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Speaker 1: People this land was never seated, always was, always will be.

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Speaker 2: You know, tell me that sometimes a guest requires like

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Speaker 3: Like a mix, because you really just want the register

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Speaker 2: Because the honor role of achievements that you have to

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Speaker 2: read out quite extensive, quite extensive. You know, I need

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Speaker 3: There's that many achievements.

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Speaker 2: But I actually want to spend most of our episode

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Speaker 3: I just want to remind everyone about what our.

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Speaker 2: Guest today, Sam Stoza, has achieved, not only one of

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Speaker 2: the greatest Australians, definitely one of the greatest Australian tennis players,

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Speaker 2: eight slam titles, one in the women's singles, four in

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Speaker 2: I just say, and I mean this, Sam, with all

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Speaker 2: due respect and all of the gravitas that I hope

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Speaker 2: you take this with the owner of the best arms

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Speaker 3: Yes, I've said it, Nadal Alcoraz, get out of here.

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Speaker 4: Samantha Stoza has been as high as world number four

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Speaker 4: the captain for Australia Team Australia in the Billy Jean

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Speaker 1: Please welcome to do good.

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Speaker 5: SPORTSA thank you, thank you lovely to be here.

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Speaker 6: Georgie does go to the gymp and pumpey. I'm just

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Speaker 6: going maybe one day, one day we'll get the Samstozer arms.

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Speaker 2: It's actually crossed my mind, Sam. Not to make you uncomfortable,

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Speaker 2: but I am every time I pick up.

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Speaker 3: Is it a six kilo dumbell? Or is it the nine?

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Speaker 1: I go? What would Sam do?

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Speaker 5: I'm telling you and nobody ever believes me when I

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Speaker 1: What there's the exclusive off the top? What do you mean?

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Speaker 5: Huh?

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Speaker 7: What were you doing?

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Speaker 1: Is that genetics?

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Why don't I have them?

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Speaker 7: It's a lot of hitting fourhands, I think, And so

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Speaker 7: get out on the court, maybe skip the gym and

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Speaker 1: It's not things that won't be happening.

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Speaker 6: We'll start off very generally, how are you, How are

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Speaker 6: you and where do we find you?

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Speaker 7: I'm great.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm in Melbourne gearing up for Billy Jinkin Cut,

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Speaker 5: which we're very lucky to actually be playing in Melbourne,

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Speaker 5: so it's awesome that we kind of can stay home

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Speaker 3: How do you feel about the big summer of tennis

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Speaker 3: because Jellmy and I we're just on the periphery of that.

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Speaker 1: Obviously we're not on the court.

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Speaker 2: This has already been discussed and pointed out, but we

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Speaker 2: adore it. But we also there's like this sense of

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Speaker 3: Shape or form. What is it like now for you,

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Speaker 2: Do you still have those highs and lows at the

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Speaker 7: This, and then the fall Oh my goodness.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like going to school camp every year and

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Speaker 7: But then when it's gone, it's like, oh, what do

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Speaker 5: So yeah, we certainly have that, and if anything, it's

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Speaker 7: But absolutely love it.

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Speaker 5: I love obviously that I can still be part of it,

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Speaker 6: Can you believe the growth that we've seen in Australian

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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, it's incredible.

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Speaker 5: I mean even the fact that we still had AO

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Speaker 5: And it is just grown and grown and grown, and

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Speaker 5: whatever matches on whatever court. So it's such a carnival

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Speaker 7: And now being out there more, I'm like, ah, yeah,

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Speaker 5: This is awesome, this is fud like you want to

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Speaker 5: And it's funny the different outlet you can have from

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Speaker 7: I really get why people like it. So it's good.

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Speaker 2: Well, and we're going to drill down onto the Billie

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Speaker 2: I'm sure you have that next year potentially the women's

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Speaker 2: draw go in five sets at the AO. Yes, it's

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Speaker 2: a move that's been like tabled. Would you be supportive

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Speaker 5: Not as such? No, I don't think it's necessary. I

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Speaker 7: Anymore. I think it was Jess Pagoula, who's three or

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Speaker 5: She was like, you know, some men's matches that go

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Speaker 7: I hate to say it, but you.

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Speaker 5: Know there's often a lapse in the matches they throw

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Speaker 5: So look, I think rategic a lot of tennis. I

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Speaker 1: What if it was just for the finals?

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Speaker 5: Then to do that and spring that on players to

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Speaker 5: to change the score and format at that point, I

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Speaker 7: What for?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, And there's so many times that come into its

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Speaker 7: There's so many different aspects that come into.

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Speaker 5: It's not just about the two plays getting out on

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Speaker 1: And I love that you say what for?

