January 4, 2025 • 11 mins
Former world Number 1 Naomi Osaka booked her slot in the final showdown of the women's ASB Classic, and will be coming up against Clara Tauson.
Osaka eased through her semi-final against Alycia Parks, securing her first WTA final since 2022.
Tauson is the highest remaining seed at the tournament after knocking out top seed Madison Keys in her quarter-final.
Though Osaka is seeded seventh, she will likely be favoured against Tauson.
Sports commentator Rikki Swannell joins Weekend Sport to discuss Osaka's comeback and how each players form has been looking throughout the competition.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Fine
from News talk EDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Let's start with tennis. Naomio Osaka and Clara Towson will
meet in this afternoon's ASB Women's Tennis Classic final in Auckland.
Both emerged from the semi finals yesterday with straight sets
wins fifth seed Clara Towson over American Robin Montgomery.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
The two matches in one day.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
That's the ultimate results for Clara Towson.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Through to the final of the ASB Classic.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
The third final of her career, and she has done
it with some emphatic style, big shots, big winners and
now a big smile.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Six to four or sixth three.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Clara Towson goes through to the final at Auckland's.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
And then seventh seed of Japanese plan Naomi Osaka far
too good for Alicia Parks.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
A marquee performance from the tournament's headline acts. For the
first time since twenty twenty two, Naomi Yoursaka will play
for a title.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
On the WTA Tour. The Young America and Alicia Parks
drew plenty at how she absorbed it all in.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Naomia cycle clinical professional calm and composed.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
She goes through to the final six four sixteen.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Naomi Osaka and Clara Towson, each last one a WTA
title in twenty twenty one. So are we while between
drinks for both of them life coverage on sky Sport.
The voice you hear you heard calling those semi final
wins was, of course lead commentator Ricky Swinell, who joins us. Now, Ricky,
the first time these two have ever played one another,
(01:54):
which is always an intriguing prospect. Can you perhaps start
by comparing the two of them for us and their
relative strengths.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
They've got some similarities and that we see pipe so
it's the same say hello first of all before we
get it and happy New Year to Yeah. Look that
they have got some similarities in that in that big
game style, big weapons, big series, big four hands, and
both have been pretty controlled with it as well. When
Naomi Osaka played Alicia Parks in the semi final yesterday,
(02:25):
which she won in straight sets, eventually that Parks has
got a huge game, but she was probably just a
bit more of a slugger, didn't have necessarily the variety
in the game or the control when she needed it.
That's somebody like Osaka has. What we've seen from from
Clara Towson is that ability to mix her game up
as well. A handful of occasions, particularly in the quarterfinal
(02:47):
against Madison Keys Keys is getting stuck behind the baseline
and and Tawson had some really lovely touch, good drop shots,
some variety in her game as well. She was a
former world number one junior and a lot of the juniors,
you know, they come through playing a heap of doubles
as well, so she's got that nice touch.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
But yes, so there's some definite.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Similarities in their games. We could expect some big time tennis,
some big balling, which is quite I think the crowd
here always likes. I likes to see a couple of
big hitters really going at it.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Clara Tolson had a busy day yesterday, didn't She two
matches to reach the final of this single. She had
to complete her quarter final win over Madison Keys, then
beat Robin Montgomery and she had a double semi as well.
So will fatigue play any part today?
Speaker 6 (03:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:33):
I mean these players at this time of year, that
they're coming off their preseason, right, they've been doing probably
double days, double training days and spending a lot of
time on court in their preseason getting ready for it.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
She didn't show.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Any signs of it at all. In the semi final
against Robert Montgomery. She just sort of picked up where
she left off. I guess the thing is with the
Keys match is that she was probably only on court
for about twenty minutes half an hour. It finished off
with the seven six.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Of the tiebreaker.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
They had called off the quarter final relatively early the
day before, so the players would have left the stadium
at kind of nine thirty the night before.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
Then she came out.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
They were slightly delayed getting on court at midday, but
so yes, while.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
She was on court a lot and we saw a
lot of it, which was great.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
You know, that second match at quarterfinal was about only
twenty minutes, and then the doubles match was only an
hour or so as well. And I wonder if maybe
she was a little bit, probably more mentally fatigued. I
would think that day for her as opposed to the
physical fatigue. But you know, we wait and see how
she comes out today. How heavy the legs may be
when you're playing someone like Osaka who's just got such
(04:40):
big ground search and as to say that ability to
control it really well.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
The pedigree of Naomi Osaka we all know, you know
two times Australian opened when a two time US Open winner.
