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  Speaker 1: Nathan Burden is our resident sporting guru on a Thursday
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  Speaker 1: here on the muster he resides in the city of
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  Speaker 1: Invercargill and he catches up once again good afternoon G'day mate,
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  Speaker 1: how are you? Reminiscing today, it's all about reminiscing this week.
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  Speaker 1: Tomorrow for the bad, today for the good. 9-3-9-3 against Canterbury,
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  Speaker 1: 22nd of June 2009, probably about 8.57pm.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, very special memories. I was privileged to be
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  Speaker 2: at that game at Lancaster Park and one of the
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  Speaker 2: special memories probably from my sports journalism career, long time
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  Speaker 2: covering Southland sports, something I never thought that I would
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  Speaker 2: get to witness or be part of and covering a
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  Speaker 2: Ranfurly Shield tenure. And, gee, those immediate days afterwards were
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  Speaker 2: an absolute whirlwind. And then we obviously had the summer
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  Speaker 2: and then a golden tenure, particularly the first game, the
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  Speaker 2: first sort of first division game.
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  Speaker 3: At least, of the following year in 2010.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, after 50-odd years without the shield, the South
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  Speaker 2: Uncertainty celebrated the log of wood in 2009 and 2010.
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  Speaker 1: And the moment that stands out in that tenure was
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  Speaker 1: defeating Auckland for one of the very rare occasions since 1976.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, what a massive.
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  Speaker 3: Week that was.
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  Speaker 2: People can throw the memories back to to what was
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  Speaker 2: a pretty devastating snowstorm. We're going to be talking about storms,
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  Speaker 2: aren't we? The snowstorm of the time and the collapse
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  Speaker 2: of Stadium Southland and it was a tough time for
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  Speaker 2: farmers out there as well and had that amazing, amazing
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  Speaker 2: scenes of Rugby Southland putting the call out to the
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  Speaker 2: public to bring their shovels down to Rugby Park and
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  Speaker 2: help to get some of the snow off the pitch
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  Speaker 2: so that they could play that game and then the
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  Speaker 2: the Stags went out and sort of repaid the public
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  Speaker 2: with a fantastic performance to knock the Aucklanders off, which
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  Speaker 2: was fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: And a funny known fact, Auckland, for all their dominance
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  Speaker 1: in the Ranfriley Shield once upon a time, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think they've held the Loggerwood since 2008.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Auckland MPC team is a bit of a head-scratcher,
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  Speaker 2: isn't it? I guess the regional stories have been great
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  Speaker 2: stories this year, and the Northam one continues into this
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  Speaker 2: grand final. It's going to be great to watch there.
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  Speaker 2: How good would it be to see them knock Canterbury
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  Speaker 2: over and win an MPC title?
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  Speaker 1: There'd be some serious coin to be made if you
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  Speaker 1: had the audacity to put some money on the Taniwha
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  Speaker 1: at the start of the season. But that game against
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  Speaker 1: Otago last week, they were just the better side in
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  Speaker 1: the wet weather as well, which you think would favour Otago.
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  Speaker 4: Well, no, actually, they play in their stadium, don't they?
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  Speaker 2: Well, look, I've struggled to probably, I mean, Northland have
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  Speaker 2: defied us. my thoughts all season to be fair even
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  Speaker 2: though I'm a romantic at heart and you want to
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  Speaker 2: get on that story and I certainly thought Otago were
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  Speaker 2: going to win that game I thought they had the
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  Speaker 2: goods and would go through and book themselves for back
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  Speaker 2: to back finals if not go one better so was
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  Speaker 2: more than happy to be proved wrong though and see
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  Speaker 2: the Taniwha get up in that.
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  Speaker 1: One Silver Ferns, two new up in the Constellation Cup.
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  Speaker 1: They go over to Australia now for the two return games.
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  Speaker 1: You can't help but wonder, though, the panicking in Australian
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  Speaker 1: netball is going to be real, knowing that all their
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  Speaker 1: top players are in their league now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and look, I was probably one of those ones
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  Speaker 2: that was sort of urging a bit of caution post
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  Speaker 2: the Commonwealth Games when the Australia lost to Jamaica, didn't they?
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  Speaker 2: And missed out on the final for probably the first
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  Speaker 2: time ever. It was like, well, you know, don't need
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  Speaker 2: to sort of panic too much. But, you know, Silver Ferns,
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  Speaker 2: first time playing them this year and have looked like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, vastly superior in both of those games. Should
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  Speaker 2: have won by a lot more than they did up
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  Speaker 2: in Auckland. I was watching that game at Spark Arena
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  Speaker 2: and the Silver Ferns were just in control. throughout and
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  Speaker 2: we should have been disappointed that the margin closed up
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  Speaker 2: towards the end and then again last night without, I
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  Speaker 2: don't think, without even really getting right into top gear
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  Speaker 2: with some of the changes that are being made during
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  Speaker 2: the game as Dame Noelene gives everyone in the squad
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity. The gap between these two teams is significant
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  Speaker 2: at the moment. It's just something that we're not really
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  Speaker 2: used to. It'll be really interesting to see if that
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  Speaker 2: transitions across the Tasman for the last two games of
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  Speaker 2: the series.
