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🙏 "They haven't treated me any different" - Jai Arrow opens up on his emotional 100th Souths appearance... · KIIS Breakfast

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  Speaker 1: This is Kiss Breakfast.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone's talking about it over the weekend. Jai Arrow running
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  Speaker 2: out with the South Sydney Rabbitohs. They made a new
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  Speaker 2: rule so he could run out for the 100th game.
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  Speaker 2: He is joining us live this morning with his wife, Barina.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, guys.
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  Speaker 1: Morning. Morning, morning.
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  Speaker 2: Mate, man of the moment, can you tell us, Friday night,
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  Speaker 2: for people that don't know, Right, they changed the rules.
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  Speaker 3: So you ran out for the 99th game last week.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Then Friday night was the 100th game. You got to
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  Speaker 3: go out there. What was that like for you, Jai?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, man, it was really surreal. And, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: really grateful for the amount of support that Marina and
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  Speaker 1: I have had. Yeah. While walking out there, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: realize how many young people there was going to be.
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  Speaker 1: And seeing everyone standing, cheering for the last two weeks,
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  Speaker 1: it makes me really emotional. So honest and grateful.
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  Speaker 2: And everyone was there, including Albo. There wouldn't have been
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  Speaker 2: a dry eye in the whole stadium, so it must
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  Speaker 2: have meant so much to you.
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  Speaker 1: Indeed.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and what about the Rabbitohs boys, all your mates?
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  Speaker 2: You got to sit there while the game was on.
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  Speaker 2: Did you want to just run out there?
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  Speaker 1: Well, if I could run, I would. But at the moment,
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  Speaker 1: I'm in. I'm 4'9, and I don't want to, but
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  Speaker 1: it is what... and look they're being right they haven't
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  Speaker 1: treated me any different yeah um The courts are better
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  Speaker 1: and everything.
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  Speaker 4: They're just still giving you shit like your footy mates
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  Speaker 4: would be doing, right?
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  Speaker 1: It is relentless. Yeah. And I wouldn't have it any
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  Speaker 1: other way.
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  Speaker 3: Is that the thing? Sorry, mate, is it like you
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  Speaker 3: don't want to be treated differently, right?
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  Speaker 1: No. No. Look, I understand my voice has changed, but
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  Speaker 1: my sense in my mind, Attitude towards everything is still
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  Speaker 1: the same.
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  Speaker 4: You're still the same person, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just strong-willedly now.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, of course.
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  Speaker 1: Like an idiot.
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  Speaker 4: And what about Coach Wayne Bennett? Did he.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you gave him a hug?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: He held your hand as well. What does he mean
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  Speaker 3: to you?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Everything. I think, you know, Wayne was, you know, one.
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  Speaker 1: who came up with the idea, and I thought he
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  Speaker 1: was drunken. Yeah. And when he came to me and said,
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  Speaker 1: you're doing it, I went, yeah, right, I'm doing it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then, what he means to me, though, he was
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  Speaker 1: my first coach in the RO. Yeah. And I thought
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  Speaker 1: it would be fitting that he was the one to
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  Speaker 1: tell me off. Yeah. And, It means a lot to
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  Speaker 1: me and for him to want to do that for me.
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  Speaker 1: Really honored.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Really honored.
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  Speaker 4: That's so special. And I think it just goes to
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  Speaker 4: show when you were part of a team and you're
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  Speaker 4: going through something like this and they all just rally
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  Speaker 4: behind you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And you've got the support of your coach, your team,
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  Speaker 4: all the Rabbitohs fans.
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  Speaker 1: Everything. The whole country.
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  Speaker 4: The whole country is backing.
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  Speaker 1: You, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone was watching on Friday night.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think there was a dry eye in the country.
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  Speaker 2: No, and people that don't even follow rugby league were in. Barina,
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  Speaker 2: last time we had you guys in here, it was
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  Speaker 2: really fresh.
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  Speaker 3: She's giving her a noogie. It was really fresh.
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  Speaker 4: Still just an annoying husband, yes.
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  Speaker 2: The diagnosis was really fresh. Can you give us an update?
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  Speaker 2: How is Jai doing and how are you guys doing?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, from last time that we came in here. I
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  Speaker 5: think it's gotten a little bit worse. He's progressed. He's
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  Speaker 5: started to have, he's got his M & D laugh.
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  Speaker 3: What's the M & D laugh?
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  Speaker 5: Well, in awkward situations, not even in awkward situations, but,
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  Speaker 5: you know, I'll be having a moment where I'm crying and,
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  Speaker 5: you know, thinking of the future and stuff, and he'll
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  Speaker 5: just burst out into laughter. It helps.
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  Speaker 4: That helps.
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  Speaker 5: That really does help.
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  Speaker 1: That is magnificent. It's a really good moment.
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  Speaker 5: Good side effect, guys.
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  Speaker 1: I think I heard.
