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THE ROD POD ARRIVETH · Pod Laver Arena

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  Speaker 1: Look at us. Yes, here we are at the Australian
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  Speaker 1: Open living the dream. We are living the dream.
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  Speaker 2: This is the best summer job of my.
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  Speaker 1: Life, I think. So. Yeah. Yeah, we got new threads,
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  Speaker 1: got new threads. They said, yeah, just get what you want. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It was like a shopping spree. It was. And look
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  Speaker 1: at your outfit. I have to say, you look amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I did panic.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was like, what am I going to get?
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  Speaker 2: And I was just going to go shorts and a shirt.
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  Speaker 2: And then I saw this and I feel like I'm
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  Speaker 2: in the seventies.
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  Speaker 1: It's like seventies drug lord or that you have you
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  Speaker 1: run a some kind of a Yeah, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I've got a vape shop.
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  Speaker 1: The big collar. Can you pop the collar and give
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  Speaker 1: us a look? What that is? Oh my god? Look
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  Speaker 1: at this? Is this?
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  Speaker 2: Is this?
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  Speaker 1: It is this? The look? That's the look. The color
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  Speaker 1: is up.
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  Speaker 2: It is giving Dracula.
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  Speaker 1: It is giving Dracula. Yeah, count who count? Who? This
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  Speaker 1: is it?
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  Speaker 2: I just need a couple of gold chains. I need
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  Speaker 2: some rings. Yeah, maybe a bum bag.
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  Speaker 1: Oh what would you keep in the bum bag of
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  Speaker 1: the drugs? Should stuff?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what?
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to pod a labor arena. It is right. My
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  Speaker 1: name is Mike Goldstein. I am one of the hosts,
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  Speaker 1: and my lovely co host is Lizzie who.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, we talk about tennis and I just got
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  Speaker 2: a look of myself and the camera.
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  Speaker 1: You're vamping. You don't like it. I love it. I
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  Speaker 1: love it. I do love it. I think you love
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  Speaker 1: it a little too much.
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  Speaker 2: You're I'm gonna be wearing it every day, even in
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  Speaker 2: forty degrees. I'm wearing this truck.
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  Speaker 1: You have to think and uh yeah. This is the
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  Speaker 1: first ever of the Pod Labor Arena podcast and it's
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  Speaker 1: about to overtake every single podcast in the world, be
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  Speaker 1: it sports related or not. We're coming for you. Joe Rogan, Joe.
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  Speaker 2: Rogan, Mel Robbins Diary of the CEO. You're going to
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  Speaker 2: get bumped.
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  Speaker 1: Did you say diarrhea of the CEO of the CEO? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: I thought you said diarrhea. It may as well be
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  Speaker 1: called that. I really don't like that guy. I'd listen
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  Speaker 1: to that one because the name is pod labor Arena. Yes, uh,
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  Speaker 1: the great yes, yes, yes, yeah. We're going to be
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  Speaker 1: telling cracking jokes. We're going to be bringing you gossip,
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  Speaker 1: gossip all the tea facts.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, what we hear around the ground.
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  Speaker 1: The gossip segment could be called serving down the tea.
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  Speaker 2: We're just serving the tea, serving down, serving the tea,
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  Speaker 2: serving the tea, serving the tea. Yeah, we'll get the
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  Speaker 2: gossip from the holes because we're in the we're in
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  Speaker 2: the medium.
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  Speaker 1: We're out here where around.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, people don't know who we are. Who are these
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  Speaker 2: tennis chumps in their outfits?
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  Speaker 1: We are posers, but we're also tennis fans from way back. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: we're both stand up comedians that have a history of
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  Speaker 1: tennis in our lives. Yeah. I used to play as
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  Speaker 1: a kid. I stopped playing when my brother got way
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  Speaker 1: better than me and would absolutely destroy me, and so
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  Speaker 1: I turned to skateboarding and a life of crime. This
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  Speaker 1: is sad. This is sad. You could skateboard around here, though.
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  Speaker 1: Put the ball boys on skateboards. I'd watch that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah during the game, Yeah, love that. Just Allie into
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  Speaker 2: a kickflip over the net. Yeah, it'd be sick.
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  Speaker 1: There were other titles for the podcasts that were floated
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  Speaker 1: around uh Andy Poddick.
