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Richard: Welcome to the Bravo Charlie 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 this week?
Ben: Awesome. Awesome, mate. Hey, remember last week I said we were calling out a lot of Spanish-speaking listeners in the countries? Right on the back of last week, we're we're welcoming Guatemala.
Richard: Yes.
Richard: Guatemala.
Ben: now Now, hello in Guatemalan is hola if you're lazy, but I understand if you want to make a really good impression, you need to match the greeting to the time of day So buenos dias until noon, buenos tardes until sunset, and buenos nachos.
Richard: huh
Ben: Is that nachos? That sounds like a food. Buenos dias for good evening.
Richard: Not yes, maybe.
Ben: Yeah, we'll go with that. So there you go.
Richard: That's good.
Ben: Just need to be a little bit more specific in Guatemala or otherwise you'll be considered lazy.
Richard: There we go, Guatemala. Awesome.
Ben: Fully awake project, mate, this week. Two things caught my eye which I want to raise with you.
Richard: Oh.
Ben: First of all, I'm, i'm you know, a turtle lover. like I'd hug a tree, I guess. I'm not a hippie. But I do like my keep cup. And I'm in a swim group and my mates let me use my keep cup. They even sometimes get it out of my bag.
Ben: to get a coffee when theyre when they're paying. And to be fair, they pay.
Richard: For you.
Ben: Yeah, for me.
Richard: Right.
Ben: But they refuse to use one themselves. Now, and here's the punchline. I've given them keep cups. Like it's not like they'll buy one.
Richard: This should be in the conundrum section. Yeah.
Ben: I just think they deserve a stern talking to. So that was, I was driving home from swimming the other day. I was just like, those lazy so-and-sos, just use your darn keep cup.
Ben: Come on, catch up. So there you go. Do you use keep cup?
Richard: There we go.
Ben: Do you use a keep cup?
Richard: no i don't use a keep cup, but I'm not actually,
Ben: You're tea drinker. Does that?
Richard: i mean, tea tea tastes, che I'm not a coffee drinker, I'm a tea drinker and tea tastes terrible in paper cups anyway.
Ben: Yeah.
Richard: So like I tend not to buy takeaway tea.
Ben: Right.
Ben: which If you had an aluminium, you know, insulated wall mug, would you be tempted to buy a takeaway tea? or
Richard: Probably not. I can't say that I would. I mean, work from home.
Ben: Interesting.
Richard: So, like, walked downstairs.
Ben: Yeah.
Richard: took it away upstairs.
Ben: Oh, it's like the Bravo Charlie...
Richard: At the end of the day, I take all the cups back downstairs.
Ben: Yeah. Isn't that what the Bravo Charlie Club mug is for?
Richard: Yes, exactly. It's around here somewhere.
Ben: and Good.
Richard: I can't see from all the other ones.
Ben: Yeah, we've given out a few of those lately.
Richard: Where is it? Where does it go?
Ben: It's been good.
Richard: Yeah.
Ben: And the second thing that caught my eye, mate, is the mutual acknowledgement when you walk past someone who's selling something and they know that you're not the target market.
Ben: And I'll give you the example. So you're you're walking through Meijer or a yeah department store and you come up to the women' the women's fragrance section and you're just walking through and, you know, you just try to get you exactly.
Richard: Because you're just trying to cut through because that's always on the ground floor and it's always, yeah.
Ben: Exactly. And, you know, the, the handing out their little fragrance, leaflets to everyone and you walk past them, they go to hand and they Oh no, you're not for you. And you just get that little polite nod that, you know, i acknowledge you, you're not getting this because I know you're not going to buy it.
Richard: Give me a nod.
Ben: I i love that. That that's, uh, that's, uh, one of my favorite things. It doesn't happen very often, but I pick it up and I notice it when it, uh, when it does occur.
Richard: a
Ben: So yeah, you're not the target market. Uh, And I think those guys who try to sell you the you know the UNICEF and the the the aid, or not the big issue, though that's a different story again, I think.
Richard: The big issue.
