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It's time for let's get some 
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It's top spin. 
That's LGBT. 

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Have a listen. 
Make some noise with the ball 

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boys. 
Hey everybody, and welcome to 

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the latest episode of The Ball 
Boys. 

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We are the tennis podcast that 
puts the odds and claustrophobia

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and the lucky slice in Fahac 
ice. 

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I'm your host Paul Monkle, 
bringing the insights, 

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outbursts, giggles and wiggles 
of the ATP and WTA tours. 

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We are just wrapping up the 
longest January in history with 

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a triple size Australian Open 
that I think started back in 

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December. 
Over here in the States. 

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Lots of people got pummeled by 
ice and also there was a bad 

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storm. 
I personally felt pretty numb 

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after the latest murder in 
Minnesota. 

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It's just a crazy time in the 
world and all I can say is I 

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love you. 
I love you all and the ball 

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boys. 
We are here for you as always. 

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And since the last show, I 
popped down to Mexico City where

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I ate every pastry Insight while
reading the upcoming gay romance

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novel 30 Love by Tom Vellner. 
And also the second edition of 

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The Inner Game of Tennis from my
mom's friend Karen. 

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Karen is a great friend of the 
pod. 

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Hi Karen, thank you so much. 
And a reminder to everybody, a 

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ball boy is anyone who is gay 
for tennis, Doesn't matter what 

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age or gender or sexuality. 
If you're horny for tennis, you 

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are in the right place. 
We also had the Oscar 

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nominations with Sinners leading
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But one award we know they're 
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Australian Open title, since 
Yonic Sinner crapped out in the 

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semis in one of the weaker 
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And so today, we're spending the
episode unpacking the Open. 

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And I'll just say it, The vibes 
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It just felt kind of weird, kind
of like the new TikTok, which is

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owned by Indian Wells's own 
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And if you've been on that app, 
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just not the same. 
You know, it looks like the app.

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It sounds like the app, but it's
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And that's kind of how I felt 
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No, not really. 
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Also no. 
But do we have a show stuffed to

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the gills with hot takes and a 
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Absta fucking lutely. 
And to do all that, joining me 

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today is the melted cheddar 
cheese to my hot apple pie. 

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He was on the last show with me.
With our always spot on 

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predictions, It's Matthew 
Coleman. 

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Matthew, it is always a pleasure
to have you on the pod. 

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Hello. 
What's up, Paul? 

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Hi. 
How you doing? 

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I'm good, it's Sunday, I'm 
pretty well rested. 

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I I wish I'd gotten one point 
slammed last night but didn't 

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happen. 
I just went to bed alone. 

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No, well only one point. 
I feel like you. 

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You deserve 2. 
That's my hot take for. 

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You sometimes, sometimes a nice 
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ordered. 
Fair. 

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Well. 
I wish I was well rested. 

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I was watching the finals live 
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I'm a little off my game, a 
little off my rocker, so forgive

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me if I say things that are a 
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your hot take on the AO. 
What's your big take away? 

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I mean, I feel like you teased 
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kind of felt like an AI 
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Like, yeah, it happened. 
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OK, there were technically some 
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whole thing just felt like it 
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I don't know, it didn't. 
It didn't register in my heart 

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this year. 
Something was off. 

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terrible matches. 
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then it like went nowhere. 
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and starts, and we ended up with
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that feels like a Grand Slam 
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But yeah, I, you know, they call
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to really sort of feel the 
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screens and our phones and our 
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It also just didn't feel like 
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Or is that just me being really 
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No, I think you're right. 
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moments when Pagula and Keys had
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net. 
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warming moments, but I don't 
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people withdraw with injuries 
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tournament? 
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of bleak. 
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the bellwether for the rest of 
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kicking off the vibes, I'm like,
send it back. 

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No. 
Yeah, much like, much like apple

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pie with cheddar cheese. 
Like, send it back next. 

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Thank you. 
Next. 

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This is undercooked. 
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the oven for a few more minutes.
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If we're thinking about this in 
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I'm still thinking about, I'm 
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we're all kind of overseeing 
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But I still think that there is 
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like, is it a Shane and Elia, a 
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What was this year's open? 
Was this year's open a Shane and

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Elia, a Scott or a Kip? 
It's a it's a tough one. 

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Hold please let me think about 
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My brain is is cannot even 
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I'll give you my answer and I'll
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Or do you want to? 
Or do you want to think I'll? 

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No, no, no, no, please. 
Like take the take the lead. 

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No, I like watching the gears 
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You're like, kind of like the 
Kira Sedgwick meme of just like,

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it's all adding up. 
You be you be the the Dom. 

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I'll be the mindless sub, but 
I'll just do it. 

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I'll say whatever you said. 
Kel Supre Wow. 

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OK, Well, that's my my take is 
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before he met Kip and when he 
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not performing because he wasn't
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There was an authenticity that 
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its eyes. 
That you only see in European 

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gay porn. 
Yeah, exactly. 

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And then when you go to 
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Yeah, I I can support that. 
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in that it just kept taking it 
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managed to I guess come out 
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things were just kind of 
happening to it. 

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Yeah, well, and it did kind of 
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romance where you only hang out 
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think it was there was all that 
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opening week, which was the 
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and a lot of the exhibition 
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went hard that first week and 
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the ball. 
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like kind of a slog. 
All that stuff was like just two

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weeks ago. 
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like back when the Challenger 
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It's just it ancient history, 
like when when people were 

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talking about like Joanna 
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I'm like, that feels like I was 
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What a throwback. 
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like it was back when, like when
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when everyone was just talking 
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Let's rewind the film even. 
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horrible tragedy of the 
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Yes, too soon. 
Too soon, but you know. 

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What may they may their souls 
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Let's take a moment. 
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Zendaya, Mike Feist and and the 
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And the other Joshua Connor 
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He's like he's the one who's 
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wise at all. 
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exactly struggling, but anyway, 
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those 3 for a long time, but 
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going to hop into some of the 
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of underwhelming narratives that
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things that are worth 
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And to start us off, we're going
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beans, which again, is just that
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tennis. 
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campy, something a little 
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And I can't help but start with 
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No, I didn't love it. 
I didn't even like it. 

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But she walks on with the 
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a beekeeper's net, an umbrella 
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And it's definitely Lobs being 
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everyone was talking about just 
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ridiculousness. 
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bummed that we didn't get to see
if she was going to do something

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else. 
Like what if she won all seven 

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matches? 
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different sea anemone hanging 
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I, I don't know, like there was 
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was a lobs being for me. 
What did you think of the 

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outfit? 
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me of if she had gotten stuck in
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like doing a little shopping. 
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Wells have made their way over 
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my God, bees. 
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the bees. 
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thrift shop and she got some 
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her head and like some like 
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bobbles and, and pieces of 
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look. 
I didn't love it. 

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Let's just say that I didn't 
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And I and if we were going to 
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more matches, then I think I'm 
all right. 

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Yeah, I I definitely didn't love
it, but I love your narrative. 

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It was more like a a slapstick 
comedy routine where it's just 

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like whoa and like. 
Here's the thing, like, let me, 

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let me double click on it for 
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It's like I think tennis and 
fashion are so naturally 

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aligned. 
Like I feel like there is such 

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an opportunity to come to come 
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avant-garde and sexy And like 
these, you know, people are 

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amazing athletes. 
They have amazing bodies. 

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And I'm, I'm sad because I keep 
waiting for someone to actually 

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do something. 
You're right, remarkable with 

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it. 
When Serena and Sharapova, you 

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know, would have their fashions 
back in the day, it's, I mean, 

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there were, there were a lot of 
misses, but there were a lot of 

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hits as well. 
Real hits, yeah. 

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And it's like they just looked 
sexy and like, I want, I want 

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that like, call me a classicist.
I don't know, just like the 

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drapey that I, I don't, I don't 
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performance artness of it all is
like, not for me. 

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It might be for others, but it's
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I think I think that's a really 
good point because at the end of

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the day, the actual fit wasn't 
great. 

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It wasn't flattering. 
It wasn't interesting to look 

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at, really. 
It felt like a a runway 

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challenge on Drag Race. 
Where Yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah.

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Or like or like raid the trash 
on Project Runway to just make 

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an outfit in 5 minutes like. 
Yeah, yeah, exactly. 

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What was your take on? 
Come on, Gate. 

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I know you. 
Love Christia? 

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Yeah. 
Yeah, doesn't everybody everyone

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loves Sarah with her, like with 
her Stewart little voice. 

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God, Paul, I feel like I'm being
so mean on this podcast. 

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Apologies to all the viewers, 
like I'm not. 

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I'm a loved don't. 
Go to Romania anytime soon, 

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yeah. 
Yeah, exactly. 

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But I but I love, I love 
Countess Draculin. 

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But I yeah, I feel like 
everybody's entitled to that. 

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side with Naomi on this. 
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doing anything so egregious 
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needed to intervene, there's, 
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she's either following or she's 
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like is uncouth or a little bit 
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what Serrano like let it fire 
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thing and show her. 
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the semi final would like got 
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like, yeah, just pissed me off 
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So it's like harness it. 
I I just don't, don't whine 

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about it, you know? 
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Naomi had any malicious intent 
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I don't think. 
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someone in the audience after 
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yelled out, come on, the umpire 
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say that between serves. 
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You don't hear players verbally 
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Like you just don't hear that. 
So it was like, it's it. 

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I can see Serrano's side. 
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any malicious intent. 
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into Naomi's head. 
I don't know if it necessarily 

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had a play in her pulling out to
the next round. 

