Speaker 1: The Flex and Froom's daily podcast, brought to you by Jada.
Speaker 2: It is with extreme regret that we come to you
Speaker 2: today with a bit of a confession. I say we
Speaker 2: because I understand that in this moment, what Freumi needs
Speaker 2: from me is my support. It's not time for me
Speaker 2: to roast or for anyone to put us against each other.
Speaker 2: I'm here as a friend, first colleague.
Speaker 3: Second.
Speaker 4: Fumi went to Europe.
Speaker 2: You EU, Yeah, ropactis practice, So first Europe trip ever.
Speaker 2: Booked the tickets in June, you know, arrived in September.
Speaker 2: She had high hopes for the experience, but unfortunately for
Speaker 2: all of us involved, it was not that great. The
Speaker 2: phrase that I heard through me use and I quote
Speaker 2: Europe is overrated. Now I know what you're thinking. Europe
Speaker 2: is a continent, Flex, I'm aware free music. According to Frumi,
Speaker 2: Europe is a homogeneous place where countries don't exist. She
Speaker 2: went to a few. She has a big idea about
Speaker 2: the whole trubid is not like Europe. But I feel
Speaker 2: as though if you'd like to send her there again,
Speaker 2: she could change her mind.
Speaker 4: You know where you messed up the first time I
Speaker 4: went to Europe.
Speaker 2: I went on a Kentiqui influencer trip, and that was
Speaker 2: the best way to do it because I wouldn't have
Speaker 2: planned that trip myself, and I would have been so
Speaker 2: limited in where I would have wanted to go and
Speaker 2: who I wanted to do it with. I was the
Speaker 2: people I didn't know, going to places I'd never been,
Speaker 2: so I was in my whole new element.
Speaker 3: Honestly, it's weird. When I was younger, I wouldn't have
Speaker 3: done a Kentiqi. Now that I'm this age, the Kentiqui
Speaker 3: laugh sala what I'm appealing? Yeah, oh, I will say, though,
Speaker 3: One good thing about going I didn't get your lag
Speaker 3: either way.
Speaker 2: That's because you're European, babe, the blood in me.
Speaker 3: Oh dear, let's go flea.
Speaker 2: And if you think I want to confess while they're
Speaker 2: on the tip of my tongue, I've been so bad
Speaker 2: with dates recently and I don't know what's happening. I
Speaker 2: keep getting my age wrong, so either I've been body
Speaker 2: snatched or like, how do I open the right met anyway?
Speaker 2: And then the other day I threw out veggimid because
Speaker 2: it said it expired in twenty twenty three August, and
Speaker 2: I was like, Oh, it's done.
Speaker 4: It's twenty twenty two, babe.
Speaker 3: Also hun little bit of a heads up that might
Speaker 3: doesn't go off.
Speaker 4: That's what people keep telling me.
Speaker 3: It's preservatives.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but what do you show so much at all?
Speaker 2: Anyway, Like I said, as soon as I got my
Speaker 2: license and as soon as I got a car, I
Speaker 2: really liked I became a person who drives a driver
Speaker 2: capital D. It is such a core part of my identity.
Speaker 2: I wake up excited to use my car.
Speaker 1: Where will we go?
Speaker 4: Where will we go?
Speaker 2: But it's directly at odds with the fact that I'm
Speaker 2: trying to get my steps up, and so it's like,
Speaker 2: I don't do incidental walking.
Speaker 4: Now, I gotta find an hour out of my day
Speaker 4: to go to the gym. It's not great.
Speaker 2: But I saw another news article, and again, these news
Speaker 2: articles are feeling like onion pieces because each one of
Speaker 2: them feels like it was written by a chronically online person,
Speaker 2: and I don't like it. Listen to this though, Apparently
Speaker 2: people have been feeling really anxious to get back on
Speaker 2: the road post COVID, and I get it. It was,
Speaker 2: you know, two years of health for a lot of people.
Speaker 2: They weren't on the roads, a lot of anger pent up.
Speaker 2: The government has a solution. What is a solution? You
Speaker 2: ask what is it? Well, ask me and I'll tell
Speaker 2: you what's the solution. We don't really sound very interested.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't tell you you're not interested.
Speaker 3: I'm so interested.
Speaker 4: Great.
Speaker 2: They're called R plates, and they're blue and the R
Speaker 2: is white. You might have seen them on the road.
Speaker 4: I know I have it.
Speaker 2: But they're being rolled out to help people return to
Speaker 2: driving after experiencing some kind of road related trauma, right,
Speaker 2: and so it's been an initiative launched by my car.
Speaker 2: And to be honest, the way they're framing it is like,
Speaker 2: you know, let's say you have a car accident, and
Speaker 2: so you're naturally going to be a bit bit shaky
Speaker 2: on the roads, maybe slower than you need to be going,
Speaker 2: or more hesitant when you're indicating lanes. And generally people
Speaker 2: are not very gracious to people who aren't loose drivers.
Speaker 2: If you can't be real smooth with that, like butter
Speaker 2: like if you're turning stiff around the corners, people aren't
Speaker 2: happy about that. They're gonna start beeping you if you
Speaker 2: delay even more than point five a second. When that
Speaker 2: light goes from red to green. It's World War three
Speaker 2: on these streets. About to understand it. But something about
Speaker 2: the R plate, I'm like, do you really think this
Speaker 2: is going to be the thing?
Speaker 3: What does our stand for?
Speaker 4: Are stands for returning return plates?
