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S12 Ep 599: Joe’s Tennis Court Opening

22 Apr 2025

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Chapter 1: What inspired Joe to host the tennis court opening?

37.375 - 37.816 Unknown

Morning.

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37.856 - 38.457 Joe Wilkinson

Good morning.

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39.319 - 39.86 Unknown

How are you?

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40.541 - 66.131 Joe Wilkinson

Yeah, I'm alright. How are you? Yeah, I'm alright. Yeah. Not bad. Yeah. Not bad at all. Can I ask a question? Do you get sun streaming into your office every now and then? Maybe. Thank you. Why? Why am I... No, no, no. It's nothing to do with you. I'm at the back of the... It's, like, really sunny here. Oh, you don't get it?

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66.171 - 70.817 Joe Wilkinson

No, past the... Like, just through that door, the house is bathed in sunlight, and I'm in it.

70.837 - 82.131 Unknown

Oh, right. Yeah, I mean, it is. Yeah, it's nice. Fucking really annoys me. Look at this. Are you saying that? Oh, no.

82.651 - 104.984 Joe Wilkinson

Yeah, I can see the sun. This. Oh, yeah, that's streaming it. Is it frosted? No. What? As in? Frosted. Massive tidy up. Doesn't look tidy, though. What? There's nothing there. There's bits of rope in the corner. What's that? What are you talking about? That? Yeah, that rope. That's just charging my car.

Chapter 2: How did Joe feel about using big comedy scissors?

105.004 - 108.849 Joe Wilkinson

I just did it. Charging your car? You've got an electric car? Yeah.

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109.567 - 116.294 Joe Wilkinson

I didn't know that. Well, it's because you don't listen. You've never told me you have an electric car. Yeah, I have. No, you haven't.

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118.116 - 124.583 Unknown

Yes, I have. Have you? Yeah, F495. Nine mins in.

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127.226 - 139.778 Joe Wilkinson

Nine? I've lost over it, but... I know you had a Volt... What do you call it? What's the safe car? Volvo. Volvo. You've got a Volvo. Fucking love it. Feel safe in it, don't you?

140.88 - 141.741 Unknown

It's just a good car.

143.123 - 144.185 Joe Wilkinson

Do you feel safe in it?

144.205 - 145.207 Unknown

Yeah, it's a safe car.

146.369 - 158.949 Joe Wilkinson

There we go. Sounds right. You feel safe in it. Yeah, I do feel safe in it. There you go. It's a safe car.

Chapter 3: What challenges did Joe face during the event?

192.491 - 211.556 Joe Wilkinson

Because Petra's ill. Oh, no. And I hope she doesn't mind me saying, but I walked in, she's been ill. She had the thing I had, and now she's... Right, shall I say this? I said to her this morning, you didn't think I was as ill as I was making out, did you? And she went, no, I didn't.

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211.636 - 215.461 Unknown

Just what she needed, right in the heart of it.

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215.842 - 225.336 Joe Wilkinson

Just what she needed. As I said, she was so tired and so she went, no. I was like, why did I say that? Why am I selling you? So unlikable.

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226.017 - 265.836 Unknown

Similar to the, quite similar to the electric car business about a minute ago. Well, unlikable. No, as in, I don't mind saying my car's safe. You do. Horrible, mate. See, I know. All right, mate. Good Monday morning. You agreed I was horrible quick. You're over your cold then? 99%, 95%. Lovely. Yeah. And now he's throwing his weight around, bringing the police.

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267.941 - 274.496 Joe Wilkinson

Having a go at his ill wife. Fucking what's what? Look, can hear her coughing. She's not good.

275.297 - 286.098 Unknown

Oh, I hate it. My sister's right in the middle of it. I hate it. It's when you're not in it, you're like, yeah, I was giving it the big one. Text my sister, go, it'll be a vague memory soon. It's all cool.

287 - 321.587 Joe Wilkinson

Which doesn't need pointing out is unlikable. just if anyone were talking we're just if we're on that route of who's likeable you ain't left it yeah why do you go i've no It's not an odd thing to say, be a distant memory, because you did that to me. Where's that come from? Distant memory? Where you went, ah, sort of talking about not, did you? I don't know what made that up.

321.607 - 323.569 Joe Wilkinson

No, I think it's very comforting for the person involved.

