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Speaker 1: This is the Fitting and Whip with Kate Richie podcast Foot.

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Speaker 2: In Vegas, Ryan James.

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Speaker 3: Fox League Expert, and I tell you what, They're blown

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Speaker 3: the budget to get this man over to Vegas. They'll

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Speaker 3: have no money left for the rest of the year

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Speaker 3: Fox League. I can tell you that right now. And

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Speaker 3: the only place to watch all four matches of Rugby League.

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Speaker 3: It kicks off in Vegas this weekend.

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Speaker 4: We're so excited.

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Speaker 3: Ka Sports and Fox Tell it's the magnificent Mick Henner.

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Speaker 1: Shut down, shut down. Sorry, I've just got a floody

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Speaker 1: tiger that won't sit down. I missed. I've got missing

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Speaker 1: twenty four hours. Oh my god.

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Speaker 2: So you're hanging out with Mike Tyson?

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Speaker 1: Amh my god? How are you going?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? We miss you? But were there last year? Weren't you? Mick?

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Speaker 4: I was?

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Look, honestly, on a serious note, it was last year.

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Speaker 1: Was a little bit training wheels. How's it going to go? Yep,

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Speaker 1: plenty of you know, real fans, but realistically we got

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Speaker 1: here on the Tuesday and then it wasn't really until

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Speaker 1: Friday that you started to see a contingent of Australian

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Speaker 1: fans really start to flock in to Vegas this year.

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Speaker 1: We stepped off the plane on Wednesday and it's a

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Speaker 1: sea of fans and the four teams that are here

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Speaker 1: are but the English contingent honestly, guys, and having the

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Speaker 1: Warriors on board. I think the Warriors flew over three

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Speaker 1: or four flights full of fans and members and it's

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Speaker 1: absolutely insane. Yeah, it's been fantastic.

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Speaker 4: Well, I do know this last year.

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Speaker 3: Did you arrive early in the morning because you fly

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Speaker 3: basically you fly through the day here, so you don't

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Speaker 3: get much sleep over there.

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Speaker 4: Then you arrive early in the morning.

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Speaker 3: And I heard that Brian Fletcher last year arrived at

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Speaker 3: nine am in the morning, Mick and thought.

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Speaker 4: Well what else is there to do in Vegas?

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Speaker 3: So started drinking and didn't get home till five o'clock

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Speaker 3: the next morning.

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Speaker 4: Is that corright?

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Speaker 1: That's why as soon as I landed last year, I

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Speaker 1: sent an email to Fox Sports saying can I pay

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Speaker 1: you the other day? After Brian this year it was

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Speaker 1: we landed that we do we land at six o'clock

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Speaker 1: in the morning here and when I brought my wife,

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Speaker 1: I went Samancia as well. And when we checked in

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Speaker 1: last year, by the time we checked into our hotel

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Speaker 1: Fletcher and a number of these fans were already in

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Speaker 1: their doings on their way out. So it was it

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Speaker 1: was it was a big start to their campaign last year.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, good gone.

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Speaker 2: That's for sure our big effort from the Landi's of

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Speaker 2: course to see if d Trump.

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Speaker 4: Will arrive to have a look at our great game.

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Speaker 2: Got an update there, I thought, I thought chances had improved.

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Speaker 2: There was rumors getting around that he might actually attend.

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Speaker 1: I've seen impersonators of everything from Mickey now to Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump walking the streets here and everything else in between.

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Speaker 1: And at the moment, no, no announcement yet, the great

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Speaker 1: donalds of whether it'll or not. Surely, surely PVL can

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Speaker 1: get him the end of the game. He's pulled off

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Speaker 1: some miracles, but that'd be a that in top it.

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Speaker 3: I reckon, are you wearing a make the Bulldogs Great Again?

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Speaker 4: Hat? Over there? Meet? Is that correct? That's what.

