Speaker 1: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
Speaker 2: We're all good? Did you need to clap? You have clapps?
Speaker 2: All this shit has happened and I've been oblivious.
Speaker 3: Hello, Mike, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Should be.
Speaker 3: The stuff the way.
Speaker 2: Speaking of superstars, we have the icon, the man, the myth, legend,
Speaker 2: the legend of the What else did you ask us
Speaker 2: to call you before?
Speaker 4: I would say some of the best hair about industry.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that, but I'd like to think I've got
Speaker 1: one of the best slash back ends in the non
Speaker 1: professional circuit.
Speaker 2: Trying it is Dave here.
Speaker 1: Great to be here with two of my nemesis.
Speaker 2: We are nemesises because not only did you knock Lizzie
Speaker 2: who out of the one point slam ruthlessly I dream.
Speaker 3: About it three am. I wake up.
Speaker 1: Well, I wasn't happy with her action to that that
Speaker 1: wonderful serve that I put in so and you hit
Speaker 1: the ball basically out of the stadium I did. And
Speaker 1: you blame my week service.
Speaker 3: As out of your little bitch if.
Speaker 1: You don't know about the one point slam that was
Speaker 1: you had to win one point and I selflessly decided
Speaker 1: to serve because I knew how nerve wracking. It would
Speaker 1: be for you to serve.
Speaker 3: Ah usy, what a nice.
Speaker 1: But I wanted to get my first one in because
Speaker 1: I didn't want to have to you know, that second
Speaker 1: one would have been really nervous for me. So I
Speaker 1: took a bit off it. But you couldn't handle it.
Speaker 3: I couldn't handle it. It caught me off guard.
Speaker 4: I was running shuffling, yes, and then I hit it
Speaker 4: too hard and it went out and got through.
Speaker 1: She could have graciously accepted the feet, but no, she
Speaker 1: went on the attack.
Speaker 2: Well do you remember Adam Hills was telling us all
Speaker 2: he's been like like thinking about the best strategy for weeks.
Speaker 3: I appreciated a coach.
Speaker 2: He had a coach and he was gone, you have
Speaker 2: to serve. He's like, I thought about it. I've been
Speaker 2: thinking about this for weeks. You have to serve. Whatever
Speaker 2: you do, take the serve. We got two chances. The
Speaker 2: pros only got one right and then he double faulted.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that hurt. There was something that he foot folded
Speaker 1: as well. And if you don't get Adam only has
Speaker 1: one foot, so so the footfold someone who only has
Speaker 1: one foot is hard. But it was a computer generated
Speaker 1: isn't it now everything even when we played then it
Speaker 1: was is the computer says no.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, a footfall on a guy with one foot
Speaker 2: is absolutely brutal. And because then he ran up and
Speaker 2: made a joke on the microphone about it and then
Speaker 2: ran back to the second serve and missed it.
Speaker 1: You know that I once played Adam in forty two
Speaker 1: degree heat in Melbourne and his plastic foot snapped during
Speaker 1: the game. And we went to and he didn't have
Speaker 1: a spare foot, so and we went to and the
Speaker 1: guys running the courts in albert Punk wouldn't give us
Speaker 1: our money back because I thought he was joking that
Speaker 1: he foot for your comedians. No, you paid, so we
Speaker 1: didn't even get money back. Well, he didn't get his
Speaker 1: money back.
Speaker 2: So it was tough, hot, like whatever the foot's made
Speaker 2: out of melted, melted, and then just snapped off. So
Speaker 2: that's good advice for any young players. Always bring a
Speaker 2: spare foot.
Speaker 1: Yes, and yeah, but I'd like to think that we're
Speaker 1: so hard that we'll play, you know, I'll play in
Speaker 1: forty degrees no worries. Really, middle of the day, middle
Speaker 1: of the day, full sun.
Speaker 3: You were your fact to fifty look.
Speaker 1: At my skin's already gone. Basically every every three months
Speaker 1: I have to go in for surgery to get like
Speaker 1: five spots cut off me and then I can't play tennis.
Speaker 4: From then you play in the middle of the day
Speaker 4: and I get it, yeah, undercover and get him under cover.
Speaker 2: So not only did you knock Lizzie who out of
Speaker 2: the one point swam we play, we played pretty consistently
Speaker 2: over the past five or six years or maybe the longer.
Speaker 1: You guys, that's really good because because Mike told me
Speaker 1: that and I forget stuff. But we went to the
Speaker 1: Australian Open final together, you said, And that was like
Speaker 1: twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: Twenty twenty, so it was right before the big as
Speaker 2: was it called the plandemic, before the plan happened. That
Speaker 2: we went and saw Dominic team pushed Novak Djokovic to
Speaker 2: five sets. Yeah lose, and it was an amazing match.
Speaker 2: We're sitting right behind Rod Labor from Amory.
Speaker 1: I've had some great moments that the Australian Open finals
Speaker 1: once once was on the you know those seats that
Speaker 1: are on the court, those like lounge seats almost like yeah, yes, yeah.
Speaker 1: One year, the first year they introduced those seats. They
Speaker 1: let me, They invited me, and which doesn't happen that
Speaker 1: often anymore, but it happened then where I got invited
Speaker 1: to sit in those seats and I look beside me
Speaker 1: and I'm sitting next to Will Ferrell. Wow, so I'm
Speaker 1: right beside Will Ferrell and that was exciting. So I
Speaker 1: loved it. Yeah. Well, actually he said a load to
Speaker 1: me as well, because we'd met on Rove a few
Speaker 1: years before, maybe many before the TV show Rove, and
Speaker 1: he remembered me, and so we had a really good chat.
Speaker 1: And then he had to interview Roger Federer after the game.
