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The Muster- Jamie Mackay: Country Crossover · The Muster on Hokonui

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  Speaker 1: The Country Crossover, brought to you by Bioactive Soils.
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  Speaker 1: Jamie McKay is host of The Country and joins us
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  Speaker 1: once again for The Crossover.
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  Speaker 2: Jamie, good afternoon. Property of the Week, what have we
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  Speaker 2: got this time after last time's success?
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  Speaker 3: Are we talking about my old mate, my old late mate,
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  Speaker 3: Rowan Horrell's farm? Is that what we're referring to, are we, Andy?
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  Speaker 2: And apparently it was lost in translation.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody who was listening picked it up halfway through the interview,
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  Speaker 1: a certain farmer at Kowiki thought it was him.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, which certain farmer was that? Mark Shallard.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, possibly. I'm not naming names.
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  Speaker 3: I might have said they were the best two farms
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  Speaker 3: in Riversdale, possibly Northern Southland, possibly Southland. No, Mark, the
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  Speaker 3: Shallard farm is not for sale. I think I can...
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  Speaker 3: Confirm that one. But the Horrell Farm, and this is
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  Speaker 3: a beauty, and I'll get a shameless plug in this.
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  Speaker 3: I hope Shea Mosby's listening. He can definitely give me
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  Speaker 3: a beer. I think it's for sale. It is to
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  Speaker 3: be sold by deadline sale by the 12th of November.
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  Speaker 3: What's that? So that's next Thursday. Next Thursday. 380 hectares. Sheep, beef, cropping,
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  Speaker 3: beautiful farm, beautiful lanes, beautiful shelter. Great mix of land.
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  Speaker 3: If I was to reinvent myself and come back as
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  Speaker 3: a farmer, I would happily farm that farm. In fact,
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  Speaker 3: I used to live on it. Rowan and I flatted
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  Speaker 3: there in the early 80s. Those were the days, Andy.
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  Speaker 3: Life was simple in the early 80s.
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  Speaker 2: There you go, Shay.
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  Speaker 1: Drop off a 24-pack next time you're cruising.
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  Speaker 3: Through Main Street. No, no, 24-pack from last time and
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  Speaker 3: another 24-pack for this time.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know where it sits here at the station.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be all right.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you'll pinch half of it. We'll go halves on it, OK?
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  Speaker 3: But seriously, I know there's a lot of interest in
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  Speaker 3: this farm. If you're looking for a good sheep, beef, cropping,
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  Speaker 3: mixed farm, have a look at that one. Beautiful, beautiful
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  Speaker 3: farm right beside the Matara River.
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  Speaker 2: The election, it's happening tomorrow. It's been a busy old campaign.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a frustrating campaign from, I don't know, just
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  Speaker 1: from the outside looking in.
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  Speaker 2: It's been a marathon, not a sprint.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, a lot of us are over it. I drive...
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  Speaker 3: I live up in Roslyn Heights here, up by the
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  Speaker 3: Roslyn Village, and there's the big Roslyn overbridge, and there
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  Speaker 3: was clowns from the National Party standing there waving placards.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm with Winston on this one. It's a bit degrading.
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  Speaker 3: Where's the dignity? And I don't think people take any
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  Speaker 3: notice of that, especially in Dunedin here, because it's one
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  Speaker 3: of the safest Labour seats in the country. And, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean, you're lucky where you are,
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  Speaker 3: down south. I think it's pretty... It's pretty cut and dried.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Penny Simmons, my old schoolmate, went to Riversdale
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  Speaker 3: Primary with Rowan Horrell and myself. Penny will bolt home
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  Speaker 3: in Invercargill because she's a very smart woman, and she
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  Speaker 3: will do well, as will Joseph Mooney, obviously, in Southland.
