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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 A B.

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Speaker 2: And Mike Yardley is our travel correspondent to Mike.

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Speaker 3: Kilder, Jack, I have a question, what are you most

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Speaker 3: excited about, Jack Tane. Would it be tomorrow morning's test

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Speaker 3: or Wednesday's presidential debate?

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Speaker 2: Oh? I reckon, I reckon. This is my my the

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Speaker 2: three things I'm most excited about presidential debate clearly ahead,

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Speaker 2: followed followed by the All Blacks Test, but followed very

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Speaker 2: closely by a game that isn't getting much attention, the

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Speaker 2: All Whites first Mexico tomorrow afternoon. And I'm also very

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Speaker 2: excited about where are they playing that?

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Speaker 3: Sorry, where are they playing?

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Speaker 2: They're playing in California, so yeah, it could be interesting.

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Speaker 2: I think they're going to probably be a few more

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Speaker 2: Mexican fans than Keiwis. And it's a tough that's a tough.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's messed us last time, didn't.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we've yeah, yeah, they hadn't been easy.

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Speaker 2: But and then we're playing Team USA after that, so

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Speaker 2: tracky time. But it's good to be experience against top

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Speaker 2: level opposition. But the Wednesdays, I mean Wednesday's debate is

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Speaker 2: going to be it's going to be amazing. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 2: I just think there's a you know, like there are

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Speaker 2: there are a few moments and presidential campaigns that often

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Speaker 2: define heaps of the momentum that lasts thereafter, and usually

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Speaker 2: you'd be like a debate has the potential to affect

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Speaker 2: the contest. But I just reckon, Yeah, I reckon. There

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Speaker 2: is just so much weighing on this one. It's going

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Speaker 2: to be it's going to be amazing to watch.

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Speaker 3: I actually reckon there is more pressure on Camela Trump. No, definitely,

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Speaker 3: there's a danger she could flame out.

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Speaker 2: I reckon, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I definitely agree there's a

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Speaker 2: danger she could she could claim out. And it's interesting

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Speaker 2: that they've decided for the rules and the debate, they're

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Speaker 2: going to keep them as the same rules they had

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Speaker 2: for Joe Biden's one where he just completely lost the

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Speaker 2: hope of ever being president again, in that they're going

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Speaker 2: to mute the microphones. And it's because the two sides

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Speaker 2: have reversed their position. So Trump's team now want the

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Speaker 2: microphones to be used, whereas Carmela's team want them to

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Speaker 2: be open, whereas previously it was the other way around,

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Speaker 2: way around.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going to be.

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Speaker 2: It's going to be amazing, to be fascinating. Now, usually

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Speaker 2: I would be saying, we're turning our attention to warmer climbs,

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Speaker 2: given we are focusing on the ConA Coast in Hawaii.

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Speaker 2: But how hot is it? Trust you? Right now?

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Speaker 3: Twenty four degrees?

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Speaker 2: That's amazing? Hello, yeaho spring is sprung. My gosh. Okay,

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Speaker 2: it is still slightly warmer in Hawaii. But twenty four degrees.

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Speaker 2: I mean that's positively t shirt territory, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: That's certainly is That's amazing.

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Speaker 2: I've always said it, so yeah, Okay. Anyway, so the

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Speaker 2: ConA Coast Hawaii is the ConA Coast, all about the beaches.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's interesting, jet because last week, of course, we

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Speaker 3: talked about the Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island,

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Speaker 3: and when you've had your full of that, you probably

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Speaker 3: are looking for a bit of coastal time, a bit

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Speaker 3: of a sea breeze. But the thing which amazed megas

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Speaker 3: the ConA Coast is so much more than just sun

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Speaker 3: and sand. It's basically a one hundred kilometer long sweep

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Speaker 3: along Hawaii's western coast, and there were just so many

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Speaker 3: experiences to check out, so much potent history and amazing attractions.

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Speaker 3: The thing which I've noticed about New Zealander's love affair

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Speaker 3: with Hawaii a lot of kiwis really like Maui because

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Speaker 3: the pace is so much more laid back than say

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Speaker 3: the bustle of Owahu. I reckon. The ConA coast is

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Speaker 3: right up there with Maui because it's got that same

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Speaker 3: sort of easy but interesting, carefree island tempo.

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Speaker 2: Yeah nice, So tell us about kylu A Village.

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Speaker 3: I'm in love with this place, Jack, kaylu A Village

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Speaker 3: I reckon. It's the Hawaiian version of Russell or Akrolla.

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Speaker 3: It's just this snug, gorgeous little place wrapped around the

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Speaker 3: harbor front, bucket loads of character, lots of historical sites,

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Speaker 3: charming old coral churches, a sparkling hospow strip, and the

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Speaker 3: most ballist out beach scene. That really is vacation central.

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Speaker 3: So if you were looking to base yourself on the

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Speaker 3: big island, definitely Kailua or Kailua Kona as it's referred to.

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Speaker 3: I recomm it's the place to stay if you're looking

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Speaker 3: for somewhere to eat. Definitely make time to go to

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Speaker 3: this gorgeous old opening a restaurant called COONa in it's

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Speaker 3: been going for decades, and go for the seafood at

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Speaker 3: Jumbo from Cocktail and that maceadamia crusted Mahi marhi will

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Speaker 3: do very nicely.

