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Speaker 1: It's a sad day here at Tennis FM with Fritgie

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Speaker 1: and the Chod. It's the final podcast for the Australian Open,

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Speaker 1: but not the final podcast of all time. Chode, how

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Speaker 1: are you feeling? Is Jode in the Choppa? No Chode

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Speaker 1: is au Chode grounded? Joad has been grounded. Jode hates

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Speaker 1: being Choad speaks in the third person so much.

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Speaker 2: Cho Man, chod Man, Chode Man, sad Chode man Man

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Speaker 2: skinny chad Man out.

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Speaker 1: Well, let's play one final song for the Australian Open.

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Speaker 1: Number one certified hit should be for sads Way closing time.

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Speaker 1: Another slam for Alcoraz, He was a better one.

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Speaker 2: It's clear Carlos time.

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Speaker 1: Novak might get twenty five, but it won't be here.

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Speaker 1: Alcras takes the AO thrown. No Vaks still could win.

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Speaker 1: Wimble don al Coras takes the AO thrown. No Vaks

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Speaker 1: still could win.

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Speaker 2: Wimble don't wimbleedes.

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Speaker 1: Wimble do? When's wimbledone? People are gonna get angry if

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Speaker 1: we keep pronouncing it Wimbledon wimbledone, and that's the attraction

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Speaker 1: we want.

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Speaker 2: I love the history of Wimbledon, That's what I respect

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Speaker 2: about it. How the tradition, how everything is the same

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Speaker 2: it's been for years, including the.

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Speaker 1: Name is wimbledone on your bucket list?

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Speaker 2: Wimble done? I love we have Wimble. Don't Wimbledoo, I.

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Speaker 1: Say, wimble, don't wimble, don't heaven, I'd love to go

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Speaker 1: to Wimbledon. Yeah, well they're sending us here, don't we

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Speaker 1: have a guarantee from Tennis Australia. And there was a

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Speaker 1: thumbs up there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I yeah, I'm booking my flights or I'll send

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Speaker 2: them my frequok flight.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just do that and then you know your details.

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Speaker 1: Do b yeah, do passport number. We'll do all the

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Speaker 1: admirin Greig Tyler does it himself.

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Speaker 2: He's got this big Manila folder that he carries around

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Speaker 2: under his arm every day just and there it's.

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Speaker 1: Post it notes.

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Speaker 2: It's it's like George gets stands a's wallet. It's yeah,

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Speaker 2: just bursting full of papers and admin and he still

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Speaker 2: uses a fax machine.

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Speaker 1: The man in the past is, oh man, it is

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Speaker 1: the final day. Did you have another song option for

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Speaker 1: the day?

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Speaker 2: You said, yeah, no I did, but then I forgot

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Speaker 2: it on the walk in here I had and then

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Speaker 2: I completely forgot it.

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Speaker 1: It could have been to dream it's over, but then hey,

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Speaker 1: now hey, now it was like Alchoraz it.

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Speaker 2: So no, it's going to be Novak it's over. But

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Speaker 2: it was too sad.

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Speaker 1: Tournaments over the tournament.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Novak got puffed in the four said.

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Speaker 1: He's old.

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Speaker 2: He's old old, too old to win a Grand slat.

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Speaker 2: Will he get to twenty five?

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Speaker 1: Maybe it wimbled for the pros of one man. I

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Speaker 1: walked in here today and it was a sad sight

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Speaker 1: to behold the Australian Open finish last night, Alcoraz taking

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Speaker 1: the title in four sets.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and when you say finished, it's like they're packing

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Speaker 2: everything up. Yeah, they're gonna come. They're waiting for us

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Speaker 2: to finish this podcast, to pack the studio.

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Speaker 1: They wanted to bump out while we were in here.

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Speaker 1: They're going to just start taking our jar of tennis

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Speaker 1: balls and the racket, like what time are you doing,

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Speaker 1: and we're like ten or something.

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Speaker 2: They're like like annoyed the way he is exactly, and

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Speaker 2: there's everyone's in high viz.

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Speaker 1: They're bumping everything out. I got very sad. I saw

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Speaker 1: a cart filled with giant tennis balls being shipped out

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Speaker 2: That is sad. It's like so symbolic and it is

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Speaker 2: like just it's over. The tennis is done.

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Speaker 1: It's done. You also came in furious you had to

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Speaker 1: pay for a coffee. I know, So what the hell

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Speaker 1: is this? I'm not getting my twenty five dollars credit.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, gee, I don't do this. But yeah, symbolically

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Speaker 2: and physically it's over.

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Speaker 1: It's over.

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Speaker 2: But it finished with a bang, very special night.

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Speaker 1: It felt like last night, I'm in very special tournament

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Speaker 1: with very special friends. Are you referring to me? No,

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Speaker 1: of course you've been a friend from wayback, is true.

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Speaker 1: That is true. Thanks for bringing me and I've had

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Speaker 1: the time of my life. Well you're welcome, dude. Never

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Speaker 1: forget what have you done for me.

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Speaker 2: I got you hot chips in the final yesterday and

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Speaker 1: We'll get to all that. I should say. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: pod Labor Arena. Yeah, we're not going for good because

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Speaker 1: the tournament's over. We'll be back. We're going weekly totally.

