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ALCARAZ'S 'SHOE-IN' · Pod Laver Arena

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  Speaker 1: I feel old. I'm hungover. Nobody loves me. I got
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  Speaker 1: a weird little ass.
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  Speaker 2: Don't forget the legs.
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  Speaker 1: My legs. I got chicken legs. My dermatitis is acting up.
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  Speaker 2: His dermatitis. Let's not forget your weird little opinions.
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  Speaker 1: My weird little opinions. I got some spilkus in my
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  Speaker 1: genectica zoink.
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  Speaker 2: What is this? Am I in a Seinfeld episode?
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  Speaker 1: Show me perfect tennis.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: That's the stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, no way.
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  Speaker 1: The studio has been changed a little bit. Sorry for
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  Speaker 1: our audio listeners.
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  Speaker 2: There's a little bit of new artwork for a.
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  Speaker 1: An upcoming show.
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  Speaker 2: A thing that's happening, I guess.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, super fans.
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  Speaker 2: If that was meant to be quiet. Well, nobody took
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  Speaker 2: it down, so it's here and it's on... the YouTube
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  Speaker 2: if you want to get a scoop.
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  Speaker 1: A scoop. No, look out for AO Superfans coming very soon. Superfans. Superfans. Superfans.
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  Speaker 1: I'm on Super OnlyFans.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, SOF. What are you selling?
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  Speaker 1: My weird little ass. I don't have any gross stories
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  Speaker 1: for you guys this week to kick off the pod,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's a shame.
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  Speaker 1: I did meet a Podlabor fan in the wild.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, did they come up to you?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was doing a corporate in Perth.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, seriously?
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  Speaker 1: I know big time to come by. Um, but it was, uh,
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  Speaker 1: someone at the event came up to me and said, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I listened to, I'm a tennis player and I listened
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  Speaker 1: to pod labor and I love it. And I said, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: thank you to Dylan Dylan. If you're out there watching
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  Speaker 1: or listening, big deal, big deal. And this event was, uh,
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  Speaker 1: handing out awards to surveyors for four and a half hours.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. You have hit the big time.
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  Speaker 1: Have I? Yeah. Oh, my God. And they wanted full tuxedo.
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  Speaker 2: Full tux? Did you have to hire?
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  Speaker 1: No, I had one from a wedding like 10 years ago,
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  Speaker 1: which I barely fit into.
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  Speaker 2: Tight.
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  Speaker 1: I had to shoehorn my d * * * into
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  Speaker 1: that thing.
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  Speaker 2: Check it out on Super OnlyFans.
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  Speaker 1: I'll read you one award to let you get some
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  Speaker 1: flavor of what this event was all about.
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  Speaker 2: Four and a half hours. Did you have to do
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  Speaker 2: any comedy as well?
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  Speaker 1: Well, she wrote jokes in the script. She wrote jokes
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  Speaker 1: in the script.
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  Speaker 2: That's beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: And so here's one of her jokes. Last year, you
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  Speaker 1: were at Joondalup Resort, lovely spot, but apparently a few
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  Speaker 1: guests are still on their way home.
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  Speaker 2: Ba-dum.
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  Speaker 1: And it says in brackets, pause for laughter.
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  Speaker 3: Ha ha!
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  Speaker 1: So to be a dick, I was doing the joke
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  Speaker 1: and then reading out pause for laughter. And I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it was a long night. And then one of the awards,
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  Speaker 1: just the name of it, every award was like this.
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  Speaker 1: So this is the award for mind surveying. And it
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  Speaker 1: went to the GDA 2020 Data Modernization Recalibrating Precision and
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  Speaker 1: Tier 1 Mining Operations by Wolpert, Tallis, and Lithia.
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  Speaker 2: What the hell does that mean?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: What does that mean?
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  Speaker 1: Pause for breath.
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  Speaker 2: Pause for breath.
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  Speaker 3: Whoa.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh. Well, Mike, you're living the dream. Hope
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  Speaker 2: the money was worth it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's just say I do it for the love of
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  Speaker 1: the surveying game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, big fan of surveying.
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  Speaker 1: Anything new with you, Lizzie?
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  Speaker 2: Who? Well, I'm going on a big hike this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you love a big hike.
