Speaker 1: I think I'm tone deaf if I'm being honest. Really, yes,
Speaker 1: hold it not?
Speaker 2: Uh uh now you can do it. You good. It's
Speaker 2: a bit pitchy, but you've got perfect bit pitchy. It's
Speaker 2: a bit pitchy, and you won't be going through to
Speaker 2: Hollywood love.
Speaker 1: I have a another weird travel story. These sometimes open
Speaker 1: the pod and we decide whether they're usable.
Speaker 2: Go for it.
Speaker 1: I recently flew from Brisbane back to Melbourne.
Speaker 2: What airline?
Speaker 1: This was Quantus.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's that's the that's the AO bump right there.
Speaker 3: That's your own quantit's the national carrier.
Speaker 1: Well, the corporate that I did the gig for book
Speaker 1: the flights and it was one of those things where
Speaker 1: I didn't check which seat they had put me in
Speaker 1: until I arrived at the game.
Speaker 2: I thought, you fly, this is amateur. You see that
Speaker 2: letter B Yeah, you can't do it.
Speaker 1: God, I was not happy about seeing that bee.
Speaker 3: Yeah it's it's you can't do it. Yeah, you should
Speaker 3: ask to get another plane.
Speaker 1: Well I took the Bee and I sat in the
Speaker 1: middle seat and then the man next to me kind
Speaker 1: of a gruff looking character, gruff gruff like, okay, grizzled grizzled.
Speaker 3: Okay, like what like an old bit of meat just
Speaker 3: hanging out near the bins, near the trash cans.
Speaker 2: Is that what you mean gruff? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean I think you're thinking of Oscar at the grouch.
Speaker 1: Oh that's right, so a bit of a yeah, a
Speaker 1: grizzled gruffman and he I swear to god, it's a
Speaker 1: two hour what fifteen minute flight?
Speaker 2: Yeah, stared at the compass.
Speaker 1: App on his phone for the entirety of the flight,
Speaker 1: did nothing else, and I buy default. Stared at his.
Speaker 2: Compass as well, you're going straight north?
Speaker 1: Well, no, from Brisbane to Melbourne.
Speaker 2: Oh, going breathing to Melbourne. I thought you were going
Speaker 2: Melbourne Brithbane. Okay, so this guy.
Speaker 1: Needs to stare at his compass man.
Speaker 3: Can I get a compass up very quickly? I never
Speaker 3: eat soggy weepics? How does it work?
Speaker 1: Again? So I was watching and we were generally going
Speaker 1: in the same direction the whole time.
Speaker 3: Can I say, and maybe this is like often I'm
Speaker 3: starting to think I'm having like, you know, moments as
Speaker 3: I'm entering into you know, old man territory. I have
Speaker 3: follow up questions to the compass. I'm like did it
Speaker 3: DEVI eight? Did you take other roots? I don't think
Speaker 3: it's as like uninteresting as you think it sounds.
Speaker 2: Yes, thank you?
Speaker 1: Is it though? For?
Speaker 3: I mean it's crazy when you like pick up your
Speaker 3: phone you have access to literally everything.
Speaker 1: He did nothing else else at least I'm playing but
Speaker 1: Jewel the listening to Joel?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you listen to that, Andrew Tate Patreon you
Speaker 3: subscribe to subscribe.
Speaker 1: I think he deserves all our money.
Speaker 2: He's got some really good points. I think that's fun.
Speaker 3: I once flew from Melbourne to Malaysia and the guy
Speaker 3: sat next to me just looked at the flight map,
Speaker 3: the entire map. See, no headphones. No, he didn't even
Speaker 3: eat a meal.
Speaker 2: He just looked at the flight map.
Speaker 1: But is that right, Argon, I don't think if you're all.
Speaker 3: Dog and you can even look at the flight I
Speaker 3: think you don't get the flight map at all?
Speaker 1: Right, right, right, Yeah, that is interesting. Someone's trying to
Speaker 1: get your attention. Errol in the are they I don't know.
Speaker 1: They were just peering in and kind of.
Speaker 2: You know, a big week for Errol.
Speaker 3: He sent us a text message on Sunday night. Maybe
Speaker 3: he's saying I got to meet Dial Rook.
Speaker 2: Yes, doesn't get any better than that.
Speaker 1: Context.
Speaker 2: Del Rook is he's a comedian.
Speaker 1: He's a comedian in Australia who we've known forever and
Speaker 1: so maybe it's a commonplace to us. But to our producer,
Speaker 1: what a moment.
Speaker 3: But Eryl, you know so many I feel like all
Speaker 3: your friends are comedians. Deal disrespect to Dealrook. But being
Speaker 3: like I got I finally got it. Yeah, I tracked
Speaker 3: him down.
Speaker 1: The thing is, though we know he's not that rare.
Speaker 1: It's like you can everywhere you can meet Del Rook whenever.
Speaker 2: If you're listening to this, Derook wants to meet you.
Speaker 2: I am.
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Speaker 1: Yes, Virgie of the Top.
Speaker 3: I had to rebrand. It came from management. This is
Speaker 3: not who we want to be represented by.
Speaker 1: Uh today I'll Tennis FM. We are celebrating Rod Laver's birthday.
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Speaker 1: Day on the calendar. He is the namesake of the pod.
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Speaker 1: Happy eighty eight birthday.
Speaker 2: Yes, we realized it was on Sunday, all right. Let's
Speaker 2: thought he would have loved that.
Speaker 1: He would have loved that. H Samuel Tonton some huge
Speaker 1: tennis news.
Speaker 2: This week for tennis, Let's.
Speaker 1: Get into the don't rifle through an old tennis magazine
Speaker 1: and that's.
Speaker 3: Gonna be There's a lot of a lot of tennis
Speaker 3: news from December twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: We have so much to talk about on this week's
Speaker 1: edition of the Pod. Big news. Uh, just breaking in
Speaker 1: the last couple of days, Yannick Sinner pulling out of
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Masters.
Speaker 2: The right.
Speaker 1: Injury.
Speaker 2: This is scary.
Speaker 1: So this means Sinners not playing Cincinnati. Yep, I guess
Speaker 1: question Well now for the US Alcaaz pulled out of Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Questionable for the US. Can you hear Zverev's mouth watering
Speaker 1: from here?
Speaker 3: It's a my chance, but I think it's like you know,
Speaker 3: people often talk about that like it's the it's the
Speaker 3: big two detrimental to tennis.
Speaker 2: It's like, what I think we're learning is, you know,
Speaker 2: it's way worth.
Speaker 3: Neither of them either, because it's like you can just
Speaker 3: feel the soul kind of getting sucked out of it all.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And like I.
Speaker 3: Think I heard the Cincinnati Masters tournament director he was like, well,
Speaker 3: you know, Carlos needs to get right for the US Open.
