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CLOSING TIME · Pod Laver Arena

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Speaker 1: It's a sad day here at Tennis FM with Fritgie
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Speaker 1: and the Chod. It's the final podcast for the Australian Open,
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Speaker 1: but not the final podcast of all time. Chode, how
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Speaker 1: are you feeling? Is Jode in the Choppa? No Chode
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Speaker 1: is au Chode grounded? Joad has been grounded. Jode hates
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Speaker 1: being Choad speaks in the third person so much.
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Speaker 2: Cho Man, chod Man, Chode Man, sad Chode man Man
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Speaker 2: skinny chad Man out.
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Speaker 1: Well, let's play one final song for the Australian Open.
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Speaker 1: Number one certified hit should be for sads Way closing time.
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Speaker 1: Another slam for Alcoraz, He was a better one.
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Speaker 2: It's clear Carlos time.
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Speaker 1: Novak might get twenty five, but it won't be here.
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Speaker 1: Alcras takes the AO thrown. No Vaks still could win.
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Speaker 1: Wimble don al Coras takes the AO thrown. No Vaks
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Speaker 1: still could win.
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Speaker 2: Wimble don't wimbleedes.
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Speaker 1: Wimble do? When's wimbledone? People are gonna get angry if
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Speaker 1: we keep pronouncing it Wimbledon wimbledone, and that's the attraction
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Speaker 1: we want.
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Speaker 2: I love the history of Wimbledon, That's what I respect
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Speaker 2: about it. How the tradition, how everything is the same
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Speaker 2: it's been for years, including the.
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Speaker 1: Name is wimbledone on your bucket list?
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Speaker 2: Wimble done? I love we have Wimble. Don't Wimbledoo, I.
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Speaker 1: Say, wimble, don't wimble, don't heaven, I'd love to go
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Speaker 1: to Wimbledon. Yeah, well they're sending us here, don't we
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Speaker 1: have a guarantee from Tennis Australia. And there was a
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Speaker 1: thumbs up there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I yeah, I'm booking my flights or I'll send
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Speaker 2: them my frequok flight.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, just do that and then you know your details.
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Speaker 1: Do b yeah, do passport number. We'll do all the
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Speaker 1: admirin Greig Tyler does it himself.
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Speaker 2: He's got this big Manila folder that he carries around
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Speaker 2: under his arm every day just and there it's.
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Speaker 1: Post it notes.
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Speaker 2: It's it's like George gets stands a's wallet. It's yeah,
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Speaker 2: just bursting full of papers and admin and he still
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Speaker 2: uses a fax machine.
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Speaker 1: The man in the past is, oh man, it is
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Speaker 1: the final day. Did you have another song option for
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Speaker 1: the day?
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Speaker 2: You said, yeah, no I did, but then I forgot
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Speaker 2: it on the walk in here I had and then
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Speaker 2: I completely forgot it.
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Speaker 1: It could have been to dream it's over, but then hey,
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Speaker 1: now hey, now it was like Alchoraz it.
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Speaker 2: So no, it's going to be Novak it's over. But
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Speaker 2: it was too sad.
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Speaker 1: Tournaments over the tournament.
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Speaker 2: Hey, Novak got puffed in the four said.
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Speaker 1: He's old.
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Speaker 2: He's old old, too old to win a Grand slat.
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Speaker 2: Will he get to twenty five?
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Speaker 1: Maybe it wimbled for the pros of one man. I
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Speaker 1: walked in here today and it was a sad sight
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Speaker 1: to behold the Australian Open finish last night, Alcoraz taking
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Speaker 1: the title in four sets.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and when you say finished, it's like they're packing
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Speaker 2: everything up. Yeah, they're gonna come. They're waiting for us
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Speaker 2: to finish this podcast, to pack the studio.
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Speaker 1: They wanted to bump out while we were in here.
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Speaker 1: They're going to just start taking our jar of tennis
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Speaker 1: balls and the racket, like what time are you doing,
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Speaker 1: and we're like ten or something.
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Speaker 2: They're like like annoyed the way he is exactly, and
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Speaker 2: there's everyone's in high viz.
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Speaker 1: They're bumping everything out. I got very sad. I saw
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Speaker 1: a cart filled with giant tennis balls being shipped out
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Speaker 1: of the state.
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Speaker 2: That is sad. It's like so symbolic and it is
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Speaker 2: like just it's over. The tennis is done.
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Speaker 1: It's done. You also came in furious you had to
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Speaker 1: pay for a coffee. I know, So what the hell
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Speaker 1: is this? I'm not getting my twenty five dollars credit.
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Speaker 2: I'm like, gee, I don't do this. But yeah, symbolically
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Speaker 2: and physically it's over.
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Speaker 1: It's over.
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Speaker 2: But it finished with a bang, very special night.
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Speaker 1: It felt like last night, I'm in very special tournament
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Speaker 1: with very special friends. Are you referring to me? No,
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Speaker 1: of course you've been a friend from wayback, is true.
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Speaker 1: That is true. Thanks for bringing me and I've had
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Speaker 1: the time of my life. Well you're welcome, dude. Never
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Speaker 1: forget what have you done for me.
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Speaker 2: I got you hot chips in the final yesterday and
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Speaker 2: I said you can have Yeah, I know, and I
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Speaker 2: was like thanks.
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Speaker 1: We'll get to all that. I should say. Welcome to
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Speaker 1: pod Labor Arena. Yeah, we're not going for good because
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Speaker 1: the tournament's over. We'll be back. We're going weekly totally.
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Speaker 1: That all needs to be figured out. But like the
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Speaker 2: If you listen to this podcast and you're like God,
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Speaker 2: thank god it's over, it's only just because it's.
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Speaker 1: Only just big un ah. And as always I am
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Speaker 2: We drank warm champagne in this studio yep, and we
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Speaker 2: We love it so much that apparently we didn't have
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Speaker 1: Oh well, this is what we got told by our
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Speaker 1: producer is that we were just meant to do a
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Speaker 2: And I'll also be doing my new hour of stand up,
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Speaker 2: which is all about the American swing of the atp too.
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Speaker 2: Oh really fantastic. I'm very excited. Comedy festival.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh you're doing all the first time, doing all
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Speaker 1: the festivals. You'll be in every city, every city. Ah.
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Speaker 1: We had a huge day yesterday. It was so fun.
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Speaker 1: The we finished here pretty early.
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Speaker 2: Well by design, we wanted to get in early and
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Speaker 2: then soak up the atmosphere because we've been kind of
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Speaker 2: trapped in the studio quite a lot that I didn't
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Speaker 2: let us leave that much. But yesterday we're like, we
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Speaker 2: were going to get out there, and we were out there.
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Speaker 2: We were bar hopping, we were getting I'm on broad
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Speaker 2: sheet reading.
