Speaker 1: Flex and Frooms, Flex and Frooms. This is the Flex
Speaker 1: and Frooms catch up podcast.
Speaker 2: Flex and Frooms On Kate, I've had to use the
Speaker 2: baby voice on true me, a soft, soothing dulcet turn
Speaker 2: to get her to do her job through me, can
Speaker 2: we put the phone down please? I did learn that
Speaker 2: if you want a child to do something, you can't
Speaker 2: ask them, you must give them options. So through me,
Speaker 2: do you want to put the phone down now or
Speaker 2: do you want to risk having to stay back later?
Speaker 2: What do you want to do?
Speaker 1: Flex? Do you want to let me have a play
Speaker 1: or do you want to get an uber home? And
Speaker 1: I won't drive you? I hit an uber? Oh, I
Speaker 1: like hanging out with you.
Speaker 2: The options have to be beneficial, Okay. Anyway, on today's episode,
Speaker 2: we did chat about the writer strike being over. It's
Speaker 2: a bit convoluted as to what that actually means, but
Speaker 2: I did go into a bit of a mini deep
Speaker 2: dive comprehensive in like a ten minute type of way.
Speaker 1: And here's the podcast. Kita Flex and Frooms, Flex and Firms,
Speaker 1: Elmino Lenina. I've heard all the words, Do I know
Speaker 1: what they mean? Yeah? I actually do, and I want
Speaker 1: to tell everyone tell us we know that it is
Speaker 1: giving climate emergency vibes. However, I think we need to
Speaker 1: go into the epitomiology, which is the study of words.
Speaker 1: El Nino means in Spanish etymology. What's epittmology? You know
Speaker 1: you knew what I meant, and that's a beauty pistemology.
Speaker 1: I don't know that means so epistemology. God is a girl, okay.
Speaker 1: El Nino is obviously when the weather heats up. And
Speaker 1: let me give you a little bit of a history lesson,
Speaker 1: just because it's interesting to me. The weather patterns were
Speaker 1: named in Peru by fishermen in the sixteen hundred's old
Speaker 1: school rat can you believe people are alive? Then warmer
Speaker 1: currents off the coast of South America meant fish became
Speaker 1: scarce of chasing nutrition packed cold water. El Nino means
Speaker 1: little boy, named for El Nino Jesus. Because the weather
Speaker 1: phenomenon peaked at Christmas. Ala Nina is little girl, meaning
Speaker 1: cooler water and fuller nets. That's that's on girl Boss.
Speaker 1: So what I think is funny and this is what
Speaker 1: kind of like captured my imagination with the little boy thing,
Speaker 1: is that an Australian climate scientist called doctor Jackie Brown.
Speaker 1: She put it this way, which totally made sense, because
Speaker 1: we don't know what's going to happen with Alnino. She said,
Speaker 1: El nino is Spanish for boy child, and I think
Speaker 1: a good analogy is that although we know we're getting
Speaker 1: a boy, every child can be different. So Elnino really
Speaker 1: going to entail? Will there be massive winds? Apparently the
Speaker 1: water is colder, which means is less moisture in the air. Anyway,
Speaker 1: it's going on. I just like the epimology of it.
Speaker 1: And if you know what that means, you know what
Speaker 1: that means.
Speaker 2: Sweetyboyes, guess what the writer's strike is over. Do not
Speaker 2: turn off your radios. This is actually quite important news
Speaker 2: if you want to know how this has impacted you
Speaker 2: or why you should care. We did do a podcast
Speaker 2: episode on it a couple of months ago. It's very informative,
Speaker 2: but for now I'll give you a quick summary. Basically,
Speaker 2: one hundred and forty eight days ago, that's like almost
Speaker 2: six months. Hollywood actors and writers are part of this
Speaker 2: thing called the WGA and the SAG, which is a
Speaker 2: union which ensures that the rules and regulations just their
Speaker 2: working conditions are fair and just for everybody involved, and
Speaker 2: you have to join these unions to repenty of the benefits.
