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A BANANA FOR EALA · Pod Laver Arena

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  Speaker 1: It's always stuck with me. There was a band, like,
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  Speaker 1: my brother played in high school, and one of their
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  Speaker 1: lyrics was, oh, chlamydia, I can't get rid of you.
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  Speaker 1: And it's always just stuck in my brain. So whenever
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  Speaker 1: I hear a clap or, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great lyric.
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  Speaker 1: Which one do koalas have?
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  Speaker 2: Chlamydia. This is a good start.
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  Speaker 1: It is a good start. Show me perfect tennis.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: That's the stuff. Oh, no way. Welcome back to Podlabor Arena. Tennis.
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  Speaker 2: Tennis.
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  Speaker 1: We love it. We live it. We talk it.
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  Speaker 2: We talk it. But I haven't... Honestly, the last... Three
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  Speaker 2: days that I've been in the AFL, Australian Football League.
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  Speaker 1: Well, your team won.
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  Speaker 2: My team won.
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  Speaker 1: They won the grand final. The mighty Brisbane Lions.
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  Speaker 2: Or if you want the anagram version, Mike. I know
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  Speaker 2: you love anagrams.
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  Speaker 3: I do.
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  Speaker 2: The Lisbon Bryans.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the Lisbon Bryans won against the Fremantle Dockers. What
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  Speaker 1: do you got for that?
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  Speaker 2: Nothing. That's way too many.
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  Speaker 1: The D-Mantle Fockers.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's all I could do on short notice.
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  Speaker 2: That's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: Warfie time. So this is obviously the biggest sporting event
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  Speaker 1: in Melbourne, well, in the country, in Australia.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was huge.
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  Speaker 1: So the grand final happened over the weekend, and your
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  Speaker 1: team won in the final waning four minutes of the match.
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  Speaker 2: They scored four goals in four minutes. Unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: Well, explain Warfie time.
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  Speaker 2: To our viewers. I cannot explain it. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what it is. It was this niche thing that the
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  Speaker 2: Fremantle Dockers did. And I think it was at their
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  Speaker 2: home ground. They would do it when the team needed
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  Speaker 2: a lift.
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  Speaker 1: So it's like, we either need a boost or we're
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  Speaker 1: going to win this match. So let's celebrate. And they
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  Speaker 1: played it prematurely?
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  Speaker 2: Well, they played it with four minutes, five minutes to go.
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  Speaker 2: And then... The Brisbane Lions had talked about it. It
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  Speaker 2: comes out in press conferences. They said they played it
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  Speaker 2: during their meeting and they said when this happens, when
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  Speaker 2: this Wharfie time thing happens, that's our signal to go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And they went.
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  Speaker 1: They went.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And so this, to tie it into tennis, there's been
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  Speaker 1: a few moments throughout tennis history where a player has
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  Speaker 1: celebrated too early. Yeah. Be it a point, winning a
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  Speaker 1: point or winning a match. We have TFO. This was
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  Speaker 1: from a few years back. Thinks he's won the point
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  Speaker 1: against Medvedev. But Medvedev had other plans. So TFO's the
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  Speaker 1: dockers in this situation.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 1: Medvedev is the lions.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll take him.
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  Speaker 1: Medvedev hits a drop shot. TFO gets up to it.
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  Speaker 1: Puts it away.
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  Speaker 2: Starts running back. Motioning to the crowd like, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I've won it. Medvedev then scoops up the ball. It
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  Speaker 1: is amazing. TFO hits the ball into the open court. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Not even thinking, oh, Medvedev has the longest arms of
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  Speaker 1: any human being.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a hard shot. But he got there
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  Speaker 2: quite easily.
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  Speaker 1: It's insane. Like Medvedev, you know, getting those octopus arms
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  Speaker 1: around the ball and getting it back in court. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you might remember this from this year's Australian Open. Sebastian
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  Speaker 1: Offner playing Basava Reddy in the qualifiers, not realizing that
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  Speaker 1: a tie break in the deciding set is first to 10,
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  Speaker 1: win by two. Offner gets the 7-1 in the final
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  Speaker 1: set tie break. and starts celebrating that he's won the match.
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  Speaker 1: Approaching the net, big smiles, tapping his head, saying, I'm
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  Speaker 1: a genius. And then the chair umpire's like, sorry, it's
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  Speaker 1: a 10-point tiebreak.
