# Nothing Major’s First Thursday Drop! Grass Swing Predictions, World Cup Picks | Ep 184

An episode of [Nothing Major](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1756744318), 11 Jun 2026, 35 min.

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To join ATP Fantasy head to https://play.fantasy.atptour.com/nothingmajor Code to join our Nothing Major league: 981-0H8TX On the first-ever Thursday episode of Nothing Major, John, Sam, and Stevie review their pre–Monte Carlo clay buy/sell picks, highlighting calls on Arthur Fils, Flavio Cobolli, Joao Fonseca, Alex de Minaur, Lorenzo Musetti, and Adrian Mannarino, before shifting to fresh grass-court buys and sells. They update their ATP Fantasy team and standings, make a full grass-season reset around Jannik Sinner, and debate roster value picks and alternates. The guys also talk World Cup excitement and timing in North America, spin a “wildcard wheel” to pick extra national teams to follow, and answer fan questions on bugs and bees on court, judging grunts, and an Isner-vs-Opelka hypothetical. 00:00 Thursday Episode Kickoff 01:22 Clay Picks Recap 03:23 Stevie and John Results 06:53 New Grass Picks 12:10 Fantasy Team Shakeup 17:07 Finalizing Fantasy Picks 17:30 Join the ATP Fantasy League 17:50 World Cup Hype Check 19:49 Tour Life During World Cup 21:27 Wildcard Wheel Soccer Teams 26:59 Fan Questions Nature Moments 29:30 Grunts Locker Room Talk 31:07 Isner vs Opelka Debate 31:55 Wrap Up and Grass Swing See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: All right, coming up on Nothing Major, it's our first
[0:02] Speaker 1: ever Thursday release. Very exciting times. We're going to review
[0:05] Speaker 1: our stock picks, and we're going to talk the World Cup,
[0:08] Speaker 1: because it is here, and also have some fan questions
[0:11] Speaker 1: that are very fun.
[0:12] Speaker 2: Let's get it going. Jack Jones, Stevie and Sam. Got
[0:15] Speaker 2: close a few times, never won a slam. Nothing Major.
[0:18] Speaker 1: Welcome back to Nothing Major, everyone. First ever Thursday edition,
[0:22] Speaker 1: thanks to Sam Querrey.
[0:23] Speaker 3: Numbers are going to spike.
[0:24] Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
[0:25] Speaker 1: I like this idea. Didn't think of it at all.
[0:28] Speaker 1: I think it's a really good idea. People are busy
[0:30] Speaker 1: on Friday. You're exactly right.
[0:32] Speaker 2: Friday afternoon, no one's listening to podcasts Friday afternoon. Thursday afternoon,
[0:36] Speaker 2: they are.
[0:37] Speaker 1: So anyways, John, Sam, Stevie here, the team at SIF Creative,
[0:42] Speaker 1: Charlie Fox and his whole team, thank you so much.
[0:45] Speaker 1: As mentioned, this is our Thursday episode, so no more
[0:48] Speaker 1: Friday going forward. Let us know in the comments if
[0:51] Speaker 1: you like this.
[0:53] Speaker 4: Unless it tanks, then we'll go back to Friday.
[0:55] Speaker 3: Of course they like it.
[0:56] Speaker 2: But, like, why would it– like, why would it– yeah,
[0:58] Speaker 2: why wouldn't– No, I don't.
[0:59] Speaker 4: Think it will, but I'm just saying, like, if it
[1:00] Speaker 4: tanks and, like, nobody listens to it on a Thursday,
[1:02] Speaker 4: then we'll move it back to Friday.
[1:03] Speaker 2: No.
[1:03] Speaker 3: No, we won't.
[1:05] Speaker 4: We'll move it to Wednesday.
[1:06] Speaker 2: I'm with Sam. Monday, Thursday. It's just a great cadence. Monday, Thursday.
[1:10] Speaker 2: And then you let– give people the whole weekend to
[1:13] Speaker 2: digest what they've.
[1:14] Speaker 3: Heard from– Oh, gosh.
[1:15] Speaker 2: You know? Smart. Smart. Smart. A lot of water cooler
[1:19] Speaker 2: talk on the weekend. But, anyways, a long time ago,
[1:24] Speaker 2: we did a Clay– court, buy, and sell picks.
[1:31] Speaker 1: So let's review our picks from, I think it was
[1:34] Speaker 1: like right before Monte Carlo, right?
[1:35] Speaker 2: That's where we did it?
[1:36] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[1:37] Speaker 1: And let's start with Sam Query. Why don't you go
[1:40] Speaker 1: through your picks? Tell us how you think they did. Remember,
[1:43] Speaker 1: this is before Monte Carlo we did this.
[1:45] Speaker 3: I hate to admit it, but I went two for two, guys.
[1:49] Speaker 4: Do you hate to admit it?
[1:50] Speaker 5: I know everyone hates me. My buy was Arthur Feese.
[1:56] Speaker 2: Right? And he had been a little injured earlier in
[1:59] Speaker 2: the year.
[1:59] Speaker 3: And I said that he would win a 500.
[2:02] Speaker 2: What did he do?
[2:03] Speaker 5: He went to Barcelona and won a 500 on the dirt, right? Unfortunately,
[2:08] Speaker 5: he did get hurt after that. He didn't get to
[2:09] Speaker 5: play in Roland Garros, but he did definitely prove that
[2:12] Speaker 5: if he's playing, he's a threat and we all like
[2:15] Speaker 5: him on this pod. And so that came true. The
[2:18] Speaker 5: other thing that came true is Alex Demonar. He was
[2:21] Speaker 5: my cell. And as much as I like the demon, I,
[2:24] Speaker 5: I was like, I don't know if he's that good
[2:25] Speaker 5: on the clay. He didn't get past the round of
[2:29] Speaker 5: 64 in Rome or Madrid. He was seeded in both.
[2:31] Speaker 5: So it was a first-round loss, first-round loss. And then
[2:33] Speaker 5: he lost third round here. He lost to Menchique, who
[2:37] Speaker 5: basically died in the second round of Roland Garros. And
[2:39] Speaker 5: he came back from the dead, and he beat the Demon. Again,
[2:44] Speaker 5: I shouldn't be happy about this. I want all the
[2:45] Speaker 5: players to win all the time. But as far as
[2:48] Speaker 5: this game goes, my buy and my sell, if these
[2:50] Speaker 5: were stocks, I'd be rich right now.
