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TEARS FOR TIAFOE · Pod Laver Arena

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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's a big intro.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. Quarterfinals have kicked off at the US Open. Upsets, five-setters,
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  Speaker 3: we got it all.
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  Speaker 2: Quarterfinals, we're here. Didn't take long.
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  Speaker 3: But also, we should say, filling in for Sam Taunton,
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  Speaker 3: who Sam Taunton was filling in for Lizzie Hu, we
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  Speaker 3: have the golden dulcet tones of the one and only
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  Speaker 3: Oliver Clark.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you very much. A lot of fill-ins. That's...
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  Speaker 2: It sounds like I'm a disappointment to be here.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no, no. Yeah, but you're here. You came
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  Speaker 3: in the beautiful, what a velvet.
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  Speaker 2: It's velvet.
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  Speaker 3: What is this velvet?
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  Speaker 2: What is this velvet? Yeah, it's a blue velvet suit.
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  Speaker 3: I love the blue velvet. Yeah, you are a tennis head.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: You love it.
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 3: We played pickleball yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: We did play pickleball.
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  Speaker 3: And it was crazy. Wait the match.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you really geared it to win by the end,
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  Speaker 2: didn't you?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. Well, geared it just by natural talent
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  Speaker 3: and ability, if that's gearing anything.
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  Speaker 4: Look, needless to say, you are very good at it,
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  Speaker 4: mind you.
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  Speaker 2: But you are a competitive chap.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, just because we did play best of three games
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  Speaker 3: and you guys took the third game.
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  Speaker 2: We won, essentially.
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  Speaker 5: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: But I said, how about we do one more? And
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  Speaker 3: by agreeing to play one more and us winning that,
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  Speaker 3: it's not a win.
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  Speaker 6: So you won that fourth set and you said we're
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  Speaker 6: the winners of the day.
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  Speaker 3: Well, because one of the guys had to leave for work.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 3: And so I said, that's a forfeit. I've won the day.
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  Speaker 2: They're your rules.
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  Speaker 3: That checks out.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think they're universal rules.
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 3: Say these tennis players play, they're playing best of five
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  Speaker 3: for the Grand Slam.
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  Speaker 2: And then one of them has to go to work.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Then he's forfeit and the other guy wins. Goes
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  Speaker 3: through to the next round.
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  Speaker 2: Look, I don't agree, and I don't even care if
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  Speaker 2: they are the rules, to be honest. I don't make
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  Speaker 2: the rules.
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  Speaker 3: But I kind of do.
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  Speaker 2: Well, honestly, we won two sets each, so it's even, Stephen.
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  Speaker 3: It's a draw.
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  Speaker 2: It's a draw.
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  Speaker 3: But then the forfeit of your partner having to go
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  Speaker 3: to work means you lost.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. You've kind of stumped me there, I guess. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: you won.
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  Speaker 3: We will get out. Dude, it's awesome to have you here.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: US Open is obviously in full swing. We're deep into
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  Speaker 3: the second week.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Like I said, the quarterfinals have kicked off. We'll get
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  Speaker 3: into all the action of the U.S. Open very soon.
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  Speaker 7: But first, let's get on to Tennis FM with me, Fridgie,
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  Speaker 7: and my co-host today, The Bear. Otherwise known as Oliver Clark,
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  Speaker 7: he's a crooner, he's a mensch, he's a gentleman, and
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  Speaker 7: he denies all the allegations.
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  Speaker 2: Why would you ever admit to that?
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  Speaker 3: Although, let's see our number one hit of the day.
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  Speaker 3: Let's get into it. Five-center match. Five-center match. Five-center match.
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  Speaker 2: Five-center match.
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  Speaker 4: I woke up to watch T.F.O.F.O. Poor old Mickelson, he
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  Speaker 4: had to go-go. I woke up to watch T.F.O.F.O. And
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  Speaker 4: then Francis just did it in five.
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  Speaker 3: It's a wonderful... You ought to ride that high.
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  Speaker 2: How'd you do that?
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  Speaker 3: Speaking of riding that high, one of the stories of
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  Speaker 3: the U.S. Open has been the weed smoke wafting onto
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  Speaker 3: court from the stands. Sabalenka stopping play at one point.
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  Speaker 2: But I like it when she's got this nice, long,
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  Speaker 2: smooth take back.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if you could hear that at home,
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  Speaker 5: but apparently there might be someone smoking a little marijuana.
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  Speaker 3: Marijuana.
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  Speaker 2: Marijuana.
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  Speaker 3: Spoken like a true narc.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, couldn't give it its actual name.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no. But the thing is, like, okay, weed
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  Speaker 3: is legal in New York, but just have a rule,
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  Speaker 3: do edibles.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because you're not allowed to smoke anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So who is lighting up in the stadium to begin with?
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  Speaker 3: People are sneaking in their vapes. Because I was there.
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  Speaker 3: Last time I was at the US Open, 2023, I
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  Speaker 3: was at the Alcaraz Medvedev semifinal in Arthur Ashe Stadium.
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  Speaker 3: And it was... Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So no one's cracking down on it? No ushers are
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  Speaker 2: getting in there going.
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  Speaker 3: They said because it was a problem early in the
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  Speaker 3: tournament that they were going to be looking through bags
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  Speaker 3: and making sure no one's bringing an eight-foot bong inside.
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  Speaker 2: But it seems like.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, that's the preventative measure, but then if it's
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  Speaker 6: going on, surely you can see who's doing it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think the Arthur Ashe is massive, right? It's
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  Speaker 3: the biggest tennis stadium.
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  Speaker 2: How many does that hold?
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  Speaker 3: I want to say 20,000. Yeah, another five of them. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And it's, it'd be maybe hard to police that with
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  Speaker 3: that many people.
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  Speaker 2: That's true.
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  Speaker 3: And then even that US Open that I was at
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  Speaker 3: in 2023, the night before, protesters super glued their feet
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  Speaker 3: to the ground, like their bare feet to the ground.
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  Speaker 3: So they're dealing with... Things like that. And then, you know,
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  Speaker 3: just a bit of weed smoke. You're like, but if
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  Speaker 3: it's affecting play, you know, then it becomes an issue.
