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Nick Kyrgios | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #488

I've got some new tour dates to tell you about. I'll be in Halifax, Nova Scotia
on August 11th
at the Great Outdoors Comedy Festival. Get your tickets early starting
Wednesday, March 13th
at 10 a.m. local time with pre-sale code RATKING. General on sale starts Friday,
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local time. We thank you so much for the support. We also have tickets
remaining in Atlanta,
Georgia, and St. Louis, Missouri. Those shows are in April. Get all your
tickets through
theovon.com slash T-O-U-R. Today's guest is that tennis bad boy. Love, love,
baby. We'll see about
it. He is a professional tennis man, and he's a commentator. He was a finalist
at the 2022
Bullden. He has his own podcast called Good Trouble. Very excited to sit down
with one of Australia's
most unique personalities. Today's guest is Nick Kyrgios.
Shine that light on me. I'll sit and tell you my stories. Shine on me. And I
will find a song
I'll be singing. I'll be singing. I'm going to stay.
Thank you guys for coming, man. Yeah, Nick Kyrgios. Yep, Kyrgios. That was
pretty good.
Kyrgios. That was pretty good. And you have a new podcast of your own. Yeah, it's
called
Good Trouble. Good Trouble, yeah. Yep. Just had Gary Vee on, Jay Shetty, had a
couple
cool people. Gordon Ramsay. I thought about, what about By Kyrgios would be a
name? By Kyrgios.
Yeah, look, there were definitely a lot of spin-off of names. Was there? Yeah,
but good
trouble. Being Kyrgios. Yeah, being Kyrgios, yeah. Yeah, I'm trying to think of
a different
one. Hey, Kyrgios. I don't know. That's kind of Italian, but. Yeah, what's up?
Dude, thanks
for hanging out with me, man. And yeah, thank you guys for welcoming me in your
country.
It feels, my biggest audiences are here. Really? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, all my
mates. We like
what you bring. Oh, thanks, man. Definitely. What's it been like for you
recently? I know
you kind of have had like a little bit of a break from playing tennis, right?
Yeah, I've
had two surgeries now in the last year. I had my left knee, had a right wrist
surgery
as well. So just trying to get back healthy, man. I had best year of my career.
Yeah.
Finals of Wimbledon, love and life. And then a couple injuries, but it's good,
man. I like
being back in Australia because if I'm healthy, I'm traveling like eight months
a year away
from family and friends. So. Just for tennis, it takes that much of a
commitment? Yeah, well,
there's tournaments every week. You play every week in different places,
different countries.
So I'm pretty happy, like not to be injured, but spend some time with the
families. Yeah.
Is it dangerous? Like I would be scared because comfort gets kind of dangerous,
you know? Yep.
Like you're comfortable or you have just a, even just getting to go to the,
like the things
I miss when I'm away from home, it's even just getting to go to the gym with my
mates,
like little things like that. It's like, that would keep me from going and
doing some dates
sometimes, some shows. It's like, I just want to have this normal, yeah. Does
that kind
of shit start to like worry your brain at all? Like, yeah, well, that's what I
was missing.
Like for 10 years, I was traveling week in, week out. I missed just waking up
in my own bed,
like spending time with my dogs or my friends, like going to the cafe. And I
guess I'm getting
that now, which is good. Like I'm definitely spending more time in Australia. I'm
busy
though. Like, you know how it is. Even when you're back home, you're trying to,
you know,
have meetings or be busy and stuff. But yeah, look, I, I don't mind just being
from Canberra
and chilling in Sydney a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. In tennis. Cause I don't know
a ton
about tennis. I used to live with some people and they played it a lot and they
had a little
bit of money. They would drink wine and like eat like a lot of, um, charcuterie
and stuff.
Yeah. But they would do tennis during the daytime, you know, and the skirts, I
like the skirts
on the women. And, um, but outside of that, I never knew a ton about it, you
know, is it
like, cause you've gotten to be at a level in it. That's, that's really
impressive. Right.
Appreciate it. When you get to certain levels, you get to see what the next
shelf is like
or what that, you know, you get a better look at certain things. Right. Do you
see that there's
like a thing that makes some people get to an elite level? Like, is it extra
training?
Is it commitment? Is it just nature? Like, is it just that some people just
have it? Like,
um, I'm just curious about like, what it, what it's, what can you see once you
get to your level
that, um, that separates the elites? And I'm not saying you're not an elite
player.
No, no, no, no. Do you understand what I'm saying?
I was about to just, yeah, go where you're going is like, I'm probably really
like, I'm
really good. I'm elite. But then what separates me from someone say like Novak,
Djokovic or,
you know, Rafan, like the greatest of all time. Like for me, I was partying a
lot when I was
playing, like I would play, then go to the pub, like, and I wouldn't, I don't
regret it. Like,
I love the fact that like my agents or my team had to drag me out of places at
like 4am. Like,
I love that shit. Yeah. But at the same time, like that was what separated me,
I guess, from them.
Like they were so diligent, so consistent. Like now I'm, I'm a lot better, but
obviously when I was a
bit younger, but the, the consistency that they've shown over decades is why
like they're having way more
success than I had. Is some of it nature, do you think? Do some guys just have
a different element,
like a different gear that God gave them? Or do you think that, uh, it's like a
commitment thing?
Like, cause I'm just curious cause tennis is such a solo sport. It's like golf.
It's like, um,
I mean, there's, there's no team really. It's just fucking you out there. Yeah.
