Speaker 1: Hey, welcome back to another day of pod labor Areta.
Speaker 1: You're here with the Fridgie and the Bear. The secret
Speaker 1: sound today is well, hold on of you know that
Speaker 1: secret sound. Let's check out what's happening in hollywoodd that's
Speaker 1: my radio.
Speaker 2: Hey guys, how you going. Welcome to pub labor Rena.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good.
Speaker 2: That's like the chump of boys from doing the traffic
Speaker 2: right right right.
Speaker 1: But most radio teams would be like two guys saying
Speaker 1: off color stuff and then you would just be the lady.
Speaker 2: Oh you boys, You guys are so funny. You guys
Speaker 2: stopping my tits.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. This is a day four of
Speaker 1: opening week, qualifying week, qualifying week, and we've been opening week.
Speaker 1: We've been out and about on the grounds.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've been using our passes. You've been using your past.
Speaker 1: To get me into exclusive areas. I have been using
Speaker 1: Ionic Center as toilet exclusively.
Speaker 2: Whoa be doing in there?
Speaker 1: I've wrecked it for him sins of my own. No,
Speaker 1: but I did use the player gym.
Speaker 2: This is what I tell my friends about when I
Speaker 2: when I say I'm working at the AO, I'm doing
Speaker 2: the podcast and I have an all excess pass including
Speaker 2: good gime.
Speaker 1: Good game. Yeah, And they're like, what, Yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Can go out.
Speaker 2: I can go and work out in the player's gym.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, do you I'm like no, but.
Speaker 1: But my cast you've been working out the cash register
Speaker 1: at Shakeshack.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's where I want to be.
Speaker 2: You haven't yet though, No, really, I said i'd do
Speaker 2: it yesterday, but I think it got a bit too
Speaker 2: hot yesterday.
Speaker 3: I was like, I don't want to get a.
Speaker 2: Cheese burger in twenty nine degree heating.
Speaker 1: No, but if you're a listener who's visiting, no matter
Speaker 1: how hot.
Speaker 2: It is, please get around the shake shit.
Speaker 1: A triple stack burger from Shakeshack and a big strawberry
Speaker 1: milkshake to wash it down with in the heat.
Speaker 2: But I feel sick already, Yeah, and jump up and down. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and then vomit in the bushes. There's plenty of bushes
Speaker 2: to vomiting.
Speaker 1: I will not vomit in bushes, just in case your
Speaker 1: dad is hiding in them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's always there.
Speaker 1: Chen who Chen who always lurking?
Speaker 3: He's always looking.
Speaker 1: I worked out in the player's gym, and let me
Speaker 1: tell you, it was intimidating as hell.
Speaker 2: Wow, okay, so what do you bring into the players gym?
Speaker 2: Are you going full workout? Are you stretching? Are you
Speaker 2: warming up? You just feel on your way.
Speaker 1: I'm bringing my general uh, insecure vibe and beta male enthusiastmuh.
Speaker 1: They are doing crazy workouts. It's a lot of like
Speaker 1: older coaches shouting at young European people. Okay, and Maria Sachari.
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, who played in the one point in the.
Speaker 1: One point Slam, and she is ripped.
Speaker 2: She is she is one of the strongest looking players
Speaker 2: on the second.
Speaker 1: Her head looks like a muscle. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's just doing a headway.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's doing a lot of down yeah.
Speaker 3: Just with her mouth.
Speaker 2: She's just like pulling the whites down.
Speaker 1: And I'm you know, she's there doing like box jumps.
Speaker 1: And then there's a Koboli was there, the Italian player
Speaker 1: and a bunch of others. Everyone is like in the
Speaker 1: prime of their lives, just absolutely shredded. And I'm doing
Speaker 1: assisted pull ups in the corner and I asked for
Speaker 1: a straw with my protein ship nice. I feel like,
Speaker 1: if I get comfortable enough in there, I'll just be like, hey,
Speaker 1: anybody want to spot I could spot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but you can spot people.
Speaker 1: I could spot people, But then what if I screwed
Speaker 1: up the spot and I, you know, end up injuring
Speaker 1: you know, a star player because the bar bell falls
Speaker 1: off their face on their ynx.
Speaker 3: It wasn't me.
Speaker 1: So you got to get in there.
Speaker 2: You got to get to get in there. That could
Speaker 2: that could be really good for me.
Speaker 1: It could be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like it. I like when they do the
Speaker 2: tennis specific moves, like when they're throwing like a weighted
Speaker 2: ball at the wall.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there's a lot of that going on, a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of legs stuff, which I should
Speaker 1: be doing because, as you've said, I have weird little legs.
Speaker 2: I didn't say that. That's just your internal money anytime
Speaker 2: you're in shorts, weird little legs, weird little legs.
Speaker 1: And I think it's been and it's been a wake
Speaker 1: up call for me needing to change my workouts to
Speaker 1: something much more.
Speaker 2: I think you've got to go in there with more
Speaker 2: of a plan.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, not just from not just be like.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, it's real.
Speaker 2: You got to go in there with like a routine,
Speaker 2: maybe a bit of warm up on the bike and
Speaker 2: do some arms, some legs.
