Speaker 1: Oh do do, Welcome back to Pod Labor Arena with me,
Speaker 1: Michaeldstein and my co host Lizzie Who good to be
Speaker 1: that it is another edition of the weekly episodes.
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Speaker 1: This is good stuff from Pod Labor Arena. And look
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Speaker 1: these decorations and.
Speaker 2: Change it up a little bit.
Speaker 1: In here, but now we got the tennis balls sitting
Speaker 1: on the tennis jar and shitting out tennis.
Speaker 2: Balls for him. Would you good movement?
Speaker 1: Immediately think shitting or giving birth a little tennis babies.
Speaker 2: No, I felt, I thought, yeah, shis stuff. No way
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Speaker 1: Of course, the radio edit version based on the Black
Speaker 1: Eyed Peas Let's get it started in here, not the
Speaker 1: original problematic one.
Speaker 2: Just yeah, the original. I actually I've served them many
Speaker 2: a drink.
Speaker 1: Before the Black Eyed Peas.
Speaker 2: Yeah what yeah?
Speaker 1: Will I am? Will I am?
Speaker 2: I have served a drink to back in my club days.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Like I was wild crazy. They came
Speaker 2: into the club I was working out and they were like,
Speaker 2: she's going to be a botender me okay, yeah, and
Speaker 2: then they had this little section in the club and
Speaker 2: I just had to bring them booze all night.
Speaker 1: Did they get it started in there?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: They were wild. A lot of other No, Fergie wasn't there.
Speaker 2: It was just the O G Crew, which is cool
Speaker 2: because like Fergie whatever, But yeah, it was just OG crew.
Speaker 2: Will I am that other guy? We but we all
Speaker 2: bonded because two of them were half Asian and that's
Speaker 2: how we bonded. O Ye, that was a little Lizzie trivia.
Speaker 1: We're back. It's going to be back. Obviously. There's so
Speaker 1: many tournaments happening at all times, and we cover them all.
Speaker 1: You know. We've been traveling doing comedy around the country.
Speaker 1: I was in Sydney last week.
Speaker 2: How was that?
Speaker 1: It was good? But to take it back to tennis,
Speaker 1: I played a tennis match and a paddle or padel match. Oh,
Speaker 1: you did a bit of pedal on the same day.
Speaker 2: Whoa? And how did your brain handle that?
Speaker 1: My brain was fine, but my weird little legs were not. Oh,
Speaker 1: I was sore.
Speaker 2: So which is hotter on the legs? I would assume paddle.
Speaker 1: I think it was well, it was paddle because I
Speaker 1: played that second. But the match I played first in
Speaker 1: tennis was a guy who's never taken a set off me,
Speaker 1: and he's been taking lessons and he kept hitting me up.
Speaker 1: He's like, when are you going to be in Sydney?
Speaker 1: You gotta let me know. And he had gotten better,
Speaker 1: but I was still up six three six three five
Speaker 1: zero when he decided to start cheatingeating.
Speaker 2: A cheating skin.
Speaker 1: At that point, I was like, what are you doing? Man?
Speaker 1: This is like the match is over. I hit a
Speaker 1: match point because we said we'll do best of five
Speaker 1: and he it was clearly in and then he hits
Speaker 1: it into the net and so I win the match.
Speaker 1: And then once his shot went into the net, he goes, oh,
Speaker 1: your ball was out?
Speaker 2: What to late?
Speaker 1: My friend, That's what I said. I was like, you
Speaker 1: can't do that retrospective out.
Speaker 2: I don't think so.
Speaker 1: The delayed out call is ridiculous, you know, Yeah, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: And then it got in my head and he won
Speaker 1: two games, so I still, you know, close out the
Speaker 1: one six two. But I was fuming at the audacity.
Speaker 1: Did I thought?
Speaker 4: Anyway?
Speaker 2: Head rolls noticing some psychological patterns.
Speaker 1: It is mental warfare out there. But our producer E
Speaker 1: Roll has implied that I am a mental little person.
Speaker 2: Like your legs.
Speaker 1: They're actually long and quite nice. And if I was
Speaker 1: a lady, I.
Speaker 2: Know, I'm jealous of them. I got these short little stumpies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, so we will get the Oh well, let's
Speaker 1: get to our segment, checking in with the Ace Ace.
