Speaker 1: Are you Are you hearing like a high pitched squealed?
Speaker 1: That's not Tom's voice. There's a are you.
Speaker 2: Actually getting a high pitch?
Speaker 1: Well? There is? Do you are you not picking up
Speaker 1: on that?
Speaker 2: Shut up for one second?
Speaker 1: Are you hearing that bit of feed?
Speaker 2: But I'm not hearing that.
Speaker 1: Too too too? Yeah, that took care of it. How
Speaker 1: you up in mind? Though?
Speaker 2: Will you use any of that?
Speaker 1: Do you reckon?
Speaker 2: I actually think people like the Tech Problems at the top. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, Oh, it's actually so funny.
Speaker 1: The Tech Problem podcast, And it's just like, guys, got
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Speaker 1: on with for a geal the Child. The child returns
Speaker 1: sabbatical where he's been finding himself overse He's wearing a
Speaker 1: trench coat on the beaches of it was a fedora
Speaker 1: and nothing.
Speaker 2: Else, just a fedora and a chode the way it's
Speaker 2: supposed to be.
Speaker 1: Open. You gotta think anyone who wears a fedora is rocketed.
Speaker 2: Chod oh yeah, yeah, yeah, there's a direct correlation between them.
Speaker 1: The Venn diagram between Fedora and Chod is a perfect sort.
Speaker 1: It's a perfect choad.
Speaker 2: Well, the Chad's here, Fedora. I left it at home though.
Speaker 2: That's a professional.
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Speaker 1: M with Fridgie and the our number one song in
Speaker 1: the charts this week following the DC Open the ballroom Blitz,
Speaker 1: take it away, Fridgie, that's me hold Or at the
Speaker 1: backs of everyone attack he's a runner up. The tailor Fritz.
Speaker 2: Morgan middle in the cornoset. I want to warn you
Speaker 2: about a guy named Taylor Fritz.
Speaker 1: Taylor Fritz, Fritz Fritz and we're back, We're back. Oh
Speaker 1: do you.
Speaker 2: Know what really helped? Then? Errol in the corner over
Speaker 2: there just.
Speaker 1: Was keeping in the corner. Boy, I want to warn
Speaker 1: about break of the song. Ballroomlts to take the Fritz
Speaker 1: he's wearing. And I really got to warn you. Thank you.
Speaker 1: The what a changing of the guard. This is because
Speaker 1: we had we had a man named the Fridge. We
Speaker 1: named him the fridg Fridge. Yeah, he was. He was
Speaker 1: here producing the last couple of weeks while Errol was
Speaker 1: away enjoying pinut coladas, and the.
Speaker 2: Ery does that quite a few times. He loves a cocktail.
Speaker 2: He's often like, we got to get a cocktail. Yeah,
Speaker 2: at all times.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Often you come in here early to record an early
Speaker 2: one at six seven a him. He's got an old
Speaker 2: fashion out. Oh yeah, he said, do you want to
Speaker 2: know grony He's like shaking.
Speaker 1: He's shaking it up. He's got the tumblr. He's an alcoholic,
Speaker 1: is what we're saying. It wasn't very early, Piper heide six.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that piper hide tick you can drink anytime.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's like it's a breakfast it's a
Speaker 2: breakfast drink. And I think they market themselves though.
Speaker 1: It's so good to have you back, Samuel Taunt, and
Speaker 1: you are filling in for Lizzie, who while she has
Speaker 1: gone for six full weeks, six.
Speaker 2: Full weeks, she's going to pursue her dream of stand
Speaker 2: up comedy, which I don't love. I think she well,
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm happy to be here, but like, what
Speaker 2: are her priorities?
Speaker 3: Really?
Speaker 1: A thank you for being here? You were away for
Speaker 1: a while as well, so it's me just settling into
Speaker 1: the new dynamic. The boys are back in town. Well,
Speaker 1: it's it back in town.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well it's a danger though, because you you you have
Speaker 2: the ability to kind of go full jock very quick.
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 2: That's why I think Lizzie is a good pairing with you,
Speaker 2: because she can kind of take the edge off, whereas
Speaker 2: before I feel like like I feel like if I'm
Speaker 2: here in Errold's here very quickly. You know, you're we're
Speaker 2: talking about skateboarding. We're talking. You're like, oh, look at
Speaker 2: this clip I saw of like a guy cutting his
Speaker 2: leg off.
Speaker 1: Do you know what I mean? I feel like you
Speaker 1: would just go full Rogan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you'll go Rogan. Yeah, we'll be talking about UFOs.
Speaker 1: Well, before we get into the tennis. What is your
Speaker 1: best way of preparing elk meat?
Speaker 2: Just a bit of salt and pepper, Heat up the
Speaker 2: barbecue to about two forty, get it nice and hot.
Speaker 2: You've got to shoot the elk.
Speaker 1: It is great to have you back, Sam taunting. You're
Speaker 1: gonna be here through the US Open, and I am
Speaker 1: fascinated to get your hearts and minds picks for the
Speaker 1: US Men's and Women's.
Speaker 2: I think Sinner, you'd be just insane. To not pick him.
Speaker 2: I think it's a bit of a hard court king. Yes,
Speaker 2: my hard pick is obviously. I think I'll go Australians.
Speaker 2: Obviously Chris O'Connell. His game was suspended. He was losing,
Speaker 2: but they suspended his game last night.
Speaker 1: No, I'm going to say my burial O'Connell from Sliders.
Speaker 1: More of a chance I say that about Chris. That's crazy,
Speaker 1: that's not very nice to say. Yeah, yeah, he could
Speaker 1: do it. He absolutely could go on an all time run.
Speaker 1: Or I'm going to say the Demon. I think, I mean,
Speaker 1: he got bundled out again, but surely it's either.
Speaker 2: He has to do has to do something soon, or
Speaker 2: he's just going to drift off into you know nothing.
Speaker 2: I'm going to say, this is the time is now,
Speaker 2: and I feel like in Australian winning the US Open,
Speaker 2: I feel like that that sounds about right, So that's
Speaker 2: in my heart. I'm going to say Demon, all right,
Speaker 2: and women's I'm going to say we're back on her
Speaker 2: to win.
Speaker 1: Oh nice, Yeah, good, I like it. I think server, hardcore, yeah,
Speaker 1: hard court.
Speaker 2: And then my heart, I'm going to say the young
Speaker 2: Filipino queen.
Speaker 1: Oh, Alexandra Iala.
Speaker 2: I think she, you know, has kind of caught the
Speaker 2: attention of the world of tennis and if you don't
Speaker 2: like her, then what's going on in your own heart?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. And obviously a million Filipinos.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want absolutely Well, I'm because Many Pakia when
Speaker 2: he was at the height of boxing, like he just
Speaker 2: had like he had a sitcom on TV in the Philippines.
Speaker 2: He was like he ran for president called the Many.
Speaker 2: I think it was maybe called the Man.
Speaker 1: That's how he became.
Speaker 2: I think the premise was he like lived with a
Speaker 2: family and they were like, are you Many Pakia? Yeah,
Speaker 2: but she could be like we don't know the heights
Speaker 2: of her actual fame in the Philippines, like how big
Speaker 2: she could be.
Speaker 1: I mean, she's already a superstar and then we'll get
Speaker 1: into the dc epen soon. But the support for her
Speaker 1: playing an American in an American five hundred tournament was
Speaker 1: so much louder. Why is that? Because the Filipinos they support,
Speaker 1: they turn out.