Speaker 1: He said, I'm a bit nervous about it. I said,
Speaker 1: you've got this, well, you're gonna be okay, and he went,
Speaker 1: and so he wanted to do so I picked him.
Speaker 3: Up to interview Roger girls hype girl.
Speaker 1: I was. But that the end of that that tournament,
Speaker 1: they couldn't sell the seats for the final, and I
Speaker 1: just was desperate. It was Feeder versus Nadal in the
Speaker 1: final and they hadn't happened for years, and event I
Speaker 1: was trying to get a seat to the game, to
Speaker 1: the match, I couldn't get one, and eventually that was
Speaker 1: the only seats left with those ones at the front.
Speaker 1: So I paid for two secs much a lot, a lot.
Speaker 3: It was thousands tens of that.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, at least.
Speaker 2: Ten those seats because now like they just put influencers
Speaker 2: in them, and I always looked down and I'm like,
Speaker 2: that person does not give a shouts influencers number.
Speaker 1: I bought the seats and a mate came with me.
Speaker 1: I gave the free ticket to and he was late,
Speaker 1: but we watched a Federer beaten Nadal in five sets,
Speaker 1: and we were the first ones, me and my mate Starks,
Speaker 1: were the first ones to congratulate Roger like he looked
Speaker 1: at us and well because his family weren't there that
Speaker 1: year for whatever reason, he looked at us and we were.
Speaker 1: We were we were Roger's team main star.
Speaker 2: There's a picture, isn't that?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 1: Posted of me, me and my mate Starks and just
Speaker 1: look actually there's one of just me and Roger just
Speaker 1: it's like a selfie. He's on court, but he's smiling.
Speaker 1: He knows photo.
Speaker 2: Federer, when's another grand slam in his first picture?
Speaker 1: Is it's wonderful? Picture wonderful?
Speaker 2: I mean, you are like a huge tennis fan. Obviously
Speaker 2: you was the how many finals have you actually been
Speaker 2: to Pepes? Was that fetter and a doll one the best?
Speaker 1: There was some great some Djokovic. I think Djokovic played
Speaker 1: when that went like for like eight hours or seven hours.
Speaker 1: It was middle of the night, and I was doing
Speaker 1: breakfast radio at the time. I almost went straight from
Speaker 1: the game to my job. So that was extraordinary. I
Speaker 1: saw Djokovic's first win in a final against someone, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: And I saw with my mom, who loved tennis as well,
Speaker 1: my dear rest her soul. But she I've took han
Speaker 1: heard of many tennis matches. Yeah, I've seen a hate.
Speaker 2: Where was mom on the list?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: Was she like third? Did you ask a few other people?
Speaker 1: Mom was always hirst if she wanted to come, So yeah,
Speaker 1: sometimes she couldn't be bothered. But yes, so we did see.
Speaker 1: We had some great tennis matches.
Speaker 3: Tennis player.
Speaker 1: She wasn't a planer, n She's sport lovers. That's why
Speaker 1: I got my love of sport, not from my dad really,
Speaker 1: but from my mom. So she was absolutely calm.
Speaker 2: I'm jealous of that that Djokovic and Adall. I want
Speaker 2: to say twenty twelve. Was that six hour plus final
Speaker 2: incredible to me, one of the all time up there
Speaker 2: Slam finals as well.
Speaker 1: So yeah, Jogovic and a dal because they both were
Speaker 1: baseliners and the points went long, so yeah they were.
Speaker 1: It was just unbelievably fit a couple of athletes.
Speaker 2: Crowd behind the doll, but Djokovic took it out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so Jogovic often doesn't have the crowd with him,
Speaker 1: but I'm a Jokovic fan, but no.
Speaker 2: He does, he does. Yes, the old boy thirty eight
Speaker 2: years old, these showing up.
Speaker 3: I have to respect the guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a time, especially in Australia, I was
Speaker 1: probably around the pan playing Jemmy or whatever. We got
Speaker 1: where where he didn't want to get in the facts whatever,
Speaker 1: but there we go. But actually and people thought he
Speaker 1: was arrogant and whatever. But I once I was downstairs
Speaker 1: after a match and again they said do you want
Speaker 1: to left hont I'm like, yeah, I'll go in one
Speaker 1: of those, you know, one of the key cars. So
Speaker 1: I got a left him in one of those key cards,
Speaker 1: which if you live in Melbourne you see them around
Speaker 1: generally just tennis playground for the whole tournament and the
Speaker 1: older lady who was driving. I said to her if
Speaker 1: he had any one famous in the car. He goes, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: all of them. I said, who do you? She said,
Speaker 1: I love Djokovic. She said that he had won the
Speaker 1: tournament maybe the year before, and she was lucky enough
Speaker 1: to drive him and his mates home or around Melbourne.
Speaker 1: She said he was the nicest guy, just the bloody
Speaker 1: She said, he's a real gentleman and didn't have to
Speaker 1: be anyway. That's and for any Drogovic haters, just that
Speaker 1: story really made me think, oh, he must be a
Speaker 1: nice guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah great. And then because you grew up playing like
Speaker 2: I actually don't know your history with the sports.
Speaker 1: I loved it. I never played like I never really
Speaker 1: played in tournaments. But there was an Ashvelt court on
Speaker 1: the tech school near my house and me and my
Speaker 1: cousin Joe would play all the time all summer, would
Speaker 1: play tennis, so tennis and cricket so Bashfeld bitch.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. It was not a good court with holes and
Speaker 1: it was free and yeah, so we had a we
Speaker 1: had an epic matches like me and Goldstein's matches. Basically,
Speaker 1: we do have some battles, yes, yeah, my cousin Joe.
Speaker 1: He would the tactic would if you were you know,
Speaker 1: if the other guy was on a bit of a
Speaker 1: had momentum. You just throw your racket over the fence
Speaker 1: as far wis you can so you can take time
Speaker 1: to go get it. Like your thoughts.