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  Speaker 3: There has, like I said, been a lot of chaos
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  Speaker 3: at this year's US Open. Adrian Manorino saying, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's a bit of a zoo with everything going on.
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  Speaker 3: Seems to be a lot happening. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Which is distracting from the game itself.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But isn't it all entertainment? Well, you know, that's how
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking at it. It's all entertainment.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, the players are one thing. They're doing a job,
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  Speaker 6: but they're still entertaining. And, you know, if you're getting,
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  Speaker 6: a lot of celebrities come to these matches, right, obviously.
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  Speaker 6: And that's part of the entertainment, part of the draw
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  Speaker 6: to watch on TV.
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  Speaker 3: True.
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  Speaker 2: Spot your favorite personality. Who's yours?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I love it when I see... Beckham.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Anna Wintour. Anna Wintour.
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  Speaker 2: Because you're such a fashion hound.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a devil wears Prada head. Oh, here's some of
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  Speaker 3: the celebrities.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw Mr. T there. Mother.
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  Speaker 3: I love the getup, but also I pity the fool
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  Speaker 3: that gets old.
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean he's not getting old when you're
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  Speaker 2: wearing the American flag like that?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, he looks great, though.
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  Speaker 5: You're ages.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. Maya Rudolph.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, looking great. So some comedy queens represented. McConaughey. Oh, McConaughey.
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  Speaker 3: He's a big tennis head. Like, he loves tennis. He
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  Speaker 3: plays all the time. I've considered sending him a DM saying, hey,
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  Speaker 3: you want a match?
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  Speaker 2: Just when he's in town. Or you're prepared to go
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  Speaker 2: over there and.
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  Speaker 3: He's Texas, and Kansas is only two states north.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, America's a small place.
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  Speaker 6: That's easy.
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  Speaker 3: It's a small place, dude. Actually, I thought when I
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  Speaker 3: told you about all the chaos happening at the U.S. Open,
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  Speaker 3: your take would be, that's New York, baby.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, that's New York, baby. You're right.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry.
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  Speaker 2: That's the grab you wanted.
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  Speaker 3: So it's been a great tournament. I mean, we haven't
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  Speaker 3: recorded since round two. Just with the Aussies, the big,
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  Speaker 3: I guess, early disappointment was Demonard going out in straights
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  Speaker 3: to Bodik van de Zanskoop.
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  Speaker 2: One of the best names going in tennis.
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  Speaker 3: BVZ.
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  Speaker 2: BVZ.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Zandersulp. Have you watched him play?
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  Speaker 2: No, I have not.
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  Speaker 3: He is Dutch.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, I did. I saw a bit of the
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  Speaker 2: Demon Oil game.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah. He is Dutch. Bodek van de Zanskulp.
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  Speaker 3: And he is like if mayonnaise turned into a person.
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  Speaker 3: He's like, it's actually awesome because he doesn't like, he
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  Speaker 3: beat Alcaraz a couple of years ago at the U
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  Speaker 3: S and he just didn't react. Just like walks.
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  Speaker 2: Smooth and creamy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Smooth and creamy.
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  Speaker 3: Bit of tang. Don't leave it out in the sun.
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  Speaker 2: No, no. God. That's why. He likes to finish the
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  Speaker 2: games quick.
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  Speaker 3: Quick. He prefers a night match.
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  Speaker 2: What are his press conferences like?
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  Speaker 3: Very boring.
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  Speaker 2: How did you do it?
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  Speaker 3: No clue, actually. Haven't really sunk in yet. Like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I love the guy because, like, it doesn't matter. He's
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  Speaker 3: winning these five setters. Like, we'll get into one of
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  Speaker 3: his other matches in a bit. But he's just, there's
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  Speaker 3: just no reaction. Is it a Dutch thing? What's his rankings?
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  Speaker 3: It's pretty far down.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's still great.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, he kind of comes alive in these,
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  Speaker 3: you know, as much as he can in these Grand
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  Speaker 3: Slam events.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But... Just the stone-faced nature.
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  Speaker 2: Of the man.
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  Speaker 6: Do you think maybe he's holding it back just until
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  Speaker 6: he wins the ultimate championship, and then you'll just see
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  Speaker 6: the fireworks go off?
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 3: I'd be amazing if he even shrugged.
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  Speaker 6: That mayonnaise will churn into a fetter.
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  Speaker 3: He's like, I don't know. If Stoic was a man,
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  Speaker 3: it's Bodeck and his answer.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, right.
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  Speaker 3: But then the great Aussie hope was Dane Sweeney, who
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  Speaker 3: was going to quit tennis a couple years ago. And
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  Speaker 3: he's dealt with some injuries. But he beat Mazzetti in
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  Speaker 3: round number two. And Mazzetti was dealing with some injuries himself.
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  Speaker 3: But then we're like, everyone's on the Dane Sweeney train.
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  Speaker 3: But that only lasted until round number three when Sweeney
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  Speaker 3: lost to Darderi.
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  Speaker 6: Well, it would be odd if we weren't on the
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  Speaker 6: Sweeney train, if he's the last hope. Imagine him just having, well,
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  Speaker 6: no one's behind me. Jesus, that's not confidence filling, is it?
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  Speaker 3: No, it's like, do we have to pivot to the
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  Speaker 3: doubles to be like, well, there's two Aussies in the doubles.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, I'm still here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: How old is Sweeney now?
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  Speaker 3: Still youngish. I want to say early 20s.
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  Speaker 2: So with the 20s? Thinking about quitting at that age is... Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think some of these dudes, they have injuries early
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  Speaker 3: on and they're just like, they see the tour passing
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  Speaker 3: them by.
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  Speaker 6: Is that how you feel about your current knee injury
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  Speaker 6: now and pickleball?
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  Speaker 3: It's the knee injury that I'm dealing with. Thank you
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  Speaker 3: for asking. is not enough to prevent me from beating
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  Speaker 3: my rivals on a daily basis. Drawing.
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  Speaker 2: Even Stevens.
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  Speaker 3: Forfeit means win. And other people dealing with injury in
• 10:03
  Speaker 3: this tournament have caused some interesting results. We'll get into
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  Speaker 3: it because there was one match in particular in the
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  Speaker 3: round of 16. But more from the round of 16.