Speaker 3: It's just it's not gonna work. It's not gonna work. People,
Speaker 3: I feel like people are. Then you have a few
Speaker 3: types of drivers on the road. You got antagonistic who
Speaker 3: want to ram up your ass on purpose. They see
Speaker 3: any sign of weakness and they pounce on it. Truck
Speaker 3: drivers exactly. A truck truck driver.
Speaker 4: I don't want any problems.
Speaker 3: My dad's a truck driver, so I'm allowed to do
Speaker 3: this slander. Some guy nearly merged into my car on
Speaker 3: the way to cater today, close call. Then get his
Speaker 3: number plate. I'll take him out anyway. I think it's
Speaker 3: like putting a target on your back, to be honest.
Speaker 4: Well, that's what people are saying as well. Listen to this.
Speaker 2: They say, you shouldn't be on the road if your
Speaker 2: confidence isn't up to scratch. I mean, we have places
Speaker 2: to be the world doesn't stop for people who don't
Speaker 2: have confidence. Okay, Someone also said, just give them room
Speaker 2: like an l plator, and another person said in a response,
Speaker 2: I wish being on my l's was hell. Even when
Speaker 2: I did the speed limit and everything, there was no respect.
Speaker 2: Someone else said, when is everyone in the history of
Speaker 2: automotive transport well ever given an L plate to more
Speaker 2: space or patients. What makes you think they'll do the
Speaker 2: same for an r plator?
Speaker 3: Our players, Yeah, they're in for it. It's like putting
Speaker 3: glasses on and putting nerd on the back of your back.
Speaker 4: Okay, not quite. I just think it's interesting.
Speaker 2: Again, Like I said, I like the idea of positive improvements,
Speaker 2: but sometimes it feels like we're taking not the most
Speaker 2: niche problem, but a problem that exists on the corner
Speaker 2: of the world that has been centered for optics for
Speaker 2: a good story. Like I can just imagine my car,
Speaker 2: whoever is you know, ahead of this is kind of
Speaker 2: like do you get people talking, you know, about driving
Speaker 2: about driving safety?
Speaker 4: What's a nice way to shake it up?
Speaker 3: Just before we go any further flex we've just had
Speaker 3: on good authority from our producer Brook that my car
Speaker 3: who's trying to push this initiative is a subsidiary of Kmart.
Speaker 3: This is not a government.
Speaker 1: This is just.
Speaker 3: Yet another consumption free tires.
Speaker 4: If you want to be an ARP later.
Speaker 3: We'll give you some pre CDs from.
Speaker 4: It is what it is.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not mad, I'm just very intrigued to
Speaker 2: see how well this will be received. So if you
Speaker 2: are an R later or you know one, and you
Speaker 2: want to let us know what your experience has been,
Speaker 2: right been like returning to the roads, hit us up,
Speaker 2: hit us up.
Speaker 3: Getting your car, I'll tailgate you and come to the
Speaker 3: studio passenger princess.
Speaker 2: Let me show you how to be confident on the road. Baby,
Speaker 2: I'm smooth with it.
Speaker 3: Yet to be seen.
Speaker 1: Flex and frooms before.
Speaker 2: We go any further. It's very important to everybody in
Speaker 2: the room that you can just wish between who is
Speaker 2: flex and who is through.
Speaker 3: You're doing that just because in case I do something rogue.
Speaker 2: Absolutely any opportunity to remind people that we are not
Speaker 2: one entity. You know. I was ordering food at a
Speaker 2: Chicken Shot one day and the woman behind the counter
Speaker 2: looked up and was like, oh my god, I recognize
Speaker 2: your voice.
Speaker 4: And I was like, what, Oh God, I hear your
Speaker 4: voice on the radio.
Speaker 2: We're at that point people know it's my voice, babe anyway,
Speaker 2: So I don't actually know what I sound like in
Speaker 2: my head. I was so sure I had a deep voice.
Speaker 2: Every time I say it, everyone's like, stop at babes
Speaker 2: with your voice is up in the head. It is
Speaker 2: nasally and grating, and that's for me.
Speaker 3: It's nasally rising. But there's some sort of little tiny
Speaker 3: it's froggy.
Speaker 4: There's like a froggy element to my voice somewhere.
Speaker 3: I think people confuse deep voices with confident voices, like
Speaker 3: if you have a confident speaker, it seems deeper, which
Speaker 3: is a whole nother thing to discuss. So FLEXI as
Speaker 3: we know, I just got back from Europe, and the
Speaker 3: biggest thing that I took away from my intercontinental trip
Speaker 3: twenty four hours in transit. At the very least, the
Speaker 3: one thing I came back with no souvenirs.
Speaker 4: Odd was was money not was money tight? What's going on?
Speaker 3: No? I did buy some sartoral pieces that I'll discuss later,
Speaker 3: but the one takeaway that I got from Europe was
Speaker 3: that the chips are not salted.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not great, is it.
Speaker 3: Every single day that I was in Europe I ordered
Speaker 3: some form of Fritz. Of course, my friend that I
Speaker 3: was with is a big Fritz girl, doesn't like sweet things.
Speaker 3: She's an absolute fiend for potatoes of any variety. We
Speaker 3: had them in France, in London, in Ibitha, in Namdrop,
Speaker 3: and every single time, without a doubt, even at McDonald's
Speaker 3: no salt on the fries. And I thought to myself,
Speaker 3: there's some sort of conspiracy happening with the no salt
Speaker 3: fries in Europe. I came to the conclusion that it
Speaker 3: must have something to do with health advice. Yeah, anyway,
Speaker 3: go for the Googs. Can't find anything on Google apart
Speaker 3: from one article from twenty twelve that said that KFC
Speaker 3: stopped salting their ships in the UK for health reasons,
Speaker 3: but it seems to have permeated the entire area.
