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016 - Am I really the average of “those” five people? An overseas safety story and unpacking money can’t buy experiences.
- 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?
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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?
Speaker 2:I'm amazing. You seem a bit flat. Are you still recovering from the big bike ride in the middle of Australia?
Speaker 1:I did actually just have my first bike ride back this morning, which was, I guess it's a week and a half later.
Speaker 2:So I think I'm fully recovered now. I think you're supposed to get out a bit earlier than that. Have you got another bike race like in the middle of the Antarctica coming up, or something?
Speaker 1:No, I'm not in the middle of the antarctica coming up or something, or uh. No, I'm not in the middle of antarctica. Um, although that's intriguing thought, I wonder if there is one down there. It's, uh, brisbane to gold coast 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:Why do one when you can do two for twice the price, exactly.
Speaker 1:Well, it's actually half the price Fair enough Average dollar cost averaging. Dollar cost averaging.
Speaker 2:A listener wrote in and said that guy that did the, that guy being you that did the ride in the middle of Australia. He's like, isn't that like devil's playground with all of the species out there? And I'm like what's a? Probably the international interpretation of the middle of Australia is pretty close to that, isn't it? Well, shark free. I must say yes, fair call yeah, not everything that's terrifying is in the middle of Australia just most of them.
Speaker 2:Just most of them yeah, hey, fully Awake Project. Mate love this section. I was recently invited to a rugby union match. For those who know me well, I'm into Australian rules football, but a shout-out to my mate GL took me to the British Lions versus the Reds, and the British Lions team selection story is actually quite incredible. So the Six Nations tournament is held and they select the British Lions team from four of the participating countries. So it's the best of the best and it's's quite a spectacle. If I'm being honest, yeah, but what I've noticed at a rugby union game is you'll never see more RM Williams boots in one location than at one of these games. Right, and it had me thinking. You know, we're apparently the average of our five closest friends, right, you know we're apparently the average of our five closest friends, right, and if I was indoctrinated into this group of people, am I going to end up with like 25 pairs of rm williams or like what's the deal with this average of our five closest friends?
Speaker 1:yeah, I don't know. I think it's one of those things that just gets repeated around and around without without 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:I'll probably put you in my five closest friends group. I mean, we're both bald, so it's not like there's some truth attached to it.
Speaker 1:So are your other four friends. Bald too, definitely not.
Speaker 2:I think my best mate probably wishes he was bald. He's got a very unique hair flavour. 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 with our age than anything else. I like to have a group of friends from a wide variety, like if we were all you know a certain wealth status or lived on a certain part of town or lived. You know, most of my friends don't even live in the same city as me. So yeah, it's a funny, I've got good friends in't even live in the same city as me. So, yeah, it's a funny, I've got good friends in this city. By the way, for the guys listening in Brisbane, you haven't been dropped, but you know it's. You're right, it's a crazy comment, isn't?
Speaker 1:it. I guess the. The intention behind it is that you sort of you pick up those mannerisms and behaviors and sort of things from from the people that you spend the most time with. There's probably an element of truth in that, as you get older and move through things, you tend to be a bit more deliberate with the way that you construct your circle of friends so that you've got people who are supportive and positive influences and those kinds of things. But yeah, I don't. As for the yeah, I guess the literal definition, I think Pass. Yeah, I'm probably an outlier.
Speaker 2:Maybe the watch out is you obviously out, is obviously be aware of who you are surrounding yourself with.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, fair. I think that's fair.
Speaker 2:Maybe if you can cut off that bottom 10%, they're probably the gap, and if you need to lean towards the top 10% or whatever that is in your view. So, yeah, yeah, interesting times. Hey, um, travel, travel. My daughter went to bali this week yes paid for herself, which, uh, 18 years, very, very impressive. Um, we've previously on this pod given the feedback how did you feel sorry, just interrupt.
Speaker 1:How'd you feel about your daughter taking her first overseas trip without parental supervision?
Speaker 2:most terrifying seven days of my life. Thank goodness for find my yes. And look, she got on the front foot a couple of times to make sure she experienced the the place, but there was one moment in particular where she went and actually visited a school with her. So she was travelling not alone, she was with one friend and they went to a school and they met some students there and you know were the token Australians in this classroom and had a nice time and, for whatever reason, they exchanged phone numbers and that night a guy had reached out to my daughter and said I'm the uncle of one of the girls at the school and she screenshotted it and sent it to me and said how do I respond? And I said you respond. You can't talk right now, but you've given your dad his number and if it's urgent to give him a call which he did and didn't hear from the guy again, can you believe it? So yeah, surprise, surprise.