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  Speaker 3: About this one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Go on.
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  Speaker 3: You can say it.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 3: No, not for the morning.
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  Speaker 4: He's like, tell him, babe.
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  Speaker 1: Tell him.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, all right.
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  Speaker 1: Your orgasms. Oh, no.
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  Speaker 3: So that's what we heard. They're better. Are they better?
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  Speaker 1: Like, unbelievable. Unbelievable. Poor Marina. Yeah, poor Marina.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's a good sign.
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  Speaker 5: I wasn't expecting a redo of it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Well, listen, there's a positive in there somewhere, right? Yeah, right.
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  Speaker 4: Great orgasms.
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  Speaker 3: For him, not necessarily. Correct.
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  Speaker 4: But, Marina, can I ask, obviously, Jai is still in
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  Speaker 4: there and he still is lovable, you know, self and
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  Speaker 4: he's still the guy that you met. But I can imagine,
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  Speaker 4: you know, being married to a man with this condition
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  Speaker 4: and you know, you know, the impending future and what
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  Speaker 4: that's going to look like. Are you okay? Like how
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  Speaker 4: have you been?
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  Speaker 5: I think every day I'm just taking it as it comes.
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  Speaker 5: I don't want to think about the future. I like
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  Speaker 5: to be prepared. That's just how I am. I like
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  Speaker 5: to make sure all my ducks in a row and
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  Speaker 5: for the first time in my life, I'm like, you
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  Speaker 5: know what, let it go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You can't control it, right? So you just got to
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  Speaker 4: take each day. And what about your daughter? How old
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  Speaker 4: is she?
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  Speaker 5: She's 17 months today. Oh, what? I can't.
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  Speaker 4: So she's probably not, she's probably none the wiser of
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  Speaker 4: what's going on.
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  Speaker 1: No, I mean. No, of course.
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  Speaker 5: But she does clue in on certain things. We get
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  Speaker 5: a nurse to come to the house to do treatment
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  Speaker 5: for Jai, to distribute Adaravan, this drug that's supposed to
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  Speaker 5: help patients with MND.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: And it's through an infusion. And so when she sees
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  Speaker 5: the nurse kind of poking him in with a needle
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  Speaker 5: and stuff like that, She does start to cry, so
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  Speaker 5: I try to kind of keep her away from that.
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  Speaker 5: But other than that, no, she's got no clue, which
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  Speaker 5: is a good thing.
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  Speaker 3: Do you find that helps? Like, how do you feel, Joe?
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  Speaker 1: I feel all right, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: My physical aspect of me is fine. Okay. Apart from
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  Speaker 1: my voice and my left. Your left eye, yeah. I
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  Speaker 1: am somewhat normal. Yeah. Yeah. I feel really good. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And, and does the, does your condition kind of, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: obviously it would affect your parenting day to day style.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Marina, have you got some support? Have you got help?
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  Speaker 4: You don't have any family here, do you?
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  Speaker 1: No, no.
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  Speaker 5: My family sadly is in Canada as much as they
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  Speaker 5: would love to be here. Um, my grandma's actually got
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  Speaker 5: some pretty severe dementia as well. So they're kind of
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  Speaker 5: dealing with that and, It sucks for them and they
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  Speaker 5: would love to be here. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 5: I've had such a good support network here from all
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  Speaker 5: the players, wives and girlfriends. Like they have been delivering
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  Speaker 5: food to us weekly and making things for Isla, for myself,
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  Speaker 5: for Jai.
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  Speaker 4: You kind of built your own village here, right?
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  Speaker 5: And we do have a village, I would say. We're
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  Speaker 5: pretty lucky here that we do have that.
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  Speaker 4: So important.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: All right, well, stick around. More coming up with Jai
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  Speaker 2: and Barina Arrow. We may have a.
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  Speaker 3: Little surprise for you as well, okay?
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  Speaker 2: So stay right there. You're listening to KISS, 20 past 7,
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  Speaker 2: the time right now. And he is joining us today,
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  Speaker 2: Jai Arrow. Barina Arrow, his wife, is in here as
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  Speaker 2: well after that 100th game with the Rabbitohs on Friday night,
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  Speaker 2: hanging out this morning. And you were talking, guys, Barina,
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  Speaker 2: all your family's in Canada, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Have they come out recently or.
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  Speaker 5: No, so we went overseas for the World Cup and
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  Speaker 5: that was in New York. And so we got lucky
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  Speaker 5: enough to be able to get that experience in the
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  Speaker 5: first place. And then went over to Toronto where my
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  Speaker 5: parents are living currently, which is about an hour flight.
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  Speaker 5: So we got to see them recently, but it was
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  Speaker 5: only for two days.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so they haven't been able to come out here enough.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. And so you guys, obviously, it was Father's Day yesterday,
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  Speaker 4: your little lady, Isla. How did you guys spend Father's Day?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I slept in.
