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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 you doing this week?
Ben: I'm well, mate. yeah How are you feeling? You going all right?
Richard: Yeah, look, I'm on the mend, well on the mend. We missed our episode last week because I had pneumonia, which is not as much fun as they say. So if you have the chance to give it a miss, I recommend it. So, yeah.
Ben: It's a good word to say. It's not a good thing to have, is is my understanding.
Richard: I can only spell it because autocorrect keeps fixing it up for me whenever I try to type it into a text message. Yeah. I'm still not sure how to get it. but Anyway. Yeah. When, when a flu goes bad.
Richard: So, uh,
Ben: Yes, well, good to have you back. i Speaking of being back, new lists in the country is the call out, mate.
Richard: nice to be back.
Ben: Kenya have joined in.
Richard: And yeah. Yeah.
Ben: yeah Now, the primary language is Swahili. So the most common way we say hello is Habari, which does not just mean, how are you? It also means, what's the news?
Richard: Habari.
Ben: So, hi to our friends in Kent.
Richard: I like it. Habari.
Ben: Hey, this week in the Fully Wake Project, mate, you were going to share some feedback on dominoes, which I feel like I need to go over a soapbox and grab some popcorn.
Richard: Oh, man.
Ben: Fill me in.
Richard: Feedback. is fake is Is there a point where a ranting, wild ranting crosses into some...
Ben: love richard res I love Richard I love Richard Reitz.
Richard: actionable feedback for, uh, for dominoes. Uh, uh, so, so here's, here's the thing. you, We ordered a pizza. It took an hour and a half to get here. it it was it was It was pouring rain. So it was kind of understandable, but they well and truly burned their whatever time commitment promise they had. So we're like, okay, well, we're not usually we're not usually Domino's pizza orderers, but the the kids here insisted that they wanted Domino's. So we went we went for Domino's.
Ben: Got it.
Richard: And it's just great to have a house full of hungry kids too who can't wait for the pizza to arrive. That's that's just awesome.
Ben: Yes.
Richard: but That's another story.
Ben: yeah
Richard: just Just heightening the entertainment value of the whole saga. so two So two weeks after that, they sent us a little thing appeared in the in the mailbox saying, look, we're sorry we let you down and this is this is, you know, we...
Richard: we'd like to apologize and we'd like to give you a free pizza. And it had free in giant letters, you know, across the top of the little card that comes in.
Ben: it's good
Richard: look Okay, that's nice. And so it sat there on the fridge for three and a half weeks until the thing was about to expire in two days' time. And we're like, oh, that pizza voucher on the fridge.
Richard: And then you sort of like, you feel compelled to use the free pizza voucher, right?
Ben: Yes, can't let a free pizza go to waste.
Richard: and And so... Oh, no, you can't let a free pizza. So you so you so you you wait you wait until you've used everything in the fridge and you're down and it's like Friday or Saturday, the day before you're about to do the grocery shop.
Richard: So there's nothing in the fridge anyway.
Ben: Cheap day.
Richard: And and you go to you got to try and order the pizza.
Ben: Yep.
Richard: and then you see you see the asterisks on the on the on the thing and you're kind of like looking down at what what what free actually means was it ended up being free for pickup only and if you delivery charges excluded minimum delivery order 22.90 or something and so it didn't actually end up being anywhere close to free i mean it didn't end up even being half price i think it was like it was ended up being like 40 off and you have to go out and buy another pizza that's at least 22.90 so
Ben: It's always an asterisk.
Ben: So that doesn't
Ben: All
Richard: uh, anyway, I just feel like dominoes completely worked me over with the, with the generosity, yeah with the generosity play.
Ben: right.
Richard: So, yeah, there you go.
Ben: I've got one question. in one inside In hindsight, because we always get caught out and then go and read the fine print. but if you had If you had actually read the voucher, would you have realised you were about to be you know taken advantage of or was it just that unclear?
Richard: yeah
Richard: It was – if I sat down and read it deliberately instead of glancing over, like, you know, should you be allowed to have you know, font that's 10 times the size of the small print that sits underneath it, like the that sits at the at the bottom?
