Speaker 1: Has it been like, you know how people are always
Speaker 1: popping in to have a look at this place? Has
Speaker 1: it been like that since day one?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 2: Those venture capitalists.
Speaker 1: Yesterday, dude, you weren't here. Was it just you and me?
Speaker 1: We popped back yesterday and there were people in here
Speaker 1: and we're like, what's up? And they're like, oh, I'm
Speaker 1: just showing these guys around and we're chatting and I'm like,
Speaker 1: where are you guys from? And the guys like these
Speaker 1: are some venture capitalists that are trying to raise funds.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the guy was was he annoyed that I
Speaker 2: started telling him about the room and stuff. He was like, oh,
Speaker 2: I guess you're doing the tour And I was like,
Speaker 2: I don't give a ship man.
Speaker 1: We just had a lot of YouTubers in here.
Speaker 2: What do you call a group of YouTubers?
Speaker 1: Virgin?
Speaker 2: Is that the collective?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: Collective for a group of YouTubers?
Speaker 3: Is it?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: There was forty YouTubers and they are the future. What
Speaker 2: they're doing is real entertainment. Some of them play video
Speaker 2: games and people watch them play video games.
Speaker 1: They refer to us as old media. Old media.
Speaker 2: They look at us like where the fax machine, where
Speaker 2: the troad wives.
Speaker 1: They didn't have so a lot of people have been
Speaker 1: popping in to have a tour of this studio. Tennis
Speaker 1: officials here as shown being like, look at the podcast
Speaker 1: we do. Everyone can I say, pretty impressed by our
Speaker 1: presence and we have a chat. Those YouTubers, four of
Speaker 1: them just elbowed me, like when I was trying to
Speaker 1: get into the room. They didn't give a crap about it.
Speaker 2: They you should have introduced yourself as high I'm obsolete.
Speaker 2: I have to say. The highlight of my day every.
Speaker 1: Day is seeing all of us in here.
Speaker 2: But when Aceman, when Ace tenderdly reaches over me to
Speaker 2: adjust the levels.
Speaker 1: It's a slow reach over. Because you've got some options
Speaker 1: with the reach over. You can go hard in quick.
Speaker 1: He very slowly, so he doesn't say he's doing it.
Speaker 1: Can you could say, hey, I'm just coming in here,
Speaker 1: go quick. Instead, he goes so slowly that it becomes
Speaker 1: a way to you what's happening.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's a nice little moment. The other option
Speaker 2: is you just go, hey, Mike, maybe drop the levels
Speaker 2: on one a little bit.
Speaker 1: I know, if you guys can say the camera but
Speaker 1: Mike's got all that. Mike could be in charge right here.
Speaker 2: It's the access is crazy, right.
Speaker 1: Ace man, you keep doing what you're doing. Mate.
Speaker 2: We love you. We on show me Perfect Tennis lands
Speaker 2: this stuff no way. When it began, there was one
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty eight women, but now we.
Speaker 1: Already down to four.
Speaker 2: We started four hands, two handed, backhands, some go out time,
Speaker 2: most going. Lena Elle Na semi finals, looking good, good,
Speaker 2: so good, so good. Sadba Linca, Reina will take the
Speaker 2: wind she probably should, prop should, probably should pro j
Speaker 2: A per Gula playing tennis really good, so good, so good,
Speaker 2: So you do the next All right, back Ellen makes
Speaker 2: the final. Probably good. I like it.
Speaker 1: I wanted more support.
Speaker 2: Well, we're getting a clap. It's a sarcastic clap.
Speaker 1: We did a sarcastic clap when we you know, we're
Speaker 1: talking about that. Before the show started, you assured me
Speaker 1: they would get involved.
Speaker 2: I thought, I mean, just from being you know, drunks
Speaker 2: that hang out at karaoke bars, they would get behind that.
Speaker 2: So good.
Speaker 1: So yeah, why have you know, hard liquor out at
Speaker 1: this time of the morning if they're not going to
Speaker 1: get involved?
Speaker 2: Paper hide sick. Get some bubbles up here.
Speaker 1: You might say that was a perfect segue by me,
Speaker 1: perfect segue.
Speaker 2: Here we are again at pod Labor Arena or what
Speaker 2: are we? Dated twelve of the tournament?
Speaker 1: Bye, isn't it?
Speaker 2: Yeah? We're at the Business and Tournament pointy and uh
Speaker 2: and as always I'm joined by my co host, the
Speaker 2: Chris Everett to my Martina and never till over. Sam taunted, Hello.
Speaker 1: Mike, and what a pleasure it is to be here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in this sacred space.
Speaker 2: It is sacred.
Speaker 1: It is sacred. I feel like, are you stopping?
Speaker 2: No, I'm still going.
Speaker 1: Oh sorry, I thought you then looked down and said
Speaker 1: something like that. No, maybe it's not sacred. Maybe it's haunted.
Speaker 1: Actually I'm hearing noises, there's ghosts.
Speaker 2: I think it's sacred because every day I kind of
Speaker 2: lay them out on the floor and face towards mecha
Speaker 2: do you? But it's the Meccha brand activation.
Speaker 1: Did you write or that?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 1: I'm what that's off the cuff. That's unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Hey, how you have no faith in my comedic ability?
Speaker 3: Dude?
Speaker 1: I don't. I'm just like, I'm just always shocked by
Speaker 1: I had a quick peek at your notes app before
Speaker 1: when you're out of the room. Huh, and you know
Speaker 1: went through your photos and you know private text messages
Speaker 1: as well. But the notes, there were jokes written in there,
Speaker 1: just ready to go. Yeah, yeah, you're writing a lot.
Speaker 2: But that's like just insanely creative thoughts that I come
Speaker 2: up with a data dair basis.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, that's so interesting, so interesting.
Speaker 2: Did you see the one that said I dated a
Speaker 2: none once and by none she was a zero out
Speaker 2: of ten.
Speaker 1: It's ready for the stage, that's for sure. That is
Speaker 1: for sure my reaction. Don't let my reaction, you know,
Speaker 1: put you off with that joke. Okay, Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: I think that's good. I think it's ready to go.
