Speaker 1: Are some guy is the ace Man.
Speaker 2: Our producer is e Roll aka Clupman.
Speaker 1: Our bosses Shan what's a shan nickname?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I don't know what do you call your wife?
Speaker 1: Oh? You want me to call our boss Shannon? Pooky Pie.
Speaker 2: Throwing out a few babes.
Speaker 1: I did the induction about harassment, and I don't think
Speaker 1: pooky Pie would fly.
Speaker 2: I don't remember the harassment bit of the induction.
Speaker 1: Did you not do it? Is that why you've been
Speaker 1: walking around grabbing asses?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Just every time I woke up the stairs on
Speaker 2: my Hong Kong.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you keep telling the roll he's a beefcake.
Speaker 2: Do you see those messages?
Speaker 1: No way, Dave? Well, can you believe the opening week?
Speaker 1: It's exciting. We've done so much.
Speaker 2: Already, We've done too much.
Speaker 1: Some might say we just had a couple of seagulls
Speaker 1: in here.
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't know what to say about it.
Speaker 1: That was weird.
Speaker 2: It was like, I mean, it looked insane.
Speaker 1: It did look insane.
Speaker 2: I can imagine it looking good on camera. Do they
Speaker 2: get like all excess passes these? I hope not. I
Speaker 2: hope they're not at a gym like us.
Speaker 1: You don't want to see the seagulls doing squats and
Speaker 1: deadlifts at the gym.
Speaker 2: I don't want to super seagulls on the practice courts.
Speaker 2: They probably look better than us. Yeah, well me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So these are this is an older couple, husband and.
Speaker 2: Wife, we assume. Yeah, you can tell they're all through
Speaker 2: the outfit the gate, yeah, the seagull gate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can tell. One of them had bad seagull hips.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And like, I mean, if you've been married for
Speaker 2: forty years, what else are you going to do?
Speaker 1: That's true?
Speaker 2: True seagull time is coming.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And they wouldn't speak. They just squawked.
Speaker 2: No, they said one word, what word?
Speaker 1: Mine for the chips?
Speaker 2: For the chips. We fed them chips. Yes, you heard
Speaker 2: that right, We fed them chips for chips. What did
Speaker 2: your parents want you to do with your life? They
Speaker 2: wanted me to be a radiographer actually, which is an
Speaker 2: X ray person. And what am I doing now interviewing
Speaker 2: squawking seagulls?
Speaker 1: Yeah, feeding an old man chips who's wearing a seagull outfit?
Speaker 1: Will they be proud?
Speaker 2: Yeah, they'd be surprised. They'll be like, is this a job?
Speaker 2: I know I have a lot of degree. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: was a lawyer.
Speaker 1: Well, and I'm asking an old woman and a seagull
Speaker 1: outfit if she would shit on a Rafael on the
Speaker 1: doll statue.
Speaker 2: Two squawks for no. Yeah, she didn't want to shoot
Speaker 2: on anyone. She did.
Speaker 1: The husband was the big ship.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: How many ships can we get away with on this
Speaker 1: unlimited chap that's the name of your solo.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my special coming out, unlimited ships to give. I'm
Speaker 2: a menipuzzled woman. Look out, that's my stick. Yeah.
Speaker 1: We have the seagulls in here. They were Roger Featherer.
Speaker 2: And Boris Pecker.
Speaker 1: And also we do in our lovely set here, we
Speaker 1: do have a couple of seagulls once in a cage
Speaker 1: and they were traumatized. But then we played them in
Speaker 1: the one point ping pong slam and I hit a
Speaker 1: ping pong ball at speed at the back of an
Speaker 1: old lady.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So perfect day, so much.
Speaker 2: Proud parents.
Speaker 1: Anyways, that's not a tease for the seagull chat. I
Speaker 1: don't know what is sday tuned big day already, big
Speaker 1: big Yeah.
Speaker 2: I walked in through the kids center, did you this morning? Yeah?
Speaker 2: If you come through from the Flinders Street side. You
Speaker 2: walk straight through the kids stuff and it is going
Speaker 2: off in there.
Speaker 1: At ten thirty, I have to keep fifty meters away
Speaker 1: from that timmer.
Speaker 2: That's unfortunate because it's really something. Yeah, man, you go.
Speaker 2: I saw a couple of kids, I assume siblings. Yeah,
Speaker 2: a brother hit his sister with the tennis ball on purpose,
Speaker 2: a little bit.
Speaker 1: Like what we're doing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're kids, Yeah, they're good.
Speaker 1: But we're you know, stunted adults.
Speaker 2: I know. But then then the boy got in trouble
Speaker 2: and his payback was the girl got to hit the boy.
Speaker 1: Nice.
Speaker 2: Thought that's nice. Yeah, that's great. And then I saw
Speaker 2: all these kids without their top so on, like boys,
Speaker 2: young boys were I was like, what's going on? And
Speaker 2: then I realized there's a little water park. Yeah definitely.
Speaker 2: I was like, what is this? And then I saw
Speaker 2: there's like an inflatable water side right, yeah, so there's
Speaker 2: just kids like going anyway, we.