Speaker 1: Some proper workouts. Yeah, not just get on that one
Speaker 1: machine where you you know, where you spread your legs
Speaker 1: and make eye contacts with people.
Speaker 3: Really got to work.
Speaker 2: I think there's many other muscles you should be working
Speaker 2: on before your inner thighs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and a Colin Skyle walking by while I'm making
Speaker 1: an eye contact on the legs spreader machine, show me.
Speaker 3: Stuff.
Speaker 4: No way.
Speaker 1: Here we are for another day at the Australian Open,
Speaker 1: broadcasting to you live. That's not how podcasts work. Keep that.
Speaker 1: We have a studio on the grounds of the Australian Open.
Speaker 2: We're in the mixn BBC Wide World of Sports liver Arena.
Speaker 1: We're on the grounds every day. I went to the
Speaker 1: little kids tennis court, the top shot and I absolutely dominated.
Speaker 1: Nice to feel better about myself after what happened at
Speaker 1: the one point Slam.
Speaker 3: I did so well at the one point.
Speaker 1: Oh, I know, I know. I don't want you to
Speaker 1: keep reliving what happened.
Speaker 2: With you in huge I know I should have been
Speaker 2: up there up there. Yeah, but it was a big night.
Speaker 1: It was a big night. It was a huge night.
Speaker 1: We'll get to the details and all that happened with
Speaker 1: the one point.
Speaker 2: Slam special guests.
Speaker 1: And our special guests. Oh, huge, huge teas, hit the
Speaker 1: big time, hit the big time. We have the winner
Speaker 1: of the one point Slam, the million dollars one point Slam,
Speaker 1: Jordan Smith.
Speaker 2: I don't know if there are any others. I don't
Speaker 2: know about your financial position all.
Speaker 1: No, he rolls, put his hand up. But I happened
Speaker 1: to know he just bought a house and he is
Speaker 1: now a hundred.
Speaker 2: Are yeah, exactly, yes.
Speaker 1: Ace Man. I imagine Aceman's probably tied up in crypto.
Speaker 1: He's got crypto vibes for sure. Yeah. But we are
Speaker 1: on the grounds every day. We are getting amongst it. Lizzie,
Speaker 1: you went and watched Bernard Tomic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when we finished up here yesterday, I thought, one
Speaker 2: set to go, let's go. It was on one of
Speaker 2: the outside courts.
Speaker 1: He was already set down.
Speaker 3: He was already set down.
Speaker 2: I thought, come on, this is it and I went there,
Speaker 2: sat in the sun and look. I was only in
Speaker 2: the sun for about twenty minutes. I was concerned. I thought,
Speaker 2: should I put on some sunscreen? Should I go and
Speaker 2: get no?
Speaker 3: No needs?
Speaker 1: Aren't you getting bucketfuls? Of the mecca of free sunscreen.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm bringing my own refill bottles.
Speaker 2: So what you can do?
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, really.
Speaker 2: Yeah, twenty minutes or something. The other guy can't remember
Speaker 2: his name.
Speaker 3: He oh yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Can, very very Yeah. The British guy.
Speaker 3: The British guy. He kind of dominated, did he.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so Bernie bowed out he bat the second round
Speaker 1: of qualifying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wanted to see him go through. I kind
Speaker 2: of had big hopes from my thought. Maybe he's going
Speaker 2: to make a comeback, right for real.
Speaker 1: Gone back to his orange BMW on the Gold Coast driving.
Speaker 1: He's out of here. Bye, by Bernie.
Speaker 3: By Bernie.
Speaker 1: That's sad.
Speaker 3: But uh, you'd been out and about as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I well, I've been watching a ton
Speaker 1: of tennis, but the Adelaide International is still on at
Speaker 1: the moment, and I watched Vukic. Oh my gosh, Alexander
Speaker 1: Vukech beat Vavasory.
Speaker 3: Yeah what this is a good time.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: So we're off the Tomic train, like we said yesterday,
Speaker 1: we're on team Vukic.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I think he plays Tommy Paul.
Speaker 2: What do you think can can he do it?
Speaker 1: I don't know. And I'm a huge Tommy Paul fan
Speaker 1: because I identify with, you know, other cute Americans.
Speaker 3: Afro ju you're all.
Speaker 2: Was just like, that's a good but we're not having
Speaker 2: any of that.
Speaker 1: And then also today, I know the Draw comes out later.
Speaker 3: Yeah, excited to that.
Speaker 1: We'll talk all things draw tomorrow. But huge news. Roger
Speaker 1: Federer is in our midst.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's the beat on the street.
Speaker 1: He's around.
Speaker 3: He's around today.
Speaker 2: Will we see him maybe maybe maybe we'll brush shoulders.
Speaker 3: With him or something.
Speaker 1: We'll get him in here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, get him dressed as a seagull. Maybe he was
Speaker 2: here yesterday. Maybe he's one of the seagulls.
Speaker 3: We don't know.
Speaker 1: On the last episode, we interviewed an older couple in seagull.
Speaker 3: Outfits Highlight Korea Highlight.
Speaker 1: That was Roger Federer and Merca. Yeah, his wife.
Speaker 2: That's what they do for fun now Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: They're not furry? Is there feathery?