Speaker 2: Well, we'll put it out to our loyal listeners. Write
Speaker 2: to us at Partler at Tennis dot com dot au suggestions.
Speaker 2: Let us know what you love from the show, let
Speaker 2: us know what you wanted us to talk about.
Speaker 1: And you're a nun and you were offended by that judge, let.
Speaker 2: Us not by none do you mean a zero out
Speaker 2: of exactly? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, who you answer my question?
Speaker 2: So we we have an email from a fan. Let's
Speaker 2: see if you can pick who this might be? Sam
Speaker 2: as I read it out to you, Okay, it says
Speaker 2: just a quick email to say hello, listen to the
Speaker 2: pod for a bit and then just skip to the
Speaker 2: player interview.
Speaker 1: Okay, fair enough. I've heard that before and that's fine.
Speaker 2: It's hurtful, love the song. Wow, I'm a bit concerned
Speaker 2: about Ace's welfare. He's never been unhappy.
Speaker 1: What did you do that's on him?
Speaker 2: This might reveal who it is. It says, also nice
Speaker 2: to hear you went to the Channel nine box. What's
Speaker 2: that like? Cool that Mike took you there on your
Speaker 2: first day. I guess I'll go next year.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, this is getting pretty personal now.
Speaker 2: I would never have mentioned Ryan Shelton on the pod
Speaker 2: Snooze Benchance to the best Aussie accent by far, Miss
Speaker 2: you all Love dead Weight, Lizzy? Who that was?
Speaker 1: Lizzy?
Speaker 3: Who?
Speaker 2: That was? Lizzie?
Speaker 3: Who?
Speaker 1: Lizzie?
Speaker 2: Who gone but not forgotten? Well? I miss you, Lizzie, Yeah,
Speaker 2: we miss you. You know you'll be back. Yeah, she's
Speaker 2: bombing in a basement in Perth as we speak.
Speaker 1: Last week though you know it's a part of it
Speaker 1: shown uh.
Speaker 2: As always Pod labor Arena brought to you by Piper
Speaker 2: Hide sick, Champagne, Piper Hide Sick. Get some bubbles up,
Speaker 2: your bubbles down. Oh it's Sam. You've been here, you
Speaker 2: know for the second week the Grand Slam. Has anyone
Speaker 2: hit you up for any like freebies or perks thinking
Speaker 2: you have any power or sway at this tournament?
Speaker 1: Oh? From like asking for tickets basically actually this morning.
Speaker 1: I had a guy today immediately just say can you
Speaker 1: get me tickets to the final?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, just he was like, yo, I didn't
Speaker 1: get tickets for the final. And I was like, no
Speaker 1: one gets tickets. It's not like you just missed out
Speaker 1: and that's a revelation. And I was like, yeah, I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't help you. What are you talking about? I well,
Speaker 1: I you must I remember hitting you up a few
Speaker 1: years ago as well.
Speaker 2: You were getting people I hardly know to hit me up.
Speaker 2: And I was like, why why did you reach out
Speaker 2: to me? And You're like, oh, Sam Tuten told me now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just like Mike's a friendly guy, he'll help you out.
Speaker 2: I can't even hook my wife up. Dude.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my girlfriend asked me today for tickets and I
Speaker 1: was like, what do you don't understand, we're in a
Speaker 1: basement underneath rod Laver Arena. It's just the occasionally we
Speaker 1: see a cleaner bringing rubbish down. We have no power here.
Speaker 2: I got hit up by a guy and he said, hey,
Speaker 2: I am not in Melbourne at the moment, but my
Speaker 2: agent is would you.
Speaker 1: Be a comedian? He's a performer, that's why he has
Speaker 1: an agent.
Speaker 2: He has an agent. And he said, would you be
Speaker 2: able to get tickets for my agent to the final
Speaker 2: week of the tennis She really just wants to go
Speaker 2: down and soak it up. Oh yeah, And I was
Speaker 2: and no, he said. He said, oh, you know, nothing major,
Speaker 2: but it would be great if you could get her in.
Speaker 2: It's literally a major.
Speaker 1: It's literally of major. It's also like you're asking for
Speaker 1: tickets to a major. You don't want anything major like
Speaker 1: you've got like you're sitting in front of just a
Speaker 1: whole heap of different tickets. You've got ground passes, you've
Speaker 1: got ticket like box tickets to the finals, deciding where
Speaker 1: you're going to divvy them out every morning. And he's like, bro,
Speaker 1: I don't want you to go. I'm not an asshole.
Speaker 1: Don't go to the top shelf. That's crazy. She doesn't deserve.
Speaker 1: But just give her something just below that, maybe, like
Speaker 1: I don't know, like a corporate box ticket to the
Speaker 1: semi final. She doesn't want the works, Just hook her up.
Speaker 2: And what do I care about your agent?
Speaker 1: Your agent?
Speaker 2: It's not even like she should be doing things for.
Speaker 1: Him exactly what is their relationship? It doesn't make at
Speaker 1: all anyway. So you got them tickets.
Speaker 2: She's sitting in Rod Laver's old seat for the far.
Speaker 1: Fantastic and she will suck up the atmosphere.
Speaker 3: There we love a better beat.
Speaker 2: Should we go through the matches from yesterday?
Speaker 1: I think we should.
Speaker 2: First up was backing Up versus Chavon Tech. We were
Speaker 2: there for a second set.
Speaker 1: It was kind of a blood path.
Speaker 2: Really, I have not seen a player this tournament and
Speaker 2: as much of a pure flow state as Robak. In
Speaker 2: that second set, it was like power game.
Speaker 1: Just in the moment, bang bang bang bang bang.
Speaker 2: And just dismantled chavon Tech. So it was seventy five
Speaker 2: six one and that Yeah, Like I said, that second
Speaker 2: set was something to behold.
Speaker 1: Chavontek like lost her rhythm. Now I'm a big rhythm guy.