Speaker 2: It doesn't make sense because like, didn't a lot of
Speaker 2: European nations like steal spices and stuff.
Speaker 4: You didn't use them, what did you do with them?
Speaker 2: This is also my complaint with London specifically when I went,
Speaker 2: if I wasn't eating cultural food like Jamaican food or
Speaker 2: Indian food, it was blend.
Speaker 4: And that's no shade. That's no shade we can make.
Speaker 2: We can make observations and they might hurt your feelings
Speaker 2: just a little bit.
Speaker 4: You know, this is even an extension of your culture.
Speaker 2: So I'm sorry to your people, but the no salt
Speaker 2: thing is an issue, and I think that is fundamentally
Speaker 2: why a lot of Australians are very specific about chicken salt,
Speaker 2: because there's nothing like it. There's nothing like chicken salt
Speaker 2: on a chip. Be so I got to carry it
Speaker 2: with you at all times.
Speaker 3: Damn. Okay, that's how I want to elevate.
Speaker 2: I want to get chicken salt, tomato sauce and lip
Speaker 2: balm on a key chain and attach that to my keys.
Speaker 4: You're the person to make this literally wow.
Speaker 3: So actually, while we're on the topic of chips in
Speaker 3: Europe and London, I want to give you a few
Speaker 3: rundowns of the food that I ate.
Speaker 2: Me interested mildly, I won't lie to you.
Speaker 3: Well, one thing that I did, which I think will
Speaker 3: be of interest to those listening is obviously everyone is
Speaker 3: a fan of ottle ANGI let me let me rephrase.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I've been seeing out a Lengy. I've been
Speaker 2: going to bookstores. I've been seeing the name. I'm like,
Speaker 2: is it a restaurant.
Speaker 4: Is it a guy? Is it a way of cooking?
Speaker 4: I'm not sure. Did I google it? No, but you
Speaker 4: can tell me.
Speaker 3: So. If you're a single white female living in the
Speaker 3: Eastern suburbs, it out. There's one thing, and one thing
Speaker 3: only on your kitchen bench. It's a ottolengngy. It's at
Speaker 3: a lean hookbook Simple Jerusalem. There's some other ones. There's
Speaker 3: names of these books. Oh, the classic, the classic dishes.
Speaker 3: One of the most classy dishes is a roasted cauliflowerhead
Speaker 3: with pomegranate and like a Tahini style sauce.
Speaker 4: Terrifying.
Speaker 3: Anyway, I realized it's an odd Lengy restaurant in London
Speaker 3: because he is London. It's a person, he's a yo. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think his name is Yotan MODELINGI Monolengi oh to
Speaker 3: lingy otto Lengi. Rather, I was on a food so
Speaker 3: far in Europe, I'm not gonna lie. I was going
Speaker 3: to every single little restaurant, trying all the cuisines. Actually
Speaker 3: never had Indian Huh or African food no I know,
Speaker 3: but decided to go to the odd Lenge restaurant. It's
Speaker 3: called Knoppi n OPI kind of like no boo and
Speaker 3: she was. It was absolutely delicious, imagine the cookbook but
Speaker 3: in real life. Must admit the restaurant was in Soho,
Speaker 3: which is a really cool inner city spot. But the
Speaker 3: lighting was too bright. Ooh you know what's something too bright? Yeah,
Speaker 3: fluorescent fluorescents.
Speaker 4: That's a shame.
Speaker 3: Of course. We got talking to the waiter. He was
Speaker 3: a young guy from.
Speaker 4: Love a little flat with the waiter sign me up.
Speaker 3: He was loving it.
Speaker 4: How yeah, right right?
Speaker 3: And I was gonna say something about the waiter, but
Speaker 3: I won't because you could probably name check him. You
Speaker 3: never know who's listening to this podcast. You've gotten soft, nah,
Speaker 3: So what else can I tell about Europe? The streets
Speaker 3: smell like piss. Everywhere smell like piss.
Speaker 2: Okay, you've got to stop saying Europe, Like, let's be specific.
Speaker 2: Where did you witch streets in particular?
Speaker 3: Well, I'm trying to think of a place in Europe
Speaker 3: that didn't smell it piss. Amsterdam in the morning didn't
Speaker 3: smell it piss. And to name at night piss London,
Speaker 3: piss Paris double piss Paris are allowed it to be
Speaker 3: pissy as well as beautiful.
Speaker 4: Oh, Wow.
Speaker 3: Basically I must admit I am from Europe originally, so
Speaker 3: I feel like I am allowed to rag on London.
Speaker 3: Believe that's where my first four bart is Trump.
Speaker 2: Which for Europe, which country in Europe from originally pre Brexit?
Speaker 3: Pre Brexit England is the heritage that we're working with.
Speaker 3: And so when I came there, it actually did feel
Speaker 3: like a bit of a return to center.
Speaker 4: A bit of aut homecoming, and actually like it.
Speaker 3: Actually did, like I felt really comfortable, and despite it
Speaker 3: smelling like peace, like I'd smell the piece and be like,
Speaker 3: that's what my forefathers would have smelly. But London was
Speaker 3: really beautiful. Actually, the more I think about the trip,
Speaker 3: the more I liked it. I went to Oxford, which
Speaker 3: is a university town, which I still can't work out.
Speaker 3: Oxford is a university, but it's also a suburb. And
Speaker 3: there's all these different colleges. But do they all go
Speaker 3: to Oxford?
