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ALEX EALA'S MONUMENTAL FAILURE · Pod Laver Arena

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  Speaker 1: Could you turn me up a little bit in my headphones?
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  Speaker 2: One, two, two, two, two. Is that you? That's really good.
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  Speaker 2: We are back. Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 1: What's happened, Mike?
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  Speaker 2: I know. We are back, and this is, wow. Everyone
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  Speaker 2: is excited. A round of applause. I mean, this is amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone chocks, but we popped up in everyone's feed on
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  Speaker 2: this Halloween week, on a Thursday, and we put the
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  Speaker 2: trick in trick-or-treat. You thought we were leaving, but we
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  Speaker 2: never left.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a daytime soap. We've been brought back from
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  Speaker 1: the dead.
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  Speaker 2: We've been brought back from the dead. It's And it's
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  Speaker 2: on me. Look, I'll take it.
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  Speaker 1: So can you explain what's happened to you?
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  Speaker 2: I misread.
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  Speaker 1: Lizzie's away, so I'm here today.
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  Speaker 2: Sam Taunton is back filling in for Lizzie, who is
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  Speaker 2: sitting out this week. She had to go to Brisbane
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  Speaker 2: to tend to an ailing elderly mother.
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  Speaker 1: She went to start. Really?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Oh, okay. Sad.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that is very sad.
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  Speaker 2: But do the joke. No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: No, I was about to say she's going to start
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  Speaker 1: another tennis podcast. She didn't get the brief. Is her mum... Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: I'll send her a message.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, she had a fall, but I think she's fine. Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 1: They do at that age, don't they?
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  Speaker 2: They do.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, let's get to them.
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  Speaker 2: So I misread a directive from the top saying that
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  Speaker 2: we would be stopping just the Podlaver Arena as it
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  Speaker 2: is now, and we would be... Subsumed under the umbrella
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  Speaker 2: of the tennis.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, so is this actually what, could you send me
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  Speaker 1: a message being like they're putting the pod on the
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  Speaker 1: back seat till the open?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But this is all a clerical error for me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is me skimming emails and just seeing the
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  Speaker 2: negative words.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and then Errol didn't pick it up. So you
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  Speaker 1: posted an episode being like, it's kind of over for
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  Speaker 1: a bit, and then it turns out that's just not true.
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  Speaker 2: Turns out we are here to stay. We're the Terminator
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  Speaker 2: of podcasts. Oh, that's great. You can't bring us down.
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  Speaker 1: You can't bring us down. We're like John Farnham. We
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  Speaker 1: just keep coming back.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is the big comeback episode. We
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  Speaker 2: never took any time off.
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  Speaker 1: There was no time off.
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  Speaker 2: There was no time off.
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  Speaker 1: Because also, no one, can I say, no one tried
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  Speaker 1: to explain it to me. It was like, we're in
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  Speaker 1: a text message group and you're like, oh, the podcast
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  Speaker 1: is going on break or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 1: And then whenever it was, everyone was like, yo, can
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  Speaker 1: you do the podcast next week? And I'm like, someone
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  Speaker 1: needs to explain something to be here. Are we starting fresh?
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  Speaker 1: Is this 2.0? Is that how we look at it? Or-
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  Speaker 1: We just pretend like whatever happened never happened.
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  Speaker 2: We pretend like every day is a gift and every
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  Speaker 2: episode is the best gift under the Christmas tree.
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  Speaker 1: Under the banner of the Australian Open Experience.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, I like that. Today is a gift, and
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  Speaker 1: every day going ahead is a gift.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. Just to clarify.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, what actually has happened?
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  Speaker 2: It's the same feed, it's the same name, but we're now...
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  Speaker 2: The Tennis Presents Podlabor Arena, and we're joined by other
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  Speaker 2: podcasts under the feed. On the Monday, we have the sit-down...
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  Speaker 2: And then we will be dropping on the Thursday as usual.
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  Speaker 2: And there will be new exciting things leading up to
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  Speaker 2: the Australian Open 2027 that we'll be a part of.
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  Speaker 2: That will be collected under the feed of the tennis. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Corporate Mike.
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  Speaker 1: That was unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I see why you kind of zoned out of the
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  Speaker 1: email because I was already like, what are you talking about?
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  Speaker 1: So nothing is changing, really. It just turns out there's
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  Speaker 1: some more podcasts being added and the AO are doing
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  Speaker 1: some more in the podcasting space.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. I think watch this space for new and
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  Speaker 2: exciting ventures into the podcast bubble.
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  Speaker 1: Are you AI? What are you doing? You're like a
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  Speaker 1: wind-up toy that's just been programmed with keywords.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think... I agree.
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  Speaker 1: It's a good point. It's a good point, Errol.
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  Speaker 2: I should say, on last week's episode, I said, write
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  Speaker 2: and say how much you love us, you want us
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  Speaker 2: to keep going, and that was basically me seeking validation
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  Speaker 2: because I'm a weak, insecure little man. Is that what
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  Speaker 2: you want me to say?
