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SABA THE HUTT · Pod Laver Arena

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  Speaker 1: Oh, welcome back to I gotta get the voice back.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Tennis FB. You're on with Phrygie and
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  Speaker 1: the Joe to the Girth from Perth, Sam Taunton.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, he didn't know that, the guy we didn't know a
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  Speaker 2: defense account code the good.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, he's crushing it too.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, I'm going to chop. It's crazy up here. There's
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  Speaker 2: tennis balls everywhere I see down there.
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  Speaker 1: Back to you, Well, it's good to have the Chode
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  Speaker 1: back with some incisive commentary about where the tennis balls
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  Speaker 1: are located around the Melbourne Greater Metropolitan area. Oh, we've
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  Speaker 1: got a huge week of tennis. Let's check out what's
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: happening in Madrid.
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  Speaker 2: Show me perfect tennis.
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  Speaker 1: The stuff way, it's just another Yannick Sunday. Oh is
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  Speaker 1: it's not in front of you the brief.
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  Speaker 2: Oh fuck, all right, okay, okay, caught in here.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it's good to chuck in with the Jode in
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  Speaker 1: the sky. But let's play our number one hit of
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  Speaker 1: the day. It's just another Yannick Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Oh whoa far if wishes hit him one day.
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  Speaker 1: But it's just another Yannick Sunday. Alight, We did it.
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  Speaker 1: We're back and we have Sam Taunton.
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  Speaker 2: It's fantasta.
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  Speaker 1: I pronounce it.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's taunting Tom so long. I know because I've
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  Speaker 2: got friends that I've never said the last name Eva.
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  Speaker 1: I've definitely said Taunton. But I think you would pop
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  Speaker 1: more if you were Anton.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't that a star? I think it is?
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, there's an animal called the Taunton that Luke
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  Speaker 1: Skywalker hides in. Yeah, and today is May the fourth.
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  Speaker 1: May fourth be with you?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I mean, what a nerdy day for all that celebrate.
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  Speaker 2: But that's not that's why you wanted to do the
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  Speaker 2: podcast today, right because you always have? You take today
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  Speaker 2: off normally. Don't you up your big kind of Star
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  Speaker 2: Wars thing cake and have all your friends around? And
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  Speaker 2: I don't what's your favorite Star Wars episode?
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  Speaker 1: Well, friends is loose.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're in cats, your cats?
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  Speaker 1: Watch me play with my lightsaber?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's a no no actual lightsaber. Yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 2: it is not a good lightsabers. That's actually the noise
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  Speaker 2: you make when you kiss my vote.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's just another Sunday. Yeah, May the
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  Speaker 1: fourth be with you? And I think Tonton it also
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  Speaker 1: sounds like the start of a Netflix.
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  Speaker 2: Show tun Doon. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so.
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  Speaker 1: You get your own special and then.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, how are you, Mike? You must be on cloud
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  Speaker 2: nine after Madrid and where we're heading to in the
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  Speaker 2: broader tennis season. I am and I am not.
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  Speaker 1: I think Sinner is just going to have a cake
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  Speaker 1: walk through most of the tournaments until Alcock. Well, I
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  Speaker 1: mean we're also watching Greatness.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, and we've spoken about how good greatness is,
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  Speaker 2: and it's great if you're watching in twenty years, you're
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  Speaker 2: watching a documentary about greatness and you're like, oh my god,
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  Speaker 2: this guy's unbelievable, what a season he had, and you're like, look,
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  Speaker 2: he was just dominating everywhere. But when you're kind of
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  Speaker 2: in it and you're like, wow, he's going to win again,
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  Speaker 2: it kind of does take the sting out of the
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  Speaker 2: men's draw.
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  Speaker 1: True, and Alcaaz, his absence with injury is being felt already.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there couldn't be a bigger gap between Sinner
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  Speaker 1: and the rest of the field with Alcoraz out and
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  Speaker 1: his wrist injury. I want to put this to you
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  Speaker 1: as a golf player fanatic. The Spanish media has said
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  Speaker 1: Alcoraz's injury is more golf related than tennis.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know this happens. It does happen. So
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  Speaker 2: the day after he won the Australian Open, he was
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  Speaker 2: out playing at Kingston Heath. You know, so the guy
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  Speaker 2: needs to quit golf. He's too obsessed with you. And
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  Speaker 2: it does happen. I've seen it before. You saw it
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  Speaker 2: with Usman Kawaja, the Australian cricketer. He missed the Brisbane
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  Speaker 2: Test because he was hurt. He hurt himself playing gold,
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  Speaker 2: hurt his back playing golf. These men, they need to
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  Speaker 2: focus on the You can't if you pick a sport
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  Speaker 2: and that's the sport you have to play. You they're
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  Speaker 2: all like, oh, we can do golf on the side.
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  Speaker 2: But it's ruining. It's running Koreas, that's what it's doing.
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  Speaker 1: But you think is rist injury really doesn't come down
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  Speaker 1: to him hitting thousands of tennis balls or one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and forty miles per hour fourhand. He'd like hit a
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  Speaker 1: putt a little too voracious.
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  Speaker 2: You're thinking about pup putt. This guy. This guy's out there,
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  Speaker 2: he's on the links. Have you ever you've held a
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  Speaker 2: tennis ball? I have, And then have you held a
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  Speaker 2: golf ball, which one is sturdy, which one's harder.