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Speaker 1: That all needs to be figured out. But like the

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Speaker 2: If you listen to this podcast and you're like God,

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Speaker 2: thank god it's over, it's only just because it's.

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Speaker 1: Maybruary twelfth to the sixteenth, per Fringe. Yeah, so come

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Speaker 1: see me an hour of stand up about tennis. It

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Speaker 2: And I'll also be doing my new hour of stand up,

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Speaker 2: which is all about the American swing of the atp too.

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Speaker 2: Oh really fantastic. I'm very excited. Comedy festival.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh you're doing all the first time, doing all

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Speaker 1: the festivals. You'll be in every city, every city. Ah.

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Speaker 1: We had a huge day yesterday. It was so fun.

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Speaker 1: The we finished here pretty early.

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Speaker 2: Well by design, we wanted to get in early and

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Speaker 2: then soak up the atmosphere because we've been kind of

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Speaker 2: We were bar hopping, we were getting I'm on broad

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Speaker 1: The best food at the History Yeah, like not a joke,

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Speaker 1: and we did. We found the best fried check. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was so good. It was really good. Yeah, but

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Speaker 1: in Rod Laver Arena. It was fantastic and we were like,

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Speaker 2: And you because Keaton a young American buck, I don't

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Speaker 2: But I saw you kind of the closest i've seen

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Speaker 2: You were there and you're like, come on, Keaton. I think,

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Speaker 2: I said, you caught him son under your breath. No,

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Speaker 1: I said, I know he's a good kid, and he's

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Speaker 2: He said, no, son of mine is going to lose

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Speaker 1: And he did. He lost to Slovakian Ziga sesco In

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Speaker 2: get in there and says first of one, nine to five,

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Speaker 1: It was amazing. Yeah, and there was you loved one.

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Speaker 1: Ziega argued a line call because you can't and I said,

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Speaker 2: The robot he said, can I see He goes, can

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Speaker 2: I see Chubb again? Yeah, and then it's like it's

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Speaker 1: Well, I've seen players asked to see the close call

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Speaker 1: Chubb was gonna go Oh shit, I screwed this one, dude.

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Speaker 2: I've watched so many matches. Chub never backs down. Chub's

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Speaker 2: like him and now underdog.

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Speaker 1: Great story. It's like everyone's the bloody love that bloke.

437
00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:45,919
Speaker 2: And I think he's in the right way, it's got

438
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Speaker 2: the right attitude, does everything correct.

439
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Speaker 1: Well. I think everyone saw the press conference where he

440
00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:55,560
Speaker 1: was accused of always chasing his entire career. Yeah, and

441
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Speaker 1: people are like what.

442
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean yeah, even the most rusted on Novak

443
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Speaker 2: hater would be like, I mean, give the gud break.

444
00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:05,240
Speaker 1: So the cheers were big for Novak upon arrival into

445
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Speaker 1: the stadium. Uh, the chair umpire was Ozzie, Yeah John,

446
00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:11,720
Speaker 1: Big John, Big John's John. So like when the crowd

447
00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:12,600
Speaker 1: got a bit rowdy.

448
00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:14,840
Speaker 2: He was like, oh, come on, guys, dude, I'll get

449
00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:16,040
Speaker 2: the secies to kick you out.

450
00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:17,160
Speaker 1: He said that at one point.

451
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Speaker 2: Now he is doing like the ambiguous kind of European

452
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Speaker 2: esl kind of voice the whole time. But he did

453
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Speaker 2: break at one point and he said, he goes, come on, guys,

454
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Speaker 2: I know you're excited, but please don't call out.

455
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Speaker 1: Lady, don't know if you can call out during the mooins,

456
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Speaker 1: you will be sent out and that will ruin your night.

457
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Speaker 1: Please don't do it. And it was great and you

458
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Speaker 1: heard the Aussie accent come out in that his Chubb

459
00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:51,600
Speaker 1: clothes call was yeah nah ah. So should we get

460
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Speaker 1: into the details of the man I'd love to I'd

461
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Speaker 1: love I mean, we've already talked for so long, like

462
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Speaker 1: I think the obviously everyone know was the result. It

463
00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:05,480
Speaker 1: was Carlitos in four sets, but the first set was

464
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Speaker 1: vintage Djokovic going for broke redlining.

465
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Speaker 2: His game, unbelievable, flawless at a tennis he was serving

466
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Speaker 2: at like ninety percent. It was ninety three percent, Like

467
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Speaker 2: into the six game he won something. It was just crazy.

468
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Speaker 2: He was just like an immovable force.

469
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Carlos like rattled. Well, I think you would be.

470
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Speaker 1: He came out number one. They're cheering for him.

471
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Speaker 2: For Novak, I think he would have been maybe not

472
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Speaker 2: prepared for that, not used to it, not used to

473
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Speaker 2: it at all.

474
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Speaker 1: It's just the most lovable guy of all time.

475
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Speaker 2: And then Novak just comes out playing like a twenty

476
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Speaker 2: two year old whipper snapper at the top of his game,

477
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Speaker 2: and it was it was also it was yeah.

