- Am I really the average of my five closest friends?
- Ben’s daughter navigates a suspicious stranger interaction while overseas.
- How Richard handles washing while travelling
- Some surprising listener feedback is delivered
- What exactly is a money can’t buy experience?
Send us a text by clicking here
Join the WhatsApp inner sanctum for early access to all episodes as they drop and share feedback straight to us! Only 48million more subscribers to catch Real Madrid!
Email us through hello@bravocharlie.club
Share a rating or review if you think we are worthy.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Welcome to the Bravo Charlie Club podcast, making you
12 and a half minutes moreawesome each week.
He's Ben.
I'm Richard.
Let's go, ben, how are youdoing this week?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I'm amazing.
You seem a bit flat.
Are you still recovering fromthe big bike ride in the middle
of Australia?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I did actually just have my first bike ride back
this morning, which was, I guessit's a week and a half later.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
So I think I'm fully recovered now.
I think you're supposed to getout a bit earlier than that.
Have you got another bike racelike in the middle of the
Antarctica coming up, orsomething?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
No, I'm not in the middle of the antarctica coming
up or something, or uh.
No, I'm not in the middle ofantarctica.
Um, although that's intriguingthought, I wonder if there is
one down there.
It's, uh, brisbane to goldcoast coming up in five weeks,
so that'll be a good one.
We, we ride up for that one.
So we we actually do gold coast, bris, brisbane, gold Coast and
round it up to 200 plus.
So, yeah, that'll be nice.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Why do one when you can do two for twice the price,
exactly.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Well, it's actually half the price Fair enough
Average dollar cost averaging.
Dollar cost averaging.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
A listener wrote in and said that guy that did the,
that guy being you that did theride in the middle of Australia.
He's like, isn't that likedevil's playground with all of
the species out there?
And I'm like what's a?
Probably the internationalinterpretation of the middle of
Australia is pretty close tothat, isn't it?
Well, shark free.
(01:40):
I must say yes, fair call yeah,not everything that's
terrifying is in the middle ofAustralia just most of them.
Just most of them yeah, hey,fully Awake Project.
Mate love this section.
I was recently invited to arugby union match.
For those who know me well, I'minto Australian rules football,
(02:01):
but a shout-out to my mate GLtook me to the British Lions
versus the Reds, and the BritishLions team selection story is
actually quite incredible.
So the Six Nations tournamentis held and they select the
British Lions team from four ofthe participating countries.
So it's the best of the bestand it's's quite a spectacle.
(02:24):
If I'm being honest, yeah, butwhat I've noticed at a rugby
union game is you'll never seemore RM Williams boots in one
location than at one of thesegames.
Right, and it had me thinking.
You know, we're apparently theaverage of our five closest
(02:44):
friends, right, you know we'reapparently the average of our
five closest friends, right, andif I was indoctrinated into
this group of people, am I goingto end up with like 25 pairs of
rm williams or like what's thedeal with this average of our
five closest friends?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
yeah, I don't know.
I think it's one of thosethings that just gets repeated
around and around withoutwithout people thinking about it
too much.
Yeah, I don't buy it.
I don't buy it at all.
I think it's baloney, I mean.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I'll probably put you in my five closest friends
group.
I mean, we're both bald, soit's not like there's some truth
attached to it.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
So are your other four friends.
Bald too, definitely not.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
I think my best mate probably wishes he was bald.
He's got a very unique hairflavour.
I'll call it Very tight curls.
I'm just jealous, though.
It's an impressive head of hair.
Other friends yeah, look,there's boldness.
I think there's more to do withour age than anything else.
(03:48):
I like to have a group offriends from a wide variety,
like if we were all you know acertain wealth status or lived
on a certain part of town orlived.
You know, most of my friendsdon't even live in the same city
as me.
So yeah, it's a funny, I've gotgood friends in't even live in
the same city as me.
So, yeah, it's a funny, I'vegot good friends in this city.
By the way, for the guyslistening in Brisbane, you
(04:11):
haven't been dropped, but youknow it's.
You're right, it's a crazycomment, isn't?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
it.
I guess the.
The intention behind it is thatyou sort of you pick up those
mannerisms and behaviors andsort of things from from the
people that you spend the mosttime with.
There's probably an element oftruth in that, as you get older
and move through things, youtend to be a bit more deliberate
(04:41):
with the way that you constructyour circle of friends so that
you've got people who aresupportive and positive
influences and those kinds ofthings.