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  Speaker 3: The interesting one could be, and this is part of
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  Speaker 3: your listenership catchment as well, could be Tyree. where Ingrid
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  Speaker 3: Leary's obviously a favourite. But I think Mark Patterson, who's
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  Speaker 3: performed quite pretty well, I think, for New Zealand First
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  Speaker 3: and the ag portfolios, he might go well. So just
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  Speaker 3: keep an eye out for him.
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  Speaker 2: Have you voted yet, or are you a traditional Saturday voter?
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  Speaker 3: I'm a traditionalist. I'm a traditionalist. Tomorrow morning, wander down.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, the church where we're going to be voting
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  Speaker 3: is literally about 300 or 400 metres from our house.
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  Speaker 3: There's my favourite cafe, my local cafe, Rhubarb, at Roslyn
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  Speaker 3: on the way there, so I might get a coffee
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  Speaker 3: there and a coffee on the way back, just in case, Andy,
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  Speaker 3: I have to wait too long at the polling booth.
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  Speaker 3: And then I'm hearing there are issues with the orange pens.
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  Speaker 3: They're too fat apparently this year and people having difficulty
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  Speaker 3: getting their tick in the wee box. Have you voted yet?
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  Speaker 2: I voted last Friday.
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  Speaker 1: It was a horrible afternoon in Gore, so Shannon and
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  Speaker 1: I thought, bugger it, let's go and get it over
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  Speaker 1: and done with, and I'll agree with those pens.
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  Speaker 2: They want you to tick the box. It's not that easy.
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  Speaker 1: I think you just put a dot in and it registers,
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  Speaker 1: but you can't really put a tick for those big
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  Speaker 1: orange felt pens.
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  Speaker 3: So in the intervening week, have you had any buyers regret? No.
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  Speaker 3: Happy with your decision?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be close, Andy.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be democracy, but the big thing is, Jamie,
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  Speaker 1: is when are we going to get an answer? That's
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  Speaker 1: the other question as well.
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  Speaker 3: Well, possibly not. In fact, probably not on Wednesday night.
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  Speaker 3: Wednesday night? What am I thinking of? Let's try Saturday night,
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  Speaker 3: tomorrow night. They are officially going to post interim results
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  Speaker 3: after 11 o'clock, and I'm a political... I was going
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  Speaker 3: to say groupie. That's not the right word.
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  Speaker 2: Political junkie.
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  Speaker 3: Junkie, yeah, groupie.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you probably are.
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  Speaker 3: You sound like Michael Laws there. So a junkie, now
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  Speaker 3: that I've got the word right, I'll be up till
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  Speaker 3: the bitter end. And look, this is how I see it, Andy,
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  Speaker 3: and I hope I'm wrong. If opportunity gets past 5%,
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  Speaker 3: and I think they will, a change of government is on.
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  Speaker 3: because I think they're a left-wing party all day. A
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  Speaker 3: lot of people disagree with me, including people like Heather Duplessy-Allen,
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  Speaker 3: and the other one that'll come into play, because Te
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  Speaker 3: Pāti Māori are going to produce an overhang of two, three,
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  Speaker 3: maybe four seats. I think the Nats could produce a
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  Speaker 3: reasonable-size overhang on the day, and I know they don't
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  Speaker 3: want to go there. They don't want to get into
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  Speaker 3: strategic vote-splitting, people supporting national but party-voting New Zealand First elections.
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  Speaker 3: or act. But they're going to win quite a few electorates.
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  Speaker 3: They're very popular. You know, as we said, obviously, Invercargill
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  Speaker 3: and Southland, they're going to win those. They're going to
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  Speaker 3: win a lot of rural electorates and provincial electorates around
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  Speaker 3: the country. So we could see, you know, that might
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  Speaker 3: be the other saving grace if you want to centre-right government.
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  Speaker 3: I dread, Andy, excuse me, I dread the thought of
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  Speaker 3: a centre-left government, and I dread it on behalf of
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people who are listening, hopefully, to this show, Andy.
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  Speaker 3: and that's the farmers and the productive sector of this economy.
