Slate Money | Money Travels: The Eternal Baggage Question

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🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

In this special episode of Slate Money Travels, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers discuss the constant question on travelers’ minds: should you check your bag? They dig into how to make your carry-on count, the beauty of Air Tags, and Felix offers an alternative to checking a bag that isn’t a carry on. Want to hear that discussion and hear more Slate Money? Join Slate Plus to unlock weekly bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Slate Money show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/moneyplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Cheyna Roth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Race the rudder, raise the sails, raise the sales!
0:05.0	Captain, an unidentified ship approaching. Over.
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0:13.0	Reach sales professionals, not professional sailors.
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0:26.7	That's LinkedIn.com slash lead. Terms and conditions apply.
0:32.0	Hello, welcome to Slate Money Travel, a special episode of Slate Money devoted to travel something.
0:42.1	I'm Felix Salmon.
0:43.2	I'm here with Emily Peck of Axios.
0:46.7	Hello.
0:47.3	Who's sitting at home in front of her bookshelves.
0:50.6	We're doing the bookshelf thing.
0:51.8	But Elizabeth Spires of the New York Times has
0:55.3	made it all the way into the Brooklyn Studios of Slate. Hi, Elizabeth.
1:01.2	Hello. Was your commute okay in the heat? It was fine because I was in a car, so.
1:08.1	Oh, oh. Wait, did you drive yourself?
1:11.4	No, I was worried I was going to be late, so I hopped in an Uber.
1:15.2	Oh.
1:15.9	Wow, fancy.
1:17.1	We are going to talk this week about checking bags.
1:22.6	I think everyone has an opinion on this.
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