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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 Talks B.

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Speaker 2: As we do this time on a Sunday afternoon, we

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Speaker 2: welcome James mcconi into Weekend Sport Afternoon.

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Speaker 3: James Afternoon. Elliot ET.

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Speaker 2: Great movie, great movie, absolutely named after Elliott from ET incidentally,

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Speaker 2: which I think I've told you before. In PC final yesterday,

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Speaker 2: how good was that?

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Speaker 3: Unbelievable? Wait a second, Wait a second, have you done

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Speaker 3: your full disclosure of where or from Elliott? Because yeah,

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Speaker 3: it was. It was a great occasion. Yea, where are

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Speaker 3: you from there? Right now?

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Speaker 2: I am from the Canterbury region that is the NPC

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Speaker 2: champions as of yesterday. There we go done.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Yeah, it was nice and we witness the suffocation,

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Speaker 3: that's what it was. You know, Canterbury Sports and their

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Speaker 3: defense were impressive and actually a few times they throw

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Speaker 3: it through the ball wide at work, so you can

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Speaker 3: unfaulted really in terms of winning finals. That region know

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Speaker 3: exactly what they're doing and they stuck to their knitting. Really,

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Speaker 3: even though it was a sunny day, they assessed the

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Speaker 3: conditions and that wind. The Otago team should have made

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Speaker 3: more of it, but in the middle of the first half.

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Speaker 3: I think Otago had thirty phases and didn't go anywhere

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Speaker 3: and that was pivotal because they couldn't amassed enough points

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Speaker 3: with that win. And even Thomas Umunger Jetson, who gave

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Speaker 3: a beautiful interview at the end of the game to

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Speaker 3: Taylor Johnson on Sky where he's in tears but basically

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Speaker 3: giving that exact analysis, which is they were just shut

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Speaker 3: out of the game at a critical time.

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Speaker 1: They weren't.

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Speaker 2: I just love the occasion though, the noise from the

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Speaker 2: Otago fans that had made their way up. It was

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Speaker 2: four o'clock, the weather played ball apart from a little

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Speaker 2: bit of wind as well. It just made you love

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Speaker 2: the NPC and what it stands for.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that it was just so nice, wasn't it just

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Speaker 3: seeing that festival atmosphere that I mean, look, let's talk

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Speaker 3: about it now, Larry the Lamb winning the mascot race.

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Speaker 3: There needs to be an investigation. Get Jeff Twovy on

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Speaker 3: it because he was a rapid and I have it

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Speaker 3: on good authority that he's actually a sprinter. I thought

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Speaker 3: it might be Tim Welton, you know, New Zealand's fastest man.

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Speaker 3: Underneath the Larry's mask, but it was it was a

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Speaker 3: sprinter who plays in the local under eighty five's competition.

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Speaker 3: So look this, we haven't hear the end of this,

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Speaker 3: and I'm hoping that new Stalks at be that you've

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Speaker 3: got your best journalists on this, because that was If

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Speaker 3: anyone saw that mascot race, he won it in.

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Speaker 2: A cantor just another title for Canterbury. I've got Tony

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Speaker 2: small On, who's the Canterbury Rugby Union chief executive, so

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Speaker 2: I'll put that to him after two o'clock and see

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Speaker 2: if we can get to the bottom of that, because boy,

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Speaker 2: he showed some toe.

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Speaker 3: Maybe before we move on from rugby, I just wanted

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Speaker 3: to say Dylan Pledger, who is the young up and

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Speaker 3: coming halfback. I felt for him because he sort of

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Speaker 3: did all his core roles really well for Otago, but

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Speaker 3: he probably just didn't run en up and that is

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Speaker 3: it's a bit like having someone with that with the

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Speaker 3: acceleration of Reese Walsh and not seeing them really chance

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Speaker 3: their arm and it's tough for him, but one of

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Speaker 3: those games where he'll learn a lot from that, so

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Speaker 3: you know. And also shayfe Hackey, come on six ft

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Speaker 3: four runs like the wind kicks goals. He needs to

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Speaker 3: work out whether he wants to sit behind the All

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Speaker 3: Blacks or make himself available for Fiji or Tonga. Because

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Speaker 3: he has Test match.

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Speaker 2: Potential, he does it. I like the high potential in

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Speaker 2: the way that rugby's going at the moment in test rugby.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of All Blacks in Ireland in Chicago this time

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Speaker 2: next week or nine o'clock next week, what are you

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Speaker 2: expecting out of that? You've been to Chicago.

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Speaker 3: Before, Yes, so I'm expecting you and I will have

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Speaker 3: a beer, maybe go to comedy club or something Elliott.

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Speaker 3: But I also think that Ireland are hoping for an ambush,

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Speaker 3: but their plans have been thwarted somewhat. Big Lock Joe

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Speaker 3: McCarthy is out. Mack Hanson, the very versatile winger Australian

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Speaker 3: is out as well. Bundy RK and Robbie Henay sure

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Speaker 3: are doubtful. So this is the issue for them is

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Speaker 3: coming over sort of mid season really, So the All

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Speaker 3: Blacks are in a really good position and I think

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Speaker 3: the team that played in Perth should get a start.

