Speaker 1: The Flex and Rooms Daily Podcast brought you.
Speaker 2: Good evening, good morning, and good afternoon, little ones. This
Speaker 2: is the Flex and Frooms catch up podcast. And we
Speaker 2: just love to be silly all the time. Life is
Speaker 2: too short to try and be anything but absolutely ridiculous
Speaker 2: spelt r d I okay okay u l o us ridiculous.
Speaker 2: And one of my favorite things to do, which is ridiculous,
Speaker 2: is play sibling rivalries, where we take two siblings, real
Speaker 2: or imagined and make them fight to the death. Today,
Speaker 2: I've chosen siblings that don't exist in real life unless
Speaker 2: you are a real Handsil and Grettel type person, and
Speaker 2: that is Cinderella and the Ugly Stepsisters Ugly step Sisters rather,
Speaker 2: And I'm going to kick things off going in for Cinderella.
Speaker 2: Your silence is unnerving me.
Speaker 1: I have a confession, but will wait.
Speaker 2: Oh dear, so the reason why Cinder is way better
Speaker 2: than the Ugly Stepsisters is because she's the main character,
Speaker 2: and honestly I relate. Second of all, her name is Cinderella.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure if you know disflex, but my name
Speaker 2: is lou Cinda.
Speaker 1: Cinderella is a great name.
Speaker 2: It's actually a nice name.
Speaker 1: Isn't it Cinderella?
Speaker 2: Cinderella. You couldn't really name your kids Cinderella without proving
Speaker 2: that you've got tickets on yourself though, tickets tickets, you know,
Speaker 2: got tickets on yourself.
Speaker 1: What's that mean?
Speaker 2: It's like you'd buy a ticket tickets on yourself, like
Speaker 2: you're a show. You never heard of that expression? No,
Speaker 2: she's got tickets on herself? Is that what it means?
Speaker 3: You keep saying it like it's gonna click. It's not clicking.
Speaker 2: Well, it's an expression often used in footy circles, which
Speaker 2: I but you know.
Speaker 1: You've lost me, but I support you, okay.
Speaker 2: Cinderella is the origin story of the underdog. She's really
Speaker 2: cool and pretty, and I think that they could remake
Speaker 2: it so she doesn't meet the prince and she'd still
Speaker 2: be awesome. The more that I'm talking, the more I
Speaker 2: hate myself, So please help me out.
Speaker 3: Is this the time I tell you I don't know
Speaker 3: what happened, but I've just repressed childhood. You say Cinderella,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, is that the one where she gets
Speaker 3: the kiss and wakes up?
Speaker 1: Is she the one with the gnomes?
Speaker 3: It's not because you're saying stepsisters and you're saying the guy.
Speaker 3: I don't know what happened in that movie, but I
Speaker 3: do know that any woman who's gonna go and say
Speaker 3: on record, I am the ugly stepsister, that's the queen
Speaker 3: right Dora, that's the queen right door. That is a contrarian.
Speaker 3: And you know what contrarians are critical thinkers.
Speaker 2: I don't actually know what a contrarian is. Really, come on.
Speaker 3: A contrarian is someone who likes to believe the opposite
Speaker 3: of the most popular opinion. So like, can I play
Speaker 3: Devil's advocate, or like when everybody's aspiring to be hot,
Speaker 3: they're like, I'm ugly, Yeah, ugly step sisters, let me
Speaker 3: channel my inner lawyer.
Speaker 2: Oh you're just like, let me channel like in an
Speaker 2: ugly Sister, you would think that you would you would
Speaker 2: hate for a girl to stay hard.
Speaker 3: Nothing is coming to mind at all, But I think
Speaker 3: for that reason, you should give me this win.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's I'm Cinderella. I'm vibing. I don't care what
Speaker 2: you do. I'm chilling.
Speaker 3: I got my glass slippers. Oh that's the glass slipper story.
Speaker 3: It's just not coming to mind. Every time you say
Speaker 3: a Simpson it's a post, I'm like, I don't get it.
Speaker 3: You talk about Shrek. I'm like, yeah, like I get
Speaker 3: the character. What was I doing?
Speaker 1: Or childhood? Literally just playing sims?
Speaker 2: Do you want to know what you were doing Shrek?
Speaker 1: You with the actor?
Speaker 3: You're on one today? Okay, it's been enough out of you.