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  Speaker 1: I think that, I mean, I want you to say
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  Speaker 1: something like that at all times. You know, Cassandra wrote
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  Speaker 1: in and she said, the pod is the best. You
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  Speaker 1: can't stop the pod. Having regular access to Mike's laugh
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  Speaker 1: is an important part of my mental health treatment plan.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Cassandra.
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  Speaker 1: So you're saving lives out. So you're back, you're returning
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  Speaker 1: is keeping people safe. Out of the loony bin.
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  Speaker 2: So well done. I mean, I wouldn't say loony bin.
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  Speaker 1: No, Cassandra specifically.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. But we had a deluge of messages
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  Speaker 2: saying how much people loved us. And even, that's weird. Even.
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  Speaker 2: Even Tan Nguyen wrote in and said, Dear AO team,
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  Speaker 2: love the podcast. Hilarious stuff. Please continue. That's nice. As
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  Speaker 2: well as so many messages to our Instagram accounts.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Tan Nguyen who sent that message, you know,
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  Speaker 1: please continue. It's rare that you ask for something like
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  Speaker 1: that and then immediately you get a result like this.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that's ever happened to me. Maybe once
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  Speaker 1: I've been like, I feel like a coffee and then
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  Speaker 1: I've turned around and there's a cafe beside me.
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  Speaker 2: We're basically the boyfriend or girlfriend that ends a relationship
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  Speaker 2: and then a week later is like, please. Please take
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  Speaker 2: me back. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Please. Please. I made
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  Speaker 2: a mistake.
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  Speaker 1: I'm an idiot. I saw the outside and it's not good.
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  Speaker 2: I got no hits on Tinder. No one swiped right.
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  Speaker 1: Show me perfect tennis.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. Oh, no way. The Tons is back, and I
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  Speaker 2: should say, before we get into all things tennis, I
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  Speaker 2: do have a story from this very morning. I had
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  Speaker 2: the things you need to know for this story is
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  Speaker 2: we have a.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's a nice way to tell a story.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Like, to start with, like, these are facts. Get on
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  Speaker 1: board with these facts.
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  Speaker 2: Context.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like when they do the headlines at the
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  Speaker 1: start of a news article before you, like, go deep
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  Speaker 1: into it. This is great.
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  Speaker 2: So, I guess the headline is, one of our cats
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  Speaker 2: has diarrhea.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 1: I wish that was a surprise at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the story.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not bearing the lead.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, what's that? Oh, the AO have just said we
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  Speaker 1: are canceling the podcast now.
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  Speaker 2: No, one of the cats is sick, like on a
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  Speaker 2: new diet, it's not adjusting well. Okay, that's what you
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  Speaker 2: need to know. You also need to know there was
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  Speaker 2: three tradies coming this morning. A Sparky, a Tyler, and
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  Speaker 2: a Plummer. They said they'd be here at 8 a.m.,
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  Speaker 2: at my place at 8 a.m., and then they showed
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  Speaker 2: up at 7.15.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, they're keen.
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  Speaker 2: Keen.
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  Speaker 1: I like that. Yeah, get into it early, boys.
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  Speaker 2: So I ran out of bed to let them in.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And as I turned the corner to the hallway to
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  Speaker 2: my front door, I slipped in a giant pile of diarrhea.
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  Speaker 1: Can I say, this... Yeah, what do you got?
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  Speaker 2: Uh....
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  Speaker 1: That was perfect. This is Tennis News.
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  Speaker 2: Lorenzo Massetti wins the ATP 250 in Lyon. His first
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  Speaker 2: title since 2022. What I want to talk about in
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  Speaker 2: the Lyon tournament.
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  Speaker 1: What would you like to talk about, Mike?
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  Speaker 2: Is that much was made of Carlos Alcaraz's mustache.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I want to pivot... to an even more impressive display
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  Speaker 2: of facial hair.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That no one's talking about. Tommy Paul's a beautiful beard.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I've been talking about it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's, like, luscious. It is. And it's kind of great because,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I know you're a long-time Tommy Paul fan.
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  Speaker 2: TP.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you say that all the time. And pump your chest.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But I also like Tommy Paul, and he does seem
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  Speaker 1: like a masculine figure. And this has really solidified that
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  Speaker 1: view that he's got. I didn't think he had it
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  Speaker 1: in him. A lot of tennis guys, I don't want to, like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, but they're not great.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But they're not like the most like beefy.
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  Speaker 2: Low T you're saying.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying like, you know, the term soy boy,
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  Speaker 1: soy boy. There's a bit of that energy. If you're
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  Speaker 1: ranking in the hierarchy of like professional sportsmen, like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you've got like UFC fighters, boxers, football, like NFL players
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  Speaker 1: and tennis players are way down. Like there's only golfers
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  Speaker 1: and chess players below them.
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  Speaker 2: I can't wait until we have Karen Kashinov in here
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  Speaker 2: and you tell him he has low T to his
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  Speaker 2: face and you go, why do you have a girl's name?
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  Speaker 2: It's not the girl's name. It's not the girl's name?
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  Speaker 2: It's Arminian. It's Arminian name.
