Jodar Madrid’s New Hero, Alcaraz Out Of French Open, Tsitsipas Is Back? | EP 169

**John Isner** (0:00)
Coming up on Nothing Major, we're going to give you all that's going on from Madrid. And also, as everyone knows, there's some big Carlos Alcaraz news. We're going to talk about that. So I'll head on the show. Let's get it going.

**Sam Querrey** (0:10)
Jack, John, Stevie and Sam, got close a few times, never want to slam Nothing Major.

**John Isner** (0:16)
Okay, everyone, welcome back to Nothing Major. John Isner here, Sam Querrey, Steve Johnson, all rocking the black hats, looking good. Charlie Fox and his whole team at Civ Creative behind this episode, as per usual. Thanks for joining us on Monday, everyone.
Once again, before we get into the meat of the show, we have just hit 40,000 subscribers on YouTube. I feel like that's a pretty decent mark. You know, we're growing-

**Sam Querrey** (0:48)
Yeah, organic 42

**John Isner** (0:50)
Thank you, Sam.
It's a very, very, everything about Nothing Major is organic and our 40K on YouTube is totally organic. It's healthy, it's safe to consume. That's what it is.

**Steve Johnson** (1:02)
Nerea Bot and those 40K.

**John Isner** (1:04)
Yes, Nerea Bot, Nerea Bot. And we have a massive bot on the pod, but not a bot in our subscribers. So what do you guys think about that? I mean, we're well on our way to 50, growing steadily, slowly but steadily.

**Sam Querrey** (1:17)
Wow, slowly but steadily. I feel like we're, I do feel like we're like an underrated pod. Kind of like people that know, they know.

**John Isner** (1:25)
It's funny, you mentioned that everyone knows, but yet we're still underrated. Yeah.

**Sam Querrey** (1:31)
It's the YouTube clips.

**John Isner** (1:32)
It's like, you know, like you can, you know, 15 years ago, like Apple was like, was a great stock buy, you know, like it's still underrated. Everyone knew about it. That's kind of what I feel like Nothing Major is.

**Sam Querrey** (1:48)
Good comparison.

**John Isner** (1:49)
Very good comparison.

**Steve Johnson** (1:51)
I didn't see that comparison coming, but I appreciate it. I enjoy it.

**John Isner** (1:55)
I think once we get to 50, that'll be, like that'll be big time. Really enjoyed our YouTube as well. Like, you know, we check in on the comments. Sam, you have made a YouTube like profile. I need to do that.

**Sam Querrey** (2:07)
Can I say something about the YouTube stuff real quick? The last like four or five videos, I feel like 25% of the comments are like negative complainers, whiners. I get that's online, but like, it's frustrating. Like, I feel like we're out here grinding, we're like, oh, they don't pronounce the names right. Or like, oh, why would Sinner like not play Madrid? Cause Alcaraz is a player. Like we're joking. It's lighthearted, but like half these, half the people, 25% of the people are like complaining, like we're lighthearted pod. We like, those of you that don't know, like we make money from ad reads. We've put every dollar back into the pod. No one's like taking a cent on this. We wake up at five, six AM and, and film the pod. Like we're all commentating. We've got nine kids between us. Like, wow. People, I was, I couldn't even sleep the other night. I was thinking about this.
I love our listeners, but like there's a small part of them, they're not even the good listeners. They're just on their complaining.

**John Isner** (3:04)
Yeah.

**Steve Johnson** (3:05)
Gosh. That's what the internet's for though.

**Sam Querrey** (3:07)
Yeah, it's what the internet is for.

**John Isner** (3:09)
You can't help but jingle. Guys, podcasting is hard work.

**Steve Johnson** (3:14)
It's not easy.

**John Isner** (3:15)
Yeah, it's really hard, let me tell you. No, but we appreciate everyone. Keep the comments, but keep a little more, keep your comments lighthearted, because our pod is lighthearted.

**Sam Querrey** (3:25)
Yeah, exactly. We're going to make mistakes all the time.

**John Isner** (3:27)
We definitely are.

**Sam Querrey** (3:28)
We're up early, we're doing, like.

**John Isner** (3:29)
Definitely are.
We do want to get into Madrid, but Sam, on Instagram, Stevie and I, maybe a lot of other people saw that you were in Ojai this weekend for the Big Ten Championships, correct? And there was also some sort of pro event there where our boy, Matija Pokodic, was there. And did he take the title? I know he was in the final.

**Sam Querrey** (3:51)
He was in the finals yesterday. I don't even know how to look at the results.

**John Isner** (3:55)
I saw a picture of you and him. How was the interaction and where are we at with the bet? Is there any sort of momentum there?