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DESPITE ALL THEIR RAGE... ETC. · Pod Laver Arena

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  Speaker 1: What should we launch in show me perfect tennis?
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  Speaker 2: No way.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Tennis FM. You're on with Fridgie
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  Speaker 1: of the Choe, big week around the world, with all
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  Speaker 1: the tennis tournaments going on, let's junk in with jod
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  Speaker 1: in the tennis chopper. Sounds like you're about to spit
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  Speaker 1: on Fridgie an American accent. You can try.
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  Speaker 3: God damn it, Fridge. It's really high up here, and
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  Speaker 3: is that good?
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  Speaker 1: It's not great, but uh we already American. You are American.
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  Speaker 3: American chopper guy.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the Chod is a little out of practice, but
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  Speaker 1: it's good to have him back. Sam Touton is back
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  Speaker 1: in the studio. Everybody, no.
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  Speaker 3: Security, I won't tell you into No one even looked
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  Speaker 3: at me when I just came in.
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  Speaker 1: How did you feel like walking through the empty grounds?
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  Speaker 1: The carnival is packed up and left town.
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  Speaker 3: It's really kind of made me lose respect for the
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  Speaker 3: organization because it's so big when you hear during the
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  Speaker 3: tournament and then now it's like no one caress and
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  Speaker 3: there's nothing even to steal. These offices suck.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a parking lot out there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's terrible.
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  Speaker 1: They pave paradise. They put up a parking lot.
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  Speaker 3: That's so true. I think that's what they were talking
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  Speaker 3: to Joni. Is that what she was doing?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I go with the Counting Crows version.
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  Speaker 3: Of course. What a band? What a band?
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  Speaker 1: What a hair doo? Pineapple head himself. Speaking of music,
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  Speaker 1: let's get into the number one hit of the day.
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  Speaker 1: There goes Craig Tyly. Watch him as he goes.
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  Speaker 3: Due always nice since finally great job with the AO.
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  Speaker 3: No no no, no no no no no.
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  Speaker 1: Oh so sad Craig Tyler has left us.
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  Speaker 3: Left the building, and I've been allowed in. Is there
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  Speaker 3: a correlation? Imagine if I'm next in line for the throne,
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  Speaker 3: I can't like fathom a.
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  Speaker 1: Will are you putting yourself for it?
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  Speaker 3: Well? I was thinking about this on the drive in,
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  Speaker 3: and I know I'm not thinking I could, like maybe
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  Speaker 3: I'll get the job, but like I was like, what
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  Speaker 3: is the job? Do you know what I mean? And
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  Speaker 3: it's like he was a party in my head. He's
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  Speaker 3: just a bit of a party guy.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, remember we had a man he played stingpong
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  Speaker 1: with us, drinking drinking, yes, Smiley, but.
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  Speaker 3: What did he do? The Australian Open now one of
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  Speaker 3: the premier sporting events in the world, and everyone's like,
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  Speaker 3: what a guy, Look what he's done with the thing.
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  Speaker 3: But he kind of just put in like a lot
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  Speaker 3: of bars, some food stalls, got people come and enjoy
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  Speaker 3: the fund, like I've hosted a house card to me,
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  Speaker 3: the tennis stuff will take care of itself. Yeah, he
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  Speaker 3: didn't really change anything to do with the tennis. No,
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  Speaker 3: it was still what he maybe gave a few like
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  Speaker 3: strategical wild cards maybe.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. He brought Daria Kazakina over from Russia. Okay, so
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  Speaker 1: now we have a top female tennis player playing for Australia.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, well I could do more of that. I can do.
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  Speaker 3: Do you want me to go through the Russian handbook
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  Speaker 3: right now? I'll go to any country. I don't care
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  Speaker 3: what it is. But you know what I mean, like
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  Speaker 3: he created a party atmosphere.
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  Speaker 1: We should give context. Craig, Australian Open has left. He's
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  Speaker 1: going to the US.
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  Speaker 3: Of all the places to try to turn.
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  Speaker 1: Around the US Open. Not to say it needs turning around.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I mean. It's not like I mean, it's
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  Speaker 3: already the biggest kind of thing.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, give us your pitch. What would you do
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  Speaker 1: now for the Australian Open to make it even bigger
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  Speaker 1: and better? Okay, and your new role is the head
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  Speaker 1: of the.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, number one, I'm taking the MCG. So it's just
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  Speaker 3: next door and it just sits there during the Slam week.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know why we're not utilizing it rod Laver Arena.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it's fantastic, but come on, we're going to
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  Speaker 3: put center court on the MCG one hundred thousand people.
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  Speaker 3: You could sell one hundred thousand tickets to the final,
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  Speaker 3: to the men's have women's final easily.
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  Speaker 1: But you're sitting so far away. If it's a square
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  Speaker 1: tennis court.
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  Speaker 3: Just put there's some big screens out there. Have you
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  Speaker 3: ever watched AFL? They're tiny, tiny little men running around.
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  Speaker 3: It's hard to know what's going on. You put the
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  Speaker 3: court down there you can watch it. Also, I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to go five set, women are playing five sets.
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  Speaker 1: I like that. That's been proposed actually, I.
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  Speaker 3: Mean Craig himself even spoke about that. Then we get
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  Speaker 3: we're selling more airtime for the TV broadcast, more money generated,
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  Speaker 3: which means more bars. So then if we've got the
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  Speaker 3: MCG available, that takes pressure off Rod is now free.