[2:53] Speaker 3: I don't know why it's so funny, Stevie. It's great, dude.
[2:57] Speaker 2: It's great.
[2:57] Speaker 4: I just love the excitement out of you.
[2:59] Speaker 2: Well done. Well done, Sam. Seriously, I'm reading it over.
[3:03] Speaker 2: I forgot you chose those two players.
[3:04] Speaker 1: When I first saw Arthur Fils, I'm like, oh, that
[3:06] Speaker 1: was a bad pick because he missed Roland Garros.
[3:08] Speaker 2: I forgot the fact that he won Barcelona, and you
[3:10] Speaker 2: called it. Yeah.
[3:11] Speaker 4: I forgot that as well. I was about to laugh
[3:13] Speaker 4: and be like, dude, you didn't even play the biggest event.
[3:16] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[3:17] Speaker 4: But you are correct.
[3:18] Speaker 2: You're right. But as good as your picks were, Stevie's
[3:22] Speaker 2: might be better overall. The floor is yours, Stevie.
[3:24] Speaker 4: I'm a blue chip stock picker.
[3:26] Speaker 3: That's what I do.
[3:28] Speaker 4: Flavio Caboli was my buy.
[3:30] Speaker 5: Stevie put a few rubles in NVIDIA 10 months ago,
[3:33] Speaker 5: and now they're hitting.
[3:33] Speaker 4: 10 months ago. I put it in there 20 years
[3:35] Speaker 4: ago before it was alive. Caboli, dude, that was my
[3:39] Speaker 4: buy outside of an obvious pick because you don't want
[3:43] Speaker 4: to pick someone.
[3:43] Speaker 2: It's boring.
[3:44] Speaker 4: You want to root for maybe somebody off the beaten
[3:45] Speaker 4: path a little bit. Not too crazy, but Definitely got hot.
[3:50] Speaker 4: Now he's going to be in the top 10. Roland
[3:52] Speaker 4: Garros finalist. Nothing wrong with that. And my sell was
[3:56] Speaker 4: Lorenzo Mussetti. I mean, I kind of sold just because
[4:01] Speaker 4: his success last year would have been hard to recreate
[4:04] Speaker 4: with basically being one of the last men standing in
[4:08] Speaker 4: every big clay event. And I don't know what his
[4:10] Speaker 4: deal is. He's hurt. He can't figure it out right now.
[4:13] Speaker 4: It's a bummer because again, he's somebody that's a lot
[4:16] Speaker 4: of fun to watch and I'm bummed out that the
[4:19] Speaker 4: fact that he's not playing because tennis is more fun
[4:21] Speaker 4: when he is out there competing. But I got it right.
[4:24] Speaker 4: Not happy about it, but I got it right.
[4:25] Speaker 3: Unbelievable pick. How good is Kaboli making you look right now?
[4:29] Speaker 4: I was a little worried because I was thinking about this.
[4:31] Speaker 4: Like Monte Carlo, I call a couple of his matches.
[4:33] Speaker 4: I'm like, eh, not a great pick. Like, you know,
[4:36] Speaker 4: then he started to like pick up some momentum. Like, okay,
[4:38] Speaker 4: like might turn out to be all good. And I
[4:39] Speaker 4: will say the last week I've been holding back a
[4:42] Speaker 4: text to our producer, Tom, like, Don't you forget about
[4:45] Speaker 4: what I said about buying Caboli. But I didn't say it.
[4:48] Speaker 4: I knew he would remember, and he did.
[4:49] Speaker 2: Thank you.
[4:50] Speaker 3: Well done.
[4:51] Speaker 2: Well done. Stevie, well done. My picks weren't too bad either, guys.
[4:55] Speaker 2: And I completely forgot who I picked, to be honest.
[4:57] Speaker 2: We'll be back at it.
[4:58] Speaker 1: They weren't that good. I bought Joao Fonseca. He made
[5:04] Speaker 1: Monte Carlo quarterfinals, whatever, Munich quarterfinals, Madrid, Rome.
[5:08] Speaker 2: He didn't do that well. But we all know what
[5:10] Speaker 2: he did at Roland Garros. I think that was a
[5:13] Speaker 2: solid buy.
[5:13] Speaker 3: It's a fun buy, too, more importantly.
[5:16] Speaker 2: It was a match of the tournament, his match of...
[5:17] Speaker 2: For sure, right? It was a match of the year.
[5:19] Speaker 5: Yeah, the Cirindula Center, but I guess the quality wasn't
[5:23] Speaker 5: necessarily good in that.
[5:24] Speaker 2: Exactly. That was like, just what the hell are we watching?
[5:28] Speaker 4: Definitely up there for one of the matches of the year.
[5:30] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[5:31] Speaker 2: And then on my sell side... I took a gamble, guys.
[5:34] Speaker 4: Yeah, but you bought a penny stock and you sold
[5:37] Speaker 4: it at like less than, you know, a penny. You
[5:39] Speaker 4: bought a penny.
[5:40] Speaker 2: Stock for five pennies and you sold it when it
[5:42] Speaker 2: went to four pennies. Yeah, I sold Adrian Manorino. He's
[5:47] Speaker 2: so bad on clay.
[5:49] Speaker 4: He hasn't won a match on clay since like 2018.
[5:51] Speaker 1: He did not win a single match on singles or
[5:54] Speaker 1: doubles on clay. He's so bad on clay.
[5:59] Speaker 2: But yet he's still 45 in the world.
[6:01] Speaker 4: Yeah, he better do well on the grass.
[6:03] Speaker 2: He will. He's so good on grass.
[6:05] Speaker 5: That's pretty good, though, that we went six for six.
[6:08] Speaker 5: Our three buys held up and our three sells held up.
[6:12] Speaker 3: I don't know.
[6:13] Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Our three shorts. Our three shorts.
[6:16] Speaker 5: A lot of times we're not great pickers on this.
[6:19] Speaker 5: Is there a 180 starting to happen on this show
[6:22] Speaker 5: and all of a sudden.
[6:22] Speaker 3: We're dialed in?
[6:23] Speaker 4: I don't think we're going to miss again.
[6:25] Speaker 5: I don't know. We'll see. We're about to re-pick now
[6:27] Speaker 5: for the next... For the next quarter, you know?
[6:31] Speaker 2: The clay is done. I mean, there's still some clay
[6:33] Speaker 2: court tournaments, but, you know, post-Wimbledon.
[6:36] Speaker 4: I'm thinking about a late entry into Gush Dodd, you know?
