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The Muster- Michelle Watt: 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 2: Growing together with healthy soils.
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  Speaker 1: Become a proactive farmer with Bioactive Ag Fertiliser. Michelle Watt
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  Speaker 1: joins us in The Country Crossover, executive producer of The
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  Speaker 1: Country out of Dunedin.
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  Speaker 2: Good afternoon, Michelle.
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  Speaker 1: Groovejet, Spiller featuring Sophie Ellis-Bexter, a massive hit that is
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  Speaker 1: 26 years old.
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  Speaker 3: That's crazy, isn't it, to think it's 26 years old.
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  Speaker 3: I remember when that song came out, Andy, and I
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  Speaker 3: was doing, it was either, I think it might have
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  Speaker 3: been sixth form exams or seventh form exams, but to
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  Speaker 3: think that that's 26 years ago.
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  Speaker 4: In my head, I'm still 25. How's that possible?
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  Speaker 2: The first time I heard that song, I was in Bangkok.
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  Speaker 4: I bet a lot of people are using music at
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  Speaker 4: the moment to get through.
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  Speaker 3: The weather down south has not been very kind, has it,
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  Speaker 3: the last few weeks or so?
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  Speaker 2: No, it hasn't.
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  Speaker 1: And there's a lot on that, though. There's been a
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  Speaker 1: lot of community events that are occurring over the next
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  Speaker 1: week or two. For example, Beef and Lamb's got their
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  Speaker 1: spring shouts happening next Wednesday at Tokanui and on Thursday
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  Speaker 1: at the Central Pirates Rugby Club, both at the rugby
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  Speaker 1: clubs in those respective towns, and the following week too.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a lot of events that are going on
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  Speaker 1: down here for farmers.
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  Speaker 2: Which is going to be appreciated.
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  Speaker 4: I think so.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, sometimes it's just about getting together, isn't it?
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  Speaker 3: And realising that you're not the only one that's going
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  Speaker 3: through it. Or even asking for a bit of help
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  Speaker 3: if someone has got some spare time to come lend
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  Speaker 3: a hand if you are struggling through. Because it is
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  Speaker 3: tough being out there in the wet, the cold. I don't,
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  Speaker 3: I have no desire to I don't like cold places, Andy,
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  Speaker 3: I'll be honest about that. But being wet and cold,
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  Speaker 3: it's hard work, especially walking around in the mud and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: And even with daylight savings, it's going to be a
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  Speaker 3: bit lighter at night.
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  Speaker 4: It's still not very pleasant.
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  Speaker 2: Look, interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday, Fonterra, a good news story, and this comes along following,
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  Speaker 1: just we learned not long after that, about the $ 525
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  Speaker 1: pen of lambs at Charlton.
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  Speaker 4: It's all negatives and positives, right? I mean, that $ 525 lamb, though,
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  Speaker 4: that is.
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  Speaker 4: That is insane. And that is some sort of record,
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  Speaker 4: isn't it?
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  Speaker 1: I've never heard of a lamb for that price at
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  Speaker 1: a sale yards in New Zealand.
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  Speaker 2: That's not to say it hasn't happened, but I'm wondering.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a lot of money for a lamb, which
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  Speaker 3: is great for the industry. And of course, the full
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  Speaker 3: year results from Fonterra released, everything's good news across the
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  Speaker 3: board in that respect. So I think people should be
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  Speaker 3: fairly happy.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: But Fonterra, yes, it's a bit inflated by the selling
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  Speaker 1: of their commercial earlier on in the year, but nonetheless
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  Speaker 1: a great result.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: And you've got to look at the positive sides of
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  Speaker 3: it and just keep going, I think, especially with the
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  Speaker 3: election coming up. I think that's driving quite a lot
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  Speaker 3: of negativity at the moment and people sort of getting
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  Speaker 3: a bit down about that.
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  Speaker 4: You get positive news like that, it lifts you back up.
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  Speaker 1: And Parliament's just risen for the term, I suppose. But look,
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  Speaker 1: this is an interesting one coming out yesterday and a
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  Speaker 1: frustrating one for a lot of people, if not let
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  Speaker 1: alone councils. Local government reform has been paused. What an
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  Speaker 1: absolute waste of time and money.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I found this very interesting, Andy.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, I had to read the headline twice because
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  Speaker 3: I was thinking how they rushed that through. They put
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  Speaker 3: a lot of pressure on those councils, didn't they, to
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  Speaker 3: come up with a plan and then to turn around
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  Speaker 3: and say, oh, we're going to pause it now, seems
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  Speaker 3: slightly odd.
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  Speaker 1: I can understand them wanting to get something in there,
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  Speaker 1: but at the very least, it would have been a
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  Speaker 1: great option to have at the election a referendum around
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  Speaker 1: local council reform because this just seems like a big
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  Speaker 1: waste of time.
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  Speaker 2: That's not to say they're not going to continue it.
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  Speaker 2: They are next year.
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  Speaker 1: But what's to say the dynamics of government don't change?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, if the government changes, will it keep going?
