Speaker 1: Flex and Cater.
Speaker 2: It is Flex and Froome's podcast edition, which is my favorite.
Speaker 2: Love a live show, but I love speaking at length
Speaker 2: about stuff. No gaps for breathing, no scilla or killer.
Speaker 2: Today's podcast episode is just that we really went I
Speaker 2: don't want to say we went deep. I think we
Speaker 2: went detailed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, detailed, really tiny, little money, a.
Speaker 2: Little dots impressionism. That's the one. I don't think it is.
Speaker 2: I just it's the first one that came to mind.
Speaker 2: But I thank you for trusting me. We talked about
Speaker 2: this Australian woman who Bree. Uh, her name's Bree. Is
Speaker 2: she not an Australian woman? Yeah, but the name is Brey.
Speaker 2: Give her a name, okay, who fell off a ten
Speaker 2: meter barrier receptory war And this is why she said
Speaker 2: it was a bar because we wun't forget. But she
Speaker 2: fell off headfirst and ended up in a coma for
Speaker 2: three months, and in that time her fiance managed to
Speaker 2: leave her find a whole new girlfriend. She wakes up
Speaker 2: from the coma expecting to call her loved one, and
Speaker 2: what happens next will scare you from dating and falling
Speaker 2: in love. That's for sure. Falling in love. This is
Speaker 2: her fiance in sickness and health. He said, yeah, sickness
Speaker 2: and health, no freak injuries. I think that caveat read
Speaker 2: the fine. Let's get into it.
Speaker 1: This is flex and frooms.
Speaker 3: I want to talk about Austin Butler's voice.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: You went move to the Elvis premiere I did last weekend.
Speaker 2: I think it was yes, some I don't know. Time
Speaker 2: is not real.
Speaker 3: You were hosting on the red carpet with a very
Speaker 3: esteemed brand, a fashion brand's been around for a hundred
Speaker 3: and years, Vogue.
Speaker 2: Seriously just hosting. Let me only paid a picture for
Speaker 2: you hosting doing an official live stream for vote at
Speaker 2: the very start of the red carpet with my own
Speaker 2: media wall probably about two meters wide. The rest of
Speaker 2: the press was crammed into like this four meter wide space.
Speaker 2: So one might I say, we're more the hour. One
Speaker 2: might not say, I don't know. I'm very proud of you,
Speaker 2: thank you.
Speaker 3: That's an honor that no one else suits are quite
Speaker 3: like you. I'd say you're wearing a gorgeous gold waterfall like.
Speaker 2: Gown I gave glam. You were glaming hard. Go and
Speaker 2: check it out.
Speaker 3: Everybody at Flextop Mummy. You watch the Elvis movie. The
Speaker 3: star of the movie is the Boston Butler.
Speaker 2: Great name.
Speaker 3: Now, apparently there's a conspiracy theory about his voice.
Speaker 2: Let's play this TikTok.
Speaker 5: Why is this man still talking in his Elvis accent?
Speaker 5: Every interview I have seen of him, he is still
Speaker 5: talking in his Elvis accent. And this man is from Anaheim, California.
Speaker 1: I mean, that would be awesome.
Speaker 2: I haven't done that in a while on a show,
Speaker 2: so I mean, I'd always love to do that.
Speaker 1: We'll see, We'll see.
Speaker 5: This did not exist before Elvis. Here is example, and.
Speaker 1: Here are my essentious store in New York.
Speaker 2: And I just tried him on.
Speaker 6: And that's what we have here, a nice essential carhard jacket.
Speaker 5: After example, basically put the rest of my life on pause.
Speaker 1: For two years. I just absorbed everything that I possibly could.
Speaker 2: And after example, I've said.
Speaker 1: I've said this to Priscilla and Jerry here.
Speaker 2: Making them proud was really at the core of it
Speaker 2: all for me.
Speaker 1: Making all the people who loved it was so much
Speaker 1: proud and doing justice.
Speaker 2: After example, I lived this for two years.
Speaker 1: I've put the rest of my life on plas So
Speaker 1: you can't help. But if it becomes a part of
Speaker 1: your daily life.
Speaker 5: You know, are the him still talking in the accent?
Speaker 5: The movie is done, the movie is out. I am
Speaker 5: honestly just confused.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry. He sounds like Elvis in all of them. Yes,
Speaker 3: I can't figure out when he was doing the voice.
