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Speaker 1: the big stories, let's catch up on a few other
Speaker 1: things going on in the world, starting off with Ukrainian
Speaker 1: President Vladimir Zelenski, who today was officially declared Time Magazines
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you now Vladimir Putin is gonna be so mad.
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Speaker 1: he's just gonna be like, no to with magazine. But
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Speaker 1: the Time magazine on its annual reminder that Time magazine
Speaker 1: still exists. In more international news, German authorities this morning
Speaker 1: arrested twenty five of Q and On Q and on
Speaker 1: followers members for plotting to storm parliament and overthrow the governments, which, yes,
Speaker 1: is disconcerting news, but once again proof of how inspiring
Speaker 1: American culture is all around the world. Yeah, even in Germany.
Speaker 1: They were like, we should also storms the capital, and
Speaker 1: we should also all that's called the government, and then
Speaker 1: they're going to hang make pants my pants. Oh. In
Speaker 1: technology news, Apple Music has just announced a brand new
Speaker 1: karaoke mode that will allow you to turn down the
Speaker 1: vocals on songs so that you can sing them instead.
Speaker 1: And I love this. This is great news for anyone
Speaker 1: who was thinking, I love this adult song, but when
Speaker 1: if it was sung by someone who sucks, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think it will be a lot of fun, you know,
Speaker 1: and now Spotify is also adding this feature to its podcast,
Speaker 1: so you can shout your own COVID theories over Joe Rogan.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be cool. Oh. In some legal news, an
Speaker 1: Illinois woman is suing the makers of t g I
Speaker 1: Fridays is Mozzarella sticks? Get this because she discovered that
Speaker 1: they contain cheddar cheese but no mozzarella. That's why she's suing.
Speaker 1: And if you ask me, I'm I'm impressed that these
Speaker 1: cheese sticks have cheese in them at all. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: feel like most American cheese products if you look at
Speaker 1: the fine prints, like, technically this is sawdust and car
Speaker 1: and Sarah. But we were thinking about cheese when we
Speaker 1: were mixing air. All right, let's move on to some
Speaker 1: of the big stories of the day, starting with Georgia.
Speaker 1: The States sitting on Florida so the police can arrive.
Speaker 1: Because after a year of campaigning, an election in November
Speaker 1: and then another runoff election yesterday, the Senate ray in
Speaker 1: Georgia is finally mercifully over. In Georgia's closely watched Senate
Speaker 1: bun off, Democrat Raphael Warnock walking away with the wind
Speaker 1: in the nation's final contest of the mid terms, the
Speaker 1: incumbent narrowly defeating his Republican challenger, Herschel Walker and cementing
Speaker 1: the Democrats majority in the Senate, now a fift advantage.
Speaker 1: Blocker was handpicked by former President Trump and is at
Speaker 1: least the fifth Trump back Senate candidate to be defeated.
Speaker 1: Warnocks when gives the party an extra seat to help
Speaker 1: advance their agenda, it is my honor to utter the
Speaker 1: four most powerful words ever spoken in a democracy. The
Speaker 1: people have spoken. Okay, okay, congratulations to Raphael Warnock. I
Speaker 1: mean I thought the four most powerful words in the
Speaker 1: American democracy were here is your stick up? But sure,
Speaker 1: I guess the people have spoken works too. But yes,
Speaker 1: Democrats have now won fifty one seats in the Senate,
Speaker 1: and you realize what that means. Basically nothing, um not
Speaker 1: because they lost the House. But still fifty is bigger
Speaker 1: than fifty. So it's cool. It's cool, And you couldn't
Speaker 1: have had a race between two more different candidates. When
Speaker 1: you think about it, like when you take a moment,
Speaker 1: when you step away from the race, you understand how
Speaker 1: crazy this was. You had Raphael Warnock, a pasta, a
Speaker 1: pastor who was preaching at the same church as M. L.
Speaker 1: Kay and herschel Walker, a man who thinks m. L
Speaker 1: k is how you spell milk. But despite that, it
Speaker 1: was close. It was really really cool. In fact, if
Speaker 1: I was Repil Warnock, my victory speech wouldn't have been
Speaker 1: me smiling, and I would have been a lot more different.
Speaker 1: He's a gracious man. He was talking about democracy in
Speaker 1: America's promise. I would have been up there like, are
Speaker 1: you people kidding me? With this ship? You've got to
Speaker 1: give me a two point win over this walking but
Speaker 1: sector me, commercial, are you kidding me? But he's a
Speaker 1: better man, So that's that. Senator Warnock returns to Washington
Speaker 1: and herschel Walker goes home and defeat. But don't feel
Speaker 1: bad for her shauld Guys, he actually took the news
Speaker 1: quite well. Yeah. His people were like, don't get this,
Speaker 1: don't let us get you down her shoulder, and he
Speaker 1: was like, let what get me down? Like the Senate race?