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  Speaker 2: I do love a big hike. An interest rate hike.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 2: The RBA. That's Tuesday. No, I'm getting on a real hike.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to be offline.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Important to go offline.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. But we could never hear from you again.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I could be gone. This could be it. Goodbye,
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  Speaker 2: my loves.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, gone, but eventually.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe I'm going to just change, you know, identity.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: I could do a, like, I'll just disappear.
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  Speaker 1: Off grid?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going to go off grid. I am going
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  Speaker 2: to Mwilomba. That is a pretty culty place.
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  Speaker 1: Willimba.
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  Speaker 2: Northern New South Wales.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell a story that you can absolutely cut. It
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  Speaker 1: has nothing to do with anything. But this made me
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  Speaker 1: think of you, Lizzie Hoo.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, God.
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  Speaker 1: As you know, I'm very good friends with Oliver Clark.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: He's a great performer and singer. Errol, you know him
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  Speaker 1: as well. Yep. Robbie Williams is in town, and we're
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  Speaker 1: trying to get him on the show I'm working on.
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  Speaker 1: And Oliver Clark auditioned for the Robbie Williams movie.
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  Speaker 2: Did he?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And he thought he was going to get the role.
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  Speaker 1: As what? Well, the role was... Just described as very
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  Speaker 1: homosexual man.
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  Speaker 2: And if you look at all of the clock, well.
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  Speaker 1: So he apparently got a crop top for the audition.
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  Speaker 2: A straight man's interpretation. Homosexual man.
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  Speaker 1: But his one line was he sees Robbie Williams, who's
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  Speaker 1: like a monkey in the movie, Better Man.
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  Speaker 2: It's actually a really good movie.
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  Speaker 1: I've heard that, actually. But this character, very homosexual man, VHS.
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  Speaker 1: Or BHM, sorry. Sees Robbie Williams and his one line,
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  Speaker 1: he goes, ooh, Tizzy Foo.
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  Speaker 2: What? That's my new nickname. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, Lizzy who? And he goes, no, ooh,
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  Speaker 1: Tizzy Foo. No. And then he said he watched the
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  Speaker 1: movie and they cut the part out completely.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, so he wasn't even in it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but now every time I see like a hunky guy,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just like, ooh, Tizzy Fu.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, nice. I like that.
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  Speaker 1: It's tennis news. Tizzy Fu. Demonar had a good run
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  Speaker 1: at the Vienna Open.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, he did so well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, unfortunately coming up against Alcaraz in the final and
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  Speaker 1: losing 1-4. But before that, he beat Zverev.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, in a really good match. Whatever.
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  Speaker 1: It's fine. I think one of our listeners said.
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  Speaker 2: Keep saying it. Yeah, okay. Keep saying it. Really good game. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he was excellent.
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  Speaker 1: He was so good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, real nail-biting at the end.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, played aggressive and then beat Zverev in the final
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  Speaker 1: set tiebreaker. But then, of course, coming up against Alcaraz
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  Speaker 1: in the final where he said in his speech afterwards,
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  Speaker 1: DM & R, you know, you're one of the best
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  Speaker 1: guys on tour to Alcaraz. And he goes, but it's
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  Speaker 1: very annoying to play against you.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: You're one of the good ones, one of the great
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  Speaker 1: guys on tour, so... Thank you very much and amazing week. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, good he's getting to these finals and beating,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the world number one along the way in Zverev.
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  Speaker 1: But sorry, Demon, no title in Vienna. Though he played
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  Speaker 1: so well in the tournament, it means he has qualified
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  Speaker 1: for the ATP finals.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's number eight at the moment. He's just
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  Speaker 2: in front of Hoda. But it comes down to, is
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  Speaker 2: it Paris?
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  Speaker 1: Paris Masters. Yeah. Which starts today.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I think it depends on this.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and the Paris Masters I love because it's something
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  Speaker 1: about how they film it. It fills the TV perfectly,
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  Speaker 1: and it's one of my favorite tournaments to watch. You
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  Speaker 1: heard it here first.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, we know what Mike's doing for the next week.
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  Speaker 1: They have the camera position in a way that the
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  Speaker 1: court looks amazing, and it's easy to see the ball.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know, maybe even the color scheme, something.
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  Speaker 1: It's easier to track. And yeah, just check it out.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Tennis news.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So there was other tournaments that obviously going on around
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  Speaker 1: the place other than the Vienna Open 500. Last time
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  Speaker 1: we recorded, it had just happened that Daniel Medvedev won
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  Speaker 1: in Almeida.
