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ALL EYEZ ON MEDVEDEV · Pod Laver Arena

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  Speaker 1: Tennis time!
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Look at us.
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  Speaker 2: We are excited for tennis time.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's so much tennis happening at the moment.
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  Speaker 2: It's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the Asian Swing, Beijing, Shanghai is coming up in
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  Speaker 1: a thousand event. Obviously, the Tokyo.
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  Speaker 2: Almaty.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, I would love to go to that gig. Yeah. Gig.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, tournament.
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  Speaker 1: It's all a gig.
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  Speaker 2: We were just talking about comedy. Gig is in my head.
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  Speaker 1: No. Life is a stage, Lizzie.
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  Speaker 2: It is. It is.
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  Speaker 1: And we are the jesters.
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  Speaker 2: We perform for you.
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  Speaker 1: Do you ever have that moment on stage where you're like,
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  Speaker 1: the hell am i doing.
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  Speaker 2: Well we're going existential crisis already i had this moment
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  Speaker 2: the other day where i got my like you know
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  Speaker 2: it was the end of a long day and i
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  Speaker 2: got my.
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  Speaker 1: Uh pants and underwear on at the same time for
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  Speaker 1: like pajama stuff you know like after a shower And
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  Speaker 1: at the exact same time, two legs, you know, it
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  Speaker 1: was beautiful. And then I was so proud of myself.
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  Speaker 1: And then I thought, when my dad was my age,
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  Speaker 1: he had a family, he had built a house.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: He was a doctor of note.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: A pillar of the community.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I got my pajama pants and underwear on at
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  Speaker 1: the same time. It is hard to do.
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  Speaker 2: Did you message your dad and be like, dad, this
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  Speaker 2: is what I just did. I should have.
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  Speaker 1: Are you proud of me, daddy? They were my nighttime
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  Speaker 1: Spider-Man under Bruce.
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  Speaker 2: And then I got into my car bed.
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  Speaker 1: Race car bed is cool.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, very cool.
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  Speaker 1: What would happen if you met a guy, everything was amazing,
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  Speaker 1: you hit it off, and you're like, this is great,
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  Speaker 1: you know? And then you got back to his place
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  Speaker 1: and he had a single race car bed.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you would walk out the door. Would you?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. You're not getting into.
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  Speaker 2: A race car bed unless it was like his kids
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  Speaker 2: or something.
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  Speaker 1: But the rest of the house, let's say he's a bachelor, right?
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  Speaker 1: The rest of the house is a very nice penthouse apartment.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then he's like, all right, well, should we adjourn
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  Speaker 1: to the boudoir? Vroom, vroom.
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  Speaker 3: Vroom, vroom.
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  Speaker 1: And then you get back there and it's a race car.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Is that a deal breaker?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you would have to, if you really liked him,
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  Speaker 2: I guess you could work on getting a new bed.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like that is fixable.
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  Speaker 1: But what if he said, this is my one... Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: I have to have my race car bed. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I think there's probably some other things going on if
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  Speaker 2: he's got a race car bed.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 2: He's probably putting his pants on at the same time
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  Speaker 2: as his underwear.
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  Speaker 1: So he's super cool?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's super cool. Wow. That's the stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no way. Welcome back to Podlabor Arena with me,
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  Speaker 1: Mike Goldstein, and my co-host with the mo-host. It's Lizzy Who.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the mo-hoost.
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  Speaker 1: Mo-hoost.
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  Speaker 2: Mo-hoost.
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  Speaker 1: This is Tennis News. Heaps to cover. Like, there's been
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  Speaker 1: some big drama overnight.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I woke up. And saw this. I couldn't.
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  Speaker 2: The last two days have been.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, have been drama filled.
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  Speaker 2: Heavy jock.
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  Speaker 1: Heavy, heavy Djokovic. And I got to say, I'm on
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  Speaker 1: Djokovic's side on all the controversy that's been happening. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's in the right. Obviously, we'll start with
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  Speaker 1: the most recent one. This is Medvedev disqualified for hitting
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  Speaker 1: a fan with a tennis ball while Djokovic was serving
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  Speaker 1: for the match. I watched most of the first set
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  Speaker 1: of this and then had to go to bed as
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  Speaker 1: we're recording early today. And I had to put my
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  Speaker 1: pajama pants and my underwear on at the same time
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  Speaker 1: and impress my wife. The first set was crazy, right?
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  Speaker 1: It was like an hour and a half to play
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  Speaker 1: one set. And Medvedev, Djokovic, just these long extended rallies.
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  Speaker 1: Djokovic hunched over feeling his age and being mocked by Medvedev.
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  Speaker 1: Did you see this?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: Medvedev was like, So Djokovic, end of a rally, and then... Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God.
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  Speaker 2: But he's doing his Djokovic impression. He looks like an
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  Speaker 2: old man.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, this is brutal stuff. Oh, my knees.