Ben: but you know those Those monthly commitments that they want, you know the fundraising, they should take a leaf out of out of that book because I'm not their target market either.
Richard: Oh, yeah. Yep.
Ben: I think I'll just get it written on a T-shirt. So...
Richard: I'm not your target market. It's a Jedi mind trick.
Ben: I'm not your target market. It could be a branded
Ben: branded Bravo Charlie Club T-shirt. Let's put it into the ether. That's what's going to happen. Hey, travel tip of the week this week.
Ben: What do you think of wearing your bulkiest clothes and heaviest shoes onto a plane? You know, your jacket, your boots, the heavy jumper. Does that free up space and wait for
Richard: You know, like, i get it. i get i get where the sentiment is coming from. But, I mean, are you playing the game all wrong if you're just putting that stuff on to try and dodge a few kilos of carry-on?
Richard: Like, you're probably better off-fly with someone that doesn't want to weigh every single bag that comes onto the plane, right? Yeah.
Ben: Yeah. I just feel like you're at risk of looking like a terrorist. You're like, it's 30 degrees and and you've got the overcoat on.
Richard: Well,
Richard: it might be the way to keep warm, though, because, like, he sometimes they can crank the air conditioner down. Like, if you're doing, I don't know, long haul versus short haul, I guess there's different sorts of rules, isn't there?
Ben: true yeah yeah true although to be fair i flew long haul recently and i just wore shorts and i think it was the first time i've ever done that and i loved it that was very very comfortable
Richard: Yeah.
Ben: yeah, no, that was, uh, I, I saw someone doing, doing it, uh, on a previous trip.
Richard: Hmm.
Ben: was like, going try that. And it was, it was awesome. Yeah.
Richard: It was good.
Ben: I like shorts on the long haul, long sleeve, t-shirt, of my football team for those playing along at home. And, and actually the shorts were up
Richard: And they let you on the plane anyway. yeah
Ben: Yeah, they let me on anyway. Sure. That's an inside joke. I apologise to our listeners. There's one guy who thinks I don't know anything but apparel from my own football team. The reality is he's right. So...
Ben: i A listener of feedback, listener MG asks, why is Ben, me, not on Facebook? And i didn't really have a good answer for him. So I'm just going to have to make something up. i think I think I never saw the need because it was introduced to me as a place where past school friends and acquaintances could find you.
Ben: And I just thought, yeah, no thanks. That can't end well. it
Ben: So, and I never signed up. And then I thought it was probably never going to take off. And then I got, what, it got to like a billion users or something. So I still don't think it's going to take off.
Richard: And you missed the boat.
Ben: And
Richard: Too late.
Ben: the book
Richard: Can't do it now.
Ben: now it seems like it's something that your parents have. And so... And interestingly, my dad does have Facebook and he posts, like he's a photographer and he posts all these photos on it.
Richard: There you go. Yeah.
Ben: So I do miss out on that feed, but he he does send them to me individually as well. So yeah, I probably aren't missing out on too much. Do you do you have do you have Facebook, Richard?
Ben: Do you use it?
Richard: I'm an occasional user. I think I stopped using it about 10 years ago, perhaps, maybe longer. Yeah, I don't know. i don't like I just don't like the idea that they're monetizing the connections you have with your friends, you know, in a sort of like a way to, like, you know, if you're not paying for it, then you're the, you are the product sort of thing.
Ben: Yeah. Yeah.
Ben: Yeah. yeah
Richard: So, yeah, I don't know. so So I sort of decided not to invest in the platform, I guess. mean, you do miss out on stuff though.
Richard: It's it's it's definitely pros and cons.
Ben: yeah
Ben: Yeah, and I'm okay with that. So Bravo Charlie Club, we've we've sort of made the decision to not be on Facebook.
Richard: I
Ben: We do have an Instagram account, but we're very bad at it.
Richard: bet it.
Ben: And we've we've got we've got a Twitter account which points at Instagram.
Richard: bad
Ben: So, you know, we've tried to do socials. I think we're better at we're best on LinkedIn. But, yeah, marketing has not been our strong suit on the first 55 episodes, if I'm being honest.
Ben: Maybe we should fix that.
Richard: That's okay. We'll crack it before 100, definitely.
Ben: i at least.
Richard: Yeah,
Ben: At least. Well, we've got big plans for the 100s, so we'll have to, right? So, yeah.
Richard: yeah. Yeah,
Ben: When are when are you going to release then the beast on that one? Because you've already you've muted at me. You've told me I can't tell everyone about it.
Richard: yeah maybe 97. What?
Ben: you Oh, no, that's way too late. That's not going work for me. that's That's another conundrum. That's another conundrum.
Richard: Let's unpack that in episode 62. Oh. there
Ben: We will. we will Speaking of conundrums, mate. okay Okay. This one has annoyed me for a long time. why And I'm just glad that we've got a platform like BCC to raise this.
Richard: oh
Ben: When did it become okay? to flick emails. When do we start doing that? Like when someone says to you, I'll flick you an email, like where did it come from?
Ben: Who was the first person who even allowed it? Well, I'd like to go back and just poke them in the eye because it's saying I'll flick you an email. Like, what does it even mean?
Richard: i don't like that I don't like think the thing that... rankles me about flicking an email is the...
Ben: Frankl's a good word.
Ben: Hmm.
Richard: It's the... How can I summarize it? it it's the It's the intention. it's It's almost void of intention, like you're discarding trash or something.
Richard: You know, I'll flick you an email. It's like, like where's the where's the the thought? Like, if you're just going to... flick an email it's like throw something away then just do I need the email is it like it just it doesn't sound deliberate enough just don't flick it send me a three word text or something I don't know yeah I'm not a fan not a fan of the not a fan of the term shoot you an email now I'm okay with shoot you an email
Ben: Yeah. Just don't flick it.
Ben: and it's And it's like, it's only the people... Shooting, oh, shooting's perfectly fine. That means it's coming with urgency and intention.
Richard: I know right volition
Ben: Straight into your inbox. Yeah, that's completely different.
Richard: yep
Ben: But shooting emails is is, we should be bam, bam, bam, shooting emails all over the place.
Richard: Exactly.
Ben: But flicking, just stop it Stop it, everyone. All right. i've I've got some time. I just want to ask a follow-up conundrum.
Richard: Hmm.
Ben: What makes a plot thickened?
Richard: Mmm, plot thickener. I don't know.
Ben: Exactly. That's my question to you.
Richard: What does make a plot thicken? Maybe maybe yeah superfluous detail.
Ben: Right. Interesting. When you added superfluous to superfluous detail, I felt like that was superfluous.
Richard: It's just detail.
Ben: When you add detail...
Richard: it I think you got it it's got to be superfluous detail though, I think. So i think the the plot is thickened by other cross-references which which are unrelated but but could potentially lead you astray.
Ben: Interesting. Because, I mean, I guess the term comes from like solving murder mystery type, you know, that's that's sort of the, you know, the birthplace of it, I guess.
Richard: and I'm not that big on murder mystery, really.
Ben: a Oh, my wife is, so I see a lot of plot thickening.
Richard: It's not... aye
Ben: And I just, and I still don't properly understand.
Richard: Yes. Yeah.
Ben: i think maybe you maybe you're right. It's the additional details that don't add clarity that that will literally make it more murky.
Ben: They're thickening the pot. Okay. No, I'm going to run with that. We've solved it. We've actually solved a conundrum, which is which is very rare.
Richard: We saw the conundrum. Episode 55.
Ben: which is very rare What do we have? Let's have strike rate like five out of 55 or something.
Richard: Yeah, probably.
Ben: I can count it. That's it, Richard. Listeners have been BCC'd on our week. Thanks for putting up with this one. Two guys laughing at each other about plot thickening. Shoot us your own conundrums in the links that will always be in the show notes. Because next week we're going to ask Richard in particular, why don't we just get given biotics?
Ben: What's this antibiotic all about? See you next week. Bravo, Charlie Club. Out.