Speaker 1: Can boot all the kids out of this section and
Speaker 1: we get free.
Speaker 2: It looks really fun. And then there's also a stage
Speaker 2: where they're reading tennis youth.
Speaker 1: Novels, right, young adult tennis fiction.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it. Wow, Like nobody was there.
Speaker 1: What would a young adult tennis book be.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I imagine a little bit horny, to
Speaker 2: be honest, What the hell isn't that any young adult?
Speaker 2: Anything I wrote as a young adult was like just
Speaker 2: like leaning into puberty.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's like a rite of passage or discovery. Yeah,
Speaker 1: did you see anything else walking through the kids.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, at the end of the kids zone, I
Speaker 2: found the shake Shack. Oh, so I want to go
Speaker 2: there this afternoon and try my first shake shack.
Speaker 1: We've been good so far. We've been eating salads and
Speaker 1: some sushi. But you're thinking we ruin all.
Speaker 2: That, and well you don't. I'm not insane. You shouldn't.
Speaker 2: Wait wait, what are you implying? You said you're on
Speaker 2: a dog? Okay, you're watching what you eat.
Speaker 1: I heard when I was playing in the one point Slam,
Speaker 1: which we'll get to very soon. We played it yesterday,
Speaker 1: but I heard I heard your voice when I was
Speaker 1: on court. I heard you distinctly say look at that
Speaker 1: tub of goog.
Speaker 2: Wow, he can really move.
Speaker 1: Who would have thought? Yeah, the one point Slam will
Speaker 1: get to later in the episode, but it was quite
Speaker 1: the event. We have so many stories.
Speaker 2: I feel like you can tell in the tones of
Speaker 2: our voices how things went.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But other than that, let's get into the show proper.
Speaker 1: Quiet please welcome to pod Labor Arena. We are back
Speaker 1: for day three of opening week of the Australian Open.
Speaker 1: As always, my name is Mike goldteen and I'm joined
Speaker 1: by the Pat McEnroe to my John McEnroe Lizzy, who Yes,
Speaker 1: you cannot be serious.
Speaker 2: I am not serious.
Speaker 1: This is good. It's another huge day. Yesterday was thirty
Speaker 1: four thousand people. What is on a Tuesday for a
Speaker 1: qualifying week?
Speaker 2: People are crazy for tennanse here. Yeah, it's wild. It's
Speaker 2: so it's like shouldered to shoulder out there, and it's
Speaker 2: good out there. Yeah, it's fun.
Speaker 1: They put on such a good event, like it like
Speaker 1: it's a carnival out there.
Speaker 2: The Hot Ship played last night, did they? Yeah? Right?
Speaker 2: I saw a lot of people on my socials that
Speaker 2: went to that, all right.
Speaker 1: At the Seagulls were front and center for Hot Ship,
Speaker 1: Am I right?
Speaker 2: But I missed up?
Speaker 1: And yeah, as we said before, we played in the
Speaker 1: one point Slam yesterday. A lot more people watching that
Speaker 1: than I would have expected.
Speaker 2: And expected or wanted to be honest, I didn't really
Speaker 2: know what I was getting myself in.
Speaker 1: Well, we'll get more into that in a bit. I
Speaker 1: can't wait to revisit trauma. Look, I will say this,
Speaker 1: and uh, the powers that'd be if they don't like it.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm sorry, but I'm a I'm an edge lord.
Speaker 2: Yeah, famous, famous the opening week.
Speaker 1: The numbers are so good. They're wondering if people have
Speaker 1: been duped to thinking opening week means the tournament proper.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, it is a little misleading. I wouldn't.
Speaker 1: In the company line.
Speaker 2: I don't want to get fired. I actually I actually
Speaker 2: think the person who coined it opening week needs are raised. True, Yeah,
Speaker 2: because they have doubled attendance, more than doubled. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think the opening day last year was something like
Speaker 1: seven thousand people and it was twenty five thousand. So
Speaker 1: I mean, you do the math. And I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that because you're half Asian.
Speaker 2: I wasn't even thinking that. Then that's how good at
Speaker 2: math's I am.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll bring it up because there was a post online.
Speaker 2: I think I saw the same one. Was it the comments?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, from like Twitter or something, yeah, th eggs whatever
Speaker 2: it is whatever truth social.
Speaker 1: Yeah, people here opening week and they think it's the
Speaker 1: first week of the main draw tournament. But I put
Speaker 1: it to you that that's.
Speaker 2: On them for not for not looking into not.
Speaker 1: Looking into it, and also what's on seeing what's on,
Speaker 1: And then also they're getting their money's worth. It's twenty
Speaker 1: bucks to get in on the grounds, you got to
Speaker 1: go see some awesome matches. So I think in the
Speaker 1: past it's just been called qualifying week, right, right, So
Speaker 1: then people are like, oh, okay, I guess you're every
Speaker 1: man would think, oh, qualifiers all right, whatever. But then
Speaker 1: people are just wandering around, you know, expecting to see
Speaker 1: sinner or you know, outcrass. But they can also see
Speaker 1: them practicing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they can see them practicing and doing exhibition.
Speaker 1: That yeah, and getting a good seat.
