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TENNIS AND TWIZZLES · Pod Laver Arena

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to pod laver Arena with me and my What.
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  Speaker 2: Are you exactly when you're left?
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  Speaker 3: Is that what you meant to say? What do you say?
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  Speaker 1: This presence on my left, my co host Lizzie who
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  Speaker 1: We are joined today by one of Alex Demonar's coaches,
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  Speaker 1: Matt Reid is here. Yeah, lovely to have you here.
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  Speaker 1: Are you pumped like Demonar? Just one Rotterdam?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, apart from the lack of sleepy so obviously you
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  Speaker 4: were there for it. No, no, I was at home
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  Speaker 4: watching on TV.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah wow, yeah, all right, they didn't even fly you
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  Speaker 1: to Rotterdam as one of the coaches watch.
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  Speaker 4: It's actually quite nice to get home and have time off.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, because in the next few days I'll
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  Speaker 4: be I'll go away and catch up with him over
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  Speaker 4: in Mexico and America, all right, because.
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  Speaker 1: Is he doing just a little bit clo God, you
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  Speaker 1: fuck that up? Man? Perfection is all right, Well, we'll
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  Speaker 1: go straight back. This is sim it's a very professional production.
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  Speaker 1: We went out of our way to make sure he
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  Speaker 1: still had a job after the Australian Open and he
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  Speaker 1: funks up every step.
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  Speaker 4: Of the world.
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  Speaker 1: We love you, So you're going to Mexico soon.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I actually leave tomorrow at six a m.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's fine.
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  Speaker 4: About a couple of lazy days and something to do
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  Speaker 4: for one day, and I thought, why not?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the podcast, and that's the Acapocos coming up already.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so Acapulco will get there nice and early, have
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  Speaker 4: a few days to try to adjust the conditions going
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  Speaker 4: from inside to outside. And it's obviously very hot there.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah. And he won Acapolco two years ago.
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  Speaker 4: He won back to back years years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, hell yeah, all right, so you're gonna go just
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  Speaker 1: party it up while he's playing tennis every day.
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  Speaker 4: Well, there are some night some player parties at night,
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  Speaker 4: but no, I think I've done enough of that since
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  Speaker 4: I've been home. It's time to probably get serious.
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  Speaker 1: Again, right and Mexic. When you win Acapolco, don't they
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  Speaker 1: give you a giant like sombrero? To where did you
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  Speaker 1: get one of those? As well?
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  Speaker 5: No?
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  Speaker 4: I didn't. I didn't even get a mini one. He's
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  Speaker 4: got two and he didn't give me one yet.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't even get a fedorra na na.
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  Speaker 4: A bit disappointing. But maybe this year they might.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe this year. What was the Rotterdam, Like, obviously he
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  Speaker 1: just won it. It was his third year in a
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  Speaker 1: row being in the final and he finally took it
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  Speaker 1: out against Felix age ali Assieme. What was the I
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  Speaker 1: mean besides it not being center Alcaaz like, what do
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  Speaker 1: you think was the big difference?
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  Speaker 4: I just think he's done very well to back up
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  Speaker 4: a great Aussie summer. It's really hard and I think
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  Speaker 4: that's why we put that torm in the schedule, just
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  Speaker 4: to try and reset and go again, because he's obviously
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  Speaker 4: no matter how well you doing the Ausy, if you lose,
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  Speaker 4: it's a bit disappointing because you obviously want to go
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  Speaker 4: as far as you can, so to reset and turn
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  Speaker 4: it around. He's done very well to get through. And yeah,
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  Speaker 4: obviously the big two weren't there, but Felix is pretty
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  Speaker 4: close behind on the indoor hard so it's good to
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  Speaker 4: get a comfortable win over him.
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  Speaker 1: And Felix had just one and mink Pellier so he
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  Speaker 1: was in forum.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. I think Alex actually lost to him at the
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  Speaker 4: US Open as well, which kind of hurt him a
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  Speaker 4: bit mentally, So to get one over him it was
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  Speaker 4: quite nice.
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  Speaker 1: I think. Hmm, it's got his revenge.
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  Speaker 3: Now, yeah, you said earlier you were one of the
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  Speaker 3: Demon's coaches. Do you work on specific things like do
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  Speaker 3: you all have a role.
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  Speaker 4: No, not really, it's just more like time. So Adolpho
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  Speaker 4: Gutierres has been his coach since he was about five
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  Speaker 4: years old. So, and he's got a family in kids,
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  Speaker 4: a wife and kids, so he spends we go four
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  Speaker 4: weeks on, four weeks off, and then we just kind
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  Speaker 4: of go through the year like that. It's also Alex. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it's also Alex, probably a fresh face. Otherwise too much,
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  Speaker 4: too much him, we might get sick of each other
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  Speaker 4: pretty quick.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And are you fluent in Spanish as well?
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  Speaker 4: I'm the only one who speaks no Spanish, so sometimes
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  Speaker 4: they all yeah, they probably are probably not good things.