Speaker 3: You can see him just being like, God, damn it,
Speaker 3: this is like hurting it so much. He loves a
Speaker 3: defending Champian. We lose the other bets player in the world,
Speaker 3: so it just kind of sucks. I don't know what
Speaker 3: else to say about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the Center though, didn't play any lead
Speaker 1: up tournaments after the French leading into Wimbledon, and still
Speaker 1: one Wimbledon was a bit shaky in his first round match,
Speaker 1: so that means his tournament schedule is pretty unprecedented, going
Speaker 1: from the French to Wimbledon to the US and not
Speaker 1: playing any lead up tournaments. Five hundreds Masters, one thousands
Speaker 1: in the warm up. This stat floating around that no
Speaker 1: one has won the US Open without playing either Canada
Speaker 1: or Cincinnati really since those tournaments began in nineteen ninety.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean it is hard to get your
Speaker 3: reps up. I feel like there's like I don't know
Speaker 3: if it's with Sinner, but is there like I don't know,
Speaker 3: legit question marks around his body. I know, like we're
Speaker 3: talking about al Khaz basically hasn't played all years since
Speaker 3: you know, out here, but he just one of is
Speaker 3: like he's still winning. Yeah, but he does feel like
Speaker 3: you're you never know what's gonna happen, if the heat
Speaker 3: SAPs him or he's too fragile.
Speaker 1: I mean it does. Everyone said that the Montreal, the
Speaker 1: Canadian Open was in shambles because you know, none of
Speaker 1: the big guys were playing, and then also the upsets
Speaker 1: early on in Montreal. I mean, I'll just rattle him off. Obviously,
Speaker 1: center Alcoraz not playing Zavera went out early to Greek
Speaker 1: Spor Felix Age ali Asim with drew from the tournament,
Speaker 1: Djokovic not playing, Medvedev, demon Ar Fritz Koboli eliminated fairly early.
Speaker 2: So I mean it's kind of cool.
Speaker 1: It is cool because if you look at the draw
Speaker 1: now as of recording, we're in the quarterfinals, right, and
Speaker 1: we have hod Are playing Fees, which is that's fun
Speaker 1: killer two of the most electric guys. Yeah, I love
Speaker 1: that as well.
Speaker 3: I mean it's maybe we're all in on Hoda now,
Speaker 3: like he's going to be he's the guy to get behind.
Speaker 1: He is. I don't know if you've been watching any
Speaker 1: of his matches, but like his return of serve is
Speaker 1: like each electric, yeah, Djokovic level stuff.
Speaker 2: It's just it's kind of like wide open.
Speaker 3: Maybe this is like what we want out of tennis. Actually,
Speaker 3: just like wide open, anyone can win. I just worry
Speaker 3: that It's like there's so much interest hanging on these
Speaker 3: two big guys that I don't know, it does seem
Speaker 3: kind of worrying for tennis. It's just worrying they're not
Speaker 3: playing like you you want them to kind of be
Speaker 3: both fit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, going back and forth.
Speaker 1: I think that because we have the context of center
Speaker 1: and Alcaaz would easily through a lot of these yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so we're just like, well, we're watching subpar tennis. But
Speaker 1: then you go, well, with them gone, it becomes these guys' chances, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: And it's also like it's like watch the grind. It
Speaker 2: means more. You know, it's like watch.
Speaker 3: People like go for it, Yeah, go for it with
Speaker 3: a chance to be like, it's all on the line
Speaker 3: if I get through. There must be something. I've thought
Speaker 3: about this a lot. If you the top guys go
Speaker 3: out early, or they're injured, or maybe they don't play,
Speaker 3: what mindset does that do? If you're I don't know,
Speaker 3: seated mid tier maybe twentieth or something, and you're like,
Speaker 3: I could have a good run but ultimately I'm never going.
Speaker 2: To get through or whatever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but then it's like you lose the top three guys,
Speaker 3: You're like, I could go like you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: you can have a proper swing, you can run the tables.
Speaker 1: It gives them hope, right. But then also, like I said,
Speaker 1: it's Vera's mouthwatering going, well, I'm going to get another
Speaker 1: slam this year. If it's you know, neither alcoraz.
Speaker 3: Or living a world with a pair of wins two
Speaker 3: slams in a year, potentially that's crazy.
Speaker 1: It is crazy. But also is this Djokovic's real shot
Speaker 1: for twenty fifth? I know he couldn't get it done
Speaker 1: at the French after Cinner went out, and you know
Speaker 1: our croa is obviously not playing.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's a great storyline. But I don't know
Speaker 3: if his body is going to hold up now either.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: But it's like, I feel like that's a great fairy
Speaker 3: tale moment. I feel like there is one last roll
Speaker 3: of the dice with Novak?
Speaker 1: Is it a fairy tale? He's won so much. Fairy
Speaker 1: Tale to me is like rags to riches. This is
Speaker 1: riches to riches.
Speaker 3: Wait so you you think it's like my boy Chris O'Connell,
Speaker 3: last ever show winning, like the French Open or something
Speaker 3: that is a fair time. But I think with Novak
Speaker 3: there is one last chapter. I just think let's think
Speaker 3: about the documentary, the Grapha, the documentary has come out,
Speaker 3: Let's think about Novak's future one. He seems so great
Speaker 3: that there is maybe one last moment. It could have
Speaker 3: been the AO this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean he was in the final obviously, redline
Speaker 1: is game. In the first set at the AO, we
Speaker 1: were all there drinking beer and getting out of trouble.
Speaker 3: The text coming through get out of the media seeds
Speaker 3: with be is please.
Speaker 1: Those beers put them in coffee cups.
Speaker 2: Do not smile, do not have fun. This is how
Speaker 2: tennis works.
Speaker 1: But I like I said, you know, everyone's saying this
Speaker 1: tournament in uh Montreal's in shambles, but then like these
Speaker 1: are exciting matchups. Mensik Shelton, learn your ten still in it.
Speaker 1: He's playing Meredith, who's having a breakout season, somewhat overshadowed
Speaker 1: by hodar As. The two Spanish players absolutely ripping through
Speaker 1: the draws at the moment. But I think Arthur Fees
Speaker 1: might be up there with my one of my favorite
Speaker 1: new players. I mean, the guy's electric. If he can
Speaker 1: avoid injury, he's so awesome to watch. And just quickly
Speaker 1: I want to touch on the Arthur Fees Cameron Norri
Speaker 1: match because I love your take on this, Cameron Norri.
Speaker 1: Every time a point went his way, regardless of whether
Speaker 1: it was Nori hitting a winner or Fees hitting an error,
Speaker 1: would yell all lay two a Frenchman on the other
Speaker 1: side of the court.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's just like being a pest.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, that's crazy mind games.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean it's also not very tennis, like you know,
Speaker 3: the sport of gentlemens and respect and polite and it's
Speaker 3: just really like getting into people's faces.
Speaker 2: But I do low key love it.
Speaker 3: Because I like seeing in any sport, I like like
Speaker 3: trash talk. I think it's a great fun part of
Speaker 3: the game. And with this sometimes people want to get
Speaker 3: rid of it because of like you know, who ruins
Speaker 3: it in like football and stuff when people say like
Speaker 3: racist things or homophobic things, and you're like, you're ruining
Speaker 3: trash talk for everyone. Now it's like just so yeah, yea, yeah,
Speaker 3: don't say that stuff. So we can still just like
Speaker 3: do little bad mind games with people, because that would
Speaker 3: be so annoying, like every time.
Speaker 2: It's crazy.
Speaker 1: I mean, what else could you yell at a French
Speaker 1: guy like.