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Speaker 1: Please, Lizzie any tennis adjacent stories are going on in
Speaker 1: your life? Umm, that was checking in with Lizzie. It's
Speaker 1: the opposite of checking in with Ace, where I actually
Speaker 1: want to hear something but she has nothing.
Speaker 2: Stories just roping my mind. Yeah, Tennis Jason.
Speaker 1: Ace was all over that one. Good job, Ace. We
Speaker 1: love you, we respect you, We want to hear what
Speaker 1: you have.
Speaker 4: To say.
Speaker 2: Mid conversation. I'm done with this.
Speaker 1: Well, here's another one. That the pronunciation we might be
Speaker 1: getting wrong. If I say qatar. Do you think that's incorrect?
Speaker 2: Qatar? That's what I said, Yeah, Kata.
Speaker 1: Yeah, produced you put a real worldly inflection on that Qatar.
Speaker 1: How do you say it? Shut up, asshole, Nobody cares
Speaker 1: what you say. I'm just a you would actually probably know.
Speaker 1: How do you say it?
Speaker 4: What? No?
Speaker 2: Q what gettar?
Speaker 1: Gutar? Are you you're messing with us.
Speaker 2: Now really he's getting in a head.
Speaker 1: Ah right, Well, the did you watch any of Gatar
Speaker 1: Gatar guitar. A lot of the players got thirsty and
Speaker 1: had Gatar raise guitar to the chop ar.
Speaker 2: It was well, it was I love the footage coming
Speaker 2: out of guitar.
Speaker 1: It was an awesome tournament.
Speaker 2: I mean watching all these other tournaments besides the Australian,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm seeing the promotion that they do for them,
Speaker 2: and I'm thinking, we gotta go harder next year.
Speaker 1: Because you saw the fishing expedition.
Speaker 2: I saw them fishing millionaires going on a humble fishing trip,
Speaker 2: pretending to be the old days, and they're out there
Speaker 2: just cous playing fishermen. Were they like pajama bottoms song Alcoraz.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they were all wearing little matching out fits.
Speaker 2: Were having the best time. Yeah, just fishing, having a
Speaker 2: fun time.
Speaker 1: So you're saying next year for the AO, we should
Speaker 1: be doing deep sea fishing.
Speaker 2: No, I'm piggan. We're going pigan.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get we be pigging, pigging.
Speaker 2: We're gonna go out in the outback.
Speaker 1: Do you shoot pigs? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, We're gonna take a real Australian stole.
Speaker 1: All right, so you heard it here first, we be
Speaker 1: pigging next year.
Speaker 2: It's quite gruesome, though, is it?
Speaker 1: Have you done it?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: But I've always wanted to. Okay, yeah, don't keep anyone's
Speaker 2: out there in the regions that wants to take a
Speaker 2: small Asian woman. She is up for it.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna keep calling a qatar. A lot of
Speaker 1: the matches in the lead up were amazing and one
Speaker 1: of my favorites early on in the tournament Medvedev losing
Speaker 1: to sits a pass. Not a great match by any means,
Speaker 1: but are you aware of the history between these two
Speaker 1: not Really do yourself a favor and watch highlights of
Speaker 1: Medvedev sits a pass.
Speaker 2: I can see how would be Yeah.
Speaker 1: Because sits a pass, you know, he really rubs Medvedev
Speaker 1: the wrong way. And like two of my favorite quotes
Speaker 1: from Medvedev about sits a pass to his face or
Speaker 1: to a chair umpire where sits a bask can clearly
Speaker 1: hear what he's saying. He said he called him a
Speaker 1: small kid that doesn't know how to fight, you know,
Speaker 1: and he's like, how you say small kid doesn't know
Speaker 1: how to fight and so sits a Pass is just
Speaker 1: like taking it all in. And then from years ago,
Speaker 1: I believe it was in Miami, Uh, sits a Pass
Speaker 1: was taking his time like long delays, long bathroom breaks,
Speaker 1: Medvedev slowly losing his mind, and then he confronted him
Speaker 1: about it at the net at the end of the match,
Speaker 1: and sits Apasz just told him, you know, you better
Speaker 1: stop talking whatever, and then Mevedev said, man, you better
Speaker 1: shut your fuck up. To this day, I would just
Speaker 1: I just would love to tell someone to shut their
Speaker 1: fuck up.