Speaker 2: That's interesting. I noticed a lot of like shoe tying.
Speaker 2: When I seem to have a bit of a lead.
Speaker 1: Time to breathe, he just goes and.
Speaker 3: Goes playing the age card.
Speaker 1: I haven't been fitness, but lately I feel he's got fitter,
Speaker 1: even though he doesn't look like he has.
Speaker 2: I have a tubby bitch.
Speaker 1: Wedding.
Speaker 3: Yeah he did.
Speaker 2: That's probably when I was playing my best.
Speaker 3: Blame man, what's happened?
Speaker 1: She's fattening him up?
Speaker 2: So was wanting exactly. So the French Open's coming up,
Speaker 2: like your tennis watching as a spectator, are you watching
Speaker 2: like the thousand events or just.
Speaker 1: Coming out like generally just watch an Australians playing. I
Speaker 1: watched some are patriots, So I treat all the Australian
Speaker 1: players like that my children. So yeah, did you hear?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: If any listening, yeah you're listening. But you can get
Speaker 1: my will if you call him the lessons I'm not
Speaker 1: put in the world. Not that I'm sure you make
Speaker 1: money yourself, but it's not easy. Some of those players
Speaker 1: don't make money, much money. Years ago he was I
Speaker 1: think it was number one hundred in the world and
Speaker 1: barely scraping by imagine, if you're the hundreds of most
Speaker 1: successful accounting in the world, you're doing okay, hundredth comedian, yeah,
Speaker 1: one hundred tennis players on the on the breadline.
Speaker 3: It's crazy.
Speaker 1: They're trying to improve that, I think, but.
Speaker 2: They are trying to improve it. There is a great book,
Speaker 2: I think I brought it up before, called The Racket,
Speaker 2: and it's all about the players on the Challenger Tour
Speaker 2: and the Future's Tour, and it's like it's comparable to
Speaker 2: comedy because a lot of them are just kind of
Speaker 2: scraping by going from city to.
Speaker 1: City, living in the car car.
Speaker 2: That's stuff. And it's fascinating because the guy who wrote
Speaker 2: the book was playing in the air of the Big Three. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so he's, you know, occasionally in the same circles as them,
Speaker 2: and you're just seeing someone it's you know, like when
Speaker 2: I see you backstage at a it's like me, you know,
Speaker 2: just struggling and then all of a sudden, the icon
Speaker 2: the myth.
Speaker 1: But I'm backstaged all those gigs, you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we love and respect I mean the trenches the
Speaker 4: whole time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not about the money for me. Luckily You've
Speaker 1: had made some good investments anyway, you never know, they
Speaker 1: can go pair shape. The world's changing.
Speaker 2: So Australian players are like your children. Raffa is your boy? Right?
Speaker 2: Is your boy named Rauffa?
Speaker 1: Raffiti?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 1: I want to go in Rafael, but I mean I'm
Speaker 1: Irish background, so Raphael Huges but is raffiti? So yeah,
Speaker 1: so Rafa. But it wasn't really over Rafa Adar. I
Speaker 1: love Raffas, but yeah, I'm I love. My first Australian
Speaker 1: Open finals I went to was the nineteen eighty six
Speaker 1: finals where Pat Cash and I was the legend, played
Speaker 1: Stephan Edberger, Swedish legend, and it was five sets. It
Speaker 1: was the last, the last Grand Slam played actor Kuyon
Speaker 1: on grass before they moved to where we are now
Speaker 1: at Melbourne Park and so and it was an extraordinary
Speaker 1: match but Edinburgh won. That hurt me. I was I
Speaker 1: was fifteen or sixteen at the time. And I was.
Speaker 1: I did not grow up with any you know, my
Speaker 1: parents were working class and they looked after us, but
Speaker 1: we didn't have money for I got enough money working
Speaker 1: a part time job at Woolworth to go to the
Speaker 1: Australian Open Final. That's how the world has changed. I
Speaker 1: think now to get the austrain Open Final, you'd have
Speaker 1: to work probably full time at Woolies for four years.
Speaker 3: You have to be Dave us now still struggle.
Speaker 1: Yeah, back in the day, but yeah, Coo Young was
Speaker 1: a it was a greatble.
Speaker 4: Have you ever have your kids ever tried tennis? Did
Speaker 4: you force it on?
Speaker 1: My daughter played tennis at school last year, but she's yeah,
Speaker 1: it wasn't not a ball going in. And I'm keen
Speaker 1: for them because racket sports, they say the best thing
Speaker 1: for your brain. Really, yes, you want to live a
Speaker 1: long time tennis that tennis players live longer than anyone else.
Speaker 2: I've heard this before. The split second decision making and all.
Speaker 1: The decisions you've got to make when you're playing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it keeps your brain. And then it's the
Speaker 2: obviously lateral movement, short bursts of movement. It's like fitness wise,
Speaker 2: it's just gonna cardiovascularly keep you healthy forever.
Speaker 1: And the social aspect as well. But tennis players in
Speaker 1: general apparently lived nine years longer than any other.
Speaker 2: Sport socially though. I mean, when we play us, you
Speaker 2: don't say a word to me the whole you don't
Speaker 2: even look me in the eye.
Speaker 3: Got about at the start, like, hey, how you going
Speaker 3: to start?
Speaker 1: We'll have a bit early on, and then afterwards we played,
Speaker 1: but I don't want to get distracted focus.
Speaker 2: He has a method. He'll tell me if I'm winning,
Speaker 2: how well I'm playing, or like compliment my forehand or something.
Speaker 2: So because he knows that I'm weak on that chart.
