AO Mailbag: How Shlubby Is Too Shlubby On an Airplane?
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Is this where we do the countdown? |
| 0:03.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:04.6 | All right, yeah. |
| 0:05.7 | Go ahead, Jerome. |
| 0:06.7 | Kick it. |
| 0:08.0 | Three, two, one. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm Kelly McEvers. |
| 0:12.5 | I'm Jerome Campbell. |
| 0:13.8 | I'm Manila Morales. |
| 0:15.1 | And this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places. |
| 0:21.7 | And today is a listener mailback episode where we answer your questions. |
| 0:26.4 | We're talking about dream places to move, how to schedule travel plans, and PJs on planes. |
| 0:31.8 | Are they in or are they out? |
| 0:34.0 | That is after this. |
| 0:51.9 | All right. Let's get into this. The first question that I have is a little bit of an iceberger to get to know you both a little bit better. |
| 0:54.9 | It was based off of this new story that I saw, there was a woman who took a trip to the Czech Republic |
| 1:00.1 | and she loved it so much that she just stayed. |
| 1:03.4 | And she's lived there for years. |
| 1:05.3 | So I'm curious, if you guys have visited a place that made you think, I could just leave it all behind and stay. |
| 1:13.3 | So here's the problem with me is that every single place I go, and I'm not exaggerating, I want to live there. |
| 1:20.3 | Like, I just, that is the thing. You know, I think it's why I'm in this line of work of going places for a living. |
| 1:26.2 | Because like every place I go, I'm like, oh, I could totally, look at that apartment. I can live there. I could just like, come downstairs every day, like say I'm in Vienna. I could just come downstairs every day and just have like coffee and cake. And that can be my life. Or, you know, like I go to Yemen and I'm like, because you guys know I always talk about Yemen. But it's totally true. Like I'm like, I could just live up there in that like mafrage, like this top, you know, the top of like these tall buildings in the old city. I'm like, I could study Arabic and then I could drink the tea. You know, I always am imagining like what thing that I will be eating and drinking, of course, every day. But it's literally everywhere. |
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