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  Speaker 1: Rave Cave, Ravecave, Rave Cave to our international listener having
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  Speaker 1: a rave cave. Mcg is the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
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  Speaker 3: Hundred thousand seats.
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  Speaker 1: And you think one hundred thousand people, what's rod Labor capacity.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's fifteen, fifteen to twenty yeah. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: you think rod Labor gets packed, you know. Also, but
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  Speaker 1: you think there's enough demand for one hundred thousand tennis fans.
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  Speaker 3: That's super yeah. Yeah, yeah. We have to lower the
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  Speaker 3: ticket price so it's going to be spread out more overall,
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  Speaker 3: more revenue comes in. What a spectacle. People talk about
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  Speaker 3: Arthur ash Stadium and that being massive, that's all people
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  Speaker 3: talk about. They're like, Wow, it's so.
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  Speaker 1: Big, that's stupid.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to dwarf it. We're going to go because
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  Speaker 3: it's four times that year.
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  Speaker 1: But Arthur Ashes too. Okay, having been to a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the Grand Slams, I think the bigger the stadium,
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  Speaker 1: the worst it is.
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  Speaker 3: Respectators, Yeah, totally, but we're not worried about like the hardcore,
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  Speaker 3: rusted on tennis fans. And that's where Tyler has been
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  Speaker 3: quite brillian. He's been like every man on the street.
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  Speaker 3: Just come in and have an apperl sprits and that's
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  Speaker 3: how we're going to turn this into the big thing.
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  Speaker 3: And that I'm with him.
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  Speaker 1: He brought in the assault of the earth, the com
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  Speaker 1: Man and the high man, influencers, the influence.
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  Speaker 3: He's a big influencer. G Yes, he's huge, which is
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  Speaker 3: weird because like, if you have met the man, which
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  Speaker 3: we both have, he doesn't seem like a guy who
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  Speaker 3: knows what's going on with the influencer community.
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  Speaker 1: He does. Man, I've seen him in the comment saying,
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  Speaker 1: you know, show Bob's please, pretty lady, pretty lady? Oh stunning? Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: why is this video of eight hours long?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. His stumma is just glued to that fire emoji.
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  Speaker 1: Just loves that fire emoji. We're gonna miss him.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna miss him. What a job he's done. One
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  Speaker 3: of our biggest champions of I mean, he's probably the
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  Speaker 3: reason why it's still going. That's why I was worried
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  Speaker 3: that is it going to all end? Now? I don't
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  Speaker 3: know if they was kind of the driving force by.
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  Speaker 1: Some straight laced person takes over that doesn't like the
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  Speaker 1: cut of our jibs.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're done. Who who is around? Like, do you
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  Speaker 3: think we need an Australian.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen some names floated.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Craig McLachlin, Craig McLachlin, the guy that got canceled.
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  Speaker 1: It's something Maglauchlin.
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  Speaker 3: He did stand up on the foot show. Have you
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  Speaker 3: seen that guy?
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  Speaker 1: Guy? Not that guy, it's.
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  Speaker 3: Gil McLaughlin, former head of the a f L. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: I think you need someone. I was being a bit joke. Well,
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  Speaker 3: it's hard to get up for the idea of Craig
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  Speaker 3: Maybe Craig McLachlin. It's like, what do you mean if
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  Speaker 3: we can't get Craig McLachlin, Delta Good Room probably, like
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  Speaker 3: that's in the world you're talking now.
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  Speaker 1: She was the ambassador of Slurp it up, your dumb fucks.
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  Speaker 3: Are we still on the hidick? I've been drinking it,
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  Speaker 3: have you?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Because I was at.
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  Speaker 1: Because you stole the promo bottles?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I stole a few. But then I was at
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  Speaker 3: a music festival the other day. There was a big sign,
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  Speaker 3: so I went and got a couple of glasses. That's loyalty.
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  Speaker 3: So even if it's not working through our listener base,
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  Speaker 3: it's working on me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it. Are they running with my slogan? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: When I get there, they hand it to you and
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  Speaker 3: they enjoy that. Fuck face.
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  Speaker 1: They say, guzzle it down your stupid throats. You're thirsty ass.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they say it all all and they've got
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  Speaker 3: you can see, they've got a little board that they
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  Speaker 3: have to ask in case someone's undercover bossing them and
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  Speaker 3: they don't. They guzzle it down, you thirsty fuck knuckle. Anyway,
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  Speaker 3: gil McLaughlin, he could do a good job. He's got
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  Speaker 3: experience with high level administration in sport. I like a
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  Speaker 3: tennis person from outside. I don't know who you bring in, Like, well,
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  Speaker 3: what about these commentats? We could? Would Jim Courier come
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  Speaker 3: in and do it? He's like a personal guy straining
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  Speaker 3: to love.
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  Speaker 1: Him he is, But does he have the business chops?
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  Speaker 3: What is it again? What is the business chops? Think
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  Speaker 3: you just put in a like I said, it's a
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  Speaker 3: poro or an Asahi van out in the car par Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and just everyone comes and drinks nineteen dollars beers. That's
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  Speaker 3: all you need to do. A Guzman No Gomez, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: no Gomett.
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  Speaker 1: We just yeah, he's a better one.
