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ALEX EALA'S WANDERING DAD · Pod Laver Arena

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  Speaker 1: Okay, so good eyes. What the hell was that? I
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  Speaker 1: don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Good eyes?
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  Speaker 1: Good eyes.
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  Speaker 3: Good eyes. I don't even know. What happened? Did you
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  Speaker 3: have a stroke?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, am I all right? Far out.
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  Speaker 3: That's got to be the new soundbite. Good eyes.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no way.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome back to Podlabor Arena and welcome back Lizzie.
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. It's been so long.
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  Speaker 3: It's been so long. Where have you been? What have
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  Speaker 3: you done?
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  Speaker 1: It's been a Wimbledon and a US Open.
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  Speaker 3: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: I was at the Edinburgh Fringe. Ah, yes. Ah, yes.
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  Speaker 1: Just bombing in a... Hot room.
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  Speaker 3: Nice.
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  Speaker 1: Night after night after night.
• 0:59
  Speaker 3: And just missing the studio.
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: Missing the studio. I would listen to the pod on
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  Speaker 1: my bus trip into the city. And shed a single tear.
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  Speaker 1: And I would laugh. And I would enjoy it. It
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  Speaker 1: was like a really nice thing to do. I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: the pod's out today. I'll put it in here. Nice.
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  Speaker 1: Hear my friends back in Australia.
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  Speaker 3: The international fans.
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  Speaker 1: No, but so I mentioned....
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  Speaker 3: Arash didn't show up?
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  Speaker 1: No, Arash in the room. I would have loved if
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  Speaker 1: he was there. Someone would have liked me.
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  Speaker 3: In the room. No, he was probably there lurking in
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  Speaker 3: the back. If I know Arash, he's hiding in the
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  Speaker 3: dark corner.
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  Speaker 1: He never says hello. But I did, because I talk
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  Speaker 1: in my show, I do say... I've got some golf content.
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  Speaker 1: But then I also, I do say I host the
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  Speaker 1: Australian Open Tennis Podcast. Any tennis fans and big tennis
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  Speaker 1: fans over there. Yeah. I had way more tennis fans
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  Speaker 1: than I did golf fans, which surprised me because I
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  Speaker 1: was in Edinburgh, which is one big giant golf course.
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  Speaker 3: True. But they're big Andy Murray heads.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh. Andy Murray on the side of black
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  Speaker 1: cabs over there.
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  Speaker 3: What's he?
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  Speaker 1: He is the face of all. walker's shortbread oh there's
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  Speaker 1: an ad you there's a really fun ad that he
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  Speaker 1: does what is shortbread it's like a you've never had
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  Speaker 1: shortbread what is it like he's in walker's shortbread it's
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  Speaker 1: like a very uh no it's a biscuit uh yeah
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  Speaker 1: like a very buttery a buttery biscuit does that sum
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  Speaker 1: up andy murray to you i think he's more of
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  Speaker 1: a he's another biscuit what biscuit is it They have
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  Speaker 1: another biscuit called the Hobnob. Yeah, which is, it's nice,
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  Speaker 1: but it's dry, which I feel is more Andy Murray.
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  Speaker 3: Hobnob doesn't sound that appetizing to me. The shortbread. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know, a buttery biscuit.
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  Speaker 1: A buttery biscuit. I mean, they love him there.
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  Speaker 3: They love him. An icon. A piece of history.
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  Speaker 1: History.
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  Speaker 3: A Scottish institution loved the world over. Popular with mums.
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  Speaker 3: Great with a cuppa.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, the double entendre there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the black and white. It was like a Steve
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  Speaker 3: Jobs shilling an iPhone. And then it's just Andy Murray
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  Speaker 3: eating a biscuit.
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  Speaker 1: A shortbread.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. The shortbread new version, 17. That's fine, I guess. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, a lot of tennis players are big brands,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Gucci, like they've got all their watches and everything.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, yeah, the sponsorship.
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  Speaker 1: Andy's doing biscuits.
