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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today on the wild Wild Web.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
A travel hack from TikTok feels like it's not going
to be working anymore.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
I tell you what is in the.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Sick Welcome to the unchanged realm of the world's wide Web,
a swirling vortex of weirdness, bullying, and self obsessed social
media posts in this digital jungle. Jhnalman being a your
fearless guide leading you through the wildest parts of the
wild wild Web.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
This is the wild wild Web.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Holcome long. It's another edition of the wild wild Web.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
An actual article from the Internet that's captured our teaching
or something from the Internet.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
We love to talk about it.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Thankfully. The Internet says never ending. Feels like it there's
no end to it.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
You're right, you could.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Not look at everything on the internet.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Sorry, there's always something like Yeah, you're right, it's always
more stuff getting loaded up, and just it feels like
some much where is it?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
How does it all keep it there? Like sure as
you clear out that there.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Was one out there, like each company has its own
big hard drive right somewhere.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
Like computers in the desert.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Yeah, and that wholes information. Should have talked.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
About this before, and you try and google where it
is and like look for images and they don't tell you.
Is that because they don't want you to like vomit
or something.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Maybe not, they don't want.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Formation. It must be spread throughout the world. You wouldn't
have it just in one conveniently shed in Abu Dhabi
or something.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Well, you'd be worried, I imagine, well company, sorry, countries
would be worried about other countries.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Oh, they've got access to our for you know.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
There's massive data centers that house millions of terabytes of data.
But again it doesn't tell you where, and it does
sound like there's multiple it's.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Still in a very physical location.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
So the Internet is ongoing. It just continues and it
continues to give us gems like this. So there's a
travel hack that's been going around on TikTok. Now, you
go on flights, particularly when you're trying to save money,
you're trying to cut down on your baggage, and so
people have been in the past, you know, like wearing
a whole lot of clothes on the five layers of
clothes and things like that. But to avoid paying money
(02:06):
for a second bag on a lot of these airlines,
people have found a little hack taking a pillow, a
pillow case and stuffing a whole lot of clothes inside
the pillowcase. Because a pillow case has been deemed as
a kind of like annicem.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
You're allowed to bring onto the plane a pillow, a pillow.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, so you bring a pillow what looks like a
pillow but stuff for all your clothes. You take that
on the plane and you've basically essentially taken another bag on,
but not I had to pay for another bag.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Do you reckon if they could see that it was closed,
would they stop you or just be like, well, no,
this is well, this.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Is the thing.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Because it's been a comfort item, you've been allowed to
do it. But now people now are getting kicked off
flights because they're checking. They're checking now pillowcases to go
what's inside that.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
I'm still using it like a pillow and pillows are allowed.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
He's not the airline mane.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I'm not trying to stopping on the blake.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
You're bringing this travel hack as it's been you know,
like people can't.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I mean, I don't know if it's been canceled and
you the yard, but there are people there have been
kicked off, kicked off flights, so they maybe did what
you did, kicked up a bit of a fuss about
the fact they're trying to bring a whole lot.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Of it's It can be quite expensive in second bag.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
It's always hard when you're going to a cold place
like Europe in the winter, because you need to take
jacket like big things, a lot of stuff. Like I
can't fit everything in with all these jackets.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Yeah. No, I like to adopt the and I know
am and your wife does as well, the the tuck
and roll system. When packing a bag, you roll them
into little cylinders all your bits and pieces, and it
fits an extraordinary amount.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
But then you get somewhere and you're like, well, I'm
never going to keep this up for a few You've
got to leave you trying to gym everything back in
and stuff or.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Yeah, sushi, you've rolled it up.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
We work with someone who used to love to unpack
their clothes, which is fine you go somewhere like a hotel,
but he would do it, like, even if it was
one night, he'd take his clothes out, put it all
the drawers. He's like, I've left some stuff over the
years too.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Yeah about it.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah, I mean it's nice to unpack if you there
for a while. Oh, I guess. But at the same time,
it's just easy.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
It feels like you're really adding sort of twenty minutes
to either end of your experience in a motel.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah, I feel like you'd have to be a few
nights to do that. When you yeah, when.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
You get home, do you unpacked straight away? Or do
you like?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Yeah, yeah, I try to.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Yeah, life doesn't I.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Do when I get in the door, absolutely, no matter
how tired I am.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
All right, let's just checksuf of the wash, let's get
the stuff going.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
I'm with you.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
My wife will leave a bag. I'll get to that,
she will. But it's just like.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Relax until it's done, and go on and the suitcase
is packed away.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
General. General, she'll out of his suitcase, happily returned from somewhere. Yeah,
I'm saying. I'm like, I'll do the whole families just
so it's done. Yeah. Absolutely, with your net Okay, what's
your best airline hack? Well, you think of yours, I
can tell your mind.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Miners always pretend that you know what they're talking about
if you're sitting in the emergency exit row, because it's
extra legroomed. And even if they're like are you are
you going to be a safe pay of hands and
an emergency? I know I'm not. I'm going to be
a shocking perier hand. Like the door looks very difficult,
doesn't It'd be nice to have a test. Can I
(05:11):
just get a run through? Because I will I will
completely crumble If the plane's going down and I need
to open up their door, You're gonna have to get
someone from five rows.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I see they could, but I can't. I just want
to leg room.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Funny producer Taylor was an actual flight attendant who was
actually trained in helping us, and she's like, I don't
know what I was doing.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
I'm glad nothing ever happened because I don't know what
to do.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
No one knows what they're doing.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
You know, plane they could train to just like ah, no.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
One knows what they would do. The plane was literally
falling out of the sky.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
It's just funny because we all moan about that, the
safety mussage seeing there so many times, but how much
have you retained? Like it'd be interesting to go and
give everyone a quiz straight after.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
The safe your your mask go on? Before someone out.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
You remember that where they do. I love the little
thing where they point and do the little the rosey.