Speaker 2: So you would never actually see that if you came
Speaker 2: in the next couple of weeks, well you could, but
Speaker 2: it'd be.
Speaker 1: Expect Yeah, you're paying for broad labor tickets.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: A roll suggested our producer that you might only see
Speaker 1: the seagulls in the opening week.
Speaker 2: Which is a major draw cut.
Speaker 1: I think. So I looked into their hallowed out dead eyes, yeah,
Speaker 1: and it was like looking into the void it's like they.
Speaker 2: Got a whole puncher and did it a few times.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you stare into the abyss. Sometimes the abyss stares
Speaker 2: into you. Speaking of people who are who are coming
Speaker 2: to the the Open? Have you heard the rumor about
Speaker 2: Taylor and Travis?
Speaker 1: Wow? Is that even any sense of credibility to that?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I also think the pr person here
Speaker 2: should get a race, because it's like they've extended an
Speaker 2: open invitation to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey to come
Speaker 2: to the Open.
Speaker 1: Do they have a cute couple name truly.
Speaker 2: Mister missus Swift? Yeah, I do. I don't know. I'm
Speaker 2: not really as swiftys. I am not a swifty I
Speaker 2: am cool. I'm like rock. Don't get the Taylor Swift
Speaker 2: fans after us, Oh yeah, we love you.
Speaker 1: I feel like if you don't want to turn their
Speaker 1: fans off against you, you don't want to turn the
Speaker 1: BTS fans against you.
Speaker 2: Oh they're coming out? Yeah that would be that.
Speaker 1: Would be huge. But I mean that kind of hurts
Speaker 1: if Travis Kelce came out because it's during NFL playoffs
Speaker 1: and I know he's free because my team is the
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs. I grew up in Kansas City, and
Speaker 1: I know his schedule is free and clear because we
Speaker 1: shit the bed and did not even make the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how would you feel you think if you were
Speaker 2: Travis Kelcey and you've lost, and you've got all this
Speaker 2: free time and then just a little open invitation to
Speaker 2: thea AO comes along, would you do it?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Absolutely, But I feel anything in the world.
Speaker 1: I feel like he's carrying Tatay's luggage for her, and
Speaker 1: he's like, oh, that's a pretty far trip and her sharpa.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well they do have a private jin, but I
Speaker 2: don't know you could extend an open invitation to anyone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, let's do it right here. Open invitation Taylor
Speaker 1: Swift Travis Kelcey to come on pod Labor Arena.
Speaker 2: Other guests have included the Seagulls.
Speaker 1: Yeah, an old married couple dress like Seagulls.
Speaker 2: Eliza West Tennis fashion content creator was fantastic, and maybe
Speaker 2: Saloon Stea.
Speaker 1: I think she already bailed. I got the text while
Speaker 1: we were talking.
Speaker 2: Taylor, Travis, if you're listening, please come on.
Speaker 1: Please come on. Yeah. As always, the podcast is brought
Speaker 1: to you by Piper Heidzik Champagne, the only Champagne players
Speaker 1: choose to drink between sets.
Speaker 2: We assume, we assume.
Speaker 1: And also I don't know if we've gotten any emails.
Speaker 1: We'll check with our producer, but right into us at
Speaker 1: Podlabor at tennis dot com dot au. Let us know
Speaker 1: your feedback, unless it's too hurtful, because I am a
Speaker 1: very fragile little man.
Speaker 2: You, Mike will cry.
Speaker 1: I won't do we have any emails?
Speaker 2: No, keep that in no, but yeah, the pod is young,
Speaker 2: is young?
Speaker 1: Welcome back to pod Labor arena. We are talking headline calls,
Speaker 1: all the biggest news from in and around the tennis world.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: We talked about Bernard Thomic winning his first qualifying round.
Speaker 1: He's playing his second qualifying round as we speak speak
Speaker 1: right now. I saw his orange BMW parked outside.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's looking a little west for west.
Speaker 1: A little worse for wear. But another Ausie hopeful, Vukic
Speaker 1: Alexander Vukic in the Adelaide tournament took out sits A
Speaker 1: pass Stefanos. He was too busy not practicing because he
Speaker 1: was fixing the stitching on his leopard print pantaloons. Sits
Speaker 1: A bass did not get through that round. And Vukic
Speaker 1: he's always kind of been a journeyman tennis player. I
Speaker 1: believe he's thirty years old now, which is old in
Speaker 1: the Tennis World Show. And he's like always been solid
Speaker 1: in wild cards, qualifying whatever, and like I want to say,
Speaker 1: he's pushed through to the second or third round. I
Speaker 1: could making that up. But we love Vukic. So we're
Speaker 1: off team Atomic and onto Alexander Vukic.
Speaker 2: Okay, so there's no room for both.
Speaker 1: There's no room for it's one or the other.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, so fickle.
Speaker 1: We're so fickle. But I mean, look, we just love
Speaker 1: to see. Uh. I wish that tu Pass was wearing
Speaker 1: the leopard print.
Speaker 2: I wish he had a tennis version of it right,
Speaker 2: that it was just shorts and like a singlet. Nice,
Speaker 2: that would be amazing.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, Like but like the single, it only goes
Speaker 1: halfway down like a midrift.