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But I, you know, I don't like 
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a statement one second and then 
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turned really icky. 
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It was like a, you know, not the
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open. 
When Naomi pulled out, it feels 

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like it was a little bit of a 
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the tournament because I was 
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third round too, I think. 
I absolutely was too cause like 

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something switched round 4 was 
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burger of what should have been 
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horrible. 
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Few more quick lobs beings. 
Look, I just got to give a shout

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out to Yelena Ostapenko for 
every Grand Slam carrying the 

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weight of the creating a meme on
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And this time she delivered with
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against Laura Siegmund. 
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Laura, you know, gets it back 
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Ostapenko just goes right back 
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the face. 
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she she kind of put her hands 
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around. 
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And I'm sorry. 
That was iconic. 

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I loved it. 
I needed that. 

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I think we all needed that. 
We all needed a good laugh. 

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I mean, it's a little bit of a 
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Ostapenko accidentally hit 
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She was serving, she served so 
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player on the other side of the 
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you lose the point. 
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like, what do you mean that's a 
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Like what do you what do you 
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And it's like, listen, like, 
like, that's what that's what 

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Ostapenko does. 
I'm a I'm a member of the 

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Ostapenko Appreciation fan club.
I don't think she's ever going 

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to have another major run in 
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and I love her just being around
being someone who's going to 

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terrorize Ygashvientek every now
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So yeah, Yelena, we love you. 
Come on the show. 

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And the last lobs being it's 
just a hearty welcome to the 

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family. 
Greg Slade, the British quad 

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tennis player, the Paralympic 
silver medalist who came out as 

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gay. 
We love it. 

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We support you. 
Another great outpouring of 

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support on social media for him.
And honestly, I'm just going to 

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say babe alert, that face card 
is not declined. 

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So, Greg Slade, welcome to the 
family. 

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Now we are going to get into 
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Australia we're calling it 
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the Tinas. 
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Tinas. 
So the open has come and gone 

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and yeah, it was missing a 
certain something. 

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It all at some point felt a 
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I love a subdued, but it was 
just a little off. 

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On our last show, though, 
Matthew, we made quite a few 

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predictions about what was going
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How did we do? 
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it's a a mixed bag. 
I I OK, so correct me if I'm 

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wrong, but I think you had said 
you thought Sinner was going to 

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win and I had said I thought 
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they kind of trade, I feel like 
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majors. 
So I guess I came out ahead on 

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that one. 
But that's like an easy. 

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Like those are the easy 
predictions. 

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Like, oh. 
Is it Sabalenka or someone else?

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But like anything else. 
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bit, a little bit down in the 
rankings, which is what I feel 

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like I, what I, what I'm doing 
on a daily basis, which. 

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Is going a little further down, 
like we talked a breakthrough 

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Kaboli or Kachinov, you know, 
one literally crapped out, one 

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pulled out, one just totally 
faded away. 

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It was just like, okay, it 
wasn't those guys. 

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Yeah, but check girlies. 
Go ahead. 

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Well. 
Speaking of the check girlies, I

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think like when we were going 
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by match looking at the draw I 
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to watch and. 
Called that. 

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And I don't know if I said 
Valentova or not but or Valenta,

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but I put her in my in my 
fantasy bracket. 

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So it's like the next Gen. of 
Czech girlies, which like we are

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attuned to on the show. 
Yeah, they're not on the door. 

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Yeah, they, they made a showing.
I mean, they didn't go deep, 

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deep. 
They didn't make second week, 

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but they got a they got damn 
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old. 
Yeah, and we also both called 

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Nuskova not making a 
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the Czech girly for us. 
But you know, our brittle bird 

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boned Divas of Kurtikova, Mukova
and von Drisova. 

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Just like I'm not going to 
really put any stock into 

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Ostapenko's chances. 
I don't know these girls. 

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Like yeah, Mukova had a good run
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was very predictable. 
She lost in three sets to Coco 

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Golf, and actually she very 
easily could have won, but she 

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just didn't. 
So yeah, it was a little bit of 

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a humble pie, you know, with, 
with cheddar cheese melted on 

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it. 
Because I, I've never done so 

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poorly because, yeah, like you 
said, we've got a fantasy 

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bracket with a few friends. 
This is, I think cumulatively 

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the lowest point that we've 
scored total it. 

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Was a bloodbath. 
It was a blood it. 

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Was a bloodbath, except for 
Matthew Paluch, but I think 

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somehow he rigged it. 
I don't know. 

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He has a DeLorean. 
He did something he like, knew 

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the results came back, but 
everyone, I mean, this is the 

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first time ChatGPT beat us, 
which is terrifying, you know, 

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for the. 
Future, but I have to, I have to

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say some of that, I feel like is
the human innovation aspect of 

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it, because I will take a little
bit of credit for each time I 

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build a ChatGPT bracket, which 
like is a collaboration between 

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me and ChatGPT, because I, I 
have to, if I just said give me 

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a bracket, it would be 
nonsensical. 

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It's like I have to feed it the,
I have to feed it the draw. 

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I actually download the what the
odds makers think the first, the

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odds of, Oh, that's not fair. 
A player winning the first 

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round. 
I, I, I put that in. 

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You got to, I mean, you got to 
feed the data and then I, what 

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else do I do? 
There's some other thing that I 

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put in. 
Oh, I think the odds of the odds

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per player of who's going to win
the tournament. 

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We stir that into a big, you 
know, AI machine learning soup, 

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and yeah, it's it. 
It was like it was a little too 

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smart for its own good this 
time, which is concerning. 

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The singularity is upon us. 
Yeah, we were talking like 

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Matthew, training these 
computers is the butterfly 

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effect that this is going to 
lead to Terminator and the 

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robots taking over because they 
learned a little too much about 

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the brackets. 1 Australian Open.
Why don't you do the same pics 

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as ChatGPT then? 
You think you're smarter than a 

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computer? 
You think you're better than 

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that? 
OK. 

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So I feel like we're we're in 
our second season or third 

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season, like in terms of years, 
I don't know of of doing this 

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bracket. 
Each successive time we do it. 

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I just end up wanting to go more
on vibes because I always regret

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it. 
Like I think I regretted it when

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you put Krachikova in your 
bracket at at I don't know if it

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was Wimbledon or I don't know if
it was the tournament after, but

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like you're jealous, you know, 
you know, I love my girl Barbie 

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K, but I did not have faith 
because like you said, she's a 

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broken bird. 
I did not have faith. 

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She was going to make a deep 
run. 

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So I didn't put her in and then 
she did. 

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And I was like, you know what, I
would have rather put her in and

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just have her lose first round 
and like have just but so the 

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faith in the players that I 
love, then have pick some random

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player or like I know nothing 
about or pick someone who I 

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actively dislike their their 
game style or their personality.

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The truth is, especially in the 
women's side, it's just such 

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chaos every time that that like,
making the irrational choice can

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actually like, somehow bring you
ahead of everybody else. 

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That's the thing in a time of 
great chaos, the fact that we 

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actually didn't have great chaos
was actually a very chaotic 

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choice by the universe because 
we were like, oh, someone's 

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going to crap out early. 
There's going to be this, 

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there's going to be that. 
But I mean, we really held a 

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forum in an unprecedented 
manner. 

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I'm the same way. 
I vote with my heart. 

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I I pick narratives and stories.
I was definitely more of a 

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prediction artist than 
scientist. 

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But I am going to also say to my
defense, just like you trained 

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that ChatGPT, I feel like I was 
a little manipulated on the last

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show 'cause you were like, Oh 
yeah, definitely pick Belinda 

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Bench to win it all. 
Paul, you like you goaded me on 

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and I just feel like I was under
duress and I'm pointing a cheesy

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finger at you. 
Well, who's the subdued now? 

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Following my big. 
My big Dom instructions. 

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Wow. 
Yeah, that's right. 

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You're gonna, you're gonna put 
it in your bracket and you're 

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gonna like it, Paul. 
My bracket's so tight. 

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Stop on. 
Your knees. 

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Wow, wow. 
OK, wow. 

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OK folks, we need to take a 
break for have a cigarette 

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anyway. 
Net, net. 

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We were pretty awful with our 
predictions. 

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I'm just going to say that about
what would happen, but I think 

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we can do much better talking 
about what did happen and 

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predicting that. 
So we're going to talk about 

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some of the winners. 
So we'll get to the results. 

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We'll talk about the men. 
And so the men's final ended 

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about 10 hours ago at like the 
stroke of 3:30 AM Los Angeles 

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time. 
Carlos Alcaraz takes out Novak 

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Djokovic in four sets to win his
seventh major overall, 

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completing the career Slam. 
Also a slew of first youngest to

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do this, youngest to do that, 
sexiest to do this. 

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Like it was all, it's so much. 
I know it was a decent match. 

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The first set was wild. 
Novak comes out dialed in 

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playing fearless, like showing 
us who the Frick he is to talk 

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about using some adversity for 
fuel when that reporter a few 

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days ago was like, isn't it 
interesting? 

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You used to chase Rodger and 
Rafa and now here you are 

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chasing Carlos and Yanuk and 
he's like, girl, what about the 

444
00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:57,440
15 years in between that when I 
was schooling everybody. 

445
00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:00,240
So he came out with I think with
a little bit of that mentality. 

446
00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:04,360
But then he didn't sustain it. 
And Carlos just kind of took 

447
00:24:04,360 --> 00:24:07,120
over, wins it in four. 
I knew it was either going to be

448
00:24:07,120 --> 00:24:08,680
Novak in three or Carlos in 
four. 

