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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: That'd be just coming up to twenty past eleven. On

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Speaker 2: news Talks, there'd be Makeyardie's our travel correspondent. He is

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Speaker 2: here now, Hey Mike.

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Speaker 3: Good morning Jack. Now, I know this is doing parochial

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Speaker 3: but I'm looking for the third lead of the trifector.

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Speaker 3: Great win by the Wars the All Whites. Now we

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Speaker 3: just need the Crusaders to turn the lights out on

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Speaker 3: the Blues.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we do, and hopefully it can have You know,

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Speaker 2: it can be. It could be one sided in the

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Speaker 2: same nature as either either the All Whites or indeed

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Speaker 2: the Chiefs last night, because we've had some one sided

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Speaker 2: contests this weekend. But yes, yeah, I think I think

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Speaker 2: there's nothing wrong with a bit of parochialism so long

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Speaker 2: as it's on behalf of Canterbury. As far as I'm concerned, we.

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Speaker 3: Need a Heathrow Airport style shutdown even the park tonight.

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Speaker 2: My goodness. That's yeah, certainly keeping things of the theme

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Speaker 2: this morning, I totally agree. It's a it's a it's

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Speaker 2: a crazy weekend to sport and it was a pretty

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Speaker 2: big night in the Capitol last night. I think they

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Speaker 2: had twenty thousand out for the All Whites semi final.

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Speaker 2: But the Capital has certainly had its fiershare of toil

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Speaker 2: and trouble lately. How is the mood among the kind

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Speaker 2: of hospow operators at the moment?

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Speaker 3: Well I went through a really good graze across the

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Speaker 3: capital a few weeks ago, And yes, I mean hospitality

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Speaker 3: can be a very fluid and fickle industry, as you o, Jack.

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Speaker 3: But man, that economic downturn in the last year or

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Speaker 3: two has been so bruising for Wellington operators, particularly the

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Speaker 3: fact that so many legendary establishments have closed their doors.

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Speaker 3: It's been like a procession of food funerals. But the

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Speaker 3: good thing I detected a clear upswing in morale amongst

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Speaker 3: the Swager venues a few weeks ago, and the impression

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Speaker 3: I got as I gorged my way all over Wellington

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Speaker 3: was the general feeling seems to be. Trade has been

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Speaker 3: on the up since February. So hopefully that punishing period

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Speaker 3: of gloom is lifting.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, that's good to hear. Hope. I hope that

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Speaker 2: operators around the capital share that sense of optimism. What

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Speaker 2: was your favorite dining spot?

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Speaker 3: There are so many outrageously good venues on Cuba Street Jack,

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Speaker 3: I think I could happily just park up in Cuba

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Speaker 3: Street with my tent and graze from the street for

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Speaker 3: months without getting bored. But two standouts that really did

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Speaker 3: it for me. First of all, Scalper Pizzeria. The calamari

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Speaker 3: there melts in your mouth, obviously, the classic Italian pizza

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Speaker 3: is divine. But best of all Scopers Italian hot chocolate.

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Speaker 3: It's thack, rich and anxious like custard. It is so

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Speaker 3: thick you can eat it with a spoon. It is sensational.

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Speaker 3: And then my other newfound favorite on Cuba Street, TiSER.

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Speaker 3: It's the most magnificently executed Middle Eastern cuisine I have

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Speaker 3: had for a very long time. And the Mese plates

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Speaker 3: Jack is so spectacular because their kebabs give you the

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Speaker 3: choice of you meat, choice of either what of tea

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Speaker 3: jar or lamb. So very very inventive. In the dessert,

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Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, rosewater, malaby custard, and they do it

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Speaker 3: with almond milk, and then they enrich it with pomegranate

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Speaker 3: syrup and sour Cherry's man that hit the spot.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that sounds like a bit of me. Did

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Speaker 2: you unearth any hidden gems?

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Speaker 3: Well, I went on a foody tour and I was

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Speaker 3: so delighted to discover a place called Rams. And I

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Speaker 3: have since found out a lot of locals in Wealy

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Speaker 3: declared this place serves the city's best dumplings. Once again,

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Speaker 3: it's in Cuba Street, but it's one of those sort

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Speaker 3: of nondescript shops you would quite easily be forgiven for

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Speaker 3: just ambling right past without realizing what a revelation it is.

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Speaker 3: So Rams crazy dumplings. You get twelve dumplings seventeen bucks

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Speaker 3: and they serve it in a pool of homemade chili oil.