Speaker 4: I don't understand. Yeah, I don't answer the question.
Speaker 3: Someone someone will DM me and tell me, like, there's
Speaker 3: some Mary's College in Oxford. Does that mean it's part
Speaker 3: of Oxford?
Speaker 2: I'm going to say no, yeah, damn. So would you
Speaker 2: describe your experience as an eat prey. Love changed your life.
Speaker 2: I mean I can rattle off a few into continental
Speaker 2: trips I've taken that are, in fact, core memories that
Speaker 2: have made me the woman I am today.
Speaker 4: Okay, so that's no next question. Please.
Speaker 3: There were some unexpected instances. Fuck, I'm really not giving much.
Speaker 3: This segment a.
Speaker 4: Very premium way to say.
Speaker 3: No. No, I don't know. I think I'm too close
Speaker 3: to the source, like Europe kind of feels like a blur.
Speaker 3: I think I'm just sick, and that's why I'm coming back.
Speaker 3: Hear it in my voice.
Speaker 2: See, I don't think you need to sell yourself the
Speaker 2: idea that the holiday was enjoyable.
Speaker 4: If it wasn't you say that.
Speaker 3: No, it was definitely enjoyable. It's just like I need
Speaker 3: a holiday after the holiday, and it was just so
Speaker 3: I say, yeah.
Speaker 4: This is what I say.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but Europe overrated?
Speaker 4: Will you go again?
Speaker 3: No? Not for a long time. What's That's how I
Speaker 3: know that I liked it, but I'm not obsessed. You know,
Speaker 3: some people get back from Europe. You know what actually
Speaker 3: made me realize. You know how when you're younger, there's
Speaker 3: some families that we go to Europe every year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, no, no, I think some significant differences.
Speaker 4: Please continue.
Speaker 3: You people whose SAMs gone these European trips and I
Speaker 3: just think, oh, fuck them, life must be amazing. I'm like,
Speaker 3: it's the same shit everywhere. Plus you're so jet lagged,
Speaker 3: and it's such a mental you know, I'm traveling around
Speaker 3: by myself. I've got to get to the gate at
Speaker 3: the right time. It's a lot of mental energy. Where
Speaker 3: where where?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: See, I feel like you set yourself up.
Speaker 2: I feel like you went to Europe anticipating fun, not
Speaker 2: considering that you were the fun that Europe needed.
Speaker 3: Well, I definitely was serving that for most of the time,
Speaker 3: probably sixty percent of the time. I was really bringing
Speaker 3: your vibe.
Speaker 2: Do you think you would have had a different experience
Speaker 2: had you traveled with different people?
Speaker 3: Nah? Oh, I was with good friends of mine who
Speaker 3: have similar interests.
Speaker 2: Maybe just hopeless, Maybe travel is not for you to
Speaker 2: be fair though, I do think you're right in saying
Speaker 2: that when people travel generally, like when we're seeing our
Speaker 2: acquaintances on Instagram posting their euro trip, they're going, you know,
Speaker 2: once every seven years. They've like saved all their coins
Speaker 2: for this. They have no choice but to view it
Speaker 2: as a life changing experience totally. I think once you've
Speaker 2: done a few exciting things in quick succession, you get
Speaker 2: numb to it. Because what I'm talking about we need
Speaker 2: to get back to, like lowering our dopamine exposure so
Speaker 2: we can start to enjoy things.
Speaker 4: Through stoth of you babes. I'm growing into it. My
Speaker 4: stoic era is like forty five that we're getting there.
Speaker 2: But like I say, every day we do things we like,
Speaker 2: we well, we like, we eat what we like, we enjoy,
Speaker 2: we enjoy, we indulge, we indulge. Now we go to
Speaker 2: a designated area pay a premium to do the same
Speaker 2: thing we'd be doing. It's not adding up.
Speaker 3: That's exactly what it is. Flex, That's exactly what it is.
Speaker 3: I try to live my life like I'm on holiday here. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and I was expecting it to be supercharged on crack
Speaker 3: on crack. Oh there was one other thing I want
Speaker 3: to tell you, Oh yeah, yeah, I did find this
Speaker 3: sandwich shop and I walked half an hour with the
Speaker 3: faust fattest hangover I've ever experienced. Like it was absolutely disgusting.
Speaker 3: I was so crook walked all the way through East
Speaker 3: London to nah. I knew I had to get out
Speaker 3: of the house, and you know, I can walk for
Speaker 3: a long time if I know there's something at the
Speaker 3: other end. Anyway, walking home and I'm like taking instagrams
Speaker 3: in this sandwich, I look like shedes no offense to me,
Speaker 3: but it was not serving all offense and taun and
Speaker 3: get home and someone's tagged me in the Instagram story
Speaker 3: from behind me walking with my little sandwich playing on
Speaker 3: my phone baterally. It was so upsetting. I'm just this
Speaker 3: is not what I need. I was flattered, but it's
Speaker 3: not what I needed.
Speaker 2: I told you this ops everywhere. To stop leaving the
Speaker 2: house like you're in your invisible chamber. Okay, get to
Speaker 2: step in. Everybody's watching live in a to con surveillance state.
Speaker 3: Oh alas So to wrap up, I really appreciate this segment.
Speaker 3: Europe is overrated. If you've never been before, like I
Speaker 3: hadn't been in your twenty seven twenty eight, you're not
Speaker 3: missing out on that much. But also go get out
Speaker 3: of his system and then you won't want to go
Speaker 3: for another ten years. I'm not going for at least
Speaker 3: another twenty years. Shut up.