478
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Speaker 1: It was unreal that first set, like I loved I mean,

479
00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:47,280
Speaker 1: the first set and the four set were the best, Yeah, totally.

480
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Speaker 2: But then the second set, it just the switch flicked immediately.

481
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Speaker 2: And then Carlitos kind of stood up and started playing

482
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Speaker 2: better tennis.

483
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Speaker 1: Is that a fitness thing? Do you think?

484
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Speaker 2: I feel like I said this to you, and I

485
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Speaker 2: felt like I think Nova was like, I'm not going

486
00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:03,760
Speaker 2: to win straight sets at some point, He's going to

487
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Speaker 2: bring the heat. It's a game of momentum, and I

488
00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:08,200
Speaker 2: think I don't know. Maybe he could have kept pushing,

489
00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:10,640
Speaker 2: but maybe he knew his fitness wasn't. Ultimately, it could

490
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Speaker 2: be fitness that kind of got him at the at

491
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Speaker 2: the end if you look at the kind of the

492
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Speaker 2: last few points of the match. So maybe just the

493
00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:18,000
Speaker 2: burn happened a bit, and he was like, I need

494
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Speaker 2: to conserve energy because we went six to again the

495
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Speaker 2: opposite direction in the second.

496
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it was a thirty eight year old playing

497
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Speaker 1: a twenty two year old, and you like, redline your

498
00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:29,439
Speaker 1: game for the first set, and then Carlo's weather's the storm,

499
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Speaker 1: and then he locks in and then takes the next

500
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Speaker 1: two sets pretty handily, pretty easy. Yeah, and then.

501
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Speaker 2: It felt different the fourth though, the start of the

502
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Speaker 2: fourth felt different. Yeah, we'd gotten hot chips as well,

503
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Speaker 2: that could be why, but also the energy seemed to we.

504
00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:47,320
Speaker 1: Were not allowed to enjoy the hot chips and media.

505
00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:52,520
Speaker 2: We had to eat them and then grimmas and it's disgusting. Yeah,

506
00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:54,000
Speaker 2: and then uh, it's yuck.

507
00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:58,040
Speaker 1: The journalists around us not the biggest fans of PODLB arena, Well,

508
00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:02,199
Speaker 1: you were on the other side of me.

509
00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:04,560
Speaker 2: But at one point I was I turned to talk

510
00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:08,080
Speaker 2: to Catherine Murphy ABC, news sports journal behind me, and

511
00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:10,840
Speaker 2: I said, look, I've been a tennis journalist for five days,

512
00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:13,280
Speaker 2: but I think this is definitely going to five sets.

513
00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:15,720
Speaker 2: And these two guys on laptops, he's actually journals looked

514
00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:16,320
Speaker 2: at me and went.

515
00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:23,080
Speaker 1: Rolled their roll their eyes of me, and then Belinda

516
00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:25,399
Speaker 1: came in and kicked you with me, kicked me in

517
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Speaker 1: their head. That's for existing. Yeah. So the next two sets, Carlos,

518
00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:35,280
Speaker 1: I mean some unreal rallies. Absolutely, one that stands out

519
00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:39,320
Speaker 1: for me is Jokovic, Uh crazy defense and then hits

520
00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:44,320
Speaker 1: around around the post, around the post backhand, which would

521
00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:48,240
Speaker 1: be a winner against everyone else on the plane, but

522
00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:51,320
Speaker 1: somehow Carlos just appears and then just flicks it back

523
00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:54,520
Speaker 1: into the court. And it was the craziest rally.

524
00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:57,399
Speaker 2: Carlos was always out of position, and then Novak was

525
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Speaker 2: out of position, but Carlitos, he still felt like he

526
00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:02,280
Speaker 2: was sort of had a grip on it, and you know,

527
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:03,679
Speaker 2: you say to yourself, you like, get there, and then

528
00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:05,160
Speaker 2: you're like, oh, he got there easy.

529
00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:07,120
Speaker 1: All of the time in these rallies, he was crazy

530
00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:10,680
Speaker 1: anticipation of where even around the post backhand. Yeah, he

531
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Speaker 1: just like how did he get there? Yeah, the post

532
00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:16,080
Speaker 1: in the way he materializes and then Djokovic hams it

533
00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:19,400
Speaker 1: up like he went once. Carlos won that point off

534
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:25,160
Speaker 1: the best shot I think of the tournament. Uh. Novak

535
00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:27,800
Speaker 1: like just looks up in the air and like scowls

536
00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:30,240
Speaker 1: and like, yeah it plays it up, like what can

537
00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:31,320
Speaker 1: I can you do? Yeah?

538
00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:33,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't get it past this guy. It's like

539
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:35,280
Speaker 2: me when I'm playing you a pickle ball. I look

540
00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:36,879
Speaker 2: up to the guy and I said, what can I do?

541
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Speaker 1: This guy is? He's too good? Thank you? And they

542
00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:45,399
Speaker 1: thank you. Uh. The four set crowd chanting Novak in

543
00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:48,399
Speaker 1: his first service game, it was crazy goose bump stuff,

544
00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:51,040
Speaker 1: goose bump stuff. It like goes to four four. To me,

545
00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:53,640
Speaker 1: the foreset was the most compelling in the past. Novak's

546
00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:54,960
Speaker 1: revving the crowd up as well.

