Hello, the internet, and welcome to a very special holiday episode of Dirty

Reza Geist. It is, this is, this is kind of a weird one. So, uh, Super Producer Ana Hosnii and I

recorded a live episode at the US Open, like on a big stage right next to Arthur Ash Stadium.

It was a lot of fun to be at the U.S. Open. It was, you know, an interesting crowd.

You know, people were there to see tennis and then the Daily zeitgeist was happening for them, a little kind of tennis-focused one.

So that's what you're about to hear. I do really think that tennis is super interesting.

Tennis's relationship to the zeitgeist. We'll talk about challengers and fashion and some of those

things. Just generally, I feel like, you know, as we've

talked about a lot recently on the show, I'm a big believer in the power of movies. Is there a

sport that has a better metacritic score than tennis? Like, tennis is just feels very prestige. Like,

you know, basketball is my other favorite sport.

Basketball has, you know, it has solid movies like, you know, blue chips and Hoosiers, but like,

it's got a lot of air buds and, you know, Teen Wolf may be a movie that I consider to be, you know,

one of the great films of all time. But I don't think most people consider it to be

one of the great films. Whereas, like, tennis is prestige. Tennis is like challengers and

match point. And, like, there's this Hitchcock movie, Strangers on a train that is, like,

based in the world of tennis and has this famous shot where, like heads like everybody's watching you're like the

shot is of a crowd watching a tennis match and everybody's like following the ball except for this

one guy is like just looking straight forward and it's super creepy and I don't know it's there's like

something a king Richard obviously one best actor a royal tenenbaum's has one of my one of my favorite

and most memorable scenes from that is I think Richie's meltdown at the U.S. Open. But anyways,

it just feels like tennis has this like elevated prestige aspect to it. And yeah, we'll talk about the Brian brothers who are, you know,

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