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THE FUTURE OF AUSTRALIAN TENNIS (PROBABLY) · Pod Laver Arena

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Another passing shot, a serve into the.
• 0:03
  Speaker 2: Net ybscribe, you buy the forehand, your footwork, you forget
• 0:09
  Speaker 2: Coco Gouff.
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: Has gone the demon and teen.
• 0:14
  Speaker 2: Iva Yovich will bounce back. She's only just a teen.
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: Tennis is unpredictable, but in the end it's right.
• 0:22
  Speaker 2: We hope that by the French you'll be all right, and.
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: We hope that the French you'll be all right. Should
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: be perfect tennis last no way, one solid tree cloud
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: from THEO. You don't like it.
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  Speaker 2: He got too emotional, he's crying. I played it at
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  Speaker 2: his year six fa well brings back bad memories for
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: the A.
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  Speaker 1: Because he dropped out and your he didn't get.
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  Speaker 2: To go, he didn't get an invite and he only
• 1:06
  Speaker 2: heard that outside the auditorium, Like can I come in?
• 1:11
  Speaker 2: It's actually a very sad story, ice man.
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  Speaker 1: You have fun stories right to us at pod Labor
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  Speaker 2: But I mean like, when I mean reviews, I mean
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they help. Yeah, I think the star
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  Speaker 2: Don't say that.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, as you're saying it, I'm like processing,
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• 2:11
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  Speaker 2: Tell your weird uncle. Just be like, look, I know
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  Speaker 2: we haven't spoken since Christmas after what you did, but hey,
• 2:18
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• 2:21
  Speaker 2: I think there's something there for you.
• 2:22
  Speaker 1: All right, Oh we do actually have a review. Oh yeah, yeah,
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: we have a five star, genuinely funny review from z Mule.
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  Speaker 1: He said, I didn't know what this was, and so
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  Speaker 1: it was the official podcast of the AO, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: shocked at how legit funny and smart it is what
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  Speaker 1: finally keep it up? Please?
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  Speaker 2: What dude, that's a bit of a diss at the
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  Speaker 2: AO though.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I have to say it's a review from four
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  Speaker 1: days ago, so this is pre Sam Titan. That's true.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I might have brought it down a level, but hey,
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  Speaker 2: you got to think. You know, there'll be someone else.
• 2:56
  Speaker 2: There'll be enough z Mule out there for me.
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  Speaker 1: We love you a mule as I. We are brought
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  Speaker 1: to you by Piper Heide sick Champagne, not your daddy Champagne. Slurp,
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  Speaker 1: slurping down.
• 3:14
  Speaker 2: Oh that's what it feels like to have a glass
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  Speaker 2: your head goes.
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  Speaker 1: We have a new segment. Aceman asks An asks ace Man,
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  Speaker 1: as all our loyal listeners would know, is our.
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  Speaker 2: Ace in the hole.
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  Speaker 1: He is our sound guy, our camera guy, our morale.
• 3:35
  Speaker 2: Guy, except for yesterday he was down in the dump.
• 3:38
  Speaker 1: But I think we got him out of it. Will
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  Speaker 1: you cheer him up? But I have Aceman has my
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  Speaker 1: phone number, which I deeply regret. And he while I
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  Speaker 1: was watching the The Demon ar Alcoril y yes, I,
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  Speaker 1: which we'll get into like the whole country was yes
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  Speaker 1: uh And he messaged me out of the blue and
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  Speaker 1: he said, please speak out about the arm size difference
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  Speaker 1: on Alcoraz. It's ridiculous, right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And then he sent how did you get this number?
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  Speaker 3: Well?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was like please, I thought I blocked you.
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  Speaker 1: He sent me this picture to follow it up. Oh
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  Speaker 1: what do you immediately notice?
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  Speaker 2: So this is well, I mean it's yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 2: I see a young boy and a man.
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  Speaker 1: So when he sent me this picture, so it's Alcoraz.
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  Speaker 1: Now he's ripped, he's huge.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, both look big, don't they.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? And then this has got to be fifteen year
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  Speaker 1: old album.