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  Speaker 2: When Mike says there were other titles, the only other
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  Speaker 2: person floating other titles was Mike. Yes, he was a
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  Speaker 2: really happy with pod Labora.
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  Speaker 1: Look it's grown up. He told me, I don't hate him.
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  Speaker 2: Tell us the other names that you want to I liked.
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  Speaker 1: We cannot be serious.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I also did like that.
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  Speaker 1: But I think McEnroe has some kind of trademark copyright
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  Speaker 1: on the catchphrase you got served. Yeah. Yeah, but that's
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  Speaker 1: like what you say when someone like dances up on you.
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  Speaker 2: See you think that.
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  Speaker 1: I think it. I've never heard that before.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's when someone gives you, like a legal
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  Speaker 2: thing or tries to sue you.
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  Speaker 1: Right right, Oh that's it. Yeah, yeah, you got served
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  Speaker 1: in that way. But also if someone like comes up
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  Speaker 1: and starts like popping.
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  Speaker 2: And locking serving.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah you've been served. Wow. I could be wrong. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: this is an American thing. I didn't know that. Yeah, in
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  Speaker 1: American schools we're all, you know, serving each other. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the final one, well, dropping a deuce?
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  Speaker 2: Do you think the Australian open I don't think, because
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  Speaker 2: like we're part, we're under their umbrella. This isn't a
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  Speaker 2: separate thing that you and I are doing. No, we're
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  Speaker 2: employed by this.
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  Speaker 1: We are we're wearing the gear. The gear.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think they would go for dropping.
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  Speaker 1: No, the Australian Open brings you dropping a deuce. We're
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  Speaker 1: giving an our editor and producer a lot of work.
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  Speaker 1: They're really going to have to chop a lot of
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  Speaker 1: this out.
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  Speaker 2: But if you've got any complaints, email us all things
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  Speaker 2: you want to say, or things you want to suggestions, suggestions,
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  Speaker 2: general feedback.
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  Speaker 1: Serve it down the tee to us.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, at at tennis dot com dot au.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to hear all the feedback.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I want dick pics. I want I'm actually.
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  Speaker 1: Sends credit picks. Yeah, and I just want some friendly
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  Speaker 1: you know, banter and feedback affirmation. Doing well, Mike hanging this,
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  Speaker 1: but seriously, right in if you have anything for us
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  Speaker 1: at Podlabor at tennis dot com dot au. I quite
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  Speaker 1: like pod Labor, you do.
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  Speaker 2: I like Rod and I've got a history with the
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  Speaker 2: Labor family, do you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I was a tennis kid.
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  Speaker 2: Also also very similar story to you.
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  Speaker 1: My brother was a lot better than me.
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  Speaker 2: And so he kind of took over per usual. No,
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  Speaker 2: he was very good and I just kind of, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I guess so it's too small, small kid.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I didn't mean it to sound like were you
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  Speaker 1: like you're huge.
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  Speaker 2: No, No, I was a really tiny Like I'm normal now,
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  Speaker 2: but I was a really tiny kid and then playing
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  Speaker 2: like really tall kids, I just got dominated. Yeah. But
• 7:01
  Speaker 2: Rod Laver's nephew, Ken Lavor Ken Labor Ken Laver was
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  Speaker 2: my coach.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And my mom Boston was like, are you any relation
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  Speaker 2: to Rod? I have to ask, and he said, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm his nephew. Wow, I know that's fact checked.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So he was coaching in Brisbane, Brisbane.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Laffy's Tennis Center, which doesn't exist anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Laffy's. Yeah, that sounds like a like the name of
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  Speaker 1: a comedy club. Laffy's. Yeah. I'm Matt Laughy is all
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  Speaker 1: weekend come check it out next week. I'm at the
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  Speaker 1: Chuckle Hut.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the Laffy's Tennis Center. It was a beautiful tennis center. Yeah, actually,
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  Speaker 2: but I think it's houses.
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  Speaker 1: And he was the club pro Ken Labor, he was
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  Speaker 1: just one of them. He was just one of them. Yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I mean I.
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  Speaker 2: Was little, like he was coaching real little kids tennis.
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  Speaker 1: Did you know you were in the presence of absolutely
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  Speaker 1: not someone's uncle's greatness.
