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TEENY TINY SMILES · Pod Laver Arena

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Want to check check we're back. We're down in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the French bonjour, Michelle, Come.
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  Speaker 2: On, Elizabeth, is that friend?
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: Well, jem Tennie, I do love I love tennis and
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: I love the French Open. And it's in full swing.
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: We should say that round two. Half of round two
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: has been completed as we record, but there's a lot
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: to catch up on. I'm in America over zoom and
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: it's not ideal, but we're going to make it work.
• 0:42
  Speaker 2: We're gonna make it work. This is how everyone does it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm in Melbourne. I'm at Melbourne Park where the AO is,
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  Speaker 2: and it is miserable outside. It is the Melbourne Park.
• 0:53
  Speaker 2: They do not want you to see. It's actually yeah.
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm currently in thirty degree Kansas City heat beautiful,
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: so I'm just wearing a thong like bikini.
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  Speaker 2: T shut up the top, thong down the butt. Please
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  Speaker 2: do not stand up, Mike, show me.
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  Speaker 1: Perfect tennis stuff. Way.
• 1:17
  Speaker 2: I didn't realize how much I missed a Grand Slim.
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: It's the best.
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  Speaker 2: It's so exciting.
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  Speaker 1: The French Open. Can we get some like French Open
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  Speaker 1: music under that? Some I don't know what is what's
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  Speaker 1: French music? Sound like.
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  Speaker 2: Paris jazz. Yeah, let's get some Parish jazz underneath this.
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  Speaker 1: The French Open is underway Roland Garrison. Unfortunately, the Great
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  Speaker 1: French Hope Arthur fees out with an injury before the
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  Speaker 1: tournament even began. There's been plenty of French players still
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  Speaker 1: in the mix. A lot of them are getting knocked
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  Speaker 1: out in early rounds. Arthur Gia had an incident on court. Well,
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: I think he successfully made it off the court.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we've all I've never related so hard to
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  Speaker 2: a tennis player in my life. We've all been there.
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  Speaker 2: If you haven't, you have not lived like I think.
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  Speaker 2: It's not really it's yeah, it's not ideal when it's
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  Speaker 2: not a change of ends to see your opponent go
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  Speaker 2: off court for that length of time. But when you
• 2:17
  Speaker 2: gotta go, you gotta go.
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  Speaker 1: I mean the ausiest Adam Alton, him.
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  Speaker 2: Beating it was the weirdest game to watch. One six
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  Speaker 2: six six classic.
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  Speaker 1: Never of meltdown. He was up a break in with
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  Speaker 1: the Spider Adam Alton. I think he's ranked in the nineties.
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  Speaker 1: I could be wrong about that, but the biggest win
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  Speaker 1: of his career. Yeah, amazing, that's huge. And then Kimberly
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  Speaker 1: Barrell beating.
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  Speaker 2: Jess Pagole your faith.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I do love pol and I thought she. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: she gets into the second week of almost every Grand
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  Speaker 1: Slam she plays, So this was a great solid player,
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  Speaker 1: huge up set.
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  Speaker 2: Massive upset, but good for her and Kochi Nakas as well.
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  Speaker 2: Five setter.
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  Speaker 1: But but yeah, today he retired in the third set
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  Speaker 1: of his second round match against Pablo Corno Busta. It's
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  Speaker 1: that peck, He's got that dead man's ligament and it's
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  Speaker 1: just hold. But we already have an Aussie through to
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  Speaker 1: the third round because even our second round walkover blocks. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: who rolled his ankle in practice, which is going to
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  Speaker 1: be the worst way to get knocked out of a tournament.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so news just in. Apparently there was a cover
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  Speaker 2: on the court and that's why he rolled his ankle,
• 3:27
  Speaker 2: and now they're going to try and sue.
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  Speaker 1: What I mean, what like a rain cover? Is he
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  Speaker 1: playing on a tarp?
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  Speaker 3: For our audio listeners. Showing on screen now is a
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  Speaker 3: New York Times article with a headline that reads.