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  Speaker 2: Did he say, not done yet, mate?
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  Speaker 1: But then Basavaretti then did the choke at the end.
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  Speaker 1: So that was the choke, Sally. Here's match point to Basavaretti.
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  Speaker 1: Takes it. Choke Sally. Oh. The Choke Sally is brutal.
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  Speaker 2: The Choke Sally is right in front of the person
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  Speaker 2: as well.
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  Speaker 1: Like if I was doing a gig and a joke
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  Speaker 1: didn't land and I looked down and someone was like.
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  Speaker 1: I'd be like, I'm quitting comedy. Next time we.
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  Speaker 2: Gig together, which I believe is tonight.
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  Speaker 1: It is tonight. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And you just pan to me.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be like. We're going to do that to each
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  Speaker 1: other for the rest of our lives. Every gig, I'll
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  Speaker 1: be like, don't look at Lizzie, don't look at Lizzie.
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  Speaker 1: And then it just reminded me of like, because the Dockers,
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  Speaker 1: you know, were kind of. The underdog favorites? Am I
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  Speaker 1: right in saying that? Like the underdogs in terms of,
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  Speaker 1: not the favorites, but the underdogs in terms of people
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  Speaker 1: kind of wanted to see a new team win it.
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  Speaker 2: They wanted to see them win it because they haven't
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  Speaker 2: won it in 31 years or something. They haven't won
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  Speaker 2: the flag yet.
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  Speaker 1: They've never won it. They never won it. Brisbane was
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  Speaker 1: going for a three-peat.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, their second three-peat. Jesus. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: It's enough already.
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  Speaker 2: Dream crushes. Keep your Wharfie time in Perth.
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  Speaker 1: Is that what they play? Do they play that bell
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  Speaker 1: for Wharfie time?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it sounds ominous. If I heard that and
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  Speaker 1: I was on the field, I'd be like, I guess
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  Speaker 1: the Grim Reaper is coming for me.
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  Speaker 2: Is it meant to be because it's the Fremantle Dockers,
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  Speaker 2: so it's about when the workers. So is that their
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  Speaker 2: signal to stop working?
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  Speaker 1: I guess.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, hey, tools down.
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  Speaker 1: It's a Wharfie dinner bell. Yeah. Tools down.
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  Speaker 2: The next hour, we go to the pub.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. It's mixed messages to me.
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  Speaker 1: It is strange. Well, anyways, Wharfie time will haunt them
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  Speaker 1: all till their graves.
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  Speaker 2: It will. It will.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think they abandoned Wharfie time completely?
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  Speaker 2: They have to. Yes! Yes!
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  Speaker 3: Everyone gets it!
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  Speaker 1: In other news, I went to a Filipino wedding and
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  Speaker 1: talked about Alexiola the entire night with much of the
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  Speaker 1: family and friends over there.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that was your breaking the ice moment.
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  Speaker 1: That was my breaking the ice. I lied and said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm close personal friends with Alexiola. Yeah, nice.
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  Speaker 2: Did you have your Alexiola t-shirt on?
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  Speaker 1: I did, I did. Which was weird at a wedding. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The bride didn't love it.
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  Speaker 2: They appreciated it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. But a lot of them did say that
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  Speaker 1: their family was invited to that wedding, but they were
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  Speaker 1: in Singapore watching Alexi Alla instead of attending this wedding
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  Speaker 1: in Melbourne.
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  Speaker 2: Priorities.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I think they made the wrong
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  Speaker 1: decision because Iolo went out in the round of 16
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  Speaker 1: in the Singapore 500 to Tatiana Prozorova. Probably one of
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  Speaker 1: the wildest runs at a tournament for Prozorova. She was
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  Speaker 1: fighting for her life against Iala in that round of
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  Speaker 1: 16 in a three-hour epic. And then, do we have
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  Speaker 1: the footage of her little, her wharf-y time?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I love this.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, her personal wharf-y time. I mean, so, down to Iala,
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  Speaker 1: loses another point, then Prozorova. Out of nowhere.
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  Speaker 2: Missed Iala, my friend. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Push-ups.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, just a few push-ups.
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  Speaker 1: Just cranking out some push-ups.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: In the middle of a game. Bring that back. I
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  Speaker 1: love it.
