WEBVTT - HUGHESY, WE HAVE A PODCAST 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.800 One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. 0:00:04.040 --> 0:00:08.000 We're all good? Did you need to clap? You have clapps? 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:11.080 All this shit has happened and I've been oblivious. 0:00:12.200 --> 0:00:15.520 Hello, Mike, Yeah. 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:15.280 Should be. 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:18.440 The stuff the way. 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:27.320 Speaking of superstars, we have the icon, the man, the myth, legend, 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:31.080 the legend of the What else did you ask us 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:31.880 to call you before? 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:35.000 I would say some of the best hair about industry. 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:37.120 I appreciate that, but I'd like to think I've got 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:39.960 one of the best slash back ends in the non 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:41.320 professional circuit. 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:44.880 Trying it is Dave here. 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:49.440 Great to be here with two of my nemesis. 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:53.640 We are nemesises because not only did you knock Lizzie 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:57.120 who out of the one point slam ruthlessly I dream. 0:00:56.880 --> 0:00:58.600 About it three am. I wake up. 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:01.320 Well, I wasn't happy with her action to that that 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:03.600 wonderful serve that I put in so and you hit 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:06.800 the ball basically out of the stadium I did. And 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:08.760 you blame my week service. 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:11.600 As out of your little bitch if. 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:14.240 You don't know about the one point slam that was 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:17.759 you had to win one point and I selflessly decided 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:20.080 to serve because I knew how nerve wracking. It would 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:21.000 be for you to serve. 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:23.800 Ah usy, what a nice. 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:26.000 But I wanted to get my first one in because 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:28.039 I didn't want to have to you know, that second 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:30.399 one would have been really nervous for me. So I 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:32.720 took a bit off it. But you couldn't handle it. 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:34.880 I couldn't handle it. It caught me off guard. 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:38.800 I was running shuffling, yes, and then I hit it 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:41.360 too hard and it went out and got through. 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:44.000 She could have graciously accepted the feet, but no, she 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:44.880 went on the attack. 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:49.920 Well do you remember Adam Hills was telling us all 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:53.280 he's been like like thinking about the best strategy for weeks. 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:54.480 I appreciated a coach. 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:56.640 He had a coach and he was gone, you have 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:58.200 to serve. He's like, I thought about it. I've been 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:00.200 thinking about this for weeks. You have to serve. Whatever 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:02.880 you do, take the serve. We got two chances. The 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:05.800 pros only got one right and then he double faulted. 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:10.560 Yeah, that hurt. There was something that he foot folded 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:13.880 as well. And if you don't get Adam only has 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:17.280 one foot, so so the footfold someone who only has 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:21.480 one foot is hard. But it was a computer generated 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:23.720 isn't it now everything even when we played then it 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:25.400 was is the computer says no. 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:30.880 Yeah, yeah, a footfall on a guy with one foot 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:33.600 is absolutely brutal. And because then he ran up and 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:35.560 made a joke on the microphone about it and then 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:38.240 ran back to the second serve and missed it. 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:41.399 You know that I once played Adam in forty two 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:46.200 degree heat in Melbourne and his plastic foot snapped during 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:49.799 the game. And we went to and he didn't have 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:55.120 a spare foot, so and we went to and the 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:57.640 guys running the courts in albert Punk wouldn't give us 0:02:57.639 --> 0:02:59.400 our money back because I thought he was joking that 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:03.519 he foot for your comedians. No, you paid, so we 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:05.160 didn't even get money back. Well, he didn't get his 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:05.760 money back. 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:08.520 So it was tough, hot, like whatever the foot's made 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:11.680 out of melted, melted, and then just snapped off. So 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:14.320 that's good advice for any young players. Always bring a 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:14.960 spare foot. 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:18.399 Yes, and yeah, but I'd like to think that we're 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:20.400 so hard that we'll play, you know, I'll play in 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:23.480 forty degrees no worries. Really, middle of the day, middle 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:25.280 of the day, full sun. 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:27.840 You were your fact to fifty look. 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:31.560 At my skin's already gone. Basically every every three months 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:33.200 I have to go in for surgery to get like 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:35.800 five spots cut off me and then I can't play tennis. 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:38.200 From then you play in the middle of the day 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:43.640 and I get it, yeah, undercover and get him under cover. 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:45.520 So not only did you knock Lizzie who out of 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:49.720 the one point swam we play, we played pretty consistently 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:52.160 over the past five or six years or maybe the longer. 