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to see you at 39, Medvedev.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Because, yeah, Djokovic feels it. Like, he's in the
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  Speaker 1: wars out there, you know? He's just like... Any long rally,
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  Speaker 1: he's really gasping for air. And he stumbles around a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. So being mocked by your opponent.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's so funny. Did Djokovic laugh at that? Was
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  Speaker 2: he just spurred on by that?
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  Speaker 1: I think he was spurred. Yeah, you've poked the bear.
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  Speaker 1: Not only was there this in the lead up, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he loses that first set to Djokovic. Djokovic is then
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  Speaker 1: up a break in the second set and serving for it.
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  Speaker 1: And this is when things get extra spicy Lizzy Who.
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  Speaker 1: This is the fan getting hit by a Medvedev ball.
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  Speaker 2: Crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Medvedev, it, like, bounces off the backboard, and Medvedev, like,
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  Speaker 1: just seemingly goes to hit the deflection, maybe back into
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  Speaker 1: the backboard, but goes a little high with it.
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  Speaker 2: Ooh.
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  Speaker 1: A little high?
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  Speaker 2: Front row high?
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  Speaker 1: Front row high.
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  Speaker 2: Ooh.
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  Speaker 1: Front row spectator eyeball high. Ooh. So the winner goes
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  Speaker 1: past him. He goes to hit it back into the backboard.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: Launches it up. We think Medvedev has just volleyed the
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  Speaker 1: ball up into the crowd here.
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  Speaker 2: A bit more than a volley, I would say. Oh!
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that guy.
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  Speaker 2: This guy is....
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  Speaker 1: He's in pain.
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  Speaker 2: He is in pain. If it hit his eye, that's
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  Speaker 2: going to hurt.
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  Speaker 1: At speed, he doesn't hit it softly.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he hits it pretty hard. But it's still
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  Speaker 2: a Medvedev. It's still a professional tennis player's throwaway shot.
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  Speaker 1: Medvedev doesn't really argue his case here. He's just like, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: He kind of accepts it more willingly. He's like, all right,
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  Speaker 1: I'm done.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see you. It was 15-15. Djokovic was serving for
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  Speaker 1: it in the 5-3 game.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. A few things here. Was the, I mean you
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  Speaker 1: don't know where the tennis ball hit the spectator. You
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  Speaker 1: just see his head and his hands and then, I
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  Speaker 1: saw one commentator say the spectator had to be evacuated
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  Speaker 1: from the stadium.
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  Speaker 2: Evacuated?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm like, this wasn't an assassination attempt.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? It's all a little dramatic.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just a tennis ball to the head.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I've had plenty of those from my brothers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And were you evacuated from the playground?
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  Speaker 2: I remember one time we were in a pool, and
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  Speaker 2: the game was if you popped up out of the water...
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  Speaker 2: And then my brother would throw the tennis ball at
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  Speaker 2: my head. So I had to stay underwater and then
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  Speaker 2: just come up for like quick breaths.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. It's called whack-a-mole.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. It was basically whack-a-mole. So this guy, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think too dramatic? I mean, if it hit
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  Speaker 1: his eye and he's actually got some kind of ocular injury.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And he's a brain surgeon and he needs his
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  Speaker 2: eye or something. Like, I want to know who this
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  Speaker 2: guy is.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, big lawsuit on his hands.
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  Speaker 2: And he would be an only child. So he's never
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  Speaker 2: grown up with bullying.
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  Speaker 1: Why would he be an only child?
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  Speaker 2: They're all only children.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. Well, the one child policy and now
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  Speaker 1: the one eye policy. I think he was going just
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  Speaker 1: back into the wall.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so.
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  Speaker 1: But then just tagging this guy in the eyeballs, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and then he's, you know. It does.
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to see where this guy is now. But
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  Speaker 2: maybe he had a little split second decision. He's like,
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  Speaker 2: I could milk this. I could get it. Some little compensation.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, dude, you flop. Yeah. You flop. Yeah. Immediately.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting.
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  Speaker 1: You start selling it like a soccer player that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just got a little tap on the shin.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll see what this guy does from here. But like,
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  Speaker 1: even with the lady with Djokovic at the U.S. Open.
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  Speaker 1: who she looks like Ellen. I don't know if you remember.
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  Speaker 1: She really looked like Ellen. Djokovic hits her in the throat. Yes. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and she is immediately keeled over. They always look like
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  Speaker 1: they've been properly shot. And like you said, we've been
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  Speaker 1: hit with tennis balls.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard. I've been hit with a hockey ball many times.
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  Speaker 1: My brothers and I used to soak a tennis ball
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  Speaker 1: in gasoline, light it on fire, and kick it at
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  Speaker 1: each other.
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  Speaker 2: The 90s.
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  Speaker 1: But, I mean, it sucks for Djokovic because he was
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  Speaker 1: going to win his 33rd match in a row at
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  Speaker 1: this tournament.
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  Speaker 2: I think he was going to win it anyway. He
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  Speaker 2: was going to win. Let's just give him that.
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  Speaker 1: But that's not on the books now. This is like
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  Speaker 1: a walkover, right?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, so he doesn't get, like, the notch.
