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Speaker 1: This is the Fitting in Whipper with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about flying now, and I cannot believe this.

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Speaker 2: Actually I want to talk about this subject because more

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Speaker 2: airlines around the world are looking to amend they're carry

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Speaker 2: on baggage policies, meaning that travelers are being asked to

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Speaker 2: cough up an extra fee for hand luggage. Now, what

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Speaker 2: do you mean so like they're now starting to charge

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Speaker 2: we know they're starting to charge you for seat selection tickets.

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Speaker 2: You know, even do you want to be carbon neutral,

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Speaker 2: there's all these extra fees in your airline fees. And

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Speaker 2: now if you're thinking, because I've been doing this quite

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Speaker 2: a bit, I'm really struggling with checking in a bag

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Speaker 2: because I can't be stuff waiting for it when you

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Speaker 2: get to your destination. So you try and get everything

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Speaker 2: into your carry on. And do you know what I've

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Speaker 2: got up to. I've got up to a week of

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Speaker 2: travel whip with a carry on with carry on luggage,

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Speaker 2: which I'm quite proud of.

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Speaker 3: It's a good effort. What's that three sets of shorts

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Speaker 3: undis and three.

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Speaker 2: T's actually thirteen twenty four to ten. What's the lightest?

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Speaker 2: What's the lightest? Someone has traveled to go on a

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Speaker 2: long holiday. I'd love to hear from you. Actually, I

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Speaker 2: had a mate who went from He was going from Adelaide.

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Speaker 2: He had a family reunion in Grafton here in New

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Speaker 2: South Wales, so he had to fly into Sydney first.

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Speaker 2: At the airport it was only for a day whip right,

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Speaker 2: so he only went He had a backpack of clothes.

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Speaker 2: He had one set of clothes. When he got to

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Speaker 2: the airport, there was an old football team that he

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Speaker 2: used to play for years ago and they were going

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Speaker 2: on their footy trip. They were going to Thailand and

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Speaker 2: he said no. He said, well, if I buy a

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Speaker 2: ticket now, can I come along with you guys? And

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Speaker 2: they were like yeah, we've got spare rooms and in

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Speaker 2: the accommodation. He booked a ticket on the spot and

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Speaker 2: he traveled for a week and a half with just

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Speaker 2: a backpack of clothes.

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Speaker 3: Didn't need a room, didn't need a bed. How good

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Speaker 3: is that? Do you know what happens too when people

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Speaker 3: can't be bothered with carry on If you're talking about

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Speaker 3: airlines charging for carry on fits, people are just going

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Speaker 3: to get on with all their clothes. You'll be sitting

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Speaker 3: next to somebody in four T shirts because that will

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Speaker 3: be their way. They can do it three pairs of

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Speaker 3: pants on.

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Speaker 2: Well, see, I see now that you can get suta

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Speaker 2: and carry on suitcases as well. People are sort of

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Speaker 2: sucking the air out of there. They're putting him in those.

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Speaker 3: The vacuum seal, the vacuum sealing.

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Speaker 2: Put your undies in your socks in there and vacuum

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Speaker 2: sealing them up so you get more into your carry on.

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Speaker 3: It's a pretty good idea, the old vacuum seal, because

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Speaker 3: I whenever we go on a holiday, I've got one

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Speaker 3: of the kids lying across the suitcases. I'm on the

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Speaker 3: floor trying to zip the thing up. Yeah, so it's

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Speaker 3: a pain in the bum.

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Speaker 2: Sam's giving us kill from Merrickville. What was the lightest

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Speaker 2: carry on, Sam?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, guys, I did six months in Europe with a

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Speaker 1: carry on bag. That is right.

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Speaker 3: Just laundry mats, Sam.

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Speaker 1: Just you know, hostile bathroom showered every night.

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Speaker 3: Yep.

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Speaker 1: It was one in, one out. So if I blew

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Speaker 1: a shirt or you know, a blue a pair of shorts,

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Speaker 1: bought another one and kept going. So parasong pair of

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Speaker 1: shoes and off I went.

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Speaker 2: Sammy, did you return home after six months with something

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Speaker 2: that you took with you or was it all new

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Speaker 2: clothes that you'd got on the way.

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Speaker 1: No, surprisingly, most of it made it home. But just

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Speaker 1: no souvin need you know, so no snow cones. No?

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Speaker 2: But was there a couple of times where you did

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Speaker 2: have to travel and you had to sit on the

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Speaker 2: bag to get every everything in? Or you're pretty frugal? Oh?

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Speaker 1: I was pretty good. But I use those travel sashet,

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Speaker 1: you know, the little baggies. But now every now and then,

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Speaker 1: either put extra couple of lately clothes on the get

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Speaker 1: on the plane because they wanted seven kilos, but I

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Speaker 1: was running on average about ten eleven kilos.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's good, and you had the tiny out before

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Speaker 3: you went, or you got that over there in the

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Speaker 3: local hostel.

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Speaker 1: Shire collected that as I went.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Sammy, Sammy, can I worst experience that you've had

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Speaker 2: in a hustle? Dell? I There's been some horrific times

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Speaker 2: that I've had.

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Speaker 3: Is there a moment that stands out?

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Speaker 1: A particular moment during Octoberfest where there was a thirty

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Speaker 1: room dorm one bathroom, so you can imagine the situation

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Speaker 1: on in the morning only stayed the one night. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Leachers and leashers have been making their way through people's

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Speaker 3: systems and the.

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Speaker 1: Pork knuckles may you can imagine too.

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Speaker 3: Many pork knuckles for one bar. Sits in Whipper Was

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