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  Speaker 1: Which one would do more damage? Yeah, golf ball.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, totally right. And then if you're hitting it, he's
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  Speaker 2: probably hitting in the rough and he's trying to hack
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  Speaker 2: it out. He's a pretty strong guy. All that pressure
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  Speaker 2: goes to your risk and risk it only takes one
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  Speaker 2: to kind of mess it up, whereas like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you got that nice string, Yeah, you got the nice
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  Speaker 2: softer Jennibrawk gives. There's so much more give. He's a
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  Speaker 2: clay guy that he loves. The ball comes on a
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  Speaker 2: bit softer.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a put putt injuries?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, it's when drunk stepdads start hitting someone
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  Speaker 2: else for the potter.
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  Speaker 1: But the one of the big Spanish media, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: radio personalities. He insinuated that not only is it too
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  Speaker 1: much golf for Alcoraz, but it's also too much video games.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that sucks. I mean that sucks more than gold.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Let the boy live.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the problem you just do forget that
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  Speaker 2: he's a twenty what is he twenty two? Twenty three? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: You like, of course he's going to be playing some
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  Speaker 2: video games. He could give up the golf. I know
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  Speaker 2: he's a keen golfer, he's off a low handicap, but
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  Speaker 2: I think golf. If I was in his corner, I'd
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  Speaker 2: be like, golf goes. You can keep video gaming, but
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  Speaker 2: you've got to stop it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you think he bounces back because he is a
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  Speaker 1: young man. I know you had a riss injury as
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  Speaker 1: a young man, but yeah, yourself very different.
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  Speaker 2: I was playing with my light seaber. It was a
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  Speaker 2: big Star Wars kid, Big Star Wars kid. If I
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  Speaker 2: was in Alcaraz's corner, I would say, you've got to
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  Speaker 2: pick one, because to me, there's three main things that
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  Speaker 2: are drawing him away from the game of tennis. Right
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  Speaker 2: number one, you've got this golf, You've got the video games.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know about that one, and then you've got
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  Speaker 2: him seemingly want to sleep with every socialite under the sun. Well,
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  Speaker 2: so I mean he's got to pick one, and I
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  Speaker 2: don't think he's going to give up being you know,
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  Speaker 2: the Frank Sinatra of twenty twenty six. So I think
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  Speaker 2: it's golf and maybe video games have to go. Video
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  Speaker 2: games you'll do less injuries, maybe you get a bit
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  Speaker 2: of like a soul neck or something repetitive strain. I
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  Speaker 2: guess with you know that just hammering the Yeah, but
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  Speaker 2: because you'll play the film if the risk goes Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I worry because you know, obviously you want him back
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  Speaker 1: for the grass season. He's gonna he says right now
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  Speaker 1: Alcoraz that he's gonna come back to defend his title
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  Speaker 1: in Queens, which is one of the big grass court
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  Speaker 1: tournaments leading into Wimbledon. You just don't want to see
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  Speaker 1: him go the way of Dominic team and one more
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  Speaker 1: team del Patrick team.
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  Speaker 2: Team just disappeared. There's the wrist. The wrist, Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it happened. I think with Alchora, though, it's like gonna
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  Speaker 2: be hard, Like if he's gearing up to come back
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  Speaker 2: to the grass court season, it's like, and he's missed
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  Speaker 2: so much tennis. It's a much faster surface. It's like
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  Speaker 2: he's just gonna be so under he'll get found out
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  Speaker 2: more like having missed so much tennis. Yeah, so even
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  Speaker 2: if he's back, is he going to be you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's still got the ability, he's probably got quarterfinals, semi
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  Speaker 2: finals all over him. But is he gonna touch center
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  Speaker 2: The answer is no. I know. That's why it's men's
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  Speaker 2: tennis sucks right now.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I still enjoy watching Cinner absolutely destroy people. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but it's yeah, like I said, the gap between him
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  Speaker 1: and number three is Verreev. But Djokovic has announced he's
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  Speaker 1: playing Rome, yeah, which starts this week, and I don't
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  Speaker 1: see him being in forum.
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  Speaker 2: But we're all on Djokovic now, aren't we. We're all like,
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  Speaker 2: let's bloody Novak, Australia's Novak, get behind this guy, little
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  Speaker 2: Alsie Novak, the little guy that could. It's like he's
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  Speaker 2: going to be out there. We're all going to be
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  Speaker 2: staying up late on this side of the world cheering
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  Speaker 2: Novak on to try to make it competitive. What the
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  Speaker 2: stat I read about Sev has lost his last nine
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  Speaker 2: matches to Sinner. It's like, what is that duty? You like,
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  Speaker 2: you're going in with no self relief. You can't beat
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  Speaker 2: the guy.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's why he should bring some levity to his
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  Speaker 1: next interview and they'll when they ask him about Sinner,
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  Speaker 1: inevitably he should say, no, one beats Zvera. Yeah, ten
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  Speaker 1: times in a row.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I've always said. Yeah, you get me
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  Speaker 2: the first nine, but the tenth one that's on me.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he did have a winning record against him, I
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  Speaker 1: mean for a little while, but then losing the last
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  Speaker 1: It's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: It actually is crazy, Like you look at what that meant,
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  Speaker 2: Like that would scar you forever. I feel like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you'd have to be so strong to get through it.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, uh, someone pointed out, it's the Serena Williams
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  Speaker 1: Sharapovo rivalry. Was called the rivalry, but it was Serena
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  Speaker 1: absolutely just owning her every time they cud. The greatest
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  Speaker 1: time rivalry. Yeah, yeah, that's the analogy. It's a hammer
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  Speaker 1: and nail rivalry.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know, of course, of course, of course,
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  Speaker 2: But that does just happen in tennis though, because if
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  Speaker 2: you have two kind of clear people but one's better
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  Speaker 2: than the other, they're still probably going to meet so often.
