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THE AO 2027 OYSTER INCIDENT · Pod Laver Arena

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Just have fun, Lizzie.
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  Speaker 2: Be yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody else is taken.
• 0:04
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's so lame. That's the lamest thing you've ever said.
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  Speaker 2: It took me a while to clock it. I was like,
• 0:15
  Speaker 2: did he just?
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he did. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Show me perfect tennis.
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: Wow. Oh, no way. Tennis! We love it, we live it,
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: we breathe it, we play it. Spring is here, you know.
• 0:30
  Speaker 2: Spring is here and things are starting to move around
• 0:33
  Speaker 2: Tennis Australia.
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  Speaker 1: We were just in the cafe and it is bustling.
• 0:37
  Speaker 2: It is bustling.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the Australian Open has officially launched.
• 0:41
  Speaker 2: Oh! And I sadly missed the launch function.
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: You were invited to host alongside me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But you bailed to cook on an SBS show.
• 0:51
  Speaker 2: I did, yeah. I had prior commitments. An SBS show
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  Speaker 2: and something I can't talk about yet. Oh! Yeah, very exciting,
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: but it's actually quite humiliating, and you will see soon.
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  Speaker 1: A bit like this show. No, worse.
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  Speaker 2: LAUGHTER Much worse.
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  Speaker 1: Secretive and humiliating. Yeah. I mean, I'm intrigued. But, yeah,
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: the Australian Open officially launched. I missed my co-host with
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  Speaker 1: my host, Lizzie Hu. But it was just me hosting
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: kind of the secondary event. The big one, the media launch,
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: was hosted by Todd Woodbridge.
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  Speaker 2: Oh. A classic.
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  Speaker 1: A classic host. I mean, tipping point.
• 1:38
  Speaker 2: And such a great host.
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  Speaker 1: Gold Logie nominee.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I love him.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you that. He's amazing. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And he was hosting with Yelena Dokic.
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  Speaker 2: Also amazing.
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  Speaker 1: And, I mean, probably the highlight of my day was
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  Speaker 1: meeting her for the first time and she telling me
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  Speaker 1: that she's a huge fan of mine.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And there was witnesses.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: There was witnesses to this compliment.
• 2:01
  Speaker 2: I met Elena on Have You Been Paying Attention? She
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  Speaker 2: was one of the guest quiz masters once. And I
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  Speaker 2: knew she was coming in, so I brought in my
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  Speaker 2: tennis racket, which had already been signed by my brother
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  Speaker 2: and my dad. Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Those are the signatures you want.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That actually brought the racket down in value.
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  Speaker 2: And then I got Elena to sign it. And then
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  Speaker 2: I got her to write something about my forehand. It
• 2:29
  Speaker 2: was like, you've got the best forehand in the game,
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  Speaker 2: Elena Duckage. Nice.
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  Speaker 1: And she did it?
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  Speaker 2: She did it.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: What a good sport.
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  Speaker 1: So you got her to write a lie. Yeah, I did.
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  Speaker 1: On your tennis rack. Oh, gosh. Yeah, so they hosted
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  Speaker 1: the media launch thing. And then there was like a
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  Speaker 1: secondary function, which I was hosting for content creators and
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  Speaker 1: Other tennis higher-ups. There was a bunch of speeches. The
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  Speaker 1: new CEO gave a speech. It was just kind of
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  Speaker 1: like a Q & A, but just me doing the
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  Speaker 1: Q and them doing the A's. And then I had
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  Speaker 1: to do, for some reason, and I appreciate the gig
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  Speaker 1: and everything, but.
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  Speaker 2: Where is this going?
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  Speaker 1: They put a blindfold on me, and I did a
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  Speaker 1: taste testing of the new foods that will be on offer.
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  Speaker 2: At next year's. Okay, so run us through some of
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  Speaker 2: these foods.
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  Speaker 1: Well, so I literally had no idea, like a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a warning, that the first one was going to
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  Speaker 1: be an oyster.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Would have been nice.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Because if you get a surprise oyster... It is.
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  Speaker 2: Are you an oyster guy?
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  Speaker 1: I am, but I like to know when it's being
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  Speaker 1: shoveled in my gullets.
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  Speaker 2: So there's three.
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  Speaker 1: Things that are about to be placed in your hand.
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  Speaker 1: This is so weird.
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  Speaker 2: Imagine if you weren't, because oysters are polarizing. You're into
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  Speaker 2: them when you're not.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: Imagine if you weren't. You would have gagged on the stage.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 1: Look, they did ask if I had allergies.
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  Speaker 2: Allergies?
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  Speaker 1: But I didn't even think oyster. I thought like peanuts
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  Speaker 1: or something. I go, no, no, I don't have any allergies.
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  Speaker 1: But then blindfold, you know, you can't even use your hands.
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  Speaker 1: And you need hands for oysters.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you do.
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  Speaker 3: You do.
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  Speaker 2: You do. You know?
