Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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I expect every super frequent flyer when racing for a red-eye flight has at some stage left a trail of charges and toiletries and other items. Tell us, Craig, what are your tips for staying switched on? But also tell us what has been your biggest brain fade and lost item? Yeah, I've lost a lot of stuff on planes. I've seen you lose stuff on planes. Fall asleep and wake up and disorientated.
Many years ago, over in the States somewhere, I followed you off the plane and we went straight to the Apple outlet to buy a laptop. You left your laptop on a previous flight. Where was the cord? No, you bought a laptop. I think what happens when you lose stuff on planes is they only react to the most persistent. So you've got to just chase them, ring and email and ring and email.
I reckon the first two times that they think, oh, well, we'll wear this person down. The third, fourth, or fifth time they go, okay, he's one of those ones that are going to hang around, so we better. But do you get others to make these calls? I've been fortunate to have some help over the years, yes. To answer your specific question, the worst one that happened to me was this one.
I landed in Miami from a Dallas flight one day. I was tired.
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Chapter 2: How did Hutchy retrieve a lost laptop from a plane?
I landed, I had fallen asleep mid laptop work on the, on the plane. What about this flight? As a result of that, the laptop had been fallen on the floor. The stewardess, is that the right name? The flight attendant? Yeah. Had put the laptop up above where I was sitting, which was about 5C or 5D from memory. And when I landed, I was like, you know, a bit of a haze.
Planes landed, I'm waking up and I look around for my laptop. It's not there. I go up the top. It's not there. No laptop. It's gone. Laptop's vanished. I'm in a bit of a hysterics. I'm about to go to work. I've got a big day next day in Miami of meetings and I've got no laptop. I don't know what I'm going to do. How am I going to do it?
I get off the plane and I'm like asking questions and a lady walks past me. She goes, I know who took your laptop. He was in seat 8C. I made note of it. I'm like, oh, that's so nice of you. Thank you.
Chapter 3: What are Hutchy's tips for frequent travelers to avoid losing items?
So then I go to the desk and I say, I need your help. The guy in 8C took my laptop. And the, oh, we can't be, you know, it's privacy. And like, and I go into a 25 minute discussion and debate. I need the guy's details on AT. I need this laptop. You don't understand how important this laptop is. And somehow, somehow I get the name and phone number. It's privacy issues here.
That's your play, but keep going. And I get a call placed to the said person. And told that if it doesn't get dropped at the Fontainebleau Hotel by 9 p.m., I'll be taking the matter further. And we now know your name and address. Threat. And so I get to the Fontainebleau and I think, what have I done? This person could be a, you know. This is middle America.
And I wait at the bar, and at 8.57, sheepishly, a runner comes in and leaves my laptop at the concierge. And I retrieved it. It got sent back because I knew who the thief was. Wow. The sequence of events to get that laptop back are unthinkable. I wouldn't suggest do that again, Hutch. Don't do that again. No. So that was Craig's carry-on question. Chris on Facebook.
On the Elijah Holland situation, what point does the media need to recognise when it's potentially causing more harm and back off? The relentless need to be first with the latest little nugget of info or innuendo can only be making things worse for the poor kid in the middle of it all. Do media outlets have a duty of care at all?
Chris, I reckon that's an unfair representation of how this story's been covered. I mean, we're talking here this morning on Tuesday with this question time of the sounding board and I know that there's been great care given, I feel, in the reporting I've been part of, and it's not just me, others around the conversation, and equally, I haven't seen one bit of media of that mainstream nature.
Social media, we can't control, but of that mainstream media. Am I fair in saying that? Yeah, I think it's been- I'm not naturally one to defend media. I think it's been pretty respectful coverage so far. I think- All the coverage has been around the scrutiny on Carlton, which is the right questions to be asking. And their questions need to be asked. Yep.
But I think everyone has had empathy for Elijah's situation. Yep. Tom on email. Hutchie, given the sheer volume of social interactions you've had in a week, what are the go-to lines and moves that you rely on to keep things moving? I ask because, this is good, you were spotted at the Quokka on the weekend. Ross Warman. AKA Hot Ross from Nova 93.7.
And one of Perth's most recognisable media personalities came over and said, G'day. You had... Absolutely no idea who he was, Hutchie. Ross reminded you who he was, and without missing a beat, you hit him with this. Sorry, I didn't recognise you with the glasses on.
It was delivered with the confidence of a man who'd used that line before and made me wonder, what are the other go-to lines you've always got at the ready? Tom. That's a brilliant question. Well spotted. Yes, and I didn't, you're right, I didn't recognise initially. Hot Ross. Hot Ross, who works for us at the Perth Lynx, by the way, on match day and does a great job.
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Chapter 4: What is the media's responsibility in covering Elijah Hollands' situation?
Have you got one there you want? Brendan, Damo, could you please talk to the powers that be at nine and get the Sunday footy show beamed live into WA, please? It's currently got an 11 a.m. start time, which is the same time as the first Sunday game here, which can't be good for ratings. Surely it could be put on Gem Live, or do they think more people are interested in my favorite Martian?
It's a good point, Brendan. Brendan, I'll take it up with network management for you. End of question time. It's been a long-discussed topic, that in person. Has it? Yeah. They love their footy in Perth. They love it. Yeah, they do. That was Question Time on the sounding board for DrinkWise. If you're choosing to drink, choose to DrinkWise.
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