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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks.

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Speaker 2: At be Mike Hardley is our travel correspondent. He is

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Speaker 2: a king can Tab so I wonder if, like me,

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Speaker 2: he's going to be cheering for the Chiefs come to

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Speaker 2: the Super Rugby final at seven o'clock this evening more

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Speaker 2: than a Mike, more.

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Speaker 3: Than a Jack. Yes, well, I didn't have much favorite

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Speaker 3: thief swimming last weekend, but I'm with them tonight. O

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Speaker 3: the cheeks.

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Speaker 2: No, I agree, it's funny because I I'll enjoy watching

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Speaker 2: the game this evening, but don't you know, I don't

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Speaker 2: have a dog in the fight, as it were. And

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Speaker 2: I reckon if you were to rank the five Super

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Speaker 2: Rugby teams in New Zealand, yeah, I think the Chiefs

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Speaker 2: and the Blues are probably the ones I'm less likely

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Speaker 2: to It's basically the further you get from Canterbury, the

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Speaker 2: less likely I am to support the team. Yeah, but no,

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Speaker 2: I thought the Chiefs were great last weekend. Really, I

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Speaker 2: thought they were great. And you know we've been talking

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Speaker 2: about how they're kind of flying under the radar. I

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Speaker 2: just thought they were. I thought they were fantastic, especially

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Speaker 2: that first fifteen minutes or so. Last weekend was Stonking

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Speaker 2: so you cannot wait for the Super Rugby Final this evening.

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Speaker 2: We'll be catching up with Jason Pine on that very shortly,

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Speaker 2: but for now we are focusing on things across the ditch,

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Speaker 2: the great eats and drinks on the Sunshine Coast and

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Speaker 2: Australia's biggest thing, the Biggest Pineapple, has just been freshly restored.

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Speaker 3: Well it's not every day I'm invited to the ribbon

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Speaker 3: cutting ceremony for a fiberglass fruit jack, but there. I

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Speaker 3: was in town last week for the grand reopening of

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Speaker 3: the sixteen meter tall Pineapple. So this is considered the

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Speaker 3: iconic Queen of Queensland Kitch and she looks so resplendent.

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Speaker 3: I could do with a similar face lift with a

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Speaker 3: couple of coats of marine paint. Jack. She's as old

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Speaker 3: as me. She was birthed in nineteen seventy one as

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Speaker 3: an agritourism attraction. Even Charles and Diana paid her a

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Speaker 3: visit forty years ago. And I don't know how many

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Speaker 3: Kiwis have stopped by the Big Pineapple over the decades,

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Speaker 3: but I reckon it would be hundreds of thousands. And

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Speaker 3: on the nostalgic front, all of the old features are

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Speaker 3: going to be back, the Pineapple Express train, even the

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Speaker 3: Pineapple pafas, which millions of visitors have devowed over the decades.

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Speaker 3: Thing about the Big Pineapple Jack is that the reopening

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Speaker 3: of her also just reinforces that the Sunshine Coast has

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Speaker 3: so much stature as a powerhouse for premium local produce.

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Speaker 3: I reckon one of the most satisfying holidays on the

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Speaker 3: Sunshine Coast would be purely noching and sipping your way

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Speaker 3: around the region. There is so much to check out.

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Speaker 2: So where do you find pineapple parfa gin?

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Speaker 3: It's next door. There is this great distillery called Sunshine

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Speaker 3: and Suns And as a tribute to the famous neighbor,

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Speaker 3: the craft distiller produces various spirits, including pineapple parfe gin.

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Speaker 3: This ginjack tastes like a holiday and the cellar door

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Speaker 3: actually whipped me up a Coast Sunset cocktail. So what

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Speaker 3: they do is they top the gin with ice, pineapple

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Speaker 3: juice and a dash of grenadine. Hello holiday Heaven. You

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Speaker 3: can try that one at home. But it's amazing what

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Speaker 3: else this distillery does. They pump out the most superb

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Speaker 3: spicy RUMs and their vodka was most intriguing. Their vodka

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Speaker 3: is distilled from surplus grapes and grape waste from the Barossa.

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Speaker 3: So if you like your vodka produced sustainably, these guys

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Speaker 3: knock it out of the park.

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Speaker 2: Are very nice and there's an indigenous distillery that's scooping

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Speaker 2: plenty of awards as well.

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Speaker 3: Oh, this was such a stunning place to visit. Jack. Yes,

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Speaker 3: in Caloundra, I popped into beech Tree Distillery, another shining

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Speaker 3: star in the Aussie craft scene and actually they are

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Speaker 3: the nation's most awarded organic distillery. They have won gold

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Speaker 3: at both the World Gin and World Vodka Awards right

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Speaker 3: in the last few months. Yeah, they really are a

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Speaker 3: rock star. The thing about at beech Tree it is

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Speaker 3: the application of native botanicals, which is their point of

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Speaker 3: different So think lemon, myrtle, pepperberries, strawberry, garm, cuckadoo, plalm.

