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We chat to the America's Cup! · Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast

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  Speaker 1: With the John and Ben Podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Cheers to Dilma making the world a better tea.
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  Speaker 3: Lovely lovely to have you in here.
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  Speaker 1: You and and the America's Cup, which is constant saying
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  Speaker 1: it's a lot bigger than you think it would be.
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  Speaker 3: It is. No one's ever said that to me.
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  Speaker 4: Do you find that people do say that about the
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  Speaker 4: America's Cup? The surprised with the size of it.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody says that, yeah, yeah, it is a spectacular trophy.
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  Speaker 3: It is I would say, the size of a what
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  Speaker 3: a four or five year old kid?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but if you want to use the child measurement system, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: for a five year old kid.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. So how heavy is it? Because I imagine we
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  Speaker 3: are where mere mortals. We can't we haven't won the
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  Speaker 3: America's Cup? So how heavy is this thing?
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  Speaker 2: Seventeen kilograms? Do you whip that.
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  Speaker 1: Down to mister minute in the all and they do
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  Speaker 1: the ingram the engraving or is there like a process
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  Speaker 1: when when someone wins the America's Cup that goes to
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  Speaker 1: a special engraver.
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  Speaker 2: It goes to a very special engraver.
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  Speaker 3: That's right?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, So am I right in saying that eighteen hundred
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  Speaker 4: and forty eight or something when it was first made
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  Speaker 4: or something like that.
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  Speaker 2: So the trophy was first competed for. The first race
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  Speaker 2: was eighteen fifty one.
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  Speaker 3: Right, Okay, so it's been around to the oldest trophy in.
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  Speaker 2: Sports, oldest trophy in sport over one hundred and seventy
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  Speaker 2: years ago.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Is really it's a sight to behold and you're going
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  Speaker 1: to be taking it around the country.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. So we're our friends from Toyota, New Zealand.
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  Speaker 2: We're taking it to forty destinations around the country, from
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  Speaker 2: Kitty Kitty in the north to Icargo in the south,
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  Speaker 2: visiting sailing clubs, schools. Toyota stores the length and the
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  Speaker 2: breedge to the country.
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  Speaker 3: That's very coose so people can get up close to
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  Speaker 3: it and get a photo.
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  Speaker 1: Awesome, Now you got you got a wonderful gentleman here
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  Speaker 1: with white gloves on. Now you're it's his job to
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  Speaker 1: carry it around.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's norm normally norm it's normal. Is he a
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  Speaker 3: safe bare of hands?
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  Speaker 4: Norm?
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  Speaker 2: Norm is a very safe hasn't dropped it?
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  Speaker 3: Dropped it once yet?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I meased a huge responsibility for you.
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  Speaker 1: Norm. Normal. Normal.
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  Speaker 3: It's like you could kill a man don't message, don't
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  Speaker 3: the cap.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and yeah, many people will be aware that it's
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  Speaker 1: not going to be held in New Zealand this time.
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  Speaker 1: Whereabouts is the next America's Cup.
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  Speaker 2: The next America's Cup is in barcel and what.
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  Speaker 1: They take it to Barcelona.
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  Speaker 2: Because Barcelona offered to host it for us and by
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  Speaker 2: doing that the team was able to raise enough money
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  Speaker 2: to be able to hopefully successfully defend it. Nice, So
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  Speaker 2: that's a little bit different this time. So this is
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  Speaker 2: effectively the Cup going on. It's oe and we're doing
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  Speaker 2: something different.
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  Speaker 3: But it's still a home race for us.
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  Speaker 2: We are still defending it, and so are their new teams.
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  Speaker 1: New countries entering this America's Cup that haven't been there previously.
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  Speaker 2: Yes there are, so there's teams from France before. The
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  Speaker 2: Swiss are back with an.
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  Speaker 1: They had a linger.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and what is different this time is they've brought
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  Speaker 2: in the muscle of some of the Formula One teams
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  Speaker 2: and Lingy have so they've got the Red Bull Formula
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  Speaker 2: One team in thes have bought in the Mercedes Formula
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  Speaker 2: One team, so they're putting enormous resource and horsepower and
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  Speaker 2: Team New Zealand are working incredibly hard, so make sure
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  Speaker 2: that they can do because it's changed.
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  Speaker 4: So much over I remember, you know, the early times
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  Speaker 4: that I would watch it with the boats would seem
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  Speaker 4: to go out.
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  Speaker 3: I felt like they're out there for days. He probably wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: But now they've got a missing for six hours. We'll
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  Speaker 1: find out who wins the joving.
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  Speaker 4: But now it's like Formula one on water, isn't it.
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  Speaker 4: They had the little trampoline thing they had, but one
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  Speaker 4: stage pedaling with their feet and legs as well. It's
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  Speaker 4: so many innovations have happened over the last few.
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  Speaker 2: Years, and the cyclers are back this time. But what
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  Speaker 2: will be unique this time is the event will be
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  Speaker 2: literally sailed off the beach in Barcelona.
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  Speaker 1: The design of the boat changes dramatically between one America's
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  Speaker 1: Cup to the next. Do all of the teams competing
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  Speaker 1: have to go? Okay this year we're going to allow
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  Speaker 1: the cycling technology or could you have one boat that's
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  Speaker 1: got cycling technology, one boat that's got a Formula one
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  Speaker 1: engine strapped to the bottom of.
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  Speaker 3: It, like could you have different boats or they all
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  Speaker 3: have to be of the.
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  Speaker 2: Same They're all subject to the same rule. And this
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  Speaker 2: time it's a second generation of the boats we saw
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  Speaker 2: here in Auckland. There are some minor modifications, like the
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  Speaker 2: cyclaws are back, so all the teams will have those.