Speaker 1: Why don't assume? Have you ever seen them in the
Speaker 1: same room together? You have it, You have it flick
Speaker 1: and free. There's not a day that goes by. Where
Speaker 1: did it referenced?
Speaker 3: The clock app unfortunately? But for how many hours I'm
Speaker 3: clocking with the screen time? It makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 3: It's a trend on it. Currently, it's called rules for
Speaker 3: My inter Partner bFGF here and people read through a
Speaker 3: list and define what their rules are in a relationship dynamic,
Speaker 3: for example, location sharing. Are you down for it? Are
Speaker 3: you not down for it with your partner? No?
Speaker 1: I'm a yes, really yeah.
Speaker 3: But I also think that, like I didn't know it
Speaker 3: was a weird thing because in high school, all of
Speaker 3: my friends had all not all the friends the core
Speaker 3: circle had location sharing on. We thought it was the
Speaker 3: funniest thing and the most fun thing. But then as
Speaker 3: we've left it on and maintained friends. I think my
Speaker 3: favorite thing about it is that people don't bother me
Speaker 3: to ask me Monday in question if they know I'm.
Speaker 1: At work or I'm on a shoot. So sually, best.
Speaker 3: Friend, we'll be like, oh, I checked your location, then
Speaker 3: you're at a shoot.
Speaker 1: Can you check this when you get home?
Speaker 2: Genius?
Speaker 3: Yes, or like, I know you're at home, I've just
Speaker 3: said something to you. It's fantastic. It's optal, but alas
Speaker 3: I get it can be a bit creepy. For the
Speaker 3: how do you say controlling partner, controlling.
Speaker 2: A secretive person a cheetah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've got no secrets, just vibes. The next one,
Speaker 3: how do you feel about password sharing?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: What that's on a list? No? Absolutely not. I've got
Speaker 2: one password no food press. I don't and I.
Speaker 1: Put on my passwords.
Speaker 2: It's called.
Speaker 1: No It's an app called one Password.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, same, I'm on a passive manager too. Of course,
Speaker 3: hotties need a password manager. Gorn other days where you're
Speaker 3: using the same password for everything.
Speaker 1: Do you want to get hacked? You're making it so easy.
Speaker 3: I actually googled how hackers hacked just to get a
Speaker 3: better idea of you know why, I need a strong
Speaker 3: password with symbols and letters and whatever, and they literally
Speaker 3: have like a little software that just.
Speaker 1: Goes through all the letters.
Speaker 3: So like, let's say you have ten slots for a
Speaker 3: potential password. For the first slot, or go ABCD all
Speaker 3: the way through the outfit, all the way through the symbols,
Speaker 3: all the way through the numbers, until they just get
Speaker 3: your password. And so if every single password for yours
Speaker 3: is different and complex, it's going to take ages to
Speaker 3: hack you. If your password is your dog's first name
Speaker 3: and a.
Speaker 1: Couple numbers for every.
Speaker 3: Single important thing for you, it's going to take them
Speaker 3: thirteen minutes. So yeah, no password sharing, No, it's not necessary.
Speaker 3: I don't mind giving a phone code out though, have
Speaker 3: my pass code.
Speaker 2: Passcode is fine?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, password crazy Okay.
Speaker 3: Next one, it just says friends friends. I know a
Speaker 3: lot of people who get really insecure when their person
Speaker 3: has friends outside of them, because you know those couples
Speaker 3: where it's like it's me and you're against the world
Speaker 3: and they and one of them has dropped all their
Speaker 3: friends because they're full time in the relationship, but the
Speaker 3: other one has kept their friends, and the friendless one
Speaker 3: is bitter and jealous understandably, that's just crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you gonna have your own friends because relationships inevitably end.
Speaker 3: What if you meet a hunky hunk and ticks all
Speaker 3: the boxes whatever they are, wilder beast, potentially funny, has
Speaker 3: no friends, and not because they're a social loner, but
Speaker 3: because they're just a terrible friend.
Speaker 1: Like it's fallen out with all of them.
Speaker 3: That is, I would not be able to date them
Speaker 3: finding out until I'm in love with them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you've committed. You're like, this is so great.
Speaker 3: We like do comedy and like we laugh together, we
Speaker 3: make music, and then all of a sudden, it's been
Speaker 3: four five months, it's been four or five months.
Speaker 1: You're like, hey, I want to invite your friends to dinner.
Speaker 2: No friends, I mean, we'll see when it happens.
Speaker 1: The bars on the floor.
