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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, as always, let's go. Ben, are you doing this week?
Richard: That's it, that's a year, I've got a year of episodes in.
Ben: Episode 52 is a watershed moment for me because when we signed up for this, I said, you know, let's do one episode a week for – A year, 52 episodes. This would be it. I'd be out.
Ben: But somewhere along the line, you you dropped in the hole, we're doing 100 episodes,
Richard: Yippee, this would have been your allies.
Richard: You've got to go the full century, I think.
Ben: and we're halfway.
Richard: Yeah, we're just over halfway.
Ben: You don want raise the bat for the cricket-loving fans?
Richard: Yeah.
Ben: Speaking of which, new new listener country call-out, mate, is Lebanon.
Richard: Yeah.
Ben: So that's Mar Harba, is is is a hello, a genial hello to our leban Lebanon listening friends.
Richard: My Harper.
Ben: There you go.
Richard: Yeah. Awesome.
Ben: Mate, fully awake project this week. What exactly is thought leadership? What is that all about?
Richard: I love it. I don't know.
Ben: what do Why do our thoughts need leaders and and where are they going?
Richard: anyone really know what thought leadership means? We could package this up as a conundrum, I think, but I don't know.
Ben: We've got a lot of conundrums today.
Richard: Thoughts leadership, what is it? We do have a lot of conundrums. Thought leadership could be could be in there. But, yeah, I don't know. It's it's one of those. Is it a marketing term? Do you think thought leadership is a is it is a marketing term?
Ben: Who let the first person get away with saying...
Richard: Is it like someone who has opinions? Because that's pretty much everyone, right?
Ben: Yeah. yeah it it
Richard: Or maybe they have loud opinions. I don't know. Maybe opinions that connect to other opinions.
Ben: someone was was typing up there Someone was typing up their title on LinkedIn and they were like, oh yeah, I'm a thought leader.
Richard: Yeah.
Ben: That sounds good. And the way they went.
Richard: Yeah.
Ben: you know i rank it a ranert right in there with visionary leader.
Richard: Middle manager, cross that out, thought leader.
Ben: Like, I mean –
Richard: Yes.
Ben: I don't think if you're calling yourself a visionary leader, then you've you've nailed the brief.
Richard: Yeah.
Ben: I
Richard: Maybe.
Ben: i think if someone else has used the term about you, yeah, okay, that's that flies.
Richard: Maybe.
Ben: i'll I'll let that run.
Richard: be
Ben: I'll let that one run.
Richard: Would you refer to that, like, if you if you have friends, you you're going to say, like, they're kind of, he's a smart guy or oh or she's really got it together or something. You know, that they they really get how this thing works. I wouldn't actually say, oh yeah, such and such is a thought leader.
Richard: Like, would you?
Ben: Yeah.
Richard: This just seems wrong it's because it's it's such a disconnected kind of a term, right?
Ben: it
Ben: I just imagine this, you know, old uncle following like thoughts around in the garden, you know, and trying to hurt them.
Richard: Where have all the thoughts gone?
Ben: Oh, goodness sake.
Richard: Yeah.
Ben: All right. Let's leave it alone.
Richard: Follow me. We will.
Ben: not We haven't got any, we could laugh laugh about this for a long time. We haven't got an answer.
Richard: Probably.
Ben: So so it's not a thing.
Richard: Hmm.
Ben: We're not, we're not, we're not allowing it. Travel tip of the week. These aren't travel tips so per se aha moments for me. I was in the exit row the other day and this girl who couldn't reach the overhead locker asked me to put a bag into the the overhead locker, which I was very happy to do, and then sat down in an exit row.
Ben: And I was thinking, that's awesome. There's clearly no like height limit for these rows. And that makes sense because we can all reach that red handle. And I had more room. so I was like, fantastic. Bring it on. I want everything.
Ben: five foot five and less, you're welcome to go ahead, own it, just book the exit row and lounge out. So it just never occurred to me that anyone, like I thought they were just chasing big burly guys and that's why I never had elbow room.
Ben: So it was a good win. I loved it.
Richard: Is the door hard to open?
Ben: Have you experienced that?
Richard: Have you? I've never i've never actually had the but position where I've had to open the exit door.
Ben: Well, you're telling me, yeah, go on.
Richard: Although I did like once when I was... Well, way I was going to say, just like I made a a casual joke once to the to this to like the check-in staff when they were scanning you, they asked you, you know, are you ready and able to assist in the event of an emergency?
