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Benji and Hannah speculate and guesstimate who will be riding for who this year. Benji has news on some new pedals that are made of pure green and Hannah questions Benji's adulting skills when it comes to caring for his dog.
It's all in this week's episode.
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[Music]
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hello and welcome to another single
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track World fresh go Friday podcast inde
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deedles in which I will sit very still
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because my back hurts
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and Benji's going to attempt to sit
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still I did kind I heard my back the
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other day actually it's like a
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rotational twist um I think it was
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probably to do with shopping in the boot
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of the car wasn't exciting I don't think
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I don't know I just woke up like this
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yeah so anyway you're going to keep the
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microphone nice and still aren't you do
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you need to do some bat on twirling or
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something now just to get out your
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system could have been a good bat on
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twirler given the
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chance wasn't available in my day black
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and white Fresh Goods what's Fresh Goods
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oneup clipless pedals do we call them
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Clips or clipless there's a debate
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clippy clippy clippy Clips that's what I
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call
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them Satan's
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shoes what's special about the oneup
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clippy pedals they are were use SPD um
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standard right um which is the thing
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that isn't special they're very thin
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aren't they compared to a lot of uh spds
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apparently the USP well the flats from
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one up are thin as well yep but the
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flats from one up are in the next issue
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of the mag I use them and they're the
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wrong way round compared to most pedals
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so they're
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con if you look at the if you look at
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the body ignore the pins which is one
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way of looking at pedals the wrong
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way cuz you know foot doesn't really
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touch the pedals it touches the pins so
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they do have a um they make their
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concavity by virtue of pin height if you
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want it if you want it yeah but anyway
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the sort of like the wrong way around
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but they work which um yeah um anyway
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that's the flat ones what else is
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special about the new clippy ones well
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they
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green and another colors as well aren't
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they one up there one up is green isn't
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it that's their Vibe that's the one I
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like to uh promote which is interesting
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because hope does not do green like it
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does green for the team but they will
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not sell you green no but hope is Al
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Green is hopes coloring it on their
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labels and things so yeah keep it like
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that other the silver black orange I
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remember seeing in the pictures I not
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seeing any yet I think they're one
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winging a pair winging its way to us
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right as we speak along with a another
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oneup dropper post because we like them
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yeah they kind of too many droppers if
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you've got loads of flipping bikes
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everywhere well I think I can fit I did
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some measuring with millim so it's will
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have gone wrong like all droper all
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droper P measurements go a bit wrong I
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think I can put a 230 in my bike which
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is a 240 mil shimmed by 10 mil facts but
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it'll be wrong I measured something
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wrong I always do measure once it's
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because you measure the to and you
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forget oh they also need to measure
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double that insert into the frame I
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always forget that aspect of it you know
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the bit you can't see like a submarine
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how are you at woodwork
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um it's quite a lot of measuring and
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cutting involved there not great I don't
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know I don't I do a lot of metal work
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filing usually filing stuff
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off other news I think we have a big
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ebite coming later today oh yeah so
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don't want to curse it best name it and
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say it's the or wild it won't arrive yes
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okay so I'm not going to do that talking
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of Ora there a new secret Ora that we
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have yet to see isn't there Ora yes
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because in the big team
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reshuffle uh tany crave and Co yeah are
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all off to Ora Martin May he's still
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there but he's going capital D
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downhilling isn't he I think yeah and O
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doesn't actually have a downhill bike no
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they were using the wild with the motor
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removed and bracing in place weren't
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they there a bit of a thing to do so I
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wonder what they will be on
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they'll be on a wild uh cuz I think