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Speaker 3: And they also are sticklers for organic Queensland sugar cane,

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Speaker 3: which they reckon and I would agree it seems to

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Speaker 3: create a cleaner, crisper, smoother spirit if you have that

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Speaker 3: wildly grown sugar cane from across Queensland. So definitely check

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Speaker 3: out beech Tree.

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Speaker 2: What about craft breweries.

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Speaker 3: Well, interestingly they are the king. They have more craft

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Speaker 3: breweries per capita than any other region in Australia. One

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Speaker 3: sometime Coast. Yeah, so the cold one is never far away.

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Speaker 3: There's two venues to put on your bingo card. Coulan

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Speaker 3: Beach Coat. They are a cracker. Check out their raspberry

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Speaker 3: says on It's like this semi tart fruit beer, very zesty,

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Speaker 3: very freshing on a hot day. And Moffatt Beach Brewer

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Speaker 3: and Barren Caloundra. If you like IPA's the trilogy, Best

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Speaker 3: Coast has scooped so many gongs. It is a resinous,

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Speaker 3: full flavored boozy Ipa best enjoyed with a dirty bird

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Speaker 3: Louisiana style fried chicken burger.

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Speaker 2: I have to say, yeah, we'll take your word from that.

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Speaker 2: If there was like one restaurant not to miss out

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Speaker 2: on on the Sunshine Ghost, what would you say it is?

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Speaker 3: Well, I took on board local knowledge and just south

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Speaker 3: of Noosa, I scooted to Sunshine Beach, which is this

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Speaker 3: snoozy under the radar beachside bolthole for the seriously rich

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Speaker 3: and famous. The real estate bear Jack unbelievable anyway. It's

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Speaker 3: also home to a pine sized restaurant called humble On.

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Speaker 3: Duke Jade and Stacy are your delightful hosts. Stacy's actually

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Speaker 3: from in the Cargol and it's easy to see why

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Speaker 3: the locals rave about this place. It's the sort of

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Speaker 3: place you just roll up to and say, feed me,

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Speaker 3: and the Eastern influences sing out loud with lots of

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Speaker 3: small plates offerings. Think Turkish sausage with whipped feta, crispy

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Speaker 3: zucchini flowers with Parmisan honey and sumac. Everything feels exotic

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Speaker 3: and escapist. I do love how a really good restaurant

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Speaker 3: transports you. This place nails it. And by the way,

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Speaker 3: if you're drinking all day like me, whistle up the

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Speaker 3: Turkish Delight soda. This is another Try this at home one, folks.

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Speaker 3: It is a zero alcohol cocktail. It is simplistic. Brilliance

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Speaker 3: is soda, rose water, lime and mint.

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Speaker 2: So it's quite simple in a way. I mean, yeah,

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Speaker 2: the rose water is a little bit complicated, but otherwise yeah,

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Speaker 2: latively simple.

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Speaker 3: You can buy the rose water I think Barkers for example.

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Speaker 3: Rose water. Yeah, yeah, so just look for it on

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Speaker 3: the supermarket. But it is such an easy drink, and

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Speaker 3: it really was the drink of the drip.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, yeah you can. You could get the Barker's version,

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Speaker 2: or you could just do what I did and get

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Speaker 2: Persian in laws, because well.

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Speaker 3: There you go.

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Speaker 2: Thes is never far from the cooking and the inlaws.

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Speaker 2: What about dinner with a view? Where's good?

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Speaker 3: Well, I would say Tides restaurants and clowns, for it

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Speaker 3: is hard to beat on that front, jack, because if

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Speaker 3: you go there just before sunrise from its purchase Tides,

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Speaker 3: not only do you get that sweeping view of the

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Speaker 3: esplanade and the waterfront, but gazed out west and you

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Speaker 3: see the glasshouse mountains and as the sun slums on

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Speaker 3: the horizon, those glasshouse mountains take on a treacle coat.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely amazing that the coastal elements that Tides are also

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Speaker 3: underpins by all of that amazing seafood. You tuck into

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Speaker 3: your Coral Coast barra Monday and your Malula bar prawns,

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Speaker 3: and you think life is stupend.

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Speaker 2: Yes, man, that sounds pretty good to me. I reckon, Hey,

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Speaker 2: thank you so much. Enjoy the game this evening, and

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Speaker 2: we will be into again very soon that's our travel

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Speaker 2: correspondent Mike Yardley for all of his tips on nothing

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Speaker 2: and sipping your way around the Sunshine Coast. You can

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