Speaker 1: He's like, you think I should run for the Senate? Yeah? Okay,
Speaker 1: what is it? But let's move on to some major
Speaker 1: news about coronavirus. For most Americans, COVID has become something
Speaker 1: you just try to ignore while you live your life
Speaker 1: like mosquitoes or jury duty. Meanwhile, in China, they've been
Speaker 1: treating COVID like an existential danger right to every man, woman,
Speaker 1: and child. But believe it or not, after weeks of
Speaker 1: historic protests from the Chinese people, that is all about
Speaker 1: to change. China's government has made a radical shift to
Speaker 1: this morning, officially moving away from its strict zero COVID
Speaker 1: policies now. This move appears to be in response to
Speaker 1: widespread protests in recent weeks, including some of the boldest
Speaker 1: demonstrations this country has seen in decades. China's National Health
Speaker 1: Commission held a press conference to announce that mandatory COVID
Speaker 1: testing for most people will end immediately. They'll no longer
Speaker 1: have to show a negative test result in public places,
Speaker 1: and those armies of health workers and hasmat suits will
Speaker 1: stop locking down apartment complexes. Also, people with COVID won't
Speaker 1: be forced into state quarantine. They'll be able to recover
Speaker 1: at home. All that and a commitment to vaccinating the
Speaker 1: elderly sounds like common sense, but it's a huge climb
Speaker 1: down for Chi Jin Ping and the Communist Party, who
Speaker 1: watched protests erupt in over twenty cities with calls for freedom,
Speaker 1: not lockdowns. I'm happy for the people of China. I
Speaker 1: genuinely earth because I don't know if you were following this,
Speaker 1: but these restrictions were truly wild. I mean, they wouldn't
Speaker 1: even let you quarantine at home. You had to spend
Speaker 1: it at a government quarantine facility that looks like a
Speaker 1: terminal at LaGuardia. And that's really messed up, because the
Speaker 1: one silver lining of getting COVID is having an excuse
Speaker 1: to get out of plans, you know, but China was like, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: You've got COVID and you've got plans with six hundred strangers.
Speaker 1: That's what you got. And you know, after hearing this story,
Speaker 1: I would love to see an American citizen and a
Speaker 1: Chinese citizen sit down to talk about COVID, because you
Speaker 1: always hear Americans talking about how they feel as though
Speaker 1: they were oppressed by the COVID restrictions here. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: Chinese person would be like, it was brutal. I was
Speaker 1: literally boughted up in my home, beaten up by the police,
Speaker 1: and sent to a quarantine camp and be like, I
Speaker 1: feel you, brother, this one summer I got asked to
Speaker 1: leave an Apple bays. We are not different at all,
Speaker 1: my friend. We both suffered. But let's move on to
Speaker 1: some news from the world of air travel. If you
Speaker 1: fly a lot, then you know how boarding a plane goes,
Speaker 1: all right, You get to your gates, try to sneak
Speaker 1: in line with the boarding group ahead of yours. You
Speaker 1: put your luggage into the overhead been sideways so no
Speaker 1: one else can use it. And then you sit down
Speaker 1: and you put your phone into airplane mode. And it
Speaker 1: has to be an airplane mode, because if anyone calls
Speaker 1: you while you're on a plane, the plane immediately crashes
Speaker 1: into an elementary school. That's how it works. It's science,
Speaker 1: all right, we noticed. Well, it turns out in Europe
Speaker 1: all of that is about to change. Could this be
Speaker 1: the potential end of putting your phone on airplane mode?
Speaker 1: Maybe when you take a flight. Starting in June, airplane
Speaker 1: mode won't be mandatory on flights in the European Union.
Speaker 1: The European Commission recently ruled that airlines can provide five
Speaker 1: G technology on board the plane, which allows passengers to
Speaker 1: send and receive calls and text messages. Yes, finally, passengers
Speaker 1: in Europe can make phone calls while on a plane,
Speaker 1: because every time I've been on a plane, I voice tho, man,
Speaker 1: I wish everyone was having a different loud conversation right now.
Speaker 1: That baby company the only one who's a lot of
Speaker 1: make noise. Come on, man, I don't know some people
Speaker 1: like this. I think it sucks. I feel like as
Speaker 1: a society, we're quickly running out of places that give
Speaker 1: you an excuse not to take a call. You know,
Speaker 1: you used to be able to say, sorry, I wasn't home,
Speaker 1: I MR call, and then the cell phone kill that.
Speaker 1: Then you have to pretend you were going into a tunnel.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm Luinia. I would love to you know
Speaker 1: the story, but I'm going to talk about And then
Speaker 1: the tunnel has got reception, Then subways got reception. Now
Speaker 1: the planes have reception. Pretty soon. The only excuse you
Speaker 1: have for not being able to get a call is
Speaker 1: that you're on a T mobile. But I was not
Speaker 1: heard about that. But but I mean, I guess if
Speaker 1: you if you really need to make a call on
Speaker 1: a plane, it's not the worst thing in the world
Speaker 1: to have an option. But I just hope the pilots
Speaker 1: don't have access to this feature. Please we've gotten by
Speaker 1: all right, Gregg, this is gonna take all of your
Speaker 1: concentration and skills as a pilot that you could do this.
Speaker 1: Just focus, just focus. Oh Ship, it's Wendy. It's Wendy. Hey, God,
Speaker 1: what's going on now? I'm not doing anything, you know me.
