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PAT TO THE RAFTERS · Pod Laver Arena

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  Speaker 1: People love to hear that someone's been in here screwing
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  Speaker 1: with my shit. And it was the M and ms.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, dude, can I tell you something? You don't own
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  Speaker 2: this podcast students at my house. This podcast studio was
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  Speaker 2: here before you and it's going to be here long
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  Speaker 2: after you're gone.
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  Speaker 1: It was the M and ms.
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  Speaker 2: They were in here. H I think it was. It
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  Speaker 2: wasn't even the hot one who were the Eminem's. What
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  Speaker 2: was that? I saw that on social media? It was
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  Speaker 2: before my time. Thank god I got here to write
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  Speaker 2: the ship. You got to do an eminem content.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't any part of that. They've cut me in.
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  Speaker 1: It's fake.
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  Speaker 2: Cut you in. That's not true. You were in the
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  Speaker 2: eminem costume.
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  Speaker 1: It was one of them.
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  Speaker 2: Had a little American accent, Kansas accent. I could pick
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  Speaker 2: up on it, a big nose and a mustard. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, you're on with Fridgie and the Chowed on Tennis FM.
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  Speaker 1: It's the final day of the Australian Open twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: A huge battle coming up between Carlito Alcarez and the
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  Speaker 1: Man the Myth of the boat, the best of all time,
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  Speaker 1: Novak Djokovic. But first let's check in with the Chod
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  Speaker 1: and the tennis m chopper.
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  Speaker 2: I'm up here. I didn't actually know what was going
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  Speaker 2: to be in the chopper, but I'm here. I'm living
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  Speaker 2: in the chopper at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: You're not allowed out of the chopper.
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  Speaker 3: Au pre. I'm looking down at Moutain Park, very quiet.
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  Speaker 3: It seems like there's no interest at all from the
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  Speaker 3: men's final.
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  Speaker 1: It's over.
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  Speaker 3: The tournament is there's no interest? What don't bother coming down?
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  Speaker 3: If you have a ticket, send it to Sam. Don't
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  Speaker 3: at Gmail, don't you? And that's the traffic purport.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Chod. All right into the chowde out. It's
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  Speaker 1: been a big couple of weeks for the Chad. He's
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  Speaker 1: been in the chopper.
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  Speaker 2: Now step the chopper.
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  Speaker 1: Why are you still talking, Choad?
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  Speaker 2: It's still open. The chop is weirdly close to the story.
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  Speaker 1: We're back at the studio. You're on TENNISFM. Let's uh
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  Speaker 1: here are big number one hit of the day? Show
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  Speaker 1: me perfect tennis? Oh no way, whoa whoa? Sablanca had
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  Speaker 1: it locked?
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  Speaker 2: Whoa whoa? But the world would be shocked. Bye right
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  Speaker 2: back in a bye rye back and up bye right
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  Speaker 2: back in a. She wanted three sets. I think we
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  Speaker 2: picked yes. Yeah, I mean, how how do we do it?
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  Speaker 1: How do I do it?
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  Speaker 2: How do you do it?
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  Speaker 4: Well?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, look, I was along for the journey at
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  Speaker 2: that one. You were minutes before the button for record
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  Speaker 2: was pressed, that was pinned.
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: Well, you were like, I said, well, you know, I've.
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  Speaker 2: Been suggesting like very sad songs.
• 2:48
  Speaker 1: You go sad. And I said, it'd be great if
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  Speaker 1: you came up with the song and did some work
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  Speaker 1: because I've got any of this gig and you haven't
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  Speaker 1: even said thank you once.
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  Speaker 2: I said thank you so many times. I said thank you,
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  Speaker 2: thank you, Mike, And what do you want me to say? Hey,
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  Speaker 2: you're in the M and M costume. I couldn't you
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  Speaker 2: couldn't hear your eaves were blocked.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, And you go, what if were just saying the
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  Speaker 1: Tina Turner is simply the best, but like just sing
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  Speaker 1: sing it exactly as it is?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, wow, I.
• 3:13
  Speaker 2: Was can we just do karaoke?
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  Speaker 1: That's what I was above and beyond.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, what if we went Sablenka hurt herself
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  Speaker 2: today to see if she could feel. She focuses on
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  Speaker 2: the back court the only pain that's real. That's pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: That's not bad.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to do like for every hit one we do.
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  Speaker 2: That's like upbeat. I'm going to do a very sad
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  Speaker 2: B side.
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  Speaker 1: And you can play forty all.
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  Speaker 2: That's good, My Empire of stress.
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  Speaker 1: This is how it goes when you play tennis.
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  Speaker 2: I was going to say, look at Craig Tyler's mess,
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  Speaker 2: but that's you know, we love Craig Tyler here. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I'm the lyrics man. Okay, I mean you're the lyrics
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  Speaker 2: fan tennis man. What am I just a chod nothing
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  Speaker 2: but a.
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  Speaker 1: Chowed in the sky.
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  Speaker 3: Ah.
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  Speaker 1: This is the final day. We will do a wrap
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  Speaker 1: up episode tomorrow, so you know, stick with them.
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  Speaker 2: We're coming in off the clock. That's how much we
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  Speaker 2: love this.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're coming in when the tournament is done, wheneveryone's
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  Speaker 1: packing up. We'll be in here tomorrow recapping the men's final,
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  Speaker 1: which is tonight. But this is Pod labor Arena with me,
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  Speaker 1: Mike Goldstein and as always joned by my co host,
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  Speaker 1: the Steffie Graff. To my Monica Sella's Sam Taunton.
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  Speaker 2: I am Steffi Graff. What a what a buzz there is.
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  Speaker 2: Actually I was joking before from the sky that there
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  Speaker 2: was no buzz. It's crazy. I've never been on the
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  Speaker 2: ground for like the final moments of Grand Slam, and
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  Speaker 2: it's very interesting.
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  Speaker 1: It is well, you know, it gives you a buzz
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  Speaker 1: our sponsor as always, Piper Hide six, will it down?
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  Speaker 2: You know today after this Pods we are going to
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  Speaker 2: pipa Hatik for a drink, Like we're gonna go have
• 5:11
  Speaker 2: some drinks. I cannot wait to see if they have
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  Speaker 2: something to say about this.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so surprised we've gotten through this many episodes and
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  Speaker 1: not been They're.
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  Speaker 2: Just obviously a cool sponsor, do you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: Like obviously creeping around behind at all, Like what are
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  Speaker 2: you doing?
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  Speaker 1: He's gone for Kubrick.
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  Speaker 2: I think our floors pushed him over the edge. He's like,
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  Speaker 2: I've sat here silently and watched this filth and a
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  Speaker 2: poetry for the last two weeks, but that is enough.
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  Speaker 1: Ask Laurd is one of his burner accounts on Instagram,
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  Speaker 2: fight back when people say main things about us.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah I should. Maybe I'll get this in now because
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about the ace Man and.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to be sad when this ends.
