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bravo charlie club episode 045
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In this week episode
Fully Awake Project
- The secret life of checked bags.
- https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/the-secret-life-of-your-checked-baggage-20251128-p5njc7.html
Travel tip of the week & Listener Feedback
- Listener EX asks “Do you take your shoes off when you fly long haul?
- Listener @whalecube writes in on our YouTube channel and says “You Guys are going to be something Huge One Day. I feel 12 Minutes Awesomer Already.” - Thanks mate.
Conundrum of the week
- What would you die for? And what does that even really mean? And isn’t that then also what would you live for?
Thats it for this week - catch you next week.
Contact
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https://www.bravocharlie.club
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Transcript
Introduction and Global Audience
00:00:06
Richard
Welcome to the Bravo Chali Club podcast, making you 12 and a half minutes more awesome each week. He's Ben, I'm Richard. Let's go. Ben, how are you doing this week?
00:00:17
Ben
Fantastic, mate. How are you going?
00:00:19
Richard
Fantastic, fantastic as well. Fantastic all around.
00:00:22
Ben
There you go. that's like That's a good win for us. Good win win for BCC listeners. Hey, new listener country call out is Iraq, which is, there you are.
00:00:32
Ben
Thanks for the the chime in there from your dog.
00:00:36
Richard
No.
00:00:38
Ben
Marhaba is a welcome in Iraq. So thanks to our Iraqi listeners.
00:00:47
Ben
He's still laughing at Dash.
00:00:47
Richard
Fantastic. I know, I'm still laughing at Dash. He's running around here like a crazy thing.
00:00:50
Ben
That's good.
Lost Luggage Statistics
00:00:53
Ben
Hey, mate, in the Fully Awake project this week, we promised to talk about the secret life of check bags. So when you you know when you go and check your luggage. Now... In 2007, 18.9 bags in every thousand went missing.
00:01:09
Richard
That is a crazy stat, isn't it? Like...
00:01:11
Ben
i'm not i'm sure
00:01:13
Ben
i'm not sure who's checking point nine bags but they yeah anyway it's it felled fell by two thirds so to six point three literally two- thirds last year So 6.3 bags out of 1,000 went missing. Now, that's a worldwide stat.
00:01:32
Ben
And the worst scores are still coming out of Europe. So you have to think that, you know, if you're traveling to Europe, the the numbers are obviously much higher than that
Luggage Handling Innovations
00:01:39
Ben
6.3. You know, their Singapore is probably, that they'd be embarrassed if they ever lost a bag.
00:01:39
Richard
Yes.
00:01:45
Ben
In fact, they've begun a trial where you can check your bag in at the the hotel.
00:01:51
Richard
I love that idea.
00:01:51
Ben
And that service actually already exists in Finland.
00:01:51
Richard
yeah
00:01:54
Ben
So yeah i'll put I'll put a link in to the article in the show notes. But it was interesting to me because the the the thing that I found the most fascinating was the early check-in locker.
Debate: Checking Luggage Pros and Cons
00:02:35
Ben
However, it still didn't encourage me to check my luggage.
00:02:41
Richard
You know, it's still 6.3 bags per thousand customers, which I guess if you think of what what and one of those big international planes, well, that's the number of bags.
00:02:44
Ben
Yeah.
00:02:48
Ben
It was less than 1%. Yeah. Yeah.
00:02:52
Richard
And so some people might take two bags, I guess.
00:02:52
Ben
Yeah.
00:02:55
Ben
Well, okay, so less than 1% and you've got two bags. And what do you reckon is 300 people on an international flight? So that means six seventy six bags.
00:02:56
Richard
Or do you think everyone just takes one bag?
00:03:02
Richard
Well, maybe more, maybe 450.
00:03:05
Richard
So like six bags. And you're catching two flights, you've got, the you've got, you've got seven, eight bags per, per flight that don't make it there.
00:03:05
Ben
Okay, so so nine bags are going missing.
00:03:10
Ben
oh Okay.
00:03:14
Richard
So don't know.
00:03:14
Ben
So did I did all this research trying to bring a positive story to our listeners and we've already killed it.
00:03:18
Richard
Sorry.
00:03:21
Ben
All right. Okay, you're not checking luggage. I get it. What's your reason?
00:03:25
Richard
i don't know. Well, it just sounds like a recipe for getting there without any change of clothes or something. I mean, sure.
00:03:31
Ben
Yeah.
00:03:31
Richard
If you've got to take a, i don't know, a bike or a surfboard or something, they don't like you carrying that onto the plane yourself.
00:03:39
Ben
Yeah.
00:03:39
Richard
you have to deal with it. But yeah, I don't know.