Speaker 1: I'm just living my love on the wrong terrible. All right,
Speaker 1: that's it for today's headlines. Let's move on to something
Speaker 1: that everyone loves. It's time to check in on today's
Speaker 1: lots on numbers. We do say slow and everybody, what's
Speaker 1: going on so that you see for yes, don't say
Speaker 1: what today's winning numbers? Yeah, yeah, yeah, listen, listen, listen, Trevor.
Speaker 1: Now I hear what you're saying. Nobody wants people on
Speaker 1: a plane on the phone. But have you ever overheard
Speaker 1: a good argument? I'm talking about t hot part fresh
Speaker 1: from an exit row call out. Picture this. You're on
Speaker 1: an international flight, the movie is trash. She already eight,
Speaker 1: there's nothing to do. And then suddenly you hear Stacy
Speaker 1: in the middle seat call her husband and tell him
Speaker 1: she's pregnant because she took a pregnancy test in the
Speaker 1: terminal bathroom. And then he says it's pregnant. How we
Speaker 1: haven't had sex and six months? What can you even
Speaker 1: get a pregnancy test at a hustand news in the airport?
Speaker 1: Did she bring it from home? Who baby is this?
Speaker 1: So now we got something to do now, all of us,
Speaker 1: and wrote eighteen you need to decide if he's going
Speaker 1: to the boys are right, but you're all the way
Speaker 1: in rowe and the good ship doesn't row eighteen. So
Speaker 1: now a fight at Tessnant has to get on the
Speaker 1: p and go. Listen, Stacy is pregnant. We don't know
Speaker 1: if it's her husband or somebody else, but there's more
Speaker 1: information to come. Also, we're at thirty ft la la right,
Speaker 1: so now everybody on the plane got to go. Is
Speaker 1: this a miracle or a sin? Right? Is Stacy a
Speaker 1: hero or she Jezebel Harlan incorporated? Either way, this is
Speaker 1: my in flight movie now, and this is people coming
Speaker 1: together as a people. Okay, because what the people love
Speaker 1: to do being other people's business. And that is why
Speaker 1: I think that we should have phone calls on airplanes.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Okay, wait wait wait wait wait,
Speaker 1: go back, go back. So what happened with the baby?
Speaker 1: I don't know see that's what I'm saying. I wasn't
Speaker 1: going to Scotland, but now I have to follow this
Speaker 1: lady to hear the rest of the story. I was
Speaker 1: on my way to do buy and I got to
Speaker 1: go to cold As Scotland and see what this happens
Speaker 1: up to. Okay, well, I can't wait to find out,
Speaker 1: but we're running out of time. Can we get to
Speaker 1: the lastel numbers? Please? Yeah? Yeah, yeah. Listen. By the way,
Speaker 1: now you know she's an Atlanta girl. She's a George
Speaker 1: Peach and Atlanta was going wild last night over the
Speaker 1: Warnut victory. Okay, it was so turned up. My friend's
Speaker 1: son was late to school this morning and he's ten
Speaker 1: that Trevor, this was the real battle of Southern politics. Okay.
Speaker 1: A pastor and a football player, the god of football
Speaker 1: and the God of God. And I'm glad Herschel didn't win. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're all very happy that blackheaded man did not win.
Speaker 1: But the problem is now that he's not running, we
Speaker 1: don't know where he's at. During the election, I felt
Speaker 1: safe he was on camera all the time, Okay, but
Speaker 1: now he's incog Negro and free. Listen, this man is
Speaker 1: a menace is gonna be running around in person and
Speaker 1: FBI agent. Okay, getting everybody in a mama pregnant. This
Speaker 1: is a public safe, your burgency. And when I say
Speaker 1: everybody in their mama, I'm worried because my mama lives
Speaker 1: in Georgia. We gotta find this man. Okay. Listen, now
Speaker 1: I know a couple of places he won't be. A library,
Speaker 1: the context section of a CBS family court. We know her,
Speaker 1: he's not going to be. And listen, America, for just
Speaker 1: sixty five cents a day, you can help me find
Speaker 1: hershel Walker. Okay, well we'll do say do say. People
Speaker 1: will have the money to help you if we can
Speaker 1: help them with the lost numbs. Can we can we
Speaker 1: just get the winning lot of numbers? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: of course. So today's when it is hershel Walker. Mr Walker,
Speaker 1: you just need to come down to the studio and
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Speaker 1: don't a fit. Welcome back to the Day show. My
Speaker 1: guest Tonight is one of the greatest tennis players and
Speaker 1: one of the greatest athletes of all time. He is
Speaker 1: a twenty time Grand Slam champion. He's also a philanthropist
Speaker 1: and entreprenia and one of the classiest people you will
Speaker 1: ever meet. Please welcome Roger Federer. Roger Federer himself, Welcome
Speaker 1: to the Daily Show. It is so good to have
Speaker 1: you here because I mean you you have, for over
Speaker 1: two decades now, in many ways defined a sport. You've
Speaker 1: defined how people see it, You've defined how people try
Speaker 1: and play it. You are a move I don't I
Speaker 1: don't know if you ever think about how amazing that is.
Speaker 1: When people will say, they'll be like, I'm doing a
Speaker 1: federal backhand, I'm doing it. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: You've transcended the sports as well, because tennis for many
Speaker 1: people is just this thing that happens somewhere. Who plays
Speaker 1: it and how do they play? You've become larger than life,
Speaker 1: and now it has all come to an end. Before
Speaker 1: we talk about the end, let's talk about what it
Speaker 1: was when you look back. No, I want to talk
Speaker 1: about that when, just when, when you look back, did
Speaker 1: you know from the beginning did you have an inkling?