Speaker 2: Yeah, beautiful, beautiful, and it's got like some like gaping arms,
Speaker 2: you know, oh, like a single, like a real loose
Speaker 2: so he's flowing. Yeah, you could see everything.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but Vukach took him out in straight sets
Speaker 1: at the Adelaide Tournament. Another great tournament in the lead
Speaker 1: up to the Australian Open. Some other news from around
Speaker 1: the tennis world. Mexican player reveals Ozzie sunburn is the headline.
Speaker 1: I'll give you a go at pronouncing her name. I've
Speaker 1: seen her.
Speaker 2: Before, Renada Zarazua, Zarazua.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, yeah, so the story here is just she
Speaker 1: got her really bad sunburn.
Speaker 2: I am. I am passionate about sunscreen. I don't know
Speaker 2: if you knew that about me, but yeah, I really
Speaker 2: love a Fact to fifty. And all around the grounds
Speaker 2: they have big pump bottles of Factor fifty everywhere. I've
Speaker 2: been spotting them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've noticed you've been like filling your water bottle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm taking it. It's the mecca stuff.
Speaker 1: You know how ect is good stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it really is good stuff. But she's she's got
Speaker 2: a picture of her back and it is red raw.
Speaker 2: I mean, some of it does look like some Chinese
Speaker 2: cupping stuff going on, but then a lot of it
Speaker 2: is just I reckon it's third degree. Wow, it's auchi.
Speaker 1: I mean this just tells you, actually, how punishing the Australia.
Speaker 2: It is really bad here because.
Speaker 1: She's Mexican, right, like she would be used to hot conditions, yes,
Speaker 1: and I mean most tennis players would.
Speaker 2: But she just she doesn't know about the hole, the
Speaker 2: Ozone hole?
Speaker 1: No, what's that it was? It wasn't Tazzy.
Speaker 2: Does Tazzy have worse? Like you know in New Zealand
Speaker 2: the hole is worse.
Speaker 1: Is that true?
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 1: I've heard that about Perth, that the hole in the
Speaker 1: Ozone is worse. Oh I thought it was, or maybe
Speaker 1: someone was just calling Perth a hole.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so, Yeah, I think just hot. But
Speaker 2: New Zealand like if you if you're there, the sun
Speaker 2: feels Bernie Bernie Atomic, Bernie tomic. Correct, that's what the ratings.
Speaker 1: Are, right, So slip, stop slap if you're out there.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you don't know that. It's obviously
Speaker 1: a tennis player. But I think Australians has been ingrained
Speaker 1: into them to stay more sun saved. It couldn't go
Speaker 1: out if anyone needs me to run the sunscreen on
Speaker 1: them throughout the open.
Speaker 2: Here for you.
Speaker 1: Right to us aid pod labor or are we pod
Speaker 1: labor at? What are we pod labor.
Speaker 3: At a.
Speaker 2: Tennis dot com.
Speaker 1: Right to us at pod labor at tennis dot com
Speaker 1: dot Au. If you would like me to apply sunscreen
Speaker 1: to your body, don't? Yeah, but yeah, everyone stay safe
Speaker 1: out there in the brutal ausy son. Another story player, Camillogo.
Speaker 1: I imagine it's Ugo.
Speaker 2: We're saying, where's the I go?
Speaker 1: Camillo? Ugo.
Speaker 2: Cara Belly cut his hair at mid match. Why wouldn't
Speaker 2: you if it was annoying you?
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe you thought his previous haircut made him look
Speaker 1: like a bit of an Ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly a bit of an Ugo. But he just
Speaker 2: gets out the scissors, like the medical scissors from the
Speaker 2: first aid kit and cuts his fringe a little bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, make you more aerodynamic, you think, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe it was getting in his eyes and he just
Speaker 2: thought it's gotta go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's kind of weird to have scissors in your
Speaker 1: like go bag at a tennis marriage.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have first aid scissors, probably to cut the
Speaker 2: bandages and.
Speaker 1: This is an emergency.
Speaker 2: Yeah you got cut.
Speaker 1: Yeah, would you ever do any kind of I don't.
Speaker 2: Know, beauty, beauty mid game mid game? Well this is
Speaker 2: why I think all women in sports a lot of
Speaker 2: them wear braids. Oh yeah, did you notice this? Like
Speaker 2: sock players tennis players. So there's a lot of braids, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: I thought they'd all just all back. I thought they'd
Speaker 1: all just come back from holiday and BALI.
Speaker 2: No, it's not, that's so funny. No, okay, they said
Speaker 2: they wear the braids, so it's all out of their right.
Speaker 2: So I think he needs a braid.
Speaker 1: Okay, breid it up all right, treadlocks.
Speaker 2: No, just like a front braid, front braid. Yeah, with
Speaker 2: maybe a headband or something like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, interesting though, the hairy cut mid match or
Speaker 1: swand but is it kind of a power move as well?
Speaker 1: If you look across the court and your opponents like
Speaker 1: doing some grooming, some casual grooming.
Speaker 2: You'd be like, you'd be super distracted.