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  Speaker 2: Me too. Just pumping herself up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. It worked because she went on to beat Iala
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  Speaker 1: in that match.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And it was, I believe, the deepest she's ever got
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  Speaker 1: into a WTA tournament.
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: But then had.
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  Speaker 2: This is the craziest sport.
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  Speaker 1: Had to leave the tournament.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Because in the doubles, she got tagged in the head.
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  Speaker 2: She could have hit really hard.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, here's the play. So doubles match.
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  Speaker 2: Smash, boom.
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  Speaker 1: Proza Rova takes a ball to the head.
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  Speaker 2: Proza Rova.
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  Speaker 1: At speed. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Whoa, poor thing.
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  Speaker 1: Proza Rova tournament over. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that sucks. It sucks so bad. That's a
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  Speaker 2: really bad way to leave a tournament.
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  Speaker 1: Well, because they said you have a concussion and by
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  Speaker 1: protocol you can't play anymore. And she was like, well,
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  Speaker 1: I would love to play some more. And then I
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  Speaker 1: think it affects the next tournament she wanted to play
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  Speaker 1: in because they're like, you have to take a week off.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Because of how hard that tennis ball hit you on
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  Speaker 1: the head. So when will we make doubles players wear helmets?
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  Speaker 1: This is Tennis News. Good week for the Australian women. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this was nice. An all Aussie final in the Korea
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  Speaker 1: Open 250.
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  Speaker 2: And this was happening during the AFL final. Same sort
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  Speaker 2: of time. Yeah, I was watching it on my phone.
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  Speaker 1: Were you checking in when Morphe time played?
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, Kim, I was not.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, there we go. For whom the bell tolls. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: an all Aussie final. Kim Burrell beats Maya Joint, winning
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  Speaker 1: her first WA title. Yeah, good friends and playing in
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  Speaker 1: a 250. And I believe that puts Kim Burrell in
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  Speaker 1: her highest ranking yet. And there was also another result,
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  Speaker 1: Talia Gibson. Yes. Losing to Leila Fernandez in the Singapore
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  Speaker 1: 500 final. Talia Gibson was meant to play Prozorova. but
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  Speaker 1: she hired another doubles player.
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  Speaker 2: Take her out.
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  Speaker 1: Take her out. So she got a walk over in
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  Speaker 1: the semifinal. Yes. Yes. I'm always two sentences away from
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: a Tanya Harding reference as the Jeff Galooly of this podcast.
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: I just love a Galooly reference. Tennis news. The, Lever
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: Cup has been on. Some of the best tennis players
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: in the world competing for either Team Europe or Team World.
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: After a match, Andre Agassi ripped into Zverev, and this
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  Speaker 1: was fun. Why do I always lose?
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  Speaker 3: Congratulations, Sasha, on the crazy year. Seeing you win for
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  Speaker 3: the first time, I know how important that was to you.
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  Speaker 3: It was important to me, too, because, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: could start listening to your press conferences again, you know,
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  Speaker 3: where you weren't like, ah, why do I always lose?
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  Speaker 2: Why do I always... But... Brutal. Why am I the
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  Speaker 2: third best in the world?
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  Speaker 1: I suck.
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  Speaker 2: I mean... Okay, Al Krez is like, I can't look.
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  Speaker 2: I can't look.
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  Speaker 1: I'm only a one slam champion. I got to do
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  Speaker 1: it again. I mean, Agassi rules. He's like a drunk
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  Speaker 1: uncle at this point.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is what he feels like. Drunk uncle making
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  Speaker 2: a speech at a wedding that nobody asked for.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Who gets like one joke off that
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  Speaker 1: is like a little borderline and everyone's like laughing and
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  Speaker 1: then he just keeps digging and like throwing body blows.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean, I love it. And they're, you know...
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  Speaker 1: They're enjoying it, I think.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're all friends.
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  Speaker 1: Zverev has to act like he's enjoying it, at least.
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  Speaker 2: It's okay to cry, guys. You can cry.
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  Speaker 1: They mic up the players, and there's, like, coaching within
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  Speaker 1: the team from the players. Demonar giving some tips to
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  Speaker 1: Fritz as he was playing Alcaraz. And this is some
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  Speaker 1: honesty from Fritz here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw this.
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  Speaker 2: Then last one, when you went that same roll back
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  Speaker 2: to the front hand, this move.
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  Speaker 1: This ball is actually jumping up.
