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June 24, 2026 9 mins

From old school alarm clocks to pocket calculators, today we dive into the wonderfully weird world of must‑pack travel items.

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
I Heart podcasts, hear more gold podcasts, playlists, and listen
live on the free I Heart app. Do you guys
always have certain things that whether you're going away for
one night or a week or two, they are your essentials,
whether it's come for items, but you have to pat them.
My alarm clock goes wherever I go.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
That's wow crazy.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
I can't real I can't trust to Wimba to wake
me up tomorrow morning. I don't know what to woombans
do to wake up at four twelve am. So I
literally turned it off this morning and patched it in
my bag and my wife, just my wife just went
in the darkness. Wow, Like, get a load of this guy.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
Okay, productivity hat.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Guy, why didn't you jump on diary CEO and tell
everyone about your it?

Speaker 3 (00:59):
Literally it was all a very slick operation. Just use
your phone. No, I can't. I never use my phone
as the alarm.

Speaker 4 (01:06):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
I don't trust the Apple corporate. They're trying to gradually
shut us down and rise the machines.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Not on my watch.

Speaker 5 (01:14):
I think you King Charles or something. He packs everything
including his bed when he goes.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Do you even know that a can? These are just
like things people make up about the royal family.

Speaker 5 (01:23):
A million different things.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Maybe so did you work with him?

Speaker 2 (01:26):
He's well known for it.

Speaker 6 (01:28):
He's very famous, well known for packing his bed. Maybe
it's a British thing, Patsy. Maybe they just bring everything
that's right. Everything you're right in another bank is my bed?
I dismountled it whilst my wife was sleeping.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
A Lovelock's crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Now it's too right, because that that thing's just dependable
a phone no no, no, no, no, no shut down
or do an update or anything like that. Put it
this way. I've never missed a start of the radio
show in twenty eight years. You'ven't been doing this a year.
It's too early to say you will miss a show.

Speaker 4 (01:57):
Yeah, but I'm not going to guarantee you're going to
miss a showing too woomba because.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
I do you know what, because your boy here is
going to be tappy tap tap. I'm going to be
tapped up thumbes tappy tap tap.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
Because no, no, no, no, no no. Not that it's
an atomic clock sounds heavy.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
It's it's atomic, so it speaks to the world's clock.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
You don't know what atomic means.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
I do.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
It means it speaks to the atoms that contained in
the world's clock.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Does your I phone doesn't sound right?

Speaker 1 (02:28):
No? Google it. It's what NASA uses. No, no, no, Patsy,
look it up. It's a special NASA clock. Because you
ever seen them trying to wake up astronauts. No, I haven't,
because they've got my atomic clock. And also, you know
what I like about it On the front, on the
front of this alarm clock, it has a a giant

(02:48):
aerial like an antennae. And just seeing that brings me
comfort because I'm thinking inside is all the atoms that
make that visual happen?

Speaker 3 (02:58):
Right now?

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Even in that suitcase, it's it's speaking to the world's clock.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
Are you even allowed to take such advanced to.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
Tell you what the pilot will probably speak as well
to find out what the right time is to take
off today as well.

Speaker 4 (03:15):
Now you are sorry, I will retract from my skepticism
that you do know what the atomic alarm clock is.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
That is what it does, exactly what it does.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
It's never ever let me down. So what do you
take with you or those certain things to you? The
other ones arm I have to take my sharpie pens,
even though when when you're going away for two days.
I'm taking seven with me. I've got backups of backups
of backups. I can't be looking around for my sharpie
fine near pens.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
Wait, so you're two essentials for traveling an atomic massa
alarm clock and sharpie pens.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
I'm going to England. I'm going to England for eight
days right on Saturday. Guess how many sharpy pens I'm
going even tho I'm seeing family and friends in a
couple of meetings.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
Ten ten. I've got a whole new ten pack.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
You never know when creativity's going to strive.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
There in the sky with my atomic clock, and I
need some pens as well.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
Perhapsly, what do you always take with you when you
go away?

Speaker 5 (04:04):
I'm pretty I'm very minimalist nowadays. I never used to be. No,
I am. I really am even down to like, you know,
my toilet bag. I've got my minis and don't use
them when I'm at home. I've got my mini shampoos
and everything.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
That's very well organized.

Speaker 5 (04:18):
I have to do otherwise.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
Do you collect them when you start hotels? My wife
does that.

Speaker 5 (04:21):
Yeah, of course I do.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yeah, clean them. She would just.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
Empty the place. Yes, I'm like we don't need alf
that stuff.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
It's not good enough for like one watch Hans going
on the whole ledge of the shower.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
I'll take this.

Speaker 5 (04:33):
We ran out of toothpaste at home the other day,
but I had one of the tiny.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Like one squeeze.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
It's right to do a couple of back mollers.

