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This is the Technical Difficulties, we're
playing Citation Needed.

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Joining me today, he reads books you know,
it's Chris Joel!

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Hello!

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Everybody's favourite Gary Brannan, Gary Brannan!

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Ultra-pure.

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Silver plated.

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And available from Lidl.

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Is that just you? Are you just describing
yourself there?

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I don't want to know which bit's silver-plated!

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And the bounciest man on the internet,
Matt Gray!

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Putting the butt into butter.

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In front of me I've got an article from Wikipedia,
and these folks can't see it.

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Every fact they get right is a point and a
ding [DING]

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and there's a special prize for particularly
good answers, which is...

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And today we are talking about BackpackersXpress.

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Vwhoomph!

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Oh, it would be doing that, yes.

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Is it named because you can avoid them?

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Literally the opposite.

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Named so you can find them!

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You're obliged to touch them! All the time
on the journey.

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"Welcome to the Backpackers' Express!

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"Sit on a backpacker's lap! Have him feel
you up from behind!"

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You are actually slightly closer than you
may think there,

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so I'm actually going to give you a point.
[DING]

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So is this just a dating site for backpackers?

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No, definitely not a dating site.

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Definitely a form of transport.

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Is it a bus?

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No.

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Is it two buses?

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Is it a train?

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No!

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Is it a tuk-tuk?

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You're all thinking a bit too small and too
short-haul here.

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Is it a gigantic camel?

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Is it the overnight flight from Europe to...
eastern... climes?

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Yeah, I'll give you a point. [DING] It was
the idea of doing

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that sort of flight for backpackers.

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It's the "gap yah" trip.

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It is the "gap yah" trip. Yes.

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So would there be hold luggage
or no hold luggage?

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-- Well, this...
-- No holds barred!

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Wrestling in mid-air!

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Just to be clear, this is not just the name
of a flight,

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this was going to be an airline.

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Oh, that'll be the s***iest most run-down
plane you've ever seen

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twanging up to the
edge of the runway, won't it?

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All painted up on the side.

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-- Old DC-3 done in graffiti!
-- Yeah!

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They will have come up
with this idea before 2006.

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Right, so Gary's getting a point for 'old
planes' [DING]

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they were going to sub-lease them,

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and you're definitely getting a point for
'06 [DING], it was 2003.

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Why do you think that?

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Because it was about 2006-2008 where all of
the airlines went dead,

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because no-one had any money.

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Yes, that's pretty much right. In fact, you're
going to have a point,

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the answer was it closed down in 2005.

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Is this the kind of airline where your seat
allocation would say 'rear gunner',

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that kind of thing?

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It was going to be Boeing 747s, they were
actually going that far.

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-- Okay, okay.
-- Ooh!

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What would you want if you were a backpacker
on an airplane?

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Really, really, really cheap.

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Yes. [DING]

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Yes. Two ticket types: in and out!

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What's out? Strap them to the wing?

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Really, really intense!

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Strapping you to the wing with duct tape?

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To be fair, wing walking is a thing, but I
think it's normally...

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Twelve hour wing walk!

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It's not on a jet engine, is what I'm saying!

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First-come, first-serve. Just a big space,
rip all the seats out,

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pile 'em in, have it on a
weight thing, it's like,

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"right, we are now full,
you're on the next one. Go!"

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Big pile of backpackers, even in the hold.

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Yeah, I'm guessing it's no-frills, bring your
own food, kinda stuff.

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See, that's not... I'm going to give Chris
the point [DING],

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it was certainly cheap, pack-'em-in, put
'em all together,

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essentially a bus...

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-- Like an Air-bus(!)
-- If only!

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There were some other things
they were thinking of,

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and it wasn't that kind of
no-frills, bring-your-own-food.

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Oh no. It is tedious things that people...

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I'm going to insult people who go backpacking
now, brace yourselves.

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It it things that tedious people who might've
gone backpacking might enjoy,

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so like crafts and things like that?

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Hemp seating!

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Yeah. Opportunities to exchange long stories
about just how ethnic you got

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when you were out there
and off the tourist trail you went.

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Y'all have some very nice stereotypes of backpackers.

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-- I'm right!
-- I'm going to give you a point
[DING] for stereotypes of backpackers...

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No, you've got the good side of backpackers.

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Don't go through customs?...