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  Speaker 4: The spinny one?
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  Speaker 1: The spinny one. He just shanked that one.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like he's not going to be able to
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  Speaker 3: really unload.
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  Speaker 4: He's going to have to look after it a little
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  Speaker 4: bit more.
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  Speaker 2: I do get a little scared sometimes rolling to his floor.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, not bad advice. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I love watching tennis players hang out together in this
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  Speaker 2: sort of environment and them giving each other tips and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Is Damon, like, do you think he has rank there? Like,
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  Speaker 2: was he, is he, like, a captain of the team
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  Speaker 2: or something?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I think it's just they, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Rank is, like, basically whoever's mic'd up.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, okay, okay.
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  Speaker 1: And so he's saying, Fritz, you know, this is how
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  Speaker 1: you play against Alcaraz's forehand. And Fritz is being nice
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  Speaker 1: because he's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think I know how to play.
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  Speaker 1: I get it. But him saying he's scared when he
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  Speaker 1: rolls a ball into Algaraz's forehand is great to hear.
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  Speaker 1: Because it would be terrifying. If you hit a sitter
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  Speaker 1: to that guy who can rip it harder than anyone
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  Speaker 1: else in the world. I mean, I would probably shit
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: my pants a little bit. Tennis news. The biggest story, though,
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: to come out of the Labor Cup. This is our
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  Speaker 1: ongoing segment that's a crowd favorite.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, we love it.
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: This is Watch Watch.
• 13:18
  Speaker 2: We haven't had a Watch Watch for a long time. No, no, no.
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: So this is the great man, Roger Federer. He is
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: wearing the new I hope I'm saying this right. Perpetual Padalone?
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: Padalone. Padalone, which I looked up. Pataloni means big fry
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  Speaker 2: pan in Italian.
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  Speaker 1: The big fry pan from Rolex.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, just call it the big fry pan.
• 13:44
  Speaker 2: The big Rolex big fry pan.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I looked up how much this costs. It's around $ 80, 000.
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: The pressure of wearing a watch that costs that much.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think I could take it in my everyday life. No? No. No,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not walking around with an $ 80, 000 watch. Are you
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: kidding me? No, I think I would lose it.
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: You lose a lot of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I do. I think I would take it off at
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  Speaker 2: the pool or something to have a shower, and then
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  Speaker 2: I would leave it there in a dirty council pool.
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was... Watch, watch. Watch, watch. Watch it marches
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: quickly at the Billie Jean King Cup, which is the
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: WTA version of the Davis Cup. In the finals, Chechya
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: defeats Ukraine, Mukova over Kalinina, and Noskova over Svitolina, both
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: in straight sets. So it's interesting these are so close
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: to the U.S. Open, both Davis Cup, Billie Jean King Cup,
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: Laver Cup. And I was also thinking that the Laver
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: Cup is named after Rod Laver.
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  Speaker 2: After our podcast, actually.
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: After our podcast. And somehow we weren't sent to London
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: to cover it.
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, unfortunately not. But, Abdo, if you're listening, next year
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: we are available.
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  Speaker 1: We will go to London.
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  Speaker 2: Tennis News.
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: In other news, the aforementioned Alex Iala is facing a
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: $ 10, 000 fine for repping her country.
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  Speaker 2: Did you bring this up at the wedding?
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  Speaker 1: I should have. What do you think about this? This
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  Speaker 1: beef brewing between Alex Iala and the WTA. So she
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  Speaker 1: decided to skip the 1000 event in Beijing. Instead of
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: heading to China, the young Filipino star has chosen to
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  Speaker 1: represent her country at the Asian Games in Japan.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm behind this. Yeah, she's so... She represents the
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  Speaker 2: Philippines all the time, and it makes sense to me.
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  Speaker 1: And a $ 10, 000 fine. That's nothing to a tennis player.
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  Speaker 1: It's a drop in the ocean.
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  Speaker 2: It's an eighth of a watch.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, eighth of a watch. Yeah, that's the second hand
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  Speaker 1: on Federer's big frying pan.
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  Speaker 2: Badaloni.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: Game set hats. Wow. Should we get into.
