The Diabolical Love Line That Had Flex Shook

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Hello, my love, lies. I hope you're strapped in. I hope you're in a good mood.

I hope.

Literally get the strap on, because we're going to be talking about climate change. Don't leave, Do not leave because we have opinions.

I have been told plenty of time that I can make historically boring things sound interesting, and I think that is true. This was a very interesting layer discussion about all the issues. Not with climate change is a concept, a concept. We can agree that it's climate change a conspiracy. No, just with the conversation around it, hyperindividualized versus community efforts about you know, making the world a better place? Are we too far gone? Where we always going to zoot into oblivion?

Anyway?

Does it matter if we get their three thousand years early?

Yeah?

I think the operative word in this is that it is hypotheticals, and I think it's a broader discussion about individuality versus community and whether or not you need individuality for community to work.

Yeah, individual effort, yes, no, pray tell it's going to be a juicy one. And look, it's a couple of minutes. We can't get to the bottom of the what's the Is it the bottom of an iceberg?

There's a tit? What's the other side, the bottom of the ocean?

Maybe?

Look, we just can't delve into every possible concept and theory and idea And most importantly for.

Me, I don't like answers. I just like ideas. I want an answer. I want to not die in three years. That's my reason for living.

Yeah, but if you really wanted to not die in three years, you'd be joining my.

I can't get into this. I can't get into it episode, I promise.

Okayay, this is flex and frooms.

I want to tell you a little tiny story, so if you can just close your eyes and open your ears, this is the story about a man and a woman.

Which look, all my stories are about that. I see you rolling your eyes again during Pride month.

It has to start, okay, So the title of this one is made a really bizarre rule at the start of a relationship and now regretting it.

Let's get it. You know what, you Pretend you're like chill.

We have all ever do that that goes into your dating exactly.

Start with high maintenance.

Pretend you're just this tyrannical freak and then like when they find out you're just like an averagely high maintenance person.

It's chill, pull it back, it's easy.

So here we go.

My name's Amy. I'm a female twenty three.

Okay, too many details.

Gey three year old Amy, let's go two year old Amy. She has been dating her boyfriend for three point five years.

Her words.

At the start of the relationship, we both liked each other, weren't head over heels for one another, due to which we made our relationship somewhat open. The relationship at the time wasn't serious, and honestly, we both thought it wouldn't last, but would give it a shot. One rule we decided on was that if we slept with somebody else, that the other partner would get a free pass to sleep around that amount of time. We made this rule so that we could try our best to see if this

Goes for him.

We never officially killed the rule. Today, at dinner time, I jokingly told my boyfriend how dumb we were at the start of the relationship to make such a stupid rule.

I saw him going from normal to extremely frazzled. Within seconds.

He told me that he thought we were still in an open relationship and that I had sixteen free pass According to him, he did nothing wrong since we didn't just otherwise.

Have been racking them up to you for us.

Literally, I think he cheated since we were in a committed relationship a few months in. I feel sick to my stomach right now thinking of what he has done. He's saying that he loves me and wants his relationship to work, and that I can use my passes and then we can close the relationship back up. I don't know. I don't want to sleep with Randow's, but I also want this relationship. But I'm also disgusted by my boot friend. What should I do? Doesn't count as cheating? I love Amy, Yeah,

That's my man. I'm a stick beside him.

She wants to know is this cheating?

And am I okay to be disgusted because she's in a position.

We've all been there.

She doesn't believe me. No, no, no, no. If you've been there, say so.

I haven't actually been there either. I'm just trying to relate.

Okay, got it.

Some people have been there where they find out that a partner's cheating. They are disgusted in them, absolutely foul, but they still love them, and it puts you really between a rock and a hard place.

So do you think was he cheating?

No, it's miscommunication.

This is a pretty diabolical miscommunication.

What were you talking about for three and a half years, we just didn't bring it back up, like things just don't peter out. I mean, you entered the relationship with a very specific dynamic, right.

I feel like that would have been a couple of chats.

Being like, let's just be open ish, and then you were just you continued being open with an extra layer of intimacy that maybe made Amy think that they were monogamous, which makes a lot of sense.

Is it cheating?

I don't think so.

But it all goes back to if she feels it's cheating, it's cheating. But I'm sure he could justify his way out of it to be like no, no, no no, because you said we were open. So if you if we're changed, didn't you tell me? I feel like, right now she just gotta have a conversation about like, so can we be close? Like do you want to just be with just me? But also I think for me personally, I'm trying to imagine what I would do. I don't know if I could come back from that. It's not just

We date.

