Speaker 1: Flex and Frooms.
Speaker 2: Flex and Frooms. This is the Flex and Frooms catch
Speaker 2: up podcast.
Speaker 3: Sweet guys, hope you feeling well and healed after Matilda
Speaker 3: fan Fair. I don't know what's going to happen in
Speaker 3: our lives will unite us in such a way, but
Speaker 3: looking out for it coming up though, cutting your toenails
Speaker 3: in part.
Speaker 2: Of your friends and in the public.
Speaker 4: I did say, I've seen this in real life, never
Speaker 4: had it done in my exact presence, but definitely have
Speaker 4: been an auxiliary member of the public witnessing this go down.
Speaker 4: And I'm telling you it's not pretty.
Speaker 1: I like that word auxiliary.
Speaker 2: I means I've said it three times today. That's all right,
Speaker 2: you're with FLEXI and Frooms.
Speaker 5: Let's go, ladies and gentlemen, it's time for flexies.
Speaker 1: Big question of the week.
Speaker 3: One thing you may or may not know about me
Speaker 3: is my purpose for living is to have a bit
Speaker 3: of a chat and a giggle. Yes, and I think
Speaker 3: that I'm living in alignment every time I ask a
Speaker 3: question that makes somebody think. Because what I really like
Speaker 3: and what I've got to the nook and cranny of
Speaker 3: is I like getting to know people behind the mask skin.
Speaker 3: I think that people don't realize how much they tell
Speaker 3: on themselves when they have to justify who they are,
Speaker 3: what they like, and why they like them. Now do
Speaker 3: I really care about the answer?
Speaker 1: Nah?
Speaker 3: I just like the sense of vulnerability when somebody says
Speaker 3: I'm going to answer it, because bear in mind, you
Speaker 3: could say no, I don't want to answer that question,
Speaker 3: probably not going to be friends. But you could definitely
Speaker 3: say no, and that becomes the end of it. So
Speaker 3: thank you in advance for participating as you do every week,
Speaker 3: miss from Miana un Pleasure. The question of this week, though,
Speaker 3: is why do your friends like you? Last week we
Speaker 3: took a deep dive into insecurity to fortify a sense
Speaker 3: of self by asking what's the worst way someone could
Speaker 3: describe you? In this way, we go upstream into optimism
Speaker 3: and positivity. We find outur qualities that we think are
Speaker 3: attractive the people who care about us the most. I
Speaker 3: really implore you not to ask your friends until you've
Speaker 3: answered first.
Speaker 4: Cool.
Speaker 3: This is not an opportunity to go and data mine.
Speaker 3: Just think about it, like, what is it? Is it
Speaker 3: the fact that you are reliable? Are you just a
Speaker 3: good time to be around? Are you consistent? Are you
Speaker 3: open minded. Do they feel safe around you?
Speaker 4: Who know?
Speaker 3: Like they might not even tell you the truth if
Speaker 3: you were if you were to ask. Maybe it's just
Speaker 3: for clout and proximity. Maybe you just look good. Maybe
Speaker 3: it's just aesthetics.
Speaker 2: I mean sometimes it can. Sometimes it can usually the
Speaker 2: teenage yet and that's what you do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And it's like I do sometimes just habitual. You've
Speaker 3: been around, and it's weird to let you go.
Speaker 1: Are we gonna answer it right now?
Speaker 3: We're not gonna answer it right now, but what we
Speaker 3: are gonna do is pop the question in our Instagram story.
Speaker 3: It's flex and frums in there. You can answer the
Speaker 3: question and then we'll go through your answers. It's very exciting.
Speaker 3: We do love this process very much and it will
Speaker 3: commend you if you choose to share your thoughts on
Speaker 3: how brave, hot and sexy that is, because people don't.
Speaker 3: They really don't howaven and I'm judging them, like, not
Speaker 3: in a mean way, but it's definitely a making a
Speaker 3: character assessment.
Speaker 4: Every now and then on the show, a demonic, vile,
Speaker 4: rancid story comes across our desk, and we must share
Speaker 4: it with the community at large. This is from a
Speaker 4: listener and I'll read it out. Hey, flex and frooms.