Speaker 2: He's so good to me.
Speaker 1: One of the best matches out of guitar was Karen
Speaker 1: Kashanov versus al Karaz. Kashanov absolutely redlining his game you
Speaker 1: want to set, which you know, Carlos has just been
Speaker 1: stop all year and this watched the highlights from that.
Speaker 1: If you didn't get to see the match, it was
Speaker 1: hard because with the time difference in Australia and with
Speaker 1: the Olympics on YEA doing a lot of bub slid
Speaker 1: and then the Alcoraz like route to the final. He
Speaker 1: was just handily beating most players. The Karen Kashanov match
Speaker 1: was super solid, but every player took an opportunity at
Speaker 1: the net at the end of the match to because
Speaker 1: they love him. Everyone loves Carlos. He's real, he's a
Speaker 1: lovable guy, real protagonist energy, you know, he's just a joker,
Speaker 1: always smiling, star of the show.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: So when he beat Arthur rinder Kinnek, the frenchman at
Speaker 1: the net said one time, you'll let me win. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Carlos was like, yeah, sure.
Speaker 2: Whatever, Okay, buddy, did you see what I just did that?
Speaker 1: And another player said I'll come for you and Yennick
Speaker 1: don't worry someday. And then it's like Algoraz of course,
Speaker 1: laughing his face, He's like, oh yeah, yeah, but surely
Speaker 1: they kind of their competitive streak, they they mean it
Speaker 1: a little bit, O mean yeah yeah yeah. And then Karen,
Speaker 1: it's always weird saying Karen that this huge honky Russian
Speaker 1: guy's first name is Karen.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: To the manager, he said, you never get tired, You
Speaker 1: never do one time get tired, please.
Speaker 2: Just one time, like desperate little please exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So but and okay, I'll ask you this is sinner.
Speaker 1: He lost to our good friend of the show, yaka Mensik. Yeah,
Speaker 1: another great match. He beat Sinner huge, massive, and we
Speaker 1: had him in here during the Australian Open.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to remember his interview.
Speaker 1: It was right after he kind of flew in late
Speaker 1: because he just played.
Speaker 2: The all right New Zealand. Yes he won.
Speaker 1: He had just won against Sebastian Baiez, so he.
Speaker 2: Had a couple of days.
Speaker 1: He had a couple of days, so it was great.
Speaker 1: He was great. I mean, beating Sinner, especially on hard court,
Speaker 1: is no small feet. Yeah, because Sinner had won twenty
Speaker 1: two of the last twenty three matches that he played,
Speaker 1: and that one that he lost was against Djokovic at
Speaker 1: the Australian Open. And then Mensik doing this is huge.
Speaker 1: But it's also like kind of just reminds you how
Speaker 1: dominant Sinner's been because what it's so good, what it's
Speaker 1: such a huge deal that he's lost a match. Uh,
Speaker 1: And then Mensik went on to lose in his next match,
Speaker 1: So yeah, I know.
Speaker 2: Do you think he was just like I'll take this
Speaker 2: win and I think yeah, or maybe he was tired,
Speaker 2: Maybe it really to get out of him.
Speaker 1: I think that happens, especially if you beat a top
Speaker 1: ten player and a guy that's been that dominant like,
Speaker 1: you just you've peaked a little bit and then yeah,
Speaker 1: your energy sapped or whatever. You just like just can't
Speaker 1: maintain that level, and so he went out in the
Speaker 1: next match. But is it now annoying if Sinner or
Speaker 1: Alcoraz gets knocked out of a tournament early because you
Speaker 1: just want to see those two guys in the final.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's annoying.
Speaker 1: No, you can't.
Speaker 2: You want to see other people win, Yeah, because then
Speaker 2: the competition is greater overall.
Speaker 1: I think maybe storylines had Mensa gone on to play
Speaker 1: the final, but when Sinner goes out, well then you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: who's it going to be in the final? It turned
Speaker 1: out to be Arthur Fez.
Speaker 2: Who beaten in fifty minutes.
Speaker 1: That's outrageous. Yeah, we do comedy shows for longer.
