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Episode 100: The Good Old Days Weren’t All That Good

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How to Travel Conveniently

A hundred years ago the best you could do was buy train and that would cost the average American about Three months worth of wages to pay for that ticket Seattle to Boston today the average American has to work about 11 hours That's actually astonishing isn't that amazing? Oh and the average American now travels by plane Yeah, that's right and aunt I'll tell you that I just got back to Tucson yesterday evening from Philadelphia And that's a long flight as these sorts of things go It took me what about 10 hours or so I had to get up at an absurd hour of the morning in order to make it happen But I never once considered that I couldn't do that that never entered my thinking.

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