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  Speaker 4: It's probably better that I don't know, learning bits and pieces,
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  Speaker 4: but not great.
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  Speaker 2: That's green.
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  Speaker 1: It was. It's his birthday, I think today as we record, Yeah, birthday. Yeah, yeah, he.
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  Speaker 4: Probably just waking up now to his birthday.
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  Speaker 1: Right. Did you get him anything?
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  Speaker 4: No, I didn't get him anything. Didn't give me a sobrero,
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  Speaker 4: so yes, I think a message for his birthday is
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  Speaker 4: pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. But man, like I'm interested in,
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  Speaker 1: like what you've done in the tennis world. You used
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  Speaker 1: to be doubles partners with a Bernard Tomic.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he was one of my partners. Yeah, when we
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  Speaker 4: went through the juniors, and then I moved on, played
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  Speaker 4: a bit with JP Smith and then with Nick and
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  Speaker 4: a lot with Alex at the end. So I mixed
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  Speaker 4: it up as much as I could. I wasn't very
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  Speaker 4: good at keeping the same partner, so I like playing
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  Speaker 4: with as many people as I.
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  Speaker 3: Could, right, And then you moved into coaching.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, pretty quickly after that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so Bernie Tomic made you quit tennis.
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  Speaker 4: What you're saying he was different but actually a really
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  Speaker 4: really nice, harmless guy. But I think he actually is
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  Speaker 4: a bit missceen and like misread in the media because
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  Speaker 4: he's actually a really nice guy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's getting back in, like I know, he's
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  Speaker 1: playing qualifyings for the Yeah, and then yeah, I just
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  Speaker 1: didn't get through.
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  Speaker 4: It's good to see him back playing because he's Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: he's a great guy. He's a great talent, and unfortunately
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  Speaker 4: I think some other things have gotten the way of
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  Speaker 4: him achieving the best of his tennis.
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  Speaker 1: On that, do you subscribe to his ex girlfriend's only.
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  Speaker 2: Fans just on that.
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  Speaker 3: What a segue that was, Like I felt the break
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  Speaker 3: screeching and that I heard.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to answer that.
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  Speaker 4: I was going to say, I have not.
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  Speaker 1: It took a long time to answer that. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's great. I mean it's awesome to have Bernie you know,
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  Speaker 1: back and applying himself and like you know, hopefully gets
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  Speaker 1: a deeper run in some of the upcoming tournaments in
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  Speaker 1: that and then yeah, so you'll be Mexico and then
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  Speaker 1: are you going to Palm Springs for Indian Wells.
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  Speaker 4: So I'll go Apulco in Wells and Miami. That's my
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  Speaker 4: little schedule and then have a few weeks off and
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  Speaker 4: meet over the week.
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  Speaker 1: Before the French I mean, not bad.
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  Speaker 3: It sounds pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're doing the Sunshine Double and the only one
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  Speaker 1: you skipped was what the Winter Rotter down?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, the English speaking countries. I try and do
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  Speaker 4: a lot of the English speaking so he'll stick to
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  Speaker 4: a lot of Europe And for me, it's my favorite swing.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm pretty happy that I get to go to
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  Speaker 4: these these three.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what a lot.
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  Speaker 3: I know we should be coaches.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've seen you play, you're not well the the
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  Speaker 1: endgame with us, the ultimate goal is that we got
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  Speaker 1: to all the slams, and you know we're on the ground,
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  Speaker 1: we're reporting.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think they'll take us seriously?
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  Speaker 4: A few of them will, I think every now and
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  Speaker 4: that it's nice to have like a lighthearted chat. You
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  Speaker 4: see the other sides of players, not just the token
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  Speaker 4: serious answers that you get every week.
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  Speaker 1: They getting so bored of the generic questions. So you
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  Speaker 1: know they're not getting asked if they subscribe to Bernie Thomas.
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  Speaker 4: I can already see the click bait for the social media.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I don't know if you want to
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: talk about this, but our producer unearthed this. He did
• 7:44
  Speaker 1: some digging that you dated Rebel Wilson for a little while.
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  Speaker 4: I've never actually spoken about this. Well, we're good friends. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we did go on a couple of dates but then
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  Speaker 4: turned into a friendship and we're still friends to this day.
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  Speaker 4: We actually grew up in exactly the same area in
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  Speaker 4: Sydney and I went to school with her brother.
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  Speaker 1: Right because I know her uncle runs a tennis club or.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it wasn't anything to do with that. It was
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  Speaker 4: actually I found all this out after her, but it
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  Speaker 4: was the app rayer.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I haven't seen you on there, but I'm not
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  Speaker 3: on there anymore because I only got a month for
• 8:28
  Speaker 3: the AO because I was trying to snag a tennis
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  Speaker 3: player and that became the segment. And then every time
• 8:34
  Speaker 3: they asked me how it was going, I just went nothing, nothing,
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  Speaker 3: it's zero hits tournament, so you app well, I only
• 8:42
  Speaker 3: had a month subscription. It's quite expensive, guys. I I'm
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  Speaker 3: not going to keep it for you guys to make
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  Speaker 3: fun of me. How about I paid an out of
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  Speaker 3: sixty dollars so Mike can tell me that I'm a loser.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'll do that for free exactly.
