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Speaker 1: Let's talk rugby. All Blacks take on France. This is

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Speaker 1: turning out to be a top shelf sort of tour.

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Speaker 1: Elliot Smith's with us. Elliott, how are you, Mike?

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Speaker 2: I'm good? Thank you?

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Speaker 1: Who do you get to change the printer in the

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Speaker 1: sports department?

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Speaker 2: That usually falls upon me to do that. I back

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Speaker 2: myself in those situations, though, you do like yourself?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's good. How are you enjoying France?

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Speaker 2: Wonderful country, wonderful city. Good to be back here a

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Speaker 2: year on from the World Cup. Plenty of spectators expected

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Speaker 2: for this one come the weekend. A lot of intrigue

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Speaker 2: as to how the All Blacks will go. And I

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Speaker 2: think with Antoine du Pont, the French captain back in

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Speaker 2: the mix, so there's storylines are plenty for this one.

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Speaker 1: Okay, the France Israel football game, there's a big security operation.

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Speaker 1: Are you feeling that is an angsty vibe around the

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Speaker 1: place or not? Really?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, there is about four thousand police officers deployed

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Speaker 2: around the ground. They've only sold a third of the seconds.

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Speaker 2: No one wants to go to this game this evening

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Speaker 2: in a couple of hours time. Like everyone's staying away

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Speaker 2: it's it's a real sense of you know that you

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Speaker 2: put Israel at this point in time in the world

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Speaker 2: in a football scenario, given what happened last week as

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Speaker 2: well with their team there as well. No one wants

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Speaker 2: to go here in Paris tonight. I was speaking a

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Speaker 2: couple of locals. Everyone's going to watch it on TV,

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Speaker 2: but no one's brave enough really to go to the

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Speaker 2: ground and watch it in person, although I see mccron

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Speaker 2: and others are going to go.

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Speaker 1: Is the rugby a sellout?

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Speaker 2: It is close to us all that, I believe, yeah, absolutely,

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Speaker 2: And I think you put the all blacks in the

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Speaker 2: form there in duporn, all the ingredients there. So they're

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Speaker 2: not going out for the football team tonight, but they're

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Speaker 2: willing to go out in a couple of night's time

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Speaker 2: and see the rugby team. I guess New Zealand probably

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Speaker 2: on the banner a little leads threatening them going to

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Speaker 2: see Israel at the moment given world of fears.

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing. I see us beating France, so it's

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Speaker 1: an excellent tour, but I see us fragile mentally for

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Speaker 1: Italy because we want to go home and do Christmas

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Speaker 1: shopping and Italy are useless. Is that fair or not? Really?

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Speaker 2: Well? I suppose they could do some Christmas shopping in

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Speaker 2: Italy and combine the two before they head home. Mike,

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Speaker 2: I think it's it's a real problem, you know, there's

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Speaker 2: got to be These are three big tests that they're

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Speaker 2: coming off here England, Ireland and then France this week.

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Speaker 2: They get through this week, pressure valve releases a little.

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Speaker 2: You look forward to that beach at home, et cetera,

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Speaker 2: as you say, But I think there's a bit of

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Speaker 2: a steely resolve in this team now that hey, they've

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Speaker 2: got a couple of wins behind them. Now they get

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Speaker 2: France on the weekend, they picked them off if they

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Speaker 2: can do so. I don't think they'd want to leave

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Speaker 2: the tour with the old Rocks and the beach towls

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Speaker 2: over summer.

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Speaker 1: No, I would agree with that. How's the weather for

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Speaker 1: the game.

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Speaker 2: It's a bit cold, getting down to nine degrees for kickoff,

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Speaker 2: four degrees overnight as well, so it's going to be

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Speaker 2: the chelligest match for the All Blacks so far on

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Speaker 2: the tour, but conditions expected to be relatively still. No

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Speaker 2: real rain around this week so far. In Paris, the

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Speaker 2: conditions should be good.

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Speaker 1: You're managing to do your washing, okay, and stuff the

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Speaker 1: hotel bills. Aren't you anything I can help with?

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Speaker 2: No? No, yeah. If you know a good laundrette, just

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Speaker 2: send them my way. I'm trying to make way way

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Speaker 2: through those Mitchell and three star restaurants you sent through

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Speaker 2: as well, but we're ticking them off.

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Speaker 1: Good on you mate, Go well. Ellie Smith, who's he'll

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Speaker 1: be calling the game? Of course here on news Talks.

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Speaker 1: It'd be in Radio Sport and all the other outlets

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Speaker 1: that we have the iHeart what he be they called

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Speaker 1: these days? What are they called Gold Sports? Gold Sport?

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