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  Speaker 2: Almaty.
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  Speaker 1: Almaty, Kazakhstan.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is where I want to go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I would love to go and watch this.
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  Speaker 1: Very nice.
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  Speaker 2: Very nice. I love it when they have to dress up.
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  Speaker 1: There's Med in the traditional Kazakhstani gear.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got the coat on with the nice detail
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  Speaker 2: and the hat. I just love it. I love it
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  Speaker 2: when they have no choice in the matter. I think
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  Speaker 2: he's rocking that.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't look happy.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't look happy, but he looks.
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  Speaker 1: This is Nicholas Basilashvili, who, yeah, I mean, he did
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  Speaker 1: just come runner-up in the tournament against Mavidiv.
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  Speaker 2: And then they stuck a coat on him.
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  Speaker 1: They made him wear the big brooch.
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  Speaker 2: The loser coat.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But I actually quite like this one better because it's
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  Speaker 2: got a nice shine to it.
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  Speaker 1: The silver?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I feel like they should do that here when
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  Speaker 2: they do the win.
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  Speaker 1: What's traditional Australian garland?
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  Speaker 2: Thongs. They have to wear, like, footie shorts. Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 1: A bintang singlet?
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  Speaker 2: A bintang singlet, like in a Cobra hat, and flip-flops.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Yeah. That would be beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they could receive their trophy like that.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think they're wearing the Borat Mankini underneath there
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  Speaker 1: as well?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's part of the deal.
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  Speaker 1: That's part of the deal in Kazakhstan. But the tournament itself...
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  Speaker 1: Their page on Instagram is so good. It's only a
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  Speaker 1: 250 event, but they really embrace it. Like Hollywood level
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  Speaker 1: productions to pump people up for the event. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you saw this video.
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  Speaker 2: Let's have a look.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. So this looks like a Fast and the Furious movie.
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  Speaker 1: It's all.
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  Speaker 2: Helicopters.
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  Speaker 1: Helicopter shots, drone shots, a guy with an assault rifle.
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  Speaker 1: They're bringing in a precious cargo into a tennis stadium
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  Speaker 1: and it's revealed yeah it's kazakhstani singer kazakhstani singer what's
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  Speaker 1: her name What's her name?
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  Speaker 2: Tizzy Foo.
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  Speaker 1: Tizzy Foo.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. She's a big deal there, I guess.
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  Speaker 1: So she's standing in the rain. This is production levels
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  Speaker 1: unforeseen at a 250 event.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's amazing. They've got some cash there. The millionaire
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  Speaker 2: that's pumping the money into the Kazakhstan tennis scene is... Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he's got a bit of cash to spare.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Get me there.
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  Speaker 1: You'll go?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Would you enter a gig? You enter gigs that way,
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  Speaker 1: don't you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, with my convoy. Yeah, my Russian president-style convoy. Clear
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  Speaker 2: the roads. Toosie Foo is coming through. Oh, my God.
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: Tennis News. This one's sad. Stan Varinka in his final appearance.
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  Speaker 2: Goodbye, my Stan.
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  Speaker 1: Goodbye, my 40 lover. Yeah. Goodbye, my 40 lover.
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  Speaker 2: You have been the one to ace me.
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  Speaker 1: That was so sad.
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  Speaker 2: That was beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. That was beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: That was beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's finally happened. I feel like we've been talking about
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  Speaker 2: this all.
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  Speaker 1: It's crazy to think that, yeah, we were watching him
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  Speaker 1: play at the AO. That was this year.
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  Speaker 2: That was awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So amazing. But he's been on this kind of
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  Speaker 1: victory lap, but still playing at a high level. And
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  Speaker 1: then in Basel. I hope I'm saying that right. Is
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  Speaker 1: that in Basel?
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  Speaker 3: Basel.
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  Speaker 2: Basel.
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  Speaker 3: Basel.
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  Speaker 2: Basel. Basel.
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  Speaker 3: Basel.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so obviously on home turf, Stan Wawrinka retiring in
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  Speaker 1: Basel and surrounded by friends and family.
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  Speaker 2: That's cute.
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  Speaker 1: I know. Wawrinka obviously has a storied career, 16 tour-level titles,
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  Speaker 1: three major titles, and in two of those finals, he
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  Speaker 1: beat Djokovic. So he was kind of a... Thorn in
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  Speaker 1: the Djokovic Grand Slam race side.