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Speaker 1: Uhte? Honestly you can get away with anything over Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's it's a different world. It is a different world,

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Speaker 1: but it's as as I said it is. It is

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Speaker 1: incredible for as a former player to think that we

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Speaker 1: can launch our seasons here in Las Vegas and now

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Speaker 1: to see the influx of NRL fans and you know,

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Speaker 1: supporters on board to turn in what's It'll be incredible

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Speaker 1: on Saturday. It really will be. And I think the

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Speaker 1: genius to have the women's Jill Rus playing against the

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Speaker 1: British Lionesses as well as having Wigan and Warrington here

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Speaker 1: as well, because because sorry, that was pitiful and he's

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Speaker 1: just on his just just just.

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Speaker 4: A riding car, right, what is he going to buy?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's yeah, it's fantastic, it really is at the moment. Gods,

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Speaker 1: there's a great energy about it. And the other said,

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Speaker 1: I just as a form of player, you just never

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Speaker 1: thought that you'd launched your suit like this, a mik.

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Speaker 4: What happened last night? Last night?

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Speaker 3: There was a there was supposed to be a USA

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Speaker 3: versus Greece game, but they couldn't play it because the

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Speaker 3: lights weren't good enough.

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Speaker 4: What happened there?

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Speaker 1: Well, that was the original talk, Yeah, but it was

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Speaker 1: actually the fact that break and Ask couldn't get there

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Speaker 1: to coach them on time because he was on NRL

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Speaker 1: for fifty so they had to delay the game.

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Speaker 4: I love it, Homi.

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Speaker 2: Can I ask a question and you know, normally I

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Speaker 2: do this off air because it's a bit more of

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Speaker 2: a serious one just between you and I. Hey, i've

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Speaker 2: never been to Vegas. What's what's the buffet like at

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Speaker 2: your hotel?

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Speaker 1: Mate? On a seat for you and I could just

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Speaker 1: chat privately about the size of the buffet and like

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Speaker 1: the fact that you don't even have to whisper that

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Speaker 1: you'd like to upsize it. Yeah, mate, this is your plate.

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Speaker 4: That's already and what can how many crabsticks have your head?

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Speaker 4: How many crabs?

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Speaker 1: Mate? You know what else is? Everything's a free refill everything,

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Speaker 1: So you can sit there and you can wash down

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Speaker 1: plates of fraud and just keep topping yourself. O god,

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Speaker 1: and no questions asked. No one looks at you and

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Speaker 1: looks down in their nose at you. Oh my god,

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Speaker 1: you're a thief.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, seriously talk dirty to me? What's the dessert buffet?

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Speaker 4: Like? I can't.

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Speaker 1: Let's move on walking the Elvis Chapel with Simon. Actually

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Speaker 1: we're just about stuck after twenty years. If you'll do

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Speaker 1: it again?

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Speaker 3: What what what are you and Simone going to see

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Speaker 3: when the foot is over?

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Speaker 4: Are you going to go to the sphere or what

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Speaker 4: are you going to do me?

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Speaker 1: But we we are going to have all the sphere

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Speaker 1: we I think there is a David Blaine magician show

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Speaker 1: that it And then Ramon's just whispered to me politely

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Speaker 1: that she wants to go and see the thunder from

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Speaker 1: Dan And I'm not sure she's only married. She's asked

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Speaker 1: me two or three times, but just sort of when

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Speaker 1: we're on the run and we've had a couple of drinks.

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Speaker 1: Don't know.

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Speaker 4: We'll go for it.

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Speaker 1: But now and I think I might need to google

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Speaker 1: and just see what this bloody thing is.

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Speaker 2: You've been You've been to vix mates, haven't your mate?

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Speaker 4: It looks pretty similar to that.

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Speaker 2: Just say no to that one.

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Speaker 4: Good on your mat.

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Speaker 1: I love it, Yeah, I love it.

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Speaker 3: There no worries, have a great time and for anyone else.

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Speaker 3: The only place to watch all four matches of Rugby

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Speaker 3: League in Vegas is on Fox League available on k

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Speaker 3: Sports and also Fox Till Micky Nis Enjoy your time

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Speaker 3: in Vegas.

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Speaker 4: Made have a good call this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Thanks guys, have a great work to see you buddy.

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