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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 Jack Team.

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Speaker 2: We're talking travel. Travel correspondent is Mike Yardley. He killed

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Speaker 2: a Mike Jacky. How are you feeling? I know you're

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Speaker 2: you are a massive sports fan. Tonight is going to

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Speaker 2: be a big one. So you've got you think you've got, uh,

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Speaker 2: you got the Black Ferns, who I think kick offs

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Speaker 2: at midnight tonight football. Actually you've got Australia Argentina, which

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Speaker 2: I think is at like four o'clock this afternoon, isn't it?

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Speaker 2: So yeah, And so then you've got the Warriors at Sex.

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Speaker 2: You've got the All Blacks just after seven o'clock. And

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Speaker 2: then you've got the Black Ferns in their quarter final

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Speaker 2: against South Africa. So how are you going to be

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Speaker 2: staggering the evening?

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Speaker 3: Oh well, I'm en route to Nepal, which is a

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Speaker 3: spinner in the work. Nepal, Nepal. Oh my god, interesting

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Speaker 3: time to go.

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Speaker 2: I was gonna say, yeah, you're a brave man. Are

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Speaker 2: you there for like proofist or something?

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Speaker 3: Is that going to be the primary purposes for you know, treble?

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Speaker 3: But who knows, Jack, I might be your war correspondent.

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Speaker 2: I've been looking at quite a few kind of quite

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Speaker 2: a bit of the reporting out of a port because

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Speaker 2: it's sort of been under reporter over the last couple

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Speaker 2: of days. I mean, it's always amazing to be in

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Speaker 2: a place at a kind of turning point in history.

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Speaker 2: So as so long as you stay safe, Mike, that

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Speaker 2: will be. Yeah, that'll be extraordinary. But I suppose when

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Speaker 2: it comes to viewing habits this evening, that might mean

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Speaker 2: that the AB's the Warriors, the Black fans have to

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Speaker 2: take a back seat. So anyway, looks look forward to you.

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Speaker 3: I do hit one prediction. I actually think the Warriors

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Speaker 3: will spink the penrith. Do you been pressed out next week?

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Speaker 2: Yes, that would be there would be vintage Warriors front.

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Speaker 2: That would be the way. That would the way they

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Speaker 2: usually do things. Anyway, we're talking about Prague this morning,

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Speaker 2: and Prague is one of the world's great cities, one

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Speaker 2: of Europe's great cities, and Old Town Square would have

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Speaker 2: to be one of Europe's great squares, wouldn't it.

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Speaker 3: Oh yes, Jack, and the city of one hundred spires,

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Speaker 3: spiky and showy Old town Square, I reckon it's the

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Speaker 3: sort of centerpiece every city in the world would cover it,

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Speaker 3: you know, just that's so good. Obviously, it's played host

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Speaker 3: to some remarkable moments in history, like Httler's arrival address,

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Speaker 3: the announcement of the Communist takeover. It is grand, it's graceful,

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Speaker 3: and then it's sort of tessellated with curiosities like that

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Speaker 3: ridiculously good six hundred year old astronomical clock that still

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Speaker 3: blows my mind. I still like in my head around

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Speaker 3: it every time. I said, but it's so busy, there's

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Speaker 3: so much happening. You've got that procession of the Grim

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Speaker 3: Reaper and the twelve Apostles and the Golden Rooster, and

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Speaker 3: then it tells the time. It tells the date in

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Speaker 3: various calendars, including the Babylonian calendar if you're still following that,

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Speaker 3: and then you've got all the relative positions of the

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Speaker 3: zodiac consolations wrapped around the clock. It really is a

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Speaker 3: medieval turds of force.

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Speaker 2: And when is the best time to savor Charles Bridge.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's a very good question, because obviously Prague does

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Speaker 3: not get more picture postcard than Charles Bridge. But kets

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Speaker 3: and engulfed, you know, it's just heaven with humanity I

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Speaker 3: sometimes look at Charles Bridge think the thing is groaning

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Speaker 3: under the weight of the world. So if you want

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Speaker 3: to capture the bridge and it's unruffled, unpeopled glory with

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Speaker 3: all those faintly sculptures, you've got to get there before

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Speaker 3: seven a m. Set you uncopularly rocked down there, and

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Speaker 3: you might just score the added bonus at daybreak of

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Speaker 3: some of those ethereal fingers of morning river missed rising

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Speaker 3: up to add to the fairy carlet moss. I just

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Speaker 3: love that bridge.