Speaker 1:Surprise, surprise. Yes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean a little bit of growth there. But before she left I tried to give her the never check baggage. You know feedback that we love to throw around on this pod.
Speaker 1:Yes, solid advice.
Speaker 2:It's a recipe for losing stuff, isn't it? But?
Speaker 1:anyway, it totally is it totally is. She's like Dad, listen to your podcast.
Speaker 2:Listen to your podcast. I'm not doing that, and so my next thing was well, at least don't overpack, right? You're um, so you'll be fine. And um, she was like, oh, but what if I need some things? And it brought me up to what I want the traffic to the week to be, and that's washing management. So how do you you know you've gone for a week or so at a time how do you manage your washing?
Speaker 1:so week is week is my limit, so I'll take um yeah, because I only take carry-on, so you can't fit three weeks' worth of clothes in a carry-on suitcase, wash as you go. So if you're going to Bali or somewhere like that, it's about $2 or $3 a suitcase to get all your stuff washed. Anyway they go somewhere. If you're in Bali, that pays per kilo rather than per garment.
Speaker 2:There you go.
Speaker 1:So yeah, so that's the sort of pro tip there and you know, if you get in a tight spot and you're, you know, travelling in Australia and you need to get something done, pretty much all the hotels will do it. It's just their fees are a little bit outrageous for it.
Speaker 2:In Singapore. I'd been travelling for quite some time and I was in Singapore with a bag of dirty washing and I ended up finding a 24-hour laundrette just to keep the cost down. Yeah, I mean I was travelling on the company dime, but it just felt wrong, you know, to pay Singapore. Pay 100 bucks for washing To pay Singapore prices, so I went and did my washing off-site.
Speaker 2:Yeah, interesting. Hey, that ties me into listener feedback, mate, because someone listener CE wrote in. He's like why are we even talking about ironing? He said just buy some business shirts from Brooks Brothers which are wrinkle-free and non-iron. Where do you stand on non-iron?
Speaker 1:business.
Speaker 2:Shirts from brooks brothers uh, which are wrinkle free and non-iron. Where do you, where do you stand on non-iron business shirts?
Speaker 1:well, business shirts and so like um, try to avoid if I can, but um, yeah, I don't know, like it's a wrinkle free, non-iron with. Are they scratchy, are they horrible, like, how do they? How do they do that? How do they?
Speaker 2:I I know ce, I trust him. I trust him um I'm tempted to buy one, just to see, to see where, where his?
Speaker 1: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:We'll road test it. That's a bit gratuitous.
Speaker 1:Why not?
Speaker 2:Why not Listener? Aj actually called me today, uh-oh, and he was stumbling around. He said I don't really know how to say this and I'm not too sure. He said your podcast he said, it's surprisingly good.
Speaker 1:I love it it a nice little backhander in there I was.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was trying to unpack, felt like a compliment, but I'm just with a sting, with a little sting in the tail he said I've subscribed and I just don't really subscribe to anything. So you know, I'm like hey, stop talking, mate, I'll take the win, it's good game over.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're done here hey, um conundrum let's uh let's kick this, um, let's kick this one to the curb because the australian formula one tickets went on sale recently and so many times I've seen it's a money can't buy experience attached to Formula One because of their you know their premium sort of positioning in sport. Yeah, but every single money can't buy experience and it's got a price tag attached to it. Does that mean money can buy it? I think it does.
Speaker 1:I think you can buy a lot of it too, but they're expensive. Money can't buy experiences.
Speaker 2:Formula One is next level. I talked to my brother-in-law who's a big formula one fan and he said I he can't believe the, the pricing. Uh, jump on on, uh, these tickets from next year and a lot with australia's potentially got the world champion coming home for the race. And you know why not, if they can gouge while they can and take advantage of. Netflix's Drive to Survive series. I think they're going to do it Exactly. So, yeah, it was interesting. So where were we at? Money can't buy experience, we just dismiss it.
Speaker 1:I think it probably means, you know, like a I don't know a marquee experience or like a tentpole experience, something that maybe it's the thing you hang your hat on for that year in terms of sort of a pinnacle or unique experience right, I'd love to get some listener input on this one. So why not?
Speaker 2:leave a comment, send us a text, join the Inner Sanctum if you want, but tell us what is a legitimate money can't buy experience that you've come across. I'd love to hear what they're thinking in that regard. Hey, richard, that's it. Mate. Listeners have been BCC'd on our week. Next week, we are going to ask that critical question that every family needs to have nailed before family pizza night what are the three best pizza toppings to go on a pizza? See you next week. Bravo, charlie, club out and that's the pod.
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