But yeah, I don't.
As for the yeah, I guess theliteral definition, I think Pass
.
Yeah, I'm probably an outlier.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Maybe the watch out is you obviously out, is
obviously be aware of who youare surrounding yourself with.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Yeah, yeah, fair.
I think that's fair.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Maybe if you can cut off that bottom 10%, they're
probably the gap, and if youneed to lean towards the top 10%
or whatever that is in yourview.
So, yeah, yeah, interestingtimes.
Hey, um, travel, travel.
My daughter went to bali thisweek yes paid for herself, which
(05:35):
, uh, 18 years, very, veryimpressive.
Um, we've previously on thispod given the feedback how did
you feel sorry, just interrupt.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
How'd you feel about your daughter taking her first
overseas trip without parentalsupervision?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
most terrifying seven days of my life.
Thank goodness for find my yes.
And look, she got on the frontfoot a couple of times to make
sure she experienced the theplace, but there was one moment
in particular where she went andactually visited a school with
her.
So she was travelling not alone, she was with one friend and
(06:11):
they went to a school and theymet some students there and you
know were the token Australiansin this classroom and had a nice
time and, for whatever reason,they exchanged phone numbers and
that night a guy had reachedout to my daughter and said I'm
the uncle of one of the girls atthe school and she
(06:31):
screenshotted it and sent it tome and said how do I respond?
And I said you respond.
You can't talk right now, butyou've given your dad his number
and if it's urgent to give hima call which he did and didn't
hear from the guy again, can youbelieve it?
So yeah, surprise, surprise.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Surprise, surprise.
Yes.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah, I mean a little bit of growth there.
But before she left I tried togive her the never check baggage
.
You know feedback that we loveto throw around on this pod.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Yes, solid advice.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
It's a recipe for losing stuff, isn't it?
But?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
anyway, it totally is it totally is.
She's like Dad, listen to yourpodcast.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Listen to your podcast.
I'm not doing that, and so mynext thing was well, at least
don't overpack, right?
You're um, so you'll be fine.
And um, she was like, oh, butwhat if I need some things?
And it brought me up to what Iwant the traffic to the week to
be, and that's washingmanagement.
So how do you you know you'vegone for a week or so at a time
(07:43):
how do you manage your washing?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
so week is week is my limit, so I'll take um yeah,
because I only take carry-on, soyou can't fit three weeks'
worth of clothes in a carry-onsuitcase, wash as you go.
So if you're going to Bali orsomewhere like that, it's about
$2 or $3 a suitcase to get allyour stuff washed.
Anyway they go somewhere.
(08:07):
If you're in Bali, that paysper kilo rather than per garment
.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
So yeah, so that's the sort of pro tip there and
you know, if you get in a tightspot and you're, you know,
travelling in Australia and youneed to get something done,
pretty much all the hotels willdo it.
It's just their fees are alittle bit outrageous for it.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
In Singapore.
I'd been travelling for quitesome time and I was in Singapore
with a bag of dirty washing andI ended up finding a 24-hour
laundrette just to keep the costdown.
Yeah, I mean I was travellingon the company dime, but it just
felt wrong, you know, to paySingapore.
Pay 100 bucks for washing Topay Singapore prices, so I went
(08:53):
and did my washing off-site.
Yeah, interesting.
Hey, that ties me into listenerfeedback, mate, because someone
listener CE wrote in.
He's like why are we eventalking about ironing?
He said just buy some businessshirts from Brooks Brothers
which are wrinkle-free andnon-iron.
Where do you stand on non-iron?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
business.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Shirts from brooks brothers uh, which are wrinkle
free and non-iron.
Where do you, where do youstand on non-iron business
shirts?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
well, business shirts and so like um, try to avoid if
I can, but um, yeah, I don'tknow, like it's a wrinkle free,
non-iron with.
Are they scratchy, are theyhorrible, like, how do they?
How do they do that?
How do they?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I I know ce, I trust him.
I trust him um I'm tempted tobuy one, just to see, to see
where, where his?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
line is do some r&d with your brooks brothers um
send a sample shirt into ben.
Reach out to the contact and uh, we'll, uh, we'll, road test it
.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
We'll road test it.
That's a bit gratuitous.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Why not Listener?
Aj actually called me today,uh-oh, and he was stumbling
around.