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they'll be on a proper bite
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yeah is chaos chaos must be
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on now you're now you're asking I don't
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know is
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he don't know I don't know what he gets
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up to gonna have to I'm gonna have to
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double check now just downhill R is he
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is he so I can't think of anyone who's
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on the or team it's not really been
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announced yet except it has there's um
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people in pictures in there what's the
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faces in it as well as the tany
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Meister the Galster not from Coronation
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Street K SE is is in it on you yeah
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Phoebe Gil is she the one who pretending
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we don't know at the moment no she's on
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she's official there you go the gravity
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Cooperative just I don't think there's
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anyone I think or's Enduro Gang has been
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pulled is it everyone's Enduro Gang has
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been
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I think even possibly even the yeti
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meisters might not be even
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doing I think
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Richie and Camille might be the downhill
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Yeti team think that's my vibe I know
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I've had to hand it in all their
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homework today all the teams we won't
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find out immediately but there's someone
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at UCI they had a massive desk probably
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made of stolen
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[Laughter]
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gold uh we working out teams now yeah
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who's left we don't know so well so
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everybody that was on GT obviously uh
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needs new home so wi I'm interested to
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see where win ends up and how that ends
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up yeah um and then the union team is no
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more yep and I think some of those
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Riders have already got other spots but
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I don't think everyone's been announced
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correct we need to know what's happened
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to the Madison Saron pair
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and Greg Williamson uhuh I think Greg
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will probably join Reese Wilson on his
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new gamble belt drive Aon is that how
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you say don't know sounds like a don't
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know zeni or yeah like white
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goods El but they should call themselves
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The White Goods who
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else
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lucky yes cuz I know him so well like
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Stevens McNab we think he's on treack
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and um someone else cmy hasn't I think
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Matt Walker might be going tville
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because Loris has gone to come and sell
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Camy banch and elanora finina haven't
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revealed where they're going I don't
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think yeah so I
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think yeah right yeah don't know
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about uh oh Marine gab the most French
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person in the world she's not not on
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Scot
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anymore she's gone someone asked me the
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other day uh Canyon yes Canyon
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C so now they've not doing you know I
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don't know are they doing a team they
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must be doing a team because they got
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Troy the Broan and people up so there'll
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be Troy brosan Luke Shaw Dante Sil is
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not there anymore Marine that be quite a
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good tree sure h and we've yet to see
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what uh what discipline harri hen will
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pick and what team yep I think her last
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Instagram post suggests that she does
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have some plans but I mean has she left
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Trek then I think so I think everybody's
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left track hav't they pretty much right
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um and yeah
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so I mean she could end up track cycling
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she she does every kind of bike yeah who
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knows that be more pound signs in it be
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good for a mortgage applications if she
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goes to drop
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bars anything other than Enduro I reckon
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possibly yeah um yeah so good I don't I
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don't know when the first kind of thing
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we know by the end of the month won't we
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we'll have all the uh info and bits and
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Bobs yep I think the main who's the big
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obviously the main people are staying
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where they are I think on the valley
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stay Valley staying at YT yeah but the
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because of the point system the new
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point system the women are worth quite a
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lot like they're valuable to teams
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because they you have to have so many
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points I don't think special artist had
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any women on Factory racing last year so
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they must be chasing for women to join
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the team and have
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points so yeah be interested well I
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guess they don't need points because
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they've got the bruny man and you get
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all the points but I think he that me
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even though he won they were only third
