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LAUGH EMOJI LAUGH EMOJI · Pod Laver Arena

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  Speaker 1: Are we going, Yeah, quarantine. Moute has something on his brain.
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  Speaker 1: That's what Daniel says. Oh, that's what Daniels says.
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  Speaker 2: He's slid in her dmsler around the court.
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  Speaker 3: That's what Daniel says. That's what Daniel says.
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  Speaker 4: Denies it, says he never followed her.
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  Speaker 5: Did they ever have a thing. She says, I don't
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  Speaker 5: want your kings.
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  Speaker 2: Because we're just gonna watch watch, watch, watch, watch.
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  Speaker 3: It'll lay out out.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that was good.
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  Speaker 3: Another dreams.
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  Speaker 5: That was fun. That one it was hard, though.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard when you know I am in I'm still
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  Speaker 1: in America. I am now currently in my sister's apartment
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  Speaker 1: and New York kids lovely to see the.
• 1:10
  Speaker 2: Team's interesting things happening. In the background, there's an orange
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  Speaker 2: blanket with a body underneath.
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  Speaker 3: I assume, okay, that.
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  Speaker 5: Makes it even worse.
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  Speaker 3: Mike, to be honest, and your germ and your germ
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  Speaker 3: jel left shoulder, it's.
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  Speaker 5: That lubelstands loop.
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  Speaker 1: It's a hand sanitizer, the G and Mike G stands
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  Speaker 1: for a germjel.
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  Speaker 5: Mike, can I tell you sound terrific? This week?
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  Speaker 1: Now?
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  Speaker 4: A few listeners pointed out to me that you sounded
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  Speaker 4: a bit shaky early on in the audio, and I
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  Speaker 4: feel like it could could have been my.
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  Speaker 1: Fond Yes, you did not hit record. I mean, the
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  Speaker 1: one essential thing to all podcasting is a record of
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  Speaker 1: the audio.
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  Speaker 4: But I've been I've been like I'm sitting in the
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  Speaker 4: seat you normally sit in, and that's too much pressure
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  Speaker 4: for me.
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  Speaker 5: There are a lot of buttons around here.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, ice Man had to run in the middle
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  Speaker 4: of the podcast and press record.
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  Speaker 5: Iceman. It's more on a man than me.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's good. I mean, apologies for the audio last week,
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  Speaker 1: but we've cleaned it up and I'll be back this
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  Speaker 1: time next week and we can all record together and
• 2:24
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna come in jet lagged as hell, and then
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: just we're gonna recap Miami. We're gonna sing a song
• 2:30
  Speaker 1: at the same time. It's gonna be beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: Can you be drunk?
• 2:34
  Speaker 1: Oh, don't you worry. I went to the pharmacia in Mexico.
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: Let's just say I'm gonna be sleepy and rock hard.
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  Speaker 2: Shot.
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  Speaker 1: No way, guys, it's awesome to be back. I told
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: you last week that I got free access to a
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: gym with my Australian Open gear on. They also gave
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  Speaker 1: me free tennis lessons, and this guy like he wanted
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  Speaker 1: to play a set. I think he knew he wasn't
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  Speaker 1: getting paid, and like, they just threw me a free
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  Speaker 1: lesson and we played a set. I took two games
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  Speaker 1: off him, and I think that angered because then he
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  Speaker 1: just started bombing serves at me and it was brutal.
• 3:27
  Speaker 5: Do you think he knew he was fired up?
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  Speaker 4: He knew you worked at the AO and he's probably
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  Speaker 4: been trodden down by the tennis industry, and he was like,
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to really show this guy where I stand.
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  Speaker 1: I think so, yeah, yeah, I mean tell me if
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  Speaker 1: you think this is weird. At the end of the lesson,
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  Speaker 1: it is our long lesson, you know, Like he kills
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  Speaker 1: me six 'y two in the set, and then he goes,
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  Speaker 1: do you mind hanging around and having a hit with
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  Speaker 1: my next student playing a few games? And I was like, yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 1: that's fine. And then a twelve year old boy walks in.
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  Speaker 5: This is his real pay Tell me he's not under
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  Speaker 5: that towel behind you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and he goes and I was like, what is
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  Speaker 1: he a weapon? Is he like one of these prodigies
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  Speaker 1: that's going to kill me. And he's like, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: you'll be fine, you'll crush it. And I go do
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  Speaker 1: you want me to take it easy? He goes, absolutely not,
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  Speaker 1: and then he goes, Mike, this is Logan. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: his name is Logan, and uh, he introduced myself and
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  Speaker 1: then I killed him two games.
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  Speaker 2: It's a pickleball court, yeah, he says, when you say,
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  Speaker 2: what was his score?
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  Speaker 1: Well, we only played three games and he took maybe
• 4:42
  Speaker 1: two points and I was not holding back and I
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  Speaker 1: felt like a big man.
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  Speaker 5: Did you feel good?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: I mean you do need little wins like that sometimes,
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  Speaker 4: regardless of the opposit.
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  Speaker 2: The saddest part about is this kid's parents paid for
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  Speaker 2: that lesson. Yeah, to be beaten by some guy from
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  Speaker 2: the tennis less him today, Logan, we paid one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and twenty USD for that.
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  Speaker 5: Like, well, a guy in his forties destroyed me.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe cry, I'm never playing tennis again.
• 5:19
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you something funny. Before we get into the
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  Speaker 1: Miami Open. My old man he will order a giant
• 5:26
  Speaker 1: glass of iced tea when we go out to dinner,
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  Speaker 1: and he'll put a straw in it, and then he
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  Speaker 1: won't pick up the glass for the rest of the meal.
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  Speaker 1: But he'll put his head down onto the glove straw
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  Speaker 1: like air. It's like herb down half of the iced tea.
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  Speaker 1: That's all you know.
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  Speaker 4: When your parents are oll it and you can't critique
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  Speaker 4: the way they eat or do that because they've just
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  Speaker 4: lived a whole life they went. I was out at
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  Speaker 4: dinner with my dad and he I was like, do
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  Speaker 4: you want to drink? And I went up to the
• 5:54
  Speaker 4: bar and he goes, yeah, I'll just get a just
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  Speaker 4: a tonic water, nothing else, just tonic water.
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  Speaker 3: No I does that was like.
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  Speaker 5: I looked at him. I said, that's the most insane.