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Oh-oh! Yeah.

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Erm, it's certainly something to do with what
you get duty free there.

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Smuggling anything you want?

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"We're still three miles out, get down the
rest of your joint,

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"this is your captain speaking..."

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-- Oh, is it free booze?
-- Oh, that's a point!

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It's not free booze,
but I'll give you the point [DING]

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it was having a small pub on board. The airline
was going to have an official...

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Brewery!

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Brewery! Spot on! [DING] Not even... I thought
you were going to go for beer,

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but brewery was exactly right, have a point.

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Well, 747-400s when they first came in, the
top deck was...

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-- It was a cocktail bar, wasn't it?
-- A cocktail bar, yeah!

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It was the kind of place that people like
David Frost

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would lounge about and philander in mid-air.

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Mid-air philanderer!

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That's a fair point! What are -- you know
you've got, like, international waters?

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Where once you get outside... is
it a five-mile limit or something?

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-- It's three miles.
-- Three mile limit.

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You can do whatever thou wilst, 'cos you're
in international waters,

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right, hence pirate radio. What are the laws
when you're in the air?

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Well, the three-mile coastal waters thing is how
far you could hit someone with a big ol' cannon.

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-- Right.
-- From back in the day.

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So if you extrapolate that you end up with
all sorts of worrying things

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like ground-to-air missiles!

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So I can answer this. It's the 1944 Convention
on International Civil Aviation:

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"all aircraft have the nationality of the
state in which they are registered".

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-- Aha.
-- So if you're on a US flag-carrying
plane, you can't drink under 21.

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-- Ah, okay!
-- If you're an Australian one, you can't drink...

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I thought births were registered over the
country that you're over?

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If you have a birth outside,
in international waters,

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your birth location is listed as "at sea".

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-- Yes it is.
-- Nice.

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And if you're on a plane, it can be listed
as "in the air".

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Those are valid entries on birth certificates.

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I have seen a baptism entry, 1780s I think,

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where the place of birth was given
as the lat and long.

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-- Wow!
-- That's cool.

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-- The child was called Atlantica.
-- That's nice. That's nice.

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And we checked the lat and long and it did
come roughly in the middle of the Atlantic.

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BackpackersXpress was going to be an airline
with a pub on board

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where backpackers would get cheap tickets
and go over

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and presumably anyone not wanting to be associated
with a load of backpackers...

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Would get a different flight!

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-- Go on a different airline, yeah!
-- Different flight, yes.

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The air crew would encourage
passengers to socialise.

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-- Oh, f*** off!
-- Oh, f*** off!

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Spot the British people!

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-- No way, no...
-- Gotta love a bit of enforced fun.

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Oh no, they'd have getting-to-know-you games
while you were on the tarmac, wouldn't they?

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I've done a bus... when I was lot younger,

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I did that backpackers' bus through the
Australian Outback, and it's horrible.

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Oh, f*** off! Honestly!

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Did you have top bants(?)

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No! No, I didn't.

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-- They didn't exist back then!
-- That's fair.

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You were yet to become the Archbishop of Banterbury
that you would later be!

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God, it's like... the bus driver playing music
over the thing and saying,

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"right, well these are the actions
you should do!"

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These are the actions you're f***ing doing!

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These are the actions... there we go!

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How long would that flight be? It'd be a good
eight, nine hours, wouldn't it?

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-- Eternity!
-- But it would feel like you
were there forever. Just people...

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And it's a 24-hour flight from London anyway!

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I would go on that airline only if there was
a dedicated misanthropes' cabin at the front.

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That... that... that's generally called first
class on most airlines, Gary.

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But on this one, not so much.

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No, I'd be quite happy with access to the
pub and everything else,

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as long as I didn't have
to talk to anyone else!

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Again, that is first class. You're literally
describing first class there.

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The beds on airplanes I'm most interested
in are the crew ones.

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It depends on the plane but a lot of them
are right in the nose,

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directly below the flight deck.

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Yep. And if you're on an A380, they have two
and a half decks.

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There is another half deck up in the very
top of the plane,

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with half-height... you can crawl in
and get sleep there.

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I want that one! I'd be fine with that!

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No you wouldn't, 'cos you're
going to be down there,

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and then you're going to get up and whack
your head on the thing.

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Yeah, but I'm not with them
f***ing backpackers, am I?!

