a lot of reading, and
Speaker 1: I play a lot of games, cute cooking games, garden games.
Speaker 1: Empty at the brain.
Speaker 2: I love that give it a clean sweep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a little bleach.
Speaker 2: Good to think about everyone.
Speaker 1: You're listening to flex and rooms on kator. Once and
Speaker 1: for all, we need to answer the question. It's cropped up,
Speaker 1: it's been controversial, it's hurts some feelings. Yet here we are.
Speaker 1: Does Melbourne have a staring problem?
Speaker 2: I'm curious you don't know. I'm a Melbournian. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: I could be part of the problem. I want to
Speaker 2: implicate myself at this time, but please say less and
Speaker 2: say more.
Speaker 1: So uh TikTok use it by the name of tay
Speaker 1: dot and Delfato has said that when I moved to
Speaker 1: Melbourne for a fun UNI experience and good night life,
Speaker 1: and instead I get a horrendous workload and a whole
Speaker 1: city with a staring problem, to which I say, the
Speaker 1: comments will explain what's happening here. Here are some of
Speaker 1: the top comments. Everyone in Melbourne has a staring problem.
Speaker 1: I swear to God, most livable city of all time,
Speaker 1: even the baby stair is Is it a staring problem
Speaker 1: or is it people watching?
Speaker 3: Oh well, we don't have any nice things to look at.
Speaker 3: It's quite a drab outlook.
Speaker 1: And the last one, which confused me and sounded a
Speaker 1: bit victim, blamey, We're just curious. People don't take offense.
Speaker 2: Be serious.
Speaker 1: Is it a real thing? Because this is enough. This
Speaker 1: is a viral video. This is thirty one point three
Speaker 1: thousand likes and how many views are we talking right now?
Speaker 1: Three hundred thousand? Enough people have confirmed.
Speaker 3: I would love to know where she's from, because in
Speaker 3: my experience between the two cities. In Sydney, people point
Speaker 3: blank don't look at you. You're walking down the street
Speaker 3: in the neighborhood, no one's looking at you. In Melbourne,
Speaker 3: when I walk down a like semi suburban street, still
Speaker 3: inner city vibes. If you catch some one's eye, they
Speaker 3: will smile at you. If you smile them, they will
Speaker 3: say good morning.
Speaker 1: What about in the city Smith Street, Collingwood, Oh, Smith Street?
Speaker 1: Oh are they staring there? What about Fed Square?
Speaker 2: Fed Square?
Speaker 1: There? Are they staring there?
Speaker 2: There's a few random things going on.
Speaker 1: So let's say, for once and for all, does Melbourne
Speaker 1: have a staring problem.
Speaker 2: I'll let the audience decide.
Speaker 1: Okay, take time, tech time, tech time. It's tech time
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Speaker 3: digital office. You walk out, say something to your boss.
Speaker 3: It is just like, I don't know how I'm upset
Speaker 3: that this has happened post covid in the fact that
Speaker 3: we're going to talk about it later. But like like
Speaker 3: Zoom wants us, they want their employees to do your
Speaker 3: office like be serious. So Kumo Space. Check it out
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Speaker 1: only have five registered members, and then the lowest plan
Speaker 1: is eight dollars per month, eight US dollars. I will say, though,
Speaker 1: I'm a bit confused as to what it's going to
Speaker 1: replace or where it's going to add value. So you
Speaker 1: can chat, you can share statuses, you can screenshare and
Speaker 1: you can record, but like it's not going to replace Slack,
Speaker 1: Like you don't have separate channels or anything. It kind
Speaker 1: of replaces just the chat function of teams or the
Speaker 1: chat function of Slack. So I guess the novelty is
Speaker 1: that you can set it up to be fun. Yeah,
Speaker 1: which you'll need to be using other platforms. Yeah, oh,
Speaker 1: early days, early days. Let's see how it evolves, because
Speaker 1: it will evolve if you ever't.
Speaker 2: But like, I don't know about you. Did you play
Speaker 2: Haber Hotel?
Speaker 1: I did?
Speaker 3: How crazy you think we could have been talking on
Speaker 3: Haber Hotel at some point, but in actuality, I was
Speaker 3: probably talking to a fifty year old. Nikki, our wonderful
Speaker 3: producer to the Stars recently asked me, was there a
Speaker 3: moment in life where you were age humbled? First and foremost,
Speaker 3: let's get a definition of age humbled. Of course, it's
Speaker 3: not in the dictionary. It might be in urban dictionary,
Speaker 3: but essentially it's when you think you're a certain age
Speaker 3: but you're either perceived as older, you're perceived as younger.