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  Speaker 1: And this is, I just feel like the tip of
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  Speaker 1: the oyster shell hit my lip, and I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's not great. Someone else is tipping me. Someone's tipping it.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: This is, the lady who was presenting all the food
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  Speaker 1: is fantastic. Fern, if you're listening, we love you. But, again, Jess,
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  Speaker 1: tell me. And we're starting strong with oysters.
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  Speaker 2: And it's just a raw oyster, no like little.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, there's like vinaigrette or something. But look, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: the most refined of people. I don't have the flowery
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  Speaker 1: language needed to describe.
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  Speaker 2: Like... Let me guess what you said. Oh, what was that?
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  Speaker 1: I said, I hope that's an oyster. Because all I
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  Speaker 1: know is like something hit my lip and they said,
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  Speaker 1: now slurp. And I was like, what the hell? I
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  Speaker 1: was like, oh my God. I was like, whoa. What
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  Speaker 1: are you thinking? What is that? How's it feel in
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  Speaker 1: the mouth? And then the thing is, I knew it
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  Speaker 1: was delicious, but I also couldn't say oyster immediately because
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  Speaker 1: what if it's not? And then you're calling saying something
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  Speaker 1: else tastes like an oyster. You know what I mean? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: What's the main ingredient?
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  Speaker 1: I'd like just guzzle it down. And then again, oyster,
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  Speaker 1: you need to know because it's the only type of
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  Speaker 1: food that you don't really chew, but you don't really drink.
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  Speaker 1: It's a mixture.
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  Speaker 2: You kind of, yeah, you.
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  Speaker 1: Process it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. You kind of like press on it. Yeah. Almost.
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  Speaker 2: It's like a little clamp situation. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. So I clamped and slurped and... guzzled and yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then I'm just like, and they're like, well, what,
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  Speaker 1: how do you describe it? And I'm like, uh, salty
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  Speaker 1: and fishy. It's delicious. I mean, aromatic, aromatic, um, Flowery,
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  Speaker 1: but not like overpowering in any way. It's just like,
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  Speaker 1: and they're like, what do you think it is? And
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  Speaker 1: I go, well, it's an oyster. And they're like, yes.
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  Speaker 1: And then I'm like, okay. And then they move on
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  Speaker 1: to the next thing. And because the first thing had
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  Speaker 1: a hard shell, an oyster, the next one had like
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  Speaker 1: a base, but they're like, we're going to put it
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  Speaker 1: in your hand and this one in your hand and
• 6:50
  Speaker 1: then you can... feed yourself right and there's all these
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  Speaker 1: people watching and i'm like what is what why am
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  Speaker 1: i blindfolded is this like the most budget version of
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  Speaker 1: eyes wide shut like uh but then okay so the
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  Speaker 1: next thing is like this uh another entree like delicacy
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  Speaker 1: and it's like kind of got a an edible shell,
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  Speaker 1: but I bit into this not knowing if this is
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  Speaker 1: a hard shell or not. So I was like, is
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  Speaker 1: all my teeth gonna just chip off if I crunch
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  Speaker 1: down on this thing? And then it's like, of course,
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  Speaker 1: they're like, Can you describe what you're tasting? And I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's a bit like sweet and but savory at the
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  Speaker 1: same time.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, God.
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  Speaker 1: And they're like, oh, but there's also a brown butter
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  Speaker 1: emulsion that you might have picked up on. Had you
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  Speaker 1: known that it came from the south of France? And
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  Speaker 1: I was just like, oh, no, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: It was delicious. I don't know. I'm fearful of my
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  Speaker 2: life right now. You're poisoning me. What was it? What
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  Speaker 2: was it?
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  Speaker 1: I can't even tell you. Oh, you don't even know.
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  Speaker 2: Like a can of pay. Oh, it wasn't like another seafood. No.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think there was a scallop involved at some point.
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  Speaker 1: But like, again, once people take your sight away, you're
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  Speaker 1: just like in front of a crowd of people. Like,
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  Speaker 1: I was just in this state of confusion and, like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, then obviously your senses are heightened, but, like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't have the palate to be like, oh, yes,
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  Speaker 1: the chocolatey frontier of the front of the bridge of
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  Speaker 1: the mouth.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh, I wish I'd seen this. I wish
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  Speaker 2: I'd seen this.
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  Speaker 1: And they were delicious, and the food next year at
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  Speaker 1: the Australian Open.
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  Speaker 2: Is going to be absolutely amazing. So we can expect oysters.
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  Speaker 1: You could expect oysters. You could expect some kind of
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  Speaker 1: a canapé that has a brown butter emulsion. And I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't tell you what I was eating. And then they
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  Speaker 1: would just unblindfold me and they're like, yeah, that was
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: this thing and this is this thing. And then there's
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  Speaker 1: just a crowd of people looking at me like. what
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  Speaker 1: the hell did we just experience?
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  Speaker 2: Did you get a laugh at least?
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  Speaker 1: I tried to, I go, oh, that one's so delicious.