547
00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:56,879
Speaker 2: Yeah, which is like the scenes you just don't think

548
00:25:56,920 --> 00:26:00,199
Speaker 2: you'd see in Australia. He's standing looking back up. The

549
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:02,399
Speaker 2: crowd just been like come on, let's go there, cheering.

550
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:05,879
Speaker 1: It was a crazy sight to see. I loved it. Yeah,

551
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:09,199
Speaker 1: but he had break points and couldn't convert, couldn't do it,

552
00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:12,240
Speaker 1: and so I went to seven to five. Carlos Algarez,

553
00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:15,520
Speaker 1: champion of the Australian Open. Well, there was that.

554
00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:19,239
Speaker 2: I think it was a twenty four shot rally in

555
00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:22,320
Speaker 2: the last game, and Carlos came out on top as

556
00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:24,040
Speaker 2: he kind of did as the match kind of kept

557
00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:27,359
Speaker 2: emerging those key moments, Colitos would kind of win. And

558
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:31,520
Speaker 2: I just think if Novak had won that point, he

559
00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:34,840
Speaker 2: wouldn't have been like as like he would have been exhausted.

560
00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:36,480
Speaker 2: He's a thirty eight year old man, but I think

561
00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:38,720
Speaker 2: he would have been like buoyed by the success of

562
00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:40,359
Speaker 2: winning the point that he wouldn't have been feeling it

563
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:42,919
Speaker 2: as much, maybe more adrenaline. He was defeated, and then

564
00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:45,159
Speaker 2: you saw him really gasping air trying to get the

565
00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:45,960
Speaker 2: second serve.

566
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:50,320
Speaker 1: And it was it was kind of done at that moment. Yeah, yeah,

567
00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:54,040
Speaker 1: it was. And I realized at the start of the

568
00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:56,880
Speaker 1: four set, even though my prediction was Carlos and four,

569
00:26:56,960 --> 00:26:58,960
Speaker 1: I not that correct as well. So I called both

570
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Speaker 1: finals so as commentary and inside is better than probably

571
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,240
Speaker 1: Andy Raddix or anyone else. Yeah, I think so who

572
00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:08,560
Speaker 1: was a tennis podcast, But I realized.

573
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:10,320
Speaker 2: Right in if you'd agree with that as well, through

574
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:12,320
Speaker 2: how we messa all those emails.

575
00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:16,120
Speaker 1: I realized throughout the match how badly I wanted Jokovic

576
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:16,400
Speaker 1: to win.

577
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:18,359
Speaker 2: That's exactly how I felt like as soon as it

578
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:21,640
Speaker 2: started and I said yesterday I wanted Carlos to win.

579
00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:23,479
Speaker 2: I was like, I feel like that's a better story

580
00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:24,800
Speaker 2: for me going forward.

581
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:27,200
Speaker 1: Yeah. Do you think the old lady changed her mind?

582
00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:28,080
Speaker 1: The old lady?

583
00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:30,480
Speaker 2: Well, I thought the old lady was possessed by some

584
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:32,080
Speaker 2: of the kind of demon at some point. I'm not

585
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:34,440
Speaker 2: putting it all on the old lady. No, as soon

586
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:37,879
Speaker 2: as I walked out, it became apparent that I wanted

587
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:38,760
Speaker 2: no Back to win.

588
00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:41,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, does he win another Slam? Does he get through

589
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:45,800
Speaker 1: alcahaz and Center? No, No, I don't think so. Twenty four.

590
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:46,520
Speaker 1: I think it's done.

591
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:51,199
Speaker 2: And I thought his post match interview, I thought he

592
00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 2: was funny. That's the first thing, because I'm often very

593
00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:55,840
Speaker 2: critical of tennis players getting.

594
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:56,960
Speaker 1: Very easy laughs out there.

595
00:27:57,040 --> 00:28:01,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, but legit, some funny bits, some funny jokes.

596
00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:04,200
Speaker 1: Well, there was a boat style the borat joke, which

597
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:06,040
Speaker 1: we love here at Paul Liver Arena.

598
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:09,359
Speaker 4: I mean, you're so young, you have a lot of time,

599
00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:13,360
Speaker 4: like myself, So I'm sure we'll be seeing each other

600
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:14,880
Speaker 4: many more times in the next ten years.

601
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:22,159
Speaker 3: Ago not.

602
00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, not I mean real funny, Not.

603
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:31,640
Speaker 2: Mike, I've loved doing the podcast with you this week.

604
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 2: Not dude, he's killing up there. Not bring Borack jokes back.

605
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:44,880
Speaker 1: Dude, not as amazing. It's like we used to say

606
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:47,560
Speaker 1: in the nineties, I'm old right, total yeah, And it

607
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:52,760
Speaker 1: was like I'm happy for you, not not yeah, yeah, yeah, Oh,

608
00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:55,280
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you got the youngest guy to win

609
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:56,680
Speaker 1: the career Slam.

610
00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:02,240
Speaker 2: Not I want you to beat all my records, I think,

611
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:04,720
Speaker 2: but I thought, you know, in that great joke, there's

612
00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:07,960
Speaker 2: often a lot of truth in humor. I think he's

613
00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:10,440
Speaker 2: he acknowledges he's done. He also said he kind of

614
00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:13,200
Speaker 2: didn't even really see himself making the final.

