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

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at by.

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Speaker 2: A little adventure of a lifetime there Coldplay. Of course.

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Speaker 2: Coldplay kicked off their tour, their Sphears World tour on

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Speaker 2: Wednesday in Auckland, mack In the first time they've played

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Speaker 2: in New Zealand since twenty sixteen. That was eight years ago.

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Speaker 2: They performed again last night. They've got another show tonight.

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Speaker 2: These three shows have just been hugely popular at Eden Park.

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Speaker 2: They're playing to over crowds of over fifty seven thousand

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Speaker 2: every night. Music reviewer Estale Clifford was there last night.

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Speaker 2: It was her birthday, so she was celebrating. We're going

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Speaker 2: to find out whether it was the best birthday ever.

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Speaker 2: But our entertainment cars at this morning. Chris Schultz was

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Speaker 2: also there last night, and from the look on your face,

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Speaker 2: something tells me that you, unlike everybody else I've spoken to,

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Speaker 2: didn't enjoyed Coldplay.

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Speaker 3: Oh look, I don't want to rain on everyone's parade.

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Speaker 3: There's one hundred and sixty odd thousand people going to

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Speaker 3: these shows. I just found it a little bit like

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Speaker 3: a Hallmark greeting card come to life, mixed with like

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Speaker 3: a kid's TV show.

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Speaker 2: So I've always said Colplay never do a bad gig.

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Speaker 2: You know, they're so professional, they're so good at what

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Speaker 2: they do. They've got the fireworks, they've got the screens.

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Speaker 2: It's so entertaining. But you, I mean, I know that

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Speaker 2: you go to a lot of concerts. Did you just

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Speaker 2: feel it that we're going through the motions?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is the two hundred and seventieth show I

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Speaker 3: think on this tour. So yeah, it did feel a

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Speaker 3: little like it was just so well rehearsed. You know,

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Speaker 3: every time Chris Martin swoops his arms out, the armbands

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Speaker 3: change color and they light up or they go off,

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Speaker 3: and it just felt very rehearsed. Let's just put it

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Speaker 3: that way.

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Speaker 2: There we go. Let's move on to movies, which is

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Speaker 2: what you're here to do. Let's have a listen to

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Speaker 2: Gladiator too.

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Speaker 1: It is an art choosing gladiators. They're usually prisoners of war.

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Speaker 2: I own you now.

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Speaker 3: Rome has taken everything from me, but I will have

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Speaker 3: my vengeance.

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Speaker 2: Well, we've been waiting years for this number, haven't we

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Speaker 2: Twenty four years? It's back and it's I've got a

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Speaker 2: bit of a mix. I've got mixed thoughts on it.

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Speaker 2: You tell me what you thought about Ridley Scott's sent

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Speaker 2: you back into the world of Gladiator.

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Speaker 3: Ridley Scott is eighty six years old. He does not

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Speaker 3: have to be doing this, He doesn't need to be

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Speaker 3: making movies. This ver scirl, this falon. I mean, this

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Speaker 3: is a violent, uber violent film, right, Like hands and

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Speaker 3: heads are lopped off, swords are going in places where

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Speaker 3: they really shouldn't. I kind of enjoyed it. I liked

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Speaker 3: how they built up the suspense. You know, it's about

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Speaker 3: these fights, these these Colisseum battles. They have the political

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Speaker 3: stuff going on in the background, raising the stakes for

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Speaker 3: each of these fights. It's very much the first film, right,

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Speaker 3: It's the first film, completely remade with different actors and

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Speaker 3: a bit of Russell.

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Speaker 2: Crow and a new generation backstory.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Paul wasn't Messkill is great. I think he's not

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Speaker 3: as like solid as Russell Crowe. He's a little more understated.

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Speaker 2: I have the gravitass as Russell Crowe for me. Yeah, well, look,

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Speaker 2: I completely agree with you. I thought it was great

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Speaker 2: production design. I think the decision, the expensive decision to

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Speaker 2: actually build the Colisseum and not UCGI worked brilliantly. I

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Speaker 2: thought it, you know, it looked convincing. I thought that

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Speaker 2: the action was shot brilliantly. It was, you know, hugely entertaining.

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Speaker 2: There was sort of plenty of camp craziness. But I

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Speaker 2: was a bit disappointed at how similar the plot was.

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Speaker 2: And I wasn't one hundred percent sure about Paul And

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Speaker 2: what about Denzil Washington and those sleeves. He has this

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Speaker 2: big costume with these massive sleeves and he cannot stop

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Speaker 2: playing with them, and I was just like, is he

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Speaker 2: trying to tell the costume designer that the costume isn't

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Speaker 2: working for him?

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Speaker 3: The costumes were awesome. I love the costume. I thought

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Speaker 3: Denzel Washington was great. You know, in a trailer he

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Speaker 3: looked really out of place and everyone was complaining about it.