Speaker 1: Did you look in the mirror and go like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm going to switch the ship up. No, No, I
Speaker 1: did not know it was gonna turn out this good. Um.
Speaker 1: I mean, in Switzerland, we don't dream this big you know,
Speaker 1: we we hope to we hope to be good, but
Speaker 1: not a great. And and then sports it's probably skiing,
Speaker 1: and there's a bit football, a bit of ice hockey
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. And then tennis was coming up,
Speaker 1: and thankfully we had an Olympic CHAMPI in Mark Rosse
Speaker 1: and I need to him on the Olympics and tennis.
Speaker 1: And then we had Martina Hingis who also want the
Speaker 1: US Open Up member then and they paved the way
Speaker 1: for me a little bit too, to show me that
Speaker 1: it was possible. And then yeah, people were saying I
Speaker 1: could be the next Pete Sampers, and I was talented
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. But you feel like they always
Speaker 1: say that, you know at some point, and I never
Speaker 1: thought I was going to have this greade of a career.
Speaker 1: So I couldn't be more more exciting, more happy, and
Speaker 1: more proud of everything, and unfortunately has come to an end.
Speaker 1: But it's been great, It really has been great. It's
Speaker 1: been amazing. Yeah, you know, you you talk about Pete Sampers,
Speaker 1: and I think about somebody like Pete, who who is
Speaker 1: a legend in the sports, you know, who defined so
Speaker 1: many aspects of the game and he held the record
Speaker 1: for a very long time, and then you come into
Speaker 1: the sports, you eclipse his record in what six years
Speaker 1: it takes you, you know, and Pete would talk about
Speaker 1: how you know that he got sort of tired of
Speaker 1: the sports, and you know he was he was a champion.
Speaker 1: He was, But you had this drive and this class
Speaker 1: about you that that nobody understood. You're You're a multi
Speaker 1: generational talent as well, because the class that you came
Speaker 1: in with retired before you. The next class played with you,
Speaker 1: and you were still the champion, and now the class
Speaker 1: that is there now still goes. Roger Federer is one
Speaker 1: of the best competitors we've ever played against. You know,
Speaker 1: what do you think? I would love to know how
Speaker 1: you how you found that drive? How did you keep
Speaker 1: on going? What inspired you know when you had won
Speaker 1: it all? It's a it's a good question. And you know,
Speaker 1: when I was growing up, I had Michael Schumacher that
Speaker 1: I would look up to, who was at the top
Speaker 1: for so long Tiger Woods, same thing, and I always
Speaker 1: thought it's impossible to do that, you know, to stay
Speaker 1: the top for so long and have that drive. Now
Speaker 1: people ask me, how did you do it? I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: it's normal. You just go out there, you do it again,
Speaker 1: and you try to win and again, and it's fun
Speaker 1: and so you keep doing it, and everybody else would
Speaker 1: like to be in your shoes, right and and then
Speaker 1: you also have a duty too, in my mind, to
Speaker 1: wrap that the sport well and enjoy it while it lasts.
Speaker 1: And I really felt like gu I squeezed out that
Speaker 1: lemon until the last drop, and I tried my very
Speaker 1: best in the end, and there was it was incredible,
Speaker 1: and I needed the likes of Pete Samples, you know,
Speaker 1: to also show me how it is at the top.
Speaker 1: And it's it's tough, you know, but I feel like
Speaker 1: I made I had a lot of fun on the tour.
Speaker 1: M It was not just about tennis. It was also
Speaker 1: going to nice dinners with friends. And I'm happy that
Speaker 1: I didn't take tennis almost that serious or that professional.
Speaker 1: Still had that bit of an amateur twist to it.
Speaker 1: A bit worried that every sport is going into such
Speaker 1: a professional direction, which I hope we don't lose the
Speaker 1: fun in its normal. Yeah, you you know, that's one
Speaker 1: of the biggest things that have struck me about you
Speaker 1: in meeting you as a human being, and many people
Speaker 1: will say this about you. You'll meet many athletes who
Speaker 1: have dominated the sport. The sport is their life. It
Speaker 1: doesn't feel like that for you. It feels like the
Speaker 1: sport is a huge part of your life. But Roger
Speaker 1: Feder still Roger Feder. You know, you're down to earth.
Speaker 1: You have fun, you meet people, you have conversations, you're
Speaker 1: living the life, and you're enjoying what the life comes with.
Speaker 1: In the sport, it inspires you in a different way.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like the whole sport has changed in
Speaker 1: that way? It has become like really meticulous and analytical. Yeah,
Speaker 1: more so more analytics in the game. Sports science is
Speaker 1: also coming in hard. Um it's it's okay, Um, it's
Speaker 1: it's important, you know. And when you see somebody else
Speaker 1: doing something that works, well, you've got to kind of
Speaker 1: do it too, or at least try it, and then
Speaker 1: you go you follow them, you know, and I probably
Speaker 1: I did some of it for other players or for
Speaker 1: a lot of them, and now others are showing it
Speaker 1: how how it's done, you know. And of course we're
Speaker 1: living in a very statistic based world. We love our statistics.