Speaker 2: Well, that's the thing. People are saying that he's not
Speaker 2: turning off the voice, that the he's done, so he
Speaker 2: should be done with it. And you know, I've seen
Speaker 2: he even addressed it recently. People are like, what's happening
Speaker 2: with that? Like, let it go, letjig is up. And
Speaker 2: he said that because it was so far from his
Speaker 2: original accent, he really had to go full into it
Speaker 2: to do it well, and do it convincingly and make
Speaker 2: sure that even in those quite off moments, he was
Speaker 2: still giving Elvis audibly. He also said that, like you
Speaker 2: mentioned in that video before, it was two years of
Speaker 2: intense Elvis where he was fully consumed by only that
Speaker 2: there was no break, there was no exiting that role.
Speaker 2: And he also said that he finds it cranks up
Speaker 2: more where he's triggered by Elvis paraphernalia. So at Elvis
Speaker 2: events when they're asking him about Elvis. It like clicks
Speaker 2: for him because that's how quickly he needed to put
Speaker 2: it on when he was in the movie. He's like,
Speaker 2: I noticed it in myself where I am doing Elvis,
Speaker 2: because my mind is programming me to do Elvis in
Speaker 2: this environment. And he also said something really interesting about
Speaker 2: how naturally he gets a bit of like performance anxiety
Speaker 2: or stage right, and so doing the cosplay of Elvis
Speaker 2: makes him appear more confident, and it makes him almost
Speaker 2: like gives him this ability to orbit these spaces with
Speaker 2: a bit more ease than if he was just being himself.
Speaker 3: Was he good in the movie?
Speaker 2: Well, he's the thing, I'm not familiar with Elvis that much,
Speaker 2: like some people who are sticklers were like, he doesn't
Speaker 2: even really.
Speaker 1: Sound like him.
Speaker 2: But the movie was great, of course. It was a
Speaker 2: very stylized version of Elvis's contribution to music history, and
Speaker 2: they didn't there was nothing really demeaning about his character.
Speaker 2: Anything that was about addiction or infidelity or appropriation. Was
Speaker 2: very much like ah, but beautiful movie, like amazing to
Speaker 2: look at, great costume, me, great acting, Like it was
Speaker 2: so fun to watch. I think that's why I enjoyed it,
Speaker 2: Like it didn't feel like he was acting, and I
Speaker 2: was like, this feels like a like a person who's
Speaker 2: a litting that. That's the best review you could ever get.
Speaker 1: You're listening to flex and frooms on Kita.
Speaker 2: There's been a lot of talk on the news about
Speaker 2: the recession and if we're going into one. It's very
Speaker 2: low vibrational conversation, like it's not really good for the
Speaker 2: morale in the room. But I think it's really important
Speaker 2: to talk about because historically experts always say you can't
Speaker 2: predict if we're going to be in a recession. You
Speaker 2: just know you're in one when you're in one, and
Speaker 2: then you'd be like, we're in a recession. Ah, it sucks.
Speaker 2: But I read an article on Vice that was talking
Speaker 2: about how strippers and adult workers are usually the first
Speaker 2: to be able to know if we're heading in that
Speaker 2: direction based on the spending habits of the patrons. And
Speaker 2: it's not to say that you know they have a
Speaker 2: sixth sense, it's just traffic goes down, the patrons are
Speaker 2: more stingy, or they're not getting private dancers anymore. They
Speaker 2: are complaining, like publicly about not having the money they
Speaker 2: usually have. Having open conversations about economics or just the
Speaker 2: things that stereotypically men who go to shrip clubs will
Speaker 2: be talking about and then the women are able to hear.
Speaker 2: But also an extension of this article was talking about
Speaker 2: how Only Fans workers were saying that twenty twenty two
Speaker 2: Only Fans is nothing compared to twenty twenty and twenty
Speaker 2: twenty one. They were saying, it's so much harder to
Speaker 2: get subscribers, to increase conversion rates, to sustain recurring subscriptions
Speaker 2: as well. And I don't know if that I don't
Speaker 2: know if that's more so about the fact that Only
Speaker 2: Fans is so overpopulated and not as new and entire,
Speaker 2: sing and fresh and fun anymore, or if that's a
Speaker 2: direct in direct correlation with the fact that we are
Speaker 2: in fact going to recession. And as we know they say,
Speaker 2: like when the cost of living goes up and wages
Speaker 2: say the same, that is usually an indication is something
Speaker 2: not good. So stay vigilant, to stay woke, keep your
Speaker 2: coins up.