[6:39] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[6:39] Speaker 1: We're not talking clay that much anymore here on Nothing Major.
[6:44] Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh.
[6:45] Speaker 1: Manorino is 9-46 on clay since 2020. That's including challengers.
[6:50] Speaker 3: It's crazy. Wow.
[6:52] Speaker 4: Maybe he'll play BA next year.
[6:54] Speaker 2: Now it's time to buy and sell on the grass.
[6:57] Speaker 2: We are mid-2020.
[6:59] Speaker 1: Of the first week of the grass court swing right
[7:02] Speaker 1: now here on Thursday. So let's buy and sell some
[7:07] Speaker 1: ATP players on the grass.
[7:12] Speaker 2: Who wants to start?
[7:14] Speaker 3: Let's all go around with our buy first.
[7:16] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[7:16] Speaker 5: I mean, you can't pick Sinner and Alcaraz.
[7:21] Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
[7:21] Speaker 4: Well, I'm not going to pick Alcaraz.
[7:23] Speaker 3: Don't pick Alcaraz. He's not even playing the grass.
[7:24] Speaker 2: I'm going to take Lerner.
[7:25] Speaker 4: I'm going to take Lerner Tien.
[7:26] Speaker 2: Risky.
[7:27] Speaker 4: Why not, dude? We're never going to get one wrong again.
[7:29] Speaker 2: I don't like it.
[7:30] Speaker 4: You got to pick somebody off the beaten path. I
[7:32] Speaker 4: don't want to take Shelton. He's five in the world,
[7:35] Speaker 4: even though I think he's going to have a great
[7:36] Speaker 4: grass season.
[7:37] Speaker 2: Okay.
[7:38] Speaker 4: Sam?
[7:39] Speaker 3: Give me Medvedev.
[7:42] Speaker 2: He's been streaky.
[7:43] Speaker 3: He's been good at times.
[7:44] Speaker 5: He's hit like an all-time low here at Roland Garros,
[7:47] Speaker 5: losing to Walton, who was ranked 900 in the world.
[7:50] Speaker 5: But I think.
[7:51] Speaker 2: He's going to bounce back.
[7:52] Speaker 3: He's going to bounce back.
[7:53] Speaker 4: Francho is not his place, dude.
[7:56] Speaker 5: But give me Medi to like win a warm-up tournament
[7:59] Speaker 5: on the grass and then pop like a semi at Wimbledon.
[8:02] Speaker 3: That's kind of what I'm expecting out of him.
[8:04] Speaker 4: I think Lerner's top 15 after the grass.
[8:06] Speaker 2: All right. Give me Cameron Norrie. Okay. Yeah. The hometown
[8:13] Speaker 2: guy is going to play all these tournaments in the UK.
[8:15] Speaker 2: All right. Give me Norrie. He's good on that surface.
[8:20] Speaker 2: He's annoying to play against. Give me him. All right.
[8:24] Speaker 2: All right, what about selling? Who are we selling?
[8:26] Speaker 3: I hate selling, guys. It feels mean.
[8:28] Speaker 2: Yeah, it kind of does. All right, go.
[8:31] Speaker 1: I'm going to sell Bublik. I know he's good on grass. Like,
[8:35] Speaker 1: it's probably his best surface.
[8:37] Speaker 2: I'm going to sell him. All right. Even though he's
[8:39] Speaker 2: a great interview on Nothing Major. He's one of our best.
[8:41] Speaker 3: Yep.
[8:42] Speaker 2: I'll go.
[8:42] Speaker 4: Don't take mine, but go ahead.
[8:44] Speaker 3: I'm not taking yours because I'm selling Lerner Tien.
[8:47] Speaker 2: Ooh! I just.
[8:49] Speaker 5: He didn't pop the serve on the grass. He hasn't
[8:51] Speaker 5: played a ton of grass court events. I don't think
[8:53] Speaker 5: he's going to do poorly, but I think– what's he
[8:55] Speaker 5: ranked right? What did you say he's going to be
[8:56] Speaker 5: ranked after?
[8:57] Speaker 2: 18.
[8:58] Speaker 4: Oh, I don't know. He's 18 now.
[9:00] Speaker 2: I don't know.
[9:01] Speaker 5: He's 18 now. I just think it's going to be
[9:05] Speaker 5: like a ho-hum grass court season. You know, the second round,
[9:07] Speaker 5: maybe pop a third round somewhere.
[9:09] Speaker 4: I just think he's lefty, the serve is going to help,
[9:11] Speaker 4: and his ball striking is insane.
[9:14] Speaker 2: I know. I hope I'm wrong.
[9:15] Speaker 3: I hope I'm wrong, Lerner.
[9:16] Speaker 4: My sell is for no other reason– It's a great
[9:20] Speaker 4: friend of ours, Kasper Rud. The only grass he wants
[9:22] Speaker 4: to see is a golf course.
[9:24] Speaker 3: Has he ever done well at Wimbledon?
[9:25] Speaker 4: He's going to rock up to Wimby, win a match maybe,
[9:29] Speaker 4: and then win like Bustad and Gustad right after.
[9:32] Speaker 2: All right. I love Kasper.
[9:34] Speaker 4: I just don't think he's going to play any, so
[9:35] Speaker 4: he's not going to gain any momentum. I don't see
[9:38] Speaker 4: a winning record on grass for him.
[9:39] Speaker 2: Kind of lame, kind of like my Manorino pick on
[9:42] Speaker 2: the clay.
[9:42] Speaker 4: Yeah, but you picked him.
[9:43] Speaker 2: I'll accept it.
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[12:14] Speaker 1: let's update. Remember we chose a team for ATP Fantasy?
[12:17] Speaker 2: Yep.
[12:18] Speaker 3: We got it pulled out.
[12:19] Speaker 2: We had Kaboli. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, because we
[12:24] Speaker 2: had to take Alcaraz out. Yep.
[12:26] Speaker 4: Probably should have picked Sasha.
[12:27] Speaker 3: Although it's Sinner and Feast, though.
[12:29] Speaker 2: How did we not take Musetti out? I blame the suits.
[12:31] Speaker 2: I do, too.
[12:32] Speaker 3: I love blaming the suits.
[12:33] Speaker 4: You're very hard on them.
[12:35] Speaker 2: Yeah. So, like, how did we do? Overall, where do
[12:41] Speaker 2: we stand?
[12:42] Speaker 3: Standing. All right, here we go. We're in 14,525th place.
[12:47] Speaker 3: I thought we.
