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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 doing this week?
Ben: I'm awesome, mate. Big welcome from you. What was that all about? You really loaded up on that.
Richard: Yeah, I'm leaning in, I'm leaning in.
Ben: Yeah.
Richard: think it's this new mic position I'm going for better audio.
Ben: but the I like it.
Richard: So like, it yeah, it's bringing the energy.
Ben: we got we We got some listener feedback about that. That'll come up soon, actually. A new listener country call-out this week is Ireland. So we get to practice our Irish Gaelic accents.
Richard: are
Ben: We'll run with G.R. Kwech, which is definitely not correct, but I'm not going to try it again. LAUGHTER
Richard: and if Welcome Island.
Ben: My show notes say use a throaty GH. And yeah, let's just leave it with welcome to our Gaelic listeners. 61 countries now, mate. We've still got a few in the in the kit bag to to call out.
Richard: Woo. Yeah.
Ben: 22% of BCC listeners live outside Australia. Now, I assumed when we were going to start this that it would just be our friends who we sent the link to that would listen to it.
Richard: we go
Ben: And even then, most of them would probably stop listening after three or four episodes. So,
Richard: what is a courteous what is a courteous number of podcasts to listen to for your if your friends are making a podcast like is it is it three is it is so so yeah probably yep
Ben: yeah. Yeah.
Ben: And there's there's a couple, yeah, I don't know. I don't know what this is. Twelve and a half minutes isn't a massive commitment. I think that's probably what's kept us alive in some respects. So, yeah, we' better we better stick to our guns. hey Fully Awake project this this this week, mate. Are there less volunteers in the world or even like in Australia? Like what's your opinion on volunteership?
Ben: Is it a dying art or are we are we good?
Richard: I don't know, actually. That's really interesting. I kind of – I'm not a volunteerer unless it's a special occasion.
Ben: I was going to ask you about your, yeah.
Richard: like like a Like if there's been a a cyclone or a flood or something like that, then, you get in and you you pitch out, help out, you know, sort of pitch in.
Ben: Yeah, absolutely. That's, that's being human.
Richard: Right. but Pitch out.
Ben: Yeah.
Richard: Pitch in.
Ben: Yeah.
Richard: I mean, yeah, that's being human, right? But, yeah, I think that's probably as far as as i as I go.
Ben: I think, yeah.
Richard: i mean tend we tend to have pretty stacked weekends, right? And so, yeah.
Ben: Yeah. it's like Is it an age thing?
Richard: Yeah.
Ben: Like, are we not old enough to volunteer yet? Like, is some, you know, the there's a fair fair retirement, you know, cohort that that tends to dominate the volunteering sect, rightly or wrongly.
Richard: Yeah.
Ben: I think it's probably a time thing.
Richard: be old enough by the time we get the olympics right uh in queensland so uh there we go did they give you a tracksuit for that i could be in
Ben: Oh, yeah. Yeah, We can go to the go to the airport and tell people which way north and south. Yeah.
Ben: Oh, I'm sure they would. They'd have to. They'd have to. Olympic tracksuit.
Richard: yeah there you go
Ben: Actually, how's this for staying on top? We're talking about, you know friends who listen to your podcast. Listener BH actually sent feedback on this particular topic because we alluded to it in the teaser of episode 50. And he just he he said he wanted to know, if does volunteering include clearing the dishwasher at work or even emptying the the work bin?
Ben: He said, surely that's a basic format. And I'm thinking, yeah, I don't know. i don't know if that's volunteering.
Richard: I like it.
Ben: in it
Richard: I like it. I actually do that.
Ben: if
Richard: I'm i'm a dishwasher emptier at work.
Ben: Your dishwasher empty, yeah?
Richard: Yeah, yeah. I tend to be sort of fairly early in, so.
Ben: i'm i'm a dishwasher I'm a dishwasher filter cleaner. In fact, my best mate, when I visit him in Adelaide, I i generally pull apart his dishwasher for him.
Richard: Okay. Yep.
Ben: but but I'm pretty sure he does it himself as well, but I just feel like it's something that I can do that adds value. So who knows? you know my
Ben: My own volunteering career is a bit haphazard as well. yeah I've done seasons at the surf, you know, with Surf Lifesaving. And I did do a big stint.