Speaker 3: I reckon it's because of COVID being over, they're actually
Speaker 3: going to in person strippers. Oh yeah maybe, oh yeah,
Speaker 3: could be a bunch.
Speaker 2: You had your digital dogs now it's time.
Speaker 1: For the big league flex and frooms.
Speaker 2: I want to tell you a little story. Flex.
Speaker 3: It's about a woman called Bri Duval. She's a twenty
Speaker 3: five year old Australian woman and she sounds like a
Speaker 3: like a nineteen twenties flapper, yeah, or a detective friends dubois.
Speaker 2: Okay, what's the chick from streetcar named Ziah? I don't
Speaker 2: know that one who cares so.
Speaker 3: Essentially, this woman, she had a fiance. She's on a
Speaker 3: rooftop at a party. She falls off. She falls head
Speaker 3: first onto the grounds.
Speaker 2: Which is just horrifying. If I fell from just one
Speaker 2: or two steps, the embarrassment will keep me down. Also
Speaker 2: the injury. I don't need my body weight hitting the
Speaker 2: ground from even thirty centimeters. Imagine all those stories and
Speaker 2: from the head.
Speaker 3: Luckily she survived, but she was in a coma. The
Speaker 3: doctor said she had ten percent of living. They call
Speaker 3: her family in Australia because she was living in America
Speaker 3: or Canada or something, and the looks like, do you
Speaker 3: want us to keep the life support on?
Speaker 2: Just checking, just like we can, just if you want
Speaker 2: to us a while for that? What kind of question?
Speaker 3: They say, yes, they are in Australia. They can't get
Speaker 3: media off. No, they say, yes, keep her alive. Oh great,
Speaker 3: they can't get over there.
Speaker 2: It's an inside job. That's why you were taking that outside.
Speaker 2: Oh dear.
Speaker 3: She has a fiance at the time. After three months,
Speaker 3: she wakes up. Been in a coma for three months.
Speaker 3: Finally wakes up. She has a bit of amnesia. She
Speaker 3: obviously doesn't know what happened. So she wakes up and says,
Speaker 3: can I have my phone, goes to call her fiance.
Speaker 3: This is what happened next.
Speaker 4: Hi, everyone pretty here. Thank you, everyone's so so much
Speaker 4: for all the.
Speaker 2: Love on my first video.
Speaker 4: Is the world to me to have this kind of
Speaker 4: support from all of you all around the world. Second,
Speaker 4: we I would like to clarify that I did not
Speaker 4: fall off of a rooftop bar. I fell off of
Speaker 4: a ten meter retaining wall across from the bar. So
Speaker 4: I did still plummet his head first into concrete and
Speaker 4: go into a comb wa it just wasn't on a
Speaker 4: rooftop bar. I just said that because it was easier
Speaker 4: on the story to say the rooftop bar.
Speaker 2: Okay, So this is a difficult of liberties. Then I
Speaker 2: lie here to say two words.
Speaker 3: Less well in the last looks like six hours. She's
Speaker 3: deleted the original video, which essentially told the story of
Speaker 3: how she called her fiance after being in a coma
Speaker 3: for three months. A woman answers and says, don't call again.
Speaker 3: I'm with this man now looks her messages. Not once
Speaker 3: did he message her while she was in the coma,
Speaker 3: which kind of fair enough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I get it, because she's not going to see
Speaker 2: but it'd be nice.
Speaker 3: To wake up to, like, so, yeah, so cute thinking
Speaker 3: of you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and yeah. It turns out he just moved on
Speaker 2: with her life three months to find a whole territorial
Speaker 2: new girlfriend. He did the talking stage and your official
Speaker 2: and she's territorial, all in three months. This is so
Speaker 2: much more than a ghosting, though, not that he is
Speaker 2: obliged to stay with her because they're fiances and allegedly
Speaker 2: in love and about to exchange vows that definitely say
Speaker 2: something about sickness and health and they hadn't done it yet.
Speaker 2: They hadn't done yet, but I'm sure freak injuries would
Speaker 2: have been a part of those vowels. And not only
Speaker 2: he's just up and left. My thing is she's had
Speaker 2: has she had any interaction with him? Did she say?
Speaker 2: Or the only interaction she's had with him is through
Speaker 2: his new girlfriend.