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:56.160 You guys, that's really good because because Mike told me 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:58.040 that and I forget stuff. But we went to the 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:00.720 Australian Open final together, you said, And that was like 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:01.920 twenty twenty. 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:04.960 Twenty twenty, so it was right before the big as 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:09.640 was it called the plandemic, before the plan happened. That 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:14.480 we went and saw Dominic team pushed Novak Djokovic to 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:19.119 five sets. Yeah lose, and it was an amazing match. 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:22.080 We're sitting right behind Rod Labor from Amory. 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:26.040 I've had some great moments that the Australian Open finals 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:28.520 once once was on the you know those seats that 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:33.040 are on the court, those like lounge seats almost like yeah, yes, yeah. 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:36.400 One year, the first year they introduced those seats. They 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:39.720 let me, They invited me, and which doesn't happen that 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.320 often anymore, but it happened then where I got invited 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:44.479 to sit in those seats and I look beside me 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:47.320 and I'm sitting next to Will Ferrell. Wow, so I'm 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:50.880 right beside Will Ferrell and that was exciting. So I 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:53.200 loved it. Yeah. Well, actually he said a load to 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:55.640 me as well, because we'd met on Rove a few 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:58.440 years before, maybe many before the TV show Rove, and 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:01.479 he remembered me, and so we had a really good chat. 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:04.400 And then he had to interview Roger Federer after the game. 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:06.080 He said, I'm a bit nervous about it. I said, 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:08.240 you've got this, well, you're gonna be okay, and he went, 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:11.240 and so he wanted to do so I picked him. 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:13.520 Up to interview Roger girls hype girl. 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:17.279 I was. But that the end of that that tournament, 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:20.760 they couldn't sell the seats for the final, and I 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:23.719 just was desperate. It was Feeder versus Nadal in the 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:27.279 final and they hadn't happened for years, and event I 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:28.919 was trying to get a seat to the game, to 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:31.240 the match, I couldn't get one, and eventually that was 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:33.520 the only seats left with those ones at the front. 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:37.159 So I paid for two secs much a lot, a lot. 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:40.719 It was thousands tens of that. 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:42.279 Well yeah, at least. 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:47.680 Ten those seats because now like they just put influencers 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:50.280 in them, and I always looked down and I'm like, 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:55.159 that person does not give a shouts influencers number. 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:58.320 I bought the seats and a mate came with me. 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:01.280 I gave the free ticket to and he was late, 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:09.640 but we watched a Federer beaten Nadal in five sets, 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:12.800 and we were the first ones, me and my mate Starks, 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:15.600 were the first ones to congratulate Roger like he looked 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:18.000 at us and well because his family weren't there that 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:20.400 year for whatever reason, he looked at us and we were. 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:24.000 We were we were Roger's team main star. 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:25.320 There's a picture, isn't that? 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:25.719 Yes? 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:30.719 Posted of me, me and my mate Starks and just 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:33.440 look actually there's one of just me and Roger just 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:36.480 it's like a selfie. He's on court, but he's smiling. 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:38.039 He knows photo. 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:41.800 Federer, when's another grand slam in his first picture? 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:45.120 Is it's wonderful? Picture wonderful? 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:50.279 I mean, you are like a huge tennis fan. Obviously 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:53.280 you was the how many finals have you actually been 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:56.000 to Pepes? Was that fetter and a doll one the best? 0:06:56.760 --> 0:06:59.960 There was some great some Djokovic. I think Djokovic played 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:03.440 when that went like for like eight hours or seven hours. 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:05.640 It was middle of the night, and I was doing 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:07.560 breakfast radio at the time. I almost went straight from 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:11.760 the game to my job. So that was extraordinary. I 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:18.440 saw Djokovic's first win in a final against someone, yeah, yeah, 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:21.239 And I saw with my mom, who loved tennis as well, 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:24.520 my dear rest her soul. But she I've took han 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:28.000 heard of many tennis matches. Yeah, I've seen a hate. 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:29.040 Where was mom on the list? 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:29.280 Like? 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:31.440 Was she like third? Did you ask a few other people? 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:36.320 Mom was always hirst if she wanted to come, So yeah, 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:38.960 sometimes she couldn't be bothered. But yes, so we did see. 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:40.560 We had some great tennis matches. 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:41.680 Tennis player. 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:44.360 She wasn't a planer, n She's sport lovers. That's why 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:46.080 I got my love of sport, not from my dad really, 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:48.320 but from my mom. So she was absolutely calm. 