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  Speaker 3: Shortbread. He may have retired, but he's making that sweet
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  Speaker 3: shortbread money. Hi, I'm Andy Murray. I have eaten a
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  Speaker 3: lot of shortbread today, not going to lie. Well, speaking
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  Speaker 3: of people coming to shows and supplying a good time,
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  Speaker 3: that sounds weird. We have many Filipino fans now because
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  Speaker 3: of our support of Alexiola. And I was doing the
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  Speaker 3: Sydney Comedy Store last weekend. And Joan from the Artist
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  Speaker 3: Chef Bakery showed up with a dozen cupcakes.
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  Speaker 1: For you.
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  Speaker 3: For me, because.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my God, that's the sweetest.
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  Speaker 3: Because she's a listener of the pod and she loves Alexiola,
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  Speaker 3: so she loves us.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Joan, I can't wait to get these cupcakes.
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  Speaker 3: And this isn't me being biased. They were probably the
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  Speaker 3: best cupcakes I've ever had in my life.
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  Speaker 1: Shout out to the artist chef.
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  Speaker 3: The artist chef. So if you're in Sydney, make sure
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  Speaker 3: you get some cupcakes or whatever your sweet treat is
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  Speaker 3: from the artist chef. They might even have shortbread to
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  Speaker 3: rival Andy Murray.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, probably. Yes. Yeah. Oh, that's so sweet. That's the
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  Speaker 1: nicest thing a fan has ever done for us, I believe.
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  Speaker 3: I think so.
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  Speaker 1: And you guys played paddle while I was away.
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  Speaker 3: We played paddle.
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  Speaker 1: I'm keen to play. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Aaron Chen from The Dink was in town. Yes, I
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  Speaker 3: saw that. We played pickleball.
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood's Aaron Chen.
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  Speaker 3: The guy was very mean that night.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron? No, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Aaron Chen was so mean. He bullied everybody. He's changed.
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  Speaker 3: He made us call him Hollywood the whole time. But no,
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  Speaker 3: the guy who ran the Pickleball Center, it was me,
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  Speaker 3: Oliver Clark, Aaron Chen, and Tim Hewitt. And the guy goes,
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  Speaker 3: we're all walking out. And he's like, can I get
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  Speaker 3: a picture with all you guys? I got to get
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  Speaker 3: a picture with the famous comedians. And then he points
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  Speaker 3: at Huey and he goes, you can wait over there.
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  Speaker 1: Did he know Huey was a comedian and was just
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  Speaker 1: making a gag?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. Oh, that's brutal.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Huey. He doesn't deserve Huey. No, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: The world doesn't deserve Huey. It's true. Yeah, so we're back.
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  Speaker 3: The Grand Slam season is over, unfortunately, but we're gearing
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  Speaker 3: up for the AO. It might be months away, but
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  Speaker 3: we're already doing prep.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it'll be soon. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Who are you looking forward to talking to?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, in the studio? From? Well, my favorites from last year. Zizou.
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  Speaker 1: I loved a bit of Zizou chat.
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  Speaker 3: You loved Zizou birds.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he was great. Yana Tomlanovic.
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  Speaker 3: She was great.
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  Speaker 1: She roasted me so hard.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, true.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Won a bit of that in my life. Nice. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: What about you?
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  Speaker 3: I just like, I think we're not doing Sting Pong,
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  Speaker 3: but we'll still have some sort of little racket sport
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  Speaker 3: going on. And I want a rematch against Ben Shelton.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We need to get
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  Speaker 1: Ben Shelton back in. Mr. Iala, who famously came in. Oh.
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  Speaker 1: To the podcast studio when I was there just eating
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  Speaker 1: my lunch.
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  Speaker 3: We got all the dad. If we can get Alex
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  Speaker 3: in here, I mean.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, Alex is second choice for me. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we'll take the dad. Yeah, we'll take the dad.
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  Speaker 3: What did he do again?
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  Speaker 1: He just wandered in and then we had a photo.
