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🗓️ 19 February 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Cathy O'Neil joins Felix on the inaugural episode of this new mini series from Slate Money all about travel. Felix and Cathy talk overtravel; the joylessness of business class, alcohol on planes, optimization, and peanut butter crackers.

Mathbabe’s Guide to Overtravel

Email: slatemoney@slate.com

Twitter: @felixsalmon,@mathbabedotorg

Podcast production by Max Jacobs.


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0:00.0

Hello, and welcome to Slate Money travel. Yes, this is Tuesday, or at least it came out on Tuesday.

0:18.9

I don't know when you're listening to it, but this is a very special Slate Money travel episode of Slate Money.

0:27.6

It's a little mini-series that we're doing all about the economics and business and finance and just general everything of travel.

0:35.4

But mainly what it is is an excuse to bring Kathy O'Neill back onto Slate Money. Kathy, you're here. I'm here. Welcome. Thank you so much. I miss you guys. What are we going to talk about today? I think we're going to talk about over-traveling and how to do it right. You've been traveling too much. Way much. And you are sick of the business class lifestyle.

0:57.4

Okay.

0:58.0

Yeah, make it sound pretty bad.

0:59.7

Yes, that's right.

1:00.8

So we're going to laugh at you.

1:02.4

There's downsides to business class.

1:03.7

We're going to talk about the downsides to business class.

1:06.1

We're going to talk about the one time that you wanted to eat food, which was so amazing that, like, yeah,

1:14.8

it's not going to come as a surprise because this is the country with the best food in the world.

1:18.8

That's true.

1:19.5

We're going to talk about how much you love Paris.

1:21.5

We're going to talk about how to pronounce the airport in Amsterdam.

1:26.8

We are going to talk about peanut butter crackers. This is going to be so good. We are going to

1:27.6

talk about peanut butter crackers. This is going to be so good. It's going to be a fun show because it has Kathy O'Neill on it and Kathy O'Neill is the best person. So welcome, Kathy. Thank you. We are going to talk about the jet-setting life of the one and only Kathy O'Neill coming up on slate money travel

1:45.8

Kathy O'Neill coming up on Slate Money Travel. Kathy O'Neill, you did not go to Davos. It's true. Neither did I. I mean, I feel really good about us. I feel like we made the right decision. I feel like maybe, you know, all those stories they said, like, Peak Davos has passed. I think that was because of us. It was, yeah, the minute I stopped going, it became irrelevant.

2:05.4

I kind of feel that way. I was never invited until this year, so I can't really say I contributed

2:11.3

it a lot to its demise. You participated in a handful of Davos podcasts from the warmth of a New York studio.

2:19.8

That's true. That's true. I feel like I was in collusion.

2:23.3

You colluded with the Davos Industrial League.

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