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  Speaker 2: One of our new favorite segments.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: Game set hats. Game set hats. We don't know whether
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: people are hating it until usually a few weeks into
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: a segment.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: What's with that Game Set Hats thing? I thought it
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: was a one-off, but they've continued to do it.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: They continue to do it. As soon as I hear
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: Game Set Hats, I dip out. I'm turning it off.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: But stay with us.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: Stay with us because this is fire. Pew, pew, pew, pew.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: In this edition of Game Set Hats, Roger Federer is
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: getting a Uniqlo Induction Hall of Fame hat. This is
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: an all-white hat.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: Uniqlo Induction hat. I mean, I didn't know about the
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: Uniqlo Hall of Fame.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: But it's just his regular hat. It's his logo.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: But it's just made by Uniqlo. I mean, it's a
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: nice hat. But it doesn't look. is similar to his
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: his usual.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: Hat right 50 bucks.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: White though i'm not wearing a white.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: Hat no no it gets a little.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: Sweaty and then you get that brown stain on it yeah.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: You don't want that at all but this is a
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: fancy baseball hat this is like you're only wearing to
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: the best.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: Events i do like his logo.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: Oh, the RF is amazing. But it is just basically
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: the Roger Federer usual logo on a white hat. I mean,
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: hats can be used for good and for bad, Lizzy Who.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: This is profound. Where are we going here?
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: This is a hat being used in a nefarious manner.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, nice.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: Novak Djokovic was doing the rounds, signing autographs, you know,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: being the gregarious man he is with his fans. And
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: then someone decided to weaponize their head. This is brutal.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you're prepared. You might want to
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: look away. This is.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: Oh, hat to the face.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: And the look.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Oh, that withering look he gives.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: I do not want to be on the end of
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: that look.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: A fan throws a hat at his head.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: And then he ruins it for everyone.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like they should have tested Djokovic for a concussion
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: protocol after that feather light blow to the head. from
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: someone tossing a hat in his direction.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: And that was Game Set Hats.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: Game Set Hats. Game Set Hats.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: Hats. It's going to be one of those segments where
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: there is actually a lot of hat-related content. I know.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Hello. It's very, very nice to speak To you today,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: my foot hurt, my elbow hurt.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry to hear that. You're my boy.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Everything hurt.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: I'm making your favorite paella. Oh, yeah.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: He played very, very good, but I did not.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Come home immediately.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: I'm a crazy. We have another new segment.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: So many new segments today.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: I know. We got segments out the wazoo. This one
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: is exciting. This is one I put together during the week.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: I'm calling this one Steffi Graf's.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Oh, I love what you've done there.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: So these are graphs relating to tennis. This is your
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: first Steffi graph. Oh, my God. Sorry, sorry.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Can we stop?
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: You have gone to so much effort. This is so
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: much effort. No. This is crazy.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: This is actually... Wow, but, like, it's perfect. Thank you.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: It's a perfect... You know how to use Excel.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: I do, actually. Or chat GPT. This is the inverse
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: law of free time and five-set matches. And then on
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: the y-axis here, you can see the probability that a
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: match goes to five sets. This is viewing and playing
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: versus how locked in my wife's plans are. that i
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: cannot get out of so this is like you know
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: the start of a match whatever she doesn't really have
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: any plans vague idea maybe we'll do something and here
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: i can go well i don't those plans mean nothing
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: like i'm not involved soft plans she's like maybe tentative
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: there's been a few text messages whatever yeah This is
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: the calendar blocked out.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Oh, the couple's cal.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Yes. As you can see, we're about two and a
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: half sets into a five set match here. Me playing
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: or watching. Right. So we're about at the hour and
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: a half mark in a match. Uh, then this is
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: when friends get involved and then the match is going longer.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: I'm more deeper entrenched in these plans that I absolutely
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: do not want to do. And anyways, the invitation, well,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter if I've accepted or not. It's not my,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: it's not your goal. Uh, these are reservations made. Otherwise
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: what I call the point of new, no return where
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: we're at about 75% of a five set, uh, So
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: that is going to be around the fourth set, end
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: of the third, start of the fourth. And this is
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: when her plans are so locked in. And I am
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: so inextricably involved that there is going to be tension
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: in the marriage when I show my priorities. Are playing
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: or watching a five set match rather than her plans
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: being parents involved.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, run me through this.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Well. if her parents are in town, but if they're
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: visiting and she's like, I told you weeks ago, they
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: were going to be here. And I'm like, well, I
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: told you years ago, the Australian open would be on
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: in January of 2026. And I would be involved. Uh,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: so that's her. I think once parents are involved and
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: statistically inevitable that I have to abandon wherever I am
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: watching or playing a five set match. And I have
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: to go with her. I have to do what she says. Otherwise,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: find a new wife. Whoa.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: And that's where the graph dives off the cliff.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Yes. Yes, exactly. Oh, wow.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: This is, well, yeah.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Let's look at another graph. This is watching a Rafa
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Nadal match. This is a bar graph. Start at the
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: bottom here.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: This is taking me back. I used to work a
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: lot in annual reports. This is making me feel like
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: I'm at my old job.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: So this is viewer experience watching a typical Rafa Nadal match.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Love it.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Percentage of the match experience down at the bottom. Then
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: we have the bars here. So watching him picking his
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: nose and his wedges is around 15%.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: A little bit lower than I imagined.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that could probably go up. But then the water
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: and towel rituals, 10%. Nadal producing copious amounts of sweat.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: That's the entire match. We're 100% on that. He is trippy.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: He is a fountain out there, right?
