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

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Speaker 1: from Newstalk Z'B.

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Speaker 2: Let's get you across the Tasman to Adam Peacock, our

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Speaker 2: regular correspondent on Australian sporting matters. Seems like a lot

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Speaker 2: of people have got junkets to Las Vegas, Adam, you

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Speaker 2: didn't get one.

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Speaker 3: No, No, other side of the Pacific where the focal

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Speaker 3: point is. Yeah, everyone's going off about Vegas over here,

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Speaker 3: and obviously with the Warriors over there as well.

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Speaker 4: I'd say it's getting a bit of cut through in

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Speaker 4: New Zealand, and Yeah, it's an interesting concept. They basically

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Speaker 4: it's an excuse for all regular league fans to get

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Speaker 4: over to Vegas. Basically, I don't know how much cut

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Speaker 4: through they're actually getting in America. Knowing America a little

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Speaker 4: bit like I've I can say a few months ago,

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Speaker 4: I was actually there when the All Whites were playing

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Speaker 4: a massive game against Mexico in Pasadena, and I was

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Speaker 4: staying in Pasadena and there were ninety thousand people going

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Speaker 4: to the game. But two days before the game, I

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Speaker 4: had no idea the game was on. So that's how

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Speaker 4: hard it is to get cut through for events in

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Speaker 4: America because there is so much. But they're having a

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Speaker 4: crack and it's going to be a great occasion. There's

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Speaker 4: gonna be fifty thousand people there, But where are those

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Speaker 4: fifty thousand from? The majority are going to be from

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Speaker 4: here or England because they've got a couple of Super

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Speaker 4: League teams over there as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah indeed, yeah, Well I know that a lot of

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Speaker 2: Warriors fans have traveled. There was a special charter flight

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Speaker 2: put on, and yeah, I think those who are there

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Speaker 2: will have an absolute blast. What happens in Vegas stays

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Speaker 2: in Vegas, as they say, so there'll be some stories

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Speaker 2: that get told and don't get told. When it comes

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Speaker 2: to the season though, the twenty twenty five NRL season

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Speaker 2: about to get underway. I was looking at this this morning.

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Speaker 2: I forget you forget about Penrith and how good they are.

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Speaker 2: Four straight championships? Could they possibly make it five in

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Speaker 2: a row?

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Speaker 3: Well, they're in the mix. I mean, other teams around

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Speaker 3: them seem to have gone a little bit better, namely

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Speaker 4: Going to be better.

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Speaker 3: But so from that, there's no real like like team

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Speaker 3: jumping out it. You're saying, oh yeah, well, they're definitely

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Speaker 3: better than Penrith this year. Peterwith are going to be

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Speaker 3: so in this especially if Nathan Cleary stays fit. Look,

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Speaker 3: I think Nathan Cleary, who is the best player in

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Speaker 3: the comp, stays fit, anything's a possibility for Penrith. But

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Speaker 3: if he has another season like he did last year

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Speaker 3: where he essentially missed half the year, I think they're

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Speaker 3: going to find it tough. They've just had their depth

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Speaker 3: chipped away, chipped away Jerome Luey's gone to the West Tigers,

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Speaker 3: but they're still such a good team. I mean there's

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Speaker 3: no James Fisher Harris, which they didn't get the opportunity

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Speaker 3: to really replace him, the big prop who's going to

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Speaker 3: be such an addition.

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Speaker 4: To the world.

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Speaker 3: I'm hearing people on this side of it that has

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Speaker 3: been saying that, oh, yeah, the Warriors aren't going to

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Speaker 3: be that much shop blah blah blah. No, that the

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Speaker 3: signing of James Fisher Harris is huge for them and

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Speaker 3: it's going to benefit them on and off the park.

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Speaker 3: So look, Penwith are going to be around the place,

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Speaker 3: but probably Melbourne of favorites, and yeah there's there's a

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Speaker 3: blanket of them as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a bunch of teams chasing those two by the

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Speaker 2: looks of it. So Vegas this weekend for the start

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Speaker 2: of the NFL season. Can we go to the Champions

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Speaker 2: Trophy cricket? Overnight Australia played their final pull match against Afghanistan,

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Speaker 2: where they would have if it didn't rain. Afghanistan all

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Speaker 2: out two seventy three off the last ball of the

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Speaker 2: fiftieth over. Australia were cruising going at eight and a

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Speaker 2: over when rain stopped plays. So just the just the

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Speaker 2: one point each for the abandoned game. It secures Australia's

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Speaker 2: passage through to the semi finals. We know how good

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Speaker 2: can pick up some more silverware.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, especially if Travis headfires like you did overnight

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Speaker 3: with the half century much better than run a ball.

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Speaker 3: So if he gives us a start where we're a

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Speaker 3: massive chance in any game. We don't have the bowling

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Speaker 3: stocks that we usually do. There's no Pad Combins, there's

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Speaker 3: It's it's a weird old tournament. As you know, Piney,

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Speaker 3: I mean, India are playing all the games in Dubai.