449
00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:10,240
There's no way it was going 5 
again. 

450
00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:14,240
They both played five setters 
and Novak just he had to like 

451
00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:17,160
take it to him and he didn't. 
I don't know. 

452
00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:18,440
What do you think about Carlos 
winning? 

453
00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:22,000
I mean, not surprised. 
And yeah, to your point, to your

454
00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,840
credit, you did call it Carlos. 
And for when we were talking 

455
00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:28,320
about it before the match, I 
think that the the narrative arc

456
00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:31,160
of that match is a surprise to 
no one. 

457
00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:34,640
But I feel like the real like 
interesting narrative is the 

458
00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:40,400
fact that Djokovic was in the 
final at all, which is is pretty

459
00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:42,120
cool. 
I feel like we should go back 

460
00:24:42,120 --> 00:24:46,520
and check the tapes from our 
shows last year to, to see if 

461
00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:49,800
one of our predictions was that 
Djokovic never makes another 

462
00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:52,360
major final. 
I wouldn't have been surprised 

463
00:24:52,360 --> 00:24:54,840
if we had said that because I 
think that's kind of was on my 

464
00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:57,280
mind. 
It's funny because like, I, I 

465
00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:00,920
love like underdog stories, but 
I tend to think very linearly, 

466
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:05,520
linearly about like age in 
tennis, where it's like, I just 

467
00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:08,880
expect a player to kind of like,
once they're on the decline, 

468
00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:11,520
like that decline is going to 
just keep going, coming back. 

469
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:13,720
But yeah, Djokovic is showing 
that. 

470
00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:17,360
Like, I think if you just have 
the will and you have the fire 

471
00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:19,640
inside of you, I think he 
surprised a lot of people, 

472
00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:21,480
including me. 
It's a good point. 

473
00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:25,040
And I I think that maybe what 
I'm expecting and thinking could

474
00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:31,400
still happen is kind of like 
that last push, that last gasp. 

475
00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:36,960
So Federer, he had it at the end
of 2017 and 2018 when he won 22 

476
00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:38,680
Slams after going years without 
one. 

477
00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:42,440
Same with Rafa in 22. 
Remember where like in 2022, 

478
00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:45,280
suddenly he did a streak, He won
the Australian and the French. 

479
00:25:45,360 --> 00:25:46,640
You know, it's, it's kind of 
like. 

480
00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:48,680
Nobody expected him to win the 
AO that year. 

481
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:50,400
It was only the second time he 
won the Australian Open. 

482
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:53,680
The first time he won it was in 
2009 and then in 2022, like, oh,

483
00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:55,720
wow. 
And so I feel like it's like 

484
00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:58,040
kind of like CPR. 
So like, there's one more breath

485
00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:00,080
left in Novak and it could have 
happened. 

486
00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:05,640
But yeah, it would have required
him beating Sinner and Alcarez, 

487
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:08,080
which is just a feat that is. 
It's a tough test. 

488
00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:11,480
Pretty, pretty gargantuan. 
I'll say this. 

489
00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:15,280
I was a little conflicted 
because yes, I love Carlos, but 

490
00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:18,800
I've also been very clear about 
how much I dislike what's going 

491
00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:24,560
on with his team and his 
potential issues with focus and 

492
00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:26,400
maybe partying too much and all 
that. 

493
00:26:27,360 --> 00:26:31,240
I fear, I'm not going to say 
this for sure, but I fear the 

494
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:35,800
Carlos winning is going to lead 
to an earlier end to his career.

495
00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:39,440
You know, he even signed the 
lens afterwards, like mission 

496
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:42,000
accomplished or whatever. 
Not not to quote George Bush 

497
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:45,320
after Iraq, but like, you know, 
it was like it was something 

498
00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:47,560
like, you know, job is done or 
something like that. 

499
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:51,560
And it's like, excuse me, you're
22 and like you feel like you've

500
00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:56,680
completed something. 
And I also feel like, look, yes,

501
00:26:56,680 --> 00:27:01,480
he parties, but he hasn't really
had a rebellious phase yet or a 

502
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,800
board phase. 
It's going to come and with more

503
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:08,760
success, there's less hunger. 
I, I'm worried like, is he going

504
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:12,640
to like have a little bit of a 
moment and burn out and come 

505
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:16,040
back like Jennifer Capriotti, or
is he going to just be like, 

506
00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:17,920
screw this, I'm done Like Bjorn 
Borg. 

507
00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:21,240
I, I, I worry about that 
happening with him much more 

508
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:23,600
than Sinner. 
Am I crazy? 

509
00:27:25,360 --> 00:27:27,920
It's interesting. 
I hadn't really considered it 

510
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:29,280
through that lens, if I'm 
honest. 

511
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:36,600
I mean, I think that we've seen 
he's not like really susceptible

512
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:40,800
to like that same initial slam 
fall off. 

513
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:46,680
His mentality historically has 
has been with his prior 

514
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:50,240
successes, they've only fuelled 
him to go achieve greater. 

515
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:54,000
I don't think I'm as hung up on 
on the drama behind the scenes 

516
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,320
with this team as you are. 
It's a one door closes, another 

517
00:27:57,320 --> 00:27:59,560
opens. 
Like, yeah, he's going to need 

518
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:03,440
to find stability, but I think 
that maybe this will end up 

519
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:06,600
actually pushing his game to an 
even better place. 

520
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:10,600
I'm not sure, but there is 
something about completing the 

521
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:18,360
calendar slam and, and feeling 
like for, for a lot for 99.9% of

522
00:28:18,360 --> 00:28:20,480
the tennis world. 
Yeah, that would be if they 

523
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:23,320
could quit tomorrow. 
And it's like the, the books 

524
00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:24,720
closed. 
You know, they've done all they 

525
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:28,400
came to do. 
Yeah, Yeah, it's, you're right. 

526
00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:31,960
I'm, I'm interested to find out.
It's kind of a wait and see 

527
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:33,520
moment. 
It's a wait and see moment of 

528
00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:36,280
like how much fuel does he 
really have inside? 

529
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:41,520
Does he like, he likes to party,
but I don't feel like he has 

530
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:48,480
demonstrated this draw to the 
flame of celebrity, you know? 

531
00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:52,880
No, it's more I worry and, and 
again, this is all just speaking

532
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:57,640
about through the lens of what I
see online and which I believe 

533
00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:00,320
everything I read online and 
what I see on television, which 

534
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:02,080
I also believe everything I see 
on television. 

535
00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:06,920
But it's more, I think that Juan
Carlos A was like a bit of a 

536
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:11,800
father figure, but also he was 
the counterpoint to that energy.

537
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:14,520
That was a little more like 
celebratory. 

538
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:17,920
He was very stoic and I think he
kept him focused. 

539
00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:21,680
He like crossed all the T's, 
dogged all the I's, and I'm just

540
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:24,400
not sure, like his brother who 
doesn't know how to give a 

541
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:26,880
haircut is going to be doing 
that same level of due 

542
00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:29,360
diligence. 
His cramping in the semis was 

543
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:32,760
such a huge red flag to me 
because yes, people cramp in 

544
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:35,080
extreme conditions. 
The conditions weren't that 

545
00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:37,680
extreme in his match. 
He was cramping. 

546
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:39,840
I worry because like, maybe he 
wasn't hydrated enough. 

547
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:42,680
Maybe he had that, hadn't taken 
the electrolytes he needed. 

548
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:44,520
Like maybe something had been 
overlooked. 

549
00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:49,720
That's fair, but like, I mean, 
Yannick was cramping like crazy 

550
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:51,920
in round three. 
I mean to the to the at. 

551
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:57,200
Level 5 at Level 5 heat index. 
This wasn't even bad at the 

552
00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:58,720
time. 
He it was like a it was like a 

553
00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:00,600
lovely evening of tennis and he 
was cramping. 

554
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:04,280
No, I know, I, I know, but it's,
it was later in the tournament 

555
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:06,000
too. 
I like you know what, I take 

556
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:07,480
your point. 
I take your point. 

557
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:13,840
I think from here on out, we'll 
see the real impact of Ferrero 

558
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:17,520
on his his game or not and and 
on his on his mentality and his 

559
00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:19,800
discipline. 
I mean, I think if you look at 

560
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:24,320
his playing style the past year 
or two, he he's brought a lot of

561
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:26,680
discipline into the way that he 
plays. 

562
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:30,640
I don't know if that's Carlos or
I don't know if that's JC. 

563
00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:32,920
I don't know. 
He doesn't go for as many kind 

564
00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:35,280
of trick shots as often. 
He tends to kind of keep his 

565
00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:38,000
head in the game more. 
He he that's true, plays the 

566
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:41,080
points he needs to play to win. 
So he has shown growth in his 

567
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:43,640
game. 
And I think having Sinner as his

568
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:47,040
main rival, which like we'll see
if that rivalry continues with 

569
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:50,440
the same intensity, but I think 
that is kind of an organizing 

570
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:54,240
factor for his mentality too, of
you just don't want to be second

571
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:55,440
best. 
You don't want history to 

572
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:58,120
remember you a second best. 
So even if he doesn't have the 

573
00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:01,240
right people in his life, you 
know, just having that, that 

574
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:04,320
fuel of like, I can't, I can't 
let myself slack and lose 

575
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:05,520
ground. 
That might be a motivating 

576
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:07,600
factor too. 
But yeah, we'll, we'll see. 

577
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:12,960
I'm also maybe like just trying 
to formulate or fabricate some 

578
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:15,680
drama intention because 
otherwise this is going to get 

579
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,080
really freaking boring if it's 
just talking about these two 

580
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:20,640
over and over again. 
So I'm just calling it. 