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  Speaker 1: It's Arminian name. No, I will stand by it. I'm
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  Speaker 1: saying they're obviously more like harder than me, but in
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  Speaker 1: the scale of professional sportsmen. Anyway, so that's why seeing
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  Speaker 1: this sheer Tom Selleck-esque masculinity just coming out of Tommy Paul,
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  Speaker 1: I think was good for the sport.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, true. And it's kind of a gritty reboot. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He's usually clean shaven and now it's like the sequel
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  Speaker 2: to a superhero movie.
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  Speaker 1: So did he get, did he get divorced? He's been
• 8:46
  Speaker 1: drinking whiskey alone or something. Maybe it's what he, cause
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: I've often, you know, when you're doing standup and you
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  Speaker 1: might've had a bad run of gigs or something, I
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  Speaker 1: will try.
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  Speaker 2: Never happened to me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. You can't relate to this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Well, I often will try anything. I'll start doing,
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  Speaker 1: I'll start wearing a cap. I'll wear glasses on stage.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be like, maybe I'll wear a suit today. Like
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  Speaker 1: you'll try anything. I do wonder if he's like, This
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  Speaker 1: is to see if it helps his tennis.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, he did pretty well in Lyon. He got
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  Speaker 2: to the semifinals losing to Taylor Fritz, who then Fritz
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  Speaker 2: went on to play Massetti in the final, was beaten
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  Speaker 2: in straight sets. A lot of unforced errors from Fritz's racket.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think Fritz has a big stage problem, do
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  Speaker 1: you think?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just think this year he's been dealing with
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  Speaker 2: some injuries and he hasn't totally found his form. By
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  Speaker 2: this time in the season, right, like it's been a
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  Speaker 2: full year of tournaments and tennis. I just think some
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  Speaker 2: of these guys are a little broken.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, they must be so broken. They must be carrying
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  Speaker 1: so many, like, just aches and pains.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So, Lorenzo Mazzetti, who, like I said, is his
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  Speaker 2: first title since 2022. He's obviously been dealing with injuries himself.
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  Speaker 2: But uh fell to the ground in celebration was a
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  Speaker 2: huge beating uh fritz and getting uh the 250 title.
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  Speaker 1: Talk about fritz having like a big stage problem massetti
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  Speaker 1: has lost seven atp tour finals in a row up
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  Speaker 1: into this point so no wonder he would be relieved
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  Speaker 1: yeah because that is like that's a real loser.
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  Speaker 2: Well that is like i mean mentally it would wear
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  Speaker 2: that's what.
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  Speaker 1: I mean yeah i'm not saying like i'm just saying
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  Speaker 1: it's like to overcome that barrier would be like astronomical
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  Speaker 1: because there would be darkness yeah after seven in.
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  Speaker 2: A row yeah so you're saying karen kashinov low t
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  Speaker 2: lorenzo massetti loser yeah anyone else you.
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  Speaker 1: Want to uh and you covered in shit And Diarrhea Mike,
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  Speaker 1: that's who I want to throw. DM. Tennis News, with
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  Speaker 1: no more diarrhea chat from now on.
• 10:44
  Speaker 2: So in the other 250 News, Talon Grieksmoor won in
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: Belgium over Jan-Leonard Struff. The upcoming ATP tournaments, Austria and
• 10:52
  Speaker 2: Switzerland 500s, and then the Paris 1000 in November, if
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  Speaker 2: Paris is still standing.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, well, I haven't even thought about this. Obviously, things
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: are going on in Paris. It's not conducive, really, to the...
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  Speaker 1: To tennis. But part of me does think the aristocratic
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: background of tennis will be quite separate to these student protests.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I don't think they're going to touch each
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  Speaker 1: other too much.
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  Speaker 2: But isn't it the very thing they're protesting?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I know. But I think they want more pencils
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  Speaker 1: at university or something, not to minimize their cause, even
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  Speaker 1: though I clearly just have. I think we could all
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  Speaker 1: take a leaf out of Paris, by the way.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, really?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, in Australia, we kind of just forget and
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  Speaker 1: we're just kind of a bit chilled. Yes, there are protests.
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  Speaker 2: We're docile here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you know what I mean? Next
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  Speaker 1: time I have to pay $ 17. 50 for a spritz on
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  Speaker 1: a Saturday afternoon, I'm like, should we burn down Fed Square?
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  Speaker 1: I think we should show a bit of that energy.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, I toe the line.
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. That's what you do. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Of course.
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  Speaker 1: You toe the line. We should have burned down Fed Square.
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: Our favorite podcast got canceled last week. Yeah. And it
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: just came back. So actually, maybe that's an argument for
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  Speaker 1: not doing anything.
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  Speaker 2: That's true.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Tennis News.
• 12:01
  Speaker 2: Over to the WTA. Rabakina played Leila Fernandez in the
• 12:06
  Speaker 2: final in Ningbo. It's a 500 event in China. Rabakina...
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  Speaker 2: wins easily over Fernandez, 6-2, 6-2 in an hour and
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  Speaker 2: 16 minutes. I'd like to draw your attention to the
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  Speaker 2: WTA site. who when a player wins, they kind of
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  Speaker 2: put them forward in a photo and then the losing player,
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  Speaker 2: they fade away.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Like it's a, so there's Rebecca. I like it.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a nice move.