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  Speaker 2: Of that era, of that ilk.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. And then that tournament went on to Vashiro beating
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  Speaker 1: Lehechka in the final. So, yeah, these guys just keep going. Like,
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  Speaker 1: take a break. I mean, what is he going to
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: do now? I know. It's so many tournaments. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we love you, Stan. We'll miss you. We obviously saw
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  Speaker 1: you play at your final Australian Open, beating Arthur Jha
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  Speaker 1: in five sets on that show courts.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's a great, that's my favorite color.
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  Speaker 1: It's the best. The atmosphere was amazing. And then he
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  Speaker 1: went out to John Cain. He went out to Taylor
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  Speaker 1: Fritz in the third round of the AO. So he'll
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  Speaker 1: be around. He's going to be this ambassador of tennis that,
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sure we'll see him in the hallways.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Remember I was giving him weird, creepy smiles.
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  Speaker 1: You did.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You guys are really connected.
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  Speaker 3: We did.
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  Speaker 1: I think you saw him went, ooh, tizzy food. Tennis news.
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  Speaker 1: In the WTA, Lizzy who?
• 13:21
  Speaker 2: Rabakina will finish the year at number one. I think
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  Speaker 2: she deserves that. Yeah, she's... Yeah, she's had an excellent year. Hello, everyone.
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  Speaker 2: I'm super happy to secure the year and world number one.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for all the support throughout the year,
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  Speaker 2: and hopefully we can continue next.
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  Speaker 1: Year the same. Starting with the Australian Open, right? Winning here.
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  Speaker 1: And she... Hopefully is healthy and health going into the
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  Speaker 1: new year because I think she'll be she'll be dominant
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  Speaker 1: once again on the surface. And yeah, she rules.
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  Speaker 2: She's great.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And she's got the new pup.
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  Speaker 2: She's got the new pup. Rabarkina.
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  Speaker 1: Rabarkina.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And then we've got our Sabalenka. Yeah. We love her.
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  Speaker 2: World's most marketable athlete for 2026. Would you have picked this?
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  Speaker 2: I would not have picked this. I wouldn't have picked
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people in that list.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Who else is on that list? Well, I know
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  Speaker 1: it's usually Naomi Osaka is up there.
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  Speaker 2: She's in there. She's 21. Yeah. And I get that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's like Aileen Gu. They all make sense. Harlan,
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  Speaker 2: the soccer player. Alcaraz is five. Zverev is at eight.
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  Speaker 2: I don't understand that. Like, I get he's number one,
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  Speaker 2: but he's not, like, marketable. If I'm going to sell
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  Speaker 2: a product.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: But there's, like, yeah, there's no.
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  Speaker 1: I know what you mean.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? But there's no Aussies in this.
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  Speaker 2: In the 150, there are no Aussie athletes.
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  Speaker 1: Who deserves to be on there?
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  Speaker 2: Sam kerr maybe okay uh oscar piastri.
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  Speaker 1: Right volk volkanovski.
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  Speaker 2: Volkanovski good for her it's business.
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  Speaker 1: Most marketable athlete for 2026 probably plays into a lot
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  Speaker 1: of her social media using it she's prolific yeah prolific
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  Speaker 1: and and doing brand posts and You know, she's turning
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: into a little empire over there.
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  Speaker 2: I'd love to see the books.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Like, I want to see all these athletes, like, how
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  Speaker 2: much they actually make from tennis versus how much they
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: get from brands.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: I think it'd be so interesting.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: Do you get weird DMs and emails all the time
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  Speaker 1: from people going, hey, if you do Holojet post, we'll
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: work out a payment scheme. Do you get those emails
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  Speaker 1: or do they go to your agent?
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  Speaker 2: Holojet? Yeah. I'm not getting any Holojet.
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, the people get in touch and they're like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: do you want to? And sometimes it's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: I just think it's all spam or something. I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: what do they want me for?
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to promote their shit. Michael, you could
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  Speaker 2: be in the top 150 comedians. Markable comedians? Markability list.
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  Speaker 1: They do not want to attach themselves on one joke
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: away from getting canceled at every second. We had Halloween
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: last week.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you're American. You would have celebrated Halloween
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: your whole life, right? That's spooky! Spooky! We can finally
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: use the buttons. Did you celebrate?