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  Speaker 4: Drink order I've ever heard in my life. Order No
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  Speaker 4: I no tonic order.
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  Speaker 3: That's just crazy.
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  Speaker 4: But my dad looks like tonic water like He then
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  Speaker 4: started getting very defensive.
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  Speaker 3: You can't change these people, No, you can't.
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  Speaker 1: But that just made me think of a new tennis cocktail,
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  Speaker 1: the Gin and Tomic. Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Surely that's going to be somewhere at the Axe.
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  Speaker 4: And after you have a glass, you just have the
• 6:32
  Speaker 4: urge to throw away all your potential and.
• 6:36
  Speaker 3: Come and get your Gin and Tomics.
• 6:42
  Speaker 1: So the Miami Open is in the business end. Now
• 6:46
  Speaker 1: we're getting to the quarter finals as we speak. The
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  Speaker 1: Center Mickelson match is still on serve in the second set,
• 6:53
  Speaker 1: but Center took the first set. Tommy Paul took out
• 6:55
  Speaker 1: at your very I think Arthur Fees is starting to
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  Speaker 1: show his true potential. He is cute and good at
• 7:06
  Speaker 1: tenants too. The biggest upset of the tournament so far
• 7:11
  Speaker 1: is Sebastian Kurta took out Carlos Alcaaz in the third round.
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: Big Carlos now seventeen and two on the season, and
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  Speaker 1: I think he has a Miami problem. He lost to
• 7:25
  Speaker 1: Davide Guffin in the first round of Miami last year
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  Speaker 1: and then losing to Korta in three sets in the
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  Speaker 1: third round is huge. But it's also I don't know,
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: he just wants he's burnt out. I feel like Miami
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: is when they start to show some fatigue and they're
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: like sick of the hard courts and the clay court
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  Speaker 1: swing kicks off next week, and so.
• 7:47
  Speaker 4: You don't think that this is kind of a difficult
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  Speaker 4: in the film and it's assign things to come.
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  Speaker 2: I think he partted, do you, Yeah, he's in Miami,
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  Speaker 2: but the pictures of him with the hot chets at
• 7:59
  Speaker 2: the Miami.
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  Speaker 3: He'd get get pictures of him with out chicks everywhere,
• 8:03
  Speaker 3: I know, But just a couple of nights before he's playing,
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  Speaker 3: I think he got a little bit distracted.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe there was a bit of love there or something
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  Speaker 2: I'm reading between the life.
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  Speaker 5: He's young.
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  Speaker 3: He's young, and he likes to part.
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  Speaker 2: He's a social kid, and I think maybe by Miami,
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  Speaker 2: what is the end of March, he's like, I need
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  Speaker 2: to get out there.
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  Speaker 3: I need to I need to have some life.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah I do.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: It is a bit worrying if you're him, because like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it's a good point that like maybe he's now just
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  Speaker 4: undone with the.
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  Speaker 5: Hard court I'm going to gear up. Yeah yeah, move
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  Speaker 5: to the others where I'm going to destroy.
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  Speaker 4: But also wouldn't you just be he's a competitive freak,
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  Speaker 4: Like surely it's it's it's gotten too many wants to win.
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're obviously preparing for the clay court swing. I
• 8:44
  Speaker 1: think the calendar Slam still being on the table for him.
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  Speaker 1: He took out the French last year and one of
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: the best finals ever against Center and then Wimbledon and
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: then you know who, knows what's going to happen in
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  Speaker 1: the US. But like, I think he is focused on slams.
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  Speaker 1: I think everything else is just a lead up to
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  Speaker 1: a slam. And I think him going out in Miami, uh,
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  Speaker 1: not a big deal in the big scheme of things,
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  Speaker 1: because he wasn't defending any points in the first place,
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  Speaker 1: because he went out to golf in in the first
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  Speaker 1: round last year and he, like Lizzie said, I think
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  Speaker 1: if you're that young in Miami and you're the world
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  Speaker 1: number one in something, your focus is going to be
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  Speaker 1: a little distracted.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to Spanish.
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  Speaker 4: Don't to me, he doesn't have Miami energy though, you know,
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  Speaker 4: because he's in he's like continental European.
• 9:31
  Speaker 5: Miami's got they speak Spanish there.
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  Speaker 4: But I don't know, I feel like, you know, he
• 9:35
  Speaker 4: would have that Spanish snobbery to Miami.
• 9:37
  Speaker 5: Obviously not he's out with models party all the time.
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  Speaker 4: But maybe it's like Miami doesn't suit him and that's fine,
• 9:43
  Speaker 4: you know. Certain his younger brother had a win though
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  Speaker 4: in a tournament he's fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: Did you see that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yes, it's not all bad for the progress.
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  Speaker 1: No, I think they're doing pretty well. But I mean
• 9:56
  Speaker 1: he they're a very tight knit family. He brings his
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  Speaker 1: brother on tours one of his coaches, and during the match,
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: he started yelling at his player's box, I want to
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: go home. I'm going home right now. I can't take
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: it anymore. Yeah, I mean, yeah, we've all had that
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: moment on stage, but not that big of a stage.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he wanted his mom's cooking. That's what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: It would just think about if you're twenty two and
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  Speaker 4: you have all the money in the world and you've
• 10:24
  Speaker 4: never had to, like I don't know, live any part
• 10:26
  Speaker 4: of a nor you haven't had to live in a
• 10:28
  Speaker 4: sharehouse for a little bit. It is just like your
• 10:30
  Speaker 4: sense of what reality is would be walked a little bit,
• 10:33
  Speaker 4: and it would be normal to be losing in the
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  Speaker 4: Miami Open and be the best player in the world.
• 10:37
  Speaker 5: It's I want to out mom.
• 10:39
  Speaker 2: I want to go back to my single bed. He
• 10:45
  Speaker 2: doesn't look at had well in Becoming Carlos, is it
• 10:48
  Speaker 2: Becoming Our Cris on Netflix? This little documentary, Yeah, he lives.
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  Speaker 5: He's still living at home.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that's what they say in the documentary.
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  Speaker 4: True.
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  Speaker 2: They show the room and it's like this little single
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  Speaker 2: bed with some here and he's got his trophies on
• 11:01
  Speaker 2: the drawers and he's eating his mom's cooking.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody makes it like my mom.
