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The Muster- Connor Millar: Balfour YFC · The Muster on Hokonui

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the muster.
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  Speaker 2: Connor Miller of Balfour Young Farmers joins us on this
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: G'day Connor.
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  Speaker 2: We caught up with Max last week. Must be some
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  Speaker 2: good stuff happening at Balfour two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: In a row.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Balfour, we like to pride ourselves as a
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  Speaker 3: top club, so why not talk to top members and
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  Speaker 3: get to know what's going on in the Northern South.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I may have to put a fee on this
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  Speaker 2: slot very shortly with that attitude, young man.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, you guys had a meeting last night, by
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  Speaker 1: the sounds of it?
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  Speaker 3: Yep, we had a meeting at the Bowls Club. Earl
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  Speaker 3: looked after us lovely, like he always does. He seems
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  Speaker 3: to think he's a young farmer at heart, I think,
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  Speaker 3: as well. To be fair, he wants all the merch
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  Speaker 3: and everything we're talking about, so that's all good. Yep,
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  Speaker 3: we had a great turnout, and there's some good things
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  Speaker 3: happening in the club at the moment, and yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Just quickly, how long has Earl Dillon been mentor of
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  Speaker 2: the Bowls Club Bar?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I would not know. He's happy to have us
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  Speaker 3: anyway and we're happy to go and support the Bowls Club.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's always a good thing. So what's been happening?
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  Speaker 1: What's going on?
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  Speaker 3: So we're, like Max said last week, we're flat out
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  Speaker 3: into organising our bar cup and schmuzzles, so there's a
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  Speaker 3: bit of movement on that, so the committee's doing pretty
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  Speaker 3: good on that and It sounded like it was going
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  Speaker 3: to be quite a wee event, to be fair. I'm
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  Speaker 3: quite looking forward to seeing people run around an obstacle course,
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  Speaker 3: dragging their dogs with their dogs, dragging them either way.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be a bit of entertainment, I think,
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  Speaker 3: and a bit of a laugh.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, mate, they always did that thing on Coronet Peak
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  Speaker 2: where your dog had to follow you from the top
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  Speaker 2: of the chairlift down to the base building.
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  Speaker 1: Any correlation with the schmozzle?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a similar kind of thing. You've got to
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  Speaker 3: do a bit of an obstacle course and run around.
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  Speaker 3: It's not going to be easy. It's going to favour...
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  Speaker 3: there's going to be some obstacles that are going to
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  Speaker 3: favour your dog and not favour you and vice versa.
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  Speaker 3: So it's going to be a bit of entertainment just
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  Speaker 3: to start the evening kind of off in that mid-afternoon.
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  Speaker 3: So it'll be a bit of a laugh. Hopefully the
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  Speaker 3: weather plays ball and it'll be a nice good day.
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  Speaker 2: And following the schmozzle, inverted commas, you've got the Bark Up,
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  Speaker 2: which is quite a big thing for young farmers to
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  Speaker 2: do from now onwards.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're into the Bark Up season kind of thing.
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  Speaker 3: It's kind of like the The trial dog season, I guess,
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  Speaker 3: for young farmers. We started with Tiana and we work
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  Speaker 3: our way kind of up from us and then down
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  Speaker 3: all the way up to Otago and then back down
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  Speaker 3: to Clinton. So within probably a month, there's about four
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  Speaker 3: or five of them going on. So it's a bit
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  Speaker 3: of a, we should run it on points. It'd be
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  Speaker 3: quite interesting, I reckon, in the future. But it's a
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  Speaker 3: great opportunity just to get out. Everyone's got a dog
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  Speaker 3: that can go and have a bark. So it'll be
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  Speaker 3: all good.
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  Speaker 2: You reckon this should be similar to the dog trialling
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  Speaker 2: scene and it's all based on points and like aggregate?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I reckon something like that. We could have an
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  Speaker 3: overall winner. That'd be great. Some people go to all
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  Speaker 3: of them, so why not? Let's see who collects the
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  Speaker 3: most points and has a trophy at the end. That
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  Speaker 3: could be a bit of a laugh, a bit of
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  Speaker 3: bragging rights.
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  Speaker 2: That's probably one of the most intelligent things you've ever
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  Speaker 2: come up with in this lot, Connor.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, full of ideas as I'm getting older, Andy.
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  Speaker 2: The money that's raised from the bar cut, though, there's
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  Speaker 2: a serious note behind this.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so we're supporting a local organisation that helps kids
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  Speaker 3: that are in need or have kind of special disabilities
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  Speaker 3: that wanted to get into the area farming. It's a
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  Speaker 3: great organisation and it's one that at a club we
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  Speaker 3: didn't know was even in our community. So we're more
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  Speaker 3: than happy to get in behind them, support them and
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  Speaker 3: get some money towards them to help young people get
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  Speaker 3: into agriculture.
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  Speaker 2: So how did you come across it? What's the organisation called?
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  Speaker 2: Can you remember off the top of your head?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I can't remember off the top of my head, no.
