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Speaker 1: This is the Fitting and Whipper with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 2: New South Wales.

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Speaker 3: Stay Got Origin Football? This man save this State so

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Speaker 3: many times. You can watch State of Origin tonight live

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Speaker 3: and exclusive on Channel nine HD and nine NOW. Coverage

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Speaker 3: starts from seven o'clock. He'll be down in the rooms

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Speaker 3: firing the boys up. It's the magnificent Freddy Fitler.

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Speaker 2: Welcome Freddy.

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Speaker 1: Freddy, how's camp?

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Speaker 2: Hold mate, I'm camp. But at the moment, well, what

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Speaker 2: are you doing there?

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Speaker 1: I mean, besides a little bit of in front of

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Speaker 1: the screen making sure you look great and talking into

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Speaker 1: the big stick, what are you actually doing? Freddy? Get involved?

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Speaker 2: Yone?

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Speaker 1: We did you around the players?

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Speaker 2: Freddy?

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Speaker 3: Anyone? Anyone? Thriday.

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Speaker 2: So I went for a walk this morning and I

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Speaker 2: was got a little bit hostile. There is yeah, I

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Speaker 2: get stranger and this time Queenslanders Freddy.

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Speaker 3: Brian Brian's pregame meal. We cannot get over this, like

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Speaker 3: it's it's ridiculous, Like is he taking the p I

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Speaker 3: b less? That's that's got to be wrong, doesn't it.

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Speaker 2: He's an odd bloke. I remember seeing him gorging into

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Speaker 2: all the cokes on the morning of the game. But

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Speaker 2: what about the honest. I wouldn't say he's dishonest, but yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's been strange anyway. If he keeps eating and drinking, like,

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Speaker 2: there's going to be a problem somewhere in the future.

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Speaker 1: Freddy, Did you have a bit of a morning breakfast

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Speaker 1: or routine on game day for Origin?

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Speaker 2: I don't think there's any dissent or any other game.

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Speaker 2: I think he's got up early and I think that

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Speaker 2: I just kept it pretty light. Are you sowed to

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Speaker 2: go in filling light like.

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Speaker 3: Fast? What did you see growing up though, Freddie? Like

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Speaker 3: with some of the that that the hardened players there,

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Speaker 3: what did you see during a game? Like did you

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Speaker 3: see I mean we talk about guys in the AFL.

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Speaker 3: I remember back in the day guys having darts, listening

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Speaker 3: to horse races at halftime? Like, did you see anything

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Speaker 3: growing up when you were playing foot of yourself?

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Speaker 2: Well, I needed to get on the drink the night before.

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Speaker 2: They sit around dinner and have some beers and get

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Speaker 2: them over your drinks and then Helius like a darnings

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Speaker 2: to dart up at half time.

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Speaker 1: But that all change And how how long would the

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Speaker 1: locking and the rooms go for afterwards? Freddie?

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Speaker 2: Like?

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Speaker 1: What was the longest after game stick around.

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Speaker 2: So in the old days we used to want to

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Speaker 2: go out and like dance and party locking. You're ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: The lock into a room and drink.

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Speaker 1: Works doesn't make any sense.

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Speaker 2: Does it makes?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 2: That wasn't now go I'll go was go out and

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Speaker 2: just make sure there's the bus, you know the airport, right?

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Speaker 1: Okay? Any shirts off on a podium at all?

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Speaker 3: Freddy?

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Speaker 1: Was it your sort of who was.

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Speaker 2: That in the team Melbourne?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Not my supper club Melbourne. A pet storm, Freddie.

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Speaker 3: Now put your Channel nine hat on here, because I

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Speaker 3: know you're you're biased. You love the new South Wals Blues,

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Speaker 3: But who do you think is the favorite going into

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Speaker 3: tonight's game.

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Speaker 2: We're the favorite. But I think they've had the the

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Speaker 2: better week or the better ten days. Our blokes were

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Speaker 2: up in katoomber poor and rain. They came back down

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Speaker 2: to sitting in the train the better injuries, pain, hash,

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Speaker 2: Stephen Croydon, and I don't think much has gone wrong

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Speaker 2: in there. I think calem ised a couple of train

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Speaker 2: sessions and they sat on the Sunshine coast and burning

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Speaker 2: beautiful weather, So you got to say they'd be humming

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Speaker 2: the Queenslanders, but I don't get team stronger. Did that

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Speaker 2: makes the distance? Do you?

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Speaker 3: Is there anyone in there that you would have put

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Speaker 3: in there? Freddie? And a Lurry's Lurry's taken over the

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Speaker 3: coaching role this year. But are you happy with the

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Speaker 3: team for New South Wales or what have you included

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Speaker 3: anyone else?

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Speaker 2: Yeahs good mate, Sure they are. Matt King's an interesting

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Speaker 2: one in the front ralph and Canterbury, but they're sitting

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Speaker 2: on top of the table, so he's doing a lot

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Speaker 2: of things, right, They all picked themselves, Yeah, Freddie?

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Speaker 1: Can I ask? Can I ask a personal question?

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Speaker 3: Freddie?

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Speaker 1: That's such a successful career, right, Like you're known as

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Speaker 1: one of the greats of the game and now you've

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Speaker 1: got a media career and people love you. Australia loves you.

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Speaker 1: But isn't it weird that Marie your wife, she's she's

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Speaker 1: just really not interested in what you're doing. Look every

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Speaker 1: time I speak to her and I go our's Freddy

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Speaker 1: and she'll always say, oh, yeah, I don't know what

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Speaker 1: he's up to. I don't know what he's doing. So

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Speaker 1: it's so strange that you could fall in love with

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Speaker 1: someone like from her point of view because probably because

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Speaker 1: you're a local hero. But then twenty years down the

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Speaker 1: track of marriage and she's kind of just not interested.

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Speaker 3: Do you know what I mean?

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Speaker 2: From my discussions and a lot of people, it's quite

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Speaker 2: common at the Wars aren't really interested in their husbands

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Speaker 2: after twenty years. So I feel like I'm just one

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Speaker 2: of many.

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Speaker 1: You know, you're probably right, you know they say to Freddie,

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Speaker 1: they say he loves her and she loves the kids,

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Speaker 1: so that works.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'll be happy with that. That's a real positive.

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Speaker 3: Do you sleep in separate bedrooms? We really, Whipper's been

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Speaker 3: doing it for five years. We know that Benji Marshall

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Speaker 3: and Zooey do as well, and they think it's the

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Speaker 3: best thing ever. Do you still cuddle up to the

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Speaker 3: missus in?

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Speaker 2: I try get that elbow? She has a little fourum

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Speaker 2: that comes up, so you tackle three trying to I'm

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Speaker 2: trying to slow the play the ball down and she's

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Speaker 2: trying to up.

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Speaker 1: It's a lonely elbow.

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Speaker 3: When when does that famous side step come in?

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't, She's good at it. I try to

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Speaker 2: get backled.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Freddie, good luck tonight, mate, got the blue.

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