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  Speaker 2: No, absolutely, that went way over our heads. We didn't
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  Speaker 2: know who that was. I've got something to show you, Mike,
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  Speaker 2: all right, because I was home at Christmas time and
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  Speaker 2: I went through my albums and I have a coaching
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  Speaker 2: report from can Labor.
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  Speaker 1: What I know.
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  Speaker 2: It's mink and dish. It's been in like a sealed album.
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  Speaker 1: Is this Is this like an Asian thing where they
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  Speaker 1: keep every test you've ever done your parents.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's not even a good report.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a good report. It's that good. You brought
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  Speaker 1: shame on your family. Yeah. Well that's why my brother
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  Speaker 1: was so much better.
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  Speaker 2: I was the only thing he says that I'm okay
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  Speaker 2: is my forehand shows good technique, right backhand, hit the
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  Speaker 2: ball early. The rest is just feedback, serve more flexibility
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  Speaker 2: on the power loop.
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  Speaker 1: On the power loop, move.
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  Speaker 2: Side on, smash, rack it down, back set plate shows
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  Speaker 2: good technical ability. You can't teach that.
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  Speaker 1: That's all right, remarked.
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  Speaker 2: Still developing the serve action more will improve your game.
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  Speaker 1: It's not great. Great, it's not a great.
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  Speaker 2: How old were you though, I don't know, Yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: reckon it might have been like ten nine or ten.
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  Speaker 1: Right, So if there was a like a letter marek
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  Speaker 1: on this.
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  Speaker 2: I reckon, this is a bee.
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  Speaker 1: This is a bee. Yeah, that's tough. Would your dad
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  Speaker 1: have been proud of this? Why did they save this?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. It's just in one of my albums.
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  Speaker 2: My dad probably wasn't proud of it. He used to
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  Speaker 2: hide in the bushes, It's true.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I watched me play and I couldn't see him, and
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  Speaker 2: all I would hear was his comments like hit harder,
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  Speaker 2: more killer instinct from the bushes, from the MUSHes, and
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  Speaker 2: I'd be like, oh my god, my dad's here somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: This is so camouflage.
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  Speaker 2: No, he's just dark skins.
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  Speaker 1: You couldn't see him in the bush. So why is
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  Speaker 1: he hiding in the bushes? Was there no refer to to?
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  Speaker 2: I think he just wanted to put me off right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, my dad used to hide in the bushes outside
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  Speaker 1: the tennis courts at our high school, but for very
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  Speaker 1: different reasons.
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  Speaker 2: Mister doctor goldstin doctor ghosted.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he didn't go to five years of medical school
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  Speaker 1: to be called mister when he's in his trench coat
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  Speaker 1: outside the tennis courts, bring back the flasher. You never
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  Speaker 1: see him anymore? Yeah, so all right, Yeah, this is
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  Speaker 1: the laffy Tennis Center. Good for them. The coaching report
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  Speaker 1: and it was signed off by Ken Labor. This is huge.
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  Speaker 1: We'll put her on the wall. Good tactical ability.
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  Speaker 2: That's good.
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  Speaker 1: That is good.
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  Speaker 2: I'm happy with that, I know.
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  Speaker 1: And then this is all kind of good advice. Move
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  Speaker 1: side on to the volley. That's all fair enough. I
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  Speaker 1: think this is more of a bat plus.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I'll take it.
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  Speaker 1: But I'd still I would still be disappointed.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not best in the class, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 2: This is quite serious though, this show. There's some serious
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  Speaker 2: segments in it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I can't wait we do. I guess. There's
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  Speaker 1: some thoughtful, sophisticated segments on this show throughout the AO,
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  Speaker 1: none more so than this one. I was not expecting
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  Speaker 1: that that sounded like Arnie chop On.
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  Speaker 2: This is a segment obviously called whose grunt is this?
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  Speaker 1: Whose grunt is this? We'll be going through various grunts
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  Speaker 1: and if you could pick the player, where do you win?
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  Speaker 1: Exactly more grunts?
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  Speaker 2: You can email us and tell us you pick the player?
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  Speaker 1: Well, should we do well? Reply? Should we do a
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  Speaker 1: couple of test grunts? Yes? All right, let me see
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  Speaker 1: if you can tell me who this girl. I don't
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  Speaker 1: even know who it is, so I'll be playing as well.