He said I don't really know howto say this and I'm not too
sure.
He said your podcast he said,it's surprisingly good.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I love it it a nice little backhander in there I was
.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Yeah, I was trying to unpack, felt like a compliment,
but I'm just with a sting, witha little sting in the tail he
said I've subscribed and I justdon't really subscribe to
anything.
So you know, I'm like hey, stoptalking, mate, I'll take the
win, it's good game over.
Yeah, we're done here hey, umconundrum let's uh let's kick
(10:44):
this, um, let's kick this one tothe curb because the australian
formula one tickets went onsale recently and so many times
I've seen it's a money can't buyexperience attached to Formula
One because of their you knowtheir premium sort of
positioning in sport.
Yeah, but every single moneycan't buy experience and it's
(11:18):
got a price tag attached to it.
Does that mean money can buy it?
I think it does.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
I think you can buy a lot of it too, but they're
expensive.
Money can't buy experiences.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Formula One is next level.
I talked to my brother-in-lawwho's a big formula one fan and
he said I he can't believe the,the pricing.
Uh, jump on on, uh, thesetickets from next year and a lot
with australia's potentiallygot the world champion coming
home for the race.
And you know why not, if theycan gouge while they can and
(11:50):
take advantage of.
Netflix's Drive to Surviveseries.
I think they're going to do itExactly.
So, yeah, it was interesting.
So where were we at?
Money can't buy experience, wejust dismiss it.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I think it probably means, you know, like a I don't
know a marquee experience orlike a tentpole experience,
something that maybe it's thething you hang your hat on for
that year in terms of sort of apinnacle or unique experience
right, I'd love to get somelistener input on this one.
So why not?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
leave a comment, send us a text, join the Inner
Sanctum if you want, but tell uswhat is a legitimate money
can't buy experience that you'vecome across.
I'd love to hear what they'rethinking in that regard.
Hey, richard, that's it.
Mate.
Listeners have been BCC'd onour week.
Next week, we are going to askthat critical question that
(12:47):
every family needs to havenailed before family pizza night
what are the three best pizzatoppings to go on a pizza?
See you next week.
Bravo, charlie, club out andthat's the pod.
Welcome to the Bravo Charlie Club podcast, making you
12 and a half minutes moreawesome each week.
He's Ben.
I'm Richard.
Let's go, ben, how are youdoing this week?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I'm amazing.
You seem a bit flat.
Are you still recovering fromthe big bike ride in the middle
of Australia?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I did actually just have my first bike ride back
this morning, which was, I guessit's a week and a half later.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
So I think I'm fully recovered now.
I think you're supposed to getout a bit earlier than that.
Have you got another bike racelike in the middle of the
Antarctica coming up, orsomething?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
No, I'm not in the middle of the antarctica coming
up or something, or uh.
No, I'm not in the middle ofantarctica.
Um, although that's intriguingthought, I wonder if there is
one down there.
It's, uh, brisbane to goldcoast coming up in five weeks,
so that'll be a good one.
We, we ride up for that one.
So we we actually do gold coast, bris, brisbane, gold Coast and
round it up to 200 plus.
So, yeah, that'll be nice.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Why do one when you can do two for twice the price,
exactly.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Well, it's actually half the price Fair enough
Average dollar cost averaging.
Dollar cost averaging.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
A listener wrote in and said that guy that did the,
that guy being you that did theride in the middle of Australia.
He's like, isn't that likedevil's playground with all of
the species out there?
And I'm like what's a?
Probably the internationalinterpretation of the middle of
Australia is pretty close tothat, isn't it?
Well, shark free.
(01:40):
I must say yes, fair call yeah,not everything that's
terrifying is in the middle ofAustralia just most of them.
Just most of them yeah, hey,fully Awake Project.
Mate love this section.
I was recently invited to arugby union match.
For those who know me well, I'minto Australian rules football,
(02:01):
but a shout-out to my mate GLtook me to the British Lions
versus the Reds, and the BritishLions team selection story is
actually quite incredible.
So the Six Nations tournamentis held and they select the
British Lions team from four ofthe participating countries.
So it's the best of the bestand it's's quite a spectacle.
(02:24):
If I'm being honest, yeah, butwhat I've noticed at a rugby
union game is you'll never seemore RM Williams boots in one
location than at one of thesegames.
Right, and it had me thinking.
