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

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Speaker 1: from newstalksb.

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Speaker 2: Sundays, we catch up with James mcconey. Lots to get through, mate,

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Speaker 2: Can we start with track and field gold for Jordy Beamish,

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Speaker 2: Gold for Hamish Kerr.

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Speaker 3: Exactly incredible double and also that finished by Jordi Beamish

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Speaker 3: will be replayed for many years to come in every

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Speaker 3: country in the world and even Fox Sports from Australia

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Speaker 3: just said, have a look at the kiwi Jordy Beamish

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Speaker 3: and I think it was on ESPNBBC World, you know,

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Speaker 3: like it's everywhere because it's a massive moment and I

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Speaker 3: mean you would have loved it as well.

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Speaker 2: Pony right, absolutely love to and to run down the

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Speaker 2: bloke who's just basically dominated this event, the Moroccan Elbakarley,

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Speaker 2: to run him down in that fashion. Did you see

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Speaker 2: Elbercarli afterwards that he was so annoyed with himself, just

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Speaker 2: punching himself in the head.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, And it was his first defeat in the

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Speaker 3: major championship since twenty nineteen. But this is the thing.

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Speaker 3: The World champs are huge, right, I know that the Olympics,

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Speaker 3: everyone says that's the pinnacle, and it is. But you know, look,

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Speaker 3: golfers and tennis players get four majors each year, it's crazy, right,

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Speaker 3: So the athletes only get three every four years, right,

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Speaker 3: so they get the Olympics and they get these two

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Speaker 3: every two years it's the World Champs. So this is

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Speaker 3: so massive that he's up there with, you know, in

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Speaker 3: the pantheon of greats with love Lock how big snow

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Speaker 3: you know, Alison and Ordain, all the ones who have

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Speaker 3: gone before and won those big major world titles. He

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Speaker 3: is right up there, the country kid from a Hawk's

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Speaker 3: Bay f Arm.

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Speaker 2: Just love the black singlet coming down the home straight

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Speaker 2: in middle distance, don't you. It's just something about it

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Speaker 2: just evoke so many memories. And then you've got Hamus Kerr,

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Speaker 2: who seems to have got the hang of this now,

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Speaker 2: you know, World Champion, Olympic Champion, World Indoor Champion, Commonwealth

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Speaker 2: Games champion. He might have another couple of big moments

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Speaker 2: ahead of him. Two thirty six's is PB I know

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Speaker 2: he's targeting two four the word records two forty five,

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Speaker 2: who knows?

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Speaker 3: I know, and we all know as well, Poney, he's

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Speaker 3: going to take over from all of us in the media.

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Speaker 3: He's such a great interview Hamish care yep. But the

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Speaker 3: thing is he's he's we shouldn't be about his excellence, right,

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Speaker 3: So backing up their Olympic gold and now World champs,

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Speaker 3: we've actually got it's two of the biggest deals. I mean,

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Speaker 3: you think about the steeple chase is huge. I can

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Speaker 3: remember years when it would just be three African runners,

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Speaker 3: you know, sometimes three Kenyans in the medal position, so

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Speaker 3: Jordi b miss and then you've got Hamish Cure the

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Speaker 3: black singlet flying over like that. I mean you have

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Speaker 3: to go back in history really to find someone who's

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Speaker 3: who's done as well as him. He's doubled up. I

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Speaker 3: think Sotomaya from from Cuba is considered the goat, but

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Speaker 3: there were a few boycotts that got in the way

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Speaker 3: of his dominance. But let's see how far homous can go.

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Speaker 2: Looking forward to that, Maddy Wishie with a bronze in

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Speaker 2: the shop put overnight as well more on the track

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Speaker 2: and field, after two other black ferns will play off

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Speaker 2: a third and fourth. You have to give credit to

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Speaker 2: Canada though they were superb yesterday.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you can't blame anyone else. You have to blame Canada,

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Speaker 3: if you know the self reference. I applaud you great,

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Speaker 3: great movie, by the way. It might shock some of

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Speaker 3: our the listeners though, Poney, but yeah, look, we were

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Speaker 3: missing our best player. Georgia Miller is already our best

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Speaker 3: player and she mainly plays seven. So that's part of

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Speaker 3: the issue I just wanted to talk about, which is, yeah,

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Speaker 3: we got ambushed by Canada, but they have specialists fifteens

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Speaker 3: players who excel and a great example of their halfback

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Speaker 3: Justin Justin Pellettier, who was brilliant and you know she

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Speaker 3: plays in France, whereas our halfback Racy Pauty Laine, who's

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Speaker 3: still an outstanding player, is playing a trade in the

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Speaker 3: seventh circuit. So it's just not the same really, and

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Speaker 3: a lock like the goodies who's kicking goals for Canada,

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Speaker 3: I mean, just a freak really and also committed to

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Speaker 3: the fifteenth game.

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Speaker 2: Yep, so Canada England in the final. That'll be an

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Speaker 2: interesting one to keep eyes on a week from now

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Speaker 2: to the All Blacks, who will gather today presumably to

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Speaker 2: prepare for next Saturday's first Bleedislow Cup Test. I enjoyed

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Speaker 2: seeing Cam Royguard back out on the field yesterday for Counties.