Speaker 2: But I also think like she's got something that even
Speaker 2: like the run of the mill American would get behind
Speaker 2: in a big way. Like what I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: some people just have it and it's a charismatic drawing force,
Speaker 2: and you just even just take a look at a
Speaker 2: picture of her and her smile and you go, oh,
Speaker 2: I'm going to support her.
Speaker 1: I think. Do you think if you like, say, move
Speaker 1: to America like Austria would turn up and droves to watch.
Speaker 2: I've thought about this, yeah, because I've done stand up
Speaker 2: overseas and I've thought Australians would come out, and they haven't.
Speaker 2: They don't. Once in I did a gig in Argentina,
Speaker 2: in Buenos Aidis and I'm just bombing so hard, and
Speaker 2: then there was an Australian guy in the front row.
Speaker 2: This is when I was on the project, and I
Speaker 2: was like said to the guar, I'm like, I'm famous
Speaker 2: in Australia. Tell everyone here. And he goes, I don't
Speaker 2: know who you are.
Speaker 1: Maybe he'd been living over there forever, maybe he.
Speaker 2: Was on holiday, he was visiting. He goes, I've never
Speaker 2: seen you before, right, yeah.
Speaker 1: Maybe he had seen like a previous you know, Peter
Speaker 1: Ellier or Tommy Little, you know, like you were you
Speaker 1: were the kind of the death rattle of the show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Eryl, who also worked on the show, I think would agree.
Speaker 1: He would agree that I agree with that.
Speaker 2: Ey sang I came in and closed the doors.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, it was like the harbinger of doom
Speaker 1: when me and you were up for the same pick.
Speaker 1: So maybe this is just me being like, remember they
Speaker 1: brought me in as level.
Speaker 2: We both did a chemistry test together. Yeah, imagine if
Speaker 2: you got it. Oh, it would have ended way quicker totally,
Speaker 2: so much quicker carry.
Speaker 1: Three weeks on it.
Speaker 2: Let's how who your picks him for the US Open?
Speaker 1: Well I discussed this on last week's app with Lizzy
Speaker 1: who when I got her heart and minds? How did
Speaker 1: she go with You'll have to go back and listen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what happened was but because we have e roll back
Speaker 1: in the studio, I would love to get your harolds
Speaker 1: and minds, Errol, I think.
Speaker 2: That was my heart is that your I was gonna say,
Speaker 2: that's your mind?
Speaker 1: Oh your mind pick is.
Speaker 2: Venus, Ah, Venus, that's a big you got to be
Speaker 2: cart and the Fellas.
Speaker 1: Center's mind. That's cool.
Speaker 2: I love that, I thought, maybe, like, I think there'll
Speaker 2: be a lot of hard for Carlitos. I think people
Speaker 2: want to see him come back and bounce back from
Speaker 2: this injury. Run that he's been on.
Speaker 1: We'll get into the Carldos news because many things to
Speaker 1: discuss on today's pod. I do have to say that
Speaker 1: we're We've had, you know, a lot of clips take
Speaker 1: off online. It's clear that we're a podcast. It's clear.
Speaker 1: I hope it's clear we're a podcast. Yeah, but this
Speaker 1: comment really stuck out to me. A man commented, it's
Speaker 1: actually Rod Labor, not pod Labor.
Speaker 2: Thank god, thank god, thank the point. I mean, no,
Speaker 2: I don't think he's missing the point. It wasn't that
Speaker 2: the first thing I said to you, you did. I said,
Speaker 2: there's been a mistake the spelling of your podcast.
Speaker 1: You guys have a crazy topo and all.
Speaker 2: And like there's a big media team here at the
Speaker 2: Australian Open and they all missed it. They all missed it.
Speaker 2: That it's yeah, it is crazy. It's an easy mistake
Speaker 2: to Thank god. This guy pointed out. Did it get
Speaker 2: any likes? It's a pretty funny comment.
Speaker 1: I think people liked it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think people are like, yeah, it is Rod Labor.
Speaker 2: It's like, yeah, dude, we've been thinking about that all
Speaker 2: the time. Yeah, you know, for years at Rod Labor Arena.
Speaker 2: That guy pod lavor comes out, that old guy and
Speaker 2: he sits down.
Speaker 1: I've been calling him Pod. Is his name?
Speaker 2: His name's Rod as well well.
Speaker 1: He actually was known as pocket Pod before he was
Speaker 1: with Pocket Pod. Yeah, yeah, a right, let's get into
Speaker 1: the tennis news. The DC Open just wrapped up. A
Speaker 1: bit of a side note, it's the Mubi Dollar. DC
Speaker 1: opened the Mubi Dollar. I looked into. This is a
Speaker 1: investment company from the Middle East. Fantastic and the fantastic
Speaker 1: main sponsor after Mubadala is Emirates. How do you think Trump,
Speaker 1: who lives in DC, feels about Mubadala and Emirates being
Speaker 1: the main driv.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's my gut. I think he was into it.
Speaker 2: That's good in the nation's capital. That really doesn't make
Speaker 2: you think that America's for sale in any way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, his foreign policy is clear. Click. What a tournament? Oh,
Speaker 1: what a tournament. So the DC Open just wrapped up
Speaker 1: this morning, this very morning because of the rain delays.
Speaker 1: Fritz took it out in straight sets against the aforementioned
Speaker 1: Raphile Ho r Hodar played great, obviously to get to
Speaker 1: the final. Took out some big names along the way
Speaker 1: and was cruising until he faced Fritz and his served
Speaker 1: two big servers.
Speaker 2: Do you think there's a more there's more joy for
Speaker 2: a player out there to win than Taylor Fritz. I
Speaker 2: feel like the general tennis public couldn't be happier for
Speaker 2: this guy.
Speaker 1: How do you mean like the tennis fan base would
Speaker 1: rather see Hodar.
Speaker 2: Than for I think they would rather see a dusty
Speaker 2: old can win a tournament.
Speaker 1: In Taylor Fritz.
Speaker 2: If you look on like Reddit comments or on Twitter, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I feel like he's just like he's a bit of
Speaker 2: a villain.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think he also.
Speaker 2: Kind of ignored me in the hallway at the Australian Open.
Speaker 2: He was walking past and I saw him and I
Speaker 2: said hey, and then he just kind of kept walking. Yes,
Speaker 2: he had just lost and he was going to do media,
Speaker 2: but you know, it cost nothing to be polite.
Speaker 1: You called him Tato.
Speaker 4: It was at this point in the pod that Errol
Speaker 4: gently reminded Sam that his Australian Open work contracts specifically
Speaker 4: prohibited him from speaking to players in the corridors, especially
Speaker 4: players who had just lost a match.
Speaker 1: Oh, this is true. There's no direct eye contact with players.
Speaker 2: I made eye contact with so many players after a
Speaker 2: loss as well. Well, I thought I had some opinion,
Speaker 2: I had some tips square Fedora.
Speaker 1: Next time. I think he's I know you like him, well,
Speaker 1: I mean I just like to see an American player,
Speaker 1: and he's the best of my player at the moment, Shelton,
Speaker 1: I would love to see when these tournaments doesn't have it.
Speaker 1: I disagree with you.
Speaker 2: There, Shelton, Tommy Paul, these guys, Yeah, they're in the
Speaker 2: demon category.
Speaker 1: Oh this is interesting. I think that.