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  Speaker 2: This has got to be. Is this like the junior
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  Speaker 2: French or something we've seen? He look skinny, he is,
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  Speaker 2: I know, his.
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  Speaker 1: Head hasn't even like fully formed.
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  Speaker 2: So this is what ace Man sent you.
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  Speaker 1: He sent me this, and so I said, oh, right,
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  Speaker 1: I thought you meant the difference between his left arm
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  Speaker 1: and his right arm, you mean from when he was
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  Speaker 1: a child to now. And then he said, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: I actually meant that the difference now between the left
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  Speaker 1: and the right arm.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you can see it here. Yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 2: he looks quite good there. I mean he always looks good,
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  Speaker 2: doesn't he. There's nothing it's hard to pick a fault
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  Speaker 2: with his physique, but I mean it's a common thing
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  Speaker 2: of these top flight tennis players, especially the men, one
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  Speaker 2: arm size will develop much more.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean Federer had the popeye arm on one
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  Speaker 1: side and the very skinny arm on the other. It's
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  Speaker 1: just the nature of them using the one arm NonStop
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  Speaker 1: for thirty years.
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  Speaker 2: And they also compete in illegal arm wrestling competition outside
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  Speaker 2: of the ATP tour.
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  Speaker 1: Can I say this though? Ace is our very own
• 5:35
  Speaker 1: like clickfarm, He's like he's the one, He's got it
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  Speaker 1: on multiple screens. He's getting our numbers up Aceman or
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: the Mule as he liked to be Mule. Well. Actually,
• 5:46
  Speaker 1: speaking of numbers and stats, we have a bunch of stats.
• 5:50
  Speaker 1: You want to throw a few at me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So this one took my interest, and I know
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  Speaker 2: your interests. I think you're responsible for some of that
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  Speaker 2: fort and eighty seven shake Sha Burger's been sold.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's so.
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  Speaker 2: How many is that you've done?
• 6:05
  Speaker 1: Have you had one yet?
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  Speaker 2: No, it's it's a bit too much for me.
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  Speaker 1: It's not though they're tiny really, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was like an extravagant Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's like no, it's like a you've had in and
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  Speaker 1: out burger. Yeah, it's like a small you can eat
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  Speaker 1: it in four bites. Really.
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  Speaker 2: I mean a lot of people are excited on the
• 6:22
  Speaker 2: streets in Melbourne about it. Like they're asking me. I'm
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  Speaker 2: telling people, I'm like, I'm heading into the AO. They're like,
• 6:26
  Speaker 2: what's it like to shake chack experience? And I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: what about the world class tennis is that? Is that
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  Speaker 2: not enough for you people anymore? Totally? I like this
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  Speaker 2: one as well. Two hundred and forty six thousand and
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  Speaker 2: eighty four liters of alcoholic beverages. That's a lot.
• 6:43
  Speaker 1: That is a lot. And you think that lead into
• 6:46
  Speaker 1: the number of burgers sold as well. Ah, Yeah, we
• 6:49
  Speaker 1: had a huge day yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: It was a big day, wasn't it.
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  Speaker 1: It was very hard outside, but the tennis action was
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  Speaker 1: still going on and I loved it. First match on
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: rod Laver Arena was Sabalanca versus Eva Yovich. This was
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  Speaker 1: a bloodbath. Sorry to say.
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  Speaker 2: Sabillanca did it easy.
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  Speaker 1: She did it easy, and this is just world number one,
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  Speaker 1: being in world number one and like just kind of
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  Speaker 1: exerting her dominance. And I don't think she was ever troubled.
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  Speaker 1: She I mean it was hot, so she broke a sweat,
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  Speaker 1: but I mean it was it was done in straight, said, I.
• 7:26
  Speaker 2: Saw a post match. I was running to the loo
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  Speaker 2: and I think she was running up to do her
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  Speaker 2: press conference. And I'm not We're not next door, but
• 7:35
  Speaker 2: we're pretty close. But I was running across and I
• 7:37
  Speaker 2: was in the hallway and it was empty, and then
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden, there was a vibe shift in
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  Speaker 2: the in the hallway and it felt like when you're
• 7:44
  Speaker 2: in the surf and a big waves coming and you
• 7:45
  Speaker 2: can feel the water being sucked out. All of a sudden,
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  Speaker 2: she turns the corner with like seventeen people, walks past me.
