Hi, this is Mary and Bartoli. I'm Matt's Belander. This is Mary Carillo. I'm Sunroenka. I'm like New York. I'm Andy Murray. This is Yannick Noah.

Hi, this is James Meredith from London, England, and you're listening to my favourite podcast. It's the Tannis podcast.

Well, hello and thank you to James Meredith there, who of whom we are the favourite podcast, lovely James. He was a backer in last year's Kickstarter. In fact, he backed at private podcast level.

He received a private tennis podcast with the three of us, the contents of which you'll never know about. He's also backed as this year. He's going to be a guest editor, which is sure to carry bags of fun. It's going very well.

We're going to be a guest editor, which is the understatement of the century. I don't know how to do this bit without sanding. Fantastic smug and bloaty because we are just completely overwhelmed. I know we say this every year, but we've sort of redefined overwhelmed in terms of our reaction this year. Our whole kind of reaction to to the Kickstarter, which launched less than 48 hours ago as we record this at 240 p.m. on Thursday.

He's been the equivalent to the way Matt was looking at the screen on day two of the Australian Open last year when there were more matches than have ever been played in the history of tennis in one day. And he was so excited, but he couldn't cope with it all in his poor little face was just just all too much.

And that's exactly the state that we've all been in for the past 46 hours and 40 minutes because as we come to you, we are 95% funded for 2021. And there's still 49 days of the Kickstarter to go during which we'll still be trying to persuade you to back us and take up the remaining categories and rewards that we have a very important thing to do.

We've got about 25 predictions slots available. We've got private podcast slots available, some guest edit or ships lots and lots of shout outs or named I sections as they're now being referred to and intros as well.

So if you'd like to have your name in our intro, like lovely James Maraudet today, then you can still do all of that. All of our mascot slots have gone David all sort of 400 of them that I engineered.

I mean, that was hilarious on Tuesday night when we launched this thing by the time we went to bed 39 out of the 40 weekly mascots had gone.

And then just just isn't about to put my pajamas and my night cap on.

40 is for hope that's a metaphor. Yeah, it is.

Yeah, they've all gone. The people love pets and tennis. I mean, I don't know why we bother with the tennis on this tennis podcast anymore. It's clear that the people, the people demand pets.

I got a light tennis. Yeah, it's all right. It's all right.

But honestly, I I'm struggling for the words really for what this support means to us. I mean, obviously primarily it means that we'll be able to carry on doing this and pouring all the energy and love that we have into it this year and even more.

But even on top of that, it just it's emotionally quite quite overwhelming the support that we've received not just financially, but the messages that have accompanied it.

They all mean something to us. So thank you so much. If you'd like to chip in or get one of the rewards categories, then please do every every penny that goes into that Kickstarter.

And even if it's beyond the target will be used wisely. I promise you that will be used to make this podcast as good as it can possibly be. So thank you.

And let's relive more of this horrible year. Also, people are people are a bit on backing us.

Now that you've given us your money, let's remind you of an awful year. It's been when we left you last time, we're just relived the Adria tour. What a time that was and briefly touched upon the ultimate tennis showdown, which was not ultimate, not tennis and certainly not a showdown.

So we pick up now with tennis relived and tennis relived for the Olympics, which should have been in Tokyo 2020.

This wasn't in our first slate of planned relived shows. And I said, oh, we should do an Olympics, Olympics relived show. And then suddenly we did six Olympic relived shows in the end.

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