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  Speaker 2: So it does seem like a rivalry even though there's
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  Speaker 2: actually kind of no rivalry, right because one person is
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  Speaker 2: dominating so much more. The women's draw, that's where it's
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  Speaker 2: all that, because there's no clue what's going on there.
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  Speaker 1: No, I mean, we'll get around to that, I think.
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  Speaker 1: Staying on Djokovic for a second, the fact that he's
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  Speaker 1: warming up in Rome as we speak. He's on the
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  Speaker 1: practice courts.
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  Speaker 2: Have you got you've got your little spies?
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  Speaker 1: Have got eyes on an amount, Mike, Mike g has
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  Speaker 1: eyes and spice like.
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  Speaker 2: That guy from Game of Thrones. Yeah, it's just a
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  Speaker 2: little it's a little what do they yet, little thumb
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  Speaker 2: or some of that. What did he say? He's got
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  Speaker 2: his little lies? No, not little lies. I don't know anyway,
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  Speaker 2: he's creepy, but you remind me of him. Thank you?
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  Speaker 1: All right? You kind of you got a Jeoffrey, I
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  Speaker 1: got a Jeoffrey vibe.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can see I've got a temper and I
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  Speaker 2: make bad mistakes and my legacy. I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: think about my legs. No, not at all.
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  Speaker 1: The so Djokovic being the only one well outside of
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  Speaker 1: Yakov Mensic beating Center in Dubai, Djokovic beat him and
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  Speaker 1: uh the Australian Open, and so if Djokovic plays his
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  Speaker 1: way back in the form for Rome and then will
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  Speaker 1: maybe challenge him in the French but otherwise cakewalk for center.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think though that like? I mean, yeah, Djokovic
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  Speaker 2: beat him in Australia, But is that just like the
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  Speaker 2: last flashes of djokovic brilliance. It's not like is it
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  Speaker 2: a thing where he's like, I've got the on this guy,
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  Speaker 2: So if I get back and play him in a
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  Speaker 2: big time, big match laid in a Grand Slam, I
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  Speaker 2: can do it. It's like I don't like, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: It's just like he pulled out some magic in Australia
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  Speaker 2: to do it. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: But now he's got even more impetus to pull out
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  Speaker 1: more magic because there's no Alcoraz. He doesn't have to
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  Speaker 1: beat two of the guys.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, he's just gonna do one. Yeah. It
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  Speaker 2: is crazy that now it's like Djokovic is so old
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  Speaker 2: now and we're still like he's got to be the guy.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a better storyline. It's a way better story.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty five slams is a better storyline.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm all on bull. I love that story. I
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  Speaker 2: love that story.
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  Speaker 1: Some other wrap ups from Madrid before we get into
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  Speaker 1: the finals. New Rafa just dropped Rafa Hodar back on
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  Speaker 1: Game of Thrones. It sounds like Hoda.
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  Speaker 2: He also reminds me of you.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I thought you meant Hodar ra Rafa Hodar The
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  Speaker 1: teen sensation a year ago ranked in the nine hundreds
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  Speaker 1: to thirty four.
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  Speaker 2: Now, that's sick. It's amazing, that's it. I just think
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  Speaker 2: dollars when I think of arrives like that. Yeah, because
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  Speaker 2: nine hundred you're not making much money at all, but
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  Speaker 2: you get into the top fifty, the sweet money starts
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  Speaker 2: coming in. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently with the ATP when you crack the top two hundred,
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  Speaker 1: they fly you to like everyone else who's broken into
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  Speaker 1: the top two hundred, to like this big event at
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  Speaker 1: some city in the world. No. Yeah, and then they
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  Speaker 1: do like this big like welcome to the top two hundred.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're lying. I swear to god.
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  Speaker 1: They do that because it's like you, guys, you're entering
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  Speaker 1: the big time.
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  Speaker 2: So you're like, these are your p is now. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and it's the whole two hundred day.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's like that.
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  Speaker 2: It's in color.
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  Speaker 1: People within the past year that cracked the two hundred.
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  Speaker 2: Oh okay, So it's like an induction. God, you'd be
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  Speaker 2: spewing if you had two hundred and one in the world.
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  Speaker 2: You don't get to go to the island. I'm lucky.
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  Speaker 2: I'm lucky. That's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: That true, Yeah, that's true. Well it used to be true.
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  Speaker 1: I'm currently reading Connor Nylan's book The Racket about playing
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  Speaker 1: on the futures and challengers to and he said he
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  Speaker 1: got to go to I think they did it in
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  Speaker 1: London that year, the big year in the top two hundred.
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  Speaker 1: Now meeting, it's about to promote camaraderie. We should have professionalism.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, like the old school tennis energy of like
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  Speaker 2: it's the gentleman's game. Yeah, think you shake hands easy
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  Speaker 2: o p is enjoyed. We should host it next year.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a secret men's club, That's what I mean. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and you burn like an effigy of an owl at
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  Speaker 1: the end.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, sacrifice Okay, okay, I like that. I like that
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  Speaker 2: a lot.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know. Rafa Hodar is how you pronounce it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: He took out demon Ar early in Madrid. He beat Vonseca,
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  Speaker 1: that was the other, you know, greatly hyped teenager from Brazil.
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  Speaker 1: And then he came up against Center and I thought
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  Speaker 1: it was the most Center got pushed in Madrid by
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  Speaker 1: Ralpha Hoodar. It was still in straights hats and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he but the Spanish because Alcoraz was out with the injury.