Speaker 3: From what I can remember from the story, no contact.
Speaker 3: The girlfriend nipped it in the bud.
Speaker 2: This is not enough. Time has even gone past. Like
Speaker 2: you go, you fall for a retaining wall. I don't
Speaker 2: even know what that means. Detaining wall, not a rooftop
Speaker 2: bar ten meters up full of a retaining wall. You're
Speaker 2: in a coma for three months and somehow your fiance's
Speaker 2: got a new girlfriend. What do you meant to do
Speaker 2: with that information? I mean, I guess it's a blessing.
Speaker 2: He was plotting on her, plotting away from her.
Speaker 3: I'm going to assume that he is from the country
Speaker 3: that she was in. Again, can't remember for it's America
Speaker 3: or Canada America.
Speaker 2: I think it was Canada. That's a whole nother discuss America.
Speaker 3: I'm just keeping it light, switching, switching lanes, keeping on
Speaker 3: your toes flex. I guess maybe he assumed that because
Speaker 3: she was so ill, she was off going to be
Speaker 3: what yeah, yeah, yeah, she was eventually going to be
Speaker 3: moving back to Australia, So therefore it's not going to work.
Speaker 2: Wait, no, what we do you think? I thought you
Speaker 2: were going to say, because the doctor right off that
Speaker 2: ten percent chance of living. He was like, well, let
Speaker 2: me just get through the morning stage quicker because she's
Speaker 2: not making out of this. Oh maybe like he's done
Speaker 2: a rebound. Yeah, you know, he wants to feel safe,
Speaker 2: he wants to mourn with someone. And then it's kind
Speaker 2: of escalated. He's like, oh shit, you didn't die. That's awkward.
Speaker 3: Well, you know what, maybe he get her on the
Speaker 3: show because the fact that she has stille, she'll probably
Speaker 3: come on, we should get it on the show. The
Speaker 3: fact that she's deleted that original video. I have a
Speaker 3: sneaking suspicion that he's actually gone back on his word
Speaker 3: and said I just had to not be around you
Speaker 3: because it was making me so sad. But it was
Speaker 3: just a rebound. I actually miss you. Let's get back together.
Speaker 2: Ooh see. And I want to I want to see
Speaker 2: if that's true. You think she'd tell you. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Her TikTok is called hot coma Girl One, Hot coma
Speaker 3: Girl One, which is a reference to the movie Senior
Speaker 3: Year where Rebel Wilson gets into a comra and then
Speaker 3: wakes up ten years after her twelve year whatever, and
Speaker 3: her online handle was hot Comer Girl one.
Speaker 2: So funny. She has a sense of humor. Yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 3: She would definitely fit in the flex and firm's ecosystem.
Speaker 2: I don't think anybody's really prepared for what happens when
Speaker 2: you share something so personal, because I always think once
Speaker 2: you publish something that personal on the Internet, it's not
Speaker 2: you no longer control what happened to that information, how
Speaker 2: it gets perceived, the narrative that like spawns out of
Speaker 2: your experience. I just think that it's one thing to
Speaker 2: go through something traumatic. Have the braveries put on the internet,
Speaker 2: and I have people like mumbling and cackling in the comments.
Speaker 2: It's like I was just here to share. Do not deliberate,
Speaker 2: because people would have been saying cruel things, Oh my god,
Speaker 2: that's so sad, how embarrassing he left you it, or
Speaker 2: even worse, like I feel really bad for you. Stay strong, babe,
Speaker 2: like you know you'll meet someone either way. The comments
Speaker 2: would not be helping her healing journey. Do you reckon?
Speaker 3: Our podcasts would be that's not for me to decide.
Speaker 2: It doesn't really suit you. I will answer no further questions.
Speaker 1: You're listening to flex and frooms on kit.
Speaker 2: I used to say that TikTok was the place where
Speaker 2: discourse went to die, because I feel like people just
Speaker 2: find these buzzwords and they rinse them without knowing what
Speaker 2: they mean. Like people think the male gaze is just
Speaker 2: what happens when men perceive you, like, oh no, a
Speaker 2: man's looking at me. This is the male gaze, and
Speaker 2: the female gay is like when girls look at you.
Speaker 2: And that's not the point of this. But I see
Speaker 2: a lot of I don't want to call them buzz phrases,
Speaker 2: but a lot of complicated words mashed together that gives
Speaker 2: a meant to signal something important. But I don't understand them.