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  Speaker 3: I'm telling you book the MTG and you'll set up
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  Speaker 3: for the next four five years.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Well, I guess yeah business chops Wise, Tyler was
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  Speaker 1: a coach at tennis college. Yennis College. It sounds like
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  Speaker 1: a place TCU. You go to TCU. He was a
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  Speaker 1: college tennis coach. And then I don't know what his
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  Speaker 1: background of business is. But he did make this tournament.
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  Speaker 1: He started in two thousand and five, I believe, so
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  Speaker 1: twenty years of running this tournament and he made it
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  Speaker 1: an amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, world event. Did he coin Happy Slam?
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  Speaker 1: I think yeah, who knows. There's probably some marketing person
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  Speaker 1: who was like, let's make this the Happy Slam.
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  Speaker 3: I mean that's done. Wonders for it. Yeah, and not
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  Speaker 3: show cocoa cough smashing it round.
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  Speaker 1: Whoops.
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  Speaker 3: But what's he going to do with the American tennis system.
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  Speaker 3: I guess it's a big.
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  Speaker 1: It's a huge job. I think the I haven't been
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  Speaker 1: to the US Open many times. I think, do you
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  Speaker 1: think they need help? Yeah? I mean it's great, but
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  Speaker 1: it's nothing like this. It's something like the AO. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it just needs the I think it needs bigger grounds first.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean, if you move it out of Queen's
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  Speaker 1: people are gonna riot.
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  Speaker 3: They do they have the capacity to maybe buy backspace
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  Speaker 3: or like open it up somewhere else.
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  Speaker 1: Look, I'm not Craig Tiley. I don't know what the
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  Speaker 1: business capacity is for.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, well you've crossed your name off the list of
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  Speaker 3: running a professional tennis tournament. What do we do with
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  Speaker 3: any solutions?
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  Speaker 1: The US Okay, the US Open, I'll tell you what's
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  Speaker 1: wrong with it? Right? Oh, we didn't even check in
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  Speaker 1: with Ace.
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  Speaker 4: You.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to be checked in.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, because, like Ace, I feel bad. We've
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  Speaker 1: had this kind of running gag since you've been gone Totten,
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  Speaker 1: where I ask them something and then I immediately tell
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: them to shut up. Right. Oh me, I know, I know,
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  Speaker 1: I know, and I think it's a bit of bullying,
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: and I actually you think it's a bit of a
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  Speaker 1: bullet And I actually felt bad when I went back
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  Speaker 1: and listen to episode. So, really, Ace, we're recording this
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  Speaker 1: on a Friday. What actual plans do you have for
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  Speaker 1: this weekend? Blow it out your ass, dick face? Nobody cares?
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  Speaker 1: All right, So what.
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  Speaker 3: He text me after this? What I would do for
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  Speaker 3: the US Open?
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  Speaker 1: It's needs that party atmosphere that the AO has it doesn't.
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  Speaker 3: Happen, doesn't need but is it. It's like it's rowdy already. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: do they need a DJ?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, who doesn't need a DJ?
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  Speaker 3: That would work perfectly in the labor arena rave case,
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  Speaker 3: you can do a DJ said in it. Oh god.
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: The Since weed has become legal in New York, they
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  Speaker 1: had a problem that Arthur Ash with so many people
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  Speaker 1: smoking weed in the stadium. The players were getting contact high.
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  Speaker 3: It's so funny. Okay, well, that's like we can sort
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  Speaker 3: that out. You can't smoke weed.
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  Speaker 1: No, I'm saying more weed weed. I want every player
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  Speaker 1: to be high as.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, No, I like that because then that becomes like
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  Speaker 3: a different style of game, do you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: Like we have different surfaces that we have to deal with.
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  Speaker 3: You have to adjust your game. When you get to
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  Speaker 3: the US Open, you're gonna have to who can play
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  Speaker 3: better really high?
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  Speaker 1: This is the real happy Slam now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it would be cool because you know when you
• 12:32
  Speaker 3: watch them warm me up and they're just kind of
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  Speaker 3: like dulling it back to each other. Imagine if that
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  Speaker 3: was every game. We're talking like ten hour.
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  Speaker 1: On the change of ends, they're just like having some
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: girritos and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Just sitting in there, just really staring off into the
• 12:49
  Speaker 3: distance as they're waiting for the call to get back
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  Speaker 3: out onto the court.
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  Speaker 1: But we wish him all the best. Craig Tyler, We're
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  Speaker 1: going to miss him.
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  Speaker 3: Rip the gold. Hey, guess what happen? I was driving yesterday?
• 13:01
  Speaker 3: Gets who I saw on the road.
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  Speaker 1: Lighton Hewett No with Chubb, Chub with Chobb. Oh close call.
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: I still don't know what Chub actually does outside of
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  Speaker 1: the close call. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: So troubles that there was there in a van and
• 13:15
  Speaker 3: they're just driving along.
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: Speaking of Chubs, we had an incident at the Dubai.
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: Was this in Dubairo? Was this Acapolco?
• 13:22
  Speaker 3: I believe this is Acapolco, Abierto, Mexicano.
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: It was Valentine evashero beat gailmn fees.
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  Speaker 3: Soak that up. Heavens, Yes, heavens.
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  Speaker 1: So this is going viral because people are saying he
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  Speaker 1: was visibly aroused at the end of.