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  Speaker 1: The Spanish had this new.
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  Speaker 2: They have this new person to kind of get behind.
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  Speaker 2: I do wonder, like what the gap is between you know,
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  Speaker 2: like someone ranked so high, like if you're in five,
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  Speaker 2: six hundreds and then you're playing someone you know, who's
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you're playing center, you know you're dealing
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  Speaker 2: with potentially an all time great. But it's like, what
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  Speaker 2: it's the skill difference? Is it all psychological? Because it
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  Speaker 2: does kind of boggle the one that someone can get
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  Speaker 2: on a run and go from that high up to
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: you know, ultimately pushing the best player in the world.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of crazy, and I mean people getting behind it.
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  Speaker 2: You can like that. I guess that pushes you, but
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  Speaker 2: it kind of does make you wonder. It's like, who
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  Speaker 2: else is just out there that can kind of do it,
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  Speaker 2: that's got it in there, I know.
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  Speaker 1: And this kid, I mean, he's showing the talent and
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  Speaker 1: the forum and kind of already you know, a good mentality,
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  Speaker 1: especially for a nineteen year.
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  Speaker 2: Old nineteen as well, that's like.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and if if you've seen him, like he's he's
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  Speaker 1: all shoulders, he's like six foot three, he weighs one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty three pounds and he's just got the
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  Speaker 1: it looks like a suit bag was a person.
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  Speaker 2: The best description, no wonder. He just polished off the
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  Speaker 2: demon so well, like just anything with any of the
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  Speaker 2: big serve that can just overpower. H I love Alex,
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  Speaker 2: but it's like that just seems like he's big gap.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter who they are. If they're just a
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  Speaker 2: bit more powerful than physical, it's over for him.
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  Speaker 1: I know, So be on the lookout for a holder.
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  Speaker 1: I hope he DoD.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he sounds like we need someone to get behind,
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  Speaker 2: I know, but I.
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  Speaker 1: Also you worry about someone getting over hyped too early
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  Speaker 1: and then they just like had a great run and
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  Speaker 1: then that's it. But I mean to thirty four in
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  Speaker 1: the world, Yeah at nineteen years old.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, is he get how overhyped did he get? Like
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: you just called him a suit bag? He's that over
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: hyping hard don't know. It still sounds like an underdog
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: if you ask me.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: It's look I mean cause he's nineteen, so he still
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: has this like little kid head on these like the
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: most giantler.
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: That's my favorite type of person is the little boy
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: face that's like really young but their body's gone quicker.
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: Can we clip that and play that well.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: I think my favorite type of person.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: It's a little boy face a man's body.
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: But you've got to don't cut it at little boy.
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: You've got to let me keep doing the other stuff
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: if you just cut it at My favorite type of
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: person is a little boy. I'm in a lot of trouble.
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: I love that when you see them and they just
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: look so young and bright eyed, but they're just like
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: playing with the big fellas. Yeah.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: So I mean, like we'll see what he does in
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Rome and then at the French. Just quickly to deviate,
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: I would like to talk about the history of models.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: At the Madrid Open so I on Tyriac, a Romanian
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: business man. In twenty fourteen, it made all female models
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: ball girls their age nineteen to twenty eight, and he said,
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: you have to wear very revealing out for interesting. Andre
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: Augusty complained about it, said it was very distracting, and
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: then you know, of course, eventually it was not until
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty three when it was like people were like,
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: what are we doing? This is sexist. You can't have
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: these ladies as the ballgirls. Yeah, And like usually they
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: use up and coming juniors from local clubs. Yeah, and
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: not only were they were they emblazoned with the like
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Hugo boss logo, but then he would also get it
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: across their chest as well. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, what's
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: his god's name?
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: I on Tyriaca fashionating guy a replacement for Craig Tyley.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: I mean he's I know, I don't mind that we
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: should put him forward. Eventually the tournament was handed over
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: and in twenty twenty three they said no more models,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: but maybe some models.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: I respect, because you can't rule out models. Everyone loves
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: a few models around. But I do get that, like
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: if you're playing in the biggest match your life and
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: there's like five models like running around, they're also not
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: professional for their hearts aren't going to be in it
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: in the way the ball kids are. We got to
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: meet a bunch of them. These these kids like live
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: for it, so they're probably falling over and they're looking beautiful,
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: and you're worried about the model hurting it, So you
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: don't want to see a beautiful model hurt themselves.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: And also you put Hoda and Van Tsaka, two nineteen
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: year old boys out there, how could you concentrate on it?
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: You got to, but just put the models in like
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: the player box or somebody. They're happier there as well.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: I think the models like let them just you know,
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: pop into the mecha store out the front or whatever,
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: do some influencing stuff. Bang, they can watch the game,
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: have an apple or all spirits. Everyone's happy, like literally,
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: everyone is happy. They don't have to be the ball kids.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, they tried to soften it, like in two
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: thousand and seven by going, okay, we'll use male models
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: as well. Right, so they had both male models for
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: the women's matches and females for the and then now
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: it's like kind of a mix, but heavy on the
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: female model.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: It's still heavier on the female.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Especially towards the later matches.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: So these like ball kids, it's been their whole life training,
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: gets to the quarters in the semis and it's like, sorry,
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: we're going with the hot people exactly. Can you imagine
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: you know, the famous kid of the kid, the clip
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: of the kid just like slamming into the wall end.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: In Madrid, Yeah, in Madrid, face plans. Yeah for our listeners,
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: al Magro is playing and the kid face Plans looks back.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: I'd imagine imagine if that was like Sydney Sweeney, Oh
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: my god, you would be like, God, we have to
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: stop the tennis fater I Forfard, I have to look
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: after the beautiful woman right now. But then also a
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: billion views later. Oh it would be so good. Everyone
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: wants to go to Madrid to watch totally. Yeah. Okay,
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: this guy's a visionary. I like the idea.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Other news stories out of Madrid a the stomach virus,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: wreaked havoc, crazy numbers. This took down I know in
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: the first week. It took out Eagish Fontec, who had
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: to retire in the third set of her match. Madison
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Keys was out with it. Marin Chillic Coco got through
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: a match but was taking time on a change of
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: vents to borrow.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: Maybe we need to get this virus to play Cinner.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Oh am, I right, can we get a right there?