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  Speaker 3: Don't be fooled, because even though Chippy's made soothing noises
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  Speaker 3: and they're not going to put ag in the ETS
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  Speaker 3: and they're not going to charge for emissions and all
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  Speaker 3: that sort of stuff, that's fine coming from them, but
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  Speaker 3: they're going to have a tsunami of green and opportunity
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  Speaker 3: and God knows what the party Maori think. And if
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  Speaker 3: I was a livestock farmer, especially... I would be really wary.
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  Speaker 3: And if you're thinking of voting for opportunity or the centre-left, don't,
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  Speaker 3: because it's going to cost you a lot of money
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  Speaker 3: if they get in. And that's a harsh analysis, but
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  Speaker 3: that's how I see it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm thinking tomorrow night I'll probably listen to the Hosk
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  Speaker 1: on radio because the league semis are on around the
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  Speaker 1: same time. New Zealand's playing Samoa. No, New Zealand's playing Tonga, sorry,
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  Speaker 1: during the evening. So there's an overhang.
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  Speaker 3: There'll be a bit of biffo in that. Oh, well,
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  Speaker 3: I'll be flicking over to that as well, but I
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  Speaker 3: do flick between one and three, and Hosk and Barry
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  Speaker 3: are on on ZB. You can actually watch them. I
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  Speaker 3: think they've got cameras in there. They'll have really good analysis,
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  Speaker 3: but between the three of them, you'll have no doubt
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  Speaker 3: their old mate Paddy Gower saying, this is serious or
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  Speaker 3: something like that, over-egging it a wee bit, but I
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  Speaker 3: guess that's their job to hype it up. But it'll
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  Speaker 3: just be interesting. And, you know, as I said, opportunity
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  Speaker 3: is the real fly in the ointment here. I just
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  Speaker 3: think it's just been interesting slash bizarre how they've come
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  Speaker 3: from nowhere, they've advertised on Seek to get a party leader,
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  Speaker 3: and she's performed well. I've got to say that. She's
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  Speaker 3: performed well in front of the camera, and they're probably
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  Speaker 3: going to be the kingmaker. I hope I'm wrong once again.
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  Speaker 2: Just quickly as well, the All Blacks in Edinburgh.
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  Speaker 1: I've got Elliot Smith on the show later on, but
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  Speaker 1: this is their home away from home.
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  Speaker 2: They've never lost at Murrayfield.
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  Speaker 3: We've never lost to Scotland full stop anywhere. Look, they
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  Speaker 3: ran us really close the last time we played them.
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  Speaker 3: Was that last year's tour of the year?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, last year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and they're a good side. They've got, I think,
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  Speaker 3: Finn Russell. I haven't even seen the team. Is Finn
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  Speaker 3: Russell still playing? He will be.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean, they're like, And they've got a
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  Speaker 3: good back line. They've got half the Lions' back line,
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  Speaker 3: and they've got a very competitive forward pack. This will
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  Speaker 3: not be the walk in the park. And, in fact,
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  Speaker 3: I think of our three tests, because we're going to
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  Speaker 3: romp over Wales, and England are always a bit of
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  Speaker 3: a battle, this could be the hardest one. And then
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  Speaker 3: we've got to try and hope that South Africa on
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  Speaker 3: the other side lose to Ireland or who else are
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  Speaker 3: they playing? France. France. and then maybe the All Blacks
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  Speaker 3: get to play off for the nation's championship or whatever
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  Speaker 3: they call it, probably against France. So interesting times, I think.
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  Speaker 3: I just love when we've got footy on in November.
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  Speaker 3: It's the next four weekends filled up, Andy.
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  Speaker 2: Pretty much, Toby. Better leave it there. Next time we chat,
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  Speaker 2: democracy shall have spoken.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and hopefully the Horrell Farm will have sold for
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  Speaker 3: big money. See you later.
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  Speaker 1: Jamie McKay, self-confessed political groupie in the country crossover thanks
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