Speaker 2: I know, I know, Yeah, fifty minutes would be so
Speaker 2: it's so quick.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Other news from the tournament in Kattar Alcoraz showing
Speaker 1: some rare emotion outside of just being happy and having
Speaker 1: a good time. Okay, I think we got a point.
Speaker 1: He got real upset getting a time violation. Oh Spanish, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is his hero's fault.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because he was he was close to the line.
Speaker 2: Nadal was always close, very close to the line.
Speaker 1: Nadal's pre serve routine was one of the most elaborate, elaborate,
Speaker 1: frustrating things to watch outside of Jokovic bouncing the ball
Speaker 1: a million times. Nadal picking a wedgie is yeah, fringe,
Speaker 1: but he go knows post weggie pick?
Speaker 2: Yeah, true, it's the wrong order, that's the wrong order.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what are you doing?
Speaker 2: Reggie pick better anddies?
Speaker 1: Yeah? That's like what if you draw yourself when you
Speaker 1: get out of the shower. If you start low and
Speaker 1: then go high.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta start with the face.
Speaker 1: You start high, go low, start I go low.
Speaker 2: Good hygiene people coming for tennis today, but you're getting
Speaker 2: hygiene and pop culture.
Speaker 1: Anyways, Alcaz pissed off with time violation. I just really
Speaker 1: think he was kind of getting frustrated in the match,
Speaker 1: and then he just wanted something to complain about, to
Speaker 1: blow off some steam.
Speaker 2: Yeah, probably he wanted a bit of excitement. Maybe yeah,
Speaker 2: winning too easily.
Speaker 1: But it's the clock I think is is really you know,
Speaker 1: you got to look at it.
Speaker 2: It looks surprised.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what me? So that was Qatar. I don't believe
Speaker 1: a lot of the big guys are playing in Dubai.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of them are going to the
Speaker 1: States for the swing over there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so everyone missus Dubai, like the women.
Speaker 1: The women just played Dubai and they pulled out and drove.
Speaker 1: This was crazy, right, Yeah, Like obviously it's happening there.
Speaker 2: Don't they treat you very well over there? But like
Speaker 2: they boiled, like so many pulled out in even like
Speaker 2: mid tournament. Yeah, yeah, I'm not feeling it.
Speaker 1: I think it's already if you think about the tennis season,
Speaker 1: so kicking all the smaller tournaments and then leading into
Speaker 1: the Australian Open, and then they're over there, there's a
Speaker 1: tournament immediately if you want to play the two fifties
Speaker 1: and the five hundreds, and I think Dubai, it's the
Speaker 1: Middle East. It's crazy hot. Yeah there, it's a lot
Speaker 1: of it's played during the day, and then they're just
Speaker 1: already kind of tapping out and they're like, well, I
Speaker 1: could totally apply myself here, save it for Indian wells Miami.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: So I think that you're already starting to see the
Speaker 1: fatigue setting in by Dubai. And it was like I
Speaker 1: mean sixteen withdrawls, so it didn't even play in the tournament.
Speaker 1: And that was Big Gun, Sable, Anca, Schavan, tek Osaka,
Speaker 1: et cetera. Three walkovers, So that's retiring before their match
Speaker 1: even start. Katchikova our front of the show, Kazakina uh
Speaker 1: for retirement so mid match, Podosa being probably the the
Speaker 1: and Rebecca being the big ones there. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it's just a thing where it's they're just sapped
Speaker 1: already at this point. And you might see it in
Speaker 1: the men's playing Dubai this.
Speaker 2: Week because they want to be prepping.
Speaker 1: For because they know they might see me over there.
Speaker 2: We might We've got to be in top form from
Speaker 2: Mike g from Pod labor Arena.
Speaker 1: So, Dubai, did you get to see much of this?
Speaker 1: Were you watching the Twizzles on that?
Speaker 2: I was watching the Twizzles?
Speaker 1: Okay again, you're a big twizzlehead.
Speaker 2: I know that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love the Twizzle You know what, I can't
Speaker 1: see the cross country skiing stuff like that. I'm sure
Speaker 1: have you tried it?
Speaker 2: I tried it. I tried it. It's basically just doing lunges.