Speaker 3: Bagatte like like snail snail. It would be fun if
Speaker 3: you had more words like rotating cargo yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: It'd be like if yeah.
Speaker 3: They were playing in Australia and they would just yell
Speaker 3: out shrewm bamba Barbie or something.
Speaker 2: JAMOI yeah, jimoi in a bad accent. God damn it.
Speaker 2: That would just that would get me hungry.
Speaker 3: I would be a bit offended by that, but also
Speaker 3: impressed that you knew enough to say chicken.
Speaker 2: I'd be like, maybe we could be.
Speaker 1: Oh, the problem is I just had a double fault.
Speaker 3: Well, the problem is with Americans that there's just nothing
Speaker 3: to make fun of them about because we're perfect, because
Speaker 3: it's just so perfect, and maybe i'd yell out, Actually
Speaker 3: know what I would if I just hit a great
Speaker 3: winner and like beat you down the line, I'll just
Speaker 3: yell freedom.
Speaker 2: That's yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Think we're get in my head. If you want, thanks Obama.
Speaker 2: Oh that's good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well yeah, every time every time you tried to
Speaker 3: hit like a tasty little drop shot and it didn't
Speaker 3: make a puss the net old.
Speaker 2: Yell, how do you like that in Obama's America?
Speaker 1: That's good?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Or do I go more political, like really get its political?
Speaker 3: Well yeah, no totally, but like more political like maybe
Speaker 3: if you're struggling to find yourself, I'm like, you've got
Speaker 3: better better luck of finding the weapons of mass destruction
Speaker 3: then that forehand.
Speaker 1: Or something that's good stuff. If you could think about that,
Speaker 1: getting the whole sentence out, that might be a hindrance. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they might call a hindrance.
Speaker 3: Yeah okay, okay, But then if you could ask them
Speaker 3: to come to the net and the umpire maybe and
Speaker 3: just say, have just got something to say, and then
Speaker 3: set up your big line by being like hey, you've
Speaker 3: got better a better chance of finding the weapons of
Speaker 3: mass destruction than your forehand.
Speaker 1: Whisper on the change of ends.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, if you could get on there to say it,
Speaker 3: or if you could pass notes to the chair umpire,
Speaker 3: can you please read that to the crowd?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, little note passing at the change of
Speaker 1: ends when you're like you're crossing.
Speaker 3: What a fun extra little part of tennis that would be.
Speaker 3: At the change of ends, you sit down, you can
Speaker 3: have a drink, but they also give you a notepad
Speaker 3: and a pen and you get to write one message
Speaker 3: to hand to the other player.
Speaker 1: And it's like, that's no one it can never be.
Speaker 2: Disclosed, No one ever knows.
Speaker 1: It's just between the players. Yeah, that's great, dude, bring
Speaker 1: it in. Yeah, we'll float that to the players during
Speaker 1: the AI.
Speaker 2: I think they should do it in a lesser tournament,
Speaker 2: you know, like one of the lead up tournaments Trialate
Speaker 2: in Brisbane or something, and just see how it works.
Speaker 1: There would be players that are just amazing trash talkers, Like,
Speaker 1: would you want Carrios passing you a note?
Speaker 2: I could definitely I could read devastate Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: But also like I love it because it's another side
Speaker 3: of tennis that you wouldn't that's the whole trash talking thing.
Speaker 3: I think it's fantastic because it is so polite and
Speaker 3: they all hang out with each other and they're like,
Speaker 3: they're my best friends.
Speaker 2: I respect them so much. It's like, come on, come on.
Speaker 1: All right, so bring note passing into tennis.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and more trash talk. What would you say to
Speaker 3: an Australian the Chico roll thing. Yeah, surely there'd be
Speaker 3: something else, Pauline, Oh, that'd be good. Yeah, No, something
Speaker 3: like that that would make you. What are the Australians
Speaker 3: like self conscious about?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Maybe like how like you'd be like, no one's thinking
Speaker 3: about you and the rest of the world like that, you.
Speaker 1: Know exactly, we don't think about you at all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: don draper mehi where?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, because I feel
Speaker 3: like you could just get into someone's head about that,
Speaker 3: about their national identity.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the convict thing. Do you guys really care?
Speaker 2: No? No, I don't think anyone cares about that.
Speaker 1: No, no, no no, So maybe I just draw like
Speaker 1: mean pictures of them.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, with the notes. That's fine, that's great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I should say Arthur 'es obviously came through that
Speaker 1: match and looked amazing against Nori, and he kept us cool.
Speaker 1: He didn't go to the chair umpire and say like, hey,
Speaker 1: he's yelling.
Speaker 3: Well, get like any kind of like there's no kind
Speaker 3: of repercussions for something like that.
Speaker 1: It's just tennis heads being like, oh, he's a pest,
Speaker 1: he's annoying.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But then also like there's just a great tradition of
Speaker 3: when someone is a pest and is annoying in tennis,
Speaker 3: like it's almost a good pr move, like it does
Speaker 3: cut through people talk about it. I feel like it's
Speaker 3: it's it's maybe a good thing and maybe yeah, you
Speaker 3: shouldn't complain about it because then I guess it leads
Speaker 3: to more of it.
Speaker 1: True, But yes, it depends on the player. If it's
Speaker 1: a close friend. When I'm playing a social match, I
Speaker 1: will celebrate a net cord that you know, just dribbles over.
Speaker 1: None of this apology.
Speaker 3: But they should never be in any That's one of
Speaker 3: the real problems with tennis today, I think, is the
Speaker 3: apology when it dribbles over the net.
Speaker 2: I'm like, why are you apology?
Speaker 3: You're not sorry, I think, And it goes both ways,
Speaker 3: so it's not like he cares just fifth pump it.
Speaker 1: Well, this is what you're seeing now. We might have
Speaker 1: talked about it before, but players will do the hand
Speaker 1: apology and then straight.
Speaker 3: In yes, because but it's also works. I do like
Speaker 3: that because a hand to fifth pump it's a very
Speaker 3: quick Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it feels rotten, but this.
Speaker 1: Is the yeah nah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: No, yeah.
Speaker 3: It also feels like I mean, it feels more disrespectful
Speaker 3: because it's almost like you're catching or you're grabbing them,
Speaker 3: do you know what I mean. It's like the apology
Speaker 3: and then you close to fifth pump.
Speaker 1: It looks like they just blew you a kiss and
Speaker 1: you grab.
Speaker 2: Lock it in forever.
Speaker 1: So the apology to you're stealing their kiss you are yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I love it if we can plug in steal my
Speaker 1: kisses by Ben Harper. So elsewhere in the men's Ben
Speaker 1: Shelton beating Fanska to reach the corner. Oh man, it
Speaker 1: was a great match. Both guys obviously blistering, four hands,
Speaker 1: big serving Shelton looks fantastic and Fonseka was up three
Speaker 1: zero in the second set after dropping the first set,
Speaker 1: and then tweaked his ankle going up for a smash
Speaker 1: and was never the same, was just like shook. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he didn't call a trainer or obviously stop the match.