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:51.920 I'm jealous of that that Djokovic and Adall. I want 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:55.440 to say twenty twelve. Was that six hour plus final 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:58.280 incredible to me, one of the all time up there 0:07:58.880 --> 0:07:59.960 Slam finals as well. 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:02.440 So yeah, Jogovic and a dal because they both were 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:05.920 baseliners and the points went long, so yeah they were. 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:09.920 It was just unbelievably fit a couple of athletes. 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:12.160 Crowd behind the doll, but Djokovic took it out. 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:14.480 Yeah, so Jogovic often doesn't have the crowd with him, 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:15.960 but I'm a Jokovic fan, but no. 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:20.120 He does, he does. Yes, the old boy thirty eight 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:21.360 years old, these showing up. 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:22.640 I have to respect the guy. 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:23.200 Yeah. 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:25.840 Yeah, there was a time, especially in Australia, I was 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:28.160 probably around the pan playing Jemmy or whatever. We got 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:30.840 where where he didn't want to get in the facts whatever, 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:34.920 but there we go. But actually and people thought he 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:38.080 was arrogant and whatever. But I once I was downstairs 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:40.959 after a match and again they said do you want 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:43.480 to left hont I'm like, yeah, I'll go in one 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:46.440 of those, you know, one of the key cars. So 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:48.480 I got a left him in one of those key cards, 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:50.040 which if you live in Melbourne you see them around 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:53.719 generally just tennis playground for the whole tournament and the 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:56.280 older lady who was driving. I said to her if 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:58.400 he had any one famous in the car. He goes, yeah, yeah, 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:00.440 all of them. I said, who do you? She said, 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:03.440 I love Djokovic. She said that he had won the 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:06.920 tournament maybe the year before, and she was lucky enough 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:09.760 to drive him and his mates home or around Melbourne. 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:11.959 She said he was the nicest guy, just the bloody 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:13.720 She said, he's a real gentleman and didn't have to 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:17.880 be anyway. That's and for any Drogovic haters, just that 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:19.640 story really made me think, oh, he must be a 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:20.079 nice guy. 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:23.440 Yeah great. And then because you grew up playing like 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:25.240 I actually don't know your history with the sports. 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:28.520 I loved it. I never played like I never really 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:30.920 played in tournaments. But there was an Ashvelt court on 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:34.440 the tech school near my house and me and my 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:37.760 cousin Joe would play all the time all summer, would 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:40.960 play tennis, so tennis and cricket so Bashfeld bitch. 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:41.439 Yeah. 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:43.760 Yeah. It was not a good court with holes and 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:46.800 it was free and yeah, so we had a we 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:49.440 had an epic matches like me and Goldstein's matches. Basically, 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:53.240 we do have some battles, yes, yeah, my cousin Joe. 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:55.800 He would the tactic would if you were you know, 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:56.920 if the other guy was on a bit of a 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:59.600 had momentum. You just throw your racket over the fence 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:03.920 as far wis you can so you can take time 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:06.240 to go get it. Like your thoughts. 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:09.640 That's interesting. I noticed a lot of like shoe tying. 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:11.559 When I seem to have a bit of a lead. 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:17.000 Time to breathe, he just goes and. 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:19.880 Goes playing the age card. 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:23.760 I haven't been fitness, but lately I feel he's got fitter, 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:26.520 even though he doesn't look like he has. 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:28.920 I have a tubby bitch. 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:30.679 Wedding. 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:32.199 Yeah he did. 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:34.720 That's probably when I was playing my best. 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:39.440 Blame man, what's happened? 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:42.200 She's fattening him up? 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:52.679 So was wanting exactly. So the French Open's coming up, 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:57.160 like your tennis watching as a spectator, are you watching 0:10:57.240 --> 0:10:58.800 like the thousand events or just. 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:02.000 Coming out like generally just watch an Australians playing. I 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:04.320 watched some are patriots, So I treat all the Australian 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:06.840 players like that my children. So yeah, did you hear? 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:07.280 Yeah? 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:10.360 If any listening, yeah you're listening. But you can get 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:14.800 my will if you call him the lessons I'm not 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:18.000 put in the world. Not that I'm sure you make 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:19.880 money yourself, but it's not easy. Some of those players 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:25.719 don't make money, much money. Years ago he was I 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:27.559 think it was number one hundred in the world and 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:30.920 barely scraping by imagine, if you're the hundreds of most 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:37.040 successful accounting in the world, you're doing okay, hundredth comedian, yeah, 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:39.479 one hundred tennis players on the on the breadline. 