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: He's a sweaty guy.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Actual tennis, 30%. Because there's a lot of change events,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: sitting down, stopping between points. Looking intense, 100%.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the intense and the sweaty go hand in hand.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: They do go hand in hand, yes, definitely. But this is,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: as me, this is very, very specific to me watching
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: the doll match. Thinking how bald Rafa Nadal has gotten
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: and questioning my own mortality and inevitable entropy.
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: Whoa.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: That is at 85% of the match.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Wow, that is deep inside the mind of Mike. That
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: is deep in your psyche.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: If this specimen can age and lose.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: His luxurious hair. What hope do you have? But I
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: will say, Mike, you have a great, you've got great hair.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: I do. You've still got a lot of hair.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Thank you. And I've achieved more than Ruffin at all.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. So that was Steffi Graf's I enjoyed that.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's better than the lip reading.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Rock it, Rod. Rock it, Rod.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: I love you.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: I love you.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Rock it, Rod.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Rock it, Rod.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: You're an amazing dude.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: I love you. And now to everybody's favorite segment.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Wow, we have so many favorites.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Everybody's number one favorite segment. My favorite segment. It's Approaching
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: the Net. I'm dancing.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: The ladies shall dance.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: I love you.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: Let's go to Morgan Riddle. Taylor Fritz's ex-girlfriend has just
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: released a fragrance called Mr. Cloud. I don't know if
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: we should read into that. But it's described as a soft,
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: milky floral inspired by the feeling of a perfect day
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: spent courtside.
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: Ugh.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: I know. Yuck. Yeah, so.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: It's weird isn't it ex-girlfriend of taylor fritz uh she
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: did spend a lot of time courtside with him though
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: and made a lot of money she was like the
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: biggest woman in men's tennis.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah these tennis influencers yeah but then a fragrance a
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: fragrance for my experience the smell of courtside is not crate.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: Is is not no it's like a milky floral milky
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: floral milky floral is a weird descriptor but i also
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: think this perfume would have the process of this being
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: made would have started before they broke up they broke
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: up in april right so this must have been in
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: the works before then and she's just run with it
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: yeah oh it's called packaging i quite like that So Mr.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Cloud is a tennis player post a five setter in
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: 34 degree heat. It smells like musky.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: I mean, people love a bit of musk.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: People love a milky floral stank.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: Milky floral is what's really getting me. But I just,
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: I guess she's staying in the tennis world.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, why not? Yeah.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: She's kind of positioned herself now as like a sports person. But, like,
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: more focusing on, like, women's sport.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: But she had credibility, I guess, when she was the
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: wag of Taylor Fritz. But, I mean, you know, you
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: got to get back in there.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: So Alexi Alla fans, biggest fans in tennis, the best
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: fans in tennis, I would say. They've got a cool
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: new thing that they're doing. They're holding up fruit for
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: her with little messages. Oh. Yeah, they're holding up bananas.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Let's have a look at this.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Right. Is it just bananas?
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Okay. Go, Alex. Go, Alex. Does she love bananas? Was
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: there a connection?
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: I guess it's just easy to ride on the bananas.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Maybe. And you can bring them in? Right. Is that
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: what that's saying?
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: I guess.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: What fruit would you like to.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: I would love a mangosteen.
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: Ooh!