581
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:23,040
He's going to be it Jennifer 
Capriati. 

582
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:24,760
You're going to catch him in 
Florida with a pack of 

583
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:28,320
cigarettes and menthols and 
just, you know, it's going to be

584
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:31,320
everything. 
Let's talk about the semis real 

585
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:34,440
quick though, though. 
We had a semi final where the 

586
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:37,400
top four men are facing off. 
We had Alcaraz versus Verav 

587
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:41,040
Novak versus Sinner. 
We end up with two five setters,

588
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:43,240
which is 10. 
I'll do the math, 10 sets of 

589
00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:45,200
tennis. 
People were calling this the 

590
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:49,920
best semifinals day ever. 
They were hyping this up so much

591
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:53,480
on ESPN. 
I am sorry, do not spit in my 

592
00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:58,720
mouth and tell me it's raining. 
I found both matches extremely 

593
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:01,440
frustrating. 
I don't even know where to 

594
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:03,560
begin, but let's begin with Vera
and Alcarez. 

595
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:08,760
So as we were referencing, 
Alcarez cramped up so hardcore 

596
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:10,880
for about two out of the five 
sets. 

597
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:13,840
And he didn't lose one of those 
sets. 

598
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:17,160
He's throwing up on the cork or 
into into a towel. 

599
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:23,720
He can barely move. 
How in the world did Zveriv lose

600
00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:26,040
this match? 
And again, I'm not a Zvera fan 

601
00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:29,480
and I I'm glad that we didn't 
have to suffer through another 

602
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:32,880
Zveriv choking incident. 
I don't just mean domestically, 

603
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:34,920
but also on the court And a 
final. 

604
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:41,440
But he hit for a solid hour of a
totally immobilized Carlos 

605
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:43,440
Alcaraz. 
He hit nearly every shot 

606
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:46,800
directly back to him and just 
let him smack the fuck out of it

607
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:48,000
because that's all Carlos could 
do. 

608
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:51,640
Not a drop shot, not an angle, 
nothing. 

609
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:53,520
I was watching, I was like, 
what? 

610
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:56,080
What was he thinking? 
Like is he? 

611
00:32:56,600 --> 00:33:00,760
Is he that dumb? 
He was just giving him softballs

612
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:02,280
that then Carlos would tee off 
on. 

613
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:04,400
I don't know. 
I was like, this is the worst 

614
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:07,440
match I've ever seen someone 
play. 

615
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:10,840
And that award goes to Sasha 
Sverav. 

616
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:16,120
Yeah, I think you make a very 
good point that you can't judge 

617
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:18,160
whether a match is good or not 
by the score line. 

618
00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:21,880
No, if you look at if you look 
at the score line with all those

619
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:25,000
tie breaks, five step match, 
like like you would think that 

620
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,080
that's one for the ages. 
You would think that that's 

621
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:30,960
going to be immobilized in the 
pantheon of of great tennis 

622
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:33,520
matches at slams. 
And yeah, it's your point. 

623
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:39,120
It's like it was a kind of 
reminds me a little bit of a few

624
00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:43,080
years ago, maybe it was 2021 
when when I'm like obsessed with

625
00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:46,760
Alizeh Corne this time. 
But like Corne was dueling it 

626
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:50,360
out with with Simona Halep. 
It was a hot day. 

627
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:55,160
Both of those players physically
were just like gum on the bottom

628
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:57,600
of someone's shoe. 
I mean they were like, it was 

629
00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:01,520
just like bunting it back 
watching people play. 

630
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:06,360
They're worst but like at the 
same time, so their level is 

631
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:08,360
equal. 
Is not fun for anybody. 

632
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:12,920
Yeah, yeah, like a a fully 
hobbled Carlos and just a 

633
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:16,639
mentally weaks ver of we're 
having a very long match. 

634
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:19,239
It remind me of also I thought 
you're going to mention like the

635
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:22,000
Cam Nori final where he beats 
Alcarez at the Rio Open. 

636
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:25,400
Like 2 years ago 'cause. 
Alcarez was literally on one leg

637
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:28,199
and at least Nori beat him 
eventually. 

638
00:34:28,199 --> 00:34:30,760
It was a very close match but 
like that Zverev couldn't even 

639
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:32,440
do that. 
I am sorry. 

640
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:35,560
Like dude, I almost want to be 
like dude give it up. 

641
00:34:35,679 --> 00:34:40,080
Like if you can't win that semi 
final, I don't know. 

642
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:42,880
You can't say he hasn't had his 
chances. 

643
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,239
You know, personally, I'm not 
the biggest Vera fan. 

644
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:49,040
I think, like, like everybody I 
know, yeah. 

645
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:55,440
But I also feel like in a funny 
way, I have this characteristic 

646
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:59,800
view of his game because all I 
ever remember about his matches 

647
00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:04,080
are the bad parts. 
I just see the worst qualities 

648
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:06,840
of his game ultimately be his 
Achilles heel. 

649
00:35:07,240 --> 00:35:09,880
Yeah, yeah. 
And it's it's it's interesting 

650
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:12,120
because like the only time that 
I really felt attention during 

651
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:14,720
this tournament, particularly 
when it came to Sinner Alcaraz, 

652
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:18,440
was the two matches when they 
were both on death's door and 

653
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:21,120
injured horribly. 
I mean, I think it was both 

654
00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:24,440
cramps and and in each match. 
But I was like, maybe we need 

655
00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:27,760
like a new game and a new 
innovation to the tennis where 

656
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:31,040
it's like whenever Carlos or 
Yannick enters a tournament, we 

657
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:34,600
have to hobble them somehow. 
Maybe we either like they have 

658
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:36,760
to like play with their opposite
hand, kind of like Princess 

659
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:39,280
Bride where it's like the great 
swordsman. 

660
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:41,480
He's like, I have a surprise. 
I am not right-handed. 

661
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:43,480
And it's like, oh, they put 
their left hand or. 

662
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:45,640
Give them like a racket from the
50s. 

663
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:47,640
A racket? 
Yes, exactly. 

664
00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:50,720
Or make them wear like coke 
bottle glasses where they can't 

665
00:35:50,720 --> 00:35:53,040
really see. 
Maybe we microdose them with 

666
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:54,600
something, but we don't say what
it is. 

667
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:57,800
Like a vibrating butt plug, 
vibrating butt plug and then 

668
00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:00,440
morgues has the has the reboot 
from the side of the court. 

669
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:05,280
They're each wearing the new and
improved Whoop monitoring 

670
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:07,480
underwear, but now that monitor 
is a butt plug. 

671
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:10,680
Have you seen those the Whoop 
monitoring underwear? 

672
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:13,560
No. 
So there was a moment where. 

673
00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:15,680
This is not, this is not like a 
prank. 

674
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:18,120
No, this is real. 
I don't know if you saw, but 

675
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:21,480
like on one of the rounds, 
Carlos had a monitor under his 

676
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:24,280
wristband. 
He was, he was told to take off 

677
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:26,920
and that just monitors your 
vitals because they're only 

678
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:29,760
allowed to wear that sports bra 
thing that does that for some 

679
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:30,880
reason. 
Yeah, yeah, yeah. 

680
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:35,280
But then whoop, the company 
actually has underwear with a 

681
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:38,760
monitor in the underwear. 
So we are getting closer and 

682
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,080
closer to a fitness tracking 
butt plug. 

683
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:45,800
Just saying. 
I mean like if you, if you can 

684
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:48,600
dream it, you can do it. 
Like let's, I think we have our 

685
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:53,360
first Ball Boys branded product.
Honey, I love it. 

686
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:56,280
Show me the money. 
Then we had the the the Sinner 

687
00:36:56,280 --> 00:37:02,000
Novak semi and that one. 
He didn't need a butt plug or 

688
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:05,320
cramps or anything 'cause Sinner
played like crap. 

689
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:09,120
I haven't seen him play that bad
in a very long time. 

690
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:13,360
He had so many opportunities to 
break Novak. 

691
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:17,080
He went two for 18 on break 
points, including missing the 

692
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:20,920
last 10, including having triple
break point in the 5th set and 

693
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:24,520
he just couldn't do it. 
And he has a terrible record for

694
00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:27,680
long matches. 
Anything over 4 hours he's 0 and

695
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:29,680
9. 
Yeah, I remember I saw that 

696
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:32,080
chart on Twitter and I was like,
that is nuts. 

697
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:34,480
Yeah. 
I guess I'm more worried about 

698
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:36,840
him than about Carlos. 
Just in terms of actual 

699
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:38,400
performance. 
What does? 

700
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:41,760
What does Sinner need to do? 
I'm away from this. 

701
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:44,560
You see this a lot with the very
top players. 

702
00:37:44,720 --> 00:37:47,400
They're not playing warmups or 
they're not playing tuneups. 

703
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:51,160
So you know his season, I mean, 
he played the he played in. 

704
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:54,800
Korea. 
And then his, Oh yeah, the exos.

705
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:56,880
Yeah, that's the thing. 
They play exos, which is like, 

706
00:37:57,360 --> 00:38:00,120
which I hate, you know, which 
people, people can debate like 

707
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:03,760
whether or not that actually is 
like proper match prep for for 

708
00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:06,520
the big stage. 
But yeah, he wasn't in shape. 

709
00:38:06,720 --> 00:38:11,360
He wasn't in form and that still
means he can beat, you know, 99%

710
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:13,120
of other players on a on a 
decent day. 