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  Speaker 2: You like that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's not too back to the future and you've screwed
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: up the timeline and Layla Fernandez doesn't exist.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, it's only like, obviously it's just to
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: see the winner or something. It's not like they take
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: them out the back and then like disappear them.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think the tournament winner does the job.
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  Speaker 1: You are right. The tournament winner really does. You don't
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  Speaker 1: even really need tournament winner. You could just be like,
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  Speaker 1: One and two or something, really.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Just put the score line there. 6-2, 6-2.
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  Speaker 1: Well, what more could they do? Do you think they
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  Speaker 1: should just keep fading into darkness?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Fernandez slowly just disappears. Or they decapitate her alive.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the fading away just seems to be a little
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  Speaker 2: harsh on a player who made the final huge event.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, oh, she doesn't even exist to us.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, I mean, what's the famous saying? No
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  Speaker 1: one remembers who comes second. Well, yeah, no one ever
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  Speaker 1: remembers who's... Yeah, but you make the final.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And it's like, it's very unfair because you do kind of...
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  Speaker 1: You've done 95% of the work to make the final.
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  Speaker 1: And then you get slowly kind of like pixelated out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine if that happened in real life. Maybe if they're
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  Speaker 1: leading to the Paris 1000.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: They could do.
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  Speaker 1: Something like, because, you know, they used to love the
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  Speaker 1: guillotine in Paris. I'm not saying they bring it back,
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  Speaker 1: but maybe there could be some like, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: like performative thing that the loser has to put.
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  Speaker 2: Their head in a guillotine.
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  Speaker 1: And then a fake thing comes down and they pretend
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  Speaker 1: to chop their head off.
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  Speaker 2: Beautiful stuff. Yeah. And then what happens when it hits
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  Speaker 2: their head? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: It's just kind of like culture. No, it's like fake.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it's a soft. It's not an actual blade.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a soft blade. fake blade right and so
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  Speaker 1: they don't get decapitated and then the crowd cheers for
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  Speaker 1: the acknowledgement of history culture and puts a bit of
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  Speaker 1: like something more on the line but also a bit
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  Speaker 1: of theatrical drama.
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: That's fun but also i think you want to see
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: the head tumble off.
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: And hit oh you do so maybe you need a
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: fake head yeah so they put the head in and
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: then the fake thing comes down and then like the
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: ball kid has a fake head that's been decapitated and
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: then just rolls it.
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: Out yeah What would... Okay.
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: Actually, no, no, no.
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: This is good. You're decapitated.
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: So I'm decapitated.
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: But this is scientifically accurate that you could say... Actually,
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: the brain is still functioning enough after your head's chopped
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: off where you could say one last word or phrase.
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: But you're decapitated. Your head tumbles into the basket and...
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: And you look up at the hangman or the guillotine man.
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: What are they? The executioner.
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: The executioner.
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: Or the people in the public. You get one last
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: final little word or phrase with your bloody decapitated head.
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: What do you say?
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: I think I referred... I wanted people to know, like,
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: if there was a close call and it would call
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: it out, I'm going to say it was out. Like,
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: you know, still, like, keep talking about the game.
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: Still, maybe. Oh, really?
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to say anything like, you know, like
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: noble or... I'm going to say it wasn't a chub
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: close call.
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: It was out.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: What are you going to say?
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: I do a slur. Which one? Well, you got your pick,
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: but I'll just say a slur.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: Imagine getting dragged and cancelled while you're decapitated. They're like,
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: time is up on decapitated men like him.
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: Because I don't have to deal with the aftermath. So
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: I think, yeah, slur. Yeah, slur.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: Locked and loaded.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: Ready to go.
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: It is fun. Errol, what would you pick? It's a
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: fun game.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: Isn't it? No, I'd probably try and say something cool
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: from my youth, like skate or die.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: Clearly die.
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: Anyway, Rebecca, so that's a crazy year she's had up
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: to this date. So that's four titles she's won.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: Player of the year.
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: Player of the year. I mean, definitely an argument to
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: be made. And then we'll see her in the WTA finals,
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: which will be in Indian Wells. Otherwise, the WTA side
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: has a Tokyo 500 coming up next, which will round
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: out the Asian Hardcourt Swing. The streak, the wind. I
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: feel like my body is super special. Roger Federer news.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: He said, never say never when asked if he will
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: coach one day.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: He'd be a great coach, I think. Not all, you know,
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: great legends become great coaches. But he's got that demeanor
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: that I think he would be like, he would be nice. Like,
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: he'd be gentle.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: He'd be gentle. And obviously, his tips would be pretty worthwhile. Yeah.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: But also.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: It doesn't mean, like, Michael Jordan, for example, he'd be
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: a crazy bad coach, I think. Like Maradona. He'd be
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: a tennis coach. He'd be a real bad tennis coach,
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: I think. But Maradona famously tried to be a manager
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: in football. It was horrific. Almost ruined the Argentinian national team. But, like, Federer,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: I think he's got... Like, if you look at the
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: big three, right? Djokovic, Nadal, Federer. Who would you take
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: coaching you? Federer all day, surely.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh, yeah. Definitely. But also, these guys have such
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: an insane talent that if they're just like, oh, yeah,
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: just on this next shot, just rip the hardest backhand
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: you've ever hit in your life.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: They just do the crazy superhuman thing that I would do.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: Would you do that? Try and do that. I mean,
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: he said he's too busy with kids, but he hasn't
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: completely ruled it out. I would like to see this
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: happen with Federer coaching. Either he takes a young prodigy,
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: not even a prodigy, someone who hasn't even picked up
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: a racket. Okay. So he takes like a seven-year-old and
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: then trains them to be the best tennis player in
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: the world. Okay. Or he takes a middle-aged 45-year-old man
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: who might have some diarrhea, cat stains on him.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: Covered all over him, yeah.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: And trains him to compete.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: Can he give him a clean first?