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:40.440 It's crazy. 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:42.640 They're trying to improve that, I think, but. 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:44.920 They are trying to improve it. There is a great book, 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:46.840 I think I brought it up before, called The Racket, 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:50.120 and it's all about the players on the Challenger Tour 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:54.000 and the Future's Tour, and it's like it's comparable to 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:56.000 comedy because a lot of them are just kind of 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:57.719 scraping by going from city to. 0:11:57.679 --> 0:11:59.600 City, living in the car car. 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:02.640 That's stuff. And it's fascinating because the guy who wrote 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:05.200 the book was playing in the air of the Big Three. Yeah, 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:09.000 so he's, you know, occasionally in the same circles as them, 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:11.559 and you're just seeing someone it's you know, like when 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:17.360 I see you backstage at a it's like me, you know, 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:20.319 just struggling and then all of a sudden, the icon 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:20.839 the myth. 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:26.679 But I'm backstaged all those gigs, you know. 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:31.440 Yeah, we love and respect I mean the trenches the 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:32.040 whole time. 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:36.559 Yeah, it's not about the money for me. Luckily You've 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:39.120 had made some good investments anyway, you never know, they 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:40.600 can go pair shape. The world's changing. 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:48.240 So Australian players are like your children. Raffa is your boy? Right? 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:49.480 Is your boy named Rauffa? 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:50.439 Raffiti? 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:50.800 Yes? 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:53.000 I want to go in Rafael, but I mean I'm 0:12:53.200 --> 0:13:00.959 Irish background, so Raphael Huges but is raffiti? So yeah, 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:03.720 so Rafa. But it wasn't really over Rafa Adar. I 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:09.079 love Raffas, but yeah, I'm I love. My first Australian 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:12.400 Open finals I went to was the nineteen eighty six 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:16.559 finals where Pat Cash and I was the legend, played 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:20.080 Stephan Edberger, Swedish legend, and it was five sets. It 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:24.959 was the last, the last Grand Slam played actor Kuyon 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:27.520 on grass before they moved to where we are now 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:31.520 at Melbourne Park and so and it was an extraordinary 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:35.560 match but Edinburgh won. That hurt me. I was I 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:38.480 was fifteen or sixteen at the time. And I was. 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:40.520 I did not grow up with any you know, my 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:43.960 parents were working class and they looked after us, but 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:47.320 we didn't have money for I got enough money working 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:50.040 a part time job at Woolworth to go to the 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:53.960 Australian Open Final. That's how the world has changed. I 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:56.040 think now to get the austrain Open Final, you'd have 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:58.120 to work probably full time at Woolies for four years. 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:02.400 You have to be Dave us now still struggle. 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:05.160 Yeah, back in the day, but yeah, Coo Young was 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:06.880 a it was a greatble. 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:10.400 Have you ever have your kids ever tried tennis? Did 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:11.120 you force it on? 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:16.040 My daughter played tennis at school last year, but she's yeah, 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:19.520 it wasn't not a ball going in. And I'm keen 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:21.880 for them because racket sports, they say the best thing 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:24.440 for your brain. Really, yes, you want to live a 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:28.400 long time tennis that tennis players live longer than anyone else. 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:33.040 I've heard this before. The split second decision making and all. 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:34.520 The decisions you've got to make when you're playing. 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:37.680 Yeah, so it keeps your brain. And then it's the 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:41.880 obviously lateral movement, short bursts of movement. It's like fitness wise, 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:45.080 it's just gonna cardiovascularly keep you healthy forever. 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:47.480 And the social aspect as well. But tennis players in 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:51.160 general apparently lived nine years longer than any other. 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:54.760 Sport socially though. I mean, when we play us, you 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:57.360 don't say a word to me the whole you don't 0:14:57.360 --> 0:14:58.480 even look me in the eye. 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:02.400 Got about at the start, like, hey, how you going 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:03.000 to start? 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:06.120 We'll have a bit early on, and then afterwards we played, 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:09.320 but I don't want to get distracted focus. 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:11.440 He has a method. He'll tell me if I'm winning, 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:14.520 how well I'm playing, or like compliment my forehand or something. 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:19.400 So because he knows that I'm weak on that chart. 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:23.640 And I played a guy the other I play another 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:25.880 guy play quite regularly. He's got his own court, so 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:28.920 I go to his house. But he has a ball 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:31.240 toss that can go anywhere, like it'll just like it'll 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:33.560 take four or five throws in the air. And I 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:37.680 sort of gently mocked his ball toss one day, but 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:41.760 then he locked in from that moment. And so you 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:46.080 don't mock the player you're playing. Compliment them, but don't 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:49.200 don't sledge them, because it can really become fuel for them. 