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Speaker 1: There's a controversial call in the Herald today in an

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Speaker 1: opinion piece, which is that Patoni's Jackson Street is now

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Speaker 1: cooler than Cuba Street in Wellington, CBD, which of course

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Speaker 1: is famously very very cool. Now Hell's Hats is a

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Speaker 1: retailer on Jackson Street and the owner, Simon Smarts Kennedy,

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Speaker 1: is with us on this. Hi, Simon, Hello, how are

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Speaker 1: you well? Thank you sell it to me because I

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Speaker 1: don't believe this, so sellid to me.

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Speaker 2: Well, we opened up Atlantis, which was.

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Speaker 3: It's around the corner and the difference with the foot

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Speaker 3: traffic and so on is huge, and we looked at

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Speaker 3: going into town. We're really thankful that we landed just

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Speaker 3: around the corner in Botany where the.

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Speaker 2: Foot traffic is fantastic.

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Speaker 3: And it's also the caliber of those that are that

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Speaker 3: are walking in and coming out to Potony. You know

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Speaker 3: that they come out to be entertained, whether it be

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Speaker 3: in one of the sixty eateries and all the other

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Speaker 3: little sort of boutique stores that are there.

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Speaker 2: I mean, there's virtually everything available and and it's pumping.

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Speaker 2: That's great. Now.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to be unkind, but it feels like

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Speaker 1: is Jackson Street not just a whole bunch of op

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Speaker 1: shops and vegan bakeries.

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Speaker 2: We've got all of that, so certainly come out for that.

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Speaker 1: That's the problem. I don't want to.

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Speaker 3: Well, there's plenty for you. There's plenty of the caliber

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Speaker 3: of the restaurants out there.

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Speaker 2: All the different cuisines and so on.

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Speaker 3: I mean, there's something for everyone, whether it even just

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Speaker 3: be your pubs, your breweries, you know, right through from

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Speaker 3: high end Italian restaurants to Indian restaurants to you know,

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Speaker 3: your kebab stores. And then there's all the little cafes

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Speaker 3: as well, So I mean there's there's certainly if you're

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Speaker 3: if you're a foodie, there's certainly something there for you.

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Speaker 1: Simon. This is just what I reckon has happened here

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Speaker 1: is that there are a whole bunch of like you know,

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Speaker 1: older millennials my age who are having kids priced out

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Speaker 1: of Wellington CBD. So they've all gone and lived in

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Speaker 1: Potoni and now because they have the power to tell

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Speaker 1: people what they think is cool and this and this

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Speaker 1: is their local place, Jackson Street is cool. That's basically

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Speaker 1: what's happened is just where all the mums and dads

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Speaker 1: live nowadays.

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Speaker 3: I mean, certainly there's a lot of people moving out

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Speaker 3: to the valley and we've certainly noticed that, but I

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Speaker 3: mean there's people that also drive out. I mean, we've

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Speaker 3: got some pretty big superstares out here now they're down

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Speaker 3: one end, which is nice. And so the actual Jackson

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Speaker 3: Street still has that old style, that old flavor. I mean,

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Speaker 3: I mean it's sort of like a little beach community

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Speaker 3: to a certain degree.

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Speaker 2: And and you know, like we've we've decided to go there.

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Speaker 3: You know, our hat store would fit anywhere worldwide on

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Speaker 3: any sort of high end street. And like you know,

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Speaker 3: we've got everything from you know, the House of Knives,

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Speaker 3: We've got picture framers, we've got boutique chocolate makers.

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Speaker 2: You know, there's there's.

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Speaker 3: A lot of people there that have you know, their

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Speaker 3: artisan business that are set up store. And I mean

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Speaker 3: in this day and age, and it's not all online,

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Speaker 3: we're noticing people actually want that contact people, and this

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Speaker 3: is Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate your runningus through. Thanks man, and best of

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Speaker 1: luck with the hats that Simon Smarts, Kennedy Hills Hats.

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Speaker 1: And I'm gonna tell you why why I call BS

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Speaker 1: on this and just a technical We'll get to it.

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