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  Speaker 2: I said, well played. She said nothing back, dude.
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  Speaker 1: Then was she waiting outside? Had the bathroom for you?
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  Speaker 1: And she said well played? Well yeah yeah yeah. She
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  Speaker 1: said I love what you did in there, correct work.
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  Speaker 1: It's love and I left, yeah yeah yeah. So Saboleanca
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  Speaker 1: through to the semi finals TN versus Zvera.
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  Speaker 2: And you've been on TN.
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  Speaker 1: I love him man. I think he would be confused
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  Speaker 1: by the fact that everyone like brought l plates to
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  Speaker 1: this match. Did you see that I did? Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: mean he's American yeah, it's.
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  Speaker 2: Just not relevant. But I reckon once it gets explained
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  Speaker 2: to him, he might like it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he is a quick learner, absolutely, But also, anyone
• 8:35
  Speaker 1: else in the world sees a big l they think lose.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but we're kind of different here, Mike, and that's
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  Speaker 2: kind of what makes this bloody country and this tournament great. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so don't come here with your yank mindset. Okay, you've
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  Speaker 2: done the test, you're one of us.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, So you would be happy if
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: I followed you around with a big L side.
• 8:55
  Speaker 2: Now I'll tell that's not relevant because my name's not learn. Yeah,
• 8:59
  Speaker 2: it wouldn't. I'll be like, why a you're doing that.
• 9:01
  Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, well then it could only be loser.
• 9:05
  Speaker 2: But surely in the moment he was like, all right,
• 9:07
  Speaker 2: they can't be saying loser. But because if they're cheering
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  Speaker 2: for him yet they've got a loser sign like that
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  Speaker 2: just wouldn't make sense.
• 9:13
  Speaker 1: Well for anyone from overseas. The l play explainer.
• 9:16
  Speaker 2: So, to get your license, you have to do a
• 9:18
  Speaker 2: test and then you get learner plates where you have
• 9:20
  Speaker 2: to drive with a paranoral guardian or whoever. Someone has
• 9:23
  Speaker 2: to sign a book saying they're teaching and you have
• 9:25
  Speaker 2: to put them on the car. You do a reduced
• 9:26
  Speaker 2: speed limit till you get a provisional license, which you
• 9:29
  Speaker 2: need plates for as well.
• 9:31
  Speaker 1: You could have just said L means learner plates and
• 9:34
  Speaker 1: his name is Learner. But you took the long way.
• 9:37
  Speaker 1: So what you need to do veries state to state.
• 9:39
  Speaker 2: So if you're in Victoria, you've got a VIC Roads
• 9:40
  Speaker 2: News South Wales Service News South Wales formerly the RTA.
• 9:44
  Speaker 2: They vary, but it's pretty consistent that we all have
• 9:46
  Speaker 2: Learner plates. And then you go to P's and then
• 9:48
  Speaker 2: the fun fact is you get a red pee and
• 9:49
  Speaker 2: then you move on to a green piece.
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: It's a real treat.
• 9:54
  Speaker 2: And let me tell you when you get a full
• 9:55
  Speaker 2: stack of points, you get twelve points, you get off
• 9:57
  Speaker 2: those peas, My god, it feels good.
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: Golf versus svid Alina.
• 10:03
  Speaker 2: This was this is when the wind really blew.
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is the worst I've seen Coco play in
• 10:11
  Speaker 1: a while. And she, you know, all credit to Spidelina.
• 10:14
  Speaker 1: She played solid, took the racket out of Coco's hand.
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: But then Coco has and she said it in a
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: press conference, like you know, she usually can dig her
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: way into a match and like start figuring it out,
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: but she just spiraled.