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  Speaker 1: First grunt? Mm, should we do it again?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Is that? I know who it is is? No? One
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  Speaker 1: more time. He's been called out for this. People have
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  Speaker 1: made memes and they write that as b w e
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  Speaker 1: h exclamation point. What I know who it is? Should
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  Speaker 1: I say? Yeah? That is Andre rube Lev correct? Whoa mike?
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  Speaker 1: What so that?
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  Speaker 2: That's that's how he says.
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  Speaker 1: It's another thing he's been made fun of because they
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  Speaker 1: reckon he's saying, it becomes in the pod. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: I got the first grunt? Not too boe boy?
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  Speaker 2: Are we good?
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  Speaker 1: We'll do one more as a tester, but we have
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  Speaker 1: many more grunts to come. One more grunt? Can you
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  Speaker 1: go again? Okay? So that starts as a do you
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  Speaker 1: think that's a dude or not? No? That ends like
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  Speaker 1: a higher pitched one more time. Okay, I think this
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  Speaker 1: is a deep cut. You might not know this well.
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure she's retired, But I just I have
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  Speaker 1: that low grunt to the high imprinted in my memory
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  Speaker 1: from watching a lot of matches from at least six
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  Speaker 1: or seven years ago. Does that help it all? I
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  Speaker 1: don't think you'll get Yeah, I think this is Francesca
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  Speaker 1: Skia Vona.
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  Speaker 2: What did you put these grunts together?
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  Speaker 1: I did not. I did not do the grunt compilation. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: I just in my spare time listen to grunts in
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  Speaker 1: isolation to prepare from the bushes. I get in the
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  Speaker 1: bushes and I just I'm a big grunk guy. Never
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  Speaker 1: knew that about you. They used to call me Michael Grunstein.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's cool, that is cool the first time. Welcome
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  Speaker 1: to the segment. We are calling.
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  Speaker 2: Headline Calls famously made that one up.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Michael, use my phone name please, Sorry Michael, No, God,
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  Speaker 1: damn sorry, thank you Headline Calls. This is all the
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: news going on in the tennis world at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot to cover, a lot of drama. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're in the opening week right now of the Australian Open.
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  Speaker 1: There's tournaments obviously happening in the lead up the I
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  Speaker 1: guess it was a tournament. It was more of an
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  Speaker 1: exhibition match. Yeah, it wasn't a tournament at all. The
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  Speaker 1: Battle of the Sexes happened at the end of twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five. Nick Kurrios versus Arena, Sabolenka, did you watch
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  Speaker 1: any of it?
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  Speaker 2: I watched the highlight. I watched a mini match.
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  Speaker 1: A mini match, Yeah, what is it? What's your takeaway?
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  Speaker 2: Look, it was entertaining. I think it did what it
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  Speaker 2: was meant to do. I mean, I don't love the concept.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't like that her court was smaller, right, I
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  Speaker 2: felt that you could have just played normal court.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, hers was nine percent smaller, which is in keeping
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  Speaker 1: with the peg. The pay gap, yeah, is it?
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  Speaker 2: But generally the pay gap.
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  Speaker 1: The pay gap and then the it was six three
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  Speaker 1: six three to Curyos. So how do you feel that
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  Speaker 1: the patriarchy is back?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, they're back in a big way.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they have a left I think, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: this was not a great look for anybody.
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  Speaker 2: No, but I think it did like they're managed by
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  Speaker 2: the same people. Their management put this event on and
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  Speaker 2: then everyone was talking about it. Yeah, so tick done that.
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  Speaker 2: They did the job.
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  Speaker 1: So for promo resh yeah, but for women's tennis maybe.
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  Speaker 2: Not maybe not so great.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean I just think, you know, Curios being
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  Speaker 1: whatever he is in the world six hundred and seventy one,
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  Speaker 1: playing the world number one, But it was they were
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  Speaker 1: just messing around out there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I feel like they're quite friendly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Also to the other thing is, yeah, not a good
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  Speaker 2: look for women's tennis, But we can't keep telling women
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  Speaker 2: what to do if she wants to play the game,
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  Speaker 2: play the game. True.
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  Speaker 1: She was all in, yeah, I guess, and.
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  Speaker 2: Probably got a pretty good paycheck from it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but got paid nine percent less.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah the losers feet.