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  Speaker 1: It feels like there's a party in my mouth and
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  Speaker 1: everyone's on ecstasy. And that got like a little titter
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  Speaker 1: of a laugh, right? And then later I tried the
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  Speaker 1: new Shake Shack burger. That was amazing.
• 9:19
  Speaker 2: New Shake Shack burger. Now we're talking.
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  Speaker 1: And then there was pasta. But the pasta, they go,
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  Speaker 1: we're not going to feed you pasta with a blindfold on.
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  Speaker 2: We draw the line at pasta? I mean, if any
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  Speaker 2: of them. Pasta would seem like the safe bet.
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  Speaker 1: I guess they didn't want to slowly feed me a
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  Speaker 1: long strand of pasta.
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  Speaker 2: They could put it on a fork and we'll feed you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they could have wrapped it up. I guess the
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  Speaker 1: slurping was done for the day. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: They were like, we've had enough.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone was all slurped out. Oh, my gosh. We'd hit
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: the slurp critical mass. Look, it's going to be the
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  Speaker 1: buildings that are going to be added.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, obviously.
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: Don't know if I'm even allowed to say it outside
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  Speaker 1: of the launch. Surely, they did the launch to the media.
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: As they're building up, right, on the main grounds.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, cool.
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  Speaker 1: So it's going to be a lot more shade. It
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  Speaker 1: just looks awesome, dude.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, how cool.
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  Speaker 1: They keep making it better every year.
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  Speaker 2: Amazing.
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  Speaker 1: And, yeah, enjoy the oysters and just bring your own blindfold.
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  Speaker 1: This is Tennis News. All right, let's rip into some
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  Speaker 1: tennis news.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, perfect.
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  Speaker 1: Watch, watch.
• 10:38
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, that's watch, watch.
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  Speaker 1: In Beijing, Novak Djokovic at the ripe old age of
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: 39 beats Demonar in the final. Kind of a, first
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  Speaker 1: that was good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but then just like disappointing, sad.
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  Speaker 1: It was sad because Demonar retired in the second set
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  Speaker 1: with a groin injury.
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  Speaker 2: It was an abductor.
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  Speaker 1: Groin and adductor. And I'll tell you who diagnosed the injury, adductor.
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: Still got it.
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  Speaker 2: Good night, everybody.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah, that was a bit unfortunate. And I was
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  Speaker 1: thinking about the tennis terms we use when someone has
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: to end a match early. We say retired, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and the other guy gets a walkover.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And it's just like, I know it's confused casual tennis
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: fans in the past, people who might just watch the
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: slams or something, when you would say early on in
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: her career, oh, Serena retired from the match. And people
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: are like, what? She's done? It's just an odd, I
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: can't think of any other sport where someone has to
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  Speaker 1: call it early. Cricket would. Cricket?
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  Speaker 2: Retired hurt. Yeah, very English, isn't it? We're getting to
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  Speaker 2: the bottom of this.
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  Speaker 1: But I was thinking, do they think quit has bad connotations? Forfeit,
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  Speaker 1: people don't want to say.
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  Speaker 2: Forfeit is fine. Quit is a bit harsh.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: They quit.
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  Speaker 1: Well, but then when you see the stat, it says
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  Speaker 1: walk over. And I'm like, to me, that sounds like
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  Speaker 1: the most brutal.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that is brutal.
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  Speaker 1: He walked over him.
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  Speaker 2: Like a dead body.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. He trampled him in his shitty adductor. Ouch. So Djokovic,
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: the stat line for him now. Obviously, it's insane. But
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: every year, it keeps getting more nuts. Him winning 34
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  Speaker 1: in a row at that point. tournament in Beijing alone.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's 21 seasons of tennis consecutively where he's
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: won a title.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So he continues to just, like, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Be exceptional.
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  Speaker 1: Be exceptional.
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  Speaker 2: At 39.
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  Speaker 1: At 39, but then losing to Hubie Hurcats in Shanghai.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 1: Hubie. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He already... He won.
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  Speaker 1: I beat the old man.
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  Speaker 2: He did it. Is this... It was after that match.
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  Speaker 2: Did he... I saw him sign the camera recently. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what to do.
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  Speaker 1: It's on the camera here.
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  Speaker 2: Hello? Hello?
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: Hello.
• 13:14
  Speaker 2: Hello.
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  Speaker 1: We do have his voice down. I mean, we're not
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  Speaker 1: mocking him. We're celebrating the man.
• 13:21
  Speaker 2: Hello. Hello.
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: The other huge news, I don't know how you feel
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: about this, but obviously Sinner saying he's out for the year,
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: saying he needs a course of treatment on his knee,
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: guarantees Zverev will finish the year as world number one.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 2: What is that voice?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, number one.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's kind of Brad Brody's way there, I
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: would think.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, because I think he's like, yeah. I mean, he
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  Speaker 1: hasn't beat Djokovic, Sinner, or Alcaraz this year. He came
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: very close to beating Alcaraz at that semifinal.
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  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: The Oz Open and then Djokovic beat him in Beijing,
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: you know, just a week and a half ago.
