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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 one.

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Speaker 2: Forty four Sunday afternoons mean a lot of things, but

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Speaker 2: they mean James mcconey, Hello.

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Speaker 3: Mate, how are you, Pony?

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Speaker 2: You're right, I'm good. I'm good. What were your What

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Speaker 2: were your takeaways after last night's test?

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Speaker 3: Domino's and a little bit of hell pizza as well? Good? Yeah,

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Speaker 3: And I wasn't doing the ordering. It was a it

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Speaker 3: was a friend. I don't know. We doubled we doubled up,

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Speaker 3: But I think let's start with the positives though, Courtez.

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Speaker 3: That'im Wallace a TT, Caleb Clark. I mean, I feel

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Speaker 3: like there's one two of them a sort of coming

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Speaker 3: of age, and I think Caleb's just reinvented himself, right yep.

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Speaker 2: Yeap Wallace to TT. I love the way he plays,

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Speaker 2: you know, solving a problem for the All Blacks at

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Speaker 2: number six when you're not even really a number six.

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Speaker 2: I think he played every game for the Chief certainly

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Speaker 2: from the start a number eight, didn't he but he

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Speaker 2: I just really like the way he goes about things.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a stability to him, even though he is

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Speaker 3: an excitement machine machine at times, just the way he

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Speaker 3: seems to own that position, which isn't the most familiar

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Speaker 3: for him at blindside physically impressive, dominates contact, but just

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Speaker 3: really seems like a solid option, you know, shades of

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Speaker 3: Jerome Caino. There's there's lots to like about Wallace a. TT. Cortez, though,

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Speaker 3: I felt, did everything he could, did everything right. He

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Speaker 3: finished off what should have been one of the greatest

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Speaker 3: tries of all time if it wasn't for that forward pass,

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Speaker 3: which was a fair call, but I've seen worse passes

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Speaker 3: just ignored. But again, the Courtez just dominated on attack

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Speaker 3: and defense, the hit by carry and Betty. I think

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Speaker 3: Kine mentioned that he's stealing most of my notes today.

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Speaker 3: But one thing that Cortez did do is set the

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Speaker 3: tempo perf quickly. I think he his clearance was was

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Speaker 3: next level, and I think that that is why we

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Speaker 3: saw those tries from the All Blacks.

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Speaker 2: What about Damien McKenzie.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I've got him in my notes as well. Ponty, Yes,

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Speaker 3: thank you for that. Okay, let's just let's just rip

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Speaker 3: off the band aid. He won't be happy with that,

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Speaker 3: will he. There were there were three or four tries

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Speaker 3: left out there, and and there were his name will

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Speaker 3: be on a couple of them. So the video session

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Speaker 3: is going to be a tough one for dmac. But

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Speaker 3: I also agree with Joe Schmidt, which was, you know,

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Speaker 3: he creates so much, would you really want to take

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Speaker 3: that away when that's kind of where you're at, where

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Speaker 3: he puts fear into the defense. Yeah, there were three

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Speaker 3: passes in particular that he'll want to have back. But

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Speaker 3: I look back at the World Cup Final last year

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Speaker 3: and I thought our biggest problem with the All Blacks

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Speaker 3: is that we didn't throw passes at the right time.

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Speaker 3: So he was throwing the passes they just that great

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Speaker 3: pony and then to one of them he didn't need

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Speaker 3: to spiral it. The other one he just didn't need

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Speaker 3: to backhand flick it. So sometimes the easy option is

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Speaker 3: to shovel it on. You know, you don't need to

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Speaker 3: put a little bit of finesse on it. It just

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Speaker 3: needs to be accurate.

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Speaker 2: I think the other thing that's being missed a little

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Speaker 2: bit is that in a game that the All Blacks

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Speaker 2: won by three points, he was perfect from the boot,

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Speaker 2: five from five, and there were some of those tries

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Speaker 2: were scored wide out.

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Speaker 3: Honestly, I thought that the tries were brilliant, but then

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Speaker 3: the ones they left out there absolutely pulling your hair out,

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Speaker 3: coach killers as they call them. Look, the fact is

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Speaker 3: that the All Blacks have got a case of the

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Speaker 3: yips in the second half and the final quarter. It's

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Speaker 3: a it is a choke. Really, there's no other way

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Speaker 3: to put it. And so they've got a remedy it somehow,

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Speaker 3: I don't know. Look, I think with Bowden coming back

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Speaker 3: into that team, even though I thought we'll Jordan was

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Speaker 3: great at fullback, he'll provide that stability, He'll provide an

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Speaker 3: extra kicking game. I mean, I've got no problem with

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Speaker 3: Boden moving into ten. I think he's a great team

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Speaker 3: that's been underrated for too long. You know, will play

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Speaker 3: over the year twice. But I still feel like d

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Speaker 3: Max should be on the field. That's my feeling basically.

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Speaker 2: All Right, A couple of other matters around. Did you

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Speaker 2: watch the Rooster's Manly game last night?