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  Speaker 3: No one says it that way. More from round two.
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  Speaker 3: Karen Kashinov beating Felix Auger-Aliassime. And then Monfils, who made
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  Speaker 3: it through to the second round, eventually lost to Lerner Tien.
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  Speaker 3: He joins Stan Varinka, Kay Nishikori, Serana Kristea. And final
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  Speaker 3: US Open send-offs. So, yeah, Monfils is one of the
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  Speaker 3: great entertainers. You should love him.
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  Speaker 2: I love the Monfils.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He's been around for years, too. He's just one of
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  Speaker 2: those constant staples.
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  Speaker 6: But for me, I always feel like, yeah, Monfils, I mean,
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  Speaker 6: does he make the finals that often?
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  Speaker 2: Has he ever?
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 7: Really?
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  Speaker 6: He always seems to be there, but never sort of
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  Speaker 6: goes through.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the stat with him that always, like, Djokovic was
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  Speaker 3: his main barrier to ever getting deep in any tournament.
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  Speaker 3: He'd always seem to... have Djokovic in his side of
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  Speaker 3: the draw. I believe the record is like 16-0 for Djokovic.
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  Speaker 6: How do you then go into a match with Djokovic...
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  Speaker 6: With that in your mind.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's that.
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  Speaker 2: How do you switch that around? You can't reframe that. No.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that old quote, he could say, no one beats
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  Speaker 3: Gail Monfils 17 times in a row.
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  Speaker 2: That old quote.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. And well, the other Aussie, I guess, fascinating
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  Speaker 3: thing that's happened, not just in the U.S. Open, but
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  Speaker 3: this year was Maya Joint ruining the Williams... sisters dream
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  Speaker 3: in the doubles. But if you remember from Wimbledon, Maya
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  Speaker 3: joint beats Serena in the first round. So the Williams
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  Speaker 3: sisters must look at this. little Aussie chick and be like,
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  Speaker 3: what is going on?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: It's great that she's got it over them. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: that's once again, getting in their heads, they're never going
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  Speaker 6: to come back from that.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 3: They'll cry themselves to sleep on their billions of money.
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  Speaker 3: And the third round, Francis Cerundolo beating Fritz, Taylor Fritz
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  Speaker 3: coming back. Cerundolo came back from two sets down. Fritz
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  Speaker 3: never had a match point, but still, I mean, quite
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  Speaker 3: the capitulation to be two sets up and then drop
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  Speaker 3: it to Sorondolo.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm amazed at the stamina of these players, just
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  Speaker 6: with any five-set game. To come back from two down,
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  Speaker 6: what a mental barrier that is, and then to actually...
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  Speaker 6: physically get over the line is well.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of these things like five set matches are
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  Speaker 3: going five hours plus yeah what's the last time you
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  Speaker 3: did anything for more than five hours.
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  Speaker 2: Well i'd like to say it on air but i
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  Speaker 2: don't think i can.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god sting is here it was just a
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  Speaker 3: long lunch a very long lunch oh my god we
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  Speaker 3: got tantric oc hard to.
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  Speaker 2: Explain all the all the courses in this podcast.
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  Speaker 3: Five plus hours. I mean, we were cooked after playing
• 13:01
  Speaker 3: two hours of pickleball.
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  Speaker 2: No, don't talk on my behalf. I was willing to
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  Speaker 2: keep going. Someone had to go to work.
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  Speaker 3: Someone forfeited.
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  Speaker 2: Someone forfeited. What do you eat in a five-hour match?
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  Speaker 2: Because you see them snacking on all sorts of stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I think bananas are big.
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  Speaker 2: I reckon dates is the thing you should be eating. Dates.
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  Speaker 6: Slow release energy, but full of good glucose. And it's
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  Speaker 6: going to keep you going.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think I played so well yesterday on Pickleball?
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  Speaker 5: Dates.
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  Speaker 3: Dates?
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  Speaker 5: Dates.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Just punch those dates. I mean, edible dates.
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  Speaker 3: When you told me I've been having a lot of dates,
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  Speaker 3: I was like, this guy is a player. But it
• 13:37
  Speaker 3: turns out you just like fiber and keeping regular.
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  Speaker 2: It's the fiber.
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  Speaker 3: Are you across this? As we talked about in the
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  Speaker 3: previous episode, Fritz in this US Open was not only
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  Speaker 3: up against whoever's on the other side of the net.
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  Speaker 3: uh his ex-girlfriend uh morgan riddle was also attending the
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  Speaker 3: u.s and is.
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  Speaker 6: Was that supposed to have thrown him off or encouraged
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  Speaker 6: because it depends was she with a new man and
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  Speaker 6: you go oh.
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  Speaker 8: She was a newer hotter guy once again yeah that's
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  Speaker 8: tough yeah that is tough would you want an ex
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  Speaker 8: at one of your shows with the newer hotter guy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd be strutting my stuff on the court.
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  Speaker 3: No, you wouldn't.
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  Speaker 2: I'd be swinging, hitting them balls. Like, you couldn't stop me.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 2: You would crumble.
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  Speaker 6: You put on a show to show the new partner
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  Speaker 6: what they're lacking.
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  Speaker 2: You make them feel bad.
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  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: You see, you flip the narrative.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, true, true, true.
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  Speaker 2: You always got to do that.
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  Speaker 6: And then she'll go, oh, maybe I'm with a dud now,
• 14:43
  Speaker 6: and I gave up this hot stuff strutting the court.
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: Look at those shots.
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: Oh, hey, nice slice. I didn't see that when we
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: were together. Hey, what's he nominon?
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: What's he nominon?
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: That steady release of energy, I sure can tell. What's
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: he nominon? Nom-nom-nom-nom-nom-nom-nom.
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: Some kind of phenomenon?
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: Phenomenon. Phenomenon.
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: Something like a phenomenon. What's he over there nominon? Phenomenon.
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: It's hard to wrap my mouth around that.
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, if you want to win a tennis match, wash
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: down some dates with a chug of pickle juice. You
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: heard it here first. In the third round, other results,
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: the big one, Ialda versus Jovic. Even though it was
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: a U.S. crowd and Iva Jovic is an American, the
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: crowd was largely going for Ialda because she has the
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: Filipino contingent. Yes.
