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bravo charlie club episode 057
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Fully Awake Project
- Ben discovers the power of silence.
Travel tip of the week
- Ever been short changed with a smile ?
Listener feedback
- JR on Japan. ♨️🚽
Conundrum of the week
- Rental car returns - How much needs to be in the tank to look full?
Thats the pod folks. Catch you next week.
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Transcript
Introduction to Bravo Charlie Club
00:00:07
elricho
Welcome to the Private 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 doing this week?
00:00:16
Ben
I'm well, mate. You're sounding a bit better too. That's good. Good to have you back.
00:00:20
elricho
I'm fighting my way through, it's an uphill slog, but I can't keep a good man down, as they say.
00:00:26
Ben
Mate, the man flu is brutal. It's only 50% of the population would know.
00:00:29
elricho
The man flu is brutal.
00:00:30
Ben
Or is 49% or something?
00:00:30
elricho
Yeah.
00:00:32
Ben
A new new listener country call out is Venezuela this week. Now, on the phone, it's very common for Venezuelans to answer, hello, which I thought was pretty cool. Yeah. Yeah.
00:00:43
elricho
Oh, that's pretty cool.
00:00:44
Ben
So, g'day to our Venezuelans, or hello if you're on the phone.
Lessons in Patience
00:00:50
Ben
Hey, the Fully Awake Project, mate, as we get older, have you learnt the power of holding your tongue?
00:00:57
Ben
Like just not saying something?
00:00:58
elricho
Yes. Largely, largely yes. so I was always quite good at it, actually, to be fair, I think.
00:01:03
Ben
Yeah, actually, that's that's a fair call. i haven't I haven't been historically good at holding my tongue, but I did actually recently. I was in Jakarta Airport.
00:01:15
Ben
I was waiting in and in line in an airport bathroom. There was five cubicles, and I felt like I was there forever. it seemed like an eternity. I reckon it was probably only 10 minutes.
00:01:27
Ben
But the... The old me would have yelled out, come on, hurry up. You know, what's going on? The new me, I didn't say a thing. I was very zen. Anyway, this's guy this guy in the cubicle net nearest to me, he walks out, goes over and washes his hands.
00:01:38
elricho
Very soon, yeah.
00:01:44
Ben
and And I gave him like the death stare. But I didn't say a thing. And the cleaner gives the cubicle the once overnight. And so i've gone and used it. Anyway, 20 minutes later, I'm seated on the plane.
00:01:57
Ben
The guy from the cubicle comes in and sits right next to me.
00:02:03
Ben
What are the chances? Like there was probably 40 flights. leaving it in the period that I was in, in the, in the airport.
00:02:08
elricho
Yep.
00:02:11
Ben
What are the chances that that guy, like imagine if I'd actually like spoken up, would have been a completely different flight to the one that we actually had, which was,
00:02:22
elricho
We've been a very different flight. Bit tense.
00:02:24
Ben
so there you go. As I, as I get older, you can teach an old dog new tricks. And, um, And,
00:02:30
elricho
Yeah.
00:02:31
Ben
Yeah, I was very
00:02:31
elricho
Well done. Well
Travel Tips: Money Matters and Toilets
00:02:32
elricho
played.
00:02:32
Ben
happy.
00:02:32
Ben
While I was in Indonesia, though, we'll move straight into the travel tip of the week. Count your change. I bought something in Bali, and I can tell you it was 109,000 rupiah, handed the guy 120,000. He gave me back a 10.
00:02:46
Ben
he gave me back a
00:02:47
elricho
So, so like $10.
00:02:48
Ben
yeah, we're not talking, it's not a lot of money.
00:02:49
elricho
Yep.
00:02:51
Ben
It's not a lot of money. But he handed back me back a 10,000 rupee a note and he just said, sorry, I don't have any 1,000 notes. And I was like, so he shortchanged me with this biggest smile on his face.