You know, we're apparently theaverage of our five closest
(02:44):
friends, right, you know we'reapparently the average of our
five closest friends, right, andif I was indoctrinated into
this group of people, am I goingto end up with like 25 pairs of
rm williams or like what's thedeal with this average of our
five closest friends?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
yeah, I don't know.
I think it's one of thosethings that just gets repeated
around and around withoutwithout people thinking about it
too much.
Yeah, I don't buy it.
I don't buy it at all.
I think it's baloney, I mean.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I'll probably put you in my five closest friends
group.
I mean, we're both bald, soit's not like there's some truth
attached to it.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
So are your other four friends.
Bald too, definitely not.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
I think my best mate probably wishes he was bald.
He's got a very unique hairflavour.
I'll call it Very tight curls.
I'm just jealous, though.
It's an impressive head of hair.
Other friends yeah, look,there's boldness.
I think there's more to do withour age than anything else.
(03:48):
I like to have a group offriends from a wide variety,
like if we were all you know acertain wealth status or lived
on a certain part of town orlived.
You know, most of my friendsdon't even live in the same city
as me.
So yeah, it's a funny, I've gotgood friends in't even live in
the same city as me.
So, yeah, it's a funny, I'vegot good friends in this city.
By the way, for the guyslistening in Brisbane, you
(04:11):
haven't been dropped, but youknow it's.
You're right, it's a crazycomment, isn't?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
it.
I guess the.
The intention behind it is thatyou sort of you pick up those
mannerisms and behaviors andsort of things from from the
people that you spend the mosttime with.
There's probably an element oftruth in that, as you get older
and move through things, youtend to be a bit more deliberate
(04:41):
with the way that you constructyour circle of friends so that
you've got people who aresupportive and positive
influences and those kinds ofthings.
But yeah, I don't.
As for the yeah, I guess theliteral definition, I think Pass
.
Yeah, I'm probably an outlier.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Maybe the watch out is you obviously out, is
obviously be aware of who youare surrounding yourself with.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Yeah, yeah, fair.
I think that's fair.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Maybe if you can cut off that bottom 10%, they're
probably the gap, and if youneed to lean towards the top 10%
or whatever that is in yourview.
So, yeah, yeah, interestingtimes.
Hey, um, travel, travel.
My daughter went to bali thisweek yes paid for herself, which
(05:35):
, uh, 18 years, very, veryimpressive.
Um, we've previously on thispod given the feedback how did
you feel sorry, just interrupt.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
How'd you feel about your daughter taking her first
overseas trip without parentalsupervision?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
most terrifying seven days of my life.
Thank goodness for find my yes.
And look, she got on the frontfoot a couple of times to make
sure she experienced the theplace, but there was one moment
in particular where she went andactually visited a school with
her.
So she was travelling not alone, she was with one friend and
(06:11):
they went to a school and theymet some students there and you
know were the token Australiansin this classroom and had a nice
time and, for whatever reason,they exchanged phone numbers and
that night a guy had reachedout to my daughter and said I'm
the uncle of one of the girls atthe school and she
(06:31):
screenshotted it and sent it tome and said how do I respond?
And I said you respond.
You can't talk right now, butyou've given your dad his number
and if it's urgent to give hima call which he did and didn't
hear from the guy again, can youbelieve it?
So yeah, surprise, surprise.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Surprise, surprise.
Yes.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah, I mean a little bit of growth there.
But before she left I tried togive her the never check baggage
.
You know feedback that we loveto throw around on this pod.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Yes, solid advice.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
It's a recipe for losing stuff, isn't it?
But?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
anyway, it totally is it totally is.
She's like Dad, listen to yourpodcast.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Listen to your podcast.
I'm not doing that, and so mynext thing was well, at least
don't overpack, right?
You're um, so you'll be fine.
And um, she was like, oh, butwhat if I need some things?
And it brought me up to what Iwant the traffic to the week to
be, and that's washingmanagement.
So how do you you know you'vegone for a week or so at a time
(07:43):
how do you manage your washing?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
so week is week is my limit, so I'll take um yeah,
because I only take carry-on, soyou can't fit three weeks'
worth of clothes in a carry-onsuitcase, wash as you go.
So if you're going to Bali orsomewhere like that, it's about
$2 or $3 a suitcase to get allyour stuff washed.
Anyway they go somewhere.