711
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:16,400
I'm not too worried about him 
for the rest of the year though.

712
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:18,880
He just needs to work on his 
conditioning and like he'll be 

713
00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:20,600
OK. 
Yeah, yeah. 

714
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:22,640
But I mean the semi final wasn't
any cramping. 

715
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:27,800
He just every forehand that he 
is like there's patented Sinner,

716
00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:31,240
the boom, the synergy, it was 
not there. 

717
00:38:31,240 --> 00:38:34,760
There was just there was 
something was missing in his 

718
00:38:35,720 --> 00:38:38,160
execution. 
But I mean, when he had his like

719
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:43,000
his big, you know, heated 
rivalry night with Mousetti in 

720
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,680
their hotel room the night 
before, they they just kept each

721
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:48,840
other up a little bit too. 
Long well, and that's how 

722
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:53,640
Mousetti injured his groin. 
Yeah, it's all connected, that 

723
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:57,480
Italian team, which by the way, 
everyone like checked the pasta,

724
00:38:57,480 --> 00:38:58,800
the entire Italian. 
Team. 

725
00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:02,360
Had the runs at one point or 
another. 

726
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:07,320
Jasmine Palini loses to Eva 
Jovic and she says it's because 

727
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:10,040
she ate a big lunch and then 
laid down afterwards and had a 

728
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:11,720
tummy ache during the whole 
match. 

729
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:15,800
Our beautiful Kaboli shit the 
bed in the first round because 

730
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:18,520
he literally had to go to the 
bathroom over and over and over 

731
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:21,520
again. 
Dardari, Did you see Dardari 

732
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:25,000
after he won his match? 
I think it was his first round 

733
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:26,120
match. 
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 

734
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:28,400
He's he's had a Sprint off 
court. 

735
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:31,080
Yeah, he did the fastest 
handshake ever and then went 

736
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:33,840
straight off court 'cause he was
going to Dardari his shorts. 

737
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:36,440
There's just some the Italian 
team is. 

738
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:39,280
Yeah, there's something in the 
tomato sauce over there in 

739
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:41,680
Australia. 
Like the the Czech ladies, 

740
00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:45,000
brittle bone disease is only 
matched by, like the Italians, 

741
00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:53,320
tummy issues. 
Well, let's talk about the 

742
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:57,120
ladies real quick. 
So the women's final, we had the

743
00:39:57,200 --> 00:40:01,280
the 2 tops of the tour right 
now, Rebekina versus Sabalenka, 

744
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:06,480
it's a 3 setter, pretty high 
quality match really even too. 

745
00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:08,440
They both won the same number of
points. 

746
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:11,200
I saw that when I was filling 
out our our fantasy bracket. 

747
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:14,960
I was like, oh, even Stevens. 
I I love Rebekina's game. 

748
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:17,720
I I don't love her mentality. 
I don't think she has a 

749
00:40:17,720 --> 00:40:22,720
personality, but her actual 
strokes, her serve, her 

750
00:40:22,720 --> 00:40:26,720
forehand, her every part of her 
game is a really beautiful game 

751
00:40:26,720 --> 00:40:29,040
to watch. 
Do you like what do you think of

752
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:34,400
her, her game style? 
I think that it's growing on me 

753
00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:38,280
a little bit. 
And you know, she threw in at 

754
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:41,920
least one drop shot in that 
match, which, like, I, I, I like

755
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:45,200
to see. 
I just, I, I don't like it when,

756
00:40:45,720 --> 00:40:49,000
you know, a basher turns into a 
brainless basher and just like 

757
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:54,120
uses the, you know, their weight
of shot to completely put aside 

758
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:56,800
any sort of craft. 
She's grown on me. 

759
00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:59,960
But you're right, I think the 
lack of personality makes her a 

760
00:40:59,960 --> 00:41:01,880
little bit of a harder sell for 
me. 

761
00:41:02,080 --> 00:41:06,040
I acknowledge she's talented. 
You know, her, her matches can 

762
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:10,920
be fun to watch. 
But like, do I get the, the, the

763
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:13,960
tingly wingly is when she wins? 
Like, not really, no. 

764
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:17,200
No, and I'll say I wasn't 
emotionally invested in either 

765
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:19,800
one of these players winning. 
Yeah, I don't think I was 

766
00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:20,520
either. 
I'm not. 

767
00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:24,920
I'm not obsessed with Sabalenka.
I also didn't love her writing 

768
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:27,680
the word mentality on her 
coach's cheek. 

769
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:31,520
There's something that doesn't 
sit right. 

770
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:33,320
I don't know if it feels 
dehumanizing. 

771
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:36,760
I don't know if it feels like 
like a weird power play. 

772
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:39,440
I don't know. 
I just, I wasn't a fan of that. 

773
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:42,040
She's now four and four in Grand
Slam finals. 

774
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:45,400
Not great, not horrible. 
She does get the award for tie 

775
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:48,480
break queen. 
She's won 20 tie breaks in a row

776
00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:51,640
now. 
Like do not get into a tie break

777
00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:53,000
with Sabalenka. 
And that was interesting. 

778
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:54,480
They were saying this and I, I 
saw it. 

779
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:57,960
It's like in a tie break, she 
does not second guess herself. 

780
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:00,080
If she could just do that for 
the rest of her game. 

781
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:02,400
I mean, granted, she's world 
number 1, so it's not like she 

782
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:05,720
then she'd get to #1 like she's 
she's winner, she's the winner. 

783
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:09,880
But like she does something in 
tie breaks that is just next 

784
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:13,400
level. 
Yeah, but I mean, the rise of 

785
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:17,880
Rabacana has made the Sabalenka 
narrative more interesting 

786
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:23,080
because someone is challenging 
her for her spot in the Big Babe

787
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:25,000
Tennis pantheon on. 
Oh yeah. 

788
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:28,200
Yeah, You know, it's like they, 
I mean, they, they're, I 

789
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:32,280
wouldn't say they're, you know, 
their games are identical, but I

790
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:35,520
mean, they definitely are cut 
from the same archetype. 

791
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:40,480
Yeah, I like seeing those two 
push each other and I hope we 

792
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:42,600
get more of Sabalenka Rabaca in 
our finals. 

793
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:45,840
And I hope that they're, I hope 
that they keep going back and 

794
00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:47,880
forth like I want them to keep 
each other on edge. 

795
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:51,160
I think they will be quality 
matches whenever they meet and 

796
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:52,200
like that. 
Like that's the thing. 

797
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:56,080
We've had some some finals in 
the last couple years where 

798
00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:58,960
someone is not performing or 
it's just though the conditions 

799
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:01,120
are rough or it's not fun to 
watch. 

800
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:04,960
This match I just I enjoyed. 
I really like this might be the 

801
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:07,160
match I enjoyed watching the 
most. 

802
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:10,640
So just real quick on the 
semifinals, all four 

803
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:13,480
semifinalists made it without 
dropping a set. 

804
00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:16,920
This is the first time ever, 
which I also think kind of just 

805
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:18,760
speaks to some of the uneven 
matches. 

806
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:23,120
Like even though we had really 
great matchups in the 

807
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:25,520
quarterfinals and even though 
there were a lot of great third 

808
00:43:25,520 --> 00:43:28,760
and fourth round matches, it 
just wasn't that close a lot of 

809
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:30,760
the time. 
And, and then that continued in 

810
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:34,720
the semis, like we had Svitalina
versus Sabalenka and that was 

811
00:43:34,720 --> 00:43:37,480
not, not a good watch, not a 
good look. 

812
00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:40,400
It was just a, a, a routing on 
Sabalanka's part. 

813
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:44,320
She was very gracious afterwards
and very complimentary towards 

814
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:46,040
Svidalina, which was really 
nice. 

815
00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:50,400
But I, I, I didn't, I didn't 
enjoy that match. 

816
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:54,320
And even the other semi final of
her, Bakana and Pagula, Pagula 

817
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:58,240
came back in the second set. 
It was a good showing, but I was

818
00:43:58,240 --> 00:44:00,880
like, OK, next. 
Like there was no, there's no 

819
00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:05,040
tension, the only tension there.
There was 2 points of tension, 1

820
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:09,880
was the final between Sabalenka 
and Rebecca and the other was 

821
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:14,120
the lip sync for your life 
between Mia star and Juicy love 

822
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:16,360
Dion. 
That was also the greatest match

823
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:18,760
up in women's sport in the last 
two weeks. 

824
00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:21,760
So anyone out there, if you've 
seen that lip sync, you know 

825
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:23,000
what I'm saying. 
If you haven't seen the lip 

826
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:25,640
sync, check it out. 
It Will Rock your world. 

827
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:31,160
I'm looking now from the fourth 
round on, on the on the women's 

828
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:35,600
side, there were only two reset 
matches. 

829
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:38,760
It was in the final, including 
the final. 

830
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:40,480
And then the other one was Goth 
Mojova. 

831
00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:42,840
The other ones were all just 
straight set. 

832
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:47,680
I mean, yeah, not like they're 
not taking it to each other. 

833
00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:51,480
Yeah, Spinolina is kind of the 
the perfect representation of 

834
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:54,520
that. 
It's like she looked insane. 

835
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:58,320
In the side she had or Yeah. 
It's just yeah, I. 

836
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:01,200
Just. 
Sounds cincha tight, really 

837
00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:04,640
tight. 
Not Not too much on Alina now, 

838
00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:05,600
love. 
You not too much, but. 

839
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:08,920
No, but it's like she's just 
like, it's like, you know, I, I 

840
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:11,240
know she was just outplayed, but
like, where did she go? 