Speaker 1: I'm there at the tennis I'm trying to analyze how
Speaker 1: people are feeling. And a few times I said it
Speaker 1: to you, you don't seem to care whenever i'd give
Speaker 1: you any kind of insight into what I'm seeing out
Speaker 1: there on the tennis car. Yeah, but a few times
Speaker 1: she re set her routine when she was going into
Speaker 1: serve and she looked rattled completely, And I think that
Speaker 1: is a that is a sign that you're you're doubting yourself,
Speaker 1: you're not feeling it. And the results look at look
Speaker 1: what happened after that.
Speaker 2: Well, do you think it was an influx of things,
Speaker 2: Like first she doesn't get into the gym because she
Speaker 2: doesn't have her credit, have.
Speaker 1: A credit that would rattle anyone. And then she gets
Speaker 1: into the gym, you're there, that's not ide.
Speaker 2: I'm doing that one machine where you spread your legs
Speaker 2: exactly make eye contact with people.
Speaker 1: Actually, and she's not having she's trying to get.
Speaker 2: Your towel as well, that you use it exactly. Four
Speaker 2: towns have that towel. Sorry, just close your legs, give
Speaker 2: me that towel for one second. Right back in through
Speaker 2: over Shavan Tech. So she is in the semi final,
Speaker 2: looking good, where she'll be playing Jess Pagoula Jpeg affectionately
Speaker 2: known ah and Jpeg Overmova in straight sets. We'll get
Speaker 2: to the straight sets results a little bit later in
Speaker 2: the show.
Speaker 1: I hadn't noticed you had it. No, I just thought
Speaker 1: it had been quality to right. Yeah, it's been fantastic.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I hadn't noticed that, you know. I just
Speaker 1: thought that's perfect. That's just what I want. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a great tournament. Clean matches, clean matches, keep it clean,
Speaker 1: a clean sheet, that's what I like.
Speaker 2: So during the Anasamova Pagoula match, Anasamova clearly rattled very
Speaker 2: ra especially the first set was six' to. Two she
Speaker 2: was getting. FRUSTRATED i loved. IT i like to say
Speaker 2: it some fire because it's not her. FAULT i thought
Speaker 2: you'd like a, nice clean match with No, look.
Speaker 1: You, Know i'm A i'm a complex. Situation SOMETIMES i
Speaker 1: like to say both go.
Speaker 2: Both. Wait So anisimova during the match was pretty upset
Speaker 2: with her player's.
Speaker 1: BOX i liked it because it's not her fault that
Speaker 1: things are. Going, wait it's clearly her corner's. Fault, yeah you,
Speaker 1: know so it's like you've got to give it to
Speaker 1: them and they're right On, Corey they're right if they
Speaker 1: if it wasn't their, fault they wouldn't be there waiting
Speaker 1: to get yelled.
Speaker 2: At, well she she, was she was. Yelling you're not saying.
Speaker 2: Anything you're just sitting there doing. Nothing BUT i think
Speaker 2: if they were saying a lot and you.
Speaker 1: Know, yeah shut. Up, yeah part of your job is
Speaker 1: like and you would accept that when you accept the,
Speaker 1: role you know that part of your job is to
Speaker 1: get yelled. At, yeah you know. That, Fine it's the
Speaker 1: same with me in this. Podcast as soon as we're,
Speaker 1: done you, said what was That you embarrassed me out?
Speaker 1: There this is my, dream you.
Speaker 2: Said on the dead on The ellen Of tennis.
Speaker 1: Podcast, yeah, exactly like get me a chicken salad and
Speaker 1: then you threw it at me AS i ran down the.
Speaker 2: Stairs, well we saw a bit of the Fiery anisimova
Speaker 2: temper when she was in.
Speaker 1: Here, ABSOLUTELY i went back through the archives eye opening.
Speaker 2: That was supposed to So pagoola took that one out
Speaker 2: and straight set's Facing rebeccaha in the semi final. Tonight
Speaker 2: it's semi final, Day women's semi final day at The Australian.
Speaker 2: Open i'm probably most pumped for that, Match pagoula Versus,
Speaker 2: rebeccaena Because rebecca up probably one of the biggest servers
Speaker 2: in the women's side of the draw versus one of
Speaker 2: the best returners IN. Jpeg, well rebecc when knocking Out.
Speaker 2: Shavantek AS i said, before Poor, ega the one slam
Speaker 2: she hasn't, won.
Speaker 1: You would you like to see An american win A grand,
Speaker 1: SNAME i feel, like of, course, yeah, okay more than An.
Speaker 2: Australian, well, Look I'm i'm bi. National. Yeah as we've, discussed.
Speaker 1: And we've also, discussed you need to stop telling people
Speaker 1: you'll buy and then waiting a considerable amount of time
Speaker 1: before saying. National people get. Confused, no, no, no not at, all.
Speaker 2: Dude AND i think it's important that you, know we
Speaker 2: celebrate our binationals out there and have a parade for. Them.
Speaker 2: Okay in the men's side of, things heartbreak For Lorenzo, mazzetti.
Speaker 1: Hot, break looking good for two sets and then what
Speaker 1: a groin? Injury, yeah it was pulling is Groin, LIKE i, mean.
Speaker 2: You've pulled a few groins in your.
Speaker 1: Time, well what's he twenty, three twenty, Two he's at
Speaker 1: the top of his. Game he's, growing shouldn't be, faulty,
Speaker 1: faulty should be doing its best.
Speaker 2: Wife that's prime growing, time prime. Growing it's crazy that
Speaker 2: he can't GET i, mean which brings us to our new,
Speaker 2: Segment prime Growing. Time, look we've all.
Speaker 1: You, know you, KNOW i had, to you, know bring
Speaker 1: it in early sometimes when we wanted to keep it.
Speaker 1: Going it's.
Speaker 2: True, yeah but on.
Speaker 1: A big stage like, that you hate to.