Speaker 2: But yeah, he's around today and he does famously have
Speaker 2: a meet and greet twenty thousand dollars for a handshake
Speaker 2: for a handshake, Yeah, and the tickets have sold out.
Speaker 2: Amazing is that I want to meet the people I
Speaker 2: don't want to meet Roger Federer. I want to meet
Speaker 2: the people who are meeting Roger feder and being like
Speaker 2: who are you? What makes you think you can pay
Speaker 2: twenty thousand dollars to meet Roger Federer? Like what is
Speaker 2: your life?
Speaker 1: They have a lot of disposable income, a.
Speaker 3: Lot for a handshake?
Speaker 1: Is that all you get? A handshake? Yeah?
Speaker 2: What would you do?
Speaker 3: What's your handshake? We're you just going like I do?
Speaker 1: Probably, yeah, I do. I try to be you know,
Speaker 1: badley and strong Gert. But then I'd give him the
Speaker 1: little tickle fever on the palm.
Speaker 2: I go real clammy, like real clammy hand. Yeah, maybe
Speaker 2: like have it warming up in my thighs that sounds round?
Speaker 2: Do take that out? Like maybe maybe I don't know,
Speaker 2: warming up underneath my armpit or something. And then yeah yeah,
Speaker 2: And then I'd come out and be like full eye contact.
Speaker 1: Right right, clam hands, old clam hands. Who yeah yeah?
Speaker 2: Or there's a two and a half thousand dollars option also,
Speaker 2: is it?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: What that gets you? A Q and A that.
Speaker 1: Sounds better than the handshake. The handshake must be as
Speaker 1: selfie as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you must be able to get herself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but twenty thousand bucks. What would you want from
Speaker 1: feeder for twenty thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: A private lesson?
Speaker 2: Ah yeah, that's good, like a maybe maybe pick a ball?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, a bit of a hit, Yeah, a.
Speaker 3: Bit of a hit.
Speaker 1: That would be good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, work out in the gym, a date, Yeah, what
Speaker 2: I want to know? Yeah, you know, tandem bike?
Speaker 3: Tell me what I'd want?
Speaker 2: A tandem bike along the Yerra.
Speaker 1: That's beautiful. Yeah, that's very nice. I want him to
Speaker 1: whisper in my ear. You're good enough, you're smart enough.
Speaker 2: You're strong and black, beautiful. People like you, people like you.
Speaker 2: You know what? You could get him to record that
Speaker 2: on your phone. Yeah, and that could be your morning
Speaker 2: alone every Yeah.
Speaker 1: I just yeah, and I always it's my ring tone.
Speaker 1: I let it my phone ring out every every time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's special. The pod labor at tennis dot com dot
Speaker 1: au email is live. We're starting to get emails from people.
Speaker 1: Hit us up. Like I said, as long as it's
Speaker 1: nice and positive and uh not hurtful.
Speaker 2: Because yes, you know, you got suggestions, questions, you want
Speaker 2: to ask us anything at tennis dot com dot au.
Speaker 1: Any updates on Taylor switch.
Speaker 3: We haven't heard back.
Speaker 2: We haven't heard back from them, either Taylor or Travis,
Speaker 2: but we've got a lot of emails from sweaty men
Speaker 2: wanting Mike to rub their backs.
Speaker 3: With sun creamy. Okay, obviously, what else.
Speaker 1: I'm not going in raw? Welcome back to pod laver Arena.
Speaker 1: Let's get into the headline calls huge, huge news obviously.
Speaker 1: With Jordan Smith winning the million one point Slam, we
Speaker 1: will be talking to him later. Crazy and playing the
Speaker 1: Ping Pong million Slam Slam.
Speaker 2: Well, we're getting the million dollars back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if one of us wins it, We'll see uh
Speaker 1: and tennis news from around the grounds and around the
Speaker 1: other tournaments. In the Hobart International, Emma Radikanu is back
Speaker 1: in form, taking out Camilla Asorio of Columbia six three
Speaker 1: seven six.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Victory marks Radi Khana's first win since since September after
Speaker 1: struggling with a foot injury in the first weeks of
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty five season. You like Emma, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: love Emma.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's good to see her fellow half Asian.
Speaker 2: I love any of you half Asian gol on the circuit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but yeah, I feel like this is.
Speaker 2: A story though it's like since the win the US
Speaker 2: Open win, which was what twenty twenty one? Yes, Oh,
Speaker 2: it's always been like she's back, yeah, like what she's young.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's here. Yeah, but it's.
Speaker 2: Always been the story of like she's back. And I
Speaker 2: guess if you start with a Grand Slam win, yeah,
Speaker 2: and then don't do much since, then that's the story.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm happy to see her back. Maybe we extend
Speaker 1: an invitation for Kanu to come in. Oh ye, talk
Speaker 1: to us during the Please.
Speaker 2: Come and hang out with us. We'll chat redica who.
Speaker 1: Sorry, yeah cut that cut.
Speaker 2: That cut it and they'll keep it in well cut it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So Emma's back. She's doing well in the Hobart International.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: As previously stated, Bernard Tomic is out after losing in
Speaker 1: the second round of qualifiers. Uh. In sad news, Cocinacus
Speaker 1: has withdrawn from the Adelaide International.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but withdrawn from that, so hopefully he can still.