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  Speaker 4: She's actually pretty good. Yeah, she plays a lot. We
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  Speaker 4: had a lot of hits of tennis with her, and
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  Speaker 4: yeah it was it was good. Like I think that's
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  Speaker 4: part of the reason why we got along quite well.
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  Speaker 4: She loves tennis.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she needs a sponsorship deal with Wilson.
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  Speaker 4: I think she's got one. No way, I don't know
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  Speaker 4: if that's accurate, but I know she's got a fair
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  Speaker 4: bit of Wilson kid.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they probably sister that checks out.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I'm gonna change my name to Wilson, Mike Slazinger,
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  Speaker 1: get some balls. I am low well man, like I
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: hope to see you. I'll be over at Indian Well.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yes, you should hang out.
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but you'll have an exclusive pass to all.
• 9:43
  Speaker 4: The Yeah maybe a little bit.
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so, Jim, I feel like you're gonna act like
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: you don't know me.
• 9:50
  Speaker 3: You're like, hey, Matt, Matt, remember from the podcast. You
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  Speaker 3: can just keep walking that permission to just keep it
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  Speaker 3: for some podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, Matt as a coach, because I play a bit
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: of tennis. I played today in the wind, yeah, and
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: I got killed. Well, it was like the wind or
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: the player, the when the player like my own brain,
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: my own mental fortitude lack of and he tips when
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: it's real windy and you generally have no athletic ability whatsoever.
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  Speaker 3: And some for the mental as well. I think throw
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  Speaker 3: that in. That's what he needs the most.
• 10:28
  Speaker 4: Probably hit big guitar, hit it to big targets. Give
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  Speaker 4: yourself more leewaight to me, margin yeah, margin to me?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah yeah, not like come in more in the
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  Speaker 1: point qu.
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  Speaker 4: I would actually probably say the opposite, Make as many
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  Speaker 4: balls as you can. Okay, that's what I would do right,
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  Speaker 4: We're all different.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well was interesting because this guy who I was playing,
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  Speaker 1: it was four to four in the first set, and
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: then he started on the that he went up five
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  Speaker 1: for and the change of ends. He started coaching me.
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  Speaker 1: He was like, with your fourhand, you're gonna want to
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  Speaker 1: bend your wrist back more. And I was like, what,
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  Speaker 1: we're on surve and five four. But it actually worked
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  Speaker 1: and ruined me and then he ran away with the
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: rest of it was this guy, I'll tell you it
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  Speaker 1: was Bernard.
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  Speaker 4: He's very good in the wind.
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  Speaker 1: To be fair, he would be yeah, he would just
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  Speaker 1: steer the ball around the great field.
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  Speaker 4: Doesn't miss much.
• 11:18
  Speaker 3: Any advice for us as a podcast, what should we
• 11:21
  Speaker 3: ask players?
• 11:21
  Speaker 4: Do you think questions that they're not often asked? And
• 11:25
  Speaker 4: obviously do some digging with them and find find things
• 11:27
  Speaker 4: that they're they're into, like yeah, and whatever their hobbies are,
• 11:31
  Speaker 4: probably going dig into that a little more.
• 11:33
  Speaker 3: Is the craziest hobby is anyone into some weird.
• 11:36
  Speaker 4: A lot of a lot of them into fast cars
• 11:39
  Speaker 4: and yeah, racing in different sports.
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: She was looking for Alex Demonar as a foot fetish.
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  Speaker 4: You'd have to ask.
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: Matt Raids, so good to have you in. Yeah, well,
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: hope to see you soon.
• 11:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, hopefully see you in any wells Matt.
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  Speaker 3: Shock that this stuff.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know what.
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  Speaker 1: You got it, Hey, Mood you one dough, you.
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  Speaker 3: Beat Embo.
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  Speaker 6: And a two sto and remember you're not playing in
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  Speaker 6: Dubai so you can rest and get all better.
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  Speaker 7: Care Line, care line.
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  Speaker 1: Yea beautiful favorite players the mooch, friend of the show,
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: Friend of the show. She just one in being and
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: Boco and straight sets, as we said in the song.
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  Speaker 1: But what a tournament. I don't know if you watch
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  Speaker 1: much of it, but uh, some great matches and Boco
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  Speaker 1: beat Rebecca on the way to the final in a
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  Speaker 1: three setter. So yeah, some really good matches and then
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the big guns pulling out of Dubai Dubai. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just started.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah it spreadsheet ready.
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: I don't like your spreadsheet?
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  Speaker 3: Why not?
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: I feel like it's misleading and I realized a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the information contained in it was incorrect.
