Slate Money: Travel: Frequent Flyer
Slate Money
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4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
This week 'Slate Money: Travel' welcomes it’s most travelled guest to date: Katherine Maher, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation. Katherine talks about what it’s like to travel 200 days out of the year for work, her tips for making economy comfortable and all the reasons she fully nerds out about public transit.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello! |
| 0:11.3 | Welcome to Slate Money Travel, which is the bonus mini series for Slate Money, and we are featuring |
| 0:18.5 | the most traveled person ever in the history of |
| 0:21.3 | Slate Money Travel. |
| 0:22.1 | Catherine, I are welcome. |
| 0:23.2 | You run the Wikimedia Foundation. |
| 0:25.4 | I do. |
| 0:26.0 | Which is one of the most international organizations in the world. |
| 0:30.7 | Aw. |
| 0:31.3 | And you are proof that it is international because you spend your entire life on airplanes. |
| 0:36.7 | Yes, I have a very thick password book at this point. |
| 0:38.8 | We are going to talk. |
| 0:40.4 | What we are going to do, we're going to have this discussion, which we have already had. |
| 0:44.5 | This is one of those introductions which I record after the conversation. |
| 0:48.1 | And we are going to start talking about airlines and points and airline miles, |
| 0:52.5 | and then it will segue to hotels. But before long, |
| 0:56.1 | we're going to get super gnarly and micro. And we are going to wind up talking about the actual |
| 1:02.5 | real human scale transportation of running around cities, taking subways in cities, taking |
| 1:09.8 | buses, and then even bikes and then even scooters. |
| 1:13.6 | And we are going to wind up at a place, basically in like 1920s Germany, where you might not expect. |
| 1:21.0 | And if you know what form of transportation we're talking about, you get like a gold stir. |
| 1:24.2 | Yeah, send an email. |
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