Speaker 1: Play the singles at the AO. Yeah right, and uh yeah,
Speaker 1: the draw comes out later today. We'll be going over
Speaker 1: that later. Like we said, you know, he's heard his shoulder, Cocinaucus.
Speaker 1: He fixed his peck with the you know, Achilles gaments.
Speaker 2: Dead man's achilles, dead man's.
Speaker 1: Achilles, and we said, you know, get that dead man's clue.
Speaker 1: Put on your shoulder.
Speaker 2: Hmm, just one big old glute, one huge shoulder walking around.
Speaker 3: Wouldn't look weird at.
Speaker 1: All, not at all. This is a wild story coming
Speaker 1: out of qualifying. There's been lots of great matches in
Speaker 1: the opening week of the Australian Open, but Lizzie, I
Speaker 1: think we were talking about this just before the Sebastian
Speaker 1: Offner of Austria playing Bassavaretti, the American player insane scenes.
Speaker 3: Took me a while to get my head around.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, well same with Sebastian.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wasn't the only one. At least I wasn't
Speaker 2: on court in front of a lot of cameras.
Speaker 1: I know, to set the scene. He was in the
Speaker 1: third set in the qualifying rounds. The third set, if
Speaker 1: it goes to a tie break, it's a super tie
Speaker 1: break to ten, win by two, to.
Speaker 3: Ten, win by two. Ykay, here we are.
Speaker 1: So he was up six to one in the third
Speaker 1: set tie break. He wins the next point to go
Speaker 1: seven to one. Most tie breaks are to seven. Start celebrating.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he gets almost to the net.
Speaker 1: Yeah, puts his arms in the air in a victory
Speaker 1: pose and then gets told no, it's not over, back
Speaker 1: on your line. Yeah, And this is where things spiral.
Speaker 1: We eventually get to twelve eleven Bassi Alreadi and the
Speaker 1: deciding set tie break. He wins in thirteen eleven, but
Speaker 1: then throws the choke celebrations.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so he literally mime, well, yeah, does a choke
Speaker 2: on himself, looking at Off now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't like that.
Speaker 1: He throws the choke celebration, seemingly saying Sebastian after massively
Speaker 1: choked yes from seven one. It was just really I
Speaker 1: think him in his mind that thinking you've won something
Speaker 1: and that it's all over and you're through to the
Speaker 1: next round, and realizing you got to win three more
Speaker 1: points at broken like that ruined his brain.
Speaker 2: Do you think, Yeah, it got into his head, But
Speaker 2: it was an easy mistake if you're used to playing normal.
Speaker 1: But these guys, their whole life is tennis. I feel
Speaker 1: like they should have known that it's a super tie
Speaker 1: break for a third set decider in the qualifiers, right,
Speaker 1: But I just think the mental release thinking he's won
Speaker 1: the match and then he actually has and he had
Speaker 1: more match points through the tie break after being up
Speaker 1: seven to one, couldn't close it out, bess of already
Speaker 1: you know, obviously he is now through to the next round.
Speaker 1: But then friendly ish handshake at the net.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I don't know. I didn't like the choke thing.
Speaker 3: No, No, I thought that was a bit mean.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: He may as well like have done like a knife
Speaker 3: to this road.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you think that would have been more.
Speaker 3: More friendly.
Speaker 2: The choke, I feel like that that's.
Speaker 3: Kind of rude.
Speaker 1: It is kind of rude.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one on one.
Speaker 1: But I mean oftener I guess was the bigger man
Speaker 1: and shook his hand afterwards. And it's also a basketball
Speaker 1: celebration that's been around.
Speaker 3: Yeah see, I didn't know that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's still I.
Speaker 2: Mean, do they do that in basketball all the time?
Speaker 1: Well, I know Reggie Miller did it. Apparently in the
Speaker 1: playoffs last year, an Indiana Pacer did it. What's his name,
Speaker 1: Tyrese Haliburton threw up the choke thinking the Pacers had
Speaker 1: won on a three point shot.
Speaker 2: Mike, did you consider giving Susan Lemons the choke sign?
Speaker 1: You know, if I realized it was in my repertoire,
Speaker 1: I might have thrown it. I instead put my arms
Speaker 1: in the air and ran around the court the Goldstein Classic. Yeah.
Speaker 1: In other news in tennis, real quick, Milos Rayonick has retired.
Speaker 1: Rayon guy. He's a big guy, huge server, pushed the
Speaker 1: Big three in the most competitive era of tennis. He did,
Speaker 1: yeah if he was serving big and he was a
Speaker 1: tough to beat and was in the twenty sixteen Wimbledon
Speaker 1: final with Anny Murray. And I was in London at
Speaker 1: the time, really watching at a bar, and I think
Speaker 1: I was the only one at the pub actively going
Speaker 1: for Rayonic.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, of course.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was just being contrarian. But I still like Melos.
Speaker 1: He was good to see around. Huge, huge serve. Yeah,
Speaker 1: huge man, huge man. And so he has officially called
Speaker 1: it quits. He's battled through injuries forever. And yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: be sad to see him go.