Speaker 2: But most of the big celebrities do and they have
Speaker 2: four years now. Every now and then, these unions will
Speaker 2: communicate with the studios to ensure that they're on the
Speaker 2: same page, they're working towards the same goals, but also
Speaker 2: to get ahead of any future issues that may come
Speaker 2: about due to things changing society, like AI, like streaming. Now,
Speaker 2: the way that actors and writers have been paid for
Speaker 2: their work has been quite strange. As a non actor,
Speaker 2: non writer, you wouldn't even understand like the bits and
Speaker 2: pieces of how it's all calculated. It's not a flat fee,
Speaker 2: it's a residual per episode, per cson, per whatever. But
Speaker 2: that amount is so miniscule. We were hearing from actors
Speaker 2: and actresses. I mean, they're all just actors who were
Speaker 2: in lead role for lead TV shows on Netflix, on Hula,
Speaker 2: on whatever, getting paid like seven dollars a month for
Speaker 2: the work that they had done. People showing nips forever
Speaker 2: and ever to be broadcasted on TV and getting paid
Speaker 2: thirty dollars a month. It wasn't enough, and so they
Speaker 2: started striking There was also some conversation about the use
Speaker 2: of artificial intelligence in TV and movies, This idea that
Speaker 2: studios were kind of threatening or insinuating that there will
Speaker 2: come a time where we don't even need to use extras.
Speaker 2: We can just put them in the back with CGI,
Speaker 2: or we can pay. For example, I can go to
Speaker 2: Free Me and say I would love to use your
Speaker 2: likeness in a bunch of movies, but you need to
Speaker 2: be there. Don't worry about whether you can have it,
Speaker 2: all right, just give me your face and I'll use
Speaker 2: this forever. What do we pay someone for that? What
Speaker 2: is their body and their face worth? And so the
Speaker 2: strike is technically over. The tricky thing is like the
Speaker 2: exact language of what they've agreed upon the contract is
Speaker 2: not going to be shared with us. But what we
Speaker 2: can understand is that they've all agreed to increase the
Speaker 2: minimum way probably not livable still, but again it's been increased.
Speaker 2: They've increased pension and health fund rates. They've had improvements
Speaker 2: to terms for length of employment. So just because you
Speaker 2: can make the show quickly doesn't mean that we should
Speaker 2: be out of employment in three months instead of twelve.
Speaker 2: Just because you can make it quicker. And then also
Speaker 2: they were talking about the size of writing teams. They've
Speaker 2: been shrinking. They'd been there needs to be twelve people
Speaker 2: big and now there are two people into AI. It's
Speaker 2: not helpful. They need support and also better residuals for
Speaker 2: streaming and stuff like that. So it's a good thing,
Speaker 2: but we don't know the exact terms, the exact percentages,
Speaker 2: the exact dollar amount, but it's enough that people are
Speaker 2: going to stop striking now. In terms of all the
Speaker 2: shows and the movies that you were waiting for, they're
Speaker 2: still delayed by euphoria twenty twenty six. Yeah. Yeah, nothing's
Speaker 2: going to be ramping up very quickly because people stopped
Speaker 2: working for six months. They need to ease into payroll
Speaker 2: and who's hiring who for what, and who's available and
Speaker 2: all of these admin things that we don't really think about.
Speaker 2: But once the actors start and they're available, I guess
Speaker 2: we get our TV shows back. So praise the Lord.
Speaker 1: This is flex and froomes on CADA, it's flex and
Speaker 1: Firms on CATA. What we love here is to indoctrin
Speaker 1: eight people into the world of flex and frooms on
Speaker 1: ninety six point one cater if you're driving home. It's
Speaker 1: a pleasure to have you here. You were there for
Speaker 1: part of our cult. You are implicated and you are
Speaker 1: experiencing what is the bystander effect history of the making.
Speaker 1: So we're starting a cult. Flex is the leader, it's
Speaker 1: called redacted, and our byline is the third space where
Speaker 1: we prioritize getting near it and bonding with each other.
Speaker 1: So getting here it was a real theme of last year,
Speaker 1: and so we decided to do as well this year.
Speaker 1: But it definitely started last year before I went to Europe. Yes,
Speaker 1: we had been dried up. I believe there were some
Speaker 1: elements of dried upness in the studio. So we thought
Speaker 1: we have to get in near it.
