Hi, this is Mayan Bartoli. I'm Matt's Belander. This is Mary Carillo. I'm Stan Roenka. I'm like New York. I'm Andy Murray. This is Yanik Noah.

Hi, this is Sarah from Philadelphia and you're listening to the tennis podcast.

Hello Sarah in Philadelphia. We actually think that we might already have used the intro of Sarah in Philadelphia and just accidentally failed to transfer it from the unused box to the used box in our filing system.

But we decided that it doesn't matter because our voice is so lovely if we are using it for a second time. Then it's just nice to hear from Sarah again who probably could probably could get quite a lot of work in the voiceover industry if she were ever so inclined.

Yeah, oh, that's brilliant. Great way to start episode 140 in the end of 2020.

Yes, we are one off the 150 mark that David has been aiming for pretty much ever since we recorded that emergency podcast the two day, the two podcast day back at the Australian open one of them recorded in the company of Leslie Bowery in garden square.

Oh, would a long time ago that feels it's been it's been a bumpy old time in the UK over the last couple of days.

We're affected. I'm sure you're affected. I thought so with you. It's going to be it's going to be a bumpy time for a while and will be will be doing podcasts throughout it.

Might be Matt. Yes, it's it's very nice to be talking to you both with somehow plunged to even lower depths.

But I guess I'm looking forward today to inhabiting some alternate universes on this podcast.

Yes, we're not just living in the past today. We're living in an alternate universe past because today and those day we're bringing you sliding doors tennis.

Which is kind of our very own concept, isn't it? Should we should we trademark this in some way? Can we patent it? Let's see if it's a success first, shall we?

And then and then we'll get on to the patent lawyers wouldn't wouldn't look when a pal try to submit to say about that.

I know that she owns the right to alternate alternate timelines.

Well, my favorite my favorite genre of fiction is counterfactual fiction. There's a book called Idol Wild, which imagines a world in the 90s where neither JFK nor Marilyn Monroe died in the 60s and it's sort of projecting into the future and imagining a world.

That is entirely different and it's called what happened. I'm not a spoiler for you all the listeners. I highly recommend anyway and it's called Idol Wild because of course Idol Wild. Does anybody know this?

Putting on the spot here. This is a great little bit of trivia. Idol Wild was the name of JFK airport before it became JFK airport.

That big is the book. How long would it take me to read? I don't know how fast to read it. You are David, but I would call it a medium sized book.

Right. Yeah. I take a long time to read books.

Okay. Well, it's worth the effort if you've got time in your hands in the middle of the night. You know.

As we did last week, shall I start off with David Whitaker's review of what we're about to do podcast rise. He says it's a really good idea.

Like I like counterfactual history. If Hitler had gone ahead with the invasion of Britain in 1940 and not bottled it, what if Lee Harvey Oswald had missed, etc.

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