Speaker 1: The whole time, right, So they they have quads.
Speaker 2: Oh that quads. The leg strength on these guys have
Speaker 2: been sayings country.
Speaker 1: Skiing, it's a very quad based.
Speaker 2: Olympics is small quad based.
Speaker 1: Yeah, small, but well there's one guy called the quad God,
Speaker 1: the quad God. Yeah, that's his nickname. There's another guy
Speaker 1: called Quadzilla.
Speaker 4: This is true.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in the Olympics. What sports today?
Speaker 1: Quad God is figure skating? Quadzilla? I want to say
Speaker 1: speed skating.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel it.
Speaker 1: What would your nickname be?
Speaker 2: Uh Kuwadimoto?
Speaker 1: That checks out. So in Dubai, which was eventually won
Speaker 1: by Jess Pagoula and straight set the show show, Jpeg
Speaker 1: won that tournament. She beats f Yeah.
Speaker 2: I love Svidina too.
Speaker 1: Another front of the show.
Speaker 2: Another front of the show. I really want to see
Speaker 2: Vidolina like win a real big slam, a slam.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think he maybe Wimbledon.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, I want to put money on that.
Speaker 2: No, but I want to put it in my prediction okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: which I'm going to release in the coming weeks.
Speaker 1: Wow, So Cliffhanger Lizzy's predictions.
Speaker 2: Wait for it. She just looks good.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 1: I think she was cooked by the final because she
Speaker 1: played that epic against Cocoa Golf which like I want
Speaker 1: to say, the middle tie break was like fifteen thirteen, yeah,
Speaker 1: and so what over three hours? And yeah, and Pagola
Speaker 1: is consistent and just yeah, she's strong, been in so
Speaker 1: many semifinals, like just in the past year and then
Speaker 1: has one another tournament last year and then this one
Speaker 1: is a big one. So Jess Jpeg as we call her,
Speaker 1: she beats Fidalina, but you heard it from Lizzie Spidealina
Speaker 1: is going to win Wimbledon, so she'll be back and
Speaker 1: strong for that. One thing that came out of Dubai
Speaker 1: that I found interesting was Alexandra Iola of the Philippines.
Speaker 2: Oh, such a sensation.
Speaker 1: The Taylor's Swift of tennis. Yeah, huge, packing out stadiums
Speaker 1: all around the world. And tournament directors are what do
Speaker 1: they do well? They're on top? They know this, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess which I feel like the Australian Open was
Speaker 1: maybe caught off guard a little bit. But what she loses.
Speaker 1: She was beat by Cocoa Golf and then Coco is
Speaker 1: apologizing to her legions of fans, going I'm sorry, you know,
Speaker 1: and she Coco killed her like six oh six two.
Speaker 1: But Yolla is now going to get wild cards for life, Oh.
Speaker 2: For sure, appearance fees, wild gods she's in Is that fair? Wow?
Speaker 2: She's bringing the people. Yeah, and it's bringing like a
Speaker 2: whole new audience to tennis as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think it's cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, get the wild card. You don't want sport
Speaker 1: to be merit based.
Speaker 2: I want it to be all about socials. Howe many
Speaker 2: followers you have that that dictates your ranking? Yeah, it
Speaker 2: is a little bit sad like that one.
Speaker 1: But I mean it's it is. It's a business. And
Speaker 1: if you're getting people through the door and she's packing
Speaker 1: out stadiums and stuff, and Coco said, when they're chanting
Speaker 1: for Yalla, she just pretended like they're chanting for her.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's got to be annoying.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as if you're a player and there's like ninety
Speaker 2: percent of the people there to watch the other person.
Speaker 1: Yeah, far out. There was also a hardcore tournament in Florida,
Speaker 1: Delray Beach.
Speaker 2: Delray Beach sounds fun.
Speaker 1: It is fun. I've been there, have you. It's real
Speaker 1: just surfy, cruising, laid back. You know, it's Florida.
Speaker 2: So this is Kelly Slay to country.
Speaker 1: Well, California is more Kelly slid but at all Florida
Speaker 1: is he. I could be wrong, Yeah, I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I do know that it was the battle of
Speaker 1: the fellow American.
Speaker 3: Yes, oh.
Speaker 4: People, he's crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're good.