Speaker 1: And I played a guy the other I play another
Speaker 1: guy play quite regularly. He's got his own court, so
Speaker 1: I go to his house. But he has a ball
Speaker 1: toss that can go anywhere, like it'll just like it'll
Speaker 1: take four or five throws in the air. And I
Speaker 1: sort of gently mocked his ball toss one day, but
Speaker 1: then he locked in from that moment. And so you
Speaker 1: don't mock the player you're playing. Compliment them, but don't
Speaker 1: don't sledge them, because it can really become fuel for them.
Speaker 2: Compliments are worse.
Speaker 1: I know, absolutely so compliment away, but do not mock
Speaker 1: them because they no, no, no.
Speaker 2: No, I won't mock my if he compliments me and
Speaker 2: then I start missing that shot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean it's what it is. You know
Speaker 1: what I've decided that last time we're playing, which helped me.
Speaker 1: In between points, you don't have to focus. I was
Speaker 1: focusing too much.
Speaker 3: You get Yeah, bring that playfulness.
Speaker 1: Yeah only lot for the last couple of seconds, but
Speaker 1: in between, just just let your mind relax. That was
Speaker 1: the latest thing that in our last game that helped me.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to bring that back.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I I even call myself, you know, a mental
Speaker 2: Can you say, a mental little person.
Speaker 3: On the golf course. Oh, I'm so bad at this.
Speaker 4: I'm like, you haven't played pages and fine, so what
Speaker 4: are you talking about?
Speaker 1: His own worst enemy? You got to get in your
Speaker 1: own corner. Helps as a Whitney once sun or the
Speaker 1: greatest love of all learning to love yourself.
Speaker 3: That's beautiful.
Speaker 2: But I get in my own head a bit. I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, there's so much sports psychology, especially tied up
Speaker 2: with because the score can be ruthless. And last time
Speaker 2: we played, I think I was up five to three.
Speaker 2: I had a bunch of set points, couldn't convert, double
Speaker 2: faulted on one of them, and then I was just
Speaker 2: kind of ruined. He locked in, started playing consistent, and
Speaker 2: I was just done. It's just all it takes if
Speaker 2: you can't convert a set point or match point.
Speaker 4: Even worse, he's his best day of his life. He's
Speaker 4: going to replay this episode over and over.
Speaker 3: Just this little sound.
Speaker 1: But I was so as a kid that I was
Speaker 1: so nervous, and I was so like, I was so
Speaker 1: self obsessed. I only played one tournament in my whole childhood,
Speaker 1: and I loved the game. And it was called the
Speaker 1: Schoolboys Down and Warnable, my hometown schoolboys tournament, and I
Speaker 1: played my first round was against a kid who I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna lie. His parents owned a fish and chip shop,
Speaker 1: and he was It was the most I believe, and
Speaker 1: I'm not being mean, but probably the most overweight kid
Speaker 1: and warnable and and but I was so nervous. I
Speaker 1: couldn't get a serving serving and I couldn't do so
Speaker 1: he beat me, and I remember in my big I'm crying.
Speaker 3: That was it.
Speaker 1: I'm a loser and never played another official match again.
Speaker 1: That's terrible.
Speaker 2: Where is he now though you know relation, maybe he's
Speaker 2: well if you say the Aussie players feel like kids,
Speaker 2: do you I mean, who do you like at the moment?
Speaker 2: Who do you think is like actually going to get
Speaker 2: to the second week of the French I.
Speaker 1: Mean, I love I love the demon, but I just
Speaker 1: wish you could get over the line against the top players,
Speaker 1: you know, So, yes, it would be great to get
Speaker 1: to get into a semi would be good. Now we
Speaker 1: got to a semi yet, I.
Speaker 2: Ye, quarters, I think just quarters. Well, he's having a
Speaker 2: rough season. And do you think it's because he's planning
Speaker 2: a wedding with Katie Balter?
Speaker 3: Is that you've had a wedding.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a lot of pressure on the guys, no doubt,
Speaker 1: because you get a question, you can asked questions you
Speaker 1: don't even know what they mean. I remember that wedding
Speaker 1: off because what do you want to do about Bonbonieri?
Speaker 1: And so I didn't know we had any French friends.
Speaker 1: He wants what about table runners. I'm like, I don't
Speaker 1: know it is Kathy Freeman available? These are all questions
Speaker 1: about the reception and stuff. I didn't understand.
Speaker 3: There's a lot going on. I mean, you've had a wedding,
Speaker 3: had a wedding.
Speaker 2: But I just outsourced my wife just planned everything.
Speaker 3: Yeah outsoist to your wife.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I'm not making decisions like I think I
Speaker 2: found the best method. Would you if she presented me
Speaker 2: with a decision about like a centerpiece on the table
Speaker 2: or whatever, you just go, oh, yeah, I see what
Speaker 2: you're looking at here, And I think you're correct.
Speaker 1: You've got to focus enough you're actually thinking about. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what I didn't do. I didn't lose weight
Speaker 1: for my wedding like mine did, so yeah, I was
Speaker 1: actually put on weight. So my wife was disappointed. But
Speaker 1: you know, but now we can look back on my
Speaker 1: wedding photos and I don't look like I've let myself go.
Speaker 1: So actually, I.
Speaker 3: Mean it was only last year.
Speaker 2: Am I the fattest kid and mortable at the moment?
Speaker 1: Such a relafe to bat you last time? So I
Speaker 1: can beat the fattest kid.
Speaker 4: No, I haven't noticed, Jeu, And I'm going back to
Speaker 4: the States.
Speaker 2: I'm only going to.
Speaker 1: Get fat, big serving serving. I've never been in the
Speaker 1: US open is that fun?
Speaker 2: I love it. I mean, my sister lives in Queens,
Speaker 2: so it's just like one subway stop down to where
Speaker 2: the grounds are and it's uh, it's look for me.
Speaker 2: The Australian Open is way better facilities by more of
Speaker 2: a party vibe, but the US is like old grounds.
