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Airline hacks! · Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Today on the wild Wild Web.
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  Speaker 2: A travel hack from TikTok feels like it's not going
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  Speaker 2: to be working anymore.
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  Speaker 1: I tell you what is in the.
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  Speaker 3: Sick Welcome to the unchanged realm of the world's wide Web,
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  Speaker 3: fearless guide leading you through the wildest parts of the
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  Speaker 3: wild wild Web.
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  Speaker 4: This is the wild wild Web.
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  Speaker 1: Holcome long. It's another edition of the wild wild Web.
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  Speaker 2: An actual article from the Internet that's captured our teaching
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  Speaker 2: or something from the Internet.
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  Speaker 1: We love to talk about it.
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  Speaker 4: Thankfully. The Internet says never ending. Feels like it there's
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  Speaker 4: no end to it.
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  Speaker 1: You're right, you could.
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  Speaker 4: Not look at everything on the internet.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, there's always something like Yeah, you're right, it's always
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  Speaker 2: more stuff getting loaded up, and just it feels like
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  Speaker 2: some much where is it?
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  Speaker 1: How does it all keep it there? Like sure as
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  Speaker 1: you clear out that there.
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  Speaker 4: Was one out there, like each company has its own
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  Speaker 4: big hard drive right somewhere.
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  Speaker 5: Like computers in the desert.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and that wholes information. Should have talked.
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  Speaker 5: About this before, and you try and google where it
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  Speaker 5: is and like look for images and they don't tell you.
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  Speaker 5: Is that because they don't want you to like vomit
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  Speaker 5: or something.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe not, they don't want.
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  Speaker 4: Formation. It must be spread throughout the world. You wouldn't
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  Speaker 4: have it just in one conveniently shed in Abu Dhabi
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  Speaker 4: or something.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you'd be worried, I imagine, well company, sorry, countries
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  Speaker 2: would be worried about other countries.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, they've got access to our for you know.
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  Speaker 5: There's massive data centers that house millions of terabytes of data.
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  Speaker 5: But again it doesn't tell you where, and it does
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  Speaker 5: sound like there's multiple it's.
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  Speaker 4: Still in a very physical location.
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  Speaker 2: So the Internet is ongoing. It just continues and it
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  Speaker 2: continues to give us gems like this. So there's a
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  Speaker 2: travel hack that's been going around on TikTok. Now, you
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  Speaker 2: go on flights, particularly when you're trying to save money,
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  Speaker 2: you're trying to cut down on your baggage, and so
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  Speaker 2: people have been in the past, you know, like wearing
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  Speaker 2: a whole lot of clothes on the five layers of
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  Speaker 2: clothes and things like that. But to avoid paying money
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  Speaker 2: for a second bag on a lot of these airlines,
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  Speaker 2: people have found a little hack taking a pillow, a
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  Speaker 2: pillow case and stuffing a whole lot of clothes inside
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  Speaker 2: the pillowcase. Because a pillow case has been deemed as
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  Speaker 2: a kind of like annicem.
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  Speaker 1: You're allowed to bring onto the plane a pillow, a pillow.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so you bring a pillow what looks like a
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  Speaker 2: pillow but stuff for all your clothes. You take that
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  Speaker 2: on the plane and you've basically essentially taken another bag on,
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  Speaker 2: but not I had to pay for another bag.
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  Speaker 5: Do you reckon if they could see that it was closed,
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  Speaker 5: would they stop you or just be like, well, no,
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  Speaker 5: this is well, this.
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  Speaker 1: Is the thing.
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  Speaker 2: Because it's been a comfort item, you've been allowed to
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  Speaker 2: do it. But now people now are getting kicked off
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  Speaker 2: flights because they're checking. They're checking now pillowcases to go
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  Speaker 2: what's inside that.
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  Speaker 5: I'm still using it like a pillow and pillows are allowed.
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  Speaker 4: He's not the airline mane.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not trying to stopping on the blake.
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  Speaker 5: You're bringing this travel hack as it's been you know,
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  Speaker 5: like people can't.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know if it's been canceled and
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  Speaker 2: you the yard, but there are people there have been
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  Speaker 2: kicked off, kicked off flights, so they maybe did what
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  Speaker 2: you did, kicked up a bit of a fuss about
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  Speaker 2: the fact they're trying to bring a whole lot.
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  Speaker 1: Of it's It can be quite expensive in second bag.
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  Speaker 5: It's always hard when you're going to a cold place
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  Speaker 5: like Europe in the winter, because you need to take
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  Speaker 5: jacket like big things, a lot of stuff. Like I
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  Speaker 5: can't fit everything in with all these jackets.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. No, I like to adopt the and I know
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  Speaker 4: am and your wife does as well, the the tuck
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  Speaker 4: and roll system. When packing a bag, you roll them
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  Speaker 4: into little cylinders all your bits and pieces, and it
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  Speaker 4: fits an extraordinary amount.
