1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,760 Speaker 1: This is the Fits In with Kate Richie podcast. 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:05,920 Speaker 2: The Australian Open, well underway and the as He's doing 3 00:00:05,960 --> 00:00:08,400 Speaker 2: pretty well. There's one person we love to talk to 4 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:10,559 Speaker 2: her this time of the year. Ash Barty's on the line. 5 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:13,800 Speaker 1: High Ash, how are you guys? Have you on? 6 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:16,600 Speaker 2: I ain't no party like an Ash Party party. 7 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:21,680 Speaker 3: You are busy because the Australian Open is on at 8 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:24,640 Speaker 3: the moment, the Ash Party Foundation as well. We need 9 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:27,639 Speaker 3: to talk about that. Something very close to your heart, Ash. 10 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:30,120 Speaker 2: And Ash something's very close to my heart. As Hamburgers. 11 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:33,239 Speaker 2: I have been a fan of the burger for a 12 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:35,720 Speaker 2: long long time. I love a burger and committed to 13 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:37,960 Speaker 2: the burger. So when I read that you hooked up 14 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:41,080 Speaker 2: with Grilled because they're making donations, I thought this is 15 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:42,160 Speaker 2: the perfect partnership. 16 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:44,960 Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, it's good fun and I think we had 17 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:47,280 Speaker 1: a little bit of fun creating the two options for 18 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:50,520 Speaker 1: the Barty Burger. And yeah, I mean by my nieces 19 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:54,200 Speaker 1: and nephews gave it the ticker Gary, my husband gave 20 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:56,560 Speaker 1: it the tick as well for he a He's a 21 00:00:56,560 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 1: bit of a burger. 22 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:01,000 Speaker 4: By Mad the Mighty Ash. 23 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:04,480 Speaker 5: Gary's a fiend, isn't he? With the burgers, Sash, Yeah. 24 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:06,320 Speaker 1: He is, and I mean he was pretty excited about 25 00:01:06,319 --> 00:01:08,760 Speaker 1: the vegimite may. I mean he loves it. On veggiemit 26 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:10,920 Speaker 1: just about anything is as bick as it can come, 27 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:15,400 Speaker 1: even the ashes. He just decided to get a dying 28 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:18,840 Speaker 1: veggiemight and went to town. So bit strange for me. 29 00:01:19,319 --> 00:01:22,200 Speaker 3: What about Hayden's only six months? But can Hayden have 30 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:23,320 Speaker 3: a crack at the Bardi Burger? 31 00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 1: He can't. He can't have the burger just yet. But 32 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:30,240 Speaker 1: we but we do have a veggiemite little man. He 33 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:33,080 Speaker 1: loves it already. Maybe not that he ever had a choice. 34 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:34,399 Speaker 1: I mean, it was it was going to have to 35 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:35,039 Speaker 1: be something that. 36 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:37,280 Speaker 5: But now he loves it. 37 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:40,640 Speaker 4: He could blend up the burger. Maybe he's just starting 38 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 4: the solids. 39 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:42,039 Speaker 5: You could do that. 40 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:44,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, that kind of creeps me out a little bit, Like. 41 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:46,760 Speaker 4: Actually, I mean, I didn't believe it when I was 42 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:47,920 Speaker 4: saying it, Ash, But I. 43 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 1: Thought he knows I have had friends that have done it, 44 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:52,640 Speaker 1: But I kind of I don't know. I'm a bit 45 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:56,080 Speaker 1: of a visual person, so blending up what it shouldn't 46 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:58,160 Speaker 1: look like just messed with my brain a little bit. 47 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:00,840 Speaker 2: Ash, Can I ask what has been than one thing 48 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 2: that surprised you about being a mum for the first time. 49 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:07,160 Speaker 1: Oh? Wow, I think I think it's just relentless. But 50 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 1: it's amazing, is you know. I've been really lucky to 51 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 1: watch my sisters raise their children and kind of be 52 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 1: around their kids. But I think it just goes to 53 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 1: a whole new level when it is your own twenty 54 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 1: four to seven, the bad, the ugly, the everything between. 55 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 1: But it's amazing, It's incredible. 