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: Watch, watch.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: Watch, watch. Boom, boom. I.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: Mike's drunk, I think.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: Is Mike drunk? Probably. Yeah, no, I didn't celebrate. I
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: was working, unfortunately. So I just dressed up as a
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: middle-aged man who's trying to make ends meet. Nailed it.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: Nailed it.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: He's still in costume.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Exactly. I love that people get into it. You're
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: starting to see it more and more in Australia. Oh,
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: my gosh. People embrace it more. Did you dress up?
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: No i even went to a party and it was
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: they specifically said no halloween uh because i didn't grow
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: up with it we didn't do it as children but
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: i yeah a lot of people doing it now i
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: can't be bothered dressing up to be honest.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: I know well i mean whatever costume parties can be
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: fun and then of course like women manage to make
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: every outfit look kind of provocative i know i'm in
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: dicey territory.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: Here provocative is a good word provocative that's all i'm
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: saying and i'm just saying there was some confusingly sexy
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: mushroom ladies sexy mushroom lady oh my.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Gosh And I was like, oh, that's an interesting choice,
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: I guess, but sure. Okay.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: How do you make the mushroom lady sexy? That's a challenge.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: That's a real challenge.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: You're going pretty far from the source on that one,
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: We're all God's creatures and deserve to be treated with
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: dignity and respect.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: But I love people getting into it, especially the tennis players.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: They did a super cut of Djokovic embracing Halloween.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: He loves Halloween, this guy.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: He does.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: What a party guy.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: What a fun guy.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: He is a fun guy. Look at him.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: But Batman on the face.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: Little Batman. Yeah.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: So there he is.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Chicago Bulls.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: Jumper.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: So obviously.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: What's this one?
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: It must be Vienna, because the tournaments happen at the
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: same time every year.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's fun. Freddie Mercury?
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Tizzy Foo. I think, yeah, glasses. Darth Vader.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Darth Vader, now, yes.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Embracing his villain side.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: He's saying, Demonar, I am your father.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: I like that. Good for him. He's having fun.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: His nickname's the Joker and not one single Joker. I
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: guess it'd be too difficult to then play. To like
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: the makeup. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: If he played in the Joker makeup, that would be
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: all time.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Like, he seriously played in it.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: People would think he's lost his mind.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah. I mean, what else has he got to
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: do in this game?
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: True, true. And maybe, you know, he's, what does the
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Joker say? You want to know how I got these?
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: Is that what he says yeah yeah my father was
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: a fiend he's so creepy and then next year he's
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: going to be doing open mic comedy.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Original joker saying you ever dance with the devil the
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: pale moonlight that's an all-time quote If he said that
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: to you, like the change of hands, you'd be like.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Okay. Okay. He's got me. He's really freaking me out.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: He should start doing that. You ever dance with the
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: devil in the pale moonlight?
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely. Yeah. So I love that he's embracing it.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: A lot of players on the WTR. God damn it.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: WTA.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: A lot of T. A lot of players on the
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: WTA side embracing the holiday as well. Yelena Ostapenko, one
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: of my favorite players to watch. She went as a devil?
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: Or a Dracula. Mushroom Lady, I think.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Oh, is that the Mushroom Lady? Yeah.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, just, I mean, it's a pretty regular outfit.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: The horns. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But here is Coco Gauff.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: As a pirate.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Jack Sparrow?
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So, I mean.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Good for them.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: They're spending their weekends. They're going out with their friends.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, why not?
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Trick or treat.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Jack Sparrow. I mean, a pirate is a classic.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Classic.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think I've ever dressed up for Halloween.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Really? Never.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: That's sad it's kind of sad it's kind of sad
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: but i i don't have tattoos i've never done halloween
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: i've never eaten a parma.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: What yeah no tats i can believe no halloween is
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: just kind of i feel bad for you and then
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: the no parma is that like an allergy.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Thing what's going on i just it looks disgusting yeah
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: to me i'm a schnitzel girl what do you do at.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: A pub schnitzel schnitzel.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah schnitzel or steak the parma can get out.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: I obviously grew up with halloween and i'm very partial
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: to the holiday and my sister and i had a
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: tradition of going to the dollar cinema the day before
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: halloween to watch a horror movie and it was like
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: always let's just say it was in an urban area
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: and they were the most fun watching a movie you've
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: never seen. They just get rowdy as hell.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: Oh, cool.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I would dress up. I've been
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: many things over the years. I thought I was cool
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: as a kid because New Kids on the Block was huge.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Oh, NKOTB.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I was like anti-pop music. So I went
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: as a dead New Kid on the Block. Yeah, so
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: I got one of those knife things that went through
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: my head. And then I bought a New Kids on
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: the Block t-shirt and then like ripped it up and
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: put fake blood on it but then they had just
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: been in town doing a concert so it looked like
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: I just went to the concert and got my ass
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: kicked oh.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: So it backfired on you pretty much you were in
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: New Kids on the Block what was their song?
