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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 at be.

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Speaker 2: Mike Hardley is our travel correspond and he's keeping things

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Speaker 2: close to home this weekend, which is great.

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Speaker 1: Mike, Good morning Jack. No way three twenties for me today.

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Speaker 2: No for anyone? What a fac What do you think

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Speaker 2: of my mum's plan? Though?

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Speaker 3: Arms? Yeah, Lincoln High School will be so.

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Speaker 2: Proud, I think like it can can one recommend one's

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Speaker 2: own motherhood for a dame hood? Is that is that

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Speaker 2: mother for a damehood?

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Speaker 3: Well? Actually I think so, Jack.

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Speaker 1: I reckon the US Transportation Secretary mister Duffy could be

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Speaker 1: interested in missus Tame because he's been big on the

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Speaker 1: civility front, and part of his focus is trying to

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Speaker 1: do people from turning up to airports and pajamas, which

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Speaker 1: is a bit tragic.

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Speaker 2: I do think though, maybe maybe there's something for the

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Speaker 2: airport staff in this, Like maybe if if you have

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Speaker 2: one of those you know, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 2: Right when one counter's open, everyone queues up, and then

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Speaker 2: another counter opens, run across, and we're all tempted to run,

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Speaker 2: right if they said, if the person said we're going

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Speaker 2: to be opening counter two, if you can please move

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Speaker 2: across in the same order you're in now the way

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Speaker 2: no one feels no one feels ropped. You might be

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Speaker 2: a bit peeved that you're at the back of the line,

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Speaker 2: but you don't. You're not feeling like you've been served

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Speaker 2: a massive injustice.

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Speaker 3: Right, So yeah, I think exactly.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, this morning you have a selection of summer holiday

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Speaker 2: hits across New Zealand. So what has whet your appetite

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Speaker 2: and Tarmachie Mikoto the O nine Auckland.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it's interesting that over summer Jack, I think

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Speaker 1: it is the primetime summer sport that makes the city shine.

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Speaker 1: You're obviously the tennis in January, and if you're wondering

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Speaker 1: about sale GP, they've changed the date so it's actually

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Speaker 1: going to row back into town in February next year

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Speaker 1: for the Auckland GP. Something that I really want to

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Speaker 1: check out over summer in Auckland's at the Art Gallery

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Speaker 1: and I reckon you'd be into this too. Hop to

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Speaker 1: present American art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

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Speaker 1: It's a very well regarded museum and what they've done

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Speaker 1: is they've brought over to Auckland about fifty headline works

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Speaker 1: very much based around American pop art, which I love.

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Speaker 1: So you've got things like Jackson Pollock's iconic drip painting,

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Speaker 1: all sorts of luminary s feature like Annie Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein.

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Speaker 1: So I reckon a bit of that sounds pretty good?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, nice, Oh that'd be great. Speaking of speaking of

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Speaker 2: good exhibitions and ones, I want to see, Wellington's got

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Speaker 2: that new Fat Freddy's exhibition and Fat Friddie Droppers marking

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Speaker 2: a notable anniversary.

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Speaker 1: Oh, this sounds like it do not miss, particularly if

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Speaker 1: you are capital bound. Wellington Museum is playing host of this.

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Speaker 1: I love Wellington Museum. It's full of so much local quirk,

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Speaker 1: really sort of celebrates the soul of the city. And

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Speaker 1: this is such a classic specimen, Fat Freddy's Drop based

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Speaker 1: on a true story, yes, twenty years.

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Speaker 3: Down the track.

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Speaker 1: So they've done a tailor made exhibition which opened last

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Speaker 1: week and it explores the cultural impact of Fat Freddy's

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Speaker 1: landmark album, which of course went straight to number one.

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Speaker 1: It remains the longest charting album in New Zealand history,

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Speaker 1: clocking up over two years in the top forty.

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Speaker 3: I did not know that.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, if you're going to Wellington, immerse yourself in

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Speaker 1: the music and the magic and the memories of a

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Speaker 1: true Wellington original.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah too, right, that's certainly something I'm going to

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Speaker 2: be doing. I'm there a few days after Christmas, so

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Speaker 2: I reckon I'll put that on the wall. When does

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Speaker 2: the Festival of Lights kick off in New Plymouth?

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Speaker 3: Oh, this is a big, big jack.

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Speaker 1: Yes, three weeks tonight and it will be twinkling for

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Speaker 1: six weeks.

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Speaker 3: This thing is so popular.

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Speaker 1: About one hundred and fifty thousand people flock to the

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Speaker 1: summer spectacle like moths to the flame and New Plymouth

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Speaker 1: half of them are actually from out of town, so

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Speaker 1: it really is a big people attractor for the Naki.

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Speaker 1: I've been several times and it just seems to get

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Speaker 1: bigger and more in ventive every year. Absurdly gorgeous lighting installations.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of like a cross between Disneyland and Copenhagen's

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Speaker 1: Tivoli Gardens. And it's the globe boats on the lake

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Speaker 1: in Poki Kuda Park that is the best way to

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Speaker 1: soak up the surrounding splendor. So yes, if you're in Taranaki,

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Speaker 1: do not miss the lights.