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Speaker 1: The best food at the History Yeah, like not a joke,
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Speaker 1: and we did. We found the best fried check. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it was so good. It was really good. Yeah, but
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Speaker 1: it was a fantastic day. So yeah, we wrapped the
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Speaker 1: podcast early and then we went out with Ace. We
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Speaker 1: were bouncing around just having a great time out there,
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Speaker 1: and then we saw that the Junior's Final was starting
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Speaker 1: in Rod Laver Arena. It was fantastic and we were like,
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Speaker 1: let's go check it out because I saw Keaton Hans
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Speaker 1: was playing.
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Speaker 2: And you because Keaton a young American buck, I don't
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Speaker 2: know where he's from exactly in the States. I don't
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Speaker 2: know if you got that guessing like an Arizona or
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Speaker 2: that kind of energy. You said, maybe if it's East coast,
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Speaker 2: it would be kind of Florida.
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Speaker 1: Potentially, yeah, yeah, or like the Hampton. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: But I saw you kind of the closest i've seen
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Speaker 2: to you ever, acting kind of like a father figure.
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Speaker 2: You were there and you're like, come on, Keaton. I think,
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Speaker 2: I said, you caught him son under your breath. No,
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Speaker 2: noot Son. You said, what do you know about Keaton?
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Speaker 1: I said, I know he's a good kid, and he's
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Speaker 1: a good he's a good kid. But he disappointed me.
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Speaker 2: Great yeah, yeah, yeah, which I mean maybe he is
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Speaker 2: in your family. That that's what you would get used
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Speaker 2: to being used to that.
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Speaker 1: You stormed out there.
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Speaker 2: He said, no, son of mine is going to lose
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Speaker 2: the Australian Open Junior men's final.
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Speaker 1: And he did. He lost to Slovakian Ziga sesco In
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Speaker 1: three said, but I should say they play best three
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Speaker 1: of the juniors, and they also played less. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: It took us a while to figure that out, Like
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Speaker 2: what's going on here? I turned to you and I'm like, dude,
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Speaker 2: I think I'm losing my mind. I think I've seen
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Speaker 2: seven nets. No one's really what's going on. It's just
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Speaker 2: bouncing off the net and it was brutally. There was
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Speaker 2: some contentious points as well, like that had kind of
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Speaker 2: implications for the good quality of tennis. Though, oh man,
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Speaker 2: I know these guys are like future stars obviously, like
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Speaker 2: junior grand sname finals often kind of predict who's going
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Speaker 2: to go on to do great things. But I still
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Speaker 2: had a part of me where I'm like, let's go
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Speaker 2: see the little kids. Yeah, hit the ball and you
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Speaker 2: get in there and says first of one, nine to five,
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Speaker 2: and you're like, whoa ripping four hands?
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Speaker 1: It was amazing. Yeah, and there was you loved one.
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Speaker 1: Ziega argued a line call because you can't and I said,
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Speaker 1: you can't argue with the Chubb close call.
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Speaker 2: The robot he said, can I see He goes, can
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Speaker 2: I see Chubb again? Yeah, and then it's like it's
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Speaker 2: a robot, dude, Like the robot's going to admit it's wrong.
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Speaker 1: Well, I've seen players asked to see the close call
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Speaker 1: because I don't know that. I think they want to
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Speaker 1: breathere omos or they just want whatever confirmation, you know,
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Speaker 1: But this seemed like he really thought they were going
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Speaker 1: to show it. And then here's gonna go see and
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Speaker 1: Chubb was gonna go Oh shit, I screwed this one, dude.
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Speaker 2: I've watched so many matches. Chub never backs down. Chub's
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Speaker 2: always right. No matter how wrong you think, Chubby, Chubby
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Speaker 2: is always correct.
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Speaker 3: Ah.
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Speaker 1: So we enjoyed the juniors. It's great. Yeah, it was
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Speaker 1: really good. And then we popped out. It was there's
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Speaker 1: a party vibe in the air.
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Speaker 2: I think ground passes are a little bit cheaper, and
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Speaker 2: the vibe is like, just calm down and even if
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Speaker 2: you don't have a ticket to the final week down.
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Speaker 1: Like I said, we were out in the grounds by
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Speaker 1: you know, midday ash, but we just slowly saw it
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Speaker 1: just get packed. Yeah, more packed. And then we heard
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Speaker 1: tell of a rap party for the media and staff.
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Speaker 2: And this excites us so much because I guess we
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Speaker 2: have worked in the media in different capacities, but like
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Speaker 2: as comedians, never serious, No, people.
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Speaker 1: Don't take us serious.
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Speaker 2: But for the first time I feel like in my
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Speaker 2: life that people are taking me seriously here with my past,
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Speaker 2: are they Well, there's no difference to my past to
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Speaker 2: like another journal Right, went to the rat party.
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Speaker 1: And there's drinks, just a bar it's.
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Speaker 2: Like media, international media, and it's nice to be there
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Speaker 2: with our colleagues.
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Speaker 1: They have this giant screen playing you know whatever, tennis,
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Speaker 1: playing our podcasts playing let's let's not be humble. Well,
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Speaker 1: if they were playing the podcast, maybe we would have
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Speaker 1: been more respected because we went in there and I
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Speaker 1: am and know how to act in these situations. That
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Speaker 1: because I walk up to the bar, I'm just going
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Speaker 1: to grab a drink confidently and walk away. And then
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Speaker 1: Sam Tartan being the you know, little how are you
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Speaker 1: gonna work? Fragile fragile man?
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Speaker 2: That is because excuse me? Are we allowed to have these?
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Speaker 2: Can I request a drink? My whistle is parched and
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Speaker 2: I need some kind of refreshment and I allowed? What okay,
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Speaker 2: what's crazy about that is you must have been recording me,
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Speaker 2: because that is word for word what I said. Also
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Speaker 2: the cadence and she goes, she looks at your past
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Speaker 2: and she goes, no, you don't have the right pass.
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Speaker 1: These aren't for.
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Speaker 2: You, and okay's so sorry. And then there was a
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Speaker 2: bit of a gust of wind and I just blew over. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: And then you were like, did you know I eat
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Speaker 2: pancakes with my girlfriend?
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Speaker 1: During five cent manches.
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Speaker 2: No, this is defamation, right, And now what happened was
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Speaker 2: I walked up and look, maybe I feel like you're
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Speaker 2: a bit more of a career grafter than me, do
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Speaker 2: you know what I mean? So maybe you're like you
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Speaker 2: just confidently grub a drink in this movie.
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Speaker 1: Well that's what you do.
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Speaker 2: I like to be accepted into certain places. So I
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Speaker 2: know I didn't word it like that. I said, can
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Speaker 2: I just grab one of these? That's how I said it.
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Speaker 2: I even say, you think that was too much? Yeah,
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Speaker 2: but then that's so rude to walk up to a
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Speaker 2: bar just grab a drinking bar. Yeah, but that's you
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Speaker 2: have to say something. What I'm gonna not look her
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Speaker 2: in the because she checked on the table, grab my drink,
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Speaker 2: and walk off.