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Speaker 2: I think macadamia crusted anything does very nice.

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Speaker 3: It's true.

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Speaker 2: Are there reminders of the Hawaiian royalty?

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Speaker 3: Yes, this is such a huge draw. So around the

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Speaker 3: Big Island you will see a lot of these old

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Speaker 3: stone temples. Some of them were for human sacrificial purposes

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Speaker 3: and are called hayu in the Hawaiian dottled around the

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Speaker 3: Big Islands, one of the best is just next to

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Speaker 3: kai Lua Pear, which is where the Iron Man World

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Speaker 3: Champs start in finish every October. But this temple was

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Speaker 3: home to the King Kamehamaha, who was the king who

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Speaker 3: unified the Hawaiian Islands into one royal kingdom two hundred

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Speaker 3: years ago. So he spent his last years living at

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Speaker 3: this temple site next to kailu Apia. It's been restored.

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Speaker 3: It is just the most stunning landmark. And then from

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Speaker 3: there you can take a very short daddle along the

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Speaker 3: harbor front to Hui Hihi Palace and this is a

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Speaker 3: gorgeous old plantation style home, a couple of hundred years old,

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Speaker 3: and that was the summer palace for Hawaiian royalty in

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Speaker 3: the late nineteenth century. So it's now a museum and

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Speaker 3: it gives you a really good flavor of Hawaii's royal path. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Nice. And this is the place where Captain Cook was killed.

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Speaker 3: Right, yes, indeed, so yeah, just north of Kailuakona, about

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Speaker 3: half an hour up the road, go to Keela Kekua Bay,

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Speaker 3: which is such a dazzling spot. The snork my god,

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Speaker 3: the bay's waters they are just brilliant, absolutely ablaze with

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Speaker 3: coral tropical fish. Chances are you'll see spinner dolphins in

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Speaker 3: that bay too, because they've got a berg population of

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Speaker 3: the mayor. But yes, across on one side of the

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Speaker 3: bay there's this huge white stone obelisk. And that was

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Speaker 3: the spot where Captain Cook was killed. Most unfortunate misunderstanding

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Speaker 3: is was always the way in those days. In that

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Speaker 3: skirmish with the native Hawaiians. They actually thought when he

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Speaker 3: first arrived, they thought he was the god Lonu, the

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Speaker 3: god of peace and prosperity. But yeah, just a huge misunderstanding. Anyway,

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Speaker 3: alongside the Cook Memorial on the other side of the

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Speaker 3: bay another one of those stone temples, and this is

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Speaker 3: probably one of the best. It's called Heiku Haiyu and

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Speaker 3: you can walk all around it, all through it. It's

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Speaker 3: absolutely enthralling.

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Speaker 2: Yeah nice, Okay. Is Kona coffee a big earner?

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Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, Jack. They have got six hundred and

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Speaker 3: fifty ConA coffee farms all along the ConA coast, so

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Speaker 3: it is a very lucrative industry, very much an organic

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Speaker 3: sort of even artists in the industry because it's so

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Speaker 3: labor intensive. All of the beans are still picked by hand,

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Speaker 3: so that's why it's so expensive in terms of brank

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Speaker 3: Kna coffee. But the thing which I've found really interesting

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Speaker 3: is the marketing cons particularly in the US. You may

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Speaker 3: have noticed in some cafes they'll say ConA Roast or

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Speaker 3: ConA Style and it's not ConA coffee at all. So

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Speaker 3: you've got to look for one hundred percent ConA coffee

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Speaker 3: on the packet all the signed to know you're getting

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Speaker 3: the real deal.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 2: Where are some of the best coffee experiences, Well, I.

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Speaker 3: Would go to a little upcountry village called Hallua Loa

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Speaker 3: Halllua Lower and the air in this village smells like

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Speaker 3: an espresso bar. It is just incredible. They've got this

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Speaker 3: huge cluster of coffee farms around Hawlua Loa, and many

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Speaker 3: of them offer tours and tastings. I would go to

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Speaker 3: Hula Daddy, ConA Joe and Greenwell Farms. Now Greenwell, those guys,

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Speaker 3: oh my goodness, they have been producing ConA coffee since

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Speaker 3: the eighteen fifties, so they know a thing or two

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Speaker 3: about caffeine and beyond coffee jack. Halllua Loa is also

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Speaker 3: very antsy, So all along the main street you've got

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Speaker 3: these very cutey little white galleries, and the farmer's market

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Speaker 3: is a revelation. The avocados and Halllua Loa are as

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Speaker 3: big as football's I could do. So there's a lot

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Speaker 3: of good stuff growing on those slopes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah nice. And is there going to be a price

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Speaker 2: war for Ethie as to Hawaii.

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Speaker 3: Yes. Very quickly I thought I would mention this Hawaiian

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Speaker 3: Airlines has set to resume its direct services from Auckland

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Speaker 3: and November, So if you are planning some Alouha time

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Speaker 3: over summer, definitely keep an eye on the prices, because

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Speaker 3: in New Zealand and Hawaiian they will just go hammer

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Speaker 3: and tongs to win you over.

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Speaker 2: Ah so good, Hey, thank you very much, Mike. All

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Speaker 2: of Mike's tips for touring the Kona Coast will be

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Speaker 2: up on the Newstalks EDB website.

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