Speaker 1: But then Shelton was able to take it out in
Speaker 1: straight sets. And this is a matchup that I'm going
Speaker 1: to be watching every time it happens in every tournament
Speaker 1: because these two guys are always trying to make something
Speaker 1: happen in a rally. Both are getting up to the net,
Speaker 1: They're not just grinding it out from the baseline and
Speaker 1: it's sotting. Yeah, some of the forehands these two are hitting,
Speaker 1: these two Shelton Fonseka and Arthur Fees just if you
Speaker 1: see it going to their forehand side, and it looks
Speaker 1: like a bit of a sitter. They're never just going
Speaker 1: to be conservative.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just full on rip.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it's awesome to watch.
Speaker 2: Why can I ask you a tennis question? Why are
Speaker 2: we doing?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Absolutely not, Okay, what do you think we're here to do? No?
Speaker 2: Okay, it was just like we move on.
Speaker 1: That's a good question about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just want to know what the event.
Speaker 3: If you're a tennis player, are you playing in Cincinnati
Speaker 3: or are you going? Are you going to Canada this week.
Speaker 1: Cincinnati, take the time.
Speaker 2: That's what I thought.
Speaker 1: Canada is too long, and the players are complaining about it.
Speaker 1: It's a twelve day event, right, and so rest up
Speaker 1: playing in Cincinnati and then you get a week and
Speaker 1: a half off before the US.
Speaker 3: It seems like a no brainer. I guess if your
Speaker 3: schedule changes, right, maybe it may and you have to
Speaker 3: get game time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you go to Canada. But I'm like, I'm shocked.
Speaker 3: Well, look, I don't see hows like, I don't know
Speaker 3: what happens completely for everyone, but I just thought everyone
Speaker 3: would be in Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, there's a thing. It's in a thousand event.
Speaker 1: And then when these big guys don't show up, they're like, well,
Speaker 1: I can get a ton of points, or maybe they're
Speaker 1: points to depend from last year. But it seems like
Speaker 1: what we're seeing is a lot of players being like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm just going to do Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And then now obviously with Sinner and Alcoraz out
Speaker 1: of Cincinnati, it's kind of the same situation where we're
Speaker 1: just going to be seeing the It's sounds rough, but
Speaker 1: the middle tier guys battling it out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but we only know that middle tier because we
Speaker 3: know of the top tier existing, but now when the
Speaker 3: top two are not there, they become the middle.
Speaker 1: True.
Speaker 3: It's like it at comedy gig if no one sits
Speaker 3: in the front row, the second row, front road.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm a crowd work here exactly.
Speaker 3: So what I'm saying is we're looking at the top
Speaker 3: tier guys right now. Yeah, maybe the best the world
Speaker 3: has to offer currently.
Speaker 1: Optimistic. Look, I like it.
Speaker 3: It's like when Lizzie's is not here, I'm the second
Speaker 3: best podcast host.
Speaker 1: So yeah, like I said, the quarterfinals in Montreal, it
Speaker 1: should be happening right now. I believe there's a rain
Speaker 1: delay for Hoodar and Fees and the other match Darderry Nakashima,
Speaker 1: And like I said, Dardari is getting a little over
Speaker 1: or no, not Dardari, but Darderi's obviously a clay court
Speaker 1: specialist that's having some good form. Nakashima playing fantastic, He's
Speaker 1: won six out of his last seven matches, I believe.
Speaker 1: And then the other quarterfall finald's Mensik Shelton. That'll be
Speaker 1: like two of the biggest serves on tour. So them
Speaker 1: just bombing serves at each other all match and then
Speaker 1: Mereda is the other Spanish player who's having a breakout season.
Speaker 1: But he comes up against lerner TN, who absolutely stomped
Speaker 1: Tommy Paul R. So sorry in the tournament, but I
Speaker 1: love lerner Ten. He's awesome, He's great. Yeah, so he's
Speaker 1: showing a lot of form going into this. Yeah, what
Speaker 1: will be the US swing when he hits the Cincinnati.
Speaker 3: Uh load up on Shelton for the the US Open. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I feel like there's a movement. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I feel like it's time for an American if we
Speaker 2: don't have Fritz. Dude.
Speaker 3: Actually, part of me thinks it'd be awesome if Sinna
Speaker 3: and Alcrez both missed the US Open.
Speaker 1: Just because it goes well.
Speaker 3: You're just like it'd be it'd be crazy, I mean,
Speaker 3: and then you're like fair of my win.
Speaker 2: But like, also who knows.
Speaker 1: So you're wishing that swhereof gets like some kind of
Speaker 1: he gets that parasite that's in the lettuce in America.
Speaker 4: Yeah, by now you've probably heard of the diarrhea parasite,
Speaker 4: the diarrhea parasite.
Speaker 2: Water explosive diarrhea.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, look, I don't want him to get sick. But
Speaker 3: I just don't want him to win. Yeah, I just
Speaker 3: feel like it's time for an American to win.
Speaker 1: Well, it's been since Andy Roddick, so, which she very
Speaker 1: funnily brought up a lot in the movie The Dink. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he really got his tennis CV in there. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: let's move on to the Women's Master's one thousand tournament
Speaker 1: in Tronto. Rebecca had a great comeback this match, though
Speaker 1: I didn't love it. It was like both players playing
Speaker 1: badly at the same time, but rather than both players
Speaker 1: playing well at the.
Speaker 3: Same I like that when that happens. So it's exciting
Speaker 3: to say, because often I the worst way to lose,
Speaker 3: or maybe it's the best way to lose.
Speaker 2: I'm not a competitor.
Speaker 3: He is playing like well, but then the other person
Speaker 3: just having the craziest day out and then you feel
Speaker 3: like you're not getting enough bang for your buck.
Speaker 1: True, but as a spectator, but oh, of course players
Speaker 1: playing well at the same time like this was like
Speaker 1: just ridden with errors and she won against Samsonova, I
Speaker 1: should say, but to me, the two most on form
Speaker 1: players in Toronto at the moment, Naomi Osaka and Coco
Speaker 1: goff uh and I would love to. I think they'll
Speaker 1: face each other in the semifinals should they win their quarters,
Speaker 1: because in the quarters right now, it's Videlina is looking
Speaker 1: like she'll play a third set against Alexandrova, who beats
Speaker 1: Sabalalnka in the last round, and Shavontek, another under the
Speaker 1: radar somehow is just absolutely stomping people through this tournament,
Speaker 1: and she just won her quarterfinal with ease.
Speaker 2: It feels like the middle, if we're going to use
Speaker 2: the term the middle, I don't know if there is
Speaker 2: a middle with one, that's what I mean.
Speaker 3: Like, I feel like it's just it's just a little
Speaker 3: more depth, and you like, there's great names everywhere, so
Speaker 3: the drawer is definitely just more exciting when you look through,
Speaker 3: and then it's like Whoever's kind of kind of coming
Speaker 3: into form. I feel like Coco's starting to find it, Like, well,
Speaker 3: that's exciting. If a Rebecca's playing well, it's like, you know,
Speaker 3: Sabs is kind of not having her greatest run at
Speaker 3: the moment, but it doesn't really matter because there's still
Speaker 3: like enough big names to kind of carry the the
Speaker 3: excitement level to like hinch the interest around.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so the week before the US Open starts, will
Speaker 1: do what we're making a tradition here is where you
Speaker 1: pick a lady that's not in the top two and
Speaker 1: the one that we all pick.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know why, Center, but you're saying a
Speaker 3: lady's you pick a lady. All right, Well, you pick
Speaker 3: a lady, you make it your wife, you have a
Speaker 3: couple of kids.