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  Speaker 2: But I think a lot of the smarts are the
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  Speaker 2: stuff that you and I won't notice, which is what's
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  Speaker 2: going on within the foils and inside the boat and
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  Speaker 2: the systems they're using to sail the boat. I think
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  Speaker 2: that's where the refinement will be this time.
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  Speaker 3: Is it going to be fast?
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  Speaker 1: How much faster can go?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the feedback we're getting is a lot faster than
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  Speaker 2: last America, is a lot faster than the last America.
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  Speaker 4: Because there's always a secrecy too, because no one wants
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  Speaker 4: to sort of played their hand too early and the
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  Speaker 4: technology and stuff that so how does all that happen?
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  Speaker 4: Do they sort of sail when other people aren't watching, or.
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  Speaker 2: As I say, a lot of the technology and the
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  Speaker 2: sophistication is what we can't see. It's inside the boats.
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  Speaker 2: They can only build a certain number of foils so
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  Speaker 2: they can see each other's, but they'll all be careful.
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  Speaker 2: There's actually the preliminary regatta for the America's Cup starts
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  Speaker 2: at the end of this month, and that will be
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  Speaker 2: the first time that we'll see all the boats racing
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  Speaker 2: together and actually start to get a feel for who's
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  Speaker 2: fast and who's not.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's very excited.
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  Speaker 1: Are they mixed crews out there? Are there females aboard
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  Speaker 1: any of the boats?
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  Speaker 2: Not for the America's Cup itself, as I understand, But
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  Speaker 2: what is different this time is there's two lead up regattas.
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  Speaker 2: One is the Youth America's Cup and the other is
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  Speaker 2: a women's America's Cup.
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  Speaker 1: And they've got the same tech and they're still got
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  Speaker 1: the cycles.
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  Speaker 2: And so they're one design boats. Yeah, and that's designed
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  Speaker 2: to build depth in the sailors that will ultimately be
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  Speaker 2: able to sail in the America's Cup boats in the future.
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  Speaker 1: And so do they look to like Olympic athletes and
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  Speaker 1: things because of like, if you've got cyclists, we're just
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  Speaker 1: one goal. Multiple times the women did in France, that's right.
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  Speaker 2: You know. In fact, you know Ta New Zealand has
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  Speaker 2: ex Olympic cyclaws in their team.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, it's very interesting. It's a crazy sport, isn't it,
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  Speaker 1: And there's so much money behind it.
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  Speaker 2: It's wild, there is, and I think you know that's
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  Speaker 2: an important point. It is actually more than a sporting event.
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  Speaker 2: It's creating a team, it's the technology, it's the innovation,
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  Speaker 2: it's the engineering as well as sailing a boat.
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  Speaker 4: Because I guess you're in New Zealand, you know we
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  Speaker 4: do such a great job of it, but you know
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  Speaker 4: we're probably there's probably other teams with more money.
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  Speaker 3: What makes us so good at it?
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  Speaker 2: I think it is that innovation. So, you know, one
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  Speaker 2: of the remarkable things about what Emirates Team New Zealand
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  Speaker 2: have done over forty years, less resources than anyone else's got,
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  Speaker 2: has been able to be consistently successful. And that is
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  Speaker 2: by thinking differently, being innovative, being creative, coming up with
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  Speaker 2: ideas that no one else has and and and that's
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  Speaker 2: something that I think we can all be very proud of.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's something that we aspire to is
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  Speaker 2: as New Zealanders on the bottom the world, competing on
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  Speaker 2: the world stage, is that ability to be innovative and
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  Speaker 2: creative and come up with a smarter solution.
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  Speaker 1: Do we have a big hand in making the rules
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  Speaker 1: for this America's Cup given that we're the current cup holders.
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  Speaker 2: We do, But we have to agree with with what
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  Speaker 2: they call a challenger of record which is a club
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  Speaker 2: that acts on behalf of the challenging clubs and in
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  Speaker 2: this type this case it's the Royal Yacht Squadron out
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  Speaker 2: of England.
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  Speaker 1: Because I'd be like, hey, by the way, no formula
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  Speaker 1: one dudes, don't want to keep those in and allowed. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and you get you to start five minutes after we start.
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  Speaker 3: Oh well, thank you so much for bringing that. And
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  Speaker 3: it's really an honor.
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  Speaker 4: They have America's Company yourself in the studio. Where can
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  Speaker 4: people if they want to see it, as you said,
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  Speaker 4: it's going from the top of the north the bottom
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  Speaker 4: of the south, how can they find out where it's
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  Speaker 4: going to be.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the best place to go is our website which
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  Speaker 2: is keywecup dot co dot nz it and that has
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  Speaker 2: all the details.
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  Speaker 3: For the trip.
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  Speaker 1: And look at it now. I'm not we're not over
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  Speaker 1: selling it. It's a remarkable It's a remarkable side, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: You're absolutely right. I mean this it is a spectacular
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  Speaker 2: trophy and people can come and have their photo taken
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  Speaker 2: with it, get up close and personal and actually just
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  Speaker 2: see how much detail there is on the club. And
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you've noticed there, but it's got
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  Speaker 2: the result of every race over one hundred and seventy
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  Speaker 2: years engraved on the trophy.
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  Speaker 3: It's a pretty small engraving going on here.
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  Speaker 1: He like me to get the old Silvo out on
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  Speaker 1: that thing, and there a whole bottle for polishing job. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: really remarkable. So you definitely go out and see this thing,
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  Speaker 1: have a photo with it before it heads off. When
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  Speaker 1: does it go overseas?
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  Speaker 2: It goes to Barcelona towards end of September.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, carry on luggage, first class, first class.
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  Speaker 4: I can imagine it would be first class. We're going
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  Speaker 4: a first class bock. Well, thank you so much for
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  Speaker 4: coming in. We really appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Pleasure