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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: A'd be Mike Yardley is our travel correspondent, the man

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Speaker 2: with the toughest gig on Saturday mornings.

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Speaker 3: Gyodda, Gilda, Jacko. Are you?

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Speaker 2: I'm very well, thank you. Still kind of a basking

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Speaker 2: in the after glow of last Saturday. What was it

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Speaker 2: you said that You said that the head was saying

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Speaker 2: the Chiefs, the heart was saying the Sayers. But you

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Speaker 2: were there in the stands to see his shirt.

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Speaker 3: It was actually remarkably mild, even though it was a

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Speaker 3: cold day in christ I couldn't believe how pleasant it

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Speaker 3: felt in the stands. But maybe that was just the

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Speaker 3: warmth with the visiting.

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Speaker 2: Chiefs fans agree with that, But yeah, it was. It

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Speaker 2: was so good.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I tell you, Vint, it was. I was only

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Speaker 3: about three rows back from the field, which is something

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Speaker 3: we will miss with the new stadium. So yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 3: it was a very intimate experience. But the thing that

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Speaker 3: really struck me was looking at the EPs players after

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Speaker 3: the game. They looked like broken men. They were just

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Speaker 3: so genuinely devastating.

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Speaker 2: Now, yeah, yeah, it was, it was, it was. It

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Speaker 2: had kind of test match qualities. I think, yeah, a

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Speaker 2: low scoring game where you're really every point is savid.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, we always get told off of talking too much

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Speaker 2: about it, beloved, so we need we needn't go on

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Speaker 2: any further. We've reminded everyone that once again they are

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Speaker 2: the champions. After the last year's disastrous season, they've turned

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Speaker 2: things around in the best way possible. But nevermand okay.

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Speaker 2: Quito is the capital of Ecuador. It is a place

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Speaker 2: I've never been, I would love to go, and it

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Speaker 2: is the second highest capital in the world after La

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Speaker 2: pazz in Bolivia, just down the road. So how dramatic

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Speaker 2: is the landscape in Keto?

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Speaker 3: I reckon flying into Keto is topographically gripping but also

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Speaker 3: really quirky because like, visually it's fabulous, but because the

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Speaker 3: city is situated nearly three thousand meters above sea level,

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Speaker 3: the descent on final approach, which feels really underdone, you think, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 3: is that it? But yeah, the layout of the city

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Speaker 3: jack is just so intriguing. It's like huddled in this long,

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Speaker 3: sinuous valley of volcanoes, just wrapped around the foothills of

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Speaker 3: the Andes. It stretches for sixty kilometers Quito, but it's

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Speaker 3: only six kilometers wide. The other interesting thing, not all

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Speaker 3: the volcanoes are dormant. Some are just snoozing. So that

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Speaker 3: sense of living on the edge adds to the intensity

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Speaker 3: of Keto's eye catching appeal.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's amazing. Now the old town in Ketos really

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Speaker 2: is acclaimed, isn't it. What why So?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a heaving historical quarter, so well preserved, and

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Speaker 3: it was the first city in the world to actually

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Speaker 3: score World Heritage status. Most of it was built in

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Speaker 3: the seventeenth century. I reckon that Plaza San Francisco was

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Speaker 3: my favorite spot for people watching. Just everything happened in

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Speaker 3: that plaza, and it's with all these low slung merchant shops.

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Speaker 3: Also home to San Francisco Monastery and Church, which is

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Speaker 3: actually the largest religious complex in Latin America. The monks

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Speaker 3: actually brewed South America's first beer from that site. All

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Speaker 3: the old town churches, as you could imagine, jack are

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Speaker 3: gilded showstoppers. It's like their interiors with fire hosed and

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Speaker 3: goldly from tip to toe. You'll also want to hang

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Speaker 3: out in the Lost in Time LaRonda, a sleepy cobbled

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Speaker 3: stones lane which is just lined with colonial houses and

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Speaker 3: then after dark it transforms into this open air fiesta

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Speaker 3: of throbbing salsabars. Really good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and culture vultures rave about the old town name.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's crammed with all of that colonial architecture, gorgeous

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Speaker 3: museums as well. I went to a place called Casa Alabado,

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Speaker 3: and the artworks in the pottery there over six thousand

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Speaker 3: years old. Because one of the indigenous people of Ecuador,

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Speaker 3: the Valdivia, they created the oldest pottery in the Americas

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Speaker 3: six and a half thousand years ago. I loved exploring

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Speaker 3: all of the traditional merchants in the old town. Jack.

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Speaker 3: I went into a religious statue repairer store and he

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Speaker 3: was he was working on a correct statue of Jesus

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Speaker 3: Yeah. He said that it had been passed down through

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Speaker 3: local shaman or shaman, Senora Layla. So she operated the

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Speaker 3: store called Ol Secreto Dallas Plantis and once again for generations,

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Speaker 3: plants and potions, and it was amazing. Her shop sort

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Speaker 3: medieval apothecary. But man, she was doing a brisk business

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Speaker 2: Amazing. We should have got on to give Root a

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Speaker 2: few tips to giving us orchards run before we live. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So El secreto de laslanta is the secret.

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Speaker 3: Of the fruits.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I can imagine that power of the world.