That's that's fun. They stand there wait for their little Yeah,
Steward will stand out there and go, what's.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
The brace position?
Speaker 4 (06:04):
It's just like that's changed.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, a very grim no, that's yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Do you want to know?
Speaker 5 (06:12):
Miro really preface it like that, isn't that a plane crash?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
It's not staying in your seats as well too, because they.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Want to The reason for the brace position is a
little sinister.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
So they can identify you from your dental record.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
So I don't even want to say I don't want
to bring down the vibe of this podcast. No, you
can google it that there's a theory as to why
they get you to put your head between your legs.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
I feel like you just have to.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Say to the micros off and say it, okay, turn
the mic.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
I don't know if that's true or not.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I was not, but he's not information from tech talks,
not a mass information.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
It was to save you, hope.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
So I mean that's what the big airline wants you
to believe, does it or not make you do some
fact checking?
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Yeah, because I feel like I need to.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Definitely is something I read in a comment on a.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Forum and then there's never fact checked it.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Probably this is what I was frightened to say it
because Ben's all about me fact checking stuff. Oh yeah,
it would be nice to you spared it off like
it's all, yeah, it's.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
A roma and it's not. It's a conspiracy.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
He'll say it like fact.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
But I said I didn't want.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
To see in the past.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
Designed to protect you from secondary injuries and to stop
you flailing about.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
That's what they tell you. That's what commercial airlines will
tell you. Hey, listen, well you can go and research
what the emergency brace position is all about. You knowing
you guys didn't give me your travel.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
Hecks mine is you know how your carry ons only
supposed to be seven kgs. I load that ship up,
and the trick is when you're going through security and everything,
or they're at the door at the gate, lift it
up like it ain't no thing, Like it can cut
off my circulation sometimes, but I'm like, ha, lift it
up over the shoulder and I'm like literally struggling with it.
(08:13):
But it's like it's light as a feather and you
can get some ship and because look like it's hard
to pick up.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Yeah, gotcha. What's your favorite seat to sit in?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Like, are you like, let's say we're going on a
flight for twelve hours, are you going window or you're
going aisle?
Speaker 1 (08:32):
No, there's no one who.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
I kind of like the window because I feel like
when you're in the aisle, like if you fall asleep
and stuff, people always bump you and I know you
have to climb over together.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah, there's the pros of the window seat. Feel like
you can lean on the window and it's nice for sleeping.
But then the cons if you need to get up
to go to the bathroom or anything like that, you're like, oh.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
God, I can radio, I can hold it, I can
hold my wheel.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Remember over people hours, So something quite nice about the
aisle being able to get up and down.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
But go to sleep back and your elbows the trolley
gets here.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
But you can stretch your your outer leg out into
the aisle too. That's the advantage of an aisle seat.
I hate nothing more. If you've been front row on
a tiny little in New Zealand pencil plane, you're that
you'll row number one and then as the plane is descending.
The steward is sitting in that seat directly opposite you,
and you're steering each other eyes and you don't know,
(09:24):
do I make conversations? Do we pretend we're not directly
opposite each other with minimal space between.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Us, because it's not much. You can't even got your
phone or anything in that situation.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
It's just like dead in the eyes reading.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
The Cura magazine for the ninety ninth.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Time, just to her, and then there's like heavy turbulence,
and I keep like looking at her and she's calm.
I'm come yeah, you're like a you're calm, You're come ok,
I'm come yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
It's yeah, we'll fly.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
It's the thing, I.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Haven't flown for like four years, not five years, for
like a work purpose or anything since the pandemic.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Really that don't.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Even go back to Nelson or anything like that.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
I got my life. How expensive it is to fly
to Nelson?
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Well yeah it is more.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
It's more cheaper to go to Australia's That's insane.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
It does not like that doesn't end.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Up tell you what do like do try?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
And I mean your kids are getting they're quite young,
but they're getting to an age now to fly as
much because soon as it get like eleven, they suddenly
become adults or eleven or it's like, for some reason,
an adult in the flying world is.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I guess because they're using a seat is like eleven
years old.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
And I think after their tone, Now, don't they pay
a full fear.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Do they?
Speaker 5 (10:36):
They're taking a full seat?
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Jeez, put your kid in your carry on.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Looks like it left up, like it's no thing.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
It's like a little cavin.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
You're right, it's a travel heck. Hey, well, listeners to
the world world we have. That's another episode done. Thank
you so much for listening. Have a wonderful day.