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  Speaker 3: His wrecked Yes, as Ace said it to me before
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  Speaker 3: he had pitched a tent.
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  Speaker 1: He said, that's full tent.
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  Speaker 3: Did he say full t Yeah, it looks to be
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  Speaker 3: more than like it's not nothing.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think he's excited in any type of arousal way.
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  Speaker 1: I just think he's got like a chub pudge.
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  Speaker 3: Like a free standing chub pudge, free standing day to
• 14:04
  Speaker 3: day chub pudge.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think maybe his his his bean bag. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how to talk about this.
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  Speaker 3: Bag was Christian sex head talk.
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  Speaker 1: Look, when you reach a certain age, you'll start to
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: find hairs on your bean bag when you win an
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  Speaker 1: ATP five regardless he's through to the quarterfinals, chub or
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: no chubb. Well, put it out to the listeners. What
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: do you think?
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  Speaker 3: Is he bean bagging or is he well if you
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: got a bean bag? Or is he a little bit more?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so that's how you're framing it. We have coined
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: a new term here, being bean bagging. Should Yeah, this
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: is a chub close call.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it couldn't be more of a job class.
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  Speaker 2: I had some stomach problems.
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  Speaker 3: I took care of it during the sets.
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: Well, speaking of Acapoca, let's get into the headline calls acapogo.
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: Is it's happening all right now? For the second straight
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: year in Ocapoco, the top four seeds have failed to
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  Speaker 1: reach the quarter finals.
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  Speaker 3: It's why why is that? Why is that? Because I
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: thought our little man the demon, our little man a
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: little man. He's a little man. You know, he's coming off.
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  Speaker 3: He had a win only a few weeks in Rotterdam.
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  Speaker 3: I want to say he won this a few years ago.
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  Speaker 1: He won it last year and the year before, I believe.
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  Speaker 1: So what's yeah?
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  Speaker 3: But I guess he wasn't call little man in his confidence.
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: Well, so he went out to an American qualifier, Kipson
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: early early in the tournament. Zverev went out yesterday to
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: mir Mir Kikmanovich near mere Mer, Mir Mir Mirror. That's
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: what I say when I'm calling my cat mir Mir.
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: The South American swing kind of rules, Like looking through
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: the drawls down there in Argentina and Brazil, I'm like,
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: these are some names that they're not making it over
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  Speaker 3: here to the Australian summer.
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  Speaker 1: Well, a lot of the clay court tournaments, you'll be like,
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: who the hell is this person special? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they're derogatorily. Is that a word referred to as dirt rats?
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  Speaker 3: Really?
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah? You called them dirtrats before the podcast, Yeah yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you didn't preface.
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  Speaker 1: I call anyone who lives down there.
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  Speaker 3: Dude, I play at Fitzroy North A tennis courts on
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: the clay sometimes. Does that make me do it right?
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: If you're partial to it, if you prefer I play.
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: Better on the clay, Yeah, A little that uneven bounced,
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: it slows down, it sucks. Yeah, I would say I'm
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: gonna do it round.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: Well, Casper Rude went out as well. He's just had
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: a baby. What's he doing hanging out in Acapolco anyway,
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: it's just exactly. And Alejandro Davidovich for Kina, who I
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: love as a player, but I just I don't know.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: He seems very temperamental and he doesn't really I think
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: he'll do better on the clay.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: But why is the Mexican it's on a hard court. Yeah.
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: In Santiago right now they're playing on clay, and Paris
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: they played on clay.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: I believe Santiago is a two to fifty event. This
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: one's the five hundred. So you're going to get the
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: better player.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: Okay, you're going to get there more money on the line.
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: You're going to get a drug war going on well
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: next door.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: So they were thinking of there was calls to get
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: all the tennis players out of there.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: Well, I've read an arnicle. Don't worry about the women
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: and children. It's the opposite of the Titanic exactly. Women
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: and children go down with the ship. Get the men, please, get.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: Please, we have to save caspar Rue.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: Well, I read an article last week like a tennis
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: journal was calling on Larry Ellison in the Indian Wells. Guy.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: He's like, you need to chart o a jet right now.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: Get the guys out, Get them to Indian Wells for
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: a week early so they can practice. They're not safe down.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: Which I don't know. Man, it is crazy over there
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: at the moment, if anyone hasn't heard, and there's a
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: huge drug car war happening.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: Like just burning out cause left right and.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: The Mexican Army is involved. I'm meant to be there
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: next week, flying into the very city.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: Did the government cool? Mexican government?
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they called me as a like a mercenary, So
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: I mean they're waiting for me over there. But I
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: also have an all inclusive five star resort that I'm
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: worried I won't be able to all includive.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: Get scramby Eggs. What do you yeah, what do you
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: mean when you say all inclusive.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: It means all booze and all food is paid.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: So you've got some kind of package that's so American.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: It's not though, it is what it is. You love
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: resorts of a big resort.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but that's so American, is it? Yeah? Dude?