Speaker 1: You're a there, and this is flex and frooms on CADA.
Speaker 2: I am a firm believer in the idea that everything
Speaker 2: can be better. Everything can be more efficient, more optimized, hotter, cuter, sweeter, sexier.
Speaker 4: More premium.
Speaker 2: And the reason why things don't get to their level
Speaker 2: of excellence is because people are really really afraid to
Speaker 2: change things when they think they've arrived. Oh you know,
Speaker 2: I've submitted this thing, or I've decided this is my look.
Speaker 4: I shouldn't change it now. Let's change it every day
Speaker 4: always in particular. I don't know any.
Speaker 2: Person who has overwhelmingly pouse things to say about dating apps.
Speaker 4: Not one.
Speaker 2: There are a few nice little stories there, but guaranteed
Speaker 2: what you'll find sprinkled in is horror thriller, psychological thriller,
Speaker 2: maybe even.
Speaker 4: Some sci fi. It's not good. It's not looking good.
Speaker 2: So the other day I was ranting with my friend
Speaker 2: about what we should do because she's having a terrible
Speaker 2: time and she's a hottie. So I'm like, that's not
Speaker 2: have they dried up, They've the dams are dried up. Unfortunately.
Speaker 2: You know, the most compatible is looking very scary. That's
Speaker 2: that's when you know that's when I That's when I
Speaker 2: was like, okay, let's really review reve your profile because
Speaker 2: that can't be happening to you, bob. But here's my thing.
Speaker 2: Number one, dating app has been around for too long.
Speaker 2: Ten years is too.
Speaker 4: Long without a major overhaul.
Speaker 2: Okay, if we were using these same apps when we
Speaker 2: were eighteen, and you've not cleared everybody off them since
Speaker 2: this is disgusting, what they need to do is a
Speaker 2: mass exodus.
Speaker 4: Get everybody off the dating app. Clear it immediately. You
Speaker 4: know it's a scary person. God please.
Speaker 3: The scary on earth is when you've had an app
Speaker 3: five years ago and then you redownload it and you
Speaker 3: see the same I'm freaking out.
Speaker 2: I know why I'm back, going, why are you back?
Speaker 2: I know I know to be in a mass exodus.
Speaker 2: Clear everybody off the app, start from scratch, make everybody
Speaker 2: sign up intentionally. That's number one. I don't want any
Speaker 2: ghost profiles because you know what I've been seeing these days,
Speaker 2: and I don't want to out anyone. Somebody that I
Speaker 2: knew from when I was in high school. I saw
Speaker 2: his profile come up on a dating app, which is
Speaker 2: really odd because when I went on Facebook, he's just
Speaker 2: been engaged, And why am I seeing new photos up
Speaker 2: on this profile?
Speaker 4: I'm like, is this an arrangement? Is a situation?
Speaker 2: I know either of them well enough to say anything,
Speaker 2: But if we could just clear the profiles, clear the
Speaker 2: apps of everyone, and have us all sign up again,
Speaker 2: then I would know for sure.
Speaker 4: Then I could say something.
Speaker 2: Number Two, I think that at a minimum, everybody needs
Speaker 2: to be changing at least one image every month. They
Speaker 2: cannot let anybody have images that are more than a
Speaker 2: month old or the app I need to know, even
Speaker 2: like a little time stamp uploaded in August.
Speaker 3: Have you ever been catfished?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, not like dramatically, but I'm like, I can see
Speaker 2: why this is what you look like? Do you know
Speaker 2: what I love to do now. I love to do
Speaker 2: a video called vibe check because some people will match
Speaker 2: with I'm like, oh, I know you were in the
Speaker 2: same like social circle, same community, or I can find
Speaker 2: your Instagram or whatever. Some people photographed so well. I
Speaker 2: did a vibe check once. Why am I talking to
Speaker 2: this guy? And he's giving like extra like like art
Speaker 2: bro mask and I talked to him. I'm like, you're
Speaker 2: the most delicate, like sweet little like elfin sweetie Pie.
Speaker 2: I'm like, you need to figure out what vibe you're
Speaker 2: giving off, because you've catfished the vibe like immediate. His
Speaker 2: profiles all like serious art house like Vinyl, but his
Speaker 2: personality is like flowery and like sensitive and like sweet
Speaker 2: and giggly. I'm like catfish vibe check, like I was saying,
Speaker 2: So the photo one I feel really really confident about.
Speaker 2: And also I feel as though like there needs to
Speaker 2: be some kind of review system, not one that can
Speaker 2: be gamified in any way, but like some way that
Speaker 2: external profiles or even internal profiles can rank or validate you.
Speaker 2: So like a little tickti, let' see like good conversationalists
Speaker 2: and like endorsed by like LinkedIn endorsed by thirty five
Speaker 2: people good conversation.
Speaker 4: Or like fun date endorse you know because the steaks
Speaker 4: are high.
Speaker 2: Let's get serious with it. Putting just a bunch of
Speaker 2: photos up and a few words it's not doing it.
Speaker 3: What you really need is to find the ex boyfriends
Speaker 3: of people you know, Oh hot people you know you
Speaker 3: see their ex boyfriend.
Speaker 4: You know it's fair game. Bay, Yeah, I'm taking it
Speaker 4: up and you and you I'm not above it. Keep
Speaker 4: your exits.
Speaker 2: Away from interesting because my best friend is really, really,
Speaker 2: really particular about not dating anyone that is an ex,
Speaker 2: not even an X like legit relationship with someone she knows.
Speaker 4: I'm like, you're so loyal to strangers.