Speaker 2: It's called the Australian dream, the ladies. You're doing.
Speaker 1: Spin for Henry Wadsworth longfellow.
Speaker 2: Okay, so we pick a lady.
Speaker 1: So we pick a lady and then whoever goes deeper
Speaker 1: in the tournament, whoever's player goes deeper in the tournament.
Speaker 1: There you win, and then we get bragging rights.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but no, there has to be something more.
Speaker 1: Well, there might be a dinner, but there's not. We're
Speaker 1: not making any waders.
Speaker 2: It doesn't have to be financial or even that.
Speaker 1: Well, we'll go for a dinner and just celebrate friendship
Speaker 1: and good times.
Speaker 3: Can I say I've never like gotten that excited about
Speaker 3: bragging rights when I win a bet.
Speaker 2: I'm never like it. Yes, yeah, but if it's like.
Speaker 1: You've never gloated over winning a bet over a friend
Speaker 1: or something.
Speaker 3: No, but I will gloat if they have to hand
Speaker 3: me twenty five dollars.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, well we don't get able here on pod Laver.
Speaker 2: No no, no, no, no, no, I'm not saying yeah.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying for any reason, okay, and then a
Speaker 3: long if you trace it back a long way, maybe
Speaker 3: you'll find that there's some But.
Speaker 1: It has to be a US themed feed. So we
Speaker 1: will go out to eat eventually, and I guess we'll
Speaker 1: go to a barbecue.
Speaker 2: Place McDonald KFC.
Speaker 1: I think a meat maiden in the city.
Speaker 2: Fancy what about okay, what about this hungry Jacks? But
Speaker 2: we refer to it as burger king.
Speaker 1: Oh, yes, the food of royalty.
Speaker 2: Yes, it is royal food.
Speaker 1: So I'm Sablenka is not playing well, and I honestly,
Speaker 1: even though Rebecca are still in the tournament, I think
Speaker 1: since the Australian Open and Indian Wells, where they were
Speaker 1: both in the finals of each, they've been so inconsistent
Speaker 1: and Sablenka has looked kind of sluggish. If she gets
Speaker 1: into a three set battle, she's losing. She's just not
Speaker 1: edging that out and she's I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: a mental thing. But she's just not her dominant self.
Speaker 1: She will be in some matches.
Speaker 3: But then so I think, firstly, I think there's a
Speaker 3: few things going on. I think she cops a bit
Speaker 3: too much heat online. I think people are like, oh,
Speaker 3: she's not dedicated or whatever.
Speaker 1: She is chronically online.
Speaker 2: She loves being online.
Speaker 3: But also like, you know, whatever she thought when she
Speaker 3: was like winning slams, she was online anyway. So like,
Speaker 3: I don't know if you can without getting without every
Speaker 3: Sunday night getting her little screen time notification app.
Speaker 2: It's hard to know exactly if that is the problem.
Speaker 1: But what's your ask, maw, what did she get hours?
Speaker 2: How she must be like a lesson double digits for sure.
Speaker 1: One who's a world class athlete training and practicing eleven
Speaker 1: hours a day.
Speaker 3: Well, to me, it just seems like when she's not
Speaker 3: on the court, she would be on her phone, right,
Speaker 3: because when she came in here, she was on her phone.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and like.
Speaker 1: We want to make eye contact.
Speaker 2: With me, yeah yeah, yeah. I mean that's fair enough.
Speaker 2: That's definitely fair enough.
Speaker 3: I think it's regardless of the kind of criticism people do,
Speaker 3: just go through form slums. It could be mental because
Speaker 3: she's had some kind of devastating losses at the top level,
Speaker 3: and maybe her confidence is shook. Maybe it's a coaching thing.
Speaker 3: Sometimes it looks like she doesn't have a plan. B
Speaker 3: I feel like if someone gets on top of her
Speaker 3: and her power game isn't winning, I feel like she
Speaker 3: kind of looks a bit lost and just gets frustrated.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and then also the thing that it gives
Speaker 1: other players optimism and hope to see she's kind of
Speaker 1: having a rough season. And then they also sent Alexandrova
Speaker 1: coming into this match. They were like five and five
Speaker 1: against each other, so she.
Speaker 2: Knows that it's a good record.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Sablanca was just not timing the ball right.
Speaker 1: And I think once you see a player, like I said,
Speaker 1: not having a good season, you're like, well, I could
Speaker 1: do this.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And it is so much mental believing in yourself that
Speaker 3: you can stand there and take it all when you
Speaker 3: have a moment where it doesn't go your way, where
Speaker 3: you don't kind of drop your head and go where
Speaker 3: you believe that you know it's fine. That might be
Speaker 3: happening to Tabilanca at the moment that maybe she's very
Speaker 3: low on confidence and or it's you know, she had
Speaker 3: a great period at the top, not everyone gets. I
Speaker 3: feel like we've been accustomed to, like people having these
Speaker 3: like fifteen year careers of sustained brilliance at the top.
Speaker 2: Where it's like historically people get maybe they have.
Speaker 3: Three years where they dominate the sport and that's what
Speaker 3: you get as a world number one. That's it's like,
Speaker 3: you know, and you might win at you know, one
Speaker 3: handful of Grand Slamds and that's an incredible career.
Speaker 2: Potentially that's happening to her.
Speaker 3: I don't know, that's a big Maybe that's an early call,
Speaker 3: but it could be happening.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I could see where you're coming from.
Speaker 1: And I also think that she is maybe exhausted by
Speaker 1: the season at this point, Like you start to get
Speaker 1: towards the US and then it's like I've been playing
Speaker 1: non stop now for seven eight months. Yeah right, and
Speaker 1: so maybe there's a bit of like just battle fatigue
Speaker 1: in there.
Speaker 2: I guess.
Speaker 3: Well that's why they say they're also happy when they
Speaker 3: get to Australia because they've had a bit of time off.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they do just place so much and your
Speaker 3: body would be so worn down to sustain it for
Speaker 3: the year.
Speaker 2: But I don't know, she's definitely, I mean her past seven.
Speaker 3: Tournaments, I don't I think she might have made the
Speaker 3: Court of warm She's.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this current slump could cast her the number one
Speaker 1: spot in the WTA.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was interesting that because like the sustained results are
Speaker 3: kind of, you know, not where she needs to be.
Speaker 3: That's also the crazy thing about Alkaaz is like he
Speaker 3: literally hasn't played and he's still number two in the Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I know. I mean he's got so many points.
Speaker 1: It's just that huge gap.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Another thing. Oh well, let's actually check in on the
Speaker 1: live results. Fidelina bageled Alexandrova in the second set, pushing
Speaker 1: it to a third. And then tomorrow we will see
Speaker 1: golf play Belinda Benchice and a match I'm super excited
Speaker 1: for Osaka Rebeccna. So that's the rest of the quarterfinals
Speaker 1: there in Toronto. I wanted to say one thing about
Speaker 1: Belinda Bencic is she knocked out Alexandra Iala, ending her
Speaker 1: run of winning in DC and then getting you know,
Speaker 1: to this deep into another one thousand events.