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: Just for our international listeners, Stephen Bradbury is a famous
• 14:16
  Speaker 2: Australian ice skater a long time ago. Famously, everyone in
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: the speed skating event fell over and then he came
• 14:23
  Speaker 2: through and won it. But there is an argument, though,
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: because he got to the finals. Yeah. And he was good.
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he was good enough.
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  Speaker 2: To get to the final.
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: Of course.
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So I feel like that is with Zverev as well.
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  Speaker 1: True.
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  Speaker 2: He's very good.
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  Speaker 1: But the term Bradbury-ing it implies.
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  Speaker 2: It's a little, a lucky connotation.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 2: But he stayed in the game. He hasn't got injured.
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  Speaker 2: Saying something. He's prepping his body.
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  Speaker 1: He's prepped. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He's ready.
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  Speaker 1: He's ready.
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  Speaker 2: He's number one now.
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  Speaker 1: Put a blindfold on him and make him slurp down
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  Speaker 1: an oyster.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe that could be a new segment when everyone comes in.
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  Speaker 2: So we're just going to put a blindfold on you,
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  Speaker 2: if that's okay, and then you tell us what this is.
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  Speaker 1: In a million years, I would never predict that I
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: would be, I mean, awesome to have the gig at
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: the Australian Open.
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  Speaker 2: The caveat.
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  Speaker 1: The caveat. But then be blindfolded with a lady yelling
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: at me now, slurp. That's part of that job. Tennis News. Yeah,
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: in other news, while the Shanghai Masters is in full
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: swing at the moment, this is a thousand event. We
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: said before Djokovic lost to Hubie Hurkacz. Adrian Manorino beating
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: Flavio Caboli.
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, another older guy.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Manorino's been around forever.
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: He's 38. Yeah. Yeah, I like his vibe.
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: What do you think of this celebration here? So this
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: is match point for Manorino. Puts the ball away into
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: the corner, wins the match, runs to the back of
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: the court, and.
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  Speaker 2: A little leg jiggle.
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  Speaker 1: A little shimmy.
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  Speaker 2: Shimmy of the knees.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think it was in the moment. It
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: looks like he'd gone to a Shanghai mall and gone
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: on one of those vibrating machines.
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: Boards?
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, that old Asian men use. They're like...
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: That's what he looked like.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: Oh, so it was a nod to the... To the community.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: To the community.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a cultural nod.
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: That's beautiful. I think, like, a lot of the times
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: they win a big match and the adrenaline's just pumping
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: through them.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you do?
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: They have no idea what's going on with their bodies.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: Well, all the adrenaline went to his knees. Yeah.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: Do you think Leighton's come on? Like, that just happened once?
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: And he's like, I guess I gotta run with it now.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: I have to keep doing it.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: And Cruise has started doing it.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's like, oh gosh, I just gotta do
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: it now.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they asked him about it. They were like, why?
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: Do you know what that is? And he's like, I
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: don't know. My dad just used to do it. I'm
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: doing it now, I guess. What would your Sally be?
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: You have to think of it straight away.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: You just want a match.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: I have to.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: Finger guns. Pew, pew, pew.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: No, no, no.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Pew, pew. You get sanctioned for that. Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: For real?
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: It's violent.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: Oh, are you kidding? The water pistols though.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: Oh, are they?
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: Water pistol doesn't go pew, pew.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: Pew, pew, pew.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: Water pistol goes shoo, shoo, shoo.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: Slurp, slurp.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: Slurp, slurp. This is a slurp heavy app.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: It is very slurpy.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Ben Shelton goes out. This is another upset beaten
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: by Arthur Jha. He beat Ben Shelton in straight sets.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: It was two tie breaks. That was in the round
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: of 32. Good for him. Like, I don't know. Like
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: I said, this time in the season, you don't know
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: who's exhausted, who's falling apart.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like Shelton's had a big year.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Also, he had his birthday recently, so maybe... Ooh. He's 24.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: What did he get?
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: He got a really cool present from Trinity. I mean...
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: Couple goals. They're such a fun couple. Always look like
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: they're doing fun things. And she got him this tribute
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: on his birthday. It's just a little video message. Let's
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: have a look at this. It's a video message from
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: a dance troupe.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: So an African dance troupe.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: They're kissing a printout of Ben Shelton.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: That's beautiful.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: It says, happy birthday, Ben Shelton.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Happy birthday. Happy birthday.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: These guys should have been at the AO launch.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Get them here. Awesome.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: That's nice. That's a good birthday.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: That's nice. That was on the line.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: He got it from his future wife.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: I think you'd like it, wouldn't you?
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Well, I'd be like.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: What do you usually get?
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: From my wife. If my wife got me that for
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: my birthday, I'd be like, wow, that's awesome and original.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: And I haven't had that before. But is there anything tangible?
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: And what else?
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Is there anything I can hold and use?