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Speaker 3: Maybe Caleb Clark comes back for finding the nuku just

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Speaker 3: because of that, you know, the constant aerial threat of

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Speaker 3: Test rugby. But how are you feeling about that as well?

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Speaker 2: Elliott, I think you're right. I think I'd roll out

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Speaker 2: the same team again. I don't see too many reasons

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Speaker 2: to change necessarily the obviously two povi's gone for the

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Speaker 2: season to who's not there, so maybe there's a tweak

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Speaker 2: that needs to be made to the bench. Do you

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Speaker 2: look at a Dowry potentially off the bench or a

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Speaker 2: female to cover lock six? Will be interesting, but I

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Speaker 2: think what they struck on there, especially at midfield, is

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Speaker 2: what I'd go for for this tester. I like the

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Speaker 2: Barrett too pie A combination. I think it's worthy of

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Speaker 2: sticking with for a few more tests.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I think so too. And look at the All Blacks.

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Speaker 3: The issue for them is that they haven't mastered the

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Speaker 3: art of taking the referee out of the game, so

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Speaker 3: that they they need to sort of I guess work

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Speaker 3: on that was a game management playing style. They've got

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Speaker 3: Jason Holland who's pretty much announced that he's leaving, so

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Speaker 3: where does that leave the players in terms of their

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Speaker 3: attack strategy? Does he still have control over that? So

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Speaker 3: there are a few intriguing points to look at. And

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Speaker 3: of course in Chicago in November it can be ice cold,

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Speaker 3: and what's called than being cool?

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Speaker 2: Elliott ice cold? To quote my man Andre three thousand

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Speaker 2: and finally, James International Rugby League, it has been hectic.

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Speaker 2: Tongasa'm ola today across the ditch is going to be

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Speaker 2: absolutely huge.

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Speaker 3: From what I'm hearing out here in West Aukland, there

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Speaker 3: are utes flying around with the biggest tongue and flags

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Speaker 3: I've ever seen. And I'll send you a photo if

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Speaker 3: I can get close to them. It's already reached fever

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Speaker 3: pitch here. So I hope that Sun Corp is absolutely heaving.

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Speaker 3: The International Rugby League is alive and well, and you

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Speaker 3: can tell that league needs to keep on moving to

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Speaker 3: new territories. And look at rugby and rugby so lucky.

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Speaker 3: It's got Argentina and it's got France. He's just a

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Speaker 3: bit of variety, so Lee, really they need to go

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Speaker 3: and say, you've got Argentina, will take Brazil. You've got

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Speaker 3: We're going to Germany, You've got Japan, how about China.

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Speaker 3: It's time for that sport to expand because I love

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Speaker 3: International league proper tests and long.

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Speaker 2: Mate last absolutely and just finally in time for a

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Speaker 2: quick word. The NBA has shown both sides of it

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Speaker 2: this week, the good, the bad, and perhaps the ugly

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Speaker 2: as well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. The match fixing is a real talking point.

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Speaker 3: And when they show some highlights low lights of Terry

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Speaker 3: Rosie just passing the ball away, I think he's going

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Speaker 3: to struggle to avoid jail time. Chauncey Billups, he's the

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Speaker 3: coach of my favorite team, the Portland Trailblazers. He was

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Speaker 3: always making some questionable calls. His main thing, though, is

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Speaker 3: that it's an illegal gambling sort of rigged poker matches

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Speaker 3: run by the mafia that he's been alluring in rich punters,

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Speaker 3: and so I mean, yeah, he's on massively thin ice.

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Speaker 3: But it does expose the fact that basketball is probably

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Speaker 3: one of the easier games to rig. Because I think

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Speaker 3: there's other players, Malik Beasley, these other names will probably

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Speaker 3: emerge in the media again and will be under the spotlight.

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Speaker 3: But on the highlight side, go and have a look

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Speaker 3: at Victor Wembin Yama Wemby. He's grown and then I

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Speaker 3: think he's seven foot three. Now he's seven foot four.

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Speaker 3: And you got nine blocks yesterday in a game, and

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Speaker 3: there's just an absolute freak. So there's some pretty cool

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Speaker 3: stuff happening on court as well.

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Speaker 2: Have you seen the movie The Sting James from the

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Speaker 2: nineteen seventies, Because the X ray glasses or the X

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Speaker 2: ray that they're using under the table the stink. They

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Speaker 2: just get someone fake drunk on gin and pretend they're

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Speaker 2: dunk while they're playing poker. That was what they did

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Speaker 2: back in the day.

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Speaker 3: I know. Now there's all this technology and it's a bit.

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Speaker 3: It's pretty shameful stuff, isn't it like, And anyone who

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Speaker 3: cheats like that and any match fixing is just abhurrent

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Speaker 3: and especially if you've got if you're panting on it, Elliott,

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Speaker 3: it could be very frustrating. But they were and they

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Speaker 3: had a short term gain and now they're feeling the pain.

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Speaker 2: They are indeed, James mcconey, appreciate your time and look

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Speaker 2: forward seeing you in Chicago next week.

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Speaker 3: Cheers, Elliott. I'll shout you, ber mate.

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Speaker 2: I'll hold you to that. James mccony, thank you very

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Speaker 2: much for your time this afternoon, and I'm sure all

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Speaker 2: the touch based Piney from Chicago next weekend. Here on

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