Speaker 2: I think they're like, they're talented, but then there's just
Speaker 2: like an elite class, right, Fritz could be that Like
Speaker 2: Fritz have gone more game, I think maybe your mental
Speaker 2: game as well.
Speaker 1: He's been playing on an injured knee. Look, I think
Speaker 1: to win this tournament in straight sets over Hodar was huge.
Speaker 1: It took a bunch of match points and he got
Speaker 1: a footfall called on him in that last game to
Speaker 1: close out the match. I think he's our best hope
Speaker 1: for the US.
Speaker 2: Our best hope, our best hope.
Speaker 1: What do you you forget? Where my allegiances? Like? Get
Speaker 1: your passports now? Yeah plural? And you alway your first
Speaker 1: love is your first passport.
Speaker 2: That's not true. If you don't like it, leave.
Speaker 1: Oh Jesus Pauline Hanson on.
Speaker 2: Them, Like, I'm just saying, it's like, you know what
Speaker 2: what tennis to M, it's currently paying paying your wages.
Speaker 1: Well until Tommy Haska, of course, but I just want
Speaker 1: to see an American man win the US Open, and
Speaker 1: Fritz winning DC in the lead up M bodes very well.
Speaker 1: And I think him and Hodar have similar games that
Speaker 1: both bombing serves at each other. Both guys seem allergic
Speaker 1: to coming into the net awesome just baseline rallies as
Speaker 1: tennis guess and just whipping four hands cross court. And
Speaker 1: it was similar, like I said, styles and in straits
Speaker 1: not as compelling as you'd hope a final to be.
Speaker 1: But I like Fritz for the going deep in the
Speaker 1: US going.
Speaker 2: Is he your hont he's your heart Peak, Shelton's my
Speaker 2: heart Pert Yeah, okay, we love Shelton. Yeah, he seems
Speaker 2: like a great guy. But like also, second heart pick
Speaker 2: would be Taylor.
Speaker 1: Tommy Paul Well, now Taylor could he and then learn
Speaker 1: I could go through all the Americans before I get
Speaker 1: the Fritz. If I'm being on, Yeah, that's what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: But I think he did.
Speaker 2: You also look him in the eye.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no no. I remember signing the contract
Speaker 1: saying we can't look them in the eye or disparage
Speaker 1: them in any way on the podcast.
Speaker 2: Okay, so I don't think I did the training module
Speaker 2: now that I think, Well, look, I would be fascinated
Speaker 2: to see how big it would be for American tennis
Speaker 2: if an American man could somehow return to the summit, right, Like,
Speaker 2: how big would it be? Like I feel like there's
Speaker 2: been a you know, we talk about maybe there's a
Speaker 2: bit of a wilderness for the Australian men. I feel
Speaker 2: like America's in the same boat.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I really liked your observation of them being
Speaker 1: in the same kind of tier class as demon. I
Speaker 1: think that checks out. And the way for Fritz to
Speaker 1: win the US a lot of things have to happen.
Speaker 1: A super hot day for center. Yeah, he plays Zverev
Speaker 1: in the final. He has a winning record against. You
Speaker 1: need the weather to go lway. Carlos's wrist is in
Speaker 1: one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be hard for Carlos to win. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and it just lack of game time and Djokovic's is old,
Speaker 2: Djokovic old, Yeah, Yeah, Djokovic old and you can't. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he just went like it's been a long season already.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's the path for Fritz. I don't think
Speaker 1: that all all those permutations really come together at the end,
Speaker 1: but yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 2: Anyway, he's a single man now, so I feel like
Speaker 2: he's focused and maybe you're going to start seeing some
Speaker 2: better tennis.
Speaker 1: Some better results. Better results. We could have had two
Speaker 1: American winners on the men's and women's side had Pagoola
Speaker 1: not lost to alex Illa in the women's final in DC.
Speaker 1: Pagola was up a set and then it was two
Speaker 1: to one in the second set when the rains came
Speaker 1: through absolute monsoon and they had to cancel the rest
Speaker 1: of the day. H This worked out in Yola's favor.
Speaker 1: She then ran away with the match after returning to
Speaker 1: the court the next day. Swing.
Speaker 2: It is awesome how quickly it can happen. Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: crazy that a tournament of the side doesn't have an
Speaker 2: indoor court. But I guess like there aren't that many
Speaker 2: indoor courts. No indoor like that can hold the numbers
Speaker 2: you need for a final.
Speaker 1: Players complain about the conditions on indoor courts that the
Speaker 1: ball you know it bubbles or whatever. Yeah, and the lights,
Speaker 1: you know, they they find it annoying. I mean there's
Speaker 1: some guys that play great indoors. I mean Center obviously
Speaker 1: prefers it. But the third set was a bagel in
Speaker 1: Yola's favor. That was surprising to me. But bad night's bad,
Speaker 1: Night's sleep bad when it sounds, yeah, I guess so.
Speaker 1: But she also Pagola said in her interview after the
Speaker 1: match that the crowd support for Iola threw her off. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's awesome. It's good to know it.
Speaker 2: Can't like it because you know, when you're at the tennis,
Speaker 2: so you're at any sport really and you're cheering away
Speaker 2: and you're like, am I just doing this for me?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Am I doing it? It's good to know it kind of. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's quite a bit of an effect. Well, she's not
Speaker 2: inspiring the other person, but definitely throwing off someone.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, because I mean I watched this match and
Speaker 1: it was crazy when he Alla won a point, the
Speaker 1: roar from the crowd compared to Pagola winning a point.
Speaker 1: Who's in you know, her home country and not getting
Speaker 1: the support she's in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's in the you know, the hot the beating
Speaker 2: heart of the country. Yeah, sponsored by a Middle Eastern
Speaker 2: financial film. Yeah, this is what America is all about,
Speaker 2: of course. And then she's getting thousands of Filipinos. They're
Speaker 2: trying to bring her down. It's a lot going on
Speaker 2: for her to kind of grapple with.
Speaker 1: This is i Allah's first WTA title and what a
Speaker 1: one to win a five hundred event is a good
Speaker 1: first title. And en route to the title, she took
Speaker 1: out some big names, last year's winner Leila Fernandez, she
Speaker 1: beat her in straits, she beat svid Alina, who's informed
Speaker 1: this year and playing great, and to me, the biggest
Speaker 1: surprise beating Osaka pretty handily six four, six to two
Speaker 1: to proceed on to the final where she then took
Speaker 1: it out.
Speaker 2: So news like star is born moment. Do you think
Speaker 2: coming of age twenty one, she could go on a
Speaker 2: good run here, maybe be like a consistent top five player.
Speaker 1: Maybe. I mean, she looked amazing, like she's won me over.
Speaker 1: There was accusations of her being over hyped and that
Speaker 1: she's just being touted as the next big thing because
Speaker 1: she sells so many tickets and has so much support.
Speaker 1: But her tennis was blowing people off the court.
Speaker 2: If it would be it will be exciting for the
Speaker 2: Australian Open if she, you know, continues, maybe has a
Speaker 2: good showing at the US Open big back half of
Speaker 2: the year, like you know, the Asia Pacific area when
Speaker 2: she plays the Grand send down here to see the
Speaker 2: support or see what happens. You might get a lot
Speaker 2: of Filipinos coming over as well.
Speaker 1: Well. I don't know if you remember this year, but
Speaker 1: they put her on a court that was too small
Speaker 1: for her fan base at the AO.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's just like spilling over and there's huge cues.