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in points I that right but they've got
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to have women on the team this you oh
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yeah I don't know yeah yeah you you've
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got to have a gender split on the on the
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teams on the rules all right good who
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could to maybe the Hond should jump from
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one big T to the big S oh that would be
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interesting yeah you heard it here first
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it's not true or we don't know anything
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but you certainly heard it here first
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just like to make some other facts up
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shall we like you think of a fact I've
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got to fix my hair
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um Rachel Aton is joining specialized as
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well that's another heard it here first
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not it's true just hear it here first
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hear it here hear it hear here here well
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as said we don't know what the Aon
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setup's going to be really do we they
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haven't officially announced C's gone
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and col's was gone so does that just
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leave a smaller thing you're assuming
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it's still there yeah I need yeah well
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and then you need to have some many so
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presumably they just put Rachel on the
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list but then does she race I don't know
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I don't think who was top three in
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because there was a rumor going around
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that they weren't going to be having a
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team and then Rachel's like no we
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absolutely are and I keep being asked
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this and who keeps spreading this rumor
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it's People Like Us saying there's a
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rumor she can do that now she's gone to
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special
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don't Gwyn Aaron Gwyn that R again Crest
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line willly jump ship again okay I don't
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even know when the first races the first
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interesting thing is arguably that
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Hardline thing that knocked flipping the
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best Rider out for the whole year last
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year so Hardline will be sometime in
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February in Tasmania tazzy but there's
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also uh not a race but natural SEL is on
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on I think the 15th of February but you
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can't actually watch it on the Telly
11:34
until 5th of March is that a timed race
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no as far as I know it's Rampage esque
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okay or Proving Grounds and that's s a
11:43
land down under that's in New Zealand
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okay interesting um so that's their
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building a line and then okay you you
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ride it and trick it right as far as I
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know it's not
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timed um but yeah quite a fun roster for
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that okay I'm mainly interested to see
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where or how Rees Wilson does yeah
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because it's all changed and didn't they
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get on a Podium for the first time in
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yon Donas last year as well so that was
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good he's got a gearbox bike yeah and
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then the athans have a gearbox bike as
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well everyone's chasing that prize money
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yeah exactly cuz the they're um the
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whole how much you get
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$100,000 from Gates from Gates yeah the
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belt drive
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people interesting be good on yourage
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application yeah all right no no you
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know it's all very well winning 100
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Grand but the extra drag not worth
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[Laughter]
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it that'd be good wouldn't it if you
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know if he wins wand think you have to
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win don't you you have not just Podium
12:51
so have to win which I think he's
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perfectly capable of doing mhm he would
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win more than the whole prize maneuver
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the year would they is that if I won 100
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Grand right now I reckon I could
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probably just retire I wouldn't I
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wouldn't need more I don't know you seen
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how much sour dough
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is you grow that yourself once you reti
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and you got all the ti on your hands you
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grow it yeah like
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spaghetti It Grow spaghetti you on trees
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you too weird what else isir magazine is
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not out
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today what it's about why are we doing a
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story night today just cuz we know
13:31
what's in it finally well around the
13:33
15th of the month yeah we then encourage
13:37
people to subscribe before the 25th of
13:39
the month because that's the date at
13:41
which we have to send all the address
13:43
labels yeah to the printer yep the big
13:46
boss end of level Guardian yeah so what
13:50
I don't know that's the princes like you
13:53
have to get it all done before they
13:55
still play video games my mom calls them
13:56
TV games that's my brother call me and
13:59
my brother call video games TV games how
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did we get from printers and address
14:04
labels to video games I don't know it's
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podcast she could ramble all kinds of
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really I haven't even taken any good
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drugs from her back thank
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God what am I going to do I need to
14:17
request some bicycles in that's my main
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Fresh Goods task that trying to work out
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who wants what people won't tell me what
14:24
they want so people get what they're
14:26
given well and then there's not like
14:29
normally there's like a list of new
14:31