615
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:14,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then he kind of.

616
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:16,840
Speaker 2: Had this weird ambiguous thing at the end where he's like,

617
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 2: I don't know what's going to happen, and you're like.

618
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:22,560
Speaker 1: Are you okay? I think that's good, though, what's going on?

619
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 1: Because I think he wants to you know, he's not

620
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:28,480
Speaker 1: doing a victory lap yet of all the tournaments, and

621
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 1: I think he's getting to the finals, like I think

622
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 1: he's going to be around at least till the end

623
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:32,720
Speaker 1: of next year.

624
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:35,360
Speaker 2: So do you think he is going to do Yeah,

625
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,000
Speaker 2: like you said, it's not the victory lap. Do you

626
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,520
Speaker 2: think he will hang on and bow out in the

627
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:41,880
Speaker 2: early stages of tournaments and he will be comfortable that

628
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:43,160
Speaker 2: or do you think he wants to go out while

629
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:46,520
Speaker 2: he's still you know, in the top handful of guys.

630
00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:49,560
Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about the fact that Rafa was sitting

631
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:52,200
Speaker 1: behind him. You know, it was in rod Labors. See,

632
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:56,120
Speaker 1: it was in well two down from road Laby. Oh.

633
00:29:56,520 --> 00:30:00,440
Speaker 1: Rod was watching from the comfort of his mansion, watching

634
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:03,480
Speaker 1: from the son I'm a celeb, I believe. Oh really, yeah,

635
00:30:03,760 --> 00:30:04,960
Speaker 1: he really is taken to it.

636
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 2: He loves he loves Jetta Cristo.

637
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:14,960
Speaker 1: She loves how open she is on the show. Rafa's

638
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:18,680
Speaker 1: sitting behind him, one of his greatest rivals. What would

639
00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:23,240
Speaker 1: that do if, like your biggest rival was and then

640
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:26,080
Speaker 1: you see he's been put out the pasture, he's sitting there,

641
00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:29,680
Speaker 1: he's the he's out here to sign a Kia or whatever.

642
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 1: And we love fans of terrific speech. We'll get to that.

643
00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 1: I mean, like, say, your biggest rival was sitting front

644
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:42,560
Speaker 1: row at every comedy show you did. So it happens often.

645
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:46,240
Speaker 2: You buy a ticket and I'm like, hey, that was

646
00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:52,640
Speaker 2: a good joke, Mat Matt actually the best heckle. If

647
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:54,880
Speaker 2: you want to heckle a comedian, just do that, Like

648
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:55,600
Speaker 2: that's really funny.

649
00:30:56,000 --> 00:31:00,480
Speaker 1: Nat. So he's seen Rafa, he's not ready to be

650
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 1: in that seat. He's not ready to be sitting there

651
00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 1: watching the or he's like, it looks pretty good. On

652
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:09,320
Speaker 1: the other side, Just do you think heep bringing you out?

653
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,240
Speaker 1: These guys have the competitive drive and they want to

654
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:14,360
Speaker 1: compete that well, I get I guess it must be.

655
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:17,360
Speaker 2: I was thinking it could be hard for Raffa because

656
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:19,760
Speaker 2: he's sitting there. He's not that far removed from No

657
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 2: bec is hoy high level tennis.

658
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 1: Who Rafa, That's what I mean, Like he's been retired.

659
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:27,640
Speaker 2: But I'm saying, like, yeah, it's not like it's the

660
00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:31,240
Speaker 2: far far past where he was like the best player

661
00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 2: in the world or one of.

662
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:33,960
Speaker 1: The best players. We won this a few years ago.

663
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 2: Totally, That's what I mean. So it's like he must

664
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:37,480
Speaker 2: be like, must be hard watching you want to get out.

665
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:40,040
Speaker 1: But I'm going to say it right here. Novek is

666
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:44,040
Speaker 1: holding onto his career harder than Rafa is holding onto

667
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 1: his hairline. You've heard it here? Is that where we

668
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 1: were going? Yeah, I was trying to get there. Why

669
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:54,920
Speaker 1: did you tell me? You should have told me otherwise.

670
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 1: I'm just getting in there, shutting away. No, no, but

671
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 1: I do think. And Rafa said before the match that

672
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,480
Speaker 1: he supports Carlos and people are like, oh, why would

673
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 1: you say this? Of course he says that they're both Spanish. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

674
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:13,280
Speaker 1: And then we spotted Raffa where he was sitting. It

675
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:13,960
Speaker 1: was hard not to.

676
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:16,719
Speaker 2: It looked like there was another bloodlight down the bottom

677
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 2: in the crowd.

678
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 1: It was bouncing off his bald well.

679
00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 2: We were behind him, and so the little crown was

680
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:27,200
Speaker 2: just it's all you could really see. There was never

681
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 2: a real thing of like, oh, where's Raffa? Can we

682
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:30,600
Speaker 2: spot Raffa in the grady?

