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Speaker 1: So the All Blacks were in Scotland for chapter two

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Speaker 1: of the Northern two of Murrayfield is almost sold out.

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Speaker 1: The weather may well be vastly different from Chicago anyway,

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Speaker 1: Damien McKenzie's weather's good morning.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Mike, how are you very well?

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Speaker 1: Indeed? How long does it take you to shake off

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Speaker 1: jet leg?

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Speaker 2: It wasn't actually too a bit of a transition from

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Speaker 2: Chicago to Edinburgh. We left straight up to the game

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Speaker 2: and managed to get some sleep on the plane in

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Speaker 2: a row sort of early sun about ten am Sunday morning, Edinburgh.

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Speaker 2: So getting over it now, which is good.

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Speaker 1: Good. How's the week been training wise?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the week's week's been really good. We've had, you know,

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Speaker 2: a nice week in Edinburgh. It hasn't been too cold

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Speaker 2: or used to the last time I was over here,

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Speaker 2: so you know, training really well. We finished our last

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Speaker 2: training session this afternoon. Captains run tomorrow and yeah, full

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Speaker 2: of energy, ready to go for the weekend.

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Speaker 1: What I'm told that our son lives in Edinburgh. When

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Speaker 1: I'm told from the week is it's been wet.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it has been a little bit of rain yet

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Speaker 2: the sun's trying to peak you out, but it hasn't

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Speaker 2: managed two of yet, so it used to sort of

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Speaker 2: short days and I think that's it's actually quite mild

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Speaker 2: compared to previous times. I've been edinburn but yeah, we

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Speaker 2: haven't quite seen the sun, so we're not getting sunburned

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Speaker 2: at the moment.

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Speaker 1: Are you? Are you into the atmosphere? And I mean

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Speaker 1: Soldier Field is a fantastic stadium. Was that a thing

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Speaker 1: for you versus something like Murrayfield which has also got

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Speaker 1: you know, it's something big in Scotland certainly big and rugby.

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Speaker 1: Is that a thing for you or not?

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Speaker 2: I think it's cooled to let experience the different atmospheres

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Speaker 2: across the world. Obviously the you know in the States

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Speaker 2: day of the tailgating before the game and then you know,

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Speaker 2: crowd really gets into it, and Murrayfield's is very similar.

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Speaker 2: Obviously not so much the tailgating, but I think it's

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Speaker 2: just cool to experience those atmospheres and play in front

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Speaker 2: of definitely motivates you when you're playing, it's for sure.

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Speaker 2: So I've been lucky enough to play once here in

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Speaker 2: Murrayfield in twenty eighteen, and you know, that was a

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Speaker 2: surreal experience from you know, you get the bus to

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Speaker 2: the ground and then a few couple of horses lead

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Speaker 2: into the ground, so it's it's pretty cool in a

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Speaker 2: different atmosphere of tobacco.

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Speaker 1: Have you got any sense of the vibe? I mean,

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Speaker 1: do you get out and about enough to get a

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Speaker 1: sense of the vibe? I mean they tell me Scotland's

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Speaker 1: on the improve are they? And do you feel that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? We've seen a few supporters around the city, so

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Speaker 2: that's been great and you know, I think they're definitely improving.

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Speaker 2: I've got a great side contingent and played in the

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Speaker 2: British and Irish Lions Series in Australia earlier this year,

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Speaker 2: so you know they're very great side and obviously being

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Speaker 2: a part of the hundred years of Test rugby at Murrayfield,

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Speaker 2: it's going to be an exciting occasion. I'm sure they'll

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Speaker 2: be highly motivated for it this weekend. So you were

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Speaker 2: expected to be extremely tough Bettle.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, on the motivation front. How much time have you

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Speaker 1: spent talking about that this week because you could argue

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Speaker 1: that Ireland were great hurdle you did that and you

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Speaker 1: don't want to get into any sort of complacency, do you, Yeah?

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Speaker 2: For sure? You know last thing you need when you're

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Speaker 2: you're traveling north. It is getting complacent. Obviously we know

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Speaker 2: the strength of the Northern hemisphere rugby and you know,

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Speaker 2: an exciting opportunity for us to obviously play on a

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Speaker 2: Grand Slam, which is as a rare occasion, and each

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Speaker 2: each week we know we've got to get better and

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Speaker 2: like I said, to be a part of the one

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Speaker 2: hundred years the game at Maryfield, it's a privileged to

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Speaker 2: be a part of that atmosphere and that occasion. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: we know, yeah, we can't be complacent whatsoever. Otherwise, well

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Speaker 2: we'll soon know about it. With the came in the weekend.

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Speaker 1: Leap ahead a little bit because I have you four

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Speaker 1: or four you'll win the Northern two or four or

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Speaker 1: four if that happens. How would you sum up your year?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think like that's that's the obvious skull was

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Speaker 2: four or four when a Grand Slam, that's what we're

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Speaker 2: aiming for. Yeah, I think if we're able to do that,

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Speaker 2: it'd been a successful year. Obviously, a couple of games

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Speaker 2: throughout the middle of the year with the Championship which

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Speaker 2: we're a little bit of a disappointing and results didn't

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Speaker 2: quite go away, but I think all no, it would

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Speaker 2: be to finish the year off four from four would

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Speaker 2: be obviously a dream result. We know it's not just

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Speaker 2: going to happen, but yeah, I think it would be

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Speaker 2: a great finish to our season.

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Speaker 1: I reckon go well, mate, We'll be watching Appreciate Damian

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Speaker 1: McKenzie out of Scotland this morning. So Ione was telling

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Speaker 1: us you couldn't get a ticket earlier on this week,

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Speaker 1: and I went on the website this morning. The ticket's

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Speaker 1: still available there. I mean this hard Leani is very

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Speaker 1: few of them, you know, maybe fifty of them, but anyway,

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Speaker 1: he'll be there for more.

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