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: Oh well, because you're like this traveler, lend me.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: A little Airbnb, a little mini air a mini house
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: somewhere out in the country.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: For there's cameras in AIRBNBA just watching you chub up
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: on their couch.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: No, not chubbed my little bean bag, not my bean bag.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: You're bean bagging there.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: So you're actually but you're gonna bear Mexico.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: I'm meant to fly into Portavireta on March tenth, so yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: yeah yeah. And I just got a text message from
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: the airline saying you might want to reconsider so.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: And that's the way they would. Yeah, I believe, I know.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: But we're already through as of recording to the quarterfinals
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: in Acapoco. Francis tfo is through to the quarters. He's
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: been playing some crazy matches. Nakashima plays Valentin Vashero, the
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: aforementioned beanbager, and then the highest seed left in the
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: draw is Koboli, who we discussed last week because he
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: just got a cool incredible hulk tet.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: That is cool. That is cool, so cool.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so all the top seeds out over there, Dubai
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: is through to the semifinals, Felix Auge ali Asim playing Medvedev,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: and the other semi is rube Lev against Greek Spor.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: I would love to see an all Russian final for
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Dubai Medvedev Rublev would be sweet.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: I would like to see Dubai played on clay, if
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: any kind.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Of like, so they're just melting into it, yeah.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: Dude, if any like, look, it's just all sand over there,
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: Like surely they could make the clay much better.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Play on sand. Why not?
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: Just a bit of a gusta breeze, It just a
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: wall blows away.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. So who do you like? I mean, Felix,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: friend of the show. We love Felix, But I mean
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: I just like Medvedev kind of starting to play well,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: which is important heading in Indian wells.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: I think Medvedev is like underachiever in terms of his
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: like tenacity ability. You know, we've seen it big like
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: a few years ago. You would love to see him
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: recapture that like angry man. And I don't get me wrong,
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: I still think he's an angry man. But I want
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: to see that fire again. That year he came out
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: here and he was the most hated man in the country. Yeah,
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: it was unbelievable.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Oh man, he loves playing the villain and when he does,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: it's so entertaining.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: Well, some people just play the heel way better than
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: some people. Can't do the nice guy thing or just
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: be like assured of themselves. Some people just have to
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: be like and get everyone offside. And maybe that's what
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: he needs to kind of kick started. But you'd love
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: to see him back at the top because I don't know,
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: I feel like he's too talented to not be in
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: the conversation as being like if there's a big four
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: or a big five, to not kind of rejoin that.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Well, I think players figured him out because he's standing,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: you know, so far back off the baseline on serve
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: and they just figured out just hit a deep serve
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: and then dropshot him and he's just.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: And he's still all the way at the back. Yeah,
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: but I mean an elite players should be able to
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: adjust adjust to that. You can't stand back there and
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: just go, ah, they got me again. I can't believe
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: that they got me again.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: But none of these guys have been serving a volley.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: How did I not see that coming? He's standing against
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: the chub sign in the bag they're getting.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: But I'm with him, like it is if someone's like, on,
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: if you're playing them with their serve, man, your temptation
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: is just to keep getting further back. He should be
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: better than me, obviously, But I'm like just saying, man,
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: I get it. You want to get further back.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: I guess why not just wait in the locker.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: Room, just don't turn up.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: At the end of the episode, stick around, we'll be interviewing.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: Tommy Haas Sensational. Yes, I remember this interview.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: It was a great interview.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I saw Mike beg you did you beg?
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: I begged a little bit. I mean, I'll be over
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: at Indian Wells. He runs the tournament. Yeah, hook me up.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: He's got to hook you up.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: You'll hear in the interview he was like, oh, maybe
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: you can get into NOBU.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, which is a real like that's like if you
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: were asking Craig Tiley when he ran the Australian Open,
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: being like can you hook me up? And he's like, well,
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: there's an apparel sprits bar in Grand Slam Oval that
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: you can go and have a look at it.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Not even like you know, you can get some
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: free stuff. It's just like, hey, you can go there.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: Dude, Yeah yeah, yeah, a top top call it Shakeshack
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: will be there. Yeah, so pop up there and have.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: A little bit of burger. Oh like for free?
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: No no, no, no, no no no, but yeah, it's competitive crossing.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: He's more just giving you tips of what you can do.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: He is hot WTA news. In hot WTA news, the
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Austin Open is happening at the moment. A lot of
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Ouzie is doing well. Aila tom Lanovich, isn't it. She's
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: playing Iva Jovic really right now, right now as we speak, Yovich,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: they're on serve to one. But tom Lanovic takes on
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: a screen. Tom Lanovic took out wild card Venus Williams
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: en route to this sixteen and she's at the US Open.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: She beat Serena Williams a couple of years ago and
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Serena's final US Open match, so she's just slowly taking
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: out the Williams sisters hopes and dreams.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: She'll get their auntie.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. Burrell Australian is still in it. She be
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Dollar Hide, so it's good to see. And then it's
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Americans are just kind of rolling through. Peyton, Stearns and
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Krueger are still in it. But this interesting thing coming
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: out of the Austin WTA event is that they have
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: their own private rage room.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah it rules. Yeah, yeah, I think it's a good move.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: I know players don't want to be seen smashing the reck.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, So now there is a room where
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: you can go in and just get angry, which I
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: think they do. This happens for normal people in everyday life.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: There are these rooms where you can just take an
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: axe and just like chop shit. Have you seen this
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: and a lot of like angry child, divorced women. I
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: swear we get a story on it on the project.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: You can pay money. You pay a fee, it's like
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: fifteen dollars and you go in and there's just like
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: junk and they give you an ax and some like
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: safety goggles and you just get to smash it up