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  Speaker 5: It.
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  Speaker 2: I don't get to see you every day.
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  Speaker 1: You can still hang out every day creeping around. I
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  Speaker 1: don't like ace Man out of the seat. It's really like.
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  Speaker 2: What are you doing there? Did we not do all
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  Speaker 2: these checks before the show?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Someone's been and.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, ace MANU are our camera guy. He's fixing the trade,
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  Speaker 1: jack of all trades. He at about a quarter to
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  Speaker 1: midnight last night. I had three voice messages man.
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  Speaker 2: What sort of because it's a suspect time it is
• 6:49
  Speaker 2: of the evening. Yeah, was he like? What are you
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  Speaker 2: up to? What are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Telling me you feel I didn't know, like I
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  Speaker 1: I got to tell you. My anxiety spiked really well
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  Speaker 1: because I was like, what is this about?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean one voicemail you'd be like,
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  Speaker 2: oh cool, this is fun. I fund a little message
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  Speaker 2: from a friend, three back to back. Yeah, terrifying. I
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  Speaker 2: wondered did they will you play them a breach of.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so like uh yes.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, he just shrugged Kazakh.
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  Speaker 1: Well the background on as if you haven't been listening
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  Speaker 1: the whole time. He learned English by watching the Bora movies. Yea,
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  Speaker 1: and we know that that's true.
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  Speaker 2: It sounds like a joke, but that's true.
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  Speaker 1: That's truly true. So the Kazakhstany obviously uh Elena or
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  Speaker 1: Rebekha won the women's final last night Kazakhstan. And then
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  Speaker 1: so this is the first message.
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  Speaker 6: She has brought many glorious in the nation of Kazakhstan
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  Speaker 6: really proud. It was a great success. Now we will
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  Speaker 6: together sing national anthem of my glorious nation.
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  Speaker 1: So and I respond, oh, but I loved it. I
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  Speaker 1: got a big he got a big laugh out of me.
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  Speaker 1: Ace and then I said, I responded, we were so.
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  Speaker 2: Oh great, which is the appropriate, culturally appropriate response. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's beautiful, and that's what you know. World tennis is
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  Speaker 2: all about celebrating coaches and success. We're all Kazakhshani today.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and then someone said we should do the Kazakhstani
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  Speaker 1: national anthem, and I suggested, it's a bon Jovi's my life.
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  Speaker 1: But it's my life, my life, it's my life, and
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  Speaker 1: I really like her, like it's my life. That's good stuff.
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  Speaker 2: God, that is great stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Email us at pod labor at tennis dot com dot
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• 8:52
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  Speaker 1: I promise, I think you're a tennis content guy now.
• 10:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but if people want to come, okay, I'll do.
• 10:15
  Speaker 2: I'll close on some tennis stuff, all right. What if
• 10:17
  Speaker 2: I without Mike the who wrote them all? I just
• 10:20
  Speaker 2: do I perform all the fantastic intro songs.
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, how do you think that's going to go?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 10:25
  Speaker 2: I have some refunds. We'll be asked for probably thinking
• 10:29
  Speaker 2: he's doing really well for fifty minutes, and then he
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  Speaker 2: closed on ten minutes of the worst niche song parodies
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  Speaker 2: I've ever heard.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, just a few things before we get into the
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  Speaker 1: women's final, the Australian duo of Coobler and Pullman's last
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  Speaker 1: the men's doubles final.
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  Speaker 2: Do you hold me responsible in any way because I
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  Speaker 2: tried to pump them up and my heart wasn't really
• 10:56
  Speaker 2: in it. In hindsight, if I think back to I
• 10:58
  Speaker 2: was kind of on the spot and I could have
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  Speaker 2: done better. I should have written something written. Yeah, And
• 11:06
  Speaker 2: I wonder if they heard that and they were like,
• 11:08
  Speaker 2: if he doesn't care, why should we care?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, classic Australian work ethic on both sides.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, I'm sorry guys and look good. I'm
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  Speaker 2: sorry to the country as well well.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it would have been huge. They you know,
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  Speaker 1: got through Kirios and Coconakas in the first round and
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: then you know they were playing great, but then last
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: to the American and British pair of Skeepsky and.
• 11:36
  Speaker 2: Harris Skepsy Skipsky. Yeah, I just can't say that guy's name.
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: Also, some big celebrities, should we do well? These people
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: not look not in the stadium. These people were just
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  Speaker 1: around yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Well that doesn't count because then it's like, what what
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Donald Trump might have been watching on TV
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  Speaker 2: and we're gonna say big celebrity is interested. What's wrong?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying watching on TV.
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  Speaker 2: You know who was at the game we were at
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  Speaker 2: the other day, the Prime Minister Tony Albanesi.
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: Tony Albanesi.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh shit, yeah, isn't that crazy? Our prime minister?
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  Speaker 2: How did he go?
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  Speaker 1: Did he get did they say his name? Did they
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  Speaker 1: say he's here?
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  Speaker 2: And finally saw it on socials. It's a shame they
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  Speaker 2: didn't because I think one of the great joys is
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  Speaker 2: doing a prime minister. But no, I just saw him.
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  Speaker 2: He had good seat. I mean, I shouldn't be surprised
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  Speaker 2: that he had good seats, but he was right down
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  Speaker 2: at the front.
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  Speaker 1: We both met him.
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  Speaker 2: Alb yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. When did you
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  Speaker 2: meet him?
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  Speaker 1: He was on the hundred with any Lee. But he
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  Speaker 1: wasn't he We made him be like part of the screen.
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  Speaker 1: He was like one of the people at home on
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  Speaker 1: their laptop. Oh no, no, he came in. I believe that.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, what wow? And he is ruthless.
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  Speaker 2: I met him and I remember he he like we
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  Speaker 2: were about to go on TV and we went on
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  Speaker 2: and he turned to me. I was sitting next to
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  Speaker 2: him and he'd just been in India with President and
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  Speaker 2: I think he'd been in like a car driving around
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  Speaker 2: a cricket game or something. And then he goes, how
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  Speaker 2: about all this Indian stuff? He is a bit much
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  Speaker 2: and I go what and then they were like, all right,
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  Speaker 2: we're on in five. And then he just switched and
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  Speaker 2: then he was like, we really value our relationship with
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  Speaker 2: America and India. And I was like, what happened to
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  Speaker 2: that other guy who was just there? I mean, my god, India's.
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: A bit much that's his foreign policy.
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  Speaker 2: But bit much that is an Australian point. That is
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  Speaker 2: my answer to everything. It's a bit much. And there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot going on.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wow, carp out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but look, I've made it this far into my
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  Speaker 2: career with no prep, with nothing written, just with a
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  Speaker 2: bit much bit going on, but going on, bit going on,
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  Speaker 2: big going on. Last night?