Speaker 1: Yeah. My next tennis match, on the change of ends,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna wax my backsack and.
Speaker 2: Crack nothing going on here.
Speaker 1: Is that your Mike g impression?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's you. I'm waxing my backsack of crack.
Speaker 1: Pretty good.
Speaker 2: Ah.
Speaker 1: One more story that happened yesterday at the q Yoon Classic.
Speaker 1: Nick Kurrios want a match against uh triple Z.
Speaker 3: Triple Z.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we want him on the podcast.
Speaker 1: We do want him.
Speaker 2: Want to both actually yeah, and Z. But he looked good.
Speaker 1: Do you want to have a good say in his
Speaker 1: name proper?
Speaker 2: See ethnically, I am Chinese and this is gonna embarrass
Speaker 2: all of my ancestors. They're in their little graves right now.
Speaker 1: You'll have to commit seppuku. Is that the right? Ji
Speaker 1: Jen Jung Zi Zen Jung lost to Nick Kirios in
Speaker 1: a battle at the key on Classic, showing that Kirios
Speaker 1: still has the chops and singles, but he's still not
Speaker 1: going to play.
Speaker 2: He couldn't go a long game though, five yeah destroy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean maybe a little too many video games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, munchies, Yeah, maybe maybe a couple of monchies.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's it's good to see him back playing.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's always exciting and awesome to watch, and
Speaker 1: the Triple Z is a great player.
Speaker 2: And that's a good matchup personalities. But I like to
Speaker 2: see Curios playing because then he's going to be fitter
Speaker 2: for the doubles.
Speaker 1: True, Yeah, special K and the doubles. I'm ready for it,
Speaker 1: ready for it? All right, let's look ahead to the
Speaker 1: one point slam.
Speaker 2: Oh what we've all been wed in to talk about?
Speaker 1: This is it?
Speaker 3: This is it.
Speaker 2: We're talking about the one point Slam that we both
Speaker 2: competed in yesterday.
Speaker 1: What a day.
Speaker 2: What a day. So when we got in yesterday, they said, hey,
Speaker 2: we got you guys an entry in the one point
Speaker 2: Slam and I was like cool, and I didn't think
Speaker 2: anything about now. And then I asked you to bring
Speaker 2: in a racket for me. I did, and that that
Speaker 2: was it. That was the prep. I just bought in sneakers.
Speaker 2: I was like, I better take sneakers in.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then we did our pod and then we
Speaker 2: went to the practice course.
Speaker 1: We had a hit with Eliza West.
Speaker 2: Yeah, quite good turn.
Speaker 1: She was killing us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you'd want to be good, Like she looks good.
Speaker 2: She's got a nice skirt and she got the good outfit.
Speaker 2: If you're wearing that outfit, you want to be good
Speaker 2: at tennis. Whoa she delivered Yeah, like you know, tennis
Speaker 2: content creator and she backs it up with a solid game. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So she was also competing in the one point Slam.
Speaker 1: We went and played on practice courts.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like where all the professionals are practice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's people looking over at us like whiffing serves.
Speaker 2: I think we were in the middle court.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, before we talk about our experience. Let's have
Speaker 1: a look at what happened at the one point slam.
Speaker 1: Do you have to you have to relive it? Lizzie
Speaker 1: and Mike Hare from Pod Labor Arena. We're competing in
Speaker 1: the million dollar one point slam. You excited?
Speaker 2: I'm pumped.
Speaker 1: Oh, we're going to take.
Speaker 2: It super seriously. We immediately began training before being escorted
Speaker 2: to court six, where we drank heavily and said the
Speaker 2: word tennis to calm our.
Speaker 1: Nurse you in a million bucks. What are you gonna do?
Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to quit the odd labor.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do all Oh wow, tennis. We also bumped
Speaker 1: into an overconfident Dave Hughes. I hope we go up
Speaker 1: against each other, So do I.
Speaker 2: If I go up against you on one step close,
Speaker 2: you do.
Speaker 3: A million dollars.
Speaker 1: And you need the money.
Speaker 2: And Adam Hillsy Hills gave us no help whatsoever.
Speaker 1: What's your strategy today, Adam.
Speaker 2: Strategy?
Speaker 3: My strategy is to not tighten up.
Speaker 1: Oka say lose. Yeah, you think you might choke at
Speaker 1: at one.
Speaker 2: First round, I had to play a pro, which is
Speaker 2: total bullshit.
Speaker 1: I'm here with SU's Loman's we're up against each other
Speaker 1: and the million dollar one point slam. She is a pro.
Speaker 1: I am not, but anything can have any points, so
Speaker 1: we'll see, we'll see. I have the eye of the tiger.
Speaker 3: I don't know what I have.
Speaker 1: I felt like a gladiator walking into the coliseum if
Speaker 1: I went the why because I'm the better tennis player.
Speaker 1: I think I got she took one looking man. She
Speaker 1: has that scame time, and I was feeling super positive.
Speaker 1: Felt I received Susan hits the net and Goldstein advances.
Speaker 1: I could practically taste the million one down forty to goo.
Speaker 3: Wow, not only Monster baking Man, maybe not baby.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know who I play? Really?
