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The Muster- Juan Kyle: Quite The Sporting Weekend · The Muster on Hokonui

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the muster. It's been a big weekend
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  Speaker 1: of sport. The Warriors, unfortunately, losing to the Dolphins puts
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  Speaker 1: them into a qualifying final next weekend where if they
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  Speaker 1: lose this, then they're out for the year. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: Mal Smart looks an absolute picture on the TV. Dwayne
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  Speaker 1: Kyle catches up with us next. Now, along with his
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  Speaker 1: sparring partner, a wannabe real estate mogul based here in Gore,
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  Speaker 1: they went up there, seen the Waz, and then, of course,
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  Speaker 1: on the TV last night, Dwayne's head pops up in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of a terrace as he's watching the Stags
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  Speaker 1: do the number on the Bay of Plenty steamers.
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  Speaker 2: Suri, good afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: Mouthspart Stadium, going up there for the first time.
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  Speaker 2: Explain how you ended up there.
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  Speaker 3: Andy, you out?
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  Speaker 4: Um, yeah, how I ended up there was that real
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  Speaker 4: estate old Jacob Coughlin gives me a phone call on Monday.
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  Speaker 4: He's like, oh, are you keen to go up to Auckland?
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  Speaker 3: And I was like, absolutely. So he booked everything and
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  Speaker 3: we went up and unreal, unreal, man.
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  Speaker 1: So when you were booking things last minute like that, price-wise,
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  Speaker 1: did you manage to get flights that weren't too bad?
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  Speaker 1: Because it's pretty niggly getting up to Auckland.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know how tight he is, and probably a
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  Speaker 4: lot of people do, so we wouldn't have gone if
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  Speaker 4: it was very cheap. And that made it easier, and
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  Speaker 4: I kind of thought the NRL were going to bump
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  Speaker 4: up the prices, but the Mount Smart tickets were super
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  Speaker 4: cheap as well, so she was right on the wallet,
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  Speaker 4: which made it way better too.
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  Speaker 1: Getting tickets as well, not an easy feat for a
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  Speaker 1: sold-out Mount Smart.
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  Speaker 2: How did you manage it?
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  Speaker 3: I didn't.
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  Speaker 4: But Jake did, and it was quite tough because.
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  Speaker 3: And even all the people on the lead groups and that, scalping.
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  Speaker 3: Scalping was a major.
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  Speaker 4: And you could see, like, a few empty seats around
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  Speaker 4: the stadium that scalpers obviously couldn't get their tickets for
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  Speaker 4: $ 1, 000 and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: So that made it tough. But no, we scored some, and.
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  Speaker 3: Worth it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, describe Mount Smart, go media Mount Smart to the uninitiated,
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  Speaker 1: compared to say, I don't know, going to watch the Highlanders.
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  Speaker 4: Well, compared to the Landers, it was just the atmosphere.
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  Speaker 4: So you had all the bloody Islanders with their big
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  Speaker 4: drums singing along and then, I don't know half the
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  Speaker 4: words to what they were singing, but joined in and
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  Speaker 4: it was just... Atmosphere-wise, a lot better than Union.
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  Speaker 3: That was probably the most... I've been to a few
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  Speaker 3: All Blacks games and stuff.
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  Speaker 4: That didn't compare. That was probably the funnest, like, crowd work. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: how do you explain it? But, yeah, just the atmosphere
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  Speaker 4: was way better.
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  Speaker 1: What about prices for buying beverages and the likes, food options?
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  Speaker 1: Was it better than, say, going to an All Blacks test,
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  Speaker 1: or is it just what it is, captive market?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that was tough. It was about.
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  Speaker 4: 54 bucks a round, and yeah, we got a few rounds. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: 54 for four was the price of the old stubbies,
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  Speaker 4: but you're only there for.
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  Speaker 3: A couple of times.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'd say I will be, so no, we hooked
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  Speaker 4: that man.
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  Speaker 3: It was bloody good.
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  Speaker 1: So arriving at the stadium itself, was it a kind
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  Speaker 1: of one of those grab you in life moments, having
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  Speaker 1: been a Warriors fan for a long time? Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Like, I'd been in Christchurch, but now when you're at
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  Speaker 4: the home of Buddy DeWaas, it's just different.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone's so inviting.
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  Speaker 4: Even the Dolphins fans, like, obviously everyone's giving everyone sticks, but,
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  Speaker 4: you know, it was, everyone was inviting, and it just was,
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  Speaker 4: I reckon all the instruments that everyone had and the chahoo,
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  Speaker 4: and I haven't heard a proper chahoo. I've heard bloody
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  Speaker 4: Josh Campbell try to do one after he scores a try,
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  Speaker 4: but it's different.
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  Speaker 3: It's different.