Richard: Oh
Ben: I did like a 10-day camp where we were rebuilding fences for farmers that had lost their fence lines in the bushfires.
Ben: That was through Blaze Aid. So it's literally sleeping in swags and campfire dinner type stuff. It was pretty pretty full on.
Richard: yeah, cool. Actually.
Ben: But that's sort of that intense volunteering.
Richard: Yeah.
Ben: But I think the real volunteer goals are the guys that just show up week on week.
Richard: Yeah.
Ben: I hope it's not a dying hour. I don't think it is. But yeah when I hit the right age to be able to give that amount of time, i' I'm looking forward to it if I can. Yeah,
Ben: Hey, on travel tips, my friend.
Richard: Hmm.
Ben: Listener MP asks, Mr. Benno, He's not the only person that cool yeah he's like's not the only person who calls me Benno.
Richard: Mr. Benno. There we go. it's very formal. Hmm. Hmm.
Ben: He's the first person to put a mister in front of it. yeah With your Wisecard, do you load it up with local currency or just have the aud d in our case and let it convert?
Ben: Where do you sit on that one? I've got an answer, but I'm i'm interested where you sit because you, in fact, introduced me, I think, to the Wisecard.
Richard: Yeah, so it's funny actually. I yeah was reading the the show notes and we have an overseas holiday coming up. So I was like, oh yeah, i must log back into WISE because it's been a few years since we lived overseas and we're using WISE all the time to transfer money to Indonesia from from Australia. And the... And so I had to go through the process of proving that you're you, where you go in and you log in with your details, then they send the passcode to your phone and you put the OTP <unk> into the to the thing.
Richard: And then you have to verify an email address because it's been a few years and they send you an email, then you click the link in the email and then you put another code in and then they ask if you want to set up a passkey.
Ben: and They make it easy.
Richard: So you scan your finger and then I'm like, okay, I might order a card.
Ben: Yeah.
Richard: And then they send me another code and then... so four times I had to.
Ben: We just like to verify, verify that it was you who we verified with.
Richard: I know. Yeah. Yeah. i I suppose they're happy yet. I haven't completed a process. haven't actually done anything. So maybe there'll be a few more who who knows, but yeah, I mean,
Ben: look, I remember when I first learned about two-factor authentication and I thought it was a massive pain and now I'm all over it. I think it's amazing.
Richard: yeah, yeah.
Ben: so so Yeah.
Richard: It's all built into the OSs and stuff now. So it's not, so it's not, not as much of a hassle as it used to be.
Ben: Yeah. Yeah. so So back on WISE, how do you use it?
Richard: Hmm.
Ben: Do you load some of the destination nation currency or what do you do?
Richard: So I had it all in AUD at the time and
Ben: Yeah.
Richard: and I generally get it out at cash at sort of ATMs of repute, not just any corner ATMs, and then sort of spend cash when when I'm on the ground typically.
Ben: Yeah.
Richard: You do come back with a little bundle of cash, but I like the Jason Bourne feeling of having 10 Ziploc bags.
Ben: You've told us about it.
Richard: I know, i know, I love it.
Ben: Yeah.
Richard: You can't pick the feeling bed, you know.
Ben: And look, as I'm looking at you in the video, it's hard to tell that I'm not looking at Jason Bourne that I'm thinking about it.
Richard: I bet. Yep.
Ben: Listen, for me, i I don't withdraw cash. Hey, like there's there's a couple of places that I go to where you do need some cash.
Richard: and
Ben: But in general, I just transfer to the local currency. And I make an estimate, like if I've got a budget for the spend, I'll put about 50% of that across. and and just and let the rest come across from aud as i spend because i think if i put my whole budget across i'm probably going to feel like i should spend it and that doesn't seem smart from a fiscal point of view so so yeah about half and especially if it's a great rate like i actually transferred the money for japan which you know we've spoken about me coming back from probably 12 months ago And ironically, whilst it was such a great rate at the time, their currency devalued even further before we actually got to the got to the trip, which is an interesting one.
Richard: Yeah.
Ben: So there you go for a listener.
Richard: It is so much better though using wise than a normal bank. Like it's like one and a half percent instead of four or five or even six.
Ben: Yes.
Ben: Oh, they're, yeah.
Richard: So like it's a banks are merciless.