Chapter 4: How did Joe's back injury affect his experience?

324.429 - 329.895 Joe Wilkinson

Very comforting. I was asking where you got that angle on colds. Life experience.

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330.255 - 347.173 Unknown

A deep, rich life experience. Just a life experience. I bet you use it and then feel bad and never use it again. No, I'm not using that.

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348.616 - 357.953 Joe Wilkinson

Well, that's what you would say, isn't it? No, I can guarantee I'll pay you £1,000. Why? What's wrong with saying it'd be a distant memory? It's just not something I'd say.

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358.979 - 361.002 Unknown

Doesn't mean that's right, right or wrong.

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361.103 - 365.47 Joe Wilkinson

No, I'm not saying that. You said you'll say it and I said no. It's something I wouldn't say.

365.49 - 367.013 Unknown

Fucking hell.

367.033 - 367.934 Joe Wilkinson

I came to this.

368.716 - 388.929 Unknown

I showed you my office. I had a big clear out. You said it looks a fucking state. Well, no, I just saw stuff on the floor. Well, it's only my charger. There's my exercise ball. That's it. My guitars are up on their stands. It does look nice. Well, it looks better. Very nice too. Yeah. You should have seen it yesterday morning.

390.112 - 401.122 Joe Wilkinson

How long did it take you to... Well, we got the shed up, so we loaded all the stuff from here into the shed. Did you put the stuff in the shed well? Was it like easy or everything accessible?

Chapter 5: What was the atmosphere like at the tennis court opening?

467.862 - 487.268 Joe Wilkinson

No, that was just saying, caveating, this is nothing against anyone, this is only what was going on in my head we're talking about. I had to do that tennis opening thing, opening the tennis court. And... Wonderful. When was this? Friday night? Friday night. And then on Sunday morning, I had to start the Brighton half marathon.

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488.109 - 494.338 Unknown

Okay. Bloody hell. So almost like a dress rehearsal on Friday night.

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495.139 - 527.393 Joe Wilkinson

Yeah. It just fell on the same weekend and it was... Yeah, well. Well, tell us all about it. Well, Friday afternoon, came around very quickly. No, say probably Wednesday, Petra was like, oh, obviously we've got that tennis thing on Friday. I was like, that Friday? Yeah, yeah, cool. Shit, shit. So-and-so said, if we can get there, maybe six. I pushed back on them.

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527.413 - 530.959 Joe Wilkinson

They said, doing a couple of jokes, I pushed back on that. I was like, what?

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531.319 - 536.247 Unknown

Hang on. So what is it? Is it a tennis club opening or like a refurbishment or something?

536.327 - 543.478 Joe Wilkinson

So basically, it's like public courts up here. They've had floodlights put in. Petra plays up there regularly.

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Great.

544.52 - 553.026 Joe Wilkinson

The floodlights have been open for a few weeks, but they wanted to do an official opening the other day. I don't really play tennis very much.

554.591 - 558.563 Unknown

But Petra said... They didn't show off, so... Right, I'm out.

Chapter 6: How did Joe's perspective on community involvement change?

576.751 - 577.593 David

Come on, then.

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578.054 - 590.138 Joe Wilkinson

Up you go to the tennis course. Up you go in your best... Oh, fucking hell. Just out of interest. Do you want to hear what actually happened? Yeah, of course I do.

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590.158 - 597.493 Unknown

Of course I do. I want to hear what I want to hear, son. And I'm going to be force-fed your shite.

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597.473 - 609.819 Joe Wilkinson

I'll say, what I'll do, at any chance I'll get, I'll mention something like showing off or centre of attention or me or now it's my turn.

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609.839 - 614.048 Unknown

We're sure that you're uncomfortable about this whole thing because that's the core of it.

614.028 - 625.626 Joe Wilkinson

Yeah, but... Yeah. So it's... It's a tricky thing to talk about and I haven't got anywhere near the courts. Really tricky when the person who does it hates doing it.

625.647 - 648.152 Unknown

Yeah. But keeps doing it. That's the tricky... Tricky for me. Fucking eggshells. Right. I just have interest. If Petra's like, oh, I've got to open that. tennis uh club on friday and sort of cut the ribbon do would you be like how wow

649.077 - 667.92 Joe Wilkinson

But Petra, right, okay, so Petra, they said, oh, say she's like won a tournament or something. She's won the ladies tennis tournament. They said, oh, would you open the thing? She'd go, oh, just, you know, they've asked and I thought, oh, yeah, come on, let's go up there and we'll have to see everyone. It would just be a different vibe to do it.