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  Speaker 3: Really did I send it to you?
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  Speaker 5: No?
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: But I just know first knowing things.
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  Speaker 2: The spreadsheet is correct the data that I need.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, you've never sounded more Asian in your life. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So the big guns that have pulled out of Dubai, Igo, Javontech,
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  Speaker 1: sabal Anka and now the Mooch.
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  Speaker 3: Who what are the reasons?
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  Speaker 1: There's illness, there's rest, there's scheduling.
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  Speaker 3: Conflicts and partties to go do.
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: I hear parties too good? I mean, this is the
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: Middle East Swing.
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: So they're partying with Sultan's underground parties.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, He's a secret party for sure.
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And so I think a lot of them are
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: saving themselves for the Sunshine Double, which is of course
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: Indian Wells and Miami, which.
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: Will be at one of them. Yeah, and Miami.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I'm slightly considering going over to Miami.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to Miami.
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: Will Smith, your favorite recording artist.
• 14:37
  Speaker 3: My favorite comedian as well.
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: Oh wow, what do you think of his slapping career?
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: Wasn't that crazy? That was a crazy time in alive.
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: What a cultural moment. And just done the Venus and
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: Serena movie, King Richard, That's.
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  Speaker 3: Right, which is a great movie. I really enjoyed them.
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: We really circle back to tennis.
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  Speaker 3: That was a beautiful circle back.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then he used all his forehand practice to slap
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  Speaker 1: Chris Rock in the face.
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  Speaker 3: That would have been a really strong forehand at that
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  Speaker 3: time in his life.
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: I know, Wow, who would you slap in the face
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  Speaker 1: while they were on stage? Oh, I know who it is?
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: Who you had Dave Hughes in.
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  Speaker 3: The Yes, I would get him back for beating me
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  Speaker 3: in the one point slim.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know who I would.
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: It's not Dafuse, it's Ash Williams.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because he bad mouthed me on his podcast.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: Oh, we're starting to enter podcast beef.
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: And I thought, yeah, you know who I'm gonna I'd
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: have to jump to slap him in the face, but
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: i'd get there.
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  Speaker 1: He's a tall man and he's got a chisel jawal on.
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  Speaker 2: You might, yeah, I might.
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  Speaker 3: I might use my racket at least my pickleball paddle.
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  Speaker 1: Look, we did our first weekly episode last week. W
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  Speaker 1: E A K Why and Uh? Our producer put in
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  Speaker 1: a like disclaimer at the saying, you know, we're sorry
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: that this isn't good, but I have to listen. It's
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: very good.
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  Speaker 5: I thought it was great.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: Yes, what did you put that disclaimer in?
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: I know, he's kind of like. I was on the
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: plane listening to it and I was having a great giggle.
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  Speaker 1: Our tons of fans.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: Oh did it Okay, let's come up again.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but our tons of fans said they were yeah,
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: they loved it good.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: Did you get do you get direct feedback?
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Well I did the Perth Fringe last week and
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: at the top of every show, I would go, do
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: people know me from stand up? Do people know me
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: from one of the various podcasts that I do?
• 16:48
  Speaker 8: And uh?
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: There was four listeners of pod labor.
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  Speaker 3: Arena in one show.
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  Speaker 1: No, they are single ticket buyers.
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  Speaker 3: And the game a yeah, that sounds like our podla
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: but we love you, we.
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  Speaker 1: Love you tickets. I mean, I'm not doing any more
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: solo shows this year, but Lizzie has a huge run.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, every city in Australia pretty much.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, every city, google it. I'll be there and if
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: you do listen to pod Lavor, find me after this
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: show and we'll talk about yeah pod Yeah.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: Well, because I asked that question one, I go does
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: anyone know me from the various podcasts that I do?
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: And this guy raised his hand. I'm like, oh, yeah,
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: which one? He goes Dumb Dumb Club and I go, oh,
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: that's not even one of mine.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: If you're a guest on a now defunct podcast.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: I like that.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: Episode you did in twenty sixteen.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: Exactly. But here we are for our second weekly episode.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: It's great to be doing this weekly. Ash Williams could
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: not continue.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: He's listening.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: We love you. We'll get you on the pod one day. No,
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: we will not.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: And we got like we said, we got the core four.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: You know it's me, Lizzy who We got an e roll.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: We got Ace Man, Ace Man. Any updates in your
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: life you want to tell us about.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: Oh, he's in plain close today. That's crazy. I've never
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: seen Ace in playing close.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, he went to Tingley yesterday and he had
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: to do something. What did you do there?
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: Nothing footy game or something. Yeah, well this is a
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: tennis podcast.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, get out of here with you, bull of shit.
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I love We invited Ace into the conversation and
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: quickly the door.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that segment could basically be like, hey, Ace, how
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: you do it? He starts talking like a shut up.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: No one cares. We already talked about Doha, the mooch
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: beating and Boco.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: Boco moves into top ten?
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Is she great?