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Speaker 3: I would order the pork with Chid's dumplings and you

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Speaker 3: get this little sort of sweet vinegary kick as well.

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Speaker 3: And the whole thing, particularly that pool of chili oil,

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Speaker 3: It just enhances the dumplings. They are just so delicious.

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Speaker 3: The other thing very quickly Jack. In terms of hidden gems,

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Speaker 3: this won't be a hidden gem for locals. There's a

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Speaker 3: place called Pie and Pickle. You probably know that Wellington

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Speaker 3: is obsessed by cheese scones. They are besoted by them,

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Speaker 3: and at Pie and Teple they do these amazing bird

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Speaker 3: puppy cheese SCons and they serve them with a pickle

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Speaker 3: on the side. Really good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, ah, that's so yeah, it sounds like that is fantastic.

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Speaker 2: I mean yeah, I always think that the Kai in

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Speaker 2: Wellington and the coffee obviously there's a bit of a standout.

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Speaker 2: Now there's a bit of a there's a big rather

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Speaker 2: Disney exhibition in town at mimone.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I'm a bit of a Disney freak and if

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Speaker 3: you're into animation, this exhibition is for you. So the

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Speaker 3: showcasing one hundred years of art from the Walt Disney

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Speaker 3: Animation Studios, which of course began with the Mickey as

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Speaker 3: Steamboat Willie in nineteen twenty eight. So there's a century

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Speaker 3: of stuff there. There's about six hundred works on display

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Speaker 3: and it goes right through the catalog from Steamboat Willie, Fantasia, Frozen.

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Speaker 3: There's even artwork there from Disney's latest hit Moulana two.

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Speaker 3: So from your old school sketches to computer generated wonders.

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Speaker 3: It really is quite a cool exhibition. Quite cool for

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Speaker 3: Wellington to have it, actually, Jack and it's on until

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Speaker 3: July at Takeina the Convention Center.

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Speaker 2: Oh very good. Tell us about the Seal Coast Safari.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I loved this, so if you want to, haven't

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Speaker 3: we dabbled with Wellington's wild Side. There is this fantastic

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Speaker 3: tour that takes you over the hilltops of Marketer and

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Speaker 3: then down onto the south coast to admire that vast

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Speaker 3: colony of New Zealand fur seals snoozing and swimming and

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Speaker 3: sunbathing on the box. It's a real boys club down there, actually,

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Speaker 3: because the seals of Red Rocks are either juveniles waiting

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Speaker 3: their time to mate or elderly males past their prime.

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Speaker 3: The females hanging out around the coast of Kate Palliser.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, it's like this old gentleman's club with a

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Speaker 3: few young things splashing about. But yeah, such a gnally

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Speaker 3: little coastline.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I once stayed in it, like, got an Airbnb

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Speaker 2: round there and yeah really rete my gosh, it was

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Speaker 2: just it was amazing though, kind of being parked up

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Speaker 2: on Cook Straight like that. But road access is really

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Speaker 2: tricky getting around to Red Rocks. So how did you

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Speaker 2: get there? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: That's the coastal erosion has made vehical access a lot

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Speaker 3: more restricted. But on the safari, the really good thing

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Speaker 3: about it is. You also get to see the historic

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Speaker 3: Terrafeiti station, so you drive over that private farm land

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Speaker 3: to get down simpleair head down to Red Rocks. The

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Speaker 3: thing about Terrafeti Station, Jack, if this blew me away,

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Speaker 3: that farm has been operating since eighteen forty three, so

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Speaker 3: it's one of our oldest bars, one of our biggest

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Speaker 3: sheep stations. But also reintroduced Kiwi to the hills surrounding

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Speaker 3: the property, which is very cool. And also you get

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Speaker 3: to rendezvous with west Wind Farm, which is Meridians When

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Speaker 3: the farm the third most productive wind farm in the world,

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Speaker 3: so you can get right up both with those giant

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Speaker 3: turbines and apparently Meridion reckon one turbine can power a

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Speaker 3: thousand homes, that's how productive it is because of that

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Speaker 3: funneling effect on the cook straight. There's all sorts of

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Speaker 3: elements to that Seal Coast Safari. It's a banger of

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Speaker 3: a tour.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, sounds fantastic. Hey, very good, Thank you, Mike. Like

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Speaker 2: you say, lots of things to detain us and keep

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Speaker 2: us up beat about life in the capital, which I

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Speaker 2: think has probably been a little unfairly beaten up on lately.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. So much for make sure all of those

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