841
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:13,160
I mean, that's what we keep 
asking with these players. 

842
00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:16,440
Like, you know, where did Coco 
go when she was playing against 

843
00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:18,960
Spitalina? 
Honestly, yeah, that was one of 

844
00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:23,640
the big cons, that there's so 
many shit matches on the and on 

845
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:26,160
the men's side too. 
Like, I'm sorry, on the fourth 

846
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:30,080
round, what Lerner TN did to 
Medvedev and Dimnauer did to 

847
00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:36,200
Bublik, like thrashed them in a 
way that was like, I I was like,

848
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:39,000
this is theirs is weird. 
And like, I don't think that 

849
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:42,520
they were threw the matches by 
any means, but it was such a 

850
00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:44,680
poor performance. 
And they were just there were so

851
00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:46,920
many that like, yeah, like Coco 
versus Videlina. 

852
00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:50,280
What the hell happened? 
That was a return to Coco from 

853
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:52,000
two years ago when she couldn't 
get a servant. 

854
00:45:52,240 --> 00:45:55,480
And like this is the thing, like
if we kind of run a little 

855
00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:58,280
informal test and we look at our
brackets, none of us had Coco in

856
00:45:58,280 --> 00:46:00,240
there. 
And I think because we all have 

857
00:46:00,240 --> 00:46:04,400
scar tissue from these moments 
where like we, she feels a 

858
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:05,800
little bit like a ticking time 
bomb. 

859
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:08,600
It's like we all love Coco. 
We all think she's incredibly 

860
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:10,120
talented. 
She's proven herself time and 

861
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:12,800
time again. 
But it's like I in the back of 

862
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:14,720
my mind, I don't know which 
Coco's going to show up. 

863
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:17,000
And it's starting to feel like 
you can say this about a lot of 

864
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:20,080
players now, which is kind of 
concerning because it didn't 

865
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:22,720
feel like it used to be like 
that, no. 

866
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:26,280
No, I was locked in for Anna 
Sumova to really make it to the 

867
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:27,360
finals. 
Yeah, me too. 

868
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:29,440
I I picked Anna Sumova over 
Sabalenko. 

869
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:31,240
Like I just thought she had the 
momentum. 

870
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:37,000
Her, I mean, her mindset during 
that match against Pagula, she 

871
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:39,840
would win a point and be looking
like she was in tears. 

872
00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:42,120
I mean, I don't know what 
exactly was going on. 

873
00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:45,120
Yeah, it's birds. 
Some memes that I'm seeing 

874
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:48,160
still, like, yeah, have heavily 
used on Twitter. 

875
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:51,640
It's just that, yeah, the crying
face, like it was, it was bleak.

876
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:54,320
Yeah, it was, it was, it was, it
was rough. 

877
00:46:55,320 --> 00:47:00,120
Even though a lot of these 
Americans kind of crapped out in

878
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:01,560
the match that ultimately took 
them out. 

879
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:04,720
It was a great showing. 
You know, American Pie was 

880
00:47:04,720 --> 00:47:09,560
strong down in in Australia. 
We had four girls and two boys 

881
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:12,080
in the quarters. 
I just got to give a quick shout

882
00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:15,200
out to Lerner Tien. 
That boy is top tier. 

883
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:18,040
He just destroyed Medvedev in 
that fourth round. 

884
00:47:18,240 --> 00:47:20,600
Medvedev had no answers. 
He was like, I don't even know 

885
00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:21,800
what to do. 
It was like they were playing 

886
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:24,880
different sports. 
And I was like, maybe, maybe 

887
00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:31,120
Lerner TN is gonna be a top 10 
rival for Senator Alcaraz. 

888
00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:32,320
I mean, he's got to work on that
serve. 

889
00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:37,680
But otherwise, I, I'm, I'm, I'm 
excited to see what he does this

890
00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:41,320
year 'cause once he gets that 
serve, because as we've seen 

891
00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:44,600
with Novak and Carlos, like they
were tweaking their serves, like

892
00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:47,960
the serve continues to grow. 
So yeah, I think he can get 

893
00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:50,960
there, yeah. 
I think he has that intangible 

894
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:54,240
quality that like and Andreva 
has. 

895
00:47:54,240 --> 00:47:57,400
It's not that they have the 
strongest game and the most 

896
00:47:57,400 --> 00:48:01,240
powerful shots, but they've got 
they've got greatness in them 

897
00:48:01,240 --> 00:48:03,600
and they and they win the 
matches that they need to win to

898
00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:05,560
to get to the top. 
I mean, ultimately you're only 

899
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:06,600
going to get there if you're 
winning. 

900
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:09,040
Yeah, I think he is that next 
gener. 

901
00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:11,560
I mean, everyone was kind of 
talking about Joel Fonseca, who 

902
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:14,680
really just looked terrible at 
on his first round. 

903
00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:17,720
But I think he's just a little 
out of shape because he has been

904
00:48:17,720 --> 00:48:18,760
playing because he's been 
injured. 

905
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:20,560
But everyone was talking about 
him over Lerner. 

906
00:48:20,560 --> 00:48:23,680
But I think Lerner has got he's 
got room to grow. 

907
00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:26,880
I think he's definitely going to
be top 15 by the French Open. 

908
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:30,960
And then and then we'll see. 
Also a big shout out to Ivyovic,

909
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:34,520
the 18 year old mixed to the 
quarters again, not a great 

910
00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:38,960
performance against Sabalinka, 
not not the worst, but but just 

911
00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:41,240
her making the quarters 
fantastic. 

912
00:48:41,240 --> 00:48:44,440
I'm excited about her game. 
I think she's going to kind of 

913
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:46,440
round into something that's 
going to be interesting to 

914
00:48:46,440 --> 00:48:49,080
watch. 
And there were some, there were 

915
00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:50,360
some. 
They didn't go deep, but there 

916
00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:52,880
were some good breakthroughs on 
the men's side of players that 

917
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:54,400
feel like I've been loading for 
a while. 

918
00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:57,240
Like, Ethan Quinn had a great 
tournament. 

919
00:48:58,280 --> 00:48:58,960
Ethan. 
Yeah. 

920
00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:02,800
And and, you know, after he lost
the credit card roulette at the 

921
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:04,520
American dinner, it's like you 
almost. 

922
00:49:04,720 --> 00:49:07,920
I love that narrative of like, 
he was thinking like, my check's

923
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:09,960
going to bounce if I don't win 
these these matches. 

924
00:49:10,280 --> 00:49:12,440
Yeah, So anyone who doesn't 
know, like all the American men 

925
00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:15,160
went out to dinner and they they
paid for it by playing credit 

926
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:17,360
card roulette. 
And it's like Tommy Paul, Ben 

927
00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:20,400
Shelton, all these people who've
made millions and Ethan Quinn's 

928
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:23,400
card gets picked and he's like, 
he's just making a face. 

929
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:26,040
And then, but then he goes on to
get third round money which I 

930
00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:27,520
think is like a quarter 
$1,000,000. 

931
00:49:27,520 --> 00:49:29,000
Yeah, it's like it's a healthy 
check. 

932
00:49:29,120 --> 00:49:32,720
And then and then I thought 
Spiziri actually did great. 

933
00:49:32,720 --> 00:49:36,360
Like he was really fun to watch 
in that center match and 

934
00:49:36,720 --> 00:49:40,760
couldn't quite close it out, but
like his shot making was great. 

935
00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:43,320
Like I was really invested in 
that match and he had a really 

936
00:49:43,320 --> 00:49:46,400
great attitude, you know, in the
presser afterwards. 

937
00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:49,840
He wasn't, he was not a bitter 
Betty about what happened with 

938
00:49:49,840 --> 00:49:53,600
the the closing and all that. 
Yeah, well, the last shout out 

939
00:49:53,640 --> 00:49:56,400
and I've got to end on this 
because it's just Stan the man. 

940
00:49:56,880 --> 00:49:59,280
He was the highlight of the 
entire tournament for me. 

941
00:49:59,280 --> 00:50:02,800
Lavrinka, this is his last year.
We talked about him on the last 

942
00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:05,080
show and it's not just a goodbye
tour. 

943
00:50:05,360 --> 00:50:07,280
He wants to play, he wants to 
win. 

944
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:11,760
He becomes the first player over
40 to reach the third round at a

945
00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:15,400
major since Ken Rosewal at the 
1978 Australian Open. 

946
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:19,440
He now has the record for the 
number of five set matches at 

947
00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:23,480
Grand Slams with 49. 
And my favorite match of the 

948
00:50:23,480 --> 00:50:26,360
tournament on the men's side was
his match against Ghia. 

949
00:50:26,640 --> 00:50:27,720
I don't know if I'm saying his 
name right. 

950
00:50:27,720 --> 00:50:32,400
It's Gea, Gaia, Ghia, whatever. 
French guy, super cutie, great 

951
00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:36,320
match, really entertaining. 
And I will also say this, and I 

952
00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:40,040
know it's probably just going to
sound very objectifying, but I'm

953
00:50:40,040 --> 00:50:42,040
going to objectify him. 
He's never looked better. 

954
00:50:42,360 --> 00:50:46,360
His hair, he was doing this 
floppy, flippy, floppy thing the

955
00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:48,560
whole time. 
It was a really great styling. 

956
00:50:48,560 --> 00:50:51,600
His skin looked great. 
He looked a little fitter, like 

957
00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:54,600
I look. 
He's he's making his debut on 

958
00:50:54,600 --> 00:51:00,240
the Bay TP this week, so yeah. 
He tapped into something like 

959
00:51:00,240 --> 00:51:02,760
during this tournament, if there
is a higher power, they like 

960
00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:04,280
threw a little extra something 
his way. 