Speaker 2: Bushpig no, not like that, like the hi like the
Speaker 2: romanticization of bush piggery. No, the romanticization of localization of
Speaker 2: the so on and so forth. And you're kind of like,
Speaker 2: so when people go to New York anyway. I saw
Speaker 2: this video about this phenomena called beauty overstimulation, and the
Speaker 2: one thing that remains true that the video didn't really
Speaker 2: explain what it is. It just explains the impact of it.
Speaker 2: So let's listen to it. Not only are we being
Speaker 2: exposed to more beautiful faces on a daily basis, but
Speaker 2: people are making themselves more beautiful than ever.
Speaker 1: This is true.
Speaker 6: In twenty twenty, we made a video explaining how the
Speaker 6: TikTok algorithm pushes beautiful faces to the front. If you
Speaker 6: go through your four you page without being logged in,
Speaker 6: all you see is an overstimulating amount of women.
Speaker 1: It's mindless.
Speaker 6: American psychologist Douglas Kenrick decided to explore this and found
Speaker 6: that when men were overstimulated, they overestimated the number of
Speaker 6: beautiful women that were out there. Female subjects also overestimated
Speaker 6: the frequency of gorgeous women in the presented crowds, but
Speaker 6: they didn't overestimate the frequency of handsome men. He explains
Speaker 6: this by saying that a beautiful woman can hold a
Speaker 6: man's attention for much longer than a beautiful man can
Speaker 6: hold a woman's attention.
Speaker 2: When both men and women.
Speaker 6: Were overstimulated by beauty, they tended to rate average looking
Speaker 6: women as significantly lower at Because we're well aware of
Speaker 6: this effect, we work with faces for a living, so
Speaker 6: we tell our doctors to take breaks every two hours.
Speaker 6: If you're on TikTok, try to change your four you
Speaker 6: page so it doesn't show so much mindless softcore pornography.
Speaker 6: You may catch yourself scrolling on TikTok for longer and
Speaker 6: longer each day. There's a very good reason why TikTok
Speaker 6: pushes the most attractive faces to the front of the app.
Speaker 2: Not him saying that seeing beautiful faces on TikTok is
Speaker 2: equivalent to soft core pornography. Does that mean when you're
Speaker 2: perpetuating an issue, babe? Not you?
Speaker 6: Him?
Speaker 2: Yeah, let you, That's not the point. This is the thing.
Speaker 2: I feel like that video was speaking to a lot
Speaker 2: of different factors, but like, what is beauty over stimulation
Speaker 2: and what is the issue with it? Why can't we
Speaker 2: just see beautiful faces all day long? What is the
Speaker 2: big issue with people trying to make themselves more beautiful?
Speaker 2: Is that there is no ceiling? Do you see? I
Speaker 2: have to do some thinking on my own for this one,
Speaker 2: because I was like in the comments, like, what is
Speaker 2: the point? What is the point? Sat with my thoughts
Speaker 2: for a second, and I said, Okay, great, if the
Speaker 2: average person is being exposed to more beautiful faces than
Speaker 2: ever before, that means number one, your perception of beauty
Speaker 2: is warped and skewed to a unattainable place, because if
Speaker 2: you're perceiving the average person to be ten out of ten,
Speaker 2: then your aspiration is already too far out of your league.
Speaker 2: If the average is no longer five and the average
Speaker 2: is nine, then there's this really really unattainable degree of
Speaker 2: beauty we keep aspiring to. And who knows what length
Speaker 2: will do well? Length will go to to get there?
Speaker 2: What is going to happen? A generation of lonely, offensively
Speaker 2: beautiful and disgustingly ugly people can nothing in the middle.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think the issue with it is switching people's confidence
Speaker 3: into negative territory for being a five, because on this metric,
Speaker 3: a five is a two.
Speaker 2: There's a two. Have you seen this trend on TikTok?
Speaker 2: It goes like this, he is a two out of ten,
Speaker 2: but he's really really attentive and remembers everything you tell him.
Speaker 2: Is he still a two or is he more like
Speaker 2: a five? He's a nine out of ten, but he
Speaker 2: sucks his thumb when he's talking to you. Two that's
Speaker 2: two type behavior. Yeah, Ill, when there's a lull in conversation,
Speaker 2: he's full thumb in mouth sucking like a pacifier. Yeah, exactly, tas.
Speaker 3: Like chicken, all right, he's a ten out of ten. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but he farts every two minutes.