Speaker 2: Thank you for your service, Thank you for your service.
Speaker 1: Literally. Yeah. Should we get to the one point slam? O, Yes.
Speaker 3: It's all I want to talk about today.
Speaker 1: Really, yes. So we had a big day yesterday and
Speaker 1: both watched the one point Slam that kicked off at
Speaker 1: seven thirty pm. What an event, What an electric atmosphere.
Speaker 3: I loved it.
Speaker 1: Yes, it was so good.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, It's one of the coolest formats to come to tennis,
Speaker 2: I think, and it created such interest. It was tense,
Speaker 2: and I loved watching the players watch on from the side. Yes,
Speaker 2: and like there's footage of Glitos just losing his mind.
Speaker 2: He looked like a little puppy. He was like, oh
Speaker 2: my god, he was like on school camp or something.
Speaker 2: It was cool to see them all hang out, I know,
Speaker 2: because obviously they do all hang out, but then and
Speaker 2: we see them on on screens, it's like the diversing
Speaker 2: each other. But they're obviously all great friends, and that
Speaker 2: was kind of cool to see that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I mean, honestly, the tennis tour is like
Speaker 1: a traveling circus, right, They're around each other all the time.
Speaker 1: And we were saying before off air that it was
Speaker 1: awesome to see Merrit saffin. Oh my gosh, it's like
Speaker 1: the clear just alpha.
Speaker 2: Alpha dug in his way of the.
Speaker 1: Yeah proceedings, Like, oh, the players are in awe of it,
Speaker 1: you know, Yeah, because.
Speaker 3: He's such a presence. Yeah, and he's so.
Speaker 2: Much bigger than all of them, I know, not in
Speaker 2: like he's not fat or any He's just big.
Speaker 1: He's a big dude.
Speaker 2: He's a big dude.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if we got him in here, I think I
Speaker 1: would be too scared to speak.
Speaker 2: I could, I could speak for you, but I've got
Speaker 2: a list of questions from Mike and he wants to ask,
Speaker 2: but he can't because he's gone mute.
Speaker 1: I've gone mute. And then but bring in the saponets,
Speaker 1: bringing you know, the.
Speaker 2: Ladies, eight blonde ladies to sit behind him.
Speaker 1: He was fascinating to see all the competitors in the
Speaker 1: one point slam. I loved Karl Stefanovic. He got through,
Speaker 1: He got through, somehow got through to the next run.
Speaker 2: I mean all of the jockey Yeah, he had obviously
Speaker 2: he's like an elite athlete and has won I don't
Speaker 2: know how many Melbourne Cups, so he had he had
Speaker 2: the killer instinct in his eye.
Speaker 1: Are we calling jockey's elite athletes?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, really yeah, that's a lot of work.
Speaker 3: That's a little skill.
Speaker 1: I could sit animal.
Speaker 2: But he's at the top of his game, okay, and
Speaker 2: his game is being a jockey.
Speaker 1: Okay. I just love that jockeys actually have that voice,
Speaker 1: you know, they do I'm representing the Lollipop Guild. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: I don't want to create, are we. No, he's there
Speaker 1: elite athletes and he did very well. He got through
Speaker 1: and then played public one of my favorite players. Yes,
Speaker 1: and the height difference was crazy funny.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was comical.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Andy Lee, who I work with one hundred, was on.
Speaker 1: He really gave it the rough and Nadal running around.
Speaker 2: The course, yeah, taking off his jacket which threw his
Speaker 2: first opponent.
Speaker 1: Who was that club player? Yeah? Or was she a pro?
Speaker 1: Maybe she was pro pro? Yeah, Because the thing is
Speaker 1: what you get with the kind of the amateurs versus
Speaker 1: the pros or some of these celebrities, is you have
Speaker 1: legit millionaires like being competitive and knocking out people who
Speaker 1: have nowhere near the wealth.
Speaker 2: Or oh god, yes, so the stakes are higher for
Speaker 2: a lot of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, but the competitor of bone kicks in and
Speaker 1: everyone wants on their point and it's yeah, it's uh,
Speaker 1: it was like.
Speaker 2: A million dollars is what a quarter of the actual
Speaker 2: prize money if he won the slam? Yeah, it's a
Speaker 2: lot on the line, I know, but just one point.
Speaker 1: And we were in the mix.
Speaker 2: We we had the opportunity.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we choked.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just did chokes.
Speaker 1: Curios was very entertaining. He was giving his all. He
Speaker 1: beat some club player and like went absolutely nuts in
Speaker 1: a celebration, running nuts. Yeah, there was all sorts of people.
Speaker 1: I was not familiar with Jay Chow either.
Speaker 3: Was I but huge megas.
Speaker 1: Do yeah yeah yeah yeah, and he like got the
Speaker 1: biggest cheer out of anyone when he was announced.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then half the crowd left when he didn't
Speaker 2: go for the shot.
Speaker 1: No, he was by very easy, the slowest serve.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying I could have hit about No.