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Speaker 3: Yes? I did, and it's amazing how a team that

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Speaker 3: looked totally outclass last week by Penrith comes back and

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Speaker 3: outclasses Manly, who have got plenty of stars. Although when

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Speaker 3: I look around, I mean they've got three Trouble of

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Speaker 3: Itch brothers. I mean that's so one family's providing a

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Speaker 3: lot of the team. They've got Matt Lodge, who I

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Speaker 3: hate with a passion, who left the Warriors of the

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Speaker 3: Lurch is the home invasion guy. If people are wondering

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Speaker 3: why do I hate Matt Lodge is he broke into

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Speaker 3: a New York home and terrorized the family. It was

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Speaker 3: pretty much a violent crime and he's ended up being

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Speaker 3: able to live his life and play Rugby league and

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Speaker 3: then rip off the Warriors. So I wasn't unhappy to

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Speaker 3: see Manly get eliminated because of that. But I did

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Speaker 3: notice that with the with the roosters there, you know

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Speaker 3: jose Joey Marnhu and Joseph Suil. They are both going

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Speaker 3: to rugby next year, so it's going to be a

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Speaker 3: very different team. And I think Joey Marny won't take

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Speaker 3: for the all blacks and midfield.

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Speaker 2: We will watch the space. Hey, I've just I wanted

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Speaker 2: to ask you as well. I think it's in your

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Speaker 2: notes about Shohi o'taney doing something that nobody in major

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Speaker 2: League baseball has done, I don't think ever fifty home

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Speaker 2: runs and fifty stolen bases in a single season. It

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Speaker 2: seems incredible that that doesn't happen very often, but it's

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Speaker 2: never happened before.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's an unlikely based stealer at six foot four,

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Speaker 3: like he's your height, and running around trying to steal

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Speaker 3: bases like he's a little sprinter. So sho Ha really

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Speaker 3: added that to his arsenal when he couldn't pitch this

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Speaker 3: oh well, I'll steal bases instead. Sets this incredible record.

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Speaker 3: He's up to fifty two home runs. Only Aaron Jones

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Speaker 3: of the New York Yankees is ahead of ahead of

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Speaker 3: him for home runs. He's just incredible. Some people saying,

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Speaker 3: is he the greatest athlete on the planet at the moment, Well,

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Speaker 3: it's it's tricky, but whatever he's doing, he's getting eyeballs

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Speaker 3: on the sport is probably worth his seven hundred million

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Speaker 3: dos dollar contract. Saw that, Oh my god, what is

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Speaker 3: I mean? Yeah, it's another level. So look, if we

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Speaker 3: do have time to talk about cricket, all I'll say is,

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Speaker 3: if you've got a young cricketer who's got good hand

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Speaker 3: eye coordination. Unfortunately, this is just for boys at the moment,

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Speaker 3: because that's where they get paid the big bucks in baseball.

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Speaker 3: Send them to baseball. Do not do not worry about

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Speaker 3: any ipl You can go to baseball. If they're that good,

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Speaker 3: get them over there and see what they can do.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, seven hundred mil. Hey, just on the cricket. I've

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Speaker 2: got much mclenahan after two to talk about the black

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Speaker 2: Caps because so let's not forget they go into day

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Speaker 2: four of their Test in a couple of hours time.

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Speaker 2: You wouldn't want to be chasing too many more, would

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Speaker 2: you At the moment's from Lanka two hundred ahead. You

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Speaker 2: wouldn't want to be chasing too much more, would you.

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Speaker 3: No, And this is a big worry. I think that

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Speaker 3: Will O'Rourke's done, you know, everything he can really with

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Speaker 3: as a fast bowler. It's good to have that fair

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Speaker 3: factor back in. And look, I looked at the team.

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Speaker 3: It's actually quite an aging team this one. I feel

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Speaker 3: like the black Caps Test team is going to fall

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Speaker 3: off a cliff at some point because everyone apart from Ravender,

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Speaker 3: O'Rourke and Phillips are in their thirties, and some of

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Speaker 3: them well into their thirties. So came Lillians in thirty four,

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Speaker 3: Saldi thirty five. You know, even Daryl Mitchell is thirty three.

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Speaker 3: So there's a few selections. It's going to be an

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Speaker 3: interesting time. But I did see paddles the great Sir

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Speaker 3: Richard Hadley say, hands off will o' roork. Don't you

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Speaker 3: dare take him to the IPL. We want him to

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Speaker 3: be a Test bowler only. And I'm just thinking, I

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Speaker 3: love what you're saying. Paddles are serve pedals, but good

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Speaker 3: luck with that because he will get a lot of

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Speaker 3: money turning at him very.

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Speaker 2: Soon, absolutely right. I just hope it doesn't go the

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Speaker 2: Cole Jamison way. Remember that he was so good IPL

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Speaker 2: in jured, hardly seen since. Yeah, I get what pedals

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Speaker 2: are saying, but yeah, the money's pretty eye watering. Hey, James,

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Speaker 2: I think that's all we have time for unfortunately, mate,

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Speaker 2: but always great to chat to. Yeah, and and I

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Speaker 2: like the fact that you compared me, if only in

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Speaker 2: height to show. Hey, Otane, I like that.

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Speaker 3: You're the show. Hey, the big show, Hey of New

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Speaker 3: Zealand Radio mates, so enjoy that.

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Speaker 2: Good on you mate, Thanks indeed, James mcconey part of

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