That was a week while ago. Now, though, how do
you assess where she is now relative to when she
was really at her peak.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
I think the game's getting back there. She looked really
good yesterday and what there was I thought there was
a sort of a the control, a kind of calmness
to her. She always stays really active. You can see
your thinking, you can see your kind of keeping her
game in. Obviously, it's a big thing to come back
from having a baby. Your body has changed completely when
(05:21):
you're getting back out there and initially not doing the
things that it used to be able to do it.
So it has and will take her some time. But
I think certainly those signs are that she is back
to being able to compete at the very topic you know,
I KNOWE. There's a piece of stuff today with a
Dave Long where she's sort of said like in the past,
(05:41):
she's probably been a bit guilty of not really focusing,
putting too much focus on these smaller tournaments.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
She's always one big events, four.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Grand slams and her other events have always been massive,
and so she's come here with a really fresh focus.
She's looked incredibly relaxed, I must say too very Jovi,
or she's quite a quietly spoken person, but very Jovi.
You'll been out and about things to be enjoying her
new coaching team as well, and even in that like
they've been having a laugh and.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
A giggle over things as well.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
So she looks really composed and like super chill almost zn.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Like great to hear, great to hear. Well, I should
serve her well. So five o'clock in this afternoon that's
later than normal. Is that because it means qualifying.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
No, they've changed that over the last couple of years
to be a twilight kind of final. I guess it
gets the punters in and suitably lubricated at around that time.
It's a nice, nice time of day to think, oh, yes,
I'll pop in for a bite to eat and some
tennis and a glass of something fizzy or all fizzy
or cold perhaps, So yeah, it's a good time and
(06:42):
a conditions so much better. I mean that is one
factor that the conditions at the tournament has been really,
really tough and so the credit to Osaka and tough
and how they've handled the wind in particular. If that
picks up again, it could be a factor for them,
as I say, those big ground strokes that they have
and big serves, but they've handled it well and at
the moment probably conditions will be as good as they've
(07:04):
been all week. So yeah, a nice twilight start for
a someday late afternoon.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Nothing wrong with it at all. I guess the promoter's
dream would have been lu Lusun coming through and going
deep into the tournament. How disappointing was it to see
her tip out so early?
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Yeah, a real shame, wasn't it. I mean, they and
I'm sure all the Kiwi fans would have been hoping
to to really be able to get into behind her
and to ride that wave. Not least Lulu herself. She's
obviously coming off a handful of injuries that sort of
shut her season down a.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
Little bit earlier, and.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Not quite back to where she is physically and where
she'll need.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
To be because she's going to have a whole lot.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Of eyes from here on her again this year. She
played the most matches last year than she ever had
it at a high level, and so it's learning for
her body to be able to handle that, I guess.
But you're really disappointing and maybe just you know, as
I say, that little bit of added pressure being a
headline name for a first time, being the local for
the first time, and all of those things.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
I mean, the good thing is that we're going to
see lulusing.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Here the year you would imagine, you know, it's not
going to be like, oh, who are you going to
have come into the Classic. You always know you're going
to have LULUs on a headline name to be able
to tack that on. But yet, yeah, disappointing to see
her go so early, particularly because she played so weally
right she played day one, I was like, oh straight away,
you know the key.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
We hope the fourth seed is gone.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
What about the overall standard? We've got the final to go.
It's a good matchup, as you've outlined, but the overall
standard across the week. If you paid your money and
turned up for the first time, would you feel like
you'd got value for your money?
Speaker 6 (08:36):
Yeah? I think so.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
I think it's been an interesting tournament and tough losing
Radicanu and Elise Mertens as well. The two of the
top seeds, and then Amanda Anisimova goes down in the
first round.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
So there you go.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
You've got Son Anisimova, Radicanu and Merton's gone early on.
Some of your named players, I think they'll be the
crowd would have come along, would have been really impressed
with what they've seen from some of the newer names.
Robin Montgomery certainly, you get the feeling that she'll be
one that next year. If she had a good year,
people go oh, I saw at the Classic when she
was twenty and she did really well and be lost
(09:10):
out in the semes But she's a real talent as well,
saying with Alicia Parks, if she can kind of control
and add a little bit more to her game, she's
got a really good coach in her corner. So it's
I mean, I think people kind of know it's really
tough for the tournament Nicholas Nico Lamprin to be able
to sneer these top fields all the time, so to
(09:30):
get the names he had to have in Osaka, to
have Madison Keys, you know, players at the top Rada can't.