Speaker 3: Essentially your age you have been humbled and perhaps take
Speaker 3: it down a notch by somebody else's perception of your age.
Speaker 1: Oh, I thought it was more. When have you been
Speaker 1: personally humbled yourself about your age? When if you had
Speaker 1: to like bring yourself down to earth.
Speaker 2: Oh it's that as well.
Speaker 3: Okay, definitely, so thinking about age humbling, I reckon I
Speaker 3: get it like quite badly because when I was younger,
Speaker 3: I'd spend a lot of time with older people, so
Speaker 3: I've always felt like the youngest. I'm the youngest child
Speaker 3: on my dad's side of the family, and all my
Speaker 3: cousins are really old, so great, but yeah, but now
Speaker 3: I'm like, damn, like we're all in the same age
Speaker 3: back at now, however, I will say I was age
Speaker 3: anti humbled. The other day, in what was still quite
Speaker 3: a negative experience, I was driving from Melbourne to Sydney
Speaker 3: and obviously stopping off for every McDonald's stop of at
Speaker 3: McDonald's twice per drive, just to give me some semblance
Speaker 3: of peace and also socialization. And I was in the toilet,
Speaker 3: don't remember which one it was, I can't tell you.
Speaker 2: So you don't go there.
Speaker 3: But I was in the bathroom and this kid, I'm
Speaker 3: washing my hands and this boy is in the bathrooms
Speaker 3: all with his mum.
Speaker 2: He says, I don't like that girl.
Speaker 1: What I was like, I have We were just speaking
Speaker 1: about how kids and babies know, like you know your heart.
Speaker 1: If kids smile at you, that's number one, that's number one.
Speaker 1: And kids always say she's a princess mummy to me.
Speaker 2: So I don't like that girl.
Speaker 1: So I said, Okay, how old was he? What are
Speaker 1: we talking?
Speaker 2: Like six or seven?
Speaker 1: Oh vocabulary? Yeah? Yeah, but in year two?
Speaker 2: Yeah, like it was embarrassing. Whoa for the mum?
Speaker 1: Oh? Like she was vibe You think it was just.
Speaker 2: I have no idea.
Speaker 3: I was wearing tracksuit pants, like, no makeup. I was
Speaker 3: kind of giving a slothly vibe about me. I say, natural, okay,
Speaker 3: I will say, like, don't I don't really have a
Speaker 3: resting bitch face.
Speaker 1: I don't think are You're a very pleasant looking person.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I'm always got some sort of a pleasant disposition. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I mean.
Speaker 3: I wasn't bringing any negative vibes to the toilet. I
Speaker 3: was in actually a fantastic boyant mood. He just read
Speaker 3: me wrong, or perhaps he's seeing an enner demon coming
Speaker 3: in right through.
Speaker 1: He was poor.
Speaker 2: It was a humming experience of me being like, oh,
Speaker 2: that hurts. It hurts. I wonder if there's this is
Speaker 2: kind of contribution for a time.
Speaker 1: I did, what's wrong with that kid?
Speaker 3: No, but like I kind of did, and I was like,
Speaker 3: you know what, though, this is a really great learning that,
Speaker 3: Like I remember when I was a kid, I was like,
Speaker 3: I will never be a mean adult. And in that moment,
Speaker 3: I felt a little bit spiteful. I was a little
Speaker 3: bit upset. I did want to give him a dirty eye,
Speaker 3: but I thought, got to think of the pledge I
Speaker 3: made when I was like seven, being like I will
Speaker 3: never be a mean adult.
Speaker 2: Mickey. What was your age humbling moment.
Speaker 4: It's not really a specific moment, more of like a
Speaker 4: revelation I had. I was like in the bottle shop
Speaker 4: the other day, you know, picking up goods, and I
Speaker 4: got id'd and I thought to myself, I haven't been
Speaker 4: id in a very long time. And then I started
Speaker 4: to notice I'm only being idd with my boyfriend because
Speaker 4: he looks young.
Speaker 3: Ah interesting, so he's like bringing down the median age,
Speaker 3: and so I was like, I'm I would definitely think
Speaker 3: you could be under eighteen.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, Micky.
Speaker 2: You've got a little baby.
Speaker 4: Face that's really It's truly sweet, guys, because the people
Speaker 4: at the Bottle Jump don't need to think so.
Speaker 1: So crusty, died up dusty.
Speaker 3: Wait no, wait, because I gotta idea you if you
Speaker 3: look under twenty five.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that's what they're legally meant to do.
Speaker 2: And again they're just letting me through.
Speaker 3: Always a very humbling experience, no matter where you are,
Speaker 3: absolutely in scale.
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