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  Speaker 1: So I'd love to find the photo of me and
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  Speaker 1: him on his phone.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think he'd still have it. I can't see why
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  Speaker 1: he'd delete that.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. And then, yeah, I think we're hopefully going
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  Speaker 3: to do a little badminton set up and then hit
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  Speaker 3: each other with the shuttlecock.
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  Speaker 1: And you can't wait to see shuttlecock every episode.
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  Speaker 3: And we'll call it really badminton or something and then
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  Speaker 3: get your cocks out.
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  Speaker 1: Shuttlecock block. Shuttlecock block is good.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I can't wait for the AO to roll around.
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  Speaker 1: Me too.
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  Speaker 3: In the meantime, Iva Jovic, this is crazy to me.
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  Speaker 3: People don't realize how intensive the tennis year is.
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  Speaker 1: It's insane.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it just never ends.
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  Speaker 1: It never ends.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and they've got to be burnt out. I mean, this, okay,
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  Speaker 3: I was thinking about this because you just did a
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  Speaker 3: month of shows. You were probably doing spots around town.
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  Speaker 3: That is an intensive month of comedy, right? Much like
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  Speaker 3: these guys playing Grand Slams.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very similar.
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  Speaker 3: They might be burnt. a little sick of it by
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  Speaker 3: the end of the run, right? But then it's like
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  Speaker 3: you coming back and doing an open mic after Edinburgh.
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  Speaker 1: Straight away. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It's they got to go play some, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, 250 and, you know, I honestly don't know how
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  Speaker 1: they do it. My mom called me on the way
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  Speaker 1: here and she said, what are you doing? I said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to record the tennis part. She's like, what
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  Speaker 1: tennis is on now? I'm like, there's so much tennis
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  Speaker 1: still going on.
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  Speaker 3: Tennis never sleeps.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: It's like a tweaked out trucker. Yeah, so there was
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  Speaker 3: the 500 for the WTA in Guadalajara. Eva Jovic won it.
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  Speaker 3: That's back-to-back titles for her. In Guadalajara, beating compatriot Peyton Stearns.
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  Speaker 3: So Ivo Jovic now world number 13.
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  Speaker 1: Amazing. And she got to wear a cool hat, a
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  Speaker 1: cool sombrero.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, we'll get into the hats.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Oh, sorry.
• 9:00
  Speaker 3: This is Tennis News. So the Grand Slams are over,
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  Speaker 3: but we have plenty of tennis news to cover.
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  Speaker 1: Always.
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  Speaker 3: Australia has just beaten Poland in the Davis Cup.
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  Speaker 1: That's great. Yes! That's great. Spooky.
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  Speaker 3: Very spooky. The Aussies are not through to the finals
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  Speaker 3: of the Davis Cup, but they're in good standing for
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  Speaker 3: next year. So that's something, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're not. Because remember at the start of the year,
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  Speaker 1: what happened at the start of the year? We lost
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  Speaker 1: to someone.
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  Speaker 3: Qualifiers. Yeah, so lost. So this is just like almost
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  Speaker 3: just decides where you are in 2027. So, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We're not top eight. We're not top eight.
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  Speaker 3: You're not in the top eight playing, but it means
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  Speaker 3: Australia stays in world group one and then enters the
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  Speaker 3: 2027 qualifier. So they're in the running for next year.
• 10:03
  Speaker 3: But the Davis Cup to me, especially the qualifiers, are
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  Speaker 3: the best atmosphere for any tennis matches.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, fun.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Outside of maybe... you know, a New York crowd
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  Speaker 3: watching an American player play or an Aussie crowd at
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  Speaker 3: the AO because you got the nationalism, you know? You
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  Speaker 3: got some good old-fashioned jingoism.
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love a bit of jingoism.
• 10:27
  Speaker 3: And, yeah, Ben Shelton playing right after the, you know,
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  Speaker 3: his Grand Slam final. At the US Open, lost. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: that's no surprise, really.