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  Speaker 1: Is he bringing these models hometoe through the house?
• 11:11
  Speaker 5: The models like the model we're going to have to
• 11:13
  Speaker 5: stay at your place. Mummy is on my back at
• 11:16
  Speaker 5: the moment.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know if you saw this, his Australian
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  Speaker 1: open tattooally on display, just poking out of the top
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  Speaker 1: of his sock. There it is a kangaroo holding the
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: ours open trophy, and then the kind of the outline
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: of Australia in the background. It is, by all objective accounts,
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  Speaker 1: a heinous.
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  Speaker 5: Disagree more.
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  Speaker 3: Hate it.
• 11:46
  Speaker 4: I very rarely feel like a patriotic kind of vibe
• 11:50
  Speaker 4: towards his country. But seeing that my heart has swelled,
• 11:53
  Speaker 4: isn't that awesome? We are imprinted it on the kangaroo.
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  Speaker 5: I love that.
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  Speaker 4: Think about how many models have outlined that little you know,
• 12:02
  Speaker 4: tattoo with their fingers, a post coital bliss in our hotel?
• 12:06
  Speaker 3: I think, but do you think we can't see the
• 12:12
  Speaker 3: bottom of the country. Do you think he's included?
• 12:15
  Speaker 4: That is so rules I can imagine if it's not.
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  Speaker 1: Included, if we get him in for an interview next year.
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: That's going to be your first question. Yeah, we're not
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  Speaker 1: going to get it.
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  Speaker 5: It's kind of rude not to do it.
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  Speaker 3: I am guessing it's not on there.
• 12:35
  Speaker 5: I like it. I'm going on record. I like the tattoo.
• 12:37
  Speaker 6: You like it, I'm okay with it.
• 12:40
  Speaker 3: I don't. I don't love it. I would have gone
• 12:43
  Speaker 3: k of the Animals is way cuter. I feel like
• 12:48
  Speaker 3: that's more Alcarez.
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  Speaker 5: I would have gone.
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  Speaker 4: I would have gone pop up of the Ao Mecha
• 12:52
  Speaker 4: store because I feel like that.
• 12:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah nice, or the Chemist.
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  Speaker 1: I would have gone Platypus tramp Stamp, But that's just
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: me nice.
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  Speaker 5: You can still get that many, Yeah, I know.
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: And I will, and you'll all be sorry. Sebbi Korda.
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: Then the classic thing, you take out the world number one,
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: and then in the next round you go out to
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: a Spanish twenty year old ranked outside the top one hundred.
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: That was today. He lost to Landa Luth. It looks
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: like land of Loose, but you pronounce it land du Luth.
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  Speaker 3: I was pronouncing it Lenda Luce, which is way more fun.
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  Speaker 5: Lend.
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  Speaker 4: It must strain you emotionally to do something that crazy,
• 13:43
  Speaker 4: and then you have to do the next game and
• 13:45
  Speaker 4: it's hot Gazer back out.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, because they put all their yeah, like you said,
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  Speaker 1: energy and focus into this one match and then they're
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: you know, spent, and then you know, the next thing,
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: you know, you're getting beat by a twenty year old
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: land of Luth and you're a Luther, thank you. I
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: just was trying to get to that that being the
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: biggest upset I think on the men's side. And then
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: you know, I want to put it to you guys.
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: We've talked about it before that it seemingly every tournament's
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: aforegone conclusion to Center and Alcoraz in the final, but
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: that hasn't been the case this year. And are these
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: tournaments suffering because of it? Or do you think they're
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: more interesting? I mean, my opinion on that's constantly shifting.
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: I actually was hoping for an Alcaaz Center final and
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: now it's like, well, Centner's just going to cakewalk it
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: in from here.
• 14:39
  Speaker 4: Like I think, like it's hard, right because a classic
• 14:43
  Speaker 4: rivalry of like one v two does kind of rule,
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: like you, twenty twenty six could have been like this
• 14:49
  Speaker 4: iconic year where it's like every final you're seeing alcaaz Cinner,
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: and it's like goes down in the history books, and
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: I guess it's fun to look back on.
• 14:57
  Speaker 5: But I think upsets are kind of what makes the
• 15:00
  Speaker 5: tournaments in.
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  Speaker 4: The storylines of people coming through that you didn't think
• 15:04
  Speaker 4: they would. So I think for each tournament it's obviously better,
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: but I think you look back, you would love a
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: one two just going head to head.
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  Speaker 5: Historically, of course.
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: I like it because then because what if Sinner gets
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: knocked out by someone and then you have a different final.
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: But do you see now that Medvedev is out? I mean,
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: do you see anyone that's left in the draw pushing
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: Center at all? Maybe I don't know, Yeah, that's probably it.
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: Maybe Arthur Fees, but I don't know. I just feel
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: like again Center cakewalks. And so walking back on my
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: prediction of Alcaraza Miami, yeah, I'm gonna say we're gonna
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: get the first double double where the sunshine goes the
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: way of the same male player and female players. So
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: all tournaments Indian Wells and Miami, I'll give so sabal
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: Anca wins the women's and then Center wins the men's.
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: I'll give either of you four hundred dollars if you
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: could tell me the last year that happened and who
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: the players.
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  Speaker 3: Were WI four hundred.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: That's all.
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  Speaker 2: When was the last time that happened. I'm going to
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: say two thousand and eight?
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  Speaker 3: Who okay, Oh I don't know who it was.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: Well, you don't get the four.
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  Speaker 5: Hundred seven Pete Samprus, Tina Hingis.
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: Oh that's actually whoa.
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  Speaker 4: I mean.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean Lizzie couldn't even name players. So I
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: mean you're you did well, right, I'll give it to you.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: So no, I'm not going to give you thet no, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you the actual answer. Two thousand and six.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I just need a little bit of Oh.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: You weren't close because it was twenty sixteen, No, and
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: it was Novak Djokovic and Victoria as a rancor before
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  Speaker 1: that nineteen ninety four Pete Sampras and Steffi Grass.
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  Speaker 6: Oh very close.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Tennis, that's foremost.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: I like these little wages.
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: Let's have more of more money on the table.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you both owe me four hundred bucks. Now
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: that's why.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: Oh well it's not going to go that way, just
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: just one way wager.
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: As a side note though, did Medvedev not get his
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: racket and that's why he lost?