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That's... not unreasonable!

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So what you're advocating actually is that
you'll sleep in the wheel well if necessary?

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Yeah! I'm not with them!

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That's not... I think previous news incidents
have declared

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that is not a good place to sleep!

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That is a good place to freeze, die, and fall
out into someone's back yard.

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I'm not with them, am I though?!

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Backpackers. Freezing to death. Back...

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Everybody round this table is going, "you
know what, that is a bit of a tough choice".

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So what did some of the industry experts,

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looking at this airline's plans,
what did they say?

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"It's just going to be a tin can
full of arseholes at 30,000 feet."

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Yes. What was the media term for "tin full
of arseholes at 30,000 feet"?

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Sounds like he's nailed it to me, to be fair!

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If you can define it better,
I'd love to hear it!

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Get angry in a car, what do you call it?

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Road rage!

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What do you call it in a plane?

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-- Air rage!
-- Air rage. Have a point [DING]

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-- Creative!
-- Yes.

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"Disruptive or violent behaviour perpetrated
on an aircraft."

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I actually have the first case
of air rage here,

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and I'll give you a point if you can roughly
guess the year.

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Is it ridiculously early? Is it like 1915
when two pilots have a dust-up in mid-air?

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I was going to say, I seem to remember this
chap called the Red Baron

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upset quite a lot of people...

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Not between planes,
I mean like gunner and pilot...

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No, it has to be on a passenger plane.

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-- Sixties.
-- 1920s.

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Yeah. That's going to be closest. Stuff like
the little twin engine De Havilland,

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when there's just 16 people getting high on...

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Going between London and Paris,
stuff like that.

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Getting hammered on marg... not margaritas,
what's the phrase I'm looking for? Martinis.

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-- Yeah.
-- So when are you saying?

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Ah, 30s. De Havilland.

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1938, Neville Chamberlain's
flight back from Germany.

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You said 30s first, I'm going to give it you.
It was actually the 40s,

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1947, on a flight from Havana to Miami. [DING]

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It was simply a drunk man assaulting a passenger
and biting a flight attendant.

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Bite attendant!

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Ahh! I'm sure that person
appreciated the gag,

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as you stood there with your martini behind...

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-- "I think you'll find...!"
-- "Bite attendant!"

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"This isn't helping!"

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Which led to the second incident of air rage!

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Which is a flight attendant glassing someone!

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That whole plane lands
full of fight-injured people!

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Well, this goes back to
something we said earlier,

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because they didn't know
whose jurisdiction it was in,

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no-one at the landing area
really wanted to prosecute,

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and they frequently
got away with it.

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And it eventually came to be that the laws
of the country

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where the aircraft was registered take precedence.

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Has the thing happened with planes like has
happened with boats,

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where they're registered in tax havens?

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That's a fair point, I was wondering that
myself just then.

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It's difficult to do that for most airlines,

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because they want to be the flag carrier,

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and they want to be registered in a...

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British Airways wants to be
registered in the UK.

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There are still a lot of
national flag carriers up there.

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So if I wanted to have a mid-air fight club
with no repercussions...?

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-- Aeroflot.
-- I was going to say, what is
the best country to register my plane?

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Air Astana!

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Yeah! Like, Cayman Islands
or something like that?

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That's if you want to avoid tax. If you want
to avoid being punished for hitting someone,

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I think there are very few jurisdictions
which simultaneously

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don't have a law against that
and can register a plane!

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I'm going to say this; somewhere out there,
there's some rich bloke

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who's investigating that right now.

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That's true. "What can we do in international
waters? Oh, I don't know!"

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Oh, I could break a really good
superinjunction right now,

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but I'm not going to. I really could.

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You could, but I'd have to edit it out anyway.

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Well,

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Er, so BackpackersXpress never actually got
to that point!

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-- Good.
-- They never actually managed to
lease any aircraft...

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Wow, that's the first
stumbling block, isn't it?

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They never even really got enough funding.
What did the industry think of them?

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-- There were just massive arseholes!
-- Not much!

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The Times phrased it as "it seems doubtful
to any sane observer

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"whether the project will ever
get off the ground."

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I didn't realise, as I read that, that was
literal and metaphorical...

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And that is a joke from the Times of London!

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And that the 'party in the sky' was,
and I'm quoting directly here, a "radical move".

