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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Teams podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at b.

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Speaker 2: Over the years on Saturday Mornings together, we have broadcasts

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Speaker 2: from all sorts of remarkable places. Were broadcast from casinos

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Speaker 2: in Las Vegas, with broadcast from Wales, from Spain, from

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Speaker 2: all around the world. But I think today's at first.

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Speaker 2: We are broadcasting live this morning from Costa Rica, of

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Speaker 2: all places. Here's the thing, right, I had a little

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Speaker 2: bit of paternity leave, and we spent the vast majority

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Speaker 2: of it visiting my in laws and taking the new

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Speaker 2: baby over so that grandparents and great grandparents could meet

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Speaker 2: the wee chunky thing. But after that, I decided that

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Speaker 2: I was just an absolute sucker for punishment, and I thought,

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Speaker 2: what more relaxing option could there be than driving through

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Speaker 2: Latin America with a four month old baby. So I'm

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Speaker 2: trying that at the moment. It has actually been a

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Speaker 2: real delight so far, an absolute adventure. We're on the

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Speaker 2: Pacific coast at the moment, so you know, it's you

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Speaker 2: sort of feel like you're somewhat at home. You feel

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Speaker 2: like you recognize the ocean, you recognize some of the

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Speaker 2: landscapes or those things are a little bit warmer in

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Speaker 2: this part of the world. Of course. Anyway, I'm going

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Speaker 2: to tell you a bit more about that very shortly,

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Speaker 2: including the four month old's first misadventure in the ocean,

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Speaker 2: which was all my fault according to my wife. So

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Speaker 2: I'll share that story with you very shortly. But right

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Speaker 2: now it's seventeen past nine and time to catch up

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Speaker 2: with Kevin Melon this morning, more than Kevin Jack.

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Speaker 3: Quite extraordinary really that not only are you in Costa Rica,

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Speaker 3: but you didn't mention it at the top of the show.

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Speaker 3: It was just something you slid in later on, which

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Speaker 3: I find is incredible. Well, it's just traveling with four

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Speaker 3: months old.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it's funny. You know. I had, you know, several

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Speaker 2: reservations about traveling with a four month old through Latin America,

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Speaker 2: but I really wanted to introduce the family to Latin America,

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Speaker 2: to give my SPANISHI a bit of a dust off

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Speaker 2: and see how we would go together. And of course

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Speaker 2: one of the reservations I had was that it's currently

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Speaker 2: the rainy season here. As I reminded my wife this morning,

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Speaker 2: actually it wouldn't have mattered if we hadn't tacked this

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Speaker 2: leg of our of the you know this league onto

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Speaker 2: our international journey because actually it's the rainy season everywhere

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Speaker 2: apparently at the moment, I don't think we'd be escaping it.

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Speaker 2: So it's a it's a real adventure. And actually, Kevin,

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Speaker 2: it's interesting we were passing. I was passing through a

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Speaker 2: part of the world yesterday that is one of the

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Speaker 2: world's four only certified blue zones. You know what these

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Speaker 2: are they there? These are the four places around the

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Speaker 2: world that are certified. I don't know how you get

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Speaker 2: certified for this kind of thing, as having an abnormally

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Speaker 2: high number of people who live to be one hundred,

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Speaker 2: so they have disproportionately large numbers of centurions. I think

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Speaker 2: the south of Italy has one, Japan has one as well,

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Speaker 2: and there might even be a part of the United States,

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Speaker 2: part of California, in which there is a particular religious

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Speaker 2: sect who live apparently a pretty healthy life and therefore

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Speaker 2: have longer life spectancies. But Nikoya and Costaurica is the fourth,

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Speaker 2: So there you go. I went through it. It was

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Speaker 2: a fleeting visit through one of the longest lived parts

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Speaker 3: But Leah, extraordinary, You're very lucky.

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Speaker 2: Jack yeah, yeah, very lucky. The well, the foods, yeah,

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Speaker 2: the foods, it's it's yeah, it's simple food, right, a

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Speaker 2: lot of rice and beans, and once you've had your

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Speaker 2: rice and beans, you can fill up on beans and rice.

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Speaker 2: So that's good to know. But no, no, no, we're

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Speaker 2: very lucky to be travling in this part of the world.