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: She's a top ten player?
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Now that's huge.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah for eighteen nineteen year old I think yeah under
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: twenty yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's crazy.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Is crushing it, She's going to be. I mean, here's
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: my prediction top five by the end of the year.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: Write that down somewhere. We should do predictions, Well we
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: did kind of here I am saying we should do
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: predictions because it's a really great idea. Do you have
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: any Absolutely not. But if I know we're doing, I will,
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: I will.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Who are Nostra Dumas? Should we get into some of
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: the other tournaments and going on in the tennis world?
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: And headline calls.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: Wow, Ace on time? Well done?
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Yes, Ace, what's your favorite movie? Shut up? No one
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: gives a ship. Bloat out your ass.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: No, no, he's still thinking about it.
• 20:13
  Speaker 9: Oh, we can't keep belieing it.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I saw the look in his eyes
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: and it was sad.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: The Dallas tournament just watched. I watched as much as
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: I could. Look. It's hard with the Winter Olympics on,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: because I'm trying to bounce back and forth between both,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: you know, and it's the only time, and you know,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: four years that I'm watching ice dancing and using the
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: term nice twizzles.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: You know you love the ice.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Dance I'll watch the ice dance. I like the pomp
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: and majesty of it all.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: Which one would you be if I was an Winter Olympian.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: I think i'd loge. Oh yeah, yeah, I was walking straight.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: Into looks looks so much fun.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: The skeleton looks insane, Yeah, but LUs there are they
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: It's skeleton esque, but you're with someone.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: On the skeleton, head first first, so fast, okay. Yeah.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: And the aerial jump that I think that's the most crazy. Yeah, yeah,
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: where you're just flying. You'd have to do that from
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: such a young age to have that much guts.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: To do that well. And then to bring them back
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: to tennis, they should just make ice the fourth surface,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: you know, just start playing an ice Yeah tennis?
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah two nice.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Too, nice ten ice? Ten nice tone want So Dallas
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: had some killer matches as well. Probably one of the
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: best finals I think for a tournament in recent memory
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: was Taylor Fritz vers has been Shelton. Yeah. We've had
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: interviews with both guys in.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: Here, both friends of the show.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Friends of the show.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: Who hurt you? It was Shelton, wasn't.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: It Shelton hurt me? Yeah, but you know, most and the.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: Physically Yeah, if you're a really big welt he did.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: But then I did that to Fritz when I won the.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah so you saw this finals? Yeah, ow come happening?
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Well, I'd like to say two of my best buds.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: Were playing, and you know my American buddies.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, my bros. Yeah, and uh Shelton saved three championship
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: points to win the title. I know, unreal, unreal And
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: it was like, I mean just in the lead up
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: because I know, uh, Canadian Dennis A. Shepov Olive was
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: defending champions uh, and he there was a clip with him.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw this. He wanted to
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: kick someone out of the stands.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: Oh, I didn't see this.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: He's not pleased at all. Well, he's saying, you'll walk
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: off the court right now. I think it's someone in
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: the crowd that's been making noise during case serv I
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: don't know, he doesn't know who it is. Yeah, so
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: he just wanted someone kicked out one of these girls.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: He wanted kick down.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: I don't support that because I believe all women.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: No, I believe all women at the tennis you were
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: screaming are drunk for sure.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Especially Dallas. They're boozy over there, they're just having a
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: good time. They're probably in the fancy seats, you know,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: the VIP influencer seats. But he didn't know. He was
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: just like I think because it was right after he
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: lost this. He won the first set, he lost the
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: second set, and I think he started to be like,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: I'm losing control of Yeah.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: Do you think he wanted a little bit more time,
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: buying time.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it buys time. And then it's just funny to
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: say kick them out and they're like who, and he's like, I.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: Don't know, it's just over there.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Someway, someone in that general vicinity. Yeah, it's kind of
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: a power move, it is.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would do that.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, show someone out at a show.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I have had to.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: What were they doing?
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: They were just constant you know, that chatty person. Yeah,
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: it would be the same annoying. It's not it's it's
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: not like they're calling out, but they're just constantly talking,
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: like you have to be quiet. Yeah, you're ruining everything,
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: but they're probably not. Oh yeah, it's all in my head.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. Yeah.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: Well I just said like, look, guys, you're going to
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: have to leave right.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Change the vibe of the show.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: Though, No, because then the crowd was with me. If
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: the crowd is with you, then it's all good.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah exactly.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: I don't kick anyone out.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: You know, you're a good game there. There were heaps
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: of people in person. You had four pod people about had.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Four podla thank you so much for that.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we love our die hard fans that crossover into
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: the comedy community.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: We need a name for our listeners because you know
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: most pods have names.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: What did he have a fan name?
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Did the rocket? Well he was called the rocket, So.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Rocketeers, the pocket pods rocketeers, the rocketeers.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: The labor renos labor renos quite like that.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is very I think about it. The pod
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: is too.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Generic part of Wales of p l A.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: So like people abbreviate us p l A. So the plots,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: the player.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: Plus the plus plus.