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Yes, he gives me a clean.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: He trains you.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: And then to compete at a professional level.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Okay. I think that's great. You think that's the best
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: use of his time? Yes. But you wouldn't want, I
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: don't think you'd want Djokovic as a coach. I think
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: he's just scary. I think he'd also make you buy
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: into like some life philosophies that he has. I think
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: it's like an all in package. You're doing Djokovic lifestyle. Nadal,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: I think would be like, too agitated to coach. Yeah.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: I think he'd be like, nah, nah, nah. He'd be
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: a bit frazzled and then like.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: If you can't do what he's asking you to do,
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: he would, yeah, get agitated. Totally. Yeah.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: So I think of those three, you would just want
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Federer to coach you.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah. All right. Yeah. So we're putting it out there.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: So you're open to coaching from Fed. That's what we're
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: putting out there.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: That's what we're saying. Okay.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Well, great offer, Fed.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: I mean, stranger things have happened. No, they haven't.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: They actually haven't. That would actually be the strangest thing
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: to ever happen. If he started coaching you in an
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: attempt to make you a top flight tennis player.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Well, stranger things have happened. I'm really happy with my-
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Super crazy. Super, super crazy. Super happy. Super cute. Super happy.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Token Alexiola segment of the show. The Statue of Limitations,
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: otherwise known as Monumental Failures. Let's look- At the statue
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: that was made in Alex Iala's likeness. I don't know
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: if you've seen this.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: It's by a Filipino statue artist. Is that correct?
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: What do you think of that?
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: It's not. good.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: I think she looks a bit like an elf.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: She is an elfin.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like the ears have kind of made her look like,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: I don't know, some kind of fantasy novel.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Lord of the Rings.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Where they play tennis, which would be strange.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: I don't love it, but I also... think statues would
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: be hard to do i never understand why we're into
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: statues by the way as a broader thing yeah because
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: like what i mean you see when people pull down
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: statues it's like after a while they're just taking up
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: space and people like no no no they're in the
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: way we don't kind of like what they're into right
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: i'm not saying that about yala but like i don't
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: know like.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: This one yeah very was it approved by animation well
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: it says a filipino made sculpture inspired by tennis star
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: alex yala has drawn mixed reactions online prompting its elderly
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: artist To apologize for the artwork.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: He's doing his best.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: So the statue was revealed about half a year ago,
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: but it's only now that because of online backlash, he
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: has apologized for it. Poor guy.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: This online lynch mob that exists out there online, just.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Having a crack. Look at him.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. He's an angel.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And it looks better there in the background. And
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: maybe he's cleaned it up a little bit.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he got rid of the elf ears, I think.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Poor guy.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: I tell you what.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: You know what?
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: You can just, like... Like, you don't need permission to
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: make a statue of someone.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: You can just do a statue of someone and, like,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: really ruin their day. Yeah.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: But she's also weirdly mid-two-handed forehand.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. This is the problem. And this is
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: the issue in tennis movies as well. Yeah. You know, in, like, Challengers.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Accuracy. Yeah. It's like.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: It's like the Ted Lasso situation. It's hard to take
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: it seriously if you are a real fan of the
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: sport because they're not professional athletes and they're always going
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: to look like amateurs. And then the reality of what
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: you're watching disappears entirely. So yeah, two-handed forehand, you're like,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: look at that grip.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: I mean, I saw Challengers with a friend of the show,
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: great comedian, tennis coach, Ben Caution. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: And we just sat there griping about Zendaya's grip.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Don't get me started. Nicholas Cage and Tim Kappa, watch
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: his golf swing. I'm like, this is more realistic than
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: a driving range pro. banging the hot lady than trying
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: to win the U.S. Open. It's the fact that he
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: can even make contact with a swing that gets that
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: crossed over at the top.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: True. I don't know.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: I support the old guy. I hate that he's kind
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: of been hated on.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: I think it's the thought that counts. You know, the
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: old guy made a tribute to his favorite athlete. I
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: think it's beautiful.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: But also, what statues are good? what statues are you
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: ever like that's bang on you don't hear about the
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: good ones well you never see the good they're all
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: a bit crap.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah i mean because it's hard to do some of
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: the old ones that are still around what's the one
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: walking up to the mcg and there's a guy like
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: for some reason doing.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: That do you know that the guy doing that.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah there's a guy you walk up to.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: The like what you do when a guy overtakes you
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: in traffic and you're like yeah yeah.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah what no norm something to me Norm Smith. Do
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: you have it?