Speaker 2: SEE i don't know what he. Was he was playing,
Speaker 2: Great djokovic was two sets. Down his whole foot is
Speaker 2: basically a. Blister, yeah it's just. Disgusting it's, gross BUT
Speaker 2: i guess he. Can you can play through a disgusting,
Speaker 2: foot but bad, groin you've got no. Chance bad, groin you're.
Speaker 2: Done and you could tell it was like affecting, Him
Speaker 2: AND i almost loved when he realized he was going
Speaker 2: to retire and he was still trying to play. RIGHT
Speaker 2: i think he knew he was going to, quit but
Speaker 2: he was just going for broke on.
Speaker 1: Everything good shots.
Speaker 2: Man it was just redlining his, game trying to finish
Speaker 2: a point, early and it was crazy to.
Speaker 1: Watch it was remind me Of. Novak was it last?
Speaker 1: Year he had a slight. Strain he ended up coming.
Speaker 1: Good it was earlier in the tournament and just like no,
Speaker 1: footwork standing at the, baseline just ripping. Winners, yeah it's
Speaker 1: exciting as tennis gains.
Speaker 2: Man, ah it's so good to.
Speaker 1: Watch so you're suggesting potentially to have more exciting tennis.
Speaker 1: Matches we need slightly injured players at all, times.
Speaker 2: And then part of the matches like we get to injure, them.
Speaker 1: So like they come, off you tune up with a baseball,
Speaker 1: bat beat him around a bit silly.
Speaker 2: Full time you're hiding you get out, There, yeah get out.
Speaker 1: There and that's the entertainment that people would, want could
Speaker 1: get the young kids back into tennis that we've lost
Speaker 1: a pickleball and that.
Speaker 2: Was prime growing. Time. Ah, Yeah So mazzetti retiring down
Speaker 2: three to one in the third, set And djokovic you,
Speaker 2: know was very gracious in his. Win well when his, walkover.
Speaker 1: Well in too in a row as. Well, yeah it
Speaker 1: is just what has what deal has he done with
Speaker 1: some kind of high?
Speaker 2: Power the thing is though It's Novak, Djokovic he's made
Speaker 2: it through to a semi, final and it's like it's,
Speaker 2: him so it's, like, well, yeah he probably would have
Speaker 2: got there, anyways maybe two sets, down but it's not
Speaker 2: like you, Know Pedro martinez or something like or someone
Speaker 2: ranking a crazy.
Speaker 1: Story, yeah, yeah but it is still two walkovers at
Speaker 1: a very convenient time.
Speaker 2: In the second week of A. Slam, yeah that's that
Speaker 2: that he has hasn't won a set and he's lost
Speaker 2: two and he's into the. Semifinal it's. Crazy, yeah he
Speaker 2: must be so. Happy, yeah he was a little Annoyed
Speaker 2: Novak djokovic in a press conference. Afterwards when a, journalist
Speaker 2: he's pisky. JOURNALIST i, mean was this really thought through
Speaker 2: with this?
Speaker 4: Question, first, well in the early of your career when
Speaker 4: you were Chasing roger And raffa for, titles and now
Speaker 4: at the back end of your career you're Chasing yannick And.
Speaker 2: Carlos i'm chasing And carlos in which sense in terms
Speaker 2: of Winning Grand slam titles just right, Now So i'm
Speaker 2: always the chaser And i'm never being.
Speaker 4: Chased in the, meantime he won twenty Four grand.
Speaker 2: Slams But i'm saying it's it's worth worth saying that, sometimes, Right, SORRY.
Speaker 1: I see what the, JOURNALISTS i see the angle he's coming,
Speaker 1: from and it does make. Sense it actually is quite
Speaker 1: an interesting. Question, yeah but it has to be framed
Speaker 1: in the worst way. Possible you're just forgetting the, like
Speaker 1: he's not going to be remembered as this guy. Chasing
Speaker 1: he's going to be remembered as potentially the greatest player
Speaker 1: to ever play the.
Speaker 2: Game, yeah and then just being put to him that
Speaker 2: your whole career you've been, Chasing.
Speaker 1: You've been just, grinding always just at the heels of
Speaker 1: These peria. Players twenty Four, sam what did it feel?
Speaker 2: LIKE i loved? It From?
Speaker 1: Novak his response being like also double, dipping because Like
Speaker 1: novak is, like what are you talking about? It and
Speaker 1: then when he finally goes to, answer he's, like that
Speaker 1: was really.
Speaker 2: Disrespectful oh, yeah he totally owns the journalist and is,
Speaker 2: like are we forgetting about the fact for fifteen years
Speaker 2: when everyone was chasing me AND i was so far
Speaker 2: ahead of the total? Totally and, yeah the guy's, like,
Speaker 2: oh you, know trying to kind of just walk.
Speaker 1: It walk his way out of but he still kind
Speaker 1: of doubles down the. Journey he probably should have taken
Speaker 1: a loss and, said you know, WHAT i probably haven't
Speaker 1: worded that the WAY i wanted to sorry about. That
Speaker 1: i'll see you.
Speaker 2: Later.
Speaker 1: Yeah instead he went back in and forced him to
Speaker 1: answer the. QUESTION i thought it was a cool, question
Speaker 1: but then it was always gonna. WHO i don't really
Speaker 1: know what the answer is Because novak's steaming right. NOW
Speaker 1: i also liked it From novak BECAUSE i feel like
Speaker 1: that's the real a bit of the Real. Novak, yeah
Speaker 1: and you often see a sanitiz like with all tennis,
Speaker 1: players a sanitized, version and they're very friendly and they're,
Speaker 1: Like i'm so, Happy i'm. Grateful it's all. Fantastic but it's, like,
Speaker 1: no get, angry get, angry tell people that you're.
Speaker 2: GOOD i was thinking that with the post match interviews
Speaker 2: when they're, like, oh, look you know it was a
Speaker 2: tough test and the other guy is a great, player
Speaker 2: and you KNOW i was lucky to get. Through there's
Speaker 2: never they're never like, YEAH i crushed, him.
Speaker 1: Dude it's Like i'm. Superior it's like they're, like, oh
Speaker 1: how is. It it's LIKE i won in straight. Sets,
Speaker 1: yeah they, suck but it's LIKE i destroyed.