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  Speaker 2: But then you get somewhere and you're like, well, I'm
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  Speaker 2: never going to keep this up for a few You've
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  Speaker 2: got to leave you trying to gym everything back in
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  Speaker 2: and stuff or.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, sushi, you've rolled it up.
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  Speaker 2: We work with someone who used to love to unpack
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  Speaker 2: their clothes, which is fine you go somewhere like a hotel,
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  Speaker 2: but he would do it, like, even if it was
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  Speaker 2: one night, he'd take his clothes out, put it all
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  Speaker 2: the drawers. He's like, I've left some stuff over the
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  Speaker 2: years too.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah about it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's nice to unpack if you there
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  Speaker 1: for a while. Oh, I guess. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: it's just easy.
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  Speaker 4: It feels like you're really adding sort of twenty minutes
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  Speaker 4: to either end of your experience in a motel.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like you'd have to be a few
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  Speaker 1: nights to do that. When you yeah, when.
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  Speaker 5: You get home, do you unpacked straight away? Or do
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  Speaker 5: you like?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I try to.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, life doesn't I.
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  Speaker 5: Do when I get in the door, absolutely, no matter
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  Speaker 5: how tired I am.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's just checksuf of the wash, let's get
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  Speaker 1: the stuff going.
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  Speaker 4: I'm with you.
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  Speaker 1: My wife will leave a bag. I'll get to that,
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  Speaker 1: she will. But it's just like.
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  Speaker 5: Relax until it's done, and go on and the suitcase
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  Speaker 5: is packed away.
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  Speaker 4: General. General, she'll out of his suitcase, happily returned from somewhere. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I'm saying. I'm like, I'll do the whole families just
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  Speaker 4: so it's done. Yeah. Absolutely, with your net Okay, what's
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  Speaker 4: your best airline hack? Well, you think of yours, I
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  Speaker 4: can tell your mind.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Miners always pretend that you know what they're talking about
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  Speaker 4: if you're sitting in the emergency exit row, because it's
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  Speaker 4: extra legroomed. And even if they're like are you are
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  Speaker 4: you going to be a safe pay of hands and
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  Speaker 4: an emergency? I know I'm not. I'm going to be
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  Speaker 4: a shocking perier hand. Like the door looks very difficult,
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  Speaker 4: doesn't It'd be nice to have a test. Can I
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  Speaker 4: just get a run through? Because I will I will
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  Speaker 4: completely crumble If the plane's going down and I need
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  Speaker 4: to open up their door, You're gonna have to get
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  Speaker 4: someone from five rows.
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  Speaker 1: I see they could, but I can't. I just want
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  Speaker 1: to leg room.
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  Speaker 5: Funny producer Taylor was an actual flight attendant who was
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  Speaker 5: actually trained in helping us, and she's like, I don't
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  Speaker 5: know what I was doing.
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  Speaker 1: I don't.
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  Speaker 5: I'm glad nothing ever happened because I don't know what
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  Speaker 5: to do.
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  Speaker 4: No one knows what they're doing.
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  Speaker 5: You know, plane they could train to just like ah, no.
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  Speaker 4: One knows what they would do. The plane was literally
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  Speaker 4: falling out of the sky.
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  Speaker 2: It's just funny because we all moan about that, the
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  Speaker 2: safety mussage seeing there so many times, but how much
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  Speaker 2: have you retained? Like it'd be interesting to go and
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  Speaker 2: give everyone a quiz straight after.
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  Speaker 5: The safe your your mask go on? Before someone out.
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  Speaker 2: You remember that where they do. I love the little
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  Speaker 2: thing where they point and do the little the rosey.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's fun. They stand there wait for their little Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Steward will stand out there and go, what's.
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  Speaker 5: The brace position?
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  Speaker 4: It's just like that's changed.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a very grim no, that's yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Do you want to know?
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  Speaker 5: Miro really preface it like that, isn't that a plane crash?
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  Speaker 1: It's not staying in your seats as well too, because they.
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  Speaker 4: Want to The reason for the brace position is a
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  Speaker 4: little sinister.
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  Speaker 5: So they can identify you from your dental record.
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  Speaker 4: So I don't even want to say I don't want
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  Speaker 4: to bring down the vibe of this podcast. No, you
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  Speaker 4: can google it that there's a theory as to why
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  Speaker 4: they get you to put your head between your legs.
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  Speaker 5: I feel like you just have to.
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  Speaker 1: Say to the micros off and say it, okay, turn
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  Speaker 1: the mic.
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  Speaker 5: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if that's true or not.
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  Speaker 2: I was not, but he's not information from tech talks,
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  Speaker 2: not a mass information.
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  Speaker 5: It was to save you, hope.
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  Speaker 4: So I mean that's what the big airline wants you
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  Speaker 4: to believe, does it or not make you do some
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  Speaker 4: fact checking?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, because I feel like I need to.
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  Speaker 4: Definitely is something I read in a comment on a.
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  Speaker 1: Forum and then there's never fact checked it.
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  Speaker 4: Probably this is what I was frightened to say it
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  Speaker 4: because Ben's all about me fact checking stuff. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it would be nice to you spared it off like
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  Speaker 4: it's all, yeah, it's.