I mean,
I played my longest matches four hours and 52 minutes. Oh my God. And I was
having some serious
Oppenheimer, but having to play the whole time. Yeah. It's, you have some
mental serious,
some serious mental conversations with yourself, but I mean, yeah, like, uh,
and then you have like,
you got to do that again for seven days straight to win a tournament, basically.
No way. Is that true? That's like a grand slam. Yeah. That's like how hard it
is mentally. I mean,
but the consistency, like for instance, my nature, I wasn't willing to give up
like the fun aspect of
things whilst I was playing where like, if I did that, definitely I probably
would have had more
success, but I've had so much fun in my career. Like those are the memories I'm
sure you, I can't
talk about them here, but like, those are the memories you take to the grave.
And then that's
like, I wouldn't trade that for grand slam. There's no way. Yeah. But that's
the trade-off.
Yeah. You're kind of like John Daly. Have you ever heard of him a little bit?
Yeah. A little bit.
Yeah. You're like, kind of like that. Or John Knightley maybe. Cause I think he
partied during the
daytime more because he would, yeah, he would, that guy's still partying. I've
seen him. I live in
Nashville, Tennessee. I've seen him get a couple of times in ambulances, his
Uber, basically. And
he's coming. That's pretty crazy. That's a lot. Oh, I've seen him, the
ambulance got called and
there was some confusion as to where he was like on the premises. And he went
and got in the, uh,
shotgun of the ambulance. He went and got in the passenger seat and just waited.
He's like,
what the fuck is taking you guys so long? Yeah. Just sitting in there and they're
just
running around with like a little, uh, I'm not sure what it's called. Um, what's
some of
like, and I'm not going to just grill you about tennis cause I don't know a ton
about it, but
I do want to get like some thoughts that I had. Like, what are some things like,
cause football,
you kind of know what the physical aspect is and like the training. What is
shit that people
don't know that? Like, like tennis training, like, well, tennis is a tough one
because you
don't know when you're going to play exactly. Like when the schedule comes out,
like for
instance, soccer or football or NBA, or like you have an exact time when you
know where
the game's going to start and the duration of how long the game goes for where
tennis is.
You don't know what time you're going to play, where it could be at night,
could be first
match at 10 AM, could be at 7 PM. And then it could go for an hour and a half
to
five hours. So it's like, how do you train for something with so many different
intangibles
and variables? That's always been a big challenge for every tennis player. It's
like you train
for something that you don't even know what's coming and there's no teammates
you're out
there on your own. Um, and I think that's why tennis players for me, this it's
one of the
toughest sports in the world because we're going, you know, one week we're in
Asia, one
week we're in Europe, in the States for maybe a month, then Australia, it's
like different
dot different diet, different food, different time zones. And it's like, you
got to adapt
and have that adaptability to be good. And that's, that's tough because most
other professional
athletes like set in stone preparation, food, sleep, tennis is like, you just
have to just
go with the flow.
Dude, I was really struggle with it. I think.
Yeah. There's like no routine really. You have to try and find, yeah, it's hard.
Oh my God.
That's why I've lost my marbles. Definitely.
Yeah. Oh, I can't even imagine.
Yeah. I mean, and from Australia as well, it's worse. We have like two
tournaments a
year here. So the rest of it's just traveling around, living out of a hotel.
Oh, to live at a, yeah. Cause it's hard enough for me. Like, I don't know, I
guess I just
sound like I'm complaining. I don't, it doesn't sound like we're complaining.
No, it's, it's, it's definitely a nice lifestyle. Like learning about cultures
and meeting new
people and traveling to the coolest, but it's not like, Oh, I think a lot of
people think
when I'm traveling, I'm like enjoying going sightseeing. Like I'm working, like,
you know,
I'm playing, I'm training, I'm going to bed. Like, yeah, it's hard. It's not
easy.
Yeah. I mean, last night, like I get off stage and I know that I have to do
this today. Right.
I know that I have to edit like a previous episode and look over it. You know,
so I'm
up for two till probably at two, I went to sleep and, um, and not complaining.
It was cool,
but it's not like, yeah, you get to get out.
Sort of walk in a park.
Right.
Yeah. And yeah, there's some like dame that's hitting you up. She wants to hang
out, but
you're like, I know I have to do what I got to do or it's going to be, you know,
multitasking. Yeah. I'm going to save this fricking, you know, I'm going to
save my nuts
for curious, you know, that's what I was thinking. Nothing, not in a gay way,
but I'm just going
to save my energy.
I'll, I'll, I'll look after them.
All right. Yeah. Thanks bro.
No worries.
Yes. Um, dude. Also, uh, the food is totally different here. Like, uh, the food
is totally
different. The eggs are different. Dude, if you get to a country and the eggs
are different,
that can throw me off for a fucking week.
Wait, do you like the eggs here? Like the cafes are good here. Like, are you a
breakfast guy
or a dinner guy?
I'm a breakfast guy.
There's good cafes here. You like coffee?
I don't, I like some of it. It's sometimes it kind of fucking, I'll get a
little bit weird
on it, but I got to monitor how much I drank. But so I'm doing green tea right
now.
That's not, there's a lot of caffeine in that too, though.
Yeah. I make sure I get the low caffeine one, but yeah, I feel you. Cause some
of that shit.
Yeah. Australian coffee is good though.
Is it?
Yeah. Very good. Yeah. I'll give you a list of good cafes you should go to
after.
Yeah. Tomorrow.
You're leaving on Tuesday, right?
Yeah.
Yeah. Definitely some good cafes you g