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  Speaker 1: Oh. I mean, it's still like he's now through to
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  Speaker 1: the final where he's playing Demonar.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Demonar got through also in a walkover, Hurcats.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Yomer.
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  Speaker 5: Hubie, I was not feeling my best in the second
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  Speaker 5: set and I had to leave. My hamstring is a
• 9:34
  Speaker 5: little bit tight. I heard there's a guy in Melbourne
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  Speaker 5: who put his underwear and pajama pants on at the
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  Speaker 5: same time. He would have a race car bed. He'd
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  Speaker 5: be hurricane.
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  Speaker 1: Anyone named Hubert has a race car bed.
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  Speaker 2: For sure.
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  Speaker 4: Fairly sorry to the spectator, first of all, and trying
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  Speaker 4: to get in touch with him if he wants it.
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  Speaker 4: So hopefully I can apologize in person and see how
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  Speaker 4: he feels. You can see that I didn't hit the
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  Speaker 4: ball in anger and actually I do a lot of
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  Speaker 4: bad things but usually he like mole abuse is not
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  Speaker 4: my thing and the ball was bouncing back so I
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  Speaker 4: tried to like just hit it anywhere so it doesn't
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  Speaker 4: you know go out from the court yeah it hit
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  Speaker 4: him and i felt terribly sorry for him actually because
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  Speaker 4: again i just hope he's okay and that's the most
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  Speaker 4: important the rest uh we move on i just really
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  Speaker 4: care about him right now and hopefully i can meet
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  Speaker 4: him and make up for it somehow.
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  Speaker 1: I'm willing to put money on Medvedev has hit a
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: ball in anger into the stands in frustration multiple times,
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  Speaker 1: but this is the first time it's connected with an
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  Speaker 1: eyeball of a spectator.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think that, I mean, little post-match interview
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  Speaker 1: there basically boils down to, please don't sue me, please.
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  Speaker 2: Please don't sue me. I'll give you a tennis racket.
• 10:57
  Speaker 2: I'll get a photo with you.
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: It'd be funny if you gave him a smashed tennis racket.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It was broken on his head. Yeah. Another spectator's head.
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  Speaker 2: Or if he signed the bowl. Oh. The exact bowl
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  Speaker 2: that hit him in the eye.
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  Speaker 1: He signs his eye patch.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. He signs his glass eye. It's an engraved glass eye.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah, I mean, I'm looking forward to the final
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  Speaker 1: tonight between Djokovic and Demonard. Demonard's showing some. Form that
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  Speaker 1: he hasn't really shown all year, being busy with a
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: wedding and whatnot. But these guys are starting to play
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: their best tennis, Djokovic and Diminar, this late in the season.
• 11:37
  Speaker 2: What do you think that is? Less pressure?
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  Speaker 1: Less pressure. Well, Djokovic especially, his reception in China is.
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  Speaker 1: They love him. They love him so much. He played
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  Speaker 1: Boo in the first round, a Chinese player, and they
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  Speaker 1: were going for Djokovic.
• 11:58
  Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah. Okay. What would you rather be, like world
• 12:02
  Speaker 2: huge or China huge? world world okay.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah china is in the world yeah yeah but you
• 12:12
  Speaker 6: know like everywhere else but you know because china huge
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  Speaker 6: is like so different.
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah what is the perks of china huge that you
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: don't get probably more people more people.
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  Speaker 2: More money oh yeah 100 more money.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah yeah so huge in beijing yeah nothing in new.
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  Speaker 2: York like eileen goo.
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: Eileen goo She.
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  Speaker 2: Went to China. Yeah, but she's always been huge in China.
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  Speaker 2: She gets like the biggest deals.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. More deals there than she would. I mean, she
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  Speaker 2: represents China, but she gets more deals there than world.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: If you know what I mean. Right, right, right.
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  Speaker 1: So you think that was a business decision by the
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  Speaker 1: Gu to go big in China?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a little bit of business. A little bit of.
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  Speaker 1: So you would say big in China.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's got its perks.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Yeah. So if you could only perform stand up
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  Speaker 1: in China.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, there's no perks to doing stand up in China.
• 13:17
  Speaker 2: It's called jail time.
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: We love China here on Podlabor Arena. You know, we
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: want all the Chinese listeners to support us in the
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: way that they support Novak Djokovic.
• 13:27
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: It is like, Jockovich mania over there they go nuts
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  Speaker 1: for him like yeah and I mean that's probably the
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  Speaker 1: part of the motivation for him having not played there
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  Speaker 1: since 2015 I want to say but going back to
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: maintain his winning record and then this puts him in
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: the race for the ATP finals especially if he wins tonight.
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: He beat Zverev earlier in the tournament.
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, we haven't spoken about that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, in three sets. And Zverev is vying to be
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: world number one, especially since Sinner has opted out now
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: with his knee injury of the Asian Hardcourt Swing. And
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: I feel like there's so many permutations that have to
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: happen for Zverev to claim the world number one spot
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: now that he didn't go deep in this tournament. But
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  Speaker 1: it's interesting that Zverev has not beat Sinner, Alcaraz, or
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  Speaker 1: Djokovic this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, isn't that crazy?