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  Speaker 2: Alexander blocks his team consider compensation claim after French Open
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  Speaker 2: top accident.
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  Speaker 3: So, yes, Mike, it was a top.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, we'll take it.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully, we'll take it.
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  Speaker 1: We'll take the win, We'll take it.
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  Speaker 2: Demon goes through.
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  Speaker 1: He's through to the third round.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Daria Kazakino won her first round match. That was britt
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  Speaker 1: win front of the show. You know. Yeah, Unfortunately Duckworth
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  Speaker 1: went out today to Spanish sensation of Raphael Hodar Hoder.
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  Speaker 2: He's got a bit of hype.
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  Speaker 1: He's got a lot of hype, and he made it interesting. Duckworth, like,
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  Speaker 1: I think it was a He won a tie break
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  Speaker 1: in the second set and then pushed Hodar in the
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  Speaker 1: third and the fourth. But yes, changed Dockworth, that was
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  Speaker 1: a battle. Yeah, disappointed, really unfortunate times. Hodar out on top,
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  Speaker 1: and he's like a favorite to push to the you know,
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  Speaker 1: round of sixteen at least. So the draw is opening up,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, really crazy matches. Taylor Fritz out in the
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  Speaker 1: first round. Yeah to BASSI already gone gone. Is this
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  Speaker 1: because he's spending too much time at Renaissance fairs by himself?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe? Yeah, maybe he's just gone through a breakups. He
• 4:59
  Speaker 2: might be going he might be just gaming too much,
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  Speaker 2: not practicing enough. Who knows what this guy's gone he's
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  Speaker 2: gone through some stuff.
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  Speaker 1: He is going through some stuff.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I really don't think my level was it
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  Speaker 2: was that bad, to be honest, I think the all
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  Speaker 2: things considered, I thought, actually I played al right.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, I just don't think he had the match
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  Speaker 1: fitness on clay. He played one tournament leading up to
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  Speaker 1: the French and he went out in the first round.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, Americans classically don't like clay as a
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  Speaker 1: surface in general. So yeah, he just didn't have his
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  Speaker 1: clay legs under him. And what was knocked out by
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  Speaker 1: a fellow American great college player Bassive already.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I haven't played a lot of matches. I'm
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  Speaker 2: a bit I'm a bit rusty. I still I said,
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  Speaker 2: I think I played, you know, I really think I
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  Speaker 2: played alright today.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then some other matches. Well, what did you
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  Speaker 1: think of Osaka's fashion out statement for the French?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, look, I liked the playing dress that was revealed,
• 6:01
  Speaker 2: the gold sparkly dress. Quite liked that. I think it
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  Speaker 2: matched well with the clay. The black dress coming out, Nah,
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  Speaker 2: I just felt hot watching her come out, not in
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  Speaker 2: a good way, in a sweaty way. It's like thirty
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  Speaker 2: five degrees and she's walking out in a black ball gown.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, no, at least make it a daytime dress.
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  Speaker 2: You have to have two options. I think she just
• 6:25
  Speaker 2: sort of rolled the dice on that. If she had
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  Speaker 2: a night game, it would have been all right, but
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  Speaker 2: she needed a day a day game backup dress because
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  Speaker 2: that walking out. I was like, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: that's not suitable.
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  Speaker 1: Would this intimidate you if your opponent showed up dressed
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  Speaker 1: like the Babba Duke.
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  Speaker 2: No, I think I'd just be like, what the hell
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  Speaker 2: is she doing? She got under there? I just feel
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  Speaker 2: like she's just sweaty. Again. Nobody thinks about what happens
• 6:54
  Speaker 2: to the skirt once she takes it off. She just
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  Speaker 2: kind of like throws it on the chair. I like
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  Speaker 2: that she's having fun. I like that she's bringing a
• 7:02
  Speaker 2: bit of personality. Yeah, you know, I'd love to see
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  Speaker 2: that in tennis. But as from a from a style
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  Speaker 2: and design perspective, I'm like, eh, you can do better.
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  Speaker 1: Regardless she's winning and she's through.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well you want to win. That's that's the other thing.
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  Speaker 2: If you're walking out like that, you can't lose.
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  Speaker 1: You can't. I mean, surely, it's distracting to be like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I have to dress like I'm going to a medieval baptism.
• 7:34
  Speaker 1: On an even more somber note than her dress. The
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  Speaker 1: legends that have already been bounced from the tournament.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Gail mom Fees sad he's last French Open with Rinka.
• 7:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah gone, but I guess with Rinka he'll be it.
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  Speaker 2: He'll be at Wimbledon though, right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he's going to retire in Basil so
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  Speaker 1: home tournament towards the end of the season. Mon Fees.
• 8:02
  Speaker 1: I don't know if he's made an announcement yet, but
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  Speaker 1: obviously he's the French favorite. He's been playing it for,
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  Speaker 1: you know, since he was winning the juniors there in
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and four. But which one like struck more
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  Speaker 1: of a chord with you once they got bounced, Like,
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  Speaker 1: which which one were you? Like? Ah? Damn, I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to watch I think Gail that player.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because like I've seen a lot of his highlights
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  Speaker 2: reels pop up in my feed and then just I
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  Speaker 2: forgot how crazy athletic he was, like some of the
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  Speaker 2: shots he made. He's so fun, he's fun to watch.
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  Speaker 2: He's just a cool personality. I mean, so is Stan,
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  Speaker 2: but like Gail is just something else.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Stan was. I mean, Stan has won it before,
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  Speaker 1: so you're like, ah, you've won it, You're fine, but still,
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  Speaker 1: you know, sad to see him go. It's funny how
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  Speaker 1: Maren chilliic like he got bounced as well, but people
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  Speaker 1: are like, oh, yeah, we don't care about that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's like a Grand Slam winner that thirty seven years old.
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  Speaker 2: Oh he got bounced by the seventeen year old.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I'm me. Yeah, And so there's a twenty
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  Speaker 1: year age difference, and it's just wild. Chilich was in
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  Speaker 1: the top twenty when Kwame was born. Yeah, it's wild
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  Speaker 1: to think about.
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  Speaker 2: Crazy.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what other sport do you get a twenty
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  Speaker 1: year thirty year age gap. If all boxing matches were
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  Speaker 1: a thirty year age gap, I would watch the hell
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  Speaker 1: out of all.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, who did you? Who are you going to miss? Mare? Gailstan?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you're right, Gail montfees being the consummate
• 9:34
  Speaker 1: entertainer and just such a showman out there. But then
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  Speaker 1: Varenka's backhand being like probably the most perfect backhand outside
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  Speaker 1: of uh maybe Gasque who retired last year, or you know,
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: Federer obviously, but yeah, I think both those guys, it's
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  Speaker 1: just like it's one of both of them not playing
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  Speaker 1: this particular slam again. It's like a wake up call
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  Speaker 1: for that. I'm old.
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  Speaker 2: It really is end of an era.
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  Speaker 1: Sad to see him go, but plenty of players obviously
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  Speaker 1: still marching on and getting through center, making easy work
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  Speaker 1: in his first round as expected. Djokovic now through to
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  Speaker 1: the third round. He dropped one set again today against
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: Roye French player, So the French crowd. He's played two
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: French players in a row and the crowd hasn't been
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  Speaker 1: on his side, but he's come through pretty easily and
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  Speaker 1: also the right now. Halfway through the second round, Djokovic
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  Speaker 1: owns the shot of the tournament, hitting an around the
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  Speaker 1: net passing shot, not a passing shot, just through in
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  Speaker 1: front of the chair umpire. It was that small gap
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  Speaker 1: and from the chair umpire the net and it is
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  Speaker 1: absolutely amazing. Oh yeah, Rebeccena is out.
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  Speaker 2: I saw that this morning.
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  Speaker 1: But it was a killer match. It was in the
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: decider ten to four starodub sever a Ukrainian player, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: took out Rebecca. It was the number two seed for
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  Speaker 1: the tournament, so that's an absolutely wild Yeah, probably the
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  Speaker 1: biggest upset so far. And here's the big question that
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: everyone's debating. How do you feel about the h the
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  Speaker 1: no electric line calls?
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  Speaker 2: Because there was like one guy, Pierre Herbert, he went crazy,
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna see.
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  Speaker 1: It looking in the eye.
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  Speaker 2: You're gonna see it.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be out and you're gonna be if you.
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  Speaker 3: Go say sorry after. That's why I never speak to
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  Speaker 3: you again.
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  Speaker 1: Which is like if you asked chat GBT to come
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  Speaker 1: up with a French.
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  Speaker 2: Name, Yeah, how's that for you? Do you want to
• 11:46
  Speaker 2: make him a cat? He's a black and white cat
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  Speaker 2: that plays tennis. But yeah, I so there's no electronic
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  Speaker 2: line call on the clay, but that in some tournaments, yes, right.
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  Speaker 1: And all the lead up tournaments I think there was.
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  Speaker 1: It's just the French Tennis Federation has been like.
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  Speaker 2: They don't like the change.
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  Speaker 1: I like it. I liked the drama. I like the
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  Speaker 1: I like watching grown adults point at dirt and yell
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  Speaker 1: at each other.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, I kind of love watching the umpire
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  Speaker 2: having to get off their chair and like move their
• 12:22
  Speaker 2: legs a little bit. They probably appreciate that they're up
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  Speaker 2: there for a long time. They're like, finally I get
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  Speaker 2: to stretch my legs. They're an economy up there, and it's.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it just adds a fascinating element that I think
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  Speaker 1: we've lost with electronic line calls and all the other tournaments.
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  Speaker 1: I know, the electronic line calls speed up the game
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: and there's you know, obviously less conflict, but I mean,
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: come on, add some drama to the sport. And then
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  Speaker 1: core Patch played Wang today and there was another dispute
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  Speaker 1: over a line call. Wang went around to core Patch's
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  Speaker 1: side at the court to look at the mark from
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  Speaker 1: the ball. They start arguing with each other, she gets
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  Speaker 1: a code violation and then they and then cor Patch
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  Speaker 1: refuses to shake her hand at the net. So it
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  Speaker 1: was amazing.
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  Speaker 2: I love the conflict drama. You're not allowed to go
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  Speaker 2: over to someone else's side of the court, no, yeah, no.
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  Speaker 1: No, no no no, so yeah. And then they watched
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  Speaker 1: the press conference with cor Patch after She's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was crazy. She came over, she argued the line.
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  Speaker 1: She was pointing at two different marks, but both of
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  Speaker 1: them were out. So yeah, there's no shortage of drama.
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  Speaker 1: The French love a bit of drama. Don't they.
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  Speaker 2: So when the players point to the dirt, the little
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  Speaker 2: divid in the dirt, does that over overrule a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the time be like, hey, look it went well.
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  Speaker 1: It's the chair Empire's discretion obviously. And I think the
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  Speaker 1: issue there is the chair empires meant to look at
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  Speaker 1: the mark from the chair, come down off the chair,
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  Speaker 1: and then go this was the mark. It was out
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  Speaker 1: or it was in. If the player is pointing at
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  Speaker 1: a different mark, this is where you get into a
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  Speaker 1: confusing gray area trying to you know, uh, trick or cheat, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Because its around you know, especially but game.
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  Speaker 1: Is that well is that mark exactly? So I mean again,
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  Speaker 1: it's up to the chair on pire. And there's plenty
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  Speaker 1: of calls already within the first you know, a couple
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  Speaker 1: of rounds of this tournament of players going no, that's
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: the wrong mark or it clearly brushed the line, but
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: didn't you know, connect solidly with it. And it's uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's it is kind of silly with the hindsight of
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  Speaker 1: all the other tournaments using electronic line calls and having
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  Speaker 1: there be no debate. But like I said before, I
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  Speaker 1: love it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean drama.
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  Speaker 1: So Lizzie, that's the end of the first round and
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: halfway through the second round of the French Open. What
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: has your predictions changed? Where do you see it going
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  Speaker 1: from here?
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  Speaker 2: Swiddelina is still in, yes, and I think she'll be
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  Speaker 2: doing it for Gale.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He had a beautiful tribute to her as well. It
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: was all in French, but I read the comments someone
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  Speaker 2: had He wasn't French. I could understand it, but it
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  Speaker 2: sounded beautiful. But I went into the comments and some
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  Speaker 2: beautiful person had translated it for everyone and was like,
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: here's the English translation, and it was it was a
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  Speaker 2: nice tribute to Swidelina. And I just obsessed with those
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  Speaker 2: two anyway. Sidelina is still in. She's still my favorite.
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  Speaker 2: And I mean Djokovic he's still there.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. I mean, I think those are two
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: very entertaining choices that will be awesome to see even
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: go deep into the second week. And it should be said,
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: Siddelina beat Cocoa Golf in the final of Rome, you know,
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  Speaker 1: five six days ago, So that's why that Gail Monte's
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  Speaker 1: tribute came out about what an amazing woman she is.
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  Speaker 1: It's awesome she's winning one thousand events. You know and
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  Speaker 1: lead ups to a Grand Slam, so she has that
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  Speaker 1: form coming in, so that's going to be awesome to watch.
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  Speaker 1: What do I think?
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  Speaker 2: I hear you ask, I'm sorry, let me us, Mike,
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  Speaker 2: and what do you think.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: I think? I'm sticking with my original predictions of Igashavontek
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  Speaker 1: reclaiming the crown of the French Open. She is looks
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: like she has in the past on clay. She's absolutely
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: stomping opponents. Granted she hasn't come up against any huge
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  Speaker 1: names yet, but I think she's looking kind of like
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: her former out there and then boring. But I can't
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  Speaker 1: go as center just running through the tournament.
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  Speaker 3: Just hours after recording this pond, Mike was proved wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Although it is hot and oh yeah, we know he
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: doesn't like the hate.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: Just hours after recording this pond, Lizzie was proved right.
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  Speaker 1: Lizzie, we've been blowing up on socials, uhroub Yeah, viral,
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  Speaker 1: just sweep viral. Something tells me that when a French
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: guy says I am viral, it means something else. We've
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: had a few posts go up. When Tonts was on
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: a few weeks ago, there was the chat about the
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: Madrid models as ball girls. That had a big response
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: from in cels saying, yeah, what's your point? This would
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: should be how it is at all tournaments. Yeah. And
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: then this one went crazy US during the Australian Open
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: and I said I prompted him, I said, would you
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: say pickleball is tennis for people with no athletic ability?
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  Speaker 1: And he was like absolutely. I put the clip up
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: and it went so crazy viral that this is like
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: a week and a half ago. It's that thing where
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: you wake up to more comments every day every day.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: How do I turn those comments off? Every day? It's
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: like some angry pickleballer that's like, these guys don't know
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: what they're talking about. I've played both sports, and why
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: are they having to go with people having fun? And
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh my god, this is what thing is.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: You're proving the point.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: I know, and the thing is we played both. I
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: know you have fun doing both and we support both.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: But imagine getting that angry and like typing out comments
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: about a sport with pickle in the title.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: I know, and it's Tommy has of course he's going
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: to have an opinion that's pro tennis. He's not going
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: to come out and be like, actually, my heart take
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: is pickaball rules. Can you imagine if he did that?
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: I know, I know, and so like he's a legend.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: He shared it in his stories. I think he's loving
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: all the traction it's getting. And uh, it's because like
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: the comments are so people go crazy very for the juggular.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's they're not they're not reading. I don't think
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: they know that we're comedians or it's just a funny
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: little a stupid little pod, you know. Gosh, anyway, we
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: still love PICKBA, we still play it.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Actually, so I signed up for like an open play
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: pickleball center down the road from my parents' house. Fun. Yeah,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: and you got to put in like what rating you
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: think you are, Like it's like called the duper rating.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: It's one through six. Six is basically pro. And then
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: I just said, I'll just say three point five. I
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: don't know. And then I showed up and all the
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: other players were eighty plus. Oh no, Mike, I mean
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: it made me feel young again, beautiful. But then I
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: absolutely dominated these dusty old Yeah I think. Yeah, one
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: guy burst, uh is colostomy bag.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: And then you were gonna say that I'm like he
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: burst is not colostomy bag okay.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: But they were like, oh, you're hitting it too hard.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Be careful, you might hood my epidemis. And they're like,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: why are you being so aggressive? Please set down. But
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: it was so funny and I actually loved it. But
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: they asked me to come back and play tomorrow. I
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: don't think I would.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: You a bit sore.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: I'm a bit sore.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: The fascinating thing about the pickleball Tommy Haas clip is
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: that the clip that I had posted right before that
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: one was I thought the most viral anything would go
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: for me for you know, in the last few years,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Like it was a clip that I recorded on an
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: airplane of a drunk Oh, we've got a talk all
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: over the place.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: This is crazy. Mike g comedian goes viral for someone
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: else getting drunk, which is great. I mean, sure, those
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: plane those plane moments. I mean, I've never seen anything
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: like this on a plane. Obviously you hear about it
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: because someone gets the cameraund and start shooting. But you
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: were there, you were front.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Row for a context. I was. I was on a
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: sixteen and a half hour long flight from Melbourne to Dallas,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: brutal absolutely brutal.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Well one way like no stop.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: No stop, yea yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, that's so direct
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Melbourne to Dallas. And then to add three hours onto
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: our journey, we had to stop in Tahiti to drop
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: the drunkest man I've ever seen in my life off
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: the plane.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that is crazy. So three and how far into
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: the journey were you?
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: We're about four and a half hours in. So what
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: had happened was like I heard a commotion on the
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: other side of the cabin all of a sudden, all
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: the flight attendants are like around and you could tell
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: like there's something happening, and then word spread throughout its economy.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Look so pub labor's doing well, but not that well.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm an economy go.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: It turns out this guy got into his seat passed
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: out right when he boarded the plane, but then the
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: person in front of him, four hours into the flight,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: put their seat back and it woke him up, and
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: he went on this drunken tirade right and then they
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: moved him to my side of the plane and they
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: put him, I swear to God, in the seat behind me,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: and I was like, I'm gonna put my seat back.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: But before I got a chance. He was up and
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: out of his seat, and he was like running around
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: the plane, and then he like locked himself in the bathroom.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: He was trying to get out for a cigarette, and
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: he obviously like look at my instagram the you know,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: it's wild. He's yelling at flight attendants. It took four
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: flight attendants and three passengers to pin him down and
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: do him in the back of the plane. And I've
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: recorded the whole thing because I'm the real hero.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: You are You didn't you didn't you didn't volunteer to
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: do a pin down.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: I couldn't pin down and record, of course not too hot.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Then the announcement comes through that we can't subdue him,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: you know, especially for another ten hours. He kept kept
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: fighting and struggling, and so we stopped in Tahiti to
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: drop him off. And it was the most it made
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: the honestly made the trip go quicker because when you're
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: bonding with everyone around you about it, and it's like
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: it was crazy and people were super pissed because everyone
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: missed their connections. I just spent the night in Dallas,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: But since then I've done countless news interviews because of
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: what people are obsessed with passengers going out on the
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: po and I got so bored with the news interviews.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: I just started making up stuff to see if they
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: reported on it.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Okay, what what are you made up things?
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: I said. He kept shouting about being in the Illuminati,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: which is a lie. I said he had an ed
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: sheeran tramp stamp. I said, not only was he trying
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: to because he bit he bit a flight attendant and
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: he actually.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Bit one of the that's real, that's real.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. So I said, not only was
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: he biting people, but he was also we caught him
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: drinking out of the toilet. And I don't know, like
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: because I'm not in Australia, so I like, I was
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: on Channel seven.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: Hey I heard you on the radio.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: But the crazy thing in relation to us in this
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: podcast is that clip went up millions of views, whatever comments,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: it gets poached by bigger pages. That's all annoying. But
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: then the clip after that was talking pickleball with Tommy Hawks,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: and that clip has gotten more traction now than the drunk.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: People are more angry about pickleball than a drunk on
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: a plane. Yeah, this is the pickleball community, they knox.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: I just remembered one more wrinkle to the drunk guy
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: on the plane. His ex girlfriend ended up contacting me.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Okay, so what's happened to him?
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Well, that's what I asked. I was like, do you
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: want to give a name? Could you tell us anything?
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: And she was like, no, I'm not giving you any information,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: but I will say he's actually a nice guy and
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: he means well And I was like, okay, but is
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: he okay? Is he back in Australia? And she goes,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: we have no idea. All we know is that a
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: few days ago he put up a post on Facebook
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: saying I'm going to Dallas. Woo who and then has
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: since deleted that post. Am I dumb mine, dumb mine.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: Dump now Mike. Our favorite segment, apart from Mike's anagrams,
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: obviously the rip approaching the Net featuring Lizzy Who. That's
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: what it says, announced you know cool? She featuring me?
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: It's where I get great online content and we talk
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: about it, which is how I can tennis. We tear
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: it to pieces. First one at the net is Sinner's
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: Gucci commercial. Have you seen this?
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: I have it. He's holding the Apple tennis ball.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Apple tennis Ball because his last name is Sinner. See
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: what they did there?
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Yes, ah, the original.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: Center Original Sinner.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: So is he going to have to remove a rib
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: to create a female?
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: I don't know. He kind of looks cool in it.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: He looks like a Gucci model.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: He looks like a Gucci model. He is a Gucci model.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: But I don't know. I don't think it's that original.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, I want he's holding the tennis ball apple.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: He slowly looks up and then the smallest smile I've
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: ever seen.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: It does a creepy little smile.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: I want you to give me look down and then
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: look up and give me your best, the tiniest smile
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: you can possibly.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: I've got a big green tennis bawl in front of me,
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: and tennis ball is not in any just not a
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: normal tennis ball. And I'm going to be the original Sinner?
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: And action did I do it?
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: I guess?
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Okay, right, wait, I think I need to get I
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: need to fix my hair.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: You don't what? And action? Oh my god, that's terrifying?
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Is that good?
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: So scary? That was terrify?
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: The original Sinner? That is it?
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: You look like the girl coming out of the TV
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: in the Ring. It was.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: It's not the first time I've been told I look
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: like the girl in the Ring.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'll try one. I'll try one right now.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: I only have this the Wold action.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: That was a teeny tiny smart that was teeny wow.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: All right, we're moving on to oh friend of the
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: pod maybe. Well, he was mentioned in our pod with Hughesy.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: He's a friend friend by association Russell Crowe.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Yes, Eryl and I worked with him on Sampang Show last.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you guys worked with him. You've actually seen him
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: in the flesh. Wow? Did you talk to him?
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: He took over, he kicked here's some behind the scenes.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: He kicked Sam Pag out of his own dressing room
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: because his wasn't big enough. Oh, he took over.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: How funny is that? And then he kicked him out
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: of his chair on set?
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Right, That was my idea because he was bitching about
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: his chair, and so at the commercial break or whatever,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: I just went up and I was like switch chairs
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: before he come back. And then it was so good
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: because you know peg sits on phone books. Yeah. So
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: what happened with Rusty.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: Well, Russy was in the crowd and he caught a ball.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Whoa, that's cool.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: Roland Garros put out this. They're like, hey, Russell crows
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: in the crowd after he caught the ball, mind you.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: And then they have a photo of Russell with the
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: ball and then him in the crowd, and then they
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: said this is Sparta, but they've crossed out Spada and
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: put Roland Garros but Sparta is Spars the wrong movie.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, if god on with.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: That other guy, what's his name, Jared Butler?
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Butler?
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, wrong person, I mean wrong old guy with.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: The obvious Gladiator one right there is Are you not entertained?
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: You should be doing the wrong socials, mic, I don't
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: know what would I have gone. I caught a ball,
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: put put me in the slips, That's what I would
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: have gone with. Put me in the slips.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: That's free. And that's from Gladiator as well.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's what happens to Gladia. Actually that's what
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: they do in the coliseum and they just play cricket.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: But what Tiger is like, oh that would be both.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: But yeah, he was there, he caught a ball. He's
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: living his best life. He looked very dressed up, to
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: be honest, he's in a three piece Yeah, he's in
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: a three piece for a thirty degree day. Russell Crowe
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: is rocking a three piece suit.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Maybe he's shedding for his third wedding.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: Really he's getting married.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: Mike's lies.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: And ed Sharon tramp stand.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: Okay, last one for you, Mike. Are you excited?
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: I'm excited. What do you got?
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: I've got the most fabulous of all time? Okay, We're
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: at the Towpath Tennis Center in Ohio.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: What is that?
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: It's Capierra. I'm thinking. I think he's doing a little capewerra.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: So he does two complete three sixty spins, not backflips,
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: kind of spinny things, and then yeah, he serves, and
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: I assume it goes over the net.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: What a way to do an acl It's like, oh,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: I did a play in tennis capaera. Yeah, I love that.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: There appears to be old people picking up trash in
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: the background, and he's just living his best life.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: So, Mike, is this how you look against the octagenarians
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: at pickleball? Look? Is this what's happening in your mind?
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Well, when I played the Golden Girls and I
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: was parcouring off the walls.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: So we have a Quizzy who winner beautiful segment crazy who?
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: Yes we had Oh sorry, Quizzy who I've got a dance.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: I do it, It's in my contract. Uh. We have
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: a Swedish listener. That one a Rash from Sweden. Shout
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: out to a Rash huge in Sweden, Mike, we have
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: Swedish followers, a Rash, We love you. You answered the question.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: Remember the question about the types of courts at the
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: Australian Open, how many have been over the years, And
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: the answer was well, Courtney and you both said three,
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: but the answer was actually four and a Rash got
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: that grass Rebound as Plexi, Cushion, Prestige and the green set.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: And then he also says love your pod, keep it up?
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Yes, ah yeah.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: And then we gave him the prize and he comes
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: back to us and says, Wow, this has absolutely made
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: my day. I can't believe I actually won. I'm a
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: huge fan of PLA. Please say hi from me to
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: Mike and Lizzie and tell them to keep up the
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: brilliant work. The pod is consistently one of the highlights
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: of my week. I'm gonna cry. Yes and yes, please
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: do send the aopact me. My address is a rash.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Let's read it, let's read it.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: Stop there, I'll stop there. Wait, he continues. I assume
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: winning Quizzy, who automatically makes me an honorary fourth host
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: of PLA. But if the budget doesn't allow that, I'll
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: settle for a signed tennis ball and a greeting in
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: Swedish from Mike. Pronunciation accuracy not required. He wants the
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: greeting from you, Mike. Do you know how to say
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: anything in Swedish?
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Let me look up greeting hello in Swedish.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: I don't know any Oh, just says hey hedge.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: Hedge means hello, oh no, good more gone? Hello, God
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: more no, good morning? Is God more gone? So uh,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: I'll say God more gone, arash, good dog, God caval
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: and God nat. And also can we read out his
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: whole address and then get everyone who listens to send them.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: No, we caught a rash. We love you, Thank you
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: so much, Thank.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: You, rash, We love you. Thanks for listening. Tell everyone
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: about it. You're the best.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: You're the best. Another great pod to finish a small off. Okay,
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: look down, God, it's a stupid little pod.