• 10:27
  Speaker 2: Sometimes you don't have it, you know, And I guess
• 10:29
  Speaker 2: it's hard because you plan a match, you think about it,
• 10:31
  Speaker 2: all of a sudden you're just out there and it's
• 10:33
  Speaker 2: happening and you're like, I just don't have my stuff today.
• 10:35
  Speaker 2: I just can't do it. And I guess what made
• 10:37
  Speaker 2: the better people kind of rise to the occasion more
• 10:40
  Speaker 2: is that they can find it. They don't let the
• 10:42
  Speaker 2: bad moments hampen them. And also I think if you're
• 10:44
  Speaker 2: only playing three sets, it is you got less time
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: to find it. That's the other thing, right.
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: The biggest kind of expectation hype match of the day
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: was Alex Dimonar versus Wouses Carlito Alcarez Calita. You strike
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: me as you say alkorath.
• 11:04
  Speaker 2: Carazz because I tried to speak like South American Spanish.
• 11:09
  Speaker 2: So there's no lisp.
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: Oh, there's no lisp.
• 11:12
  Speaker 2: No, they do it. I mean the Argentinians do pronounce
• 11:14
  Speaker 2: things differently. There's a sh you pronounced the double ellis
• 11:17
  Speaker 2: as opposed to a year, but it's a no lisp.
• 11:21
  Speaker 2: Alcz is the same. You just said, how we say it,
• 11:23
  Speaker 2: but you'd say, but demonoys had them ignore.
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: But they would say alkorash a karash.
• 11:29
  Speaker 2: No, that's what you went to the medic tent, Mike.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. The first three games, man like Alcoraz was just
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: he again looked like the world number one. It was
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: just a real apex predator out there, which is also.
• 11:42
  Speaker 2: Have you know what I thought watching the game is
• 11:44
  Speaker 2: that his arms so much bigger than when he was
• 11:47
  Speaker 2: a small child. Have you noticed that? It's crazy?
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: Man? Did you come up with that?
• 11:52
  Speaker 2: I don't know, just kind of hit me, hit me
• 11:54
  Speaker 2: in the form of a text message.
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: But then Demon got back into the set and he
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: leveled it up.
• 12:01
  Speaker 2: Dude, he legit had moments hey where you're like, it's
• 12:04
  Speaker 2: like when you watch the SOCCA Roos play and you're like,
• 12:06
  Speaker 2: these Aussie butlers are going to get it done. It
• 12:09
  Speaker 2: doesn't matter that we're playing a powerhouse in the best
• 12:12
  Speaker 2: team in the world. He did look up for the fight,
• 12:16
  Speaker 2: but just got outclassed.
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: I mean it was the best tennis I think for
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: me it was in the first set, it was like
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: just electrifying rallies, the crazy foot speed, that like jumping back.
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: That jumping backhand the timing.
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: Demon are jumping a kick at the same time to
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: stay in the set. That was poetry and motion stuff.
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: It's often how people describe my movement on the I I.
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: Think, so you know what Demon. You know, he lost
• 12:46
  Speaker 2: obviously the Nations in morning, but I think he won
• 12:49
  Speaker 2: the outfit battle. I was seeing them out there. I
• 12:52
  Speaker 2: mean whatever al Choraz that little green singlet number. Didn't
• 12:56
  Speaker 2: like it? I think, not he're doing great work, but
• 12:58
  Speaker 2: I really didn't like it. I think the Moron and White,
• 13:01
  Speaker 2: the Wilson ensemble that Demon had, I thought it was classy,
• 13:05
  Speaker 2: and I think if you want to go out, you
• 13:06
  Speaker 2: want to go out looking good.
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: But if Nike didn't push this leaveless number for Alcaaz,
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: then we can see the arm difference. Yeah.
• 13:14
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean you just have to look in the
• 13:16
  Speaker 2: camera roll of Aceman's phone, and I think you're really
• 13:18
  Speaker 2: going to see it.
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: Well, let's get into v headline calls Sam as you
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: know I have access to the player gym while I'm here.
• 13:30
  Speaker 2: And I don't.
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: You don't.
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I did come later, so that's fair enough.