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Speaker 1: But because she checked your past, then I was obviously
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Speaker 1: in your orbit and she checked my past. And she
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Speaker 1: goes like, you guys are going to have to clear
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Speaker 1: this with Belinda, who's standing over there.
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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, look, you think I there's no world
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Speaker 2: in which you get in and I don't get in.
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Speaker 2: You get caught up in the same way I get
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Speaker 2: caught I was.
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Speaker 1: I was making my way in. I was like high
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Speaker 1: fiving people know you that's yeah, that's not true anyway.
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Speaker 1: It was fellas when ray Leiota walks through the bar
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Speaker 1: and everyone's.
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Speaker 2: Like, now he was hurriedly behind me, you know, almost
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Speaker 2: like a congo lot.
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Speaker 1: You were cowering behind me.
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Speaker 2: And then you're like, oh, please, like, do you have
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Speaker 2: anything with more fluid in it?
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Speaker 1: Please? My allergies is my blood sugar is a bit low?
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Speaker 1: Is there?
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Speaker 2: Non alcoholic? I get indigestion. And then and then she goes,
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Speaker 2: you guys are gonna have to talk to Belinda is
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Speaker 2: an effect name. Yes, we don't want to get anyone,
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Speaker 2: you know. So we were like, absolutely, this will all
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Speaker 2: get worked out because we haven't really been turned away anywhere. No,
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Speaker 2: And these are all media people, she was tayking, it's
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Speaker 2: for like external international media or something.
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: There's a big party, but there were so many people there.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was like the eyes white Chut party in there.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, there was crazy stuff. No cameras, phones had
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Speaker 2: to go into a bag. That kind of a party basically.
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Speaker 1: And then we go talk to Belinda and I'll let
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Speaker 1: you explain because you can because.
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Speaker 2: I did so well that Mike was like, you go
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Speaker 2: talk to Belinda, this will work out. So I wander
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Speaker 2: over to Belinda and I was like, so, what's going on? Yeah,
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Speaker 2: is with my they said my past won't work And
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Speaker 2: she's like, yeah, you're not allowed in here. And I
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Speaker 2: was like, but we're media, and she's like looking at
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Speaker 2: my past. And then I think to soften it, she goes,
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Speaker 2: your past is better than their past and I was like,
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Speaker 2: but we're not allowed here. Like yeah, I was like,
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Speaker 2: you can't gaslight me. Immediately she was like, your past
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Speaker 2: can go more places. I'm like, but we're not allowed here.
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Speaker 2: What are you talking about? And then you come over
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Speaker 2: because I think you see me flailing around as well.
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Speaker 2: So you go up to Belinda and you're like, just
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Speaker 2: let us help.
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Speaker 1: You just got to plead it. You're like, come on,
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Speaker 1: let us have thought that might work because I was
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Speaker 1: I was saying. I was like, this is the last day, right,
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Speaker 1: I go, this is the last day? Like come on totally. Also,
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Speaker 1: at this point, ace Man got in. Didn't he behind us?
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Speaker 1: Well we thought he did, but we'll get the ace Man.
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Speaker 1: We were hanging with ace Man, you know, but we're
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Speaker 1: over there talking about I thought ace Man.
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Speaker 2: Is like, you know, he's in there in the crowd.
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Speaker 2: He's lit a cigar already. Yeah, exactly. And so we're
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Speaker 2: talking to Belinda and I go, it's the last day.
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Speaker 2: Do you really care? And she goes, I do. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: And it was if it wasn't happening to us, I
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Speaker 2: would have stood and applauded that woman. It kind of
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Speaker 2: ruled from her perspective, but we were like, oh my god.
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Speaker 2: And she looked at us with like discussed like I'm
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Speaker 2: pretty sure she thought we shouldn't have been anywhere at
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Speaker 2: the tennis I shouldn't have been involved at all.
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Speaker 1: But it did kind of rule.
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Speaker 2: It was like the perfect scene in like a sitcom comedy,
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Speaker 2: going I do and then sort of walking away and
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Speaker 2: we're like god.
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Speaker 1: And so Ace was kicked out. So that's when we
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Speaker 1: went and got paper. I'd say, slope it up. And
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Speaker 1: it came to the rescue. They did, and it's fantastic, champagne.
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Speaker 1: We went and sat on the balcony with a kind
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Speaker 1: of a core crew.
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Speaker 2: And had a better time and pretty much just spoke
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Speaker 2: about Blinda the whole time.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, Blinda, her story is not done yet, because
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Speaker 1: that's a big part of it. We got word that
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Speaker 1: we were in for the men's final.
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Speaker 2: So he from nowhere. Errol just is like, I got
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Speaker 2: his tickets. We're in, and we said an ace van
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Speaker 2: and he said no, and we were and we had
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Speaker 2: to cut ace manalers and we are sorry, but you're
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Speaker 2: not going to pass up a Grand Stone final basically.
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Speaker 2: So Eryl comes through and so we're all having a drink,
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Speaker 2: We're getting excited, and Errol's like, we have to go
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Speaker 2: and get out. Our passes is validated and they'll put
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Speaker 2: us on the list. So then we have to.
17:06
Speaker 1: Put a certain number on your accreditation pass on a
17:09
Speaker 1: list to make sure you can get into the men's
17:11
Speaker 1: fire Yeah right, yeah, yeah yeah, And so we go
17:13
Speaker 1: up to the counter. Yea.
17:15
Speaker 2: So we have to go to a different part of
17:16
Speaker 2: this whole complex to go to this different counter to
17:19
Speaker 2: get there.
17:20
Speaker 1: We're a bit nervous.
17:21
Speaker 2: We'll like god, you know, because you still don't know
17:22
Speaker 2: if it's going to happen or it's going to happen.
17:25
Speaker 2: Who do we see in charge of the media passes, Blinda,
17:31
Speaker 2: my heart. You immediately look at me and like if
17:37
Speaker 2: you think I handled it badly trying to get a
17:39
Speaker 2: free Japanese beer from the media drinks.
17:42
Speaker 1: I was like, aboard, aboard, abot, we have to leave,
17:45
Speaker 1: we have to leave.
17:47
Speaker 2: And she couldn't look us in the eye. She didn't
17:51
Speaker 2: even say hello. No, she acted like we'd never met.
17:53
Speaker 1: No, yeah, she didn't know. I was so close to
17:56
Speaker 1: being like, oh, you know the pretty woman moment. Yeah,
18:00
Speaker 1: big mistake, Yeah, Hugh, exactly, we're the do not realize
18:05
Speaker 1: who you messed with, Linda, and we're buzzing on the
18:10
Speaker 1: best bubbly in the world.
18:12
Speaker 2: Or just like pyper hard sick drunk, We're having the
18:15
Speaker 2: time of our lot.
18:15
Speaker 1: You wouldn't even give us a warm reasoning. So we
18:21
Speaker 1: got into the final.
18:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a long way of saying we got in
18:25
Speaker 2: and it was fantastic. We're up there, we're in the
18:27
Speaker 2: seats US three, Errol. We don't know what happened to
18:31
Speaker 2: ace Man. I think we had to cut him loose.
18:33
Speaker 1: So we're in the media section again, where you're not
18:35
Speaker 1: allowed to show emotion.
18:37
Speaker 2: No, you can't do anything. And that was particularly hard
18:39
Speaker 2: because the great folk there at Tennis Australia did something brilliant.
18:42
Speaker 2: They brought out Sophie Ellis Baxter to sing her smash
18:45
Speaker 2: hit murder on the Dens floor, no stage, just her
18:49
Speaker 2: and heels alone in the middle of the court.
18:52
Speaker 1: If I could be in Sovielle's Baxter's ear, I would
18:55
Speaker 1: have been like, make it tennis, make it murder on
18:58
Speaker 1: the hard court. Yeah, that would have been great. You're
19:00
Speaker 1: also in the mindset of writing a parody tennis song
19:02
Speaker 1: a day every morning, which I'm saving Jess for Grand Slams.
19:08
Speaker 1: So yeah, she was the opening act, came out, did
19:11
Speaker 1: one song. It was fantastic, crazy state. The media section
19:16
Speaker 1: is popping off at this point. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I
19:18
Speaker 1: think you could show emotion for the pre match that's allowed.
19:22
Speaker 1: I think so well. I mean we were singing along,
19:24
Speaker 1: we were standing, singing, hugging, but there so they had
19:29
Speaker 1: the roofs slightly open for the Alcoraz Djokovic match, which
19:35
Speaker 1: you know, it's some table setting. It's a historic match.
19:37
Speaker 1: Was Djokovic going for twenty five and Alcaraz going to
19:42
Speaker 1: gunning to be the youngest you ever get the career slam.
19:45
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and when they came out it was quite fascinating
19:49
Speaker 2: to see who was going to have more support. Yeah,
19:52
Speaker 2: and it pretty quickly became clear it was Novak. He
19:57
Speaker 2: got a bigger cheer. Maybe it was like sixty forty
19:59
Speaker 2: his way from the crowd. It is funny that he
20:02
Speaker 2: felt like Ozzie Novak for a moment. I was like, oh,
20:04
Speaker 2: good to know we've still got to play it going
20:06
Speaker 2: in the tournament. Yeah, because people you just heard the
20:08
Speaker 2: most Aussi.
20:08
Speaker 1: Being like, you can do a Novak mate, come on
20:12
Speaker 1: throughout the match. Chance of Novak, Yeah, I think it's
20:18
Speaker 1: people want to see the old guy win another one,
20:20
Speaker 1: you know, I think so. I think it was a
20:22
Speaker 1: stadium full of people who are vicariously rejecting the grim
20:28
Speaker 1: specter of death.
20:31
Speaker 2: Wow, that was beautiful and look, I do think there
20:34
Speaker 2: is something in that also like that. I think people
20:36
Speaker 2: want to know, like they just want to win for
20:37
Speaker 2: the old guy. When he was top dog, people didn't
20:40
Speaker 2: like him and now underdog.
20:41
Speaker 1: Great story. It's like everyone's the bloody love that bloke.
20:44
Speaker 2: And I think he's in the right way, it's got
20:45
Speaker 2: the right attitude, does everything correct.
20:48
Speaker 1: Well. I think everyone saw the press conference where he
20:52
Speaker 1: was accused of always chasing his entire career. Yeah, and
20:55
Speaker 1: people are like what.
20:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean yeah, even the most rusted on Novak
20:59
Speaker 2: hater would be like, I mean, give the gud break.
21:01
Speaker 1: So the cheers were big for Novak upon arrival into
21:05
Speaker 1: the stadium. Uh, the chair umpire was Ozzie, Yeah John,
21:09
Speaker 1: Big John, Big John's John. So like when the crowd
21:11
Speaker 1: got a bit rowdy.
21:12
Speaker 2: He was like, oh, come on, guys, dude, I'll get
21:14
Speaker 2: the secies to kick you out.
21:16
Speaker 1: He said that at one point.
21:18
Speaker 2: Now he is doing like the ambiguous kind of European
21:22
Speaker 2: esl kind of voice the whole time. But he did
21:25
Speaker 2: break at one point and he said, he goes, come on, guys,
21:30
Speaker 2: I know you're excited, but please don't call out.
21:32
Speaker 1: Lady, don't know if you can call out during the mooins,
21:35
Speaker 1: you will be sent out and that will ruin your night.
21:37
Speaker 1: Please don't do it. And it was great and you
21:41
Speaker 1: heard the Aussie accent come out in that his Chubb
21:44
Speaker 1: clothes call was yeah nah ah. So should we get
21:51
Speaker 1: into the details of the man I'd love to I'd
21:54
Speaker 1: love I mean, we've already talked for so long, like
21:58
Speaker 1: I think the obviously everyone know was the result. It
22:01
Speaker 1: was Carlitos in four sets, but the first set was
22:05
Speaker 1: vintage Djokovic going for broke redlining.
22:09
Speaker 2: His game, unbelievable, flawless at a tennis he was serving
22:13
Speaker 2: at like ninety percent. It was ninety three percent, Like
22:15
Speaker 2: into the six game he won something. It was just crazy.
22:18
Speaker 2: He was just like an immovable force.
22:20
Speaker 1: Yeah, Carlos like rattled. Well, I think you would be.
22:24
Speaker 1: He came out number one. They're cheering for him.
22:26
Speaker 2: For Novak, I think he would have been maybe not
22:28
Speaker 2: prepared for that, not used to it, not used to
22:30
Speaker 2: it at all.
22:31
Speaker 1: It's just the most lovable guy of all time.
22:34
Speaker 2: And then Novak just comes out playing like a twenty
22:37
Speaker 2: two year old whipper snapper at the top of his game,
22:39
Speaker 2: and it was it was also it was yeah.
22:42
Speaker 1: It was unreal that first set, like I loved I mean,
22:45
Speaker 1: the first set and the four set were the best, Yeah, totally.
22:47
Speaker 2: But then the second set, it just the switch flicked immediately.
22:50
Speaker 2: And then Carlitos kind of stood up and started playing
22:53
Speaker 2: better tennis.
22:54
Speaker 1: Is that a fitness thing? Do you think?
22:56
Speaker 2: I feel like I said this to you, and I
22:58
Speaker 2: felt like I think Nova was like, I'm not going
23:01
Speaker 2: to win straight sets at some point, He's going to
23:03
Speaker 2: bring the heat. It's a game of momentum, and I
23:05
Speaker 2: think I don't know. Maybe he could have kept pushing,
23:08
Speaker 2: but maybe he knew his fitness wasn't. Ultimately, it could
23:10
Speaker 2: be fitness that kind of got him at the at
23:12
Speaker 2: the end if you look at the kind of the
23:13
Speaker 2: last few points of the match. So maybe just the
23:16
Speaker 2: burn happened a bit, and he was like, I need
23:18
Speaker 2: to conserve energy because we went six to again the
23:20
Speaker 2: opposite direction in the second.