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  Speaker 1: What a segue into the women's final Alena Rebecca versus
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  Speaker 1: Arena sable Anka. I love this match. I thought it
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  Speaker 1: was great. I thought it was great.
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  Speaker 2: Well I did.
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  Speaker 1: What do you want me to say?
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  Speaker 2: It's just funny, turny. If you were turning this on
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  Speaker 2: for some serious breakdown, I'm about to get into you.
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  Speaker 2: But what a headline. There's some incredible sports broadcasters out
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: there in the world that say wonderful things that you know,
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  Speaker 2: describe matches in romantic, poetic ways, and we're like going
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  Speaker 2: on I thought it was great.
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  Speaker 1: Well, actually that is commentary, if you'll hear me out,
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  Speaker 1: because saying a match was great during this second week
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: of the women's draw is saying something absolutely because they
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: were all straight sets. Yeah, I mean, besides the cocoa
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  Speaker 1: go mouk of a match, which seems like it was
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: months ago at this point. This was the first to
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  Speaker 1: go to three sets.
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: It was at the biggest stage. It's like, be careful
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  Speaker 2: what you wish for. We were here just moaning and winging,
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  Speaker 2: and now we're getting some tight tussles all the way
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  Speaker 2: to the end. It was like, I felt like.
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  Speaker 1: This is our segments. Tight tussle but growing growing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure everyone this thing already. The results you want
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  Speaker 2: some stats that I've got sure, okay. Rebecca became just
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  Speaker 2: the fourth woman in the Open era to beat the
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  Speaker 2: world number one and two on her way to win
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  Speaker 2: an Australian Open title. Pretty impressive. Sablanca extended her run
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: four consecutive Australian Open finals. That's a that's a record.
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  Speaker 1: One and last two.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Now she's even Stevens and Delta good Room was
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: in the crowd. Pretty interesting.
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  Speaker 1: The ambassador of Poper Hude so Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: She's the one that came up with slurp it up,
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: slurp it down.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, she wrote all that. She came in
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: here and she was like, yes, is all the copy
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  Speaker 1: you have to read?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: She handed us pages and pages of that and we're
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  Speaker 2: arely reading the ones acceptable for air.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And she was like she wanted the slogan to
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  Speaker 1: be get a good room with good room, And I
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  Speaker 1: was like, thors.
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  Speaker 2: Was this softer version. It was the only thing we
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  Speaker 2: could say.
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  Speaker 1: So she was in the crowd. That's big. There's other
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: celebrities in the crowd. Jeffrey Rush, Rush, you're a good friend.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: Carrie Bickmore, yep, yes. Why is she getting those premium
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: seats and you're good question?
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  Speaker 2: I would say, because she's much more loved and much
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: more famous than me, you're getting a bit less yes, yes, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 2: Bill Gates, Bill Gate too.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe we should not speak about.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: You. Gotta love those celebts in the crowd. Well would
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  Speaker 2: you think, Well, we included in Celeb Watch when we
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  Speaker 2: were in there yesterday, No, the day before.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see us.
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: I didn't see You've got peak celeb going on right now.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: You're wearing the glasses. Yeah, why I wore them for
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: the song like a bit of like a parody of
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: a recording artist where you've decided to wear them all podcasts.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: I've kept them all hungover, Nana, Well, do you have
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: any drinks last night?
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: I look, I had some my bride sake, But that
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: doesn't give you hangovers of any thing.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: The next day you feel like taking on the world.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: You know, you've got to call your sponsor. If you
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: feel like a drink.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: The sponsored by Piper, I have to call them.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: The worst AA of autor Mike, your sponsor is going
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: to be this fantastic champagne company.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: I these sonnies I I was given at.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: The given were you're given them at the ball? Honestly,
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: ask yourself. This is not a clubhouse, isn't it. What
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: do you call the bull kid clubhouse? It's no, it's
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: an offense building where they often have to hang out.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: But you weren't given them what I would describe them as,
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: you stole them from the hands of a twelve year old.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: I didn't steal these, you stole them.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: No, we stole them content there and I happen to
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: be wearing them when I had all.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: Left so you know. So they're beautiful sunglasses, by the way,
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: and do you know what they are. They're a gift
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: for the ball Kids to say thank you for participating
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: and helping us out this mornament. So you've stolen.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: I haven't stopped saying stolen.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Why would they give you the They didn't give you
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: the gift, Well, because we weren't allowed to take. I
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: wore some sunglasses during we shot a little thing there
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: and then someone said to me. They were like, you
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: have to give these back. These are very important to know.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: And then we got to the bus and we got
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: back to your sleeping bag just out of the front
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: of Melbourne Park where you're staying for the for the tournament.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: And you're like, I've got the sunglass.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. There's a squinting. His eyes are burning, but
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: it's not.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: They look good on you, So I don't know if
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: it's all worse.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: I think I got a bad sunglasses head because I
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: got a narrow head, so I look like and then
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: with the big nose and the mustache, I look like
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: I'm in disguise.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well you shouldn't be at the ball Kids clubhouse
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: anyway with a.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Look like that. Oh, you got to other stats as well.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: That's probably all the stats I've got.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: I reckon, I have some stats.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: I just know that you know, well this neither I
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: might know that these stats there.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Okay, well that's quick, okay, yeah, neither lady dropped a
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: set going into the final.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah. When was the last Australian Open that that happened?
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: You know that that over the topyo head, I mean
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: you're not gonna get it?
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: What are we doing? Okay?
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: Who is it?
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Well, guess a year.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: At two thousand and I don't know, I don't know.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: I happing this in nineteen seventy four.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Oh, you were on the right track really in two
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: thousand and four. Oh okay, Kim Kleisters and Justine Hennan Harden.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Ohz he Kim.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so that was last AO and I believe the
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: last women's final in a Grand Slam was Venus and
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Serena in two thousand and eight. Yeah, with no sets
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: dropped on the way to the final.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: It's pretty cool because like it is that it's like
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: you know, someone's got to someone's oh's got to go.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: You know that kind of energy and I mean savvy.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: She blinked first I.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Mean up three zero in the final set, and then what.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: Do I hate to ease the word hmmm, but did
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: she chuck?
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: I think she's got a finals problem because she's been
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: in eight and one four. Would you say that's.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: A well what were we talking about? Novak Is twenty
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: four and thirteen in Grand Slam finals. So you want
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: your ledger to be it's got to be in the positive.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: I think that Raff has only lost like eight or
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: something out of the thousands he's seemingly been in. So
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: I guess, yeah, you don't want to be she. I
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: don't think she loses as well, do you know what
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: I mean?
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Like she wears her emotions on her face.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: I was looking at who we had in the physio
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: strength coach.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the great man.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, he was, you know, sitting in the player's
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: box and you know, giving it as all, trying to
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: pump her.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Up, Big Jay. So I saw him there and I
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: was like, oh, I wonder how he's going with it?