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: I think so he was. Yeah, he was using some
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: old copper tubing.
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: He had a wooden one with some brown string on
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: it from one of those old black and white photos.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Of w Yeah.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: I would love to see them play with.
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, we.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: Should do for our next year's game.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: The old racket, old racket, Yeah, I gets from like
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: the forties.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, went out to ft Sarundelo in the round of
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: thirty two, so he never recovered from all his travel
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: woes and did not get deep into the Miami draw.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: But the other kind of huge upset that was on
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: the women's side was Igashavontek going out in the second
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: round to fellow countryman Magdalinette, and then of course Magnalainet
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: went out in her next round, So that pattern continues
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: of taking out a huge player and then going out.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Chevontech then responded to the loss by firing her coach,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: women Facette.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: And the way to respond to yeah, adversity is that
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: a long time coming? Though?
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: Was it a lot? I think she wasn't happy.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he made her into more of a defensive player.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: She wasn't as aggressively on the offense as she had
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: been through, kind of like probably the best patch of
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: her career. So I don't know. She won Wimbledon play
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: in that style last year, but then it's having a
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: real bad season this time around, and uh so whim
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: on the chopping board, he's gone, and who knows who
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: she goes with next? So yeah, chavontech, she'll probably regroup.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: She plays best on clay, so you know, she's won
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: a ton of French Open titles, so let's see how
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: she does once that rolls around end of May. A
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: question I wanted to put to you guys, is it
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: time to stop giving Venus Williams wild cards into tournaments?
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: You don't you don't like it? Since I.
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: Reckon there's another person in that family that could use
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: the wild cards.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, that would be exciting tracks the crowd
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: though it's a bit of buzz when Venus is around,
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: like it, But I guess that.
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: Is the ultimate thing.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: It's like, are you a pazing sponsors and stuff? But
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: ultimately is it negative towards tennis because she's taking the
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: place of maybe an up and comma that could come
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: through and do some more damage or had she just
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: don't the right to get those as long as like
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: the great man rode Leva, whose house we sit in
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: right now, and he's like, I would like to play
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: it in the astraight, do we give him a wild cat?
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: My place destroys it.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: I don't know. She's forty five years old. She's just
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: getting killed in the first round of every you know
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: tournament she gets wild carded into. Obviously in these American
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: tournaments there's more of a predilection to let her in
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: or you know, affection with having her. But then she
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: got killed by this UK player fran Jones in the
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: first round at the net. Jones said to Venus, I
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: have your posters on my wall. Was like cool, yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: and then she's I don't know, I just feel like
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: it's time to wrap it up. Yeah.
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: It's just hard because I do think like any tournament week, like,
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: there's going to be more buzz if you have the
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: Williams sisters around the tournament doing media, being involved.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: So they'll be back together, Yeah, for sure.
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: What do they just come back and play?
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: I think yeah, they have to.
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: That would be way.
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: Back to make them out of the singles and who
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: cares about double It's like they can just blog bow
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: out in the first round of the doubles, that's all.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: That'd be awesome.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Mike hates it, disgusted.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we get them back in.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Well, I want that wild card spot, so you know,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: now twelve year olds. So yeah, I don't know, just
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: something to think about going forward. I don't think the
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: French are going to be throwing her wild cards.
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's probably a mad trick thing.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Great Australian hope. On the men's side, demon A went
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: out early to sit a pass.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: Retro outfit too.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah what was it? It was a headband and a mustache.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: You didn't like it?
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: No, it looks terrible, you're Mike. I think it works.
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: I think it works for Mike.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think Demon He's like it's no good because
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: when he has like a bit of long flowing hair
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: and he'll do his press conferences in Spanish.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: You're like, oh my god, this guy is a hunk.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: When he speaks in his Australian accent, it's a little
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: mustache and he's got a headband. Now, poppy, he looks
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: like you'd seem at Frankston train station like, do you.
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: Know what I mean? I don't like it at all.
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: He goes from being this like hot European guy to
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: like this real kind of ratty.
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: Bogain really quickly.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fair.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: I think we should send him this feedback please, Yes,
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: we'll clip it up.
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah you didn't like it, Mike.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Well, no, I liked obviously a little shitty mustache because
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: I have one myself, and the headband is a dying
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: look that I you know, Pat Cash was the biggest
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: proponent of back in the eighties and early nineties, and
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: I like, you know, bring it back. I say, don't
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: wear a hat, don't know sun protection, just have a headband.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: And I have that weird town.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Line, yeah, cover your head in the Florida.
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: I have a theory about it, though. So my my
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: French he works at Assex right now, used to be
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: the Demon's apparel sponsor and for all.
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: Money, it looked like he was going to resign at
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: the start of this year. Apparently there was more money on.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: The table that was offered minute. Yeah from Assex last minute.
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: They still don't know why. He's like, I'm signing with
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: Wilson and they're like, that's crazy. I think it's because
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: Wilson were probably like, we have a ratty little headband
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: you could.
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: Wears were maybe like under no.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: Circumstance, yeah maybe, but the.
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: Heart wants what the heart wants.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Okay, So you're saying Wilson didn't have or they wanted
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: a separate look, or they didn't want.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: I'm saying that Wilson, we're going to bound to whatever
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: the Demon wanted, and for whatever reason, the Demon wants
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: his headband.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Pass.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: I want a headband, and I don't think so, yeah,
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: like that's what we do. Well I'm moving, yeah exactly.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: So then you go, that's my theory based on nothing
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: really except the conversation I had with my friend at
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: the pub who was winging that they lost the Demon
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: or deal.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Wow, that's a big deal.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Though a big deal is a big deal. Well, I
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: didn't realize this, but Demon's record against sits A Paz
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: is now one and twelve pathetic, So his number yeah, and.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: It's not like I mean, I'm sure when they both
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: started going head to head, Sits the pass was probably
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: you'd argue, like, you know, obviously the more experienced player
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: I had a better record or big time stuff.
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: But now you think he should be really right that
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: led you he.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Should be well, definitely, because especially in the next round
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: sits a pass absolutely destroyed by Arthur fees a bagel
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: and a baguette. Six oh six one as that is.
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: It's weird that as his number because there's nothing.