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well he was paranoid about getting it, so he's like,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: I'm just not going to any.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Of the communal areas. Yeah, because well he's always kind
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: of a bit sick sort of, so I'm surprised he
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: didn't get him. He's always got a bit of a
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: sickly look about it. It's just redheads. Yeah, that's so true.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: That's true, which is a disease, it's a virus himself. No,
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: we love red. We love the reds. Also, can I
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: say just on the virus thing quickly, I do love Like,
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: you know, sports is sports, and these are professional athletes
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: and we all tune in and we're like, God, they're
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: training is so you know, intense, and they've got such
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: a strict diet in life, but it is. It just
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: does always have school camp energy at a tennis tournament.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: When a virus goes through, it just takes everyone out.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: You're like, oh, of course, you're all just in the
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: same cafeteria and the same gym, in the same It's like, yeah,
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: you're on school camp and someone got diarrhea and now
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: you're all getting it as well.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they should have like a communal nurse that it's
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: also checking for headlights, because that would just.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: All right, they've got knits all right publicly that you
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: get to do a press conference.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, who's the player most likely to bring knits to
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: the tournament?
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: I reckon it would have been marat Safin back in
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: the day. Yeah, although he did have a lot of
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: short hair.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: But now maybe now marat Safin, I'm thinking like a bublic.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: Bublic. Yeah, he's like a bit. I mean, I feel
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: like I mean, it's hard to know, but I feel
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: like that for some reason, like long hair, scary hair
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: is what I think of when I think of nits,
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: maybe like I sit the pass or something. But I
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: could be wrong. I've never had knits. I'm quite clean.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I've been nitless too.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: You've been nitless, you've been knitless. I am nitless. I'm
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: currently currently nitless. Currently, Well, you've had a fresh haircut.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: I know I wouldn't touch that if they were knits
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: in it.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: My my wife said, it looks like I'm wearing a
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: party hat made of hair.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: I don't think that's a compliment.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: It really was hurtful.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: It's you've got a US Navy haircut. That's how I
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: described it. When you walked in, you look like you've
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: been drafted or conscripted to go to Vietnam.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: I think because I like give the energy of like
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: a tough alpha guy.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: So that's no, no, no, like a conscripted, like a
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: guy he didn't want to go. Guy tried to get out.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: The guy who said he had bones f yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: I've got a medical certificate asthma. Oh my breathing, it hurts.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Other news from Madrid, Potapova had a great tournament. She
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: knocked out a back in the uh uh, and then
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: the hard launch of her boyfriend, Dutch tennis player Talon
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Greek Sports Greek Sport, who was sitting in her box
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: offering moral support, where everyone was like, the best boyfriend ever.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: He's saying, we need your best attitude and energy. We
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: got some clips here of it. But then later on
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: she was complaining to the coach and he said, uh,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: maybe stop fucking talking, Anna.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Okay, you're right there, keep pushing.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: So it's like, is this guy a hero or what?
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Remember what I told you at home, stop sucking talking.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I just don't. I don't like couples
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: in tennis. I don't like them in the box, So
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: I don't like them. Sabillanca's boyfriend. He kind of annoys
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: me sometimes, but he's like A I mean he's not
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: A yeah, I mean he's not. But it is like,
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: I guess that's hard if you kind of he's a
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: pro tennis player. He knows what's going on. But yeah,
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: you would be tempted to not just like but it's
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: like a yelling at.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: It's a workplace relationship like that. They're like a touring
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: circus and they're around each other all the time, like
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: totally you don't know anyone else. Of course they're gonna
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: date each other.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: But so you'll put your partner your wife. You know,
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: she sees a lot of stand up comedy.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Which one are we talking about?
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Partner slip slips up? Don't people, he's crazy, But she
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: sees a lot of stand up comedy. But if you
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: what if you're performing your set and then she's just
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: out of stage, just like in your ear being like
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: pull your ship together, like be more positive.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: I love it, you love it. I need that.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Okay, Like one.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Joke bombs and I just hear you go stop fucking talking.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Stop sucking. Oh wait, so she's saying negative. She's not
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: a positive thing. Okay, She's then just validating the voices
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: in your head. Yeah, okay.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: So the other kind of announcing themselves on the tour
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: was Haley Baptiste, the American player took out this is
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: the biggest win of her career. Easy taking out Sabolenka
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: in the quarterfinals and saving six match points along the way.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: Six match points is crazy. That's stress right there, just
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: absolutely just inner dis winging, like God, when will this pain?