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  Speaker 3: It's one of those things that I can't remember if
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  Speaker 3: it was a bipartisan agreement with this local government thing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: so it could be interesting to... to see what happens
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  Speaker 3: moving forward. But yeah, I thought there was a lot
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  Speaker 3: of fuss put around that and there was a lot
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  Speaker 3: of pressure put on councils and a very short amount
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  Speaker 3: of time to make decisions and to then put a
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  Speaker 3: pause on it and sort of almost say they could
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  Speaker 3: have given them more time seems kind of strange.
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  Speaker 1: It almost comes across as interesting or intriguing as John
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  Speaker 1: Key's flag referendum or vanity project, as some people called
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  Speaker 1: it back in the day, and the amount of money
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  Speaker 1: that got.
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  Speaker 2: Wasted on that.
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  Speaker 1: But you just look at bureaucracy and money that just
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  Speaker 1: goes down the gurgler.
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  Speaker 2: It shouldn't happen.
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  Speaker 3: Well, could we compare the flag situation with John Key?
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  Speaker 3: Could you compare that to Trump's ark that he wants
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  Speaker 3: to build, the big archway that he wants to build?
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  Speaker 4: Is that kind of the same sort of thing?
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  Speaker 1: I haven't heard this one. I know that he wants
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  Speaker 1: to put himself on some money. They're putting his photo
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  Speaker 1: in passports. I mean, God, what isn't the guy doing?
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  Speaker 1: He's putting up the price of fuel as well by
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  Speaker 1: the day.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, that was scary yesterday, driving home, seeing that
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  Speaker 3: go up. I haven't seen it shoot up like that.
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  Speaker 2: Since, you know, a couple of months ago.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, when it was quite bad. But, I mean, you've
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  Speaker 3: just got to take it as it is, right? It's
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  Speaker 3: a bit like everything at the moment. If you worry
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  Speaker 3: about it too much, you'll worry about everything and you'll
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  Speaker 3: get yourself into a bit of a, frenzy about it
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  Speaker 3: when really it's not something you can control.
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  Speaker 4: You've just got to deal with it.
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  Speaker 1: It's about the bigger picture now. Your beloved Waza out
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  Speaker 1: of the NRL finals. So now you can jump on
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  Speaker 1: the AFL bandwagon. Fremantle up against the Brisbane Lions tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: I talk about the sport a lot.
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  Speaker 2: I watch a lot of it. I think it's fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: It's a way better thing to watch than Super Rugby
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  Speaker 1: or a lot of rugby because the ball is just
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  Speaker 1: consistently in play.
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  Speaker 2: That is the appeal of AFL.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, AFL is the craziest game to watch. If anyone
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  Speaker 3: out there has ever not watched it, definitely tune in
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  Speaker 3: this weekend because a final, and I can speak from
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  Speaker 3: experience of watching finals on TV of AFL, is the
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  Speaker 3: most crazy thing you'll ever see. The sport itself, the
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  Speaker 3: men that play this sport, and I believe, I think
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  Speaker 3: there might be women's teams actually.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there are, AFLW.
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  Speaker 3: So they're just so athletic.
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  Speaker 4: They have to jump in the air. They have to,
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  Speaker 4: it's insane what they can do.
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  Speaker 2: You've seen Arabian players though.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but it's the skill level. It's insane.
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  Speaker 3: And like you said, the game is in play the
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  Speaker 3: whole time. So it's something to watch. It's just the
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  Speaker 3: most insane thing. And I would absolutely recommend sitting down
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  Speaker 3: and watching that and of course it would be great
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  Speaker 3: to be there for the, I think it's the pre-show
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  Speaker 3: or the half-time show when Kylie Minogue is performing No.
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  Speaker 1: Chance, it'll be 100,000 fans even though the final is
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  Speaker 1: containing two teams not from Victoria, it'll still sell out
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  Speaker 1: actually Friday, I'm not too sure what the go is
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  Speaker 1: there but traditionally the Friday is a day off for
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  Speaker 1: Victoria because they do the grand final parade, however two
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  Speaker 1: out of town teams, I'm not sure what's happened there
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  Speaker 1: but a mate of mine once described AFL as a
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  Speaker 1: sport that celebrates a perpetual knock on.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a very weird game to watch. It's different.
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  Speaker 4: The rules are weird.
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  Speaker 3: It's very difficult to follow at times, but it is
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  Speaker 3: really fun to watch. And yeah, I guess when you
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  Speaker 3: think about it, it is a bit of a game
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  Speaker 3: of playing knock-on.
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  Speaker 4: So if you're good at doing knock-ons, you'll be great
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  Speaker 4: at it.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: And Kylie Minogue's halftime for the entertainment, coincidentally, better than
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  Speaker 1: the NRL in their no-show.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was so surprised by this because Kylie Minogue,
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  Speaker 3: such a great act. It just shows how big AFL
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  Speaker 3: is compared to some of the other sports, I think.
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  Speaker 2: Good on you, Michelle. Enjoy the weekend.
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  Speaker 4: You too.
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  Speaker 2: Michelle Watt and the Country Crossover, thanks to Bioactive Soils.
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  Speaker 2: Nick Burley's up next. He'll talk a bit of AFL.
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  Speaker 2: He's a dyed-in-the-wool Hawthorne fan.
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  Speaker 1: His team went out at the preliminary final stage, but
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  Speaker 1: there's bigger fish to fry, let's be honest. What's happening
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  Speaker 1: with the NPC next year?
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  Speaker 4: We're back still, I'm alright.