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: For the gold steens. For the gold steens. And one
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: of my favorite fruits, Mike. Oh. Do you like the mangosteen?
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: I love it.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh. Yes. I didn't know this about... We
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: are connected by the mangosteen.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: We are. Mangosteen.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: One of the best... Tropical fruits in Southeast Asia. Yeah. Oh,
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: it's completely different. It's Jewish. It's been circumcised. Yeah, you
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: cut the top off.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: It wears a little yarmulke.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah. All right.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: So, okay.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: You've never had a mega stew in your life.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Because they, the carrots is now tied to Yannick Sinner.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: So, I guess they're trying to get the banana going
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: for Yola. What food would you want?
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: I would like a big old watermelon. I want my
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: fans to go to Maximum Effort. Right. They would need
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: to smuggle in. A huge watermelon.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: And it's quite a smooth surface, so the sign that
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: they could do would be huge.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: And I'm quite short-sighted, so I need.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: A big watermelon.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I need a big watermelon.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Well, the guys who watch women's tennis, they're often single-ticket buyers,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: and they might have a watermelon that's been hollowed out,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: shall we say. So make of that what you will.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: Oh, gosh. Mm-hmm. Carlos Alcaraz, he's having a courtside interview. Often,
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: this happens more than I like it happening. Someone yells
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: out from the crowd.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: How do you keep a smile on your face during
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: those tough times? What the.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: Hell?
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: I'm too young to say that. Marry my sister, Carlos.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Marry my sister.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: What was the question? Sorry.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: He's distracted.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: Does he have to be so likable? God damn it.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: He's so lovely.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: We love him. We love his smile. But if anyone's,
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: you know, pitching their sister. It's never good.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: No. In any situation. Hey, what do you think? No
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: brother in their right mind is marrying off their sister. No.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And I think the odds are good, but the
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: goods are odd.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: She would marry him. But if you're auctioning off your sister,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: like she's probably not the best prize.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: You're yelling out from the crowd. Yeah.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: For Carlos. But then I love Carlos. What the heck?
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: What the heck? That's crazy. I can't believe a girl
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: likes me.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, maybe, you know, hit him up in
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: his DMs.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he might check a random tennis fan 6969. Marry
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: my sister.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: What else we got?
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: Oh, this makes me laugh. Rublev. He gives a very stirring,
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: heartfelt message to the Chinese fans on Mid-Autumn Day, which
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: is a very special day in the Chinese lunar calendar.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: It's about, you know, it's kind of as important as
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: Chinese New Year. It's like halfway through the year and
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: you get together with your family. And Rublev, he's got
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: a message for everyone.
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: Oh, beautiful. Today is a special day for Chinese people.
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: It's Mid-Autumn Day. Would you like to say happy Chinese
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: Mid-Autumn Day to all the Chinese friends? Mid-autumn day. Happy
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: mid-autumn day to our Chinese friends. Happy mid-autumn day to
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: all the Chinese people here. So, yeah. Oh, passionate.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: Passion. The fans are stunned.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Everyone's whipped into a frenzy. Yeah. Happy mid-autumn day to
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: the Chinese either.
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: Whatever.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: Get me out of here.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: It's like, I'm so tired.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: That he's into it.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: That's the enthusiasm in which I would have dinner with
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: my wife's parents.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: Just non-verbal.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, happy mid-autumn day.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: I don't want to be here.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: I'm just checking scores on my phone.
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: Mid-autumn day.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Mid-autumn day. All right. Well, that wraps up another stellar
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: edition of Pod Laver Arena. We will be attending the
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Laver Cup next year in London. Thanks to our new overlord,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Charlie Abdo.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: I always forget his name. Andrew Abdo.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: I knew it.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: The hardcore swing in Asia.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: The craziest mix-up. We love you.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Yes. Andrew. Thank you for listening to another stellar edition
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: of Podlabor Arena. The Asian hardcore swing will be in
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: full effect. Beijing, ATP 500, Tokyo. Yeah. Shanghai. It's all
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: happening in the WTA, Beijing as well, and Wuhan. A
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: thousand events. So yes, I cannot wait. We'll see you
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: next week for another edition of Orphe Time.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: Orphe Time.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: It's real so bad for them. I expect that Metallica
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: riff to kick in. Do, do, do.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: Do, do.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: I just love a Galooly reference.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: I love you.