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: And then you get to the other side of the mountain.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: You'd be shocked, you one, if you saved six match points.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: I mean imagine the adrenaline, like just coursing through like
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: against sable Anka, the number one in the world, and
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: then losing Tamira Andreva in the semi final, and then
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: of course in the final of the women side in Madrid,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: we had Mardakstiak, friend.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Of the show, Friend of the show, You've got history.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: We have history. She said, I was too cute to be.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: On a podcast, That's what she said.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Have you had any nicknames throughout the career?
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: No, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You sent it the YouTube
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: linkh okay. It's actually kind of a visual media.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, we get people watching, yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Gi Marta, this is a Ukrainian. This is the big
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: sticking point I guess for tennis media is this is
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: a Ukrainian playing a Russian player. Marta did not shake
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: hands and get a picture with Mira.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Well, they've got bad blood the two countries. Mike, I'm
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: not sure if you've followed the Yeah, they don't like
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: each other really? Yeahs nasty. What's going on today? Yeah?
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: I get that, but.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: This is Costia not even acknowledging, yes, the opponent beating
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Mira Andreva and straight sets, saving set point in the
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: second set, but not even mentioning Mirra Andreva.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: In this speech. Well, I watched the speech and it's
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: like very noticeable that doesn't get brought up. But it
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: also kind of goes into this new trend of tennis
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: speeches that we are seeing, which are very like pro yourself,
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: you know, just being like I've done it, I'm awesome,
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: my team, how good are we go us? So she
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: could be forgiven that she is just a one minded
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: sporting psychopath, like they all are, really right, and it
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: had no political kind of connotations with it at all.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: That's what I'd say if I was defending her. But
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: I think it had a lot to do with the
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Russian aspect of it all.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: What okay not shaking her hand at the end of
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: the match, cast chick not doing that if you played
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: someone they refuse to shake your hand, And then they
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: did a backflip and sult the injury.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: Or yeah, you can't backflip, that's bang out of order. Backlip. Yeah,
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: I know, I saw the back You can't backflip like
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: the handshake I get, and we've seen cases of that
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: before as well this year in tennis, but you can't
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: back the backflip is never like I mean, I don't know.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Backflips just don't seem right. You didn't like it, well,
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't get a backflip in a different context.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: It's also I mean, you give me a backflip for
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: the greatest, coolest I would kill to me. I once
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: saw our mutual friend Jared McGowan do a backflip off
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: a rock into water, and like I thought people were
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: going to get his autograph, like it was unbelievable. Yeah,
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: it is great, But a backflip in this situation, it's
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: like you're making a political stand. You don't then backflip.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: You know, Ron Luther King didn't say I have a
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: dream that did a backflip? Did he?
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: If he did, I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah, that would
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: be ar.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: Like, you don't need to dream, you're living it right now, mate.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Even if Neil Armstrong did a backflip on the moon.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: I'd be like, well, he could have been backflip from
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: man one, a huge backflip for mankind.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: Well, with the lack of gravity, it would have been
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: easier the backflip if he missed a beat.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but they were also on a sound stage.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: And yeah, had fishing line like attached, so they could
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: have just like Pink at one of her concerts, just
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: swimmer around.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: True, true, true. So I mean, next time we play purckleball,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: I'll try my best to do a backflip. Yeah.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: And you don't shake cans anyway when you play pickaball. Yeah,
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: so it is kind of very similar to that kind
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: of geopolitical conflict.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So Marto Castick, she's on a terror because she
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: won a two fifty event and.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: Ruin that's her first one thousand, Yeah, first one, that huge.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Huge Yes, mirror Andreva still you know, a team still
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: playing great ball, and I think should makes a deep
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: run at the French Open as well.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: It is great, Like who do you like in the
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: women Like it's just kind of chaos at the moment.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: It's people kind of coming out from everywhere. I mean
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: that the virus didn't help, but like it's I mean,
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: you wouldn't want to be, you know, a professional tennis
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: gambler because on that women's side, I don't know who's
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: going to win.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Of all the surfaces, to have diarrhea on clay would
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: be the most, I.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: Would argue, it'd be the best. Yeah, yeah, I tell
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: what you were going to say, Yeah, yeah, yeah, if
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: you could, like it would blend in and then if
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: there was a bit of a breeze it would kind
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: of get covered. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay,
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: I mean the grass is the worst.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Some lady left a comment on one of my reels
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: and she said, is this toilet humor? Mike Goldsteer, And
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I guess.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: It's best review I've ever got. Ex review.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: The men's final, Yennick Center absolutely destroying Sasha Zeverev in
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: under an hour. I just for anyone in zeb did
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: apologize at the end of the match. Two things to
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: discuss here is tennis the only sport where a loser
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: gives a speech at the end.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, they're not technically a loser. The runner up
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: the runner up like they've still come second in a
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: Grand Slam, which is not nothing. But I mean if
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: you get done in straight sets in under an hour,
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: you're a loser.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, And why are we still continuing on with
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: making a person who's clearly distraught played a terrible match.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: Do a speech. Yeah. I like it. I like to
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: see people because the beauty of tennis, I often think,
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: and especially the final, it's like it's almost like it's
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: a primitive form of sport and it's just like one
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: person versus another person being like, I'm going to beat
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: that person, and they often you know, they're a bit
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: cocky and they've got to be confident, and then they
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: just even if they lose, it's just embarrassing, Like you
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: just have lost, it's embarrassing. And then you have to
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: be like, oh god, damn it, that person is better.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: You just have to admit they're better than me, Like
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: you can't say they're not better than you. And I
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: think that's part of the fun, is it?