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  Speaker 2: It's a welcoming stadium, like not intimidating or anything?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, yeah. And security, they're very welcoming. Well, lack of,
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  Speaker 3: to be fair. Probably shouldn't say that, but yeah. They're
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  Speaker 3: just like, no, off you go. Just don't be stupid
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  Speaker 3: and follow the rules and it's all good, eh?
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  Speaker 2: What about the game itself?
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  Speaker 1: Was it disappointment at the end or just a realisation
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  Speaker 1: they lost on the day to a better team?
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  Speaker 3: Wow, how good's Herbie?
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  Speaker 4: Barnworth, yeah. how that seemed to be the only chat
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  Speaker 4: in the stand. And it's like, I don't know if
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  Speaker 4: they got tired or if they gave up, but, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: so we were a lot more quiet in the second half.
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  Speaker 3: I'll give them that.
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  Speaker 4: But, nah, even when we were losing, there was still
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  Speaker 4: all the bloody chahooing, drums, and we knew we'd lost it,
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  Speaker 4: but it didn't really change the morale, eh?
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  Speaker 1: Just watching Chanel Harris-Tavita's kicking game. You could say it's solid,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not match-defining. Do you think Luke Metcalf needs
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  Speaker 1: to come back in?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: And that's what we were talking about was you could
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  Speaker 4: see they were just all way too short. And when
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  Speaker 4: we would get it back, we were just in no
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  Speaker 4: position to– I'm not a sports.
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  Speaker 3: Analyst, by the way, but this is just what I
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  Speaker 3: was thinking.
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  Speaker 2: You sounded very credible.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're in no.
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  Speaker 4: Attacking position even once we got that kick back and
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  Speaker 4: love Chanel, but he didn't have the greatest. He had
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  Speaker 4: a good game, I think, but just that boot wasn't
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  Speaker 4: his best friend on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: OK, so you get back to Invercargill. Obviously, you managed
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  Speaker 2: to get away.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen a bit on the socials about you being
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  Speaker 1: over the seven kilos to get on the plane.
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  Speaker 2: You managed to negate that. But then, lo and behold,
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  Speaker 2: you're on the terrace yesterday watching the stags. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you're pretty much a diehard for the stags, though. You're
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  Speaker 2: there week in, week out. You're one of these hardcores.
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  Speaker 3: Wee correction for us. That wasn't me that had over
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  Speaker 3: seven kgs.
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  Speaker 4: I was, I think, about 659, and it was fine.
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  Speaker 3: But, yeah, no, week in, week out.
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  Speaker 4: Ah, no.
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  Speaker 3: When they lose, it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 4: We've got the best fan base by far because I
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  Speaker 4: wouldn't say I'm a super fan because there's about 500
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  Speaker 4: other people doing it with me too.
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  Speaker 3: So it's bloody good. But that game, how good are they?
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  Speaker 1: Well, when you're a Southland supporter, the winds are few
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  Speaker 1: and far between at the moment. But the atmosphere, it's raining,
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  Speaker 1: it's cold, it's springtime for God's sake, and they're doing
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  Speaker 1: the number on the opposition on a Sunday evening. You
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  Speaker 1: must have felt pretty chuffed. And just put the weekend
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  Speaker 1: into context.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, well, I didn't have much of a voice for
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  Speaker 4: the bloody Stags, but I made the most of it.
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  Speaker 3: I do use it all the night before, but nah.
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  Speaker 3: How good is it going to be, though?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That, yeah, rate him highly.
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  Speaker 4: The atmosphere was obviously not as good as it was
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  Speaker 4: because there was about 20,000 of these people, but the terraces,
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  Speaker 4: no matter how few or a lot there are, it's
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  Speaker 4: always just going to be a good time.
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  Speaker 2: And Woody Kirkwood had an outstanding return as well.
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  Speaker 3: I heard that he was pretty nervous about coming back,
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  Speaker 3: but you wouldn't think so. He played unreal, man.
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  Speaker 2: Righto, sorry, we'd better leave it there. Thanks for your time.
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  Speaker 1: Are you not contemplating going back up to Eden Park
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday to watch against the Knights?
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  Speaker 2: That's you one and done?
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  Speaker 4: Well, we had flights, but we booked them on the
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  Speaker 4: way home, and we booked them for fly-up Saturday, come
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  Speaker 4: home Sunday, and then, yeah, just got announced that Sunday game,
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  Speaker 4: so that kind of put a spanner in the works.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, well, that's a life and times of a sports fan,
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  Speaker 1: Gerard and Kyle. Thanks for your time, and antlers up.
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  Speaker 3: All right, antlers up. Cheers, Andy.
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  Speaker 4: Cheers, mate.
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  Speaker 2: Enjoy the afternoon.
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  Speaker 4: See you tomorrow.