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  Speaker 1: He would have been tired.
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  Speaker 3: So tired.
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  Speaker 1: So tired. And probably, I don't know, not caring.
• 10:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I think, though, the atmosphere is such that, like,
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  Speaker 3: really the players love being in the Davis Cup, right? Yeah, true.
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  Speaker 3: But it was playing against Chechia, who they obviously won.
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  Speaker 3: So USA is out of it. And Holger Ruhn is back.
• 11:02
  Speaker 3: That's the other big news. They're 10 months away with
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  Speaker 3: an Achilles injury. So yeah, he beat Dimitrov.
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: I saw an interesting pic of Dimitrov just on his
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: socials recently in doing the splits training. But he was
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  Speaker 1: just rigged up to a machine that was literally... Pulling.
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  Speaker 3: His legs apart?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, God.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, not safe for socials. We love you, Dimitrov, obviously.
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  Speaker 1: We want to see pictures of Dimitrov.
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  Speaker 3: But not.
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  Speaker 1: Rigged up to a split machine.
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  Speaker 3: Not full perineum. Never go full perineum.
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: Never. Number one rule of social media.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Never go full perineum. You heard it here first. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That should be our slogan.
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  Speaker 1: At Podlaver Arena.
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  Speaker 3: But, yeah, I mean, those Davis Cup matches for Australia
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  Speaker 3: were in Brisbane at the Pat Rafter Arena, and it
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  Speaker 3: was raucous. Yes. I mean, if I could have gotten
• 12:05
  Speaker 3: up there, I would have definitely gone.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it would be cool to go to. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Pat Rafter Arena. Have you been there?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: It's actually quite tiny.
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  Speaker 3: Is it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. It looks big on the screen, but when you
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: go in there, you're like, oh, this is cute. Yeah.
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: Nice work, Prizzy.
• 12:20
  Speaker 3: Well, Pat Rafter deserves better. He deserves a massive stadium,
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  Speaker 3: I'd say.
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  Speaker 1: He does.
• 12:26
  Speaker 3: Tennis News! In other news, Yannick Sinner is in doubt
• 12:32
  Speaker 3: for the Asian hardcourt swing.
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: The whole swing.
• 12:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. Like, nothing's been confirmed yet, but
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  Speaker 3: some media reports are now stating that he may miss
• 12:43
  Speaker 3: it entirely. The thing is, like, we know he didn't
• 12:46
  Speaker 3: play the U.S. Open with a knee issue.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And, I mean.
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  Speaker 3: Again, is he just trying to get totally 100% leading
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  Speaker 3: up to the AO, which is months away now. So
• 13:00
  Speaker 3: maybe the issue, we can only speculate, was more serious
• 13:03
  Speaker 3: than we thought. But this might mean that Zverev will
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  Speaker 3: be the new number one.
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  Speaker 1: Whoa. Yeah. Plot twist.
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  Speaker 3: What a twist.
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  Speaker 1: What a plot twist for 2026.
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  Speaker 3: We truly are in the darkest timeline.
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: We're at the beginning of Act 3. Yeah, exactly.
• 13:27
  Speaker 3: Tennis News. For the first time in 13 years, there
• 13:32
  Speaker 3: is no teenagers in the ATP Top 100.
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: This is a crazy stat. Yeah. Because how many teenagers
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: are in the WTH?
• 13:43
  Speaker 3: Well, definitely Mira Andreeva.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I'd say... I'm trying to... Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Andreeva, Mboko, and Jovic. Oh, yeah.
• 13:55
  Speaker 3: Eva Jovic. Yeah. Of course.
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: So that's three.
• 13:58
  Speaker 3: But so in the ATP, Hodar turns 20, and that's
• 14:01
  Speaker 3: the end of an era. I know. I mean, surely
• 14:06
  Speaker 3: someone's going to rise out of juniors in the next
• 14:09
  Speaker 3: couple years, and then... What about the cruise missile?
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: Cruise. Cruise Control.
