Speaker 1: Christian o'connells show on Gold next week. Then we'll be
Speaker 1: heading down to the Yarraw. What a price You've got
Speaker 1: amazing VIP court side tickets to the Australian Open Men's
Speaker 1: Final thanks to Emirates, worth over twelve thousand dollars. That's
Speaker 1: just the tickets on the day though, you get the
Speaker 1: behind the scenes experience at the Open, including the underground
Speaker 1: walk walk through that the champions will take part. You
Speaker 1: get march back and you get afternoon tea for not
Speaker 1: just the two of you who are going VIP courtside,
Speaker 1: but bring along two hangars on if you want to
Speaker 1: take photos of your big moment, walk you to the
Speaker 1: edge of the Open. They must go home, they can't
Speaker 1: continue their journey. Do your own competition really with them?
Speaker 1: Who's going to come with you?
Speaker 2: I mean if they have twelve grand idea.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's what we do and we're calling it
Speaker 1: the longest serve. Willly be the person that can hit
Speaker 1: one tennis spot. You get one shot. Run ups are
Speaker 1: allowed and encouraged. Can you clear the yarraw? It's seventy meters?
Speaker 2: Can you the yarra?
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear this tomorrow.
Speaker 2: But you'd better not hit a canoe last playing.
Speaker 1: The final.
Speaker 2: But it all comes down to you.
Speaker 1: Christian, I gotta wa this goddamn bar right now.
Speaker 2: I have noticed the same tennis of course.
Speaker 1: Of course, now a couple of assurances no balls because
Speaker 1: obviously the argument little balls are going to go in
Speaker 1: the era out we are clearing up after ourselves. Okay,
Speaker 1: no ball's gonna be left in there. We totally respect that.
Speaker 1: Jack will genuinely in a inside. Have we got the
Speaker 1: boat yet?
Speaker 2: But we've got inflatable boat?
Speaker 1: What is he in it? We were we offer to
Speaker 1: Dana anaconda, like now we get a little dirigible or something.
Speaker 1: What's here in a canoe? Kayak? What's he in? Producer caating,
Speaker 1: he's in a speedboat? Whoa speed boats? Yeah you are?
Speaker 2: We need the speed to get to the.
Speaker 1: Balls are allowed to speed boats on the Yarrah.
Speaker 3: You were allowed.
Speaker 1: We got counsel a price station, got a speed boat
Speaker 1: from we have to man five years, I've never heard
Speaker 1: of a speedboat, would you be to? They're not branded
Speaker 1: up while they're like black thunder on the Yarra. No,
Speaker 1: for that is a great idea.
Speaker 2: I'm not driving there's a driver for the speedboat.
Speaker 1: Absolutely not. You are not some older they got scared
Speaker 1: many gus. You've got my license with my water wings.
Speaker 2: I'll be busy with the net picking the balls out
Speaker 2: of the river.
Speaker 1: In all, we do need nets for you, don't We
Speaker 1: like fishing nets or but they have trawler nets or
Speaker 1: stuff like that, or those North Sea documentaries I watched, Like.
Speaker 2: A pool clean, isn't it? I think?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: That takes the leaves out of a backyard pool.
Speaker 1: You're going in if you use that, they are wobbly.
Speaker 1: They've got that long bot I'm going and.
Speaker 2: If I'm trying to hold onto a.
Speaker 1: Trollert call us. Now, if you've got a trailer's net,
Speaker 1: we can borrow. Next Wednesday, it's the twenty fourth, nine three. Anyway,
Speaker 1: where were we? That's it? Do you want to come
Speaker 1: down and give it a go? We've just found out
Speaker 1: we can have people coming down and cheering everybody who's
Speaker 1: going to be hitting the balls right? Nine four three?
Speaker 1: Who wants to take part? Though? That's the big question
Speaker 1: this week. You get one shot? Can you hit? That's it?
Speaker 1: This clear your throat? One shot over the year, So
Speaker 1: good morning, Hi, Hey, going I'm good to better help
Speaker 1: them in and so you've had get it of that
Speaker 1: phleme and see you've coming down next Wednesday and hitting
Speaker 1: the ball over the era, Yes I can. Can you
Speaker 1: can do it seventy meters?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 4: I think I can.
Speaker 1: Got a massive right arm or a massive.
Speaker 3: Left arm, a massive right arm.