• 25:42
  Speaker 9: We'll work on it.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Laver renos, it is labor renos.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Or right in with your suggestion of what you think
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: the fans of our pod should be called.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: I don't wait to get all this mail.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: I can't even remember our email.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: Just right, Tennis Duck dot A, you so right.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: In let us know what you think. You guys, should
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: be called a lot of.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, he was doing some funny things. I
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: remember at the start of the party, like Bublick is
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: one of my favorites, and now I'm in I'm tim
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: Boob Boom all the way.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I love him, You're a boob Girl's fun.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: He came in for I Am a boom just one yeah,
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: one boom kind of guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: he is, he's great. We had him on the show. Yeah,
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: I haven't seen that footage yet, but he was very funny.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: He was I don't think it will be able to
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: play the bit that was the funniest though. Do you
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: remember that bit where we accidentally played him.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Who would turn by car?
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: We couldn't even play it for Curios.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: We played for Curios, Yeah we did.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: But I don't think it got aired. On his interview
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: they cut They cut that, and then we accidentally played
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: it for Bublic and he was like.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: We don't talk about such. It's like the funniest ship. Yeah. Oh,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: this team whoever was with was like freaking out.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: Well yeah, they were freaking out and he wanted to stay.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: He was like, yeah, he'd been so cool. He was like, no,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: I'll do this like what the other.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: Ship stay for another five minutes. It was cool.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Well, they were like wrap it up like after, especially
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: after the curiosity. But uh, Bublic was playing in Rotterdam.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: The tournament eventually won by Alex demon arm On on
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Valentine's Day. You know they get players to do like
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: little pieces to camera and various promo stuff. Did you
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: happen to watch his Valentine's Day message?
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, something about his fans being annoying.
• 27:56
  Speaker 8: Yeah, let's look, I love you because even when you
• 28:00
  Speaker 8: are annoyink, we still have a lot of relationship love.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: That was beautiful, so beautiful. I said that to my
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: wife and she didn't.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: Find it that beautiful on Valentine's Day. Yeah, yeah beautiful.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: Well you still got that riz Yeah.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Well she was like, aren't you taking me out as
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Valentine's Day? And I was like the Curlings aune, I
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: got it. I love I love this team from Norway.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: She must feel real special.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but some of the Bublic rants during the tournament,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: it seemed like he was miked up.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: It seemed like he had a roast rider. Yeah, it
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: seemed like he was talking to someone else. It was amazing.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Well, because he's been accused of not like in a
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: tennis match, you know, you want a rhythm going of
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: like rallys and everything so you can like, you know,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: you got a better feel. And he's been accused of
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: having such a big serve and like hitting up under
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: arm serves and like crazy kind of show. Of course
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: that it's no one can get their rhythm against him, right,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: it's a strategy, sure, yeah, of course, but he was
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: playing Hube Hirk acts.
• 29:12
  Speaker 9: Or alf.
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, you've got no rhythm. I tried to piss
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: about it. Sometime my servant go in, sometime my ser
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: go out.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: He's gotta come on the show and we can play
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: him back all the time. So we took the piss
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: out of him.
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: The double falter. You must have liked her her counter
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: and then bubbling a double because shank shank a shank double.
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: What I'm breaking?
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: What the hell is going on?
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: Everyone's telling me I have no rhythm?
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Yes guy, yeah? I mean I loved him saying compared
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: to this guy, yeah beautiful. And they tell me I
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: have no read I ain't, which is good. Just running
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: commentary from public every match, please.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, mike him up. Well, he's kind of miked up.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you can hear him so chrispy. Yeah, and clearly.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: He's so funny and he's got such like a funny face,
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: like he's like he's almost a little deranged. Can I
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: say that with his face?
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: He's just like, yeah, I know, he's he's like a
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: wild card.
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I love him so much, I know.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: And that's what you need. I mean, the entertaining guys
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: on court that you just don't know what's going to
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: happen from match to match, right, And then this photo
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: that I think I sent to our our text message
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: chain of when her Cats was serving for the match
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: three double faults.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: In the game, and it's, I mean, the only thing.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: You know sometime going I go out.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: But it's so jovial.
• 31:03
  Speaker 9: He's like.
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: This guy, he can plain tis.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: And it's the the weird lighting at the Rotterdam tournament
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: and makes it look like that there's people like apparitions
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: hovering public and I said, I said, I was like,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: it looks like the Bohemian Rhapsody video. Yeah, well, Lizzie,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: this is huge.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: What's happening.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Jack Draper, Yeah, British number one, I believe didn't come. No,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: he was injured, so didn't come to the Aussie Open.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: He was here the year before and he did the
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: other promo with me for the hundred.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: Oh he was.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: He was fun. He was just like a little like
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: maybe just they're sick of doing press and he was
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: just like, what is this? What am I doing? And yeah,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: it was just kind of hard to you know, get
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: to join in. But he is now bald. Yeah, we're
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: gonna call this segment raphile on the ball. He shaved
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: his head, but.