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: Tintepath does which you would be like the demon can't handle,
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: do you know what I mean? Like if the'monal plays
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: Siner or place Fair ever, someone you can see where
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: the weaknesses are that he'll kind of get done that
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: he would really have to leave him. But I don't know,
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: that's weird, must feel the mental block.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Mental We'll see what he does on clay. You know,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: he is basically Spanish, so it should be more of
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: a suitable surface for him. But speaking of true blue
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Aussies sensation.
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: Also coming from an immigrant yourself that has.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Moved again.
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: There Nick, Hey, Mick, I love that gold Steed.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Should we get a Crispy bike and beg? So that's
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: his impression, Krispy Bacon wood.
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: Krispy Bacon Burger, but he can't say.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Burger, Krispy bike and beg.
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he's still putting in.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Think he was in that Simpsons episode where they go
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: to Australia.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: Prime Ministers floating in a tie most offense in my life.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: It's weird that you guys do say dollary dues always.
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: The cafe.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Drinking.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: The guy in my cafe said, he goes, that'll be
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: full eighty dollary dues.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: Oh my god for a coffee though.
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: That's good and it's goddamn city. Absolutely. Yeah.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: So Talia Gibson, she is having the run of her life.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: She's had a great oh this Sunshine double for her,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: it has been amazing. And Miami, she took out Osaka
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: and then iva Jovic, who are obviously huge players that
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: are doing good things. And Talia just with the real
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: strong baseline power game is just taking out these players.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: In the first week getting deep into a tournament, came
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: up against Rebeccaha and was humbled.
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: But yeah, that's happened.
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: But the thing about Tylia I feel like is and
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: even when the Open Week was on here, there's a
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: bit of a vibe that she's like this, oh was
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: he bad? But she's like twenty one, like she's start
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: like there's a huge chance she's going to end up
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: in a.
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: Few weeks being our highest ranked player.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: I feel like probly top fifty.
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: So it's like this is like a future staff for
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: a it's exciting trying.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's very optimistic. Sometimes players have like
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: just run for a.
• 27:52
  Speaker 7: Couple of weeks, just stealing yourself for that possibility that
• 27:58
  Speaker 7: she could just drop off at this is the two
• 28:00
  Speaker 7: weeks of her life.
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: Who owns this podcast? We're doing? What's it the Australia.
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: Forgive me for trying to one of our own, just
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: trying to get a bit of love for tennis community.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well so she did beat Osaka Osaka
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: a bit of yeah, and on the back of what
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: you would call it, but she and her pressor said,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to stay on tour. This is Naomi Osaka.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to stay on tour if I'm losing
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: in the first round. I'd rather just be a great mom.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: A bit of a spiral.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: I think she should read Ben Crow's new book, which
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: I just finished, okay, and for sure she'll quit. The
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: whole time I was reading it, I was like, no one,
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Ash buddy quit tennis. It's all about like following your
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: personal journey. And I feel like if she wants to
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: just be a good mom.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: It's that'd be well, it is, you know. I Guess's
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: book as well. It's like the torment these players go through.
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: I mean it's a pretty good point if you've been
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: to the top and then it's like, it's like, what
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: are you doing? If you're just getting pound it can't
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: be fine just losing all the time.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then missing your daughter at home, it's got
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: to be hard. I feel for.
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: Her, Yeah, to play tennis.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: We've talked to Naomi like she is great, but I
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: just picture her just at home being a mom and
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: being like, hey, could you like pick up your toys.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: Mis household?
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Could you clean your room? Yeah? Maybe wash your hands.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: I just don't see you doing it. But you know,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: good for her. Whatever she wants to do, she has
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: my support.
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: I think they need to get in Miami. Did they
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: have one of these anger rooms that we yea where
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: you can get in there and smash the racket around
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: to the fridge.
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah. She needs a bit of that kind of stuff.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: Or can she take the daughter on tour. This is
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: the news of the week in tennis. Forget the games,
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: forget sorry, forget the matches.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: Forget the Miami Open. It's all about Danielle Collins. She rules.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: Is this correct?
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: She's on the Tennis channel. Yeah, and she's got a
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: regular spot there and she talks of it. It's like
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: tea with Danielle Collins. That's the segment.
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: She also is looking great, not like a tennis player
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: at the moment.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: She's hot.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: She's looking at Miami.
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: She just looks like, yeah, Miami. See at a nightclub
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: and you're like, oh my god, this she's awesome.
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: Take a name. She in a real moment. I think
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: for her life.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: She is well.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: She just I read someone she just had like, uh,
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: egg retrieval done. I think she has endometriosis. Like she's
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: been through some stuff.
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: She's a brave power.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, Easter is around the corner. There's
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: egg hunts happening. What the hell you were talking about?
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: Stay there potentially.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: Grotrie from the Super.
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: Reminder Thanks.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: She goes on the Tennis Channel and she talks about
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: like a locker room gossip and she talks about how
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: Moote Cat called her in on a practice court and
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: then and then he robuts this and says, I never
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: did that.
• 31:54
  Speaker 8: And I basically said to him, I said, if you're
• 31:58
  Speaker 8: going to be flirting with me like that, you're gonna
• 32:00
  Speaker 8: have to get a bigger serve.
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: So what does that even look like? That she's just
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: practicing and then he walks out and he's like, hey baby, yeah,
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: like whistles Bebbie. That was tempted French accent.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: The way I understood it is that I remember her
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: putting a video on Instagram where she was like, you know,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: I'm on Riyah or one of the dating apps, and
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: if you're under five foot ten or don't bother messaging
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: me on there. So she said she offended all the
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: short men of the world, one of them being Quarantine Mute,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: who then unfollowed her. And then she's some interaction where
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: she was like, if you don't have a big serve, you.
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: Need a biggest set, you need a biggest shit.
• 32:41
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: Is he gonna be Yeah.
• 32:43
  Speaker 8: Some people think it comes down to height, some people
• 32:45
  Speaker 8: think it comes down to personality, but really what it
• 32:48
  Speaker 8: comes down to is big four hands and big serves.
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: And is she what is she referring? Is she referring
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: to like his penis?
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: I don't think I mean, okay, great, I just trying
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: to get across it. Oh, you didn't even pick up
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: on that she is. Of course she is uppy feed.
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: It's not that like slowly. It can't just be No.