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: But has won two Grand Slam finals.
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  Speaker 2: 0-15 or something against those three players?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's crazy stat.
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  Speaker 1: And still won two of the big ones. So, a
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: bit of a.
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  Speaker 2: Still in a real Bradbury. Oh!
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  Speaker 1: A bit of a Mickey Mouse run for old Pharaoh. Maybe, maybe.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's still incredible. But yeah, he's still got
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: those three players in front of him.
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: So yeah, stay tuned. Next week, we'll talk about what happened, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: in the final between Djokovic and Diminar.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: And then in the Japan Open happening in Tokyo, Alcaraz
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  Speaker 1: has found himself in the final against Lehetschke.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Lehetschke.
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the Lehetsch. So the Hetsch. It's playing Alcaraz. Alcaraz
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: still rocking the flowing.
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  Speaker 2: Beautiful. Beautiful hair.
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  Speaker 1: Got the locks on that, man.
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a lot of hair.
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: It's a lot of hair.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: Are you a hair fan on a man?
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we love hair.
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: Hairy body?
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: Hairy head. I mean, I'm in my 40s.
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You really appreciate.
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: Oh, true. A man with a good hairline. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: So you're anti-race car bed. You're anti-bald.
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  Speaker 2: Geez, Lizzie, your standards.
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  Speaker 1: No bald men with race car beds is.
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  Speaker 2: What I'm hearing. I mean, it eliminates so many.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: It does. Yeah, so the other controversies earlier in the week,
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: there was Novak playing Zverev. And I don't know if
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: you saw this. There was the Zverev saying he was
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: hindered by an LED side panel kind of glitching or changing.
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: It just changed to a different graphic.
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: And so he, after losing the point, said, oh, can we.
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: Play a let on that?
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: Because that put me off. What do you think?
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: No, you can't do that. He should have stopped straight away.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: Is that the rule? Like, if he felt a hindrance,
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: he should have been like, oh.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: Well, the rule now with the VAR is that they can, like,
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: review it and go, oh, yeah, you were hindered early,
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: so we'll replay the point. Which is what Djokovic is like,
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: this is the dumbest rule ever.
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: Because you could play a 40-shot rally and they'd be like, oh,
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: on shot number two, a bird flew.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Someone yelled out from the crowd or whatever. Yeah, yeah. Oof.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: I know. That's a slippery slope.
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: It is.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: And again, I'm on Djokovic's side here because he's like,
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: what are we doing? This is ridiculous.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: So the result of that was Zverev getting... They replayed
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: the point.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: They replayed the point. And then, I mean, justice, where
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: Djokovic then won the next point. And then eventually, obviously,
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: the match.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: But....
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: A bit ridiculous to be like, I mean, you'd want
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: to then start complaining about everything after the fact. Yeah.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: Every point you lose, you just.
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: Go, oh.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: You could just do a little complaint.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I heard a mouse queef.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Two days ago. Still in my memory. And it
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: distracted me. No. I wouldn't want to poke the bear.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: But Djokovic, no, as we've seen so many times over
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: the past 20 years.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: But isn't the LED screen changing all the time anyway?
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Maybe that's an LED screen problem.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah. You think you would have acclimated to it.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but there's LED screens. I wonder, don't they usually
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: just come up in the break though?
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah. With the like swirling graphics and stuff. But I
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: think it's, they're usually pretty static during the actual match play.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: But sometimes tennis players are a little too precious. You
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: remember Andy Murray stopping play because there was a feather
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: on the back of the court.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: A feather? Yeah.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: Like a little solitary feather. And he was like, oh, sorry.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: Like we have to stop because there's a feather back there.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: And it's like, And at the same time, Serena was
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: playing pregnant, right?
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: And she was, like, not complaining about anything.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Perspective.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, there's a feather in the back of the court?
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: Aw, try having a baby.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: I'm forming a human.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so as touched on before, Sinner withdrawing from the
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Shanghai Masters, the 1,000 event.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: We wish him well.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: It's a knee thing, right? Yeah. It's tricky.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: Knees are real mental. It is.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: And I've said before that at the start of this year,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: We were going, is this just going to be boring
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: where it's just Alcaraz and Sinner every final? And then
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: now we just miss it. We're like, we haven't seen
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: these guys play all year. And it's really like been
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: a kind of a empty void in the year of tennis.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: Me together with the doctors have decided that I need
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: a course of treatment for my knee. which means that
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: the 2026 season is officially over.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: So, like, you want them both healthy at the same time, like,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: hopefully at the AO. I think, you know, Alcaraz is
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: obviously in the final in Tokyo, but still kind of
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: slowly regaining that match fitness form.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he'll be back. Yeah. I am enjoying this drama, though.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: The Zverev, Medvedev, Djokovic.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Yeah.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: The tussle.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Well, those two guys are throwing shade at Djokovic for
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: being old.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: You cannot.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Again poking the bear yeah.