00:03:41
Ben
but but get
00:03:43
Richard
I don't know
00:03:43
Ben
They get a bit funny about taking your own bike on board, don't they? Yeah.
00:03:47
Richard
don't know.
00:03:48
Ben
So, okay, and for me, it's the queue. It's the queue to check it in.
00:03:53
Richard
Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:03:53
Ben
when we go on a family holiday, we check luggage, and and that's fine. But, like, you show up to that check-in place, and it's like, holy, who are all these people?
00:04:04
Richard
Well, you'd be there early too.
00:04:04
Ben
Like, it is...
00:04:05
Richard
So like, and that's when the news that it's most,
00:04:06
Ben
Yeah.
00:04:07
Richard
Worst.
00:04:08
Ben
Yeah, that's right.
00:04:08
Richard
So, yeah.
00:04:10
Ben
and And my wife loves to arrive at the airport early. And so, you know, yeah i could watch a movie before our flight takes off and if I'm traveling with my family and with when we're checking luggage.
00:04:21
Richard
but like Like, are we talking Braveheart or The Irishman here?
00:04:22
Ben
Yeah.
00:04:24
Richard
Are we talking like a three-hour movie? we
00:04:27
Ben
were we are We're in that vicinity. we're in that We're in that space. Yeah.
00:04:31
Richard
Right at the open time, man.
00:04:32
Ben
it's but But that's like for for standard domestic travel for me, there's just no chance.
00:04:33
Richard
Yep.
00:04:38
Ben
Like I would just rather buy what I needed at the other end than stand in that queue.
00:04:38
Richard
Well,
00:04:43
Ben
I just, don't know. don't know if that makes me efficient or just lazy. Yeah.
00:04:49
Richard
there's kind of elements of both in either, isn't there?
Listener Question: Removing Shoes on Flights
00:04:53
Richard
I like to think.
00:04:54
Ben
Hey, we're on we're on a travel sort of run today because remember last week we were talking about long haul flying or and listener EX actually wrote in and asked, do you take your shoes off when you fly long haul?
00:04:54
Richard
Yeah.
00:05:10
Richard
Yes. Hard yes. Shoes always off.
00:05:12
Ben
Hard yes. Explain that.
00:05:13
Richard
Hard yes. Yeah.
00:05:14
Ben
Is that before you've even the seatbelt lights gone off or you like just kicking them off?
00:05:17
Richard
Yeah.
00:05:18
Ben
Like some people look at that confidence.
00:05:18
Richard
yeah I'm kicking them off. I wear socks, you know, cause I don't like it. Cause who likes cold feet? Nobody. So, yeah, socks, but the shoes, the shoes come off pretty much straight away.
00:05:24
Ben
Interesting.
00:05:27
Ben
what about What about when you go to the toilet?
00:05:30
Richard
yeah. You definitely want to flip the shoes back on for that. That's a bit, uh, didn't have,
00:05:34
Ben
Yeah. I made that mistake once and, yeah, it was –
00:05:38
Richard
You've to take socks though. Otherwise, you know, you've you if I find my feet get cold.
00:05:42
Ben
Oh, yeah, no, i wore socks into the toilet and i just I was standing there going, this is disgusting.
00:05:54
Ben
never made that mistake again Now, for for me, because I only travel with one pair of shoes and they're always lace-up shoes, it's it's a little bit of a pain to put your shoes on to to go to the bathroom on a plane, but I Yeah, it's just one thing that i i just do.
00:06:10
Ben
i i my I've only made that mistake once and I'm never making it again. I just – don't – right.
00:06:13
Richard
I go socks with sandals, Ben. Socks with sandals. Full full European style.
00:06:18
Ben
Yeah, you can probably – you're cool enough to pull that off though. I probably haven't got the chutzpah to run with that.
00:06:25
Richard
You just need a lack of social conventions and and grace and dress sense, Ben.
00:06:29
Ben
Well –
00:06:30
Richard
You don't need to...
00:06:32
Ben
That, okay. and And there's something in that because the the next listener feedback that we got, listener Whale Cube, call out to hashtag Whale Cube. He wrote in on our YouTube channel and he said, you guys are going to be something huge one day.
00:06:43
Richard
He did, yeah.
00:06:47
Ben
i feel 12 minutes awesomer already. And I reckon that's a shout out to you because I think awesomer is is a word that you would use.
00:06:55
Richard
That is, thanks, Wildcube, you're a legend.
00:06:59
Ben
I thought that was a lot
Philosophical Musings: What Would You Die For?
00:07:00
Ben
of fun. All right, mate. We're motoring through this, but this is a big one. And i want I want to work through the conundrum of the week for you.
00:07:05
Richard
Mm.