But I'm dating Jesse and Becky and Shela and I love them.

That's hectic. I would just have too many questions and answers. I don't want the answers.

To I just say, dump him because if there was nothing like the whole reason why open relationships exist is for that reason. They are open, open channels of communication, open channels of routing.

But they're twenty What do you mean they were twenty when.

They had this chat, twenty three, they're twenty three now dating for three and a half years. I don't think you should be able to use your age as an excuse.

I think she got a dump in.

This is flex and frooms on Kita.

I do not trust people who get on the internet, especially TikTok and have all these pipe dreams about how to make money. Like people's one purpose is like, hey, did you guys know that if you do this you can make money? What is your end game? I don't trust it anyway? So do you know did you ever watch teen Mums when you're in high school?

Yes? Farah Adams Abrams Abrams but close.

So she was the ogten mum and that would have been almost fifteen years ago, if not maybe about ten. And she's been doing a lot of work to keep herself relevant. She is pretty much always in the tabloid's the press for doing something inane. But this she might have taken a bit too fast. So she uploaded a story or a TikTok or something video esque to social media where she's sitting, she's standing in the bathroom and she is alluding to essentially jarring up a vial of

Whatever turns out.

Though it was all elaborate ruse because her and her daughter have come out.

With pooh slime.

Oh genius, that's great. I think that's genius. So it's I can show you here. It looks like it's kind of like in a maple syrup type of bottle that's like bubbly like the poop emoji, and it says poop by Sarah Abram poopy slime. I don't know what it's meant to smell like. I don't know what it's meant to be like. I don't know how well it squirts. I just know that it's a brown colored slime. I don't know if she'll make any money from it. People

Genius has a daughter.

Howld's her daughter?

She looks like a ten, she looks like a child.

But it's getting a bit of a cut. Come on, now, well that's slime slime chat.

But again, there seems to be a very distinct theme with all the ways I'm finding that you can become a millionaire in twenty twenty two. And I don't know if it's like the bar to mine half effect where because I've opened the floodgates with making money through selling your bodily fluids. Now they just find me because we've done tears, tears.

Far bath water. Pooh, what's next?

What is next?

I don't want to talk about it on air. Ooh, it's something else.

So the market is fair and wide, and I just think that if you're trying to sell T.

Shirts in twenty twenty two, you need to start good.

Luck to try harder.

You're listening to Flex and Frooms on Cada.

Okay, so me flex part time conspiracy theorists, but not in the tinfoil hat way. In the I just like talking about concepts I don't really care to believe them the whole way, Like I'm not joining any conspiracy theorist groups or doing rallies or like trying to make things make sense. But one that I don't talk about enough

But still we didn't learn.

Yeah, so we were like, what was that one thing they said?

The masks.

Anyway, you'll also notice that when movies do get released, or when popular when books become popular, there are certain themes just keep cropping up. Like you know, we had a couple of years ago bird by a quiet place, these monsters that hunted with sound.

What is that about?

You just all have these ideas at the same time. Come on, now, come on now. Did you watch on Netflix this movie called Don't Look Up And it was all over the homepage had Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer you'r Save

And so the whole movie is about them first.

Going to the president to be like, hey, there's a media coming, and they're like, okay.

Shush, that's like very bad vibes. Don't say that kind of like not really good. It's not really a good time for that.

And so they go on this like media tour trying to get people to listen to them, and what ends up happening is that every time they're on a talk show or speaking about what's going on, people think they are just this lunatic, like hysterical bunch of people who are trying to fear monger and nobody listens and plot twists, the media hits and everybody dies.

Yeah.

So if you actually miss that part of the film, so people, everybody dies in the end.

Yeah, so everybody watches that, we're like, well, that's really sad. Let's turn that off.

Let's not do that.

But I don't know if you've noticed, but for the past I don't know, six months or so, so many climate change activists have been.

Doing really hectic things to.

Try and get our attention about like the current state of the world.

You had the people.

Who recently in April parked their truck on the Harbor Bridge to block traffic, because once you block traffic, it's all over the news to talk about like the climate emergency.

I missed that, you see.

Then recently the French Open there was this woman who tied herself to the nets, like the poles of the nets, wearing a shirt that said, we have onenty twenty eight days left and we need to do something drastically.

Now.

I don't want to fear manger, Okay, I'm also just here for laughs and gags. However, I do think it's my civic duty amplify this message that they'll.

Wear out is.

No, but it's actually quite spooky. The exact format of the movie is what's happening right now and has been happening since, and people are not paying attention.

You know what.

