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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine

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Speaker 1: from News Talk, ZEDB.

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Speaker 2: And Peacock with us Big day at Randwick today, Adam,

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Speaker 2: the Everest sit to jump around the four fifteen your time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Huge.

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Speaker 4: It's quickly become the biggest day in Sydney racing and

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Speaker 4: it's vying I think with Melbourne Cup for the biggest

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Speaker 4: day in racing full stop in Australia. It's massly fifty

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Speaker 4: thousand people at Randwick and they've got it right this

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Speaker 4: year because they've got the international influence.

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Speaker 3: They've got the best horse in Hong Kong.

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Speaker 4: Who actually is a kiw It was brought out of

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Speaker 4: New Zealand, Carying Rising. He's the dominant favorite in a

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Speaker 4: twenty million dollar Ossie Everest.

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Speaker 3: It's quite extraordinary when you say that sentence.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, which means that all of Hong Kong will

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Speaker 4: be watching as well and for betting, that means the

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Speaker 4: pools are juiced up. But in terms of the talk

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Speaker 4: this well, yeah, it's been all about the Everest, which

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Speaker 4: is Melbourne Cup.

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Speaker 2: Like really yeah, absolutely brilliant. I watering money. As you say,

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Speaker 2: when you say it, you got to say it quickly.

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Speaker 2: Otherwise it doesn't seem real, does it. But yeah, looking

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Speaker 2: forward to seeing what happens with keyw connections. There other

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Speaker 2: medals around today. One of your all time great swimmers,

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Speaker 2: four time Olympic gold medalist, nine time World Championship midleist,

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Speaker 2: including four golds there as well, ari An Titmas, has

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Speaker 2: announced her retirement. What's her legacy.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just a fabulous swimmer and a really down

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Speaker 4: to worth human being obviously, but it's probably more important

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Speaker 4: but in terms of what she did at the Games

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Speaker 4: and taking on Katie Ladecki, the great American swimmer, some

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Speaker 4: of those battles at World Championship and Olympic Games level

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Speaker 4: were phenomenal and won't be forgotten soon. But yeah, she's

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Speaker 4: only in her mid twenties, but I guess she's after

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Speaker 4: Paris last year she decided, oh, you know what, I'll

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Speaker 4: have a bit of a break and see where I'm at.

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Speaker 3: And then twelve months on.

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Speaker 4: I think she's realized that there's more to life than

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Speaker 4: getting up at three thirty in the morning and going

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Speaker 4: looking at a black line the whole time.

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Speaker 3: So at the bottom of a pool. So yeah, unreal legacy.

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Speaker 4: She'll obviously transition into some kind of public speaking and

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Speaker 4: media role a lot to offer everything around Tipmos and

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Speaker 4: yeah it's a shame that she goes and mon't be

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Speaker 4: around for la, But no real shock.

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Speaker 2: I guess it's so funny, isn't she watched She twenty

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Speaker 2: five and she's done so much. I mean, that's the swimming,

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Speaker 2: natural swimming. Isn't it that they start so young, they

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Speaker 2: achieve so much, and then they've got a whole heap

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Speaker 2: of life left to do to do what they want with.

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Speaker 2: I'm not surprised she's decided to do something different.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and it is so physically tactic and mentally as well,

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Speaker 4: just the grind. There's no quick way to becoming an

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Speaker 4: elite Olympic swimmer, especially over the distances that she was

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Speaker 4: swimming two hundred, four hundred, four hundred probably a specialty.

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Speaker 3: That's a lot of work. So yeah, she's.

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Speaker 4: Decided that that's probably enough, thanks very much, and go

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Speaker 4: and do something else with my life.

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Speaker 2: We're about a month away from the ashes getting underway.

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Speaker 2: The first test starts on the twenty first in November

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Speaker 2: across in Perth. Stuart Broad has stoked the flames by

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Speaker 2: saying that he thinks this is the worst Australian team

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Speaker 2: in about a decade and a half and imagine those

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Speaker 2: comments have gone down Phairy well over there.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like you could see where he's coming from.

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Speaker 4: But I mean that's probably more a point at England

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Speaker 4: who haven't been able to win an ashes in that

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Speaker 4: period where they've been so yeah, it's that they haven't.

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Speaker 4: They've got near us on English soil, but on Australian Saul,

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Speaker 4: I've got nowhere near us in the last couple of occasions,

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Speaker 4: in particular what happened here four years ago. Look, it's

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Speaker 4: going to be an unreal series because it's really hard

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Speaker 4: to define exactly what's what.

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Speaker 3: Because England have got a great batting line up.

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Speaker 4: Their bowling stocks are good, but if they lose their

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Speaker 4: two quicks in Archer and Wood that it looks pretty exposed.

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Speaker 4: Whereas our bowling stocks were looking good before Pat complained

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Speaker 4: about his back. So we're still wedding on that Pat

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Speaker 4: come as our captain. Now batting lineup, we're still jocking around.