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Like she had written mentality on his face before the match. Yeah,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: and then uh yeah she did.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: Not have them. Yeah. And then there's the towels over
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: her head, there's tears at the end. I mean it's
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: like you would be furious.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, so I lived kind of close to the
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: grounds of the Australian Open.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean you're sleeping bag.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And uh there's a giant Nike poster that has
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: sable anca that I walk past every day and it
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: says just do it.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah right, and she just didn't. Yeah, I mean she
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: you're right, she wears it. She wears it on his
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: sleeve and it's beautiful. On the flip side, rebeccaa, which chose.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, my dad would be proud at how little
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: emotion she gives off.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Oh do you know what I mean? I mean, look, she.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Gave more last than you've probably seen before, just as
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: us to win little small turns to the box, goes
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: to shake hands.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: So this was like the thing when she won the
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Wimbledon final a few years back. She won and like
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: beat Ann's jibbur who was like the crowd favorite, and
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: then she just shrugged and walked to the net and
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: shook hands.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Kind of rules. Hey, I love it. It's like also,
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: it just means nothing. It's like whatever, another day in
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: the office. Just I'm here, I win, Yeah, I lose
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: that is actually the key to success at elite level sports.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: It's like, the only thing you can control, yeah, is
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: what I remember learning as a child. The only thing
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: you control is can control is the process. The result
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: is out of your hands, right, So you have to
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: react the same to a victory as you do a defeat. Man,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: do you think there's any truth in that?
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: I think did your parents tell you that because you
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: were a loser? Yeah?
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. I was really struggling, very little friends, the
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: social circle was getting smaller by the day. Athletically, I
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: wasn't very gifted. I mean, I.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Guess, yeah, trust the process or whatever you want to say.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: But it was just so cool to just stroll up
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: to the net the big hug and Sabalanca clearly destroyed
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: one sat on our bench, but the towel over the head.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, there wasn't a lot of rallies in this
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: match because both women hit the ball so damn hard
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: and you're just clabbering their serves. The out wide serves
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: I think best in the women's game. I think they're both, yeah,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: the best servers in the women's game. And it was
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: just a lot of just insanely hardly hit balls.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: And not.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, once a rally happened, you know, you get
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: some energy in the stadium, But there just wasn't.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Just going bang bang bang. Do you think savvy? What
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: did what happened when she's she's up through love like
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: and just kind of just she could have gone more
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: aggressive on her serve when she was upper break Potentially,
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I think she said that in the
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: press conference, but like what, I don't know. It's just
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: was it a lapse in mental judgment because it's like,
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: this is to go upper break in the last set
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: of a Grand same final, It's like you just got
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: to that's when you're gonna be like, all right, foot down,
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: I'm never going to concentrate harder than I'm going to
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: concentrate right now.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: I think sometimes it freezes the other player up right,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: so like they're now a break and they're like, I'm
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: just going to swing for the turtles. And then Rebeccaha
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: rattled off what five games being down three zero the
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: final set.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: That bang and then yet to see a smile or
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: a grin or even if frown, was there a little
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: hint of a smile smile at the end.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: I think there was a hint of a smile, and
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: it was a killer match. Like I said, three setter,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: we needed it. And then the celebration being what it was,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: because this is how I'm going to segue into this
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: is I celebrated more hitting a winning shot and pickleball
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: against you yesterday.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I mean it had a lot of.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: The real the real final, the real match people want
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: to hear about.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Well, it kind of followed the trend of the majority
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: of the matches in Week two of the Australia.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: It was a bloodbelt pretty quick, was the school.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: When we played full match.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: I made sure to record we played five. I won
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: them all.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Well we played five? Yeah, wait with I for the fifth?
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: I swear where were you for all five?
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: It went?
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: We played pickleball in the courts here at the Australian Open, and.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: The courts not I mean, no disrespect to the lovely
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: folks here that are putting us up for the entire tournament,
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: but they're playing surface leaves a lot to be desired.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Okay, that was the only way you were winning points
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: when we fly off a divot.
• 25:01
  Speaker 7: Uh.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: The five games we played in pickleball yesterday eleven zero.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: So it started with a bag friend.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Look, you could put that one down to I was rattled. Surprise.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: There was surprisingly a lot of people watching.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Well because there was a whole crowd of people waiting
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: to get into Renee Rap.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Renee Rap was next to us, and there was like
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: I'm not joking, like three hundred people lining up next
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: to it, and a lot of them like just turning.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: There's nothing going on. They're waiting to get in. They're
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: they're hours before she starts. So they're like, all right,
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: two idiots are playing pickle ball. Let's have a look.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Well, I think you were rattled because people were recognizing
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: me and not you, and they were saying, aren't you
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: that famous hunk Mike Goldstein.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: No, they were like, hey, are you the eminem I
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: saw in the Australian Open Socials.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Page And then uh so eleven zero you started with
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: the bagels pathetic?
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: It's not good?
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, And then ill.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't have played if I knew this was going
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: to be. Like if you were like, because you're a better, ping,
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: better pickleball player than me and ping pong and ping
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: pong and tennis. Yeah, but if you're like, hey, do
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: you want to go guitarists and golf. Well, I mean
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: now we're getting Now we're being ridiculous. Next you'll say lover,
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: which is definitely not true. But if you had told me.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: It must be a good lover.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: It's not all about size and you know shape, right,
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: there's a lot of other moves.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: You can do.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Got a lot of time to think up there and then.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: But if you had told me you want to come
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: and just get absolutely embarrassed and then we'll talk about
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: it on the pod, I probably would have said, I'll
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: give it a miss.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Mike, why it was fun, dude. And then eleven seven,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: so you kind of make get some dignity.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: It's other one. I was up five to one.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: And then Mike, I wish you guys could have seen it.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: If I wish the Renee Rap fans were in, they
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: could just back me up here. He was furious at this.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: I go up five to one, and then he goes,
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: all right, I'm going to start trying. And then we
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: were getting heckled by the Renee Rap fans and people
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: walking past on the bridge. Yeah, on the breach, they
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: were screaming out, they were grunting for us.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: I know it was it was. It was awesome for
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: them to behold my prowess eleven six, So you did
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: okay in that one, but then another bagel at eleven.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Well, what I would like to say is the wind
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: really started whipping up quite badly, and I was and
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: I was on the receiving end down wind. You said
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: it was very difficult to return to and the returning
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: into the head wind. That pickleball really loves to kind
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: of bob around in the wind, and it just was
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: struggling to get back.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Over the Still another bag eleven zero, and then we
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: finished the day with an eleven three and eleven three
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: because you refuse to have the eleven zero be the
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: final match. And then you got three measly points in
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: the last one, and then by scurried off into the night.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: Is it bad that I took some positives? I remember
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: driving home and I was like, you know what, there
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: was some you had him on the ropes a few times.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Should we get back to the women's final.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: Or one more pickleball chat? They definitely want more pickleball chat.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: I don't know, like it's it's sometimes it's obviously that
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: they want to be winning the Grand Slam. Finals and all.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: But like it's four million for the winner and two
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: million for the loser, so you're still like, eh, it's
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: still a.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: Pretty good day.
