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Speaker 1: This is the fits in and Whipper with Kate Richie podcast,

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Speaker 1: Let's Fly like an Eagle?

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Speaker 2: Where are we up to?

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Speaker 1: Just we just listened to a bit of Steve miller Man.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so we are so we know how expensive it

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Speaker 3: is to fly these days, holidays.

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Speaker 1: Are getting more expensive.

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Speaker 3: This is an unbelievable story because it's a real life

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Speaker 3: Leonardo DiCaprio, Catch me if you can, okay. Dallas Pokonik,

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Speaker 3: thirty three years of age of Toronto, was arrested in

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Speaker 3: Panama after posing as a pilot and a working airline employee,

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Speaker 3: and he fooled three US carriers into giving him hundreds

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Speaker 3: of free tickets over a span of four years.

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Speaker 1: How good is this?

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Speaker 3: He was a former flight attendant, so he must have

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Speaker 3: still been on the book somehow.

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Speaker 1: Whip. I don't know how he's done this right.

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Speaker 3: So he's got his he's got his lanyard, he's got

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Speaker 3: his ID, and he's just getting through airports. Because industry

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Speaker 3: experts are going, this is really weird because he must

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Speaker 3: still be on the computer because.

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Speaker 1: Obviously you've got to scan things just to get through this.

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Speaker 3: But he was wearing his pilot's outfit and he would

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Speaker 3: request the cockpit regularly and he would just say, look,

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Speaker 3: can I just sit with you guys.

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Speaker 1: Up the front?

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Speaker 3: For four years he was getting free flights all around

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Speaker 3: a Maryland.

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Speaker 2: Was he in the dicky seat in the cockpit making

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Speaker 2: captain's chat?

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Speaker 1: Yep? And he didn't.

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Speaker 3: He's never been a pilot in his life, but he

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Speaker 3: was a former flight attendant, so he would know all

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Speaker 3: the jargon. Hey you they have a chat and the

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Speaker 3: pilot say, so, how long you guys been doing this?

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Speaker 1: For god, it's just what are we in today? Seven

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Speaker 1: four seven? Yeah, one of my favorites.

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Speaker 2: All right, well let's take it up to five thousand

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Speaker 2: feet and let's put on the autopilot guys, and I'll

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Speaker 2: see you in Hawaii.

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Speaker 1: She was wearing a pair.

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Speaker 2: Of budget smugglers at the time, which sort of gave

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Speaker 2: it away.

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Speaker 3: In the back of your mind though you know, oh god,

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Speaker 3: it's only a matter of time before I'm busted here.

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Speaker 3: But jeez, well, you're just going from place to place,

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Speaker 3: holiday to holiday, getting free flights. And also, I mean,

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Speaker 3: when you see Leonardo in the movie Far Out, you

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Speaker 3: just you realize.

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Speaker 1: That made the women around you because you're in your

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Speaker 1: pilot's outfit. They love a man in uniform.

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Speaker 2: You can't help but look at a pilot when you're

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Speaker 2: at the airport. You know when they walk through and

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Speaker 2: they they're often fast streamed through security, and you look

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Speaker 2: at them and they've got their broad shoulders with their

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Speaker 2: stripes on their arm, and you think, yes, sir.

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Speaker 1: Captain, you have my respect. Don't know about the Jetstar ones.

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Speaker 2: Those thirteen year old kids in an awkward, awkward yellow

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Speaker 2: pair of girlfriends.

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Speaker 1: She'd kill me. Hey, everybody, welcome on board. Mate, You've

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Speaker 1: got to cut the white eggs on your face? Here?

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Speaker 1: Can I pop them? Sorry? Mate? You're off to school?

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Speaker 1: Is a tommy? What's problem?

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Speaker 2: You're shaking your head?

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Speaker 1: No, I though, I think they're all very qualified. Can

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Speaker 1: I give you this hack? Was this? It's more than

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Speaker 1: helicopter pilots. It's a bit. You know.

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Speaker 2: I'm on a jet Star flight and I'm heading to

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Speaker 2: Hamilton Island once and it's bouncing around like anything because

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Speaker 2: the weather was terrible. So I said to the air hostess,

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Speaker 2: can you tell me about the captain up the front?

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Speaker 2: She said, well, we have two on board at the moment.

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Speaker 2: We have two captains flying the plane.

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Speaker 1: How's this?

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Speaker 2: One had done twenty five years in the raft, the other.

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Speaker 1: Had done twenty plane it's a long fly.

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Speaker 2: And the other had done twenty twenty three years as

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Speaker 2: a stunt pilot.

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Speaker 1: Wow, so you don't expert ease? Well, I knew it wasn't.

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Speaker 1: We're not doing a load the loop pile we go

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Speaker 1: give us a big.

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