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Speaker 2: Oh great. So what should you look for in Neurodova Street.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of people will cross the bridge on

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Speaker 3: their way to the behemoth of Prague Castle, and this

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Speaker 3: street is one that you may be taking up to

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Speaker 3: the castle. Of course, the castle is where a good

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Speaker 3: king wintis list of Christmas Carol famous buried, but on

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Speaker 3: the way up or down from the castle. Yeah, Newrodov

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Speaker 3: is a classic because prior to seventeen seventy the houses

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Speaker 3: by signs. And what I love about Nerodova is the

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Speaker 3: houses there have preserved all of those old symbols and

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Speaker 3: emblems and they generally indicated what was the profession of

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Speaker 3: the occupant. Back in seventeen seventy, it was very much

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Speaker 3: the swinky part of town, obviously huddling below the castle

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Speaker 3: to live. So yeah, there'll be goldsmiths and all sorts

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Speaker 3: of fancy occupants. By the way, there's another really cool

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Speaker 3: little streets in the Castle district which I only discovered

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Speaker 3: at the first time recently, called Golden Lane. So this

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Speaker 3: is like a really slinky, cobblestoned alley and it's lined

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Speaker 3: with these small colorful houses that look like something out

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Speaker 3: of a Brother's grim Tail. They were built in the

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Speaker 3: fifteen hundreds, these wee houses. Super cute street to check out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, cool, that sounds really interesting. What about the

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Speaker 2: John Lennamwall? How did that come about in Prague? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: For something completely differ And I reckon this war is

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Speaker 3: so cold because obviously Lenin's make Love Not War slogan

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Speaker 3: was a very powerful mobilizer back in the seventies, you know,

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Speaker 3: amongst the Communist opposition, and after Lenin's death there was

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Speaker 3: this Czech artist who created this graffiti war in honor

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Speaker 3: of him, and then many locals would just spontaneously score

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Speaker 3: their own favorite quotes from Lenin's songs onto the Wall,

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Speaker 3: much to the ire of the authorities. But the war

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Speaker 3: has endured, and it's not only not only played a

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Speaker 3: pivotal role in the political uprising against the regime in

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Speaker 3: the eighties, but then it just continued to remain a

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Speaker 3: very cherished freedom of speech monument today.

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Speaker 2: I've only been lucky enough to have a couple of

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Speaker 2: days in Prague. I mean, it's an amazing city, but

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Speaker 2: I remember it has museums for all interests.

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Speaker 3: Right, Oh my goodness, no matter how quirky or niche,

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Speaker 3: Prague seems to have a museum to scratch every etch,

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Speaker 3: from steampunk to alchemy. And then Jack there is the

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Speaker 3: Sex Machines Museum, the only such museum in the world apparently.

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Speaker 3: But being an aid and beads old boy curious George

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Speaker 3: was aroused. So this museum is chock full of devices

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Speaker 3: and contraptions from over the ages. We're talking centuries for

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Speaker 3: mechanically enhanced pleasure. And I have to know, the museum

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Speaker 3: was very thoughtful, very kind enough to wet a flexible

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Speaker 3: dummy around each gadget to further demonstrate its intended Duke.

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Speaker 2: Well, your sense of imagination wasn't enough.

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Speaker 3: Apparently I got a full education.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, brag is a famous sweet tooth. Right, what

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Speaker 2: are the signature treats?

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Speaker 3: It's our sort of town jack. Yes. After a lot

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Speaker 3: of taste testing in Prague's best partisseries, these have been

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Speaker 3: my top three tips. First of all, Madovnik. It's a

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Speaker 3: check honeycake with thin layers of honey and fused which

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Speaker 3: are separated by either creamy caramel or condensed milk filling.

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Speaker 3: Really good. I'd give it the contensed milk. Actually. Then

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Speaker 3: there's the tree Mick, which is a super sized cream

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Speaker 3: puff overloaded with custard cream and topped with the glossy

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Speaker 3: caramel glaze. And then you need to follow that with

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Speaker 3: a slice of Bobblaina. I love that name that it's

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Speaker 3: kind of like a trifle ish sponge cake crammed with cherries.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure there's some serious alcohol in there as well,

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Speaker 3: but veria resistant.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that sounds great. What about chimney cake?

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Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, drag has elevated the tadounic or chimney

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Speaker 3: cake onto the highest peder storm. So I was just

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Speaker 3: so intrigued watching these being cocked in shops. So it's

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Speaker 3: like on a spit, these cylinder shaped wraps of dough

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Speaker 3: and then they're cocked on a spurt until the exterior

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Speaker 3: is crispy. Then it's doused in sugar and cinnamon and

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Speaker 3: nuts in the cylindrical pastry. Also is a very handy cone.

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Speaker 3: So of course you can top it with her skipper

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Speaker 3: two of ice crean coated with more nuts. Unbelievably good

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Speaker 3: to do, Nick is with the trip alone to Prage deck.

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Speaker 2: That's so good. Ah, you got my stomach rumbling. Hey,

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Speaker 2: thank you, and travel safely. We're looking forward to hearing

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Speaker 2: about your trip, but obviously prioritize your well being ahead

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Speaker 2: of everything. As much as we're going to want to

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Speaker 2: hear about it, you know, make sure that safety comes first.

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Speaker 2: I know you will. Thank you, Mike. All of Mike's

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Speaker 2: tips will be up for enjoying the pleasures of Prague,

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Speaker 2: the multiple the myriad pleasures of Prague. We'll be up

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