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Speaker 6: And naturally our brains go to because the men do it,

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Speaker 6: and sometimes there can be a quality for quality's sake

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Speaker 3: No, I totally agree with you.

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Speaker 2: I want to know, Sam, I know you say that

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Speaker 5: Well, I guess first and foremost what you see me

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Speaker 5: it went from thou shalt not talk to them to

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Speaker 2: Them and they can speak to you. And sorry, we're

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Speaker 2: going off a tangent. I'm so sorry. I we'll let

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Speaker 2: you finish the question. But when you were playing Sam,

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Speaker 2: was that annoying not being able to talk to your coach?

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Speaker 5: Honestly, I quite I didn't mind it, and I like

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Speaker 5: know when I say some players did get coached even

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Speaker 6: You mentioned that she plays beyond her years with this confidence.

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Speaker 2: Say that Tarlie's got the confidence, I mean, I want

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Speaker 2: Come on now, come on now. Her name is exceptional.

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Speaker 5: days or either side of you when you're lost and

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Speaker 5: when you're starting again. And I do think, especially coming

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Speaker 5: from Australia, like, we have a long way to go

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Speaker 5: to get to events no matter where we're playing, unless

446
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Speaker 5: we're playing in Australia, which happens very few weeks of

447
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Speaker 5: the year. We're always traveling a pretty business. So I

448
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Speaker 5: always think, yeah, you know, going to Southeast Asia for

449
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Speaker 5: US feels close and it's super easy, but in reality

450
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Speaker 5: it's still seven eight nine hours. But you know for

451
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Speaker 5: Europeans that's flying to the other side of the world

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Speaker 5: for them, so.

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Speaker 3: And God, they complain when they come here, don't they.

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Speaker 1: I was like, God, I'm like, hey, guys.

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Speaker 5: I'll tell you what they're not happy about coming out

456
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Speaker 5: to Australia in April.

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Speaker 7: But I'm like, suck it up, guys, we have to

458
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Speaker 7: do it all the time.

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Speaker 1: Well the happy Slam be happy to be here.

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Speaker 7: But yeah, it is.

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Speaker 5: It is a really tough sport to be in until

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Speaker 5: you get to that spot where you know, prize money

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Speaker 5: can pay. But even a player ranked one hundred or

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Speaker 5: maybe you know, one hundred and fifty, by the time

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Speaker 5: they pay for their coach, the coach's expenses, their own expenses,

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Speaker 5: you still got to be doing pretty well throughout the

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Speaker 5: year to break even. Maybe at one hundred and fifty

468
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Speaker 5: or make So that's why it is so great that

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Speaker 5: the Grand Slams are now paying the amount of prize

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Speaker 5: money they are, because that can if you're in the

471
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Speaker 5: main drawer of the four Grand Slams, that can set

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Speaker 5: you up to actually be able to do things properly

473
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Speaker 5: and professionally and just do it right, because otherwise you

474
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Speaker 5: do have to cut corners you have, well I can't

475
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Speaker 5: do that, or maybe I won't put that re string in,

476
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Speaker 5: or you know, I'll go to that place for dinner

477
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Speaker 5: because it's not so expensive.

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Speaker 6: And if you're playing someone that has a private jet.

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Speaker 3: On Earth, it is a cosm.

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Speaker 7: I know. I was in Japan.

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Speaker 5: I slept in the train station one night with the

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Speaker 5: other players so we could save money from you know,

483
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Speaker 5: and that was like a Lord, we're playing ten thousand,

484
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Speaker 5: so not a little bit more than that, sorry, a

485
00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:44,720
Speaker 5: bit bigger tournament. But one of the girls wanted to

486
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Speaker 5: save money and sleep at the airport the night before

487
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Speaker 5: she was leaving, and we were like, well, I don't

488
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Speaker 5: think you should do that. We found out you couldn't

489
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Speaker 5: sleep at the airport.

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Speaker 7: So she's like like.

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Speaker 1: Tom Hangks's terminal style just on the floor just on

492
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Speaker 1: the yeah.

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Speaker 7: And then but we were like, no, we shouldn't do that.

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Speaker 5: So I think there was more of us decided we'd

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Speaker 5: all go and sleep in the train station because we

496
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Speaker 5: didn't want her to be by ourself. So we locked

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Speaker 5: our bags together, slept outside the police station, and that's

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Speaker 5: what we did to say.

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Speaker 1: What year is this? What year is this? Like where

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Speaker 1: in your career is this?

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Speaker 7: It would have been maybe twenty two years ago something

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Speaker 7: like that, So I did that.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, I mean, but players do that sort of

504
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Speaker 5: stuff all the time, and I mean we were in Japan,

505
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Speaker 5: it's very safe. In hindsight now I'm like, oh, you

506
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Speaker 5: probably didn't need to look at that.