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: But I don't know.
• 13:34
  Speaker 2: I thought we should have the same passes.
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: I think they looked at you and they said that
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: he's never touched away.
• 13:39
  Speaker 2: I think they looked at me and thought that guy
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: is a professional tennifier. So you have been sort of
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: low key bragging to me that you've been going into
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: the player gym. What's it like in that?
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: Man, yesterday was the most star studded affair that.
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: Because you send me a message and I just said, oh,
• 13:55
  Speaker 2: what did it say? Big big day in the gym
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  Speaker 2: or something?
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: The gym?
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  Speaker 2: But there was nothing else, and I was like what.
• 14:01
  Speaker 2: I was like, who's there? I didn't even reply.
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: I was like, did you forget that I had like
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: access to the player germ and you thought I was
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: just sending you a textab.
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: I just thought you were at Snap Fitness, big guy
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: in the gym.
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, Codd yesterday because the temperature was
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: very high, I think a lot of people wanted to
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: be indoors. A lot of the players. Uh so yeah,
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: it was center was in there real.
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what kind of what kind of stuff is he
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: up to?
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: Look? I don't want to invade his privacy. So that's
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: you know, just for people that have access to the players. Yeah, okay, special,
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: but you know, he Yeah, his coach, Darren Cahill was
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: doing a lot of backwards walking on the treadmill. I'll
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: tell you that the coaches on there as well, the
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: coaches in there, and he was doing backwards walking on
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: the treadmill. Elena Rebeccinha who just went through to the
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: she was in there. She was doing those little.
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: She was sprimmacking it out there.
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: She wallops the ball. Yeah, and then uh yeah. It
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: was just me asking people if they'd like a spot
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: and then not responding.
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: Looks like on the podcast, you mean well and the
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: gym and oh yes, you're going up to your You're
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: just well, you're quite handsy it anyway you might you
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: kind of get in there and you know, really just
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: you know, make yourself known and have a chat and
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: that kind of stuff. Who are you making eye contact?
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: Because how do you play it? Because the gym is
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: an awkward space at the best of times, let alone
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: when you were surrounded by international superstars that you admire.
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: Athletes working out as a different pace. You know, absolutely,
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: I am used to you know, your Planet Fitness, where
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: there's a vending machine, gets a bigger you know use yeah, yeah,
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: everything else they you know, everyone just does their own thing.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: But I did get a nod from dig Or Schwartzman.
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: Well he's heard or the yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: So any other notes in a nod?
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: Danielle Hut covert acknowledge my existence, which was nice. How
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: good is this?
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: But take a moment to think about this podcast. You're
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: just going who acknowledged.
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: That I exist outside of this? Yeah?
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: And also your co host being like that rules.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: That's cool, dude, it does Alcaaz at the end of
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: his match. The thing is, I think the match people
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: are expecting at least four sets, if like an epic
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: five set. Steve and I was playing so good going
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: into it, but I think because the match was done
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: pretty quickly. Jim Courrier love him great on court interviews,
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: but then he like got Alcoraz to go get his
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: racket and do a bunch of tricks. Did you see this? Yeah?
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: I mean obviously there's some kind of contractual obligations that
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: Channel nine have to kind of fill air on. So
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: Jim means there being a good broadcaster just being like
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: bit a Harlem globe. Try this kind of stuff, really,
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: isn't it?
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean I liked it because you know, I
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: would love to be able to do the tricks we
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: try them with the tiny racket.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, but I mean Jim goes, He's like,
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: do you want the do you want to see him
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: do these tricks?
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: And the crowd's like, I guess.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: I mean it's easy.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: I mean these can you get the.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: Are you doing that? What finger you using?
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, here you go.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Take that. Alcaraz al Caaz. Well, let's get to one
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: of our favorite segments. This is celebrity. We had Peggy
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: Goo in Alcoraz's players.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: Boh my god, look at her up there.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: I know, there's Peggy Goo. You're a good head.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: Go ahead. South Korean DJ she's playing here? What Yeah,
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: she's actually subbing in for uh she's gonna play Uh No,
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: I don't think. I don't think that's what people want. No,
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: she's playing a DJ set. I think in two days
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: time or maybe tomorrow when is she playing? But she's
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: out here soaking up at Melbourne Park.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Sitting in Alcoraz's player's box, and the Internet speculating wildly
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: that there might be an item.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: Like a romantic item or like a musical club.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: What are the kind of item is there?