Speaker 1: Yeah? Have you built that up?
Speaker 3: Sorry one?
Speaker 1: Is it just a just a gift? You've got a
Speaker 1: big old right arm on? You have you soon?
Speaker 3: Yes? I have?
Speaker 1: Yes? And you're good at tennis.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll played tennis all my life. I used to
Speaker 3: play with Markhilla Puss in my junior years.
Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, how do you get on with Poose? Uh?
Speaker 1: Yeah good?
Speaker 3: He was my mixed partner in the Shell squad.
Speaker 1: Bloody. How so you've got form, Sue?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've played all my life until seven.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so tell us says, then, right, I don't play tennis.
Speaker 1: So do you think someone will actually with just one
Speaker 1: go actually clear seventy meters? Yeah? I do.
Speaker 3: Yes, they've got a big arm.
Speaker 1: Yes, can you do?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 1: Your old Popeye coming down? That's me. That's it, that's it,
Speaker 1: that's your that's your hitting surday, Popeye, Sue okay, we'll
Speaker 1: see down there Wednesday, Sue, okay, thank you, that's all right.
Speaker 1: You can see that arm from Google Earth. It's massive.
Speaker 1: Who are you going, Gary? Good morning, Gary, Christian?
Speaker 3: How you doing?
Speaker 1: I'm good Gary? Now Gary, you fancy coming down?
Speaker 4: Oh course, my son who's got a right arm, and
Speaker 4: I reckon he can do it because we're actually practiced
Speaker 4: thish in the local park and he's cleared twice already.
Speaker 1: Well, what do you mean the local part? You tried
Speaker 1: clearing the yarraw.
Speaker 4: No, No, he's already we marked out seventy meters. I
Speaker 4: love that, and away he went.
Speaker 1: This is late some sort of if you build it.
Speaker 1: Come you're practicing in your backyard the local bark.
Speaker 2: Dad's got the measuring head out.
Speaker 3: Yeah he has.
Speaker 1: So your son obviously plays at the moment. Then how
Speaker 1: old is your son? And what's his name?
Speaker 4: No, my son's My son's thirty. His name is Stephan.
Speaker 4: He's named after the great Stephan Edburgh yep. And we've
Speaker 4: been playing tennis all our lives. We still played twice
Speaker 4: a week and he beats the hell out of me
Speaker 4: every day because he started strong and quick for me nowadays, So.
Speaker 1: He is he generally called Stepan after Stefan Edburg. Sorry,
Speaker 1: is he really called Stepan after Stephan Edburg?
Speaker 3: Yep?
Speaker 4: Certainly was.
Speaker 1: I love this? This is great. We've got to have
Speaker 1: stephann't coming down. So he's already in practice, right, he's
Speaker 1: already clearing seventy meters.
Speaker 4: Yep, with his racket and some new balls.
Speaker 3: The way we go?
Speaker 2: Is he doing a run up serve?
Speaker 4: He takes thee four or five steps and then a
Speaker 4: big four hand.
Speaker 1: Okay, is amazing. Do you know I feel sorry for
Speaker 1: dog walkers in that park?
Speaker 2: What some guys smashing malls.
Speaker 1: From the other suburb just coming over houses. This is incredible. Well, listen,
Speaker 1: you've got to bring Stephan down.
Speaker 4: Fantastic, Thank you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, please send us video this week of the next
Speaker 1: training session as well. I just want to see what
Speaker 1: that looks like local parks. All right, Gary, good luck,
Speaker 1: and we look forward to meeting you and Stephan next week.
Speaker 1: It's got a John here, come on in, John, Oh good,
Speaker 1: I here you going? I'm good? John? So do you
Speaker 1: fancy coming down or are you bringing someone along?
Speaker 3: Definitely myself, So I pretended to be a baseball player
Speaker 3: for a long time and I've probably played about six
Speaker 3: games of tennis in my life. No prep, no man
Speaker 3: Everest for me, but you know I'll give it a crack.
Speaker 1: Well, do you know what the guy who dug who
Speaker 1: first spoke to us, You know he's been training Sherpas
Speaker 1: to hit them off Mount Us. He said this could
Speaker 1: be won by a kind of happy Gilmore, someone just
Speaker 1: rocking up on the day, a happy serve More.
Speaker 3: Well, look
Speaker 1: Frogs, Yeah no, I We'll see you down