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  Speaker 3: You slept in.
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  Speaker 4: Yes. Nice.
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  Speaker 3: We went down to.
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  Speaker 1: Dinner. Dinner. Yeah, nice.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like most people on like Mother's Day or
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  Speaker 4: Father's Day, they say, you know, what do you want?
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  Speaker 4: Most parents just want to be left alone. It's like
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  Speaker 4: a day off parenting, right? I'm sure it was no
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  Speaker 4: different for you.
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  Speaker 2: Has the attention been overwhelming and are you guys looking
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  Speaker 2: forward to maybe just some downtime?
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  Speaker 1: Downtime.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think once the season's over.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Rabbit-o's might be in there.
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  Speaker 1: Hey. Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Might have to run out again, mate.
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  Speaker 1: They will. Yeah? Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Once the season's over, you know, we're going to go
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  Speaker 5: overseas for our wedding and treatment for him as well.
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  Speaker 5: So we're going to be in Cyprus for two weeks
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  Speaker 5: for him. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: That treatment? Is it a specialist in Cyprus?
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  Speaker 5: So it's called Sozo Clinic and they're like a neuro
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  Speaker 5: clinic over in Cyprus. They actually have a team here
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  Speaker 5: in Melbourne as well. It's quite new. The machines that
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  Speaker 5: they brought into Australia, they brought in this year as well.
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  Speaker 5: But the head doctor that's trained the team here in
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  Speaker 5: Australia is actually based in Cyprus.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. And so I am neuromodulation thing, yeah. So it'll
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  Speaker 1: be interesting.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So there's hope there, right? There's treatments available.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And you would throw everything at anything, right?
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  Speaker 3: Which is what I'm sure you guys are.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, everything and anything. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Jai, do you worry that there are things... In life
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  Speaker 4: that you may miss out on? Are they obviously watching
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  Speaker 4: your daughter grow up? Is there anything else that.
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  Speaker 1: I think for me, at the moment, no.
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  Speaker 5: I don't... Yeah, I don't think we want to think
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  Speaker 5: of those things. You know, I think that's... And when
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  Speaker 5: anyone does ask, you know, how you guys are doing, like, we,
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  Speaker 5: as you guys said before, like, we want to be normal.
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  Speaker 5: We want to feel like... this isn't like a cloud
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  Speaker 5: over our head.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Has that been hard?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Is that one of the hardest things?
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  Speaker 2: Because obviously there's great stuff going on where you're doing
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  Speaker 2: things with the Romanos and everyone's behind you and you
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  Speaker 2: feel like the country is supporting you. But is there
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  Speaker 2: a part where you're like, oh, this attention is a lot?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 5: And, you know, everyone's coming out of the kindness of
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  Speaker 5: their own heart and wants to know, you know, how
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  Speaker 5: we're doing. And, you know, the honest answer is we're struggling.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Mentally, physically, emotionally, every day. But we don't want to
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  Speaker 5: wake up every day, especially for our daughter, and not
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  Speaker 5: have those days where we're maximizing our time together and
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  Speaker 5: being positive and making memories as a family and just...
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  Speaker 5: kind of putting this dark cloud in the background a
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  Speaker 5: little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Nailed it. Nailed it.
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  Speaker 4: She really did.
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  Speaker 2: Well, what we thought would be nice is we want
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  Speaker 2: to send you guys to Canada. Yes, we are going
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  Speaker 2: to send you there. You, the three of you, so
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  Speaker 2: your daughter as well.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, over to Vancouver in December. on return business class flights,
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  Speaker 2: all thanks to our friends at United Airlines. You guys
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  Speaker 2: deserve the break and you have a lot going on.
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  Speaker 2: So you are off to Canada to see the family.
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  Speaker 4: And you get to see your family for longer than
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  Speaker 4: two days.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, thank you, guys.
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  Speaker 1: Stop it.
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  Speaker 2: We hope you enjoy that and you really need some
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  Speaker 2: family time, right?
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  Speaker 4: So deserving.
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  Speaker 3: It'll be cold, though.
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  Speaker 4: It'll be freezing.
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  Speaker 3: So, you know, think of that. And the footy season
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  Speaker 3: will be over.
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  Speaker 1: Rainy.
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  Speaker 3: Enjoy, guys.
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• 12:54
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  Speaker 2: in December. Thank you so much for coming in. And
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  Speaker 2: good luck with it all. And hopefully after the footy
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  Speaker 2: season dies down, you guys can just have some rest.
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  Speaker 3: And some normality.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Apart from going to Canada, which you're going.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, enjoy Canada, guys. Enjoy business class as well.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, guys.
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  Speaker 1: So nice.
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  Speaker 3: So nice to see you.
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  Speaker 2: Jaya Barina, thanks a lot, guys. It's 28 past 7
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  Speaker 2: right now here on KISS.