Speaker 2: Them bring SOME ufc like shit, talking.
Speaker 1: Dude bring. THEM i love boxing as. Well and it's
Speaker 1: like they're just like press. Conference they're, LIKE i will
Speaker 1: take his souls and then take his children's, souls and
Speaker 1: then they will have no souls And i'll be victorious
Speaker 1: over their life, forever they. Say and then afterwards they're,
Speaker 1: like told you he. SUCKS i killed. Him where's that? Intended,
Speaker 1: no they're too.
Speaker 2: Nice, yeah it's got to be, like, yeah they were
Speaker 2: clearly not up to the.
Speaker 1: TASK i think they should do like face offs like
Speaker 1: IN ufc and boxing shirt. OFF i don't ee oh
Speaker 1: Have Craig. Tiley they're like separating them like that and
Speaker 1: then they can maybe slap each. Other give it a.
Speaker 2: Spice, yeah, yeah, WELL i mean you were on the
Speaker 2: project for. Years oh, yeah what's the most awkward thing
Speaker 2: you've asked a guest on the show or a celebrity
Speaker 2: and immediately regretted?
Speaker 1: It oh, DUDE i actually kind of innswer this question
Speaker 1: because it would happen every. Week there was a news
Speaker 1: dot com article about how a NEPT i was at my.
Speaker 1: Job ONCE i Asked tina. ARENA i, said There's Margaret cord,
Speaker 1: arena there's A Rod leaver. Arena is there A tina?
Speaker 1: Arena and she, went, really you're better than, that and
Speaker 1: that's live on. It you just have to sit in
Speaker 1: that and.
Speaker 2: Go did the crowd? Laugh the people in the, studio.
Speaker 1: LIKE i could hear The so the producer in our
Speaker 1: ear was laughing very hard at, me but no one
Speaker 1: else could hear. That just the person in my. Ear
Speaker 1: anna is her. Name just like, LOSING i had to
Speaker 1: take the earpiece. OUT i, mean what about? You you
Speaker 1: seem more put together than?
Speaker 2: Me, no, No, WELL i Met Sam stowzer like in twenty. Eighteen,
Speaker 2: okay under what. Circumstances Dave hughes AND i were playing
Speaker 2: tennis on the court next to.
Speaker 1: Her so this is a casual.
Speaker 2: Meet this is a casual.
Speaker 1: Meet oh you con'ka wrong in a casual, well, Hugh'sy hugh's.
Speaker 2: He and knew her from whatever the you, know the
Speaker 2: rarefied air that that that he will that he walks
Speaker 2: around and and he introduced me To Sam stowzer and he, said,
Speaker 2: look he knew LIKE i go to THE Us open every.
Speaker 2: Year you, know my brother and sister live In New.
Speaker 2: York and he husey, Said, Sam mike goes to THE
Speaker 2: Us open every year and she, goes, oh, yeah that's.
Speaker 2: Awesome AND i said to, her have you ever been
Speaker 2: to THE Us? Open and as the words were leaving my,
Speaker 2: mouth her Defeating Serena williams in the twenty ELEVEN Us
Speaker 2: open entered my brain and she did for that match
Speaker 2: with you in the? Crowd WAS i was, not BUT i.
Speaker 2: WAS i was In New. YORK i was like watching. It,
Speaker 2: Yeah and and she just kind of like so, nice
Speaker 2: just goes, ah, Yeah i've.
Speaker 1: Been she didn't even take she. Played she just said
Speaker 1: she was, LIKE i. Been that's her, nice what a good.
Speaker 1: Person and then how did you? Backtrack?
Speaker 2: You he's like snickering in the, back.
Speaker 1: Isn't. It he's got a new story's a stand? Up
Speaker 1: did you did you then try to backtrack and be
Speaker 1: like because you could maybe get out of that and be, like,
Speaker 1: NO i mean it's a punto now you know you're
Speaker 1: not playing professional? Tenants did you try any of? That
Speaker 1: or did you just sulk?
Speaker 2: AWAY i THINK i stumbled my way through the rest
Speaker 2: of her, Nice nice to meet, you and then she
Speaker 2: probably saw me like double fault and ship my pants
Speaker 2: on the other core.
Speaker 1: Fantastic have you seen her since you might run into
Speaker 1: her around here.
Speaker 2: Somewhere, NO i know she's around BUT i, mean if
Speaker 2: we get her in, Here i'll bring that.
Speaker 1: Up, dude if you get her in, here your first
Speaker 1: full questions should be so number one have you been To? French?
Speaker 1: Finally the most you've been too The Australian while we're, here.
Speaker 2: She thinks this is just My make A wish. Podcast
Speaker 2: the only other match that we haven't discussed from Yesterday
Speaker 2: Ben Shelton Varsenic. CENTER i mean another straight sets, match
Speaker 2: WHICH i know you love.
Speaker 1: Times i'm a big fan of the. STRAIGHTS i was
Speaker 1: being facetious, before But i'm getting to bed at an early,
Speaker 1: time which is. Fantastic my stress levels are not peaking
Speaker 1: in any. WAY i feel very calm and. Relaxed it's
Speaker 1: very easy to recite schools to.
Speaker 2: People don't you want an? EPIC i, Do but.
Speaker 1: There are, benefits you. Know i'm trying To i've got
Speaker 1: a gratitude diary at the, moment And i'm trying to
Speaker 1: look on the bright side of things at the, moment
Speaker 1: and an early bedtime is sometimes good for.
Speaker 2: You oh my, GOD i don't. Know this is like
Speaker 2: we just we're leading into some great. Matches the number, one, two,
Speaker 2: three and four and the men's draw are in the semi.
Speaker 2: Finals that's the.
Speaker 1: THING i think there's a clear like, golf, right AND
Speaker 1: i think you're going to start to think see things tighten.
Speaker 2: UP i, Mean i'm just starve for some epics in
Speaker 2: the second. Week so in week, two nineteen, matches winners
Speaker 2: have won forty seven. Sets losers have won three. Sets.