56 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 4: Yeah, tell us Ash, then what must What are you 57 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 4: missing about it? Is there something that you you know 58 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:32,839 Speaker 4: you've got You're in a new chapter of your life 59 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 4: as well, and you are a mum, and I mean 60 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:37,840 Speaker 4: you're not going anywhere. Your tennis star in the country 61 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 4: loves you, the world loves you. Is there something you're missing? 62 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:41,919 Speaker 5: Yeah? 63 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 1: I miss I'm miss seeing my mates that I truggled 64 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:48,040 Speaker 1: with and you know, became so close with over our career. 65 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:51,160 Speaker 1: And a lot of my best mates have retired as well, 66 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:53,519 Speaker 1: so we no longer get to catch up every every 67 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:55,640 Speaker 1: week like we did, but it's nice still to stay 68 00:02:55,639 --> 00:02:58,560 Speaker 1: in touch. And a lot of those girls have either 69 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:01,360 Speaker 1: had kids and beld or going into their next chapter 70 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 1: as well. That's probably the part I missed the most, and. 71 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:05,840 Speaker 3: As I wanted to ask you when you I mean 72 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 3: the other night he played an unbelievable five setter that 73 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:12,520 Speaker 3: went for a very long time. In a tournament like 74 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:16,360 Speaker 3: the Australian Open, when you play a huge game like that, 75 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:18,720 Speaker 3: how much does it drain you for the next round. 76 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:22,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's hard. It's all part of it. It's 77 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 1: incredible though. I mean, the emotions that you go through 78 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:29,160 Speaker 1: in big moments. Sometimes it's more challenging in slams because 79 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:30,959 Speaker 1: you kind of have that day when you play that 80 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:33,160 Speaker 1: the emotions run hot, you kind of gear up and 81 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:35,080 Speaker 1: about and the next day the quiet rest day. So 82 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 1: almost you're on this roller coaster of emotion. 83 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 5: How did you recover, Ash? Were you a ice bath? 84 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:43,480 Speaker 5: Did you meditate? What did you What was your routine 85 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:44,360 Speaker 5: post matches? 86 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:46,800 Speaker 1: I was the first and foremost. It was always a 87 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 1: chucky milk for. 88 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:52,120 Speaker 5: Me, and that was like brand I. 89 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 1: Would change all over the world, so I had to 90 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:56,160 Speaker 1: make sure that I wasn't too specific. 91 00:03:56,280 --> 00:03:58,520 Speaker 3: Can you give us one that stands out from around 92 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 3: the world, Ash, that's my chalky milk? 93 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 1: If we travel I think in the in the u K. 94 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:06,800 Speaker 1: I think that was called like Yazoo or Yahoo or something. Yeah, 95 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:11,920 Speaker 1: they went bad, they went bad. I haven't actually yes 96 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 1: I have. I haven't tried it yet. 97 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 5: It's meg to go and find one that's the best. 98 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:19,440 Speaker 1: And pastial to a to a chocolate milk. 99 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:23,600 Speaker 4: I'm a child, Yeah, don't go growing up anytime soon. 100 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:29,400 Speaker 5: Go get yourself a Bardie Berger. Grill's got it out now. 101 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:31,919 Speaker 3: They've donated one hundred thousand dollars to the New Ash 102 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:35,120 Speaker 3: Barti Foundation. It's a great foundation helping young Ossie kids 103 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:39,320 Speaker 3: through sports and education initiatives. Ash, you are an inspiration 104 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:42,320 Speaker 3: still and we appreciate You've been a friend of ours 105 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:44,160 Speaker 3: for quite a while and come on the show. So 106 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:46,480 Speaker 3: we appreciated Ash and have a great Australian open. 107 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:47,559 Speaker 1: Thank you guys. 108 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 4: Thanks since Whip with Kate Ritchie is a Nova podcast 109 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:54,560 Speaker 4: great shows like this. 110 00:04:54,880 --> 00:04:58,360 Speaker 2: Download the Nova Player, the app Store or Google Playing.