Richard: And I said, oh, yeah, because I get to get off first, right? And they and they didn't they didn't they didn't give me the laugh.
Ben: yeah
Richard: they so You get the stony face.
Ben: and
Richard: I'm like, yes, no, sorry, all good.
Ben: it It doesn't land, does it? And this I was about to say, you were about to tell me that story because I actually had a similar story where they say –
Richard: It doesn't mean it.
Richard: It's like, don't make a joke about the knife that you carry.
Ben: where they say
Richard: Yeah.
Ben: Yeah.
Richard: Yeah.
Ben: Having heard the briefing, are you willing and able to help in the event of emergency? and i And I said, last time I had to open this door, it got stuck. Am I going to have that problem again?
Ben: And again, it just it did not land. Like, come on, Ben, pick the moment. you know
Richard: yeah
Ben: What have they just, they've just briefed a dozen people and they've got this cuckoo guy in the corner trying to crack jokes about emergency doors not opening.
Richard: yeah
Ben: Yeah. Yeah. bob
Richard: It is hard enough for them to get everyone's attention though, because everyone sits down and puts the headphones straight on and then they're going to go around they're going tap like, you know, 10 people on the shoulder to, Hey, Hey, can we do that?
Ben: That's right. Put their headphones in. Yeah.
Ben: Yeah. Yeah.
Richard: Cause they do that special little briefing for the, for the 14 or 15.
Richard: Yeah.
Ben: yeah, it's, there was, there was one brand and I've forgotten now, but they actually went and individually pointed at each person and said, are you willing to help in the event of emergency?
Richard: it
Ben: And you had to verbally answer yes. I think that was to clarify that you could speak English. cause it was an English speaking airline.
Richard: Oh, interesting.
Ben: Yeah. Yeah. It was an interesting one.
Richard: Well, Virgin makes you get the card out and actually pretend to read it.
Ben: Yes. Yeah.
Richard: Yeah.
Ben: i I'm a good pretend reader. Yeah. I've done that multiple times now.
Richard: Yeah, excellent. Well, it's all pictures anyway. It's a bit like Ikea.
Ben: Yeah. That's right.
Richard: Who can really put that together?
Ben: That's right.
Richard: So I don't know.
Richard: you're the last off, right, when you're in row 14 or 15.
Ben: Yeah.
Richard: And, yeah, it's not so bad when they're with their emptying from front and the back, but, like, when they when you turn up somewhere and it's pouring rain, they're like, oh, we're all getting off to the front today.
Ben: Yeah.
Ben: It takes a long time for the plane to empty.
Ben: Yeah.
Richard: You're like, no.
Ben: Here we go.
Richard: Anyway.
Ben: Yeah, thanks for having me. the so The second tip was, you remember we always use eSIMs when we're traveling.
Richard: Hmm.
Ben: When I was in Japan, and i was we'll come to that later, I needed to get a two-factor authentication so that I could use an app that I downloaded. And I thought, oh, but I don't want to turn on data roaming because I don't want to pay for the international day pass at the the penal local provider rates.
Ben: So I didn't end up downloading that app. And I've since found out that you can receive two-factor authentication SMSs and you don't and it doesn't actually start the daily roaming charge.
Richard: Really?
Ben: So, yeah, that's obviously with my local provider and I encourage listeners to check with their own. But you can... turn it Turn on mobile roaming, receive a 2FA, SMS, and then turn it back off and you won't be charged their daily rate.
Ben: So that was, and i only found that when I got back. So it's useful for next trip, but completely useless for when I was trying to use that app.
Richard: Is that because one the one message is just like super small and they give you like two free messages? Like you know how when you turn up in the country and you get that text that says, hey, turn on roaming to do blah, blah, blah, blah or whatever?
Ben: Well, hmm.
Ben: I don't think it's about the size. I think it's about the fact that you're receiving rather than sending. Like as soon as you respond, like if you tried to send an email or send an SMS and gloves off, that's, you know, you've, you're using their service.
Richard: okay.
Ben: But if you're just receiving the SMS, it's, yeah, it's part of the, it's part of the package.
Richard: Okay.
Ben: So there you go. Hmm.
Richard: Fascinating. Okay. Sweet.
Ben: Hey, we got some listener feedback. it was interesting. Listener BH, he's concerned and wondering what happens to the black dots that I'm leaving in hotel rooms. And wants to know, are they being removed or are they being recycled?