Speaker 1: So Delray Beach was won by Sebastian Corda and straight sets.
Speaker 1: That just happened, and it was like the wind was
Speaker 1: wreaking havoc and I think Corda handled it a little better.
Speaker 1: And yeah, they're good friends. But uh yeah, Sebastian Corda
Speaker 1: is good to see him back and form. He's got
Speaker 1: a crazy background of the pedigree on him, elite athletes.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, yeah, I know.
Speaker 2: Crazy.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of the Goldstein.
Speaker 2: I was like, I wish I came from like a
Speaker 2: real sporting pedigree, and I had no choice but to
Speaker 2: do sports, continue the legacy.
Speaker 1: You kind of do your sporting. Your brother's teaching.
Speaker 2: Paddles, teaching paddles, some slum.
Speaker 1: And Delray Beach the match before Sebastian Corda obviously won
Speaker 1: before the final. And I don't know if you saw
Speaker 1: this postmatch interview, but the interviewer stumbled on her words, you've.
Speaker 2: Played Flavio three times and you've had success with him
Speaker 2: all three times.
Speaker 1: Why is it that you have had such success zebby
Speaker 1: being the legend he is. He said, well, he's a
Speaker 1: very good looking man. Great, I know what an answer.
Speaker 1: It made me like him all that much more.
Speaker 2: I like him.
Speaker 1: He rules. But who she was talking to him about.
Speaker 1: Flavio Koboli debuted his new tattoo. Look at that, he's
Speaker 1: got fresh tattoo and fresh win of the year. Ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen.
Speaker 2: Let's give it up for Flavio Capol.
Speaker 1: You don't like it, it's awful.
Speaker 2: Well, it's a picture of the Hulk.
Speaker 1: The incredible hole on five.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, because he took his shirt off like the Hulk.
Speaker 2: Was it in the Davis Cup?
Speaker 1: Yeah, he ripped his shirt off in the Davis Cup.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And everyone was like telling him, look like the Hulk.
Speaker 2: And then he's like, I've got to get this whole
Speaker 2: tattooed on my thigh.
Speaker 1: This is what you need people around you saying no
Speaker 1: to things I reckon.
Speaker 2: That's why it took a long time, because people were like,
Speaker 2: are you sure about this? And after a year or whatever,
Speaker 2: he's like, yeah, I still.
Speaker 1: Want the Hulk on my thought. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: it's people going, yeah, cool idea of Flavio. You should
Speaker 1: totally do that.
Speaker 2: It looks like he kind of skin grafted it from
Speaker 2: a dad at comic.
Speaker 1: Yes, incredible, hull. I mean, I think we might have
Speaker 1: the same reaction when we saw this on three one
Speaker 1: two three nerves. I mean, don't go Marvel, get a
Speaker 1: DC one. Oh, I've got bat nerd I got Batman
Speaker 1: on my lower back.
Speaker 2: Waiting for your Robin.
Speaker 1: The other tournament see the clay court stuff. I'm not
Speaker 1: totally across. So what happened your dictionary?
Speaker 2: It's crazy ATP five hundred event, Etchivery in his semi
Speaker 2: final defeated Kapriva. Am I saying that right, Capriva. And
Speaker 2: it was rain affected. So they played started on the Saturday,
Speaker 2: came back on the Sunday. Finished. It went for three hours,
Speaker 2: I know, and then he had to play the final
Speaker 2: the same day in the afternoon. He had to so
Speaker 2: he and that he played Alejandro Tabillo later that day
Speaker 2: in another three hour.
Speaker 1: Cake an actuary came out on top. Yeah, what a machine.
Speaker 2: Isn't that crazy? Hours of Dennis in the day And
Speaker 2: that was his first a t P title for him.
Speaker 1: Hell, yes, how good is that?
Speaker 2: And then our friend Diego was there presenting the award.
Speaker 2: People is gracey, Yeah, and you had to kind of
Speaker 2: like jump up to give it.
Speaker 1: You would have cute little guy, little platter, craziest.
Speaker 2: It was like, what the hell?
Speaker 1: Okay, that's all the tournaments wrapped up? Should we get
Speaker 1: to everyone's fame? Segment?
Speaker 2: My favorite segment.
