Australian Open with Aunty Donna

The **Australian Open with Aunty Donna** was a livestream on 28 January 2022 at 3pm in which Aunty Donna watched the Australian Open match between Rafael Nadal and Matteo Berrettini. It was done to promote Aunty Donna: The Magical Dead Cat Tour. The video can be found via Patreon.

## Events

Upon beginning the commentary, the commentators spoke of gladitorial combat, the audio only coming through people's left ears and the song *I Can't Hear out of My Left Ear*, as well as those operating the stream behind the scenes.

When Rafael Nadal began to win against the Italian Berrettini, they gave him the nickname "Pizza Cutter." Mark proposed that Berrettini may have believed for a moment that he was in a doubles match like an aging person with dementia.

It became increasingly obvious that Zach did not know how Tennis worked, and he thought the players had done 30 games each in an instant. Zach also commented that it was very clever that they could slow the ball down, and on the risk that the balls may hit the children on the edge of the court and lose them the game instantly. Zach began playing Clash Royale after a bit, and eventually recieved messages through the television from God that said he should set up a cult in South America. He also livestreamed on Instagram about Lord of the Rings.

They saw a man in a neon-lit hallway, who wore a mask. Zach believed this may be some kind of villain or serial killer who was there to kill the players. Further evidence of the serial killer would appear, including a woman who did not want to be filmed.

Mark spoke about how he would set up the livestream himself, and where exactly he would put the tennis match in the frame if they were allowed to stream it.

When Nadal won the first set, Mark searched "Spanish gets come on" on Google. They talked about NFTs and asked for some from the fans. They discussed the bue colour of the court, how it was against the rules to camoflauge in with it, and how they managed to get the glass to be blue.

   It was brought up by the crew behind the scenes that one of the materials used is carpet. This evidently being a joke, the commentary team riff on how tennis (let alone, a tennis tournament) may be able to be played on a "Carpet Court". The use of the term "Carpet Court" was seemingly recognised by many in the comment section of the stream as one of the leading Carpet manufacturers and sellers within Australia, but however, it became mistaken for "Carpet Call", another famous Australian carpet manufacturer and seller.

For those unfamiliar with both brands, Carpet Court and Carpet Call were known by regular FTA TV watchers in the early to late 2000's, with both brands having regular airings of their ads throughout the day. While both brands are quite insignificant to the general broader scope of life, the ads had become a part of the deeper understanding of Australian sub-culture, with Carpet Court's 2008 Jester ad, and the truly infamous and recognisable jingle of the Carpet Call ad. With both brands being so recognisable and yet so easily interchangeable, it was a prime breeding ground for the inevitable mix up that would occur.

With the riffing of a Carpet Court taking place, and the eagerness of many commenters to hop onto the riff with the mention of Carpet Call, the incident was able to take place with ease, as many commenters started to reference the infamous Carpet Call jingle but seemingly mistook it as Carpet Court, changing the jingle from its original "Call Call Carpet Call, experts in the trade" to the corrupted "Call Call Carpet Court". The AD commentary team's ability to read the comment section meant Mark Bannano was able to see the trend of people referencing the jingle, and bring the idea onto stream, uncriticised and fully legitimised.

The riff that then ensued seemed to fail when Broden asked Zach to bring up the "Carpet Court" jingle, in which to everyone's dismay, was found out to be the "Carpet Call" jingle, finally revealing that the jokes that had previously occurred were built on false premises, and that everyone involved was a bit of a shit-cunt.

They called Joe Kosky to ask him the different types of tennis court. Mark asked him what Carpet Court jingle was, and Kosky sang it before saying it was actually the Carpet Call jingle of his own volition. This led the group to believe that Joe was part of a government conspiracy (which may have also implicated the serial killer from earlier in the stream) to meddle with time and create a Carpet Court/Call Mandela Effect.

The trio browsed Lleyton and Bec Hewitt's website, and then clicked on Lleyton. Mark reccomended people do not do this as it was a camgirl site. They supposed Berrettini was playing mind games. After some debate over whether to end the livestream, they did so with a poem about tennis.