683
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:33,560
Speaker 1: There he is. You see that thing illuminating up from

684
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:38,880
Speaker 1: the darkness. A few things from like around the turn

685
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:44,200
Speaker 1: well around the final match. Novak pre match. I don't

686
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 1: know if you saw this of his trainer giving him

687
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:49,000
Speaker 1: a head massage and whispering in his ear. It is

688
00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:53,680
Speaker 1: it is beautiful, right, I mean, I'd kill for that.

689
00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:58,520
Speaker 2: It's so, it's been doing something similar to me before

690
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 2: every record call. Yeah, and then he starts to whispering.

691
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:04,360
Speaker 1: Look at this. Do you ask for it or does

692
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 1: he just start doing it?

693
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:10,160
Speaker 2: I think you no, I don't ask for it.

694
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 1: I actually have a strict.

695
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:15,480
Speaker 2: No touching policy, which he just continues to violate. You

696
00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:16,680
Speaker 2: know what he was I can lip read. Do you

697
00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 2: know what he was saying?

698
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:19,400
Speaker 1: What he was like? You have to check out this podcast.

699
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:22,840
Speaker 1: It's called pod Labor, right, all the best stuff he's like.

700
00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 2: It's fun, it's kind of informative. Yeah, it's a great

701
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 2: new take on tennis, right, going weekly.

702
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:31,760
Speaker 1: Uh, the Kia ambassador gave a speech. This is always

703
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 1: what I'm most excited for. Of course, every open is

704
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 1: what the Kia ambassador is going to say at the

705
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Speaker 1: end of the match.

706
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 2: I love Keya. Obviously they're without them, this tournament couldn't exist.

707
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 2: But I would just love one year for him to go, yeah,

708
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:49,960
Speaker 2: look we didn't nail it this year, pretty rough tournament

709
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:50,880
Speaker 2: and then walk off.

710
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:53,360
Speaker 1: Just spice it up. Should we have a look at

711
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 1: what happened during his spare?

712
00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:58,560
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, Today Kea stands as a global leader in

713
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:02,000
Speaker 3: mobility and in shaping the future.

714
00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 4: Together with the Australian Open.

715
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 1: He loves it. He loves it. So if you didn't

716
00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:16,360
Speaker 1: hear that properly he's saying today, and then someone heckles

717
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:20,560
Speaker 1: from they yelled out boring, awesome, so good, yeah, so good.

718
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:22,680
Speaker 1: It only could have been better if than he yelled back,

719
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:23,759
Speaker 1: the key guy not.

720
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:29,800
Speaker 2: And he kind of smirks, he smokes. He liked it

721
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:32,800
Speaker 2: because he would know that no one is really hanging.

722
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:36,920
Speaker 2: There might be one or two car tennis crossover heads

723
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:38,879
Speaker 2: that really want to hear what he's got to say,

724
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:40,960
Speaker 2: but for the most part, everyone's like, can you hurry up?

725
00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:43,120
Speaker 1: Man, can you hurry up? I love the Lord. The

726
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:47,040
Speaker 1: Men's Final the most expensive ticket for anything ever, So

727
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:51,239
Speaker 1: someone just paid top dollar at the heckle boring. Yeah,

728
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 1: it's boring, boring, boring. Hey, it's Brett and Lexi from

729
00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:57,840
Speaker 1: the AO Rap podcast.

730
00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:01,239
Speaker 3: We admit Mike and Lizzie are hilarious, but if you've

731
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:03,320
Speaker 3: heard enough of them banging on and just want to

732
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 3: hear some actual tennis talk, match analysis and reaction, come

733
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 3: and hang with us every day of the Main Draw.

734
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:14,319
Speaker 2: The IRAP available wherever you get your podcast time.

735
00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:18,279
Speaker 1: Podlabor Arena is absolutely killing it. That's not me being

736
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:22,480
Speaker 1: sarcastic at all. We're up to number twelve. That's crazy

737
00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:24,600
Speaker 1: in the podcast charts. That's huge.

738
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:28,160
Speaker 2: It's actually like, I'm quite shocked, and it's kind of

739
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 2: cool that.

740
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:32,080
Speaker 1: People are out there listening to it. Take that Belinda Belinda.

741
00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:34,680
Speaker 2: And doesn't listen. I think I know what podcast she

742
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 2: listens to.

743
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:39,200
Speaker 1: Actually, Andy Roddickson. Yeah, because he's number five, but he's

744
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 1: also a Grand Slam champion who is very insightful and

745
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:46,280
Speaker 1: gives an amazing commentary game. Pretty funny for a professional athlete.

746
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:48,080
Speaker 1: But you're not going to hear Chod jokes.

747
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:51,399
Speaker 2: When he doesn't have any chode or fridge Guy song.

748
00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:53,759
Speaker 2: He has no hot take on Chubb close call does he?

749
00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:55,680
Speaker 1: He would never sing a song. He would never sing

750
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:59,879
Speaker 1: a song. So thank you everyone so much, Andy Rodder,

751
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:04,160
Speaker 1: and tell everybody to listen to the pod because we

752
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:05,280
Speaker 1: will be going weekly.

753
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:07,520
Speaker 2: We will, And tell everyone not to listen to Andy

754
00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:08,240
Speaker 2: Rottick please.