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: But I look, as I've said, I don't think it's
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: about money. I think I said this the other day.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: These guys are competitive freaks that have endorsement deals. I
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: don't think the money is the thing that motivates them. No. Well,
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: I mean, like you want the history books. Let's Tabby
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: won three g four Grand slams now arguably the face
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: of women's tennis. It's like, I think she's like, I
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: should be a six seven Grand Slam champion by now,
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: that's what you would be focused on. What's another two million?
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: I know was she had.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: That's what I say every morning when I wake up.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: What's another two million when you're getting one million per
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: episode for pod labor Arena.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Ah, yeah, of course I think. I honestly think she
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: should have more finals sable Anca, But she had a
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: cocoa golf problem there for a while. The matchup just
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: was a good guy, would move her around too much,
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: was just insanely good on defense, always making her hit
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: another ball. But then now, yes, so been an eight
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: one four, and I gotta say I had a song planned.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: It was that text going from Mike last night. He goes,
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: we need to write another song.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: I had tipper back and oh yeah, could we my
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: tennis knowledge and like the inside that people come here
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: for me saying Rebecca three sads predicting that and getting
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: it absolutely right.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's unbelieve. It is almost a man. Oh a
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: man was on her from the start.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, what we want the what was
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: I saying?
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: You were saying, oh song, you had this song, had.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: A song it was going to be because it would
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: have been her fifth Grand.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: Slam when yeah, oh yeah dude.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: And it was going to be Slambo number five actually was.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: Going to be so good. Yeah yeah, and you're going
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: to go because at the start of Mumbo number five,
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: because ladies and gentlemen, it's Mumbo number you're gonna ge
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: ladies and gentleman, it's Slambo number five. Yeah, what the hell?
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: So she took that from us.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: So that sucks. I forgot that that that was the
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: song is well, god damn it.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: But maybe if we had told her that, maybe if
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: she had written on Big Jay's face slambo number five.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: She might have looked over and just had the bit
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: of motivation to get it done and not laid down
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: and just take it in the third set.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Of course, dude, because slambo number five isn't labored or
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: forced at all, so she would have she.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: Would have appreciated it. We should have. We didn't go
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: last night. No, we should have gone and just been screaming.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Number slambo number five.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: Excuse me, gentlemen, We're gonna have to ask you to leave.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: I've had a lot of complaints.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: From everyone a forehand down the line.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: That's all. As far as I got, you didn't get out.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: Rebecca rises to world number three and is arguably playing
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: the best tennis of her life, of her life and
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: currently in the world.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Do you see her winning more slams this year?
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: Well? Yeah, I feel like.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: She's big on grass that serve on grass. I feel
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: like she's a Wimbledon favorite if she stays in this form.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: So you like her Wimbledon? Yeah, I would like to
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: see it because we might see more emotion as it
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: goes on. So I would like to see it, you know,
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: win a few few more.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: How's this? If I get this prediction, right, you have
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: to eat a tennis ball, right, I'm going to say
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Chevan Tech wins the French.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Can I write this down so we can hold you
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: to again.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Rebeccaa wins Wimbledon. Yeah, and Sabalanca wins the US. Okay,
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: that's my predictions for the year. You heard it here first,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: and then sam Ton will eat a tennis ball.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: The tennis ball at the US Open, because I think
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: we'll be there, won't we.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: Well, the Australian Opening, Craig Tyler have signed a contract
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: in blood that they're sending us to all the Grand
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: the Grand Slams, with all access, accommodation of our choice,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: absolutely free drinks.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: What's that I'm just hearing coming through after he heard
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: slambo number five, he's withdrawing it. That's interesting, very interesting.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Oh god, damn it?
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Should we look ahead to the men's final tonight. I've
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: never been more pumped for a match. This is going
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: to be an old timer.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: It's a to like, it's historical, the storylines. I'm loving
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: this photo doing the rounds of a young Carlitos, just
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: kind of peering over watching Novak warming up.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Novak's in the background, and it's it's an amazing photo.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: It's a great photo.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Should we steal Andy Roddick's joke?
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, he won't. Don't even credit do the drug?
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Well, the tweet, I'll say, you know, we want to
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: give credit where it's due. That the tweet that he
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: put out with the photo was a man regrets inspiring
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: young child.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so good. Hey, it's so good and it
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: is bang on. I don't know. I'm going into it
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: with no kind of expectations for who I want to win.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: I think watching it that maybe will become clear. I
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: don't know, but it's I'm not of a neutral supporter ever.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: I'm always like, who are we going for? I pick
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: a team whatever, But I at the moment, I'm just like,
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: let it wash over me. Whoever wins. It's a great storyline.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: Maybe when it starts, I'll be like, oh, I'm actually
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: on Novak here, I'm actually on Carlos. But at the moment,
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: I'm just like, let's do it.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: Well. We kind of touched on it yesterday, like where
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: will the crowd support line? Fascinating, They'll be backing whoever's
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: behind in the score line.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: You think, Yeah, yeah, because they just wanted to keep
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: going and going and going.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: I don't know. It depends how many Spanish folk get
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: a ticket, I think, And same with the Serbian fans,
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: I think, because they're the real vocal ones. Finals are
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: often accused of being like, you know, a bit more
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: corporate or whatever. People have to buy the tickets in advance,
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: so I don't know, they might just be You're right,
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: they might just be going for good old fashioned tennis.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: People who've paid for a finals ticket. And by the way,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: we're going to try and push in front.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, we have been. We're just in this text
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: message thread just being like we're going in, how we're
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: getting Who are we talking to? Can we talk Tily?
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: We're actually going to called Tily today to try to
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: make sure he's like, yeah, just get us in the
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: front little bit. It'll be fine. He needs to know
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: you get us in the coach's part. Yeah. And I guarantee,
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: like you know, when you know, if there's a break
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: and you want to go to the bathroom or something,
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: I will not be moving. If I get in there
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: and I sit down, I will be staying there till
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: next year.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Are you sure you don't have to have like a
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: a pikelet with your.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: It depends girlfriend. Look, it depends at what stage of
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: the baking process the scones are at.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, are you sure there's not, like, you know, a
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: big spread a grazing table with your girlfriend has cornish on?
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: What the hell is that some cued meat that's been
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: laid out on my kitchen bench? Are you sure you
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: don't have complete must go?
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Are you sure you don't have to have hirkins with
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: your girlfriend?
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: Mike, I made a mistake, and it was also I thought,
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: you know, it just popped into if anything, I'm guilty
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: of being too open with you as a friend that
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: I just let this thing slip. I'm sure if I
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: sat on it for a little bit longer, i've been like,
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: that's crazy, I'm going to stay at the tennis.