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  Speaker 5: A roma and it's not. It's a conspiracy.
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  Speaker 1: He'll say it like fact.
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  Speaker 4: But I said I didn't want.
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  Speaker 1: To see in the past.
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  Speaker 5: Designed to protect you from secondary injuries and to stop
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  Speaker 5: you flailing about.
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  Speaker 4: That's what they tell you. That's what commercial airlines will
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  Speaker 4: tell you. Hey, listen, well you can go and research
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  Speaker 4: what the emergency brace position is all about. You knowing
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  Speaker 4: you guys didn't give me your travel.
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  Speaker 5: Hecks mine is you know how your carry ons only
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  Speaker 5: supposed to be seven kgs. I load that ship up,
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  Speaker 5: and the trick is when you're going through security and everything,
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  Speaker 5: or they're at the door at the gate, lift it
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  Speaker 5: up like it ain't no thing, Like it can cut
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  Speaker 5: off my circulation sometimes, but I'm like, ha, lift it
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  Speaker 5: up over the shoulder and I'm like literally struggling with it.
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  Speaker 5: But it's like it's light as a feather and you
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  Speaker 5: can get some ship and because look like it's hard
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  Speaker 5: to pick up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, gotcha. What's your favorite seat to sit in?
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  Speaker 2: Like, are you like, let's say we're going on a
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  Speaker 2: flight for twelve hours, are you going window or you're
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  Speaker 2: going aisle?
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  Speaker 1: No, there's no one who.
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  Speaker 5: I kind of like the window because I feel like
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  Speaker 5: when you're in the aisle, like if you fall asleep
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  Speaker 5: and stuff, people always bump you and I know you
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  Speaker 5: have to climb over together.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's the pros of the window seat. Feel like
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  Speaker 2: you can lean on the window and it's nice for sleeping.
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  Speaker 2: But then the cons if you need to get up
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  Speaker 2: to go to the bathroom or anything like that, you're like, oh.
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  Speaker 5: God, I can radio, I can hold it, I can
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  Speaker 5: hold my wheel.
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  Speaker 2: Remember over people hours, So something quite nice about the
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  Speaker 2: aisle being able to get up and down.
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  Speaker 5: But go to sleep back and your elbows the trolley
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  Speaker 5: gets here.
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  Speaker 4: But you can stretch your your outer leg out into
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  Speaker 4: the aisle too. That's the advantage of an aisle seat.
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  Speaker 4: I hate nothing more. If you've been front row on
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  Speaker 4: a tiny little in New Zealand pencil plane, you're that
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  Speaker 4: you'll row number one and then as the plane is descending.
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  Speaker 4: The steward is sitting in that seat directly opposite you,
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  Speaker 4: and you're steering each other eyes and you don't know,
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  Speaker 4: do I make conversations? Do we pretend we're not directly
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  Speaker 4: opposite each other with minimal space between.
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  Speaker 2: Us, because it's not much. You can't even got your
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  Speaker 2: phone or anything in that situation.
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  Speaker 4: It's just like dead in the eyes reading.
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  Speaker 1: The Cura magazine for the ninety ninth.
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  Speaker 5: Time, just to her, and then there's like heavy turbulence,
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  Speaker 5: and I keep like looking at her and she's calm.
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  Speaker 5: I'm come yeah, you're like a you're calm, You're come ok,
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  Speaker 5: I'm come yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's yeah, we'll fly.
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  Speaker 4: It's the thing, I.
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  Speaker 5: Haven't flown for like four years, not five years, for
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  Speaker 5: like a work purpose or anything since the pandemic.
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  Speaker 4: Really that don't.
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  Speaker 1: Even go back to Nelson or anything like that.
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  Speaker 5: I got my life. How expensive it is to fly
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  Speaker 5: to Nelson?
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  Speaker 4: Well yeah it is more.
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  Speaker 5: It's more cheaper to go to Australia's That's insane.
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  Speaker 4: It does not like that doesn't end.
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  Speaker 1: Up tell you what do like do try?
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  Speaker 2: And I mean your kids are getting they're quite young,
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  Speaker 2: but they're getting to an age now to fly as
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  Speaker 2: much because soon as it get like eleven, they suddenly
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  Speaker 2: become adults or eleven or it's like, for some reason,
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  Speaker 2: an adult in the flying world is.
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  Speaker 1: I guess because they're using a seat is like eleven
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  Speaker 1: years old.
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  Speaker 5: And I think after their tone, Now, don't they pay
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  Speaker 5: a full fear.
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  Speaker 4: Do they?
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  Speaker 5: They're taking a full seat?
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  Speaker 4: Jeez, put your kid in your carry on.
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  Speaker 1: Looks like it left up, like it's no thing.
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  Speaker 5: It's like a little cavin.
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  Speaker 4: You're right, it's a travel heck. Hey, well, listeners to
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  Speaker 4: the world world we have. That's another episode done. Thank
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  Speaker 4: you so much for listening. Have a wonderful day.