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Pro tip if you have a short connection
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and there's someone waiting for you at
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the gate to help you get to your flight
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on time don't automatically trust them
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yeah that's me learning the hard way
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something you should never do before a
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flight that I'll show you in this video
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to avoid being like me and missing your
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flight having a crappy flight or Worse
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stick to the end because some of these
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things you might not expect let's start
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with another one that got me in trouble
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once so in the US it's legal to take
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photos in public places including the
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airport security lines even though they
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might have signs saying that you can't
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it says you're allowed right on the TSA
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website but just because it's legal
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doesn't mean that it's smart at least if
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you want a hassle-free experience in the
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airport more importantly different
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countries have different laws in some
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countries you want to be careful about
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taking pictures anywhere in the airport
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one time in Morocco we were walking
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around the airport taking shots that we
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wanted to use in a YouTube video just in
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normal non-secure areas but when we got
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to a passport checkpoint one of the
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officers stopped us and said no photo
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delete delete then when we showed him
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that we deleted the pictures he snatched
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our phone out of our hands and started
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looking through all of our pictures I
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was just sitting there praying that the
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guy didn't stumble on a pick of my
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wife's voluptuous body long story short
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don't assume you're free to snap piics
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anywhere in the airport and just be
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smart about it so believe it or not I'm
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actually a pretty big introvert and so
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it's tempting for me to just throw on my
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headphones whenever I'm in the airport
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or on a plane but on a recent flight I
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realized that drowning out the world
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around me was actually a mistake you
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never know who you're sitting next to in
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the lounge or at your gate or on your
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flight it could be your next best friend
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your new boss a business partner or even
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a lover all you have to say is hey are
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you headed on vacation and let the
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conversation flow from there if it goes
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nowhere fine no harm done and you can
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put it on your headphones but if you
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never try you could be missing out on
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big opportunities I suspect that this is
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even more true in business class lounges
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and flights it seems like people who fly
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business realize that everyone who can
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afford these seats are successful and
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important and so everyone just seems a
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little bit more friendly and chatty it
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kind of feels like a secret club for
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example recently I flew business from
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Nepal to Colombia and in the lounge I
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met an awesome YouTube subscriber so hey
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Henry if you're watching this then while
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winning to to board the plane I met a
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fancy producer who has produced a bunch
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of series on Netflix then during my
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flight I made friends with an
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interesting lady from Switzerland a
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fancy digital Nomad from Italy and a
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powerful guy who runs multiple
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International companies and is related
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to the mayor here in Cali Columbia I now
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have multiple influential contacts
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around the world and it's all because I
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didn't have my headphones on the kicker
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is these rich and Uber successful people
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people don't realize that I pay
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practically nothing to be sitting up
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next to them I have access to lounges
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and fly business practically for free
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because of the sign up bonuses that I
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got from my favorite travel credit cards
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that I'll link to below there's another
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reason why I highly recommend not using
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your headphones in the airport and I'll
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get to that in a second but first I used
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to think I was smarter than everyone
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else by sitting in the seats at my gate
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and watching while everyone stood and
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waited in line for a half hour to board
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the plane then when the line died down
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I'd stroll in all smug that was until
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one flight when I realized there was no
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more room in the overhead bins for my
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carryon luggage which had a bunch of
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valuables in it that I didn't want to
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separate myself from and after thinking
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about it more I realized that it's
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actually probably good for you to stand
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before your flight I mean you're about
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to be sitting cramped in small seats on
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an airplane for hours so now is your
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opportunity to move around and stretch
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your legs the exception to this would be
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short flights where you're not going to
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be sitting long anyways and there will
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likely be space in the overhead bins
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because the people traveling probably
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aren't carrying much luggage this next
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one's important unless you want to spend
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your whole flight pinching your butt
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cheeks together so your neighbors don't
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smell your farts then there are certain
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foods that you definitely want to avoid
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the day of your flight greasy Foods
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salty snacks eggs soda and alcohol can
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all make you bloated and at 40,000 ft in
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the air the cabin pressure makes gases
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expand in your stomach which can lead to
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some awkward and smelly situations
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you're better off keeping meals light on
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flight day and eating them slowly so you
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don't swallow so much air drinking lemon
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water the day of your flight can help
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too also keep in mind that while
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caffeine and alcohol can make flights
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more fun they also make you pee more
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that means more trips to the groy
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airplane bathroom which can cause
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dehydration headaches and stronger jet
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lag next up is the latest airport
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mistake that I made that made me miss my
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flight for essentially no reason don't
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automatically trust them he just took me
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to the wrong side of the airport and now
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I have to Sprint to the other side hope
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I make my flight yeah I didn't make it
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in case you didn't catch that a Turkish
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Airline worker was waiting for me when I
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got off my flight to help me make my
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connecting flight because I had a short
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layover if this ever happens to you
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don't automatically trust the worker
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just because they work for the airline
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always always always check the screens
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with your own two eyes to confirm your
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gate number and confirm that the person
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helping you also knows your gate number
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this Turkish employee walked me to the
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extreme opposite of the airport and then
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said oops my boss told me the wrong gate
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number you might be able to make it back
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if you run it seems like I'm always
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getting myself into these kind of
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shenanigans and learning things the hard
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way but the good news is that means you
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don't have to learn the hard way so make
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sure to subscribe if you like to learn
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useful travel tips based on real