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  Speaker 1: Ah. Yeah, so the battle of the sexes happened. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what if it was necessary, and it was
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  Speaker 1: it was just a big paycheck for both of them
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  Speaker 1: and then just kind of screwing around out there. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm just happy to know that, you know, men, men
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  Speaker 1: are superior, are superior. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Also, the other big news story was that Nairobi tournament.
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  Speaker 1: Mm true with the wild card, Yes, the it F
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  Speaker 1: Nairobi tournament. The lot of people are calling this the
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  Speaker 1: wild card that got in the ray gun of tennis.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great analogy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think so. Yeah, it's a low
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  Speaker 1: key flex here. She is she is. I mean, she
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  Speaker 1: just looks like she's going to.
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  Speaker 2: The gym, I go on a power walk. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think it's not her first time.
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  Speaker 1: No, and I feel like if someone filmed me, I
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  Speaker 1: would look like this on a few shots.
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  Speaker 2: I think you look better than this. She's still got
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  Speaker 2: her spectacles on what were regular glasses.
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  Speaker 1: She's not even put in contacts. Yeah, what about the
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  Speaker 1: other girl?
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  Speaker 2: Like, would she stayed pretty calm throughout all this?
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  Speaker 1: Right? Yeah, because she's like she only lost three points.
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  Speaker 1: I think that was two double faults on her end
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  Speaker 1: and then maybe one unforced air and then you'd be like, sweet,
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  Speaker 1: I'm through to the second round, Like this is just
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  Speaker 1: like a walkover basically, and then I mean it's gone
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  Speaker 1: crazy fires.
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty funny. It's also not a good look for
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  Speaker 2: women's tennis.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Women's tennis is really taking a beating. I would do
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: a Battle of the sexes against that wildcad that's like
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: the only one. So let us know if someone has
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: the contact details for the wild card player and Iirobi
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: and we'll get her on the show. We Curios has
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: pulled out of the Australian Open Singles More Curios News.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: I think he always was going to.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm okay with that. Yeah, I want to see
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: the doubles. Him playing doubles is yeah, special case, the
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: special case.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: That's fun.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, if he can conserve his energy for that.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Did they love the nickname the special case, did they? Yeah?
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: If they had, if they add a third player with
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: a caw.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: And where all what with a special match hood?
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean then they could be a Kardashian. That's
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: what I was going for. But I think you took
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: it in a different direction, Lizzie, who always problematic? Am
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: I really? Yeah? So he's out of the singles. I
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: think he wasn't you know, going to be a match
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: fit to play five setters? And but the wild card
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: went to stan Varenka, who I'm a huge which is
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: that's cool? That rules?
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that was well. Curios said he wanted
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: to give up his spot for someone more deserving, more
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: you know, young and up and comers coming through.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: But I reckon it was young up and comers stan Varenka,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: who I thought it had already retire. Yeah, this is
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: his last year. Yeah, man, get around stand the man.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking hopefully he gets hopefully third.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: He looks all right. He played the United.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: He played the United Cup, So that just happened. I mean.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: In very recent tennis news, the United Cup was won
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: by Poland last night e Svantek and Huby her Cats
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: her Cats? Yes, yes, do you like Huby? Yeah? I
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: like him? Yeah. Have you heard him speak? It's like
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Polish Ray Romano. It is like, well, I just think
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: there are other players were they played very good in
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: de Yeah, we'll get him on us. If you met
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: a man named Hubert, would that be a deal breaker?
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: I don't think so, especially if he's Polish.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, what would like to come with me for dinner?
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Let that girl that.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: Your white truck like your big color in my country
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: colors small.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: So Poland won the United Cup last night and also
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: the Brisbane tournament. Medvedev is back. He's looking good, He's
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: looking like he's in form. He's also starting to embrace
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: his baldness a little more. Well, yeah, it comes for
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: us all.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: Well yeah, are there any tournaments in Turkey coming up?
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Oh? Maybe, yeah, we should have a segment.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Who then who's gonna make the second round?