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: Novak is crazy because he's I mean he's old you
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: know we're not gonna lie but he can play so
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: good still.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: They're not gonna be playing at 39 100 they're not
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: gonna be playing no yeah you cannot go after a
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: 39 year old and mock him.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Especially the tall guys seem to have a shorter shelf
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: life and that's vera and medvedev they're both like six
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: six or something and what is it with tall guys
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: having a shorter life do you know that the lifespan
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: of tall men is yeah yeah yeah is.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: It shorter yeah i was just gonna say is it
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: like big dogs i guess they have to I don't know,
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: pump their heart more or something? I don't know.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Zverev and Medvedev were probably retired by 36? Yeah, earlier.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Earlier.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: I mean, who knows? They both never really succumbed to injury. Well,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: outside of Zverev snapping his ankle at the French Open.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: But the wear and tear on them as kind of
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: just baseline players, not rushing the net, hasn't been as
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: dramatic as some of these other guys. Well, Alcaraz... Has
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: that Nadal thing where he's just punishing.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: Every game.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Every match. Every match.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: How dare you.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: It's been almost a year.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: I've been watching a lot of other sports where they
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: say a game. Oh, yeah.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Tennis news. On to the WTA, Lizzy Hu. So they
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: play concurrently with the ATP 500, but theirs is an
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: 1,000 event in Beijing. Some huge upsets. Rebecca going out early.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Sabalenka going out. She is having a pretty tough year.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: By her standards.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, she's been world number one for most
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: of it.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: But yeah, as far as getting things over the line.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: What do you think's going on?
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: I don't know. A little bit of pressure. I think
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: the more people tell you you're not having a good year,
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: the more pressure is on her to succeed, right? Yeah.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: I think it's just hard.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: For her at the moment. This stat is crazy. Sabalenka
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: has lost against six players outside the top 15 this year.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Hailey Baptiste, Kristea, Diana Schneider, Alexandra Drova, Sarah Bailick, and
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: then now Bartonkova in Beijing. So she's now gone nine
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: straight tournaments without a title since the Miami Open in March.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: Oof.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Okay.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, she obviously hates when any press interview goes
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: in this direction. But it's like, maybe you're online a
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: little too much.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, really?
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: You think so?
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Any hint of she's distracted by her... lavish,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: you know, kind of celebrity lifestyle she takes much offense to.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: You guys are like a joke. Is that a factor or?
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe the press is a factor. Maybe the people
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: are working out her play, like her weaknesses.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: Because she's kind of got one.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Gearing.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: And maybe people are working that out and. beating it.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Party is fun. Like, why would you even say that?
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Why would you even think about that? I mean, well,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: that is, I mean, every player has a drop off.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is her not playing to the standard
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: she obviously would hope. And then, yeah, her power game,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: just maybe she comes up against someone that can match
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: her power or has a little more finesse around the court.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: And maybe she posts on Instagram a little too much.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: I also feel like she.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: I don't think it's the social stuff. Everyone's doing that.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: She kind of has to, you know. I think she
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: also has to have a really good start. And if
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: something happens, it feels like she can't keep her cool.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: I feel like that's more of it than anything else.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: It's a hard watch, her matches these days. Because she
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: has that tortured look of everything's so difficult and how
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: dare they play this well against me. And that's, again,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: why watching someone like Alcaraz is such a joy because
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: he's just smiling and having a great time out there.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: He's like a puppy, you know? So, yeah.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Because she kind of alludes to it. She does allude
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: to it a lot of the time with her team.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: She says, oh, I'm such a handful. Like, they look
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: after me. And I guess maybe what happens behind the scenes.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe there is a bit of woe
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: is me in the Sabalenka camp.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Maybe.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Does she come back strong for the A.O.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: She loves it out here.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: 100%.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: And, I mean, well, she lost to Rebecca this year, but,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, any hardcore slam, you think she has a
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: deep run.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: For sure.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: All right, time, pun intended, to get into our favorite segment.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: This is Watch Watch.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Big watch watch moment uh i don't.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Know if i'm pronouncing this right but maria timofeeva.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: I think that was beautiful has her.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Watch stolen from the locker room during a tournament so.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah in beijing in beijing yeah she said she left
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: her bag outside for 10 minutes to have a shower
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: and then her watch was gone definitely not how i
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: wanted to end my day yesterday after losing a three
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: set match at china open.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Another lesson not to leave your tennis bag outside of
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: a locker room even for 10 minutes while you take
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: a shower um.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: She's definitely blaming i mean it's it's only officials back there.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: This reeks of um seinfeld's dad Not being able to
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: find his wallet after he goes to the doctor. My
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: wallet's gone. My wallet's gone.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: My wallet's gone. Do you think she's going to find
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: it later? Is that what you're saying?
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Didn't she?
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: She's in it.
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: Oh, what?