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Speaker 2: But anyway, Kevin, you've been focusing listeners, focusing on encouraging

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Speaker 2: time outside in the neck of the woods.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know it's raining up in orkhand, but it's

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Speaker 3: actually beautiful down here, and I think the weather forecast

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Speaker 3: is good for autom But there's still time to take

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Speaker 3: part in the twenty twenty five Garden Birds survey. It

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Speaker 3: finishes tomorrow night. What do you have to do is

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Speaker 3: set aside of now to sit around your garden and

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Speaker 3: taken note of the birds you see. You can send

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Speaker 3: in your bird count results online directly to you selling

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Speaker 3: garden birds that day. Go online for a lot. There

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Speaker 3: are lots to make the bird count easy for you.

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Speaker 3: How do I identify some of them? For example, that

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Speaker 3: you'll identify most of them yourself. Anyway, it ends tomorrow night.

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Speaker 3: On Matariki weekend, Linda and I thought we'd take part

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Speaker 3: in the annual whale and dolphin count. Our little beach

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Speaker 3: cottage here looks out to Caboty Island over waters where

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Speaker 3: the humpback whales regularly passed by. Counting whales might sound

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Speaker 3: more exciting than counting birds. From the five years we've

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Speaker 3: except in other people's videos. We've seen a phenomenally large

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Speaker 3: school of dolphins, about one hundred in pods of about twenty,

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Speaker 3: and seals regularly drift pass on their backs with flipper

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Speaker 3: in the air as though they're calling to be rescued.

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Speaker 3: The nearest I've come to sing a whale was I

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Speaker 3: heard wales song one summer night when I had the

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Speaker 3: window open to the sea. I didn't know that you

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Speaker 3: could hear wales song from on shore, and my family

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Speaker 3: teased about Teasney about this for years that have subsequently

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Speaker 3: read that in the early days of European settlement, before

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Speaker 3: whaling nearly wiped out the whales, locals here regularly heard

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Speaker 3: the quite distinct song of the unback whales echoing around

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Speaker 3: the Kapiti Hills. So I'm certain I heard the humpback

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Speaker 3: whales song through the bedroom window. But this weekend get

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Speaker 3: involved in the garden birds survey. Great with the kids,

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Speaker 3: and at least you'll know you'll see that, you'll see

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Speaker 3: a few.

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Speaker 2: Two, right. Yeah, it's so much fun to and it's

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Speaker 2: one of those classic things. If you spend just a

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Speaker 2: little bit of time being purposeful outside and counting them,

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Speaker 2: you can be surprised by how many actually passed through. Well,

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Speaker 2: you know what I said, that the best place. I'm

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Speaker 2: not suggesting that anyone's going to come across the South

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Speaker 2: Island or anything like that, but isn't the best place

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Speaker 2: to discover a new species your own backyard?

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Speaker 3: You know?

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Speaker 2: Like often actually just being really purposeful and deliberate and

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Speaker 2: observing these things can surprise you in terms of the

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Speaker 2: amount of life that's in your immediate surroundings. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: I didn't know. I didn't know that about the whales.

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Speaker 2: So you can how do you count them? From? Sure? Can?

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Speaker 3: You be very confident them on the surface amazing.

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Speaker 2: So if you see that, you see see the water breaking,

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Speaker 2: and you can you can quite comfortably or safely.

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Speaker 3: That's right. But of course if you've got a slightly

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Speaker 3: choppy c, very difficult.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, true? Which would you never have a

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Speaker 2: choppy c in that part of the world, Kevin, I

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Speaker 2: can't imagine. It's always like a millpond out there.

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Speaker 3: One or two, wouldn't you because they do pour through

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Speaker 3: he and but no, never seen one. Heaven knows. I

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Speaker 3: don't know why.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think I think that the bird counts a

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Speaker 2: great idea. This weekend they can and in there I'll

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Speaker 2: do my last what I hope it's my last brag

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Speaker 2: of the morning. I saw a new species that I

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Speaker 2: hadn't seen for the first time yesterday. I saw a toucane.

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Speaker 2: Isn't that like? Just tell you what? It's an amazing thing. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you know, with a giant colorful beaks. Yeah, it looks

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Speaker 2: like a Yeah, it looks like a like a like

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Speaker 2: a cartoon more than an animal. You know.

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Speaker 3: It's just ponishing birds. Yes, yes, fantastic.

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Speaker 2: You go, and I'll tell you what not. Everyone's not.

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Speaker 2: Everyone's pleased with my efforts. My dad has sent me

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Speaker 2: two ticks. He sent one to the family chat as well,

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Speaker 2: to say Jack. Centenarians are people who live to one

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Speaker 2: hundred centurions are Roman soldiers. I suppose they're also cricketers,

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Speaker 2: aren't they?

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Speaker 3: You know?

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Speaker 2: Came Williams and at Lord's Thanks Dad.

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