The hellish future of post-Covid travel & a special tribute at the end of this show

The Conversation with Dasha Burns

POLITICO

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🗓️ 2 April 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Five cities, four countries and 15 days locked down in Australia: Global Translations author Ryan Heath talks to Playbook's Tara Palmeri about his 68-hour travel journey to get Down Under. He peers inside the hellish future of global travel and explains why it might be more expensive for travelers. Plus, a surprise ending to this special Nerdcast episode. Tara Palmeri is a POLITICO Playbook co-author. Scott Bland is a politics editor at POLITICO.Ryan Heath is a senior editor at Politico and author of Global Translations.Annie Rees is a producer for POLITICO audio.Jenny Ament is senior producer for POLITICO audio.Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO audio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So my total flying time was something like 33 hours.
0:05.3	Wow.
0:06.7	And then it took 68 hours.
0:08.1	There was all the other sort of gaps in between.
0:11.1	That's Ryan Heath.
0:12.8	He's been on a 68 hour journey to Australia,
0:15.8	where he's been locked down in a small hotel room for 14 days.
0:20.0	Oh yeah, well that's the other trick.
0:21.6	The first day you arrive here is day zero.
0:23.8	So actually it's 15 days, they lie.
0:25.8	My mistake.
0:26.8	15 days.
0:28.2	I don't know.
0:28.6	I also feel like this is like what Journey Men did back in the day.
0:31.6	Talk about their trebles on the trail
0:34.4	and how difficult it was.
0:35.7	The storms and the waiting and the, you know, and now
0:39.0	and you know what that flight now, right?
0:40.6	It's not just a 18 hour flight to Australia.
0:43.5	Hunter S. Thompson did not have retina scanning at every turn.
0:46.7	So, you know, I've lived.
0:53.0	This is Nerdcast.
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