Speaker 2: Filipino tennis star Alexei Ala has sent Melbourne Park crowds
Speaker 2: into an absolute frenzy.
Speaker 4: She's the highest ranking Filipino in a history.
Speaker 1: I think she's playing on a pod labor.
Speaker 2: She's made it to pod labor.
Speaker 1: I mean, I would be surprised if they didn't put
Speaker 1: her on on pocket John Cain or yeah, pocket pods
Speaker 1: on arena. She has a name elsewhere. In the DC Open,
Speaker 1: alex Demonar had a kind of an interesting start because
Speaker 1: he played Cruz Hewitt. That's cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like a fun little nod to the future,
Speaker 2: and you know, it's just nice to have some Australian
Speaker 2: names that are headlines.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and did you see Cruz Hewitt doing his dad's celebration.
Speaker 2: He's kept that going disgusting. Come on, be your own man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. They even asked him and he
Speaker 1: was like, I don't know. I just saw my dad
Speaker 1: do it growing.
Speaker 2: Up, And I mean, it would be weird if your
Speaker 2: dad was Leighton Hugh when Leyton first came on the scene.
Speaker 2: I feel like he was.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Cruz just seems like a much nicer young man than
Speaker 2: his dad Will.
Speaker 1: It's at the same age, right. Have you seen him
Speaker 1: in interviews or anything. He's Cruise. Yeah, he's clearly curios affected. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, I guess Nick would be like the cool guy. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the cool older guy that you would see around the place.
Speaker 1: That would disobey his own father, you know.
Speaker 2: No, but I think his dad he's going to keep
Speaker 2: him on the straight.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, But like Kurios would you know, go
Speaker 1: against what Layton would tell him during Davis Cup or
Speaker 1: you know whatever. So he probably saw that as like,
Speaker 1: like that's a cool dude.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but Curios didn't have to go to Christmas lunch
Speaker 2: at Layton Hewitt how him and Bet cart Right and
Speaker 2: like can I have the prawns? And he's like, well,
Speaker 2: you disobeyed me in the Davis Cup. So I think, Kruse,
Speaker 2: what Cruise's game style? Is it more similar to like
Speaker 2: did he have a stronger backcoll game?
Speaker 1: To be honest, I haven't seen enough of him to say,
Speaker 1: and that the Demon ar match was like at three am,
Speaker 1: and I just saw the result when I woke up
Speaker 1: and demonar rolled. And but at the net after he goes,
Speaker 1: We're going to be playing so much over the next
Speaker 1: That's what he said. Yeah, that's so cool. So Demon
Speaker 1: are beating Cruz Hewittt in the second round of DC
Speaker 1: but in the next round losing to Brandon Nakashima in
Speaker 1: straight sets. So Demon was the defending chance too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he was, you know, defending points because he had
Speaker 1: won the DC Open last year and then went out
Speaker 1: to Nakashima. Is this post wedding hangover? Was cruz Hewittt
Speaker 1: too easy of a match going into Nakashima? He wasn't
Speaker 1: ready for a season player. I don't know.
Speaker 2: He said he played well the Demon and which I
Speaker 2: never like to see when someone loses and they say
Speaker 2: they played well, yeah, I just think, like just cop
Speaker 2: it and just be like I suck, really get angry.
Speaker 2: You know, I can be better. I need to return
Speaker 2: it to the top. So I don't know, like maybe
Speaker 2: he's just I don't know. The craziest part about the
Speaker 2: Demon's year so far, it's like I feel like it's
Speaker 2: been another year of closeness, getting you know, into the
Speaker 2: positions and then kind of not following through.
Speaker 1: And he's what rank he's gone ou he's up to
Speaker 1: six now in the world.
Speaker 2: Yet to me, it feels like he maybe has taken
Speaker 2: a step backwards this year, right in terms of progression.
Speaker 1: Well, we saw that after his Wimbledon loss that he
Speaker 1: was disenfranchised and he was shook and he was like, eh,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm just not feeling it. So I mean,
Speaker 1: take a break, Damon enjoy married like.
Speaker 2: Said, wait quit is that what you're saying? Well, I
Speaker 2: just you just think he needs to have a little break.
Speaker 1: But if he's in the top ten, he's going to
Speaker 1: be playing in the ATP finals at the end of
Speaker 1: the year. The season the grind continues, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. So like he's gotta you.
Speaker 2: Need maybe a little mental health kind of retreat or something.
Speaker 2: Head to Bali with some other Australians and.
Speaker 1: Either comeback with braids or a fedora.
Speaker 2: I mean braids that a fedora would be what.
Speaker 1: About braids under a fedora? And then when you.
Speaker 2: Daft the fantastic could you play in the fedora? And
Speaker 2: then you reveal in the postmatch interview.
Speaker 1: The corners although milady, Yeah, I mean cornrows from lady.
Speaker 2: I think it's it does only if he's playing he's
Speaker 2: playing mixed doubles and he does it to his phone every.
Speaker 1: Time sheets a good shot corn Rows Lady.
Speaker 3: It's really it's really blurring cultural Yeah, yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 3: would like it's kind of like a Bridgeton thing, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean, Like it's you could see it
Speaker 3: happening in an episode of that where you're like, what
Speaker 3: is the time?
Speaker 2: What is kind of all these points happening?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 1: A time traveler? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, showing up speaking
Speaker 1: of people out of time. Venus Williams, what a mean
Speaker 1: transition that?
Speaker 2: Well, look, I feel like it's getting to the point
Speaker 2: where we're going to be like, what is going on here?
Speaker 1: Thirteen losses in a row as of recording. She just
Speaker 1: went out in Toronto in the one thousand event in
Speaker 1: the first round. So last first round in DC, lost
Speaker 1: first round in Toronto.
Speaker 2: At this is there something like you're taking? Is she
Speaker 2: taking someone's place? That's a conversation.
Speaker 1: If she's getting a wild card into these then yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean there's a lot of people vying for a.
Speaker 2: While, That's what I mean. Like, you know, if she
Speaker 2: is not competing, and if you're losing thirty in a row,
Speaker 2: isn't there's an argument that she's not, then is she
Speaker 2: holding a spot up for someone else that could use
Speaker 2: it more?
Speaker 1: And she hasn't said this is a victory lap or
Speaker 1: this is a you know, final year for her. So
Speaker 1: at forty six years old, I guess still threatening to
Speaker 1: play all the events.
Speaker 2: Threatening to play That sounds very honesting threatening to play,
Speaker 2: like come on, venus.
Speaker 1: No, She's like, I'm going to do it. I'm going
Speaker 1: to do it if you don't, behaves.
Speaker 2: Look credit to her. She's forty six, she wants to
Speaker 2: do it. She could do it all. But losing that
Speaker 2: much just surely would not be fun either. That's the
Speaker 2: other thing. So, especially for a crazy competitor, so like,
Speaker 2: I don't know, it's all. It's a bit bizarre if
Speaker 2: you ask me.
Speaker 1: I don't think she's won a singles tour match since
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, And it's yeah, does she call it
Speaker 1: a day or does she just love the competitive nature
Speaker 1: of the life and can't walk away?
Speaker 2: Well, it could be a bit like you know in
Speaker 2: Shure Shank Redemption when old man gets left let out
Speaker 2: of the prison but kind of freak doesn't know what
Speaker 2: to do, so he commits a crime so he can
Speaker 2: go back in Red Red.
Speaker 1: That's him. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's a similar thing with Venus. It's like she's
Speaker 2: at this point now where she's like, I don't know
Speaker 2: any other life, right, I feel the safetiness of the tour. Wow,
Speaker 2: the regularity of going week to week, tournament to a tournament.
Speaker 2: That's my routine. That's how I know who I am.
Speaker 1: Tennis is a prison.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we've got to break these guys out.
Speaker 1: Or the end of hurt Locker when he's you know yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's left the war. He's back home and he's in
Speaker 1: the supermarket and he's like, I can't ye doing here,
Speaker 1: and then the final scene he sees back.
Speaker 2: She's got PTSD. She has to get back there post line.
Speaker 1: Tennis serena derangement.
Speaker 2: But she's not even like she's getting knocked out in
Speaker 2: the first round. So she's not even playing that much tennis.
Speaker 1: No, I mean she'd be training and practicing a ton,
Speaker 1: but then just getting bounced.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so if she likes training, you can still train
Speaker 2: for what is she trying to go now?
Speaker 1: To play these first round matches? Get an entrance fee
Speaker 1: travel the world.
Speaker 2: She doesn't need the money.
Speaker 1: No, but maybe she likes Toronto, and maybe she likes
Speaker 1: Cincinnati in a couple of weeks, and then she likes
Speaker 1: where she's gone, But she could just go to these places.
Speaker 2: Yeah, speaking of people that doesn't need that, they don't
Speaker 2: need the money.
Speaker 1: Bernard Tomic, Ah, Bernie, this is our ongoing segment. Gin
Speaker 1: and Tomic very high quality tennis for me Toomic played
Speaker 1: Karen cashing off in Mexico, Aaron one, he's made some
Speaker 1: money here. Actually, yeah, you got to couch it in Okay.
Speaker 1: He won a challenger event a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 1: and Lincoln, Nebraska, and then he went through I think
Speaker 1: the Karen Kashanov took him through to the quarter final him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then he gets absolutely trounced by Cameron Nori. But
Speaker 1: beating Karen Kashanov, a top ten player, amazing, huge result.
Speaker 1: I don't know was something going on with Karen Kashanov.
Speaker 1: I know that sounds like I'm doubting bird talking.
Speaker 2: About Bernie at his peak would take him down. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and Bernie's at his peak? Yeah, thirty three? How much
Speaker 2: is Bernie worth? Because there was that clip a few months.
Speaker 1: Ago only Evans Well, there was a clip of.
Speaker 2: Him like wanting to pull out of a game and
Speaker 2: he was saying to he goes, I'm going to get
Speaker 2: a private jet out of here, and I was like,
Speaker 2: how much money has he got in the bank?
Speaker 1: How much Derek and he had?
Speaker 2: So he's won six point seven million in prize money
Speaker 2: throughout his career. But apparently as it estimated net worth
Speaker 2: is it just according to AI a four million?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but also private jet. Have you ever looked up
Speaker 1: what the Internet thinks your net worth is? Oh, I'd
Speaker 1: loved it. Mike goldtein Network, I'll do Samton and then
Speaker 1: you can guess it's like network.
Speaker 2: His net worth is not publicly documented financial figures are
Speaker 2: available for the American Experience stand up. There was in
Speaker 2: pament nothing.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's pretty accurate.
Speaker 2: It says you have nothing. Yeah, there's another guy called
Speaker 2: Mike Goldstein that has a lot fourteen point five million.
Speaker 1: He's a trader though. Yeah, that's some of me. Sam
Speaker 1: Tott height, weight, networth, age, birthday Wikipedia. What to say
Speaker 1: about weight? It says a little tubby post thirty years old.
Speaker 1: It is a bit chody, A bit chody for my liking. Well,
Speaker 1: they're really editorialized if I like it.
Speaker 2: My point is, what is Bernie doing out there as well?
Speaker 1: What do you mean?
Speaker 2: Like, I get that he's out there playing, but but he's.
Speaker 1: Been grinding away in the lesser tournaments of the Challengers.
Speaker 2: I know he loves it, That's what I mean. He
Speaker 2: just loves being out there. Yeah, but for these guys
Speaker 2: that would need the top I don't know what did
Speaker 2: he get to, maybe ranked fifteenth in the world or something.
Speaker 1: But I don't think he's getting wild cards.
Speaker 2: Is he's just grinding for the love of the game
Speaker 2: at it. The money is like it's not much. He
Speaker 2: wouldn't be covering costs, I don't think.
Speaker 1: But he deserves to be if he's getting through qualifying
Speaker 1: rounds and then winning through it a quarterfinals.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, but why still is my point?
Speaker 1: Because these guys are competitive freaks and it's all they know.
Speaker 1: And if they're not out there playing, they're you know,
Speaker 1: making OnlyFans clips that are far too pricey for my
Speaker 1: like for you a linking anyway, And yeah, he got
Speaker 1: trounced by Cameron Norri in the next round in Mexico, Bernie,
Speaker 1: but I would like to see Bernie in the US Open,
Speaker 1: just to you know, continue our fan favorite segment gin
Speaker 1: and tomic.
Speaker 2: He's not going to play in the US Yeah, how
Speaker 2: do you know that? Well, well, he would have to.
Speaker 2: He's not going to qualify. What he ranked in the
Speaker 2: world one hundred and seventy first or something.
Speaker 1: How do you know he's not going to qualify?
Speaker 2: Well, okay, maybe he's gonna.
Speaker 1: Do you think Chris O'Connell is going to win it? Yeah?
Speaker 2: The herd and once with the Heart once don't yuck
Speaker 2: my yum again?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I hate that saying so much.
Speaker 2: No yuck my yum. How much talent did he.
Speaker 1: Have a lot? Do you remember those aos where he
Speaker 1: was touted as the next big thing and making the
Speaker 1: second week, and then he just flamed out. He like
Speaker 1: had that car issue. I don't know, Yeah, he had
Speaker 1: that car thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but yeah, he was also not very well liked
Speaker 2: the jungle, did.
Speaker 1: He I'm just not cooking. Well, huh, I'm a celebrity.
Speaker 1: Get me out of here. I need to get out
Speaker 1: of here. Carlos Acharass is training again. I'm excited, are you,
Speaker 1: Samuel Tamta.
Speaker 2: Yes, of course, Like I think he's everyone's favorite tennis player.
Speaker 2: It's excited. Didn't have him back out there, and.
Speaker 1: How do you see him going?
Speaker 2: Oh, I think it's he's going to be a bit
Speaker 2: soft on return, and I think he needs Look the
Speaker 2: mental state I'm worried about as well.
Speaker 1: If you have a look at that hair, well you've
Speaker 1: got We have discussed corn rows a lot on this episode.
Speaker 1: And what do you think of Alcoraz's.
Speaker 2: I think he look he looked good, but yeah, look
Speaker 2: at that he does look good. But as every girlfriend
Speaker 2: I've ever dated has told me, if someone changes their
Speaker 2: hair dramatically, it means they're in crisis. Right, Yeah, So
Speaker 2: how else could you read into that?
Speaker 1: Before last year's US Open, he shaved his head completely,
Speaker 1: came out totally bald. Yeah, but that's then one in
Speaker 1: the US Open.
Speaker 2: That's not Cornrows.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you're rastic.
Speaker 2: Shaving your head is like a cry for help. It's
Speaker 2: like hot in New York in August. It's like, I
Speaker 2: don't want the extra hair, yeah, you know, I just
Speaker 2: because I'm going to sweat a lot. How do you
Speaker 2: explain this? This is a lot of This is a
Speaker 2: stylistic change up.
Speaker 1: I think he saw his friend Flavio Kabali do it
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago and he was like that,
Speaker 1: that's cool. Arthur fees look amazing with the corn Rows.
Speaker 1: So it's a lot of effort, It's all I'm saying. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but at least he doesn't have the little beads in
Speaker 1: the back yet yet. So this is, you think, more
Speaker 1: like an auntie getting back from Bali.
Speaker 2: It just looks like I'm you know, you know, nine
Speaker 2: club in Columbia and this guy is trying to sell
Speaker 2: me something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think can we sho?
Speaker 2: You didn't even think you go yep, You're like yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, can we The most amazing thing
Speaker 1: anyone's ever done in corn Rows is friend of the show,
Speaker 1: Aaron Cox. Yeah, this is I mean, this is a
Speaker 1: man in corn rows eating corn while listening to corn. Yeah,
Speaker 1: can that ever be topped?
Speaker 2: I guess if Carlos wins the US Open with corn rows,
Speaker 2: that tops this, Well, you'd have to eat then corn.
Speaker 2: You'd have to then replicate golf afterwards he's like, can
Speaker 2: you put corn on?
Speaker 1: And then he'll do it. This is not bad if
Speaker 1: he's still rocking the corn rows when he comes in
Speaker 1: for the AO next year and we correplicate that, and
Speaker 1: that's a great idea.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think athletes back to back to back to him.
Speaker 2: I think, look, I would love to see him come back,
Speaker 2: but I think he's just going to be a bit
Speaker 2: underdone and rest. Yeah, and I just think we will
Speaker 2: have to wait and see. Yeah, you'd love to see
Speaker 2: him make a run, but maybe he's a semi final situation.
Speaker 1: Just want to see a viable opponent for Yannick Center.
Speaker 1: And I think outside of the heat, it's Carlos so well.
Speaker 2: I feel almost like the tournament hinges on those two
Speaker 2: getting to the final to face each other. Now, I
Speaker 2: think that's what people want, which kind of is like
Speaker 2: not I mean, it's not great for the men's ru all,
Speaker 2: but like, let's hope he's recovered, or let's hope we
Speaker 2: get some good young names coming through that are going
Speaker 2: to elevate the sport.
Speaker 1: Maybe this is Cruz Hewitt, Christian O'Connell.
Speaker 2: Christian Chris O'Connell. Christian O'Connell hosts the radio shop on GOLM.
Speaker 2: If he went the US Open, I will be very surprised.
Speaker 1: As we speak, the Montreal one thousand for the men
Speaker 1: and the Toronto one thousand for the women is on.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: This is the National Bank Open presented by Rogers. I
Speaker 1: do know these corporate names for tournaments, not rules. Just
Speaker 1: call it the Toronto Open or the Canada Open. But
Speaker 1: people are.
Speaker 2: Paying for the money, and you know, tennis and golf
Speaker 2: it's pretty much all propped up by the financial services industries.
Speaker 2: I know this is where the clientele is.
Speaker 1: You think you are lose. This is a bit of
Speaker 1: its soul when.
Speaker 2: It's yes, what do you tell me when you go
Speaker 2: watch the football at Marvel Stadium, You're not like your God.
Speaker 1: But I'm excited because I expect Iron Man and the
Speaker 1: Hulk to be there. Yeah, no, that's true.
Speaker 2: Yea, well, there is I did stand up once in
Speaker 2: the Peter Parker room.
Speaker 1: There is that a thing.
Speaker 2: That's all the rooms are like named after kind of.
Speaker 1: Character, right, Yes, so you don't even get the Spider
Speaker 1: Man room. They gave you the boring Ah there you go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they got pre and that's kind of what
Speaker 2: my gig was. It felt like a man before he
Speaker 2: was a comedian because it wasn't very many low.
Speaker 1: So we'll just check in on the scores. This is
Speaker 1: day one of the Canadian Open. Let's see, there's a
Speaker 1: few matches going on as we speak. Diallo beat Jack Kay.
Speaker 1: This is the Vukic is playing Altmeyer at the moment.
Speaker 1: Marin Chilich won his first round match, as did James
Speaker 1: Duckworth over Chris O'Connell one.
Speaker 2: Because when I came into the podcast the game was suspended.
Speaker 1: Duckworth absolutely stomped your boy Chris O'Connell sixty three, six
Speaker 1: to one.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, was he was, he was up, he wasn't off
Speaker 2: a break. But I was always like this, rain's gonna
Speaker 2: help him ott.
Speaker 1: Nope, did not help him at all. Matteo Barattini is
Speaker 1: out in the first round, losing to Navone. Uh and
Speaker 1: then yeah this of course none of the big three Djokovic,
Speaker 1: Alcarez or Center is playing in the Canadian Open. They're
Speaker 1: resting up before Cincinnati. And the women's draw. Bianca Andrescu
Speaker 1: went out in the first round. Talia Gibson gets a
Speaker 1: walk over. That's actually huge because she was playing Coccaretto,
Speaker 1: who was in good form. Uh kayla day the American
Speaker 1: goes through in three sets, and please give a through
Speaker 1: in three Katie Bolter out to a Canadian k Cross
Speaker 1: And yeah, so we'll keep across that for the next
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, and well it'll be wrapped up. No,
Speaker 1: this one goes through twelve days, so this will be
Speaker 1: in the thick of the quarterfinals. One thing I want
Speaker 1: to talk about is the crazy US Open mixed doubles pairings.
Speaker 1: I've seen this wild yea, what is there a reason
Speaker 1: every tournament doesn't do these?
Speaker 2: Well, you know what I was thinking is like they
Speaker 2: should make it like compulsory to play mixed doubles. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like they pay you with someone and it's just like
Speaker 2: good for the Yeah, everyone, like it's awesome.
Speaker 1: Like some of these names, this is more interesting than
Speaker 1: the singles.
Speaker 2: Like Novak and sabas pery are but it's like I've
Speaker 2: never they ever been in the same room.
Speaker 1: That's crazy, and it's so it's gonna be so good
Speaker 1: to watch. Say, Novak and Sabilanka are up against you know,
Speaker 1: Fritz and Rebecca and yeah, yeah, there's the all Russian
Speaker 1: pairing Andreva and rube Lev, Nishikori and Osaka is just
Speaker 1: huge contain yeah, Iola and Canadian favorite Felix r j
Speaker 1: l seem And then today there is more announce because
Speaker 1: everyone's getting in on the action.
Speaker 2: But it's like fun. It seems like pure fun, and
Speaker 2: maybe it's a good distraction from like the psycho little
Speaker 2: world you're in when you play singles.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it makes doubles interesting.
Speaker 2: And like you know when when the Grand Slams are
Speaker 2: on and they fly in all the legends and they
Speaker 2: playing these fun games and it's like so much fun
Speaker 2: to It's like we could just be doing that every
Speaker 2: time there's a tournament on. Yeah, it's like so fun.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be wild to watch. A couple of the
Speaker 1: new ones announced today. Bublick is playing with Venus williams
Speaker 1: oh Finevara and then you got the married couples Alex
Speaker 1: demon are playing with Katie Demon are now no longer Bolter.
Speaker 2: Makes business with pleasure if he's.
Speaker 1: Gael Monfis and Lina's for the Yeah, so that's exciting.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't play doubles with your life partner.
Speaker 2: She wouldn't want to play with me. We've tried to play,
Speaker 2: she yells at me. She has to go on the
Speaker 2: opposing team.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah yeah, And she's like, that's what she says
Speaker 1: to me. Are you okay?
Speaker 2: No, I'm just when we when we play, when we play,
Speaker 2: it's it's bad times. Yeah, yeah, because she won't ever
Speaker 2: go up to the net. She's scared of the net.
Speaker 2: Volley games not good. She's good from the back court.
Speaker 1: Play doubles. It's like half of the time.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 1: That's what I say to him.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm the problem, Maybe it's me I'm the problem.
Speaker 2: But look, I think this is exciting. And look it's
Speaker 2: also like not to be like a cynical person, but
Speaker 2: like you know, Novak and SAB's playing together. It's like
Speaker 2: this is this, this is you know, exposure, this is
Speaker 2: like promotion, this is everything. It's like there's no reason
Speaker 2: why these top players shouldn't be playing together. If you
Speaker 2: get a final with like some of the big names together,
Speaker 2: it's like, how good is that?
Speaker 1: I know it's and now it's the tickets are going
Speaker 1: to go through the roof to see some of these pairings, right,
Speaker 1: But I also think that none of these players are
Speaker 1: double specialists. I mean, on paper absolutely roll yeah, probably
Speaker 1: it's by two like no name, you know, mixed doubles,
Speaker 1: people who are just know how to play double. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: And I'll be I'd be. It would be awesome to
Speaker 1: see Nisha, Corey and Osaka in the final against you know, say,
Speaker 1: demon Ar and Demonar. But I just don't see it happening,
Speaker 1: and it just seems like a bit of a like
Speaker 1: a promo move.
Speaker 2: I think so, but I still don't care. I think
Speaker 2: it's still fun to watch. I think you're gonna see
Speaker 2: a lot of smiling and until one of them rolls
Speaker 2: an ankle and gets knocked out of the singles draw.
Speaker 2: Hopefully we see a bit of this, yeah, and then
Speaker 2: one person's gonna get injured and it will never happen again.
Speaker 1: But this is now a popularity contest where it's like
Speaker 1: Novac's like, I'll take Sabalanca and you know, and then
Speaker 1: he all is like, I'll take Felix. And then there's
Speaker 1: surely someone who's like, why isn't anyone asked me?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's last picked, it's school sport.
Speaker 1: Yeah, is there no Fritz? No, Fritz is playing with Rebeccaa. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Fritz and Rebeccaa.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which is like, that's sick. That's a great pair.
Speaker 1: Those two of the biggest servers. Also, like two couldn't
Speaker 1: be more different beyond two of the quietest people.
Speaker 2: They hate both hate eye contact.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, for a different reason. They're both very
Speaker 1: hard to interview, if you compare with anyone in the world.
Speaker 1: To play mixed doubles with.
Speaker 2: My girlfriend, what a backtrack in case she's listening. We're
Speaker 2: also going away to a house in like a month
Speaker 2: for the weekend with a tennis court with other couples,
Speaker 2: and the point is to play. We'll be playing a
Speaker 2: lot of tennis, right, and I don't know, I feel
Speaker 2: like there'll be like teams getting rotated around, So I
Speaker 2: do have to pick her first, I guess, all right,
Speaker 2: even though she probably wouldn't pick me. Yeah, yeah, who
Speaker 2: would you take?
Speaker 1: I maybe Rebecca?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I could, I can volly. Okay, my back cord,
Speaker 2: My sir really lets me down right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would also take your girlfriend. I'm a let's
Speaker 1: move on.
Speaker 2: Okay, my kid's time for everyone's favorite segment, approaching the net.
Speaker 2: You like my hat?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I think you got it? Side on?
Speaker 2: Do I have it on? It's hard when you've got
Speaker 2: another hat and head. There go, Okay, let's kick it off.
Speaker 1: It just looks like a massive head. Now it does
Speaker 1: look like I have a massive head?
Speaker 2: Is that my one shot?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: This is good, isn't it? He's zooming in, No, don't
Speaker 2: zoom in the boob bub. He he's announced he's skipping
Speaker 2: the Cincinnati Masters for the fourth consecutive year. You're not
Speaker 2: going to believe the reason.
Speaker 1: What's the reason?
Speaker 2: It's his son's birthday that is beautiful, and so he's
Speaker 2: not going to play.
Speaker 1: That's nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I mean I reckon. His son might love
Speaker 2: his dad to win a big tennis tournament for his birthday.
Speaker 2: That'd be a good present, wouldn't it. And the spring
Speaker 2: his son along. His son's also really young, for I'm
Speaker 2: not going to know, Like kids don't know where they
Speaker 2: are till they're like fifteen that's.
Speaker 1: The thing, like, if you've been invited to a kid's
Speaker 1: birthday party, what's going on the way, why are we
Speaker 1: doing this?
Speaker 2: You could do that in Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: He's not making memories.
Speaker 2: You don't have strong friendships yet, no, So it's like
Speaker 2: who cares if the log Jordan didn't Caser just get
Speaker 2: anyone in the little no loser friends. I just think
Speaker 2: it's like yes, because the internet is pretty much conclusively
Speaker 2: this guy is beautiful.
Speaker 1: What a guy?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm a bit like get out there and
Speaker 2: play well. One said it was supposed to be fun.
Speaker 1: How many parents use their kids as the ultimate excuse
Speaker 1: to get out of things right, totally, So that's him
Speaker 1: just going, oh, yeah, I can't play because I.
Speaker 2: Don't want to play my kid. You know, if my
Speaker 2: kid needs me, he doesn't. You're rich, your kid's got everything.
Speaker 2: Just tell your kid it's his birthday on a different day, yeah.
Speaker 1: Or just like yeah, celebrate the birthday later in the
Speaker 1: year and then don't even have a party and just
Speaker 1: like photo shop him into like a cool party.
Speaker 2: Sang and he said, look at this, Look where you were.
Speaker 1: Yeah, remember when you were four and we went on Safari.
Speaker 2: And then when he's thirty eight going through the house
Speaker 2: and he finds some He's like, oh, that's a year dad,
Speaker 2: one of the Cincinnati Masters, and that was my birthday.
Speaker 1: Hang on, hang on, Oh yeah, could I've been in
Speaker 1: two places at once? The boob being a family man
Speaker 1: though it's nice, I think call it it's beautiful. When
Speaker 1: I saw a post today the Lizzy who's away at
Speaker 1: the Edinburgh friend and I saw another comedian post that
Speaker 1: the hardest part of doing the Edinburgh Friende is going
Speaker 1: to be being away from my family for five weeks,
Speaker 1: and I really wanted to comment, you don't have to
Speaker 1: do the Edinburgh Ye.
Speaker 2: No one is begging you to do the Edinburgh Fringe.
Speaker 2: Skipping the Cincinnati Masters is a way bigger deal. No
Speaker 2: one's making money at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Speaker 1: He just wants to go drink for five weeks without
Speaker 1: his family.
Speaker 2: Okay, moving on Taylor Fritz. We've spoken about him a lot.
Speaker 2: I feel like it's a Fritz heavy app He has
Speaker 2: come out and he's done something that I think it's
Speaker 2: quite I think it's quite bold and brave and he
Speaker 2: didn't like have to do this, and I think in
Speaker 2: the age of people taking stances on things. This is
Speaker 2: a pretty good one. He's come out and admitted that
Speaker 2: his celebrity crush is Sydney Sweeney.
Speaker 1: Was everybody's celebrity crush. We Sidney really really? I mean
Speaker 1: I like that, do you I think that's it's a
Speaker 1: brave I do.
Speaker 2: Just think no one else is talking about her in
Speaker 2: that way, So I think that's really nice.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: I think people are like, you know, there's the normal
Speaker 2: people say when they're like, who is like an attractive person?
Speaker 1: And no one ever brings Sydney Sweeny. No, I've never
Speaker 1: heard her name, yes spoken in those words. People usually
Speaker 1: just talk about how talented she That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's a great actor, and I really admire what
Speaker 2: she's doing is she's running businesses Meryl Street, running that
Speaker 2: longingerie brand.
Speaker 1: And weird she runs a line. It's very bizarre, very bizarre,
Speaker 1: but you know whatever, running.
Speaker 2: A brand, Yeah, just a male lingerie brand.
Speaker 1: Yes. Anyway, he's like the secrets ell.
Speaker 2: Iw Yeah, when Victoria's got secrets, Mike's got secrets. He
Speaker 2: needs to be put in prison. Someone needs to interrogate him. Anyway,
Speaker 2: he was on this.
Speaker 1: I don't now I don't like it.
Speaker 2: He was on this golf channel and someone said Sydney
Speaker 2: Sweeney and he said something like, oh now that's got
Speaker 2: me all teed up. We were talking about Sydney sm
Speaker 2: and I think he was trying to use the golf thing,
Speaker 2: but I mean, like, yuck.
Speaker 1: I didn't like that either. Well teed up the.
Speaker 2: Worst name for an direction I've ever heard.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we have to hear about his drive and his
Speaker 1: sex drove. Come on golf Pune times. I loved it. No,
Speaker 1: I love, give us, give us what come off? You're
Speaker 1: all teed up?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, put it in my hole.
Speaker 1: All right, that's not going to get to speak. It
Speaker 1: was a bit rough. I got another wait, I didn't
Speaker 1: even notice. Yeah, sorry, that was really good. Okay.
Speaker 2: And finally, k I'm trying to think he's got a
Speaker 2: better life than me. No, you don't think so.
Speaker 1: With supermodels? Yeah, okay, good, because look at you. You
Speaker 1: did a gig and benderg that's what I did. Look
Speaker 1: at this.
Speaker 2: He's getting into his car and it does look a
Speaker 2: little bit better than my Volkswag and polo.
Speaker 1: That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 2: That's a Ferrari.
Speaker 1: That's like a five hundred thousand dollar car.
Speaker 2: Look at him, just drive off.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's interesting that he's chosen black there
Speaker 1: because black cars and the heat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's going to roast away much like himself. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it must be hard for him having to worry about
Speaker 2: the temperature at all times. Yeah, but that would have
Speaker 2: good air con in there, wouldn't it.
Speaker 1: Sure so? Yeah, so it's just the Ane Center getting
Speaker 1: in a sports car. Yeah, what's wrong with that?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: Sure, well you wanted more than that.
Speaker 2: It's nice to see how people live their life because everything, like,
Speaker 2: he's so humble, he's down to earth. He's in Monaco
Speaker 2: getting into a Ferrari that's worth more than But isn't
Speaker 2: it entire building?
Speaker 1: He was worthy if he got into like a Hyundai,
Speaker 1: you know, Kona two thousand and six.
Speaker 2: Hm.
Speaker 1: Maybe Look, it's not my finest segment. That was. We
Speaker 1: need to taunt specific segments, Grand Sam.
Speaker 2: Well that could be it, actually, Grand Sam, that's really good,
Speaker 2: well done, well done, very well done.
Speaker 1: Grand Sad. Stay tuned for next week's grandsond grandsandam Fedora.
Speaker 2: I'm clapping myself, No one else is flapping.
Speaker 1: What an app just quickly Quizzy who, we had a
Speaker 1: Rash back again. He won the merch pack because he
Speaker 1: did an impression of Bernie Tomic and he did technically
Speaker 1: get it right that the last challenger Bernie won was
Speaker 1: a link in event. There's a long email from a Rash,
Speaker 1: but we're not going to read it out because it
Speaker 1: is too long.
Speaker 2: So long, I'm just really it's a lot of quite dense,
Speaker 2: isn't it.
Speaker 1: That's quite tense. But an a Rash does say he's
Speaker 1: on two weeks vacation, so he'll be unable to answer
Speaker 1: the Quizzy who question. Oh, let's tell you it's yeah,
Speaker 1: work hours only. But if anyone else wants to answer
Speaker 1: a quiz question, what is the fastest serve ever recorded?
Speaker 1: What is the fastest men's ten? Great question? Who hit it? When?
Speaker 1: What was the speed? Give us all that right into
Speaker 1: pod Labor at Tennis dot com dot au. You know
Speaker 1: it's Rod.
Speaker 2: You know it's road labor. What it's road labor like,
Speaker 2: it's not pod labor, but he's pocket Pod. It's rocket
Speaker 2: road Like. I just think there's been a whole misunderstanding
Speaker 2: game Pocket Rod, Yeah, pocket Rod, Yeah, it's pocket Rod.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Sydney's Winnie, I've got a pocket rod and
Speaker 1: that is Mikey's Secret. Can we do it? That segment?
Speaker 2: Mikey's Secret everyone, and you have to say one.
Speaker 1: But it's not like rude.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just like you're scared of bees or something.
Speaker 1: Okay, do you want Mikey's secret. Yeah, Mikey's Secret. We
Speaker 1: had a giant uh meenam falcon, like the toy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1: You take the panel off and as a child I
Speaker 1: would hide my dirty, skin marked underwear in the Millennium Falcon.
Speaker 1: This is like the movie with Zindea.
Speaker 2: Now I'm like, I can't look at you.
Speaker 1: You're a freak. It's disgusting. Did you really do that?
Speaker 1: That's bad? That is bad. That's so bad. And then
Speaker 1: I like ran out of underwear and there was just
Speaker 1: an overstuffed Millennium.
Speaker 2: Falcon, amazing spacecraft.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining us with our erstwhile
Speaker 1: host Sam Totten being back. Good to have you back
Speaker 1: in the chair.
Speaker 2: That's going to be a good edit.
Speaker 1: Fair old. Oh my god, we're an hour and a
Speaker 1: half almost absolute. Next week we'll discuss the Canadian Open
Speaker 1: wherever it's at at that point, I believe the quarterfinals or.
Speaker 2: Deep into the tournament by then.
Speaker 1: Yeah, these to day events. I think that's why a
Speaker 1: lot of players drop out. It's cause taxing. That's taxing,
Speaker 1: very taxing. But the tournament wants those ticket sales, and they.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's I mean, this is what it's all about.
Speaker 2: The financial services are pushing. They're trying to bring the
Speaker 2: money into the sport. They want a better return on
Speaker 2: their on their dollar. And you're seeing players are having burnout.
Speaker 2: You saw it with Naomi. You're seeing who knows what's
Speaker 2: going on with Carlos mentally and physically, And I just
Speaker 2: hope tennis corrective.
Speaker 1: Yep, Yeah, what a way to end there.
Speaker 2: He is, You're looking good, Carlos.
Speaker 1: Carlos, Yeah, kind of let himself go. We'll talk to
Speaker 1: you guys next week.
Speaker 2: Another hat, my lady, But I wish it was corners.