Speaker 5 (04:41):
Yes, And I said to the family, you will have
a go at me when I'm at the hotel pinching
all this stuff. But I've saved the day with my
mini toothpaste.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
Don't worry.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
I've got half a millimeter one ground of toothpaste.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
Good morning to Carl Smith. Christian.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
I never go anywhere without my AeroPress, my coffee making
coffee grinder. Anytime I go through security, my bag gets
to vert to tel Oh, the side.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
Funnel of shame. Yes, it's like a game show.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
Why do you feel so superior when the best but
is when they tease you and they pause it. And
there are always crossroads in life. You know which way
you're going to go. You're going to go down that
little side sort of funnel of shame where they open
up and all right, lead.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
To a sprite. You don't read the signs thicky sprite.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
There's always someone who's got like nine liters of a
fizzy drink and they go, well, sorry, And it's always
an elderly cup on something I told you to check.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
Welcome, I didn't check.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
The security guard always asks this is your bag, and
I just want it's a coffee grinder. It's become my
travel ritual, Christian. I always travel with my calculator.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
Huh. I mean what do you need a calculator for?

Speaker 4 (05:58):
And especially I mean it must be an advanced calculator
because the phones have a calculator.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
What are you adding up? What are you adding up? Ye?

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Don't tell me that you don't trust foreigners in the Listen, Pommy,
you're in London and you're doing your own maths for
the bill. I didn't have the water changing for that
minus this stri inflation.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
Why please tell me? Why are you traveling with your calculator?

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Christ And I won't travel anywhere without my chiropractic pillow.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
I'm twenty four.

Speaker 4 (06:31):
I travel with a little inflatable pillow when I do
a long haul flight so my cosic doesn't get soret
I blow it up on the floor.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
That was such a thing I've got a twenty two
hour flight on Saturday back to the UK, and you're right.
As soon as I land, I'm in agony with that
lower back. Yes, yes, how does it work a lumber support?

Speaker 2 (06:51):
No, it's just like a little flat pillar that you
put under your bum.

Speaker 4 (06:53):
It's more for my my bum than my back because
like the little bone on my so sore.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
Sound it for too long?

Speaker 4 (07:01):
Yeah, and you just it inflates itself and then it
deflates into pretty much like paper thin.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
And I've noticed as well you are even though we're
just you're just flying away. We've got like a two
hour flight whenever it is off the show Today Brisbane,
you've got a neck pillow.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
I will not go anywhere.

Speaker 5 (07:15):
With Seriously, you do that, even to Sydney, which is
like well fifty minutes from Melbourn.

Speaker 4 (07:21):
My carboakes c A R B E A U neck pillow.
I cannot recommend it enough. Hold your neck perfectly in place.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
But you know the rest of us are laughing at you.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
I judge guys that do that.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
Yeah, you're judging the toddler that can't hold their own head.

Speaker 4 (07:37):
You can't want to I go to see as soon
as that plane starts moving, I'm out like a I.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
Don't even need to be in the air as soon
as it starts to like reverse real movement.

Speaker 3 (07:49):
That movement, oh I wish I was like, no, I
may barely make it into the air.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
That's why you need this will keep your neck nice.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
And straight, because actually mine's always a terrible angle. It's
like Brodie my check. You know, it's a terrible, terrible angle,
and it's an agony when I when I when I land,
I always need to see a chiropractice, but I can't.
I've tried those. I just feel too self conscious.

Speaker 4 (08:15):
Well, speaking of self conscious, Caitlin has the one that's
the big inflatable one whole.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
In the world. Are crazy?

Speaker 1 (08:23):
I said to her, if you do know at some
point we need to sleep together and I can't if
it's hard, if you're going to like fold yourself into that.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
Why can I describe as a head head cave? Yes,
it's a head cave, is the exact description.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
What how can you possibly it looks really uncomfortable.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
It must work, though, otherwise why would people go through that?

Speaker 1 (08:43):
You know, because actually you can just go to sleep anyway.
It's not the process of the head cave. You're just
tired and just lie back and go to sleep.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
Part of he wants to try it head cave medieval
torture device.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
Carl has come back to us, and now we're talking
about why what do you always travel with? And he
said he takes his own calculator. And we said, well,
you know, why don't you use it on the phone.
All phones have a calculator, a standard. He said, same reason, Christian.
You take your own individual alarm clock. It's more accurate,
more adurately. Look, my thing about taking my own atomic

(09:18):
clock alarm clock is actually the iPhones and a lot
of modern modern phones take the time from the cell
towers that then are on in conversation with the atomic clock.
And so I'm worried that if the phone crashes or
it goes offline, it can be it could be a
couple of seconds out. I can't have that, MILLI. I

(09:38):
can't be starting the show at six oh seven. It's
got to be six am. I'm good to go. It's
go time. Okay, And so but a calculator mouthst be maths, Yeah,
let me share, you know seven and seven is seven?

Speaker 3 (09:49):
Yes? Sorry? Small team?

Speaker 2 (09:51):
Or is it like cars?

Speaker 5 (09:52):
Speedos that can be out by like six or seven ks.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
Oh, you probably used that to the police officers. There
must it must. You must be wrong that radar go
and you've got their officer. It must be incorrect.
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