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017 - The 4 life filters. Should we carry food on planes? Fighting bed bugs. What are the best pizza toppings?
- This episode trials a concept never used before in the bravo charlie club
- We discuss more on the topic of “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with”, with help from Mark Manson.
- What filters are you using?
- Pro 'food allergy' tips, that benefit everyone & save you cash.
- A listener writes in with 'The 30 second bedbug test'.
- What are the 3 best pizza toppings?
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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's it going? I'm well, mate. I'm well yourself, excellent, thank you. Excellent this week.
Speaker 2:Hey, listen, call out to our new listener countries. Germany has joined us, so that would be hellollo or guten tag.
Speaker 1:Guten tag, I like it.
Speaker 2:Guten tag is formal for good day, I think. So yeah, actually, I have to call out the Germany population one of the friendliest populations you'll come across my time in Germany. As soon as you even look like you're about to butcher their language, they'll say please stop, I speak English. I speak perfect English. Please stop committing violence on our language.
Speaker 1:All those European countries, at the risk of groping them all together. They are also multilingual and proficient.
Speaker 2:Well, they are multilingual, but've been in france speaking to a police officer, no less, who wouldn't speak in english to me, even though I was lost were you in paris? In paris. Yes, yeah outside of paris you can. You can find much more friendly people, but inside of paris, forget about it. It's um. Yeah, you're on.
Speaker 1:Yep totally.
Speaker 2:That's why I took translators with me on the last trip.
Speaker 1:Like Google Translate or something.
Speaker 2:No, my daughters, oh of course, yeah, of course.
Speaker 1:Super fluent in French. Yep.
Speaker 2:Fully Awake Project. I want to introduce a new concept to the pod this week. Let's do it, yeah. Research, oh research.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I know it's a bit of a crazy preparation the reason I wasn't happy with my version and take on events. When we're talking about um, you know, the average of the five people um you spend most time with is who you are. Yeah, I went a bit deeper on this and I found this from Mark Manson, who says a better life starts with a better filter. Change who and what you allow into your world, and peace will follow. I love this. I love this.
Speaker 2:There's four filters, by the way what you put in your body, ie food. What you put in your mind, and that can be television, social media, books you read, who you spend time with, which we talked on last week. So that's the five people. The average becomes you. And then what you choose to care about he didn't use the word care, but we're a PG show but what you let to bother you, what you let bother you. So there you go what you put in your mind, what you put in your body, who you spend time with and what you choose to care about. I thought that was a much better explanation of who you will end up being.
Speaker 1:I like it yeah.
Speaker 2:As I said, I apologize to listeners who just want to listen to a couple of old guys' banter and I've put some research into this week. Don't expect it every week. What do you think of that mate?
Speaker 1:I like it because I think it gets to the crux of things a little more, rather than sort of like the kind of glib you know, sort of high level, uh statement. It's, it's more actionable and it's more deliberate, and that's I think that's why I like that, because we, we have a, we have a choice in these things, right, and and you might as well exercise the choice, because you're just going to be better off from it.
Speaker 2:So yeah, I thought it just described better for me what the like. I've got mates who will be don't eat that or don't drink that. You know what you put in your body, or you should read this or you should watch that. You know what you put in your mind. Like it can go both ways. And so I think it just extends from a bit of an awareness point of view how we carry ourselves through life, and those four filters are so easy for anyone and you can choose who you want to be. By the way, you don't have to.
Speaker 1:Yeah, totally.
Speaker 2:So, as I said, disappointed with my version of events last week, so I went scrambling for something a bit more juicy, and that's what we landed on A bit more juicy.
Speaker 1:yeah, yeah, I think too, like it is. You know, all of those things are finite too, and so you know you do need to curate the choices that you use in those areas, that you use in those areas that you make in those areas probably a better way to put it.
Speaker 2:So I'm happy I'm leaving that one alone there. No more research, no more Research done.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's it Back to just riffing Travel tips, mate. So for those with allergies and we all have an allergy of something having the bag of food that you want to consume on the plane, because the plane never has food that you can eat, let's face it, if you've got allergies, having that available and separate from what's putting into the overhead locker, I think that's really important. But I can tell you what I had an experience today where I was booking a flight with a low-cost carrier and they were charging me for the food. Do you want to pre-book a bacon and egg roll and coffee to be delivered to?
Speaker 1:you, oh, wow Okay yeah, it was $15.
Speaker 2:So I'm extending my carry-your-own-food advice for people with allergies to just everyone, because now I believe not only is there a significant saving involved, frankly, I think I'm eating better quality food. So for me, I just carry protein bars and water. But usually domestic flights are quite short, but on the longer haul, I think you know, especially if you carry on a low-cost carrier, there's a choice to be made, right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, $15 Sanger, that's a bit brutal yep, can you imagine, must be a pretty good bacon egg sandwich. Um so so what do you carry like? If it's not food, what? What do you have to have in the carry-on?
Speaker 1:yeah, so pretty much, uh, noise cancelling headphones, these bad boys. I've got on the Bose QC35s. Probably had them for about seven or eight years. They are quality, excellent, still going. I think I'm on my fifth or sixth set of ear cushions. Yeah, but yeah, the, the text tried and true and a phone. So usually I'm playing music, listening to podcasts or playing phone games. They're pretty much the three activities I do Sometimes I'll take if it's long haul, I'll take a book. It's like I actually prefer reading printed books rather than the Kindle, which of course, I've got as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're tech heavy. Got as well. Yeah, you're tech heavy, we know that. Yeah, yeah. I'm the guy who talks to the person next to me what? Yeah, I know and you can read the room really quickly. They're like, yeah, hi, have a nice flight and they're slipping on their headphones.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm putting my Bose QC35 headphones on, yeah.