(08:07):
If you're in Bali, that paysper kilo rather than per garment
.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
So yeah, so that's the sort of pro tip there and
you know, if you get in a tightspot and you're, you know,
travelling in Australia and youneed to get something done,
pretty much all the hotels willdo it.
It's just their fees are alittle bit outrageous for it.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
In Singapore.
I'd been travelling for quitesome time and I was in Singapore
with a bag of dirty washing andI ended up finding a 24-hour
laundrette just to keep the costdown.
Yeah, I mean I was travellingon the company dime, but it just
felt wrong, you know, to paySingapore.
Pay 100 bucks for washing Topay Singapore prices, so I went
(08:53):
and did my washing off-site.
Yeah, interesting.
Hey, that ties me into listenerfeedback, mate, because someone
listener CE wrote in.
He's like why are we eventalking about ironing?
He said just buy some businessshirts from Brooks Brothers
which are wrinkle-free andnon-iron.
Where do you stand on non-iron?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
business.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Shirts from brooks brothers uh, which are wrinkle
free and non-iron.
Where do you, where do youstand on non-iron business
shirts?
Speaker 1 (09:18):
well, business shirts and so like um, try to avoid if
I can, but um, yeah, I don'tknow, like it's a wrinkle free,
non-iron with.
Are they scratchy, are theyhorrible, like, how do they?
How do they do that?
How do they?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I I know ce, I trust him.
I trust him um I'm tempted tobuy one, just to see, to see
where, where his?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
line is do some r&d with your brooks brothers um
send a sample shirt into ben.
Reach out to the contact and uh, we'll, uh, we'll, road test it
.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
We'll road test it.
That's a bit gratuitous.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Why not Listener?
Aj actually called me today,uh-oh, and he was stumbling
around.
He said I don't really know howto say this and I'm not too
sure.
He said your podcast he said,it's surprisingly good.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I love it it a nice little backhander in there I was
.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Yeah, I was trying to unpack, felt like a compliment,
but I'm just with a sting, witha little sting in the tail he
said I've subscribed and I justdon't really subscribe to
anything.
So you know, I'm like hey, stoptalking, mate, I'll take the
win, it's good game over.
Yeah, we're done here hey, umconundrum let's uh let's kick
(10:44):
this, um, let's kick this one tothe curb because the australian
formula one tickets went onsale recently and so many times
I've seen it's a money can't buyexperience attached to Formula
One because of their you knowtheir premium sort of
positioning in sport.
Yeah, but every single moneycan't buy experience and it's
(11:18):
got a price tag attached to it.
Does that mean money can buy it?
I think it does.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
I think you can buy a lot of it too, but they're
expensive.
Money can't buy experiences.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Formula One is next level.
I talked to my brother-in-lawwho's a big formula one fan and
he said I he can't believe the,the pricing.
Uh, jump on on, uh, thesetickets from next year and a lot
with australia's potentiallygot the world champion coming
home for the race.
And you know why not, if theycan gouge while they can and
(11:50):
take advantage of.
Netflix's Drive to Surviveseries.
I think they're going to do itExactly.
So, yeah, it was interesting.
So where were we at?
Money can't buy experience, wejust dismiss it.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I think it probably means, you know, like a I don't
know a marquee experience orlike a tentpole experience,
something that maybe it's thething you hang your hat on for
that year in terms of sort of apinnacle or unique experience
right, I'd love to get somelistener input on this one.
So why not?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
leave a comment, send us a text, join the Inner
Sanctum if you want, but tell uswhat is a legitimate money
can't buy experience that you'vecome across.
I'd love to hear what they'rethinking in that regard.
Hey, richard, that's it.
Mate.
Listeners have been BCC'd onour week.
Next week, we are going to askthat critical question that
(12:47):
every family needs to havenailed before family pizza night
what are the three best pizzatoppings to go on a pizza?
See you next week.
Bravo, charlie, club out andthat's the pod.
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
CrimeLess: Hillbilly Heist
It’s 1996 in rural North Carolina, and an oddball crew makes history when they pull off America’s third largest cash heist. But it’s all downhill from there. Join host Johnny Knoxville as he unspools a wild and woolly tale about a group of regular ‘ol folks who risked it all for a chance at a better life. CrimeLess: Hillbilly Heist answers the question: what would you do with 17.3 million dollars? The answer includes diamond rings, mansions, velvet Elvis paintings, plus a run for the border, murder-for-hire-plots, and FBI busts.