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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 E.

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Speaker 2: Hello, Hello, Piney, how are you great? Thanks for watching

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Speaker 2: the downhill I've been.

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Speaker 3: I'm actually you know, what happens during events like this

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Speaker 3: Winter Olympics, Commonwealth Games, these sorts of things Olympic Games,

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Speaker 3: I become an instant expert on things I have absolutely

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Speaker 3: no prior knowledge of.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I can tell you the top speed of the

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Speaker 2: downhillers and that's roughly the speed of a poiracer going

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Speaker 2: past me on the Northwestern Motorway out in west Auckland,

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Speaker 2: one hundred and forty five kilometers per hour.

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Speaker 3: Quite fast, unbelievably small margins for era high speeds and

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Speaker 3: hard surfaces. I mean, I'd never do these sports, you know,

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Speaker 3: far too dangerous for someone like me. But incredible what

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Speaker 3: has been done in the broadcast coverage outstanding.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been amazing. And also I look at the

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Speaker 2: New Zealand and the Big Air and for the snowboarding,

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Speaker 2: like three in the top ten. I think of a sixth, eighth,

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Speaker 2: and ninth that has been you know, something that we

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Speaker 2: probably didn't expect and the level was just so high

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Speaker 2: that look we're mixing it with athletes that are there

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Speaker 2: really you know, world class. The Japanese sort of usually

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Speaker 2: have that locked up, but the Keys were mixing it

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Speaker 2: with the best.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And the great thing about that, too, James, was that

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Speaker 3: these were athletes who I think prior to the Games,

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Speaker 3: we didn't really sort of think, oh, you know this

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Speaker 3: this will be the you know, this will be an

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Speaker 3: event where we will meddle. So when we think about

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Speaker 3: the events that we you know, we may have a

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Speaker 3: great chance of meddling in you think about Zoe Slaowski,

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Speaker 3: Senate Luca Harrington, Alice Robinson, this could be our best

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Speaker 3: Games ever.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so too. I think this is where

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Speaker 2: we're kind of set up, is we've already shown that

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Speaker 2: we were very competitive, and now we're waiting for our

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Speaker 2: world class athletes to do something and get on the podium.

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Speaker 2: But look, I was amazed listen to Ferrell's interview if

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Speaker 2: you get a chance, is it's so articulate, sounds like

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Speaker 2: he spent most of his life in America, but the

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Speaker 2: way he represents our country, it's just awesome to see

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Speaker 2: my crag as well. Colleague Anna Wilcox's there up in

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Speaker 2: the snow and doing an amazing job. Start at ten am,

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Speaker 2: finished at eleven am. So yeah, the sky team doing

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Speaker 2: pretty well up there as well.

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Speaker 3: And yeah line Fowl rock of Jamison and Dane Menzi's

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Speaker 3: flying the flag nice and early. So is there anything

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Speaker 3: that you have picked out? I mean, Zoe, like I say,

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Speaker 3: I think she can become the first key we to

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Speaker 3: meddle at three Winter Olympic Games. Incredible. She still seems

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Speaker 3: so young. They're all so young, aren't they. Maybe that's

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Speaker 3: part of it. The fearlessness needed is the fearlessness of youth.

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Speaker 2: Yes, And look apart from Zoe and looking at all

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Speaker 2: those big stars Lindsay, Vonne, all those those names who

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Speaker 2: you do want to see, you know, Chloe Kim as well.

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Speaker 2: In the Half Pint Snowboard. The one story that caught

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Speaker 2: my eye is the possibility that a ski jumpers male

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Speaker 2: ski jumpers are injecting their penises to improve their chances

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Speaker 2: in the ski jump by enlarging the surface area and

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Speaker 2: therefore giving of their suits and giving them an advantage. Ponty,

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Speaker 2: have you've seen that story.

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Speaker 3: I've seen the story. I've seen the story.

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Speaker 2: Well, first of all, there's two things. One is I'm disappointed, no,

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Speaker 2: when shoulders had me to be part of the next team.

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Speaker 2: Very sad. And second of all is when they report

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Speaker 2: these stories, can someone put up a QR code for

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Speaker 2: this hylauric acid? I think it's called high lauronic acid

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Speaker 2: because people need to know where to get this product from,

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Speaker 2: and frankly, there's not enough information coming out about it.

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Speaker 2: It is definitely not hydrochloric acid, poney, it's highluronic acid.

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Speaker 2: But you might have to help out your listeners and

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Speaker 2: do a bit of research yourself. There.

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Speaker 3: You've tried the hydrochloric have you? No, no, no, impact doesn't.

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Speaker 2: Doesn't work the way I hope back to square one literally,

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Speaker 2: so yes, But I just thought that that actually the

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Speaker 2: French pole vaulter from the last Olympics, I thought actually

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Speaker 2: operation and it knocked off the pole or the bar.

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Speaker 3: Look and that sort of thing gives you an advantage.

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Speaker 3: It's clearly not the sport for me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, the information's out there that maybe it could be.

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Speaker 3: You know, this is what I'm indeed. All right, let's

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Speaker 3: move to Super Bowl. Speaking of massive, it is a

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Speaker 3: massive day in the United States tomorrow for Super Bowl sixty.