Speaker 2: It's kind of this uh sterile just concrete slabs, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean. It just doesn't look as aesthetic
Speaker 2: or nice as the AO. Wimbledon obviously has the history
Speaker 2: and the tradition.
Speaker 1: And I went for the first time last year.
Speaker 2: It was amazing worth it right, like.
Speaker 1: Absolutely and we had to pay you for the tickets
Speaker 1: to thank god that my wife and daughters wanted to
Speaker 1: go to the Harry Potter Museum instead.
Speaker 3: So oh so you went to Wimbledon just with my son,
Speaker 3: So yeah, that is a win.
Speaker 1: There was a win for everyone. So yeah, but it
Speaker 1: was it's smaller than you think.
Speaker 3: It is tiny, it's quite compact.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's just no more space and it does feel yeah, oldie,
Speaker 1: it feels old, real old school, but.
Speaker 3: You're just doing the outer court.
Speaker 1: No, we did get we bought tickets for the main
Speaker 1: you had to basically because there was no there was
Speaker 1: no like in austral Open, which is great. You can
Speaker 1: turn up you know, on the on the day mostly
Speaker 1: and buy like a ground pas. You can't do it
Speaker 1: over there. It's it's ballots and stuff. So but so
Speaker 1: we had to buy tickets to one of the main courts,
Speaker 1: but we did go to on an outside court to
Speaker 1: see in Australia played Jordan Thompson and yeah, it became
Speaker 1: a news story. But it was like three rows of
Speaker 1: seeding up and you can look this up. Three roads
Speaker 1: of seeding. I think it's a third round maybe, So
Speaker 1: he's playing a Frenchman and so the winner was like
Speaker 1: what they win two hundred and fifty pounds and for
Speaker 1: those guys that is a lot of money. He's not broke,
Speaker 1: but it's still they're not number one players. So and
Speaker 1: Layton Hill was on the other side of the court
Speaker 1: cheering him on. And but then it's one in, one
Speaker 1: out for those courts, so you just got to line
Speaker 1: up and when someone leaves you get to just sit there.
Speaker 1: So three rows of seating and we're in the second round.
Speaker 1: There's guy two English guys sat behind us. In the
Speaker 1: last set. It's the five set. It was an epic
Speaker 1: match and they just started having the loudest conversation like
Speaker 1: they were down at the boozer. They were not interested
Speaker 1: in the.
Speaker 3: Game, and what was it about? Do you remember?
Speaker 1: Just I don't know their own lives, but it was
Speaker 1: loud and like Jordan Doms is like five meters away
Speaker 1: from a serving. I'm like, guys, my son, actually, sid
Speaker 1: you're going to tell them to shut up. I'm like,
Speaker 1: my son's like six seven. I said, why don't you
Speaker 1: tell me? But he said it's not my role. So
Speaker 1: I eventually did time to shut up. And with English bloke,
Speaker 1: big English bloke.
Speaker 2: You went straight to shut up or do you Was
Speaker 2: it a shoe?
Speaker 1: No, it wasn't. I wasn't that aggressive. Actually he was aggressive.
Speaker 3: You do a few look back, So.
Speaker 1: I just didn't and that wasn't helping. So I said,
Speaker 1: can we just just keep the noise down? We're trying
Speaker 1: to watch match, and this guy's things goes. He really's
Speaker 1: got really aggressive at me, like no one had ever
Speaker 1: time to sharp his entire life. He said, who are you?
Speaker 1: Obviously didn't recognize the comedy stylings dabies, He said, are
Speaker 1: you little Hitler? He called me a little hitler. You've
Speaker 1: offended because I googled and Hitler's on like three centimes
Speaker 1: tall and Hitler. I said, I'm big Hitler to you
Speaker 1: mates so much nice.
Speaker 2: I thought you were going to say I had to
Speaker 2: google Hitler and not.
Speaker 1: A good about that. So but yes, anyways, so he
Speaker 1: did shut up and thank god, and Jordan Thompson won
Speaker 1: the match, and then people around has got photos with
Speaker 1: me after the match and.
Speaker 2: Popular and so you thought it was going to come
Speaker 2: the fisticuffs.
Speaker 1: It was a little bit nerve wracking. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1: So but as soon as the match happened, I went
Speaker 1: on Instagram and told the story and I became a
Speaker 1: news story about in Australia, which I was very happy.
Speaker 2: About, right news dot com dot.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's still man, they ran with it and yeah,
Speaker 1: so I was happy with that. So but yeah, but
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously it's stand up comedy. Want people to shop,
Speaker 1: don't we so annoying?
Speaker 4: But you can't talk during Some people think they can,
Speaker 4: oh yeah, when they're drunk, especially drunk.
Speaker 3: Women probably the worst.
Speaker 4: So many what ones, they're the ones that you gotta
Speaker 4: be careful.
Speaker 2: Here's kind of the big question we've been It's obviously
Speaker 2: the huge news of the year. Alcoriz is out with
Speaker 2: an injury going into the French so center, it's just
Speaker 2: looking like a cakewalk for him. Do you think men's
Speaker 2: tennis is not as good because of the dominance of
Speaker 2: one guy at the moment?
Speaker 1: Well, it's it's interesting, isn't it, Because obviously in women's
Speaker 1: tennis there's just there's no one dominant, so no one
Speaker 1: really gets to stand out as much you can, because
Speaker 1: that's sort of they share it around a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Sabalanca, Rebecca and looking like the big
Speaker 2: two over there, but then it's like a slim it's
Speaker 2: it's kind of a handful of women that kind of
Speaker 2: pushed through. So yeah, but it's harder to predict for sure.