961
00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:07,520
He had a glow about him. 
Yeah, he was having the best 

962
00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:10,280
time and he like drank the beer 
with the fans. 

963
00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:14,080
Yeah, he acquitted himself so 
well in his last Australian Open

964
00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:17,120
ever. 
But again, it's like not to just

965
00:51:17,120 --> 00:51:21,000
be a broken record, but that's 
why the first 3 rounds of this 

966
00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:24,240
tournament were like so fun to 
watch because like the of the 

967
00:51:24,240 --> 00:51:29,440
narratives like this and then it
all just like imploded when the 

968
00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:33,080
stands and the belindas and like
all the young upstarts, like 

969
00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:36,080
they all got knocked out and it 
just all reverted to the mean. 

970
00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:37,800
Like I just found myself not 
caring. 

971
00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:40,720
It's like I need an underdog to 
root for. 

972
00:51:40,960 --> 00:51:42,960
And it's like where, where where
are they? 

973
00:51:42,960 --> 00:51:46,200
Where did they go? 
I need either an underdog, I, I,

974
00:51:46,280 --> 00:51:48,360
I will always root for the 
underdog, absolutely. 

975
00:51:48,360 --> 00:51:52,200
But I, I need that and or I need
a battle. 2 Titans, yeah, I need

976
00:51:52,200 --> 00:51:53,920
a battle. 
And the problem was these 

977
00:51:53,920 --> 00:51:57,320
battles sucked and it was like, 
wait, you're supposed to be 

978
00:51:57,320 --> 00:51:59,600
pretty even like this is It was 
embarrassing. 

979
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:01,360
A battle. 
A Battle of the Bastards, to 

980
00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:04,040
quote Game of Thrones. 
Bastards. 

981
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:07,000
So that's pretty much the 
Australian Open overall. 

982
00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:10,640
I did talk about the bait TP 
briefly, and Stan is making his 

983
00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:12,720
debut. 
We've got a new Bait TP 

984
00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:15,640
reflecting the performances at 
the Australian Open. 

985
00:52:15,880 --> 00:52:18,800
Again, it's not just who's hot, 
it's who's hot, who had an 

986
00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:21,680
impact, who did something fun, 
who was kind of sexy. 

987
00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:27,520
And go check out our Instagram 
to see the full list of the new 

988
00:52:27,520 --> 00:52:30,880
Bay TP. 
And our Instagram is at TBB 

989
00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:33,680
Tennis. 
That's at TBB Tennis. 

990
00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:36,400
Go see see the boys and tell us 
who we missed. 

991
00:52:38,360 --> 00:52:43,640
Oh, did you see what time the 
matches ended on Friday night? 

992
00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:48,640
No, because it was, I mean it 
was late. 

993
00:52:48,640 --> 00:52:51,840
Was it like Australian time or 
are you talking about US time? 

994
00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:57,720
No, it's time for cross court. 
Oh God damn it, you always get 

995
00:52:57,720 --> 00:53:01,200
me I. 
Always get that's right. 

996
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:03,920
Ladies and gentlemen, we're 
going to finish the show with 

997
00:53:03,920 --> 00:53:08,200
cross court where the ball boys 
are the line judge and jury of 

998
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:12,400
tennis crimes. 
And we are only one month into 

999
00:53:12,400 --> 00:53:15,800
the new season in 2026 and the 
court docket is already filling 

1000
00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:19,280
up. 
So it is time to try our latest 

1001
00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:23,120
case. 
Today we've got the case of Did 

1002
00:53:23,120 --> 00:53:26,480
you see that? 
In what seemed to come as a 

1003
00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:29,520
surprise to literally everyone 
at the beginning of the 

1004
00:53:29,520 --> 00:53:33,760
Australian Open, People who are 
already paying for ESPN and ESPN

1005
00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:38,000
plus an ESPN select an ESPN. 
I don't even know anymore. 

1006
00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:42,960
They were agreed with her ugly, 
expensive, bratty, bloated 

1007
00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:47,120
sister. 
ESPN Unlimited, where for a mere

1008
00:53:47,120 --> 00:53:50,920
$30.00 a month you can see many,
but not all of the matches at 

1009
00:53:50,920 --> 00:53:53,600
the Australian Open. 
And for anyone who has things 

1010
00:53:53,600 --> 00:53:57,520
like YouTube, TVESPN would often
choose to finish airing a 

1011
00:53:57,520 --> 00:54:00,160
college basketball game instead 
of showing the women's 

1012
00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:03,520
quarterfinals. 
So tuning in for the Australian 

1013
00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:07,320
Open was harder than ever this 
year, more expensive than ever 

1014
00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:10,400
this year. 
It was a complete money grab. 

1015
00:54:10,600 --> 00:54:15,080
It made very little sense to 
people and I think that it came 

1016
00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:18,560
really out of nowhere. 
It was a surprise to everybody. 

1017
00:54:18,960 --> 00:54:22,720
And so in our cases, did you see
that? 

1018
00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:29,520
But folks, ESPN is not who is on
trial today, good people of the 

1019
00:54:29,520 --> 00:54:32,840
cross court and a shocking 
twist. 

1020
00:54:33,240 --> 00:54:38,080
It is I who will be standing 
trial because I decided to use 

1021
00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:40,800
AVPN to watch the Australian 
Open. 

1022
00:54:41,680 --> 00:54:43,480
Well, I did once I figured it 
out. 

1023
00:54:43,480 --> 00:54:47,600
It did not stand for Visible 
Penis 9 and I can tell you it 

1024
00:54:47,600 --> 00:54:51,800
was delightful. 
This VPNI set it up super easy 

1025
00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:55,320
and then I streamed all the 
matches from the local coverage 

1026
00:54:55,320 --> 00:54:58,040
in Australia. 
So not only was it free, not 

1027
00:54:58,040 --> 00:55:01,160
only did I get to see the 
matches I wanted to see, I also 

1028
00:55:01,160 --> 00:55:05,880
got the charming Australian 
commentators and their fun local

1029
00:55:05,880 --> 00:55:10,400
segments on Tim Tams instead of 
hearing John McEnroe pronounce 

1030
00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:13,560
Vera with three syllables for 
five hours straight. 

1031
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:20,200
So my question to you, to the 
good and just court, am I guilty

1032
00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:25,280
of anything for usurping ESPN 
and going with the VPN of the 

1033
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:28,520
VPLS? 
Or am I just a baddie for doing 

1034
00:55:28,520 --> 00:55:30,400
what I got to do to see what I 
got to see? 

1035
00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:34,600
A girl's got to eat. 
A girl's got to eat. 

1036
00:55:35,320 --> 00:55:38,280
I mean, listen, Paul, I was 
personally victimized by ESPN 

1037
00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:41,160
and like it's as bad as 
everybody was saying, but like 

1038
00:55:41,160 --> 00:55:46,320
for me it was worse because I'm 
not a member of ESPN anything 

1039
00:55:46,320 --> 00:55:49,200
year round. 
I I reserve it for slams, but I 

1040
00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:52,040
went and did what I always do, 
which is sign up for ESPN plus, 

1041
00:55:52,400 --> 00:55:55,360
which suddenly was ESPN select 
and that was confusing, But I 

1042
00:55:55,360 --> 00:55:59,400
was like, I paid the money for 
that, which was I for I mean 15 

1043
00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:01,320
bucks or whatever, but I was 
like, OK, I'm set. 

1044
00:56:01,440 --> 00:56:04,160
But like then I went to go in 
and watch and I couldn't watch 

1045
00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:06,160
it. 
I was like, what is going? 

1046
00:56:06,240 --> 00:56:08,960
What is going on? 
And so it's like after the fact,

1047
00:56:09,160 --> 00:56:13,560
the fact that like I had no 
notification that that this was 

1048
00:56:13,560 --> 00:56:17,160
going to be this big disruption.
I'd already paid the money on 

1049
00:56:17,160 --> 00:56:19,440
the thing that wasn't even going
to get me what I needed to get. 

1050
00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:22,840
I didn't had to go back and 
double dip, but it was like 

1051
00:56:22,840 --> 00:56:28,280
super confusing because I had I 
had to like remove my HBO Max 

1052
00:56:28,280 --> 00:56:31,960
subscription from my Disney 
bundle and add in ESPN. 

1053
00:56:31,960 --> 00:56:37,040
It was a cluster fuck. 
And then this is like a nuance I

1054
00:56:37,040 --> 00:56:39,560
don't even know if a lot of 
people realize, at least at the 

1055
00:56:39,560 --> 00:56:43,040
beginning of the tournament, 
they kept the stadium court 

1056
00:56:43,040 --> 00:56:45,920
matches separate from the other 
ones. 

1057
00:56:45,920 --> 00:56:48,320
So it's like they weren't all 
together in the navigation. 

1058
00:56:48,520 --> 00:56:51,440
I couldn't go to just click. 
When I click the Australian Open

1059
00:56:51,440 --> 00:56:53,080
button, it didn't pull up all 
the matches. 

1060
00:56:53,080 --> 00:56:55,920
It only pulled up at like I 
think the side court matches. 

1061
00:56:56,240 --> 00:56:58,720
And then if I wanted to do a 
multi view, I couldn't put them 

1062
00:56:58,720 --> 00:57:00,160
in. 
I couldn't put the matches I 

1063
00:57:00,160 --> 00:57:03,040
wanted in the multi view. 
So all that being said, I feel 

1064
00:57:03,040 --> 00:57:09,000
like you are not guilty by 
reason of the egregious 

1065
00:57:09,040 --> 00:57:11,320
violation. 
Yeah, exactly. 