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Speaker 3: They'll play the semi there. Wherever you finish in New

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Speaker 3: Pool doesn't matter. If you play India, you're playing in Dubai.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, we'll wait and see what that one, see

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Speaker 3: our conditions play out, but they'll be in the frame.

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Speaker 3: Australia in this last four.

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Speaker 2: Yeah absolutely well New Zealand will be there too, so yeah,

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Speaker 2: New Zealand, India, Australia and one other. So we'll look

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Speaker 2: forward to seeing how it all plays out over the

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Speaker 2: next week or so. And to football, where your young

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Speaker 2: made it all the way through to the final of

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Speaker 2: the Asian Cup, the Asian Cup Under twenty Championship. This

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Speaker 2: was this expected? Did you think this group of players

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Speaker 3: Not a total shock, but I was a little taken

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Speaker 3: back about the result against Japan in the semi final

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Speaker 3: to nil, and probably played the better football as well,

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Speaker 3: which I can't say has happened to often when it

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Speaker 3: comes to playing the better football against Japan over the

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Speaker 3: years that we've been in the Asian Confederation. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: there has been a bit of talk about this group

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Speaker 3: being very, very good, and there's still five or six

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Speaker 3: of them not involved because they're europe they're involved with

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Speaker 3: European clubs and they've stayed there, which is fair enough.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, this is this is big for the A League,

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Speaker 3: namely because this show is that if you give young

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Speaker 3: players a chance in the A League, give them a hope,

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Speaker 3: they're going to improve and they're going to improve to

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Speaker 3: a continental.

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Speaker 4: Stage, which they have.

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Speaker 3: I hope they get passed out of Europa in the final.

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Speaker 3: It'll be great to see them through. But the main

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Speaker 3: that by making the semis. But yeah, it's encouraging signs.

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Speaker 3: I'd say more than anything for Australian football. I love this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're right about the A League because Atland

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Speaker 2: if so, you're playing Adelaide United today. Adelaide United have

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Speaker 2: It's not a great thing for Carl Viet the coach

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Speaker 2: of Adelaide United, but in terms of the development of

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but Carl knows that he's got the job and

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Speaker 3: he's given leeway. He didn't have a great season last year.

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Speaker 3: Maybe other clubs he gets he gets the bullet, but

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Speaker 3: the gid up front, Ivanovitch him Ago and he's improving

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Speaker 3: all the time. So it's good that Adelaide can trust

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Speaker 3: Adelaide with that that three losses for losses in a

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Speaker 3: going to play young players and you're going to see

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Speaker 3: some players today who are going to make you feel

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Speaker 3: very old timey. So's it's the way. It's the way

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Speaker 3: that that club operates. It's not for everyone, but it's

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Speaker 3: the way that Adelaide myself, right, And you look at

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Speaker 3: the players that they've been able to sell and the

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Speaker 3: reinvesting in the club, it's it's the model.

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Speaker 2: Indeed, indeed, yeah, I'm a fan. I'm a fanity now.

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Speaker 2: I know you're big on your golf. Have you ever

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Speaker 2: played Millbrook in Queenstown, New Zealand? Have you played down there?

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Speaker 3: Have friends who have been there and they bang on

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Speaker 3: get there, and every time, every time some time brings

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Speaker 3: it up, a rush of envy hits me. Pine.

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Speaker 4: So what are you about to say?

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Speaker 2: Well, the New Zealand Open is on there this weekend.

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Speaker 2: That's the reason I bring it up. And I'm sure

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Speaker 2: you've seen some of the spectacular scenery your own. Ricky

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Speaker 2: Ponting is one of the Ambassador's going to chat to

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Speaker 2: him on the show this afternoon actually, and he just

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Speaker 2: raves about the place in factic. I saw him quoted

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Speaker 2: as saying it's his favorite place in the world.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, okay, I'm sure his wife would be happy

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Speaker 4: About her own house, the.

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Speaker 3: Ash party, I know, yes, and her husband gazz he's

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Speaker 3: over there. I think I think he's caddying for Louis Dobbela.

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Speaker 3: I think I'm not sure, but yeah, they go over

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Speaker 3: it too, So yeah, I es it looks like a

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Speaker 3: spectacular place and definitely a bucking list plays for a

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Speaker 3: golfer like me, And it's great to see some big

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Speaker 2: Yeah s party. Yes, she's another ambassador over here as well.

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Speaker 2: I don't think she played over the weekend, but yeah,

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Speaker 2: I know she has enjoyed herself in queens So we'll

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Speaker 2: get you there one day, Adam. We'll maybe we need

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Speaker 2: to talk about the increasing your fee for the show

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Speaker 2: so that you can start putting some money away towards

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Speaker 2: a trip to Queenstown.

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Speaker 3: Hey, if you get me on that Saturday mornings, just

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Speaker 3: talk about Millbrog, it automatically becomes a tax riders. I

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Speaker 3: don't worry about the tree. I'll just ride off on that.

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Speaker 2: Love it always great chatting Australian Sport with you, Adam.

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Speaker 2: Will do it again nixt Saturday.

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Speaker 3: Sound good, Thanks fining now.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Edam Peacock, Australian correspondent. They're part of our Saturdays

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