• 14:14
  Speaker 3: Cruise Control, the cruise missile. Cruise Hewitt will have to
• 14:17
  Speaker 3: rise up the ranking from 323 to, yeah. Tennis News.
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: And then in the trash-talking department, Talon Greekspor saying he
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: found the Zverev-Shelton final boring and Zverev bounces the ball
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  Speaker 3: too much.
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  Speaker 1: Yo, the stats on that were crazy, weren't they? Hours. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: hours of bouncing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Greekspor said in an interview afterwards, Trouble watching Zverev,
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  Speaker 3: especially in the tournament where he bounced the ball 400
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: times before each serve. It was really over the top. And,
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: of course, tennis media just ran with this.
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they loved it.
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then Greek Spore eventually backtracked.
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, do you think Sasha called him and was like
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: DM'd him and just went, hey, mate. I thought we
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: were friends.
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: I think so. But I think GreekSport just made some
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: offhand comment to some journalists and then he forgot it's
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: the end of the Grand Slam season and we're all
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: scrambling for content.
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: I think the tweet, the emojis in the tweet should
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: be taken more seriously because he says this is getting
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: out of control. Smiley face laughing on the angle. Like really,
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: he's really laughing. And then at the end he has
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  Speaker 1: the heart two hands. So he means no ill.
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah. But then he said, I just said it was
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: tough to watch because of the never-ending counting. So he
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: almost doubles down. But then he had nothing but praise
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: for Zazia for what he's done throughout this year. And
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: then what is that? The Love Hands?
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: Love Hands. Also, I learned a new Love Hands.
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: What's that?
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: So there's this. Korean Love Hands.
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: There's this. Some of the Gen Zs are doing this. Hmm.
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: And apparently the Chinese youth are doing this now.
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  Speaker 3: And these are love? I guess that's the... Here we go.
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  Speaker 3: This is like watching Zverev bouncing the ball.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, it's this. No, wait. It's this.
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  Speaker 3: That's love?
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  Speaker 2: Heart.
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: Oh, that does not look like a heart to me. No, that...
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: That's a heart.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: Ahead of the Asian swing, this is what they should
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  Speaker 1: all be doing.
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  Speaker 3: No, it looks like below your thumbs would be never
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  Speaker 3: go full perineum.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: Where have those thumbs been?
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: Game set hats. We have a brand new segment this week.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get into....
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  Speaker 3: Game Set Hats! Game set hats. This is the top
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  Speaker 3: tennis hats of the week. Scene.
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  Speaker 1: You asked, we give it to you. We give it
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  Speaker 1: to you.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: This is the incisive tennis commentary people come to Podlabor
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: Arena for. Oh, yes.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: Game set hats.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: So this is not only people in the stands wearing hats.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: This is players wearing hats as well.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: This is amazing. All right. The first hat. It's not me.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: But she's custom made a little sinner hat with all
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: of sinner throughout the life. It's even got one of
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: him as a child.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: Wearing a helmet?
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a ski and his ski goggles because he was
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: a really good skier.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: So this is a custom made sinner bucket hat.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, sinner through the ages.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, I wouldn't want sinner on the outside of
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: a hat. Not sure how much protection that is going
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: to give you.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: So you think this is like a.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: It's a minus SPF 50 hat. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: And like it would be an amazing hat if he,
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: the actual photos of him like turn redder and redder.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like hypercolor.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: Hypercolor. A hypercolor sinner bucket hat would be a hot
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: new trend of the tennis Australian Open.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I love that she's gone to the effort
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: of making this hat.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: How would you feel if someone showed up to a
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: gig and they were wearing a bucket hat with your
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: face on it? Terrified. Terrified.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: I would walk out the back. Yes.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: Yep. Yep. All right. The next hat on the list
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: in Game Set Hats, we have Eva Jovic Sombrero.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Beautiful.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: This is after winning in Guadalajara. And so that's two
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: years in a row she's donned the sombrero.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we should give our players here a hat when
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: they win. And a cubra.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: Oh, true, with the little corks hanging off?