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: No, you can just replay that on your phone. Oh, right.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: Put it in your favorites.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: She just hears me like playing it on the toilet.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Softly crying.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: You'd learn the dance.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. No, it's certainly original. Tennis news. Bublik won
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: an absolute epic against Brandon Nakashima. but after the first
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: set tie break he lost.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: His cool this is an all time Bublik.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: I think this is an all time crash out yeah
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: but then to come back and win the match after
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: this is awesome but I mean if we have it
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: here this.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: Is a good reset yeah.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: That is violent.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: And then, wait.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Kicks Esky. Ouch. That looked like it hurt. Eye spin. Oh,
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: he breaks the top of the eye spin. But he
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: keeps looking at someone. He's got his eyes locked in
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: on someone.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: His player's box.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: It must be.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: His coach and his player's box. But that is like
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: full Godzilla mode. I know I'm not saying that just
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: because they're in China, even though Godzilla's Japan, isn't it?
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. He's trying to tread carefully when he
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: doesn't have to. Exactly. It's like, what are you talking about?
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: It's full. He just goes on the rampage of destruction there.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: And that, like, racket smash. It's not.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: But it looked like he could have injured himself. Yeah.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: I think he thought that thing that he kicked was
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: a bit softer. Oh, yeah.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: It was stationary. It was like a brick wall.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So he kicks the bottom of his bench and
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: then seems to smash that in and then smash in
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: the drinks cooler, the Heineken drinks cooler. And that smashed
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: a bit. And then it would have just probably been
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: one code violation, like racket abuse. But then you go,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: would it be three code violations? Racket abuse, bench abuse,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: drinks cooler.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: I'll just roll it into one. Yeah.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: There. Smashes that. Kicks the racket. Breaks the top of
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: the cooler.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: I mean. He's expressing his hate for his player's box.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: My God. And he's so tall, too, to get down
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: that low.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: And smash it that hard.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: It's hard.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: It is a lot of effort. And I mean, a
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: lot of flying debris. If a little piece of that
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: hit anyone else, a piece of the racket, a piece
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: of the plastic, he would have been gone. But just
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: destructo mode, and it seemed to work because he came
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: back and beat Nakashima. And probably the match of the
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: tournament so far. Speaking of anger, we also had a
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: very angry Francis Tiafoe.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Am I right in saying he doesn't really get angry
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: that often?
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Not like this.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Smashes one racket, picks up another, smashes that.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Like, I'll save these ones.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: I need these ones.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, these ones are good. So he smashed two rackets
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: in a row.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: It didn't look natural to me.
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: No.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Bublik's got it down. Like, he looks good when he
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: smashes a racket. But TFO, I was like, that looks awkward.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: You thought his was a bit forced?
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah. You don't smash the racket. That's not your brand.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: In terms of racket smashes, I'm going to give that
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: one to Bublik.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all time.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: For writing smashes.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a 10 out of 10 smash.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Racket smashing is back.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, bring it on. Hot WTA news.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Huge news in the WTA.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, this is massive. I know.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Zheng Qinwen.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Qinwen Zheng.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, let me pronounce that right. Zheng Qinwen. Do
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: you say Qinwen Zheng or Zheng Qinwen?
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Zheng Qinwen.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Either way?
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: I defer to you.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know the last name first situation. Yeah. Who
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Lizzie I would like to be called.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Who Lizzie? Yeah. That's what people say when you get
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: introduced on a lineup.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: This is Who Lizzie, yeah.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Who Lizzie? Qin Wen wins the China Open over Mira Andreeva.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: This is big.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: This is huge.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Big turning point.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: She's back.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: She's back. Because when was she at? 2024?
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she, I mean, was dealing with elbow issues. And then,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, I slowly just kind of made her way
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: back into the tour. Deep runs at slams and other tournaments.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: And then, you know, the hometown favorite here winning the
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: China Open.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Love to see it.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Becoming the first Chinese women to win the China Open
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: WTA 1000 title. Yeah, defeating number four, Mira Andreeva in
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: straight sets. Quite the tussle, though. It was back and forth.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: You know, some breaks early for Andreeva. And yeah, Zheng Qianwen,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: I've never seen her look happier.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, she looked old.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: And yeah, she was super proud of herself, I think.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and to come back after being injured for so long.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Did she take off 2025?
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: She's been gone for a while. Yeah, and it was
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: like a struggle getting back to the tour. I mean,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: she had the gold medal in her bag from a
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: few years ago and was a couple Grand Slam finals,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: at least one.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: Can I make an early prediction? Australian Open. Ooh. Wow.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: That is my early prediction.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Lizzy Hu calling it. Well, I guess we did the launch.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the launch is, yeah.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: We're in motion now. The grounds are buzzing with staff
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: setting up for the Australian Open.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: And I'm doing an early prediction.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Jung Chin-Wen wins the Australian Open 2027.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Uh-huh. We're not doing Game Set Hats this week.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: What?