Speaker 1: Crazy that is, insane isn't.
Speaker 2: It one out of ten women's matches have gone three.
Speaker 2: Sets zero out of nine men matches have gone five.
Speaker 2: Sets and this all needs to be updated to yesterday. Matches, yeah,
Speaker 2: yeah had men matches zero out of nine men's. Matches
Speaker 2: how the men matches going? Today prime growing toy prime
Speaker 2: growing to, play the sting, play the staying growing. Time
Speaker 2: SO i Just i'm just waiting for a like an,
Speaker 2: epic like a, yeah some. Dramas it's a funny.
Speaker 1: SET i wonder what you put that down.
Speaker 2: TOO i just think the big guys are dominating and.
Speaker 1: It's getting to that stage with the matchups are just.
Speaker 1: Two it's just kind of two.
Speaker 2: Upsided.
Speaker 1: Yeah, anyway but you, SAID i think you'll see especially
Speaker 1: leading into the last two finals and at least the,
Speaker 1: finals you'd. Hope, yeah there's going to be some close.
Speaker 2: MATCHES i think there will. BE i think THERE'S i
Speaker 2: mean they're one and two and three and four playing each.
Speaker 1: Other, Yeah but if you are worried about, it and
Speaker 1: you have tickets to the, finals just give them to.
Speaker 1: Me if you're worried that it's going to be it's
Speaker 1: not gonna be worth your time because they're going to
Speaker 1: be close. Matches just give them to. Me, well And
Speaker 1: i'll go instead of, you And i'll let you know
Speaker 1: how they.
Speaker 2: Went or give them to me And i'll give them
Speaker 2: to an acquaintance's. Agent, absolutely because they just want the.
Speaker 2: App they want to soak up the. App they just
Speaker 2: want to soak it up just from The Shelton center.
Speaker 2: MATCH i Mean shelton of course going big on CERTAIN
Speaker 2: a lot of body serves a two hundred and thirty
Speaker 2: three kilometer in our bodies the.
Speaker 1: VERY i read an article In The age this morning
Speaker 1: that being like he, lost but he'd still won something the,
Speaker 1: Fastest LIKE i don't think he.
Speaker 2: CARES i, MEAN i can't even fathom that speed of
Speaker 2: a ball two three.
Speaker 1: THREE i Mean sinner just had to like rack it up,
Speaker 1: sometimes just like protect. Himself it was coming in so.
Speaker 2: Hard, yeah it was. Defense it was.
Speaker 1: Defense it's, quick isn't.
Speaker 2: IT i think you, Know i'm a middle aged. MAN
Speaker 2: i feel like a ball coming at me at that
Speaker 2: speed would simply pass through my.
Speaker 1: Body, yeah it would just heat. You and then you
Speaker 1: would wake up in a hospital with a just a
Speaker 1: perfect tennisball sized, hole.
Speaker 2: Like A looney to style hole through the.
Speaker 1: Middle exactly what would you? Do Because i've never been.
Speaker 1: Hit tennis balls don't hurt as much as you, know
Speaker 1: other kind of cricket, balls golf, balls rubber, balls even you,
Speaker 1: know like bounty. Balls BUT i still at two thirty,
Speaker 1: three that's leaving a big, mark right if it gets you.
Speaker 2: Well at the end of today's, podcast we're going to
Speaker 2: play The Ben shelton, interview and we Played stingpong and
Speaker 2: he did not hold back when he.
Speaker 1: Did we have the speed gun on, It today's, man
Speaker 1: have the speed.
Speaker 2: GUN i think it broke to thirty. Three, really it
Speaker 2: went straight Through it went straight through. Me and it
Speaker 2: also was the Only stingpong one THAT i believe broke the.
Speaker 1: Skin, Really i'm gonna go. Out, Yeah, RAFTER i played
Speaker 1: With rafter and he made me take my shirt. Off
Speaker 1: but there's no. MARK i got my girlfriend to go
Speaker 1: over my body in a lot of.
Speaker 2: Detail he made you take your shirt. Off but the
Speaker 2: weird part was you didn't even lose the. Point, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: NO i just wanted to see that.
Speaker 1: Rig the weird part WAS i didn't have pants. On he's,
Speaker 1: like he may as well take the shirt off as.
Speaker 2: Well so, yeah that sets up the men's semi, finals
Speaker 2: which will Be vera Of. Alcoraz pump for. THAT i
Speaker 2: Think alcoraz will get through, it maybe drops a, set
Speaker 2: and then of Course Djokovic sinner And, DJOKOVIC i, mean
Speaker 2: hasn't played a lot of tennis this, week but he
Speaker 2: had a rough time and two sets Against.
Speaker 1: Mazetti but you know, what he's angry, now he's been.
Speaker 1: Annoyed he's a, chaser so he's gonna want, to you,
Speaker 1: know stamp his, authority maybe send a. Message. YEAH i
Speaker 1: think he, loses don't get me, wrong but you know
Speaker 1: he might put up a. Fight, prime growing Time. Prime
Speaker 1: one more thing About, Tinner, mike did you see him
Speaker 1: driving a golf?
Speaker 2: Cart, yeah he's loving. It in the tunnels of the, Ground.
Speaker 1: Yeah deep under where we, are like we're, underground but
Speaker 1: these tunnels are even further down under. Us but he's
Speaker 1: driving the golf cart and THEN i guess like six
Speaker 1: of his team get into the golf cart and someone
Speaker 1: runs over and they're, like, SO i don't think you
Speaker 1: should be driving the golf. Cart, WELL i, MEAN i
Speaker 1: guess he's a. Player what if he crashes the golf.
Speaker 1: Cart it's also he's under twenty, Five like insurance. Premiums
Speaker 1: you've got to think about. That aren't we protecting these?
Speaker 1: Guys they're, athletes like they've had a rough and tumble.
Speaker 2: LIFE i don't. Know they might drive at five kilometers
Speaker 2: per hour.