Speaker 2:And, look to be fair, I used to be the guy slipping on his headphones, but you can meet some pretty cool people.
Speaker 1:You can do. Actually, I have had some pretty cool long-haul airline chats before, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. So I mean you have to allow it to happen and it can be a bit uncomfortable, but I guess, yeah, it's fun too sometimes. And other times you just want to read a book, right?
Speaker 1:Yeah. I'm an expert sleeper too, I'll often fall asleep before takeoff and, yeah, wake up in the air and wonder how long we've got to go, because I've completely lost track of time.
Speaker 2:So when you say you fall asleep before takeoff, you are actually on the plane.
Speaker 1:Yes, on the plane. Get on the plane, sit down, headphones on, fall asleep.
Speaker 2:That'd be a terrible result if you weren't.
Speaker 1:Where am I?
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm still sitting in Melbourne Airport.
Speaker 1:So it's time to leave the club lounge.
Speaker 2:Speaking of Melbourne, that's a first world city and we got some listener feedback and I don't think this applies to Melbourne. But a listener wrote in talking about a hotel motel hack and he's saying that he's traveled a lot and he's learned that he needs to check for bed bugs um, yeah, okay have you ever had to check? Uh, have you ever felt like walked into a room and said I need to check for bed bugs?
Speaker 2:never, yeah, I I have, but I could see them so I didn't have to check wow, you could see them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah it was pretty ordinary. We didn't stay there, no, but the here's. Here's the tip. If you do walk into an environment where you think something's not quite right, I better check. Yeah, it's an extension of your, your iron tip. Um throw the towel over the bed sheet and um press down firmly with a hot iron for 30 seconds. When, when you lift it, if bed bugs are there, the heat will draw them out and you'll see them scurrying.
Speaker 1:Because they're coming out for a feed, because they can feel the warmth.
Speaker 2:Or I think they're rejecting the warmth and looking for a new place to.
Speaker 1:They're getting toasted, so they're out of there, right, yeah?
Speaker 2:And while the iron's on, you make your cheese sandwich and um and move on. Perfect way to go what, what?
Speaker 1:so are they like? What are they?
Speaker 2:do they look like ants, like you know, like if you're just like eyeballing them very small ants from my experience, yeah yeah okay, um, and if they weren't bed bugs that I saw, they were certainly still egg insect like, which suggested that you shouldn't be cohabiting.
Speaker 1:There's still no wind to be had there.
Speaker 2:I'm not going to cohabitate with these things, so I love that feedback. So there you go. Thanks, md.
Speaker 1:Fantastic.
Speaker 2:And I guess another shout out. If anyone would like to leave a comment, send us a text. Join us on the Inner Sanctum. That's where we publish the episodes early and you can get an early listen. The links are all there in the show notes. And if you do know how to share our podcast and we've talked about something that you think a friend might like to hear, why not give it a crack? Share it out.
Speaker 1:For sure.
Speaker 2:Hey the conundrum mate.
Speaker 1:What is, uh? What is the conundrum? Well, one of them, the conundrum of the week, this week, ben you got it.
Speaker 2:The conundrum of the week is how do you say conundrum without sounding like an idiot? The conundrum of the week is uh, what are the three best pizza toppings? Oh yeah, okay, Now I'll caveat for you Cheese is a standard, so you can have three more. You can have three more. What sort of?
Speaker 1:cheese are we talking, though? When you say cheese is a standard? Are we in mozzarella? Are we a 50-50 mozzarella cheddar kind of blend? Where are we?
Speaker 2:at Buffalo mozzarella Interesting, I hadn't put that much thought into it. I've used up all my research credits.
Speaker 1:With cheese.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, I'm guessing you've got an opinion on the cheese.
Speaker 1:I do. Yeah, buffalo mozzarella like a fancy mozzarella on top Buffalo mozzarella that stringy little thing. You've got to kind of like move it a significant distance away to sort of break the cheese strands.
Speaker 2:I didn't I thought buffaloes were used for wings. I didn't realize they had mozzarella in them as well.
Speaker 1:Oh, no. Yeah, I think it might be different to the actual animal, but then so might be the wings, so I don't know where that comes from.
Speaker 2:Okay, so I'll give you your buffalo cheese. What's going with it?
Speaker 1:I'm going for, I'm going a bit bohemian, I'm going with. I'm opening with eggplant because it's just great on a pizza, particularly with mozzarella, because it'll just it'll soak up the oil from the cheese and I love that kind of like oily, kind of like tasty eggplant action. And in a similar vein, I'm going to go with mushroom too, which has some oil-soaking properties Interesting and a nice base. The base has to be that southern Italian tomato base, a bit of a throwback to your vegetarian days.
Speaker 2:It is yes, my top three are less vegetarian. I've gone for ribeye, jalapenos and pineapple.
Speaker 1:Ribeye, like the steak, like the actual. So presumably this is some kind of like, maybe shredded or diced kind of ribeye, is it?
Speaker 2:Yeah, you cook it medium rare and then you finish it in the oven. So some people try to tell me it's cheating, but I just think it's um good practice, so yeah right and look for what it's worth. A shout out to caramelized onion, which was a very unlucky oh yeah, caramelized onion is is awesome yeah, very, very unlucky fourth place.
Speaker 2:Hey, that's it, richard. Listeners have been BCC'd on our week, next week's show. We ask how late is too late to mow the lawn on a Sunday evening. Pretty important one to unpack. So see you next week. Bravo, charlie, club Out.
Speaker 1:And that's the pod.
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