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: I'm so sorry.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: People are going to be so disappointed.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: I know. Especially Arash, a listener from Sweden.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: We love you, Arash.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: We love you, Arash, who sent us some feedback, which
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: is very nice. He said, Game Set Hats is not
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: lame at all.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Arash. You have validated our producer.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah. More than anyone else.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: We love it. But we're doing another segment this week.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: which is very.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Would you like to hear the audio sting for it? Oh,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: we have a new sting.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, please get excited for.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Game, set, moustache.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Is that a rash? I imagine that's... It kind of
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: sounds like that. Game, set, moustache. Game, set, moustache.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Wow. Game, set, moustache. Carlos Alcaraz. To go with the hair.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: I mean, we've been talking about his hair for a
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: couple of weeks.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Lovely. Thick head of hair, yes.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: Thick head of hair. And now he has a beautiful
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: little mustache.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Mustache.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: And as a mustache man, Mike, how do you rate
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: this character?
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm jealous of its robustness. He probably can
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: grow that overnight. This took me 44 years.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: I feel like this could get bigger. I think it
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: needs to get a little bit bigger, but I like it.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: You want handlebar style.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Oh, wow, like an old west sheriff.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, it looks good. I think it looks good.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: I think he looks very 70s.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: The gold chain. He's got the headband. He's got a
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: little mustache. I think it suits him.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: You look at a lot of the comments online. I mean,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: it looks good. He rocks the basketball jersey better than
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: any of the other players. And I think as her
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: suit individual as he is, that's like an overnight mustache.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: And it's impressive. It is impressive. And people commenting, they go, oh,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: you know, he looks like Tom Selleck. Freddie Mercury, a
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: lot of comparisons to. But I will say there was
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: an American congressman named Anthony Weiner who was running for
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: mayor of New York and then found himself embroiled in
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: a sex scandal because he was text messaging.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Because his last name Weiner?
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Well, that's like part of the joke and part of
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: what brought him down. It's a fantastic documentary called Weiner,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: which is about his downfall. Because they thought he was
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: going to be, like, the next great mayor of New York.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: But then he had sex scandals, and he was texting
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: with nude photos. Classic mayor behavior. But his fake name online,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: in which he was soliciting dodgy things, was Carlos Danger. Oh,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: that's awesome.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: And so now when I see Alcaraz with a mustache,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: for some reason I think, Carlos Danger.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: Danger.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Which sounds cool if you don't know.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: The Weiner story. Yeah, remove it from the Anthony Weiner
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: sexting scandal. And this is Carlos Danger.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Carlos Danger.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he's rocking it.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: I like it. And he joined some other famous mustaches
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: in tennis. We've got the Andy Murray. The Andy Murray mustache.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Do you remember this?
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Very handlebar-y.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Yes. Another earth-shattering mustache.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: And, of course, the John Newcomb. Oh, Nuke.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: I mean that.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: That's beautiful. Yeah.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: There's a lot going on there. That's a lot of mustache.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: That's a lot of mustache.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, to me, too much.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: Too much stache.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you want the beard. You just go the full
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: thing there, you know? I mean, I've only had my
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: mustache since lockdowns and stuff because I grew everything.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: Oh, did you? Did you go full facial?
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: I went full, but because of the way it grows
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: in my face, it was very patchy.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: But then I shaved everything off except for the mustache,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: and my wife hated it, and I was like, I'm
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: keeping it. And then you might have seen me talk
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: about this on stage, but because of the mustache, I
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: did try wearing glasses on stage once when I was
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: doing gigs in America. And I walked out on stage
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: and this guy in the front row goes, fucking Ned
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Flanders looking motherfucker.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: I thought you were going to say, oh, Mr. Potato Head.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: Potato Head. You know how you can put a mustache
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: on him and then the glasses.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Oh, yes, yes, yes.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: Oh, sorry.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: No, no, that's good. So there's the nuke. The nuke
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: is beautiful.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: That's iconic. And then the demons.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: I think I have the demon.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're a bit demon.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: The wispier kind of, my dad is a ginger man. Really? Yes,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: he's a ginger man.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: He's a ginger man.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think I get some ginger coming through
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: in the mustache, which is terrifying. It's terrifying stuff. But
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: I think, yeah, it's like the demon are kind of wispier,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: lighter shade of brown. Yeah, so kind of like a
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: teenager who works at McDonald's Yeah.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's the look. And I mean, I'm a fan
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: of the mustache. I love Carlos's mustache.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Carlos Danger.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Carlos Danger. But not everyone is a fan of
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: the mustache. We got Marta Kostic. Just wrote on X,
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: I think. No.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Oh, Marta.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: Marta, not into the mustache. No. No. No. Just a simple, no,
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: not a fan. A lot of likes.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, if Marta Kostick told me to change anything
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: about myself, I would do it. You know?
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: If she was like, you have too many limbs, I'd
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: be like, which.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: One do you want me to cut out?
