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The Muster- Nathan Burdon: Tour of Southland Time · The Muster on Hokonui

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to The Muster. Our resident sporting guru is
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  Speaker 1: Nathan Burden. He wraps the week here on the show.
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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Nathan.
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  Speaker 2: G'day, mate. How are you? You surviving this weather?
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  Speaker 1: Got the heat pumps going in the studio. First world problems,
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  Speaker 1: but it's been pretty nippy today. I think it's a
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  Speaker 1: high of like eight or nine.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the mail's been coming in sideways, but I think
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  Speaker 2: things are going to pick up for the weekend, which
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  Speaker 2: is great, isn't it? Because there's plenty on the calendar
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  Speaker 2: to get through.
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  Speaker 1: Straight off the bat, though, the SBS Tour of Southland
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  Speaker 1: gets underway on Sunday, second one for the year. What
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  Speaker 1: does it mean having the same event twice in the
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  Speaker 1: one calendar year, though? That's different.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is different. It's certainly been a challenge for
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  Speaker 2: Race Director Wayne Harding and a small but really hard-working committee.
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  Speaker 2: that put this race together. Probably the biggest challenge, I guess,
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  Speaker 2: is on that hard-working volunteer base that are the heart
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  Speaker 2: and soul of the race, the people that set up
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  Speaker 2: the finish lines and pack it all up at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the day that stand on the corners with
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  Speaker 2: a flag and all sorts of weather and that sort
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  Speaker 2: of thing and do 100 other roles during the week.
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  Speaker 2: So asking them to come out twice in one year
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  Speaker 2: is a big ask. Take taking time off from their
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  Speaker 2: busy lives to contribute to this race. But there's so
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  Speaker 2: many people that love this event that, you know, they
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  Speaker 2: show up year after year. So, you know, it was
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  Speaker 2: great to see them. They came together for a meeting
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  Speaker 2: last night and, yeah, it was great to see those
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  Speaker 2: faces again and everyone sort of primed for a big
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  Speaker 2: week next week.
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  Speaker 1: You'll be following it yet again?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this will be my 27th SBS Bank Tour of Southland, so...
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  Speaker 2: Looking forward to things getting underway on Sunday. And as
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  Speaker 2: you say, this is the 70th edition, so it's a
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  Speaker 2: pretty special one, the old platinum anniversary. So I think
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  Speaker 2: there's something like 16 past winners coming down as part
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  Speaker 2: of the celebrations, including the likes of 1960 winner Gary Ulmer,
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  Speaker 2: who's now 90. And I think it just sort of
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  Speaker 2: speaks to just what a special place or a special
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  Speaker 2: part of New Zealand sport this race is that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: people are willing to travel from all over to come
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  Speaker 2: down and sort of rehash those memories and have a
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  Speaker 2: bit of a reunion. So it's going to be a
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  Speaker 2: pretty special week.
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  Speaker 1: Is it fair to say this is the premier cycling
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  Speaker 1: event for New Zealand on a road racing sense?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, these days, unfortunately, we've had the demise of
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  Speaker 2: the New Zealand Cycling Classic in the North Island, and
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  Speaker 2: that was a UCI-ranked race recently. The Tour has been
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  Speaker 2: a UCI-ranked race in the past, but these days you'd
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  Speaker 2: go a long way in Australasia to find a multi-day
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  Speaker 2: stage race. This is really it. There's quite a competitive
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  Speaker 2: national series over in Australia, but that's more a three-day
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  Speaker 2: race sort of situation. I think we can see when
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  Speaker 2: we look at the peloton for this year, we've got
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  Speaker 2: something like 23 Australians who are coming over to test
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  Speaker 2: themselves over here, so You combine sort of the heavy
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  Speaker 2: chip on the roads, the weather, the fact that it's
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  Speaker 2: seven days of hard racing, the best young developing riders
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  Speaker 2: from across New Zealand throwing a bunch of Aussies, a
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  Speaker 2: couple of Dutchies. There's a Swiss rider there. It's going
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  Speaker 2: to be a heck of a week.
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  Speaker 1: Club cricket gets underway tomorrow, as does all the summer sports.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently it is summertime. We're getting close to it, even
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  Speaker 1: if the weather tells us otherwise.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, cricket before Christmas is always a bit touch and go,
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  Speaker 2: isn't it?