Obviously we didn't get to see, but she's a headline name.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
That's the way he has.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
To go because of the rules and restrictions around who
and where players can play. So well, we might see
a couple of well known names or players who you
know have been near the top, like a Sloan Stevens
and Sophia Kennan who've dropped down in the rankings a bit.
But having big deep fields is a different story. They
just won't be able to get those really deep deep
(10:02):
fields of players across the board. So it's pad banking
on some of these young stars and a handful of
other headliners around it is the way to go, all.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Right, naomio Osaka, Clara Tawson, five o'clock this afternoon, who's
holding the trophy? Later on the.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Scene, you again asked that I knew you again. I mean,
the dream scenario for all of us is, with all
due respect to Clara Telson, is that Naomiosaka adds her
name to Serena Williams, Coco Goff, Venus Williams Ana Ivanovitch,
because you know, we have had some absolute Hall of
Fame players list that trophy in the last few years
and absolute superstars, and so yeah, the heart and actually
(10:39):
the head would say, Naomi Osaka will lift it up
this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Have absolutely loved your commentary across the week, Ricky, thanks
for joining us this afternoon.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Pleasure Pinny, nice to chat, Nice to tet to.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
You too, Ricky. Ricky Spinel there you can hear her
on Sky as the lead commentator when the final we'll
get to underway at five o'clock this afternoon, twelve twenty four.
If you've been following this tournament, you might have some
thoughts on who you're favoring this afternoon. As Ricky just said,
then the dream scenario is the big name, right Naomio Saka,
the four time major winner. She's paying a dollar forty
(11:12):
four at the tab Clara Towson is playing is paying
two dollars sixty. Tewson is seated higher due to her
world ranking, which is currently number fifty in the world.
Naomi Osaka currently world number fifty seven. But I think
the odds probably reflect the pedigree and also the slightly
more comfortable schedule for Naomi Osaka not having to play
(11:35):
a catch up game yesterday and also not in the
doubles either.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen live
to news talk zed B weekends from midday, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Fine
from News talk EDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Let's start with tennis. Naomio Osaka and Clara Towson will
meet in this afternoon's ASB Women's Tennis Classic final in Auckland.
Both emerged from the semi finals yesterday with straight sets
wins fifth seed Clara Towson over American Robin Montgomery.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
The two matches in one day.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
That's the ultimate results for Clara Towson.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Through to the final of the ASB Classic.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
The third final of her career, and she has done
it with some emphatic style, big shots, big winners and
now a big smile.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Six to four or sixth three.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Clara Towson goes through to the final at Auckland's.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
And then seventh seed of Japanese plan Naomi Osaka far
too good for Alicia Parks.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
A marquee performance from the tournament's headline acts. For the
first time since twenty twenty two, Naomi Yoursaka will play
for a title.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
On the WTA Tour. The Young America and Alicia Parks
drew plenty at how she absorbed it all in.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Naomia cycle clinical professional calm and composed.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
She goes through to the final six four sixteen.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Naomi Osaka and Clara Towson, each last one a WTA
title in twenty twenty one. So are we while between
drinks for both of them life coverage on sky Sport.
The voice you hear you heard calling those semi final
wins was, of course lead commentator Ricky Swinell, who joins us. Now, Ricky,
the first time these two have ever played one another,
(01:54):
which is always an intriguing prospect. Can you perhaps start
by comparing the two of them for us and their
relative strengths.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
They've got some similarities and that we see pipe so
it's the same say hello first of all before we
get it and happy New Year to Yeah. Look that
they have got some similarities in that in that big
game style, big weapons, big series, big four hands, and
both have been pretty controlled with it as well. When
Naomi Osaka played Alicia Parks in the semi final yesterday,
(02:25):
which she won in straight sets, eventually that Parks has
got a huge game, but she was probably just a
bit more of a slugger, didn't have necessarily the variety
in the game or the control when she needed it.