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: They get the surgery on day one at the tournament
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: and they have to compete in the rest of the
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: tournament wearing a diaper on with those marks. Oh gosh.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: MEMBERV won the Brisbane Tournament and the lead up to
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: the AO, taking out Brandon Nakashima, an American player, and
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: then the women. Sable Anka dominated the whole tournament. I think, dominating,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: always dominating. She's my favorite for the AO. I like her.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I like CoCom to see Coco.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Win, Okay, yeah, I don't as Coco hasn't won this before.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: She's won the US and she's won the French.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: She looks serious.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: She does look serious.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: She looks like she's real focus, real zoned in.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I think she would be good to see
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: go far. But I think Sabolenca is the hot favorite. Yeah.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: We're not encouraging people to bet, but if you do
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Sabolenka Ceblenka, Yeah, and if you lose, that's on you. Yeah,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: bet response kind of responsibly. Ah yeah, So I'm looking
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: forward to the doubles with Coconakas and kyriosed well, they
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: had that.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: They were at the Brisbane International as well.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they went out early though, I think.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they won their first game and then they went
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: out to some frenchmen. I remember their names. This is
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: the kind of intel I've bring him.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: They were French.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: They played well, they beat the Special Case, but after
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Cokakis's first game. That was his first That doubles game
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: was his first game back since having surgery. So that
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: was his first game back in twenty twenty five. He
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: hadn't played for a year.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Wow, and he cried, he cried.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: We love to see a king cry. It's beautiful, it's
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: good for women.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Well, he cried, but he's also playing with a dead
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: man's ligament in his chest.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he had a peck operation. Yeah, and he got
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: a cadava tendon from someone's achilles inserted into his peck.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Wow, So who is that guy?
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: That's who I want to know, is who is the
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: dead man that we can attribute Coki Nascus has come back.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: To Yeah, and you'd want like a.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Some sort of pluck on your gravestone exactly.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: He owes any coming victory.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Most of my body in this ground except my achilles,
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: which can be found.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: My chest achilles. If you could have any dead person's
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: body part, who and why i'd have?
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: I think i'd have piano players fingers. Okay, what about you, Mike,
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: if you wanted a dead man's body part or dead
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: woman's oh.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Dead one.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Equal opportunity opportunity famously.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Right, I think I would take Margaret Thatcher's brain. No, no, no,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: not at all. I think any person's body part for
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: my own dead would have to be. I would do
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Marilyn Monroe's personality. He's going to be mister present that
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: anyone else that you would do well.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Michael Jackson's feet, I would do this.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Right. I was worried you're going to say Michael Jackson's hands, Lizzie.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Another segment we'll be doing for pod Labor or Arena
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: will be fashioned Please.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: We're going to be out in the grounds.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Too, are Now we're going to be judging people.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and talking to you and giving you real time feedbus.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: I've seen a few interesting fits already, I have.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: I've seen some great ones.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: And then for our listeners, this is Stefano Sits a
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: pass turning up to the Adelaide Airport dressed in a
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: leopard print ensemble.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Brown leopard print.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: What do you think? Wow? This is it?
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: You know what it looks like is he had a
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: one night stamp like an older woman and he had
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: to get out really quickly, and he's like, just grab
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: the fuzzing easel and he's like.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Well this will do. Yeah. So he's thinking he stole
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: this from like an Miami grandmother. Yeah for sure.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Honestly we have the same clothes algorithm on the iconic
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: always pops up for me.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: The flare at the bottom y is wild. It does
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: look very uh.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: I like it. I don't mind it. It does look
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: like fun mom doing school pickup. She's recently divorced.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, loves the rose.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, she's trying to get it like she still
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: parties on the weekend.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Still parties on the weekend, loves cutting loose those flares.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: They should make them play in that So I mean, okay,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: do you think since a pass outfit leading the charge
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: not a fashion faux pae, I don't.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going to give it an eight out of ten. Yeah,
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: eight out of ten. Brilliant, Yes, eight out of ten.
• 27:42
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• 27:48
  Speaker 1: We've got a bit of a mystery one here for
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: the fashion Police.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Weird we got Oh look, I agree that is brilliant.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: What we're seeing is a lady in a boda hat
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: is that what you can boda hat? And she's put
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: AstroTurf all over it and made it into a court.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: It's I'm into it.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: I love that she got the glue gun out and
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: she went crazy.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: It's crafty, it's very crafty. Did you wear that? I
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: think I would, just because it's it's so bit barbershop,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: barbershop quartety yeah. So yeah. This is the opening week
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: of the Australian Open Heaps going on the musical acts
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: including Presets and Hot Chip and others.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's pretty cool.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: It is pretty cool mid two thousand. I'm looking forward
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: to and others.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you want to be an and other day.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: I've seen plenty of comedy posters where I'm and more.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Oh is there a sad button?
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Is there like a yeah? Sore? Looking forward to that.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: So you know what I'm looking forward to. I've never
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: had before.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: What's a shake shack? Wow? I never had it? Never never.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: You're gonna love it? Yeah? What can I expect? You
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: can expect diabetes? Diabetes, Our major sponsor will give you diabetes.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Your foot will fall off you sorry, shake check mouth
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: watering burgers, and then obviously some of the best milkshakes
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: you've ever had.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: Do you think they'll have milk alternatives? I should not
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: be drinking any fool cream milkshake.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Shake Check actually described the portable toilet that once you're.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Once you're done, that's where you go and you're out
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: the side of a portal shaking.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah. No, the cheeseburgers are fantastic and it's going to
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: pair well with a piper hide seat.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: I think it will actually a bit of champagne cheeseburger.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Why not. That's the best of both worlds.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: And the other thing happening this week, which I'm going
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: to watch on Wednesday night is the one million dollar
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: one point Slam. Properly, I think so, yeah, one million dollars.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. The one million dollar one point Slam
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: is on. It is amazing. It's basically, everyone plays one
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: point and if you win the one point, you can
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: move on to the next round of the tournament. Everyone's
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: competing in it, pros, amateurs, celebrities, celebrities, yes, I think
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Karl Stefanovic.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: So I've seen the clips from last year's one point
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Slam and the pro players get really nervous, right because
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: they don't want it because they can they can only
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: hit one serve, so if they fault on the first serve,
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: that's it.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: The amateurs are playing in this. So this is a
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: lot of people from clubs.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: They've been vetted, they've been they have gone through the competition.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: I know they're better than the wild card player from
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Nairobi can guarantee. Yeah, so anyone amateurs pros. I mean basically,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: you could have some guy from the Laffey's Tennis center
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: playing Alcoraz in the final.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, mister Laffie, mister Laffi. He would actually do pretty well.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and your dad will be watching from my dad.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: Who could give it a shot?
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, get him in there, I know. So. Yeah, the
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: one million dollars one point slam, and off the back
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: of that, we are doing our own little one point
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: slam in studio. In studio, we have our own little
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: makeshift ping pong table over there. I would describe it.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: It's the size of a small door, small door, so
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: it's quite narrow, yes, but long.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: We actually took that off of Grant ten years dressing room.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: He's very angry. He is angry. Now he has to
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: get changed in the everyone season to decide who's serving
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: in the one point slam. They're doing rock paper scissors. Yeah,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: that's ridiculous. Yeah, for a million bucks. I starting it
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: with rock paper sure, and I say paper rock scissors.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: By the way, yeah, what do you say this? Paper rock?
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: So we have all three permutations paper rock, rock, paper scissors.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Now it's some yeah, right in and tell us what you.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: Think it is.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: There's only three genders, rock papers. And we will be
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: doing the same for our pick pok turners. Not only
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: will we be playing one point slams in.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: Here every day, every episode.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Every episode, right, and we're going to keep tally somehow.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Maybe ace Man can be across that. Yeah. And then
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: we will be challenging our.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: Guests, yes, and some hopefully some very important tennis guests. Yes,
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: we can actually play against. That'll be pretty cool.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: I know. And you want to play against get fed? Yes.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: They're all crazy competitive though, so if they lose in
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: this little ping pong match.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the table will throw them there.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah all right, So should we do the inaugural one
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: point slam between us and decide who's going to serve
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: by rock paper scissors? Do you have a strategy? Yeah?
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: I say what I'm going to do before.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: I do it, So you saying what you're going to do, yeah,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: and then I throw you with something else. But now
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: that I've told you, because but now maybe you're playing
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: mind games and what you say you get, you're actually
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: gonna do. Okay, so I have to take that into
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go Okay, I'm gonna go rock whoa ready
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: on three? Who all tangled up? Ready?
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: God?
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Yes? All right, So Lizzie serve And should we play
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: it pain pong style or should we pay? Alright? So
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: any listeners who are or anybody watching who's not familiar
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: with pain.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: Pong otherwise called sting pong pong.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: Yes, uh, the losing player the winning player gets to
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: hit the ball at them their back as hard as
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: they can. Yes.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: And we've done a few practice rounds.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Already, and I have some Weltz and I plan on suing. Yeah.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: Yes, it's like like I'm hanging out like h