Speaker 3: When we're leaving Fatty, when we get in the door,
Speaker 3: seas coming through, coming through the turnstaps.
Speaker 4: It's six years away from thirty for me, So I
Speaker 4: don't have to think about that.
Speaker 1: This is flex and frooms Onda.
Speaker 2: I have been playing around with this idea of having
Speaker 2: personal mantras for myself in addition to themes for the
Speaker 2: year cool, just to make Oh, I was gonna say,
Speaker 2: to make life worth living, but that's not the phrase
Speaker 2: after just to punctuate life, you know, like we're going
Speaker 2: into a new cycle, we're coming out of one. So
Speaker 2: this year's theme was meant to be Socialize Era, but
Speaker 2: that lasted a total of three days, and then I
Speaker 2: went strictly back into girl Boss era. And that's okay,
Speaker 2: because we fall off the horse, we'd like to jump
Speaker 2: back on natural state.
Speaker 4: Natural state.
Speaker 2: So we are in girl Boss era punctuated by Hot
Speaker 2: Girl Era. Whatever that looks like like for you, it's
Speaker 2: up to you. In addition to that, a mantra I've
Speaker 2: been playing with is it's a good day to be
Speaker 2: a good different person. And by that I mean like
Speaker 2: it's a good day to try something new for the
Speaker 2: first time.
Speaker 4: It's a good day to switch it up.
Speaker 2: It's a good day to decide that something you hated
Speaker 2: yesterday could be something that you like today. Good not
Speaker 2: in like the moral way like oh I'm like so pious,
Speaker 2: but like good whatever that means for you, happy, enjoyable.
Speaker 2: Whatever I think that I never used to do is
Speaker 2: go out on a school night.
Speaker 4: Do I go to school?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: Am I self employed? Yeah, you're at the school of
Speaker 4: life literally.
Speaker 2: But something about anybody asking me to do something on
Speaker 2: a school night, I'd be like, O, hi, yeah, yai.
Speaker 2: I would anticipate being like okay to two hour dinner.
Speaker 2: We're in an app out by eight even though not
Speaker 2: going to bed till three or four am.
Speaker 4: I was like, I just can't do that. A couple
Speaker 4: of weeks ago, it was different.
Speaker 2: Was invited to a bit of a how do you
Speaker 2: say industry party, and I tend not to go to
Speaker 2: because I want to be honest with you. You being
Speaker 2: a DJ at nineteen ruined parties for me.
Speaker 3: Well, you know I was there as well, you were there.
Speaker 2: Let's still forget we haven't even got to that bit
Speaker 2: of the story, babe, true your time will come for me.
Speaker 2: Was also at this industry party. It was a great
Speaker 2: guest list. I will say that it was popping the
Speaker 2: party itself. Yeah, the parties are hard to throw, so
Speaker 2: you know, I want to give them grace. That was
Speaker 2: about three hours. The food was good, the music was good,
Speaker 2: and the vibes were up. After that, I went to
Speaker 2: a drag show. I proceeded to stay there for five hours.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: I got home at like two thirty three hour on
Speaker 2: a what flex on like a literal random Thursday. It
Speaker 2: was not my intention, babe. I was like, yeah, i'll
Speaker 2: be out, I'll be at home by nine am. But
Speaker 2: once I got there, I was like, who am I
Speaker 2: to not see this through? What is so important that
Speaker 2: I can't just enjoy myself? And also I've functioned on
Speaker 2: way less sleep. Sleep is not the thing that is
Speaker 2: going to deter me from living. It's about enjoying myself.
Speaker 2: I can always do stuff I enjoy on very little sleep.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean?
Speaker 2: If I got twelve hours of sleep and had to
Speaker 2: wake up and do something I don't enjoy.
Speaker 4: One.
Speaker 2: I closed at the function, yawning every second sentence. Now
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, great, there really are two types of people.
Speaker 2: Because I feel like you're hearing this and saying, three,
Speaker 2: I'm on a Thursday, babe. It's not for me, but
Speaker 2: I think it could be because what happened that night
Speaker 2: core memory amazing, so many things. I'm just like, I
Speaker 2: could write a book about this instance. So we'll talk
Speaker 2: about later.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna I'm gonna stay up for a love interest,
Speaker 3: oh till three. Anything else you can wait for the weekend.
Speaker 4: But I had all of that.
Speaker 1: I had.
Speaker 2: I had enemies to lovers. I have love interests. I
Speaker 2: had a drag show, had chats, I saw altercations like huh,
Speaker 2: that would never happen on a weekend, mind you. That's
Speaker 2: what I'm also saying. The thing about going out on
Speaker 2: a weekend is that the residents already set that nobody
Speaker 2: wants to add me flavor to it. You don't add
Speaker 2: anything new to going out on a weekend. It's so
Speaker 2: cut and dry on a weekday. Go get loose on
Speaker 2: a Tuesday and tell me how that feels.
Speaker 3: And I must submit. Industry events actually are fun at
Speaker 3: this age.
Speaker 4: If the guest list is Poppin's.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Even if it's not, though, you get people watch if
Speaker 4: you're with at.
Speaker 3: Least one other good person, someone that I love to
Speaker 3: go with Bianca Beers.
Speaker 4: Oh we love Banchor.
Speaker 3: She is our favorite Sagittarian, an artist and an FT artist,
Speaker 3: and she is just.
Speaker 4: An artist like a traditional artist illustrator. She can pay.