755
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:12,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we're getting Lizzie Hubeck fantastic. Yeah she was

756
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:14,960
Speaker 1: she on Andy Ronnicks podcast. Yeah she was.

757
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 2: She left us to do an erotics and she's kind

758
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:19,400
Speaker 2: of come crawling back, and she's coming crawling back for

759
00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:22,680
Speaker 2: our weekly editions, and then I'll be over for Indian Wells,

760
00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:25,120
Speaker 2: so I'll be reporting on the ground on the ground.

761
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:27,440
Speaker 2: You got and you've got meteor cred so we can

762
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:28,120
Speaker 2: send you around.

763
00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:30,759
Speaker 1: I would love media cred. I'm just a punter at

764
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:31,200
Speaker 1: this point.

765
00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:34,960
Speaker 2: Oh okay, you're one of the people the mighty have fallen.

766
00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:37,440
Speaker 1: Dude. This is like I think we've said it before,

767
00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 1: but this tournament for us, with all the cred and

768
00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:42,839
Speaker 1: access has been like flying business class on a long

769
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 1: haul flight. It is amazing. You can never go back,

770
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:47,120
Speaker 1: but I'm going to go back to, you know, the

771
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:49,400
Speaker 1: working class seats.

772
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:52,919
Speaker 2: I think nothing will make Belinda happier than hearing that.

773
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:56,759
Speaker 1: Sam. So awesome to have you on board for the

774
00:36:56,840 --> 00:37:00,799
Speaker 1: final week and going forward. What was your highlights of

775
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:01,400
Speaker 1: the tournament.

776
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 2: I mean, look, I can't go past getting to go

777
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:07,960
Speaker 2: to a Grand Slam final like that is just a crazy,

778
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:09,360
Speaker 2: once in a lifetime experience.

779
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:11,360
Speaker 1: So that is going to stay with me forever.

780
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:15,239
Speaker 2: Meeting people is just like meeting tennis players is just

781
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:17,400
Speaker 2: crazy from a real personal perspective.

782
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:20,240
Speaker 1: It's great though, I mean, you almost left during the

783
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:24,760
Speaker 1: final to have beef boy with your girl friend.

784
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:28,200
Speaker 2: My actual highlight is when you were teasing me about

785
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:30,359
Speaker 2: going to leave, and you said you're going to leave

786
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 2: to have and you were flailing and you got some

787
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:33,400
Speaker 2: strawberry pasta.

788
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:37,719
Speaker 1: That's a thing? Is it a thing? Shavantek said, she

789
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:40,080
Speaker 1: eats strawberry pasta. And if you were here for the

790
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:41,799
Speaker 1: first week, well, I wasn't here for the first week.

791
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 1: You should have been listening to the show.

792
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:46,080
Speaker 2: I was listening in patches, but Roddick was on a

793
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:49,719
Speaker 2: real hot streak with his show. Thanks for bringing me in,

794
00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:51,240
Speaker 2: mat though, I've loved it. What's pin your highlight?

795
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:55,880
Speaker 1: My highlight outside of the semifinals Verev and Alkoraz that

796
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:58,200
Speaker 1: we were there for that was like probably the most

797
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:01,759
Speaker 1: fun I've ever had watching a tennis match, despite you

798
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:04,399
Speaker 1: saying you were going to leave. I think that's why

799
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:08,480
Speaker 1: you have fun, that you were going to leave to

800
00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:13,680
Speaker 1: have English muffins. I thought the Varenka story from the

801
00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:16,560
Speaker 1: first week and watching him win that five center against

802
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:20,160
Speaker 1: uh yeah the French player seems like so long ago.

803
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:23,799
Speaker 1: Oh I know, yeah, yeah, yeah, It's been amazing though, Like, yeah,

804
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 1: so the Verenka storyline was great. Watching Rebecca just inform

805
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:32,440
Speaker 1: just storm through the tournament was awesome. And uh, just

806
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:36,319
Speaker 1: a friendship. It's about the friend you make along the way.

807
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 1: Speaking of one of the best friends we made along

808
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:45,319
Speaker 1: the way, our friend sound guy, our cameraman. We love

809
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 1: this guy. Yeah, he's a king. And when we finished yesterday,

810
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:52,080
Speaker 1: we were like just walking around looking at the rooms.

811
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:55,319
Speaker 1: We haven't been in it. Yeah, just like exploring. And

812
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:58,960
Speaker 1: we went into the main presser room. It's huge, it's

813
00:38:58,960 --> 00:38:59,560
Speaker 1: like a big theater.

814
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,520
Speaker 2: It's like a university theater or so it's you could

815
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:04,440
Speaker 2: see maybe three hundred people in there.

816
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:07,240
Speaker 1: Yeah. So we went across into the huge press conference

817
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:10,359
Speaker 1: theater and it's massive. It's so funny. It's massive. It's

818
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:13,760
Speaker 1: got the big branded wall behind you, and we're we're

819
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:17,040
Speaker 1: getting pictures ha ha, pretending to do press conferences. And

820
00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:19,040
Speaker 1: then we just go a so have a seat, and

821
00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:21,719
Speaker 1: then well we'll grill you. Well, you know, we'll say

822
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:24,320
Speaker 1: you've had a loss, and we'll throw some questions at you.

