Our podcast episode 4 is up. (Updated)
The winner of our Apology for Gurgliness contest is jaime!
The question was: What would our guest Mike do if a victorious tennis player tossed his/her sweaty towel at him?
jaime’s answer: “If it’s Sharapova, he would wring the towel and put it in a vial. Then he would wear it on his neck.”
He added that if it were another player he would have the towel laundered and have it framed, but we’ll accept that answer. Congratulations! Your prize will be delivered to National Bookstore in Rockwell on Monday.
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Marat Safin is now in the Russian Parliament. Someday he will be president. Good or bad for humanity? We say great.
It’s the Tennis episode with guest, filmmaker, director of commercials, tennis trivia-head Mike Alcazaren. We cover the year in slams, tennis tantrums, future Russian president Marat Safin, the ideal length of tennis shorts, and why there are no tennis movies. Then we launch our campaign to get Filipino tennis great Felicisimo “The Mighty Mite” Ampon into the Tennis Hall of Fame. Ampunin si Ampon!
The weekly podcast is available for streaming or download here. You can also subscribe to it on iTunes.
Thanks to JT’s Manukan for treating us to dinner!
Massive apologies for the sound quality—we were so busy yakking, we didn’t monitor the recording or check the playback. Just think of it as the Spongebob Squarepants episode, recorded in a pineapple under the sea.
Thanks to Ricky and Manny for tweaking the sound file, and to our podcast site manager Ren for uploading the episodes every week.
By way of an apology for the gurgliness, here’s a giveaway.
You can win these Ancient Aliens seasons 1-3 DVDs by answering this question:
What would our guest Mike do if a victorious tennis player tossed his/her sweaty towel at him?
Post your answer in Comments. All correct answers qualify for the raffle.
Meanwhile: Whatever happened to Mario Ancic?
He’s a student at Columbia Law School, that’s what. Read Former tennis star makes a mark at law school.
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
September 10th, 2012 at 18:37
para sa akin greatest wta tennis player of all time
1.) Simona Halep
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B62lHiA_eQ
(dethroned January 2010 sa akin) sayang sya nasa top 50 na siya tapos nagpa tapyas nasan na siya ngayon ? lukaret kakainis sisikat pa naman sana sya talbog nya si Dokic, Sharapova, Serena …etc….
2.) Ludmila Skavronskaya
3.) Petra Mandula
September 13th, 2012 at 12:09
If it’s Sharapova, he would wring the towel and put it in a vial. Then he would wear it on his neck.
September 17th, 2012 at 16:47
Hi Jessica, just discovered your podcast. Too bad indeed about the sound quality of this one. :/
But anyway, to answer your question: I believe Mike said that if it was Sharapova’s towel, he would put it in a vial (I guess this was a joke), and wear it around his neck. However, if it was someone like Janko Tipsarevic then he would have it laundered, and “just try to get autographs”.
Have not listened to Ep. 5 yet. Looking forward to downloading it later.
Cheers
– Fabian M
October 15th, 2012 at 17:41
Off topic: Just want to share this video of Federer and Safin smashing rackets. You’ll love this. http://youtu.be/IM6x-sBoy1k