Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Airline hacks!

Episode Date: June 11, 2024

Welcome to the untamed realm of the world's Wild Wild Web!  Today we discuss how airlines are warning passengers to STOP using Tik Tok travel hacks.... Some of these will shock you!  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today on the Wild Wild Web, a travel hack from TikTok. Feels like it's not going to be working anymore. I'll tell you what it is in a sec. Welcome to the untamed realm of the World Wide Web. A swirling vortex of weirdness, bullying, and self-obsessed social media posts. In this digital jungle, Jono and Vienna are your fearless guides. Leading you through the wildest parts of the Wild Wild Web. Welcome along. It's another edition of the Wild Wild Web,

an actual article from the internet that's captured our attention or something from the internet. We love to talk about it. Thankfully, the internet is never-ending. It feels like there's no end to it. Yeah, you're right. You could not look at everything on the internet is never-ending. It feels like there's no end to it. Yeah, you're right. You could not look at everything on the internet. Sorry, Megan.

You can't clock it. No, there's always something like, yeah, you're right. It's always more stuff getting loaded up. And just it feels like some of it, where is it? Like how does it all keep it there? Like surely they should clear out some of it. Well, wasn't it out there like each company has its own big hard drive. Right.

Somewhere. Like computers in the desert. Yeah, and that holds all the information. I think we've talked about this before and you try and Google where it is and look for images and they don't tell you. Is that because they don't want you to bomb it or something? Maybe not. They don't want everyone's notes to be gone.

Information. It must be spread throughout the world. You wouldn't have it just in one convenient little shed in Abu Dhabi or something. Well, you'd be worried. I imagine countries would be worried about other countries. Oh, they've got access to our phone. You're right. 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 stored in a very physical location, it says. 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, 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 flight, five layers of clothes and things like that. But to avoid paying money for a second bag on a lot of these airlines, people have found a little hack, taking a pillow, a pillowcase and stuffing a whole lot of clothes inside the pillowcase. Because the pillowcase has been deemed as a kind of like an item you're allowed to bring onto the plane. A pillow. A pillow. yeah. So you bring a pillow, what looks like a pillow, but it's stuffed with all your clothes. You take that on the plane,

and you've basically essentially taken another bag on but not had to pay for another bag. Do you reckon if they could see that it was clothes, would they stop you or just be like, well, no, this is a pillow? Well, this is the thing, because it's been a comfort item. You've been allowed to do it. But now people are getting kicked off flights

because they're checking. They're checking now pillowcases to go, what's inside that? But I'm still using it like a pillow and pillows are allowed. He's not the airline, mate. I'm not trying to stop you from getting on a plane. Why are you bringing this travel hack as it's been, you know, like. I mean, I don't know if it's been cancelled in New Zealand, but there are people there being kicked off flights

and they maybe did what you did, kicked up a bit of a fuss about the fact they're trying to bring a whole lot of – because they can be quite expensive, their second bag. 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. You're like, I can't fit everything in with all these jackets. Yeah, no.

I like to adopt the – and I know Amanda, your wife, does as well, the tuck and roll system when packing a bag. You roll them into little cylinders, all your bits and pieces, and it fits in an extraordinary amount. But then you get somewhere and you're like, well, I'm never going to keep this up for a few days. You got to leave, you're trying to jam everything back in and stuff. Sushi, you've rolled it up. 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 and put it all in the drawers he's like I've left

so much stuff over the years too yeah you forget about it yeah I mean it's nice to unpack if you're there for a while I guess

but at the same time it's just easy to live out your bag it feels like you're already adding sort of 20 minutes to either end of your experience In a motel

Yeah I feel like you'd have to be A few nights to do that Wouldn't you Yeah Otherwise When you get home Do you unpack straight away

Or do you like Let your suitcase Yeah I try to My wife doesn't First thing I do When I get in the door Absolutely

Doesn't matter how tired I am I'm like let's just pack it Check stuff in the wash Let's get this stuff going I'm with you But my wife will leave a bag She'll be like I'll get to that And she will

But it's just like Oh come on I can't relax until it's done And gone And the suitcase is packed away General She'll live out of her suitcase Happily for a fortnight

After we've returned from somewhere Yeah I'm like I'll do the whole family Just so it's done Yeah Absolutely with you on that Okay what's your best airline hack? While you think of yours, I can turn your mind.

Okay. Mine is always pretend that you know what they're talking about if you're sitting in the emergency exit row. Because there's extra leg room. And even if they're like, are you going to be a safe pair of hands in an emergency? I know I'm not. I'm going to be a shocking pair of hands. The door? I know I'm not. I'm going to be a shocking pair of hands.

The door looks very difficult to open, doesn't it? It'd be nice to have a test opening. Can I just give it a run through? Because I will completely crumble if this plane's going down and I need to open up that door. You're going to have to get someone from Five Rose Bank to come in. You're like, I can't do it. I said I could, but I can't.