Speaker 2: And we love j Cha, We love Jcha getting on
Speaker 2: the show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we want all j Chow's listeners or whatever followers
Speaker 1: to come across to Publady listening. Yes, there was also
Speaker 1: a huge streamer, Loser Fruit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, loser Fruit who they were calling come on Winter
Speaker 2: Fruit and I had to wins she.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. It was pretty cringey. I mean she
Speaker 1: seemed fun and stuff, but she also probably less skills
Speaker 1: than the wild card entrant at the Nairobi tournament. Oh
Speaker 1: yeah last week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think she played tennis, right. She gave
Speaker 2: it a go, she had she had a lot of
Speaker 2: aura about it.
Speaker 1: She did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she was owning that court. Yeah, yeah, which she
Speaker 2: I guess you do when you've got millions and millions
Speaker 2: of followers online. I just looked up her stout. She's
Speaker 2: she's doing quite well for us.
Speaker 1: Jordan Smith worked his way through the competition the likes
Speaker 1: of Bailey Smith.
Speaker 3: You're everyone's really not.
Speaker 2: My really.
Speaker 1: With him?
Speaker 2: Oh okay, Yeah, Bailey Smith is a hot throb of AFL.
Speaker 1: He's the hunk.
Speaker 3: Yeah he's hunk.
Speaker 1: He's not the tennis player, No he's not.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah he beat That was the first.
Speaker 1: Win for Jordan Smith, and he went through Pagoci then
Speaker 1: Sinner single faulted. I mean, we'll get all to all
Speaker 1: of this when we speak to the man himself coming
Speaker 1: up very soon.
Speaker 2: But it was the best possible result for a competition
Speaker 2: like this. It was like an amateur won the million
Speaker 2: dollars and amateur won the Amateurs prize obviously, which is
Speaker 2: a car. Yes, and then Joanne Garland was running up.
Speaker 1: Yeah. My favorite response of the night is when they
Speaker 1: asked French player Arthur rinder Kinnek why he went so
Speaker 1: hard on his serve if he only got one served
Speaker 1: and he was like, well, they say go bigger, go home,
Speaker 1: so I home.
Speaker 2: Brilliant.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's it for the one point Slam. What
Speaker 1: an event. I feel like other slams are going to
Speaker 1: copy it.
Speaker 2: Now do you think do you think there's a trademark
Speaker 2: on it?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I feel like a trademark. Yeah,
Speaker 1: They're going to be all over it because it was
Speaker 1: huge for the tournament. It was good fun to watch.
Speaker 3: I mean, great interest.
Speaker 1: I should have been in there in the mix, you
Speaker 1: know that.
Speaker 3: Did you feel that when you were watching?
Speaker 1: I watched the guy who beat me he actually.
Speaker 3: Lost sitting partner.
Speaker 1: Yeah, his first point, he pushed a backhand long and
Speaker 1: I was like, I would have probably done worse.
Speaker 2: Next year, next actually, next year we should be hosting
Speaker 2: the one point put on the vision board.
Speaker 1: Would you want to be out there for three hours hosting?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, Lizzie, it's time to check in with your Ariyah
Speaker 1: account to see if you're getting in.
Speaker 2: This is going to be the saddest segment of the
Speaker 2: podcas I'm every day. Let's check in, Lizzie, still know.
Speaker 3: Still, let's have a look.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's still just this one old coach on the tour.
Speaker 3: This is it you got understood, Darren K Hills.
Speaker 1: You're you should be ashamed of yourself.
Speaker 2: I'm a forty two year old woman competing with a
Speaker 2: lot of young, very good looking women.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I just I just don't think I can
Speaker 3: pete Mike.
Speaker 1: I don't know. And that track suit. You're gonna get
Speaker 1: more bikes than you think anything.
Speaker 2: I got a great personality.
Speaker 1: Do I have weird little legs? Little legs legs. I
Speaker 1: have to say one more thing on the pod before
Speaker 1: we get to our exclusive interview with Jordan Smith.
Speaker 3: Exclusive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's not doing an interview nothing us.
Speaker 4: Just us.
Speaker 1: Just he said no, thank you. It was actually embarrassing
Speaker 1: when we're talking to him off air, he was like,
Speaker 1: who else have you interviewed so far? And I had'd
Speaker 1: be like a couple seagulls ahead of them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're pretty big deal around here.
Speaker 1: I will say though, that I did see a picture.
Speaker 1: We'll try and find it and get it up for
Speaker 1: oh and get across the YouTube. Our audio only listeners,
Speaker 1: we love you and we appreciate you, but you're missing
Speaker 1: out on some great visual content.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're missing out on this tracksuit.
Speaker 2: That's all.
Speaker 1: That's true. You are missing out on that. But I
Speaker 1: did see a picture of hubye hrcats at the gym
Speaker 1: absolutely jacked your jim knocked the gym. I didn't see
Speaker 1: him there. I saw a picture of him on socials.
Speaker 1: Someone had posted saying Hubie is looking absolutely massive, and
Speaker 1: he is. So I just want to apologize to the
Speaker 1: great man. I've had nothing but respect for you. Their
Speaker 1: one lift the weights too.