[12:50] Speaker 2: Had a good team. I thought we had a good team, too.
[12:53] Speaker 1: Oh, man.
[12:54] Speaker 2: It just goes to show how many people are playing this, right?
[12:57] Speaker 2: We're in 14,700th place or whatever. But in our league,
[13:02] Speaker 2: in the nothing major league, we're in 616th, so a
[13:05] Speaker 2: little better. A little better. First of all. Thank you
[13:10] Speaker 2: to everyone for being a part of this. Yeah.
[13:12] Speaker 1: It's actually pretty fun. Like I'm a big fantasy sports guy.
[13:15] Speaker 1: Never thought I would like fantasy tennis. Like kind of
[13:18] Speaker 1: enjoying this.
[13:19] Speaker 2: For sure. Fun to root for your guys.
[13:22] Speaker 1: Stevie and I play fantasy hockey. I dominate them every
[13:25] Speaker 1: single year. Now we're doing fantasy tennis.
[13:29] Speaker 2: It's great.
[13:30] Speaker 3: Are we going to make some moves here? We've got
[13:32] Speaker 3: to make some moves.
[13:32] Speaker 2: No, no.
[13:33] Speaker 4: There's going to be some people we need to take out.
[13:35] Speaker 2: Yeah, we've got to make some moves. We need to
[13:36] Speaker 2: update our team for the grass. Yep, yep.
[13:38] Speaker 1: So we can totally revamp our team.
[13:42] Speaker 2: Is that correct?
[13:43] Speaker 3: Yeah, let's do it.
[13:44] Speaker 2: A total reset. We've got to take Feast out because
[13:47] Speaker 2: it's just too unknown, right?
[13:49] Speaker 4: See you later, pal.
[13:50] Speaker 1: Yeah, and remember, everyone, for those who are new who
[13:53] Speaker 1: are going to sign up late, a player's cost is
[13:55] Speaker 1: based on their ranking, meaning top players will cost– a
[13:59] Speaker 1: large portion of your overall budget, which is, in this case, coins.
[14:04] Speaker 1: You have 100 coins to make your best team. Sinner
[14:08] Speaker 1: is worth 40 coins, obviously, number one in the world.
[14:11] Speaker 2: So you get it. But let's adjust, okay? I think
[14:16] Speaker 2: we should.
[14:18] Speaker 4: Sinner's probably still a good bet.
[14:19] Speaker 2: Yeah, Sinner's a great bet. Everyone's going to have him.
[14:22] Speaker 2: Let's do that for 40, okay? Got to take Massetti out.
[14:28] Speaker 2: See you later.
[14:28] Speaker 3: Yes, you do.
[14:29] Speaker 2: He needs good old grass. I like Tommy for six coins.
[14:32] Speaker 2: Are you kidding me? That's a value.
[14:34] Speaker 4: Buy right there.
[14:35] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[14:35] Speaker 4: I was thinking like even somebody lower like who's going
[14:37] Speaker 4: to be no coins. Like Vashiro might be good with
[14:40] Speaker 4: this monster serve.
[14:42] Speaker 2: Yeah, it's actually not a bad pick. How many does
[14:43] Speaker 2: he cost?
[14:44] Speaker 4: I just don't think he's going to be worth very much.
[14:45] Speaker 4: So like I'm saying a late addition.
[14:48] Speaker 2: Dude, but he like hurt his foot or something.
[14:51] Speaker 3: Yeah, eight coins.
[14:52] Speaker 2: I don't like that value.
[14:53] Speaker 5: I like Rublev, honestly, for 12 coins. Rublev is just
[14:56] Speaker 5: like a lock for a quarter every week.
[14:58] Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I'll go do that. We need points. Let's
[15:02] Speaker 2: take Lehetchka out.
[15:03] Speaker 3: Yeah, take Lehetchka out.
[15:05] Speaker 4: I mean, Sasha. You'll play Holloway.
[15:09] Speaker 2: What is Zverev? What is Zverev?
[15:12] Speaker 3: We don't have enough Cheddar Packs. Oh, man.
[15:15] Speaker 4: We can take Kaboly out.
[15:16] Speaker 2: Okay. Okay.
[15:17] Speaker 5: Fritzie, Dom, remember Fritzie on the grass last year? One Stuttgart,
[15:20] Speaker 5: then he won Eastbourne, then he.
[15:22] Speaker 3: Sent me Wimbledon.
[15:22] Speaker 2: Let's take out Caboli.
[15:23] Speaker 4: He's got a lot of momentum.
[15:24] Speaker 2: He's got some great practice.
[15:26] Speaker 3: Take out Caboli.
[15:27] Speaker 2: Okay.
[15:29] Speaker 3: Old strategy, but I like it. Put Zverev in.
[15:32] Speaker 2: No, but wait a second. Zverev's not going to play
[15:34] Speaker 2: anything besides Wimbledon. We don't want him.
[15:35] Speaker 4: He might play Hale.
[15:37] Speaker 2: He might.
[15:38] Speaker 3: A desperate Demon Hour?
[15:40] Speaker 2: I do not want, I'm not touching Felix.
[15:42] Speaker 4: Demon's playing her Toggenbosch, I believe, so.
[15:45] Speaker 3: Dude, Fritz.
[15:46] Speaker 5: I like Fritz for $ 17.
[15:48] Speaker 2: Do it.
[15:49] Speaker 4: Fritz for sure. Okay.
[15:52] Speaker 2: How many coins do we have left? $ 17 left. Kasparud
[15:56] Speaker 2: for $ 11? Pass. That was a joke, guys. Scroll down.
[16:00] Speaker 3: Scroll down. Scroll down.
[16:01] Speaker 4: Mensheik?
[16:02] Speaker 3: Mensheik's only $ 9.
[16:03] Speaker 2: No, I don't. No. Dude, I like that.
[16:08] Speaker 3: Come on.
[16:08] Speaker 4: Give me Lerner.
[16:10] Speaker 2: Dude, you can do Mensheik and Lerner. I don't like it,
[16:15] Speaker 2: but if you guys want it. I want Menchique.
[16:19] Speaker 4: And I want Lerner. I don't like Sam that much.
[16:20] Speaker 2: Okay, fine. All right, here we go. There's our team.
[16:23] Speaker 2: We've exhausted our budget.
[16:26] Speaker 4: I don't like our alternates.
[16:27] Speaker 1: Okay, can we take out Pedro and put in Komasanya?
[16:30] Speaker 1: He's actually really good on grass. Legitimately, as an alternate.