Speaker 1: What's that at me?
Speaker 2: Soon? Have you got in the first round? A lazy
Speaker 2: I'm not going on. I'm sorry. I am so nervous.
Speaker 2: I didn't really know what I was getting myself into
Speaker 2: because I were like, yeah, you can play this. I'm like, yeah, sure,
Speaker 2: it'll be easier. And now I'm here and there's there's
Speaker 2: pro tennis players here, there's people with like serious muscles,
Speaker 2: and I get to play. Comedian Davehews.
Speaker 3: One two three, but his pathetic little serve surprised me.
Speaker 2: You did it welcome.
Speaker 1: I can't believe I lost to you, but I was
Speaker 1: still alive, and Lizzie had that to look forward to.
Speaker 2: Still on you, Mike, and I can't stick around because
Speaker 2: I gotta go walk my dog.
Speaker 1: Tennis tennis. My time had finally arrived.
Speaker 2: We've gotten my goldsteam once again.
Speaker 3: A comedian and one of our books of lavor Arena.
Speaker 1: I felt extremely confident in going up against Coco goth
Speaker 1: hitting partner. This is BS. I'm gonna complain to Craig Tyler.
Speaker 1: He's right up there.
Speaker 2: The gestion box does not think JOCHI.
Speaker 1: Allright, my gold is up ready. I can only assume
Speaker 1: Coco was cheering for me. I'm gonna go cry on
Speaker 1: the top for a while.
Speaker 2: Whow that was awesome, Mike, what a time.
Speaker 1: I looked a lot cooler in my mind.
Speaker 2: That was cool? Was it?
Speaker 1: Yeah? My form is terrible.
Speaker 2: Don't worry about that. You beat a pro.
Speaker 1: I did beat a pro. I knocked a pro out
Speaker 1: of a major tournament.
Speaker 2: You did, and then you got to go up against
Speaker 2: Coco Golf's hitting pun. I don't know if you get
Speaker 2: as well, like in a sentence, yeah, you played Coco
Speaker 2: go hitting.
Speaker 1: I was also he's also I don't know if you
Speaker 1: could tell in the video, but one of the hottest
Speaker 1: men I've ever seen. Yeah, I would turn by curios.
Speaker 2: Oh really, we need to buy Curios button.
Speaker 1: What a day. It was such a good event. I
Speaker 1: know you're still reeling a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like it was.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 1: We were thrown into the thick of it. We were
Speaker 1: We had no idea what we were getting into. We
Speaker 1: get there after a quick hitting sash with Eliza West
Speaker 1: start our guest on yesterday's app and I immediately see
Speaker 1: some professional players, one in particular Pablo Corina Busta, who
Speaker 1: was once top ten in the world as.
Speaker 2: Recently casually hanging out.
Speaker 1: Casually hanging out playing in the tournament. Surely like looking
Speaker 1: around like I got this, yeah, yeah, And I was like,
Speaker 1: holy hell, there's some proper players in this.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then that was us us.
Speaker 1: The only other comedians in play were Adam Hills, as
Speaker 1: you saw in Dave Hughes and yeah, I was talking
Speaker 1: to Adam Hills a lot.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, what did he have to say, because he's
Speaker 2: he plays tennis quite a bit.
Speaker 1: He does, Hughsey told me once because Adam Hills, you know,
Speaker 1: has a prosthetic foot and it's like a metal the
Speaker 1: Blade Runner type thing. And Hughsey said he played Hillsey
Speaker 1: on a day that was so hot, Adam Hills's foot
Speaker 1: melted and he's he's you know, still claims he won
Speaker 1: the best.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he'll take anything.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I was talking to Hilsey and he said he's
Speaker 1: been thinking about it for weeks. The strategy is to serve,
Speaker 1: to elect to serve. If you win Rock paper Scissors,
Speaker 1: why because then you can at least be in the
Speaker 1: point if you roll it in. If you hit enough
Speaker 1: of an easy serve, you're in the point. And he
Speaker 1: thinks the percentages are higher. And then if they I know,
Speaker 1: I know, and then the pros get one serve, right,
Speaker 1: So he thought if they land to serve, it's going
Speaker 1: to be much harder to return, right. So he goes
Speaker 1: out there with this, I'm gonna elect to serve. You know.
Speaker 1: There's a big cheer for Adam Hills. Uh, and he
Speaker 1: double faults.
Speaker 2: Strategy out the window the wind weeks of strategy planning
Speaker 2: a whiteboard.
Speaker 1: I heard.
Speaker 2: Out on a double fault.
Speaker 1: Well, at what point did you find out you were playing?
Speaker 2: Dave Hughes, Well, I looked they had printouts of the
Speaker 2: drawer in that little area where we were sort of congregating,
Speaker 2: and I just looked at the name and I'm like,
Speaker 2: hang on a minute, I'm thirty one is Lizzie who
Speaker 2: thirty two is Dave Hughes? Am I playing Husy? And
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm playing Husy? And then I went up
Speaker 2: to Husey. I was like, you're playing me? And the
Speaker 2: look of disappointment on this guy's face because I think, actually, well,
Speaker 2: to be fair, I think he was like quite quite
Speaker 2: excited because he knew he could get to the second round.