Speaker 1: But it is a weird one because when people come
Speaker 1: they want to see the big stars, don't they. So
Speaker 1: and if if all the results are random, well there's
Speaker 1: really no big star to or degree. But when you
Speaker 1: do go watch a match, you want to think that
Speaker 1: both can win. So yeah, I don't know, but obviously
Speaker 1: we want some unless he was Australian. If Sinner was Australian,
Speaker 1: we hope that everyone else was injured and he got
Speaker 1: to play against you know, people rank four hundred in
Speaker 1: the world, so that we could all feel great about
Speaker 1: well I could. I mean, you're American, but I'm both
Speaker 1: come on, all right, I'm by all right game, I
Speaker 1: was playing Shelton. Who do you go for?
Speaker 3: You go for shelter, Shelter.
Speaker 1: So yeah, let's hope that Sinner does have some rung.
Speaker 2: But if Trump and Elbow they got in a boxing ring,
Speaker 2: I want Albow.
Speaker 3: I don't know if he could.
Speaker 2: No, I watched the ship out of that that would
Speaker 2: be amazing.
Speaker 1: And then yes, so that would be amazing. We forget
Speaker 1: the Trump's about ninety seven years old.
Speaker 4: He's like she's eighty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's got some beef on him though. He's
Speaker 2: a big boy. Have you seen the picture of him
Speaker 2: playing tennis where he's just got the most gigantic ass
Speaker 2: you've ever seen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you have large drawers, so they called drawers large
Speaker 1: yead grandma?
Speaker 2: And so who do you like for the French? Then
Speaker 2: on the women's and the men's.
Speaker 1: Well, well, I mean sab is hard. She is actually
Speaker 1: very good. How many she won now she got off
Speaker 1: five is what I mean. I know it's were a
Speaker 1: few years down the track, but ash party getting bored
Speaker 1: with being a mother.
Speaker 2: Get her back.
Speaker 1: She can afford the child care. Come on, that really
Speaker 1: annoyed me because she's so good and she just like
Speaker 1: just got to the peak. Really, Oh god, you see
Speaker 1: doing ads and you think you don't need to do
Speaker 1: these ads, you just need to win some tournaments. Go back,
Speaker 1: surely you're sick of doing.
Speaker 2: Come on, abandoned your young family.
Speaker 1: Come on, she was given us so much joy and.
Speaker 3: Then she just.
Speaker 1: Pulled the pin.
Speaker 2: I bet you could get the CEO of Channel nine
Speaker 2: to like cut off a leg to get ash party
Speaker 2: back and there.
Speaker 1: That must have been so sad when she retired. Come on, Brady,
Speaker 1: with her winning straight over over the off track.
Speaker 4: I've read because of her coach, her mental coach, Ben Crow. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 4: have you read any of his books?
Speaker 1: Well, I know that he coached also Dusty Martin, who's
Speaker 1: in the NFL Star who got three Best on Grounds
Speaker 1: and three Grand Finals, which is.
Speaker 4: He's pretty incredible. But you you read the book and
Speaker 4: you're like, oh, yeah, I'm going to quit. I'm going
Speaker 4: to quit whatever I'm doing and focus on my life.
Speaker 4: It's all about like, yeah, doing what you want to
Speaker 4: do as a human. It changes your perspective on what
Speaker 4: you're doing. And I guess Ash was like just just
Speaker 4: doing tennis and keep going and like winning, and she's like,
Speaker 4: is this going to make me happier if I win.
Speaker 3: Any more Grand Slams? And she's like, I don't.
Speaker 1: Think it would, but would have made me happy.
Speaker 3: It would have made the country.
Speaker 1: There's millions of Australian sports fans who every time in
Speaker 1: Australian wins anything, I just get an adrenaline rush, you know,
Speaker 1: I get a dopamine.
Speaker 4: Weren't you playing tennis with Russell? Yes?
Speaker 1: I thank you for that. Yes, just be careful if
Speaker 1: you're on Russell Crow's side, if you're like playing doubles
Speaker 1: with Russell and you're his partner, you get blamed.
Speaker 4: If you're ever in that situation where you're playing clubs
Speaker 4: in Sydney.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, so yeah if you yeah, if
Speaker 1: the balls in the middle of between you and neither
Speaker 1: of you get it, it will be your fault. So
Speaker 1: even though you want to say, Russell, that was close
Speaker 1: to you, but you don't say that because you're scared.
Speaker 2: Because imagine Maximus is because he missed a volley, was.
Speaker 1: Playing with Russell once in Sydney and then someone walked
Speaker 1: past the court and just recognized me and not him.
Speaker 1: He had a big bead. I think he's playing Zeus
Speaker 1: in like one of the thor movies. But yes, so
Speaker 1: he didn't. And they're talking to me and I'm like,
Speaker 1: that's oh my god, yes, talk to him to.
Speaker 3: Me, Oh yeah, you would have got in trouble.
Speaker 2: I am a chubby bitch. Chubby bitch, chubby bitch.
Speaker 4: I consume tennis a lot. On socials, it's very good.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of craziness that happens. And I've got
Speaker 4: a new segment called Approaching the Net, which I'm famous for,
Speaker 4: and I'm going to bring.
Speaker 2: Up some say the name of the segment again, it Approaching.
Speaker 4: The Net, And I'm going to just show you a
Speaker 4: couple of my favorite social videos from the week. This
Speaker 4: is my Taylor Fritz, who you called Taylor Swift earlier.
Speaker 1: Yeah, did you pick him up on it?
Speaker 3: No, I just let it slide that.
Speaker 2: Taylor Fritz render Kanish match. Taylor slipped eventually coming out
Speaker 2: on top.
Speaker 4: You went back to Fritz, but you went I was like,
Speaker 4: it happens out, But we've got to meet the renaissance,
Speaker 4: some sort of renaissance fair.
Speaker 2: It's all over America.
Speaker 3: So I grew up with these with the Renaissance fair.
