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Speaker 1: This is jem Nation with Jones Origin.

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Speaker 2: Game one is upon us. Can we hold onto the

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Speaker 2: title this year? We feel very lucky that we've been

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Speaker 2: able to steal the coach and one of our faves

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Speaker 2: for a chat before the big game tonight. It's Brad Fittler.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Brad. I hear out for a walk?

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Speaker 1: Yes, Amanda? How are you a Jonesy?

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Speaker 3: Brad? How are you got the shoes on?

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Speaker 1: Shoes are on? Mate? It's the back of Sydney Olympic Park,

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Speaker 1: so a little bit nervous? What a tread on?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. You gotta be careful. And I took a

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Speaker 3: leap out of your book. I was walking around without

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Speaker 3: some shoes on. I tell you what they your heels

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Speaker 3: get saw, aren't they?

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Speaker 1: Well, if you don't practice it a lot, Jones, then

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Speaker 1: they might.

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Speaker 3: Maybe I've got to come down of train.

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Speaker 2: Toughen up your feet.

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Speaker 1: Brenda.

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Speaker 2: How do you deal with a daylight today? Do you

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Speaker 2: have certain rituals? Obviously you go for a walk. Do

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Speaker 2: you talk to the players all day? Do you leave

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Speaker 2: them alone?

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Speaker 1: Well? I have a little morning ritual, a little breathing

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Speaker 1: ritual I do every day. I've done that. I did

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Speaker 1: my nerdle quirdle and wordle yep yep. And then at

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Speaker 1: an interview this morning, and then the staff every day

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Speaker 1: on care we always go for the morning walking and

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Speaker 1: that's where we make sure we find you. We know

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Speaker 1: exactly what we're doing.

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Speaker 3: Well, great, I really.

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Speaker 1: See the players. We said we do team walk with

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Speaker 1: the players at ten thirty pretty much just let them

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Speaker 1: alone today, yep.

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Speaker 2: Do they do anything physical today? Do they train today?

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Speaker 2: Or that today's ahead day?

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Speaker 1: Now today's we do all walk and just play a

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Speaker 1: bit of a game. Just get out of the hotel,

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Speaker 1: the fresh air, and now they just make sure they're

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Speaker 1: in good food and they rest up most of the day.

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Speaker 3: That's what you've got to do. There's been a little

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Speaker 3: bit of well from me just scratching ahead about Joshadow

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Speaker 3: Carr on the on the bench. I know that you

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Speaker 3: know more about the game than I do.

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Speaker 2: What a shock sentence that is.

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Speaker 3: But I said of went, oh, hang on Joshadow car

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Speaker 3: on the bench.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think it's more of a case of Daniel

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Speaker 1: Tupho played his way into the team. I think it's

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Speaker 1: always instead of origin. We try to be as loyal

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Speaker 1: as we possibly can and Josh Karsbin fantastic to his

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Speaker 1: team and it was great to see and go back

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Speaker 1: to Kennery and score a couple of tries and you

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Speaker 1: see he's getting his majo basa. It's not also the

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Speaker 1: arena where you want to be putting people. If it's

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Speaker 1: not time either, that can can be quite overwhelming. So

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Speaker 1: their coach's decisions that you have to make some times.

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Speaker 1: And we'll see Josh and here again sometime.

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Speaker 2: Billy Slater is the new head coach for the other

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Speaker 2: team who shall not be named. You both work together

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Speaker 2: at Channel nine. Does this change how you've seen each

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Speaker 2: other through the corridors.

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Speaker 1: Well, it is funny as he gets closer and we're

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Speaker 1: both very passionate about our team's doing well. We know

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Speaker 1: the benefit of what it does for the kids coming

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Speaker 1: up play and Putty in New South Wales and the

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Speaker 1: fans the way they you know, it's just gives them

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Speaker 1: bragging rights for twelve months, so that's important. And but

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Speaker 1: you listen to some of the parents the other night

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Speaker 1: when we had our Josie presentations and how they talk

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Speaker 1: about their their sons, how they come through and they

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Speaker 1: get to this level, how they dreamed about as kids

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Speaker 1: and they spoke to their parents about it, and then

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Speaker 1: when you get a different perspective, it really encompasses what

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Speaker 1: it's all about. It's a game of footy for at

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Speaker 1: the end of the day, it's something that it's a

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Speaker 1: lot of dreams and a lot of hope and there's

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Speaker 1: a lot we can do good with it as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the stuff that makes me cry when I

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Speaker 2: see the moms watching their sons get presented in the jerseys.

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Speaker 3: It's beautiful. And you look at the average the NRL

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Speaker 3: first grade footballers can hope to play thirty seven professional

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Speaker 3: games in his life in his career. That's the average

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Speaker 3: to get the state of origin exactly. That's amazing in

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Speaker 3: those players like yourself that went on and played games

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Speaker 3: that you guys are like legends.

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Speaker 1: Well a lot of these kids, some are natural, but

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Speaker 1: a lot of them takes a lot of sacrifice, a

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Speaker 1: lot of whillpower and a lot of discipline and the

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Speaker 1: crimeon Those boys grew up in the middle of man

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Speaker 1: draw where it's very easy to go down another path,

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Speaker 1: but they decided to take tough decisions and they are

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Speaker 1: our greatest role models because they've had more tough decisions

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Speaker 1: to make them anyone. So I think they're in our team.

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Speaker 1: We really feed off that. And yeah, the boys are

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Speaker 1: all donating their jerseys. They're going to raise the money

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Speaker 1: for local group called raft Track headed Window of All

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Speaker 1: Disadvantaged Kids. They they work farm dogs and train dogs

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Speaker 1: and once again, they just kids who were trying to

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Speaker 1: make better decisions along the way and we're just trying

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Speaker 1: to help them out as well. So well, this is great.

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Speaker 1: They use it, well, it can. It's a it's a

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Speaker 1: powerful game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, indeed. Well good luck tonight. Please don't be

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Speaker 3: doing wordle during the game, like a wordle during the show.

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Speaker 3: You if we cross to the coach's box and they say, well,

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Speaker 3: what's Freddie doing, he's doing wordle. Brad. It's always great

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Speaker 3: to talk to you. Watch State of Origin one exclusively

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Speaker 3: live and free on Channel nine HD and nine now

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Speaker 3: tonight from seven o'clock. Bratt Fidler, thank you and good luck.

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Speaker 1: Have a great day. Thank you, Thank.

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Speaker 2: You, great to talk to me.

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Speaker 3: Appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you,