Speaker 6: Sometimes I do the squat and the Romanian deadlift, but
Speaker 6: I look out. I don't want to slip and disc
Speaker 6: so I dig it usic all right, but no, you
Speaker 6: are Jack and we love you. And yeah on the.
Speaker 3: Show we will.
Speaker 2: We mentioned it yesterday Mike. The bracket challenge. Yes, if so,
Speaker 2: if you want to win some money and not just
Speaker 2: any kind of money, this is ten million dollars, It's huge,
Speaker 2: that's huge.
Speaker 3: It's ten Jordan Smith's.
Speaker 1: You could shake hands with Roger Federer.
Speaker 2: Fifty many times, you can give you can imagine what
Speaker 2: you could do for ten million dollars with Roger f Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, wow.
Speaker 2: Well AO is launching a new bracket challenge for Australian
Speaker 2: Open twenty six with a ten million dollar prize. If
Speaker 2: someone predicts every winner in the men's draw or the
Speaker 2: women's draw before the tournament starts, which is Sunday, So
Speaker 2: you have to have your guess is in before the
Speaker 2: tournament starts on Sunday, before the first game, and you
Speaker 2: could win ten million bucks. Yes, it's the richest prize
Speaker 2: in tennis. We're going to give it a go.
Speaker 1: We'll give it a go.
Speaker 2: Are you going to do I might do the women's.
Speaker 1: Okay, you do the women's, I do the men's. Yeah,
Speaker 1: or should we swap it around? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, little okay.
Speaker 1: I don't know how confident I would be.
Speaker 2: It sounds it sounds impossible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's every single match picking the winner throughout the
Speaker 1: entire you know, but it's doable, doable. It's the early
Speaker 1: rounds that are the toughest. Yeah, because I don't know
Speaker 1: some of these names. I might have not ever heard
Speaker 1: of this coming out of qualifying.
Speaker 2: But if someone got the odds on it, I mean
Speaker 2: you could probably do a little chatchy.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, there you go. Is it encouraging Ai? She
Speaker 1: is already hedging her bets for our robot overlords?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean that might have a better chance
Speaker 2: than me it is the richest prize in world tennis,
Speaker 2: and it is powered by next.
Speaker 3: Whatever that is. We're not quite sure yet.
Speaker 1: We don't know. All right, should we get into the interview? Yes,
Speaker 1: all right, a huge pod labor arena. Welcome to the
Speaker 1: winner of the million dollar one point slam, Jordan Smith.
Speaker 1: I have to say, are you always this Smiley or
Speaker 1: is it just because you just want a million bucks?
Speaker 4: That helps?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: No, do.
Speaker 1: Smiley.
Speaker 2: Guy, you got nice teeth.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 2: I did notice that on TV last night. I was like,
Speaker 2: guy's got nice tea.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And you you played Bailey Smith in the first
Speaker 1: round of the final last night, did you think?
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was talking to me and he was he
Speaker 4: was pretty nervous.
Speaker 5: I think, so now cool to yeah along superstar, so right, yeah,
Speaker 5: unbelievable just playing anyone, Yeah right, because yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: I thought I chose to.
Speaker 5: I won this his paper rock, and I chose to
Speaker 5: serve against Bailey as he sort of see on the
Speaker 5: screen here, and yeah, I had just sort of a
Speaker 5: little bit of spin on it and he framed the
Speaker 5: ball as I was glad that that shot went out.
Speaker 1: It's gotta feel good beating a pretty boy like that.
Speaker 4: Feels good. It feels good than anyone.
Speaker 1: I mean, not only Bailey Smith but obviously Sinners.
Speaker 4: Yeah that's crazy.
Speaker 3: How did that feel?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Unbelievable. Yeah, it was really nice.
Speaker 5: He was really down to earth, wished me all the best,
Speaker 5: and yeah, I decided to again.
Speaker 4: I won this his paper rock there.
Speaker 3: What was your strategy with that?
Speaker 5: Do you have?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 5: Originally, because I get two serves as an amateur so
Speaker 5: and the pros get one. So I originally was going
Speaker 5: to probably serve, and I did that against Bailey, but
Speaker 5: against a Sinner player, I didn't think I was going
Speaker 5: to be because I didn't want to go too risky on
Speaker 5: the serf, so I was probably no chance of acing
Speaker 5: or unreturnable on Sinner.
Speaker 4: So the rally would start. So I'm like, he has
Speaker 4: one one.
Speaker 5: Serve, he hasn't he hasn't served yet, and and even
Speaker 5: like Mevedev and Al, they're all very nervous and they
Speaker 5: didn't want to serve, so they all chose to return. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and all the girls as well. So I thought, yeah,
Speaker 5: I'll make Sinner. So luckily he missed the single fault
Speaker 5: single fault. Yeah, well, because we competed.
Speaker 1: In the one point slammed the day before.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we didn't make it.
Speaker 1: Well, I beat world number fifty seven, who's in laments,
Speaker 1: because I just threw the junkiest little slice.
Speaker 4: Yea to serve, did you?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just rolled it in and then I was
Speaker 1: able to beat if. She tried to drop shot me
Speaker 1: at the top of the table and then she was
Speaker 1: she was not happy really well because I ran around
Speaker 1: with my arms in the air.
Speaker 4: Yeah you didn't.