1066
00:57:11,400 --> 00:57:14,360
Not guilty by reason of common 
sense of being like, I don't 

1067
00:57:14,360 --> 00:57:17,360
think so, honey, I'm not going 
to go through that nonsense. 

1068
00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:22,400
I am done with these God damn 
corporations just trying to 

1069
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:26,680
squeeze the scent out of their 
customers in every which way 

1070
00:57:26,680 --> 00:57:28,480
ever. 
It's it's just another example 

1071
00:57:28,480 --> 00:57:32,160
of inshitification. 
And it's like, no, technology is

1072
00:57:32,160 --> 00:57:35,200
let's make our lives easier. 
And now it's like I I still 

1073
00:57:35,200 --> 00:57:39,360
couldn't tell you the rules for 
whatever the heck, unlimited 

1074
00:57:39,360 --> 00:57:42,120
versus select versus what? 
It doesn't make any sense. 

1075
00:57:42,680 --> 00:57:46,400
You cast your protest vote with 
AVPN, which honestly, thank God,

1076
00:57:46,400 --> 00:57:50,520
because I know that there was a 
lot of chatter and a lot of, you

1077
00:57:50,520 --> 00:57:53,960
know, a lot of, you know, angry 
mob chanting, you know, death to

1078
00:57:53,960 --> 00:57:56,880
all of them to ESPN. 
But the problem is they got a 

1079
00:57:56,880 --> 00:57:59,360
boatload of money this year. 
So if they're just going to go 

1080
00:57:59,360 --> 00:58:02,000
by what was profitable, this is 
probably they probably did 

1081
00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:04,160
gangbusters. 
It's like we're all miserable. 

1082
00:58:04,160 --> 00:58:06,040
But they probably were raking in
the the dough. 

1083
00:58:06,280 --> 00:58:08,600
Exactly. 
Some dingus over at McKenzie 

1084
00:58:08,600 --> 00:58:10,400
probably got a raise because 
they were the ones who were like

1085
00:58:10,400 --> 00:58:12,440
let's do this. 
It's the same as the goddamn 

1086
00:58:12,440 --> 00:58:15,520
opening week, which they had 
hundreds of thousands of people 

1087
00:58:15,520 --> 00:58:18,560
in record-breaking crowds, but 
the crowds were miserable 

1088
00:58:18,560 --> 00:58:21,280
because the lines were so long, 
because they weren't prepared 

1089
00:58:21,280 --> 00:58:23,680
for such a rush. 
It's like, yes, you made money, 

1090
00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:26,920
so you can call that a success, 
but it was a terrible 

1091
00:58:26,920 --> 00:58:30,160
experience. 
So OK, so I have been, I am not 

1092
00:58:30,160 --> 00:58:32,080
being punished. 
I think I'm actually going to be

1093
00:58:32,080 --> 00:58:37,840
rewarded. 
Well, my, my bravery and my, my 

1094
00:58:37,840 --> 00:58:42,880
willingness to fight the good 
fight because there is a prize 

1095
00:58:42,880 --> 00:58:45,560
at the end of this episode. 
And. 

1096
00:58:45,800 --> 00:58:49,480
If you can call it that. 
Yes, So some of us are excited 

1097
00:58:49,480 --> 00:58:51,120
about this prize. 
Some of us are not. 

1098
00:58:51,880 --> 00:58:54,520
Some of us are babies who have 
Italian stomachs. 

1099
00:58:54,520 --> 00:58:59,040
But So for the quarterfinal 
match between just Pagula and 

1100
00:58:59,040 --> 00:59:03,560
Madison Keys, they had a bet. 
And if Pagula won, she's going 

1101
00:59:03,560 --> 00:59:08,320
to have Madison Keys eat apple 
pie with cheddar cheese melted 

1102
00:59:08,320 --> 00:59:11,440
on it. 
And Madison Keys was so 

1103
00:59:12,360 --> 00:59:16,400
disgusted by this notion of a 
punishment that she could not 

1104
00:59:16,400 --> 00:59:17,560
even stand it. 
I don't know if she ever 

1105
00:59:17,560 --> 00:59:21,240
actually ate it. 
We'll have to tune in, but I 

1106
00:59:21,240 --> 00:59:25,200
just so happen to have some 
right here in my happy home of 

1107
00:59:25,200 --> 00:59:28,680
Ball Boys headquarters. 
And everybody, please later on 

1108
00:59:28,680 --> 00:59:33,240
tune into our Splinter episode, 
which is Paul's apple pie ASMR 

1109
00:59:33,240 --> 00:59:36,360
content, which is going to be a 
1010 minute long video of him 

1110
00:59:36,360 --> 00:59:40,160
eating cheesy apple pie, just 
leaning it, leaning in really 

1111
00:59:40,160 --> 00:59:42,000
close to that microphone so we 
get every chew. 

1112
00:59:42,400 --> 00:59:46,880
Yeah, so I just took out of my 
Easy Bake Oven a slice of apple 

1113
00:59:46,880 --> 00:59:50,720
pie that I bought yesterday and 
some orange cheddar because it 

1114
00:59:50,720 --> 00:59:52,720
has to be orange, just, Pagula 
says. 

1115
00:59:53,360 --> 01:00:00,040
And I am going to try it live on
camera on tape for everyone here

1116
01:00:00,120 --> 01:00:02,200
because I actually think it 
sounds great because I mean 

1117
01:00:02,200 --> 01:00:05,120
cheese and apples, sweet, 
savory, I mean it all. 

1118
01:00:05,200 --> 01:00:08,880
It takes a lot of boxes for me. 
Also might be why I'm single. 

1119
01:00:09,240 --> 01:00:11,920
But here we go. 
Here's the first big bite. 

1120
01:00:14,440 --> 01:00:21,280
I'm sorry, not so good. 
There is a little crunch of the 

1121
01:00:21,280 --> 01:00:24,680
cheese that I've left it in the 
oven a little long, but it's 

1122
01:00:24,760 --> 01:00:26,880
it's so good. 
Come on, you've had a, you've 

1123
01:00:26,880 --> 01:00:29,400
had a fruit and cheese plate. 
What's that? 

1124
01:00:29,400 --> 01:00:31,200
I'm laughing. 
I'm laughing at your like food 

1125
01:00:31,200 --> 01:00:36,120
influencer reaction. 
Oh Oh my gosh, guys, that is so 

1126
01:00:36,120 --> 01:00:36,560
good. 
You. 

1127
01:00:37,240 --> 01:00:38,000
How? 
Really. 

1128
01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:41,480
You tasted it. 
Well done, well done. 

1129
01:00:42,240 --> 01:00:46,160
Listen, I, I, I get the vision, 
Paul is not wrong that I'm 

1130
01:00:46,160 --> 01:00:49,080
having like a little bit of a, 
of a, a weak stomach moment. 

1131
01:00:49,080 --> 01:00:50,720
Otherwise I would have partaken 
in this. 

1132
01:00:51,320 --> 01:00:53,640
OK, we're going to finish the 
episode before I keep eating 

1133
01:00:53,640 --> 01:00:56,600
this, but it is fucking good. 
I'm going to go finish my pie 

1134
01:00:56,600 --> 01:01:00,400
and that is a euphemism because 
that's our show. 

1135
01:01:00,880 --> 01:01:03,120
Matthew Coleman. 
I loved our vacation to 

1136
01:01:03,120 --> 01:01:05,760
Australia together. 
It was so fun. 

1137
01:01:06,440 --> 01:01:08,880
I'm not going to lock you back 
up until later in the clay 

1138
01:01:08,880 --> 01:01:10,600
season. 
It's only for your own 

1139
01:01:10,600 --> 01:01:13,560
protection. 
Any final words to your fans? 

1140
01:01:15,320 --> 01:01:16,800
No. 
I think it's probably a good 

1141
01:01:16,800 --> 01:01:19,880
idea that I'm being back in the 
cage for a little while because 

1142
01:01:19,880 --> 01:01:22,760
we're about to enter the the 
Middle Eastern swing and I don't

1143
01:01:22,760 --> 01:01:24,080
want, I don't want to be 
arrested, no. 

1144
01:01:25,360 --> 01:01:27,440
Not again. 
Not again, I don't. 

1145
01:01:27,440 --> 01:01:29,360
Want to I don't want to say 
something that puts me on any 

1146
01:01:29,360 --> 01:01:32,960
like Qatari watch list so. 
Not again. 

1147
01:01:34,320 --> 01:01:37,520
I'm gonna, I'm gonna miss you. 
I'm very excited for our 

1148
01:01:37,520 --> 01:01:40,360
listening audience for whoever 
the next ball boy or ball boy 

1149
01:01:40,360 --> 01:01:42,800
girl is going to be when they 
rotate in. 

1150
01:01:42,800 --> 01:01:45,800
But I will be back. 
But you'll be back, and we are 

1151
01:01:45,800 --> 01:01:48,320
going to be back in a few weeks,
as Matthew said, with a new 

1152
01:01:48,320 --> 01:01:51,160
show, a new ball boy, as the 
tours start scattering all 

1153
01:01:51,160 --> 01:01:54,480
around the globe. 
Until then, our balls are going 

1154
01:01:54,480 --> 01:01:56,920
back in the can. 
I love you all. 

1155
01:01:57,240 --> 01:01:57,840
Goodbye.