Speaker 1: I can't breathe.
Speaker 2: That's no, that's like a zero. I can't do it.
Speaker 2: I like that. And my Lex walked in. He farted ill.
Speaker 2: Gavin Rubins farted out.
Speaker 1: This is flex and frooms on Kita.
Speaker 2: We started the show talking about how economists might not
Speaker 2: know when we're about to hit a recession, but strippers do, right.
Speaker 2: They say that when wager stay the same and the
Speaker 2: cost of living goes up, that is a course for concern.
Speaker 2: And I am concerned because right now, the cost of
Speaker 2: a head of letters is twelve dollars in New South
Speaker 2: Wales twelve whole dollars. A kilo of tomatoes ten dollars.
Speaker 2: But let's not get into the grocery are. Let's with
Speaker 2: a lettuce thing, because to me, lettuce is one of
Speaker 2: those veggies that should be so staple. It should never
Speaker 2: cost you more than two bucks for a head it is.
Speaker 2: Why are you looking like that? I feel like, why
Speaker 2: are you smoldering right now? Let's talk about something so
Speaker 2: sad and you're trying to do sexy eyes, sexy eyes.
Speaker 2: The footage will say other.
Speaker 3: No, I'm just confused when you say that lettuce is
Speaker 3: a staple vegetable because it's not. It isn't no, because
Speaker 3: it like goes limp and stuff really staple.
Speaker 2: In terms of like really accessible. It's okay. In my head,
Speaker 2: staple vegetables are lettuce, tomato, cucumber, onion, potato.
Speaker 3: Not cucumber. But all, oh yeah, no, it sticks around for.
Speaker 2: Like, are they're always in the supermarket easily accessible.
Speaker 3: Garlic, apples, banana, oranges.
Speaker 2: I'm talking veggies. But that's all good. I could go
Speaker 2: into any supermarket and get a lettuce on the cheap,
Speaker 2: like I'm not stressed about all, Like can I find
Speaker 2: lettuce day for example, if I want a passion for it.
Speaker 2: That's not a staple like that seasonal weares anyway. So
Speaker 2: I'm reading the news and they're saying the cost of
Speaker 2: letuce has gone up so much for various reasons, the weather,
Speaker 2: how we're having this arctic freeze at the moment, supply
Speaker 2: chain issues, COVID, a bunch of excuses. I don't want
Speaker 2: to hear it, but this is what's happening so much
Speaker 2: so that KFC put out a statement recently that said,
Speaker 2: listen to this. They're going to be cutting their lettuce
Speaker 2: with cabbage to make it stretch. You're joking, really so sorry,
Speaker 2: but we cannot give you pure lettuce. No, we're gonna
Speaker 2: have to cut it up with something like to just
Speaker 2: CAFC she can confirm her cabbage.
Speaker 3: Disgusting.
Speaker 2: Damn. I've actually been craving CAFC lately and I saw
Speaker 2: child Girl. Charlie has made a bit of a meme
Speaker 2: post to say, like, we're still doing straight lettuce.
Speaker 3: Because I got it last night and there's a tub
Speaker 3: of it sitting at home.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I forgot to bring in elite. Can we get
Speaker 2: back to the boo? Sorry? And that was your tangent.
Speaker 2: I'm so sorry. Yes, price of lettuce has gone up,
Speaker 2: and it's indicative of the fact that stuff is scary
Speaker 2: and everything. The price of everything is going up. I
Speaker 2: thought it would be luxuries that would be expensive, right,
Speaker 2: But if you can't go get a common lettuce for
Speaker 2: three dollars, if you can't get a killo of tomato
Speaker 2: for three dollars, what are we going to be eating?
Speaker 2: I couldn't imagine a lifetime where a corporation would say
Speaker 2: to me, Hey, I know that this is what it
Speaker 2: usually costs, but because we cannot get that produce at
Speaker 2: a reasonable cost, we're gonna have to upcharge you. And
Speaker 2: I was thinking in terms of supermarkets at the moment.
Speaker 2: I was like, how do they even make their money?
Speaker 2: Because I could imagine, like there's not a huge margin
Speaker 2: if you're selling fruits and vegetables for a couple dollars, Like,
Speaker 2: where is the money coming from? It turns out it's
Speaker 2: on like luxury items like confectionery and I scream and
Speaker 2: all these other things that have an absurd markup. Those
Speaker 2: things are driving the supermarket industry. So if for some
Speaker 2: reason it like the cost of cow goes up, well,
Speaker 2: your little magnums an't gonna be affected.