Speaker 4: I'm a relatively new listener to the potty.
Speaker 2: And I am obsessed.
Speaker 1: Welcome.
Speaker 4: Must be nice. You get me through the job. I
Speaker 4: wish I could leave, and I need your stage advice.
Speaker 4: On a bit of a pickle sandwich I was forced
Speaker 4: into without consent.
Speaker 2: Mind you.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was over to a girlfriend's house and we were watching Riverdale.
Speaker 4: Normal twenty year old girl stuff. Great to know we've
Speaker 4: got an audience in the gen Z community. But then
Speaker 4: out of nowhere, she whips out nail clippers and starts
Speaker 4: going at her toes. I'm thinking, okay, we're pretty comfortable
Speaker 4: hanging out. Even though I hate feet, I'll ignore it.
Speaker 4: Tell me why capitals? I hear crunching. We are not
Speaker 4: eating anything. There were no snacks out, so I turned
Speaker 4: to her. I said, what are you crunching? And she's
Speaker 4: like my tongue? How when I go to leave no
Speaker 4: toenails inside? What do I do? Can I move past this?
Speaker 4: She's a really good friend. For the sake of my friendship,
Speaker 4: can we keep this anonymous.
Speaker 2: Out?
Speaker 4: Just hearing the like little tiny minute crunches of a
Speaker 4: little toenail.
Speaker 3: That point she made about like them being friends so
Speaker 3: they can be comfortable around each other.
Speaker 1: Let's dead that before you get carried away.
Speaker 2: Listen.
Speaker 3: I feel like in your most sacred friendships, that's where
Speaker 3: you need to be extra mindful of your behavior. It's
Speaker 3: not about I get to be comfortable because I've earned proximity.
Speaker 3: It's like I respect you so much, I'm gonna choose
Speaker 3: to be vulnerable or to be open, or to let
Speaker 3: a wall down. We didn't have shame. I guess it's
Speaker 3: if you think about it, it might be like a replenishing angle,
Speaker 3: like the it's made from me and therefore it feeds me.
Speaker 3: I feel like a toe nowl eater is the same. Uh, Like,
Speaker 3: it's not eater. Somebod who picks their nose and eats
Speaker 3: the same community.
Speaker 2: When I was a kid, used to sit and usually no,
Speaker 2: I would like bite my toenails off.
Speaker 1: Do you ever see kids do that? They're like, how
Speaker 1: old were you? She's gonna say fourteen?
Speaker 2: No, like grab the foot and then like chew it off.
Speaker 4: Very very appealing, fantastic, No wonder I like yoga as
Speaker 4: an older woman. Anyway, do we think this is acceptable behavior?
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say no. I think in that instance you
Speaker 4: could have said something. I would have made a light
Speaker 4: joke and say, hey, where are the toenails gone? Because
Speaker 4: it could be it could be a misunderstanding. Maybe she
Speaker 4: put them into a pocket. So you always have to
Speaker 4: ask the question.
Speaker 3: Is the issue the tonail eating or the tone oil cutting?
Speaker 3: I thought the tonail cutting was like the peak of
Speaker 3: the misdemeanor. The eating is incidental to me, serious absolutely.
Speaker 3: I feel like if right now you whipped out your
Speaker 3: feet to cut your toneails, I think that's grossing me
Speaker 3: out more than if you were then to just have
Speaker 3: a little I.
Speaker 2: Did say it once.
Speaker 4: See someone on the on the Glo Waverley line, which
Speaker 4: is the one I used to live on.
Speaker 1: Cut their tone of what is that a train?
Speaker 2: A train? A train line? Like put their feet up
Speaker 2: on the seat and clip. That was a big moment
Speaker 2: for me, shadowing moments.
Speaker 3: But I want people to be comfortable, But the more
Speaker 3: comfortable you get, your level of awareness needs to increase
Speaker 3: as well, like the same time, same time. Otherwise, if
Speaker 3: you get more comfortable and your level of awareness doesn't increase,
Speaker 3: you're now making everybody else uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: At what cost?
Speaker 2: It's not looking good above.
Speaker 1: Mummaye, can I listen to flex and Rooms? Flex and Rooms?