• 15:44
  Speaker 6: And is that, I mean, I know Olivia Rodrigo is
• 15:48
  Speaker 6: huge at the moment. Did that have anything to do
• 15:50
  Speaker 6: with it being half Filipino?
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: What's her big song?
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: Driver's License was the one that got her through. I
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: couldn't even tell you the melody, though.
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: Driver's License, and then she had one Vampire.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: Vampire was good. Actually, that was a genuinely good song.
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: It is a good song.
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, actually, a lot of her songs are very good.
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: She's very good.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: So, hence, that translates to Yalara.
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: Being great at tennis.
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: Right. Yeah.
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: And does she sing? Who's to know?
• 16:13
  Speaker 6: No.
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: So, this is a killer match. It went to three.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: Both of them, like, raising their games, playing awesome at
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: the same time. And she.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: raised ticket prices, too. Is that correct?
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: I mean, the U.S. Open really embraced Iola as a
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: drawing course.
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: I still don't understand exactly why.
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: Because Filipinos get behind their sports stars to such an
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: extent that they travel, that they, I mean, there's already
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: a ton in New York.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: And then we'll see it again at the Australian Open.
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: They had her, I think, in Margaret Court this year,
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: and it just wasn't big enough. That's crazy.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: See, Sweeney needs that kind of support.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: Where's all the Sweeney heads out there?
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Sweeney, Sweeney.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: Sweeney, Sweeney. Look at me. I am Dane Sweeney. I
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: am so dreamy. I come from Girraween. That's a suburb
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: in Perth, if you know what I mean.
• 17:13
  Speaker 7: Wonderful.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: Didn't even need an hour for that one.
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: So the other major result from the third round is
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: Jung Chin-Wen, being the comeback queen of this tournament, took
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: out Madison Keyes. Madison Keyes was up 5-0 in the decider.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: Had a match point. Couldn't win it.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: That's heartbreaking for her. But wow, as a crowd. That's insane.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: That's the kind of tennis you go there to see.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: Well, I was thinking about this, that, you know, we've
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: been to plenty of tennis matches over the years, like
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: a regular, obviously, going to the Australian Open, the U.S. Open.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: It's a gamble. When you go to a tennis match,
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: it could be the most boring, straightforward affair, or it
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: could just be an epic, right? And so seeing it
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: come back, I mean, obviously, you don't want the American
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: player on home turf. 5-0 up in a decider, and
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: then letting it slip away.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Once again, how could that home crowd let that happen?
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: It's on them.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: It's on them, not on her.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Iala's crowd wouldn't have let that happen.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: They are the best.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: We love Alex Iala. Make this clip viral. There were
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: flags in Arthur Ashe from fans in the Philippines. We
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: saw it throughout the tournament as well, but what has
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: that support meant to you, just to have that not
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: only throughout this tournament, but this year as your star
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: has grown?
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: It's a real privilege to experience this in a lifetime.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: I'm really happy. I'm really lucky to have these opportunities,
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: to have these people support me, and to be working hard,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: to be able to work hard, and to be able
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: to live this life how I am.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Alex. That takes us to the round of 16.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: So this is, we're staying on Jung Chin-Wen. Her next
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: set that she plays is she's down 5-0 against Iga Shavontek.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: And she wins this set. So she comes back again.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Comes back that much.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: That's inside.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: From 5-0 down.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: How do you do that?
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Where do you draw from?
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: So this was, I mean, okay, now we'll get into
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: this as an outside party. There's obviously Iga looking very
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: upset and distraught after that match. Iga was my pick
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: to go.
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: Oh, why?
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: Well, we had a gentleman's agreement at the start of
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: the tournament to pick one of the women in the
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: draw who would go the furthest, but you can't take
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: the top three seeds, right? So I took Iga Svantec.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: She goes out in that match in the round of 16.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: But before that had happened, Marta Kostyuk went out. That
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: was E-Roll's pick. And before that had happened, Sam Taunton's pick,
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: which was... Svitolina. Svitolina went out before that.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: So you've... So I've won.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: You've come good.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: But for some reason, we let... Sam Taunton convinced us
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: that he takes Coco Gauff after Svitolina went out. And
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: he's double or nothing with a gentleman's agreement. So he
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: now has Coco Gauff. And then I said, well, either
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: of our players go out before the quarterfinals. We should
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: be allowed to pivot. So then Errol's player goes out, Kostik,
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: and he takes Noskova. And then I've now taken Mira Andreeva.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: Is that fair?
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: I think that's fair. Surely.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: But, yeah, I put that in the group chat. But also,
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: Noskova went out today to Sabalenka. We'll get into that
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: in a moment. But that, Errol goes, all right, well,
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: that's me done. But it's actually, it's still the quarterfinals. Yeah. Like,
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: Andreeva could lose to Goff.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: To Goff, yeah.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: And then Tontz has now won it.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, I don't know if I agree with that.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: I don't know how that... You, yeah, you let Tauntz
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: get away with something that he probably shouldn't have.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: Goddamn.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: But it's a gentleman agreement.
• 21:13
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: And he wins a handshake at the end.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: Does Tauntz need any more? He gets that handsome privilege.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: He presses the flesh so much. Have you seen him
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: just walk the streets?
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Oh, man, he is.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: He's shaking everybody's hand.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: Man of the people, really.
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: Ah, yeah, so.
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: Hey, can I just interject with something that I've noticed?
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: And you may have already discussed this, but the ball
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: boys are now not holding the ball.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Ball people, sorry.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: They're not holding it above their heads anymore. They're just
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: holding it.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: Out front?
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Chest height. Have you seen that?
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: No.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Did you not notice this at all?
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: No.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Normally it's up there.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: Well, is that a bit too salute-y?
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: Salute-y.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's too salute-y.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: Get rid of it.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: But now I don't know about this.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: Well, that's a bit honker-ish.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah. What do you prefer? Honker-ish or salute-y?
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: I think he'd go, I mean, maybe that's taking up
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: too much space.