[16:34] Speaker 3: Is he free?
[16:36] Speaker 2: Oh, he costs two. We don't have two dollars.
[16:39] Speaker 4: He's too rich for us.
[16:40] Speaker 2: Never mind. I hate to see it.
[16:42] Speaker 3: Go down to the one coin, people, so we can
[16:44] Speaker 3: See who these fellows.
[16:48] Speaker 1: Are.
[16:48] Speaker 2: Let's just go until we recognize a name and they're in. Oh,
[16:51] Speaker 2: my goodness.
[16:52] Speaker 3: Is it going to be no one?
[16:53] Speaker 4: This might take a while, boys. Okay.
[16:55] Speaker 2: Albot.
[16:55] Speaker 3: Radu Albot.
[16:57] Speaker 2: He doesn't even play tennis anymore. Okay. I guess, I mean,
[17:01] Speaker 2: we have Fonseca. Do we like him on grass? We
[17:03] Speaker 2: could take him out. Yeah, I like Fonseca on the
[17:04] Speaker 2: team for vibes. Okay. Just choose anyone for one point.
[17:07] Speaker 3: Just choose an American. Doesn't matter. Get that Ardilla.
[17:11] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[17:11] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[17:13] Speaker 2: El Ardilla.
[17:14] Speaker 3: Maybe he wins the match. It'll clue.
[17:18] Speaker 4: Probably has one point, so probably not.
[17:19] Speaker 2: I like this team, guys. I like this team.
[17:21] Speaker 4: I like our six.
[17:23] Speaker 3: Yeah, I like our six.
[17:24] Speaker 2: It's okay.
[17:24] Speaker 3: All right.
[17:27] Speaker 2: All right. That's our team.
[17:28] Speaker 4: All right.
[17:29] Speaker 3: Good team.
[17:31] Speaker 1: Everyone, we encourage you to sign up for ATP Fantasy
[17:34] Speaker 1: and join our league.
[17:37] Speaker 2: In the description of the video. We have a lot
[17:39] Speaker 2: of people in the Nothing Major League. We're getting our
[17:41] Speaker 2: tails kicked.
[17:42] Speaker 4: Right now, but It's a marathon, not a sprint.
[17:45] Speaker 2: Okay, when you start off that poorly, it's kind of tough.
[17:47] Speaker 2: But we'll see. We'll see what happens. Anyways, are you
[17:53] Speaker 2: guys excited for the World Cup going on right now?
[17:56] Speaker 2: We're about to start. What's your excitement level?
[17:58] Speaker 4: Out of 10, I'd say like a 2 just because
[18:00] Speaker 4: it's in LA.
[18:01] Speaker 2: Okay, Sam? Partly in LA. I treat it like F1.
[18:05] Speaker 2: Everyone's a fake F1 fan.
[18:06] Speaker 5: I will fake that I'm into the World Cup during
[18:09] Speaker 5: the World Cup, even though I'm not really into it.
[18:11] Speaker 3: But.
[18:12] Speaker 5: I'll watch the games. You know, if Spain plays Italy,
[18:15] Speaker 5: I'll watch that game. And the good news for us
[18:18] Speaker 5: is it's.
[18:18] Speaker 3: In North America. The timing is going to be good
[18:21] Speaker 3: for us.
[18:22] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[18:22] Speaker 3: Primetime. We're going to get these like 7 p.m.
[18:24] Speaker 2: Games.
[18:24] Speaker 3: I just heard that Italy is not even in the
[18:27] Speaker 3: World Cup.
[18:27] Speaker 5: How is Italy not in the World Cup?
[18:31] Speaker 2: I don't know.
[18:31] Speaker 4: That seems like a myth.
[18:33] Speaker 2: They didn't qualify. I mean, anyways. I know. That's crazy.
[18:37] Speaker 2: I'm not like a big soccer guy, but like I
[18:39] Speaker 2: love the World Cup. It's awesome.
[18:40] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[18:41] Speaker 2: There's a lot of games in Dallas too.
[18:43] Speaker 4: Like the buzz is insane. I think it's going to
[18:45] Speaker 4: be a lot of fun.
[18:46] Speaker 2: Is it? Because I felt like the buzz was nothing
[18:48] Speaker 2: before we left.
[18:49] Speaker 4: Where we are, like they will have like, where I
[18:51] Speaker 4: am in LA, like they will close down the three
[18:53] Speaker 4: piers and like have watch parties. Like thousands and thousands
[18:57] Speaker 4: of people will go there to watch the games. It's
[18:59] Speaker 4: pretty impressive. I didn't see this coming. Like actually, like,
[19:03] Speaker 4: because I'm not like a, not a soccer guy. a
[19:06] Speaker 4: football guy, but like, if it's on, I'll watch it.
[19:08] Speaker 4: But like, I'm not going to like go out of
[19:09] Speaker 4: my way to plan my day.
[19:10] Speaker 1: I love watching like, like the early rounds. I love
[19:13] Speaker 1: watching like Senegal play Morocco. I love those games. It
[19:17] Speaker 1: doesn't like, I like, I like the knockout round better
[19:19] Speaker 1: than anything else because everyone has a chance. And then
[19:23] Speaker 1: you always have like, like Algeria will qualify or something
[19:26] Speaker 1: like that for the, for the final 16. And of course,
[19:29] Speaker 1: the United States is actually in a super weak group.
[19:32] Speaker 2: Like, I don't know.
[19:32] Speaker 3: We are.
[19:34] Speaker 4: We, we'll probably win it.
[19:36] Speaker 2: Yeah, so it'll be fun. I mean, if the United
[19:38] Speaker 2: States can get it into knockout stage.
[19:40] Speaker 4: Yeah, it'd be great.
[19:41] Speaker 2: It'd be awesome. Can you imagine how electric that'll be?
[19:44] Speaker 4: That would be insane.
[19:45] Speaker 3: Would be insane.
[19:45] Speaker 2: Absolutely insane.
[19:46] Speaker 4: Absolutely insane. So like, I will say it's a, it's
[19:49] Speaker 4: a little bit of a bummer. Cause like when we
[19:50] Speaker 4: were on tour, it was a lot of fun, like
[19:52] Speaker 4: being in the locker rooms. Cause like, obviously everybody else
[19:55] Speaker 4: outside of us, like the Americans would kind of like
[19:58] Speaker 4: take it so serious. Like their moods would change. Like
[20:00] Speaker 4: they'd be angry. Like if their team lost or they
[20:03] Speaker 4: drew like, and like, so it was kind of fun
[20:05] Speaker 4: to like walk around. Like guys were like, All in,
[20:08] Speaker 4: like obviously like some of the other countries are much
[20:10] Speaker 4: more football forward. So I'm going to kind of miss
[20:13] Speaker 4: that aspect of it.