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experiences anyway the same goes for
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your boarding pass don't trust it your
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gate may have changed since the boarding
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pass was printed and so make sure to
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always check the screens this is also
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that second reason why I don't think
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wearing headphones in the airport is the
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best idea you might miss important
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announcements it would suck if they were
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blasting your name over the intercom for
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last call but you didn't realize it cuz
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you're too busy jamming out to Britney
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Spears in the lounge and speaking of
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lounges don't get too distracted some
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don't have screens on the inside so you
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won't realize if your flight status has
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changed also some airports have weird
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layouts with security screenings in
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seemingly random places I made the
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mistake recently of staying in the
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lounge until the last second and then
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having to scramble through in extra
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security that I wasn't expecting all
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stressed out so I'd make it to my gate
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on time so whenever you check into a
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lounge just ask the attendant how far of
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a walk it is to your gate and if there's
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any extra security you need to be
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worried about okay so I thought this
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next one would be obvious but judging by
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the number of times I see people making
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this mistake in the airport I'd be doing
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a disservice not to mention it recently
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I was waiting near my gate and I
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couldn't help but cringe I was watching
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a guy near me chasing around his rowdy
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kids with his arms full of stuff super
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distracted then I glanced down and
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noticed that hanging out of his Loosey
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Goosey pocket nearly falling out were
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his family's five passports come on dude
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protect those things don't walk around
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the airport with your passport in your
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hands don't slip it in your pocket
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protect that thing with your life for me
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that either means in my zipped pants
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pocket or my zipped fanny pack that's
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attached to me my friend once got her
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passport stolen in the airport because
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she had it in her hand when someone
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asked her for help and she
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absentmindedly said on top of her
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suitcase for a split second that someone
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she was trying to help was actually a
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thief in Disguise and she snatched her
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passport without her even realizing it
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let's not get ahead of ourselves though
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because I'll cover a weird thing you
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need to do to avoid scams in the airport
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in just a second while you're sitting
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around waiting to board your flight
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don't forget to look up how to get from
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the airport to your hotel once you
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arrive in your destination is there
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public transportation specific ride
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share areas maybe a specific ride share
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app that you need to download beforehand
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does your hotel offer a free or
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reasonably priced pickup and how can you
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avoid taxis at all costs which is where
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you're most likely to get scammed
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finally if you're going to be arriving
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to a small airport at night is there
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going to be any transportation options
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at all or do you have to figure
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something out beforehand one time dianae
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and I flew 25 hours across the world to
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go visit my family in my hometown and
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it's a small airport we arrived at
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midnight completely exhausted and
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realized there was no taxis no Ubers
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nothing we were literally stranded there
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and had to wait an hour for my mom to
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come pick us up in the middle of the
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night and in some parts of the world
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it's not even safe to leave the airport
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in the middle of the night to go find
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Transportation so it's always a good
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idea to have a plan before leaving and
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if you're traveling abroad you can use
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this same waiting time to make sure you
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set up your travel eim so that you have
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data on your phone the second that you
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arrive then you'll be able to easily
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access those ride share apps or Maps or
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whatever else you need to arrive to your
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hotel safe and sound I tested a lot of
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different eims in this video in a link
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to the ones I personally use down below
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with some discounts if you're traveling
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soon you can buy one now and then just
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wait until you get to the airport to
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install it the alternative is to just
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buy a physical SIM card once you arrive
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in your destination at the airport but
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again it's smart to use your time to do
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some quick research beforehand to make
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sure they actually sell SIM cards in the
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airport and that the kiosks are going to
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be open at the time that you arrive
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while we're talking about phones there
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are some things you definitely don't
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want to do with them when you're in the
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airport the first and more obvious one
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is to never do sensitive transactions or
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logins on your phone while you're
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connected to public airport Wi-Fi if you
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do you're making yourself a target for
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hackers either use a data plan for your
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internet or if you don't have a data
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plan then you can use a VPN to protect
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yourself while connected to that public
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Wi-Fi this goes for for any public Wi-Fi
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by the way not just in the airport I
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personally use surf shark and if you're
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not yet protecting yourself with a VPN
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you can get 85% off and 2 months free
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using my link if you want the second
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thing you want to avoid with your phone
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is using those public charging stations
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sometimes hackers will tamper with these
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USB ports so malware loads onto your
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phone when you connect it if that
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happens they can steal your sensitive
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data passwords and a lot of other things
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that you don't want this sounds crazy
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but it's actually so prevalent that
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there's a name for it it's called juice
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jacking most news stories focus on
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airports but I assume that this could
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also happen in the planes themselves
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there are three ways you can protect
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yourself the first and most obvious is a
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power bank the second and cheapest is
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called a USB condom which cost a couple
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bucks on Amazon and it's basically just
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an adapter that you slip into the USB
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port before you plug in your cable and
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the last option is to just use one of
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those dumb charging cables that only let
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electricity through and not data through
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juice jacking is just one of the crazy
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ways that scammers try to steal from you
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in the airport though you think the
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airport would be a secure place but it's
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actually a breeding ground for sneaky
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scams if you don't know what to look out
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for lucky for you I made a full video on
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the worst airport travel scams that
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Travelers fall for every single day so
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make sure to watch that one next to
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protect yourself and your wallet
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subscribe like and do the stuff thank
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you love you bye