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: I mean, there's different types of item.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Give me another type of item.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: If you're two people, I would say their business partners.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: That's not an item.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: I would say they're a podcast. You are, we an im,
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: We're an item. We've just been walking around together. Don't
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: wear their mic. I know you're you're always up for
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: a bit of romantic gossip. He did address it in
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: the press conference.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: Tell us you had a lot of fans out there today,
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: but when we noticed, in particular in your player box
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: called Peggy, he's going to be playing here at your
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: live on Sunday. Is she a close friend of yours?
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, she's a friend. Yeah, I mean she's she's
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: really really cool. And yeah, I mean I I better win,
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: you know, next Rine if I want to to see
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: her you're not playing, So I'm just happy to share
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: to see her, you know, around, And yeah, I just
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: got a great support from from her, which which really
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: really cool. So hopefully hopefully shee you know, and what's
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: her you're not playing playing on Sunday?
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Hmmm?
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Is that conclusive? I think they're going to get married.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: How does what You're confused?
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: How do they know each other? In what world do
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: they cross paths.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, maybe a club in Ibitha, Abitha. Maybe
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: she was doing a hot DJ set, Carlos rolls in
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: a VIP booth.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: What do you think are they an actual item?
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's that's kind of quite hard. From that
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: press conference, I would say, either he has never heard
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: of her before in his life and he is just
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: you know, just having a riff speaking, or there's a
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: secret relationship going off on and he's dodging the questions.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: I'm saying he's a goohead.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: You think he's a good head. Yeah, like just a fan.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: That's what I mean, just a fan. Yeah, but maybe.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: If he was a goodhead, though, he wouldn't have said
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: hopefully I win that. I can see he would be
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: like old a stay regardless of what happens, old a steak?
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Can we keep saying go ahead?
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Doesn't sound right, but that's what the fans are called.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Yes, we're gooheads. And get out and see Peggy.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Go see Peggy, see some tennis, Go see Peggy.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the interview, it's kind of it's bittersweet because it
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: was an awesome interview that uh, Lizzie and I did
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: it a couple of weeks ago. With Alex Demonar at
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: the start of the tournament, but us playing it.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Are playing it today.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: He's out of the tournament. We got a well there's
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: still some topicality and relevant.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: We playing it earlier, surely, no, no, no, no, because we.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Thought he would get through to the semis at least.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: This is you and Lizzie before my time.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so are I'd like people, the audio listeners to
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: think that you were just sitting there quietly the whole time. Yeah.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: I was there the whole time, and I was like, guys,
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: can you not play this till he gets booted out?
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: We turned your microphone off. Yeah, enjoy our interview with
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Alex Demonar Show No Way. Welcome back to Pod Labor Arena.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Our guest today, Alex the Demon demon Ar. How is
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: this hey, guys? How are you welcome?
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: I'm doing good? How you guys?
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Thank you good? Great. You said before we started recording
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: that this is the most exciting thing that's ever happened
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: in your career.
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, this is the highlight of not my career,
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: in my life.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's crazy.
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: I'm ready for this, I know. Don't tell Katie.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: How's all that going?
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's going it's obviously a process, and makes it
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: a little bit more difficult the fact that we're both
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: tennis players and we're busy. So but we're getting there.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you're taking part in the planning. I am.
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: We both are. Sadly, we can't really delegate too much
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: to each other because, as I said, we're both quite busy,
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: So we're making decisions together of course.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, awesome having you here today. Obviously your nickname the Demon.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: What's the most evil thing you've ever done?
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: I don't know if I should air it out?
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Give us something, No.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: There's been Yeah, a couple of times I've broken some rackets.