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, or just like a nicer cubra.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: That would be cool. I think it's like for these
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: 500 and the smaller tournaments, they like to go full
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: cultural references with what the players get. And I think
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: Eva makes it look good.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she's rocking this umbrella.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, how's she going to get it home? I
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: don't know.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: No, from Guadalajara. It'd be funny if they made the
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: loser wear a hat as well.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Like a dunce hat. A dunce hat. Yeah, yeah.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: But yeah, the cultural appropriation is fine as long as
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: you're given it by... 100%.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fine.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so if you gave me a kimono, I could
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: wear it.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Well, it'd be weird on both sides because I'm not Japanese.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: all right our next hat yes and i've seen a
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: few of this type around this is quite a popular
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: hat for people to make it's the classic tennis ball.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: Right okay so it's like a Fedora? And the tennis
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: ball is.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: He's just got out the glue gun and he's put
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: some perfectly good tennis balls on his hat.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they look fresh.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: They look very fresh and very good.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I'd be wasting. No. I mean,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: old tennis balls, fine.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: Sure. The ones, like, you give to your dog after
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: a while. They're flat. But then these fresh ones. I mean,
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: because I know how much tennis balls cost now.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're expensive.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: So say that's $ 12. He's spent $ 45. How much is
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: a can of tennis balls?
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: $ 15. Yeah, okay.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: And so, and then, you know, he's super glued them on.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: And maybe he thinks, like, he... He can provide them
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: should they run out of tennis balls at the whatever
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: match he's watching.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he can just go straight to the head.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, he found a way to make a
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: fedora even dorkier.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Hmm. Fedora.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: Fedorki.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Fedorka.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: We got a fedorka. A fedorka.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: There we go. And our last hat is a dog hat.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Dogovich's headband. This dog is very cute. I mean, I
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: love any dog dressed up as anything. This is cute.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: This is cute to me. This is the winner.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: So my wife showed me her Instagram Explore page recently,
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: and she was like, isn't this fun? It's all animals
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: wearing cute hats and jackets and stuff. And I was like, oh, yeah, yeah,
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: that's fun. And she goes, show me your Instagram Explore page.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: So I threw my phone off the roof. That was.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: Game set hats.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Game set hats. Let us know if you want more
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: game set hats. Well, I'm back and we have our
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: favorite segment that I do. It's called Approaching the Net. Yes.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: That's spooky.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: It is spooky. All the unmissable stuff that I have
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: seen online. Yes. Our first one, we have Maja Chwalinska.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Did I say that properly?
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: Chwalinska. Chwalinska. The French Open finalist, Maja Chwalinska from Poland.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Chwalinska. It hits this crazy backspin return, a little bit fluky.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: I feel like Iga did one of these recently as well.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah. That thing is like, is it caught the frame?
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: If it's intentional, it's like the coolest shot.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: It's the craziest shot.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: But, I mean, half the time it's just like just
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: gone off the racket in a weird way and all
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: one motion on the swing. Otherwise, it wouldn't be counted. But,
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: I mean, if we have a look.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Let's have a look. Let's go. Oh. So it just
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: bounces back over the net.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: So Sramkova cannot, this is.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Can't even reach it. No.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: I mean, you'd feel like a real jerk if you
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: were Sramkova.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Whoops.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Because he can't even get to the ball, which is
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: kind of sitting up and then bounces back on Kowalinska's
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: side of the court.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she's a tall girl, too. Yeah, she could not reach.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: But I kind of love it. Yeah, Kowalinska was on
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: full stretch returning that serve and then just got... A
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: weird spin on the ball.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: An amazing spin.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: And then if you look at Kowalinska, she covers her
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: mouth probably to cover her smile.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: To be like, that was awesome.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: That was great. Yeah. It was great.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Let's have a look at some clips from another tennis podcast,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Nothing Major Podcast.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: Nothing Major.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Which is a great podcast. Yeah.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: John Isner, Sam Queery, Steve Johnson.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: Great tennis pod. What are they doing over there?
