Tim Lopez

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179 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 7 Aug

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The Moth · Choose Your Own Theme: The Moth Radio Hour · 14 Jul 2026 podcast

And we were like, no.

And they promptly went out in the third set to a five games to zero lead.

Now, at that point, Evan and I were in total meltdown mode.

We were screaming at each other, we were hurling obscenities, often while the ball was in play.

After missed points or, you know, unforced errors, we would berate each other on our shortcomings as both tennis partners and as human beings.

And the whole thing was just kind of unraveling very rapidly.

And I think that they felt bad for us because they kind of took their feet off the gas a little bit, and it allowed us to kind of claw back into the game.

So, you know, we won one game, and then two, and then three, and then before you knew it, it was five to five.

And at that point, I know they weren't taking their foot off the gas anymore because I saw Lance look over to Paul, and he will deny this to this day, but he said, it's time to get down to business.

And they touched rackets, kind of like, yeah, let's do this.

But Evan and I were kind of dialed in and we kind of figured something out even though we weren't really conscious of it.

And at this point, the thing that had driven us apart, which was our respective refusal to back down, was actually pointed in the same direction.

So we ended up winning that set and staving off elimination seven to five.

Now in the pivotal fourth set, something magical started to happen.

Evan and I started to cooperate.

And so he was playing in the front and I was playing in the back, which is of course the way you're supposed to play doubles tennis.

But what was even more astonishing was what was happening between us personally.

We stopped communicating verbally.

We actually stopped talking.

And what we did was we started communicating more kinesthetically, more with gestures and facial expressions and body language.

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