Speaker 2: Okater we Mickey found this.
Speaker 3: Articles is working over time for through me? Do you
Speaker 3: ever hear me say Mickey found this article? You know?
Speaker 1: Yeah, who love giving and you take yourself? That's a
Speaker 1: real my additional research, I really do.
Speaker 3: I read the articles Mickey fans through and then I
Speaker 3: claim them as my own.
Speaker 2: I'm doing a library act.
Speaker 1: Train.
Speaker 4: This founded article in a youth publication that shall not
Speaker 4: be named for legal reasons.
Speaker 1: I hate yourself a youth publication.
Speaker 4: And maybe it was like a compilation of people's pet
Speaker 4: peeves at work. A little read through the article wasn't
Speaker 4: wasn't some of the best work I've seen. The pet
Speaker 4: peeves were like the very obvious ones like I don't
Speaker 4: even know what they were. Didn't hit me, but got
Speaker 4: me thinking about my own pet peeves. I had to
Speaker 4: reflect and think about an office experience that I had
Speaker 4: many years ago. Let me tell you the story. Everyone
Speaker 4: picture this twenty eighteen. I'm in a tuna girl phase.
Speaker 4: I tuna every single day for lunch, oftentimes for dinner
Speaker 4: as well. Because you were on a scant budget.
Speaker 1: That's your brand or was your brand?
Speaker 2: Crazy? Think that was my whole part. Do you remember that? Yeah,
Speaker 2: we totally John West right, No, that I just knew.
Speaker 4: It were.
Speaker 3: Beef with your to the point where I wasn't a
Speaker 3: tuna eater, and when I decided that I would, I
Speaker 3: would eat tuna for the first time as an adult
Speaker 3: picky eater vibes. I was like, I have to get
Speaker 3: both just so I can understand what the comparison is
Speaker 3: and I get what you're saying, Like Serena is like
Speaker 3: more mushy, has a lot of flavor.
Speaker 2: It's it's more more dense, it's more flaw.
Speaker 3: Sorry, it's more dense and it has a lot of flavor.
Speaker 3: I like the oil better. But I think John West
Speaker 3: is it's easily incorporated into salads and what.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like I was.
Speaker 3: Eating with pumpkin, so I kind of like the textual
Speaker 3: thing of like just the slot.
Speaker 2: I cannot with John West. That is why tuna has
Speaker 2: a bad name. Anyway. Anyway, I say sort of say absolutely.
Speaker 4: Loved eating tuna every single day, and I went through
Speaker 4: a phase where I would heat it up in the microwave.
Speaker 2: I made a salad with rice and veggie stunning the
Speaker 2: tuna on top. Why do we get quite a tense
Speaker 2: email from Yeah.
Speaker 4: Everyone in the leadship position saying, hey, I I sit
Speaker 4: right by the microwave. Can you please stop doing that?
Speaker 4: At the time, I was sensed. I thought, how dare
Speaker 4: you police my eating habits? It's quite sensitive about at
Speaker 4: the time, and I made a clapback song which actually
Speaker 4: we can play. Okay, here we go, shall I.
Speaker 2: People told me I couldn't achieve my dream. They said,
Speaker 2: listen that it's not possible.
Speaker 3: To eat you every single day for lunch. You'll talk.
Speaker 1: They told me. If stank out the office.
Speaker 4: On one occasion, I was referred to as a fish bitch.
Speaker 4: Oh to the haters, I have a message.
Speaker 2: I hope your ears are open pretty good because here
Speaker 2: it is, and it's really actually pretty rude.
Speaker 5: Stuck my.
Speaker 2: No, I'm making new song, so maybe.
Speaker 1: Send me more for lunch for me. You were such
Speaker 1: a tastemaker. This is what year was that?
Speaker 2: Tenty eighteen.
Speaker 3: They're not ready for this. They're really not ready for this.
Speaker 3: Instagram was not yet Yeah tailored for video. When I
Speaker 3: was asking questions on Instagram, they weren't ready. When you're
Speaker 3: doing this self producing, mixing, mastering, and making video clips
Speaker 3: on the company.
Speaker 1: The company.