[20:14] Speaker 5: You know, every four years it was during Wimbledon too.
[20:17] Speaker 5: So you like walk through Wimbledon Village. It's on every TV.
[20:19] Speaker 5: Guys in the locker room are watching. You watch it
[20:22] Speaker 5: at night with your friends. As long as it's played
[20:25] Speaker 5: in a country where wherever you're watching, it's on at
[20:29] Speaker 5: like 7 or 8 p.m., it's good. It's when the
[20:32] Speaker 5: game's on at like 9 a.m. that's like not that fun.
[20:35] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[20:35] Speaker 3: Interesting. You know, the world cup's in Europe and you
[20:37] Speaker 3: happen to be in Europe.
[20:39] Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. You mentioned, um, it's always, it's always on
[20:42] Speaker 2: during Wimbledon.
[20:43] Speaker 1: When I played the long match in 2010, the world
[20:45] Speaker 1: cup was going on and England was, was playing. And
[20:48] Speaker 1: I just remember, um, our match actually stealing headlines from
[20:52] Speaker 1: the world cup, which was crazy.
[20:54] Speaker 2: All the way back in 2010.
[20:55] Speaker 1: Um, but yeah, but you're right.
[20:58] Speaker 2: It's always during Wimby. And it is funny.
[21:00] Speaker 1: It is funny seeing the players moods like totally change.
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[21:27] Speaker 1: guys remember the wildcard wheel we did with the guys
[21:31] Speaker 1: we have to choose?
[21:33] Speaker 2: Stevie, your boy played Djokovic in the second round. Royer. Yep. Royer.
[21:38] Speaker 2: My guy.
[21:39] Speaker 4: I love the wheel.
[21:40] Speaker 2: That's your guy. The wildcard wheel. That's what we're going
[21:42] Speaker 2: to do, right?
[21:43] Speaker 1: Let's do that for World Cup soccer teams. We have
[21:47] Speaker 1: all the teams, and these are our two. Wherever they land,
[21:52] Speaker 1: this is the teams we got to– Got to root for,
[21:55] Speaker 1: along with the United States, of course.
[21:56] Speaker 2: We'll say we all get to root for the United States.
[21:58] Speaker 2: If it lands on United States, it's a re-spin. Yeah, exactly.
[22:01] Speaker 3: Good call.
[22:02] Speaker 1: Okay.
[22:03] Speaker 2: So who wants this to be their first team?
[22:06] Speaker 4: I'll take it. Customized wheel. This is beautiful. I love it.
[22:08] Speaker 3: Stevie's first.
[22:09] Speaker 2: All right, go. Stevie, here you go. Customized wheel here.
[22:12] Speaker 2: Nothing major wheel.
[22:13] Speaker 4: Give me like, I want like such a random team.
[22:18] Speaker 2: Oh, they're good. Croatia.
[22:19] Speaker 4: Croatia.
[22:20] Speaker 3: That's a good one.
[22:21] Speaker 2: They're good.
[22:22] Speaker 4: I like my chances to.
[22:23] Speaker 2: All right.
[22:24] Speaker 4: That's you, guys.
[22:25] Speaker 3: I'll go next. This is one of my two. Come on.
[22:35] Speaker 2: Panama. Panama.
[22:37] Speaker 3: I like that one.
[22:37] Speaker 2: I don't like your chances.
[22:39] Speaker 3: I don't either, but I can get behind Panama.
[22:42] Speaker 2: Okay. Uzbekistan is in there.
[22:44] Speaker 3: Give me Uzbekistan.
[22:47] Speaker 4: No, you don't get Uzbekistan. You didn't go there to
[22:48] Speaker 4: battle with us back in the day.
[22:50] Speaker 2: You're right. Oh, Spain.
[22:53] Speaker 3: No way. oh yes wow.
[22:57] Speaker 4: They're probably good i know nothing about soccer but they're good.
[23:00] Speaker 1: Before we can if y'all seen these videos on twitter
[23:02] Speaker 1: and stuff like all these teams showing up to these
[23:04] Speaker 1: small towns to train yeah it's great it's like so
[23:07] Speaker 1: funny norway is training in my hometown of greensboro um
[23:12] Speaker 1: spain is training training in chattanooga tennessee i just find
[23:15] Speaker 1: it funny that these worldwide like giant athletes with these
[23:20] Speaker 1: huge followings are like you know they're coming to these
[23:23] Speaker 1: small towns in America and doing their training camp.
[23:25] Speaker 2: Anyways, let's continue. Back to Stevie.
[23:29] Speaker 3: That would have been cool, though.
[23:35] Speaker 1: Ooh.
[23:36] Speaker 3: Oh, you get Ronaldo?
[23:38] Speaker 1: Nope.
[23:38] Speaker 2: No, no. Qatar.
[23:40] Speaker 4: That sucks.
[23:42] Speaker 2: I feel like they don't have a good team.
[23:44] Speaker 4: They seem not so good.
[23:45] Speaker 3: They're probably rich, though.
[23:46] Speaker 2: They are probably rich.
[23:48] Speaker 3: Good backing.
[23:49] Speaker 4: You know what I'm rooting for for Team Qatar is
[23:51] Speaker 4: just Three draws. I want them to play 11 in
[23:54] Speaker 4: the box and just play defense.
[23:56] Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go. All right, give me my second one.
[23:58] Speaker 2: 11 in the box. I like it. Listen to you.
[24:01] Speaker 4: Soccer terms for you boys.
[24:03] Speaker 3: Portugal would be sick. Or like Argentina.
[24:07] Speaker 4: Germany would be cool.
[24:08] Speaker 2: Germany.
[24:08] Speaker 3: That feels really good.
[24:10] Speaker 2: Yeah, it does feel good.
[24:11] Speaker 1: Wow. They won it all like somewhere along the line
[24:15] Speaker 1: like 12 years ago or something.
[24:16] Speaker 3: Wow, that is phenomenal.
[24:18] Speaker 2: All right, my last team. I got Spain who might
[24:20] Speaker 2: be the favorites. Come on. Come on. Oh, not Turkey. Okay,
[24:30] Speaker 2: I deserve that.
[24:31] Speaker 4: Turkey.