Speaker 1: This is mix anagrams? Mix anagrams? Did did it? Mixanagrams?
Speaker 3: Did di?
Speaker 4: Did it?
Speaker 1: Did this anagram? I'm telling you it's gonna blow the
Speaker 1: right out of here. It's gonna go another one. It's
Speaker 1: gonna blow your minds out of your asses. This is
Speaker 1: Sebastian Korda, just one as discussed Delray Beach in Florida,
Speaker 1: and we said Florida very cruizy, surfy, laid back right. Yes,
Speaker 1: so as he got the W. I've added W to
Speaker 1: Sebastian Korida.
Speaker 4: And then this is a.
Speaker 1: I mean, this tells you what his prize would have been.
Speaker 1: Because you mix up the letters in W Sebastian Korda,
Speaker 1: you get wins the skateboard. Yes, that is grect.
Speaker 3: A.
Speaker 2: Thank you to do just out of curiosity that one as.
Speaker 1: Soon as I had skate board, I was so excited.
Speaker 1: I can't tell you what a.
Speaker 2: Day taking his step, real kick in his flip, Yeah,
Speaker 2: thank you, real kicking my flip.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So we are going to get into our interview
Speaker 1: with the Yakub Mensik, who is in here during the tournament.
Speaker 1: It's uh, it's a bit dated because we'll be talking
Speaker 1: about him just winning the Auckland.
Speaker 2: Fifty stick around because he's a fun guy.
Speaker 1: Awesome, dude. Oh, we be picking, we be picking, we
Speaker 1: be pigging.
Speaker 2: Top tup check check one two.
Speaker 1: Mike, Mike check, Mike g check, Lizzie check yock up check.
Speaker 4: There we go.
Speaker 2: Yeah. What a nice deep voice.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's a radio voice. Yeah yeah, can you say something?
Speaker 2: Uh, welcome to pud labor Arena.
Speaker 4: Welcome to labor Arena.
Speaker 1: Yeah, god damn. Do you want my job?
Speaker 4: Actually, I'm good with mine.
Speaker 2: Professional tennis player or arena host. What are you gonna pick?
Speaker 1: Well, you know I'm out there training every day as.
Speaker 4: Well, dude, against you.
Speaker 1: Today on the pod we have Yaka men sick. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there you go, no one else, will you, dude, Champion
Speaker 1: of Auckland sounds great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you've been having a couple of hours ago.
Speaker 1: So are you are you hung over? What's happening?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: No, I'm fine. I get like some not that much sleep.
Speaker 4: I just arrived today in the morning, like one am,
Speaker 4: so get just a few hours of the sleep. But yeah,
Speaker 4: new place, new new town, new tournaments, so you start
Speaker 4: for me. So I'm pretty excited, right.
Speaker 1: So there was no celebrating after winning the Auckland tournament yesterday.
Speaker 4: Actually I did not. I didn't know.
Speaker 2: I will do something.
Speaker 4: I pop up the champagne on the court, okay, drink it. No,
Speaker 4: I tried to, but I tried to, but you know,
Speaker 4: all the bubbles game came into me something.
Speaker 1: It's warm and flat, So no time.
Speaker 4: For celebration that much. But yeah, I'm saying. And I
Speaker 4: finished the finals and in two and a half days
Speaker 4: I supposed to play already first round of the I
Speaker 4: was trying to open, so I need to better be
Speaker 4: ready for.
Speaker 1: Do you check the draw? Do you see your plan
Speaker 1: or do you just want it to be a surprise.
Speaker 4: No, I mean I checked it obviously, and if I
Speaker 4: didn't want to, somehow it will get to me. So
Speaker 4: so yeah, I know my first round upon and of
Speaker 4: course what is coming next. I don't know, just focusing,
Speaker 4: just focusing on the on the match that I have.
Speaker 1: For intimidation, just wear a shirt that says Auckland.
Speaker 4: I can I can show them. I can show them.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Have you been doing tons of media today or
Speaker 1: just chill so far?
Speaker 4: Actually I did tops signatures.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
Speaker 4: Also I've been I've been doing some media, some interviews
Speaker 4: and photo shootings and all this stuff before the tournament.
Speaker 4: So actually everything's supposed to be done in one week,
Speaker 4: but I have it in two hours.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 1: I get it all done.
