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Speaker 1: This is a Woolen Woody podcast.

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Speaker 2: NIMNI Australian Open is on right now and we have

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Speaker 2: got a doien of the Australian tennis industry. I don't

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Speaker 2: know what it's the industry, jeez, I'm a bitnesous.

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Speaker 3: It's about Rafter joins the boys right now.

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Speaker 4: Mordy, how are you guys?

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Speaker 3: We're better now? Pat Well are better now? My friend?

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Speaker 3: How are you going?

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Speaker 4: Good? Be great?

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Speaker 2: It's so good to hear you boys. I've got a

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Speaker 2: quick question to ask you just just before we get

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Speaker 2: into you know, the series stuff and the nuts and

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Speaker 2: bolts of tennis, et cetera. But like, do you think

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Speaker 2: you're the sweatiest man to have ever played for Australia?

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Speaker 4: I reckon, i'me up there. I don't know who else.

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Speaker 4: I mean sham Roth, but he's got another thirty kilos

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Speaker 4: on me.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a white issue, wasn't it.

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Speaker 4: You were You're a trim pat, you got it mate?

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Speaker 2: Like do you think the ball boys had to draw

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Speaker 2: straws as to who would be carrying your towel for

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Speaker 2: some of those matches?

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Speaker 4: It's funny now when you're watching the whole COVID thing

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Speaker 4: they can't all kids going about to touch it.

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Speaker 5: COVID would have been the perfect skiss to stay away

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Speaker 5: from your sweaty bastard. But so, Pat, are you a

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Speaker 5: sweaty guy just in everyday life in general?

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Speaker 4: Yes, when I work out and I train, if I'm

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Speaker 4: on the property as well, I'm just a big.

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Speaker 3: All right, Well your sweating now, let it go, Pat.

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Speaker 5: Two blogs, two Australian guys that are always in the headlines,

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Speaker 5: and they're in the headlines again this Australian Open, bern

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Speaker 5: Atomic and Nick Kirios. Nick Kirios had a great win

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Speaker 5: couple of nights ago. It's really exciting him to see

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Speaker 5: him playing good tennis. Bernard Tomic another incident, which unfortunately

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Speaker 5: doesn't add to his popularity, that he.

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Speaker 3: Went out in the qualifying and then complained that he

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Speaker 5: Can I speak to you around your experience with both

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Speaker 5: these blogs and what they're like.

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Speaker 4: Well, I was around them when they were very young. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: that's seventeen, so you sort of see their development through

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Speaker 4: that day. You try to offer them advice on what

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Speaker 4: I don't know, I guess I was pretty tough on them,

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Speaker 4: and I didn't understand all the complexities they had in

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Speaker 4: their life, and I got really blunt with it. And

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Speaker 4: then at the end I got the ship. So it

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember that it was.

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Speaker 2: It was a really interesting time for all of that now,

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Speaker 2: and I think it was really hard I think for

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Speaker 2: you know, as an outsider watching that, because obviously you're

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Speaker 2: this legend. I suppose a nice tie into the next question.

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Speaker 2: You know, we were talking to what was the bloke's

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Speaker 2: reasons that Djokovic was so disliked was, well, he's disliked

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Speaker 2: because he's cocky and he's got that bravado about him.

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Speaker 2: Do you think there's been like a bit of a

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Speaker 2: it's moving in the right direction.

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Speaker 4: I was definitely moving in a direction. But that's society

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Speaker 4: as well tennis. You know, the end of the day,

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Speaker 4: Nick an amazing player. He draws the crowd, him may tank,

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Speaker 4: he may chuck a hissy fit, but people go to

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Speaker 4: see it as well, and you know when you're watching,

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Speaker 4: when you watch Nick the other night, he's doing some

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Speaker 4: very unorthodox things and not tennis traditional, but it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 4: At the end of the day. He's creating an atmosphere

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's true bloody good to watch.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of being a senior mate, I know you and

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Speaker 2: Lighton Hewitt made have come Back in Back in twenty fourteen,

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Speaker 2: got knocked in the first round. The word, the word

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Speaker 2: on the street is that you and Rod Labor are

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Speaker 2: thinking you're teaming up this year for a bit of

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Speaker 4: Nice men, Rosell, you got it wrong. Yeah, me and

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Speaker 4: Kenny rosel I feel it couldn't make it out this year.

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Speaker 4: But there actually is that there is a chance that

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Speaker 4: myself Philip Ersons might be playing some seniors doubles. We're

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Speaker 4: all seeing you in the say yeah, me and have

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Speaker 4: Back haven't played together since ninety seven.

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Speaker 2: Wow, ge wiz, Well, look at the ball boys to

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Speaker 2: grab the sham Wales. So they're on the they're ready

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Speaker 3: For mopping up. Great, right, we've got more. Pat Rafter

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Speaker 3: up next day with Swilling.

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Speaker 2: The Aussie Open is on right now Channel nine and nine.

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Speaker 2: Now that's where you can catch all of the Aussie Open.

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Speaker 2: And we've got the one and only Pat Rafter who

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Speaker 2: joined us right now.

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Speaker 5: Now, Paddy Will and I have this idea to duck

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Speaker 5: down to the Australian Open and masquerade as professional tennis

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Speaker 5: players and fingers crossed. We signed a few autographs and

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Speaker 5: get a few selfies, et cetera. Just wanted to ask you,

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Speaker 5: given you are or you were a professional tennis player,

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Speaker 5: what do you think we need to do or how

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Speaker 5: do we need to act to try and look like

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Speaker 5: professional tennis players.

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Speaker 4: First of all, we have to get in. Can you

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Speaker 4: get in?

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Speaker 3: Not sure? The challenge rock part of the challenge, so

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Speaker 3: you need to pass.