Speaker 1: You were very humble though, no big celebrations.
Speaker 2: I just didn't shot me.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that's not Yeah, it's not me. I like
Speaker 5: to just keep myself in smile and.
Speaker 4: Yeah, my voice. I've done a lot of interviews, voices.
Speaker 1: That's fine. Breaking. Yeah, we were expecting the sabal anca,
Speaker 1: maybe the bicap case.
Speaker 4: Again.
Speaker 5: I didn't want to fall to the ground or anything
Speaker 5: like that, but I just tried to look at my family.
Speaker 2: How you You did lose with the car? Yeah, that
Speaker 2: was no reckord and then I thought, oh my god,
Speaker 2: guys gotta like shake that and then try and win
Speaker 2: a million dollars.
Speaker 5: Yeah that was crazy, Yeah, because it was Yeah, the
Speaker 5: last two Romanian amateur has got to play off for
Speaker 5: a car. The key and yeah, in hindsight, obviously it's
Speaker 5: perfect how it worked out. But again, after losing that point,
Speaker 5: I was disappointed and having to go out and play
Speaker 5: the final. And if I lost that, I would have
Speaker 5: gone away with nothing. So yeah, lucky that yah, Joana.
Speaker 5: She did really well. Maybe up to that stage she
Speaker 5: played some amazing points, so lucky she didn't play a
Speaker 5: great point against me.
Speaker 3: She chose to serve every time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, she did that in her other winds, so true,
Speaker 5: and she made the serve, so yeah, it went well for.
Speaker 1: Her, and then just shank the background.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she went for the line back in and yeah it.
Speaker 1: I know you've been saying you're going to buy a
Speaker 1: house with the the winning.
Speaker 4: In Sydney from some sort of house live in Sydney.
Speaker 1: I do live in Sydney, so that'll get you, like
Speaker 1: a studio apartment with black mold.
Speaker 4: Not much, So give me a few.
Speaker 5: More options to live at home with my dad and yeah,
Speaker 5: give me a few more options to look around, maybe
Speaker 5: a nicer area. Then you'll start the mortgage at least
Speaker 5: and help my girlfriend and I sort of movie.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, does she get a cut of the winnings?
Speaker 1: What's happening?
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, for sure, here.
Speaker 3: Something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I have to get us something for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 4: disappointing with me.
Speaker 1: Have your socials been blowing up?
Speaker 5: Yeah, my phone's c crazy. Yeah, there's like a thousand
Speaker 5: plus messages.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, it's.
Speaker 1: The weirdest person you've got a message from.
Speaker 5: Yeah people, Yeah, just anyone, uh, from from when I
Speaker 5: was younger.
Speaker 4: I couldn't couldn't answer that.
Speaker 1: But you're going to have third cousins coming out of
Speaker 1: the yeah, asking yeah, ask me for whatever.
Speaker 4: But they're all disappointing and congratulations. So that's cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, great man. And you know we kind of mentioned
Speaker 1: before it's awesome to have you here on podlavor Arena.
Speaker 1: Thank you for having me, and you did say this
Speaker 1: is the biggest thing to happen to you in the
Speaker 1: last two days.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's pretty cool. First podcast.
Speaker 1: We have been doing a one point slam on the
Speaker 1: little ping pong table we have over there, and I
Speaker 1: think if me and you do paper rock scissors and
Speaker 1: then to see who serves and then we'll play on
Speaker 1: one point slam.
Speaker 4: Let's do it.
Speaker 1: But if you lose, I get the million dollars.
Speaker 4: I don't know if I'll agree to that.
Speaker 2: The rules.
Speaker 1: We have been doing pain pong, are you familiar with Yeah,
Speaker 1: so we'll do that.
Speaker 2: So let's get the rules right with the rock paper scissors?
Speaker 3: Is it on four?
Speaker 5: Yes, so it's apparently yeah, it's it's rock paper scissors
Speaker 5: and then shoot yeah, rock paper shoot.
Speaker 2: But a lot of people who couldn't comprehend.
Speaker 5: That one because in Sydney it's normally seasons paper rocker.
Speaker 5: For me, it's on three. Yeah, paper rock on three.
Speaker 5: But I was just following everyone else.
Speaker 2: I was okay, yeah, all right, well let's clarify rules
Speaker 2: on four?
Speaker 3: Sure, all right, right, ready, all right, Oh, Jordan's wins.
Speaker 1: Jordan's wins, al right, so you got the serve.
Speaker 2: If Mike wins, Jordan gives him his million dollars and
Speaker 2: we're off, and Mike G is looking good. Jordan's oh
Speaker 2: my gosh, Mike G just won the one point slammer
Speaker 2: making ping pong and he's done the choke celebration.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure what that means if that's good.
Speaker 2: Oh, and now Mike G gets to play sting pong
Speaker 2: with Jordan and yeah, you gotta you gotta pull your
Speaker 2: shirt up, and he's got Yeah, we're going Baskin. Mike
Speaker 2: G has a history of missing backs.
Speaker 1: Oh and he.
Speaker 2: Just missed Jordan completely. Oh that was an awful shot
Speaker 2: from mike G. But that's fine.