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Well, because Mira Andreva crying right well, as soon as
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: she lasts, she's there with the taps come.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: To a backflip.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: But then going from crying to talking in front of
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: thousands of people. I mean, I know you do it
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: with stand up, but it's like maybe tons of people.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: It depends what night it is, Wednesday not Wednesday occasionally, you.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Know, well Wednesday is a tough night. It's hard to
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: get people out. There's very you know, apologize to the crowd.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Lasted under an hour, the quickest final in Madrid, just
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: behind a sixty two minute five. All that was Alcoraz beating.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: Who uh Djokovic.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Zverev, Oh dude in twenty twenty two.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean you've got a part. I like it. Well,
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: yeah he should be. So he was already self conscious
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: about it, that's obviously on his mind, and then he's
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: getting absolutely like smashed and he's thinking, what's happening again?
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: This is humiliating. These people have spent a lot of
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: money because I imagine the seats there in Madrid costs
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: a lot more, because you know, those front ones are
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: like little booths in those stadiums, like they're just kind
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: of wedge. They must be costing astronomical amounts of mind.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: You don't have to sit next to some.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Freaki sit closer to the models.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: That's why they want to get close.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: And then Zverev, in his postmatch interview said there's clearly
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: a huge gap between center and the rest of the field.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: But there's not a huge gap between himself, Djokovic, and
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: al karaz Nah.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: Because Alchoraz is clearly ahead of those two.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: That's semi final we watch at the Australian Open was
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Zverev's match.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: To Yeah, but Alkoraz was injured, dealing or he was
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: faking an injury or something. Well, because he was getting beaten.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: He came back. I mean, it was one of the
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: most incredible sporting events. But he was like limping and
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: well that's what he said. It was cramped.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: Remember you wanted to leave to eat CORNI Chan's that
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: was your what's your girlfriend?
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah. The huge the amazing stats to come out of
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: this with Sinner is he's the first man ever to
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: record five straight one thousand titles, about five straight atp thousand.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: Imagine if he had got the Australian Open as well,
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: It's like you'd be looking, you'd be on the verge
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: of this kind of psycho year that would maybe never
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: be replicated again. I mean we kind of ord he
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: kind of iron that situation.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: But yeah, and all he needs now to complete tennis,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: to like win everything there is to win is a
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: gold medal at the Olympics, the French Open and Rome
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: which starts in a few days.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: I mean he could have it all done within two
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: months or three months. When's the Olympics? Four months? None?
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: Think of the World Cup. Yeah, that's kind of that's
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: a bit different. Yeah, that's okay. He's not he's not
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: playing in the Soccer World Company. Well, Italy didn't even qualify,
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: so he's kind of fucked, is that right? Yeah?
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: Oh wow?
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: Where are the other grounds? A few other things I
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: have known, Well, one main thing that I liked since
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: he's out and about. You know, it's clay. This is
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: the surface he loves. But did you say this video
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: on Instagram of I think it's his like mum just
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: being his coach, which kind of rules. There's something about
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: a lady dressed in a in a white white brim hat,
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: wearing a girl and dressed. It suggests to me she
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: knows she knows her tennis.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she looks like she should be complaining at a cafe.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: She looks like she should be like kicking out someone
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: she doesn't like in a public space, complaining to a manager. Yeah,
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: they gonna don't fit the vibe.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: She's upset that her satsiki was too cold.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: She looks like the type of person you know when
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: we tried to get into that exclusive bar during the
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: She looks like some of the people that were already
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: in there looking at us, arguing with the security about
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: trying to get in there.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, shaking their head. Yeah, disdain well, because he's obviously
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: been coached by his dad forever, and there's constant chatter
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: between his dad and stuff on os when he's on court,
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: and then now adding the mom to the mix, it's
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: just nightmare stuff because clearly the mom and the dad
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: are disagreeing with each other on the tips totally.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: But also, like you know, sister Phats has kind of
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: been on this downward slide for a while. It's like,
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: maybe give mom a goyah, who knows what mom's up
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: a sleep like Dad's kind of, you know, the relationship
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: kind of is maybe not producing the best results. Maybe
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: mum's got some other kind of real tough mum love.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: You know how mums can kind of inspire you in
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: the other way. They can just say kind of slightly
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: mean things and disguise them as being quite nice. You
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: know what I mean, I do I do.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: But also, how about no family? How about get an
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: old tennis pro to you know, coach, you have you
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: ever met a Greek person?
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: They're very into family. Okay, you do it all as
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: a family. Yeah yeah, I guess I don't know. Get
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: talent Greek sport in your box, you know, tell you
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: to shut up? Well yeah, yeah, just shut the fuck
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: up stuff, stop playing. But then the mum will probably
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: then go psycho with him. That's true, just start hitting
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: him to my boy like that. Yeah.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: I don't know, since the past was starting to show
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: some form again in Madrid, so maybe so.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: Maybe mum knows what's up? Yeah? Yeah, I love it.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: I love it on tie mum, I want that to
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: be nice.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Can you do an impression of a Greek mom telling
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: you how to play tennis?
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: Australian Greek or like.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Let's go on the Greek?
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: Oh my boy, what do you call it? That is
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: not that is not how you play tennis. You use
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: your forehand, my son, what the hell? Pull your fucking
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: head together?