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: I'm saying a little yeah a peak, Yeah, widows peak,
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: I'm saying it. So, yeah, that's hard. That's hard.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: So yeah, he did shave his head and it seems
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: to be receding. So he's on bald watch. But it
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: seemed like a hard launch.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, a shaved head or a bold bold.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know who's full bald and did like
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: kind of a soft launch. Curios. Yeah, there's footage. I
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: gotta find it. I should have sent it through to
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: the group. He's playing, he's practicing with no hat on
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: and he is bald. My yeah, he is as bald
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: as the day is long, and he just embraced it. Finally.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: I think Curios, like I don't know. Did you look
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: it up?
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: Just look, I'm shocked. I'm stunned.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: Well, what did you think with the hats all the time?
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Isn't that a dead give away?
• 33:15
  Speaker 10: Well?
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: I just thought that was like a look and a
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: brand thing. He gets extra money for the hat, and
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: now now I see it. Well, Turkey, let me look
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: when this game and tournament and yeah, spreadsheet.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: I hate the spreadsheet.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm gonna have to talk about it every every pod. Now.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: So that was Raphie on the ball ah from her
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: other I think this might just be footage from another podcast,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: but sits a past telling. The story about the first
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: time he ever got drunk was with Roger Federer's encouragement.
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: Of course, how old was he.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, he must have been twenty. He's playing it,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: I believe in the Labor Cup and yeah, they were
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: just celebrating afterwards. And if Roger Federer told me to
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: do anything, I would.
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: I would do it.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but drinking, yeah, what.
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: Like, why hasn't he been drunk before? Oh?
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: That that's true, as a Greek man.
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: As a tennis play, a hot young tennis player, he
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: hasn't been drunk yet. I think those he's very serious.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: Well, I think that's the way it is now. Like
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: young if you show a lot of promise as a
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: young player, you get like farmed out to a tennis
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: white like jail jail basically, yeah, a tennis community in
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Florida or whatever, where you're just like you're just doing
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: drills all day. And you know, like if you read
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: Agassi's book, he had to like sneak away at a
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: party and stuff. And I think some of them are
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: just tennis machines and they just haven't had the experience
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: on the yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: And then Federer is like, have a little drink. That's
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: how it starts. Yeah, slippery slope.
• 35:02
  Speaker 10: I know.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: And then he said, but within a few hours he
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: was dancing on the table.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he was stripping shuts off, and Rafa and
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: Roger are just throwing dollar.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Bills at him.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: What a great if you did become an alcoholic, What
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: a great origin story.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah you blame Roger.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I just have to blame girls in high school.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Well, who's holding back sits a pass his lovely hair
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: when he's barfing.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: I'll do it.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna change my name to Mike Slazenger. Slazenger.
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: And now our next segment, the one that everyone is dreading.
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: It's Mike Goldstein's anagrams.
• 35:52
  Speaker 8: Boo, Mike's anagrams, dude, Mike Xander Grahams, do it please?
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: Don't? These are me taking players names and making anagrams
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: out of them. M Alex Demonar the name, I've rearranged
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: the letters. He's so of some context here.
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: It's a bit of a caveat.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Yes, he was in the last three Rotterdam finals and
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: he won his most recent one. So he had lost
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: against Center in twenty twenty four, loss against Alcarez, and
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: then now he's beat Felix in the twenty twenty sixth
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: final of Rotterdam. So Alex Demonar's I'm relaxed now but
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: now is spelled naw.
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: No, I'm relaxed. No, that's what I write when something's cute.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: No, I'm reax.
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: That's beautiful, thank you, I'm into it.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: And that was Mike did it did Mike's anagrams? Did did? Did? Did? Please? Lizzie,
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: like the song at the top of the show suggested
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: the mooch. We interviewed her when she was in during
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: the Australian Open. We love the Mooch, so enjoy our
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: interview with the Moach. Carolina Mocaba. Welcome back to pot
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: Labor Arena. The interviews that we're doing today are getting
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: better and better at Carolina Mukhova. Yes, yes, yeah. The studio, Well,
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: I do you have an.
• 38:02
  Speaker 9: They called mecho? Can I just call you the mooch?
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: Like we got the Mooch in studio today? Awesome to
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: have you here. What do you think of the the studio?
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 38:17
  Speaker 9: When I opened the door, I'm like, wow.
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the best one, isn't it?
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah? For sure?
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: I mean anything else like TV telecasts?
• 38:26
  Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, this is whole new dimension here. Yeah, the
• 38:30
  Speaker 10: video cents are nice.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: How much would someone have to pay you to use
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: one of those vintage rackets for the Australian Open to
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: play in the draw.
• 38:40
  Speaker 9: Mill?
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Well if you won the one point slam you could
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: have got did you play it?