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: I think she did.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: Whoa.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: I didn't know this.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: She misplaced it, I think, or never had one in
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: the first one. I mean, the.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: The tournament has... Oh, well, this is a backpedal.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: So she just found it like in the recesses of
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: her bag or something.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: She says, after my short time story yesterday about my
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: watch being stolen in Beijing, the issue has been resolved.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: So I'm very sorry to cause any mess, misunderstanding. And
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: in this situation, the tournament has been nothing but cooperative
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: and helpful with me as soon as I address the issue.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Some stories do have happy ends, and this is.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: One of them.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: I think the laugh emoji is doing... Some heavy lifting hand.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: And love, the love heart hand.
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: This means she definitely misplaced it and like was.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: She didn't have the watch on that day.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: No.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: And this, you really need the soundbite of my wallet's gone.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: That's exactly what happened to Seinfeld's dad as well. He
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: had just misplaced it and he accused people of stealing.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Wow. Somebody lost their job for sure.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: I did a gig with a comic who hadn't been
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: around that long. And I was hosting the gig. This
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: was at the bank in Sydney. Do you remember that gig?
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he got up and bombed his
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: tits off. Like, it was a bad set, right? And
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: then he has a really bad set, and then he
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: goes back to the bar, and I go back on stage.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: And then I start to hear him go, has anyone
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: seen my phone? Has anyone seen my phone? Like, what
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: is going on? Someone has stolen my phone from the bar. Someone, I,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: my phone was here when I got on stage and
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: I'm on stage going to the crowd. I was like,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: did anyone take this guy's phone? And everyone's like, no.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: And he's like, what the hell? And he like totally
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: disrupts the gig.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: And then he like demands that the bar go through
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: the CCTV footage with him, like goes in there. And
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: then eventually like the leaves and everyone's like, well, that
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: was weird. And then I get a message from him
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: later going, oh, I left my phone at home. What?
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: What?
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: It is so funny to not only bomb, but then
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: accuse an entire crowd of stealing.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: I left it on the bar. You didn't even have it.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Crazy man. That was Watch Watch.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: That was Watch Watch. That was our first Crime Stoppers
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: edition of Watch Watch. What's good crime music? Is there
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: like a good... Or a.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: Oh, perfect.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Watch Watch. Game Set Hats. All right, let's get into
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: everyone's least favorite segment. This is Game Set Hats.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: But also, we don't want to do Game Set Hats
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: every week, but it keeps happening.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: There's hat content.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: There's hat content to do. We didn't choose the hat life.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Now the Hat Life chose us.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: It really did.
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: So, Lizzie, what happened on this week's?
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: Well, Alex Yala, the most popular tennis player, I would say.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: One of the most popular tennis players in the world.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: And everyone wants a piece of her. Everyone wants their
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: autograph from her. And she's signing after a game.
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: Sorry.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: She's signing after a match.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: I've stopped caring.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: Okay, good. I haven't. I want to improve. And a fan,
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: you know, everyone's putting their big tennis ball. in front
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: of her and hats and all this sort of stuff.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: And then one of the fans throws a hat at her.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Which we saw with Djokovic in last week's edition of
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Game Set Hats.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: I was going to say watch, watch. And a fan
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: kind of lobs... a hat at her, and it hits her,
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: and she looks disappointed. But Alexiola being Alexiola, she handles
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: it perfectly. The hat gets thrown at her.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: She drops her bag. Thank you, Ali.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: She teaches him a lesson at the same time.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: I saw some commentary on this where they're like, this
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: is the first time I've seen Iala lose her cool.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, she does not lose her cool.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: She does not lose her cool. She signs the thing
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: and she says, please, say please next time.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just ask nicely.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: Just be polite.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Don't throw objects at me and want me to sign them.
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Maybe Medvedev wanted that guy to sign his ball.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: But she's just totally rational and like, yeah, I'll sign
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: it if you just hand it to me.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: She signed the hat first of all the things that
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: were being handed to her.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: This is a trend now, people throwing hats at players.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: Wow, gangsta hats is going to go off.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: It's going to be the same story every time. Fan
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: throws hat.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Rude fan throws. But Djokovic didn't sign that. He gave
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: the guy a withering look.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: He did, yeah. And then he stormed off. He finished
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: what he was signing, and then he left.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Y'all that goes back and signs a hat. What a lady.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Anything else in Gabe's head?
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I haven't seen this.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: This is huge. This is world-shattering news. Wow. Sabalenka wore
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: a hat?
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: Oh, huge difference. This is massive. I see where they're
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: going with this. Yeah? Because it's such a visually... We
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: don't see this that often, but half the court is
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: in direct sunlight.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: I always thought she'd probably rock a visor a bit better.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: People were blown away to see Sabalenka in a cap.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: They were referring to her on Twitter as Capalenka.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: I love it.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: Someone was like, am I looking at Iga Chavantech or
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Irina Sabalenka? It's like, come on. Let women wear hats.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: What was your.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: Attire.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Did you like to go visor?