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Speaker 6: If they're going to mug you, they might bow and

508
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Speaker 6: be polite about it that time.

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Speaker 5: It's okay, we came and bought as orange juice and

510
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Speaker 5: that's got bad for us, so room service very nicely.

511
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Speaker 5: But that's the sort of decisions that players make when

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Speaker 5: you are going through the ranks, and it only gets more.

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Speaker 5: To do better, you've got to spend more money, you know,

514
00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:58,640
Speaker 5: You've got to spend money to make money sometimes, so

515
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Speaker 5: it's not easy. But at least with the Slams, now

516
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Speaker 5: they can know, all right, if we get to first round,

517
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Speaker 5: we're going to make X amount. And for Maddie that

518
00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:08,960
Speaker 5: is absolutely life changing what happened to her at Ao,

519
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Speaker 5: and yeah, let's hope it can all happen again for

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Speaker 5: her and all the other girls.

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Speaker 2: The juxtaposition of that and then with all of your slams,

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Speaker 2: I would like the most frivolous answer you can give

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Speaker 2: me or you'll allow us. Sam, do you remember something

524
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Speaker 2: that you bought with your prize money from the twenty

525
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Speaker 2: eleven US Open that was just not like, not, you're

526
00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:33,560
Speaker 2: not investing it back into the sport. Not investing it

527
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Speaker 2: back into the sport? What is your toaster?

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Speaker 6: Like?

529
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Speaker 3: What was the thing that you were like.

530
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Speaker 1: I'm getting it.

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Speaker 3: I'm getting that.

532
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Speaker 5: I was renovating my apartment at the time, and I

533
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Speaker 5: really wanted a proper marble bench top, and I went

534
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Speaker 5: and got the proper marble bench top, which is the

535
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Speaker 5: stupidest thing I could have ever bought, because it's staying

536
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Speaker 5: so easily, and it's.

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Speaker 6: An investment in enjoy, Sam, It's an investment and enjoy.

538
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Speaker 1: I should have just gone with the Caesarstone.

539
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Speaker 5: But I was like, no, I'm going with the best

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Speaker 5: marble slab I could find.

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Speaker 3: So you don't know that.

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Speaker 2: There's no way for you to know this, Sam, I

543
00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:13,919
Speaker 2: don't think unless you and Jeremy have been best friends

544
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Speaker 2: for three thousand decades.

545
00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:17,960
Speaker 3: But her eyes just rolled back into her head.

546
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Speaker 1: Because she loves.

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Speaker 6: If I'm going to spend my money on something, it's unnecessary,

548
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Speaker 6: Italian stone and ideally as impractical as possible. And I'm

549
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Speaker 6: just perfect. Are you still in the apartment. Is it

550
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Speaker 6: the same apartment or you.

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Speaker 7: I don't even live there anymore. Enjoy it.

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Speaker 6: The resale, though, would have been immaculate, would have been

553
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Speaker 6: a maculate I'm sure.

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Speaker 7: Oh no, we are all the water stains for sure.

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Speaker 1: That's fantastic.

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Speaker 3: Incredible choices, incredible choices. Oh my gosh, what a delight

557
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Speaker 3: talking to you.

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Speaker 6: So much fun, and we are so excited, and I

559
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Speaker 6: think it is important if you've got to be the

560
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Speaker 6: change you want to see. And I think we need

561
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Speaker 6: bums on the court to go and watch the Billy

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Speaker 6: Jean kink up, which again I've said, is such a

563
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Speaker 6: joy to say.

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Speaker 1: It does roll off the time. We can't we can't

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Speaker 1: get wait to watch come out.

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Speaker 5: It's going to be a great couple of days of tennis.

567
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Speaker 5: So yeah, really to get our hands on one of

568
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Speaker 5: your shinda.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we do.

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Speaker 2: We need the captain. Can we get the captain though?

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Speaker 2: Can we get captain too, like we honorary captains?

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Speaker 7: Sure? Oh, I love that. I thought you paused. That's no.

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Speaker 1: No, how many slams have you won? A tim Tam

574
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Speaker 1: slam potentially?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the limit does not exist on that.

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Speaker 1: No, that's fine with these arms. Yeah, she's gonna Georgie's

577
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Speaker 1: gonna go to.

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Speaker 6: Her trainer and bit like you've been lying to me,

579
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Speaker 6: I've ordered Sosa arms and you've given me bicep mels

580
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Speaker 6: and my life is alive.

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Speaker 1: Sam, thank you so so much. You're such a delight.

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Speaker 1: We really appreciate your time and go Aussies.

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Speaker 7: Thank you guys, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: Thank you,