That's somebody like Osaka has. What we've seen from from
Clara Towson is that ability to mix her game up
as well. A handful of occasions, particularly in the quarterfinal
(02:47):
against Madison Keys Keys is getting stuck behind the baseline
and and Tawson had some really lovely touch, good drop shots,
some variety in her game as well. She was a
former world number one junior and a lot of the juniors,
you know, they come through playing a heap of doubles
as well, so she's got that nice touch.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
But yes, so there's some definite.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Similarities in their games. We could expect some big time tennis,
some big balling, which is quite I think the crowd
here always likes. I likes to see a couple of
big hitters really going at it.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Clara Tolson had a busy day yesterday, didn't She two
matches to reach the final of this single. She had
to complete her quarter final win over Madison Keys, then
beat Robin Montgomery and she had a double semi as well.
So will fatigue play any part today?
Speaker 6 (03:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:33):
I mean these players at this time of year, that
they're coming off their preseason, right, they've been doing probably
double days, double training days and spending a lot of
time on court in their preseason getting ready for it.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
She didn't show.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Any signs of it at all. In the semi final
against Robert Montgomery. She just sort of picked up where
she left off. I guess the thing is with the
Keys match is that she was probably only on court
for about twenty minutes half an hour. It finished off
with the seven six.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Of the tiebreaker.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
They had called off the quarter final relatively early the
day before, so the players would have left the stadium
at kind of nine thirty the night before.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
Then she came out.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
They were slightly delayed getting on court at midday, but
so yes, while.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
She was on court a lot and we saw a
lot of it, which was great.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
You know, that second match at quarterfinal was about only
twenty minutes, and then the doubles match was only an
hour or so as well. And I wonder if maybe
she was a little bit, probably more mentally fatigued. I
would think that day for her as opposed to the
physical fatigue. But you know, we wait and see how
she comes out today. How heavy the legs may be
when you're playing someone like Osaka who's just got such
(04:40):
big ground search and as to say that ability to
control it really well.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
The pedigree of Naomi Osaka we all know, you know
two times Australian opened when a two time US Open winner.
That was a week while ago. Now, though, how do
you assess where she is now relative to when she
was really at her peak.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
I think the game's getting back there. She looked really
good yesterday and what there was I thought there was
a sort of a the control, a kind of calmness
to her. She always stays really active. You can see
your thinking, you can see your kind of keeping her
game in. Obviously, it's a big thing to come back
from having a baby. Your body has changed completely when
(05:21):
you're getting back out there and initially not doing the
things that it used to be able to do it.
So it has and will take her some time. But
I think certainly those signs are that she is back
to being able to compete at the very topic you know,
I KNOWE. There's a piece of stuff today with a
Dave Long where she's sort of said like in the past,
(05:41):
she's probably been a bit guilty of not really focusing,
putting too much focus on these smaller tournaments.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
She's always one big events, four.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Grand slams and her other events have always been massive,
and so she's come here with a really fresh focus.
She's looked incredibly relaxed, I must say too very Jovi,
or she's quite a quietly spoken person, but very Jovi.
You'll been out and about things to be enjoying her
new coaching team as well, and even in that like
they've been having a laugh and.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
A giggle over things as well.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
So she looks really composed and like super chill almost zn.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Like great to hear, great to hear. Well, I should
serve her well. So five o'clock in this afternoon that's
later than normal. Is that because it means qualifying.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
No, they've changed that over the last couple of years
to be a twilight kind of final. I guess it
gets the punters in and suitably lubricated at around that time.
It's a nice, nice time of day to think, oh, yes,
I'll pop in for a bite to eat and some
tennis and a glass of something fizzy or all fizzy
or cold perhaps, So yeah, it's a good time and
(06:42):
a conditions so much better. I mean that is one
factor that the conditions at the tournament has been really,
really tough and so the credit to Osaka and tough
and how they've handled the wind in particular. If that
picks up again, it could be a factor for them,
as I say, those big ground strokes that they have
and big serves, but they've handled it well and at
the moment probably conditions will be as good as they've
(07:04):
been all week. So yeah, a nice twilight start for
a someday late afternoon.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Nothing wrong with it at all. I guess the promoter's
dream would have been lu Lusun coming through and going
deep into the tournament. How disappointing was it to see
her tip out so early?
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Yeah, a real shame, wasn't it. I mean, they and
I'm sure all the Kiwi fans would have been hoping
to to really be able to get into behind her
and to ride that wave. Not least Lulu herself. She's
obviously coming off a handful of injuries that sort of
shut her season down a.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
Little bit earlier, and.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Not quite back to where she is physically and where
she'll need.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
To be because she's going to have a whole lot.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Of eyes from here on her again this year. She
played the most matches last year than she ever had
it at a high level, and so it's learning for
her body to be able to handle that, I guess.