Ben: but My guess is they're not being removed because they're actually quite subtle and they're just blocking out a an LED red on indicator.
Richard: Do you think they'd notice? Yeah.
Ben: Yeah, that's my guess. But the reality is I haven't...
Richard: Or maybe you're flagged as the black dot guy and they and they know.
Ben: Yeah, potentially. I have started to use some of those custom black dots with, you know, BCC image on them. So that's definitely going to be more of a thing to spot.
Ben: But the reality is I haven't been back in the same room. Well, even, yeah know, the one city that I go to the most and stay generally at the same mot hotel, I still haven't, to the best of my knowledge, been put in the same room.
Ben: So, yeah, so I don't know.
Richard: Really? Wow. I've had the same room heaps of times, actually.
Ben: Yeah. Have you? Well, then you're you're the person who should be testing this, not me.
Richard: yeah.
Ben: But you're not bothered you know not bothered by LED lights blinking in your eye.
Richard: Yeah, should do.
Ben: You're like some sort of weirdo.
Richard: not really. I mean, I could just, know, put a shoe over it or some proper vase up against it or something, you know.
Ben: LAUGHTER
Ben: Now I've got to carry extra shoes and stuff instead of black dots.
Richard: Uh,
Richard: Well, you take them off before you go to bed, typically.
Ben: oops Oh, yeah, that's true. Yeah, that happens, I suppose. yeah a Conundrum of the week, mate.
Richard: You could wear them to bed if you want.
Ben: There's trouble brewing in my household. Tell me what you think about this. Tell me what you think about this. What's the statutory legal expiry date for Easter egg ownership in a house?
Richard: Oh, yes. Yes.
Ben: Now, when I was growing up, like, I always had the impression that, you know, it was Easter Monday, you know, or or seven days, like seven days, you know, because you could genuinely remember who got given the, you know, the white chocolate bunny and and who got given the, lint you know, but Bilby or whatever.
Richard: The purple one. Yep.
Ben: Yeah. But my daughters have got an unbelievably annoying capacity to allow Easter eggs to just sit in our fridge for like months, literally months.
Ben: And honestly, I think it's unreasonable.
Richard: It's an admirable skill. Same.
Ben: Yeah, yeah, it's definitely not something that I'm able to attest to
Richard: same
Ben: But at some point, they have to become mine, right? Like there's got to be our you know, possession is nine-tenths of the law and I own the fridge. So where where do we sit on this?
Richard: Well, it's a tough one. We have the same challenge in our household. My daughter is actually incredibly incredibly happy to just, just we've we've still got little lint rabbit sitting there from Easter that I'm not allowed to touch and have been expressly forbidden from manhandling.
Ben: Okay.
Ben: Nah. It's wrong. It's wrong.
Richard: But surely it goes off.
Ben: Like...
Richard: I don't know. the the There must be a time out there somewhere. i don't know what it is. and I'm unwilling to risk wrath at the moment.
Ben: Yeah. It's probably more than the three weeks. It's probably more than the three weeks that you and I are hoping for. like
Richard: Yes.
Ben: But I mean, i didn't even know Easter eggs had expiry dates because I never bothered to let them last long enough eventually.
Richard: Well, the chocolate does go ne chocolate does go kind of you know. yeah
Ben: Yeah, eventually. That's why she keeps it in the fridge, I guess. But yeah, okay.
Richard: Yes.
Ben: If we're circling around, like I try to put a pen in it. i usually sort of say, you know, I try to put it like a financial, you know, end of year, 30th of June whatever.
Richard: Fridge clean out. End of financial year. There we go.
Ben: Yeah, that's right.
Richard: of June.
Richard: I think that that that stacks up.
Ben: one I think one time they tried to tell me it was the next important celebration, which unfortunately my house meant my birthday. And that was like in August. And I'm like, nah, we're not leaving Easter eggs.
Richard: that's That's miles away.
Ben: We're not leaving Easter eggs in my house until August. What could go wrong? Hey, that's it, Richard. Listeners have been BCC'd on our week. To listeners, thanks for joining in. We always love hearing from you. Next week's show, we're actually doing a deep dive special edition on my recent trip to Japan. Now, i've seen Richard's list of questions. It's definitely going to be a longer format one for sure, but it's going to be a fair bit of fun, so I'm looking forward to that. See you next week.
Ben: Bravo, Charlie Club, out.
Richard: And that's the pod.
Ben: Thank you.