00:03:03
Ben
Is that the best scam ever? Can you like just not give people the full change and just say, sorry, I don't have it? Is that a thing in Indonesia? Yeah.
00:03:15
elricho
You know, it kind of is actually. Yeah, it kind of is a thing.
00:03:18
Ben
Okay, buyer beware.
00:03:20
Ben
So i could have I could have tapped.
00:03:21
elricho
Yeah. So, yeah.
00:03:22
Ben
I could have used FPOS.
00:03:23
elricho
It could be a scam though.
00:03:24
Ben
I could have used FPOS, but I was trying to use up my yeah you know my currency because I'm not Jason Bourne. I'm not someone else on this podcast.
00:03:35
Ben
and And, yeah, just it just struck me that it was it was completely oblivious to the fact that he was shortchanging me and saying, sorry, I haven't got it. Move on. So...
00:03:47
elricho
There we go. Yep.
00:03:47
Ben
There you go. Good one. Can't change in Indonesia, folks. Or use digital digital means. Hey, yeah any listener feedback coming in, mate?
00:04:00
elricho
A listener, JR, writes in during the week and he says, I was going to flick you an email because I like the discussion on the fast train, the fast train in Japan deep dive.
00:04:05
Ben
Oh, God. Of course he was.
00:04:11
elricho
They also have an amazing heated toilet seats.
00:04:15
Ben
Yeah. That's
00:04:17
elricho
Did you know that you could also choose your theme music while the while you're in the toilet?
00:04:21
Ben
Oh, that's interesting.
00:04:22
elricho
Rain, wind, gentle music, whatever suits. And he says, the feature's not available everywhere. They just got lucky. So how about that?
00:04:28
Ben
That is interesting.
00:04:30
elricho
that sounds like That sounds like it's not really encouraging you to get out of there faster. That sort of sounds like it's...
00:04:36
Ben
The gentle music might have you just having a nap.
00:04:38
elricho
like it's
00:04:39
Ben
Yeah.
00:04:42
Ben
I'm glad he didn't flick us the email.
00:04:42
elricho
Exactly.
00:04:44
Ben
He knows that we, yeah if he's obviously listened to some of our other episodes. I'm not too sure about this heat-seated toilet either. That's heated seat toilet. I'm i'm not a fan.
00:04:57
Ben
I would be up and out as quickly as possible on that on that little episode. Yeah, okay. Interesting. Interesting. So the conundrum of the week we just we we We alluded to this last episode.
Rental Car Refueling Strategies
00:05:12
Ben
you have you You rent cars from time to time, right? And do you do you fill it up like when you return it or do you just pay the $9 a litre or whatever that they charge?
00:05:17
elricho
I do, I do.
00:05:24
Ben
Yeah.
00:05:24
elricho
I know. What is that? with the How do they even calculate what that what that number is going to be?
00:05:25
Ben
like had it Yeah. And why do they ask us to prepay a tank?
00:05:31
Ben
who Who's going to actually do oh, yeah, please, yeah, charge me as much as you'd like for something that I'm that that i'm something that i'm not going to use.
00:05:38
elricho
I'm just going to leave it here and cipher the petrol out.
00:05:41
Ben
but Yeah, do you get to go to the NSA, I'll pay for that whole tank, so can I have the rest of it in a jerry can, thanks? But my question to you is, what's the furthest you can be from the airport?
00:05:53
Ben
when you're returning that rental car and you're filling it up and it still gets, you know, you come across the line and you and you've got a full tank that you present to the staff that you hand the car over.
00:06:04
Ben
Have you done the maths on this?
00:06:07
elricho
I haven't done the maths, but I'm pretty sure that I've filled up 30 or 40 Ks from the, uh, from the end before.
00:06:12
Ben
Yeah, okay.
00:06:16
elricho
And then it was, uh, and then it was fine. I think, i think so long as, you know, the, those gauges, they often just kind of like max out at, at the top.