But you're really disappointing and maybe just you know, as
I say, that little bit of added pressure being a
headline name for a first time, being the local for
the first time, and all of those things.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
I mean, the good thing is that we're going to
see lulusing.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Here the year you would imagine, you know, it's not
going to be like, oh, who are you going to
have come into the Classic. You always know you're going
to have LULUs on a headline name to be able
to tack that on. But yet, yeah, disappointing to see
her go so early, particularly because she played so weally
right she played day one, I was like, oh straight away,
you know the key.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
We hope the fourth seed is gone.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
What about the overall standard? We've got the final to go.
It's a good matchup, as you've outlined, but the overall
standard across the week. If you paid your money and
turned up for the first time, would you feel like
you'd got value for your money?
Speaker 6 (08:36):
Yeah? I think so.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
I think it's been an interesting tournament and tough losing
Radicanu and Elise Mertens as well. The two of the
top seeds, and then Amanda Anisimova goes down in the
first round.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
So there you go.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
You've got Son Anisimova, Radicanu and Merton's gone early on.
Some of your named players, I think they'll be the
crowd would have come along, would have been really impressed
with what they've seen from some of the newer names.
Robin Montgomery certainly, you get the feeling that she'll be
one that next year. If she had a good year,
people go oh, I saw at the Classic when she
was twenty and she did really well and be lost
(09:10):
out in the semes But she's a real talent as well,
saying with Alicia Parks, if she can kind of control
and add a little bit more to her game, she's
got a really good coach in her corner. So it's
I mean, I think people kind of know it's really
tough for the tournament Nicholas Nico Lamprin to be able
to sneer these top fields all the time, so to
(09:30):
get the names he had to have in Osaka, to
have Madison Keys, you know, players at the top Rada can't.
Obviously we didn't get to see, but she's a headline name.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
That's the way he has.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
To go because of the rules and restrictions around who
and where players can play. So well, we might see
a couple of well known names or players who you
know have been near the top, like a Sloan Stevens
and Sophia Kennan who've dropped down in the rankings a bit.
But having big deep fields is a different story. They
just won't be able to get those really deep deep
(10:02):
fields of players across the board. So it's pad banking
on some of these young stars and a handful of
other headliners around it is the way to go, all.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Right, naomio Osaka, Clara Tawson, five o'clock this afternoon, who's
holding the trophy? Later on the.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Scene, you again asked that I knew you again. I mean,
the dream scenario for all of us is, with all
due respect to Clara Telson, is that Naomiosaka adds her
name to Serena Williams, Coco Goff, Venus Williams Ana Ivanovitch,
because you know, we have had some absolute Hall of
Fame players list that trophy in the last few years
and absolute superstars, and so yeah, the heart and actually
(10:39):
the head would say, Naomi Osaka will lift it up
this afternoon.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Have absolutely loved your commentary across the week, Ricky, thanks
for joining us this afternoon.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Pleasure Pinny, nice to chat, Nice to tet to.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
You too, Ricky. Ricky Spinel there you can hear her
on Sky as the lead commentator when the final we'll
get to underway at five o'clock this afternoon, twelve twenty four.
If you've been following this tournament, you might have some
thoughts on who you're favoring this afternoon. As Ricky just said,
then the dream scenario is the big name, right Naomio Saka,
the four time major winner. She's paying a dollar forty
(11:12):
four at the tab Clara Towson is playing is paying
two dollars sixty. Tewson is seated higher due to her
world ranking, which is currently number fifty in the world.
Naomi Osaka currently world number fifty seven. But I think
the odds probably reflect the pedigree and also the slightly
more comfortable schedule for Naomi Osaka not having to play
(11:35):
a catch up game yesterday and also not in the
doubles either.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen live
to news talk zed B weekends from midday, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio
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Have you ever wondered what life might be like if you stopped worrying about being wanted, and focused on understanding what you actually want? That was the question Hope Woodard asked herself after a string of situationships inspired her to take a break from sex and dating. She went "boysober," a personal concept that sparked a global movement among women looking to prioritize themselves over men. Now, Hope is looking to expand the ways we explore our relationship to relationships. Taking a bold, unfiltered look into modern love, romance, and self-discovery, Boysober will dive into messy stories about dating, sex, love, friendship, and breaking generational patterns—all with humor, vulnerability, and a fresh perspective.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com