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Other mustaches from tennis history. Oh, this is Mansour Barami.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: He's like a master of the trick shots and like
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: watch some of his highlights. He's an amazing player. So, oh,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: this is Ion Tyriac. Ion Tyriac of the Madrid Open.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: I hope, yeah, I got the tournament right.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Anyway, I look forward to seeing Carlos Danger's mustache at
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: the Australian Open in real life.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: He changes his look so much.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: I think that's him having fun.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: I know, but I mean, he might show up with
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: the shaved head and, you know, everything else shaved. That
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: sounds bad. But you never know. Game, set, mustache. Alexi Ola,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: always making big news in the tennis world, was recently
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: on Maria Sharapova's Pretty Tough podcast this week.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: Pretty tough.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: And admitted something huge about her brother. He's just so
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: much better than I am.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: What?
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: I can never.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: I don't agree with you.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: He was always so much better than I am. And
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: even until now, like my brother is very intelligent. If
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: there's anybody who's going to know exactly the tactic to
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: play me, it's my brother. And until now, like the
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: last time we hit was probably in December and he
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: had not because he started working. he had not played
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: tennis in like six months.
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: And he kept telling me, Alex, oh, like I'm so
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: unfit now. Like you'll probably kill me if it's like,
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: if it's a full match. We hit and he destroyed me.
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: That's what brothers do.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, time was all this time. Yeah, that's what
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: brothers do.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they do. I reckon he's secretly practicing, that brother,
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: for sure. He hasn't given up.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: The competitiveness within siblings.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: It's huge.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: It is unrivaled, right? I mean, your brother teaches paddle.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a paddle coach.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, have you played him?
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: No, but I need to.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Is there anything you can beat your brother in?
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: Snowboarding. That was the only thing. When I was doing
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: ski seasons in Japan, he came to visit me and
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: I was like, this is my time. This is my
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: time when I can finally be better at something. They're
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: my brother. And I just took him on all these
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: really hard runs. It was the best feeling of my life.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: Like he taught me everything, like how to play all sports, driving, everything.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: And I thought, this is it. This was the only thing.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: And we spoke about it. He's like, that's the only
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: thing you're good at.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: I was like, I know.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: But if I'd given him another like week. Yeah. He
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: would have been better than me.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: But, like, would he fall over and you would, like,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: carve powder into his face? Was there any?
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: No, I'd just leave him and then wait for him
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: at the bottom. He's like, oh, my God, what was that?
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: Why did you do that? It was amazing.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's good. Yeah, so, I mean. She would be
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: so competitive and obviously is top of her game, pro
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: tennis player, and then just going, yeah, my brother is
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: out of shape and still beats me.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: Behind every great athlete is a big brother, I reckon.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: That still has your number in a lot of things.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, Federer, does he have siblings? Even if he did,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: he'd still be beating them in tennis, I think. But
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: they probably can just crush him in checkers or something. Yeah.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Because they know how to get in your head, brothers.
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: They can talk shit in a way. Oh, my gosh.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: Like, yeah.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: Remember when mom caught you pissing in the sandbox?
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. You just revert.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah. It's so bad. Yeah. All right. Let's get into
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: everyone's favorite segment. This is.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: Approaching the Net. All right. Everyone's actual favorite segment. Yes. Yes.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: That is my celebration. Actually, I thought of another celebration.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: What do you got?
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: Air guitar, but with the tennis racket.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't see
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: that much.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: And it's right there. It's obvious.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: It is right there. So you're using props.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Okay. Tennis, you could do a full band. You
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: could do guitar.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: Trumpet.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: Trumpet. What else could you do?
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: You could do, I mean, any.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: Any.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: This is good. This is great improv. All right, so
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: you go guitar. What trumpets?
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And then you could do double bass.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Double bass.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: Oh. violin when they lose oh violin is like yeah
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: actually violin.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: I believe Djokovic does that.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: Oh does he he does a bit of that yeah
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: that's good yeah What else you got? The confession. That
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: could be like the church confessional.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Forgive me, Father, for I have won.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: It's so creepy. I can't watch. All right. Okay, approaching
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: the net. My favorite, and I'm his favorite, Daniil Medvedev. Has,
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: was it last week? A week before he hit someone
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: in the eye.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: With a tennis ball.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: He was disqualified.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, disqualified. He's actually gone and seen the fan in hospital.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: Which surprised me that he went to hospital. And giving
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: him the ultimate tribute, a racket that says, I'm sorry.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: I am sorry. Sorry. signed to Neil Medvedev.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: Surprise you that the fan had to go to hospital
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: or surprise you that Medvedev went to hospital?
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: Bit of both. Bit of both? No, I think I'm
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: surprised that the fan went to hospital. I mean, does
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: that tell us a bit more about the seriousness of
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: the situation?