I just want a leg room. Bloody 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. I'm glad nothing ever happened

because I don't know what to do. No one knows what they're doing. And the people trained are just like, I don't know. No one knows what they would do if a plane was literally falling out of the sky.

It's funny because we all moan about that. Oh, the safety message. We've seen this so many times. But how much have you retained? Like, it'd be interesting to go and give everyone a quiz straight after the safety message.

Put your mask on before someone else. Yeah, like, you remember that where they do it? I love the little thing where they point and do the little, the rows, the exit rows. That's fun. They stand there, wait for their little, you know, steward will stand up there and go. What's the brace position?

Zoe. I feel like that's changed I heard a very grim No Do you want to know my grim? Not really when you preface it like that Is it about a plane crash? Is it about staying in your seats as well too?

The reason for the brace position Is a little sinister So they can identify you From your dental records so i don't even want to say i don't want to bring down the vibes of this podcast was that it no you can google it like there's that there's a theory as to why they get to put your head between your legs oh i feel like you just have to say it now don't say it turn the mics off and say it. Okay. Turn the mic. Okay. Oh, my God. I don't know if that's true or not.

Oh, my God. I hope it's not. But he gets a lot of information from TikTok. I do. I do. A lot of misinformation. It is. I thought it was to save you.

Well, you hope it is. I hope so. I mean, it feels like. Jesus, Jono. That's what the big airline wants you to believe. Well, does it or not? Megan, do some fact-checking. I am, because if that's not right, I need it to... It definitely is something I read in a comment on a forum.

And then has never fact-checked it, probably. This is why I was frightened to say it, because Ben's all about me fact-checking stuff. Well, yeah, it would be nice to. You spout it off like it's all about me fact-checking stuff. Well, yeah, it would be nice to. You spout it off like it's all legit. Yeah. Ah, it's a rumour and it's not. It's a conspiracy.

That's what they want you to believe. See there, he'll say it like fact. But I didn't say it. I didn't want to say it. No, you did. You have in the past, you have. But yes, you did then. It's designed to protect you from secondary injuries

and to stop you flailing about. That's what they tell you. That's what commercial airlines will tell you. Oh, my God. Hey, listen, well, you can go and research what the emergency brace position's all about. You know you guys didn't give me your travel hacks. Oh, mine is, you know how your carry-on's only supposed to be 7kgs?

I load that shit up. And then the trick is, when you're going through security and everything, or they're at the door, at the gate, lift it up like an A&O thing. Like it can cut off my circulation sometimes, but I'm like, lift it up over the shoulder, and I'm like literally struggling with it. But act like it's light as a feather. Okay. And you can get some shit in there.

Because I guess they never weigh it, do they? No, not unless you look like it's hard to pick up. Yeah, gotcha. What's your favorite seat to sit in? Let's say we're going on a flight for 12 hours. Are you going window or are you going aisle? No, there's no one who wants to sit in the middle. 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. I know you have to climb over to go to the toilet. Yeah, the pros of the window seat feel like you can lean on the window and it's nice for sleeping but then the cons are if you need to get up to go to the bathroom

or anything like that you're like oh god I work in radio I can hold it I can hold my wheeze for like hours so something quite nice about the aisle

being able to get up and down but you try to go to sleep people whacking your elbows the trolley gets you but you can stretch 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 Air New Zealand pencil plane. You're row number one. And then as the plane is descending, the steward is sitting in that seat directly opposite you and you're staring each other in the eyes. And you don't know know do I make conversation do I talk do we pretend we're not

directly opposite each other with minimal space between us yeah because it's not much you can't you haven't got your phone or anything in that situation no

it's just like dead in the eyes you're reading the Kiara magazine for the 99th time just to kind of and then there's like heavy turbulence

and I keep like looking at her and I'm like she's calm I'm calm yeah you're like you're calm you're calm okay I'm calm yeah at her and I'm like she's calm I'm calm yeah you're like you're calm you're calm okay I'm calm yeah it's it's yeah oh well fly it's it's a thing I haven't

flown for like four years if you're not five years not even for like a work purpose or anything since the pandemic really you've been on a flight since the pandemic wow that don't even go back to Nelson or anything like that no I got no know how expensive it is to fly into Nelson? Wow, yeah, it is more. It's like cheaper to go to Australia sometimes. Yeah, that's insane to me. Madness. That does not, like, that doesn't add up.

Tell you what, do try and, I mean, your kids are getting, they're quite young, but they're getting to an age now to fly as much, because as soon as they get like 11, they suddenly become adults, 11 or 12 it's like for some reason an adult in the flying world is I guess

because they're using a seat is like 11 years old but I think after they're two now don't they pay a full fare oh do they yeah your dog

they're taking a full seat oh jeez put your kid in your carry on yeah look like it lifts up like it's no thing like right like it's like a little cabin

You're right That's a travel hack Yeah Hey well listen This is the Wild Wild Web That's another episode done Thank you so much for listening Have a wonderful day