Speaker 1: To these guys have professional. Drivers have you not seen
Speaker 1: these keys zipping Around melbourne at the Moment i've seen.
Speaker 1: Them they're all in these, cars they're in the tinted
Speaker 1: glass behind. IT i don't trust him on our roads
Speaker 1: where he's From italy the other side of the, road
Speaker 1: and it's, kidding you, know do we want? That does
Speaker 1: The Australian open need that kind of hr? Disaster?
Speaker 2: Right but you're a, golfer, Right isn't it just like
Speaker 2: fun to drive a golf?
Speaker 1: Cart it's so? Fun, yeah so let him have some. Fun,
Speaker 1: yeah BUT i don't drive golf cuts in the tunnels
Speaker 1: Under Melbourne. Cup it's narrow down. There it looks on
Speaker 1: those screens on THE tv like there's a bit of.
Speaker 1: Room it's narrow down. There it's, tough and that's a
Speaker 1: wide golf. People you're worried he'll get in like An
Speaker 1: Austin powers. Type, yeah and he gets stuck in the.
Speaker 2: Middle, yeah just can't.
Speaker 1: Move he stuck and then slowly because he's stuck in
Speaker 1: traffic down Then djokovic rolls.
Speaker 5: Through.
Speaker 1: Dangerous actually it is, dangerous all, Right, yeah get him
Speaker 1: off the, golf get him. OFF i.
Speaker 2: Agree so yesterday we got to walk around in the.
Speaker 2: Tunnel we were down, there a maze of tunnels that
Speaker 2: exist under the. Ground AND i was.
Speaker 1: More excited about that than probably anything with this, job
Speaker 1: Because i'd heard whispers of these tunnels AND i loved
Speaker 1: it down. There it was, exciting it was very.
Speaker 2: Hot you're a sneaky, guy, yeah you like kind of
Speaker 2: slithering around in the.
Speaker 1: Dark, WELL i don't like the general public. Mic so
Speaker 1: getting to go down under there and you, know zip
Speaker 1: past some of these lines and be able to get
Speaker 1: from court to court very quickly was. Fantastic and you
Speaker 1: see people down. There you see some, celebrities you see
Speaker 1: these tennis. Players you see a little turn off to
Speaker 1: a massage. Table you're, like CAN i go in? There,
Speaker 1: no my past doesn't let. Me that's, Okay i'll keep.
Speaker 2: Walking also for a bit a. Segment we will probably
Speaker 2: put it in a future. Episode we were dressed in
Speaker 2: tiny little bull, boy.
Speaker 1: Tiny little ball boy clothes with size fourteen ball boy,
Speaker 1: sneakers Full legionaires.
Speaker 2: Cap. Yeah so there's people that are very serious down.
Speaker 2: There we're in our little.
Speaker 1: Outfits, yeah we're walking past like the MOST vip people
Speaker 1: they have at this, Tournament Venture, Capitalists South KOREAN dj, Pops, YouTubers,
Speaker 1: YouTubers and then Us.
Speaker 2: Peggy Goo Peggy goo Goohead, goheads then us disgusting bull,
Speaker 2: boys Ball, man we Have.
Speaker 1: Bollman, yeah we haven that's so. True.
Speaker 2: Sam we have an interview With Ben shelton coming. Out.
Speaker 2: Yeah Ben shelton is unfortunately out of the. Tournament now
Speaker 2: he's the Great american. Hope but uh, Again, uh this
Speaker 2: Is lizzie AND i conducting the interview while you sit
Speaker 2: quiet for our audio. Listeners Sam tottons sat quietly in
Speaker 2: the room and didn't say a.
Speaker 1: WORD i had tape over my, mouth not by.
Speaker 2: CHOICE i think we still got the audio from the
Speaker 2: match coming. Through you walked by our room, before like
Speaker 2: usually do it in, sequence, right but our sound guy
Speaker 2: was taking a. Ship, okay.
Speaker 5: He's.
Speaker 3: Dispatched this is how serious we are a, House so
Speaker 3: don't worry about. It, Okay, Yeah, bob, Iwin? Bob is It? Bob?
Speaker 2: Yeah the, son the? Son do you know?
Speaker 3: Him?
Speaker 4: Oh the?
Speaker 1: Son?
Speaker 2: Yeah of, course his son is like a honk now
Speaker 2: and he he did.
Speaker 1: Was In america and we had a. Daughter, yeah bindy. Yah.
Speaker 2: Yeah so that's The aussi accent button that you just hit.
Speaker 2: There and this is this is the.
Speaker 1: Sun well it, sounds it's.
Speaker 2: Sounds you're From, atlanta, RIGHT i grew up In. Atlanta,
Speaker 2: Yeah falcons, FAN.
Speaker 5: I MEAN i was.
Speaker 2: GOING i was growing.
Speaker 5: UP i went to a lot of, games BUT i
Speaker 5: don't follow THE nfl as closely any more of the fantasy.
Speaker 2: Football how'd you go in fantasy this? YEAR i won my?
Speaker 2: League did?
Speaker 3: You?
Speaker 5: YEAH i won one. LEAGUE i didn't win the, other
Speaker 5: BUT i won the big money.
Speaker 2: League? Right is there a? Prize?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah could you? SAY i was in a Fantasy league
Speaker 2: for comedians and the loser of The Fantasy. League we
Speaker 2: got to write a set for them to. Perform, really
Speaker 2: it was brutal who had to do. It Sean conway
Speaker 2: absolutely bombed his tits.
Speaker 5: Off we don't do anything. Great we just do the
Speaker 5: hot chip loser does that Ghost peper?
Speaker 2: Whatever that's all, right it's and you got to be
Speaker 2: On instagram live when you do, it? Right was the
Speaker 2: loser anyone we would?
Speaker 5: Know so last, year do you know the girl on,
Speaker 5: Tour Elie. Mandelick, yeah it was her. Brother, okay he's actually.