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Speaker 4: This week Marnus Lavashane scored another centur in Sheffield Shields,

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Speaker 4: so I reckon Marnus is definitely going to be in

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Speaker 4: that top six for Australia.

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Speaker 3: Don't know exactly what spot, so that's good.

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Speaker 4: But Cameron Green has gone down with a side strain,

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Speaker 4: our big all rounder who you know from over there from.

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Speaker 3: His center in New Zealand.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, plenty of plenty of questions, plenty of talking points,

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Speaker 4: plenty of accusations to come before the whole thing starts

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Speaker 4: in about a month's time in Birth.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and speaking of getting started, the A League is underway,

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Speaker 2: the A League Men's competition. A couple of games last night,

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Speaker 2: Adelaide United beating Sydney EFC two one in the opening match.

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Speaker 2: I think who forked Talay former Wellington Phoenix coach of

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Speaker 2: course and Sydney f C coach for the last few seasons.

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Speaker 2: I think he was under pressure anyway. This won't help,

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Speaker 2: will it.

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Speaker 3: No, No, under big pressure. And you can see Sydney's weird.

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Speaker 4: They've got some kids coming through, They've probably got on

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Speaker 4: this scene pretty well. They've probably got the best academy

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Speaker 4: in Sydney in terms of playing stocks with this youngster's

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Speaker 4: coming through. But then you look at that starting line

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Speaker 4: up last night and not one that I don't think

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Speaker 4: there's many Academy graduates had an average starting age of

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Speaker 4: twenty seven and they still get beat.

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Speaker 3: So I don't know exactly where they're at Sydney.

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Speaker 4: They've given or for a one year contract exactly ringing endorsement,

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Speaker 4: is it? So yeah, his first month is filled with

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Speaker 4: a bit of pressure, I reckon and as you say,

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Speaker 4: last night doesn't help me. Brisbane got a good first

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Speaker 4: up win against MacArthur. I thought MacArthur were one of

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Speaker 4: the better sides in recruitment stakes in the off season.

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Speaker 4: But important for Britain. They're trying to reset as a

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Speaker 4: club full stop up there.

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Speaker 2: And Aukland FC and the Wellington Phoenix both in action

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Speaker 2: later on tonight. Auckland f C against Melbourne victory the

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Speaker 2: Phoenix over in Perth. Auckland FC. I mean we spoke

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Speaker 2: a lot about them last year and their maiden season. Look,

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Speaker 2: second season syndrome is it a thing? And if it is,

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Speaker 2: how do you avoid falling into it?

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Speaker 3: I just think they've got they've got They've set their

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Speaker 3: structure really well straight.

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Speaker 4: Away in terms of recruitment, in terms of personnel, in

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Speaker 4: terms of connection to community. Look, nothing's the Garrant Tea

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Speaker 4: and Steph Kayak has got a job in his hands

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Speaker 4: to make sure that what you said there doesn't happen.

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Speaker 4: But you tell me, I see on paper no reason

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Speaker 3: But I've got them as first pass the post for

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Speaker 3: the season. But I don't it.

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Speaker 4: Maybe personnel, a few antim heroes might not be there

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Speaker 4: as and people who didn't get the attention pioneers as

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Speaker 3: But I can't see too many reasons to think that

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Speaker 3: they're going to fall.

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Speaker 2: I think outside a goalkeeper they're stronger, actually, But losing

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Speaker 2: Alex Paulson, two time A League Goalkeeper of the Year,

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Speaker 2: that's the only question mark for me, and whether Oli

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Speaker 2: sale and or Michael vaud can fill that void. Other

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Speaker 2: than that, I think you know the players they've brought

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Speaker 2: in a potentially upgrades on what they had, so yeah,

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Speaker 2: like you, I expect them to begin and around the silverware.

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Speaker 2: I guess we won't find out. What we've learned about

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Speaker 2: the A League over twenty years is nothing is certain.

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Speaker 2: It's the most mental league gun around, isn't it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you think you've got a handle and then someone

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Speaker 4: goes off and recruits the up with guys that you

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Speaker 4: look at their CV and you go, oh, you know,

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Speaker 4: they haven't really done the business in their career and

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Speaker 4: they come out here and they just love the sun

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Speaker 4: on their back or something.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I mean, look at look at those guys in Adelaide.

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Speaker 4: There were people in Adelaide before last night. I was thinking, no,

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Speaker 4: now the club, where's are going? Blah blah blah blah blah.

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Speaker 4: But I mean you see them play like that, You've

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Speaker 4: got probably good one back here.

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Speaker 3: They'll be strong. I think the Reds always great.

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Speaker 2: Chatting Australian Sport with you, Adam thinks indeed we'll catch

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Speaker 2: up again next week.

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Speaker 3: She is Finney, have we go one?

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Speaker 2: They have a good one too, mate. Adam Peacock are

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Speaker 2: Australian corresponding.

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