Speaker 1: That we love breaking records and who's the greatest and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. So you you come out, you just
Speaker 1: want Grand Slam or you just well number one. And
Speaker 1: the first question, so how long you want to say, well,
Speaker 1: nub one, like what's when you're gonna win the next
Speaker 1: Grand Slam? Like what's your next win? Instead of actually
Speaker 1: enjoying it. And it's a bit of a problem. I
Speaker 1: think we instead of enjoying it, we have to move
Speaker 1: on too quickly. And one Wimbledon victory would have been
Speaker 1: plenty for me and ended up going on and winning several,
Speaker 1: but there was several several It was good seven. I'd
Speaker 1: love to talk to you about that. When when people
Speaker 1: regard an athlete as the greatest of all time, oftentimes
Speaker 1: they're only referring to what the athlete has done, you know,
Speaker 1: in the field of play, on the court, you know,
Speaker 1: on the racetrack, whatever it may be. Every single human
Speaker 1: being who even if they don't know you personally says
Speaker 1: Roger Federer is the greatest of all time, not just
Speaker 1: because of what he achieved in terms of numbers, but
Speaker 1: how he defined the sport. For instance, you had the
Speaker 1: record for a very long time twenty Grand slams, you know,
Speaker 1: then Ruffer comes along and beats that with twenty one.
Speaker 1: Then No that comes along and beats there with twenty two,
Speaker 1: and and yet when you talk to them, they say,
Speaker 1: Roger Federer is who we're aspiring to and he defines
Speaker 1: how we're trying to play it. So I'd love to know,
Speaker 1: you know, is it is it a little bit irritating
Speaker 1: that they're using you to beat your record or does
Speaker 1: it struck Does it strike you that these are your
Speaker 1: greatest competitors saying yeah, but you're still the pinnacle of
Speaker 1: what we're trying to be. No, no, no, Look, I
Speaker 1: feel very lucky to be that guy. And I know
Speaker 1: I've been every everything since they come and tour, I've
Speaker 1: been there, So I think it's a it's a great
Speaker 1: moment for them, you know, to now show who they
Speaker 1: are without that federal halo effect me being around and
Speaker 1: especially younger generation that we're not allowed to say I
Speaker 1: want to win the US Open because they were told
Speaker 1: that you can't say that, because you know, no Back
Speaker 1: and Ratha and Roger we're all playing, so they are
Speaker 1: the ones that can say that you're not allowed to
Speaker 1: say that. But I think you know, the the end
Speaker 1: was very emotional to be actually on such a great
Speaker 1: sort of a friendship really with with the guys at
Speaker 1: the very end of my career, after everything that we've
Speaker 1: gone through, brutal matches, great winds, tough losses, and at
Speaker 1: the end always having this camaraderie is amazing. I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe just a little anecdote because maybe people don't know,
Speaker 1: but we shared the same locker room, we shared the
Speaker 1: same restaurants, We usually get put in the same hotels,
Speaker 1: so we see each other all the time. And we
Speaker 1: even practiced together, you know. And that's something I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't know. And when I found
Speaker 1: that out, it was one of the strangest ideas I
Speaker 1: had to wrap my head around. I don't think there
Speaker 1: are many sports where the greatest rivals practice with each other.
Speaker 1: I would go, like, you know, I think of like
Speaker 1: Koon Fu movies as a kid. I don't want you
Speaker 1: to know my my secrets. I don't want to know
Speaker 1: my tricks, and you would hit with each other, you
Speaker 1: would I ended up not practicing very much with no
Speaker 1: BA can rougher anymore. Okay, okay, okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 1: Not so much with those guys you would stand, for instance,
Speaker 1: a lot, yeah, and there's a camaraderie that that your
Speaker 1: chief co instance. Many were shocked, especially people who don't
Speaker 1: watch tennis, to see when you know, when you were
Speaker 1: saying goodbye to the sports. So many people were sad
Speaker 1: because I think for many, myself included, we felt like
Speaker 1: we were robbed of. You know, the last few years
Speaker 1: COVID robbed us of so much in our personal lives,
Speaker 1: you know, in societal life, but then also in moments
Speaker 1: like this, we got robbed of two years of Roger
Speaker 1: Federer playing the game. You know, it felt like you
Speaker 1: retirement came so early, and when you did say goodbye
Speaker 1: no to us, it did. It's just you know, for me,
Speaker 1: your knees are telling a different story. Was hanging on.
Speaker 1: But but then you know, there's there's that amazing video
Speaker 1: of the players saying goodbye to you, and it's this
Speaker 1: clip of you and and Rafael Nadelt crying crying, You
Speaker 1: are crying, you are in tears, you're bowling together, and
Speaker 1: that that was a special moment. I really think. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is a very unusual situation for us to be
Speaker 1: on the same team number one and so I think
Speaker 1: that changed the whole dynamics of my farewell if you
Speaker 1: want then, um My, my hope was I could play
Speaker 1: doubles with rougher So call him up after the US Open.
Speaker 1: And it was a very emotional phone call actually, because
Speaker 1: it was one of the first times I told somebody
Speaker 1: outside of my UM team and family and I I
Speaker 1: had to call him up and tell him, Rapa, just
Speaker 1: before you make any other plans, I would love you
Speaker 1: to be at the Labor Cup and play maybe one
Speaker 1: last doubles with me would be amazing because unfortunately my
Speaker 1: knee is not so good anymore. And I think it's
Speaker 1: the end, you know, And He's like, oh yeah, oh
Speaker 1: my god, Okay, yeah, I'll be there whatever it takes.
Speaker 1: I just, um, he's now become a father. I'm so
Speaker 1: happy for him. And we were not we were not
Speaker 1: sure if he was gonna make it, you know, because
Speaker 1: of the baby. So um, it was one of the
Speaker 1: first times I had to tell that story and come
Speaker 1: to terms like the career is ending. So when he
Speaker 1: showed up and Novak was there, and Murray was there,
Speaker 1: and Beyond Board was there and everybody was there, as
Speaker 1: an amazing moment and then I knew it was going
Speaker 1: to be incredibly emotional. I've always cried a lot in
Speaker 1: victory and in defeat when I was younger, and I
Speaker 1: don't know why, but I do it. But I'm happy
Speaker 1: because I remember those moments even more so because of it.
Speaker 1: And then when it was all over and I had
Speaker 1: to take the mic, I knew it was going to
Speaker 1: be terrible for me, but I felt it felt like
Speaker 1: I did actually pretty good, I think, and I was
Speaker 1: so happy I was able to be there in Tennis
Speaker 1: close and not like this, because that was my in
Speaker 1: my vision, was going to be a beautiful horror show,
Speaker 1: you know, for me to be there with the mike
Speaker 1: in front of the in the light and tell everybody,
Speaker 1: you know, this is it. And it was amazing to
Speaker 1: do it in London, to where I had so much
Speaker 1: success and and Laby Cup was beautiful and rougher. They're
Speaker 1: holding my hand. Briefly people thought it was or I
Speaker 1: held his hand actually, but it was. It was amazing.
Speaker 1: You know, you're going to have and you you will
Speaker 1: always be synonymous with the sport that you you As
Speaker 1: I said, you you know you can't separate Roger Federer
Speaker 1: from the sport itself now and and yet I was
Speaker 1: shocked to hear a story which I don't know if
Speaker 1: it was true or not. You know, I was like,
Speaker 1: Roger everyone at tennis, you can't the name synonymous with
Speaker 1: the sport. You kind of rudge. And then someone was like, well,
Speaker 1: you know that Roger couldn't get into Wimbledon recently. I
Speaker 1: was like, wait, wait, that's not possible. It is a
Speaker 1: runch of federal is this Is this a true Is
Speaker 1: there even a seminars of truth to un Yeah? Well no, no,
Speaker 1: I need to understand what was It was actually two
Speaker 1: weeks ago, so I was in Tokyo um for our
Speaker 1: response my sponsor Unichloe, and I came back to Wimbledon,
Speaker 1: actually to London to come see a doctor for having
Speaker 1: a second opinion on my knee because my knee has
Speaker 1: been not great lately. And then I didn't want to
Speaker 1: tell Wimblon that I was going to maybe be there,
Speaker 1: and I didn't know if I was going to have
Speaker 1: time to go by the club because I was going
Speaker 1: to fly home to the family. So doctor point it
Speaker 1: was done. Look on the watch, Okay, we got two
Speaker 1: hours to to kill so what are we gonna do.
Speaker 1: Do we head to the airport or let's quickly go
Speaker 1: have tea at Wimbledon? Of course, so let's go. Um,
Speaker 1: but I have not really been at Wimbledon when the
Speaker 1: tournament is not on. So okay. So I drive up
Speaker 1: to the gate where usually guests come in, where let's
Speaker 1: say you would arrive and then you go up and
Speaker 1: so I get out and tell my coach was with
Speaker 1: me at the time, severing, I tell him I quickly
Speaker 1: go out and speak to the security lady. You know,
Speaker 1: I got this, you know, and then I did not.
Speaker 1: So then I get out and I'm like, yes, hello, um,
Speaker 1: I'm just was wondering how I can get into Wimbledon.
Speaker 1: Uh you know where? Where? Where's the door? Where's the gate?
Speaker 1: And she's yeah, yeah. Do you have a membership card?
Speaker 1: I'm like, uh, we have one? I don't because when
Speaker 1: you win Wimbledon you become a member automatically, yes, And
Speaker 1: I honestly I don't know about membership cards. They're probably
Speaker 1: at home somewhere and I've just been traveling, so I
Speaker 1: had no idea. So I'm like, no, I don't have
Speaker 1: my membership card, but I am a member. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: just wondering where I can get in, and she's yeah,
Speaker 1: but you have to be a member. So I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be difficult here this one. So I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: I am a member, and normally I am here, so
Speaker 1: I have to start again, right, So I tell her normally,
Speaker 1: when I'm here, i'm playing and there's loads of people
Speaker 1: and I come in in a different way. And now
Speaker 1: it's the first time i'm not here. I'm yeah, well
Speaker 1: the tournament is not on and I don't know where
Speaker 1: to get in. So I'm just asking you again, where
Speaker 1: can I get in. She's like, well, I'll decide, but
Speaker 1: you have to be a member. So I look at
Speaker 1: her one last time and I'm in a panic now
Speaker 1: and I'm I'm so sorry, and I couldn't believe. I
Speaker 1: still can't believe I say that because I still feel
Speaker 1: bad about it. And i'd look at her and it's like,
Speaker 1: I have won this tournament eight times, please believe me.
Speaker 1: I am a member, and where do I get in?
Speaker 1: So I'm like, okay, it was so so then so
Speaker 1: I got back in the car. My coach is like,
Speaker 1: oh good, where do we get in? I'm like don't, don't,
Speaker 1: don't talk. So I'm like, let's go up and around
Speaker 1: the gate. It's so. So then I go out and
Speaker 1: I go around on other side. So I get out
Speaker 1: of the car and random person walks, you know, on
Speaker 1: the what it walked right, yeah, and said, oh, Mr Feder,
Speaker 1: my god, I can't believe you're here at Wimbledon. Can
Speaker 1: we take a self? I'm like, yes, let's take let's
Speaker 1: take a picture. And the security and the security guard
Speaker 1: instead of there, they're like, oh my god, Mr Feder,
Speaker 1: what are you doing here? You have your membership card.
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, I don't, but is it possible to
Speaker 1: get of course, we'll open the door, let me organize it.
Speaker 1: And I walk in and the chairman was there and everybody,
Speaker 1: and then I was having tea for an hour and
Speaker 1: I thought of going over to the other side and
Speaker 1: giving a wave that I was in, but but I
Speaker 1: didn't do it. You would never do that, but it
Speaker 1: was you would never do that. It was terrible. I
Speaker 1: would never do that. You see. That's what I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's that's Roger Fer you. And when I said
Speaker 1: I want to Wimbledon eight times, for a split second,
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure if it was eight anymore, because I
Speaker 1: was I thought it was a seven. Was it eight?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I said it because I never
Speaker 1: talked like this. So yeah, you know what, I love
Speaker 1: that both of you in that situation because on your side,
Speaker 1: you never talked like that. You're never that person I've bumped.
Speaker 1: I've been with you in places where somebody for some
Speaker 1: reason doesn't recognize you and you don't respond as if
Speaker 1: they should recognize. You're not that person. But on herself,
Speaker 1: I believe she deserves a raise. She was gangster. Yeah,
Speaker 1: where's your membership cards? Because I mean, you know, you
Speaker 1: know how it goes sometimes if you're where's the membership card?
Speaker 1: Where is your name? Where is your picture? And you
Speaker 1: don't have it? I'm sorry. I like that. It was good.
Speaker 1: It was good. You know what I've enjoyed about about
Speaker 1: knowing you is we have so many things in common.
Speaker 1: You you may not know this as an audience, but
Speaker 1: you know, like Roger and I have many things in common.
Speaker 1: We are we both we both half Swiss off South African, yeah,
Speaker 1: we both half we we both speak multiple languages, we
Speaker 1: both played at the record holding. You know, I think
Speaker 1: it's we both played tennis, right, we both play tennis.
Speaker 1: We do we do? Yeah. I guess the world record
Speaker 1: for the highest attendance for the tennis match that we
Speaker 1: might still hold. Yeah, I mean I played for twenty
Speaker 1: plus years, right, but to break the record, you know,
Speaker 1: I need you needed help. Would have happened without me.
Speaker 1: You know, we have between us twenty grands time titles.
Speaker 1: It's crazy, and you know, in many ways, you know,
Speaker 1: you know we're both moving on to something different. And
Speaker 1: I'd love to know from your side, as as an
Speaker 1: athlete who has defined yourself as something for so long
Speaker 1: and if people have defined just one thing so long.
Speaker 1: You've talked about how how hard the idea of moving
Speaker 1: on has been, the idea of what you will do
Speaker 1: when tennis isn't your life. But I've noticed that you
Speaker 1: you've almost seamlessly slid into everything. You know, your your
Speaker 1: clothing is everywhere, your shoes, you know, like one of
Speaker 1: one of my one of my camera guys on the team, Tim,
Speaker 1: he was telling me, He's like, these are like walking
Speaker 1: on clouds. You know. But you and you've done everything
Speaker 1: exceptionally your philanthropy, all of the work you've done to
Speaker 1: help education in Africa. Roger Federer has excelled everything in life.
Speaker 1: What are you most excited about that won't be tennis relating?
Speaker 1: You know, I feel a little bad at the moment
Speaker 1: because I mean, it's been super easy transition so far.
Speaker 1: I feel really good. I mean I might fall off
Speaker 1: the cliff tomorrow, who knows, but I feel really good.
Speaker 1: And the thing is, I've told a lot of people
Speaker 1: who have so many requests, you know, while I was
Speaker 1: still playing, like, well, reach out to me when I'm retired,
Speaker 1: so they have, and so now we've had to say
Speaker 1: no in a thousand different messages ways, you know. Unfortunately
Speaker 1: no still not you know, so I feel bad about
Speaker 1: saying no, but I think I have to take the
Speaker 1: time to make the next Move'm anyway, still very busy.
Speaker 1: I mean, I have four children and they mean everything
Speaker 1: to me, twin boys that are eight and twin girls
Speaker 1: that are thirteen. So that needs to be my priority
Speaker 1: with my wonderful wife America, and we because is amazing
Speaker 1: if you've met this really every step of the way.
Speaker 1: So um, no, I mean I'm really looking forward to
Speaker 1: what's next. I mean, like you said, I have my philanthropy,
Speaker 1: I have my part, that's my sponsors. I have my
Speaker 1: business and it's going super well. And I don't know.
Speaker 1: I want to see how I maybe stay involved in
Speaker 1: tennis in some shape before. I'm not sure yet how
Speaker 1: it's going to go, because there's not that many jobs
Speaker 1: if you want in tennis like it maybe in soccer
Speaker 1: or in golf. I feel like they have many more interesting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're either a coach or a commentator. Right. It's it's
Speaker 1: very solitary, it's very small. Yeah, so I'll have to see,
Speaker 1: but I will always be open to to mentor kids
Speaker 1: and do all that stuff. There is one thing that
Speaker 1: you're doing exceptionally right now, and that is being an
Speaker 1: ambassador for Swiss tourism. And if you've seen the ads,
Speaker 1: they're really amazing. No, there really are some some of
Speaker 1: the funniest ads. You know. You did one with Anne
Speaker 1: Hathaway that was pretty amazing. One with the role Robert
Speaker 1: de Niro was one of my favorites, you know, but
Speaker 1: I was, I was. I was intrigued by this because
Speaker 1: I came to something for the first time on my
Speaker 1: comedy tour. Roger reached out, which this is this is
Speaker 1: the kind of person, this this man. This is Roger Federer,
Speaker 1: the greatest you know, tennis players ever lived, one of
Speaker 1: the greatest athletes of all time. And I get a
Speaker 1: call when I'm in Switzerland. He goes, I know you're here,
Speaker 1: would you like me too? Maybe? Would you like to
Speaker 1: go for lunch maybe and talk about Switzerland? Or would
Speaker 1: you can show you around? Or kind of I'm like,
Speaker 1: can you like? It's so gracious and it's so unassuming,
Speaker 1: like it would like I would expect it for and
Speaker 1: be like, I know you're here, You're going with me?
Speaker 1: But no, Roger Ferres like, if you would like, maybe
Speaker 1: I can you know? It was amazing, unbelievable. You're one
Speaker 1: of the best tour guides of tourism. No, I learned
Speaker 1: from you. I put stuff on the show and and
Speaker 1: so I'd love to know those those ads were not
Speaker 1: nerve wracking, because you know the good thing with the
Speaker 1: Robert de Niro one is that, I mean number one,
Speaker 1: I can't believe he actually did it, which in itself
Speaker 1: was a victory. I mean, I'm a huge fan. And
Speaker 1: and then he shot his first was during COVID and
Speaker 1: was like on a on a call together, you know,
Speaker 1: on a video call, so he had has had done
Speaker 1: his before and then I could just act on what
Speaker 1: he did so and I obviously could do a hundred
Speaker 1: takes if I had to, and there was no pressure
Speaker 1: and he wasn't around, so but I agree. It was
Speaker 1: actually very creative and it was a good piece, especially
Speaker 1: his side. Me not not the best, but then but
Speaker 1: then and Hathaway on the other hand, she was sitting
Speaker 1: next to me when I was doing the the ad
Speaker 1: and stressful. Yes, that was very stressful because I hadn't
Speaker 1: the script had changed a lot of the times. And
Speaker 1: then I gave up because I knew Anne was doing
Speaker 1: her magic. And when I showed up, the director said,
Speaker 1: I usually shoot in one piece, and like, what do
Speaker 1: you mean in one piece? Like the whole thing? And
Speaker 1: then it goes like an action and literally I had
Speaker 1: no idea about any of their lives. So they created
Speaker 1: all these teleprompters for me so I could read of them,
Speaker 1: and then the camera would be moving in front of
Speaker 1: the telepromptering around and chasing the text. I got better
Speaker 1: over time, and then Anna was super switch You're could
Speaker 1: have been nicer um to me and uh, and then
Speaker 1: she tells me at one point towards the end, she's like,
Speaker 1: you know, Roger, you improved so much during the shoot
Speaker 1: and you're doing so good. You're improvising incredibly well. And
Speaker 1: I look at her was like, you don't have to
Speaker 1: tell me this. I don't need to be an actor.
Speaker 1: I'm not a good actor, and I need you to
Speaker 1: come home and just say, you know what, Swiss tourism,
Speaker 1: this was a fun at you had a great a
Speaker 1: great time, and you don't need to tell me. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm doing well. It just needs to be good for you.
Speaker 1: I'm fine, don't worry. I can be terrible and I'm
Speaker 1: okay with it. Terrible. You were a great You're a
Speaker 1: great ambassador for Switzerland. You're a great a great ambassador
Speaker 1: for the sports of tennis, and honestly you're you're a
Speaker 1: great ambassador for human beings. Thank you for everything you've done,
Speaker 1: coming so much, Thank you, Thank you. You tak any
Speaker 1: times to be It's a love being here every single pustion. Mother,
Speaker 1: I know the pro reason what advice. I'm gonna take
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