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: I guess so. But then again, Medvedev bringing him a
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: signed racket and visiting him in hospital is like, please,
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: no litigation.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Here's a signed racket.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, in the racket case, there is a million dollars.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: Oh of course a settlement fee yeah but then signing
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: the grip of the tennis racket that is not gonna
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: last if.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: The guy plays yeah would you play with it if
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: you go give it yeah yeah yeah okay i mean
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: yeah why not.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: Maybe that signature oh what do you think you could
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: sell that on ebay maybe get.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: A few bucks put it on your wall.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah but i mean this guy's debt perception's gonna be
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: a bit off for a while so maybe he's not playing.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: He's only got one eye.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: And then he said blah blah blah whoever wrote this
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: Daniel went over in person to apologize to the injured
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: spectator gave him a racket. I truly believe he is
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: a kind person. Hope see you soon in Shanghai. Well
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: you know who can't see him soon in Shanghai? The
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: man with one eye.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: Next we have Serena Williams has been given the ultimate tribute.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: She is now a Barbie doll. I feel like this
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: is a little late, to be honest. Serena Williams getting
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: a Barbie. Is this her first Barbie? No, it says
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: she's second. Her second Barbie.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: But this one is her and her white Nike kit
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: from her 2005 Australian Open victory. And it's even got
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: the actual time on the back of the tennis court
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: that that match lasted. $ 45 for a Barbie doll.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: Is that high?
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: Were you a Barbie girl?
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: Absolutely not.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: In a Barbie world?
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: No, absolutely not. I wasn't allowed Barbies. No? Yeah. I
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: had two older brothers. My mom was like anti-Barbie.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: Because they were like, I don't know, too girly or something.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: I wasn't allowed to do anything girly.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: Okay. Right, right, right.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: That's why I present lesbian. When in actual fact, I
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: am not. just for the record i know i present
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: lesbian but it was because i wasn't allowed bobbies as
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: a child i wasn't.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah well your brothers would have probably like set them
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: cut their hair.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: Off yeah 100 yeah yeah why would i have a
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: bob yeah well now it's your chance hand me down.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: Would you like a Serena Barbie for Christmas this year?
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: I'm good. I'm good. Yeah? Yeah, I don't need it.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: But if you wanted to give me a Serena Barbie.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: If they made a Barbie of Lizzie Who, it's like
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: Serena's obviously tennis. What would your Barbie be doing?
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: I guess from when I peaked athletically, I would be
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: in my hockey kit. Again, I'm not a lesbian.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: I know, the more you deny it, the better. Yeah,
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: maybe my under 13 hockey kit.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: After this episode, you're going to get in your Subaru
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: and drive to Bunnings?
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: I don't own a Subaru. I have a Honda Jazz
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: with roof racks. Wow.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: Not doing much to dispel the allegations. I never do
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: anything to dispel.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: Sometimes I walk out of the house and I'm like, well,
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: I'm doing nothing for the allegations, am I?
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: Well, of course, nothing wrong with that, but yeah.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: No, I get offered gay gigs all the time.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: Do the gay gigs.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to, but it's weird.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: Imposter syndrome.
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, big time. They're like, I told you she was gay.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: There's nothing gay about.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: This next clip. Nothing gay about this next clip.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: What do you got?
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: Hot Daddy Pickleball. Wow. You know Hot Daddy Pickleball.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Do I?
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: I reckon you do. They are a social group, very
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: active in the pickleball community, and they have a Speedo Day,
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: amongst other themed days. Let's have a look at the
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: Hot Daddy. Yes. Speedo Day 2026. I mean, this just
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: looks like a day at the pool in Australia.
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: So.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: This is a bunch of older, ripped men.
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: Ripped.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: And Speedos playing pickleball.
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: I mean, I love it.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: Why are you showing me this? It is okay.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: It's great.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: Here's the thing. It's in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where my actual
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: daddy is from. Oh. Really? My dad's from Provincetown, Massachusetts,
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: so I see hot daddy pickleball Provincetown, Massachusetts. I'm like, oh,
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: my God, it's my 80-year-old man.
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: Mr.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: Goldstein.
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: You're going to see a clip of Mr. Goldstein.
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: If he popped up in there.
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: This is not going to make it.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: I was worried. Imagine if that's how I find out.
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: Dr. Goldstein. Dr. Goldstein.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: That's why he's been so weird with mom all these years.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: We want to bring back, because Arash has commented, and
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: this is actually his favorite part of the show, as
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: well as many listeners' favorite part of the show. It's good.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: Quizzy Who.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: We got Quizzy Who.
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we got a Quizzy Who. Yes. Are you ready?
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: I'm pumped.
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: A 34-minute Grand Slam final was played in the 1988 dot, dot, dot.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: Tell me the slam, the players, and the scoreline.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: Oh, scoreline with the 34-minute match. You can kind of
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: get there on context, please.
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: And no looking up. This has to be off the
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: top of your heads. No AI.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: And they write into podlaverattennis.com.au.
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Honestly, it's too late for me to think. Also,
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: I'm hungry. Me too.
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, me too.
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: And that was Podlabor Arena.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: Another stellar edition of Podlabor Arena. We'll be back next
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: week to talk about what happened in the Shanghai Masters 1000,
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: as well as all the other 250s, 500s, and events.
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: And the women.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: Well, the women's, you know, junk.
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: Oh, Wuhan. They're in Wuhan.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: Wuhan is coming up for the WTA, so we'll be
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: discussing that as well. In the meantime, slurp it up.
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: Oh, slurp it up. What are you thinking?
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: What is that?
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: Have it feel in the mouth.