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: <HAL> <HAL> yeah you were Paula Abdulhead no.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: My first ever tape was Taylor Dane is that country?
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: I don't know for some reason I liked Taylor Dane
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: yeah weird but then I then I just followed whatever
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: my brother liked yeah classic.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: First ever tape Errol?
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Roxette oh yeah Did you have an older sister? Yeah,
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: the look. The look.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Did you have an older sister or were you just
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: a bit tizzy food? I was a bit tizzy food.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: It's catching on.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: It's good.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: It's good.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: I think mine was MC Hammer's You Can't Touch This.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Oh, wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: That was big.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Boys to Men?
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we got Boys to Men was big. But then
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: my older brother got into, like, Metallica.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's when it turned.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: All right. We couldn't have strayed farther away from tennis.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: That's fine.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, send us in your first tape to podlaver at tennis.com.au.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: It is a good question.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what was your first tape?
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Or if you're not old like us, what was your
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: first CD? Or what was your first record?
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: If you're older than us, what was your first record? Hmm.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Now for everyone's favorite segment. Approaching the net. I'm jiggling.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: I'm jiggling. I'm jiggling.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: The lady must jiggle for the gentleman.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: She's jiggling. We're going to go all the way to Ecuador. Oh.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: To a Challenger event.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: I love the Challenger circuit. Yeah.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: And we've got Camilo Ugo. Carabelli just leaves a match.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: In the middle of it. Yeah. All right, so it's 5-4.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: De Silva's about to break him to go to 5-5. Yep.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Extended rally.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: Pretty intense.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Carabelli side to side. Game going on.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: They're playing on clay? Yeah. But it.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: I don't know if the footage is bad, but this...
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Looks like coffee grounds.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: It's a weird color. It is. It's not clay. It's
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: kind of like a greeny, weird color. And then he just,
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: Hugo just, he's just had enough.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Gets all his stuff.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Has a yell at someone.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Oh, the chair umpire asking him to come back.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: And then he's just like, bye-bye.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: Peace.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: I'm out.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: I mean, how many times have you wanted to do
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: that in your life? I respect it.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Oh, yes.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Honestly, I was like, that is brave.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: And then they have like a time lapse. I guess
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: they're waiting for him?
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they'll see him if he comes back.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: He got all his stuff.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Default.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Oh, default because of time violation. It's hilarious. Because I guess, like,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: by the rules, they got to go, we got to
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: give him some time.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: And look at this celebration. He's like, yeah. Okay.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it takes the win.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: I love this.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: I mean, I've always wanted to just like walk out
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: on a job or something like that. Just be like,
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: see ya. I'm out of here.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's the best, isn't it?
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Just bailing on something. There's nothing better in life
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: than bailing on something. Yeah.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: You know? Mid. It wasn't even losing.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: It's true.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: He was still right in it.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: It was 5-5. First set. And he just tapped out.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: He's like, nah.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: Not today.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: The Challenger Tour serves up this kind of stuff all
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: the time.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: This craziness.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: It's fun.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Those guys don't give a shit at all. So
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: it's below. So the Challenger, they're trying to get enough
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: ranking points to qualify for the.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: The Bernard Tomek.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: World.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: He's been going hard on the Challengers. And, of course,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: a movie starring Zendaya and two other guys.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, of course.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: With erotic undertones. That's Izzy.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: See it all on it. Mike's super only fan. Okay,
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: next one. Alcaraz has a trading card at the moment
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: with a bit of his shoe in it.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's only one of these.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: And whoever gets it gets this lucky little... Bit of
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: his shoe.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Right. So it's like a little placard almost, right? Because
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: how are you going to fit shoe into a card?
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I guess it's like a little... Memento. It's worn
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: by him, right?