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: Did you like to go cap? No, I went hat.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: I was an advisor person. And people say tennis is boring.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Game set, hat. All right.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: I love that like any little change in tennis, people are.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: So onto well i think it's the individualism of the
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  Speaker 1: sport is that when there is like someone does any
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  Speaker 1: little change it's like i guess noteworthy or something but
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: i mean i miss the days of like big fashion
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  Speaker 1: statements agassi wearing jean shorts out there nadal in the
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  Speaker 1: capri pants I mean, you're just not seeing, outside of
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  Speaker 1: obviously Osaka and the walk-on stuff, you're not seeing anything
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  Speaker 1: too outlandish.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, gosh, no.
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  Speaker 2: And it's probably because everyone goes crazy for it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And they don't want the attention, maybe.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, the trolls.
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  Speaker 2: The trolls. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Game set hats. Game set hats.
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  Speaker 4: What will they think of next?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, ciao, ciao. This is everyone's new favorite segment.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 1: Steffi Graf's.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yep. I forgot to clap.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. On this week's edition of Steffi Graphs, I
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: have two new amazing graphs to show you that apply
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  Speaker 1: to all things tennis. This first one is crowd support
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  Speaker 1: distribution in an Alex Iola match. As you can see,
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  Speaker 1: who the crowd is cheering for, the big red 87%.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: is crowd support for Alex Iola, basically most of the time.
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  Speaker 1: That 12% is support for her opponent when the opponent
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  Speaker 1: is in their home country, as we saw with Eva
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  Speaker 1: Jovic playing Iola at the US Open, still the majority
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  Speaker 1: of people going for Iola. This little tiny slice, 1%,
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  Speaker 1: is support for her opponent when the opponent is playing overseas.
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  Speaker 1: So even 1% might be a bit generous there because
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  Speaker 1: I feel like Alexiola dominates. But what you're guaranteed to
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  Speaker 1: get 100% of support for Alexiola is when she is
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  Speaker 1: being watched by Cameron Diaz. Cameron Diaz support for Alexiola
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  Speaker 1: is at 100% because as you know, she.
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  Speaker 2: Grew up around many islands.
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  Speaker 1: Filipinos.
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  Speaker 2: Many Filipinos. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't been to the Philippines, but I grew up
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  Speaker 1: with a lot of Filipinos.
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  Speaker 4: Really?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: My best friend that I grew up next door to,
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  Speaker 4: her mother was from the Philippines.
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  Speaker 2: Lumpia. Adobo. Lumpia.
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  Speaker 1: Adobo.
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  Speaker 2: Adobo.
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  Speaker 5: Adobo.
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  Speaker 1: Our next edition.
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  Speaker 2: Beautiful graph.
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  Speaker 1: Our next graph, I should say, in Steffi Graphs. This
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  Speaker 1: is a very technical graph tracking my interest level during
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: a Zverev serve ritual. Okay. As you know, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of players and commentators have called them out for bouncing
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  Speaker 1: the ball. So much, you know, it's too much bouncing already.
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  Speaker 1: So this is my interest. Like, so first ball bounce,
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  Speaker 1: I'm interested. I want to see what's going to happen
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: in this point. I'm like, he's going to serve it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, this is going to be great. There's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a big rally baseline. One of the best backhands.
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  Speaker 1: But then, you know, second ball bounce, it's starting to
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  Speaker 1: wane a little bit. And then once we get around
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  Speaker 1: to the six to nine ball bounce, I call that
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  Speaker 1: the plateau of despair. I've lost interest. I'm looking at
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  Speaker 1: my phone, Lizzie, who I am checked out of what
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: is going to happen here. But then we start getting
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: to 13, 14 ball bounces. My interest is starting to
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: go up. We got a time violation coming up. He's
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: going to get a penalty of sorts. He's going to
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: get chastised by a guy in a high chair.
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  Speaker 2: Drawn back in.
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  Speaker 1: I'm drawn back in. And then if the time violation
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  Speaker 1: doesn't happen, he's going to serve in the rally. We'll start, hopefully. So,
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  Speaker 1: that was Steffi Graf. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I've got my own Steffi Graf, actually. Do you? Yeah,
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: my interest in Steffi Graf.
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  Speaker 1: Where is it at? It sits up.
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  Speaker 2: I'm in the plateau. And then when he starts to
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: wrap it up, my interest, it goes right up. Now
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: this is everyone's real favorite segment. It's called Approaching the
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: Net with me. And I have to dance every time.
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  Speaker 1: The ladies shall dance for the gentlemen.
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  Speaker 2: All right. First one, Booblick. We love Booblick.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: We love the boob.
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  Speaker 2: One of our biggest fans. Anyway, Booblick does the best
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: foot fault ever. It's kind of interesting, this one.
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  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Like, usually you associate the foot fault with the front foot. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Double foot fault called.
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: If you didn't hear, foot fault. He's double checking which
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: foot it was. It's a ballet here.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: Honestly, Public just has funny bones. He's just a funny guy.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: He's a lanky guy.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: I played tennis in 30 years. The first time I came,
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: this is also football.