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Speaker 2: That could be interesting. Any any sort of standout experiences

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Speaker 2: for you in the in the market.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, obviously the tropical fruit is quite a gob vest,

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Speaker 3: you know, just a sheer array of exotic fruits. The

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Speaker 3: food stores are really good if you want to just

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Speaker 3: initiate yourself with some local dishes. So I call I

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Speaker 3: tried InChI bolado, which is like a fish stew, and

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Speaker 3: even better than that. Locre de parpis a potato soup

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Speaker 3: with avocado and cheese. I thought of you, Jack. The chocolate,

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Speaker 3: oh my god, the chocolate and chiito. So traditionally Ecuadorian

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Speaker 3: cacao was just to export it. They didn't do much

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Speaker 3: with it themselves. Now that's James. So they've got this

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Speaker 3: flourishing army of artisan chocolate producers and that's really revved

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Speaker 3: up Keito's reputation in the single origin states very quickly.

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Speaker 3: Cheecha cheecha dehaa. It's this age old Andean fermented alcoholic

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Speaker 3: drink that was made from germinated corn. Traditionally, women would

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Speaker 3: choose the corn to kick start the fermentation process. Thankfully

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Speaker 3: my brew was germinated mechanically, or at least I hope

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Speaker 2: It is very good, Okay, yeah, it sounds amazing. Though.

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Speaker 2: Were this sort of standout street eats that you enjoyed?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was intrigued. I had to ask what people

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Speaker 3: were munching on, and all these locals were binging on.

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Speaker 3: What I found out were bolon, which are these fried

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Speaker 3: balls of unripe green plantain, and then they meshed them

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Speaker 3: with cheese and pork. So for a month on the go,

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Speaker 3: that seemed to be the go too. Another fabulous thing

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Speaker 3: to try in the sweet Tree department is for me. Now,

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Speaker 3: these are like merngue cones. It's this fluffy meringue cream

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Speaker 3: and you get it in a white flavor range guava, BlackBerry,

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Speaker 3: and it served in ice cream cones. But I didn't

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Speaker 3: buy them from the cafes, not from the street vendors,

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Speaker 3: because the hygiene standards. Looked very jubious, but really interesting.

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Speaker 3: So it's like hardened ice cream.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, but it tastes like meringue.

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Speaker 3: Come they yes, yeah, not as sweet as down meringues. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: That sounds good. Okay. So did you make it to

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Speaker 2: the middle of the world just north of Keito to

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Speaker 2: stand on the equator?

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Speaker 3: Yes, I did, Jack, and of course it was the

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Speaker 3: inspiration for the nation's name equad or Equator. Just twenty

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Speaker 3: five k north of Kito, there's a monument, there's a museum,

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Speaker 3: and there's people balancing eggs on their tip on the

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Speaker 3: equatorial line. Of course, there is a slight awkward reality.

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Speaker 3: The Finch Desic Commission three hundred years ago they determined

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Speaker 3: the position of the line, but GTS GPS data has

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Speaker 3: proven they were two hundred and forty off beam one

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Speaker 3: job you go. Interestingly, there was a nearby archaeological site

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Speaker 3: on the hilltop. Okay, that's this pre inca site called Katakia.

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Speaker 3: It's about I don't know, a thousand years older. So

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Speaker 3: and they got it spot on this ancient astronomical observatory.

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Speaker 3: How about that?

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Speaker 2: Isn't that interesting? Yeah? I find stuff like that absolutely

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Speaker 2: fascinating and I just love it. Like you said, one

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Speaker 2: job the first guy to turn on the GPS and

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Speaker 2: be like, oh, there's something wrong with the machine. Turn

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Speaker 2: it off and turn it on again, Peter, and we'll

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Speaker 2: hang on. No, this isn't Yeah, Okay, there's a lot

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Speaker 2: of interest in Ecuador's new president. Hey, the politics next

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Speaker 2: or so interesting? Daniel Noel Bora. I follow him on Instagram,

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Speaker 2: and I have to say that his Instagram feed is

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Speaker 2: very unlike most politicians whom I follow. So how did

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Speaker 2: the security situation strike you, Inequital.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was interesting timing because he was being inaugurated

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Speaker 3: when I was there last month. And of course he's

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Speaker 3: on a mission to smash the drug cartels and all

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Speaker 3: of its tentacles and all the corruption streets. Crime has

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Speaker 3: been an issue in Quito. But your hotel and your guides,

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Speaker 3: they will warn you of any areas to avoid. Just

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Speaker 3: take sensible precautions, turning your backpack into a into a

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Speaker 3: front packs, don't hold your phone in your hand while

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Speaker 3: you walk, and you'll be absolutely fine. You'll feel so welcome.

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Speaker 3: The locals are just delightful. It's a truly enchanting city.

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Speaker 2: Amazing. Yeah, it's funny what they say. There's there's a

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Speaker 2: line in Spanish that translates to like, don't show papayah,

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Speaker 2: don't make things tempting, you know, so don't if you've

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Speaker 2: got to, you know, got a vintage roll X exactly,

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Speaker 2: hanging off your arm and weighing you down. Probably not

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Speaker 2: a great idea. Yeah, okay, how that makes a lot

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Speaker 2: of sense. It sounds like you had the best time.

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Speaker 2: I'm deeply burning with you this morning, mane Yeah. For

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Speaker 2: more tips on to deal onto on delving into the

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Speaker 2: delights of Keito, Mike's article is up at newstalks, HEDB

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