Speaker 2: But also I think he wanted to play a pro.
Speaker 2: Yeah really, yeah, you he hed Hugh No.
Speaker 1: Hughsey's eyes lit up. Yeah, because he thought he had
Speaker 1: more of a chance of getting through. But I also
Speaker 1: thought it gave you a chance same, you know.
Speaker 2: I also thought that because.
Speaker 1: When I saw my name, Susan Lemonz, I was like,
Speaker 1: I know that name, and then I looked her up
Speaker 1: and she's been ranked as high fifty seventh in the world.
Speaker 1: She's not even in qualifying because she's already in the
Speaker 1: main draw of the Australian Open. A Dutch player. Very
Speaker 1: nice and she was like, are you nervous? And I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess I'm pretty nervous. But I feel like you'll
Speaker 1: just kill me. And she's like, oh, I don't know,
Speaker 1: and she was, you know, worried.
Speaker 2: Did you get in her head?
Speaker 1: I got in her head. I was playing my game
Speaker 1: straight away. I was like, can I put some block
Speaker 1: on your back? Fifty? And so I was. The nerves
Speaker 1: didn't really hit me till I was out on court.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, this is more nerve wracking than any gig
Speaker 2: I've ever done.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's a lot of people watch it a lot.
Speaker 1: You just don't want to double fault. I think that's
Speaker 1: if you're serving, you don't want to double fault.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Right, And so I was up before you, and
Speaker 2: then I missed you a game. I was in the toilet.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, in my head, that last shot I hit was
Speaker 1: a a real winner, a real winner, not a weird
Speaker 1: lanky slice.
Speaker 2: She was probably like, I've never seen this shot before.
Speaker 1: Well that's what she said.
Speaker 2: She was like. She was like, that short ball screwed
Speaker 2: me up. I didn't know what the hell that was.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I just threw some junk at her and then
Speaker 1: she tried to drop shot her back hits the top
Speaker 1: of the tape, and then she wasn't happy afterwards. Probably
Speaker 1: didn't help that I ran around with my arms in
Speaker 1: the air.
Speaker 2: As you should, as is your right when you defeat
Speaker 2: a professional.
Speaker 1: Thinking about it now, I should have kissed my bice absence.
Speaker 2: Yes, you should have. You should have done a few
Speaker 2: push ups, taken your shirt off. Real football's like pomping. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So, but the adrenaline was like through the roof.
Speaker 2: I couldn't sleep last night. I know a man. I
Speaker 2: woke up so many times. Think we're just replaying my
Speaker 2: terrible points.
Speaker 1: Well, run us through it, running through you and Hughsy.
Speaker 2: Okay, so Hughesy's obviously being Hughsy, just this obnoxious, frail
Speaker 2: man like he loves that we're friends. We're okay, and
Speaker 2: you know, I'm always excited to see him because he
Speaker 2: looks like he doesn't have long to live.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, this is good. We only have so
Speaker 1: much time.
Speaker 3: With the man.
Speaker 2: So look, let's give him his final wishes. We play.
Speaker 2: We do I reckon.
Speaker 3: We do.
Speaker 2: Think the package didn't show it, but I reckon. We
Speaker 2: did five rock paper.
Speaker 1: That was That was fun.
Speaker 2: That was probably really it was a great highlight.
Speaker 1: Is it weird to know you and Hughes are on
Speaker 1: the same wavelane?
Speaker 2: Yeah, because the chicks say, well, they're on the same waveleg. Oh,
Speaker 2: I don't know if we are, but yeah, maybe we're
Speaker 2: we're dialed in you are.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys are very similar comedically.
Speaker 2: I talk about my kids and how many houses I
Speaker 2: have for Crown, I got to work hus we do,
Speaker 2: we both do. But all so, he was talking a
Speaker 2: lot of smacks. He was talking a lot of smack,
Speaker 2: and then he couldn't decide whether he was going to
Speaker 2: serve or not. And then he's like and he finally says,
Speaker 2: and he says this pathetic, pathetic serve, And I was
Speaker 2: standing too deep. I was like, oh no, oh no,
Speaker 2: I'm going to have to do I had to do
Speaker 2: a couple of strides and then I hit it. I
Speaker 2: hit it too hard.
Speaker 1: Yeah, went out, He coaxed in. It was a drop serve.
Speaker 1: He brings you in and then to handle it like
Speaker 1: you're kind of falling through the shot. And then just
Speaker 1: pushed it.
Speaker 2: Yeah too long. I know I needed more gentle touch.
Speaker 2: If I would do it again, I'd just stand further
Speaker 2: in and just maybe just tap it back, make him run.
Speaker 1: Get in his head. Yeah, your time is up, old man,
Speaker 1: is it? Yeah? Enough being on every single Channel.
Speaker 2: Ten show, every single promotional thing you can be on.
