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The Hectic Cheese: Brandon Smith

The Bye Round With James Graham

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Growing Up in the Bay of Pigs

When he was growing up on Blockhouse Bay, there were no gangs or violence. He would leave school at 2.30 and catch the 3 o'clock ferry to training in Grayland. But then when he got home, if I called the 845, my mum and dad wake up at four because they are cleaners. So it was pretty tough. And yeah, it was just a... I thought it was cool because I was, like, independent.

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