Speaker 4: Also imagine like that was so unprofessional, insane for that
Speaker 4: how with that?
Speaker 2: That's a bully, Like I bullied that woman.
Speaker 3: I'm glad you said it that well, but now we're friends.
Speaker 1: It runs deep.
Speaker 3: But this is the energy you want. It's Hubrius, the
Speaker 3: Hubris young adult Hubris is really amazing.
Speaker 4: Anyway, thanks guys. Didn't really go anywhere, but very very
Speaker 4: important stuff.
Speaker 1: Question.
Speaker 3: Is it weird to go on a first date on
Speaker 3: your birthday?
Speaker 1: Rooms? Yeah, it is. I don't really care how you
Speaker 1: spin it. You could try.
Speaker 3: I'm open to having my mind changed all the time,
Speaker 3: every single day. If you can tell me an occasion
Speaker 3: where it is not weird. It is the opposite of weird.
Speaker 3: It is socially acceptable and socially praised to go on
Speaker 3: a date a first date on your birthday. Dm us
Speaker 3: flexen Frooms on Instagram. I'm happy to hear it anyway.
Speaker 3: The original story came from a TikTok user Chelliste c
Speaker 3: h E l E.
Speaker 1: S t E, who.
Speaker 3: Said that she was asked by a man to go
Speaker 3: on a first day on his birthday, and she was
Speaker 3: you know, going to the brain to trust to figure
Speaker 3: out if it was weird or she's just reading it wrong.
Speaker 1: She has an update for us.
Speaker 5: Listen, you guys got in my head about flipping birthday boy,
Speaker 5: and I was literally thinking, maybe the student's weird.
Speaker 2: It turns out he is weird.
Speaker 5: We rescheduled because I was like, look, I don't want
Speaker 5: to really meet you on your birthday for the very
Speaker 5: first time.
Speaker 1: Whatever.
Speaker 5: I'm chatting with him before the date, right, and I
Speaker 5: was like, Oh, what did you get.
Speaker 1: Up to here over the weekend?
Speaker 2: Listen to this?
Speaker 5: He goes, I've been busy for the last two months,
Speaker 5: super busy. And I was like, oh, cool, what have
Speaker 5: you been getting up to? Thought i'd find out a
Speaker 5: little bit about how he spends his time. Man's goes,
Speaker 5: I've been going on so many dates.
Speaker 1: Can you not imagine?
Speaker 2: Why would you say that?
Speaker 1: Understand?
Speaker 3: And this is another thing I recently came to the
Speaker 3: conclusion that all forms of conversation is trying to like
Speaker 3: get people to understand what your agenda is. All right,
Speaker 3: we are very picky with what we choose to share
Speaker 3: and not share or for our own personal agenda.
Speaker 1: Why in this instance, like, was he trying to be.
Speaker 3: Like I go on so many dates and you know
Speaker 3: you're special because I'm gonna go on this date with
Speaker 3: you on my birthday?
Speaker 1: Is that the.
Speaker 3: Angle I can't I want to understand, I really do.
Speaker 3: I want to get it. Or perhaps he thinks a
Speaker 3: birthday is just another date, it's incidental, and I want
Speaker 3: to go on a date. I don't want to be
Speaker 3: at home doing nothing. I want to have a loose time.
Speaker 3: I want to be celebrated.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I can't even find I can't even find the mind space.
Speaker 2: Yep, the mind frame even.
Speaker 1: Let's find this man.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I will say I do think someone almost asked
Speaker 4: me out on a second hand on the birthday a
Speaker 4: few months.
Speaker 1: Ago, and then because they were like, what are you
Speaker 1: doing on Friday night? Yeah?
Speaker 4: And I was like, oh, I'm like doing this thing.
Speaker 4: I was like okay, and then I messaged them on
Speaker 4: Thursday being like when's your birthday and they're like, oh,
Speaker 4: it's tomorrow.
Speaker 1: It's in Friday.
Speaker 2: I was like, why were you asking what I was doing?
Speaker 2: Never got to the bottom of it.
Speaker 1: There's still time.
Speaker 2: I could definitely inquire further. But cause ship has sailed,
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