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: I think she's being like, you know, being a sasy woman.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: It was pretty obvious innuendo. But Lizzie is very innocent
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: and pure read into these things. But then Bute, who
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: I don't think had tweeted in years, Then Lizzie read
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: his tweet in response.
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: Laugh emoji, laugh emoji.
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: Person for the job mark, I've got it.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: That's context, though, you got to add the emogi.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: Laugh emoji, love emoji. How can I follow you when
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: I never followed you? Laugh emoji at Tennis channel? How
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: can you let someone say bs like this on TV?
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: You followed me, you asked me for mixed dubs, and
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: I've never even followed you. You ready to say well sorry,
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: laugh emoji and I never even followed you laugh emoji.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: He's laughing a lot.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: You ready to say anything so people talks about you.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: You should learn how to love yourself. This is good advice.
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: You should learn how to love yourself so you won't
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: have to do stupid things for people.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: Loves at tennis channel, good sports journalist, shake hands emoji?
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: What okay?
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: Literature, aramatic reading.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: Sorry, do it all again, but this time in a
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: French accent.
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: Luffy moji, luffy moji.
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: She just pulled a cigarette out as well. I think
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: she's gonna lie to it.
• 34:48
  Speaker 10: How can I follow you whenever I never followed you.
• 34:55
  Speaker 10: That's really good tennis.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: That was good.
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: I really like that. Okay, I really like that.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: How do we feel about all of this? Is this so?
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: I love it?
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: I love the drama.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: This is why I watched tennis, for the drama, for
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: this little off court stuff that makes it really interesting.
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: I think this is the most French bloke attitude I've
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: ever seen, just all of suddening, like I don't know
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: what she said.
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: She never messaged me. He obsessed with me. She creates
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: to gory.
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: I want the receipts, I want the screenshots. I want
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: to see it all.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: This is math style but turns into Diego Schwartzman in
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: the end. He's like, people is crazy.
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm just trying to do more a general European
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: kind of vibe.
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: I got Eastern European, you know.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Look I before this, she told the story and whatever.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Danielle Colin spills the tea where she said, my dog
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: took a ship in front of another. Oh yeah, it's
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: a player I don't really like. And everyone knows that's
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: IgA Shavan Tech and it's like and she's like, oh,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: but I cleaned up the ship. It's like, who can
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: prove these stories? Really? I think, I mean, I believe
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: all women, but I also think she's making up ship.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: Also, she'd had a few cocktails. Quietly look.
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: Tomics.
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: I like it from her. She's like a big personality.
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: She's never going to be like a legacy player. Make
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: some noise while you can. She'll probably end up with
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: a pretty cool maybe career in the world of tennis
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: after something. She's a personality. She's looking good as if
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: he keeps pointing out a podcast, well, I think that
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: space is kind of covered in the tennis.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: Well, if she comes back to Australia, we are one
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: hundred percent getting her own.
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: She should host an episode when she comes out.
• 36:55
  Speaker 9: Oh yeah, sleepy and rock hard rock hard rock hard, Guys,
• 37:07
  Speaker 9: I know you've been waiting for this segment.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: It's everybody's favorite. This is mix anagrams. This segment also
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: known as anagramma bova. This week the aforementioned Talia Gibson,
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: who is on a great run of form. She is
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: in Miami spending some time after being there. So I've
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: gone with the words Talia Gibson Miami. Okay, the picture
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: of Talia Gibson on a boat and if you rearrange
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: the letters of Talia Gibson Miami, it is I'm sailboating.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: I am whoa once again?
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: You know wow.
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: To be part of the AO broadcasting team, it's like
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: every minute is precious and to know we are not
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: wasting it at all.
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: Absolutely fantastic boating.
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: I am, how does he with this? Incredibly?
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: I feel like this is an old picture that you
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: put in the document. So that's been a fun episode
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: of the pod. But we do have one more thing
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: for you, that interview, and we're going to show our
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: Blair Henley interview, which I wasn't a part of.
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: There you're away, I know, and I I mean, what
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: a what a what an opportunity for us to go
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: on a date with Tennis Royalty, and I think we
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: embarrassed ourselves.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Pod labor Arena. We have Blair Henry
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: Tennis reporter. Extraordinary.
• 39:01
  Speaker 6: Oh, thank you for that superlative on the end, the.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: Best in the biz.
• 39:04
  Speaker 6: I'll take it.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: You asked me to say all this, you did stop it.
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: You gave him fifty dollars cash Australian it was one hundred.
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: It was one hundred. Well fair enough. Hey, thank you
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: for coming in. This is very exciting, Mike. What is
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: what is this on the on the table here?
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Oh? This is you guys are on a date and
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: I'm your chaperone. No, yeah, this is Piper Heidsig, sponsor
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: a pod labor arena. Slurp it up and slurp it down.
• 39:27
  Speaker 6: I'm so excited.
• 39:28
  Speaker 11: I don't I don't get this in most of my jobs,
• 39:31
  Speaker 11: really campaign involved.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: I'm thrilled.
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: You're never on a on a date in a tennant
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: report capacitating.
• 39:37
  Speaker 11: No, I am generally not. I do feel like this
• 39:40
  Speaker 11: is like a mixed doubles pairing. Now, yeah, I'm going
• 39:42
  Speaker 11: with that.
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: Okay, all right, you guys are the could be a
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: mixed doubles pairing. Yeah, tennis, you're really good.
• 39:48
  Speaker 6: I'm okay.
• 39:49
  Speaker 11: I played college tennis in the States, which makes me
• 39:52
  Speaker 11: serviceable at best.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: You guys are the Goodecian peers dating.
• 39:57
  Speaker 6: Look at Mike. You're a tennis person.
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: Now, Mike, it's not now. This guy loves tennis.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: I've always been a tennis dorks.
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: He's no, you don't say dork. That's so offensive to
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: everyone consuming this podcast.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: That's our demographic tennis dorks.
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: Tennis dorks.
• 40:12
  Speaker 6: Yeah, self professed tennis nerd over here.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Claire, you're from the States. Oh my god, Okay,
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: would you like.
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: Some of these? This is some of the best champagne money.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Can you tell? Sam has never been on a date.
• 40:25
  Speaker 11: This foruring technique, little shaky normal people pour for me?
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: Fancy so Piper hide sake, twist the script. This is
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: date night Claire Hanley and Sam Tim.
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: Is it going well?
• 40:39
  Speaker 6: Yes?