823
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:27,880
Speaker 2: Just completely mucking around for no purpose at all, really,

824
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:28,960
Speaker 2: just to have a bit of fun.

825
00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:33,759
Speaker 1: We I guess disregarded or willfully ignored the signs that

826
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:36,359
Speaker 1: said this is a live feed at all.

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00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:40,359
Speaker 2: Times, twenty four hour live feed. And I don't know

828
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:42,040
Speaker 2: if I didn't see it all the way in, but

829
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:43,280
Speaker 2: I think Eights.

830
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 1: Probably knew about it. He should have anyway, So he

831
00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 1: sits down.

832
00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:48,560
Speaker 2: We started throwing dumb questions at him, being like, yeah,

833
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:51,640
Speaker 2: what about the last he is saying stuff, it's pretty funny,

834
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:53,880
Speaker 2: We'll see it. Yeah, I think we just played. This

835
00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 2: is actually the best moment of the tournament because this

836
00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 2: went live to the ground to the ground, so anyone

837
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:01,720
Speaker 2: it was at Melbourne Park in front of the screen

838
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:05,560
Speaker 2: just saw Ace Man and we didn't realize until we

839
00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:09,279
Speaker 2: started getting text messages being like, yo, why is he.

840
00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:11,600
Speaker 1: He got a text from his big boss, like with

841
00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 1: just a screenshot of him doing the presser, and then

842
00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:18,240
Speaker 1: like we look outside and like the whole of Melbourne

843
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:23,880
Speaker 1: Grounds is transfixed by what is going on. Ace's presser

844
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:26,239
Speaker 1: is one of my favorite parts of the Tournamently.

845
00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:28,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, it felt like that moment and it Star is born.

846
00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:30,680
Speaker 2: When Lady Gagaa walks on, You're like, this guy is

847
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:31,600
Speaker 2: gonna be massive.

848
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So it went to every TV on the

849
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:38,240
Speaker 1: grounds and like people. I mean, it's gonna go viral.

850
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:42,280
Speaker 1: I think so, I think, And I saw the because

851
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:44,000
Speaker 1: we were you know, we were part of it. Yeah,

852
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:47,160
Speaker 1: but then I saw the interview properly and it's it's

853
00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:50,080
Speaker 1: so funny, it holds up, it's red hot, and it's like,

854
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:54,000
Speaker 1: you're so endearing, Ace. We loved you from day one, man,

855
00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:56,560
Speaker 1: And this is how we want to close the AO.

856
00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:00,120
Speaker 1: I think so with the tribute to a man, A

857
00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:02,680
Speaker 1: bit to Ace Man. Well, this is uh, this is

858
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:05,120
Speaker 1: his press conference. Enjoy.

859
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:09,360
Speaker 4: Hello, thanks for coming to my press conference.

860
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:12,440
Speaker 1: How did you get involved with Arena?

861
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:13,799
Speaker 4: I got a call.

862
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:20,400
Speaker 1: How do you feel about the loss today?

863
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 4: The loss devastating? You know, I thought I thought I

864
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:31,760
Speaker 4: had him, and he surprised me with the lob and

865
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:38,560
Speaker 4: my shoes. You know, the strings came undone and and

866
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:42,480
Speaker 4: it got me tied up a little bit, and I felt.

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Speaker 1: You tied your strings together with your shoelaces.

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Speaker 4: My shoelace as well.

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Speaker 1: Yes, okay, fantastic, run us through. What happened when you

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Speaker 1: shoot your pants?

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Speaker 4: Well, I've had some Lentel and stomach is shoes, you

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Speaker 4: know in fetterants? Have you said? I don't speak bigod English. Sorry, uh,

873
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Speaker 4: And so I had some stomach problems and then I

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Speaker 4: took care of it during the sets. Yeah, I had

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Speaker 4: to make a quick dump, a quick dispatching.

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Speaker 2: Do you do you regret not using the bathroom to

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Speaker 2: do that quick dispatch and just doing it on cynecal.

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Speaker 5: I went to do that, but there was a line

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Speaker 5: and other people sitting. It's only two cubicles, so I

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Speaker 5: had to run back to the court.

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Speaker 1: You ran back court?

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Speaker 4: Well, I didn't want to get the time violation, so

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Speaker 4: I had to. I haven't seen the footage. Was it embarrassing?

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Speaker 4: Any other questions?

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Speaker 1: When did you learn what age was?

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Speaker 4: God? Uh? Not that long ago, just as the name suggests.

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Speaker 4: Ironically is that ironically? A good friend of mine, a comedian,

888
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Speaker 4: Michael Chokestein.

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Speaker 1: That was good what we're saying? Good for it?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, of course, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's how I learned it,

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Speaker 6: just about ten minutes ago.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Where are we going with this press conference?

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Speaker 1: We'll ask the questions?

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Speaker 4: Sorry, yes, sure. Thanks to everyone who helped put this

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Speaker 4: event together. Special shout out to the Pod Dave Arena

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Speaker 4: people and quig Tylee and Shannon and Ewell and Mike

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Speaker 4: and Tim and Sam and Lizzie who and everyone thank

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Speaker 4: you for a great and amazing event.

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Speaker 1: While were weak yes, m hmmm,