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: and take out all your rate. Really yeah, I think
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: you need to try you could you could try it.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: I have a cry room where I sit and cry
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: bedroom my bedroom, thank you, but a rage room.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: You wouldn't go to a rage Do.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: You think I have a sublimated rage that needs to be.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: Well, I just think you, like you suppress a lot
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: of it, probably, which I don't know, Shade, I think
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: that's the correct way to do it. Like, I agree
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: with you, okay, but I'm saying it could be healthy
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: to let it out.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Do you think Venus went into the rage room after
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: getting taken out in straight so it's by Tom Lanovitch.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I think she probably would, but it would
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: suck to go in and then there's someone else in there,
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: Like you get in there and they're raging, and you're
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: gonna be like, oh wait, I'll just wait. I'll just
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: wait for you to finish it. Can you let me
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: know when your rage is done? Well, they're going to
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: start my rage.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: They're so competitive, they'd be like their rage sit a
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: little better than my room.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: You know what's going to happen. They're going to go
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: in and then someone's raging and they go they've just
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: lost to them or whatever, and then they'll just physically
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: find there's no cameras. Yeah, they'll just that's the way
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: to get the rage out. They just start throwing punches,
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: pulling hair, kicking.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, then we gotta get cameras in there.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know that's the problem. It seems like they
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: shouldn't actually tell people this because right now I'm just
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: like I would pay any money to have that as
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: a separate stream. Yeah, be like you can watch what's
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: going on in the rage room, because imagine you watch
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: a game, like someone gets bundled out in straight sets,
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: or they lose a tiebreaker on a double fault or something,
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: and then you just know, like, oh, in five minutes,
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: the rage rooms.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're thinking about it already. Yeah. I mean even
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: if you're like just getting smoked in a match and
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: like you're down a you know, zero two or whatever, Yeah,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: you're going to be like you're just already thinking about
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: the rage room.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: Well, because it's not fair, Like it doesn't The fundamental
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: thing of like rage and emotion is that like it
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: is uncontrollable sometimes and you have to let it out.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: So if you, you know, double fault four times in
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: the first set, lose it and then you're like, oh,
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: I can't wait for the rage room. It's like it's
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: not really doing You're still suppressing the thing because you
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: want to take the rage out right now in the moment. Yeah.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: So I don't know what the rae it's the rage
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: room not that healthy because you're just putting it down there.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: I don't know, like it's good. I guess if people
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: need to get it out, But to me, I'm like,
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: it doesn't solve the problem if you just wanted to
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: break a racket in the middle of Senate.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Coor what if you got injured in the rage room?
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, what if you have a fall and then
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: you're just laying there? Do people come in and rage
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: a room?
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: The next person gets to come in and then you're
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: part of the rage room?
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: What about the shame of walking out?
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Ah? Yes, the shame room like my bedroom the shame room.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you need a shame room.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: If yeah, your rage isn't.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: Well, I think the only way to do it is.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: So there's a great pub in Sydney called the Foresters.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: I know it.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And if you sit on the front balcony, it's
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: opposite a very prominent brothel. Yeah you can watch you
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: watch we probably there yeah yeah yeah.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: We used to sit there and watch guys leave the
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: brothel and cheer as.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah yeah. And it would get so embarrassed, and
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: you'd see guys trying to go in and they'd be
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: like pretending to like text on their phone and then
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: be like oh what and then stumble into these places.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: I saw a few perfectly blue sky umbrellas come out.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Dude leaveing brother.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: They're just very like skin conscious. Yeah, they're worried about
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: the sun. Yeah yeah, yeah, but they need to put
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: to avoid a situation like that happening where you just
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: set up in front of the rage room and just
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: watch these people come out. They need to put it
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: like next to something like so someone could be coming
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: out of either thing. So it's either a prayer room
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: next to the rage room. So they're either a really
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: good person or a really bad person coming in and out.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: So you think it goes prayer room, brothel room, rage room,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: shame room.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: Saying I'm not saying the ATP too need to introduce
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: a brothel room.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Maybe that's what Craig Tyler is going to bring to America.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Maybe I mean that would turn it round, wasn't it. Yeah?
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: Wait, so you're saying it goes prayer room. Wait, prayer room,
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: brothel room.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: No, if anything, it goes.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: Rage room, shame. No, no, no, because it must go
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: brothel show, rage, rage, prayer, shame, prayer. Yeah. Yeah, yeah,
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: that's the circle bathroom.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: When we're we're, we're, we're, we're. This is nightmare fuel
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: the AI. You know, Sam, you're a huge fan of AI.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: The AI. The chat g bt uh has been used, yeah,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: to put tennis players into the Simpsons universe. Yeah, what
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: do you think is that? My favorite thing is that
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: if you look at the comments on this, it's a
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: lot of people saying is this real? Yeah?
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, but I also think it
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: does look real.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: I'm kind of with them, like I get that it's
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: like part of me. This is a problem with AI. Okay,
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: it gets you, and you just have to admit it
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: when it gets you, and you can't be lulled into
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: commenting being like is this real, because it'll take you
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: fifteen seconds to go of course it's not really what trick?
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: It just looks real?
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: No, but what's tricked? Like what AI has tricked you?
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: And the big waves, you the big waves that are
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: coming in at to like the beach and people are surfing.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: I'm like, holy shit.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: And then I'm like, oh, seventeen thousand comments.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: And you didn't comment as as real?
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: No, no, no, but other people have the it's not
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: really there.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: You go, what an idiot?