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: You think they should maybe just be juggling and then
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: just suddenly you throw it.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: Get a bunch of clowns out there.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Could you imagine the shoes? Oh my God, running around.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: That'd be so entertaining. Once again, this is entertainment. Honk, honk.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Now that's honky.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: I mean, there's got to be a line between salute-ish
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: and honker-ish that we can agree on. But, yeah, I
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: haven't noticed that they're here.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Maybe just down here.
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Because, actually, that makes more sense because you can just throw.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: But I think there is, like, a whole sign language
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: where down means available or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, you kind of have to go honky or salute.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Honky or salute.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Anyway, I found it. I thought this is the first
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: tournament I've seen them do it.
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Look, you don't want to be doing it.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: It's too much. Arms get tired.
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: If you were wearing one of Alcarez's shirts, you'd be
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: so nipple out it's not funny.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're popping nip all day with that. So Igor
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: Shvantec losing to Zhang Qinwen. And then this was the
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: injury I was alluding to earlier. Andriva over Potapova, an
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: amazing match, pretty scrappy. And then Potapova like hyperextending her
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: knee in the third set. And then somehow just kind
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: of battled through, knowing it was over for her, was
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: in tears. Andreeva and her, like, Andreeva was, you know,
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: the younger, much younger player. It just totally showed her
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: respect and appreciation for Potapova. And it was, yeah, a
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: touching scene.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: Oh, that sounds wonderful.
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: And I'm a little cynical, I guess, about you actually
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: thinking it was a touching scene.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: The man with no emotions whatsoever.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: I've been accused of this before.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: Being touched of anything surprises me. Am I dead behind
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: the eyes? No. I get the same, though.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: Do you?
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: I'm just... Cold and calculating.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: But when it comes to tennis, this is your Achilles heel,
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: I think.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: I don't want to be dead behind the eyes. I
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: thought I was quite soulful.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: No, you are soulful.
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: You're not dead behind the eyes, but it takes a
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: lot to get an emotional reaction. Well, actually, no, you're
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: a competitive man. That's where it comes out, I guess.
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: I just want the best of everyone.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: I love that.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: I build my friends up. So I can tear them down.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: And that's what friendship is for.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: Thank you. You get it. The other results from the
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: round of 16 will fly through them. Alcaraz, easy match
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: over Tommy Paul.
• 24:29
  Speaker 7: Is he favorite?
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: Alcaraz now to win the tournament? I think he's got
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: to be.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: And favorite for best hair on court.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: Oh, he is ravishing out there. Yes, I know. It's amazing.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: He just stepped out of a salon.
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Pantene Pro-V.
• 24:44
  Speaker 6: I was going to say, he's probably getting some kind
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: of great Pantene sponsorship.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: You'd think so, yeah.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Must smell good.
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: Glorious imagine being on the receiving end the other side
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: of the court just getting a waft of that panting
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: just wanting it to be over so he can hug
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: him at the end over the net really cop a
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: whiff put that face into the.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: Head bunch of drop shots just so you can catch
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: a sniff yeah so Algaraz taken out Tommy Paul TFO
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: took out Medvedev in three sets Shelton over Tsitsipas, which
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: Tsitsipas was kind of showing some, you know, old form,
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: getting this deep into a slam. BVZ, Bodek, Vanda, Zansculp.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: Another five-plus-hour match. He was two sets the love down,
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: and lucky loser Arthur Jia had match points, but still
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: couldn't get it done. And Bodek, in his dry, kind
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: of cardboard-esque manner... In the interview afterwards, he goes, they go, oh,
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: you know, how did you get through that? And he goes,
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: I don't know. The guy played a sloppy match. I
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: think it was a sloppy match a little bit, but
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: he started to play well at some point.
• 25:52
  Speaker 8: Wow.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Is that a bit disrespectful?
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yes.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Just a little. Sometimes a bit of honesty might help him.
• 25:59
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: You don't want to hear you.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: Playing sloppy, man.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: So Bodek will be playing Zverev in the next round
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: in the quarterfinals. Rabakina easily brushed aside Osaka in the
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: round of 16. She looks like she deserves the number
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: one spot. It's kind of up for grabs in this tournament, right?
• 26:17
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: And she was just effortless. And this was like a clinic.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: I mean, she was just thundering down serves. Osaka dealing
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: with some injury issues, her calf, I believe. But Rebecca,
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: I mean, if she keeps that form, I think she
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: rolls through the rest of the tournament.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And does she get number one ranking regardless at
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: this point?
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: I think if she wins the U.S.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: Oh, she has to win the U.S.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: I think it's up for grabs between her, Sabalenka, and Pagula.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: For who gets the deepest in this tournament.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: Um, yeah, then we have the quarterfinals. Um, I am emotional.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: You look, you do not look emotional.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: I started, it is Wednesday morning in Australia. I started
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: my day. First, I watched a Titanic battle between a
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: Nazcava and Sabalenka, the first quarterfinal match of the day.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: This was a killer match. Like it was amazing Nazcava,
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: like slow start, but then up a break. In the thick,
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: pushes it to a third set. She was up a
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: break for two in the third set. Sabalenka battled back.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: A 10-point tiebreak decider. I mean.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: That's crazy.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: Now that, you know, they're not doing, you have to
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: win by two games or like first 16 or, you know,
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: it's all tournaments basically now. are these 10-point tiebreak deciders.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: For the final set.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. And so this 10-7, Sabalenka takes it, and
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: it was just killer, man. It was captivating, you know,
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: from the start of the match, really.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Emotional, as you said.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm about to get to the emotion. I bottled
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: it up. For this batch.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: For how many years? 40 years.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: 40 plus.
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: You've bottled it up for 40 years and it's coming out.
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: It came out this morning.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: It came out this morning. Here is where the emotions
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: came out, Oliver Clark. Alex Mickelson playing Francis Tiafoe.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: As alluded to in the song to kick off the episode.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: TFO takes this in five sets, but it was Mickelson
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: who seemingly had a route on his hand over TFO
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: early on. He was two sets up, serving for the
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: match in the third. Couldn't get it done.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Tightened up.
• 28:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah, because as soon as I woke up, I started
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: watching that. And I thought, oh, it's a done game.
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: So I literally turned off, had a shower, and did whatever.
