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Dec 2024
52m 47s

Who buys luggage at the airport luggage ...

PJ Vogt
About this episode

If ever there was a place where every person inside was guaranteed to already have luggage, it would be inside an airport. And yet ... the airport luggage stores persist. Who is going to these places? To answer, we will of course, unpack the story of the entire airport -- how these hellish modern places of security and commerce came to be.

Alastair Gordon's Naked Airport.

Unclaimed Baggage.

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