Speaker 2: He was wearing his AFL Legends jerseys. He was famously
Speaker 2: he cracked his ribs at the Legends match. Yeah, at
Speaker 2: the Legends match. It isn't sorry. I was gonna say,
Speaker 2: if there's any overseas listeners, Hughsey is a big famous
Speaker 2: Australian comedian. Yes, just to clarify, yes, but he's also
Speaker 2: brittle and frail. Yeah. I have way more bone density
Speaker 2: than this guy.
Speaker 1: If you would have served and if he if the
Speaker 1: ball hit him, he would have just been pulverized into dust.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Maybe that's my strategy for next time. Aim for
Speaker 2: his body and then he just disintegrates on court. And
Speaker 2: but what about hitting against Cocoa Gov's hitting partners.
Speaker 1: Well, so in the second round, I was up against
Speaker 1: Cocoa Gov's hitting partner, Like I said, one of the
Speaker 1: hottest men I've ever seen in my life. Yes, and
Speaker 1: he uh, as you saw from the video, I thought
Speaker 1: I hit a decent backhand coming into the net. But
Speaker 1: then he just smoked it down the line.
Speaker 2: You almost got there though, you weren't that far off.
Speaker 1: Wasn't that far off? Yeah, I'm just glad I didn't
Speaker 1: a double fault.
Speaker 2: Yeah you did well.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think you can tell doctor Goldstein about this one.
Speaker 2: Oh really, Yeah, he'd be proud of this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you hear that, doctor Goldstein. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So the finalist tonight, The finalist tonight. We're gonna go
Speaker 2: watch it. I'm excited.
Speaker 1: I want to see how my buddy Andy Lee does
Speaker 1: out there.
Speaker 2: Oh, he's in the final. See, there was some celebs
Speaker 2: that went straight to final. They which usual. He was
Speaker 2: really upset about. He thought he should have gone straight
Speaker 2: to final.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he didn't make the cut for the big final tonight.
Speaker 1: But Karl Stefanovic. And then this is the one that
Speaker 1: Alcarez and I think Zverevt. Oh wow. I don't know
Speaker 1: if sinners An Epoch is playing in it as well. Right,
Speaker 1: she comes up against her hitting partner.
Speaker 2: She'd be a bit of excitement though, because it is
Speaker 2: quite tense. Energy out there is tense because anything could happen.
Speaker 1: Anything could happen. But we both lost.
Speaker 2: Well, you lost in the second round. Yeah, I lost
Speaker 2: real early. Anyway, we'll tell you about it tomorrow. I
Speaker 2: will tell you all about it and yeah.
Speaker 1: Fun, it's definitely all right. Guys.
Speaker 2: Do you want to win some prizes? We got some
Speaker 2: prizes for you, big cash money prizes.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 1: The Australian Open twenty twenty six is doing the ten
Speaker 1: million dollar bracket challenge. Well, AO is launching a new
Speaker 1: bracket challenge for AO twenty six with a ten million
Speaker 1: dollar prize.
Speaker 2: Okay, so apparently if someone predicts every winner then the
Speaker 2: men's draw or the women's draw before the tournament starts,
Speaker 2: they win ten million aud That's crazy.
Speaker 1: That is crazy. It's wild. It's the richest rise in
Speaker 1: world tennis for this kind of.
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Speaker 1: Let's go next.
Speaker 2: So we'll have more details in the coming days of
Speaker 2: the tournament. Do you think we can enter?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, we're there. Yeah. Who are you picking one
Speaker 1: of the seagulls?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Toma all the way.
Speaker 1: Well, speaking of seagulls, you're gonna love this. Next segment,
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Pod laver Arena. Two huge guests today
Speaker 1: on the squawk Box. We have Roger Featherer and Boris Pecker.
Speaker 2: Which one is? Which one is? Which?
Speaker 1: I have no idea?
Speaker 2: Boris Boris Roger Roger Feather right, does this intimidate you?
Speaker 2: This cage it's a little bit sad.
Speaker 1: So we'll ask you some questions. I guess. Squawk once
Speaker 1: if the answers yes, Squawk twice if the answer is no,
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 3: What what?
Speaker 2: How many chips have you stolen today? I feel like
Speaker 2: that was above.
Speaker 1: I told my parents I'd be interviewing Tennis Grace.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna get Roger Veteran Jakovin. Yes, you know me,
Speaker 2: and here we are.
Speaker 1: Tell me if you could only that's not yes or no?
Speaker 1: Would you defecate? Hey, I'm getting there, I'm getting there.
Speaker 1: Oh god, my professionalism is being called out by Boris Pecker.
Speaker 2: Is that a career high for you?
Speaker 1: Would you'll throw this to Roger Feather? Squawk once for yes,
Speaker 1: squawk twice for now? Would you defecate on a statue
Speaker 1: of Raphael on the doll?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yes? Interesting? Would you?
Speaker 2: Would you defecate on a statue of Bernard Tomic?
Speaker 1: You don't know who that is?
Speaker 2: He's playing right now.
Speaker 1: Anymore? Any more? Chips? You guys, so thank you so
Speaker 1: much for coming in today. I want to see that
Speaker 1: gobble down the hatch.
Speaker 2: Let's get it down there.
Speaker 1: So close?
Speaker 2: Is there?
Speaker 3: You go?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: How do you feed the baby gulls?