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Speaker 3: And I think in the movie he actually steals the show.

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Speaker 3: I haven't seen him playing a role like that where

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Speaker 3: he's sort of this manipulative ladder climber, right, He's trying

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Speaker 3: against each other. I thought he was perfect, and he

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Speaker 3: uses his words beautifully. He delivers it a little bit

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Speaker 3: like like Shakespeare. His life very Shakespeare.

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Speaker 2: It really has fun with it.

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Speaker 3: You know what, I reckon. Ridley Scott had one scene

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Speaker 3: in mind when he first set out to make this movie,

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Speaker 3: and you know what, it's the middle scene. It's a

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Speaker 3: battle in the Colosseum. They filled it with water. They

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Speaker 3: bring out these two warships and they fight to the

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Speaker 3: death and there are sharks in the water. It's so

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Speaker 3: over the top. I don't know how historically accurate that is.

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Speaker 3: Did that ever happened? I don't know, but it looks incredible.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, I don't think we should be looking

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Speaker 2: for historical accuracy, but you should definitely go and see

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Speaker 2: it on the big screen. It is worth it. And

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Speaker 2: let's have her listen to my old ass. I thought

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Speaker 2: i'd be happier at forty. You are happy. You don't

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Speaker 2: look happy. I feel like you're having a midlife crisis. Well,

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Speaker 2: I feel like you're high on mushrooms. So you don't

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Speaker 2: know too, Elliott, No, not the whole lag.

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Speaker 1: May you experience a new level of consciousness to make

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, are you guys tripping?

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Speaker 2: I love an edgy coming of age story, and this

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Speaker 2: one is screening on Prime video and I'll watch anything

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Speaker 2: with Aubrey Plaza in it.

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Speaker 3: Oh, she's almost like a genre into herself, right, I'm

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Speaker 3: the last three Aubrey Plaza films I've seen are like

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Speaker 3: an awkward crime caper, an awkward Indie rom comm and

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Speaker 3: then like a Jason Statham action movie. But everything sort

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Speaker 3: of like bends towards her and those I haven't seen

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Speaker 3: that yet friends get no.

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Speaker 2: But that's a category all of its all.

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Speaker 3: I think she's great, She's actually not in this that much.

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Speaker 3: So this is a film about an eighteen year old

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Speaker 3: she's leaving her parents Cranberry farm. She's she's leaving her

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Speaker 3: small town life, and she's going off to university and

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Speaker 3: then she meets a boy. But in the meantime, she

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Speaker 3: goes into the woods, she takes mushrooms with her friends,

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Speaker 3: and her thirty nine year old older self shows up.

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Speaker 3: And so it's sort of that question of how much

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Speaker 3: do you want to know about what's coming and would

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Speaker 3: you change anything along the way. This actually got me

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Speaker 3: a little bit at It's very emotional. I it caught

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Speaker 3: me in a bit of a low moment in the day.

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Speaker 3: And look, I'm not going to confirm or deny whether

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Speaker 3: it was raining on my face, but it may have been.

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Speaker 2: As a parent of a teenager who was about to

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Speaker 2: leave home and you're trying to sort of you got

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Speaker 2: this moment where you're trying to sort of impress some

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Speaker 2: I don't know, just some life knowledge or wisdom on

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Speaker 2: them before they head off on their own. And they

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Speaker 2: really just in the car they've sat on the horse

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Speaker 2: near galloping off.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: It kind of did speak to me a little bit.

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Speaker 2: I love the way they did this. I just thought

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Speaker 2: this was really quirky and a little bit different.

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Speaker 3: Mazy Stella, the lead actor is the camera loves her.

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Speaker 3: She's going to be a big Stara. I think she's

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Speaker 3: so good on us, and it's a real good platform

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Speaker 3: for her just to show off her talent.

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Speaker 2: I thought, I know that name, and I used to

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Speaker 2: watch that show Nashville, you know, the Country's Singing. She

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Speaker 2: was one of the kids. She's like this crazy talented kid,

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Speaker 2: you know, singer. She's a singer and a songwriter as

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Speaker 2: well as an actor. And she was one of the

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Speaker 2: kids in Nashville.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, there we go.

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, then brilliant two recommendations. They're Gladiator two,

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Speaker 2: which go to the cinemas and just watch it. It

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Speaker 2: is great entertainment and my old ass which you will

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Speaker 2: find on Prime Video. Hey, we were talking about the

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Speaker 2: rugby before and I meant to mention that, of course,

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Speaker 2: being the home of sport, the game will be live

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Speaker 2: here on News Talks. He'd be tomorrow morning at nine

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Speaker 2: ten a m. The All Blacks will be wearing white,

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Speaker 2: but Elliott Smith will have that live commentary for you

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Speaker 2: Sunday session. Won't be with you unfortunately tomorrow, but can't

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Speaker 2: wait to see how the rugby goes.

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