Speaker 3: And a big shout out on every tennis podcast I think, yeah,
Speaker 3: the talk of the tennis world.
Speaker 1: Well what do you think of this? So uh Yallo
Speaker 1: played McNally in a previous amazing match, Like both just
Speaker 1: push to their limits, are hugely exhausted. Afterwards, McNally got
Speaker 1: ten thousand Instagram followers.
Speaker 2: That's crazy. If they're playing it, that's crazy. It's all
Speaker 2: worth it.
Speaker 3: Ten k in one game. In one game, yeah, I
Speaker 3: mean that's a win. There's no other way to look
Speaker 3: at it except the win.
Speaker 1: I am right now challenging Iola to a tennis match.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you would somehow do this.
Speaker 3: Followers probably they'd be like introduced to you and they go, oh,
Speaker 3: because you'd have to put up a good like a
Speaker 3: good showing. Yeah, and I don't know what these tennis
Speaker 3: fans want. You go on the tennis reddit pages, it's
Speaker 3: like people are vicious, they.
Speaker 2: Pull you down. I never know what they want from people.
Speaker 3: You'd have to really you'd have to lose with some dignity,
Speaker 3: but also show a bit of flareeah and and maybe
Speaker 3: be funny as well.
Speaker 1: You have to be funny. But also because it's gender,
Speaker 1: it seems weird and chauvinistic and you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like I'd still get my ass. Hand it to me.
Speaker 3: But it was just I think you wouldn't get followers,
Speaker 3: because ultimately, what tennis fans want, both genders, by the way,
Speaker 3: they want someone that's cute.
Speaker 1: Are you saying I'm not cute?
Speaker 2: Well no I don't. You're a bit.
Speaker 3: You're a bit grizzled and gruffled. The only app on
Speaker 3: your phone is the comforts app.
Speaker 2: But you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: Ultimately, that's what a tennis fan wants. They want them
Speaker 3: to win, but they want them to be cute and lovable,
Speaker 3: and they want to seem like a good person.
Speaker 2: That's what they want.
Speaker 3: And you sometimes you it's almost like you want. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you're a bit blunt, you're a bit jockey, and sometimes
Speaker 3: I feel like you want people not to like you.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize this was going to be an emotionally devastating.
Speaker 2: But this is why I'm saying, I don't think. I
Speaker 2: just don't think you'd gain the followers you hope you will.
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on. Um. Yeah, So we'll be
Speaker 1: back next week when we to talk about what the
Speaker 1: eventual results are in Canada. My prediction is I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say Osaka in Toronto and I'm going to say Hodhar
Speaker 1: in Montreal, Samuel Tuttan your predictions from here for the
Speaker 1: Canadian Open tennis tournaments. Let's go with the men's in Montreal.
Speaker 3: First, Okay, I like, well, because I'm half Spanish, I'm not.
Speaker 2: I just spent three weeks there. Yes, so I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go Hodur.
Speaker 3: And then I feel like with on the women's side
Speaker 3: for the US Open, I picked for Baccenham, so I
Speaker 3: feel like I will continue with that. Okay, yeah, because
Speaker 3: if she wins, Yeah, she's got Osaka in the quarter
Speaker 3: that's the confidence she needs to then make a big
Speaker 3: run of the US Open.
Speaker 1: Coco and the Semis and then maybe sid Alina in
Speaker 1: the finals.
Speaker 2: I mean that's taken names.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right there. But I feel like that's a that's
Speaker 3: not a bad I mean, what am I going to win?
Speaker 3: Bragging rights?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Just your tennis brain has been fully formed.
Speaker 2: No, I just feel like I want to win these
Speaker 2: bragging rights.
Speaker 1: That you said that fantastic, even though you picked Hodar
Speaker 1: who I said before you said that, But sure.
Speaker 2: I mean he's exciting, he is exciting to watch.
Speaker 1: Yes he is, and like him and Fees, it's going
Speaker 1: to be an awesome match. But should we get into
Speaker 1: your segment?
Speaker 2: This is where I really come to play.
Speaker 3: Yes, okay, approaching the net otherwise no natura.
Speaker 2: Do I put my hat on? Okay? Now this really
Speaker 2: took my liking. Nick Curios.
Speaker 3: He has the energy of a man that could you
Speaker 3: never know where he's going to pop up, and these
Speaker 3: two ladies.
Speaker 1: Well you can pick where he's going to pop up.
Speaker 1: A club.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, okay, it's pretty predictable, right Twitch. Yeah, he's
Speaker 3: going to be on Twitch a club and maybe like
Speaker 3: a sports car dealership.
Speaker 2: That's his kind of energy. Weirdly, not out of tennis court.
Speaker 3: Well, these two women were in like a fancy restaurant,
Speaker 3: I guess, and they were trying to do cute girl
Speaker 3: Instagram things. And look who was in the background. You
Speaker 3: see in there on the.
Speaker 2: Phone cap backwards by himself, fine self, bottle of sparkling
Speaker 2: water on the table.
Speaker 1: Looks like a fancy restaurant. The captain trying to act
Speaker 1: nonchalo but curious is literally.
Speaker 2: They're freaking out. What would you do in that scenario?
Speaker 2: Would you just go sit with him?
Speaker 1: I go, hey, man, remember when we played ping pong
Speaker 1: and I beat you and you smashed the paddle over
Speaker 1: your knee, and like you said, I was probably better
Speaker 1: than you at every sport.
Speaker 3: You remember that, that's what you would open with, ye,
Speaker 3: I would say, he Nick, That's what I would open with.
Speaker 1: First. I wouldn't roachable. I think I've seen where people
Speaker 1: have surreptitiously filmed them on an elevator and he gets angry.
Speaker 2: Nick Curio, it's angry.
Speaker 1: So these women are actually being pretty risque here, because
Speaker 1: if he saw them doing it, he would not be happy.
Speaker 2: I think he would be like, oh, baby, girls, that
Speaker 2: kind of energy.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't know exactly, but I think he would treat
Speaker 3: you differently than disappear.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like industry game recognizes the game type thing. You'd
Speaker 3: sit down and be like, oh, can we do not
Speaker 3: talk about work?
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, we're just trying to get away from Riffin.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I think they obviously
Speaker 1: took the video because they saw him in the background
Speaker 1: and they're trying to you know, capture.
Speaker 2: Well, they just want to get a thing of Nick.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Of course, we all love Nick, you know, I love it.
Speaker 3: Probably one of the smartest tennis players out there at
Speaker 3: the moment.
Speaker 2: You know, he's got some interesting opinions.
Speaker 3: Another one tent's atman he has an IQ of one
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty eight.
Speaker 2: Apparently, I mean impressive. Is that a lot?
Speaker 1: I think it's a lot.
Speaker 2: But what's the matter?
Speaker 1: What is a MENSA? What?
Speaker 2: What does that even mean? Though? If your IQ is that?
Speaker 1: To get into menso.
Speaker 2: IQ was a hypothetical score around one hundred and sixty.
Speaker 2: What Einstein's was one sixty.
Speaker 1: He never took the test, but popular estimates placing at
Speaker 1: about one sixty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what and what?