Speaker 4: Absolutely. That's probably much more easier than be here for
Speaker 4: like one one week in the advance. Yeah, of course
Speaker 4: it has some some pros and cones, but yeah, I
Speaker 4: like it.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 1: Are you comfortable on the photo shoots? Like do you
Speaker 1: have a like a blue steel zooland.
Speaker 2: Do you have a special pose that you do because
Speaker 2: tennis players they're always in magazines and everything they can model.
Speaker 4: I did a couple of shootings. Yeah, yeah, I mean,
Speaker 4: of course I would say that I'm improving.
Speaker 2: Oh that's good because that Do you find that really
Speaker 2: awkward or are you comfortable now?
Speaker 4: Actually at the beginning, of course, it depends on the shooting.
Speaker 4: It depends on the shooting. But for now, I mean
Speaker 4: I feel pretty comfortable.
Speaker 1: Okay, Lizzie show yaka of the face you do when
Speaker 1: you're doing a photo shoot.
Speaker 2: They told me to put my chin like over the fence.
Speaker 2: It's like this.
Speaker 4: Right there we go, there we go.
Speaker 2: You shoot once in it like Lizzie, chin over the fence.
Speaker 1: Really, I would be like, please put your chin back
Speaker 1: over the fence.
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: So, like We've had a lot of players through and
Speaker 1: I feel like the best thing to do is just
Speaker 1: show you the questions we had lined up and then
Speaker 1: you could just pick one and answer it.
Speaker 2: Because I'm professional.
Speaker 1: That's how professional we are. Choose one and just go
Speaker 1: for it.
Speaker 4: Actually, the first that for the first time that I
Speaker 4: take a look, I saw the best accent.
Speaker 1: Yeah, can you do it?
Speaker 2: Do you want to press the button?
Speaker 1: And then if you can repeat what the button says?
Speaker 4: I say, I didn't hear that. It was so quick.
Speaker 2: That's a weird one though that nobody knows about it.
Speaker 4: Fair Australian gibbs some slanks like like Barbie, oh, barb,
Speaker 4: there you go, there you go.
Speaker 1: Do Australians actually say Barbie though, yeah, we say, Bobby,
Speaker 1: you put.
Speaker 2: It on the Bobby.
Speaker 1: Yea prawns instead of shrimp.
Speaker 2: And the other one is the other big quote is
Speaker 2: that's not a knife From the movie.
Speaker 1: Have you seen Crocodile Dundee.
Speaker 4: Of course, it's an amazing movie. I've been growing up
Speaker 4: on this movie.
Speaker 1: Really, they should do a new Crocodile Dundee with Paul Hogan. Now, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, incontinent.
Speaker 2: And he's a campground screaming at.
Speaker 1: So what we've been doing into a round off the
Speaker 1: pod labor Arena podcasts with the players is we have
Speaker 1: the little ping pong table going over there and uh,
Speaker 1: you know the AO just did the one point slam.
Speaker 4: Oh no, I know where he's just going.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know who do you want to play me
Speaker 2: or Mike?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you choose.
Speaker 4: He has a sweat. I'm kind of afraid of him.
Speaker 1: You heard it here first, the Auckland champion is afraid
Speaker 1: of Mike. Gee, you're gonna take on Lizzy. You guys
Speaker 1: do rock paper scissors to decide who serves? Do you
Speaker 1: do it on three or on four?
Speaker 4: Do you know one two three or one two? Shoot? Shoot?
Speaker 1: All right? Go ahead, one.
Speaker 4: All right, No, I've had some lnal and stomach issues.
Speaker 1: All right, welcome back to the one point slam. Yakam
Speaker 1: Mensiic the Auckland champion versus our very Unlizzy who who
Speaker 1: elected to serve? Yaup. Yakam is, oh you'receiving Yakub. That
Speaker 1: confusing when I said, who elected to serve? All right, Yakam,
Speaker 1: take it away. Quite the rally on my hands. It
Speaker 1: hits the ball back. No one wants to hit a forehead. Yakam.
Speaker 1: Mensik takes the points. He's laughing. Yeah, that was not
Speaker 1: that bad.
Speaker 2: Tennis keeps moving