Speaker 3: We go to events. She's loud, in charge, proud. We
Speaker 3: just have the best time. Just depends, so you go
Speaker 3: with definitely. So everybody joined me as of today. It's
Speaker 3: a good day to be a different person.
Speaker 1: You're listening to Flex and Frooms on Kada.
Speaker 4: Through me is cooking again?
Speaker 3: Tell us this is a big one. As we spoke
Speaker 3: about it on the podcast, I went through a period
Speaker 3: of intense cooking. I was a really amazing cook, to
Speaker 3: be honest, doing odd lingis doing some things off bon eppetite,
Speaker 3: you know, trying new things.
Speaker 2: It's the trying that gets me. You're very good at
Speaker 2: trying new things in the kitchen. I would never post.
Speaker 3: I am I'm cooking fish on a weeknight. Honestly, not
Speaker 3: into it anymore. Now I cook for leftovers. I'm thinking
Speaker 3: about my future self. Obviously, I was in Europe before Europe.
Speaker 3: I'm allowed to say that because I didn't like it.
Speaker 4: Okay, So obviously I was abroad.
Speaker 3: And about a month or so before I went to Europe,
Speaker 3: I was not cooking at all because I was just
Speaker 3: in holiday murderready. In the first week, I cooked two meals, well,
Speaker 3: coming on three. I made a odd capasta, which is
Speaker 3: just a classic. Don't even have to use a recipe anymore.
Speaker 3: I'm that good at it, really wow. And then I
Speaker 3: tried my hand at a curry. So this was a
Speaker 3: Tuesday night. I also am incapable of spending time just
Speaker 3: alone at the moment, so I invited a friend over
Speaker 3: at the last minute.
Speaker 4: You want to unpack that.
Speaker 3: Later, I invited her over and said, I'm going to
Speaker 3: make a curry. Get to the supermarket. No recipe.
Speaker 4: Oh, you're just gonna it's gonna rug it, Okay.
Speaker 3: Then lo and behold, I come across the jar sauce. Okay,
Speaker 3: And I thought today I am impurist. This is why
Speaker 3: I thought, Oh, but you know what, I'm getting heaps
Speaker 3: of veggies. I'm getting the chicken, I just throw a
Speaker 3: sauce on the top because I don't want to go
Speaker 3: by the condiments. That's it. I chop up all of
Speaker 3: the I'm boiling the potatoes and the carrots, the broccolini,
Speaker 3: I've made onion, put some garlic in the pan like
Speaker 3: I'm slaying it, and yep, chili. So I'm gonna be
Speaker 3: just put the jar sauce right into it. Jar sauce
Speaker 3: goes in straight away. The entire meal is disgusting. It's ruined.
Speaker 3: Now for me, I hadn't had a curry sauce, probably
Speaker 3: had one in my whole life, to be honest, this
Speaker 3: one it was the most sugary.
Speaker 2: Oh sascherine, Like did you pick it intentionally or you
Speaker 2: just went with the vibe in the supermarket?
Speaker 3: I went to the vibe whatever it was. This was foul. Anyway.
Speaker 3: My friend comes over. My friend is a piro, She's
Speaker 3: an amazing cook, quite a healthy gal. I didn't have
Speaker 3: the guts to tell her that it was.
Speaker 4: I think that you just cooked a terrible harry.
Speaker 3: So she comes into the house. She goes, that seems delicious,
Speaker 3: and I say, oh yeah, good now, oh yeah, I
Speaker 3: hope it's good. So if it's not good, serve it up.
Speaker 4: Have you no shame? Seven people?
Speaker 3: That is not good the first time I've probably ever
Speaker 3: done it, to be honest. And she loved it. And
Speaker 3: I thought, if only you knew what was inside this.
Speaker 4: You know she loved it? Does she love you enough
Speaker 4: to lie to you?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: That was so delicious, Cindy, Like she ate the whole thing, Cindy, Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's my government name my friends.
Speaker 2: WHOA I'm with you and you introduce yourself with Cinder,
Speaker 2: I'm like, is she in the.
Speaker 3: Room with us right now? Alas, My point is if
Speaker 3: you cook something that's really shit, you either have to
Speaker 3: just copy it and they say, now people know this
Speaker 3: is a personality trait that I'm not good at cooking,
Speaker 3: or you say it and they're gonna not enjoy it
Speaker 3: now because they know it's bad. You know, you're gonna
Speaker 3: pick your battles. Either let them think it's gross and
Speaker 3: judge you, or let them think it's gross, judge you
Speaker 3: for being skinned and for not trying, but put it
Speaker 3: down in the open.
Speaker 4: I think we need to call your friend and get
Speaker 4: the truth.
Speaker 3: Should I actually, Okay, we'll do it next week.
Speaker 2: I am intrigued, though, I want you to quiz her
Speaker 2: in a couple months time where it's not as fresh
Speaker 2: and when she's less like little Ladi you because obviously
Speaker 2: you're going through a lot right now, you're back from Europe.
Speaker 2: The living situation doesn't pop in. She didn't want to
Speaker 2: kick you while you were down. You know, fair fair,
Speaker 2: she said, give her a win, give her a wim.
Speaker 2: The other day, though, I was having this amazing conversation
Speaker 2: with a friend. It was a rant of some sort.
Speaker 2: I feel like it's very empowering to rant with your
Speaker 2: favorite people. It makes you feel connected, and of course
Speaker 2: have conversations with gratitude.
Speaker 4: That's for another day.
Speaker 2: She was ranting about how the dating apps a desert dry. Oh,
Speaker 2: she was like, not having fun, so I've heard, and
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, I'm having a.