Speaker 2: Give me some spicy ones.
Speaker 1: I'm reading a book. I got the list.
Speaker 3: Okay, social media slash liking other girls picks, No, no,
Speaker 3: liking picks.
Speaker 2: Don't like a bikini pick? Actually, what that's twenty thirteen?
Speaker 2: Me talking like them?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Would you?
Speaker 3: Okay, what if he's not liking them, but he's saving them,
Speaker 3: He's categorizing them and saving them.
Speaker 1: Pinteresting one of box gaps, flex and frooms.
Speaker 3: Ever since I could conceptualize the value of a dollar,
Speaker 3: I've been asking too many questions about money, namely, how
Speaker 3: does any commercial business afford to pay their rent when
Speaker 3: people don't walk into stores anymore, especially cafes and stuff
Speaker 3: like how many coffees do you need to sell to
Speaker 3: pay your rent?
Speaker 1: And like buy raw and green and pay people.
Speaker 3: These are live speaks mystery, and we just go into
Speaker 3: these places buy banana bread for four point fifty and
Speaker 3: not think about how they're feeding themselves when we leave.
Speaker 1: Do cafes exist when you're not in them?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: In Japan, there is this cafe that exists. It's called
Speaker 3: the manuscript Writing Cafe. It only fits ten people in
Speaker 3: it at any given time, and their sole responsibility there
Speaker 3: is not to sell you coffee or cafe goods, but
Speaker 3: to help you stop procrastinating so you can finish your work.
Speaker 2: I'm going to stop you right there, okay, and say
Speaker 2: that I've been there.
Speaker 1: Shut up, No, I have shut up.
Speaker 2: I've literally been there, and it's like covered with books
Speaker 2: all around, and it's a long table and you can
Speaker 2: get like Starbucks style drinks. Sure if in There twenty eighteen, Japan.
Speaker 3: What yeah, okay for those who have just in there,
Speaker 3: you know, I think I'm into a Starbucks and had like.
Speaker 1: Bots on the wall and it's Starbys. You're the worst.
Speaker 3: Anyway, I'm going to play this video to really paint
Speaker 3: a picture for you, because if the local cafes that
Speaker 3: are doing two thousand coffees a day a few croissants,
Speaker 3: this ten person max cafe is not making budget. At
Speaker 3: this cafe in Japan, you can actually pay someone to
Speaker 3: hound you to get your work done, and the catches
Speaker 3: you can't leave until you finish.
Speaker 1: Here's the rules.
Speaker 2: Once you enter your hands to slip where you write
Speaker 2: down your name, writing goals, and the time you need
Speaker 2: to finish. Now, this is where it gets interesting.
Speaker 1: You can choose between how you want to be held
Speaker 1: accountable on a scale of mild, normal or hard kind
Speaker 1: of like hurts us smile It gets you a verbal
Speaker 1: check and only when you pay at the counter. Normal
Speaker 1: gets you a progress check by the hour.
Speaker 3: And now for possibly the most nerve wracking of the
Speaker 3: mom if you choose hard, and you will have a
Speaker 3: staff member stand behind you every so often as you
Speaker 3: continue to work on meeting your deadline.
Speaker 1: That's so hot, we got to go.
Speaker 3: No, Okay, I don't want to do work, true, But
Speaker 3: the concept this is philanthropy.
Speaker 1: This is giving back to a community.
Speaker 3: This is creating a solution to a very like major problem.
Speaker 3: Because I think in theory, I love the idea of
Speaker 3: being motivated. I don't want to be motivated, like if
Speaker 3: I'm not doing it, I don't.
Speaker 1: Want to onun on my back and be like, oh no,
Speaker 1: it's really fun like you put it.
Speaker 3: But some people really do need that, right And if
Speaker 3: it can't be your friend, and it can't be a parent,
Speaker 3: for a small fee, go to your local What would
Speaker 3: be an appropriate price to pay for that?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 2: I feel like those kind of like no free press,
Speaker 2: cheese chalk, what we work?
Speaker 1: Oh you're just gonna say a coworking space, gonna co
Speaker 1: working space?
Speaker 2: Pardon me? I feel like the fees are even more
Speaker 2: like thirty bucks a time. I've totally pulled out of
Speaker 2: my behold.
Speaker 1: It's way more extensive than that working space.
Speaker 2: Yeah, ridiculous. Why why would I do that if I
Speaker 2: consider my desk at home?