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: Came back, and I was like, oh, TFI's got a set.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Amazing.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: Here's the thing. It's two American players, yet the crowd is...
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: Obviously going for TFO. I get it. He was two
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: sets down. Again, what we said about it being a
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: more interesting match. But you had to feel for Mickelson
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: a little bit. Just going like, oh, I'm American too. Yeah.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: Like, what does he need to do? Wear a flag
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: on his head?
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: Well, to be fair, I think he should be more
• 29:10
  Speaker 6: considerate how hard it was for the audience.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: To make a choice see wow he needs to think.
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: About you're such an entertainer you referred to the crowd
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: as an audience.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: They applaud how do you not appreciate.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: That yeah so you think okay that's a good perspective
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: that it was no.
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: No look they're doing a job and i saw him
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: at the end he was you know blubbering on tfo's
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: shoulder which was is that what got you.
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: That's what got me Well, so TFO then takes it out.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: This is another five plus hour match. The crowd was
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: going nuts for TFO. They wanted to see a five setter. Sure.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: You know, maybe if Mickelson was two sets down and
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: came back, they would have been on his side. But TFO,
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: they know. He's a household name in the States, right?
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: He's a consummate entertainer, you know? What a rig. What
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: a rig. Well, his ass is amazing. That's why.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: You got emotional.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, as an assless man, when I see a
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: nice peach, I get jealous and emotional. Um, so yeah,
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: TFO comes back. It goes to another fifth set tie break. Uh,
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: TFO takes that out. Um, it was amazing. He starts celebrating,
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: you know, and then he realizes, you know, Mickelson is,
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: is on the other side of the net and he's
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: trying to walk, he's walking off because he's going to
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: let TFO celebrate and TFO runs up and hugs him.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: And this is when the emotions come flooding out of Mickelson.
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: He's just starts just crying and like, it just, yeah.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: They're hugging each other. And I know sports, you know,
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: toxic masculinity, blah, blah, blah, allows us to show emotion.
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: And then Jim Courier, commentating the match, goes, sports, man.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: I heard that as well.
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: Sports, man. That got me. Wow.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: Well, T.N.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: Mickelson just overcome with emotion, like was holding it together.
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: And then when TFO hugged him, it just all.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: See, I thought he was hurrying off court. just to
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: get a Kleenex.
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: Just because he knew he was about to unload.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: It was like Niagara Falls coming out of that face.
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: Oh, man. I mean, one of the fascinating things about
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: tennis is you've got to see the other person just
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: celebrate and get the roar of the crowd. And if
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: you lose, you're just like, oh, see ya.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: Great life lesson, though, isn't it?
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: That's life, baby. I know.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: But it's like all Corey had to say was sports, man.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: Sports, man. I heard that and literally had to turn off.
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: You hated it?
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: No, it made me laugh so much. But I had
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: to come here. And I literally, I waited to that minute.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: He said, sportsman. I went, oh, that's great. Sportsman.
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: It got me, dude.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: So you didn't get emotional during Sebelenko's match? No, I mean.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: It took two men to really get it out of you.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: Of course.
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: One man with an extraordinary peach.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a killer match. I mean, the two
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: first quarterfinals, obviously being two final set tie breaks, you
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: can't ask for anything more.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: No, absolutely.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, at least we're getting, they're getting bang
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: for their buck for people who attended these matches. And
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: then it's pushing back. Obviously, Alcaraz Shelton is coming up.
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: Might have started as we record. Pagoula... I think would
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: still be playing Navarro. First set, Navarro, Navarro, 4-2. Navarro's
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: up 4-2. So as we record, Navarro up 4-2 on Pagoula.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: A lot of people saw that coming.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: Pagoula.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: So, yeah, I'm super pumped for Alcaraz and Shelton. I
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: think Alcaraz comes through that. Just based on how he's
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: been playing this tournament, I think he.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: Fresh as a daisy.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: Well, that's huge. Because for all the other players, by
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: the US Open, their season has been going on forever.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: They're cooked.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: I mean, there was worry about Alcaraz's wrist coming back
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: from injury, match fitness. But he's also had five months off.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: And I think he's been on the Duolingo because his
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: English is better.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: I love that.
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: And he's really, dare I say, literally let his head down.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Literally moments after this bold prediction, Ben Shelton won,
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: making both Mike and Oliver look foolish and short-sighted.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: Also, go Ben. Thank you very much. Take care.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: For the rest of the quarterfinals, Karen Kashinov playing Alexander Blocks.
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: But Blocks, I have a feeling, is going to withdraw
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: from that match.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: What's going on?
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: He's had a lot of issues in his last round,
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: and he somehow got through it in four. And he's
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: kind of alluded to the fact that he's in quite
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: some pain. Basically said he took a bunch of miracle
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: medication during his last match to get through. But he
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: was still feeling pain.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: Okay. So it wasn't that miraculous.
• 34:09
  Speaker 7: No.
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: I mean, he won. You know what?
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: That is true. That is a miracle.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: So that's for the men's quarter vinyls. And then, obviously,
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: for the women, we still have... Goff and Andreeva coming up.
• 34:21
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: And Rebecca and Jung Quinn-Wen.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: And you're hoping Andreeva gets through, of course.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: Well, this is the thing. This is another reason why
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: Tauntz pisses me off, is that he's got me actively
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: going against Coco Goff, who's one of my favorite players.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: That's annoying.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: The best athlete. Like, her chasing down drop shots and
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: then getting to a lob in the back of the court.
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: She's one of the best athletes out there.
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: Great athleticism.
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: And so taunts and his stupid handsome privilege has prevented
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: me from going for golf in this match. And he's got, yeah,
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: Miriam Andreeva, who won the French Open and is great
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: to watch and a good player.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: But she's not your favorite.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: No.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: And taunts. The handsome man pulled one over you.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: Oh, God.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: It takes a lot to get one over the Goldstein,
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: I must say.
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: It's true.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: It takes a handsome man. Is that what it takes?
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: I guess.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: Sports, man. Sports, man. Sports, man. All right. Well, it's
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: time for Australia's favourite segment. It is Approaching the Net
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: with myself, Oliver Clarke. Thank you.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: What have you got?
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: Great.