Speaker 4: Good week this week. That's a shame. That's a shame.
Speaker 3: That's okay.
Speaker 2: Let's do a little little profile review. I'm like, have
Speaker 2: you updated the pickies recently? Suld haven't updated in the months.
Speaker 2: I said, oh, yeah, we're gonna get fresh please, let's
Speaker 2: say some freshments in there. But aside from that, while
Speaker 2: we weren't lamenting her experience on apps. I was like,
Speaker 2: to be honest, I have some really grand, perhaps controversial
Speaker 2: ideas about dating apps and how we can make them better.
Speaker 2: And I thought I would share them with you in
Speaker 2: a couple of minutes, and maybe you can share yours
Speaker 2: and we can just put that into the ether. Maybe
Speaker 2: the big dogs at you know, the Big threeble Generator
Speaker 2: can check in and let us know.
Speaker 4: If they can bumble Hinge Raya on the.
Speaker 3: Big four, j Day, plenty of fish, enough enough, there
Speaker 3: are more niche.
Speaker 4: They're not the Big four, you think. When we say
Speaker 4: the Big four, someone says iron g.
Speaker 2: F and I don't often come across articles that I
Speaker 2: think are fake news because I think fake news doesn't exist.
Speaker 4: You know what is the truth. It's not a bunch
Speaker 4: of stories we all agree on. Am I right?
Speaker 2: Am?
Speaker 3: I right? It's giving questions.
Speaker 2: But this headline was like, oh, it's illegal to own
Speaker 2: this thing in Switzerland. I was like, what Switzerland doing
Speaker 2: every now? And then I'm talking about these European countries.
Speaker 2: It's every week with me in Denmark, and yeah, there's
Speaker 2: something there. I used to tell people when I was younger.
Speaker 2: They'd be like, where are you from?
Speaker 4: And I'm like like, oh, I'm a princess. My family's Switzerland, Geneva.
Speaker 2: Because I got so bored of people asking me where
Speaker 2: I was from, I start to lie. You say Cambodia
Speaker 2: a lot just for flavor, because what are you gonna say?
Speaker 4: No, what are you gonna say?
Speaker 3: It doesn't add up?
Speaker 4: Listen to this.
Speaker 2: Uh, it is illegal to own just one guinea pig
Speaker 2: in Switzerland.
Speaker 4: You have to own two.
Speaker 3: What is this?
Speaker 4: Granted?
Speaker 2: This article came out in two thousand and eight, and
Speaker 2: that was like vintage. That was a lifetime ago. But
Speaker 2: it says in two thousand and eight, the Swiss government
Speaker 2: passed an animal rights law which made it illegal for
Speaker 2: a pet owner to own just one guinea pig, no
Speaker 2: matter how much they wanted just one. This legislation was
Speaker 2: part of a push to grant social rights to pets
Speaker 2: prone to loneliness, as it's likely one guinea pig will
Speaker 2: outlive the other. Rent a guinea pig services have become
Speaker 2: popular to keep remaining piglets happy while stopping the owner
Speaker 2: from becoming locked in a never ending cycle of guinea
Speaker 2: pig purchasing piglets. Literally, so you want to get a
Speaker 2: guinea pig. Fine, but they're like, you can't just have
Speaker 2: one because it will be lonely and we do not
Speaker 2: want anxious guinea pigs. So all these higher rent to
Speaker 2: guinea pig services exist to accommodate for one guinea pig
Speaker 2: you own.
Speaker 3: It's like sugar baby guinea pigs. So hold on, is
Speaker 3: a guinea pig a type of pig? Or is it
Speaker 3: a type of rodent?
Speaker 4: I'm gonna rote rodent, but I'm gonna google that because
Speaker 4: pigs are really smart.
Speaker 3: Hey, yeah, maybe it's a pig.
Speaker 2: If it's a pig, the guinea pig or domestic guinea
Speaker 2: pig is a species of rodent, it's a rat.
Speaker 4: I love rats, though, you know.
Speaker 3: I ate a guinea pig once. Oh, in South America?
Speaker 4: Was it numb? Numb? Yum?
Speaker 3: It actually was like honey. Just tastes like chicken. Of course,
Speaker 3: had it on the road side.
Speaker 4: I thought it'd be like veal.
Speaker 3: Nah, it was like like chicken with corn, like thigh
Speaker 3: of chicken.
Speaker 2: Thie.
Speaker 4: Nice, nice, nice? You were so cultured?
Speaker 3: What can I say? So poor guinea pigs?
Speaker 4: No, not poor guinea pigs.
Speaker 3: Good.
Speaker 2: I love animal rights laws, vegan no, just I'll eat
Speaker 2: them honestly.
Speaker 3: Actually, I was eating chicken for lunches, chicken are and
Speaker 3: chenie balls, and I think I might. I've been having
Speaker 3: these moments lately where I'm eating chicken and thinking this
Speaker 3: is really weird, this is not it.
Speaker 2: For some reason, I think our time for vegetarian is
Speaker 2: like thirty two thirty three, because, to be honest, for
Speaker 2: how much uber eats I get and how often I'm like,
Speaker 2: the meat is susm, I feel like I just need
Speaker 2: to stop getting meat.
Speaker 3: Like I'm starting to get an insight into how vegetarians
Speaker 3: must feel about people who eat meat. You get these
Speaker 3: little moments of like.
Speaker 2: Not your visualization, visualizing what it's like to be a
Speaker 2: vegetarian having a weird meat. The time will come if
Speaker 2: someone could cook my every meal, I'd be a vegan tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Wow, it's a lifestyle.
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