23:22
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it was a thirty eight year old playing
23:24
Speaker 1: a twenty two year old, and you like, redline your
23:26
Speaker 1: game for the first set, and then Carlo's weather's the storm,
23:29
Speaker 1: and then he locks in and then takes the next
23:31
Speaker 1: two sets pretty handily, pretty easy. Yeah, and then.
23:36
Speaker 2: It felt different the fourth though, the start of the
23:39
Speaker 2: fourth felt different. Yeah, we'd gotten hot chips as well,
23:41
Speaker 2: that could be why, but also the energy seemed to we.
23:44
Speaker 1: Were not allowed to enjoy the hot chips and media.
23:47
Speaker 2: We had to eat them and then grimmas and it's disgusting. Yeah,
23:52
Speaker 2: and then uh, it's yuck.
23:54
Speaker 1: The journalists around us not the biggest fans of PODLB arena, Well,
24:00
Speaker 1: you were on the other side of me.
24:02
Speaker 2: But at one point I was I turned to talk
24:04
Speaker 2: to Catherine Murphy ABC, news sports journal behind me, and
24:08
Speaker 2: I said, look, I've been a tennis journalist for five days,
24:10
Speaker 2: but I think this is definitely going to five sets.
24:13
Speaker 2: And these two guys on laptops, he's actually journals looked
24:15
Speaker 2: at me and went.
24:20
Speaker 1: Rolled their roll their eyes of me, and then Belinda
24:23
Speaker 1: came in and kicked you with me, kicked me in
24:25
Speaker 1: their head. That's for existing. Yeah. So the next two sets, Carlos,
24:31
Speaker 1: I mean some unreal rallies. Absolutely, one that stands out
24:35
Speaker 1: for me is Jokovic, Uh crazy defense and then hits
24:39
Speaker 1: around around the post, around the post backhand, which would
24:44
Speaker 1: be a winner against everyone else on the plane, but
24:48
Speaker 1: somehow Carlos just appears and then just flicks it back
24:51
Speaker 1: into the court. And it was the craziest rally.
24:54
Speaker 2: Carlos was always out of position, and then Novak was
24:57
Speaker 2: out of position, but Carlitos, he still felt like he
25:00
Speaker 2: was sort of had a grip on it, and you know,
25:02
Speaker 2: you say to yourself, you like, get there, and then
25:03
Speaker 2: you're like, oh, he got there easy.
25:05
Speaker 1: All of the time in these rallies, he was crazy
25:07
Speaker 1: anticipation of where even around the post backhand. Yeah, he
25:10
Speaker 1: just like how did he get there? Yeah, the post
25:12
Speaker 1: in the way he materializes and then Djokovic hams it
25:16
Speaker 1: up like he went once. Carlos won that point off
25:19
Speaker 1: the best shot I think of the tournament. Uh. Novak
25:25
Speaker 1: like just looks up in the air and like scowls
25:27
Speaker 1: and like, yeah it plays it up, like what can
25:30
Speaker 1: I can you do? Yeah?
25:31
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't get it past this guy. It's like
25:33
Speaker 2: me when I'm playing you a pickle ball. I look
25:35
Speaker 2: up to the guy and I said, what can I do?
25:36
Speaker 1: This guy is? He's too good? Thank you? And they
25:40
Speaker 1: thank you. Uh. The four set crowd chanting Novak in
25:45
Speaker 1: his first service game, it was crazy goose bump stuff,
25:48
Speaker 1: goose bump stuff. It like goes to four four. To me,
25:51
Speaker 1: the foreset was the most compelling in the past. Novak's
25:53
Speaker 1: revving the crowd up as well.
25:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, which is like the scenes you just don't think
25:56
Speaker 2: you'd see in Australia. He's standing looking back up. The
26:00
Speaker 2: crowd just been like come on, let's go there, cheering.
26:02
Speaker 1: It was a crazy sight to see. I loved it. Yeah,
26:06
Speaker 1: but he had break points and couldn't convert, couldn't do it,
26:09
Speaker 1: and so I went to seven to five. Carlos Algarez,
26:12
Speaker 1: champion of the Australian Open. Well, there was that.
26:15
Speaker 2: I think it was a twenty four shot rally in
26:19
Speaker 2: the last game, and Carlos came out on top as
26:22
Speaker 2: he kind of did as the match kind of kept
26:24
Speaker 2: emerging those key moments, Colitos would kind of win. And
26:27
Speaker 2: I just think if Novak had won that point, he
26:31
Speaker 2: wouldn't have been like as like he would have been exhausted.
26:34
Speaker 2: He's a thirty eight year old man, but I think
26:36
Speaker 2: he would have been like buoyed by the success of
26:38
Speaker 2: winning the point that he wouldn't have been feeling it
26:40
Speaker 2: as much, maybe more adrenaline. He was defeated, and then
26:42
Speaker 2: you saw him really gasping air trying to get the
26:45
Speaker 2: second serve.
26:46
Speaker 1: And it was it was kind of done at that moment. Yeah, yeah,
26:50
Speaker 1: it was. And I realized at the start of the
26:54
Speaker 1: four set, even though my prediction was Carlos and four,
26:56
Speaker 1: I not that correct as well. So I called both
26:58
Speaker 1: finals so as commentary and inside is better than probably
27:02
Speaker 1: Andy Raddix or anyone else. Yeah, I think so who
27:05
Speaker 1: was a tennis podcast, But I realized.
27:08
Speaker 2: Right in if you'd agree with that as well, through
27:10
Speaker 2: how we messa all those emails.
27:12
Speaker 1: I realized throughout the match how badly I wanted Jokovic
27:16
Speaker 1: to win.
27:16
Speaker 2: That's exactly how I felt like as soon as it
27:18
Speaker 2: started and I said yesterday I wanted Carlos to win.
27:21
Speaker 2: I was like, I feel like that's a better story
27:23
Speaker 2: for me going forward.
27:24
Speaker 1: Yeah. Do you think the old lady changed her mind?
27:27
Speaker 1: The old lady?
27:28
Speaker 2: Well, I thought the old lady was possessed by some
27:30
Speaker 2: of the kind of demon at some point. I'm not
27:32
Speaker 2: putting it all on the old lady. No, as soon
27:34
Speaker 2: as I walked out, it became apparent that I wanted
27:37
Speaker 2: no Back to win.
27:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, does he win another Slam? Does he get through
27:41
Speaker 1: alcahaz and Center? No, No, I don't think so. Twenty four.
27:45
Speaker 1: I think it's done.
27:46
Speaker 2: And I thought his post match interview, I thought he
27:51
Speaker 2: was funny. That's the first thing, because I'm often very
27:54
Speaker 2: critical of tennis players getting.