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: Are you?
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: Do you think there'll be a second date? Is it
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: too early to say that?
• 40:45
  Speaker 11: It depends on if the producer gives me the invite first. Oh, yes, Michael,
• 40:50
  Speaker 11: you could write is it contractually obligated?
• 40:53
  Speaker 6: We'll never know, Michael.
• 40:54
  Speaker 5: The dates. There's a producer in a cool sheet, just
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: the way I like it.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Roman and a man's watching from the corner.
• 41:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, on a screen.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: Blair, you were hosting the One point Slam.
• 41:08
  Speaker 11: Yes, the qualifying, which is where things got down and dirty.
• 41:12
  Speaker 6: We had the best time.
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: We had no idea.
• 41:14
  Speaker 6: What was happening.
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it was chaotic.
• 41:17
  Speaker 6: It was the best time though.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you did such a great job, and like I
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: felt for you because there were so many people coming through.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: You had to keep it fun and lively and stuff.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: And then you watch me play and you were like.
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: Do you remember Mike's moment specifically or has it all
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: been a blow?
• 41:32
  Speaker 11: I don't, but I do remember trying to make sure
• 41:35
  Speaker 11: I got Mike's title correct, because they were like, this
• 41:38
  Speaker 11: is very important. Mike and Lizzie are hosting pod Labor. Enough,
• 41:42
  Speaker 11: it's gonna be a thing. You better introduce them. Well,
• 41:45
  Speaker 11: so I was trying to do your justice. So I
• 41:47
  Speaker 11: remember nothing about your tennis, only that you are a
• 41:50
  Speaker 11: comedian and host of pod Labor.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 41:52
  Speaker 5: I'll tell you, well, that's a great That is a
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: great quality in a romantic continent. Someone that remembers everyone's
• 41:57
  Speaker 5: name and puts some effort in that's right.
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 41:59
  Speaker 11: Yeah, just screase the wheels for your future professional success
• 42:02
  Speaker 11: and social success.
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: And I made social I appreciate social success.
• 42:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, like he clearly doesn't have any friends. He needs
• 42:09
  Speaker 5: to get bet up. How you enjoying? What your what's
• 42:12
  Speaker 5: your raid on the tournament?
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: So far?
• 42:13
  Speaker 11: I have had the best time. I'm sure you guys
• 42:17
  Speaker 11: get this all the time. But the happy Slam thing
• 42:18
  Speaker 11: is like a real feeling.
• 42:20
  Speaker 5: We well.
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: I mean, Mike has spent time at other Grand Slams.
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: I have not, so I just hear it. But what
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: makes it so different this one?
• 42:27
  Speaker 11: I really do think part of it is because everyone
• 42:30
  Speaker 11: is fresh. Yeah, yeah, we don't have months and months
• 42:34
  Speaker 11: of scar tissue built up.
• 42:36
  Speaker 6: This season is long and it's wonderful.
• 42:38
  Speaker 11: Tennis is the best sport in the world, but there's
• 42:40
  Speaker 11: a fatigue aspect to things once you get to the
• 42:43
  Speaker 11: US Open. So everyone's fresh. The weather is sunny and good.
• 42:47
  Speaker 11: The space, it really is like a festival here. There's
• 42:49
  Speaker 11: so much space. Other Slams would kill for the.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: Space that carnival. Yes, yeah, whereas the US Open end
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: of the season. Everyone's had a long year here, it's
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: uh and the I mean it, stop me if you
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: think I'm wrong, But I think the grounds here huge,
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: they get going and compared to the US I mean,
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: I love Queen's you know, but it's just here. It's
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: they really go out to make it a party atmosphere.
• 43:15
  Speaker 6: Have you guys been out to AO Live?
• 43:18
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, up the top there out.
• 43:20
  Speaker 6: In John Kane Arena.
• 43:21
  Speaker 11: They sent me over there to get a story the
• 43:23
  Speaker 11: other day, and let me tell you, I was amongst
• 43:26
  Speaker 11: the people I was.
• 43:27
  Speaker 6: I was on the floor dancing.
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: Oh my god, are you mash vacation?
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: You were marshing at kid LaRoy.
• 43:33
  Speaker 11: I was attempting to marsh They wanted me to get
• 43:36
  Speaker 11: people with good energy and we were prior to kid
• 43:38
  Speaker 11: Larroy going on. It took a minute, it was there
• 43:41
  Speaker 11: was a little pulling teeth involved, but it's it was
• 43:43
  Speaker 11: a scene over there.
• 43:44
  Speaker 5: But that's a tennis reporter.
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: Is that I'm sure you would prefer to be, you know,
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: in broad labor rainer in a tent five set of
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: than being over there at kid Loy.
• 43:52
  Speaker 11: I love that tennis allows me to do some of
• 43:56
  Speaker 11: the most random things like I have been Can I
• 43:58
  Speaker 11: tell you one random thing that tennis I have been
• 44:02
  Speaker 11: on And this is a US thing, but I have
• 44:04
  Speaker 11: been on several baseball fields with tennis players who are
• 44:09
  Speaker 11: doing first pitches at baseball game, which is so random.
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: Who had who had the worst pitch?
• 44:16
  Speaker 11: You know, Katie McNally had an unbelievable pitch the middle.
• 44:20
  Speaker 11: I mean, she absolutely crushed it. I would totally choke.
• 44:23
  Speaker 11: I'm terrible under pressure.
• 44:25
  Speaker 4: You see people choke when they do it all the time.
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: I just think it's commedy that how just a pitcha ball,
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: but they fumble.
• 44:30
  Speaker 11: She threw a heater right down the pipe. Steve Johnson
• 44:33
  Speaker 11: was was average. I watched the Brian Brothers. They were
• 44:36
  Speaker 11: pretty good. Yeah, but yeah, Tennis has brought me to
• 44:39
  Speaker 11: some very random places and I'm so thankful.
• 44:41
  Speaker 6: So Ale live, I'm all about it.
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: I want to clip that up and send it to
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: Steve Johnson because.
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: He was okay.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: He was okay.
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: Ask a quick one. This is kind of about you.
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: You know you're with the players a lot. How do
• 44:55
  Speaker 4: they ever confide in you? How do they feel about you?
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: Because you know there's you would say over here, you
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: would know what's going on. How do they deal with you?