00:07:09
Ben
There's a saying, you know, I'd die for that. You know, i that is something that I would die for. So a question I have for you, if you would like to share, what would you die for?
00:07:21
Ben
and then... does that also really mean that that's something that you would live for?
00:07:29
Richard
Yes. It's the juxtaposition of those two statements. yeah It kind of leaves you in like, I don't know, what do you call that valley?
00:07:37
Ben
Isn't it? like
00:07:41
Richard
The valley of uncertainty or something?
00:07:43
Richard
i don't know.
00:07:43
Ben
Yeah.
00:07:44
Ben
Like the whole the whole, you know, because the obvious answer is your family, right? Like, you know, like, oh, yeah, I'd die for my family.
00:07:48
Richard
Well, that's that's I think that's probably my go-to there. Yeah.
00:07:52
Ben
But I'm like, oh, no, hell, I want to live my family.
00:07:58
Richard
True, true. Yeah, I don't know. I think, yeah. I think you're right. I think there's, I don't know, no resolving that one, is there?
00:08:09
Ben
Yeah. Well, yeah, it's an, it's,
00:08:10
Richard
Really? Yeah. do like that I do like the what hill would you die on, though, like and in terms of, you know, the the thing that you would never you would never bend or or concede ground on.
00:08:14
Ben
Yeah, okay.
00:08:23
Richard
You know, you would just you just take it to the mat, like, i don't know, formatting documents with the wrong font or something like that.
00:08:24
Ben
Yeah.
00:08:29
Ben
I'm sure that I've got...
00:08:33
Richard
Like, stop using Times New Roman.
00:08:33
Ben
Oh, you're talking about the critical we one. Oh,
00:08:39
Ben
I didn't realize we were going to get so deep. Yeah.
00:08:41
Richard
Oh, you know, a sort of a slightly different flavour there, I guess. Mm.
00:08:48
Ben
the that's it's an interesting one for me because you know i'm sure i've got hills that i would die on and and things that i would die for but they're also in my mind become things that i absolutely would live for and i'm pretty sure many of our listeners are thinking the same thing i think you get to the point but that's the whole point right it's a it's a conundrum like what what
00:09:10
Richard
It is a conundrum. I think it's family. I think it's family for me, really. everything else
00:09:13
Ben
Family's the right answer so in my circumstance.
00:09:15
Richard
Everything else is optional.
00:09:16
Ben
and yeah
00:09:16
Richard
Yeah.
'Meat in the Sandwich' - A Cultural Joke
00:09:17
Ben
yeah, and probably in your circumstance.
00:09:19
Ben
Yeah, it's an interesting one because, yeah, i think i think we say so we say a lot of things, you know, I'd die for that, you know, and it you know or he's a champion of the sport or he's a you know a superhero.
00:09:32
Ben
Like we use these throwaway comments, but for me, I'd like to actually see some some meat in the sandwich on that one. and I'd love to, if if a listener has a real you know example of something that they could share or willing to share, because it's probably a pretty private thing as well, I'd i'd be interested i'd be interested to hear because that one is, yeah, I've been thinking about that this week.
00:09:57
Ben
And every time I thought about something that I would die for, it always it turned out to be something that I would live for.
00:10:03
Richard
Yeah.
00:10:04
Ben
Yeah, so there you go.
00:10:04
Richard
I love your expression you slipped in there too, the meat in the sandwich.
00:10:08
Ben
Yeah.
00:10:08
Richard
Nice. Very. so Is it Australian? Seems like it could be.
00:10:12
Ben
Possibly.
00:10:13
Richard
Very Australian.
00:10:14
Ben
Possibly. we like carnivore. Apologies to the vegans and vegetarians listening.
00:10:20
Richard
The tofu in the sandwich doesn't cut it.
00:10:21
Ben
the This isn't quite runten you quite run it to its full extent.
00:10:22
Richard
but
00:10:26
Ben
There you go. That's it, Richard.
Conclusion and Listener Engagement
00:10:28
Ben
Listeners have been BCC'd on our week. To our listeners, thanks for joining. We would love to hear from you and you can get in touch for this through the show notes that are showing the links as they always do. In the Inner Sanctum this week, we're going to be putting up a poll.
00:10:44
Ben
And what we're asking this week is, does a bacon double cheeseburger have two slices of cheese, two rushes of bacon or two patties? And you can vote in the Inner Sanctum.
00:10:55
Ben
There's a free BCC mug on offer to anyone who votes. don't to right.
00:10:59
Richard
Wow.
00:10:59
Ben
We don't care. Yeah, we don't care.
00:11:00
Richard
Merch.
00:11:01
Ben
We're doing our first merch giveaway. thought it was about time. So there you go. See you next week. Bravo Charlie Club out.
00:11:11
Richard
And that's the pod.