Speaker 1: Because that's the point, you're not doing it? Yeah, facts, Yeah.
Speaker 3: I reckon Let's say they're like you pop in, You've
Speaker 3: definitely got to buy something to start with. Maybe there's
Speaker 3: like a twenty dollars minimum, and then the cost is
Speaker 3: ten dollars an hour for normal, which is checking in
Speaker 3: on the hour, just sneaky.
Speaker 1: Ten dollars.
Speaker 3: Even so, that's not enough because you've paid your twenty.
Speaker 3: Let's say they're for eight hours. That's eighty one hundred bucks.
Speaker 3: Ten people a thousand, a thousand of days because these
Speaker 3: people are cooking food and doing child maintenance.
Speaker 1: They're child rearing. A last genius.
Speaker 3: I want to see more complex businesses like the problems
Speaker 3: I really have.
Speaker 1: I want solutions form.
Speaker 2: All right, Well that's cool.
Speaker 3: It's not just cool, it's genius. It's the best thing
Speaker 3: I've ever seen. It's a concept that cannot be replicated
Speaker 3: anywhere else.
Speaker 1: This is flex and frooms on Cada. Do you think
Speaker 1: if you were a caveman you would have survived?
Speaker 2: Absolutely? I mean I did. That's why I'm here.
Speaker 1: Longer than thirty years. You think you really had that
Speaker 1: in you?
Speaker 2: Yep?
Speaker 1: I won't dispute that. I'm happy believe in yourself.
Speaker 2: Do you reckon at one point? Now? An sisters knew
Speaker 2: each other absolutely.
Speaker 1: They were kicking far back at the berries and the trees.
Speaker 3: I think like a couple of centuries, No, a couple
Speaker 3: of millenniums after being apes, I reckon we would have
Speaker 3: connected in our hominine forms.
Speaker 2: And that's why we're friends.
Speaker 1: Yeah, past life vibes.
Speaker 3: Also, I was a queen, you or my court jester,
Speaker 3: we're connected to swide out difference. I was actually an
Speaker 3: employee and here we are again. I brought up the
Speaker 3: caveman thing because I was googling evolutionary psychology after I
Speaker 3: played that game. I told you about ancestors and get
Speaker 3: on PS five and PS four. What are things we
Speaker 3: can do or that are ingrained in us to you know,
Speaker 3: survive and stuff? And there's this thing called the reciprocity principle,
Speaker 3: the reciprocity bias, where humans or we are ingrained to
Speaker 3: treat people well, usually if they've treated us well. And
Speaker 3: it goes as far as like back in the day
Speaker 3: where we were prom just to survive and you are
Speaker 3: more likely to survive if you didn't have enemies and
Speaker 3: work by them. So isn't that fascinating right? Because I
Speaker 3: don't think I go around on an average day being like, oh,
Speaker 3: I'm less in danger because I was nice to someone.
Speaker 3: But subconsciously, you do know if you walk into spaces
Speaker 3: and you are more friendly, more nice people will also
Speaker 3: treat you well. But psychologically, if you want to live
Speaker 3: a long life, you literally have to treat people not
Speaker 3: just well, but in the way that you want to
Speaker 3: be treated for your own benefit.
Speaker 1: It's actually quite manipulative.
Speaker 2: It definitely is, but it makes total sense. It's one
Speaker 2: of those macro or micro things you can do where
Speaker 2: if you're nice, more people become nice. It's like a disease.
Speaker 2: It's really amazing.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I think it's fallible.
Speaker 2: I think most of the time it's not, though, and
Speaker 2: I feel like when you are like that, you're more
Speaker 2: forgiving of people that aren't because you know you're like
Speaker 2: you don't you don't know the secret sauce.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're out here bad. You're a red pillar or
Speaker 3: is it blue or red brick brack?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Same, same. You haven't seen the light. So go be
Speaker 3: nice today, but like crank it make it worthwhile.
Speaker 2: Be showing every tooth in your mouth, wide grin.
Speaker 3: You know, Okay, I'm done.
Speaker 1: This is flex and froomes.
Speaker 2: Flex is seated wearing orange pants, green slides, a colorful top,
Speaker 2: and a hat that says flex in spray paint, airbrush Urban.
Speaker 1: She's urban, She's urbane.
