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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Any tips from Hutchie about sneaking into an airport lounge as someone who doesn't fly enough to earn the privilege? It's a good question from Ollie. I've been the beneficiary of being your plus one on multiple occasions over many years, Hutchie, all the way around the world. How should Ollie go about it if he doesn't even have a membership?
I always think the quarterback sneak is the best way. There's lots of more elaborate ways, but the quarterback sneak is the best way. I've talked about it in the past here. And that is, A, dress like you matter. So put a jacket on or a pair of pants. Because appearance is... six-tenths of the law, and then wait for a group of three or four or five and just fold through at that time.
You either fold on the back of their Congo line or you wait until they create a diversion and then you slide through. Either way, I think the quarterback sneak is best.
There's a lot of sticklers at those points, though, Hutchie, who require usually to see not just your boarding pass but passport if it's overseas.
Yeah, but you need to run a bit of a confusion route, which is like just create a bit of mayhem or a bit of confusion around it or let someone else do it. At the Qantas, there's two lounges. So you've got, you can really profile, if you spend a bit of time, the nature of the front desk. Are they sort of happy or a bit serious? And always the path of least resistance is always preferred.
But you'd be amazed how often it works if you don't, if you at least look like you belong.
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Chapter 2: What tips does Hutchie have for sneaking into airport lounges?
You'll often see six or eight or ten people out the back who are kind of having a cigarette or they're having a bit of a break from their job. And you can integrate in with them and start chatting. Then you can almost fold back with the staff.
Is that how you got into the Snoop Dogg party, that year?
Snoop Dogg was a – no, we pretended to be Snoop's people. That's right. That was a different strategy, yeah.
Randy on email. Not sure if this has made news down south, though I'm assuming Hutchie, or CEO Hutchie as he refers to you here, is across it. Channel 9 trying to go all in with the NOL riots and get all matches exclusively. This would lead to some games ending up behind a paywall on Stan.
Seems this is an issue for most NRL journos associated with Foxtel, many complaining about having to pay to watch the footy. Last time I checked, every game on their channel requires payment. The irony is almost glass houses levels. Thoughts on this double standard? Randy might be a, Randy might be, not his real name, Hutchie.
Randy might be, Randy might be a News Limited person for all I know. Front. Or a, sorry, a 2009 person.
Look, it speaks to the nature of the size of the deal. It's understandable that Nine and Foxtel have started by bidding their own way. It doesn't mean they won't come together later on, by the way.
Can you, again, I know you're involved in this and I know you keep telling me you're not, but I know you are on behalf of Channel 7 or at least part of the Channel 7 consortium that's pitching the rights to be given to you through Peter Villandis. Can you forecast how it looks two years' time?
I can promise you I'm not part of the seven consortium.
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Chapter 3: How do personal anecdotes enhance the storytelling in sports discussions?
How would Hutchie fix the fixture? At the moment, opening round is an issue, overlapping games and too many buys.
Talked about this a fair bit over the journey and what we do with opening round. But for starters, it's not a draw. It's a fixture. So it'll always be fixed. Just get used to it. I wouldn't get too concerned about getting parity or equality. That will never happen. No, it won't. It just... It's too far gone. The toothpaste is too far out of the tube.
They're going to fix up, or at least they're making noises, Oliver, to fix up opening round as to not have one, just to have an old-fashioned round one where all teams play. And I think that the second batch of buys, Hutchie, that we're already experiencing in this season, it's, again, just taking a little bit of anticipation out of the rounds upcoming.
But they had a good patch there, a really good patch when all teams 18 teams were playing for about six weeks in a row there. Who would have thought how that could work? But that was question time on the sounding board for DrinkWise. If you're choosing to drink, choose to DrinkWise. Thanks for listening to the Sounding Board Questions with Hutchie and Damo.
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