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Oh, the guy. I don't think he's got the.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: One finger up. He's not doing this.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Was he the greatest ever player in a grand final?
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: He was one of the best coaches. He is absolutely
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: doing that.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Can we get that picture up there? He kind of
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: is doing that, yeah. If you're an international, this is
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: an AFL Australian rules football guy, and he's a coach.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: And the medal for best on field in the grand
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: final is named after him. But he's also seemingly having
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: a swing at someone. Right there for maybe having a
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: big ego and a small penis.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Yes, he's limiting someone's manhood by the gesture in his fingers,
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: which is rude.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: But did he... I mean, that's annoying that the statue
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: is made... He wouldn't have approved that. That'd be like
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: if I'd made a statue of you right now covered
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: in cat shit, and then that lasts for eternity.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: It should.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: That's what you request.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: So keeping on tennis statues, Andy Murray with his terracotta...
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: uh this is statue this is uh what do you
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: what do you make of this.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: I like when statues are taller than the actual person
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: yeah so that's good i really do because it bumps
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: you up and he looks more jacked and but also
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: it's like he's kind of in um i guess you
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: would say like 13th century.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Like terracotta warrior is that what it's called yeah so
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: that's after winning the shanghai Open, they make the Terracotta Warriors.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: I could have that wrong.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: But it doesn't look like... You don't look at that
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: and go, that's Andy Murray, do you?
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: No, you look at that and go.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: I'd say Andy Murray's white.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Yes. You think.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Sorry, I'll just miss the whole point.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: He doesn't look too impressed by it.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: This is crazy.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: This is Lucille Ball.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: That's not real, is it?
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Turned into a ghoul that will hunt you in your sleep.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: It looks like Burt Reynolds. Look at those eyes.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that is nightmare fuel.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: That is terrible.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Did the old Filipino bloke do that one as well?
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: That is horrific. Yeah, here is Kate Moss, and they
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: kind of like... I don't know about this. Her head
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: and hair and everything is nice, a gold statue. What's
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: the creative.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: But.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: The choice on the pose here.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: That's crazy.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: Is wild. I mean, yeah, like who... She's in, let's say,
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: pretzel formation.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Like if you commissioned a sculpture and the sculpture came
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: back with that, you'd be like.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Can I look at your search history? Like, this is
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: not on.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Where is that going to be? Like, you can't have
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: that in public.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: I know. If, yeah, you had a sculpture made of
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: you and the likeness of the head and the hair
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: was nice. Yeah. But then it was you.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Spread eagles just on the ground. Like, it's like, I'd
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: be like, come on. Yeah. You've wasted a lot of
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: material here.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: It's you, like, bent over, but you're, like, peeking back, like,
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: with a shh.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm saying shh, shh, shh.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I have a secret. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Would
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: you be honored?
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm a statue that can talk. And there's, like,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: a little speaker at the bottom.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: It's what it says. It's what it's saying. The shush
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: says you have a secret.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: I'd like to be, for me personally, I think it's
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: disrespectful to Kate Moss, but me personally, I would love
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: it to know that I was a bit of a
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: sex symbol person. enough to be remembered that way.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: To be pretzeled by the sculptor.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and everyone that walked... And then this.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: Is the most famous one.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: So this is Lionel... This is Messi. This is Cristiano Ronaldo.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: And I feel like, because he is like... The sculpture
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: is Messi.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: It is Messi.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: But don't you think, because he's got like a generic...
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Handsome face. Handsome face. It's kind of like, it's like AI.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: His face is already kind of AI.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: So it's hard to.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Well, it's kind of hard to do. So they've tried
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: to do like, they've gone too heavy on the crow's
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: feet around. Like that's a bit.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: They've aged him. Yeah.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: He looks bad, man.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: It's like. It looks like he got. It's not the worst.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: It's not as bad as Lucille Ball.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: The more you look at it.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: The more it kind of looks like him. Yeah. But
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: at first glance, it looks like he got. hitting the
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: head with the ball or something a lot a lot
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: over and repeatedly he never used his feet just head.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: Just headers front of the head all career yeah and
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: then to keep on theme of decapitated heads oh fantastic
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: this is uh just the bust of the head here
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: oh yeah it's so what would he say once this
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: he would i think with this look this this head
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: would say kill me do you think kill me.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: You think it would say that?
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: I think it would say slur. I think definitely a slur.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: Even though you've chopped the head off, it would say,
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: kill me.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Kill me.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Let me die.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: My friend is Piers Ackermann. He loves Piers.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: So that was... That was a great segment. I love
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: that segment. Monumental failures.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: I love that segment. What's this one? Is that Dwayne Wade?
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: Oh, I do remember that one. We have Dwayne Wade. Oh,
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: that's good. Miami Heat player. Immortalized.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: He looks like he got caught in Pompeii in that.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's mid-screen. I mean, just like stuck there.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: The problem with a statue, you can't have a mouth
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: open like that. People are just going to put stuff
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: in your mouth.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Do you know what I mean? And I don't even
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: mean in like a gross way. It's just like I
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: would put like a sausage roll paper in there.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Just because it's funny.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, if there's a bin and there's that.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: You put it in there for sure.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Okay, now get excited. It's time for my segment. What
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: do we call this again?