Speaker 2: HERE i just saw. Him he won that league this
Speaker 2: year all, right as he recovered from the Ghost. PEPER
Speaker 2: i think he recovered after like eight nine. One, yeah
Speaker 2: so big press day. Today, yeah do you get, like
Speaker 2: what's the question you get sick?
Speaker 3: Of? Uh the?
Speaker 2: QUESTION i actually.
Speaker 5: HAVEN'T i got it like one, today but it's what's
Speaker 5: the relationship like you and your? Dad, Oh Like i've
Speaker 5: answered that, one you, know probably one hundred and fifty
Speaker 5: thousand times in the last three. Years it's just, like, well,
Speaker 5: yeah he's been on tour with me now for four
Speaker 5: years AND i answered this question every tournament for the last.
Speaker 2: Years. Damn that was the first QUESTION i had for.
Speaker 2: You tell us what is the? Relationship like the thing,
Speaker 2: is we've had so many players come through and like some,
Speaker 2: questions they just could care less about.
Speaker 1: IT i just don't want to. Ask, yeah, fine you
Speaker 1: want to choose your.
Speaker 5: Question, WELL i THINK i think you just you do
Speaker 5: as you feel like you're the.
Speaker 1: One, okay you're the funny. One, Right what about other?
Speaker 3: Sport what other sport would you play if you didn't play?
Speaker 1: TENNIS i grew up Playing american for, Okay, yeah so
Speaker 1: that's the.
Speaker 5: One but still not FOLLOWING nfl. Outside, No, no that's not.
Speaker 5: TRUE i follow, it BUT i don't have A i'm
Speaker 5: NOT i don't have a die hard. Team my favorite
Speaker 5: player retired years, Ago Calvin. Johnson oh, yeah of, course, yeah,
Speaker 5: okay you know a little.
Speaker 3: BIT i don't know. Anything when it goes into THE nfl,
Speaker 3: Chat i'm.
Speaker 1: Just, like, Yeah i'll just sit.
Speaker 2: Here, yeah absolute. LEGEND i Mean Detroit Lions. Royalty so
Speaker 2: that's that was my team for, Forever.
Speaker 5: Detroit, yeah but, now like SO i was the biggest
Speaker 5: fan Of detroit when they were terrible and now they're.
Speaker 5: Great but, LIKE i haven't been like on The lions
Speaker 5: for a, while so it feels like it doesn't feel
Speaker 5: right to jump on that. Bandwagon, now, YEAH i think
Speaker 5: you can still get on The BUT i was there when.
Speaker 2: They were, mad you. Know is that The Matthew stafford?
Speaker 5: Years, yeah, okay, yeah it'd be Like Matthew stafford through
Speaker 5: The megatron for four, touchdowns three and fifty yards and
Speaker 5: they lost by.
Speaker 2: Twenty that's. Defense, yeah that defense. Exactly, well, no BECAUSE
Speaker 2: i grew up In Kansas, city so, okay but The
Speaker 2: chiefs this, year yeah they. Did it's, okay, Man, like
Speaker 2: what are you looking forward, to like just being In
Speaker 2: melbourne just in? General H i don't do much here.
Speaker 2: NOW i stay low.
Speaker 5: KEY i don't leave the hotel. Much mostly.
Speaker 2: Tennis.
Speaker 5: YEAH i feel like there's certain cities that there's a
Speaker 5: lot going, on BUT i tend to get drained going
Speaker 5: around doing a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2: Because you were In, auckland so you didn't even do
Speaker 2: you Know brisbane Or adelaide.
Speaker 5: Or anything That i've Done brisbane. Before i've Done adelaide.
Speaker 5: Before BUT i like to be home for Like christmas
Speaker 5: In New year's and to play the first tournaments you
Speaker 5: got to you gotta, leave you, know In december to
Speaker 5: get here in time to get ready for. It SO
Speaker 5: i was home Until january, sixth and Then auckland is
Speaker 5: on the way here from THE.
Speaker 2: Us is there a jet lag? TRICK i think you
Speaker 2: just get used to. It you get used to. It
Speaker 2: but it's all, about LIKE i, think the plane.
Speaker 5: Ride you, know IF i, can IF i can time
Speaker 5: the sleep right on the plane, ride or like if
Speaker 5: you know you're landing in the morning.
Speaker 2: And sleep the whole LIKE i slept the twelve hour.
Speaker 2: Flight Whoa aland that's.
Speaker 3: Great that's a better sleep THAN i would ever.
Speaker 2: Have what we've been doing to wrap up these quick
Speaker 2: interviews on the pod as you see the tiny little
Speaker 2: uh ping pong table over there that's made out of
Speaker 2: a small door we stole from A Diego schwartzman's dressing.
Speaker 2: Room like. It we got a tennis racket here, Too
Speaker 2: so if you, want like we can wrap it, up we,
Speaker 2: Do like you, know the a just the one point. Slam,
Speaker 2: yeah so we've been doing the one point slam on
Speaker 2: the ping pong. Table but who AM i? PLAYING? Ok, yeah.
Speaker 3: You're lucky Because i'm pretty.
Speaker 2: Good you're. Good, yeah it's not, bad but we don't
Speaker 2: have a million bucks to give. Away so the steaks
Speaker 2: are you've done ping pong or sting, Pole so the
Speaker 2: loser you want to do? It all?
Speaker 1: Right oh well he's?
Speaker 3: Punk all? Right all, right we're At Pod Laver Arena
Speaker 3: stadium for a one point. Slam that's. Day we've Got
Speaker 3: Ben shelton vels our very Own Mike. Goldstein mike is
Speaker 3: serving take it Away mike anywhere off pathetics From. Mike
Speaker 3: ben is giving as a ping pong. GRUNT i don't
Speaker 3: know if you can hear. That mike is trying to
Speaker 3: BUT i think the grunt is actually distracting. Him, Oh
Speaker 3: mike hits it off the end of The, yeah you got, whoa. Whoa,
Speaker 3: yeah he's he's moving things so you can get a full.
Speaker 3: Swing he's, gone.
Speaker 5: Thank you so.
Speaker 3: Much that was.
Speaker 1: Awesome are we are