Speaker 2: Once a year you go to a Renaissance fair and
Speaker 2: you watch it's this old timey event and everyone dresses
Speaker 2: medieval and you watch people joust.
Speaker 1: We have been kryle Castle and Victoria.
Speaker 2: It sounds similar and like it's this. It's like Carneiefolk,
Speaker 2: but they dress up medieval and like, you know, there's
Speaker 2: like a guy and stocks that you throw tomatoes at.
Speaker 4: And he's a little bit of a nerd. Right, he's
Speaker 4: a big game of this guy. But he's in he's
Speaker 4: recently single.
Speaker 1: Did he have that glamorous girlfriend? Didn't he?
Speaker 2: Morgan Riddle?
Speaker 1: Was she an actor?
Speaker 3: In even worse?
Speaker 4: And he's got this like V neck lace up nod
Speaker 4: to medieval cature, but also a really weird diamond necklace.
Speaker 2: This tells me he's taking the break up pretty hard.
Speaker 2: To cry for help, Yeah, I mean sless medieval.
Speaker 1: Mate, it's a first trap. He's absolutely he's he DMS
Speaker 1: would have blown up after that. He's like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: look at May and then he's about four million high Taylor, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's it all right.
Speaker 2: You don't like it, absolutely not? I hate it, right,
Speaker 2: I mean, the thing is, he is a honky dude,
Speaker 2: but it's just a bizarre pivot to go to the
Speaker 2: Renaissance Fair seemingly alone.
Speaker 4: I reckon he had friends, then the.
Speaker 3: Muscle shirt, the lace up.
Speaker 2: Where does this put him going into the French? Do
Speaker 2: you think you're worried more about his prospects or not?
Speaker 1: Good? I think he's younger. I think he's going to
Speaker 1: be better.
Speaker 4: Not less distractions obviously, like before you break up with someone.
Speaker 4: I don't know who broke up with her, but it weighs.
Speaker 3: On your mind.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's probably make this free and easier while he's
Speaker 4: at the Renaissance Fair, so he's kind of free trying
Speaker 4: to I don't think she would have gone to Hessance.
Speaker 2: No, no, he's there trying to pick up a new one. Yes,
Speaker 2: he's on a one hunt.
Speaker 3: Good luck to him. We love you, Taylor Swift.
Speaker 4: All right, My next one is oh, okay, yes, okay,
Speaker 4: this is crazy. This happened overnight al Crez whilst he's injured.
Speaker 4: He's done a Vanity Fair cover, and to be honest,
Speaker 4: the cover looks quite tasteful.
Speaker 2: So that's not the cover shot.
Speaker 1: That's the sealed section. I think that one.
Speaker 3: I mean, gorgeous, but so awkward.
Speaker 1: My god, it's so funny, all right, that is it's crazy.
Speaker 4: So he's done this Vanity Fair cover shoot and the
Speaker 4: cover's great, the cover looks good, but the BTS that's
Speaker 4: been going.
Speaker 3: Around on socials is insane.
Speaker 2: It's just like spreading dirt on him.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they've really taken advantage of him. I don't
Speaker 3: know they have.
Speaker 1: He would have gone in and knowing that was going
Speaker 1: to happen. It happens by degrees.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but there's been a social media manager in the
Speaker 4: corner just shooting this BTS and this guy's algoraz is like,
Speaker 4: I don't not even noticing this person, and then the
Speaker 4: footage that's come out as so funny. But then I
Speaker 4: read the article. Can I just read you the first
Speaker 4: paragraph of this Vanity Fair article about one of the
Speaker 4: world's best tennis players. We're watching our Koraz roll around
Speaker 4: a brick orange clay, but we're not watching him play tennis.
Speaker 4: There's some of it on his face, around his thick
Speaker 4: eyebrows and sprinkled above his lips. It's slightly dusted of
Speaker 4: his freshly trimmed beard, and his hair longer than usual,
Speaker 4: a little disheveled. It's all over his clothing too, a
Speaker 4: Louis vertungue tank top that he'll occasionally let slide up
Speaker 4: his trute abdomen. Some Nike Jim shorts in brackets six
Speaker 4: inches in seam in case you're wondering, close bracket. Yes,
Speaker 4: that off for a glimpse at his tan line and
Speaker 4: his personal Rolex watch. Al Koraz, like many athletes of
Speaker 4: his stature, has lucrative apparel contracts. In his case with
Speaker 4: those brands, he's not quite a style art con though
Speaker 4: he has his fascinations, like wearing zany highlighted colored looks
Speaker 4: on the court. And he's three hundred plus strong sneak
Speaker 4: a collection, but he wears clothes well, it's basically erotically.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is bad. This is Penthouse letters to the editor.
Speaker 1: Yea, if you're in dust pawn, this is poor guy.
Speaker 4: Like.
Speaker 2: What annoys me though, is he's not even playing Clay.
Speaker 2: He's had the injury, so this is all posturing.
Speaker 3: This was booked in ages, but also Clay is in sexy.
Speaker 2: When it's all over your white outfit, it looks like
Speaker 2: he's had explosive diarrhea.
Speaker 3: Like it's like bad fake ten that's come off.
Speaker 1: A lot of women looking at young Oh my god,
Speaker 1: imagine having to wash that stuff. I know, I get
Speaker 1: that a lot of n.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he looks I feel like they did him.
Speaker 2: But that's.
Speaker 1: You can get.
Speaker 4: But I mean, the actual cover is beautiful, Like, he
Speaker 4: looks great. He would have signed off on that, which
Speaker 4: I'm sure is great. But the BTS socials that are
Speaker 4: doing the rounds and like he didn't see those did not.
Speaker 2: It's only then you got to do all the surfaces.
Speaker 2: You've got to do a grass stained one and then
Speaker 2: he'll just be rolling around on.