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Speaker 3: Have you have you have you got a favorite for

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Speaker 3: US Seattle Seahawks, New England Patriots in Santa Clara, California.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, look, I think that everyone's on the Seahawks.

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Speaker 2: I think they are pretty much laydown set of favorites

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Speaker 2: to win it. Sam Darnold as a quarterback who I

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Speaker 2: interviewed way back in his USC days, which is a

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Speaker 2: University of Southern California in LA when he was just

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Speaker 2: a young hopeful. He had a checkered career, really known

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Speaker 2: for throwing intercepts. But now he's led them all the

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Speaker 2: way to the Super Bowl. That's the Seattle Seahawks. On

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Speaker 2: the other side is Drake May, one of the best

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Speaker 2: running quarterbacks. You'll have to see the New England Patriots.

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Speaker 2: It's a different team to what Tom Brady ever went

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Speaker 2: to the Super Bowl with. They are the underdogs. But

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Speaker 2: I don't know. For some reason, I just like this

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Speaker 2: Drake May story for me. I think he was so

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Speaker 2: close to winning MVP for the He just missed out

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Speaker 2: on the NFL MVP for the season to Matthew Stafford.

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Speaker 2: Of the Rams and other quarterbacks, so I wonder whether

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Speaker 2: this is his statement game. So look, it's too hard

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Speaker 2: to pick for me, really, but at least this is

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Speaker 2: the first I've seen the Patriots go to the Super

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Speaker 3: Indeed, well, I always defer to my son on these matters.

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Speaker 3: He's a big NFL fan, I asked him. I said,

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Speaker 3: I'm speaking to James mcconey about Super Bowl. Who are

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Speaker 3: the quarterbacks and how do they match up? He said,

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Speaker 3: Drake May Sam Dunel both had pretty good years. Drake

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Speaker 3: May second and MVP voting some Sam Duneld not even

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Speaker 3: in the top five, but he has better weapons around

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Speaker 3: than Drake May does. I think Seahawks win not because

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Speaker 3: of the quarterbacks, just because they're better all round. Good

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Speaker 3: summary from Johnny Pine.

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Speaker 2: Johnny Pine is on the money there. I think Johnny

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Speaker 2: Pine is safe with their look that they do. He

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Speaker 2: does have weapons, great running backs as well. They're including

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Speaker 2: a Kiwi born player whose name escapes me. So please

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Speaker 2: have a look at that Piney. I'm buzzing around Sky

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Speaker 2: at the moment because the Breakdown is on tonight. First

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Speaker 2: show of the season is on Sky, and you know

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Speaker 2: we've got a lot of stuff on the Razor drama

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Speaker 2: and who might be next all Blacks coach, So forgive me,

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Speaker 2: I haven't got all my notes in front of me.

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Speaker 2: But yes, Pereps, I think Johnny Pine is pretty accurate.

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Speaker 3: Well just onright, we've had all six New Zealand based

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Speaker 3: franchises represented across the weekend here on Weekend Sport with

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Speaker 3: their coaches and sometimes their assistant coaches. When are your

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Speaker 3: Chiefs going to win one of these things?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a really good question, poney, You know, like

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Speaker 2: this should be the Chiefs year. Right, We've got all

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Speaker 2: the weapons coming back. We're only missing Shooter Stevenson, but

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Speaker 2: we've replaced them with attending none nice so tuitor or

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Speaker 2: Kaira and talmoysfelow on at fifteen Jersey. I think across

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Speaker 2: the board there's strength. You know, we've got locks emerging

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Speaker 2: like Dylan Etty who's going to push Josh Lord and

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Speaker 2: Tuopov in that department. I think the Props is probably

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Speaker 2: the one part where the Chiefs have struggled in recent times.

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Speaker 2: And obviously when you play the final in late June,

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Speaker 2: you do need that type five to be rock solid.

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Speaker 2: But yes, I do like the Chiefs. Forget that result

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Speaker 2: yesterday against the Hurricanes. Poney twenty nine to zil to

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Speaker 2: the Chiefs, it's just practice we're talking about.

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Speaker 3: The nil is the problem for me though, you know

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Speaker 3: in a preseason game, to get nil, I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Well, look, I think the Hurricanes at at full strength.

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Speaker 2: You've got Josh Morby back, You've got Jordy Barrett back

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Speaker 2: and Ruben Love sliding into ten, getting those minutes up,

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Speaker 2: you know, getting a couple of easy wins against Western

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Speaker 2: Force or whoever you want. I think by the time

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Speaker 2: that May June rolls around, that combo will be legit.

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Speaker 2: And of course you do have cam roy Guard, who

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I know that Antoine du Ponk gets all

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Speaker 2: the press and all the lovers being the best half

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Speaker 2: back in the world. But give me cam roy Guard

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Speaker 2: any day of the week.

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Speaker 3: You won't get an argument from me. George Hallani is

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Speaker 3: your man, the New Zealand born American running back for

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Speaker 3: the Seattle Seahawks. He's your key. We connection. There you go.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Piney, great research, and thank you

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Speaker 2: Johnny Pine for coming through as well with some great analysis.

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Speaker 3: Good on you, James, good jet you made at a

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Speaker 3: very busy time for you. Appreciate your time as always

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Speaker 3: James mcconey, Craig goes wild across your socials, Sky Sport

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