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: Huh, it's it's like, yeah, sushi, may.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: Do an impression of my manager if you both met
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: my manager. Yeah woo.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: As mentioned before, we're recording on the fourth of May,
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: the internationally recognized Star.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: Wars Day, the day of the nerd.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, may the fourth be with you. So to commemorate
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: the day, we are being forced to guess the names
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: of these Star Wars tennis.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: Player fantastic hybrids.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: All right, okay, this is Arthur Fees stuff.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: This is this is the Dove Vader, the hat of
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: the cost costume. It looks quite nice. Oh I didn't.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: I didn't say that in that latest catalog.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: So this is Arthur Fez who recently lost to Yannick
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Center in Madrid. Yan Nick, you are my father.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: But do we have to get their name as like
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: a mash upader? Arthur Vader has to be alphabet Darth Feez,
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: Darth Fees, dartha Fees.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: Arthur Fees. There we go. It actually looks sick.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: It looks so cool. Oh okay, so two C three
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: P O soker my god, I tell you what for
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: the listener at home, Errol, our producer is not he
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: is like ecstatic right now with this and.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Wearing an outfit she would probably wear on to court.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, can I say again, looks awesome, looks sick?
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: Oh my god? Oh is that it's.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: Djokovic mixed with the it's a trap guy. Obviously it's
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: a trap. But what is the name of.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: This I don't know. I can't remember what the character's
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: name is.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: I almost said b a Baracus, but that was mister
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: T and the A team.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: Can we even hinted what the sty Wars character's name is?
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: Oh, this is Admiral ak Bakovich. I don't know Novak Admiral,
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: Admiral Akbar is the name, so Admiral novak bar it's
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: a trap. Admiral novak bar.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: Now that's is that? That's jab of the Hut? Bryan, Yeah,
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: I already know what it is, but I want you
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: to get one.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: I believe you.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: Okay, Arena Sablenka, You're almost there. The Sabalanca the Hut, No,
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: is that it? Or just Sabbath the Hut, Sabbath the Hut? Yeah, okay,
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: imagine what was that Gabalenka? That is better? Actually, imagine
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: if that nickname sticks.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Keep these because she did not like the Mona Lisa. Yeah,
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: she thought it was very unflatterous.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: Like can I say that added next stuff so unnecessary?
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, it is Save these for next year
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: when we get the players in and we're going to
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: do you want to sign this one for us? Sabba
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: the Hut.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: Jesus the PSI boyfriend is going to wrap a golf
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: club around our head.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: Oh my god. All right, Oh well.
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: I'm really I don't even know what that character is
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: in style opposing my sty Wars knowledge nerd knowledge.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: Here, this is a Greto golf, Grito golf.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: It sounds like an old like working dog character, Greto Golf.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: Give us an impression of Grido golf. Oh, I can't
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: do that, it's it's my great Oh yeah, get I get.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: I don't go golf. You hate a play tenn at
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: your backgand is just not not up to scrack.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: Shot first. Oh, this is Boris chew Becker.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Boris Chew Becer.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: It's Andy Murray but is no, it's.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: Not even any Murray team.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: All right, well I'll say this is Dominic Tea Emperor Palpatine.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, I feel like I feel like my
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: I'm you've definitely wars. I feel like a born again virgin.
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, you're just on cloud nine. Your two loves
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: are finally coming together. Oh that's a great photo. Of me,
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: by the way, can I decide?
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: Note, it's crazy that this isn't it come up already?
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: This has come up already. When did this come up?
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: Started the pod?
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: What did it? What was it? In relation to?
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: Well?
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: Who is that? That's me? And I don't know who
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: is that? What is it?
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: What creature is that?
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: It's a uh like some kind of horse unicorn thing.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: In the Star Wars universe.
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: I said this before. Wait what is it? I don't
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: know what it is?
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: I said, Luke Skywalker crawled into this beast to keep himself.
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: To I didn't even know what a toton was. That's
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: a ton toon. Yeah, it's a great photo of me.
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: Er Where did you get that photo from? I got it.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: Online and then we've fed it through what's known in
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: the businesses.
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: Dude, that's sick, it looks.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: Will you post this for the May fourth? May the
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: fourth be with you? If you just post this with
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: the caption may the fourth be with you?
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: And then an egg plant emogi.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I plant emoji water emoji, and then like it's
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: on phone EAGs and then like hashtag single hashtag single
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: formally last one.
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: I don't have a dye for the swam.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: But I just want to Oh, uh, this is.
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: This is.
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: This is Choda wider than it is long?
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: Its click that one get that that's gonna go out,
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: doesn't it?
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: Oh god, if we both have to post our pictures
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: with May the Fourth Be with You, oh my god.
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: You're a sucker for puny. We don't have to post
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: them at all. No, what would Choda's.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: Turn us.
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: I like, it's kind of upsetting looking at that.
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well that was the May the Fourth Be with
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: You special edition of rod.
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: Pod rod Pod, the rod Pod. You're listening to the
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• 44:22
  Speaker 1: Just to wrap up, last week, we did our brand
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: news hit segment Quizzy Who And there's one question I
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: couldn't answer about what type of surface they use at
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: the Australian Open. Oh. Listener Sophie Hudson wrote in with
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: a correct answer of blue green set.
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: And do you know why I reckon? Sophi Hudson knew
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: the answer to this why because it three weeks ago
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: this question was in the Age Saturday quiz. Oh yeah,
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: and I got it wrong? Really yeah? I said rebound
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: as that's what I thought. Yeah, I got it wrong.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: No, and I did the rebound as joke, make the
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: up I said, we just heard Barbury on Ace rebounds forgetting.
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: A congratulations down, Sophie.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: Congratulations to Sophie Hudson, you win the prize of Craig
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: Tiley's hemorrhoid.
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: A Bravo in demand item that one.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: There we go, congrat Sophie. We'll be back next time
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: to talk all things romrom the Great Italian Open Italiana
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  Speaker 1: see Turners I like