[24:33] Speaker 3: You got Spain, though. I mean, you can't ask for more.
[24:35] Speaker 2: Yeah, I got Spain. So Spain and Turkey. Is Turkey good?
[24:38] Speaker 4: Can't be.
[24:38] Speaker 2: SIF team, decent.
[24:40] Speaker 1: Okay.
[24:41] Speaker 2: Decent?
[24:42] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[24:42] Speaker 2: I'm excited. I think decent. I got Spain. They're really good. But,
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[25:15] Speaker 2: Yeah.
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[26:54] Speaker 2: So thank you, Momentous. Appreciate that. All right. Thursday episode's
[27:00] Speaker 2: rolling along nicely. What do you say we go on
[27:02] Speaker 2: to fan questions? Yeah.
[27:04] Speaker 1: Let's start with, there's a couple of them here that
[27:05] Speaker 1: I'm trying to decipher which one.
[27:07] Speaker 2: Let's go with Brad from Ontario. Because if you ever
[27:10] Speaker 2: swallowed a.
[27:10] Speaker 1: Bug during a match or get stung by a bee,
[27:14] Speaker 1: love the podcast. Or like, what's the craziest thing that's
[27:17] Speaker 1: happened to us on the court? Like maybe nature related.
[27:20] Speaker 1: Can you remember anything?
[27:22] Speaker 4: Do you guys remember? I mean, the one that sticks
[27:23] Speaker 4: out to me is Wimbledon. Those like fire ants that
[27:25] Speaker 4: one summer, they were like. all in the ground. They'd
[27:28] Speaker 4: like come up and like.
[27:29] Speaker 3: Do you remember that?
[27:30] Speaker 4: It was so gross. There's billions of them out there.
[27:33] Speaker 4: Like you couldn't play. They were all over your, it
[27:34] Speaker 4: was so gross. Like, I don't know what it was.
[27:37] Speaker 4: It was just like the wrong, I don't know what
[27:39] Speaker 4: it was like time of year or weather or something,
[27:41] Speaker 4: but like, it looked like if you watch it on TV,
[27:44] Speaker 4: it was like fuzzy and blurry because of like, you know,
[27:47] Speaker 4: like the screen wasn't very good, but it was just
[27:49] Speaker 4: all these bugs on there. It was so gross.
[27:51] Speaker 5: As far as I don't, I've never been stung by
[27:53] Speaker 5: a bee. I don't know anyone that's ever been stung
[27:55] Speaker 5: by a bee. occasionally you would like swallow, like maybe
[27:59] Speaker 5: like a gnat or something.
[28:00] Speaker 2: Yeah. I remember like swallowing a gnat.
[28:02] Speaker 1: You play those night matches in the summer in the States,
[28:06] Speaker 1: like in DC or Canada. And they'd always have these
[28:09] Speaker 1: giant bugs fly on the court. And sometimes the ball
[28:11] Speaker 1: kids got to get involved and you shoo them away
[28:13] Speaker 1: with your racket.
[28:14] Speaker 2: You know what I'm talking about? Those hot summer nights.
[28:17] Speaker 5: Oh, no, it's a good one in Los Cabos. So
[28:20] Speaker 5: at night, the bugs would hit the lights and get zapped,
[28:22] Speaker 5: and they'd fall and die on the court. And then
[28:24] Speaker 5: you would go and practice the next morning, and there'd be, like,
[28:26] Speaker 5: giant iguanas all over the court. And they would kind
[28:29] Speaker 5: of stay on the court while you practiced. They were
[28:31] Speaker 5: willing to risk getting all the bugs.
[28:33] Speaker 2: They're so immune to it.
[28:34] Speaker 3: And, like, you weren't going to do anything. Yeah, it
[28:35] Speaker 3: was cool, though.
[28:36] Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
[28:37] Speaker 4: It's kind of terrifying. You used to have that at
[28:40] Speaker 4: Crandon Park every year? You have, like, the big iguanas
[28:42] Speaker 4: come out there?
[28:42] Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
[28:43] Speaker 1: Dude, a couple years ago in Miami, I was– I
[28:47] Speaker 1: lost early in singles or whatever, and I was still
[28:51] Speaker 1: in doubles. And so I was going to Crandon Park
[28:55] Speaker 1: on my off days to practice on clay because we
[28:58] Speaker 1: had clay coming up after Miami.
[29:00] Speaker 2: And so this has been three years since the tournament
[29:02] Speaker 2: had been there.
[29:04] Speaker 1: The place was like the set of Walking Dead. It
[29:10] Speaker 1: was so desolate. They had a couple courts ready, and
[29:13] Speaker 1: iguanas were everywhere. All I remember– It's these giant iguanas.
[29:18] Speaker 1: We're talking like six-footers.
[29:20] Speaker 2: Roaming the ground.
[29:22] Speaker 4: It grosses me out, dude.
[29:23] Speaker 2: Yeah, just pretty unkempt. Kind of sad.
[29:27] Speaker 4: Yeah. That's a great venue. It's just sad that it's
[29:29] Speaker 4: gone to this.
[29:30] Speaker 2: We have a question from God's country right now. Athens, Georgia.
[29:36] Speaker 2: See my hat? It's a Georgia tennis hat. From Tanner.
[29:40] Speaker 1: He says, do players on the ATP and WTA secretly
[29:42] Speaker 1: judge obnoxious grunts?
[29:45] Speaker 4: I don't think it's secret. I think they're just obnoxious.
[29:49] Speaker 4: Pretty much well spoken about.
[29:50] Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not secret. It's not a secret.
[29:53] Speaker 4: It's well talked about in the locker room. At least
[29:54] Speaker 4: on the men's side, I've never been in the women's
[29:57] Speaker 4: locker room. So, on the men's side, you know the
[30:00] Speaker 4: guys that who it is and it's annoying and you
[30:01] Speaker 4: talk about it.
[30:02] Speaker 3: I can't think of a guy that's had like obnoxious grunting.
[30:04] Speaker 4: It's become less and less.
[30:06] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[30:06] Speaker 4: There was one way back in the day with Robin
[30:09] Speaker 4: Hossie and I think it was Rogerio Dutra da Silva
[30:11] Speaker 4: where like he was making fun of him on the
[30:13] Speaker 4: court with it and then got himself coded.
[30:16] Speaker 2: Dude, what? Yeah.
[30:18] Speaker 3: So specific.
[30:19] Speaker 4: I remember these things, dude.