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  Speaker 3: It was pretty poor for me, but it was just.
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  Speaker 3: We've supported so many organisations or local kind of things
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  Speaker 3: over the last few years, we've decided to put it
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  Speaker 3: out to the community and get them to kind of
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  Speaker 3: give us ideas, because it's one thing us coming up
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  Speaker 3: with ideas, but we always kind of seem to come
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  Speaker 3: up with the same thing, and we don't want to
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  Speaker 3: support just the same organisation every year, so... We want
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  Speaker 3: to try and spread the load a little bit. Even
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  Speaker 3: if it's a few grand here and there, it's still
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  Speaker 3: a few grand going to a good cause. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: someone brought it up on the suggestions that was entered
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  Speaker 3: into the club, and, yeah, it was pretty unanimous when
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  Speaker 3: we voted on it a few meetings ago. So that's
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  Speaker 3: really cool.
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  Speaker 1: Fonakey House.
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  Speaker 3: That's the one.
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  Speaker 2: There you go, doing the hard yards for you. As
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  Speaker 2: far as, okay, what else is happening with you guys?
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  Speaker 2: A bit of fundraising has been happening with tailing.
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  Speaker 1: You guys partaking?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we are.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, tailing, yeah. We've moved into a bit of a
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  Speaker 3: moving company, to be fair. We've done a bit of
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  Speaker 3: helping people move houses and things like that. But there's
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  Speaker 3: some tailing, hopefully, on the cards. We were just talking
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  Speaker 3: last night about getting people ready for the clutching season,
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  Speaker 3: for our clutching gang that goes around from that December
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  Speaker 3: probably to March kind of period. So if anyone has
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  Speaker 3: any clutching that they want young farmers to do, generally
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  Speaker 3: on weekends because obviously everyone's working during the week. Get
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  Speaker 3: in touch with the Balfour Young Farmers Facebook page or
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  Speaker 3: myself or James Adams and we'll sort something out in
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  Speaker 3: that regard. But in terms of everything else, it's people
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  Speaker 3: are gearing up for Young Farmer of the Year contest.
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  Speaker 3: So the district is obviously only a few weeks away now.
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  Speaker 3: We've got two spots remaining and it's going to be
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  Speaker 3: a pretty flat-out weekend in Riverdome.
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  Speaker 2: And of course Balfour's or Young Farmers next year celebrating
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  Speaker 2: a milestone as well. You guys, what's the centenary jersey
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  Speaker 2: or the jersey you've got organised?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so we're organised 100 years of Young Farmers this
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  Speaker 3: coming year. So they're having a big they kicked that
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  Speaker 3: off nationally in Wellington and they're doing a 100 year
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  Speaker 3: club in New Smith they're celebrating a big celebration there
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  Speaker 3: so anyone's invited to that as Young Farmers members but
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  Speaker 3: for as money for that club. And then they're going
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  Speaker 3: to have a big celebration at the Young Farmer of
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  Speaker 3: the Year contest grand final in Christchurch at the, it's
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  Speaker 3: not Horncastle Arena, but in the big arena there. So
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  Speaker 3: they've asked clubs around the region to do something to
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  Speaker 3: celebrate 100 years of Young Farmer. So at a club
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  Speaker 3: where we've made a couple of rugby jerseys to recognise
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  Speaker 3: young 100 years of young farmers, but then also it's
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  Speaker 3: 90 years of Otago Southland as a region as well,
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  Speaker 3: which is pretty cool. So when it comes to the
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  Speaker 3: reunion weekend, we're going to be represented, hopefully, quite well
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  Speaker 3: with all of our members and a few alumni rocking
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  Speaker 3: around in some retro kind of rugby jersey attire for
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  Speaker 3: the colder months of April. So, yeah, it's quite cool
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  Speaker 3: and it's exciting. Limited edition, limited release, so if you want,
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  Speaker 3: not get in contact with the club before we get
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  Speaker 3: the orders sent away.
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  Speaker 1: What do people need to know about Districts?
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  Speaker 3: Districts, 21st November in Riverdon, run by Thornbury. At the moment,
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  Speaker 3: like I said, we've only got two spots remaining from
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  Speaker 3: what I heard this morning, so that's pretty cool. We've
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  Speaker 3: nearly filled all 30 slots. Nice. So there's some... There's
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  Speaker 3: a lot of, looking at the names on the list,
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot of names that are fresh, which is
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  Speaker 3: pretty cool, but there's some serious contenders coming through. That's
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  Speaker 3: going to be quite a tight battle, I think. I
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  Speaker 3: couldn't pick a winner at the moment, so that makes
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  Speaker 3: the contest even a little bit more serious, which is great,
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  Speaker 3: coming into getting that top eight ready for regional finals.
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  Speaker 1: Good on you, Connor. We'll let you carry on.
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  Speaker 2: You're waiting for a truck by the sounds of it,
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  Speaker 2: so best we'll let you carry on with your day.
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  Speaker 1: Good to catch up again.
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  Speaker 3: All good, Andy. Thank you very much.
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