This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

Do you remember airplane travel?

Packing into a tin can with 200 other people all breathing each other's air?

Well, these days, most of us are still avoiding planes, but in the before

times when we boarded a flight, we all received the same familiar set of instructions.

For everyone's safety, now would be a good time to review the safety of You've been directed to study the plane's safety briefing card.

Every passenger plane, commercial or private,

has to have safety cards on board.

And if you're like most people,

you probably never bothered to examine it too closely.

That is, if you've even looked at it at all.

I always look at these things. As soon as I sit down on a plane, I pull out the safety card.

Today I'm going to be talking with producer Mo Lebord about why safety cards might be worth a closer

look.

Hi Roman. Hi Mo, so you're saying you always pull out the safety card?

Yeah, I mean, what can I say?

I just love airplane safety guards.

Honestly, I think I love them like a little bit too much.

I don't just look at them. I collect them.

I've been collecting for about 10 years.

10 years.

So when you say you collect them, what do you mean?

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