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So inside a card and then sold to some... Yeah.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: So you'd be feeling every card before you bought it. Yeah.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: You'd be like, there's a shoe in there. Yeah. So
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: is it like a golden ticket? A Willy Wonka golden ticket? Yeah.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Then you get to go and live with Alcaraz and
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: his mom. Oh, wow.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: That's beautiful.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: And she cooks for you.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: She does.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: I'd be into that.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: A spicy.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Exactly. Were you a trading card?
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: I was. I had no idea there was tennis trading cards,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: but I guess there is for everything. I was all baseball.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: And then a bit of basketball. And then in my
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: nerdy years, I had Bram Stoker's Dracula the movie trading cards.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: This is a side... I never imagined.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: I thought it was cool.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: It is cool. And don't let anyone tell you it wasn't.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: I couldn't, there was pre-internet and I couldn't find fellow
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: dweebs that loved Bram Stoker's Dracula, the movie starring Keanu
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Reeves and Gary Oldman and Winona Ryder. Yup.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: I wanted a Renfield. I couldn't get a Renfield in
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: all the packs that I bought. Redfield was Dracula's little assistant.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: Master, you promised me eternal life.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Played by Tom Waits.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: Oh, that is cool.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: And Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: See, this is all very cool.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Is it?
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: It's all very cool, these.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Names that you're mentioning now.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: I thought if I explained it long enough, it would
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: be cool.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, back then, very hard sell.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Did you trade cards or buy cards?
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: No, my brother had cards. And I remember next to
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: my music lesson school, there was a trading card place
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: for like years. Yeah. And people would always be in
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: there like doing basketball trading cards.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: So it was basketball.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Oh, so there was like AFL footy cards.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: And would you be excited to find a bit of shoe?
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess I would be. If it was Alcaraz's shoe,
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: I'd be like, oh, I got the bit of shoe.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Old footy cards used to come with a bit of
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: gum inside as well.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: True.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: It should be. Because, yeah, there was, I remember in
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: the baseball cards, there was like an old stale stick
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: of gum as well. But it would be good now
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: if there was gum stuck to a bit of shoe.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Give us. Yeah.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: The only thing I used to collect were like Tarzos.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: Do you remember Tarzos?
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Pogs? Were they like Pogs?
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah. It's a really reminiscing episode.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: It's a nostalgia. Yeah, the theme is nostalgia.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: This is nostalgia.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: Speaking of nostalgia, Venus Williams.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Oh, what a.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: Beautiful segue.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a beautiful segue. Yeah.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: She's still around.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: Played the 250 Guangzhou Open.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Is she still around?
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: Well, she keeps losing. She keeps entering these events and losing.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: And this was 2-2 to Lily Taggart.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I know we've had this conversation before whether
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: she should keep entering and taking a wild card away
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: from someone who should maybe get the opportunity.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: I mean... What's the end game here? Like she wants
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: to get into the slams for another year, but it's like, why?
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: It's at some point they're just going to be like,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: you just got to qualify.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: Sorry. We've locked the doors.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, now I've come around on it. I kind
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: of like that she's just not going away.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah. She's waiting.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And she's like, oh, I have such a legacy
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: that you have to recognize that and put me in
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: these tournaments.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: That's right. It's a bit like Podlaver Arena.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. We refuse to go away despite the fact
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: we keep losing listeners. Yeah. Yeah, well, we are reminiscent
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: and nostalgic on this. I think Stan Wawrinka retiring has
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: us in a bit of a nostalgic mindset. Definitely.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: Changing of the guard. It's also a Mercury retrograde, so,
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: you know. Is it?
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah. What does that mean?
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: It just means, like, we're thinking about stuff. Oh. What's
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: given us meaning. We're learning lessons. We're moving forward.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Right. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Jeremy Piven once ate so much tuna fish
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: he got Mercury poisoning. There you go.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Something to think about.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: Who's Jeremy?
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: Jeremy Piven. He's already an entourage.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay, okay.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: You thought he was a tennis player?
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: I was like, is this a baseball reference.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: That I have no idea? No, it's very random.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Everyone loves a good fish story.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: One for you, Mike. Yes. I know you love to
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: read the handshakes at the net.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: Oh, I love a frosty handshake. What do you got?