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  Speaker 1: I think sport in general at the moment before Christmas,
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  Speaker 1: you lose that much of it due to the weather.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, touch has been, excuse the pun, touch has been
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  Speaker 2: touch and go, hasn't it? But yeah, club cricket is
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  Speaker 2: interesting to go onto social media and see some of
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  Speaker 2: the hardy old annuals. The likes of Clint Goad, who's
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  Speaker 2: played 250-odd games for Appleby, some of these old stages,
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  Speaker 2: and then some of the new blood coming through too,
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  Speaker 2: so I always take my hat off to the people
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  Speaker 2: who are willing to put aside five or six hours
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  Speaker 2: on a Saturday afternoon to go out and represent their clubs. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: hopefully they all have a great summer.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, I'm going to read a quote out from
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  Speaker 1: Phil Gould on social media. Now, Phil writes... I was
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  Speaker 1: lucky enough to attend a border medal event, and as
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  Speaker 1: part of the evening they showed a video asking current
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  Speaker 1: Test players what was their biggest achievement as a junior player.
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  Speaker 1: It was around the era of the early, mid-2000s. Matthew
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  Speaker 1: Hayden said he scored 200 one Saturday morning. Brett Lee
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  Speaker 1: said as a 14-year-old he got six wickets and an over.
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  Speaker 1: So then they asked Ricky Ponting, the great Ricky Ponting,
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  Speaker 1: He thought for a moment, then replied, nothing significant comes
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  Speaker 1: to mind. Although between the age of 11 and 14,
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  Speaker 1: I never got out. So for three years as a kid,
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  Speaker 1: Ricky Ponting couldn't get out, never got out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's pretty impressive, isn't it? And you'd imagine, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: Australian cricket being what Australian cricket is, he was probably
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  Speaker 2: playing against some pretty.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. It would be ruthless even at that age. Imagine
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  Speaker 1: the champs going out there all over the show.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely. I did meet Ricky Ponting a few years ago,
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  Speaker 2: lining up for an ice cream at the New Zealand Open.
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  Speaker 2: Managed to have a wee yarn. Yeah, he's a good guy, actually,
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  Speaker 2: for an Australian cricketer.
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  Speaker 1: I suppose so, and that's the thing. You only see
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  Speaker 1: them through the media, and what you see is just
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  Speaker 1: the surface. But, I mean, it's like this Indian cricket
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  Speaker 1: team being over here. We've talked about this before as well, Nath.
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  Speaker 1: They're over here, they're anonymous, and they can go about
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  Speaker 1: their business. And if you do go and see them,
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  Speaker 1: it's only just for a very polite conversation. But a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the time, they're just left to their vices.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they must absolutely love it. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we caught up with Jake Duffy not long after his
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  Speaker 2: IPL season debut when he came back from winning that
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  Speaker 2: IPL title. And it was hard to sort of get
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  Speaker 2: your head around sort of that lifestyle of basically being,
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  Speaker 2: you know, even as a New Zealander rookie in that competition,
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  Speaker 2: sort of almost being confined to your hotel, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it was a real challenge to get out and sort
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  Speaker 2: of not be bombarded by the public who just, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they treat these people like gods. So, yeah, as, you know,
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  Speaker 2: these superstars of Indian cricket, it's a different sort of lifestyle.
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  Speaker 2: So they must love it when they come over here.
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  Speaker 2: It is good to see. I think, you know, I've
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  Speaker 2: actually enjoyed probably the camaraderie or the, They've obviously been
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  Speaker 2: playing this T20 series really hard, but it is good
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  Speaker 2: to see the players. I guess a lot of these
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  Speaker 2: guys are teammates, aren't they?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, all around the world in franchise cricket.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. And no one really wants to be thought
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  Speaker 2: of as a dick, do they? There seems to be
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  Speaker 2: a good balance, I think, that the players seem to
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  Speaker 2: be able to sort of get on well on the
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  Speaker 2: park but still play some good hard cricket.
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  Speaker 1: Just quickly to wrap up, what do you make of
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  Speaker 1: Otago being in line with the Highlanders as all five
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  Speaker 1: franchises in the major cities are now? So the NPC
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  Speaker 1: team at Waikato, they've gone with the Chiefs, Auckland with
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  Speaker 1: the Blues, Canes with Wellington, etc.
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  Speaker 2: You all, at first, it was hard to see it
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  Speaker 2: as a positive. I mean, it was how things were,
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  Speaker 2: and they were changed for a reason. They were changed
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  Speaker 2: because it wasn't working that well, and it was thought
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  Speaker 2: that it was going to be better to have a
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  Speaker 2: separation between NPC and the franchise situation. So we understand
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  Speaker 2: why they're going back to that. They need to save
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  Speaker 2: some money somehow. They've got to save 20 mil at
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  Speaker 2: least a year. They're not changing those competitions, so... they've
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  Speaker 2: probably ticked the hard conversations down the road but hopefully
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  Speaker 2: maybe they've learnt from what the barriers were from last
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  Speaker 2: time and they'll be able to do a better job
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  Speaker 2: of it this time around Good.
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  Speaker 1: On you Nath, all the best to the tour next
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  Speaker 1: week we'll catch up and keep dibs on what's going on,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully the weather plays its part and it's challenging for
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