Ben: Is it even as high as one and a half? Like, the I just found the transfer rate so negligible that it was, yeah, it was a no-brainer.
Richard: Yeah. Something like that I think was wise as fee.
Ben: Yeah.
Richard: Yeah.
Ben: Yeah, it's a no-brainer to use it. There you go. All right. Listener MP has got all the details now, I reckon. Hey, yeah speaking of listeners, listener feedback we're up to First of all, thanks to all the smart aleck listeners who sent me pictures of their completed Rubik's cubes.
Ben: Yeah, I feel like Robinson Crusoe. basically the only person on the planet who can't solve this thing and we were talking earlier about you know mic positions and listen to ja he said it was their audio in episode 44 that was the best ever and the pro podcast tip because i went back and checked what we were doing i leaned back a bit because i was tend to sit too close to my microphone And you leaned in.
Ben: That was it. It was that highly technical adaptation that we made.
Richard: That was it. Yeah. Bouncy audio. Yeah.
Ben: So anyone who's recording podcasts, and we do have a couple of listeners who have their own podcasts. They probably already solved that a while back. and And we've had one more listener feedback. Listener CF had a stark realisation that the asteroid that ended the dinosaurs it was technically the highest ratio of killing birds to one stone in in Earth's history. i think there's been I think there's been used as a meme several times, but it's I love it.
Ben: That's a good one.
Richard: Still true. They do. Yeah.
Ben: Thanks for sharing, Listener CF. That's pretty cool. Hey, onto the conundrum of the week, mate. Did you know that hotels have gyms?
Richard: yes
Ben: Yeah, okay.
Richard: they do
Ben: so um'm i'm quite I'm quite new to this discovery.
Richard: yeah
Ben: It must be, in is it recent? Like I've i've never been one to source gyms in hotels, but it's
Richard: I think you'll find them. but I think the definition of gym varies greatly to like a rack of weights locked in the basement to, yeah.
Ben: true. the One exercise bike. Yes.
Richard: I mean, I stayed at a place in Melbourne on the last trip, the one before, and they had a rooftop gym, which was awesome.
Ben: and I don't know that.
Ben: There you
Richard: we And, no, no.
Ben: Open air.
Richard: It was like they didn't have a room in the in the building, so they actually built another room on top of the building, which they turned into a gym.
Ben: Oh, interesting.
Richard: and it It had like full glass walls sort of overlooking overlooking a park, which is actually quite nice.
Ben: so Tell me you went in Melbourne.
Richard: Sorry?
Ben: Tell me you were in Melbourne.
Richard: No, it was Melbourne.
Ben: Yeah, that's that's a very Melbourne thing to do.
Richard: I always go to Melbourne. That is a very Melbourne thing.
Ben: s
Richard: Yeah.
Ben: they love They love that sort of stuff.
Richard: Yeah.
Ben: Okay, so here's the conundrum. What music should a hotel gym play? And if any, first of all, and and then is a two-minute loop of the same song acceptable?
Richard: Oh, yeah.
Ben: Because that's what I was put at, forced to injure it.
Richard: That is harsh. Maybe a're trying to but they're trying to not sell the gym to you.
Ben: okay
Richard: I don't know.
Ben: Get you out.
Richard: It's get you out. Yeah. Yeah, that's that's pretty harsh. mean, usually they have a couple of big screen TVs and just the remotes sitting around and you can just turn YouTube on, flick through, find something.
Richard: Yeah.
Ben: There you go. So you're you're happy just to, like, if you're the only one in there, you'll just take control. Just walk in, flick flick it off, get into it.
Richard: Yeah, totally.
Ben: I like it. As I said, I'm still learning. I've only recently discovered that I even had gyms. So I suppose you could probably Bluetooth your own phone to it as well if you got if you got really fancy.
Richard: yeah Yeah, probably could. Or just play it loud. Just play it through the speaker of the phone.
Ben: Yeah. Yeah, okay. All right. Well done. Hey, that's it, Richard. Listeners have been BCC'd on our week. So listeners, thanks for joining us. We always love to hear from you. We love giving sharing back the listener feedback. Get in touch through the links in the show notes. In next week's show, we're going to ask, what exactly is thought leadership?
Ben: See you next week.
Richard: I love it
Ben: Bravo, Charlie Club, out.
Richard: And that's the pod.