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:50.640 Compliments are worse. 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:54.800 I know, absolutely so compliment away, but do not mock 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:57.880 them because they no, no, no. 0:15:56.960 --> 0:16:00.040 No, I won't mock my if he compliments me and 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:01.480 then I start missing that shot. 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:05.000 Yeah, well, I mean it's what it is. You know 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:07.560 what I've decided that last time we're playing, which helped me. 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:10.840 In between points, you don't have to focus. I was 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:11.960 focusing too much. 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:13.760 You get Yeah, bring that playfulness. 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:17.000 Yeah only lot for the last couple of seconds, but 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:20.640 in between, just just let your mind relax. That was 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:23.360 the latest thing that in our last game that helped me. 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:24.800 So I'm going to bring that back. 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:28.640 Yeah. I I even call myself, you know, a mental 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:31.680 Can you say, a mental little person. 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:37.440 On the golf course. Oh, I'm so bad at this. 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:40.800 I'm like, you haven't played pages and fine, so what 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:41.720 are you talking about? 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:45.400 His own worst enemy? You got to get in your 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:50.440 own corner. Helps as a Whitney once sun or the 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:52.360 greatest love of all learning to love yourself. 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:54.280 That's beautiful. 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:57.040 But I get in my own head a bit. I mean, 0:16:57.160 --> 0:16:59.800 you know, there's so much sports psychology, especially tied up 0:16:59.840 --> 0:17:03.320 with because the score can be ruthless. And last time 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:04.960 we played, I think I was up five to three. 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:08.200 I had a bunch of set points, couldn't convert, double 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:09.919 faulted on one of them, and then I was just 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:13.280 kind of ruined. He locked in, started playing consistent, and 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:16.120 I was just done. It's just all it takes if 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:18.320 you can't convert a set point or match point. 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:22.840 Even worse, he's his best day of his life. He's 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:25.280 going to replay this episode over and over. 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:26.440 Just this little sound. 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:28.600 But I was so as a kid that I was 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:31.040 so nervous, and I was so like, I was so 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:34.880 self obsessed. I only played one tournament in my whole childhood, 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:37.280 and I loved the game. And it was called the 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:40.639 Schoolboys Down and Warnable, my hometown schoolboys tournament, and I 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:44.040 played my first round was against a kid who I'm 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:46.600 not gonna lie. His parents owned a fish and chip shop, 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:49.879 and he was It was the most I believe, and 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:52.360 I'm not being mean, but probably the most overweight kid 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:56.359 and warnable and and but I was so nervous. I 0:17:56.359 --> 0:18:01.560 couldn't get a serving serving and I couldn't do so 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:04.679 he beat me, and I remember in my big I'm crying. 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:05.360 That was it. 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:09.040 I'm a loser and never played another official match again. 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:10.040 That's terrible. 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:15.439 Where is he now though you know relation, maybe he's 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:22.880 well if you say the Aussie players feel like kids, 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:24.440 do you I mean, who do you like at the moment? 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:26.720 Who do you think is like actually going to get 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:28.480 to the second week of the French I. 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:30.439 Mean, I love I love the demon, but I just 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:33.120 wish you could get over the line against the top players, 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:34.840 you know, So, yes, it would be great to get 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:37.200 to get into a semi would be good. Now we 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:38.280 got to a semi yet, I. 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:41.760 Ye, quarters, I think just quarters. Well, he's having a 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:44.399 rough season. And do you think it's because he's planning 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:45.720 a wedding with Katie Balter? 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:47.520 Is that you've had a wedding. 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:50.600 Yeah, there's a lot of pressure on the guys, no doubt, 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:53.680 because you get a question, you can asked questions you 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:55.879 don't even know what they mean. I remember that wedding 0:18:56.080 --> 0:18:58.000 off because what do you want to do about Bonbonieri? 0:18:58.080 --> 0:18:59.880 And so I didn't know we had any French friends. 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:04.720 He wants what about table runners. I'm like, I don't 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:08.000 know it is Kathy Freeman available? These are all questions 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:10.560 about the reception and stuff. I didn't understand. 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:13.520 There's a lot going on. I mean, you've had a wedding, 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:14.640 had a wedding. 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:17.560 But I just outsourced my wife just planned everything. 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:19.960 Yeah outsoist to your wife. 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:23.879 Yeah, well, I'm not making decisions like I think I 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:26.919 found the best method. Would you if she presented me 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:29.399 with a decision about like a centerpiece on the table 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:32.840