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Speaker 2: There are some really great beach carnivals as well, string

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Speaker 2: across the country. So what would you recommend?

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Speaker 1: Well, I have banged on to you for quite some

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Speaker 1: few years about the Caroline Bay Carnival. So that returns

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Speaker 1: into Mario on Boxing Day for its fortnight of frolics.

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Speaker 3: One hundred and fifteen years it will be celebrated this time. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: But aside from the Timaru Classic, which is New Zealand's

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Speaker 1: Beggas Beech Carnival, there are actually quite a few on

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Speaker 1: the calendar so or Panaki Yhi Beach, Fitty Younger I

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Speaker 1: think at Cook's Beach and Fitty Younger and Katiraterri. They

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Speaker 1: all have beach carnivals in the first half of January

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Speaker 1: and impacton something that I actually checked out last January.

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Speaker 3: It's actually really good.

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Speaker 1: It runs for a couple of nights the annual Maritime Festival,

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Speaker 1: so they hold it on the foreshore and picked In

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Speaker 1: they have some really cool things like.

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Speaker 3: Raft races in the harbor. So yeah, that's on in

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Speaker 3: mid January and Pickton.

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Speaker 2: Okay, superb. But what about some quirky summer festivals?

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Speaker 1: Yes, well, I was struck by your chat earlier this

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Speaker 1: morning Jack about avocado as a dessert producing Katti Catties

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Speaker 1: Evo fest. So this is right in the nation's at

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Speaker 1: Pocado Capital set down for January ten. There will be

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Speaker 1: lots of cooking demos with celebrity chefs, delectable drinks, and

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Speaker 1: tasty food, including avocado ice cream.

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Speaker 2: Okay, look, I I for some reason, I if I

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Speaker 2: logically step it out, I like avocados. Avocado is nutty

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Speaker 2: and rich and creamy. Like I can see you know

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Speaker 2: what I mean. I can see how it does work

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Speaker 2: as a dessert. But for some reason, I still hear

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Speaker 2: avocado dessert and I think, I think it's trying to

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Speaker 2: make dessert healthy and that's not the purpose.

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Speaker 3: It needs.

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Speaker 1: It needs georging up, It needs something else, doesn't.

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Speaker 2: It needs sugar? Yes, yes, yeah, yeah yeah yeah? No,

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Speaker 2: very good? Right, So that's in Katti Cutti Yeah yeah nice.

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Speaker 1: Well, by the way, a couple of things on the

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Speaker 1: West Coast, if you are on the West Coast in January,

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Speaker 1: they've got two really good gigs and once again a

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Speaker 1: little bit quirky Driftwood and Sand. This is the annual

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Speaker 1: multi day bash at Hulkotika Beach. So they have all

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Speaker 1: this drift toward continually washing in from the Tesmand Sea,

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Speaker 1: and from January twenty one, for about three or four days,

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Speaker 1: the most extravagant competition. We are all sorts of crazy

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Speaker 1: people construct the most whimsical, grand scale sculptural.

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Speaker 3: Artworks on the beach. It is absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Superb And on January tenth on the West Coast big

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Speaker 1: day for the horse eas the legendary Kummata Gold Nuggets

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Speaker 1: race Day. If you want to go to a summer

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Speaker 1: horse race day, you cannot beat this. It is just

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Speaker 1: frothing with West Coast spirit, white bait, fritters galore. It's

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Speaker 1: really family friendly. My father's horse actually won the feature

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Speaker 1: racy year ago, so I think Trey Bond is heading

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Speaker 1: back to try and defend his title. And they actually

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Speaker 1: win gold nuggets with the Commata, so they actually do

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Speaker 1: get real nuggets.

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Speaker 2: I know. Oh how good? Yeah, ask how many gold nuggets?

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Speaker 2: I mean, not enough for you to have to relinquish

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Speaker 2: Saturday mornings with us.

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Speaker 1: No, Well, my father's part of a syndicate, so there

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Speaker 1: was a bit of a sort of casting of the

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Speaker 1: cake which got rather complicated cutting of.

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Speaker 2: The nuggets by the time he got it it was

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Speaker 2: just sort of a fine dust exactly. Yeah. You know,

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Speaker 2: I've never done it. I've always wanted to in Kamata.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's such a it's a crack day.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. And there'll be people choppering down.

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Speaker 1: There's all these toppers that sort of land around Kamata

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Speaker 1: from the North Island.

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Speaker 3: It's like, oh my goodness, hello, welcome.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh fantastic. That sounds great.

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Speaker 3: So anything else to mention now, that's all good Jack.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, very good. Okay, well it sounds like a great

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Speaker 2: little lineup for summer. Thank you, Mike. What we will

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Speaker 2: do is we'll go and put all of those up

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Speaker 2: on the news talks he'db website. So depending on what

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Speaker 2: you're doing this summer, depending on where you are planning

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Speaker 2: to go, maybe you can try and get one of

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Speaker 2: Mike's summer highlights into your summer.

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