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Approaching.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: The next. The next. Didn't we have another name for it?
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: For you, it was Grand Sam.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Grand Sam.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: God. That was on the old podcast.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: Now we're brand new and shiny and everything's different. Yeah, exactly.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Welcome back to everyone's favorite segment, Grand Sam. Thanks, mate. Thanks, mate.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, let's kick it off this week. Jung Jin-Wen
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: is a global ambassador for Turkish Airlines. I know you're
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: a big fan of all of those things. I actually
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: got invited to play in a golf date for Turkish Airlines,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: but I couldn't do it. But there was great prizes
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: on offer. Anyway, they've just dropped a new commercial. She's
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: in it. Have a look at this. Every single journey
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  Speaker 1: has its own story. This is dubbed by, this is
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: not her voice.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, thank you.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: She has quite a posh English accent. It's every moment
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  Speaker 1: you experience.
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  Speaker 2: Along the way.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. She's getting on the plane here.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Signing tennis balls. It's about winning hearts. So true. The
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: PR is so important in tennis. Sydney. London. London. London. Paris. Melbourne.
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  Speaker 2: Madrid.
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  Speaker 1: That first cheer, cutting through the dead silence, gives you hope.
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  Speaker 1: What in God's name are they talking about?
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty highfalutin for a.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Turkish Airlines?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: For an... It's like... Just give me a ticket on
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: the plane.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's cinematic.
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  Speaker 1: What truly turned the journey into a story.
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  Speaker 2: What?
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: That's beautiful.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Turkish Airlines.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: It's quite the cinematic ad. And like some of the shots,
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: like especially the surface changing through her one service motion,
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: I thought was pretty cool. Yeah. But if you're Turkish Airlines,
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: I think you would go with like an Andre Agassi.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: And at the start of the ad, he's bald as
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: he is now. And at the end of the ad,
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: he's got hair. Because Turkish Airlines' main clientele is men
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: getting hair plugs.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: It would ruin and they never mention it at all.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: It's not like they're like, they don't even hint to it.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: They're just like, it's pretty, it's like a before and after.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: They're like, fly Turkish Airlines. And then it's kind of like,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: you know why.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: You know why. Yeah, yeah. He boards the plane in
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: the States and he's like getting the royal treatment and
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: all this. And then he boards in Istanbul. Yeah. And
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: he's just got.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: This like full. And like happier.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: And he's like a bit more rustic.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: He's ripped. He's younger.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: He's younger.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's great. And then they're like Turkish Airlines. Yeah.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: It's the best decision you'll ever make.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: You know why. You know why. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: You know why it's the best tagline.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: You know why.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: That's great. What would you do if you had a
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: deal with an Australian airline like Rex or Jetstar or something?
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: Like what type of ad?
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, if you had creative decision-making.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Rex, I think, doesn't even need to advertise
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: because it's like a necessity for people that have to
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: go to regional. Whatever. What are you going to do? Yeah.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: Rex would be like, you got no other options. It's like, walk. Walk?
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: Question mark? No. Come with us.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Fly with us at crazy prices.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: Drive for 12 hours through the desert or Rex.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Or Rex.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: And it does work.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: Anyway, okay.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: That was pretty good. Now, more exciting news. This is
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: huge for, I think, for everyone involved, especially people that
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: spend a bit of time online. Nick Kyrgios has launched
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: a YouTube channel called I think he's angling to be
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: the Mr. Beast of the tennis world.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: An area, I think, which has long been lacking within
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: the tennis community.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Our very own Logan Paul.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Logan Paul.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: That kind of stuff. And it's not for me.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Video number one, he's playing tennis without rackets. Today, we're
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: going to play some doubles tennis, but with a twist.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: We're swapping our rackets for keyboards. Okay.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on that? Because the racket traditionally
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: has been a big part of tennis.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Well, I think as long as he can smash it
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: to pieces in anger, he'll be happy. Playing with the
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: office keyboard here.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Oh, Elliot Loney's in this video.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, comedian.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Comedian impersonator, Elliot Loney.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: So they're all playing with an office keyboard.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: It's going to turn into pickleball, that's what it looks
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: like now.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: I hate to say it, but Kyrgios looks more invested
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: in this match than he has in a professional match.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: You know, if you go down a YouTube hole, there's
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: just video on video about Kyrgios, the greatest waste of talent.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Is he the most talented tennis player to ever live?
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: But maybe the problem is that tennis was not his game.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: His game was actually keyboard tennis. And he would have
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: been arguably the greatest player to ever play keyboard tennis.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: Or now it seems caution wet floor tennis.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: I hope he's using that keyboard to control F, his
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: passion for the actual sports.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: What is he going to do?