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  Speaker 2: He loves a little time out for a play. He
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: likes to have a bit of a joke, though.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: A bit of an argument. Well, like a fun argument, right?
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: Like that back foot. So service motion, it is bad.
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  Speaker 1: Like ballet. It's like almost pirouette-y, right?
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  Speaker 2: It's weird.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Back foot crossing over to go over the line
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: for a foot fault in the surface motion is bizarre.
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  Speaker 1: And only our man Bublik.
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  Speaker 2: Can pull it off. Well, it's crazy that this is
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: kind of the first time he's getting picked up for it. Yeah, yeah.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: Because he's not changing. All right. So we've got a
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: couple of segments combining here. We have Jin. No, what
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: is it?
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: Jin and Tae.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: Jen and Tomek.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: Jen and Tomek.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: And approaching the net. Together.
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  Speaker 1: And the Atman. Atman. All right. Atman playing Tomek. They're
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: deep in the third set decider.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: Tomek wins. Oh, I mean, lucky it didn't hit anyone's eye.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Spectator, yeah.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: That was a big throw.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah. It's pretty close to going into the stands.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: It's close to going into the stands. It's close to
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: hitting the umpire. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It is a dangerous chuck.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: It's rare to see Tomek as the level-headed player.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's crazy that Atman gets to complete the match
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: from there.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: Whereas Medvedev could not.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: The difference is pretty stark.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 1: All it would have taken is a spectator who was
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: sitting just on the other side of where that racket
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: hit to be like, Yeah.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: You know? Ow!
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: A little piece of debris caught me in the shoulder.
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: Call a doctor. Call a doctor. Now you are being
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: a bit Seinfeld's mom. Oh, my wallet's gone.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: It hurts. My wallet's gone!
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: Okay, you go ahead. This next one. Speaking of things
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: getting hit by balls at tennis matches, a seagull. Shout
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: out to all the seagulls out there. Shout out to
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: all of them. A seagull is accidentally hit by a
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: tennis ball during a game. All right.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: This is seemingly in Melbourne Park on the grounds here. So, yeah,
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: we could have seen this live.
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  Speaker 2: Shout out to the seagull community.
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  Speaker 1: This is.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: This is the tennis center.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: Whoa. Whoa.
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  Speaker 1: We see that again.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, straight out.
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  Speaker 6: Straight out of the air straight to the ground you would.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: Be so shocked there's two seagulls just that come in
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: and then she hits one and it's knocked out oh
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: and it's seagull friends come to see it oh they're
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: like no seagull is.
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: Left behind That is amazing. That is the tennis center. That's, yeah,
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: just over here. This is crazy that that seagull acted
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: in a more dramatic fashion than the guy that got
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: hit in the eye. But pour one out for all the.
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: Birds that love sports. And the spectators and everyone that
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: has been hit by a ball. Yeah, yeah.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: It's a heavy week of projectiles harming people. God's creatures
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: this week.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: I would say going back to the Beijing Medvedev ball,
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: if that was in Australia, someone would have caught it.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: Oh, so what are you saying?
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: Classic catch. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: So better athletes in Australia is what I'm hearing.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: I think like here you could probably get hit by
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: the ball more often, but everyone's going for the catch.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: So you're victim blaming here.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I am.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: I am. Let's make that clear on the record. I
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: don't believe this man.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: And if had he better reaction time, sitting front row
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: at a sport.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it wasn't a fast shot. He could have just
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: thrown the hands up.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: All right, you heard it here first.
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: If it was Russell Crowe in that scene.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: Exactly, that's what I'm saying. Imagine if Russell Crowe, was
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: it out at Wimbledon? Rowan. Roland Garros, where he caught
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: the ball. Imagine if he just let himself get hit
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: by the ball.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: Oh, right, right, right. The gladiator.
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the gladiator. And then he feigned injury.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: Game over. I think he would go out on the
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: court gladiatorial style and fight Medvedev. Jousting stick. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: That wraps up another stellar edition of Podlabor Arena. We'll
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: be back next week to talk about the final results
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: for Beijing and the WTA and the ATP, as well
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: as what happened in the Tokyo Open. And we'll get
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: into the Shanghai Masters.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: It's all happening.
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: All right, Lizzie, who do you think is going to
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: win Demon versus the Joker?
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: Three sets. Joker will win. Oh. I want Damon to win.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: So I think, okay, three sets and you think Djokovic.
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: No, I'm going to go Damon.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: And three.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, just to be contrarian, I'm going to
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: say Djokovic in.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: Djokovic in two, okay.
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: How many birds injured?
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: Oh, how many spectators injured?
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: And the two eyes taken out.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: Oh, same person?
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's back.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: That same guy comes back?
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: That was his compensation.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: It'd be awesome if he comes back and he's got
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: an eyepatch on and then Djokovic just launches one.
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: That's what would happen in the Seinfeld episode.
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: My wallet's gone. All right. Well, we'll talk all things
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: tennis again next week.
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: Can't wait.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: My wallet's gone.