Ben: the It's a good question. Good conundrum.
Richard: Like, you know, that that just – I don't know.
Ben: me
Ben: And you had an abacus... excel screenshee yeah
Richard: and Conditions apply. Oh, yeah, probably, you know. Yes.
Ben: I've got a feeling you won't be eating Domino's for a little while. Yeah, they're gone.
Richard: Well, i think they're out. They're they're definitely in the same thing now.
Ben: Oh, I'm just out.
Richard: So, Ben, gone, gone.
Ben: Oh, wow.
Richard: Dead to me.
Ben: There you go.
Richard: They are dead to me.
Ben: Domino's, Domino's, you've lost Richard. Hey, I'm very unloyal.
Richard: You've lost a not very loyal customer.
Ben: With his own podcast, you have made a very powerful enemy.
Richard: With a platform, of very powerful.
Ben: Oh, goodness me. Hey, Richard, did you know that chance dads need Wi-Fi to brush their teeth?
Richard: What?
Ben: Let me explain.
Richard: What?
Ben: that I'm going to explain this. So my wife was away, and so I had the the house with my my daughter for a few nights. And... I needed to do a reset on our server.
Ben: Anyway, sir she'd been studying diligently. She walked past, she said, and I'm off to brush my teeth. And I was like, great, oh I can reset the server now she's finished studying. And anyway, I've done the reset.
Ben: You know, it takes a few minutes to power back up and stuff.
Richard: It does.
Ben: Before before it's powered back up, she's walked down the stairs and said, then there's no Wi-Fi.
Richard: Yep.
Ben: I'm like, I thought you were brushing your teeth. She said, I am. have you got some sort of Wi-Fi enabled toothbrush that I'm not aware of? And she's like...
Ben: No, well I'm watching something on YouTube or whatever it was. I'm like, oh, okay. So there you go. That's what Wi-Fi is is required for to to brush your teeth.
Richard: There go.
Ben: Hey, Travel Tip of the Week, I've got a good one for you, mate.
Richard: Mm.
Ben: This one is buyer beware. Read the instructions on the toilet in your hotel room. And don't be like me and say in your head, who needs instructions to flush a toilet?
Richard: Uh-oh, Ben.
Ben: Because apparently,
Richard: I'm starting to think something bad happened.
Ben: here's here's what happened. So of I've checked into my room. The first thing i needed to do was use the bathroom. And I'm standing there. i'm looking at the toilet lid and it's got this sticker on it. explaining how to flush the toilet.
Ben: And I'm laughing at it going, people these days, like we're nanny state and, you know, we need to, someone to explain to us how to flush a toilet. Allegedly, i need someone to explain to me how to flush a toilet.
Ben: because this was one of those dual action toilets with the internal bidet. And and but being a male standing in front of a toilet, pressing not the flush button, but the bidet button, I am suddenly a set of clothes short of my next meeting.
Richard: Uh-oh.
Richard: Damn, damn.
Ben: Because the flush button that I used actually ejected water straight onto my pants, which which always a fantastic look.
Richard: Great. Great.
Ben: Hello, ladies. So, and I've of obviously in my own hotel room was able to take a quick shower, change clothes,
Richard: yeah
Ben: and make it to my next meeting on time. The funny part of the story was not the fact that I did it once. The funny part was I did it twice.
Richard: Oh, yeah.
Ben: Now, the second time was sort of in the matrix level where I did that raw and I was like going backwards and and and it missed me and just like sprayed the whole bathroom.
Richard: yeah
Ben: but Travel tip, take it from me Read the stickers on the toilets, folks. it's It's not...
Richard: That was good advice. Hard one. Hard one advice.
Ben: Yes, and that's what I'm here for. I'm here to share those those experiences. Any listener feedback coming in, mate?
Ben: Awesome.
Richard: His other half is very scientific about what goes in, how much goes in, and never, ever leaves the washing machine once it's done.
Ben: In the washing machine, I guess.
Richard: like Oh, never leaves it in the washing machine once it's done. Yes, there we go.