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: Obviously not what I stand for, but sometimes, you know,
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: emotions happen.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, actually, here's a question about breaking a racket.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: I think there should be a new rule that if
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: you break your racket, you should be forced to finish
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: the set with the broken racket.
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: Oh that is that would be one way together of
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: getting rid of the old broken racket. You know what
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: what I wouldn't mind. I wouldn't mind even just you
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: break the racket, even if it's the first violation, you
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: lose a point, You may be lose a game and
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: then you kind of it ends with that, yes, starts
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: you start to think it through a little bit more.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: I would just love to see someone play with a
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: mangold racket.
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah, me too, that would be great.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: With a mangold racket.
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: Try to get into your opponent's head and get him
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: to smash racket, and then you basically won the match.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Exactly what. We have a new game here on pod
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Labor Arena. It's a would you rafter? Okay, right, so
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: it's just would you rather?
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: But yeah, I see what you did. Very clever, you know,
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: a comedian, I can see.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: So this is the doubles version. So we put a
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: couple of people up on the screen here for our
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: audio listeners. It looks like Pete Sampras and Elon Musk.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Who would you rather have as your doubles partner?
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: As my double spotner? Oh, this is a very tough
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: decision to make, you know what. I'll just go with
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: Pete because he seems to have a little bit more
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: experience on a tennis court than maybe yeah me slightly.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Okay, So you're going for the competitive mentality because you
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: want to win exactly.
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it's all about winning.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Who would you rather hang out with?
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: Probably Pete as well.
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: If I'm honest, I would pick his brain. Yeah, I
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: think a dinner with Pete would be pretty cool. Hear
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: his stories his career. Yeah, definitely, that would be priceless.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, one more, would you rather have your doubles partner?
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: It looks like Rocket Rod Labor and shows how out
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: of touch I am. I'm not even sure who that
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: other option is? Doj Cat? Did you know what's obviously?
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: As we were talking about just before, I'm getting married
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: this year, So the reasonable answer is Rocket Rod Labor.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Are you not at the wedding? You're not wearing the
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: leopard print?
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think we're going for a little bit of
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: a different attire. No, sadly not. It looks great, but yeah,
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: sadly that's that's not us.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: So you're going with Rocket Rod.
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: I'm going with Rocket Rod.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Okay, but there's a wrinkle on that. Rod Laver, now,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: just don't answer that. I'll take that. I'll still take that.
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he's a legend. He's always going to be a legend.
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: And yeah, I mean what he's done for tennis, Australian tennis.
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: The fact that he's still around showing his support. It
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: is truly amazing and an incredible person.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we named the pot after him. Yeah. So we've
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: been wrapping up these little interviews by doing instead of
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: the million dollar one point slam. You see the tiny
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: little ping pong table we have over there, that's actually
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: a door. It's a small door we took from uh
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Diego Schwartzman's dressing.
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: So you're gonna say house, tiny home.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: And I think it's going to be me and you today,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: the versus. So we'll do best of four. Paper Rock says,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: there's there's Obviously we don't have a million dollars. What
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: a shame, I know, but the there is steaks. Are
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: you familiar with sting pong? Yes? Okay, So whoever loses
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: the point the other guy, I guess.
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: That we're just playing one point yeah, okay, one point
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: zero dollar one point yeah, good luck mate, all right,
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: no one's trash talk. Okay, with keeping it. I really
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: really hope you win.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: All right, So on four to decide who's serving or receiving.
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: Yep, two, three, four.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: Welcome to pod Laver Arena Stadium. We have another match
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: of the one point Slam against Mike Goldstein. Pod Labors
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: own and Alex Demonau who won the Rock, Paper Scissors.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: Take it away, Alex and they're off. Oh strong stuff
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: from Mike. He's looking good, so is Alex. Oh Mike
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: hit it out Alex for the wind and now he
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: gets to hit a ping pong bowl on the back.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: But Mike, Mike's gotta Mike's gotta do skin, so he's
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: gonna take He's lifting his shirt up Alex. Alex can't
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: look at Mike's back.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: He's disgusted.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, he hit his butt straight to the butt.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: Well that Alex