• 38:46
  Speaker 9: I know I missed it. I didn't know about it?
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: Kind of would you want to play in it next year?
• 38:51
  Speaker 9: Yeah?
• 38:52
  Speaker 10: I saw a little bit and I'm like that looked
• 38:54
  Speaker 10: fun and packed stadium and yeah so good.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: What would your strategy be if you one the rock
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: paper scissor serve or receive.
• 39:04
  Speaker 9: It's tough to say because I was surprised everyone was
• 39:06
  Speaker 9: kind of like receiving because I'm like, I would I
• 39:08
  Speaker 9: think I would serve.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you only get one. Yeah, I'll kick serve kick,
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: serve out wide.
• 39:14
  Speaker 9: But then you go there probably you know it's only
• 39:15
  Speaker 9: one point. I don't know.
• 39:17
  Speaker 10: I saw everyone's the returning receiving, like, wow, I serve
• 39:21
  Speaker 10: classic mooch.
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: Well, Joanna always elected to serve true to the final.
• 39:30
  Speaker 9: Yeah she did.
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: Maybe that is the strategy.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Maybe have you been forced to play pickleball yet?
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: You you haven't?
• 39:38
  Speaker 10: No, I played a puddle pedal I try.
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: Okay, so that maybe after tennis cattle.
• 39:45
  Speaker 9: I don't know who knows. I mean, I like it.
• 39:47
  Speaker 9: It's fun. I don't know if you guys played it,
• 39:49
  Speaker 9: but it's kind of like you always play doubles. It's
• 39:52
  Speaker 9: fast with all the angles and scoring as tennis.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so it's easy to kind.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: Of fun, but you would dominating pickleball.
• 40:00
  Speaker 10: I just saw it last year in Indian Wells, Like
• 40:03
  Speaker 10: once we finished, there's like all the courts who are
• 40:05
  Speaker 10: covered in pick a ball.
• 40:06
  Speaker 9: Course I didn't like it. I like what I see.
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: I don't know. It's someone coming in and bulldozing your home.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've heard it. He said that pickleball is to
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: tennis what rollerblading is to skateboarding.
• 40:23
  Speaker 9: You don't have to you don't have to move.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: It's tennis for people with no athletic ability.
• 40:27
  Speaker 9: So that if you.
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: Could play another sport, what would it be?
• 40:33
  Speaker 10: Maybe some theme sport. I change you for a team sport.
• 40:36
  Speaker 10: Maybe I don't know, basketball or something like that.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I don't know. Who would you dunk on
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: if you could dunk on anyone in the world.
• 40:44
  Speaker 9: Someone tall, I don't know.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, easy, easy, Well, we've been playing a few games
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: here at pod Labor Arena. We've been doing a would
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: you rafter segment of the show, so it's like, would
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: you rather?
• 41:00
  Speaker 11: But we're very funny, so we're going to give you
• 41:07
  Speaker 11: a few options for people to either play doubles with
• 41:11
  Speaker 11: or hang out with.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: So on the screen right now for our audio listeners,
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: we have Michael Chang or Madonna. Who would you rather?
• 41:18
  Speaker 9: Play doubles?
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 41:21
  Speaker 9: I mean Madna looks like should be good for doubles.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah you Madonna? Take that? Chang? Yeah, of course tape.
• 41:31
  Speaker 9: I don't know, he's injured.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: That's true. And then to just hang out with would
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: be Madonna as well.
• 41:40
  Speaker 9: Then it will take Michael.
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: To hang out. Yeah, is way nice though. Yeah, Madonna
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: would just sit there and look at you.
• 41:49
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: We've been wrapping up pod Labor Arena with our own
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: little one point slam on the small ping pong table
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: over there. It's actually we built it from an old
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: tiny door that we stole off of Schwartzman's house.
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: Everyone's loving that joke. Yeah, and he gave us some
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: of these rackets the other day.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, rackets. It's cute.
• 42:20
  Speaker 9: You're very cutey his size.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: So if you want to have a hit, we'll play
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: the one point slam with you. We don't have a
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: million dollars, obviously, but there are steaks. Have you played
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: sting pong before pain pong? It's also called you played that.
• 42:37
  Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, but this is not a ping punk right.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: No, Well, it's we got the little ping pong ball,
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: so the loser the winner gets to hit the ball
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: at them as hard as I can.
• 42:47
  Speaker 9: Oh to the other one, Yeah, yeah.
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: Do you want to do it? Let's do it? Is
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: it me or is it you.
• 42:54
  Speaker 9: It's because I don't want to hear.
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: Okay, okay.
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: Here we are at our Podlov Arena stadium. We have
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: Mike looking ready and Carolina looking very psyched. Mike is
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: serving Let's go Michael. Okay, oh good. Yes, we've got
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: sound effects which is excellent. This is looking like a
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: very even game. But Mike went for the drop shut then,
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: oh we have a winner the merch Yeah, well done.
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: It's got all the data that I need.