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-- Not in the 90s "radical" sense, just in...
-- No!

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And I think as the Times goes...

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-- It's like saying "well that's brave". 
- Yes.

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I've just realised: is this the Venga Plane?

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This is actually Venga Airways, isn't it?!

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It bloody is!

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-- Sorry!
-- Oh, we like to party!

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You've just remembered the songs, haven't
you? It's in there...

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No, fortunately I don't know the words!

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So are they doing a
New York to San Francisco run?

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-- There we go! That was the Vengabus.
-- That was the bus.

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That was the bus. No, the plane
was going to Ibiza. The plane always...

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-- Oh, god, now I remember!
-- Yes, you're quite right!

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It was going to Ibiza.

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No matter the mode of transport, it's always
an Intercity Disco.

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No, wait, no that was the train.

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No, that was the bus!
That was definitely the bus!

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-- Yes, but Intercity's a type of train.
-- Okay.

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You are no longer welcome in my house.
Get out!

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Some trains did use to have a disco carriage.

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-- I'm not joking.
-- In the 70s?

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-- Yes! In the 70s.
-- What?!

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In the 70s, some special trains, especially
Football Special trains,

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BR would put on a...

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This is the train for all the football supporters,

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so that the commuters weren't
bothered by the football supporters.

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Just a sec! This is the BackpackersXpress
but for footballers on trains?

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It's for, basically, if you're going
somewhere for a match,

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you would charter a whole Football Special
train, that is s***ty old carriages,

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so everyone's corralled in one place, the
police know when you arrive,

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but on the back of it they would put an empty
freight car, effectively,

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with a disco in it!
And you'd have the disco carriage.

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They used to have a pub carriage
on the Southern...

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-- Blimey!
-- They put a carriage, and they'd
fitted out inside like a country pub!

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-- Fantastic.
-- But it had no windows, that was the problem,

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-- because they'd put pub seating in.
-- It's a shipping container!

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They'd put seating down the side, so you had
no idea where you were

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when the pub... when the train stopped!

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Also, do you really want that many drunk people

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who can't see outside on a swaying train?

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It was for commuters! It was for people going
home on a Friday night,

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they'd put the pub carriage on.

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Oh, that's belting!

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There is no better way to guarantee you'll
end up at the terminus by accident.

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I know! But it was proper country pub, dimpled
pint glasses, hand-pulled booze, the lot.

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-- Fantastic! -- Great idea.

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That's actually not a bad plan.
I mean, it's now a bad plan,

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because you can't fit that many people in
there, and...

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I don't know, if you make it obviously a civilised,

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you are going to have one dimpled pint,
kind of real ale pub,

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it probably polices itself!

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-- Copper-topped tables, yeah!
-- Fireplace!

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-- Fireplace?!
-- Yeah! I think it had a fireplace!

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I'm not joking. It's a steam train.

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I was going to say, let's face it, if it's
fired by steam,

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it's not the least likely thing you could
put on there.

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Yeah! It's already got a big fire
at the front of it,

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stick a little one in the middle, it's fine!

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Hey, great way to get it lit as well!

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Shovel the coals straight from the firebox!

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It's true, that's how travel used to be, kids.

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Is it the end of the sliding scale, though?

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So you have the dining car, then there'll
be like a snacking car,

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then they'll have a soft drinks car,
then you've got the pub car,

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and then you've got the
club at the end of the night car.

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Imagine that! Roll out off the end
of the club car

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into the kebab van car at the back!

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Which is just a trailer being dragged along.

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"Salad and sauce?!"

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But it's a steam-powered
rotatey-thing for the...

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"Chuck some more coals in!" "Fine!"

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Thing is, it's not actually
cooking the meat with coals,

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that's just providing the power for the
electric grill that's rotating the meat...

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That's a great idea.
Oh, come on BR, make it happen.

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BR! There hasn't been BR for years!

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Congratulations Chris, you win this one!

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Fantastic!

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Congratulations, today's prize is French.

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-- Oh aye?
-- Oui oui!

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You win chocolate icing
in the shape of a cow.

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It's la vache ganache.

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You nearly got there in time on
that one Matt, well done.

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With that we say thank you to Chris Joel,

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Gary Brannan,

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-- Matt Gray.
-- Goodbye, YouTube.

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I've been Tom Scott, we'll see you next time.

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