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Morning team, happy Friday! It’s June 16, which would’ve been Tupac Shakur’s 52nd birthday. A fun fact for you: the man trained as a ballet dancer! Here’s a great song to get en pointe to ahead of the weekend.

First up today – the Super Rugby playoffs start this weekend. It’s been a funny old season – plenty of controversies around discipline, crowd sizes, higher-profile players being held back so they don’t get burned out – so who better to check in with on the health of the competition and the game in NZ than World Cup-winning coach Steve Hansen?

After that, Imogen explains what Beyoncé, inflation and football (soccer-football) have in common.

We also check in with a world champion stone-skipper who can skip a stone more than 40 metres across a lake.

And, as per, there’s another round of the brutally competitive Fun Fact Friday.

Have a good weekend – if you want some aural pleasure in your downtime, we’ve got a really interesting interview with Greens’ co-leader Marama Davidson and ACT’s leader David Seymour dropping on Saturday morning.

Be good, and catch you Monday,

Emile

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