Speaker 1: To get into MENSA, you need an IQ of one
Speaker 1: forty plus.
Speaker 2: One plus Okay, what would yours be? Mike?
Speaker 1: I think I'm, you know, not the dumbest guy. I
Speaker 1: don't think I'm a genius or anything, but probably around
Speaker 1: MENTA levels.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you're pretty Yeah, you have the smartest
Speaker 3: guy I probably Well anyway, Terrence is a is a.
Speaker 3: He's a smart guy, but you know he's a bit
Speaker 3: I guess kookie for the world of professional sport. You know,
Speaker 3: he's into his Pokemon and stuff, and you know he's
Speaker 3: he likes doing magic tricks, which is cool.
Speaker 2: That's all very cool, But I don't.
Speaker 3: Know if you saw this interview on the Tennis channel,
Speaker 3: but this has got real. Three am. You're at kick Ons,
Speaker 3: you're in a garage with someone. They start talking to
Speaker 3: you about the pyramids and other life forms, and you've
Speaker 3: just kind of got to go yeah, yeah, man, and
Speaker 3: just like lock in.
Speaker 2: It's fantastic.
Speaker 4: So I've been studying for the past couple of weeks Egyptology, Egypt,
Speaker 4: what's about pyramids? Because you know, I love quantum physics, right,
Speaker 4: I love getting to.
Speaker 2: Know a normal tennis Why are we here? Why do
Speaker 2: you love us?
Speaker 4: Why?
Speaker 1: Everything?
Speaker 4: But you know, I had my question about the Pyramids
Speaker 4: is like why you know?
Speaker 2: And how?
Speaker 4: That's a very interesting question because scientifically, it's impossible to
Speaker 4: prove that the pyramids have been built by the human being.
Speaker 2: Nice, yeah, which is fantastic. I agree.
Speaker 4: So first of all, the pyramids are built in the
Speaker 4: geographic coordinates, and this geographic coordinates equals of the speed
Speaker 4: of light.
Speaker 2: So that's the first speed of what.
Speaker 4: So we're talking about a monument that has been built.
Speaker 2: I was just gonna ask him what he what he
Speaker 2: thinks when it's break points.
Speaker 4: That the speed of light equals two hundred ninety nine
Speaker 4: millions seven one hundred and ninety two thousand, four hundred
Speaker 4: and fifty eight.
Speaker 1: Meter per second. It is a Joe Rogan pod.
Speaker 2: It is a Joe Rogan prographic, the pure geography, pure geographic.
Speaker 1: Novelge And I've seen this has been in my algorithm,
Speaker 1: not this, but so it's this perfect clip where they're
Speaker 1: saying all these things.
Speaker 2: Oh so he's just so he's just saying it online.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well he's like I've been studying it for two weeks.
Speaker 2: But he has an IQ of one hundred and fifty eight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but he's more.
Speaker 2: Like he's just got astray white Man's accurately.
Speaker 1: I think people that's smart are obviously still gullible.
Speaker 2: Why is it?
Speaker 4: Why does it has to be like so precise, because nowadays,
Speaker 4: like today, with the my tools that we have, it's
Speaker 4: impossible to make it again.
Speaker 2: If you leave all that in errow. Oh I will
Speaker 2: love it.
Speaker 1: But Okay, he is obviously smart, not only I mean
Speaker 1: he's regurgitating a YouTube clip or a TikTok clip, right,
Speaker 1: but he's doing it in a second language. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: remembered so many specifics.
Speaker 2: It.
Speaker 1: I watched that same video and I just go, I
Speaker 1: guess Aliens built the pyramids.
Speaker 3: I'd be like, they're like they're kind of like formed,
Speaker 3: they're like the speed of light.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the coordinates like similar to where they are.
Speaker 1: It's impressive.
Speaker 2: He's a great I feel like he's he is a
Speaker 2: great communicator.
Speaker 3: I'm kind of hooked. I just think it's funny that
Speaker 3: people are drinking apparol. Sprits is in the background on
Speaker 3: a lawn at a tennis tournament.
Speaker 1: And it's gone fur Rogan.
Speaker 3: He's the one that you wouldn't want to like when
Speaker 3: you change ends, get the note from like his would
Speaker 3: just like destroy you probably.
Speaker 1: Just yeah, we're in the matrix.
Speaker 3: Yes, none of this is real. We're just Adams floating
Speaker 3: around locked onto a rock. It would be like, Jesus,
Speaker 3: you were nothing, you were dust, you were nothing before this,
Speaker 3: You'll you'll be nothing after this.
Speaker 1: Just a self war sec of protoplasm.
Speaker 2: Oh god, oh no ah, Well what else you got now?
Speaker 3: This has kind of struck fear into my hard and
Speaker 3: kind of maybe reminiscent of either my childhood or maybe
Speaker 3: when you get up to something wrong. Ben Shelton was
Speaker 3: in his hotel and his partner at Trinity knocked on
Speaker 3: the door and was like surprised, she didn't know who
Speaker 3: was coming. And then he shut the door in her
Speaker 3: face immediately and looked, I can only give it a
Speaker 3: look of like absolutely suspect. Look at this.
Speaker 1: Okay, Shelton slams the door in her face.
Speaker 2: Please opens it back up. Can't believe it.
Speaker 3: I mean it's had the face of a man that
Speaker 3: quickly just said, hey, you've got to jump out the window.
Speaker 1: I mean I counted. So she knocks on his hotel
Speaker 1: room door to surprise him. He opens it up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: registers it's her, shuts the door. Yeah, there's a good
Speaker 1: six seconds before he opens the door.
Speaker 3: Do you think he ran into the living room of
Speaker 3: the hotel, the main room, and was like you gotta.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hid in the cupboard. Yeah she's here. I didn't
Speaker 2: know she was coming here.
Speaker 1: First of all, living room of the hotel. What kind
Speaker 1: of hotels are you staying?
Speaker 3: Well, I'm saying we're talking about an international tennis player here.
Speaker 3: I know, I think he's got a living room, do
Speaker 3: you well? I think it's like a sweet he'd be in.
Speaker 3: I don't think he's staying where we stay at the
Speaker 3: like Iver's budget needs Tullomarine Airport.
Speaker 2: I think he's got a living room of the hotel.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, it's that fairst six seconds. I think
Speaker 1: they're an awesome couple. She cheering them on, he's going
Speaker 1: to she plays soccer, he's going to all her matches,
Speaker 1: cheering her on. They rule. I don't think it's anything
Speaker 1: as Dodgy is kicking another woman.
Speaker 2: Out, But that was where my brain went.
Speaker 1: To, think it's a tissue cleanup.
Speaker 2: Oh you think so?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, six do you have six seconds? Is that enough
Speaker 3: time to run to your laptop and then and just
Speaker 3: like clearly yeah, clear the history, minimize the search engine.
Speaker 2: But they do look like a fun couple.
Speaker 1: They're awesome, man. I don't know if you saw her
Speaker 1: during the DC Open cheering him on. Uh, it just
Speaker 1: it's couldn't be further apart from Morgan Riddle watching Taylor
Speaker 1: for its play where she's just scrolling her phone and
Speaker 1: just posting whatever, and then like she is just involved
Speaker 1: in watching. Yeah, and it just totally and it's awesome
Speaker 1: to see.