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: I think I was just floating my plans with you,
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: and I didn't know it was going to be, you know, villified.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: I've now got other friends texting me saying mean things
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: to me, being like, what is wrong with you? You idiot?
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: You were going to leave? It's really causing. I've never
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: been involved in a real pr scandal and a nightmare,
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: but that's kind of what this is turning into.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Well, it should be like I could see this match
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: going to five. Right before it goes to five, You're like, dude,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I gotta go have sashimi with my girlfriend from.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: Sushi Sushi trained. The trains pulling out of the station. Oh,
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: we got a booking at Sizzler.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: Oh, she's got cheesy toast waiting, and I get to
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: hear about her fucking day.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: The day thing is pretty funny. I made a mistake.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: I regret it. I regret it, and I wasn't do
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: it again.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: If we get in, we're staying for the long haul.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, my girl friend and generals since listened back to
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: the episode and she's like, yep, handing me in a
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: bad light. She's like, at no point did I ever
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: support you leaving the tennis to come and see me. Yeah,
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: it's crazy. She's like, you're an idiot. You need to
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: own this space.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: What's a better storyline for you? Novak becomes I think
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: the undisputed coade he already is, but like I think
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: he gets twenty five, he's untouchable.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: It's the debate over Yeah that he wins twenty five slams,
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: or that Carlo becomes the youngest to ever have.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: So I think, if I'm looking deep down into my soul,
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: what i want, it's probably Klitos to win. I think,
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: just because it's exciting and you're looking forward to the
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: future and it's like, who knows what his feeling is
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: and how high he can get. But there is something
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: about I remember the only thing I'm compared to if
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: we're talking about goats in different sports, when Tiger Woods
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: won the twenty nineteen Masters and he'd come back from
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: everyone had written him off, and it was like age
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: it got him, you know, and then he won, it
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: was electric And that's kind of a similar feeling to
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: that with Novak.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: There someone story. I mean, Tiger came back from cheating
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: on his wife's overcoming the adversity.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: It was a real battlers, yeah, just sex worker after
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: sex worker, and he defied the odds, turned to harp
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: rise from So what I'm saying is it feels like
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: that big time, But don't you feel it because it's
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: like there's something about a champion. It does feel like
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: there's a final chapter with Novak and this could be it.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: I think he wins, he should just retire.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Well, like they have an amazing head to head. I
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: should probably have what that is in front of me,
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: but I do not. But I think Carlos, you know,
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: the one time he beat him soundly in a final
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: was that Wimbledon, and then the one before that was
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: a killer match. Obviously Novak took the gold full five Okay, yeah,
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: and Novak winning the gold medal at the Olympics a
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: couple of years ago was huge right over Carlos.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: But Carlos is like, I mean, after what he went
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: through in that semi, I feel like he's got to
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: be the most confident guy of all the time. But
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: I mean it depends how much of the Novak match
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: you watch, because he might go, oh yeah, where did
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: he pull that from?
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: And also five and a half hours on court two
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: days ago, is he young enough to recover?
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: Is an a half hours? But like we're talking three
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: hours of that was him just watching that clock go down,
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: or he's just standing there like that's not taking it
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: out of you. Yeah, I played twenty minutes of.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: That's probably the worst take you've had this, I don't
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: think so.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: May You've got to remember I had a keich to
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: get to at the time.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: Oh god, yeah, you had a strawberry pasta to go
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: eat strawberry your girlfriend.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: Head, you have a girl friend, I have to go
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: eat banana bread with my girlfriend. Look, Kalitos might take
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: a lot of confidence from that, but Novak might just go,
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: this is it. You don't get any other chances, and
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: just go for it. You know, if you're playing to
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: win or playing being like whatever, I can play defensive,
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: or if you're just like I'm just gonna rip it
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: and see what happens.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, could be Novak, could be nova.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: I actually don't know.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: I don't think anyone does. There's a coin toss, But
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: what are you calling? Put it on record now?
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: I think it's I think Novak. I'm going to go
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: with Novak. I think it's a I love storylines, Yeah,
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: and I think I mean I said I want the
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: I want Carloss. I think that's for me, a more
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: exciting storyline. But I think there's something about if you
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: think back, like, what is Novak's story going to be
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: when everything is said and done, the greatest of all time?
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: What did he do? I just think it seems like
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: something he would do you know.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: He wants I mean they both want it, so they want.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: It, but he's also hungry. He's hungry and it's like
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: that he's the greatest of all time. It's like, this
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: is what crazy champions do. They just add another thing
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: where you're like, I can't believe they did that. He's
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: a winner at his core, loved the Australian hope and
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: if there was going to be a saying that he
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: did this at it's his So well, he's.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: Never last in an al final. He's won ten of ten,
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: so he's getting close to I mean, if he wins eleven,
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: that's getting close to you know, Nadal's fourteen. It's a French.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: It's wild right, he's a he's a Melbourne Park specialist,
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: whatever that means.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: But is the okay, how much does age factor in?
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: Because our sound guy he'd.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: Say that my take was the worst take, the tomnament
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: Aceman's take. You go you let it out because I
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: think it's absolutely horrific.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: He said that the age thing is a is a myth?
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Is that how he put it?
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: He said to me, he goes his age is not
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: real and I'm like, well, you're denying he's thirty eight,
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: and he goes, no, I don't buy into it. He goes,
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: I just don't buy into his body being done. He's like,
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: thirty eight is fine, and I'm like, I get it
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: that you're a man in your thirties and you don't
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: want to admit that your body is slowly starting to fail. Yeah,
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: but the facts are there that Novak is flowing down.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: Thirty eight years old versus twenty two years old.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: A young twenty. I would love to be twenty two again.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, look, I love Novak, He's been around
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: so long, been doing so much.
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: But I think Carlos and for you think Carlos him four,
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: and what's the storyline that you like better.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: I like twenty five. I think it caps the career.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: I think he'll still play slams the rest of the year,
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: but I don't know if he'll get through Center and
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: Algaaz again. And I just think Carlos. I think the
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: youth thing is huge. Some stats are producer Eerol. Shout
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: out to Errol doing such a great job over the
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: past few weeks. The number one song in nineteen eighty
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: seven when Novak.
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: Was born, Oh fantastic seconds may wait in Australia.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and the Australian charts. Paul lacacis boom boom. Let's
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: go back to my room?
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: Oh wow, yeah okay, or in your case boom boom,
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: let's go back to my sleeping bag out in front
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: of Melbourne Pop.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, on the bench outside Margaret.
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: Corterina Okay, any other any other stats about that year?
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: Number one movie Beverly Hills Cop two. That's Beverly Hills
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: Cop one, but you know, still funny Eddie Murphy in
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: his absolute prime. And then to juxtapose that with Carlos's birthday,
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: Carlito was born fifth of May two thousand and three.
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: Got them, Well, the number one song at that time
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: was fifty Cents in the Cloude.
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, dude, we should have done that. If he wins,
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: let's do that tomorrow for song.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's good, and we'll do boom boom if
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: no back wins.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I don't know boom boom. Do you know
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: the song.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: Boom boom boom? Take you back to my room?
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: I was thinking of the Vina boys. Well want number
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: one movie?
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: Bo what's a number one movie matrix reloaded?
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: Oh dude, that's shit it's a classic. The sequels are
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: not good, but whatever you have bad.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: Takes young ah and just quickly. Taylor Fritz was asked
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: who he likes to win the men's final and his
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: response was.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: Who are you cheering for on Sunday? I'm cheering for
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: myself to have a great day. I don't care who
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: wins what.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: And also, is it any wonder Breakpoint on Netflix did
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: not take off?
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: What was he in his covet as well? In a
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: game of chair? Yeah, is streaming out to the world
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: just feel like, I don't care, it would suck. I
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: think we were talking about this the other day. It's
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: so funny that, like it's like three is get to
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: in their prime, get to experience Grand Slam Finals because
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: the others are just so filthy. They didn't make it
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: there so they can't watch it. They're not going to go.
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: It'd be such cock behavior to just sit in the
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: stadium just watching better players than you. Well ta his
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: career glory.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: But instead you're playing Call of Duty on Twitch.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: And and just being like, I'm going to have a
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: great time, care have a great day. Like my influence
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: girl round.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: Maybe it makes me take a million photos and then whatever.
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: Bro, he's a likable fellow.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: Ah right, Sad wraps it up.
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: All right, we're going to go line up out the
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: front of Rod Laver.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: Samuel. What do you think our chances are of getting
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: in to the final?
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: Well, if you take the glasses off, we're a better chance.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: You look sneaky.
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and everyone knows that the ball Kids sunglass it
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: was gifted to be. Yeah, I know, but it's still
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: I think it says something about the ball Kids on
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: the on the actual sunglasses in the logos property of Bulky.
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: If lost, please return to ball Kits.
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: I think we're a big chance. I'm surprised the weight
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: we have.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: We've got to get there early. We got to get
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: my sleeping bag and get outside and make sure we're
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: camped out for it.
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: Just in the in the take it into the seats
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: as well, just for a rug up. And it's cold
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: out there.
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: It'll be cold.
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: I think. Look, let's be real, we are lower on
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: the priority of most of the world's international media. We're
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: new to being respected tennis journalists, but we're making waves
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: and it will really be down to the discretion of
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: whatever lovely person is letting us in at the stadium.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: All right, I think we can pull some strings. I
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: think we'll be in there.
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: I think we have to be.
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: We have to be. We're doing the recap tomorrow.
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: Exactly where actually got to do work. There'll be other
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: people that a lot of people are jetting out. They're
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: already kind of pulling stuff down around here, like getting
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: ready to move that. It is very sad.
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: But also our plan is to drink all day. Yeah,
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: try and get in.
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, which I think is flawless, absolutely flawless, because you
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: have a bit a bit more courage sometimes. Yeah, push in,
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: you push in. Yeah, you do some morally bankrupt type behavior,
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: oh yeah, yeah, like cut in front of people still
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: their actual ticket, Push old ladies. I'm not going to
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: push old ladies. I'd push an old man that me.
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: I'm a gentleman. You are a gentleman. So you'd push
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: Rod Labor out of the way to get into his
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: own stadium.
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: Well, he's got a hell of a seat, doesn't he.
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to push him, I'd say, I'd say
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: i'ld split it with him.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: You're going to sit on his lap?
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: Well, no, he'd have to sit on my lab. Just
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: a basic look at the strength. I'm not saying, yeah,
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: I'm stronger than Rod Labor. He can sit on my lab.
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: But what if we went we went.
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: You had to think about that a while.
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: If you're stronger, have you seen the seat he has?
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: He has Rocket Rod. His seat is obvious. He's got
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: the best seat in the house.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: It's his. Can he go there like at any time
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: and just be like, yo, I'm just going home and
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: just walk around because it's not just tennis that Yeah.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: I saw him sitting in that seat for the Weezer concert.
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, I saw him there at Billie eilisheh.
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: It was crazy a yeah.
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: And our interview today is with another legend of tennis.
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: Oh, this one is cool.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: I think this was your first interview when you jumped
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: in on the pod. This is with Pat Raff.
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, I started with Pat. Yeah, and he
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: and I hit it off straight away.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: For our audio listeners, Sam, this was the first time
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: you got the courage to actually talk during an interview.
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: I know, it's crazy. I've been sitting over there with
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: Aceman this entire tournament, just kind of trembling, if I'm honest,
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: like just you know, shaking scared sometimes tears quick, Yeah exactly.
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: I don't know where I found the courage. And then
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: I just sat there and I introduced myself to Pat
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: and then I've been a regular since.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you were inspired by another aging hunk and decided
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: to jump in.
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: I was like, I like you on the undies, I
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: like you the Bond Bonds.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: Mate, great ones.
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: Is that your accent? What do you? Is that your
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: best Australian again? Yeah, that's pretty good. Chrispy bike and
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: beg what that's not a saying. It's not like a
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: textbook Australian saying.
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys all say Krispy Krispy.
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: Bacon burger you're going to do? That's not a nice
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: rip on the barbie. I mean we never say that,
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: but at least people think that, what if Bora was Australia.
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: Oh that's not my wife.
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: That's this is my wife. It's pulled out an eight
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: foot woman.
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Pod laver Arena Today. On the Pod
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: we are former world number one Pat Rafter.
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: That's crazy. I'm shaking. I can't believe it. Face to face. Yeah,
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: this is wild.
• 48:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I'm the only undefeated number one ever
• 49:02
  Speaker 5: oh why is that? Yeah, I for one week and
• 49:05
  Speaker 5: I was having a week off. And when I went
• 49:06
  Speaker 5: back next week, I was number two in.
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: One week.
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: One week at the and.
• 49:13
  Speaker 5: I was having a week off.
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: I should have kept having more weeks off.
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: I would have stated number one forever.
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: At number one? What were you doing during that week?
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: Just enjoying it?
• 49:21
  Speaker 5: We finished Wimbledon Semis and then went straight to Dave's
• 49:24
  Speaker 5: Cup in Boston, which was brutal, and got through that,
• 49:27
  Speaker 5: and then I had a week off because I lived
• 49:29
  Speaker 5: in Bermuda, so I popped back to there and then
• 49:31
  Speaker 5: I went and played another tournament after that, and LA
• 49:34
  Speaker 5: I think right, Yeah, so you a long stint for
• 49:38
  Speaker 5: about eight nine weeks on the road, Yeah, playing every week.
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: You needed a week off before we were then you
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: had the US Swing. Yeah, but did you get so
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: how much of the like when you're world number one,
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: you get to be like, I'm the best, there's no
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: one the better. You got six days off.
• 49:52
  Speaker 5: I just sat back and blew smoke up my arm.
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I got a guy, You got it. You just
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: listened to myself. Yeah, I had myself on the back. Yeah,
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: go into restaurants and be like any deals for the
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: best tennis player in the world.
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: Is anyone listening?
• 50:07
  Speaker 7: We were, We were number one podcast for a week.
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: What happened?
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: Well we took a week off.
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and.
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: Awesome to have you in. Also, you were Australian of
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: the Year in two thousand and two. What what were
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: the duties as Australian of the Year.
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you have to do?
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: Is it like shoeies and jewey pre pre shoeies?
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: Thank god you got the showy going, did you? That
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: was your initiative.
• 50:38
  Speaker 5: I got off of to do one sometime last year
• 50:41
  Speaker 5: and I declined, it's disgusting. Yeah, I've never Yeah, but
• 50:46
  Speaker 5: I traveled around and you still have a message in
• 50:48
  Speaker 5: a point of view, and you try to sort of
• 50:50
  Speaker 5: use a bit of a political slant on things, so
• 50:54
  Speaker 5: to speak. So I went out to Mount Eyes. I
• 50:56
  Speaker 5: hadn't been back there a long time because I grew
• 50:59
  Speaker 5: up there, just to be a bit of a revisit
• 51:01
  Speaker 5: out there.
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: Found we don't. Yeah, we were talking about it before
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: and it's and it's like, you know, a lot of
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: people that live in the city would never go out
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: to Mount Isac because it's so far away and so
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: kind of isolated, great town to do stand up in,
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: but it's different to the rest of Australia.
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: It's a different crowd.
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: Well, like more up for it, but yeah, a bit
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: different to what you'd get if you're doing stand up
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: in Melbourne or Sydney. But how did you find it
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: growing up there and then playing tennis and having to
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: go and play tournaments.
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: When you're a kid, you know, use this all, you know.
• 51:29
  Speaker 5: So I had eight brothers and sisters, so we grew
• 51:33
  Speaker 5: up out the bush there and my father was actually
• 51:35
  Speaker 5: an accountant for the mines in the sixties, so they were
• 51:38
  Speaker 5: there seventeen years.
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was pretty.
• 51:41
  Speaker 5: Warm, but as a kid, you don't really know any better.
• 51:44
  Speaker 5: Thirty thousand people lived there then though, because it wasn't
• 51:47
  Speaker 5: a fly and fly out.
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: That's the less people that were here on opening day
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: of Qualify. Yeah, it seems like a big number for
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: a little town.
• 51:58
  Speaker 5: It went town a thousand people in the eighties because
• 52:00
  Speaker 5: the whole flying fly out right.
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so started moving.
• 52:04
  Speaker 7: You said you got eight brothers and sisters. I know
• 52:07
  Speaker 7: one of them.
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: Who's that.
• 52:08
  Speaker 7: I did a group assignment with Dave.
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah you t Yeah, did he hold his you look.
• 52:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, related, but it was we just knew what you need.
• 52:30
  Speaker 7: The day rafter was paradraft.
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: Did he like hold his project?
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: Was he like?
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: He was actually really good?
• 52:38
  Speaker 7: It was like campaign management or something like that. He
• 52:41
  Speaker 7: was the top dog.
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: What did you get a good mark?
• 52:43
  Speaker 7: I think we might have got an okay mark, Okay,
• 52:46
  Speaker 7: the top dog.
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: The rest of the crew the top dog. Obviously it
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: was like.
• 52:51
  Speaker 7: An eight person group assignments.
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: Eight person and he did all the work.
• 52:55
  Speaker 7: He did all the work and came and another girl
• 52:58
  Speaker 7: that did most of the work. Okay, we spent a
• 53:00
  Speaker 7: lot of time, but there's that connection. Do you feel
• 53:04
  Speaker 7: closer to me?
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: Well, Pat, while we have you, I want to run
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: a couple of things by you. There used to be,
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: as I'm sure you guys are all aware, a popular
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: Australian TV show, Packed to the Rafters. We're repitching it
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: to Channel nine, as if we could bring the image
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: up Packed to the Rafters. Yeah, but I think there
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: was another one where we just we actually made a
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: Pat to the rafters.
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: That's just from my camera.
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: Well there's okay, we went back to that for some reason.
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: That's I don't keep looking at it.
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, would you would you do this where you play
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: all the parts. Yeah, and that feels like an Eddie
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: Murphy movie.
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 53:48
  Speaker 5: I mean, look at this cute little baby.
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: It looks like a one man show at the Adelaide Fringe,
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: doesn't it. It does just pat there in a tent character,
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: one done.
• 54:00
  Speaker 7: Show about you, like a musical or something.
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: Do you imagine how bad?
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: I mean, what are they going to do?
• 54:05
  Speaker 7: Shane warned music?
• 54:07
  Speaker 5: There's there's a The musical is a bit of a
• 54:11
  Speaker 5: different league. But the regun one okay, well that's probably
• 54:14
  Speaker 5: a comedy.
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: And then obviously you did the Bond underwear campaign and
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: we had that picture of you que It's no way
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: I want to soak it all in.
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: I think can we use man?
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: One more thing? I wanted to run by you. This
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: is this is our friend fellow comedian Ben.
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: Lomas bely Man, good comedian.
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: Do you see any I there's a lot of civiliz.
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: Away. I sort of do.
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: His big joke because he gets on stage, gets a
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: laugh every time he says, my friends call me fat rafter.
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: He could be a brother that doesn't hold it. You know,
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: that's funny. He'll love that. That is a good head
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: of hair. Actually, yeah, Pat, we've been rounding off the
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: interviews by doing our own one point slam on the
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: ping pong table over there.
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: The steaks.
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: We don't have a million dollars to give away, so
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: the steaks are sting pong, So the loser, the winner,
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: gets to smash a ball at him.
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: Did you have curios come in?
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: Exactly what happened? Okay, yep, so you're taking of Sam Taunton,
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: but fantastic. Yeah. What do you think fell for the
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: sting pong?
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: When you show itself?
• 55:36
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: Yes, heaped. It's that's what I means show it off.
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: And oh yeah, we're gonna we're gonna do We're gonna
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: do it here.
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So this is the one point slam
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: to underwear models facing off Sam Tomton serving to Pat Rafter.
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: Here we go, all right, Oh and Pat said shirt
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: off for the stick punk. Pat Rafter takes the point
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: cruel cool, cool, cool, This is his first one. You
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: guys gotta switch ends to the table. Yeah, you gotta
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: go around there. Oh, here we go. Be cool as
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: cool as you can, Pot Rafter. Here we got a
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: quick photo. Swill it down, asked Lords