[30:21] Speaker 3: This is mostly a problem though on the WTA tour.
[30:24] Speaker 3: Let's be honest. Like some of the women that goes
[30:26] Speaker 3: to extended grunts, like, As.
[30:28] Speaker 5: Guys, we don't care. What do I care if you grunt?
[30:30] Speaker 5: We're not playing against you. I think it's a question
[30:32] Speaker 5: for the women. But there's definitely that. I feel like
[30:35] Speaker 5: I'm speaking for the women, and who knows if I'm
[30:37] Speaker 5: right or wrong here. I think they go in the
[30:38] Speaker 5: locker room and think, oh, so-and-so grunts. It's such an
[30:41] Speaker 5: obnoxious grunt. It's talked about a little bit, but at
[30:45] Speaker 5: the end of.
[30:45] Speaker 4: The day, I don't think it's that big a deal.
[30:46] Speaker 4: I don't think it's open.
[30:47] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[30:48] Speaker 4: I actually don't think it's a big deal either. I
[30:50] Speaker 4: think if you are grunting, you know about it too, though.
[30:52] Speaker 4: If you're a long grunter, you know it.
[30:54] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[30:54] Speaker 4: It's not like you don't know it.
[30:56] Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's more on the WTA side
[30:59] Speaker 2: for sure. A few come to mind. Ezerinka had a
[31:02] Speaker 2: loud grunt. Sabalinka's got to get a loud grunt.
[31:05] Speaker 4: Sharapova had a loud one.
[31:06] Speaker 2: Yep, yep. All right, last question. Sarah from Chicago.
[31:10] Speaker 1: I've been watching the NBA Finals. Not nearly as dramatic
[31:13] Speaker 1: as Roland Garros.
[31:14] Speaker 2: We agree. We agree.
[31:16] Speaker 1: I was wondering if a team of John Isners played
[31:18] Speaker 1: a team of Riley Opelkas, who would win and why?
[31:21] Speaker 4: I got the answer for that.
[31:23] Speaker 2: No one would want to watch that, but Isners would win.
[31:26] Speaker 4: Yeah, not even close.
[31:27] Speaker 3: I think so too.
[31:28] Speaker 4: The Opelkas would get hurt.
[31:30] Speaker 2: Yeah, they would.
[31:31] Speaker 4: A team of Opelkas would just not be able to
[31:33] Speaker 4: finish the game.
[31:34] Speaker 2: I love Riley. I've not seen Riley play that much basketball.
[31:37] Speaker 5: I trust John's basketball shot, ball handling skills more than Riley's.
[31:41] Speaker 2: Thank you.
[31:42] Speaker 4: It could be way better than you, but who knows?
[31:45] Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got to be able to stay upright.
[31:48] Speaker 4: The best ability is availability.
[31:51] Speaker 2: I like that, Stevie.
[31:52] Speaker 3: That's exactly right. There you go.
[31:54] Speaker 4: Um all right before before we end the show john
[31:57] Speaker 4: that's this comes out thursday did your beloved canes get
[32:01] Speaker 4: a game four win today oh are they tied 2-2
[32:05] Speaker 4: going back to raleigh over sam's golden knights.
[32:09] Speaker 1: Yes sam sam's vegas golden knights we're having a big
[32:11] Speaker 1: heads up battle here yeah um.
[32:14] Speaker 4: We don't really care about the nba finals to be honest.
[32:16] Speaker 1: Yeah canes canes tied it up going game five in
[32:19] Speaker 1: raleigh all right yeah i love it that's it that's
[32:22] Speaker 1: it um What.
[32:24] Speaker 2: Did you think of the Thursday episode, guys? First ever.
[32:26] Speaker 2: I liked it. It was good. It was lacking a
[32:28] Speaker 2: little bit. Lacking, I agree.
[32:31] Speaker 5: We're still in Paris filming this right now just because
[32:33] Speaker 5: we're flying home on Monday. We have a busy Tuesday,
[32:36] Speaker 5: so this is when we had to film a little early.
[32:38] Speaker 5: Next week, we'll be back in our regular routine of
[32:40] Speaker 5: we film on the Mondays.
[32:42] Speaker 3: And the Thursdays.
[32:43] Speaker 2: We'll have a little more zazz for everyone, I think.
[32:48] Speaker 1: The first one after Grand Slam is always like, there's
[32:51] Speaker 1: a comedown.
[32:52] Speaker 3: It's a comedown.
[32:52] Speaker 2: Huge comedown.
[32:54] Speaker 4: Not to like toot your guys' horn again. You guys
[32:55] Speaker 4: have been literally on air talking for 18 straight days,
[32:59] Speaker 4: like 12 hours a day. Like you guys must be
[33:01] Speaker 4: so haggard. Like the fact that you guys did it,
[33:04] Speaker 4: good effort. You guys should probably not talk for a while.
[33:06] Speaker 1: I'm glad we're not doing this when we land, truthfully.
[33:10] Speaker 1: And Sam and I got to pack.
[33:12] Speaker 4: You look like you're good back there. You look like
[33:14] Speaker 4: you're ready to just zip it up and get out
[33:15] Speaker 4: of there.
[33:16] Speaker 2: I have so much anxiety right now. Yeah. Anyways, we'll see.
[33:19] Speaker 3: I have anxiety.
[33:20] Speaker 2: You got to pack.
[33:20] Speaker 3: You have like 12 hours to pack right now.
[33:23] Speaker 1: I know. I just so got anxiety. I got little
[33:24] Speaker 1: things here and there. Like I got my creatine. I
[33:28] Speaker 1: got my protein powder. These little things that like you
[33:31] Speaker 1: don't have, right? Like, you don't take creatine, do you?
[33:35] Speaker 1: I didn't bring my creatine to Paris. Yeah.
[33:38] Speaker 2: Um, yeah. Well, we need a creatine sponsor. How about that?
[33:41] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[33:42] Speaker 2: Yeah. Give me some creatine. Uh, Anyway, so, all right.
[33:46] Speaker 2: We'll see everyone on Monday. Yep.
[33:49] Speaker 4: We'll have a little bit more to talk about on
[33:50] Speaker 4: the grass. No more dirty clay. Let's get to the
[33:52] Speaker 4: good grass.
[33:53] Speaker 2: Exactly, Stevie. Grass court swing is on. So, do that. Thanks, everyone. Stevie,
[33:59] Speaker 2: I like your background. Looks good. Like the new addition.
[34:05] Speaker 1: And we'll see you next time. Remember to like, subscribe,
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