Speaker 1: Peter Flex and Frooms, Flex and Frooms.
Speaker 2: This is the Flex and Frooms catch up podcast.
Speaker 1: Hello, Love Fine LEXI, We've got a DM from a woman.
Speaker 1: This is spicy. It's a relationship question about an ex.
Speaker 2: So strapping voice.
Speaker 1: Hey, Flex Rooms and Mickey, Mickey, you've really transcended the
Speaker 1: producer tag. I'm not gonna lie the third co host
Speaker 1: please keep an on for this one. Don't want to
Speaker 1: get in any trouble. My ex from ten years ago
Speaker 1: reached out to me and I'm still in shock and
Speaker 1: admittedly haven't chatted to anyone but you girls about this
Speaker 1: till now. Me and my ex, let's call him Greg,
Speaker 1: were high school sweethearts. We got together after formal loll
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Campbell's etc. Stand up, and we were together throughout
Speaker 1: first year, second year UNI. Greg was always quite smart.
Speaker 1: Back in twenty eleven, he got very excited about the
Speaker 1: prospect of bitcoin. I thought it was all a bit
Speaker 1: silly at the time loll. But Greg wasn't spending crazy amounts.
Speaker 1: I think it was only five hundred dollars for a coin,
Speaker 1: so I didn't really get involved. For Christmas one year,
Speaker 1: there was some sort of deal going on like buy
Speaker 1: a bitcoin, get one free. I told him to put
Speaker 1: in half twoin fifty to give to him for Christmas.
Speaker 2: As his gift.
Speaker 1: Greg and I broke up not long after that. Ooh,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't a nasty breakup. We just grew apart
Speaker 1: and need some time after high school. I feel like
Speaker 1: it's a post school His breakup is the vibe that
Speaker 1: I'm getting. Fast forward last week. It's been more than
Speaker 1: ten years and I get a DM on in ste
Speaker 1: of requests.
Speaker 2: We unfollowed each other long ago. It's Greg. Here's what
Speaker 2: he said.
Speaker 1: Hey, Ex, okay, long time, no c This is a
Speaker 1: bit weird, but I have something to ask you.
Speaker 2: Bear with me. This is not a scam.
Speaker 1: As you know, I spent a fair bit in bitcoin
Speaker 1: when we were together, and I've decided to start selling
Speaker 1: some of it. When I went through my portfolio, I
Speaker 1: remembered you pitched in and brought me a bitcoin for Christmas.
Speaker 1: It felt wrong to not message you before I did it.
Speaker 1: But if I sell the bitcoin you brought me, would
Speaker 1: you want half the money? There would be no strings attached.
Speaker 1: Promise think about it and let me know as I
Speaker 1: need the money right now. Happy to call, but I
Speaker 1: don't have your number.
Speaker 2: Let me know, greg. Girls, I was shook.
Speaker 1: She said the going price for bitcoin at that moment
Speaker 1: was fifty K, and as much as I needed the money,
Speaker 1: something feels wrong about taking money from a man I
Speaker 1: haven't spoken to in.
Speaker 2: Years and it was a gift, wasn't it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. It's making me feel icky, and I think my
Speaker 1: current partner would be uncomfortable about the whole thing. It's
Speaker 1: stressing me out. Girlies, What the f do I do?
Speaker 2: I mean bitcoins? Is it going for fifty k currently?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: But this was then.
Speaker 1: Listen, we need to talk about this.
Speaker 2: It's just down way. I know it is down from
Speaker 2: eighty or something.
Speaker 1: It's fifty three k right now. Yeah, one year ago,
Speaker 1: I reckon I got up to eighty. I bought it
Speaker 1: when I was sixty three thousand, idiot. I got one
Speaker 1: thing to say to you, miss girl. Of course you're
Speaker 1: gonna take the money.
Speaker 2: Nah? Are you crazy? Nah?
Speaker 1: Twenty five thousand dollars?
Speaker 2: Tell me why the circumstances are strange.
Speaker 3: I don't understand the motivation of someone you haven't spoken
Speaker 3: to in ten years. You pitched in for half a
Speaker 3: bitcoin as a gift. If I gave you a Chanelle
Speaker 3: perfume as a gift, and then ten years lady, you're like, hey,
Speaker 3: I'm selling it consignment. I'm actually getting five K for it.
Speaker 3: Do you want half? Because you gave me a gift,
Speaker 3: You'd be like, I'm not entitled to anything you get
Speaker 3: from this. He probably doesn't want to withdraw on himself
Speaker 3: because of the tax implications on him.
Speaker 1: That's not how it works though.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but this split it in half. How are you
Speaker 3: gonna do that? Put some coins in her wallet, let
Speaker 3: her hold it for a bit.
Speaker 1: Now he's gonna give her the cash, is he? Well,
Speaker 1: why would he reach out exactly?
Speaker 2: Why would he reach out? It sounds shady, boots.
Speaker 3: If this guy was into bitcoin ten years ago, the
Speaker 3: kind of literacy he has about what to do with
Speaker 3: it and what not to do it with it far
Speaker 3: exceeds her. And from her, as you said before, someone
Speaker 3: who's not like someone has a rudimentary understanding of it.
Speaker 2: From her personally, she's like, oh my god, I feelgy
Speaker 2: because you're gona give me money.
Speaker 3: Why would someone ten years into the bitcoin game be
Speaker 3: thinking about giving you any kind of money.
Speaker 1: I think that he's had a kombaya come to God
Speaker 1: moment and is like, I want to spread love and peace.
Speaker 3: This same guy who would have had a kombaya come
Speaker 3: to come to Jesus moment when bitcoin was like eighty
Speaker 3: six thousand dollars per coin. I don't think so. Something
Speaker 3: shady is happening. Look, leave yourself out of it.
Speaker 2: Sis. If it sounds too good to be true, it is.
Speaker 1: Now I say take the money and run. You're with
Speaker 1: flexing Frooms, okay, take your current boyfriend on a holiday,
Speaker 1: then you have someone to say about it. All expenses,
Speaker 1: trip to pig okay, Okay, your taxes.
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