bikes out right like everybody's like
14:33
we've got a new bike please ride it yeah
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and now we're like oh there aren't any
14:37
new bikes out um so uh which ones should
14:41
we have and now we have choices and
14:43
we're all overwhelmed by choice like
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what would what do people want us to
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test what ones are people interested
14:51
people out there you could tell us which
14:53
bikes yeah I think I'm getting trying to
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get one main and Euro bike in for our
14:57
little he St that little for for our
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younger guy who's going to be actually
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racing so I'm need to decide on
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that and then I think Ross is after a
15:08
bunch of trail bikes in series like he
15:10
just a bit more viable it's very forward
15:13
Archie there's a dog encroaching my uh
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space very
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FL I think I'm not sure he has been fed
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I think
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he's my other my other child may have
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not have given me the correct
15:30
information or maybe I wasn't listenting
15:32
this morning so this talk is usually
15:36
quite shy and reticent but has been
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nudging my elbow all
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morning yeah and people listening now
15:46
can't see so I have to do like an audio
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description pleased there is a dog he
15:51
actually very cute it's so cute that
15:53
it's almost worth watching Benji cuddle
15:55
his dog on YouTube me more neck scars
15:59
hello I don't even like dogs but that's
16:02
quite cute say I don't like dogs but
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that's not true I'm like dog ambivalent
16:08
I'm going to give him some kibble in a
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minute it be all right don't worry yeah
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he's giving you the
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eyes you either that what we talking
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about just taking him out he did
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everything so he's sorted aren't
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you we talk about magazine magazine yeah
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B yeah so I think I don't know
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anecdotally I don't think I'm going to
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get many anuro bikes in which we never
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particularly do anyway because I think
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that's the market that's really
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depressed in every sense does that mean
16:37
we're all going to have to do cppy inur
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not XC bikes no we'll get trail bikes
16:43
and ones that are a bit more interesting
16:45
so I'm trying to put pointless numbers
16:47
of travel on it we do that 120 to 150
16:50
bikes that 10 down and then there's
16:53
anything
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electric yeah okay and there are a few
16:57
out there I mean it's probably time CU
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all the model Years Gone to pot I'll
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probably go to some alt Brands who don't
17:04
do model years you know what I want
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please it's new
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chains like proof chains from a cargo
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bike oh that flipping thing that's cuz
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all your drive TR is hidden by a massive
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suitcase all time I know you can't get
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to it to clean it and you do the you
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Loop one end and you turn it around and
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you whatever but yeah it's getting
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brutalized by all the salt on the road
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right so yeah some Rust Proof chains two
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of them please cuz it's a long tail so
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it needs two
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chains I do they not do like belt drive
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cargo is it a bit long for a belt drive
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they do do them but right but then
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you'll get stuck with a
17:44
hub uh shifting system that know what
17:48
you want anyway no not me me like so I
17:53
find the Hub gears quite difficult
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around here with uh all the steep hills
18:00
I don't go easy enough or just did don't
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change uh you've got to remember you
18:07
really got to remember to
18:09
shift okay like yeah when you come to
18:11
the traffic lights on the hill you got
18:13
to get into your easy gear as you're
18:16
stopping you end up sort of stuck yeah
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okay um um right good what else is new
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that Wordle there not can't say
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Wordle to bleep that single single track
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word
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the snide
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word the the sing the single track word
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sounds like uh typo it's missing the l
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no l and it's single track
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world.com single track word oh single
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word single word single word
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okay so there you go right good
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enjoy win out de you it's just a c do
18:53
just to play and it's I don't know I
18:56
think it's probably slightly easier than
18:58
my rather cryptic
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crosswords right
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excellent okay um I think we probably
19:06
should go and feed that dog I if
19:08
actually yeah if you think of any
19:09
bicycles you want to get tested that's
19:11
what I said let me know talking to the
19:13
people out
19:14
there that's what I said to them about
19:16
you I was talking to them all right you
19:19
well anyone can send me things your own
19:21
yeah fine let's go feed that dog he ate
19:24
some cake the other week with raisins in
19:26
it which apparently is like don't Google
19:27
that cuz it means you got to take your
19:30
dog to A&E immediately and you
19:33
didn't no because we think he's done it
19:36
before and he appears to be immortal I'm
19:40
not recommending this you're playing
19:43
like Russian roulette with your dog well
19:47
it was my son he cut himself some uh
19:49
carrot cake with raisins in it in the
19:52
kitchen and then as he does went rushed
19:56
off to do a Wei upstairs
19:59
and came back down and the cake wasn't
20:01
there anymore should feed the dog and
20:04
then I quite surprised he did that ar
20:06
your Bal you weapon because the raisins
20:09
are basically grapes aren't they yeah
20:11
that's the thing that people don't give
20:13
dogs
20:14
grapes yes
20:17
anyway find all
20:20
this week yeah all right then and how
20:23
much it's just like a flipping rinse
20:26
Fest from veterinarians yeah yeah it's
20:28
so at a bloody Fredo so what beni's got
20:31
his own podcast coming right bye how not
20:35
to look after a
20:37
dog all right bye for now oh we got
20:40
there bye
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[Music]
21:05
I every
21:07
week so that's it and then you just go
21:11
something else don't don't poison
21:16
it right that will do we're on holiday
21:20
we're on holiday no it wasn't this year
21:23
last year no I two years ago now and
21:27
call saying h aren you eting some grapes
21:30
so we've taken him to the vets for 150
21:32
soding quid right well you're paying
21:34
that then cuz I wouldn't have taken
21:36
him what
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