• 35:28
  Speaker 6: I'm glad you asked. Well, first of all, this first photo,
• 35:33
  Speaker 6: imagine sitting behind this. If you're in the audience at
• 35:37
  Speaker 6: the US Open crowd, the audience i mean i wish
• 35:43
  Speaker 6: they had cabaret seating.
• 35:44
  Speaker 8: At these matches you know really putting on a show
• 35:49
  Speaker 8: so if you're in the audience and you're sitting behind
• 35:51
  Speaker 8: someone that's wearing.
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: This what would you do wow that is is that
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: a smurf i don't know what is going on there
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: i don't yeah it's.
• 36:02
  Speaker 6: Not obvious because it kind of does look a bit
• 36:04
  Speaker 6: like a smurf hat but then the white of the
• 36:06
  Speaker 6: hat is.
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: Not smurfy no i it's uh obnoxious it's the view
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: is i mean it's hilarious to us because it's completely
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: obstructed the view of the court and it's you would
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: obviously tap the guy on the shoulder and be like
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: hey man yeah please enough wouldn't you yeah well i
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: think that's the thing it's like people would be going
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: wouldn't instead of taking the photo just ask him to
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: remove it I.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: Think in the Reddit post, they did ask him and
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: he said no.
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: Oh, wowee.
• 36:35
  Speaker 6: I love that he's got a towel around his neck. Like,
• 36:38
  Speaker 6: he's working hard as an audience member.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: That's a sweaty hat. It's dripping down the nape of
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: the neck. Well, this reminds me that years ago, I
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: was at the Australian Open with a very good friend,
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: Paul Hancock, who you've met.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: Tennis player out of Sydney.
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: And he was sitting next to me and in front
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: of him was a lady in a cowboy hat.
• 36:58
  Speaker 8: Mm-hmm.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: Big cowboy hat.
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: Ten gallon.
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: Ten gallon. And I missed a point. I glanced at
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: my phone or something. I said, what happened in the
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: last point? And he goes, I think it was hat.
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: And that's become, you know, one of our catchphrases.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: I think it was hat.
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: I think it was hat. What else we got?
• 37:18
  Speaker 6: Well, we got some footage now of Alcaraz doing something.
• 37:21
  Speaker 6: I mean, the The audience, once again, around Akaraz is
• 37:25
  Speaker 6: losing their minds. But I don't know if it's mind-losing worthy.
• 37:29
  Speaker 6: All right, so this is a pretty old clip, but
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: it's doing the rounds at the moment.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: So let's take a look. All right. Missed.
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: Missed. So he's trying to hit a drop shot into
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: a small receptacle.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: It's a bin.
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: A bin.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: No, missed.
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Got it.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: One out of five. Oh, look at the audience.
• 37:54
  Speaker 6: I would like to see him hit one of those
• 37:56
  Speaker 6: big tennis balls in that same size receptacle.
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: Then I would be impressed.
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah. It still got the reaction out of me that
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: I was impressed.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: Were you? Do you think you could not do that?
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: I reckon you could.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: It would take me a while. My drop shot is lacking.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: His drop shot is excellent at the moment, isn't it?
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: It's always been one of the main... parts, weapons. I mean,
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: he's got so many, but a huge part of his game. But,
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's simple things, you know.
• 38:23
  Speaker 6: It's exhibition sort of stuff.
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: And if you could do it, if I had a
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: crowd of people watching me, sorry, an audience, watching me
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: try to carve a ball into a bin on the
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: other side of the net, then I would probably just
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: do that all day.
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: I feel like if I was to watch a soccer game,
• 38:41
  Speaker 6: player football soccer player like uh aiming a bit of
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: the net they would probably hit it nine times out
• 38:47
  Speaker 6: of ten true that's that's all i'm comparing it to
• 38:50
  Speaker 6: i mean there's no question he is an amazing tennis
• 38:53
  Speaker 6: player but i thought he would have got more than
• 38:55
  Speaker 6: that just saying okay not.
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: That impressed oh well we'll go out and then uh
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: and i'm an easy man to please dude let's go
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: out and film us and see how many tries it
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: takes love it okay i've Can I use that racket
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: down there?
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: You can.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: Give me that wooden one. Yeah, yeah, that's old school.
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: That's cool.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: I used to use an Oliver brand wooden racket.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: Oliver? Oliver. Is that a brand?
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: It was. I'm pretty sure they're not around.
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: Was just this some like Fisher Price model your mom
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: gave you and she put Oliver in.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: A name tag? It eventually broke last week. It cracked.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: The plastic frame cracked. Now, Mike, have you been following
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: the internet?
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: I'm aware of the internet.
• 39:40
  Speaker 6: Well, you might know this guy. His name is Mr. Beast,
• 39:43
  Speaker 6: and he's made an appearance at the US Open. Not
• 39:46
  Speaker 6: in the audience.
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: Son of Dr. Beast.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: Son of Dr. Beast.
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: So for our audio listeners, there is Mr. Beast of
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: internet fame. With Serena and Venus Williams at their doubles
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: match against Maya Joint and her partner. And he's doing
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: the coin toss. No, he's not doing the coin toss.
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: He's watching the coin toss.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: I mean, this is some of his best work.
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: He's standing there.
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: He's not doing much.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: But he's there.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: And I guess that's why he gets paid the big dollars.
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: True. And then he's in the picture. Yeah.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: And that's worth a thousand words.
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: All of them negative. Why is he in the picture?
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: Why is he there? The tradition is you get some
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: junior from a local tennis club.
• 40:31
  Speaker 6: It's their big moment to shine.
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: It's exciting. But now they got this internet jackass.
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: I feel like it detracted from the people in the photo.
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: He's a tall guy. Yeah.
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: He's taller than Serena.
• 40:45
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: And then the kid is overshadowed.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: Largely.
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: What are we doing?
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: Why is he there?
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: Did he do anything beforehand?
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: No.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: I don't know. He probably just gave a lot of
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: cash away or something.
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Is he a beast?
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: Depends in what field.
• 41:01
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 41:02
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: What would you imagine him be a beast in?
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: Like?
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: Eating a mango.
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a mango beast.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: Imagine ripping that skin off.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: The juice dripping down that.