Speaker 1: Just bloodyhere be like, yeah, you'll just be burnt basically
Speaker 1: from the hot core.
Speaker 3: Degrees. All right, my next one.
Speaker 4: So we had the met Gala last week, controversial met
Speaker 4: gala sponsored by Bezos, but Naomi our Sucker was there
Speaker 4: along with Serena and Venus. They were all there and
Speaker 4: Naomi famously loves fashion and she was there and we've
Speaker 4: got this this look that she's doing, which is like
Speaker 4: a I think it's a nod to her Japanese heritage.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure about it.
Speaker 1: They're long, they're long, false.
Speaker 3: Giving to me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the hands are creepy, but maybe that's that's the
Speaker 4: whole thing.
Speaker 1: To hold a racket with those.
Speaker 4: But she loves fashion, but I never feel like it's
Speaker 4: ever very good.
Speaker 1: It's meant to be. It's meant to be note worthy
Speaker 1: on suppose, but yeah, it's be careful.
Speaker 2: The soccer stands are going to come after you.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 4: I mean, I like her, I like what she's doing,
Speaker 4: and I love the intent. But when I see the fashion,
Speaker 4: the hat.
Speaker 2: Is that's kind of cool. A painter's palette, you know. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: take the pain.
Speaker 1: Off, or like some sort of thing you put on
Speaker 1: top of a toilet or something, some sort of a
Speaker 1: potty you can imagine, you know what I mean. It's yes,
Speaker 1: it's it's an artic toilet seat.
Speaker 2: Yeah I should yeah. And the fingernails are given no
Speaker 2: speratu vibes.
Speaker 3: And the kind of the red hands, Yeah I.
Speaker 2: Should say it's not. But it's the Dracula because you.
Speaker 1: Know what that meant?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, only because I interviewed Sean Mchaela recently and
Speaker 4: he has just written a book about.
Speaker 1: Yeah, SEMs written a book about Dracula.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I was like, what have you been smoking Sean.
Speaker 1: Let's be so scared of vampires? Can I say? I will,
Speaker 1: I will rise your beads to bed for about four
Speaker 1: years recently. But Stephen Stephen King's book Salem's Life.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, that's a scary book.
Speaker 1: That that was the mini series.
Speaker 2: Actually, just one thing on this, Lizzie and I'm surprising
Speaker 2: you with this, is that some pictures from the met
Speaker 2: Galla were clearly AI. This one's not. But Rebecca Austin
Speaker 2: uh I was like, did you pick up on that
Speaker 2: it was Ai? Because she said she sent me uh
Speaker 2: Andre Rublo wearing a crazy outfit that was obviously Yeah.
Speaker 2: And I wrote back and I say, you're a boomer.
Speaker 2: This is Ai And she was like, well, Lizzie, who
Speaker 2: fell for it?
Speaker 3: I just laughed at it.
Speaker 4: I didn't want to tell her that it was Ai
Speaker 4: because why, oh, she's going.
Speaker 3: To produce me in Edinburgh. I was.
Speaker 4: I was just I was just like, I'll let her
Speaker 4: have this. But these guys weren't out of.
Speaker 1: Me saying to Russell, sorry I didn't get that ball
Speaker 1: when it was clearly closer.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But there's a lot of like terrible AI content in tennis,
Speaker 4: which I absolutely hate. I saw one the other day
Speaker 4: and it's like a lady like beating up a guy
Speaker 4: on the court, and you just I just go to
Speaker 4: the comments to see I'm hoping people pick up on this,
Speaker 4: and most people like ai ai ai, and then there's
Speaker 4: some people like, haha, this is so funny, and I'm like,
Speaker 4: what is wrong?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, have you fallen for any.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. Yeah, I didn't add reasoning aai
Speaker 1: my whole complexion, Like they gave me teeth that were great,
Speaker 1: but they're not my teeth.
Speaker 2: I've seen that you're in black face in this one.
Speaker 1: White teeth is what I mean. I mean real white teeth,
Speaker 1: white teeth out. I won't say because.
Speaker 3: But and that was approaching the net.
Speaker 2: Well, husy, we gotta go play. We're gonna go have
Speaker 2: a quick match.
Speaker 1: Quick match. They're not quick please, you will go all die.
Speaker 2: That's because you you the grinding rallies with this man,
Speaker 2: because he's just like you can't get a rhythm against them.
Speaker 2: He's just he's steering the ball around.
Speaker 3: And that's sad.
Speaker 4: If I catch you, guys, we love an audience, no choke,
Speaker 4: I don't I don't need to what you guys play tennis.
Speaker 1: It's a good yeah, but if you want to things
Speaker 1: to do, if you want to leave after one set, eh,
Speaker 1: because you've got you know, kids to pick up from school,
Speaker 1: you have to concede the match I made.
Speaker 2: We played two sets, we want one each, and he's like,
Speaker 2: I gotta go, and I'm like and then he was like, no,
Speaker 2: I really gotta go, and I was like, we'll say
Speaker 2: I Dave Hughes forfeit the man.
Speaker 1: He's rupeless. Last time we played, there was a point
Speaker 1: where I was like four meters behind the baseline and
Speaker 1: he's hit the ball out of court, but it hit
Speaker 1: the bottom. He hit my shoe before I hit the ground,
Speaker 1: literally so far back. I said, yes, it hit my foot.
Speaker 2: We're a society, Dave, we have rules. Here's he Thanks
Speaker 2: so much for coming in.
Speaker 1: It's a joy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll get you back in, I mean tennis and comedy.
Speaker 2: We'll be back during the French Open to discuss what's happening.
Speaker 2: I think the women's draws is going to be anybody's
Speaker 2: bet and the men's we'll see who plays center in
Speaker 2: the final.
Speaker 3: All right, thank you, it's very good.