27:55
Speaker 1: Very easy laughs out there.
27:57
Speaker 2: Yeah, but legit, some funny bits, some funny jokes.
28:01
Speaker 1: Well, there was a boat style the borat joke, which
28:04
Speaker 1: we love here at Paul Liver Arena.
28:06
Speaker 4: I mean, you're so young, you have a lot of time,
28:09
Speaker 4: like myself, So I'm sure we'll be seeing each other
28:13
Speaker 4: many more times in the next ten years.
28:14
Speaker 3: Ago not.
28:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, not I mean real funny, Not.
28:29
Speaker 2: Mike, I've loved doing the podcast with you this week.
28:32
Speaker 2: Not dude, he's killing up there. Not bring Borack jokes back.
28:41
Speaker 1: Dude, not as amazing. It's like we used to say
28:44
Speaker 1: in the nineties, I'm old right, total yeah, And it
28:47
Speaker 1: was like I'm happy for you, not not yeah, yeah, yeah, Oh,
28:52
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you got the youngest guy to win
28:55
Speaker 1: the career Slam.
28:57
Speaker 2: Not I want you to beat all my records, I think,
29:02
Speaker 2: but I thought, you know, in that great joke, there's
29:04
Speaker 2: often a lot of truth in humor. I think he's
29:08
Speaker 2: he acknowledges he's done. He also said he kind of
29:10
Speaker 2: didn't even really see himself making the final.
29:13
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then he kind of.
29:14
Speaker 2: Had this weird ambiguous thing at the end where he's like,
29:17
Speaker 2: I don't know what's going to happen, and you're like.
29:19
Speaker 1: Are you okay? I think that's good, though, what's going on?
29:22
Speaker 1: Because I think he wants to you know, he's not
29:25
Speaker 1: doing a victory lap yet of all the tournaments, and
29:28
Speaker 1: I think he's getting to the finals, like I think
29:30
Speaker 1: he's going to be around at least till the end
29:32
Speaker 1: of next year.
29:32
Speaker 2: So do you think he is going to do Yeah,
29:35
Speaker 2: like you said, it's not the victory lap. Do you
29:37
Speaker 2: think he will hang on and bow out in the
29:39
Speaker 2: early stages of tournaments and he will be comfortable that
29:42
Speaker 2: or do you think he wants to go out while
29:43
Speaker 2: he's still you know, in the top handful of guys.
29:46
Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about the fact that Rafa was sitting
29:49
Speaker 1: behind him. You know, it was in rod Labors. See,
29:52
Speaker 1: it was in well two down from road Laby. Oh.
29:56
Speaker 1: Rod was watching from the comfort of his mansion, watching
30:00
Speaker 1: from the son I'm a celeb, I believe. Oh really, yeah,
30:03
Speaker 1: he really is taken to it.
30:05
Speaker 2: He loves he loves Jetta Cristo.
30:10
Speaker 1: She loves how open she is on the show. Rafa's
30:15
Speaker 1: sitting behind him, one of his greatest rivals. What would
30:18
Speaker 1: that do if, like your biggest rival was and then
30:23
Speaker 1: you see he's been put out the pasture, he's sitting there,
30:26
Speaker 1: he's the he's out here to sign a Kia or whatever.
30:30
Speaker 1: And we love fans of terrific speech. We'll get to that.
30:36
Speaker 1: I mean, like, say, your biggest rival was sitting front
30:39
Speaker 1: row at every comedy show you did. So it happens often.
30:42
Speaker 2: You buy a ticket and I'm like, hey, that was
30:46
Speaker 2: a good joke, Mat Matt actually the best heckle. If
30:52
Speaker 2: you want to heckle a comedian, just do that, Like
30:54
Speaker 2: that's really funny.
30:56
Speaker 1: Nat. So he's seen Rafa, he's not ready to be
31:00
Speaker 1: in that seat. He's not ready to be sitting there
31:02
Speaker 1: watching the or he's like, it looks pretty good. On
31:05
Speaker 1: the other side, Just do you think heep bringing you out?
31:09
Speaker 1: These guys have the competitive drive and they want to
31:12
Speaker 1: compete that well, I get I guess it must be.
31:14
Speaker 2: I was thinking it could be hard for Raffa because
31:17
Speaker 2: he's sitting there. He's not that far removed from No
31:20
Speaker 2: bec is hoy high level tennis.
31:22
Speaker 1: Who Rafa, That's what I mean, Like he's been retired.
31:25
Speaker 2: But I'm saying, like, yeah, it's not like it's the
31:28
Speaker 2: far far past where he was like the best player
31:31
Speaker 2: in the world or one of.
31:31
Speaker 1: The best players. We won this a few years ago.
31:33
Speaker 2: Totally, That's what I mean. So it's like he must
31:35
Speaker 2: be like, must be hard watching you want to get out.
31:37
Speaker 1: But I'm going to say it right here. Novek is
31:40
Speaker 1: holding onto his career harder than Rafa is holding onto
31:44
Speaker 1: his hairline. You've heard it here? Is that where we
31:49
Speaker 1: were going? Yeah, I was trying to get there. Why
31:53
Speaker 1: did you tell me? You should have told me otherwise.
31:54
Speaker 1: I'm just getting in there, shutting away. No, no, but
31:58
Speaker 1: I do think. And Rafa said before the match that
32:00
Speaker 1: he supports Carlos and people are like, oh, why would
32:03
Speaker 1: you say this? Of course he says that they're both Spanish. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
32:08
Speaker 1: And then we spotted Raffa where he was sitting. It
32:13
Speaker 1: was hard not to.
32:14
Speaker 2: It looked like there was another bloodlight down the bottom
32:16
Speaker 2: in the crowd.
32:19
Speaker 1: It was bouncing off his bald well.
32:21
Speaker 2: We were behind him, and so the little crown was
32:24
Speaker 2: just it's all you could really see. There was never
32:27
Speaker 2: a real thing of like, oh, where's Raffa? Can we
32:29
Speaker 2: spot Raffa in the grady?
32:30
Speaker 1: There he is. You see that thing illuminating up from
32:33
Speaker 1: the darkness. A few things from like around the turn
32:39
Speaker 1: well around the final match. Novak pre match. I don't
32:44
Speaker 1: know if you saw this of his trainer giving him
32:46
Speaker 1: a head massage and whispering in his ear. It is
32:49
Speaker 1: it is beautiful, right, I mean, I'd kill for that.
32:55
Speaker 2: It's so, it's been doing something similar to me before
32:58
Speaker 2: every record call. Yeah, and then he starts to whispering.
33:01
Speaker 1: Look at this. Do you ask for it or does
33:04
Speaker 1: he just start doing it?
33:06
Speaker 2: I think you no, I don't ask for it.
33:10
Speaker 1: I actually have a strict.
33:11
Speaker 2: No touching policy, which he just continues to violate. You
33:15
Speaker 2: know what he was I can lip read. Do you
33:16
Speaker 2: know what he was saying?
33:17
Speaker 1: What he was like? You have to check out this podcast.
33:19
Speaker 1: It's called pod Labor, right, all the best stuff he's like.
33:22
Speaker 2: It's fun, it's kind of informative. Yeah, it's a great
33:25
Speaker 2: new take on tennis, right, going weekly.
33:28
Speaker 1: Uh, the Kia ambassador gave a speech. This is always
33:31
Speaker 1: what I'm most excited for. Of course, every open is
33:36
Speaker 1: what the Kia ambassador is going to say at the
33:39
Speaker 1: end of the match.
33:40
Speaker 2: I love Keya. Obviously they're without them, this tournament couldn't exist.
33:44
Speaker 2: But I would just love one year for him to go, yeah,
33:47
Speaker 2: look we didn't nail it this year, pretty rough tournament
33:50
Speaker 2: and then walk off.
33:51
Speaker 1: Just spice it up. Should we have a look at
33:53
Speaker 1: what happened during his spare?
33:54
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, Today Kea stands as a global leader in
33:58
Speaker 3: mobility and in shaping the future.
34:04
Speaker 4: Together with the Australian Open.
34:07
Speaker 1: He loves it. He loves it. So if you didn't
34:10
Speaker 1: hear that properly he's saying today, and then someone heckles
34:16
Speaker 1: from they yelled out boring, awesome, so good, yeah, so good.
34:20
Speaker 1: It only could have been better if than he yelled back,
34:22
Speaker 1: the key guy not.
34:27
Speaker 2: And he kind of smirks, he smokes. He liked it
34:29
Speaker 2: because he would know that no one is really hanging.
34:32
Speaker 2: There might be one or two car tennis crossover heads
34:37
Speaker 2: that really want to hear what he's got to say,
34:38
Speaker 2: but for the most part, everyone's like, can you hurry up?
34:40
Speaker 1: Man, can you hurry up? I love the Lord. The
34:43
Speaker 1: Men's Final the most expensive ticket for anything ever, So
34:47
Speaker 1: someone just paid top dollar at the heckle boring. Yeah,
34:51
Speaker 1: it's boring, boring, boring. Hey, it's Brett and Lexi from
34:56
Speaker 1: the AO Rap podcast.
34:58
Speaker 3: We admit Mike and Lizzie are hilarious, but if you've
35:01
Speaker 3: heard enough of them banging on and just want to
35:03
Speaker 3: hear some actual tennis talk, match analysis and reaction, come
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Speaker 3: and hang with us every day of the Main Draw.
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Speaker 2: The IRAP available wherever you get your podcast time.
35:14
Speaker 1: Podlabor Arena is absolutely killing it. That's not me being
35:18
Speaker 1: sarcastic at all. We're up to number twelve. That's crazy
35:22
Speaker 1: in the podcast charts. That's huge.
35:24
Speaker 2: It's actually like, I'm quite shocked, and it's kind of
35:28
Speaker 2: cool that.
35:28
Speaker 1: People are out there listening to it. Take that Belinda Belinda.
35:31
Speaker 2: And doesn't listen. I think I know what podcast she
35:34
Speaker 2: listens to.
35:35
Speaker 1: Actually, Andy Roddickson. Yeah, because he's number five, but he's
35:39
Speaker 1: also a Grand Slam champion who is very insightful and
35:42
Speaker 1: gives an amazing commentary game. Pretty funny for a professional athlete.
35:46
Speaker 1: But you're not going to hear Chod jokes.
35:48
Speaker 2: When he doesn't have any chode or fridge Guy song.
35:51
Speaker 2: He has no hot take on Chubb close call does he?
35:53
Speaker 1: He would never sing a song. He would never sing
35:55
Speaker 1: a song. So thank you everyone so much, Andy Rodder,
36:01
Speaker 1: and tell everybody to listen to the pod because we
36:04
Speaker 1: will be going weekly.
36:05
Speaker 2: We will, And tell everyone not to listen to Andy
36:07
Speaker 2: Rottick please.
36:08
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we're getting Lizzie Hubeck fantastic. Yeah she was
36:12
Speaker 1: she on Andy Ronnicks podcast. Yeah she was.
36:14
Speaker 2: She left us to do an erotics and she's kind
36:17
Speaker 2: of come crawling back, and she's coming crawling back for
36:19
Speaker 2: our weekly editions, and then I'll be over for Indian Wells,
36:22
Speaker 2: so I'll be reporting on the ground on the ground.
36:25
Speaker 2: You got and you've got meteor cred so we can
36:27
Speaker 2: send you around.
36:28
Speaker 1: I would love media cred. I'm just a punter at
36:30
Speaker 1: this point.
36:31
Speaker 2: Oh okay, you're one of the people the mighty have fallen.
36:35
Speaker 1: Dude. This is like I think we've said it before,
36:37
Speaker 1: but this tournament for us, with all the cred and
36:39
Speaker 1: access has been like flying business class on a long
36:42
Speaker 1: haul flight. It is amazing. You can never go back,
36:45
Speaker 1: but I'm going to go back to, you know, the
36:47
Speaker 1: working class seats.
36:49
Speaker 2: I think nothing will make Belinda happier than hearing that.
36:54
Speaker 1: Sam. So awesome to have you on board for the
36:56
Speaker 1: final week and going forward. What was your highlights of
37:00
Speaker 1: the tournament.
37:02
Speaker 2: I mean, look, I can't go past getting to go
37:05
Speaker 2: to a Grand Slam final like that is just a crazy,
37:08
Speaker 2: once in a lifetime experience.
37:09
Speaker 1: So that is going to stay with me forever.
37:12
Speaker 2: Meeting people is just like meeting tennis players is just
37:15
Speaker 2: crazy from a real personal perspective.
37:17
Speaker 1: It's great though, I mean, you almost left during the
37:20
Speaker 1: final to have beef boy with your girl friend.
37:25
Speaker 2: My actual highlight is when you were teasing me about
37:28
Speaker 2: going to leave, and you said you're going to leave
37:30
Speaker 2: to have and you were flailing and you got some
37:32
Speaker 2: strawberry pasta.
37:34
Speaker 1: That's a thing? Is it a thing? Shavantek said, she
37:37
Speaker 1: eats strawberry pasta. And if you were here for the
37:40
Speaker 1: first week, well, I wasn't here for the first week.
37:42
Speaker 1: You should have been listening to the show.
37:43
Speaker 2: I was listening in patches, but Roddick was on a
37:46
Speaker 2: real hot streak with his show. Thanks for bringing me in,
37:49
Speaker 2: mat though, I've loved it. What's pin your highlight?
37:51
Speaker 1: My highlight outside of the semifinals Verev and Alkoraz that
37:55
Speaker 1: we were there for that was like probably the most
37:58
Speaker 1: fun I've ever had watching a tennis match, despite you
38:01
Speaker 1: saying you were going to leave. I think that's why
38:04
Speaker 1: you have fun, that you were going to leave to
38:08
Speaker 1: have English muffins. I thought the Varenka story from the
38:13
Speaker 1: first week and watching him win that five center against
38:16
Speaker 1: uh yeah the French player seems like so long ago.
38:20
Speaker 1: Oh I know, yeah, yeah, yeah, It's been amazing though, Like, yeah,
38:23
Speaker 1: so the Verenka storyline was great. Watching Rebecca just inform
38:29
Speaker 1: just storm through the tournament was awesome. And uh, just
38:32
Speaker 1: a friendship. It's about the friend you make along the way.
38:36
Speaker 1: Speaking of one of the best friends we made along
38:41
Speaker 1: the way, our friend sound guy, our cameraman. We love
38:45
Speaker 1: this guy. Yeah, he's a king. And when we finished yesterday,
38:49
Speaker 1: we were like just walking around looking at the rooms.
38:52
Speaker 1: We haven't been in it. Yeah, just like exploring. And
38:55
Speaker 1: we went into the main presser room. It's huge, it's
38:58
Speaker 1: like a big theater.
39:00
Speaker 2: It's like a university theater or so it's you could
39:02
Speaker 2: see maybe three hundred people in there.
39:04
Speaker 1: Yeah. So we went across into the huge press conference
39:07
Speaker 1: theater and it's massive. It's so funny. It's massive. It's
39:10
Speaker 1: got the big branded wall behind you, and we're we're
39:13
Speaker 1: getting pictures ha ha, pretending to do press conferences. And
39:17
Speaker 1: then we just go a so have a seat, and
39:19
Speaker 1: then well we'll grill you. Well, you know, we'll say
39:21
Speaker 1: you've had a loss, and we'll throw some questions at you.
39:24
Speaker 2: Just completely mucking around for no purpose at all, really,
39:28
Speaker 2: just to have a bit of fun.
39:29
Speaker 1: We I guess disregarded or willfully ignored the signs that
39:33
Speaker 1: said this is a live feed at all.
39:36
Speaker 2: Times, twenty four hour live feed. And I don't know
39:40
Speaker 2: if I didn't see it all the way in, but
39:42
Speaker 2: I think Eights.
39:43
Speaker 1: Probably knew about it. He should have anyway, So he
39:45
Speaker 1: sits down.
39:46
Speaker 2: We started throwing dumb questions at him, being like, yeah,
39:48
Speaker 2: what about the last he is saying stuff, it's pretty funny,
39:51
Speaker 2: We'll see it. Yeah, I think we just played. This
39:53
Speaker 2: is actually the best moment of the tournament because this
39:56
Speaker 2: went live to the ground to the ground, so anyone
40:00
Speaker 2: it was at Melbourne Park in front of the screen
40:01
Speaker 2: just saw Ace Man and we didn't realize until we
40:05
Speaker 2: started getting text messages being like, yo, why is he.
40:08
Speaker 1: He got a text from his big boss, like with
40:11
Speaker 1: just a screenshot of him doing the presser, and then
40:15
Speaker 1: like we look outside and like the whole of Melbourne
40:18
Speaker 1: Grounds is transfixed by what is going on. Ace's presser
40:24
Speaker 1: is one of my favorite parts of the Tournamently.
40:26
Speaker 2: Yeah, it felt like that moment and it Star is born.
40:28
Speaker 2: When Lady Gagaa walks on, You're like, this guy is
40:30
Speaker 2: gonna be massive.
40:31
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So it went to every TV on the
40:34
Speaker 1: grounds and like people. I mean, it's gonna go viral.
40:38
Speaker 1: I think so, I think, And I saw the because
40:42
Speaker 1: we were you know, we were part of it. Yeah,
40:44
Speaker 1: but then I saw the interview properly and it's it's
40:47
Speaker 1: so funny, it holds up, it's red hot, and it's like,
40:50
Speaker 1: you're so endearing, Ace. We loved you from day one, man,
40:54
Speaker 1: And this is how we want to close the AO.
40:57
Speaker 1: I think so with the tribute to a man, A
41:00
Speaker 1: bit to Ace Man. Well, this is uh, this is
41:02
Speaker 1: his press conference. Enjoy.
41:06
Speaker 4: Hello, thanks for coming to my press conference.
41:10
Speaker 1: How did you get involved with Arena?
41:13
Speaker 4: I got a call.
41:19
Speaker 1: How do you feel about the loss today?
41:21
Speaker 4: The loss devastating? You know, I thought I thought I
41:25
Speaker 4: had him, and he surprised me with the lob and
41:33
Speaker 4: my shoes. You know, the strings came undone and and
41:39
Speaker 4: it got me tied up a little bit, and I felt.
41:42
Speaker 1: You tied your strings together with your shoelaces.
41:44
Speaker 4: My shoelace as well.
41:46
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, fantastic, run us through. What happened when you
41:51
Speaker 1: shoot your pants?
41:53
Speaker 4: Well, I've had some Lentel and stomach is shoes, you
41:58
Speaker 4: know in fetterants? Have you said? I don't speak bigod English. Sorry, uh,
42:05
Speaker 4: And so I had some stomach problems and then I
42:09
Speaker 4: took care of it during the sets. Yeah, I had
42:12
Speaker 4: to make a quick dump, a quick dispatching.
42:15
Speaker 2: Do you do you regret not using the bathroom to
42:18
Speaker 2: do that quick dispatch and just doing it on cynecal.
42:22
Speaker 5: I went to do that, but there was a line
42:26
Speaker 5: and other people sitting. It's only two cubicles, so I
42:32
Speaker 5: had to run back to the court.
42:37
Speaker 1: You ran back court?
42:42
Speaker 4: Well, I didn't want to get the time violation, so
42:45
Speaker 4: I had to. I haven't seen the footage. Was it embarrassing?
42:55
Speaker 4: Any other questions?
42:57
Speaker 1: When did you learn what age was?
43:00
Speaker 4: God? Uh? Not that long ago, just as the name suggests.
43:06
Speaker 4: Ironically is that ironically? A good friend of mine, a comedian,
43:17
Speaker 4: Michael Chokestein.
43:22
Speaker 1: That was good what we're saying? Good for it?
43:27
Speaker 6: Yeah, of course, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's how I learned it,
43:35
Speaker 6: just about ten minutes ago.
43:38
Speaker 4: Yeah. Where are we going with this press conference?
43:40
Speaker 1: We'll ask the questions?
43:43
Speaker 4: Sorry, yes, sure. Thanks to everyone who helped put this
43:48
Speaker 4: event together. Special shout out to the Pod Dave Arena
43:53
Speaker 4: people and quig Tylee and Shannon and Ewell and Mike
43:56
Speaker 4: and Tim and Sam and Lizzie who and everyone thank
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Speaker 4: you for a great and amazing event.
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Speaker 1: While were weak yes, m hmmm,