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: What an idiot? They dumb it?
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Are you checking the comments to see if people are
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: like AI fake?
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, okay, no, but I refuse to believe that
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: there's no one out there that never knows AI, never
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: knows what's real. I think it gets you sometimes quickly
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: and then you realize that you're wrong. These for example,
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: I'm like, man, how did they get what a cast?
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Rinka's homer is great? Federal pretty good, that's amazing. Curios
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: is Nelson?
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's just it is perfect. It is
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: really really perfect.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Did you notice Djokovic and Nadal are missing from this
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Simpsons Tennesse AI, So where would you put them in
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: the Simpsons universe? I think Nadal as auto really bus
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: driver or Hans Moreman Man is good because of the
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: balding hair.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, it worked. Could could is this going
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: for like Djokovic to be like like the monorail Man
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: or something, because he's got a bit of that like
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: showman showmanship from nowhere I know he's from, maybe not
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: as personal as monorail Man.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Right in the pod labor kind of stuck where you
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: want to see Jokovic or any other player in the
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Simpsons universe that doesn't exist in this ar already, this
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: segment is gonna blow your mind right out of your ass.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: This is mikexanagrams. Didd ed it? Mixanagrams, mixagrams?
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: Why are you doing anagram segment?
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Well? I did one for Emma rad A Kanu as
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: she was playing in Transylvania, and I switched the letters
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: around and it was U M named Dracula and it
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: was such a big hit. See he's confused. I don't
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: like if you don't think wordplay is a party, you're
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: a nerd.
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: All right, what are we doing?
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: So it's Francis Tiafo this week, who, like I said,
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: is playing in Acapoco. I have him. My prediction is
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: by the time people are hearing this will know the
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: winner of Acapoco. And I'm called it now on the
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Friday where he's in through to the quarterfinals. I'm saying
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: he's gonna win, but I'm not even adding w to
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: his name. Okay, he's in Acapoco. He what a party city, Mexico.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: It's you know, everyone loves it at the moment. It
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: seems fun.
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  Speaker 3: It's really fun.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: And you know there's a lot of temptation out there
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: yet Francis Teofo. But you know, I know he's got
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: a lovely partner as well. What if he if he
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: wanted to? I changed the letters around in his name
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: and just say, if he if he were to succumb
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: to temptation, this is so now I've changed the letters around.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: I hope he forn A, Kate Safe, that was Mixanigrad
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: that did edit Malexandigram that did it. I'm not saying.
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  Speaker 3: What what is that other than like a waste of
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: fifteen minutes of your time with that node pad no
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: ridington things out.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: As soon as I had fornicaid, I was like, all right,
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  Speaker 1: this is good, and then Safe was left over. What else?
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Are you good? That's amazing?
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's it's pretty. It's good, dude, it
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: is good. I'm like, yeah, sick, I hope we all
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: done fornicate safe. Yeah, I just think well done. Are right?
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: Well, we got Tommy has in the interview today, Tommy
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: rules hooked on. I'll be in Indian Wells next week.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: Oh and so I'll be overseas for the next month,
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: but I'll be I'll be zooming in. Yeah, I'm gonna
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: zoom in my back.
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: Note I've been fought again.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: No, no, I hope you're back. Well, you might have
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: to cover for me on a couple apps. But uh,
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: March is an awesome month for tennis. We got the
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: wt A and the uh what fuck is abbreviation for
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: the men's.
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: What the hell?
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: We got thep the one thousand events, it's the Sunshine Double.
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: Is this where you get excited for tennis? As in
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: a little American, your little hot mouth be like, we're
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: on happen.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: Now March rules? Yeah, because after the AO, you know,
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: all these tournaments at happening in the Middle East, blah
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: blah blah. But then this is.
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: And you're like, none of them are real. Let's get
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: it back to the hot land.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean I kind of agree as well.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, So this is the obviously Indian Wells
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: and then straight after the Miami Open and two of
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: the best. So I'll be away, but enjoy this interview
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: with Tommy Haass. Good day, mate, Welcome back to pod
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Labor Arena. Our guest today, former world number two Tommy Haas.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Awesome to have you here. You made the semifinals here
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: three times.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: It's true. Was my best slam? Yeah, the happy slam here.
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: I don't know what it was, but I think it
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: was good to always, you know, end of November December,
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: sort of get ready to have a little bit of
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: time to work in a few things, try to get
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: physically fit, and you know, see where you're at, coming
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: down down under.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: Right, Is it like hardcourt your favorite surface?
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: Then? It was, yeah, especially for a long time, even
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: though growing up in Germany you played you know, five
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: six months on the red clay and then obviously five
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: six months due to the weather indoors and back in
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: the day with a lot of carpet, so it was like,
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: you know, quite a big difference. But then you know,
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: moved to Florida to baw Terry Tennis Academy at the
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: age of thirteen, and they, you know, dominantly only had
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: hard courts, so I preferred playing on hard courts.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: Were you there at the same time as z Agasy.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: I was, yeah, the same time.
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: Was there too for a little bit longer? Yeah, because
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: they had then this situation where Nick boll Terry chose
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: to sit in the Agacy's box and then yeah, like
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: that and so he kind of disappeared. But Samples was
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: there still, Monica Salish like I got in the early nineties,
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: and yeah, it was.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: It was great times. Yeah, it was good, good stuff.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Great and I'm excited. You're the Indian Wells tournament director. Yeah,
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: I'm going for my first time this year and it's
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: what five weeks.