Ben: Yeah.
Richard: So, yeah, washing machine.
Ben: so
Richard: It's a hot it's a hot hot issue.
Ben: There you go.
Richard: also and Also, listener J.A. writes in, love number 54, travel tips galore, and on the laundry once again, cloth laundry bags.
Ben: Oh, here we go. Yep.
Richard: All the way, which is very good. Shoe bags as well for sneakers. Great. very pro tip. and And he says, heathens don't separate whites and darks. Not likes and darks.
Ben: He's
Richard: Whites. Whites only with whites. Heathens. And you can't overload the machine.
Ben: on your bus.
Richard: So there we go. JA and I, wo we are on the same page.
Ben: Okay, one for Richard. he is on your is on your bus
Richard: Ha, ha, ha, ha.
Ben: okay one for richard
Richard: I love it. But most importantly, most importantly, Ben, a certain listener, TF, a.k.a.
Ben: yeah
Ben: Oh, no.
Richard: Tanya, a.k.a. your wife, writes in and says the reason she doesn't separate any of your clothes, Ben, is because everything is work black or Carlton Navy blue.
Ben: Oh, fickle.
Richard: which is pretty true she also adds that she is not a heathen and she washes towels and cleaning clothes separately and in fact your description of her washing uh strategy slash technique was misleading at best and dodgy at worst so there we go did
Ben: cold
Ben: Hang on, did both J.A. and my wife use the word word heathen?
Richard: they did fact
Ben: No, it's okay. Okay. something dodgy going on there. Jay needs to lie down. All right, uppercut received. My wife actually gave me very specific feedback after the last episode dropped.
Ben: Yeah, it was a bit frosty around the the house, around the washing machine.
Richard: You might've been banned from doing the washing ever again, Ben.
Ben: pu it I don't know that that's how it works. I think I might just have to do my own washing. Goodness me. All right, conundrum of the week.
Ben: Why don't we just get given biotics? Like you're sick right now.
Richard: Oh.
Ben: you go to a doctor and they're going to give me an antibiotic. Why can't it just, it sounds so negative.
Richard: I've been on them all week. Yes.
Ben: Why don't we just get given biotics?
Richard: Well, you get antibiotics to to get you better and then you have probiotics to build back up after you've had the antibiotics. Like where are the normal biotics?
Ben: So what's a biotic then?
Richard: I don't know.
Ben: So a pro?
Richard: Oh, dear.
Ben: Yeah. No, someone's going to have to write pharmacists
Richard: You know, probiotics, antibiotics, probiotics. It's probably other biotics too.
Ben: A pharmacist, if you're listening, talk us talk us through that one.
Richard: yeah
Ben: Yeah.
Richard: Talk us to biotics.
Ben: yeah I don't know the answer to that. it's's We're back on our normal not knowing the answers to conundrums, which is good. I've got a follow-up one for I'll have a crack at it. How long exactly did it take to build Rome?
Richard: Well, I think we all know that, Ben, that it wasn't a day.
Ben: We know it wasn't a day. does that mean it was it was one plus onepl plus days? So I think it was more than two as well.
Richard: Well, I think when you actually go there and have a look around, they're still building it.
Ben: True, true.
Richard: been in work in progress for a while.
Ben: Like the Colosseum.
Ben: Oh, goodness me. Yeah, so if anyone could would like to write in and let us know how long it built took to build Rome, we're all so interested. Hey, that's it, Richard.
Richard: forty fabulous Already fabulous Roman cliches as well.
Ben: Listeners,
Ben: yes, yes, we love we love Roman cliches.
Richard: Yeah.
Ben: and Hey, listeners have been BC Saturday week. To our listeners, thanks for joining in. Maybe if you enjoyed this episode, shoot it through. Don't flick it through to one of your or your mates. Just get in touch with us through the links in the show notes.
Ben: In next week's show, we're going to ask, what's the furthest you can be from an airport returning a rental vehicle before filling it up and still present a full tank on arrival?
Ben: See you next week. Bravo, Charlie Club. Out.
Richard: And that's the pod.