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: We got an incredible comeback from this 16-year-old, world number 405,
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: Sun Jinran. She beats Maria Timofeeva.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: And quite the match. I'm looking at the scoreline.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: And this 16-year-old, she's had a pretty good Asia swing.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, she's been doing well. Really frosty handshake. Let's have
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: a look. I want to get your read on this.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: So it's, I mean, there is Timofeeva.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: And 6-3 in the final set tie break. So obviously
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: quite the match.
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: And I don't know if Timofeeva had match points or anything,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: but that might add. She did have match points. So
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: that leads maybe to the darkness of the mood afterwards.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: But sales went long.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: Sales went long. It is.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: 16.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: I can't wait for this. She's doing so good.
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: Hometown hero.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, not even a look.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: Not even a look. Not even a linking of the thing.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: It was like a palm. Yeah, it was like a
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: little brush of the palm.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: That is frosty. And to a 16-year-old who's just probably
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: started on the tour.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: She's come out of juniors. There's a pause here.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. Looking away.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: It's like she's run after that palm press.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh, my God.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: What would you give this in cold degrees?
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: Cold degrees? Okay, so we're Celsius?
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: I'm going to say this is a.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: Five degrees.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: Five degrees. Icy.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: Icy cold.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: Icy cold.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: Timofeeva. I mean, it's like I said, late in the season,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: everyone's exhausted and she hasn't had any time off either.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Should I kill myself? Important announcement. Oh, yes. We remind
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: our listeners, and we should really do this during the
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Australian Open, that we're on all year. We go to weekly.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: Who knows after next year's AO, but we'll at least
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: be every other week, if not weekly. And, yeah, because
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: we had a listener write in, Amanda Clydesdale.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: And she's done some deep cuts.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: She's a Podlava fan.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: Well, she, you know, got into us during the 2026
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: AO this year, and then she says, I stopped because
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: I assumed it was just for the duration of the slam.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: You assumed wrong, Amanda.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so she says, imagine my surprise went about a
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: month ago. Just don't A lot of months of missing us,
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: but what a catalog of laughs to get into. You
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: popped up as a recommendation on Spotify with like 20
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: plus episodes to enjoy. Well, probably more than that. Hope
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: to live vicariously through you as Tennis Australia flies you
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: to all the slams, finals, 1000s, and even 500s in
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: the world. Keep slurping it up, Amanda.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: Keep slurping it up. That is a deep cut from Amanda.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: She is an OG. She is an OG, and I'm
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: sure she went and listened to all those episodes. Yeah.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Speaking of OG super fans of the pod, Arash got
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: his prize pack in Sweden, and we have this amazing pick.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: Look at all the merch and gear.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: He got the towel, the travel bags.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: And his sons, his amazing kids here. I assume one
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: of them's not Arash. Is that Arash holding the sign?
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: I hope these are Arash's kids.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: Sam and Kian. Sam and Kian Arash's kids. Beautiful kids
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: with their prizes in front of them and a little sign. Thanks, PLA,
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: for all the laughs in 2026. Love heart emoji. Arash,
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: your Swedish correspondent with a Swedish flag. That is beautiful.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Arash. Enjoy all that amazing AO gear.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: Hope you get use out of that towel.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: And, yeah, we got another. You're here. You're back. So
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: we got a quizzy who for people to get stuck into.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: What do you got this week?
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: Question is, who won the Wimbledon title as a wild
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: card entry while credited with a morning routine of religiously
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: watching Teletubbies? Teletubbies. It is a nostalgic episode.
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: It is.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: Were you a tubhead?
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: I wasn't a tub head. I think I was a
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: little bit too old for Teletubbies.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: And this is obviously this player is an adult but
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: still would watch Teletubbies.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe it helped him tune out a little bit.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Him or her.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: Them.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Them. Okay, well, send in your answers to podlava at tennis.com.au.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: We do give out the prizes, as you've just witnessed. Yes.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: Arash did finally get his.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: Ah, that wraps another Podlabor Arena. We'll be getting into
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: all things Paris Masters in the next couple of eps,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: as well as the WTA finals in Indian Wells.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: Amazing.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: Come on.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: Fly us out there. Let's go.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: Let's go. Let's go now.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: Let's go to Palm Springs.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh. Can you imagine?
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: Some cocktails by the pool in Palm Springs. Beautiful golf
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: courses there.
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: You would love it.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, beautiful.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: Ugh.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: Let's all go. That's the dream.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: Thanks, guys. We'll talk to you next week.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: Bye.