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Speaker 5: So you know when you were when you were playing,

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Speaker 5: Paddy like, surely as you rock over with the Australian

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Speaker 5: Open with your tennis gear on, you can just walk

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Speaker 4: No, yeah, no, it was in the eighties that I

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Ever since I've been involved to directly get in, yeah,

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Speaker 4: it's been very difficult. And Rafters got you guys, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: you get turned around. You have to go and get

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Speaker 4: any other passes matter. I know you are actually really strict.

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Speaker 4: Yeah hell so yeah right yeah, but if you want

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Speaker 4: to act as a tennis play, well, first of all,

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Speaker 4: get a little sweat going.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah sure, yeah yeah yeah okay.

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Speaker 4: And and just talk and you know, like you know

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Speaker 4: what you're doing and yeah the height of the which

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Speaker 4: are you in good?

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Speaker 3: Miss?

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Speaker 4: One of us?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, one of us. One of us had a big summer,

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Speaker 4: You're going to struggle, but.

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Speaker 2: Pat, the whole premise of the bit is that there

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Speaker 2: a lot with you.

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Speaker 3: When you were playing La.

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Speaker 2: Did you walk out in the court and you know,

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Speaker 2: you look down the other end and you'd be like, well,

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Speaker 2: it's his bloke, Like I've never seen.

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Speaker 3: This my life.

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Speaker 4: Yes, remember a guy called one Carlos Ferrero. Yes, h

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Speaker 4: I played him. I thought, who the hell is this?

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Speaker 4: Young kids, I hadn't already heard the name. And I

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Speaker 3: The flip side there.

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Speaker 5: It's good that you beat Roger Feederer before he was

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Speaker 3: Pat Raft.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe he was seventeen. He came on the tour

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Speaker 4: on and yeah, I just sort of got my face

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Speaker 4: time to finish up.

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Speaker 3: That's when you started blaming the shoulders. Sorry, guys, I've

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Speaker 3: got to retire, all right, Patty. We know your times,

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Speaker 3: precious mate.

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Speaker 5: We'd love it if you could just stick around for

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Speaker 5: one more little prank call. Because you were organized to

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Speaker 5: go on a Breakfasthow on Melbourne Breakfast Show Jason Lauren

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Speaker 5: on Monday morning, but for for reasons I don't know,

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Speaker 5: the breakfast show didn't go ahead and you weren't required.

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Speaker 3: But no one called you and told you it was canceled.

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Speaker 3: Is that correct?

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Speaker 4: That's correct?

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Speaker 5: Right, So you would have sort of sitting around waiting

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Speaker 5: for the interview. I imagine a little bit pissed off. You go, yeah, perfect, Okay,

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Speaker 5: So we've got the number of one half of the

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Speaker 5: Breakfast Show, Lauren Phillips here. Would you be open to

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Speaker 5: giving her a phone call right now and just giving

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Speaker 5: her a piece of mind?

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Speaker 4: Yep, let's tell a lot, let's tell her up to.

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Speaker 4: This is great.

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Speaker 5: I love this all right, calling Lauren Phillis now.

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Speaker 4: Hello, last after I'm Patty las Thanks very much for

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Speaker 4: bringing me the other day. Let me know it's canceled.

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Speaker 4: This is a royal stitch up from Sam the producer.

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Speaker 4: I know you too well.

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Speaker 1: I don't know too well. Just tawn out on.

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Speaker 3: This, Lauren.

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Speaker 4: How are you?

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Speaker 3: Lauren? You're willing Woody. Hello.

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Speaker 1: Boys, tell them about when you you decided to take

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Speaker 1: out ladies tennis coaching for a day and by the

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Speaker 1: time you turned up your wife at Juldosaw with champagne,

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Speaker 1: and when you promise it on your court.

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Speaker 4: Lauren, it was about stitching you up, not me up.

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Speaker 4: I'm telling you right now.

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Speaker 1: You do not pask master Pat taking you for cardio.

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Speaker 4: Paddy.

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Speaker 1: I've also had a bunch of pick with you because

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Speaker 1: I caught COVID two days after I had lunch through

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Speaker 1: you a few weeks ago. I want to point the

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Speaker 1: thing out, but I don't know who I am.

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Speaker 3: That sounds a close contact to you, isolated. All right, thanks, Lauren, appreciate.

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Speaker 1: Also very busy.

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Speaker 4: It works if you can.

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Speaker 2: Let me.

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Speaker 3: All right, daddy mate, thank you so so much.

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Speaker 2: Good have a ripping afternoon. It's been great to have

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Speaker 2: you on the show Aussie Open Channel nine and nine. Now, Pat,

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Speaker 2: before you go, who's going to win the men's and

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Speaker 2: the females?

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Speaker 3: Nice? Wow? Okay, yeah, good, it's curious. Any chance, Pat,

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Speaker 3: here's any chance?

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Speaker 4: Uh depends on who shows up?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Sure, you mean tonight of winning, been Mevedev. I don't

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Speaker 4: know if you're can win the tournament. I mean, obviously

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Speaker 4: talent wise, he is, but you've got to win seven

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Speaker 4: matches and keep your marvels together.

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Speaker 2: You obviously smoothed that relationship.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we haven't spoken in three years. Don't worry. I

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Speaker 4: don't think it's going to start now. But he's he's

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Speaker 4: obviously the talent, but it's just it should be a

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Speaker 4: really good match and he's played. He's been meverdy the

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Speaker 4: last few times, so.

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Speaker 3: Great stuff. Pat bloody love you mate. It's great to

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Speaker 3: have you guys. Thanks again.

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Speaker 4: Why are you done with that?

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Speaker 5: Why not check out more from Willen Woody on the

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Speaker 5: Full Show podcast.