• 45:04
  Speaker 11: I feel like I'm going to get into like cheesy
• 45:07
  Speaker 11: territory here. But one of the most meaningful parts of
• 45:11
  Speaker 11: my job is when I feel like a player who
• 45:14
  Speaker 11: I've interviewed for years and years and years actually talks
• 45:18
  Speaker 11: to me like I'm just a friend behind the scenes.
• 45:21
  Speaker 11: That is That means a lot to me, and I
• 45:23
  Speaker 11: hope it means something to them as well, that they
• 45:25
  Speaker 11: feel comfortable enough that they can talk to me like
• 45:28
  Speaker 11: they would talk to anybody else. So it's really cool
• 45:31
  Speaker 11: when you feel like you've broken through in that way.
• 45:34
  Speaker 6: Sometimes you never get there. There are players I take
• 45:37
  Speaker 6: there are some.
• 45:37
  Speaker 11: And I won't mention names, but we get very trustworthy.
• 45:44
  Speaker 11: There are some that I'm like, it's probably never gonna
• 45:47
  Speaker 11: happen here. I Am going to give it my all,
• 45:49
  Speaker 11: and we're probably just going to end up with, yeah,
• 45:52
  Speaker 11: sort of average level vibes. It's never going to get
• 45:54
  Speaker 11: better than average vibes. But I love the challenge of
• 45:57
  Speaker 11: trying to.
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: Get the We've had so many players through here, and
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: like a lot of them are very guarded, right and
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: you know, for various reasons, they don't want to be
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: too forthcoming. But you're doing on court interviews as well.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, to me, that's a challenge that's got to
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: be high pressure and to get like just a sound
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: bite out of them. Do you have like a go
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: to tactic or question when you're interviewing players after a match.
• 46:21
  Speaker 11: Oh, I don't know if I have a go to tactic,
• 46:24
  Speaker 11: but it is a particular challenge the on court interview.
• 46:28
  Speaker 9: Yea.
• 46:28
  Speaker 6: On one hand, though, you.
• 46:30
  Speaker 11: Always are having the chance to talk to the players
• 46:32
  Speaker 11: immediately after a high point, maybe in their day, maybe
• 46:36
  Speaker 11: in their week, maybe in their life.
• 46:37
  Speaker 5: They're generally in a good mood.
• 46:40
  Speaker 6: Yes, they are generally on a high.
• 46:41
  Speaker 11: So that is in the pro column of doing the
• 46:44
  Speaker 11: postmatch interviews. The con column is the unpredictability of that medium.
• 46:49
  Speaker 11: You don't really know where it's going to go. Sometimes
• 46:51
  Speaker 11: you don't know how much time you have. Maybe you
• 46:52
  Speaker 11: have to cut it off early. Maybe they want you
• 46:54
  Speaker 11: to fill a little bit longer. Feeling scary, Yeah, and
• 46:57
  Speaker 11: you also have to what's interesting about the court interviews
• 47:01
  Speaker 11: is you are trying to service both the broadcast audience
• 47:05
  Speaker 11: and the stadium audience, which are two very different audiences.
• 47:10
  Speaker 6: Like the audience at home doesn't really care about feeling
• 47:12
  Speaker 6: the love. How much love are you feeling him?
• 47:14
  Speaker 11: On Rod Labor Arena. The audience at home does not care.
• 47:18
  Speaker 11: They want to know about the match. They want to
• 47:20
  Speaker 11: know what the player's been up to. They want to
• 47:22
  Speaker 11: know about a team dynamic. So trying to make sure
• 47:25
  Speaker 11: you are hitting the vibes of both of those different audiences.
• 47:28
  Speaker 6: Is a challenge. Do you have a favorite player to interview?
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 47:32
  Speaker 6: What people say about Roger Fetter is true, all true.
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he is.
• 47:38
  Speaker 6: Such a unicorn.
• 47:39
  Speaker 11: And I the last time I interviewed him, I actually
• 47:41
  Speaker 11: said afterward, I said, Roger, I don't even have.
• 47:43
  Speaker 6: To be good at my job when I interview you.
• 47:46
  Speaker 11: I could say, Hey, Roger, the sky's blue and he'd
• 47:48
  Speaker 11: be like, it's funny you say that. I remember when
• 47:51
  Speaker 11: I was twelve years old on the tennis court with
• 47:53
  Speaker 11: my childhood coach, and he will take you down this
• 47:58
  Speaker 11: road and give you a perfect anecdote and be charming
• 48:01
  Speaker 11: along the way.
• 48:02
  Speaker 6: So he really is as good as everyone says.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: What's been a bigger highlight in your career talking to
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: Roger Feeder or talking to us?
• 48:09
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean you guys come with the champagne.
• 48:12
  Speaker 5: Absolutely going more than where that came from. Let me
• 48:16
  Speaker 5: tell you.
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, how is the date going on?
• 48:18
  Speaker 5: It's pretty good. I'll get my mum and daddy for
• 48:20
  Speaker 5: the next one and you can meet them and then
• 48:22
  Speaker 5: we can really see where this is going to go.
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: It's moving fast, very excited to me, very like they're fantastic,
• 48:28
  Speaker 4: You're going to love. Let's call them up right now.
• 48:29
  Speaker 4: They're actually out the front of the door. Let's bring
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: them in right now.
• 48:33
  Speaker 5: Now.
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: Obviously it's going well and we're having a great time
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: here is Do you think there's any chance that you
• 48:38
  Speaker 4: might be able to get a potential love interest into
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: the men's final on Sunday?
• 48:42
  Speaker 11: You clearly aren't familiar with my game and the strings
• 48:45
  Speaker 11: that I am able to poll around here.
• 48:48
  Speaker 6: Absolutely we can make that.
• 48:49
  Speaker 5: Oh okay. The problem is I live in a world
• 48:53
  Speaker 5: of when people just deny me and they say no,
• 48:55
  Speaker 5: So I'm I actually don't know how to respond when
• 48:56
  Speaker 5: someone says yes, I can help you out. We expected
• 48:58
  Speaker 5: that to be a I thought, it's absolutely get away
• 49:01
  Speaker 5: from me, you know the way most women talk to me.
• 49:04
  Speaker 11: Listen, Sam, We're here to build up, not tear down.
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: Twist the scripts, the scripts, guys.
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: Luffy Moggi, Luffy Moggi