I watched that movie and it wasn't fear mongering at all, because that's literally what's happening.

But I think that's the point.

I think it comes across as fear mongering because people will then say, well, for years like Nostra Dharma said the world was going to end and it didn't, and so and so said the world was going to end and it didn't, and well had no climate change is real? Like this is just what happened. We've never been alive in this time before. Maybe this is always what it was going to be like in twenty twenty two, and we're just freaking each other out for some mass agenda

What would they get out of that?

Though?

I'm not sure and I don't doubt you know, there are tons of cooked things that are happening, and I don't think that we operate in the right circles to understand the benefit of any of these things that happen. I'm not sure these conversations are meant to have like a very clear cause and effect.

I literally think that Australians now, especially considering how many people voted for the Greens, are taking it seriously and I think it's really important to understand. There has been conversations about climate change since the year two thousand in terms of in pop culture.

Yeah, weren't we in primary school They're like, we're in a drought before that water this time of the year.

We had Finding Nemo, which was all about the pollution in the ocean, Like that's the year two thousand, So you and I've grown up that we've grown up with plastic in the ocean, like picking up plastic off the beach. The drought, then the rains, the fires sounds like the Book of Revelation, it does.

I think that we have always been too far gone for the amount of self sacrifice everybody would need to do for things to change. I have no doubt the big dogs and the six richest corporations in the world were like, Okay, we totally get it, but if we make these adjustments that we don't have money, do you see the issue? And so they're probably like, okay, well let's say we take the brunt, right, because I'm sure the six largest corporations are like personalizing it. Well, fine,

That's what I think.

So the way that people justify the habits that they have that contribute to the climate emergency, they like compare and contrast, Well, I don't shop fast fashion, so like it's fine that I drive my car five minutes down the road, and it's fine that I use Uber eight to every meal, and it's fine that I still use straws because I don't do this one thing. And that's just on an individual level. You have almost eight billion

Fucking up the oceans.

All right, We're just fucking up the sky.

You know what I'm saying or like we're just sucking up one continent, they're fucking up seven. Yeah, you know, So you make these adjustments, and then I think the fundamental issue is as much as everybody accepts responsibility, I don't think anybody wants to take accountability for it. So they're all like, it is my fault, but like me

And now it doesn't.

Our time is bound to come right.

So people kind of have this thought of like maybe we're just rushing ourselves there a little bit. Maybe we're just like not taking a chill road. We're like foot on the gas cranking it into oblivion. But it's going to happen anyway, So what.

Is there to do?

Overpopulation is obviously the thing that's driving it. I think we can all agree on that. Because the more people do.

More things like.

What's it called goodness of living, standard quality of life growing more, that means more food, more this moor that. So yeah, maybe maybe I hadn't thought about it that way, that we're going to be cranking into oblivion regardless. Yes, however, I would be cautious sharing that because I think that's the kind of rhetoric that people who've denied climate change use. Flex and frooms people are always saying, like, don't pop pimples because they'll scar.

We get that.

What's wrong with scars?

Right? That batt'll loan It shows you've been through something.

But apparently there is a section on your face that if you pop pimples and they get infected, it can become lethal.

As in, you could.

Listen to this, okay, So she's referring to this part of your face called the triangle of death or the death triangle, and we give it that name because if you have a skin infection here, it can spread pretty quickly to your brain and cause some really bad symptoms, like a stroke. That's because in this area of the face there's question of blood vessels that can spread infection

Do you know what I hate? Femon green. Yes, it's every day.

I don't do this because of this, don't do this because of this. It's really unsafe.

Blah blah blah blah.

Okay, so why do pimples show up in those areas?

They have a death fish exactly? You know what?

I think? How bad would you feel?

Though?

It's like I want to bring it back up, almost drowning in BALI you did.

You don't think you're gonna be the one.

It wouldn't be.

Me though, I'm not swimming in any kind of.

Rogue open water.

Number one.

If it wasn't the rip, it would have been some miscellaneous creature. I don't even know if this is real or if it's just in a movie maybe had about the megalodon. I don't it's like a megasquid. No, it's like that huge shark or something. Honestly, I can't tell you if this is real or like I thought dragons were real the other day, Like I'm.

Not the one.

But something happened where they the scientists went too far down beneath the ocean floor. They thought they reached the bottom, but it was just like this gaseous lege. So they penetrated it and then let out all these like spooky creatures.

What literally, we.

Don't have to google that it was in a movie.

But I feel like all movies are like based on true life.

Like when did this happen?

Jason stave them? He did it? If he saved us.

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