00:06:25
elricho
And so, you've got a bit of wiggle room there to play with, I think in the, uh,
00:06:29
Ben
I reckon your number's pretty close. i I actually tried to do some maths on this. And, yeah. So, it's not research per se.
00:06:37
elricho
Oh, research, actual research.
00:06:40
Ben
I mean, I just did it in my head. Yeah.
00:06:43
elricho
You fill up when you fill up.
00:06:44
Ben
But I was thinking the average car's probably got a 60-litre tank.
00:06:44
elricho
Yeah, yeah.
00:06:48
Ben
So that's what I worked on. And I reckon the needle would probably start to move at about 5% usage, 3 litres.
00:06:51
elricho
Mm-hmm.
00:06:55
Ben
which is three lires And your average car is doing, you know, seven or eight kilometres per litre in in city traffic.
00:06:58
elricho
Mm-hmm.
00:07:05
Ben
So that's the sort of 20 to 25. But to your point, you've got that wiggle room. at the top of the needle. So i had guessed it was in that 30 to 40 range as well.
00:07:15
elricho
Mm-hmm.
00:07:19
Ben
So interesting because, you know, the the current me is always sort of like driving as close to the airport as I can to fill up so that I don't get caught. But now I'm sort of thinking, no, going to test this. I'm going to start.
00:07:34
elricho
it's always a hassle trying to fill up near the airport, right?
00:07:35
Ben
Correct. And they,
00:07:37
elricho
Because they always have these crazy maze of one-way streets to kind of like get get around and stuff.
00:07:39
Ben
yeah, yeah.
00:07:42
elricho
And and sometimes, like like at Kool and Gata, for example, the closest petrol station is in is in fact you've you've kind of got to exit the petrol station onto the service road and then loop back around through the airport to get –
00:07:56
Ben
Yeah, okay.
00:07:58
elricho
you know, to, to, to, you know, sort of return, return the car. It's, it's yeah, it's, it's, it's a, it's it's a maze, you know, you've got, you've got to kind of got to learn it.
00:08:02
Ben
Not helpful.
00:08:08
elricho
Right.
00:08:08
Ben
Whereas Adelaide and Brisbane have both got very accessible service stations on the way back into the airport.
00:08:10
elricho
If you're a tourist, you would have challenges.
00:08:19
Ben
don't I think you pay a premium at Brisbane because they know that you're probably going to shoot through there. i don't know if Adelaide does it to you.
00:08:25
elricho
Exactly. Yeah.
00:08:26
elricho
Yeah.
00:08:26
Ben
But yeah, I found both of those cities pretty simple.
00:08:29
Ben
Sydney, i ended up mapping service station that was near the airport into the GPS so that I could just click that first and then go on to the airport.
00:08:41
Ben
But I don't hire cars too often in Sydney now. it's That's not a city I like driving in too often.
00:08:48
elricho
It's so with the train there too.
00:08:49
Ben
Yeah, train.
00:08:49
elricho
It's great, right? you can just You can just get pretty much straight to where you need to go.
00:08:53
Ben
Or this new thing called Uber, I think that might take off. yeah Yeah, other people drive for you now, mate.
00:08:57
elricho
What? Uber. Yeah.
00:08:59
Ben
It's a thing. It's a thing.
00:09:01
elricho
Fancy.
Listener Engagement and Next Episode Teaser
00:09:01
Ben
Hey, short episode. Probably, you know, not not a bad thing for those who have had to sit through our deep dives from time to time. We'll give them a few minutes back. That is it, Richard.
00:09:11
Ben
Listeners have been BCC'd on our week. To our listeners, thanks for joining in. we'd love to hear from you. Why not head over to bravucharley.club to get in touch? We'd love some feedback. JR, flick us your feedback. I know you want to. And in next week's show we ask, how come we can go on a road trip and people are fully on board with that, but the term air trip has never taken off?
00:09:36
Ben
See you next week. Bravo, Charlie Club, out.
00:09:43
elricho
And that's the pod.