Speaker 3: She's urbane, and she's a storyteller I have in my
Speaker 3: head right, I'm always connecting dots, but I find that
Speaker 3: it takes me a second to connect them in real
Speaker 3: life for those who are listening. But a couple of
Speaker 3: weeks ago, we had a conversation with someone who must
Speaker 3: not be named Wink wink about an experience I had
Speaker 3: getting scurvy. Immediately, I thought to myself, did Timothy Shaller
Speaker 3: I have scurvy?
Speaker 1: I googled it. He did not. I don't know where
Speaker 1: I got that from. I don't know if it's his frame.
Speaker 3: He gives a bit of scurvy, but it's a very
Speaker 3: particular thing an English child. I don't think I've ever
Speaker 3: talked about scurvy, let alone, you know, put together this
Speaker 3: like thought in my head so much so I had
Speaker 3: to google it.
Speaker 1: He did not. But what did come up is an
Speaker 1: article about James Blunt. Do you remember James Blunt?
Speaker 2: Massive fan?
Speaker 1: That's you're beautiful, right? Do you want to do a
Speaker 1: little rend.
Speaker 2: It's beautiful for me. It's three wise men, beautiful.
Speaker 1: Look who a far? Let me go? Okay, look who's
Speaker 1: a little Now it's not me, it's not me.
Speaker 2: That's how he sings.
Speaker 1: He is sorry.
Speaker 2: I don't know objectiviim, but James Blunt is hot. He's
Speaker 2: like my dream man.
Speaker 3: We pull up a picture sunny, he's giving British aristocracy.
Speaker 2: Okay, I have a type. Okay, he's hot.
Speaker 1: He's married. I think, unfortunately, you can be hot and married.
Speaker 2: He's beautiful and also if he was ugly, he has
Speaker 2: a personality to pull it off.
Speaker 3: I'm still processing what you've revealed, and this is painting
Speaker 3: such a clear picture about you. There was this headline.
Speaker 3: I have to read the headline as is, otherwise you're
Speaker 3: not gonna believe me when I say so. And this
Speaker 3: is the headline that came up when I typed in,
Speaker 3: does Timothy Shallo may have scurvy?
Speaker 1: Instead?
Speaker 3: It said James Blunt got scurvy due to an all
Speaker 3: meat diet that he started because he wanted to spite vegans.
Speaker 1: This is your king, This is my king, this is your.
Speaker 2: King, my contrarian king.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, absolutely, anyway, this is how it goes. So
Speaker 3: he recalled that he was at Uni. He was studying aerospace, manufacturing,
Speaker 3: engineering and sociology.
Speaker 1: Okay, surrebrawl, He's learned.
Speaker 3: And he said, with the latter sociology class having the
Speaker 3: most vegans, about one hundred and seventy girls and three boys,
Speaker 3: and the majority of them were vegetarian and vegan, he
Speaker 3: was rather blunt, Okay, this is quite I'm not adding
Speaker 3: in flavor. He was rather blunt about not impressing these girls,
Speaker 3: but shoving it in their face a little. So out
Speaker 3: of principle, he decided to become a carnivore and just
Speaker 3: lived on mintce, some chicken, maybe some mayonnaise, the ultimate
Speaker 3: student diet. Of course, this diet had consequences. He saw
Speaker 3: a doctor who was quick to diagnose lack of vegetables
Speaker 3: and common sense. He said, you're lacking vitamin C and
Speaker 3: you need drink orange juice because you have scavy And
Speaker 3: this is the thing that gets me. It's not as
Speaker 3: though the story was like he was challenged by the
Speaker 3: vegans to eat an all meat diet to prove that
Speaker 3: meat is not good or bad for you. He just
Speaker 3: so happened to be in a class full of vegans
Speaker 3: and vegetarian. He said, you know what, I'm gonna eat
Speaker 3: all meat.
Speaker 2: He saw red.
Speaker 1: It was a targeted approach.
Speaker 2: So can you just exclaim what is scurvy?
Speaker 1: I can google that for you.
Speaker 3: Scurvy is a disease resulting from a lack of vitamin C.
Speaker 3: Early symptoms of deficiency include weakness, feeling tired, sare arms,
Speaker 3: gum disease, decreased red blood cells, changes to hair, bleeding
Speaker 3: of the skin, and as scurvy worse thans poor wound healing,
Speaker 3: personality changes, which is the worst of them all.
Speaker 2: I don't care about the other stuff.
Speaker 3: And finally deah from infection or bleeding.
Speaker 2: It's pretty hectic, y Okay, So I know scurvy. I
Speaker 2: would still kiss him anyway.
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