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: Away, so doing the Indian Wells podcast as well.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: I will be over there doing podlavor Arena, so like,
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: what perks are you going to hook?
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: I might be able to get you into you like
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: noble Like yeah, the stadium too, that's a good one
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: actually overlooking over looking at the tennis.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and the seven high school friends I'm bringing with
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: you as.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: Well to talk about that.
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, as well.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: I can't wait. Everyone calls it the Fifth Slam and
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: uh yeah here it's the best.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: So it is great.
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and we were happy about the fact that the
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: players called the Fitslam and yeah, great venue, great, great,
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: great ten you know, tournament and in general and uh yeah,
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: we always try to raise the bar of a year
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: as well, you know, being done in Australia, we always
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: see what they do here as well, which is incredible.
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: So yeah, it's just around the corner. Look forward to
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: having you there.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Great. Uh. I just want to ask you this because
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: i'd to an interview where your opinion on pickleball was expressed.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: Was it really did I say that?
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: I did? Okay, Well, what would you say? Pickleball is
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: tennis for people with no athletic ability.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: Pretty much, okay, which is a great thing.
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: By the way, Tennis is not for everyone's Like my
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: youngest daughter got really into tennis now in the past
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: two years, and you know, I've been trying to help
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: a little bit, and it's such a hard sport and
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: you realize it, right. It's like when you know how
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: to play and you're always like, listen, I told you
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: enough for the tenth time. Just you know, quick steps
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: over there, turn your shoulders, you know, come under the
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: ball and through and finish the swing.
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: And it's like, you know, you.
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: Say it so easily, but it's not so easily done
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: where it's like you take a you know, pickleball racket,
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: which is already a shame.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: You know, once you hold it in your hand, you can't.
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: It's like bring some cheese and.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: And then the ball and the sound.
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: It's like there should be like a you know, an
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: age limit when you're able to play this game.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: What they say, I mean, earl.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Ostile pass in America are making a fortune because it's
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: all old people just blowing out joints and knees and everything.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: Have you played, Tommy, I actually have?
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you get no enjoyment out of it at all?
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: Really well, yeah, if it's not tennis, then then play
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: ping pong or something like that.
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: And then if you're out of all options, maybe played pickaball.
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: No not even then then find some new game or
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: I don't know, go to the golf course or something.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, don't don't don't bother, just.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: Quickly what we have you like? I know your nickname
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: was Hassy for you still hear that?
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, my close friends still call me Hosy. Sure, absolutely, because.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: I thought of some better n Well, you'll be the judge.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: Before somebody has name.
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: We don't know what's coming.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: Well, so tell me what you think of these. We'll
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: start with this one.
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: Still he's huge. He's huge in Germany. That's a big starts.
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: So that's hastle half like that.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't mind.
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: It's a great picture. I might have to take a
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: picture of that picture posted.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: My phone.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: I did, Yeah, just make sure.
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: Look, he was obviously at the time, you know, globally,
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: you know, with bay Watch and night huge. But it's
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: funny because in America it seems like everybody comes up
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: to your time and says, David as big as we
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: think he is. In Germany, I'm like, but in that country, right,
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: you know, he did sing when the Berlin Walk came out.
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: He did sing there with like a disco jacket. I
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: guess that's people people still remember.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and his albums apparently.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: So in Germany I think, yeah, I love it.
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know it's these these uh, these older moms
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: minus quite well with the older dreams son in law
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: kind of.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: Yes, we call them pet rafter fans. Yeah, we got
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: more for you. This next one I call Peeping Tom.
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: Peeping Tom probably not that into that, I.
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: Know, it's like I'm or something.
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: No, it's just you and the bush.
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, bushes.
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think he's into that from grace.
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's my face is actually the expression also was
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: not was not quite sure?
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, we'll skip that. We got one more
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: for you, the Dominator. Much better, much better. But you're
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: gonna love the tagline.
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: It's onto something.
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's class. Another picture for sure. I gotta
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: post that on social media.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: Well, we'll get the pictures with you and probably.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: Probably could do it in a in a pretty good
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: Arnold xcent. Right, can you give it you stuff?
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: Baby?
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's good, you know.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: Tommy, Yeah, sure, Tommy. We've been closing the interview used
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: by doing a one point slam on the ping pong
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: table over there. No, no, no, that's actually we made that.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: Out of a I'm happy to play, for sure.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: We made that out of a tiny door. We sold
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: off Diego Schwartzman's dressing room, so.
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: His tennis rackets are there.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, So, Tommy, I think I'm gonna verse you
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: in the ping pong. We don't have a million dollars
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: to give away, so I think that the steaks, No, no, no,
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: how about this for the steaks. If I lose, you
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: can hit a ping pong ball at my back as
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: hard as you can. But yeah yeah, but if I win,
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: then I get exclusive treatment of Dean Wells all the way.
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: Just one point huh to one point? Yeah, let's do it.
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: Here we go.
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: Hi, Okay, we're at the one point. Slam at Oh god,
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: it was over before announced it that was Tommy Has
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: beats Mike. His Indian World's v I P treatment is
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: down the drain.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: Now Tommy Has gets to slam the ball at.
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: Mike was.
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: A star. Love you stuff, baby,