Speaker 2: I think if I could just be really quickly. We
Speaker 2: were recognizing that life is fragile and short. In order
Speaker 2: to get the best out of it, we need to
Speaker 2: put the best in it. Yeah, so we did just that.
Speaker 2: It was an experiment of sorts, exposure therapy.
Speaker 1: Exposure therapy, great results, fantastic results for the whole team.
Speaker 1: So that's what that means. So last week we went
Speaker 1: through what's not allowed in our cult? Give us a
Speaker 1: rundown flix No.
Speaker 2: Last week we went through a list of things that
Speaker 2: weren't allowed, but we had some suggestions that were sent
Speaker 2: to us, and there were things that we were unsure.
Speaker 2: If someone said rat tails, I said, no, they can stay.
Speaker 2: I really love that. E scooters, I said they could
Speaker 2: stay as well. I love alternate forms of transport. But
Speaker 2: I think what is helpful is to talk about favorable applicants. Now, granted,
Speaker 2: everyone can be a member of the cult, but where
Speaker 2: you start to read benefits is if you're in line
Speaker 2: with the cults ethos and ethics.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: So for me, I was thinking about it, and I
Speaker 2: said it a ton of times before. I love a
Speaker 2: principal person. Don't get this confused with someone who has
Speaker 2: strong opinions and wants everyone to yield to what they
Speaker 2: believe in. Not what I mean. Okay, you have strong
Speaker 2: beliefs and you want everyone to pana to what you
Speaker 2: believe in or to like think what you think because
Speaker 2: you think them. That's what I'm talking about. I love
Speaker 2: prince people who have strong beliefs and that inform exactly
Speaker 2: who they are and why they are that way, and
Speaker 2: it informs their own behavior. So you know, when I
Speaker 2: interact with people who are like, oh, I get up
Speaker 2: every day at six am. It's just what I do.
Speaker 2: It's what I do for life. Or when someone's like, oh,
Speaker 2: I'm a devout Catholic and it's just what I believe in,
Speaker 2: or I'm a devout environmentalist, I just really really believe
Speaker 2: that this is what we need to be doing. Like,
Speaker 2: those are good people to have around, not because they're
Speaker 2: going to inform what we believe in, but they're good
Speaker 2: mirrors for what it looks like to really believe in something.
Speaker 2: I think sometimes when you know, we spend a lot
Speaker 2: of time on the internet interacting with people. We know
Speaker 2: what it looks like to believe in something. We know
Speaker 2: what it looks like to seem like you care about
Speaker 2: certain things. But in practice they're gonna be very helpful
Speaker 2: when we're all doing nish hanging about. And young Amy
Speaker 2: over there spent the last thirty days building a tree
Speaker 2: house because she loves to be close to the trees
Speaker 2: in the canopy. Like we were talking about what we
Speaker 2: want to do, we didn't do it. Amy's done, yeah's
Speaker 2: built the treehouse. We need to what else for me?
Speaker 1: I would like, as you said, alternate forms of transport.
Speaker 1: I believe that we should have free e bikes with
Speaker 1: helmet attached, like.
Speaker 2: Weed the helmets, and I'm even thinking nepad's elbow pads
Speaker 2: just to have them available.
Speaker 1: I took a bike for the first time in Sydney
Speaker 1: on the weekend and I had to bring my own helmet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I thought if I didn't have this helmet, like,
Speaker 1: I can't get on one of these out the helmet.
Speaker 2: I see people just steal helmets though, and use them
Speaker 2: on other bikes. That's kind of do what you need
Speaker 2: to do, free rain, They're made for you. Anything else, Nah,
Speaker 2: that's pretty much it. I want people who are positively
Speaker 2: geared as well. I need some like bright, happy energy.
Speaker 2: I don't mean daft, empty heads. I just mean people
Speaker 2: who are like sometimes stuff sucks a lot, But how
Speaker 2: are we going to fix it? How we gonna make
Speaker 2: it better?
Speaker 1: How will we get on with life? What's that, mickey?
Speaker 3: Maybe people can send us their traits that they think
Speaker 3: are favorable. Maybe put a little question box up on Instagram,
Speaker 3: and then we can next week come back and say
Speaker 3: if it's in.
Speaker 1: Or out, I love love it, babe. Let's do that.
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