Speaker 3: Oh no, yeah, because I'm keeping them in business.
Speaker 2: It makes me think that the business model around supermarket
Speaker 2: isn't that good. If a little bit of wet weather,
Speaker 2: a little bit of cold means now you gotta raise
Speaker 2: the prices that much, Like you can't even factoring the
Speaker 2: cost for a little bit, like you just pay you
Speaker 2: cop it for a bit macing like I eat vegetables.
Speaker 2: You have no business appropriating this culture. It is what
Speaker 2: it is. I'm glad we had to chat about it.
Speaker 2: I'm gonn got off my chest. You know that feels better.
Speaker 1: This is flex and frooms.
Speaker 3: I was learning about pregnancy the other day and apparently,
Speaker 3: you know the umbilical cord. I'm always like, how does
Speaker 3: the belly button come of that? Apparently, whether or not
Speaker 3: you haven't inny ear an audi is how close they
Speaker 3: snipped the umbilical cord.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so dodgy work. Yeah, it's very clear. Do you
Speaker 2: like a belly button? Yeah, mine's cute in any audi,
Speaker 2: that's any that's a well decorated any.
Speaker 3: Oh, we got tattoo around it too, very nice.
Speaker 2: I was thinking about how there's just so much stuff
Speaker 2: in the world. This was off the back of the
Speaker 2: news that misguided the fast fashion retailer went into liquidation
Speaker 2: and within a date took down their whole website, their
Speaker 2: whole Instagram's gone, just done. Do people like have orders that?
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly, it's like, sorry, the orders aren't going to
Speaker 2: be put through. Who knows if they're getting reading funds.
Speaker 2: It's just done. The company does not exist, and that
Speaker 2: then led into a thought about like over consumption, all
Speaker 2: the stuff we have, and I was just like, look,
Speaker 2: we can only fix one problem at a time. But
Speaker 2: what I would love to see more of. We're going
Speaker 2: to make more stuff. It's just more genius inventions, like
Speaker 2: products that are actually creating solutions to real problems and
Speaker 2: really niche problems too, like ones we're like, gosh, I
Speaker 2: would love if that existed. Bring that in. Like the
Speaker 2: other day, I was scrolling and I saw this new
Speaker 2: small business. I wish I could find it now because
Speaker 2: I want to buy the product, but I would just
Speaker 2: scroll past it. But I don't know if you know,
Speaker 2: but when you are washing your face and cleansing at night,
Speaker 2: do you ever find that when you're like lathering up,
Speaker 2: like driplets of water start going down your forearm to
Speaker 2: your elbow and now it's soiling the countertop. It's fairal behavior.
Speaker 2: I really don't like. It happens every night, right. I
Speaker 2: saw somebody sell what I could only describe as terrytowel
Speaker 2: lets sweatbands that go on your wrists like scrunchies to
Speaker 2: catch the excess water. So when you're washing your face
Speaker 2: and there's stuff dripping, it's just being caught by these
Speaker 2: cute little scrunchies. I said, no, that's a genius idea,
Speaker 2: because that's something I need. Yeah, me too, Right, what
Speaker 2: I don't need is another spanded extress Like I might
Speaker 2: like one, I might even buy one, but I don't
Speaker 2: need it. See, I want and try it on the shop.
Speaker 2: I can't find the I've used and it's there's a
Speaker 2: small fledgling brand. I've used all the keywords, so you
Speaker 2: need to get scr if you're listening, I can't find it. Like,
Speaker 2: all I want is to buy it. Just try it out,
Speaker 2: because I also part of me feels like we get
Speaker 2: so accustomed to discomfort or like slightly irritating things, and
Speaker 2: even if I bought it, I might not use it.
Speaker 2: They'd be like, oh, this is fine, like just let
Speaker 2: the water drig see if I give you them? Right anyway,
Speaker 2: if you have any genius ideas, I want to make them,
Speaker 2: so just get it out there. Let me know I'm
Speaker 2: talking like those real irritable things. You're just like, ah,
Speaker 2: why hasn't anyone made a thing for that yet? That's
Speaker 2: what I'm after.
Speaker 3: Okay, I have a think, And what are you going
Speaker 3: to finance it?
Speaker 2: With a steak? You'll finance it okay.
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