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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda jam Nation. It's a name we all

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Speaker 1: didn't know much about until recently, but next week Australian

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Speaker 1: footballer Jordan Malata will take to the field to compete

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Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl for the Philadelphia Eagles. The boy

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Speaker 1: who played for the South Sydney Juniors unable to get

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Speaker 1: a contract, will be living out every footballers fantasy. We're

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Speaker 1: excited to have his childhood coach, former NRL player Richard

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Speaker 1: Carus on the line. Now, Hello, Richard, you must be

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Speaker 1: so proud.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, hey guys, thanks having me on the show. You're

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Speaker 2: very very proud. You know, like as a as a

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Speaker 2: as a player, you want to play in the NRL.

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Speaker 2: As a junior coach, so I coached him he was

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Speaker 2: about thirteen, fourteen, fifteen years old. You want, you know,

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Speaker 2: like you want the players to go on and play

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Speaker 2: in the NRL. So I'm very very proud. I've had

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Speaker 2: a few players that have played in the NRL, but

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Speaker 2: not one that's played in the NFL, let alone a

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Speaker 2: super Bowl. Sure, but look at you, you're the font

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Speaker 2: of information. You're the great super coach. I wouldn't say

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Speaker 2: I was a super coach, but obviously you know like

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Speaker 2: at that age they're very impressionable, you know, thirteen, fourteen,

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Speaker 2: fifteen there, know, they're teenagers, you know, growing into adults.

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Speaker 2: And I just feel like just from from a mental perspective,

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Speaker 2: obviously physically he was a lot bigger than all the

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Speaker 2: other kids at that age, but from a mental perspective,

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Speaker 2: you know, I made him a tougher person, mentally tougher

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Speaker 2: and you know, try and sort of get ready for

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Speaker 1: So I've seen footage of him Richard, when he was

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Speaker 1: a child. I saw this in the paper last week.

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Speaker 1: He was, as you say, he was so much bigger

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Speaker 1: than the other kids, wasn't he.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean I coached that team because my son,

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Speaker 2: John Bernard played in that side and John Bernard would

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Speaker 2: have been about one hundred and sixty centimeters and Jordan

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Speaker 2: was towering one hundred and ninety centimeters you know now

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Speaker 2: here is two meters now, So he was. He was

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Speaker 2: a very very big kid. Like I said, every time

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Speaker 2: players from opposition team that would ask for his versity

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Speaker 2: because I didn't believe that he was you know, he

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Speaker 2: the NRL, if he'd stayed here. Look, you know, look

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Speaker 2: South Sydney offered him five thousand dollars and we reconnected

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Speaker 2: a bit later on because he was playing twenties and

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Speaker 2: I was coaching at a rep level at Manly and

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Speaker 2: I saw him play and he was devastating. But you know,

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Speaker 2: like if they had offered him a minimum contract, I

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Speaker 2: think would have ben about hundred thousand back then to

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Speaker 2: be in the top thirty. He may have not left

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Speaker 2: to go pursue his dream in the NFL. NFL, so

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Speaker 2: may it was a blessing in disguise. Look, he would

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Speaker 2: have made it in the NRL, but whether he would have,

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Speaker 2: you know, he he would definitely not be earning the

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Speaker 2: same money because the money he earns, the money he

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Speaker 2: earns in one year is more than one NRL team

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Speaker 1: That's right. And when I look at him, but he's

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Speaker 1: not doing it for the money?

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Speaker 2: Is he that this is the sort of thing that

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Speaker 2: you don't do for the money. It's something that just

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Speaker 2: happens and you just, oh, it's a passion, you know,

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Speaker 2: I mean, like you know, like it's a passion. And

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Speaker 2: he's like he obviously said he wanted to sing at

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Speaker 2: first couple of years. He had some injuries, but he's

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Speaker 2: he's overcome them and now you know he's probably the

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Speaker 1: Well, you touched on this before that when he was younger,

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Speaker 2: Made it look back then, you know that always bring

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Speaker 2: he's about fifteen. Maybe he still love doing it. It was

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Speaker 2: world is he oways to say on Monday, what are

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Speaker 2: you guys doing to celebrate what's happening? Well, we're getting

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Speaker 2: all his old teammates back together, so people played with

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Speaker 2: Jordan or against Jordan. We're holding a big, massive tailgate

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Speaker 2: event at Bruce Park, which is Banks Down Bulls, his

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Speaker 2: so it'd be a great event. It'll be a way

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Speaker 2: each other for quite a long time. They're all excited

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Speaker 1: Does he know how much support and lovers come from

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Speaker 1: his old club in Australia, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: He does. Look, he stayed connected to most of his

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Speaker 2: you know, he doesn't come back as often as he does.

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Speaker 2: But when he did come back, when he came back

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Speaker 2: connected with my son. My son's actually been trying to

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Speaker 2: get him on his podcast to go on his JBC show.

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Speaker 2: You might name my Sonny's. John Barnardi was a TikTok

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Speaker 2: had his own sort of journey on the way Tonty.

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Speaker 1: Well Richard, this is great.

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Speaker 2: And imagine if he performed in the Super Bowl and

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Speaker 2: then sang out the halftime. Imagine that is that a

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Speaker 2: bridge too far? Maybe if they don't make the Super

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Speaker 2: Bowl one near Philadelphia. You can actually be part of it.

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Speaker 2: That could be. Richard, thank you for telling me up

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Speaker 2: there with Rihanna. Thank you, thank you for telling us

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Speaker 2: his story. The NFL's Super Bowl towel Gate starts six

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Speaker 2: am Rice Park next Monday. Richard Carus, thank you for

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Speaker 2: the show. Guys, great listening to you. Thank