Speaker 2: That's actually beautiful.
Speaker 3: But that's what happens with the sportsman. It's like, are
Speaker 3: you across the Australian sports power couple Nathan Cleary and
Speaker 3: Mary Fowler.
Speaker 1: I'm not I don't think I've even heard those man.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, yeah, we'll move on.
Speaker 3: She's like the two most famous Australian sports fans dating together.
Speaker 3: Mary Fowler is like the second best player on the
Speaker 3: Matilda's okay, and then she's dating Nathan Cleary, who's like, yeah,
Speaker 3: he's like the new South I was half back.
Speaker 2: He's like one of the best players in the NRL.
Speaker 3: Right, and they date. Oh yeah, that's all I wanted
Speaker 3: to mention. Okay, now I've got something else for you.
Speaker 3: I never say her name right here. Costing you Costure.
Speaker 2: Cost Juke, like that Chuck Marta cost Juke. Yeah that's fine,
Speaker 2: I reckon, that's right, cost Chuk Costure. Okay, that sounded
Speaker 2: kind of like an one of those African cost Chuck.
Speaker 1: I met del roch.
Speaker 3: Marta cost Chuk. She got a little note and she's
Speaker 3: posted it to Instagram. A chock quite like a small
Speaker 3: child handed her this eight years old and the note
Speaker 3: says this was.
Speaker 1: The ball kid that walked onto court with her.
Speaker 2: I think so, yes, right, Marda and.
Speaker 1: The ball kid and the ball kids absolutely.
Speaker 3: Terrified, terrified, he's biting his nails. You would be absolutely
Speaker 3: crapping it.
Speaker 1: Man. I have to say I acted very similarly when
Speaker 1: Marta was in our studio.
Speaker 2: You were biding your nails.
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 2: I was just like, I mean, that's very sweet, very sweet. Vision. Well,
Speaker 2: so that kid has then handed her a note. He
Speaker 2: wrote a note.
Speaker 3: It's been a real episode of notes. Oh, it's the
Speaker 3: note episode. And this is what the message is here.
Speaker 3: And this is actually quite similar to the one that
Speaker 3: I think you handed her as well, isn't it? Good
Speaker 3: luck today. My name is Marcus. I am eight years old.
Speaker 3: Never give up.
Speaker 2: I will be cheering you on.
Speaker 1: Okay, so I will if we remember, if we get
Speaker 1: Marta in for an interview for next year's al, I
Speaker 1: will absolutely hand her a note, but it'll say good
Speaker 1: luck today. My name is Michael. I am forty five
Speaker 1: years old. Never give up. I will be cheering you on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think I will do it.
Speaker 3: I think we have to do it. What if she
Speaker 3: doesn't remember, then she will be so creeped out.
Speaker 2: But can I say.
Speaker 3: I would like you not to do it in the
Speaker 3: studio and I'll film you, like when she's like walking
Speaker 3: up to the tunnel. We'll go down there and you
Speaker 3: just I just want her to think you're a random
Speaker 3: person and handed her so then she gets a random
Speaker 3: note that says high on Michael, I'm forty five years old.
Speaker 2: Never give up. I will be cheering for you.
Speaker 1: So you want me to chase always down the player's tunnel?
Speaker 2: Ideally?
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe if you wait for her at the car
Speaker 3: pickup bit, you know that bit, and then just be like, hey,
Speaker 3: I've been here for two days waiting.
Speaker 1: Oh so on the vans that they drive the players
Speaker 1: around and I'm hiding in the back.
Speaker 2: I think you could be in the van.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I'll also never give up for
Speaker 1: Dora on the notes under.
Speaker 3: The door and note okay that you have to do it. Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm happy for you to do it in the studio. Yes,
Speaker 3: but you're wearing the fedora when she enters, and then
Speaker 3: halfway through, at any point during the interview, you can
Speaker 3: take the fedora offer and say note malady and handed
Speaker 3: to it. I think that's fun. I think that's good content.
Speaker 3: Good luck, Mike, sheot you shot.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll get Lizzie to do it, just so it's
Speaker 1: not any creepy kind.
Speaker 3: Of No, it's actually just not that Funnyflizzy does it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think it's fun. If you do it in the
Speaker 3: for door, it's clearly a joke. It's clearly good fun.
Speaker 3: You want to do the note word for word. I
Speaker 3: would love to just make a few little edits.
Speaker 1: No, it's got to look the same. It's got to
Speaker 1: be in crayon.
Speaker 3: It's gotta be What if you're dressed the same as
Speaker 3: that boy?
Speaker 2: And that was Grand same, Grand.
Speaker 3: Sam, Grand Sam.
Speaker 2: And I'll be back next week with another Grand Sam.
Speaker 1: You will be back next week. We'll be back to
Speaker 1: wrap up what ended up happening in the Canadian Open
Speaker 1: in Toronto and Montreal, and then we'll get into all
Speaker 1: things Cincinnati, and then Cincinnati, whatever happens online in the meantime.
Speaker 3: And whatever happens online. I don't know which is Maybe
Speaker 3: there'll be more tennis news, is what you're supposed to say.
Speaker 3: With everything going on in the world of tennis.
Speaker 1: Maybe Pat Rafter will be sitting in a restaurant and
Speaker 1: someone will take a video.
Speaker 4: How do they make it and the build it in
Speaker 4: twenty years, which is statistically impossible?
Speaker 2: Do you think? Which way?
Speaker 4: Do you think you think about a lot of mysteries
Speaker 4: around this. I've never said that aliens built it. I
Speaker 4: just said that it's impossible to prove that human built it.
Speaker 4: Talked about aliens in one of his interview or something,
Speaker 4: and I was like, you know what, maybe we can
Speaker 4: make like a podcast at three and we start to
Speaker 4: talk about things.
Speaker 2: Right, this is not a bad idea, amazing.
Speaker 3: I'm only when he comes in, we should actually ask
Speaker 3: if we can get more time with him to a podcast.
Speaker 3: But then like also have like stuff ready to go.
Speaker 3: We've got pyramids, we've got flat flat Earth.
Speaker 1: Would be good moon landing.
Speaker 2: I think if you go extra terrestrial stuff. There's this
Speaker 2: great theory going around about like when aliens make contact
Speaker 2: with us, they're just going to be time traveling like
Speaker 2: half robot humans that have like evolved and they're like cyborgs, and.
Speaker 3: Then they're traveling back to see us. Do you think
Speaker 3: he'll get around that?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you were already.
Speaker 1: Interested in that. I mean it's fascinating. I mean, who knows,
Speaker 1: why wouldn't they're studying us?
Speaker 3: But they were us, So they're often coming back to
Speaker 3: get like to do data on biological stuff to be
Speaker 3: like what happened, what changed, and so you know when people.
Speaker 1: See so they do that by putting things in our ass.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: All they find out is one in every six guys doesn't.
Speaker 3: Really yeah yeah, yeah exactly, but that's yeah, it's actually
Speaker 3: more it's three or of six.
Speaker 2: We decide to take it. They do a lot.
Speaker 3: Of the tests, They just like get in your brain
Speaker 3: and force you to do it. Oh really yeah, and
Speaker 3: then they can extract the data that way. Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah,