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bravo charlie club episode 041
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In this weeks' pod
Fully Awake Project
- Ben's wife writes in to say he was mistaken 😂🤣
Travel Tip
- Short haul recliners .. Yay or Nay ?
- Fly ahead .. Ben gets seat swapped to the far end of the plane.
Conundrum of the week
- 50% chance of 0mm of rain .. Dear god what does it mean ?
- 'Feels Like' - is it totally made up ?
Thats it folks - Catch you next week.
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Transcript
Introduction to the Bravo Charlie Club
00:00:06
Richard
Welcome to the Bravo Charlie Club making you 12 and a half minutes more awesome each week. He's Ben, I'm Richard. Let's go. Ben, how you doing this week?
00:00:16
Ben
Doing really well, mate. Have had a cracking week weekend, actually. So there you go. How about you? How are you
00:00:23
Richard
I'm tip top, tip top and ready to podcast.
00:00:26
Ben
Yes.
Listener Feedback and Grand Prix Anecdote
00:00:27
Ben
Let's get into it.
00:00:28
Richard
Now, speaking of reading the podcast, we've had some early listener feedback, Ben. Remember when you said were going to tell us about when you were writing a conversation? Well, a certain TF, aka Tanya Flindorf, has written in and said, no, you weren't.
00:00:38
Ben
Yes. Yes.
00:00:45
Ben
Oh, here we go What? She doesn't even know what I was going to talk about. so
00:00:55
Ben
That's actually the standard default conversation level in our house.
00:00:59
Richard
Remember when I was right?
00:01:00
Ben
but Yeah, I blanked that out.
00:01:01
Richard
No, that never happened. Hmm.
00:01:04
Ben
No, no, I didn't have to. she didn't She would say I didn't even have to blank it out. just never happened. Okay, so hes he's here's what I wanted to to to tell you about. I went i went with her to the Grand Prix last weekend.
00:01:19
Ben
Anyway, while we were organizing it, I had said to her, I've been to a Grand Prix before. And she was like, yeah, not with me. You haven't. And so the period that I thought that I'd been to a Grand Prix, because I was actually a little bit like murky on whether it was true or not.
00:01:35
Ben
the but She, yeah, I leaned in, leaned in.
00:01:38
Richard
I did anyway. You were like, oh, I'm sure, I'm sure i' right. Yeah.
00:01:41
Ben
I'm sure I'm right. I've got to get one. It's only been 27 years. You know, she was actually an amazing scrapbooker. And I was like, that's it. I'm going to search the scrapbooks.
00:01:50
Richard
That's the key.
00:01:51
Ben
and you know And, you know, when you've got one opinion and another person's got a different opinion and you get to that point where you're basically just looking at each other with sideways glances, just showing you're completely wrong.
00:02:03
Ben
That's where we were. Like, I was flicking through these scrapbooks, like, with intent. And it's come up to the page. And there I am proudly standing. There's a photo of me at a Grand Prix. Tanya's nowhere in sight.
00:02:22
Ben
So I'm saying i have been to a Grand Prix. I was right.
00:02:25
Richard
So you're both right.
00:02:25
Ben
i was standing there. I was there. And she's saying not with me. and so she was right as well. So that's the that was the pre the the the the story that I wanted to share, bit of a fun one.
00:02:36
Richard
There we go. No.
00:02:37
Ben
Yeah, so there you go Hey, travel tip of the week,
Flight Etiquette: Seat Reclining and Changing
00:02:40
Ben
mate. This is a good one. I was flying down in Melbourne for this for this event.
00:02:42
Richard
yeah
00:02:45
Ben
Do you put your seat back on short-haul flights? Like we're talking, don't know, call it less than two hours as a short-haul.
00:02:52
Richard
I don't think so. I think be kind, don't recline is is my motto for short haul, long haul.
00:02:56
Ben
Yeah, I like that. Is that written on the back of the seats on the planes that you go on?
00:03:00
Richard
so It should be.
00:03:02
Ben
Because, yeah
00:03:02
Richard
They should hand it out to everyone who's who's going on a plane.
00:03:06
Ben
I like that. Because if you notice, though, the first person who reclines, it sort of creates this sort of domino effect where you you're almost you almost have to recline.
00:03:18
Richard
Cause you get the step person like it reclines right back or based into your face. Right.
00:03:22
Ben
Yeah.
00:03:22
Richard
So you've got to recline and then the next person's got it.