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  Speaker 1: Is that just perhaps the rotation or the transitioning of
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  Speaker 1: Australia going from one generation of players to another?
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  Speaker 4: But that's not really the case either, is it?
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  Speaker 3: No, I mean, these are good Aussie players.
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  Speaker 2: And I guess if you look at that competition, which
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  Speaker 2: is what people are talking about, it's that tension between
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  Speaker 2: do you want a really strong international product that lots
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  Speaker 2: of people are going to want to tune in and
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  Speaker 2: look at, or is it your development pathway? Is it
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  Speaker 2: possible to have both? And I guess if you look
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  Speaker 2: at something like the English Premier League in football, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the biggest, you know, obviously the biggest footballing franchise in
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  Speaker 2: the world, but England haven't won a World Cup for
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  Speaker 2: a while, so... can those two things live together? It's
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  Speaker 2: hard to say, but if you're an Aussie netball fan,
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  Speaker 2: you're probably scratching your head at the moment, eh?
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  Speaker 1: The Blackcaps, they get the campaign for 2026-27 underway tonight,
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  Speaker 1: a huge summer at Crack It Ahead, playing India at
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  Speaker 1: T20 at Christchurch. If you can stay awake at 8 o'clock,
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  Speaker 1: that's when the game gets underway.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, two sold-out games at Hagley Oval to kick off
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  Speaker 2: the series, and I'm The rugby season isn't quite finished yet,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm very ready for the cricket season to get started.
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  Speaker 2: And it is pretty tantalising sort of a prospect to India,
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  Speaker 2: although they don't tend to travel that well down here.
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  Speaker 2: But there are still some pretty handy players in that team.
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  Speaker 3: So I'll be tuning in.
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  Speaker 2: But it is, as you say, it's a bit of
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  Speaker 2: a challenge probably to get through to midnight. But hopefully
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  Speaker 2: it's a game that is worthy of the attention and
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  Speaker 2: can get.
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  Speaker 3: Us through to that lake.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's not ideal for young kids with school tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Going to the cricket's great, but falling asleep on the
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  Speaker 1: bank because the game's only half over's not.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and the struggle is real.
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  Speaker 2: Sunday night, netball test in Auckland, and I must admit,
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  Speaker 2: by the time the game had come to an end,
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  Speaker 2: I was looking around at probably a stadium that had
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  Speaker 2: emptied out noticeably with families with young children who'd left
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  Speaker 2: before the end of that game, so And definitely, you know,
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  Speaker 2: while you need those TV-friendly time schedules, it's not always
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  Speaker 2: great for people who are actually buying the tickets and
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  Speaker 2: showing up for the games live.
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  Speaker 1: And it's the countdown, I suppose, to this. We talk
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  Speaker 1: about this a lot, but we can only keep talking
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  Speaker 1: about it too. This Australian Test Tour, two tests before Christmas,
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  Speaker 1: the Boxing Day Test, and then in the early New
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  Speaker 1: Year in Sydney.
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  Speaker 4: It's going to be a doozy. The countdown starts properly.
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  Speaker 4: This is going to be awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, can we say the Aussies are gettable?
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  Speaker 1: If we can handle their bowling attack, that's my one concern.
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  Speaker 4: They've got the wood over us. It's in the mindset.
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  Speaker 2: It's 100% in the mindset, isn't it? I think most
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  Speaker 2: other countries would look at Australia and while there's no
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  Speaker 2: weak Australian cricket teams, they would say that they'd put
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  Speaker 2: themselves up against them. And we have the talent. We
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  Speaker 2: can beat anybody. On our day, we've been doing it
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  Speaker 2: for a long time with a little engine that can
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to international cricket. But as you say,
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  Speaker 2: there just seems to be this mindset when we play
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  Speaker 2: against teams with the old green and gold. It would
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  Speaker 2: be lovely if we could finally snap out of that,
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, get Duffman having a fiver on debut at the G.
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  Speaker 4: That'd be a goodie.
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  Speaker 3: Outstanding.
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  Speaker 2: It'd be good to have Jacob Duffy's name being roared
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  Speaker 2: by the Bage Brigade at MCG.
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  Speaker 3: What great scenes they'd be.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely, Nath. Good on you. Enjoy the weekend up the Taniwha.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you too, mate.
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  Speaker 1: Enjoy the afternoon. It's not looking too bad. See you
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow at one o'clock.