S11 E21 - Question Time

65.631 - 80.985 Craig Hutchison

I've been moving around jackets and laptops just to get past them and was scolded last week when my case was 10.2 kgs. This never happens in Melbourne. This week, I discovered a terrific workaround if you can afford the extra 15 minutes. My Uber accidentally dropped me at Qantas International in Sydney.

81.085 - 100.966 Craig Hutchison

I went to the terminal transfer bus where a very small security team scan your bags, but they don't weigh them. You are bussed across the airport and spat out inside the domestic Qantas terminal, skipping all the usual security personalities I still had 10 minutes for a Qantas Club toasty. Now, that is right up your alley, that sort of behavior.

101.687 - 121.818 Damian Barrett

Well, it's good to see some entrepreneurs coming through in this space. So, first of all, to Penny, well done, and hats off for finding your own hack. I'm not a fan of that one personally. I think it's just dead time. It is a bit of a journey from the international. I think still, Penny, the best move remains the fake bag way, which I have introduced over the last six or eight weeks.

122.6 - 143.675 Damian Barrett

Take a laptop and hide the other one underneath the feet of the – and when they ask you for the bag way, you give them the non-heavy bag and then – But what if they then say, and what about that other bag, sir? No, you don't let them see the other bag because they're sitting behind a big counter, don't forget. They're looking down on you like they're in a – They're an auction.

144.738 - 164.635 Damian Barrett

So always have the proper bag just out of their eyesight, in the blind side of the attendant, call it. And always have the smaller bag, your laptop, because once you've beaten that defence, there's no more obstacles. Even the sticklers don't get you on the two-back street.

197.802 - 199.364 Craig Hutchison

Then I'm back off cue dealing with it.

200.245 - 209.014 Damian Barrett

You can just smell the indecision. You smell all over you. You really do. You are a real set of leg irons in these situations, I find.

208.994 - 225.958 Craig Hutchison

I beat you through a couple of times though when we tried to go separately. Sean on Facebook, can you provide an insight on hand technique and gesticulation when on live television, especially in a seated arrangement? I've noticed Hutchie has the pen fidget going, often dropping his pen, picking it up and dropping it again.

226.399 - 245.945 Craig Hutchison

Damo is a much more consistent two hands coming together, pen locked in place operator. It's almost a window into the broadcasting soul. And Sean, as I'm reading that, Hutchie's doing that pen motion to which you refer. I reckon you're right. I'm just actually trying to visualise what I do. I reckon you've picked up my mannerisms. I don't think about it, but maybe you've put it in my head.

246.045 - 266.038 Craig Hutchison

I will think about it now, Sean. But there are some weird movements. I'm guilty of them. I always have a pen. I feel comforted for what it's worth, Sean, just to address Sean's question. I feel I've always been an old school journo who's always got either a pen on me or a backup pen in my bag. that I need a pen to feel fully comfortable. I'm old school in that regard.