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Speaker 1: Jason Pines here, Hey Jason.

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Speaker 2: Hello, Ran, Good to have you in studio. Good to

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Speaker 2: be here, and to avoid any unwanted feedback from the

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Speaker 2: studio normally in.

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Speaker 1: You're crystal clear today. Great so Liam Lawson's and in

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Speaker 1: fact he's practicing right now yep.

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Speaker 2: The Japanese Grand Prix practiced today, another practice tomorrow, then

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Speaker 2: qualifying tomorrow night in the race itself on Sunday. As

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Speaker 2: we know, he's in the racing balls car. Now he's

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Speaker 2: come out of the red Bull car after two Grand Prix.

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Speaker 2: Yuki Sonoda's gone in there. I should have checked Sonoda's

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Speaker 2: practice time actually before I came in. I'll do that.

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Speaker 2: You probably won't get the benefit of it, unfortunately. But

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Speaker 2: what we know is Liam Lawson thirteenth at the moment,

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Speaker 2: thirteenth fastest in practice. So they have three practice sessions

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Speaker 2: then qualifying. I feel as though the pressures off leam

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Speaker 2: a little bit. No, he's gone out of the harsh

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Speaker 2: glare of the red Bull car with Max for Stappin't

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Speaker 2: it hasn't gone as way the first couple. You know,

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Speaker 2: whatever you think about him being dropped down, it feels

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Speaker 2: like the pressure will come off. And now he can

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Speaker 2: just drive. It's not as fast a car, but it's

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Speaker 2: probably a car which is slightly less challenging to drive

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Speaker 2: on a track that he knows well. So I'm expecting, well,

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Speaker 2: I don't know what I'm expecting. We're very curious to

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Speaker 2: see how Liam Lawson goes.

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Speaker 1: There's lots of headlines today about vashtappen and what he's

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Speaker 1: been saying about all of this. But actually when you

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Speaker 1: read the full stories, and you know, it's not often

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Speaker 1: you'll find me reading a full, if one story, but

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Speaker 1: lately I've had to do all of them. But there's

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Speaker 1: nothing really to it. I mean, he liked to post

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Speaker 1: which had a whole bunch of different stuff in it.

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Speaker 1: It's not just a comedy about Liam Lawson. He's asked

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Speaker 1: about it and he says, I think my like spoke

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Speaker 1: for itself. Well, you could have been speaking.

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Speaker 2: About anything exactly right. And that's social media, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: You know, one click of a mouse that brings the

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Speaker 2: thumbs up alongside a post with multiple things in it,

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Speaker 2: what does it mean? You know, it probably just means

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Speaker 2: that that he clicked on the clicked on the thumbs

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Speaker 2: up and carried on.

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Speaker 1: So the big top of the table battle tonight, the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs and the Reds. This is super rugby and it's

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Speaker 1: happening in Hamilton. It's going to be a great game.

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Speaker 1: Who's going to win?

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Speaker 2: Will you think the Chiefs? Right? You think the Chiefs?

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Speaker 2: And even for you to say a top of the

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Speaker 2: table clash seven rounds in involving the Reds, I don't

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Speaker 2: think anybody picked that. I think we've been underestimating the

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Speaker 2: Australian sides. As we said, at the moment going into

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Speaker 2: round seven, four or four are in the top six.

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Speaker 2: Four of the top six are Australian sides, and yet

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Speaker 2: we still I think, think that New Zealand teams, whoever

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Speaker 2: they are, will be Australian teams, whoever they are. I

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Speaker 2: think the Chiefs will win tonight. I'm not sure what

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Speaker 2: the Knights like in Hamilton, same thing like Auckland at

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Speaker 2: the moment. It won't be that flash, but it would

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Speaker 2: not be beyond the realms of possibility that the Reds,

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Speaker 2: you know, turn them over. I think the Reds will

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Speaker 2: be there or thereabouts at the end of the season.

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Speaker 2: I get the feeling though the Chiefs will be okay tonight, They've.

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Speaker 1: Reduced the number of teams over in Australia. So has

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Speaker 1: that do you think influenced the quality of the players.

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Speaker 1: Is that why we're seeing these teams so strong?

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Speaker 2: Bang on? Absolutely? Yeah. With five teams the talent was

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Speaker 2: spread too thinly and diluted. With four teams, all the

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Speaker 2: best players are there. That's exactly what's happened.

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Speaker 1: Was talking to ants earlier and we would I said,

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Speaker 1: when was the last time that the Nassie team won

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Speaker 1: the Super Rugby? And he said it was twenty fourteen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well it was, well, well, well before COVID. What

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Speaker 2: ye five years before COVID. So I said, that's over

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Speaker 2: ten years. Yeah, it's a long time. And you just

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Speaker 2: don't hear of it, do you. No, let's hope that continues.

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Speaker 1: Well, let's fingers crossed. Jason, thank you, good to see you,

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Speaker 1: not only to hear you this time properly, but to

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Speaker 1: see you too at Jason Pine Weekend Sports Hosts. That's

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