667.94 - 697.417 Unknown

Yeah, what about if something to do with you, like the Park Run or maybe like Spotify podcasting HQ have asked Petra to come up It's not linked to it, just linked to it through you. I was just thinking, if Naomi did it, I think I'd stand there really proud. I'd go, look at her. She's lovely. How we got here, I would say, as well. How's Petra standing at the Spotify HQ of podcasting?

Chapter 7: What humorous moments occurred during the ceremony?

731.322 - 739.956 Joe Wilkinson

This is true. This is true. I had really badly hurt my back and I was struggling to walk. And I was trying to be pretty positive.

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740.277 - 743.061 Unknown

Sorry, but the next day you ran the half marathon?

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744.003 - 771.14 Joe Wilkinson

On Sunday, I ran the half marathon. Friday night, we played tennis at four, me and Petra and a couple of other people. And during that, about 10 minutes in, I pulled my back worse, basically. And I had to pull out. And it was just, it was quite painful. And I wasn't, I know you're going to say like it was psychosomatic or something, but it wasn't. That was where you were going.

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771.42 - 800.685 Joe Wilkinson

So you ran it on Sunday, did you? So that was where that, you were doing the maths to Sunday going, can't have been that bad, right? Right? Correct? Correct? Carry on. Answer me. Carry on, please. That's what you were doing, though, weren't you? Yes, yes, that's what I was doing.

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800.665 - 825.967 Joe Wilkinson

don't say it like you think you know you don't you do i do carry on yes that's what i was doing just answer so on the friday you went up with a bad back i had a gen you had a bad back and i was like and pictures like Okay, do you want me to say you can't do it? Like, I think, but also my attitude wasn't great.

826.408 - 831.496 Unknown

Yeah. So what was your main concern? Just being front and centre?

831.656 - 841.131 Joe Wilkinson

I was saying things like, I'm not, right, I'll tell you, can we go back a few, like, I went through a bit of a phase of going, do stuff for the community.

843.175 - 847.682 Unknown

I thought you were going to say fencing. I went through a bit of a phase where I said I was going to be a fencer.

847.662 - 864.203 Joe Wilkinson

It was around that time. And I was a bit like, come on, let's just do good for other people. You know, put yourself out there, help out. Stop talking about it, just do it. It was a bit of that. So come on, like, yeah, let's...

Chapter 8: What reflections did Joe have after the event?

906.992 - 917.514 Joe Wilkinson

It's just a bit like, oh. Oh, yeah. But at the time, I was like, no, do you know what? Help out. Do your bit. If that's how I can help, that's how I'll help. Yeah, that's where your skill is.

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918.857 - 920.941 Unknown

But no, that's your skill.

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921.542 - 929.256 Joe Wilkinson

No, I meant that as a positive, not a bollocks. That's your skill. Right, stop. Pause.

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930.586 - 956.577 Unknown

digging there what no no well you're used to standing up my point is you're used to standing you know what you did there and admit it well i'm only because only because you don't go well yeah i have done it a lot so that is what i can offer are you being like someone said to me that's your skill i'll go i don't think it is only if i go go into character well do that then

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957.62 - 966.954 Unknown

What, someone wants me, okay, if you want me to go into character, okay, everyone happy with that? I won't be doing any jokes. Everyone cool? Yeah, we just want you there. Great.

966.974 - 1003.469 Joe Wilkinson

Okay, cool. Such a load of bullshit. Well, I would have just said no. Well, I told you, the phase I was going through, I was having two or three days of going out. Yeah, I know, it's fucking unbearable. We had to sit through it. But I can't remember what phase it was. No, it was phase six. Six of 20. Third. But I remember so clearly going, do you know what? No. I'm going to help out there.

1003.509 - 1007.195 Joe Wilkinson

I'm going to help out there. I'm going to be more proactive there.

1007.535 - 1007.816 Unknown

Yeah.

1008.096 - 1016.348 Joe Wilkinson

I felt like, yeah, this is what, I don't know, what I'd just seen someone else do or something. I don't know. Yeah, where'd this come from? I don't know.

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