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: The thing is, though, you're competing with YouTube creators who
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: are lighting themselves on fire and throwing themselves on buildings.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: And then this is like, whoa, we're playing tennis with
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: frying pans. You know what I mean? Yeah.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: No, but I think, yeah. Yeah. Well, fry pan would
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: have been better, I reckon, than the keyboard.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: They'd probably get to it, I'm sure. Yeah.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: But it does, it's like, Kirill's to me is an
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: interesting guy. He's got some interesting ideas, very charismatic. I
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: think he sat down with someone and they're like, get
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: in the YouTube space. What are we going to do?
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: And they're like, you're a tennis guy. What about we
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: take the brackets? Like, I think it's all, I think
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: this is a machine that's come up with the idea.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: I think so.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: And I think he'll get to lighting himself on fire. Okay.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: If he wants to be a proper YouTuber.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: So it'll progress to that.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: I think he'll be, I think he could do really well,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: but I think he needs to kind of get out of.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: I think he needs to cover himself in petrol and
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: light himself on fire.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: It'll get to that. These creators just have to keep
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: one-upping themselves, right?
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: It's because the algorithm never stops.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: No, we're all slaves to it.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why we thought the podcast was done, but no, no, no.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: No, we're back.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: They said get back in. Okay, I love that. Now, finally,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: and this is exciting, this is kind of relevant a
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: little bit for us, I would say the Australian Open,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: which is a great organisation, and I love the way
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: they support podcasts. They have released the 2027... Ball Boys
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: new kit. This is straight from Hugo Boss. What do
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: you make? This is pretty cool stuff.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: So we've got the umpire uniforms as well. Khaki they're
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: going with.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: Would you say a beige khaki?
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: Yes, a beige khaki.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: Oh, this is some, I mean the video, this is
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: good stuff. I know.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: This is slick. Okay. All right. Some more sportier options
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: for the casual tennis fan.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: This is some good stuff.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: I can't wait for this gear.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, that was the thing last year. We
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: got to go in to the AO store and they're like,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: just take whatever you want. But I was a bit reserved.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: So I was like, surely they don't mean whatever. And
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: then they were like, you could have taken so much stuff.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: And it's one of my big regrets.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: I couldn't even see Lizzie behind a mountain of clothes.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Lizzie has the energy. Like we're kind of like
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: new to that world of getting, like we've gotten free
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: clothes for stuff before, but you don't, You kind of
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: don't take the piss, but Lizzie is used to being like, no,
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: I'll take it all. And she did, and I wish
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: I had more of that in me. But this is great.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: I want to get some of this gear.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: I'm excited about this Hugo Boss. Like, please keep the
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: podcast going until this is in the AO store and
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: we can pilfer it.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: Please, please do. Please, we need to do. I'll do
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: the podcast from the AO store if you want. I'll
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: plug it every week. I'll do whatever you need.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: If we're in the Hugo Boss gear, we'll be like,
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: this is so good. comfortable, man. I've never felt more alive.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: Maybe the pod and just think how much better the
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: podcast will be if we actually felt comfortable in our
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: own skin for once.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: True.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Do you think about that? Often we're here trying to
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: pretend like we're other people trying to be funny, like
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: dancing like monkeys for people's entertainment just would be nice
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: to be real and genuine. And the only way I
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: think we could do that is in Australian Open Hugo
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Boss gear. Also, and I'm pretty sure we have the
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: authority to do this, if you're listening to this pod,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: there's going to be a great chance for you to
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: get some of this gear. We'll run some competitions. We're
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: going to send Lizzie in there. She's going to get
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: a lot of it, and we're going to give away
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: a bunch of it.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: Of Lizzie's secondhand.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Lizzie's secondhand stuff. No, she's not going to wear it.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: She's going to steal extra, and then we'll give that away.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: Okay. I mean, I think we do.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: I can get someone to wear it and give it
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: away for that up to the value, but I don't
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: think it will.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: No, people don't want York.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: People don't want my stuff. No, no, no. They definitely
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: don't want York to be covered in cash.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: Yes. True. But the Hugo Boss gear will be fresh.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: It will be so fresh. Yes. And it looks good.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: I'd like it. They've gone with a more of a
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: beige kind of solid color. And it's very little Steve Irwin-y.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: Well, that's a nice, kind of a nice reference.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: In a good way.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: No, I think that's a really nice kind of touch
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: as well by them.
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: Well, that was Grand Sam.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: What a segment.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: That was our triumphant return episode. Absolutely.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: And thanks for having me back, Mark. I'd just like
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: to take this opportunity to say that is the end
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: of the podcast for the time being. We're going to
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: be wrapping up.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: No.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: And thanks so much for your support over the journey.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: We'll hopefully be back for the Australian Open.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: We will be back next week.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: I think we should end the podcast every week.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: By saying we're done?
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: We're done. That's the final episode.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: For a week.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for one week. It's a finale for a week.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we get all emotional and like, sorry, guys. It's
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: been an amazing ride.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: It's been incredible.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: Thank you for joining us. But we'll be back next
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: week on Thursday.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: On Thursday. We do one episode seasons. We're up to
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: season 60 right now.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: Yes, this is. We're going longer than The Simpsons. Thank
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: you guys so much. And we'll be back next week
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: to talk all things tennis. Okay, bye. Kill me.