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Speaker 3: I know. That's one of my favorite stories is Cam

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Speaker 3: Royguard who actually played in the White Cuts, who played

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Speaker 3: at Saint Peter's College there and he was, you know,

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Speaker 3: played for Orni Federal Club, which is out it's in

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Speaker 3: the wop wops out towards Port White Cuts or in

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Speaker 3: twenty nineteen and you know, four years later he's at

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Speaker 3: a World Cup. Six years later, he's one of the

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Speaker 3: best players in the world. And you know, just watching

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Speaker 3: him play for the Steelers there just the class he's shown.

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Speaker 3: And you know Razor will be relieved to see that.

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Speaker 3: But if you put Hardy Savier and Will Jordan at

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Speaker 3: is right up there too.

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Speaker 2: Agree. I agree. Yeah, He and Cody Taylor for me,

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Speaker 2: are the are the others who are in that sort

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Speaker 2: to have Camera re Guard back. Presumably they'll put him

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Speaker 2: straight back in the side. I'd imagine that that would

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Speaker 2: be the case. Hey, the ram Furley shield has has

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Speaker 2: taken up residence and dned and we just had Mark

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Speaker 2: Brown on their coach. They'll be happy down and done

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Speaker 2: as you reckon, they'll hold on to it against North

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Speaker 2: Harbor or is there another another change of hands coming well.

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Speaker 3: As Villi Armi Wakerson door do it and do it

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Speaker 3: to Pooky playing because I do remember a famous Harbor

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Speaker 3: Shield victory was that six and going back, look, I

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Speaker 3: think they can hold on, but they need to hold

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Speaker 3: on to Lucas Casey down there.

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Speaker 2: The god what a player.

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Speaker 3: What I mean, ras has got to get him in

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Speaker 3: the All Blacks as well, because I mean, I know

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Speaker 3: it's NBC, but it usually translates, you know you can.

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Speaker 3: Jonah was picked from the Condor sevens basically, you know,

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Speaker 3: like you can tell when someone is an absolute superstar.

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Speaker 3: And if he scored the triary, he left the last

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Speaker 3: defender I don't want to say fullback because I'm not

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Speaker 3: sure it was the fullback, but left the standing like

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Speaker 3: a statue. Statue bro you were just there standing while

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Speaker 3: Lucas Casey scored. Would have been a try and touch

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Speaker 3: rugby as well. Yeah, a flanker from Kerry Cary up

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Speaker 3: North Kenny Kenny. He is he's a north winder who's

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Speaker 2: I think the Highlands will pick him up, won't they. Surely,

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Speaker 2: surely a good heart.

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Speaker 3: Everybody will be fighting for his signature. He he's I mean,

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Speaker 3: a star is born. Really. He did score an incredible

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Speaker 3: try against Wellington, I think, but scoring those two tries,

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Speaker 3: you won't see two bitter tries. And of course we've

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Speaker 3: been thropping on Oli Mathis and Henry Pollock from England.

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Speaker 3: But now Lucas Casey seems to have raise the bar

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Speaker 3: for Otago And it almost makes because I'm a white

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Speaker 3: cuttle guy. So I remember Arthur Stone scoring an incredible

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Speaker 3: winning try, and you know Wayne Smith scored a great

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Speaker 3: win against you guys and Wellington and you know the

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Speaker 3: list goes on, but that's up. There was one of

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Speaker 3: the greatest radfly Shield winning tries ever.

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Speaker 2: Yep, loved it. High quick word on the shocks. I

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Speaker 2: beat the writers the Raiders a week ago, thought they

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Speaker 2: were through to the preliminary final. Now they're getting read

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Speaker 2: for Mad Monday.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. And it's kind of funny because Ricky Stewart, you

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Speaker 3: gotta love him, but he's just one of those angry coaches.

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Speaker 3: He's sort of you can imagine smashing up the changer

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Speaker 3: and or doing whatever. But hey, the Raiders where the

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Speaker 3: pace setters, but sometimes the cream just rises to the top.

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Speaker 3: So two things. One, as a kid, I was a

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Speaker 3: massive fan of Kevin Edle and his son Kal Edle

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Speaker 3: is playing in the centers for the Sharks, and he

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Speaker 3: made a fifty meter run that set up a try beautifully,

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Speaker 3: even though the Aussie commentators kind of ignored it and

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Speaker 3: said it was a great cut move between the two halves.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, come on, mate, the kiw we just ran well,

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Speaker 3: son of a Kee, we just ran fifty meters. Did

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Speaker 3: you Australians get on the on the page. But the

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Speaker 3: other thing that stood out was the banter of the

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Speaker 3: Sharks fans doing the Viking clap, which of course the

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Speaker 3: Raiders fans have adopted from the Iceland football fans. But

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Speaker 3: they did a full Viking clap in Canberra. So applaud that.

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Speaker 2: Applaud that too, and applaud you always love chatting James.

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Speaker 2: We'll do it again next week, James maccaroni.

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