00:03:23
Ben
Yeah.
00:03:25
Richard
just It goes all the way back. I'm sure.
00:03:27
Ben
yeah i think I think technology these days, they've changed how far you can actually recline. I remember 25 years ago where it literally was almost like, heaven forbid, you were like reading a book or eating the meal or whatever.
00:03:40
Richard
Yeah. Yeah.
00:03:42
Ben
youd wear You would wear the person. You know you could tuck them into into bed. it was like It would recline so far. So, yeah.
00:03:50
Richard
No, I know. You can't open a laptop, really. i tried to do some laptop-ing recently, and it's not a big, it's like a 13 and a half inch MacBook, so it's not like, not super big, but but still, you can't really work with it on a 60 degree angle.
00:03:53
Ben
No, you've got crack the screen.
00:04:05
Ben
Yes.
00:04:06
Richard
You've got to get it past 90.
00:04:08
Ben
You're right. You're right. Hey, do you remember, speaking of travel tips, when I talked about how you could fly ahead sometimes, you book the last flight and then you then you can fly ahead if you get to the airport early. kind can't remember if I mentioned this, but are we...
00:04:24
Ben
I had a scenario. I'm usually in like row three, which is sort of the front of the economy in the brand that I fly on. 3A I try to take. And I flew ahead and I literally moved from three a to 31F, which is like being at the front left of the plane to the back right.
00:04:41
Richard
to the very opposite end of the plane
00:04:44
Ben
Like... it was So there's a watch out. of As I said, I can't remember if I've actually mentioned this already, but it was it's happened to me. And i was like, you know, so happy to get home that I was, you know, right at the back of the plane.
00:04:57
Ben
didn't even know planes went back that far.
00:05:00
Richard
That's the family and kids section right back there.
00:05:01
Ben
So, yeah.
00:05:02
Richard
I think that but those last three rows is just like, it's great. You get to listen to everyone going the toilet stuff.
00:05:06
Ben
good Good access to the bathroom, however.
00:05:09
Ben
Yeah. good Good access to the bathroom.
00:05:10
Richard
It's awesome.
00:05:13
Richard
Yeah, great access.
00:05:14
Ben
that's the That's the one thing about row three. It's like, you know, the first two rows are for business class and they've got their own bathroom.
00:05:22
Richard
Of course, can't use that bathroom.
00:05:22
Ben
So you literally, yeah, you've got a marathon to get to get back to the to that facility.
00:05:23
Richard
Yeah.
00:05:29
Ben
But anyway, there you go.
00:05:30
Richard
You got to fight your way past two drinks cards as well to, uh, to get there.
00:05:33
Ben
Yes, that's right. Heaven forbid you can you can't go around.
Why Start a Podcast? A Humorous Take
00:05:38
Richard
no
00:05:39
Ben
a listener feedback, listener r t asked what the motivation for BCC was. Now, we've done the Origin episode and we talked, you know, that's 007 for listeners if they haven't haven caught that one.
00:05:51
Ben
he he He asked me, he said, was that a bucket list item? And my response to him was, you know, having your own podcast was cheaper than a red convertible for those in a midlife crisis, which seemed like a...
00:06:02
Ben
It seemed like a reasonable response. But if you're like, you can't, if someone asks you that question, you can't say, go and listen to episode seven. like so So what do you say?
00:06:14
Richard
Yeah, I don't know. What do I say when someone asks me, if why do I want to have a podcast? i think it's I think it kind of grew, didn't it, out of our 25,000 long WhatsApp message for 20 years of of of of laughing at random stuff and thinking, well, there's bit of content there to go on with.
00:06:23
Ben
Yeah, it was. Yeah.
00:06:35
Ben
mainly Mainly each other. We should go back through and farm it.
00:06:38
Richard
But people don't generally ask, though.
00:06:39
Ben
Mmm.
00:06:40
Richard
People people all say, you've got a podcast or a listen to you podcast, but, but, but, but the I've never, I've never had, why did you start a podcast?
00:06:45
Ben
Mmm.
00:06:50
Ben
Yeah, no, this that's what I'm listening to RT.
00:06:50
Richard
So it's interesting.
00:06:53
Ben
There you go. Your your question's been raised.
00:06:54
Richard
Yeah.
00:06:55
Ben
Why not leave a comment? Send us a text. Join the Inner Sanctum on WhatsApp. The links are always in the show notes. We'd love to get some reviews or some, in fact, some some topics. If you need us to solve a conundrum for you, we are all
Weather Reports: Comedy and Perception
00:07:09
Ben
ears.