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: They're doing something a little familiar, Mike.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: Oh, are they?
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Let's have a look.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: Here we go.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: Ready?
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Little ping pong. Oh, yeah.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: They're doing sting pong over there?
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: They're doing sting pong. At least.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: We're going to have such a good welt in like
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: 30 seconds. At least credit us, fellas.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: To be fair, that, oh, wow, it looked hard.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: I think that was a bigger welt than any welts
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: we had.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I still have the Shelton welt.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you got it tattooed onto you.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah. It's gone. Okay, well, you know, maybe a little
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: credit next time from the guys.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: I agree.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: But, you know, we appreciate you paying tribute to us.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: Next thing you know, they're going to be doing game
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: set hats. Yes.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: I would love to see them doing game set hats.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: Game set hats.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Okay, our last thing in approaching the net is this
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: little freestyle Zverev rap. I don't know. Did you see this?
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: I did, but I wanted to save a proper watch
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: of this for the podcast.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: So he's wandering around after the U.S.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Open.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: And this famous YouTube.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: Flush with victory.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Flush with victory. And this famous YouTube rapper. Harry Mack.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Harry Mack. Big subscriber numbers on YouTube. 3.3 million subscribers.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Says to Zverev, hey, I want to do a freestyle
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: rap about you.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: I couldn't think of anything more awkward than standing there.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: I reckon Zverev, yeah, he couldn't think of anything more
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: awkward either. Because when we look at his face here,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: let's have a little watch.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: Honored to meet you, man.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Hey, would you do me a favor, man? I want
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: to do another freestyle, man, off the top of the dome.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: I want to improvise.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Can you help.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: Me out and just give me a few words? Maybe
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: some words that summarize how you're feeling right now or
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: really anything. We're outside the Adidas store. You're the champion
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: from yesterday. You just won. Give me a few words
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: to inspire my flow. All right, I'll give you.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: Hard work, champion, and blessed.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: Beautiful, bro.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: Hard work, champion, and blessed. He said three words?
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah. It was like it was orchestrated. He's in Adidas.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: He's outside the Adidas store. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Uh. Yeah.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Okay. Okay. Uh.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Well, me and I could do that. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: I couldn't do this bit.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: Hard work, champion, and blast, right? Let's get it.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: I don't know if Sparrow is loving this.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: So awkward!
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: He's like, ahhh!
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: What's he saying?
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: Where do I look? Where do I look?
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: So to wrap up the pod, Lizzie, give me three
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: words and I'm going to freestyle rap for you. Yeah, okay.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: About my Edinburgh Fringe experience.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: I'd like it to be about. And three words. Bomb.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Uh-huh.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Hot, as in hot room.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: So bomb, hot, and depressed. Oh, my God.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: Bomb, hot, and depressed. I trust Errol to, in post,
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: put some beats under this.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, beautiful.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: So I'm not doing it acapella. Yeah. Okay.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: Okay. Where's my snare? Someone turn up my snare?
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: There's my snare. Yo, yo, Lizzie in Edinburgh having a
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: lot of bombs. She's disappointing her dad and her moms.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: She's over there and the room is hot. Not like
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: the crowd is good. She's just bombing a lot.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: She's back now in Melbourne and we're having a great time.
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: even though she's depressed. And that's the end of my rhyme.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Yes!
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: Mike! That's so good.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Well done. I'm honored to have an original.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: You were enjoying that, I think, more than Zverev was
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: enjoying it.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I loved it. Yeah, I appreciate it. We'll clip
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: it up.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: Well, that wraps up another edition of Podlabor Arena. So
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: good to have you back, Lizzie.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Good to be back. Yes.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: Yes. And we'll be back next week. We'll be in
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: the thick of the Asian hardcourt swing. Plenty of 500s
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: and 1000s happening. And maybe another run of Game Set Hats.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Can't wait.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: We'll see you next week.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Bye.
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: Good hours.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Good.