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: Beastly chin. Yeah, I don't know why I find that
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: really annoying, but it is.
• 41:21
  Speaker 6: I'm sure he's a lovely guy, and kudos for doing
• 41:24
  Speaker 6: so well in the world. You know, he's made a
• 41:25
  Speaker 6: big name for himself.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: Have you eaten any of his chocolate?
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: There's Beast chocolate?
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: There is. It's in the stores here.
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: Does it look like Beast droppings?
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: I haven't actually had any. I don't know.
• 41:38
  Speaker 6: The packaging kind of does look a bit like droppings.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: Okay. It's very multicolored.
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: Bespeckled. Bespeckled.
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: Bespeckled. All right, Mike. Now, do you like drinks?
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: I love a drink.
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: I thought so.
• 41:49
  Speaker 6: Well, there's been a fantastic cocktail that's been very popular
• 41:53
  Speaker 6: this year at the US Open. It's been there multiple
• 41:56
  Speaker 6: US Opens, but this year it's expected to pull.
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: In Over $ 20 million worth of sales at the U.S.
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: Open.
• 42:04
  Speaker 7: Alone.
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: Alone.
• 42:05
  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: It's called the Honey Deuce. I've been lucky enough to
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: have a Honey Deuce or two. And they are delicious.
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: And there's a little melon ball shaped like a little
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: tennis ball.
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: It's actually genius.
• 42:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, the picture I've seen, they've had three
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: melon balls. So you get like a.
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: Like a few of them there.
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: It soaks up the alcohol and you have a nice
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: refreshing melon ball on a hot day. It is a
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: refreshing summer cocktail. And then what they've done is people
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: have decided to drink as many honey deuces as possible.
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: And stack the glasses, right? Because you get a US
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: Open signature glass with all the list of champions on it.
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: So you get to keep it, yeah.
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: And so people in the stands will have like 20
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: empty Honeydews glasses.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: Wow. Badge of honor.
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: Badge of honor. Which caused some disruption. It's like, imagine...
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: You know, you miss your first serve and you look
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: over and there's some asshole with 30 glasses stacked up.
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: Stacked up.
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: Maybe that guy's thing on his head was like a.
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: Honey juice holder. Oh, a holder.
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you just stack them up on that. And he
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: hadn't drunk any yet. No. No.
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: It was early in the night. Early in the day.
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: But they do look good. They're crushing it. $ 20 million.
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: Pretty crazy, right? Wow. What's your cocktail of choice?
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: Well, I love Blue Hawaii. It's my usual cocktail.
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: Hell yeah.
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: You've had a few in your time.
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: I've had a few in my time. You were at
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: my wedding in Hawaii. That's right. We partook of Blue Hawaii.
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: And it was quite spectacular.
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: They're on, you know, the Mai Tai is just below that, obviously.
• 43:41
  Speaker 6: But the Blue Hawaii, I mean, it's only that blue
• 43:43
  Speaker 6: tongue that, you know, kind of throws me off a bit. But,
• 43:46
  Speaker 6: you know, I've had a cocktail made for me, though.
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: Is this like the Oliver Brown racket?
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: This is the.
• 43:57
  Speaker 6: It's a Fisher and Price cocktail.
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: In a little sipping cup?
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: Mommy used to make it for me.
• 44:07
  Speaker 6: She's just standing in the kitchen just shaking it up.
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: At one point we all had mom... Brand cocktails.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: Keep shaking, mommy.
• 44:22
  Speaker 5: Okay, this is really cute.
• 44:23
  Speaker 6: This is $ 255.
• 44:24
  Speaker 5: $ 134.
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: $ 140 for a sweatshirt.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: $ 150 for a t-shirt. So this is the merch.
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: That's really cool.
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: How much is this?
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: $ 154.
• 44:29
  Speaker 6: $ 72.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: No, we're also worth that.
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: That's crazy. $ 26 for a big duck.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: That seems a little steep.
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: That does. 26 for a big duck?
• 44:43
  Speaker 6: I mean, I don't know why I'd buy a duck
• 44:46
  Speaker 6: at the Open anyway.
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: Well, it could go with your sippy cup and your
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: little racket.
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: Oliver Brand racket, thank you.
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: Oliver Brand. Clark rubber duck. Oh!
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: Well, there's a promo match made in heaven. I'll take
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: that sponsorship.
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, of course, merch is pricey. They've got
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: tourists that are willing to pay top dollar for these things.
• 45:07
  Speaker 6: Well, it's not just about the merch you're buying. You're
• 45:10
  Speaker 6: buying the story that goes along with the merch. I
• 45:12
  Speaker 6: bought it at the open. That's the story. I mean,
• 45:14
  Speaker 6: it's not a great one. You know, there were people go,
• 45:18
  Speaker 6: I have the same merch, but I didn't buy it
• 45:20
  Speaker 6: at the open.
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: Ah, it's not as good, is it? No.
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: The story is I had to get through security at
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: LaGuardia with a giant rubber duck and people thought I
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: was special needs.
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't understand. $ 26 for a duck.
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: No, too much.
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: Do you know what they're selling the big large balls for?
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: I don't eat that. But wouldn't it be marvelous to
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: find it?
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. But an air-filled duck, that is the price
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: of inflation.
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: Oh!
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: Quack, quack, quack, quack.
• 45:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: Brilliant. Oliver Clark, thank you so much for joining us
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: on an epic episode of the second week of the
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: US Open. Where can people find you?
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: They can find me on the Instagram.
• 46:08
  Speaker 6: I also have music available on Spotify, Apple Music, and
• 46:12
  Speaker 6: all the great streaming platforms like Shazam. And on the
• 46:15
  Speaker 6: YouTube as well, you can find a lot of my stuff.
• 46:18
  Speaker 6: I also have a podcast called The Singer's Lounge. which
• 46:21
  Speaker 6: is coming up for season two.
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: Nice. You can find that on the streaming platforms too.
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: What will you be doing? I woke up to watch
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: Tia Fofo.
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: Most likely not. It was a great song, don't get
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: me wrong.
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: We'll be back next week, I believe with Sam Taunton,
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: to wrap up the US Open and look towards the
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: tennis future. Thank you.
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, hey, nice slice.