00:07:09
Ben
And speaking of speaking of conundrums, mate, got a good one for you this week. A 50% chance of zero millimetres of rain. What does that even mean?
00:07:09
Richard
Oh, yes.
00:07:22
Richard
I think that means that the bomb doesn't know what's gonna happen. Like it's like the the bomb for for those people under the seas is the Bureau of Meteorology in Australia. That's the National Weather Forecasting Service.
00:07:33
Richard
And on those days when they they think it might rain or it might not rain, it's 50% chance of zero millimeters of rain. And it's just like, can't work with that.
00:07:44
Ben
What is going on?
00:07:45
Richard
I can't work with that.
00:07:46
Ben
Yeah.
00:07:46
Richard
What does it even mean?
00:07:48
Ben
have you Have you ever, like, and I don't know, i don't know, it is it is it the easiest job in the world or the hardest job in the world?
00:07:51
Richard
It's an H-Y bet, isn't it? Like, head as I win tells you loads or something.
00:07:58
Ben
Like be thing of being a weatherman, well, not even a weatherman, like the working in that in that sort of Bureau of Meteorology capacity because it just feels like, well, I've been literally standing in rain where it's been saying there's an 80% chance of rain.
00:08:23
Ben
It's just raining. yeah and
00:08:25
Richard
It's just writing. Yep.
00:08:27
Ben
And so that brings me on to this feels like. but when When did that start? When did that be? you know It's 27, but
00:08:33
Richard
Oh, yeah.
00:08:38
Ben
but what does that even mean
00:08:38
Richard
Yeah. Yeah. I don't know.
00:08:45
Ben
it's Are they trying to create some sort of...
00:08:45
Richard
Is it wind chill? Are they try to get are they trying to put they trying to factor in wind chill? Is there like a sliding scale there?
00:08:51
Ben
good point.
00:08:52
Richard
Like, could good is is that, mean, I don't know. I don't know if that, does that count?
00:08:56
Ben
Windchill is not exactly a new... but That's not new. So maybe maybe they've just reworded it. Maybe... Okay, all right.
00:09:04
Richard
I'm just guessing.
00:09:05
Ben
No, we don't do research. That's that's the whole point. LAUGHTER
00:09:10
Richard
and I shouldn't actually need to qualify myself. Listeners will understand. Yeah.
00:09:14
Ben
Yeah.
00:09:15
Ben
So it'd be good.
00:09:15
Richard
Maybe it is. But sometimes it feels like it's harder too. Sometimes it can be, so you know, 27 feels like 29 and you're like, well, is that good?
00:09:20
Ben
Yeah.
00:09:25
Ben
That doesn't seem to be as common to me, though.
00:09:30
Ben
that use use Do you see that as, it usually seems to be lower for some reason, and I guess it is the wind chill.
00:09:35
Richard
Farberkissian, Plus, i'd like I i've seen it higher on days where it's quite humid and i guess maybe there's that maybe there's a community spike or something low wind high humidity.
00:09:42
Ben
Mm-hmm.
00:09:45
Ben
Yeah. Yeah. I think, you know, because I've lived in Darwin and, you know, it's 100% humidity and it feels like it's 100% humidity.
00:09:56
Richard
Paul Farberkissian, M.D.:
00:09:56
Ben
with bo the i i was sure I was sure they reported the weather by exception.
00:09:59
Richard
yeah.
00:10:03
Ben
but They would tell you if it wasn't 31. Otherwise, just assume it was 31.
00:10:06
Richard
Hmm.
00:10:08
Ben
Yeah. So that was, a yeah, yeah.
00:10:09
Richard
Dropping to 30 tomorrow. Yep.
00:10:12
Ben
So that was a that was always a fun place to to spend some time. because i was there for a few years, met my beautiful wife there. And yeah I just remember the weather. It was just 31 degrees all all the time.
00:10:24
Richard
Yes.
Episode Wrap-up and Teaser
00:10:25
Ben
Hey, that's it, Richard. Listeners have been BCC'd on our week. In next week's show, we've got a few gripes about Uber. that we have to get off our chests. Yeah, yeah. So watch out, Uber.
00:10:38
Ben
See you next week.
00:10:38
Richard
We're coming for you.
00:10:40
Ben
Yeah, bravo, Charlie Club, out.
00:10:43
Richard
And that's the pod.